The situation was much better than Yang Mingzhi thought. In just three hours, when everyone saw the contact personnel sent by Tokov, it meant that the destination had been reached.
Facing the panting soldiers who had assembled, Yang Mingzhi quickly ordered: "The whole army is ready for battle! Rychev! Bondarev! Balzen! Follow me with your men and all your equipment!
Joshua! Your men and non-combatants remain here as tactical reserves!
Natasha! Betsyka! Your sniper team comes to me lightly!"
The battle will almost certainly break out when the German troops appear, and it will definitely be a unilateral "massacre"!
A group of soldiers were like hares, hunched over and walking through the grass more than a foot high. Nearly 1,700 people lined up in a formation of nearly 500 meters. The morning sun was very dazzling, and the soldiers took off their hats to easily reflect the sun's rays.
Many people simply put some grass on their woolen boat-shaped hats for camouflage.
This ambush was very similar to previous battles. Balzen performed very well, and other than the paratroopers in this battle, they at least learned how to fight an ambush during training, and their performance was acceptable.
The Soviet army's earth-green military uniforms were well camouflaged here. The soldiers brought out their various weapons one after another, pointing their guns directly at the railway 200 meters away.
At this distance, the accuracy of RPG against large targets such as trains can still be guaranteed, and when used on a large scale, there will always be a chance of hitting.
But it is not the most ferocious weapon!
In the first battle, Balzen received permission to fire first. The three rocket launcher platoons under his command quickly assumed the launch position, that is, the folding tripod was firmly planted on the grass, and the short and thick launch tube was stuck on the launcher and locked with bolts. They were ready to launch.
The rack is ready and a rocket is loaded into the tube.
For ordinary soldiers, the appearance of this rocket launcher system is more like a recoilless gun. Even soldiers have to squat on one side, pull the trigger, and rely on the firing pin to fire the primer to ignite the propellant.
Precisely because of this, rocket launcher shooters are simply part-time gunners.
Before the war, the officers had already blown away the heavy firepower of this honorary product of the arsenal. Now more than a thousand pairs of eyes were staring at these three thick pipes, hoping that the enemy would show up soon.
On the other hand, Tokov was already close to the commander Yang Mingzhi on the grass at the edge of the forest.
He reported: "Commander, just twenty minutes ago, a military column passed by from north to south. After I woke up, I saw it was a military column full of armored vehicles. And an hour ago,
A military column passed by from south to north, and the sentry said that this column was pulling more than a dozen wagons, but no one knew what it was pulling, maybe it was a large amount of food."
"Transport weapons to the south! Transport food to the north! If it is the German army, it is very reasonable for them to do this!"
Yang Mingzhi nodded meaningfully, because the German army had occupied almost all of Ukraine, which was the granary of the Soviet Union. After the authorities' various national warehouses were occupied by the German army, the stored grain naturally had to be transported to where it was needed.
For example, transport it northward to the Vyazma front line.
It is normal for the German army to transport equipment south. The macro historical trend determines that the Soviet army will counterattack next month. The regional situation is a powder keg about to explode. It is impossible for the German army not to strengthen its defense. The latest tank to roll off the assembly line in German domestic factories
, undoubtedly passing through Poland, Belarus, and then via Ukraine to the Donbass region, this is the best shortcut!
Similarly, the German transport routes also mean that the Soviet guerrillas must cut them off as much as possible!
Tokov truthfully reported his subsequent findings: "The German army's military trains from north to south were basically one train an hour, and they did not stop even at night. I am very worried that their transportation will be even busier after dawn, and it may be half
I passed one every hour.
There are a lot fewer military columns from south to north, maybe they schedule one every two hours. So according to speculation, in half an hour, a military column full of tanks will pass here again!"
"So, the time is only half an hour!" Yang Mingzhi frowned, realizing that time is running out. "It seems that we will be ready for battle soon. In this battle, the rocket launchers must drive the enemy's train into a sea of fire!
"
The officer's words were so heart-wrenching that Tokov still didn't want to be so violent. He suggested: "Sir! Maybe we don't need to use the rocket launchers that cost a lot of money to produce in the arsenal! I have a plan, maybe we can solve the entire military column with just some bullets!
"
Yang Mingzhi was shocked: "Is there such a thing?"
"Of course! The commander can order some trees to be cut down urgently, so that large tree trunks full of leaves can be placed across the railway tracks. It would be best to put up a sign with the word "Stop" written on it! I believe the military train will brake urgently."
"So! We just need to make the enemy think there is a big obstacle on the railway?" Yang Mingzhi asked eagerly.
"What he said makes perfect sense! Commander!" Peronisky came over and pointed out with his full experience as a railway worker that whether it is a German or Russian train, the driver and stoker will never allow foreign objects on the rails. "We
The guerrillas often damage the enemy's railway lines. If they cannot blow up the railway, they will set up obstacles on the ground or even place iron blocks on the rails! Even if this cannot cause the train to derail, it can still achieve the goal if it can cause huge turbulence.
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"He is a professional!" Tokov said happily: "So the German military train will definitely stop, and the German soldiers escorting the vehicle will probably get out of the car to clear the roadblock! Then this will be our opportunity! Our army's precision shooters can easily
Kill the exposed enemies, then charge, and the military column will be captured by us!"
Yang Mingzhi understood what this guy meant and adjusted his plan slightly.
There is at least half an hour until the following military columns arrive, which is enough time to build roadblocks!
More than two hundred soldiers were mobilized, and the engineer axes chopped down some small trees in the forest. Some monkey-like guys even climbed to the treetops and chopped down branches full of crisp broad leaves.
Under Yang Mingzhi's telescope, these two hundred people were like "leaf-cutting ants", rushing towards the railway with branches in their arms. They threw the branches directly through the barbed wire that protected the railway, and piled them up on the railway tracks in a disorderly manner.
A green hill was quickly forming. More than 200 people threw away all the debris in their hands. The final roadblock was over two meters high.
"Hey! This is great! I don't have to write anything on the wooden sign. It will be weird if the enemy doesn't stop when they see such a roadblock!"
Seeing the excitement of the army commander, Peronisky took advantage of the situation and said: "If the enemy uses our Soviet locomotives, they basically will not have railway cleaners, and they will not be able to clear this roadblock!"
"Of course!" Yang Mingzhi, who was still holding a telescope to observe the grand occasion, said proudly: "I'm not afraid of the enemy crashing into this roadblock in a calculated way! Let them come! My rocket launcher is still ready. As long as they dare to hit it, I will
Just dare to fire! Explain that the enemy is still in a sea of fire!"
Even if the German army developed the so-called "can alarm system", it seemed to be just a bluff? Tokov did not find a German patrol even overnight, and his report became the most critical reference for the entire army.
Yang Mingzhi didn't think much about it. Looking at the geographical conditions here, he estimated that the German soldiers were too lazy to go deep into this forest! The environment here was too primitive. There must have been no ambush here in the past few months, and the same was true for the German soldiers.
Psychologically paralyzing.
In the crisp grass, more than a thousand people prepared an ambush, with their rifles loaded, waiting for the commander to give orders!