The 284th Division, which was 100 kilometers away, began a new deployment, and Yang Mingzhi decided to personally lead the team to welcome back the Gomel City Party Committee, the Tchaikov partisans, and his own reconnaissance company. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

These things were decided suddenly, and Balzen was completely unaware of them for a while. To make matters worse, he knew that he had a long way to go in leading such a large team, and that any fork in the march would cause a catastrophe. And the marching route he drew was indeed to avoid the Germans in the rear, but some German troops were scattered in the forest.

On the new day, Balzen ordered the whole army to move, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

At the head of the line were two squads of the reconnaissance company, which were well armed and had excellent eyesight. What's more, these twenty people have excellent battlefield insight, they are the best forest hunters, and they can even smell the murderous aura of the enemy.

In the rear team, the soldiers with strong combat effectiveness are outside, and the core is all the old and weak and wounded.

In fact, it was precisely because of these vulnerable women and children that the whole army would not have groped through the forest at a speed of only three kilometers per hour. It is a great sin to abandon them, and the Soviet army is to save these Soviet citizens. If they do not abandon it, the troops will always be constrained, and once a battle breaks out, they will inevitably encounter a lot of trouble.

According to Balzen's plan, the whole army was to make a tactical turn, continue to advance northeast after the attack on the airfield, and after a period of travel to divert the route to the south through the road, this road map is being implemented little by little.

It was already noon, and the troops had walked fifteen or sixteen kilometers. Looking at the map, the troops were actually about to pass by road, and Balzen immediately organized a small meeting.

"I'm very worried that we're going to run into an enemy, and the closer we get to the road, the more likely it is. We have to plan ahead. Balzen voiced his concerns, dealt with possible enemy encounters, and fought as best he could if he could engage the enemy.

Tchaikov naturally supported Balzen's decision. "If we encounter an enemy, then go to battle, this is my mission, I am to enter the occupied area and command the soldiers who continue to fight against Germany."

They don't say that they don't have the will to fight, and they are not afraid of death or die when they start a war. Most of these guerrilla fighters were motivated by hatred, many had their relatives killed by the Germans, and some of them were Jews at all. If you don't fight, you will die, so even if you will die in the end, it is still cost-effective to fight before you die.

As a result, the battles brought out by such unruly guerrilla experts did not allow soldiers and the enemy to come head-to-head.

Balzen sighed: "Actually, if we encounter an enemy, we can adopt a more flexible method. If it had been the chief of staff of our 284th Division who commanded us, I can assure that no matter how difficult it was, it would not have been a problem. But my abilities are limited, and once we encounter an enemy on our way, we must fight! ”

This is to say that the so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, Tchaikov didn't think so much, as a man, you can't be cowardly. He patted his chest and said, "Comrade, you can rest assured." My warriors will fight to the end, and if the enemy dares to stand in the way, we will fight hard! We still have a lot of troops, and with your reconnaissance company joining us, we have a good chance of winning. ”

Balzen smiled bitterly for a while and did not speak again. He estimated that if the operation of returning home was under the command of Yang Mingzhi, deputy division commander, under any circumstances, it would definitely be necessary to vigorously avoid going head-to-head with the enemy and reduce the losses of the troops. This requires complex decision-making, and each company is afraid to have complex tactics. In addition, the new friendly forces did not know the various tactics of the 284th Guards Division, which were completely different from those of the Soviet army, and it would be difficult for them to do a good job of explaining the complex tactics.

If you encounter a strong enemy to block it, it is wise to tactically avoid it and wait for the enemy to show a flaw and fight back. However, Tchaikov's people were poor in combat effectiveness, and women and children were also a huge drag. The retreat turned into a rout, and the collapse of morale was all over.

Balzen didn't want to pour cold water on Tchaikov, he thought for a while, and then said to everyone who participated in this meeting: "You are mainly partisan fighters, and I have seen that you continue to fight in an extremely difficult environment, with poor supplies and poor weapons, and many of you are even using sticks as weapons. ”

These words embarrassed Lyudbalev and Tchaikov very much. Soviet soldiers were never short of weapons, but in the guerrilla zone, where supplies were scarce, the current weapons were largely from captured German troops. There were really no weapons left, and the hunters' old double-barreled shotguns, and even flintlock muskets, were taken out. Some of them were even more backward in their armament, with a dagger tied to a stick, which was a short spear, and this cold weapon was also considered a weapon against the invaders.

How can such an armed force have high combat effectiveness?

But these people are very optimistic! Morale is very important, and good weapons and equipment are also the key to a big victory. Fighting with well-armed Germans with eighteenth-century firearms, or even purely cold weapons? The only possibility that Balzen could associate with was a white-knuckle fight. I'm afraid this is also a strong point of the Soviet army.

Balzen consulted with everyone, and finally established the operation, with the reconnaissance company as the tactical core. The teams advance in a large triangle formation, ensuring that they can organize an attack as soon as they encounter an enemy.

After resting for a while, the team moved on, and Barzen called on the whole crew: "This afternoon we will pass the Moziri-Gomel road. Everyone be mentally prepared to go into battle as soon as we encounter the German road patrols! ”

Naturally, the warriors responded in unison, calling for Ula to cheer themselves up.

The north wind blows through the forest, and the tall red pines occasionally have snow falling. Some squirrels cut through the woods, and a few crows flew through the treetops from time to time.

Suddenly, the silence was shattered by the sound of gunfire!

There is no other reason, the sharp soldiers of the forward, these two squads and the German army have encountered each other.

What they saw was not a search party, but a small force. Because the spearheads were very close to the road, they were actually out of the forest, in the gap between the two forests, this was a snowfield, and the road was here.

The equipment of this German army was very strong, and it was very conspicuous that they were actually equipped with tanks.

"If a large force collides with them, it will definitely suffer serious losses!" A squad leader felt that something was wrong, and he decided to retreat immediately with his squad.

Both squads retreated almost simultaneously, which was captured by the Germans. Suddenly, a German soldier opened fire, which was just the sound of a Mauser rifle shot, but caused the frightened German army to fight back. The Germans also did not know how many Soviet troops were in the forest, anyway they believed that there were a lot of them there.

The enemy was firing wildly, and the Soviets thought that the Germans were attacking. The counterattack was directly blocked by the Germans more fiercely, and now it was not just the sound of gunfire, the German tanks opened fire!

The gunfire rang out one after another, and the teams that continued to advance in the forest heard it clearly.

It was a true prophecy, and Balzen did not know whether he was lucky or unlucky. A few hours ago, I discussed with the others what to do if I encountered such an unexpected situation as the enemy. Now he made a decision: "Order everyone, get ready for battle!" We charge forward and crush the enemy in front of us! ”

This decision at once aroused the decision of the vast number of fighters, and the partisan fighters of Tchaikov were the most solid supporters of this combat decision! (To be continued.) )