Yang Mingzhi knew that the Germans were very unaware of the environment of the vast swamps in the Pripet River valley. The war was about to start four months later, and the Germans had a series of military operations that yielded great results, but the swamp was never the target of attack.

The Soviet Union was very large, the total strength of the German army was at most five million people, they were scattered on a huge front of a thousand kilometers, and in order to maintain a "strong fist", it was necessary to focus on the offensive. They occupy large and small cities, and many times they do not care about rural areas.

Although a large part of the Soviet Union has fallen, the German army has not explored it in all directions. Such a large number of Soviet stragglers and peaceful residents who chose to resist had room to maneuver and launch a counterattack deep in the dense forest.

Therefore, the enemy did not attack the current camp of the 284th Division, and they should not actually know that there are such troops in the mud of the swamp. So how do you explain the previous attacks? Perhaps the Germans were in disarray, or perhaps they simply had no time to take care of it.

Early in the morning, Yang Mingzhi got up. Because of the limited time, he had to work out the military plan with Yevlov.

Since the star fruit was ordered not to participate in the battle, the girl simply slept and lay on the bed tossing and turning.

"Just keep resting. Don't be tired of yourself these days, stay in the barracks honestly. Yang Mingzhi stood up and said to his wife.

"Okay. It's useless for me to say anything, since you said that I've been weak these days, then I'm weak. I'll just continue to lie down and satisfy you. ”

This girl was still a little angry when she said this, Yang Mingzhi shrugged, took the map and documents and left.

At this time, all combatants of the unit were actively preparing for battle.

The soldiers' bullets were kept in the arsenal at non-combat moments, and the guns were held by themselves. The guns had to be kept regularly, so as the new battle approached, the soldiers dismantled the guns into large and small parts. A lot of people did it very carefully, and it was early in the morning that they started wiping their guns.

The barrel is the most critical, and many people pull out the rifle and poke a small piece of linen in and out of the barrel, trying to clean the rifling of the dust.

Yang Mingzhi did not disturb their work, and everyone's active preparation for the battle proved their determination to fight, and with such prudent subordinates who dared to fight, the rest was for the commander to exert his wisdom and lead everyone to victory. Suddenly, a huge sense of mission and responsibility came to my heart, and the pressure was on my shoulders.

Yang Mingzhi trotted all the way to the division headquarters, and at the moment those people were still eating in the cafeteria, and after a while, Yevlov returned with a piece of bread in his mouth.

"You're late, so I've been waiting for a long time." Yang Mingzhi put on a very serious expression.

Yevlov was not so serious, he took the bread and chewed it for a while before he sat down in his chair and asked: "It seems that you attach great importance to this operation, so you did not eat breakfast either." ”

"I've eaten it, and I still have a little bread left over from yesterday's supper, and I've eaten it all this morning. So now you're here, what about those two guys? ”

"Yelenkina and Fumin, you say? You're coming too early, they'll be there later. Yevlov said.

"Maybe I'm really in a hurry?" Yang Mingzhi spread out the document and handed it to Yevlov to take a look at first.

The plan of action was written in pencil on this piece of vellum, and Yevlov glanced at it, and saw the shocking key words in it, and his hands trembled. "It's crazy, I remember the order we received to destroy the train station in Cherobi City. You're planning to blow up that bridge first, is that possible? “

"Why not?" Yang Mingzhi said with a smile, full of confidence with a smiling face.

"It's crazy, it's a bridge, you can pass the train, don't you understand?"

"I understand!" Yang Mingzhi affirmed, "So it means a lot to blow it up." ”

Yevlov fell silent, and he hoped that Berekov would explain what he was saying, and that he would listen to him when the two commissars came.

So, Yerenkina and Fuming were late. The reason why they came so late was because they were inspecting the equipment of the troops last night. In modern times, the nations have understood very well that logistics can often determine the outcome of a battle, and no matter what the military operation is, it is necessary to ensure that every soldier eats, drinks, and sleeps while marching and fighting.

They also came with a bunch of statistics to inform Yang Mingzhi, but the current time is all Yang Mingzhi's. The three men listened attentively as the only staff officer recounted his battle plan.

Yang Mingzhi saw that the time was ripe, so he unfolded the map in public, and in order to be concise, he also outlined the plan goals with a pencil while explaining.

"I don't think we need to go out in a big attack this time. We must assemble an elite force and make two plans for attack. First, attack the Cherobi train station and destroy the locomotive as much as possible. Second, blow up the Cherobie railway bridge. ”

Yang Mingzhi planned to dispatch two battalions of troops in this battle, and the other troops would serve as strategic reserves. As for blowing up bridges, this must be done by the "special forces".

Yevlov was very curious about how exactly the bridge was blown up. "If we attack the Chenobi train station, a strong attack by dispatching a large army can basically be completed, after all, our strength is as high as 5,000 people, it must be a relative advantage, why only two battalions. And to destroy the bridge, is it to send a small detachment? "His question is also a question of the two commissars, and everyone wants to get a good explanation.

Yang Mingzhi could understand their concerns and explained: "The division commander's huge doubts are two. First, why the main attack is the strength of two battalions. Second, how do we blow up the railway bridge.

Because, the enemy does not know whether we have anyone here, how many people, and how many soldiers. Do we want to show the Germans that there are two integrated infantry regiments here? No! We can't show our strength like that. The Chenobi is very close to the swamp, and if we do the nest, they will soon be able to detect us and take a bloody revenge, which will be very bad for us. However, if we show that we are only a few hundred people, then the enemy must think that we are a group of people who are very patriotic, patriotic to the point of madness, and even hit stones with eggs, but they are not so attentive to encirclement and suppression. “

The three of them couldn't help but nodded, what he said was very reasonable.

Yang Mingzhi continued: "We don't need a lot of troops to storm the Cherobi train station. There, in the west, there are forests, and in the east the Dnieper, and our troops cannot spread, and the same is true for the enemy. It is impossible for them to have a large number of troops to defend, because they are very close to Kyiv.

As a result, if we choose to fight, we must attack quickly and retreat quickly. Don't think that two battalions are too few and that the enemy doesn't have many defenders. Our goal is to blow up the tracks, destroy the locomotives, and if they have fuel in stock, we'll burn them down. When the enemy finds out that it is attacked, the troops will definitely have to start from Kyiv, and we can quickly retreat with few troops. ”

"So what if the enemy catches up?" Yevlov asked.

"Needless to say? Run! Fleeing into the forest, who do you think is better at forest warfare than us? When Yang Mingzhi asked, everyone was happy. Yes, the 284th Division is best at fighting in the forest. The soldiers are more focused on training light infantry raids, each of them can carry a very heavy baggage for long journeys, many of them look thin, but the muscles on their bodies are mostly endurance, and their strong mobility far exceeds that of the German army.

"And what about the second question? How do you explain that? Yelentina asked.

Obviously, the first question has already been explained by itself, Yang Mingzhi smiled and began to explain the next one.

About how to blow up the railway bridge, naturally, it was a sneak attack by a small detachment. Pick up some elite soldiers and sail through the dark with the wooden boats of Catfish Village. They acted with a large force and arrived at the pier at night, where they detonated after security explosives. After that, the large forces went into action.

Yang Mingzhi's tactics were still night attacks, and this tactic was tried and tested by the troops, and each time it was successful, and each time it was the beginning of the war, giving the Germans a major blow. If it is the elite units of the German army, they can quickly calm down and counterattack, and their logistics troops, these second-rate and third-rate guys, are not very combat-effective.

This gives the troops great possibilities, because the war is often less than who makes mistakes. The third-rate German army did not do well in many aspects, especially the German army, which was responsible for law and order, and performed poorly throughout the war, bullying the people in the occupied areas like tigers.

The night raid battle, the enemy of the Chenobi must have never tasted it, and the 284th Division had the suddenness to launch a battle. Therefore, it was impossible for them to deploy in the Dnieper, and the fighters only had to drive a small boat to touch it, plant explosive devices, and run softly.

This also sounds very plausible, and Yevlov asked: "Our fighters planted explosives, but how can you be sure that our explosives will blow up the bridge piers." You know, it's concrete! Only large doses and powerful ones can be blown up! I remember you told me at the construction site in Montenegro that machine gun fortresses were built with reinforced concrete, and the enemy had to bomb them with heavy artillery and flat-fire bombs, or aerial bombs from dive bombers. Do we have powerful explosives here? ”

"Why not?" "Rigushkov took the initiative to research weapons of mass destruction, and he made two large rockets, which could actually be mounted on Podovich's plane, and we could even carry out air strikes," Yang said. Of course, rockets are not the focus of the discussion, I said that the explosives are inside the rockets, and it is all picric! ”

Yang Mingzhi has great confidence in picric acid, although this explosive is relatively backward, but the lead expansion value is higher than ***, and the power is greater. How much is now produced there in the village of blacksmiths, according to Rygushkov, each rocket warhead is filled with five kilograms of dry picric acid. If they were taken out and used as blasting explosives, it would be enough to blow up one of the piers of the railway bridge.

Yang Mingzhi knew that the bridge of the Chenobi, although he was not immersive, he only knew that it was a very ordinary railway bridge with more piers. Such a bridge still requires a lot of explosives, and ten kilograms of picric acid may be a little less.

Yevlov understood exactly what he meant, and two battalions were to be selected for this battle, and the soldiers were to be selected from each battalion. In the afternoon, Yevlov and others began to implement Yang Mingzhi's battle plan and select elite soldiers.

And Yang Mingzhi also had to contact the blacksmith village, in addition to asking for a large number of grenades and rockets, it was a large amount of explosives demand. "All the picric acid, I want all the picric acid. All made into explosive devices, I want electric ignition fuses. ”

Rygushkov immediately complied, and when he learned that the deputy division commander planned to blow up the bridge, he hastened into action. (To be continued.) )