Yang Mingzhi waited for the arrival of medical personnel, and before that, he ordered his troops to quickly clean up the battlefield.

The enemy was the SS, and their caps and collar badges were all skulls. The soldiers cut off these badges and collected them, and annihilated a force of SS troops, and the gold content of the battle was very high.

At the same time, some soldiers vented their personal anger, and they did not hesitate to insult the corpses of these dead enemies. Yang Mingzhi did not interfere, the war will turn people into beasts, and the anger in the hearts of the soldiers needs to be vented, so they let them dismantle the enemy's corpses and bury them with mud to serve as "fertilizer for crops".

In the morning, medical personnel arrived one after another, the lightly wounded were treated on the spot, and the seriously wounded were supported and the large force retreated.

When star fruit saw her husband, his appearance did not change much, and he was not injured in the battle.

"Xiao Tao, the treatment of the wounded soldiers will be left to you."

"Hmm. Husband, I'll do well. ”

Yang Mingzhi pinched his wife's chin, and she also walked over. "Thank you, we will definitely fight the enemy in the future. You and your companions are still to be medified, and try to avoid contact with enemies. ”

Star fruit knows all this, and the way she fights now is the same as when she fought with the little devil.

In addition to burying the corpses of the enemy, the soldiers also found the bodies of the slain villagers, buried them together, took some daily necessities, and the troops immediately retreated. Yang Mingzhi saw that some soldiers actually took off the helmets of the Germans, and it was said that this thing was not bad as a pot for cooking rice. There were even people who took off the enemy's military boots and replaced them with worn ones.

Yang Mingzhi ordered all the enemy's weapons to be taken away, after all, many of the militia troops were still unarmed.

On the other hand, the German Imperial divisions infiltrated other units in the forest, and they sensed the battle.

The Führer's regiment was in the forest, and two thousand people were scattered into several squads along the forest road in search of the Russians. They carried the radio with them, and since that night the sound of gunfire echoed in the mountains and forests, the regimental commander immediately contacted several squads.

The head of the Führer's regiment, Otokum, who was originally in the plane, led his troops to participate in the attack on Smolensk after the end of the siege of Minsk, and finally fought with more than 2,000 people until only 65 remained. The tide of the battle on this plane changed, and he was ordered to enter the forests northwest of Babruisk in search of Soviet troops.

At first, he was very resistant to this order, and this kind of thing should be handed over to the third-rate security division, not the elite SS. In order to vent his anger and to carry out Hitler's orders, he ordered his troops to massacre the Russians indiscriminately.

Now that he could no longer contact his troops, and with a barrage of gunfire, he realized that the Soviet breakthrough from the forest, predicted by the division commander, had taken place.

He made a preliminary judgment that the Soviets had attacked the "village of Rosaskaya" marked on the map, where two companies were temporarily resting.

"Go to report to the division headquarters, our army has found traces of Soviet troops. Our troops will immediately arrive on the battlefield to search for and annihilate this Soviet force. The message was sent, and Otokum felt that the merit was right now.

The SS was Hitler's loyalist, and the skull badge has been around since the Prussian era, meaning to fight to the death. The Führer's fighting spirit is very tough, which is where Ottokum's self-confidence lies. "Ordered all the troops searching to assemble in the village of Rosalskaya. But on this trip, we tried not to take the road and beware of enemy ambushes. ”

He had already guessed that this Soviet army must be outnumbered. Since the two companies could not be contacted, the very Kenneng troops were already very lucky, and the Soviet troops must have adopted ambush tactics.

At the same time, the Soviet army returned from victory with the joy of victory. A large number of captured German weapons, as well as the skull Peugeot insignia, were displayed in front of Yevlov.

Yevlov immediately puffed out his cigarette and looked at the loot with a happy face. "Go ahead, the militia forces are called, now they have weapons."

After statistics, there are 133 K98s, 20 MP38s, and two MG34 general-purpose machine guns, and all kinds of bullets are also sufficient. Food was very valuable, and many soldiers also searched for personal belongings and rations from the Germans. Yang Mingzhi also threw a pack of German cigarettes to Yevlov.

The old guy laughed it off. He ordered the soldiers to hand over the canned meat and biscuits that had been found. Some of the soldiers refused to hand over the food in the hope of improving it, but Yerenkina came out to mediate.

"Soldiers, bread will be there, butter will be there. We're having a hard time right now, but you're still healthy. We also have a large number of wounded soldiers and children, who are the ones who need nutrition the most. For the sake of our compatriots, I hope you will remember who you are as great Red Army soldiers. ”

Yevlov also said this statement, but because he was not the teacher Pugachev. The commander of the regiment concurrently served as the division commander, and many people were not convinced. It was Yerentina who revealed her identity as a member of the NKVD and forced the soldiers to come as they wanted.

Yevlov had to explain to Yang Mingzhi that he could not really control the entire force.

"Here are the soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Regiments, as well as the surviving artillery regimental infantry. While some of the survivors of the anti-tank artillery battalion volunteered to join your special anti-tank battalion, others really had their own agendas. Many fighters hoped that Kuznedov's troops would rush into the forest, and everyone would break through together. ”

Yang Mingzhi lit a cigarette for him, and the two sat together and spit out smoke rings.

"Yevlov, think about it now. We have annihilated a small SS force, the position has been exposed, and the enemy is bound to attack us soon. Our total strength is 3,000, which is a lot of money. I don't know exactly how many Germans there were, but they must have been deployed outside the forest for the purpose of blocking the breakthrough of our large forces. ”

"So we're in danger right now?" Yevlov asked.

"Yes, the Germans will surround us. We either continue to retreat, or defend in place. ”

"What about your opinion?"

"Defend in place. Wait for the enemy to wear themselves out. The Germans may have taken the road to Rosaskaya to investigate, or they may have acted directly in the woods. We must organize the line of defense from our current location to Rosaskaya. Either we all move to that village and organize defenses. ”

Yevlov immediately ordered a meeting of all junior officers, and he immediately reported the gravity of the situation, emphasizing: "The fact that the enemy can arrogantly enter the forest shows that they have a very large number of troops. I think everyone is tired of marching for so many days, so why not arm yourself and do a big job. ”

The officers exchanged heads, and one of them stood up and said loudly: "Isn't it what we should do to hide in Tibet, if I want to say it, go straight out of the forest and fight the Germans." Even if we die in battle, we are worthy of the motherland. “

Yang Mingzhi hurriedly waved his hand to let the emotional man sit down. "You're desperately adventurous. If we had fought desperately, we would have died a long time ago. Listen, it was obvious that we lost our positions by being competitive, and of course we avoided the end of the total annihilation like those three divisions. We survived by temporarily building up strength on the forest. Now that the Germans are under their noses, they will certainly not be numerous. We will destroy them, and this is also worthy of the motherland. ”

Yang Mingzhi continued: "We did not complete the task of defending Minsk, and the commander of the Front completely escaped all this by committing suicide and martyrdom. He is directly responsible, and so are we. In order to clear our name, we must kill and injure more Nazis. Now the enemy intends to destroy us, and we cannot ask for it. ”

In this way, everyone thinks there is some truth. To tell the truth, ordinary soldiers do not intend to continue to hide in Tibet, it is not easy to march in the forest, if they must die in battle, the opportunity is in front of them. Yevlov looked at everyone: "Comrades, the enemy in front of us is Hitler's minions, probably the most elite SS troops, probably in the tens of thousands. Our Berekov is very good at fighting in the forest, and after that the interim command I hope it will be him. ”

The command was handed over to a Chinese, and emotionally many officers did not accept it. Yang Mingzhi offered his own merits to shut them up, "It was my troops who annihilated the German tank regiment, it was my people who killed the commander of the armored division, and it was I who guided everyone to retreat to the forest to preserve their strength." ”

Now Yang Mingzhi has a heavy burden on his shoulders, Yerentina supports him, and Yevlov supports him. Others had to hold their doubts in their hearts and listen to this Chinese head-on.

Yang Mingzhi ordered the troops to turn back and set up defenses around the village of Rosaskaya. The troops were divided into three large groups of a thousand people each. Two armies stopped the ring fortifications on the outskirts of the village, and he led the core to guard the village gates. The "field hospital" and militia followed the rear of the core force, and a company of soldiers was assigned to help with the defense.

Yang Mingzhi also sent some snipers, who were ordered to climb the trees to keep watch. These men were meat scouts who opened fire as soon as they spotted the Germans. If there were portable walkie-talkies in this era, snipers would be able to report the point immediately when they found the Germans. Unfortunately, the times were like this, and he could only order the soldiers to climb trees to keep an eye like crazy Japanese, and instructed. "You shoot as soon as you know where the enemy is moving, and then quickly descend the tree and report to the nearest friendly force."

The team rested for a while and then started again. Some soldiers complained that it would be better to be stationed directly in Rosaskaya, and that it would be an extra sixteen kilometers to walk. The order was overwhelming, the soldiers consumed a lot of physical strength, and by the evening the troops arrived in the village.

Some soldiers began to dig fortifications in the village, and some soldiers hid in farmhouses and set up machine-gun emplacements.

Because the Germans could arrive from anywhere, large forces dug foxholes on the hills on both sides and built machine-gun and mortar positions. A company of troops was deployed on both sides of the road into the village, and if the German troops entered the village, they were ordered to attack from behind after the German troops entered the village.

The field hospital was arranged directly behind the core defense group, and Yang Mingzhi decided to personally take care of the wounded soldiers with the main force himself. It was reassuring for his wife to remain a short distance away, and at the same time, the wounded soldiers and militiamen who had been lightly wounded could go into battle at once if necessary, fighting with captured German weapons.