As Balzen expected, these donkeys are used to load supplies. Each donkey carries a unique saddle on its back, which is clearly designed for carrying cargo. Look at the structure of this saddle, with a rocket launcher on one side.
, tie it firmly with leather goods, so the pressure on the soldiers will be much easier!
Yang Mingzhi divided the fifty donkeys into four groups. Since the reconnaissance battalion had the largest load, Balzen was divided into twenty donkeys, and the other three battalions were divided into ten donkeys each.
Professional donkey handlers from Heitu Village have also been arranged to join each battalion. In this operation, they will also participate in the battle if necessary.
Today's lunch was very late. The soldiers, with their jingling equipment and donkeys hanging on their backs, lined up in a mighty procession to gather in the central canteen.
There is an open space in front of the largest canteen, big enough to accommodate three thousand people lining up. Just like what happened in the arms warehouse, all the military rations are pushed out in the canteen.
Cans were piled up into a hill, and linen bags filled with biscuit powder were piled up like sandbags. The total amount of military rations this time was astonishing, with twenty tons of various kinds of food! There is one word to describe it all, and that is luxury
.
Many biscuits have actually just been baked, and the canteens have completed their tasks before noon, so the air is still filled with aroma.
The soldiers were still lining up, and they received heavy packages of incense, bags sewn from various rags, cans, and pieces of bread.
Many people were full of curiosity about these pockets. When the paratrooper battalion who had received the military rations first gathered under a big tree to rest, some people couldn't wait to open the pockets, and there were multiple heavy cloth bags inside. After counting, they were just right.
Ten!
Pulling open the hemp rope of a cloth bag, under the sunlight, the aroma of a pair of burnt yellow fragrant powders hits your face. This fragrance directly hits people's soul!
A soldier couldn't wait to grab a handful and stuffed it into his mouth. The sweetness suddenly filled his entire mouth, and the desire drove him to chew crazily and swallow it.
"It's incredible, what is this? This is so delicious? It feels like a cookie!"
"Yes! It tastes better than biscuits! It's much sweeter than German ones!"
At first, a few people tried it, and each one stood up and yelled. As soon as the news came out, almost all the soldiers couldn't restrain their curiosity. When they tasted this strange military ration, the scene was once restless. The donkey followed the trend and started to be confused
Yelling, fueling this restlessness...
Yang Mingzhi, who had been monitoring the ration distribution site, had to control the situation. Not only did these hungry guys eat them in advance, Salinchkin and others came here to visit out of curiosity.
Yang Mingzhi immediately ordered Tepunov to enforce discipline, and the chaos ended abruptly.
Sarinchkin knew that several canteens were working overtime to make biscuits. After reading the recipe list, he could only be angry that Berekov was wasting food, but he was also full of curiosity. He tasted it from a soldier.
The sweet taste rushed straight to his head, and his whole body was shaken. If it weren't for the strong willpower suppressing him, the urge to eat would have forced him to grab another handful.
Food distribution was temporarily suspended, and Yang Mingzhi held a paper trumpet and explained to all the officers and soldiers.
"Comrades! This operation will last for up to ten days, so I have prepared extremely high-energy military rations for everyone. In this battle, you don't have to worry about starvation at all. I can even guarantee that after the battle is over, these rations will still be available.
Not finished yet!
What you are holding in your hands now are cookie crumbs. I deliberately added butter and sugar to the recipe to make it sweeter and more fragrant, and to better fill everyone's stomach.
Comrades! You have noticed that in this operation, the weight of weapons and ammunition carried is unusually huge, and the weight of food carried is also unprecedented.
Because our operation has the possibility of turning into a fierce battle, so when a crisis occurs, I will not allow my soldiers to suffer from shortages of ammunition and food. What’s more, in this operation we are going to attack the German prisoner of war camp.
!
Comrades, there are many comrades captured by the German army, and there may be hundreds of prisoner of war camps in Belarus. No matter how we despise these surrendered people, according to the leader's order, our 63rd Army has the obligation to rescue these people and integrate them.
Let him once again become a Red Army soldier to fight against Germany!
Therefore, you can only eat one pack of these extremely high-power foods a day. You can also eat one can of canned food a day! But I still recommend that you don’t eat a lot when you are not particularly hungry, and save what you can..."
Yang Mingzhi's speech is of great significance for no other reason. Even paratroopers do not expect to eat much food during infiltration operations. The bread cubes they carry can basically last for a day. For soldiers in other units, this
The logistical support was unprecedented!
A good commander not only needs to be kind to the soldiers, he also needs to understand the sufferings of the soldiers.
In the eyes of grassroots soldiers, especially grassroots veterans, their group commander is a soldier who started from the lowest level and relied on one battle achievement after another to climb to the high position of lieutenant general! It is precisely because he has stayed at the grassroots level for a long time and has great respect for the soldiers.
The needs are well understood.
It can be said that the Soviet army's logistics support has always been very poor. Many times, when the fighting time is prolonged, the quartermaster can only provide some slightly moldy black bread cubes and a large number of raw potatoes. It is a pleasure to receive canned food!
No matter this time, any soldier with a little common sense would understand that eating one pound of biscuit powder a day would be enough to meet his needs.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the planned troop deployment began.
The soldiers were already carrying bundled field blankets. Now they had received ammunition and military rations, and were basically fully equipped. They only needed to wear some dispensable small items and personal belongings, and they were ready to go.
The soldiers still lined up and gathered at the training ground. Now, every soldier's shoulders are bearing huge pressure. Even female soldiers have to bear the total weight of more than 20 kilograms of equipment. Long-term physical training has achieved
It was a great success, and even paratroopers were able to cope with it. I am afraid that only after marching for twenty or thirty kilometers continuously will the soldiers feel shoulder fatigue.
They stood on the training ground, attracting a large number of people to watch. The whole scene was as if this unit was about to go to the front line!
The soldiers trusted their commander and were more than happy to see him personally leading everyone to perform tasks. Now, the commander, other senior officers, and even people from the municipal party committee stood together to review the troops. Especially Salinchkin
, every soldier knew it well, and with an instinctive fear of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, everyone stood upright and stable like steel bars inserted into the earth.
This scene had to make Salinchkin sigh with emotion. This was the most well-equipped Soviet army he had ever seen. He then ordered: "Bierski! This is a critical moment. Please take a picture of the soldiers."
Take the photo!"
A photo was taken successfully, and the spectacular soldiers have been well preserved. The future destination of this photo will naturally be a museum.
Salinchkin came up to Yang Mingzhi. He waved his right hand and expressed his admiration without reservation.
"Berekov, this may be the most well-equipped infantry unit I have ever seen! So I believe it. If our superiors order us to attack the city, it will not be a difficult task to complete!"
Yang Mingzhi only felt that there was an intention to flatter him here, so he quickly excused himself: "Maybe! It's just that at this stage, I don't want my superiors to issue such an order. However, if our rocket launchers become really large in number, go outside Kiev and aim at the city.
It’s not impossible to fire a few shots in the direction.”
Time cannot be delayed any longer. Early tomorrow morning, the soldiers should set off after eating a sumptuous breakfast! There will be no new instructions at that time, and the entire army should rush to the destination in the shortest possible time.
But the speech before action is indispensable. It is more like a ritual. If the officer no longer speaks a lot passionately in front of all the soldiers, it will be a great shortcoming.
Yang Mingzhi already knew what to say to the soldiers. Today he once again appeared as a political commissar, full of passionate slogans, and the emotions of the soldiers were aroused. Salinchkin, Yelentina and Fuming, this
The three veteran political workers were also burning with passion.
Yang Mingzhi kept talking until the sun began to set, and the pre-war spiritual agitation was completed.
Night will come in two hours, and when the sun shines again, this force should cross the Pripet River toward the west and head towards the Mozyr-Chenobi railway section with its back to the rising sun.