Friedrich Kuhn, who was supposed to have been defeated at Stalin in 1943, is now dead, just a week after the war began.

The incredible success of the Soviet troops, but the Germans were not intimidated. The result was considered to be the desire of the German army to break through into the Soviet Union, and part of the troops did not follow the orders of Hitler and the General Staff at all.

The same was true of von Fonck's 7th Panzer Division, which diverted from Kuhn's original offensive path. They were going to make bottle caps to block the retreating Soviet troops outside Minsk, while a large number of Soviet troops were passing through the Vavkavesk bottleneck area.

The Soviets thought Minsk was safe, but they never expected that Minsk had become a city that the Germans would have to conquer before attacking Moscow.

The sudden appearance of the 7th Panzer Division at the division commander von Fonk made it even more difficult for the Soviet army, which was already struggling to retreat, and the situation was even worse.

The victory did not change the situation of the besieged Kuznetsov's 3rd Panzer Group in a single way, and now it was possible to retreat into Minsk unless the German troops blocking the way were defeated.

The 6th Panzer Corps, which had just won the battle, was waiting for the German offensive, but the cunning guys had no intention of fighting them. Von Fonk stormed in the direction of the 284th Infantry Division, receiving information from the remnants of Kuhn that it was the Soviet army that had really defeated them.

The 284th Guards Infantry Division had to be eliminated, which became a new target for the Germans.

Pugachev knew that a new blocking battle was inevitable, and he ordered his troops to continue building defensive lines. Because of the title of "Guard" on his shoulders, other troops could escape, but he couldn't.

Yang Mingzhi did not scatter his troops anymore, he knew that once the battle was engaged, Von Fonck would definitely defeat the Sixth Panzer Army, and then the Germans would attack his own defense.

The battle has not yet begun, and in the intervals between these battles the world is still terrible.

Like many soldiers, he lit a bonfire, threw biscuits into a lunch box, and quickly boiled a pot of porridge.

"Eat a little, this is a sweet cookie." Yang Mingzhi sent the freshly boiled fruit to the carambola.

The food smells good, the war is in a difficult time, but fortunately the positions are relatively close to the city of Minsk, and the food supply is very sufficient.

Carambola feels that she has really found a good husband, and he treats people really well. It's a pity that everyone is in a state of war, and she has seen too much life and death these days. The new type of war has changed all the girl's guerrilla warfare experience, and the new enemy is even more cruel than the Japanese devils.

She had just learned that the friendly forces involved in the war of annihilation had slaughtered all the German prisoners of war. This kind of behavior is different from what the political commissars say, and as a result, the political commissars have a new rhetoric. "We cannot have the slightest mercy on the fascist devils, who have been slaughtering unarmed Slavs since the beginning of the war. All German soldiers are devils, and if you don't kill them, it's you who will die tomorrow. ”

The soldiers, who were full of hatred for the enemy's aggression, now had a little more fear, and perhaps the commissars hoped that in this way, the soldiers would rather die in battle than be prisoners of misery. In fact, the Germans were indeed inhumane to the Soviet prisoners, and Yang Mingzhi directly told his wife that the rhetoric of political commissars at all levels was correct, after all, they were not signatories to the Geneva Conventions.

Hitler also wrote very clearly in his writings. "It's not that if you learn German, you are Germans, for example, blacks and Chinese, even if they learn German, they are still inferior."

Therefore, Yang Mingzhi will not sympathize with his enemies, and besides, the Soviet army is retreating, and it is better to do so in order to avoid extraneous complications.

However, the killing of the prisoners did infuriate von Fonck. The captured German soldiers were shot in pieces, and in order to vent their anger they even went to the wilderness. Anger was all transferred to his new goal, which was to break through all Soviet defenses on the periphery of Minsk.

"Hurry, hurry! Keep up, everyone! ”

Yang Mingzhi noticed that it was a woman's voice, and along the direction from which the voice came, he could see that a group of people dressed as ordinary citizens were gathering towards the trench.

At the head was a woman with a revolver in her hand and a very special uniform. The soldier told Yang Mingzhi that the man was a Cheka.

"Woman, Cheka. Why is it so confusing, what is this person here for? ”

"It should be a new order, Comrade Battalion Commander, and you can look at the people she brought."

Star fruit also put down her food, and she looked at the new group of bearded people curiously. Many of them also wore kaftans and felt hats, and some wore glasses just like their husbands.

Yang Mingzhi has a slight myopia, of course, in order to improve his style and reflect the temperament of an intellectual, glasses are quite important.

Soon, the couple knew the intention of these people, and an officer even led more than a dozen people to Yang Mingzhi.

The two exchanged military salutes, and the officer said: "Comrade battalion commander, this is your new comrade-in-arms, your recruit." ”

"Recruits? You mean them? Yang Mingzhi suddenly felt unreasonable, because these people were not soldiers at all. Could it be that there was no one left in the USSR anymore? Are these people citizens? ”

"Specifically, students and professors, and some people who have the ambition to stay and fight."

Yang Mingzhi only felt that Lao Maozi was crazy. More than 100 years ago, Napoleon approached Moscow, and the Russian and French armies fought in Borodino, and Tsarist Russia captured more than 7,000 people nearby to participate in the war. After so many years, Lao Maozi's urine has not changed.

"It's incredible! I need at least a soldier, a soldier who can shoot! ”

Yang Mingzhi looked at a man who was also wearing glasses, he was obviously in his fifties.

"Sir, you can't be some kind of university teacher, are you?!"

"Yes, I'm a professor of chemistry at the University of Minsk."

The war is so absurd, teachers and students are pulled into battle, can they be expected to fight with the enemy with bayonets in their arms?

Officers don't care so much, everything is an order. Now the losses of the Western Front are very serious, and Pavlov, in addition to withdrawing the troops trapped in the bottleneck area in the direction of Minsk, can only catch strong men in the area under his jurisdiction.

All Soviet citizens between the ages of 16 and 60 were obliged to go to the front, and those who refused were considered "Nazi supporters."

Forceful means sent these people to the battlefield, and they had nothing but a little baggage of their own.

In this way, the 284th Infantry Division was replenished by the so-called, and Yang Mingzhi knew that these people rarely survived the first battle on the battlefield, not to mention that they still had to confront the enemy's most elite troops.

The officer left the person down and withdrew, which made Yang Mingzhi very speechless. All the companies were replenished with personnel, and Yang Mingzhi had twelve young people on hand in addition to the somewhat old professor, all of whom were about to turn eighteen years old after some inquiry.

These newcomers were full of enthusiasm, and they actively responded to the call of the motherland and immediately went to the front line to fight the Germans.

Now they were full of curiosity about their chief, this man must be from the East.

"That's right, my new warrior. The core of our 284th Guards Infantry Division is from the Far East, and I am not a Slav. But we are fighting under the same red flag, and I only hope that you will not pee your pants first in the first battle. ”

"That's impossible!" A young man stood up and patted his chest and said.

Yang Mingzhi nodded: "It is good for young people to have courage, and discipline and prudence are the keys to victory. Soldier, what's your name. ”

"I ......"

"Forget it. You better stop talking. Yang Mingzhi waved his hand, "We will soon encounter the enemy's Seventh Armored Division, and you will tell me your name when this battle is over." ”

But adhering to the respect for intellectuals, Yang Mingzhi asked the middle-aged man well.

Mikhail Ivanovich Ivanov, a professor of chemistry. In Yang Mingzhi's view, this person is more suitable for equipping the army with explosives in the arsenal than wasting it on the front line as cannon fodder.

He is indeed a chemical expert, Yang Mingzhi kept an eye on it, and when it was destined to retreat, this person must be brought with him. Maybe at some point, his knowledge can come in handy.

The so-called recruits didn't have time for any training, and Pugachev didn't care so much, just asked the recruits to be able to shoot.

There was no shortage of weapons in the USSR, and the arsenals in Minsk were still producing Mosin Nagant, and even SVT-40 semi-automatic rifles were produced in small batches. Minsk sent some ammunition supplies and medicines, and some seriously wounded were also pulled into the city.

Minsk is doomed, because the enemy will also break through Smolensk. At this moment, Guderian would inevitably send only small forces into the southwestern part of the encirclement, and his main forces were attacking in the direction of Moscow.

If nothing else, he would have been the first German unit to approach the periphery of Moscow, but it was already winter into Russia.

This winter will be one of the three coldest in Russian history on record, with the 1.8 million German Army Group Center losing 300,000 troops due to the cold.

It is a pity that it is the height of summer, and the German army is in absolute superiority.

Yang Mingzhi had no choice but to take responsibility for his wife and his fighters. Special anti-tank battalions, the combat effectiveness has been weakened a lot. Now they are armed with two 57mm anti-tank guns, and apart from the remaining RPG bazookas, the battle defense gun is the last thing to rely on.

Waiting for the enemy's attack was a kind of mental torment, the 6th Mechanized Corps in front had set up temporary positions, it had been a day, they had not been attacked by the enemy, on the contrary, a small part of the troops that had broken through the bottleneck zone had already broken through.

Pugachev received a safe and sound situation, and a threat was this safe and sound.

"The enemy does not disappear out of thin air, all fighters are ready for battle. We are already the target of the enemy's attack! ”