Sometimes the film restores history, and the warriors who crossed half the world to Europe were crammed into tin wagons as if they were trafficking livestock.

Some say that Soviet soldiers are not afraid of death, others say that they are just a herd of gray animals. The soldiers were able to endure the suffocating carriages, and they all knew that the next few days would be an ordeal.

But the morale of the people is still high, and many people are eager to fight, as the political commissar usually says, and sooner or later the whole of Europe will be liberated.

The Far Eastern Front was to send ten regiments to Europe, and these infantry regiments were made up of experienced veterans, some of whom had even participated in the Battle of Nomenkan. In this way, the Moscow authorities decided to rapidly expand the military establishment by allowing veterans to bring in new recruits.

On the train, Pugachev and Yang Mingzhi had lunch together, and by the way, talked about the future.

Pugachev took a drink and looked out the window, this is the vast land of Russia, and the military column will pass through the Ural Mountains after a few days' journey.

"After this mountain range we will enter Europe, and everything that is happening so far is in line with what you said last year, is it really necessary to fight war?"

Yang Mingzhi's expression was determined. "Yes, Comrade Division Commander. Britain and France received what Germany called a promise of peace, and as a result, the French Republic ceased to exist. If the Germans had peaceful sincerity towards the USSR, then they would not have deployed millions of people on the border. ”

Pugachev nodded, and the commander of the army group voiced similar concerns during a meeting at the original station.

Yang Mingzhi continued: "For the Germans, only by defeating us could Britain give up resistance, so that the Nazis would have the possibility of occupying the whole world. But this is not a good thing, just as they are now massacring Jews, they will treat the Slavs, the Chinese, and even their allies, the Japanese, as inferior monkeys. Because this war is not trivial. ”

The young man's statement is very explicit, he reveals the cruelty of the future war.

"The goal of the enemy is not to occupy the USSR, but to completely destroy everyone on this land, including you and me. Therefore, comrade division commander, I hope you do not have any illusions about the Germans. We will end the war victoriously, but the road to victory will be very difficult, I hope you can be mentally prepared, division commander. ”

Pugachev bowed his head and was silent, he did not know the cruelty of war. Since war is inevitable, let the artillery fire be more intense!

The military column stopped in Yekaterinburg, and Yang Mingzhi led his wife to walk around the city. Optimistic that the war had not yet begun, he bought himself some new clothes and even a pair of boots. The wife grew up in the white mountains and black waters, and bought her some underwear that a woman should have, so as to meet the taste of this old guy.

In the city, Yang Mingzhi also got some information that the army was gathering towards Eastern Europe. Including several strategic cavalry divisions, Lao Maozi was stubborn in the glorious tradition of the Cossack cavalry, the old guys in the top brass of the Moscow army clinged to the old tradition, and Yeremenko emphasized the glorious historical significance of the Soviet cavalry in the establishment of Soviet Russia.

So the column continued westward, and through the window he saw a large number of cavalry moving. He knew that in the future, these cavalry units would be more used as an auxiliary to the armored forces, so much so that later there were simply fast mobile units such as mechanized cavalry brigades.

The military train did not stop in Moscow, passing through Ryazan, Tula, Smolensk and finally arrived at its destination Minsk.

Now the area around Minsk has become a huge barracks, and millions of troops are gathering in this direction.

After getting off the train, Pugachev was refreshed. He has been promoted to division commander and has more power, and the next step is to report non-stop to the military headquarters of the group army to which he belongs.

The division commander Pugachev had already left, and Yang Mingzhi followed the team into the assigned temporary camp and set up camp.

"We're going to be sleeping in tents for a while, and you're going to have to bear it." Yang Mingzhi instructed his wife.

"Okay, at least it's much better here than the days of the Anti-United Nations."

Star fruit must also help when setting up a tent, and this will be the "home" of the two. Including the division commander himself, everyone is sleeping in tents, and simple living facilities are also being built. Some soldiers even cut down wood to build sturdier makeshift huts.

It was already evening when the division commander returned, and the temporary division headquarters had already been set up. He couldn't wait to order all the junior officers to hold a meeting, and Yang Mingzhi was also on the scene.

A round table was set up in the large tent of the division headquarters, and a huge map was spread out.

Pugachev glanced at everyone intently and said: "You should have guessed that the army group and even the entire Baltic Special Military District are not optimistic about the future situation, let's not think that we are still far from the border, and a war is likely to break out, or even around us." ”

"So we're about to leave for a new position?" Battalion commander Yevlov asked.

"Yes, but as we said before we left, we will build up our forces first. Then we went to the planned position, everyone looked at the map, and the place where the red circle was drawn was the location of our 284th Division. ”

The officers bowed their heads, and the positions were seated more than fifty kilometers from the city of Minsk. The defense line of the entire military district is fan-shaped, which is no different from the defense mode of other parts of the Soviet Union, and the 284th Division is also just a node in the entire defense line.

The Soviet Union was very large, and for the potential threat of war, the Soviet army had to build a defense line of thousands of kilometers from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Yang Mingzhi is very glad that he is not at the front line, and the infantry division he is currently in is still in the rear, and it exists as a strategic reserve.

According to the strategic deployment, all regiments from the Far East were expanded into infantry divisions, and Pugachev received the official designation, the 284th Infantry Division, which was part of the 11th Army.

Yang Mingzhi considers himself just a spectator, and tells Pugachev about the future when necessary. He knew that the old guy believed in him, but he didn't expect this man to make a new appointment.

"Comrades, I plan to let our Berekov also lead a team, and let him be the commander of the special anti-tank battalion."

Yang Minzhi was very puzzled, didn't he say that he would be a staff officer? The same officers were also puzzled, after all, this person's military registration was written as a Mongolian ethnic group from Buryatia, and in fact, everyone knew that this person was a Chinese from the other side of the Amur River.

"Commander, you should probably think about it again." Yang Mingzhi excused himself.

Pugachev waved his hand, "I've decided." The weapon you made is good for anti-tank, but we've only experimented with it very many times. Only you, and the soldiers who helped you produce weapons, know how to operate them correctly and efficiently. Therefore I give you the right to lead a force of five hundred men into a special battalion, which will be used to focus on the enemy's armored forces when necessary for war. ”

So Pugachev elaborated on what he meant, and everything was due to the unique nature of the infantry division.

According to the spirit of the 1939 regulations on the establishment of Soviet infantry divisions, the 284th Division had three infantry regiments, two artillery regiments, and an independent anti-tank artillery battalion, with a total number of more than 15 thousand men. However, Pugachev's infantry regiment was only 2,400 men at full capacity.

Since Yang Mingzhi had made 500 rocket-propelled grenades, it would be better to form a team to use this secret weapon in a centralized manner. The division commander took it upon himself to say that after the army was fully reorganized, the division would have two anti-tank battalions.

After resting in the makeshift camp for two days, the troops moved towards the established assembly point, targeting the village of Badikinskaya.

Yang Mingzhi has been promoted to the commander of the special anti-tank battalion, and he believes that he is moving towards his goal, and that commanding a few hundred people is just the beginning. To that end, he asked five girls, including his wife, star fruit, to serve as hygienists in his army. He would never throw his wife to the field hospital of the division, after the outbreak of the war, the Soviet army was bound to retreat, and his family must stay by his side to protect it no matter what.

The army did not drag, and at the end of April the headquarters of the 284th Division was the first to arrive in Batykinskaya, which also quickly turned into a huge barracks.

Following the advice of the army, many villagers evacuated inland areas in military vehicles, dragging their families and valuables. The houses were requisitioned one after another, and Yang Mingzhi also had his own small room, after all, he had certain privileges as an officer.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of troops gathered here, and two newly formed infantry regiments arrived first. Pugachev immediately ordered his own battalion commander as the commander of the new infantry regiment. The battalion commander Yevlov, whom he admired the most, had become the head of the first corps of the subordinate regiment. Immediately after the arrival of the artillery regiment, tens of thousands of people had gathered around the small village.

It was a little difficult to command such a large-scale army, and Pugachev hurriedly called Yang Mingzhi to his side, after all, in addition to his own work, this person also had to help staff officers.

According to Pugachev's meaning, the three main infantry regiments of the division were in a long snake formation, the anti-tank regiments were separated, and the anti-aircraft guns were laid out in the first line. Behind the line of defense were the positions of the artillery regiments, which were responsible for artillery support as soon as the war began.

There is no point in everyone, after all, friendly and neighboring troops are also arranged in this way, but some people say that such a line of defense is too thin, and the Germans believe in a blitzkrieg, a tank cluster can storm a little to break through the line.

The staff officers exchanged views with a large number of officers and had no objections to such a mode of defense.

But if this is the case, there is no need to call Yang Mingzhi over, Pugachev needs to listen to the meaning of this Chinese.

"I'm against it." Yang Mingzhi rejected this defense plan without thinking.

"Why? Our friendly forces are deployed in this way. A staff officer said

"That's why I'm against it, and I'm really not disrespectful to those in the army group, because our defensive model is nothing more than a thin eggshell, and the enemy is a sharp chisel. Look at our anti-tank guns, they are scattered and can easily be destroyed individually. As for our artillery, because they are too far from the front line, they are not mobile firepower, and it is difficult to make reasonable artillery support in times of crisis. ”

The new troops expressed great resistance to the rhetoric of this Eastern officer. The officers sent by Pugachev could not control the will of the new troops, not to mention the fact that the political commissars came up with relevant regulations and demanded that everything be done in accordance with the regulations of the superiors.

"This is a defense plan developed by the army group, and we can't make any changes. If we change our armament without authorization, we will all have to go to court-martial. ”

Yang Mingzhi hoped that the anti-tank guns would be able to hit and be used, so that more shells could shoot at a few tanks, and basically a salvo would definitely destroy the enemy. However, Lao Maozi was stubborn high-ranking officers, and they rose too quickly, so they had no knowledge of war, so they had to take the examples of civil wars as the Bible. I even felt that in the new war, the infantry units still had to act according to the pattern of the First World War.

Yang Mingzhi's words were only heard by a few people, and although his views were reasonable, Pugachev did not make any adjustments. It was only noted: "If the direction of the line of defense is attacked by enemy armored forces, you and your troops must arrive in time." ”

Yang Mingzhi took the order, and he also began to intensify the training of his subordinates. A total of 490 soldiers belonged to the special anti-tank battalion, and 100 of them were the makers of RPG grenades, and they were well aware of the invention of this weapon by the battalion commander and were the first to know about the horror of this weapon.

The monkey version of the rudimentary RPG2, Yang Mingzhi commented on his weapon. After all, it is born in rags and cannot achieve extreme precision. By the end of production, due to the lack of a large number of materials, this weapon can be considered a "targetable level-flying rocket launcher". Even this is enough, at least at a distance of two hundred meters there is an extremely high hit rate.

At the same time, the fighters intensified their training, and the whole of Batykinskaya became a huge training ground.

The main armament of the ordinary infantry of the Soviet army was the Mosin Nagant equipped with a three-sided military spur, and the heavy weapons were DP light machine guns and Maxim M1910 heavy machine guns. As for Yang Mingzhi's special anti-tank battalion, they are very different from other units, after all, Yang Mingzhi served in the PLA before crossing over, and he strives to reproduce the Soviet army that he is satisfied with according to his own memory and using the PLA as the prototype.