Chapter 940: Balzen's New Mission
Yang Mingzhi tried his best to suppress his excitement and control his thighs that were shaking involuntarily.
It was in this physical state that he began to arrange the next battle plan.
"Balzen, your reconnaissance battalion will be given a glorious and difficult task!"
"Yes! Comrade Commander! ”
"No need to salute solemnly!" Yang Mingzhi waved his hand, and pointed his finger to the north again, "There, Olichnovo, it's a concentration camp and a small railway station, and I order your battalion to use all the rocket artillery under its control." Give me all the power to hit the target with the rocket artillery and drag Olichnovo into the fire. After that, the whole battalion returned on its own along the original route, and if it found that the enemy was chasing or blocking it, it would find a way to make a detour. ”
Balzen agreed to the commander's order without thinking, and he was not afraid of the enemy, and even held back his strength to avenge the blood feud of a month ago. It's not enough to just get a few enemy strongholds in flames! Now equipped with heavy weapons yourself, it's time to go on a killing spree.
Looking at his confident appearance, Yang Mingzhi specially advised: "Balzen, you must understand your duties. The number of the troops was too large, more than 2,000 unarmed, we were not well suited to fight the enemy's movements, and the speed of the march was greatly reduced. So I have to have a good man who is responsible for distracting the enemy's attention.
This will be an honorable and dangerous mission, and the reconnaissance battalion may be besieged by the enemy, or it may only be your unilateral destruction of the enemy. But in the end, the large army returned to Novgomel safely.
Now, answer me. Are you a hero? ”
"Of course I'm a hero! My brothers are gods of war! Balzen shouted without hesitation.
"Excellent! Balzen, god of war, get ready for action! Rychev, Bondanov, give him half of your share of rocket artillery! ”
The troops were quick to get things done, the heavy rockets were handed over to the reconnaissance battalions, and the two paratrooper battalions were not angry at all. Then there was only one target left for the large army, which was a prisoner of war camp, and it was the task to fight down and rescue people. As far as is known about the combat effectiveness of the local German army, the 107-mm rocket launcher was purely overpowered.
The reconnaissance battalion consisted of 600 men, and their rations and ammunition were replenished, their loads increased, and their combat effectiveness was also increased.
Balzen claimed to be a high-ranking disciple of the army commander, but he did not know much, and he still remembered the four principles of guerrilla warfare put forward by the army commander very firmly.
He knew very well the reason for the speed of the soldiers, and he had just received the task and the equipment was reorganized, and the troops embarked on a new journey.
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The reconnaissance battalion had left, the large force was to continue on the road, and after everyone had rested, a long march followed.
For Yang Mingzhi, this operation can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone, especially the attack on the railway line, this operation attacked two important railways, each of which was seriously damaged twice, which inevitably delayed the enemy's movement for several days, and delayed the arrival of heavy weapons or lost them in transit, which objectively aided the Southwestern Front.
Achieving such results fully implemented the original military battle plan, for Yang Mingzhi, the only unexpected thing was the discovery of the child - the girl Liu Hongxiu, a Chinese.
It is a miracle to find another Chinese in Belarus, and it is intriguing how she ended up here.
Looking at this child, it can be seen that although she is young, she is optimistic and bold. Her name and her study in the Soviet Union are equally fascinating.
With the memory of these histories, Yang Mingzhi must have guessed a lot without the child's own confession - that child is likely to be the child of a Chinese soldier.
After Yang Mingzhi met her, he only learned a little about the basics. She was a student in the Soviet Union, studying at the Mogilev International School in Belarus, where she arrived in 1938 and had been studying for three years by the time the war broke out. She speaks Russian very well, and seems to work very weekdays.
This child, Liu Hongxiu, is fourteen years old this year, and was captured by the Germans after the outbreak of the war, and the experience of the past year must have been terrible! She and her other companions must not be well fed and clothed, malnourished when they are growing up, and their bodies are thin and low.
But this child fell into my hands, and her suffering was over! Yang Mingzhi secretly swore that if she succumbed to her instinct to care for children and care for her kind, this child would not only be treated well, but if she was careful, she would even be able to do something else.
Yang Mingzhi was excited in his heart, he knew that it was very important to lead a large army of nearly 4,000 people to advance to the next goal, and he could only ask the kid some details in a surprise attack when the troops were resting.
After a long march, it was no longer possible for the troops to maintain a high speed, and everyone was walking through the forest at an almost walking pace. Even when the soldiers repeatedly urged those who were rescued to hurry up, their emaciated bodies could not support them. In the same way, when it gets dark, the vast number of warriors march and fight for a full twenty-four hours, which is also a great damage to their bodies!
What else can anyone do? Only tenacious patience, after all, if you don't bear it, you may be killed by the enemy.
Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but sweat at the Chinese child, he frequently glanced sideways at Liu Hongxiu, who had blended into the women's barracks, and saw that she and star fruit were really tirelessly talking and laughing all the way, and the worries in his heart disappeared a lot.
At the current pace, the troops will rest every two hours of marching, and by 18 o'clock in the evening, they will have traveled a maximum of 25 kilometers, which is still early for the next goal!
The troops continued to advance steadily, and the scouts scattered around the area did not detect anything suspicious.
After all, the settlements of the Belarusians are mainly on the periphery of the cities, and the southern cities of the country are also along the railway line, and since the army is in an arc in the third quadrant of the two almost vertical railway lines, it is more likely to see black bears and deer than to meet people.
It is for this reason that such an environment is a good place to build a concentration camp, it is isolated from the rest of the world, and the imprisoned people will weigh it, and even if they succeed in escaping, they will either starve to death in the forest or be eaten by wild animals.
Again, isn't such an environment also very suitable for partisan hiding?
Just as the troops were marching, Balzen's offensive began, and the reconnaissance battalion under his leadership was in a tricky position.
As the commander had expected, not long after they set out, they spotted the Germans running wildly along the dirt road, trucks and motorcycles lined up, and the target must have been aimed at the black smoke.
The reconnaissance battalion deliberately spared itself after concealing itself, and they shifted slightly to the north-west of Olichnovo, and when they saw the railway line, they moved east.
After several members of the Railway Patrol were easily eliminated, the troops were two kilometers away from the target building.
This is a tactic that Balzen has never used, and it can be joked that he will run after the fight.
Now he has ten 107 rockets at his disposal, and according to the order, all the rocket artillery must be shot over, and the target is Olchinov!
The rocket artillery quickly set up two launchers, and after the ruler was set, the entire muzzle of the gun was raised ten degrees, the rocket was stuffed into the chamber, and as the order to fire was given, the powerful attack began.
The vent storm brought by the rocket jet blew away a large number of iron road cornerstones, and even blew a long area of useless barbed wire. With orange flames on its buttocks and long white tails, the rocket launchers smashed at Olchnov like meteorites.
At this railway station, because Leopovka was seriously attacked, it was no longer possible for a train to pass. The local defenders received orders to keep watch, and the warehouses, oil depots, and even the adjacent prisoner of war camps were more tightly managed.
But they never imagined that the enemy would have a way of attacking from the sky!
The paratrooper battalion provided all the cloudburst shells they had at their disposal, and the rest were ordinary high-explosive shells. The accuracy of these rocket launchers is very good at two kilometers, two rockets are fired, and the soldier quickly stuffs the next one, and its rate of fire is like a rapid-fire cannon!
The rockets were fired every twenty seconds, and Balzen marched for two hours, and it took only ten minutes to set up the launchers until they ran out of ammunition.
The smoke from the firing point cleared, and Olichinov suddenly raised five mushroom clouds, accompanied by a huge amount of dust and scum that had been overturned.
"My God! This is the real strength of the weapon invented by Berekov ?! Balzen was stunned, and even more so the soldiers under his command.
In addition to being shocked, several company commanders under his command also unanimously suggested that we should take advantage of the victory to attack and completely destroy the enemy's railway stronghold.
Balzen decisively vetoed: "There is no need anymore, the target has been destroyed, the enemy in the vicinity will definitely move there, it is time for us to retreat!" We've got to catch up with the big troops! ”
"Alright! But shouldn't we be giving the enemy a snack? Tokov's joke was sabotaging a section of railroad.
In this way, the reconnaissance battalion quickly dug the railroad embankment where the launcher was located, and the soldiers removed five 70mm RPG warheads from the booster rockets, knowing that the weapons exploded together and were shocking explosions.
The reconnaissance battalion began its way home, leaving only one RPG man, who aimed at the explosives from a distance of more than a hundred meters and pulled the trigger.
In a violent explosion, the rails were twisted into twists, and the reconnaissance battalion completed this "non-contact operation" in this way, and the victory was triumphant.
This time the battle example of refreshing Balzen's three views is enough for him to blow for a lifetime.