In March, the war had reached its tenth month, nearly four million Red Army soldiers had become prisoners of war, millions of Soviet civilians had been killed by the Germans, the Soviets had lost most of their territory in Eastern Europe, and the German Army Group South was advancing from Ukraine to the Caucasus. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the German army's time loss was just as high in this area, especially the defeat in the Battle of Britain, the indefinite delay of the Sea Lion Plan, the opportunity to build a large number of aircraft, and the large amount of American aid brought by the entry into force of the "Lend-Lease Act", Britain finally survived before the collapse. They frequently bombed German military targets, destroying factories in the thousands. But in the face of Nazi Germany, a behemoth with a population of 300 million, these losses were not inherently devastating to its industrial capacity.

On the eastern front, Crimea was already isolated, and the peninsula was connected to the land by a few narrow isthmuses, with the Black Sea to the south and the Caucasus to the east through the Kerch Strait.

The pressure on Timoshenko is very high, and with only a million troops under his command, even if he makes a certain defensive breakthrough, it will be difficult to block the enemy's offensive! Unless the rear continued to increase troops, it was the sudden victory in the south of White Russia that gave him some comfort.

Tupikov quickly sent someone to investigate the intelligence, especially the German code he had been listening to in the last month.

He himself arranged for someone to make a summary of the war situation in the south of Belarus, and soon a new report was on his desk.

Most of these transcripts were information released by the Gomel City Committee to the Soviet authorities, in which information about "partisans in the swamps" was carefully collected.

Now Tupikov finally got a general idea of the current situation of the 284th Division.

The text is clear, the strength of this infantry division and the population under its control have reached 30,000. According to the description of his division commander Yevlov, four purely female battalions were put into operation in the most recent battles, and the results were impressive.

He speculated that there were many more such female battalions, and that they could even form more purely female troops.

Now there are fewer and fewer men of appropriate age available in the Soviet Union, and the upper age limit for conscription was once only 28 years old, but now it has been delayed a lot, and some middle-aged people with gray temples have been drafted into the army.

Two days have passed since the conversation with Timoshenko, and Tupikov has received some new reports from the 284th Division.

Facing the latest telegram, the man couldn't help but be happy.

"Berekov, you really brought the wisdom of the Chinese as a Chinese?! I heard that the average person in your country is very good at planting, so he also farms extensively in our country? If potatoes can be widely grown in the current guerrilla areas, not only will we not need to give you airdrops, but your agricultural products will even be sent to neighboring guerrillas! ”

On telegram, Yevlov was not greedy.

Yang Mingzhi went to Catfish Village to develop new weapons, which Yevlov strongly supported. At present, the work of the division headquarters no longer requires full authority to manage the economy and livelihood of ordinary residents, and the legal municipal party committee has begun to work in an orderly manner.

The original production program was fully started under the authorization of Yevlov, and the women who were the largest in the collective farms became the main force of production.

The mass production campaign began in full swing on March 7, and Yerenkina even held a residents' meeting in the blacksmith village. A large number of women carrying rakes and shovels, wrapped in headscarves and dressed in bragi gathered. The ordinary soldiers who had finished their rest and recuperation also picked up their tools and prepared to devote themselves to the cause of military reclamation.

This woman is very good at doing ideological work, and after a not too long speech, the production movement begins!

The new Novgomel city committee encouraged ordinary residents to reclaim new land to grow crops, and the more land they cultivated, the more food rations the farmers received. According to the long-standing policy of the Soviet authorities, the situation of eating in large pots on collective farms was long-lived. Stalin directly stated: "The individual peasant is the last capitalist class. "This man exterminated the small peasant class in the Soviet Union with an iron fist and comprehensively established a rural economy with collective farms as the main body, and I am afraid that this is the essential difference between the Soviet Union and many Western countries.

For collective farms, Yang Mingzhi easily thought of the "people's commune" of the new China for a period of time, and later this model withdrew from the stage of history because it imprisoned the production enthusiasm of the common people. He had never personally experienced that era, but now he had traveled back to the Stalin era, at the height of the total collective farming in the Soviet Union, and in the face of collective farm policy, he had only one way - to adapt as much as possible.

The Gomel city council is still following the traditional Soviet model, with ordinary citizens in the Novgomel-controlled zone divided into workers and peasants. The former produce daily necessities and munitions through manufacturing and handicrafts, and obtain rations of food and daily necessities through labor. Hou is purely farming, men are basically soldiers, and most of the remaining women have become the main force of arricultural.

Most of their families were ruined, and they were willing to protect this peace when they fled to this safe place. No one objected to this collective farm system, and in the face of the threat of death, the only means of stockpiling in the war was to unite the fragile individuals into a strong whole.

These women drove their horses to plough and plough new land. They form production teams and are responsible for an area.

The whole blacksmith village began a thriving production movement, and on March 8, Women's Day, the women did not rest (according to the rules, they were allowed to take a vacation).

New arable land is being cleared, sprouted potato roots are being sown, and in some cases vegetable seeds are being sown. After sowing an acre of land, women came with wooden barrels full of dung, scooped water and sprinkled the fertilizer evenly, and for a time it was also a stinking atmosphere.

All these observations were recorded by Yevlov, and through radio and newly erected antennas, they were sent to the distant Front Command, which eventually became a newspaper in Tupikov's hands.

This had to be told to the commander of the Front, who went straight to the headquarters of the Front with the documents.

Regarding Yevlov's previous report, Timoshenko took a closer look, and since there was a guarantee from the Gomel City Committee, this complete content was naturally completely true. He was waiting for Tupikov's investigation report and was about to look for him in person, when he came with a spring breeze on his face.

"Comrade Chief of Staff! Looks like you've got good news for me. Is it about that Guards? Timoshenko, who was in front of the sand table, raised his head, his eyes blazing.

"Yes, comrade! I have made a summary of the combat operations of the 284th Guards Division in recent months, which is in my file. In addition to this, we received a joint call from his division commander Yevlov and the secretary of the Gomel Municipal Party Committee, Lyudbalev. ”

"Oh?! Show me the documents! (To be continued.) )