The defeat of the Battle of Minsk was already a foregone conclusion, just like the outcome of the original plane.

And the different thing, because the Soviet army was better able to hold back the German army, the advance of the entire Army Group Center made a major adjustment. They have already wasted a lot of time and now begin the siege of the encircled forces of the entire Western Front of the USSR.

Therefore, the 6th Mechanized Corps and Hort's Panzer Division were engaged, and the T-26 tanks in the army were not at all opponents of the Germans. They could rush into the camp of the Germans who had lost their tank units and attack indiscriminately, but they could not face the advance of the German armored clusters, not to mention the fact that the German air force was also in action.

The 6th Mechanized Corps, having suffered heavy losses, began to retreat towards Minsk, and on the way they received the final order from the commander of the Front.

The battle has been lost, everyone broke through on their own, Minsk has fallen. So Pugachev's troops soon encountered this friendly army, and the two armies almost suffered accidental injuries when they met, and it was not until the red flag was raised at the same time that they could not see each other's identities clearly.

Pugachev was in a hurry to find the commander of this detachment and elaborate on his ideas. But after all, he did not see the supreme commander of this unit, the commander had already died in the enemy's air raid, and a large group of people such as the military commissar were also killed.

Before, they were still storming Kuhn's troops, and that guy had just been killed, but now it was his turn.

Deputy Army Commander Mikhail was taken aback when he saw Pugachev: "You are not supposed to guard Minsk, why are you here." ”

Pugachev also had a lot of questions. "Aren't you supposed to engage in an exchange of fire with the German panzers? Why would they attack our line of defense. ”

The two sides exchanged conditions and finally understood that the Germans were going to destroy this Soviet unit, but at that time after the capture of Minsk.

At this moment Rommel's troops came to their senses, and the tank units began to move towards the encirclement. The entire Army Group Center was shrinking the encirclement, and the Soviet troops, totaling more than 300,000 people, including Pugachev, were on the plan of annihilation.

Fortunately, fortunately they were on the side of the Soviet army for the time being, and it began to rain after the evening of July 4, and the temperature dropped sharply, and the muddy roads undoubtedly caused great trouble to the advancing Germans.

Yang Mingzhi breathed a long sigh of relief, and God gave him a few days to buffer.

The total strength of the troops after the meeting reached 20,000 men, many of the troops were exhausted, and some companies even had a shortage of ammunition.

In this situation, both food and ammunition are extremely valuable.

Yang Mingzhi counted his subordinates again, and there were 400 people left in the entire special anti-tank battalion, plus five hygienists including star fruit.

The whole battalion set up camp in the woods, and many of the other troops simply sheltered from the rain in tanks, or even lay under the chassis of trucks.

Now because of the rain, star fruit is very worried about the problem of the wounded soldiers. Yang Mingzhi built a tent out of canvas (equipped on military trucks), and many wounded soldiers were placed here.

Yang Mingzhi looked at these soldiers of his own, some of whom were lucky enough to only be hit by bullets in the arm or something. Because of the shortage of gauze, many people use torn clothes to wrap their wounds, and now it is heavy rain, which is too easy to have accidents.

He saw star fruit rummaging through the medical kit and walked over to stroke his wife's shoulder. "What's going on, will the medicine be consumed too much?"

"Yes. Husband, we don't have anti-inflammatory drugs anymore. If the wounded soldier is infected, there is really nothing I can do. ”

"Is that the same for everyone else?"

"Well, the war is too tragic, and some of the medicine in our battalion has already been distributed to friendly troops. As a result, there is no stock anymore. ”

The lack of medical care plagued the troops, coupled with the siege, and this damn rain. Everyone's morale became more and more low, and the Western Front abandoned everyone and left the fighters to break through on their own. But everyone knows that the road to breakthrough is full of difficulties.

"Husband, can we go out? Listen to the fighters, there are enemies on all sides. Star fruit looked at Yang Mingzhi, and her heart was full of worry. Will the Germans be the same as the Japanese. Husband, if things get to that point, I want you to kill me first. ”

"Don't talk about that." Yang Mingzhi pinched her chin, this girl's sad look is also very cute. "I promised you that we would make it out alive."

Star fruit inexplicably settled down, since the outbreak of the war, her husband has always been unscathed in the rain of bullets. When I was in China, I fought with devils, and my husband was also safe and sound. When his comrades-in-arms were wiped out, he took himself across the river, he was really a lucky man.

Yang Mingzhi instructed his wife to continue to check the condition of the wounded soldiers, boil some hot water with gasoline, and at least boil the cloth vigorously to sterilize it.

The heavy rain gradually turned into light rain on the afternoon of July 5, and the team had a good rest for the day, and many tired people regained some energy.

But with it came the Germans, whose air force arrived.

There was a violent roar in the sky, and the Stuka group spotted the Soviet target on the ground, and the next step was dive bombing.

Yang Mingzhi immediately ordered the whole battalion to run into the woods, even if the woods were not big, as long as they hid in it, they still had a good chance of avoiding air raids. In the midst of the crisis, he couldn't care more than carrying a weapon on his back, and as soon as he picked up his wife and ran to the woods with the team.

Fortunately, for those who fled into the woods, they did not become the target of German aircraft attacks. Because there were a large number of valuable targets outside the woods, tanks, trucks, these heavy equipment were the last thing the Soviets relied on. Destroy them as much as possible, and the Soviets will not be able to escape.

The airstrikes lasted more than ten minutes, and chaos reigned in the camp. Many soldiers who were still sleeping were directly blown to pieces by the bombshells, and many others died from the blast wave.

Pugachev, who was discussing with the deputy commander, was injured by the bomb, and the violent explosion even blew him away, and when he woke up in Su, he was already lying on the muddy floor.

The air raid is over, Yang Mingzhi hunched his waist and looks at the sky, now the German army has completely mastered air supremacy, so it can attack unscrupulously, this is the sorrow of the weak.

"Comrades, let's come out and see our comrades-in-arms!" Yang Mingzhi pretended to be calm and said, when he walked out of the grove, everyone was faced with a mess.

The ground was littered with broken corpses, and there were many moans of wounded soldiers.

The enemy's focus on bombing was the core of this unit, and the headquarters of the 6th Mechanized Corps had already been blown up.

"Pugachev, you're going to die." Yang Mingzhi thought silently in his heart, and finally found that person, who was already dying at this moment.

Badly wounded, Pugachev was dragged by soldiers to an undestroyed tent, and Yang Mingzhi must have been lucky to see that his uniform was covered in blood.

"Star fruit!" Yang Mingzhi shouted loudly.

“Да！”

"Hurry up and check it on the division commander."

In a hurry, Yang Minzhi roared directly in Chinese, so star fruit calmly looked at Pugachev's wound, and took out a sharp knife to cut the shredded clothes. After washing the wound with clean water, I saw a deep wound about the liver.

"Brother, he may not be able to do it anymore." Star fruit looked at her husband in despair.

Yang Mingzhi also saw the wound clearly, this person hurt his liver, at least all his internal organs had to be injured. By this time, Pugachev had begun to lose consciousness, he raised his hand slightly, and there were words in his mouth.

Yang Mingzhi's ear was pressed to the past, and Pugachev tried to speak: "Have we won this war?" ”

"Victory we conquered Berlin on May 9, 1945. Germany was defeated and surrendered. ”

Pugachev smiled slightly. "Okay, you go, Yevlov called, if he's still alive."

During the air raid, Yevlov was lucky not to be killed while lying on the ground, and now he is covered in mud like a gopher that has just come out of the earth.

He rushed to the place where the division commander was, faced with a dismal result.

Pugachev trembled and muttered: "Commissar Batygin is dead, and I will die soon." Now I appoint Yevlov as the division commander and Berekov as the deputy division commander. We have suffered heavy losses, and the rest of the troops hope that you will not foolishly attack the Germans. If you can save your strength by escaping into the forest, do it. ”

After saying that, Pugachev fell into a dying, and the commander of the 284th Guards Division finally died in a German air raid.

However, compared with the leaderless group of dragons trapped in the Sixth Mechanized Army, the command system of the 284th Division, which has a small number of people, is at least still there. Eventually, the infantry division became its original size, numbering less than 3,000 men, and was an infantry regiment at best. Yevlov found the flag of the infantry division, a precious thing that must not fall into the hands of the Germans.

The Sixth Mechanized Corps has collapsed, and many units are breaking through on their own. Yang Mingzhi watched in the direction of their retreat, most of which were towards the besieged troops, which numbered more than 270,000 people.

That group of people had just broken through the first German blockade, and they thought that everything would be fine with the withdrawal to Minsk, and now Minsk has also fallen. Kuznetsov was left alone, and they would eventually choose to retreat from the forest, but that would be a week later.

Many people left on their own, and they did not care about the wounded soldiers all over the ground. Yang Mingzhi had no choice, there was only one way for these seriously wounded to die, and he discussed with Yevlov that all the things that everyone in the infantry division could use on the battlefield should at least replenish ammunition and food.

The rain had stopped at night, and in order to avoid exposure, no bonfires were lit in the camp at night.

After the air strike, some trucks were left on the battlefield, and many of them were damaged and could continue to drive.

Pugachev is dead, and Yevlov alone boasts that he is unable to control the overall situation, and he needs Berekov's help.

When it comes to how to get out of the predicament, Yang Mingzhi has already planned it. "We should break through from the southwest, where there are dense forests that make it easy for our troops to hide. We could set up camp there and even continue to fight the Germans as a base base. ”

Not believing that this would be successful, Yevlov immediately asked: "But how do you lead people to where?" Won't we meet the enemy's army? ”

"Probably not." Yang Mingzhi actually didn't dare to pack tickets. Guderian was bent on taking Moscow, and Hitler ordered him to participate in the siege of Minsk to complete the encirclement, but he should have sent a small number of troops to participate in the offensive.

"We now have a lot of woods in our geography, and we are no longer facing the plains outside Minsk. Here the capabilities of the German armored forces were limited, and at the same time we could also use the woods. During the day we rested, and at night we drove forward. ”

Yang Mingzhi was determined to take advantage of the geographical advantage, as Moscow was surrounded by a large number of woods, which were still in the process of forming forests, with a large number of small plains and a number of small villages.

"Our biggest concern is the supply problem, if we can find some villages, we can immediately replenish them on the spot. Take everything you can. ”

Take away the finances of citizens? Yevlov muttered, but Yang Mingzhi understood. "Comrade Yevlov, I am Chinese, but I am not a bad person. You don't have to think that we are robbing our people, in fact I am very confident that the Germans will not hesitate to kill everyone when they find these villages on their way to the army. ”

Yevlov decided to follow the decision of Yang Mingzhi, who was better at commanding the army. To this end, Yevlov solemnly promised: "Berekov, as long as you bring the rest of our warriors to the forest and settle everyone, the rest of the matter will be for you to direct our battle in the forest." ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded, and a sense of responsibility welled up in his heart. "Okay, let's sleep until 0:00 and start our hearts. Remember, everyone takes everything that is useful. ”

The moon came out after the rain, and while the moonlight was shining, the last remaining officers and soldiers of the 284th Division, they were carrying some people who also survived, such as the militia of Minsk that had been mobilized before, the lone soldiers of the Sixth Mechanized Army, and even the Cheka girl Yelentina. Everyone had no choice but to follow this unit one after another.

A lot of heavy equipment was abandoned, and everyone moved forward lightly, thinking about moving in the southwest direction.