"Everything is normal! Commander! The enemy has no idea of our existence!"
Yang Mingzhi glanced at Balzen slightly suspiciously. The troops had already turned around and the battle was about to begin. He decisively picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of the enemy's searchlight.
"It's really interesting. It seems that the enemy has also built a power station here? They have five towers, each with two lights on the top!"
"Yes! Look at these wooden buildings, some of them still have bright lights! Those are the enemy's electric lights! If you calm down, you can even hear the low roar of the generator!"
As he spoke, Balzen stretched out his right hand and pointed at the building under the moonlight.
Therefore, Yang Mingzhi took a closer look and found that the light was much stronger than the kerosene lamp, especially the two-story building with a brick and wood structure, where the light was the most dazzling. That was probably the German commander stationed here.
Center!
It was ten minutes before midnight, and the soldiers who had been running for more than two hours finally got a chance to breathe. There were still two hours before the planned attack time. Everyone took the time to eat something and drink some water. The rest was to work hard
rest.
The German searchlights were wandering aimlessly, and sometimes the lights would hit the forest in the distance. Most of them were wandering inside the camp, especially the outermost barbed wire wall.
After Yang Mingzhi took a breather and had no time to continue observing, he summoned his three battalion commanders to one place.
In this way, four big men lay down on the grass under the forest in a very funny way and surrounded the city, with a military coat draped over the head of the man in question.
Because a little abnormal flash of light may attract the attention of the enemy, and then alert the enemy! Just like a night reconnaissance plane patrolling the enemy's position, the faint light of someone smoking on the ground can be discovered, and then it will be bombarded.
This coat is very thick and is a good choice for keeping warm. It locks in warmth and light. The paratrooper battalion commander Reichev fiddled with a small flashlight to illuminate Balzen's reconnaissance map.
This drawing has been significantly modified compared to when we set off. With two hours left before the attack, Balzen began to systematically explain his investigation over the past few hours.
In this way, he explained how many firepower points the enemy had exposed, the enemy's possible troop strength, and the functions of each building.
Yang Mingzhi was a little surprised. Judging from the investigation, there were obviously not many prisoners of war here. It seemed that there were only two to three thousand people. Especially when a train came after nightfall, many people were taken away.
"Sure enough! This is a personnel transfer station! It seems that we can't save many prisoners of war."
Yang Mingzhi felt a little regretful, but Balzen comforted him: "It's enough to save a few hundred people. Isn't the most important thing for us to cut off the railway line? Besides, we may also save some civilians, especially Jews."
"This is the same! I think you are angry!" Yang Mingzhi was still frightened when he recalled what happened a few hours ago.
"I'm very angry!" Balzen frowned and bared his teeth as if he wanted to eat people. "Those people have been killed by the Germans! It's time for us to retaliate in kind. I can't wait to kill those guys now!"
"Very good! What I want is your kind of hatred!" After saying that, Yang Mingzhi looked at the other two paratrooper battalion commanders. "Rachev, Bondanov, you all understand, right? Paratrooper comrades are number one.
This is a close fight with the enemy. I only have two requirements for you. First, kill all the enemies without mercy. Second, find all survivors.
We will fight this battle quickly and bring the survivors we find back to this forest immediately. After that, we will completely destroy Leopovka!"
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There is only more than an hour left before the battle. As the battle approaches, all the soldiers are extremely excited.
Yang Mingzhi explained the specific direction of attack at this time:
"Rachev, your battalion storms the prison camp, kills all those who resist, and takes away all the Red Army prisoners!
Bondaev, your battalion attacks the railway and surrounding buildings, kills all those who resist and sets fire to them. If a train passes by during the attack, destroy it immediately.
Balzen, your battalion and I will personally attack the killing factory on the other side of the railway, and we will follow my orders."
In this way, the three battalions began completely different deployments.
The two paratrooper battalions continued in similar directions, so they were temporarily together. When the battle began, the main attack direction changed.
After Yang Mingzhi arranged the order, he led the reconnaissance battalion to make a detour. In order to avoid being exposed, the approximately 700 people ran westward for nearly two kilometers. After a little reconnaissance, they found that there were no enemies, so they began to pass through the railway.
permeation of.
Yang Mingzhi was not surprised at all that the German troops were pulling barbed wire on both sides of the railway. The vise cut all the wires, creating several gaps in one breath, and the reconnaissance camp passed through the railway majestically, without even letting a can box rattle.
In this situation, Balzen couldn't help but ridicule: "What the enemy did is really inexplicable. Farmers setting up scarecrows in the fields can scare the birds, but we are not idiots! Can barbed wire and bells scare us?"
"Stop talking nonsense, order your people to pass carefully!" Yang Mingzhi urged: "We are not birds! We are all six-bearded catfish! Tomorrow morning, when the thick smoke from Leopovka covers the sky and the sun, the Germans will
Eventually you will find that someone has torn their fishing nets apart and attacked from two directions."
Balzen chuckled, the commander's metaphor was really apt, otherwise he wouldn't have code-named the action headquarters after Catfish.
Seven hundred people took a circuitous route and infiltrated to the other side of the forest plain, covering a total distance of six kilometers. Because of the desire for revenge, everyone was extremely excited and did not care about fatigue.
After settling down and the entire battalion was ambushed in the forest, communications began again.
In this way, Yang Mingzhi and the paratroopers maintained the radio communication link at all times, remained vigilant, and waited for the arrival of two o'clock in the morning.
After nightfall, this two-way train track that was supposed to be very busy became deserted. At around eleven o'clock, the last train came to leave. It stopped for more than ten minutes and then whizzed past, spitting smoke. The train was supposed to be four or five.
It passes every ten minutes, and it has been two hours. There is nothing new, only the moonlight shines on the rails, two gorgeous shining silver lines.
What Yang Mingzhi didn't know was that because the Germans were also very worried about guerrilla attacks late at night, most railway lines were suspended in the early morning.
Such a move by the Germans indeed provided favorable conditions for the Soviet army to attack Leopovka. Two trains were parked in Mozyr, filled with military rations that were about to be transported to the Ukrainian front line. Because Mozyr
-The Chernobian railway section was severely attacked and interrupted, they must be detoured! Furthermore, this attack was also a slap in the face to the local German army, no one dared to take risks until it was too late!
From the lower-level soldiers to the senior commander of the German 734th Division and the pseudo-mayor of Mozyr, they all experienced a very bad day and are now asleep.
Maybe they are having a sweet dream, a dream of wiping out the guerrillas in the defense zone, but the real nightmare will soon hit, and it will be a slap in the face even more fierce than what happened during the day!