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Major Gavrilov was right, the Soviet soldiers lacked medicine.
When they occupied the German warehouse at Warren Fortress, they could actually search for German medicine, but no one thought about this at the time. They only thought about the most important thing...food.
The wounded died on the third day.
He originally suffered only minor injuries...a piece of shrapnel the size of a fingernail passed through the car's canvas and pierced his right shoulder. He didn't notice it at the time, but he still raised his submachine gun and fired at the enemy.
He didn't feel the pain until he walked into the swamp. The soldier didn't take the injury seriously. He even pinched the tail of the shrapnel with his fingers to pull it out, and then found a piece of cloth to bandage the wound.
However, the hot and humid environment and the presence of germs everywhere soon caused the wound to become inflamed and rotten, and a fever began to develop. When the bandage was removed the next day, others were horrified to find that bugs had grown on the wound.
On the third day, while stumbling forward with the troops, the soldier fell to the ground and never got up again.
What's even more terrifying is that on the fifth day, the troops spent the night in a humid forest... The swamp has sufficient water and fertile land. If there is a piece of land with slightly higher terrain, it will definitely be covered with trees and weeds.
The Soviet soldiers even shot a few hares in the woods, so everyone drank delicious rabbit soup that night.
Early the next morning, before it got dark, the wake-up whistle sounded.
This is the marching habit established by Major Gavrilov.
In order to have enough time to march, the troops always get up before daybreak to make preparations. They march as soon as it gets light and rest two or three times until the sky darkens and they can no longer see the road.
This decision is of course correct, because it is not difficult to imagine that the same thing is happening south of the swamp... The German mechanized troops attacked the Soviet army in a large scale, and the advancement speed was certainly not slow. If Major Gavrilov and his party were slow,
If you do, you will fall into a German encirclement after walking out of the swamp.
When the soldiers were packing their belongings, they discovered that the three wounded soldiers could not be awakened, and when they checked their breathing, they had already expired.
This puzzled the medical soldiers, because one of the three wounded was only slightly injured, and it was not normal for three people to die at the same time, so they naturally carried out necessary examinations on them.
Everyone was shocked when they opened their clothes: the three of them were densely covered with leeches, and each of them was fat, big, and red.
Obviously, these three people unknowingly let leeches suck up their blood while they were sleeping... When leeches sucked blood, they would inject an anesthetic into the human body, making the person feel no pain at all.
Several female soldiers immediately screamed and ran around in fright. Agata was also frightened. As she walked on the march, she kept rubbing her arms and occasionally checking to see if there were leeches stuck to her body.
On the night of the sixth day, after the troops found their habitat and were stationed, Major Gavrilov called a meeting with several officers, including Shulka.
The bonfire nearby was boiling water. Major Gavrilov pointed to a point on the map by the light of the fire and said: "Our location is roughly here... If calculated at more than forty kilometers per day, we should have already left.
About 250 kilometers!”
This is another troublesome thing when going deep into the swamp... There is no GPS navigation at this time, and there are no obvious landmarks in the swamp, so it is impossible to determine where you are.
"Now we should make a decision!" Major Gavrilov took the water from the orderly, took a sip and then continued: "Should we continue deeper into the swamp or get out of this swamp!"
Then Shulka understood the problem that Major Gavrilov was worried about: no one knew where the German troops in the south had hit, so it was impossible to determine whether they encountered German or Soviet troops when they came out of the swamp.
"I think we should keep walking!" Captain Venyakov suggested: "If the Germans are marching at the speed in the direction of Minsk, they may have already marched to the gates of Kiev!"
Major Gavrilov shook his head and said: "We can't get to Kiev because the food is only enough for two days, and it will take at least five days to get to Kiev... Some of us may be able to get out alive, but
At least half of them will stay here forever!"
"Then we have no other choice!" Captain Venyakov said: "Continue to go forward one day, and then get out of the swamp!"
"No, we should get out of the swamp tomorrow!" Major Gavrilov said: "Because we can't guarantee that we can get out of the swamp in one day!"
The officers couldn't help but fell silent. This was undoubtedly very dangerous, but they had to admit that Major Gavrilov was right... They had to give themselves some room to maneuver, in case the estimated position was wrong with the actual position, or
Being lost in the direction and running out of food before leaving the swamp would be even more painful than encountering the Germans.
Major Gavrilov turned his attention to Shulka and asked: "What do you think, Shulka?"
"I have no idea, Comrade Major!" Shulka replied.
Shulka really has no say in this regard, after all, he can even get the northeast and southeast wrong.
When he returned to his camp, Shulka racked his brains to recall the details of the war in the southern part of the Soviet Union... The progress of the German Army Group South was not smooth, but the Soviet army still suffered heavy casualties despite being caught off guard.
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Soon, the Southwestern Jiangsu Front was ordered to retreat 200 kilometers within 8 days to organize defense.
The reason is that there is a defense line called the "Stalin Defense Line" by the West 200 kilometers away. (Note: "Stalin Defense Line" is the name of Western countries, and the Soviet Union has never used this name)
This line of defense was the Soviet border in 1939.
It was very popular in this era to build strong fortifications on the border. The most famous ones are the Maginot Line in France, the Siegfried Line in Germany, the Mannerheim Line in Finland, etc.
This was obviously influenced by the trench warfare of World War I.
The Soviet Union is no exception. They built a series of terror fortress areas on the border and connected them with a line of defense... This is the so-called "Stalin Line of Defense."
Originally, the "Stalin's Line of Defense" could still play some role. The problem was that after 1939, the Soviet army expanded westward and pushed the border to Poland. So the Soviet army was busy building fortifications on the new border and ignored the "Stalin's Line of Defense."
They even moved the equipment of the "Stalin Defense Line" forward.
Therefore, this "Stalin's Line of Defense", which was given great hope, could not stop the German army from advancing.
At this time, Shulka calculated over and over again and felt that the location of the "Stalin Defense Line" would be the most likely after walking out of the swamp.