Chapter 252: We Are Not Alone
Two girls, each with a fountain pen, a pot of ink, and a large notebook. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The notebook also has this artistic German on the black skin, which probably means "notebook", and Yerentina points out that it means "battle record book".
Hehe, the booklet used by German officers for some battle reports has been reduced to the notebook of the Soviet army's heroic snipers, and it is estimated that Natasha will use this as her "battle record book", accurately recording the process of killing every enemy.
The two bowed deeply and accepted the precious prize from Yang Mingzhi.
Compared with other people's pocket watches and firearms, pen, ink and paper are the most important things for the two of them, and Yang Mingzhi definitely knows this to the soldiers in the audience.
Now, it's Yang Mingzhi's turn to speak.
He straightened his collar, straightened his hair, and faced everyone straight.
"Comrades, our hero snipers have already claimed the prizes they won. Here, I have to say that the situation of the troops is still very difficult. We can give it to the heroes of the battle, and to all of you. In fact, all of us are heroes in this operation, and the only thing we can give to everyone is the improvement of food, and we can eat a few good meals.
Our heroes will get some canned meat, and the food ration will be a little better.
For our heroic female snipers, who were supposed to study seriously as students, were drawn into the war. The division decided to reward them with stationery, so that they could still learn cultural knowledge during the interval between battles. ”
As for what rewards the heroes receive, the majority of officers and soldiers do not care much, anyway, except for the commendations of the front army, the others are their own work. Life here is still tight, and what you eat and drink is all carefully calculated.
Many soldiers were worried because the whole army had consumed a lot of ammunition during this operation. It's almost a battle, with great results and huge costs.
But with this huge consumption in front of us, what about the support of the superiors? The officers and soldiers gradually learned that here, the marshland where the Pripet River meets the Dnieper River, has become an "island". The Front, of course, still exists, having retreated to the east of the Donbass, and part of it continues to hold back the German offensive in the Crimea.
The distance is already too far, the last airdrop of the superior organization was a military adventure, and now I am afraid that the opportunity for airdrop has been lost.
Yang Mingzhi continued to speak, responding to the speculation of the fighters.
"Comrades, we have achieved a loud victory in this battle, and you should be thinking that we have dispatched thousands of people, and we have very flexibly fulfilled the orders of our superiors. Comrade Timoshenko praised us, but that's about it. After this great victory, we did not receive air supplies from our superiors, and will not supply us for some time. Comrades! This air supply line has been cut off. In a sense, the connection between our army and the Southwestern Front was also severed. ”
As soon as the remarks came out, the group discussion was in an uproar, and the officers and soldiers who were standing upright like piles in front of Yang Mingzhi suddenly burst into a buzz.
"It seems that people are still very worried about being isolated, which is really demoralizing." Yang Mingzhi had already thought of this, and it turned out that it was indeed as he expected, so he was also ready to deal with it.
He shouted a few words into the microphone, and the noise drowned out the chattering warriors, and the silence slowly descended.
At this moment, the soldiers must be full of doubts and worries, as long as they can keep in touch with their superiors and keep the transportation of materials, the soldiers can continue to complete the new tasks with high morale, but now there have been great changes.
Yang Mingzhi glanced at it, and he saw some of the warriors and their suspicious looks.
"Comrades! I saw it, your mood was all on your face, and now there must be a thousand words, basically asking, are we out of touch with our superiors, surrounded by swamps full of enemies, isolated? If you want me to say, we are indeed isolated, but we are not isolated. ”
He could emphasize once again that the current situation of the troops is both isolated and not isolated, and it is really ambiguous.
"Just now, our heroic snipers praised me, and perhaps many of you are also very satisfied with my role as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the 284th Guards Division. The reason is simple, because I can lead people to victory, and I can also help people settle down and stop fighting stupid battles. And it is also I who taught you forest guerrilla warfare, so that our battle loss ratio is completely reversed from before. Now, look, this group of Nazis can also be defeated! ”
Many people in the audience were happy again, this Berekov from a foreign land was really a genius commander. Ask yourself, there are indeed not many surviving veterans of the original 284th Division in the army, and some are even the earliest group of people who came from the Far East, they are the essence and soul of the troops, and now they are basically junior officers.
The role of veterans is very important to recruits, and if they recognize Yang Mingzhi, then the whole army will recognize him.
Therefore, these words were like a reassurance, since the troops were almost completely wiped out, it was this Berekov who repeatedly advised the troops to withdraw south, and they withdrew all the way to the relative safety of the Pripet swamp to settle down, so that they had their current life.
But the veterans were even more puzzled, why did the deputy division commander admit the isolation and deny it? At this point, Yevlov and Yelentina also felt that what this person said was ambiguous.
Yang Mingzhi immediately explained the meaning of these words.
"Comrades, we are indeed isolated, and this is the consciousness that we have done well as soon as we entered the swamp. Because this huge swamp has no military value, what are the Germans doing here? When the snow melts, it becomes a wetland composed of a large number of mud ponds and small lakes, and they invade this place except to learn from us to fry fish and drink fish soup! However, this is a moat at all! That's why we're isolated. Their powerful tank forces and air forces had to get around here, and eventually we became an island here, and this is isolation.
But we, as the USSR as a whole, as well as the Red Army, are not isolated at all. You must know one thing, on the seventh day of this month, Japan attacked American military ports, killing more than 3,000 people, and the next day, the United States declared war on Japan, Germany, and Italy. We have become a military alliance with the United States! Moreover, I, Berekov, am Chinese, and now I am serving in the Soviet Union and fighting alongside you. The good news is that China has officially declared war on Japan and Germany, and China and the Soviet Union are already allies, and even more gratifyingly, most countries in the world have already declared war on Germany on the same position as the Soviet Union.
The USSR is no longer alone against the whole of Germany and their client states, we are no longer isolated, and this war will be our victory! ”
This exuberant passage is very uplifting, and for the vast number of officers and men, what they are most looking forward to is, of course, victory.
The intensity of the war has surpassed that of World War I 20 years ago, and civilians have become the biggest victims. It has been half a year since the war began, and the Soviet Union has suffered heavy losses, and it is conservatively estimated that tens of millions of people have died in the war.
The officers and soldiers here are all well-educated in the primary school, thanks to the education system established by the Soviet Union at the beginning, and they have a basic understanding of the international situation. Even the United States, Britain, etc., are capitalist countries, criminal countries that enslave the proletariat. Now, at least they are not at war with the Soviet Union, because everyone has a common enemy, the Nazis, and everyone must unite.
Yang Mingzhi knew very well about the role of the United States in the victory of World War II, but the majority of Soviets did not know that much.
It was a behemoth with 150,000 fighters and bombers, 300,000 tanks of various types, 155 aircraft carriers built in four years, a total of 7,333 warships and 40 billion rounds of bullets, and was known as the arsenal of a democratic country.
With 43 million people registered for war duty and 12.5 million people joining the army, the state apparatus of the United States will be in full swing, and it will directly change the world pattern. After all, the super-industrial state, which had more than three times Germany's total industrial output in 1938, is now beginning to erupt in full swing since the Great Depression.
The United States will vigorously assist the Soviet Union by entering Arkhangelsk through the North Sea, passing through the Bering Strait through the Trans-Siberian Railway, and transporting rubber, oil, fine steel and aluminum, a large amount of ammunition, medicine, and even a huge amount of food to the Soviet Union.
Yang Mingzhi's self-confidence lies in this, the Soviet Union will inevitably carry Germany to the death in World War II, and when it is evenly matched, huge American aid has finally arrived. By that time, the fighters would be able to eat luncheon meat, and the officers would even be able to drink Coca-Cola.
But his self-confidence is now seen more by the fighters as the confidence of the fan.
You have never seen the deputy division commander Berekov, the commander from China had a worried look, he was always so confident, so he has been winning for months.
Yang Mingzhi continued: "Comrades! The global anti-fascist coalition has been practically completed. For the foreseeable future, Germany will continue to run rampant for a while, and the Soviet Union will continue to bleed. There is always a moment when the wound heals, and that is the moment when we fight back. Comrades, most of you are Belarusians and Ukrainians! Maybe a year, maybe two years, the great counteroffensive will begin, we will finally plant the red flag in the Reichstag, we will kill Hitler and his henchmen, occupy all of Germany and destroy everything Nazis, and complete our revenge.
So before the day of the decisive battle, this is the last darkness before dawn, very dark and cold. We still need to continue to fight, to continue to expand our gains, to expand our strength. Perhaps when the great counteroffensive begins, we will not only be an infantry division, but we will even be able to expand our troops to a full front, and at that time, we will be invincible. ”
This series of incendiary words, the fighters are in high spirits! Everyone called Yang Mingzhi's name. The call of "Berekov" endures.
At this moment, what humility is meaningless. This feeling of being loved by everyone is infinitely good, Yang Mingzhi smiled and immersed himself in cheers, until he came to his senses and announced the victory of the commendation meeting. (To be continued.) )