The meal continued to eat, Yang Mingzhi felt that it was almost over, and it was time to make a plan clear to Yevlov.

He put down his chopsticks, and a cool breeze blew to cool it. "It's already September, so winter here should be early."

"Yes, it's early." Yevlov's words were somewhat slurred, he was eating with gobbling up.

"Winter is coming in a few months. Yevlov, Yerentina. It's time to think about how we're going to survive the winter. ”

"How to survive the winter? We, the Russians, are not afraid of winter. Yerentina put on a proud look, the Russians are polar bears, but they are very good at living in cold conditions.

Yang Mingzhi shook his head, "How you spend the winter is naturally in accordance with the national tradition of the Soviet Union, but we should also see the status quo." We now have 4,000 troops, plus more than 7,000 ordinary people, so many people really have enough winter clothes? ”

Several people at the dinner were stunned, and Yevlov put down his rice bowl and threw away the spoon. "No, there shouldn't be. No! Definitely not! The new soldiers are still wearing summer uniforms, and we should mobilize all the masses here, and we can't get enough clothes for the soldiers. ”

And Yerenkina's mind turned quickly, and the matter of winter warm clothes was really important. "Maybe we should follow Ulyanov's actions back then and give priority to supplying the army, so that our soldiers' warm clothes will not be a big problem."

"What about the people? Do you want them to freeze? Yang Mingzhi decisively opposed Yelenkina's opinion.

At that time, Ulyanov, that is, Lenin, was chased and beaten by the White Army at the beginning of the establishment of the young Soviets. The Red Army lacked clothing and food, and Lenin issued the "Surplus Grain Collection Plan", so that the soldiers had bread, many peasants starved to death, and in some places there were even uprisings.

"Excesses will certainly be resented by ordinary citizens, we are stationed in the swamps for guerrilla warfare, and the most important thing is the mass base." Yang Mingzhi reasoned with Yerenkina, and this Cheka girl was obviously more decisive.

"Listen, Berekov, your strategy and tactics are the same as those of your Chinese civil war, which are partly useful in the Soviet Union, and partly must be adapted to our national conditions. According to the regulations, we can expropriate the things of the people unconditionally. Although it can be cruel at times, you also know that if the soldiers can't survive, then who will defend the great motherland? ”

These words are just like the strategy of Lao Chiang, who is fighting in the war of resistance in China, and it is understandable that materials are given priority to the army, after all, it is already a full-scale war for the whole nation. But the common people dedicate everything to the army, and they starve to death and freeze to death, and it is not okay.

Yang Mingzhi didn't want things to develop like Yelenkina said at all, and the whole person was a little excited as he spoke.

"My comrade commissar, we are engaged in guerrilla warfare, we cannot be accomplices of the fascists! The lives of ordinary citizens must be guaranteed, and if they die, we won't even be able to eat new potatoes, so how can there be a long war? ”

Star fruit was surprised, her husband was too excited about his sobriety, and it was difficult to pull him into his seat.

Yelenkina knew that wintering was a big problem, and she still had a typical Maozi mentality, simply and rudely stabilizing the soldiers. Yang Mingzhi is more flexible and has a more long-term vision. The two seemed to be going to make some unpleasant trouble, and Yevlov immediately started to make peace and pulled down the excited Yang Mingzhi.

"You both have a point. However, I think Lenin's tactics are still very cruel, and we are ultimately defending the country and ordinary citizens. We cannot do so at the expense of ordinary people, we must come up with new solutions. “

"yes, that's it." Yang Mingzhi followed Yevlov's words and said, "Winter is coming after all, and we don't know how the war in the south will go for the time being, and whether friendly assistance will come." Until then, we have to find a way, and the best way is to fight again. ”

Capturing the enemy's materiel may be the only viable option. The supplies of the German army were varied, and they were quite fine in terms of military rations. The ammunition they transported was equally important for the 284th Division, after all, there were also a lot of German-made weapons stored in the warehouse.

Yang Mingzhi constructed a plan that the robbery of clothes, ammunition and military rations was instead secondary.

Yerentina thought it was feasible, and she immediately put aside the argument she had just had. "If we were on a new military mission, we could have visited some of the collective farms outside. We can use the money to buy their clothes, or just requisition. ”

Just now, Yang Mingzhi was very opposed to the forced conscription of the people. "Rather than us expropriating them, we should move the people we find, and all their possessions, to the swamp as much as possible. If they were left to the hands of the Germans, I feared that they would be slaughtered. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Mingzhi recalled even more terrifying things in his mind.

In Roshaskaya, the Germans slaughtered the entire village. On the way to the retreat of the troops, a number of uninhabited villages were also found. It is true that the Germans killed innocents indiscriminately, as they did in history, in the Soviet occupation zone.

If Germany continues to do this, then a large number of villages have already been destroyed by them.

Yang Mingzhi proposed a new possibility, "We went out of the swamp to look for the village, and if we found someone killed by the Germans, we went to see how many living materials were still available, and even went to find the cellar and find food." Come in and look for clothing and bury the bodies of the slain residents. ”

This was a bit cruel, and Yerenkina did not object. "It's a solution, but it's cruel."

"Even if it's cruel, we have to face it. When people die, their possessions are meaningless. What if we can still find survivors? Like Natasha and Kostya. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Mingzhi obviously felt that he had said the wrong thing and said the children's sore spots. He turned his head and did see Natasha's little face gloomy. "Oh! I'm sorry my child, you don't mind. ”

Natasha looked up kindly, tears already squeezing out of the corners of her eyes.

Yevlov hurriedly interrupted Yang Mingzhi's words, "Otherwise, you will go to the division headquarters in the evening, and a few of us will study the countermeasures in the future." Yang Mingzhi thought about it, and he was right, when he talked about the strategic plan during the meal, he felt like a "wine table Politburo".

After the meal, star fruit and Natasha were responsible for cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and after Yang Mingzhi gave his wife instructions, he followed Yevlov to the division headquarters.

They were on their way to discuss a new battle plan, and Star Fruit and Natasha held hands. The two girls are like sisters, and they know that soon they will have to go to a new battlefield, and the new battle is very obvious, that is, to loot supplies.

At the division headquarters, a large table was placed with a newly drawn map. The map is purely hand-drawn and identifies the geography around the marshland, as well as villages and towns. Yang Mingzhi noticed that even Mozili was marked here, and as soon as he had an idea, a new battle was in the direction of Mozili.

"We're going to attack Moziri again?" Yevlov was surprised, after all, how could the Germans fall twice in the same place?

Yang Mingzhi was indeed improvised, as it was the hub of a German line of communication, with roads to the south and east.

"We attacked a German army last time, so we had to move to a new place. The troops passed through the marshland, crossed the Pripet River with water, and we continued in the direction of Mozyri. After all, there are indeed villages that have been slaughtered by the Germans, and we try our luck and maybe find a lot of useful supplies, even survivors. And you may also encounter our allies, other guerrillas. ”

Yang Mingzhi portrayed the new action as an opportunity, and he really didn't plan to fight Mojiri again, which was already very unrealistic after all. The reality was still an ambush, either attacking an enemy convoy or attacking a small German stopover.

"Now the Germans have not changed their winter clothes, and when we attack them, are we going to pick up their clothes?" Yevlov asked, puzzled.

"Yes, an extra piece of clothing is also necessary. When winter comes, it will be a very rough linen blanket, and I think the warriors will also attach great importance to it. Yang Mingzhi said.

Yevlov thought about it, Yerentina and Fomin were political commissars, so naturally they could not interfere in military operations, and he finally made a decision, chose a good day, and plundered the German army again.

Now that the plan has been decided, it is a matter of reorganizing the internal affairs, figuring out the equipment of each soldier, and then determining the plan for military operations.

Yang Mingzhi chatted with them until ten o'clock in the evening, and when he returned home, the star fruit had already fallen asleep. After eating, the two girls went to the dark bathhouse and took a shower with the oil light on, so this time the girls still had some soapy smell. The climate has begun to cool, and Yang Mingzhi looked at his sleeping wife in harmony. This little look is very cute, and soon she will have to go to war again. The war was brutal, and she had already chosen to join the army, so the battle was naturally obligatory, and it was also an important moment to show the results of her and Natasha's training.

The next day, all platoon and company commanders were ordered to assemble at the division headquarters. This was Yang Mingzhi's order, and the main purpose was to investigate the condition of the soldiers' clothing. As expected, most of the fighters did not have padded jackets. Although the Soviet Union did not lack cotton clothing, in this swamp, these thousands of forgotten soldiers simply did not receive assistance from the rear. Everyone must be self-reliant, and they can only find a way.

Yang Mingzhi knew that a few months later, in the Battle of Moscow, the German army could not be attacked for a long time and winter had arrived, but most of them were still wearing summer military uniforms. As a result, a large number of German soldiers had to find their own way, and looting became the main way to obtain warm clothing.

Now the Soviets may have to do the same, but Yang Mingzhi forbade the soldiers to rob the residents who were still alive.

A mobilization meeting began, the new battle plan was communicated to all the soldiers, the soldiers were required to enter the first level of combat readiness, and all soldiers had to ensure that they could be urgently assembled and even put into battle within ten minutes. The soldiers were ordered to wait for orders, and Yang Mingzhi had already made up his mind to do another vote as an "important forage" for the "polar bears" before winter.

Eventually, Yang Mingzhi found the place of Kuta Town on the map. Yang Mingzhi felt that if it was an armed robbery, nothing would be more efficient than robbing a town. It must have been occupied by the Germans, and Soviet citizens could have been forced to work as slaves, or perhaps they would have died. The Germans should also have put a lot of supplies there, so it would be nice for the Soviets to replicate one victory.