Tupikov drew up a long list of airdrops for the 284th Guards Division in the swamps. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Food:

150 tons of whole wheat flour, 20 tons of buckwheat rice, 20 tons of canned food, 10 tons of dried vegetables, 2 tons of sugar, 2 tons of salt, 2 tons of black tea, 500 liters of vinegar, and some seasonings such as peppers, mustard, ketchup, cinnamon and pepper. In the spirit of Russian custom, there are also twenty tons of barreled vodka here.

In terms of munitions:

It can be equipped with 10,000 people in summer military uniforms, including matching cloaks, armor belts, and boat-shaped military caps. 10,000 pairs of military blankets, 20,000 pairs of military boots, 300 military tents, 10,000 sets of military sacks, 20,000 pieces of soap, 30,000 boxes of cigarettes and matching matches, 5,000 gasoline lighters, 100 telegraphs and batteries, 300 military telescopes (including trench periscopes). The total number of logging axes and double saws was as high as 3,000 pairs.

Weapons and ammunition:

7.62x54R ordinary rifle ammunition 5 million rounds (120 tons plus packaging), machine gun heavy tip ammunition 1 million rounds (30 tons plus packaging), 500,000 pistol bullets, 10,000 anti-tank grenades, 10,000 anti-tank grabbing bullets, 500 rocket-propelled grenades (50 launchers), 5,000 80-mm mortar shells, 2,000 120-mm mortar shells.

A total of 40 80-mm and 120-mm mortars, 1,000 Mosin Nagant rifles, 100 Dzeggalev light machine guns, 50 Maxim heavy machine guns, and 5 DShK heavy machine guns (10,000 rounds of ammunition).

One hundred tons of TNT explosives and five tons of gasoline.

Pharmaceutical:

One ton of compressed nitrocellulose, two tons of gauze, several anti-inflammatory drugs, several anesthetics, and several medical alcohols.

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This list Timoshenko confidently reviewed, this airdrop to deliver so many materials, obviously a big move!

Timoshenko hurriedly asked Tupikov: "To transport so many supplies, we obviously need to use a large number of transport aircraft and gliders. Have you changed this list yet? ”

"That's right. How could we have been able to deliver so many supplies in the first place? When someone proposed to use a glider, what was originally just a limit of about 150 tons was directly extended to almost 800 tons! ”

The troops in the swamps are currently lacking in anything, and it is rare that they have been able to fight so far. A total of 30,000 people, including civilians, need to survive, hiding in the already barren swamps under the difficult battlefield, and relying on self-reliance to survive. One hundred and fifty tons of supplies is too little, and this list totals seven hundred tons of supplies, which should be able to cope for a while.

Large quantities of food, household items and ammunition were inevitably delivered, and even then these munitions were not enough to maintain the operation of an infantry division.

Thinking of this, Timoshenko couldn't help but shake his head: "An infantry division is full of 15,000 people, and no one has to eat at least one kilogram of grain every day, and a unit consumes 450 tons of food alone in a month. We have 10,000 men in Yevlov and Berekov, and this time the food supply will be enough for them for a maximum of three weeks. ”

But they were still self-reliant, and a telegram from Yevlov said they were actively cultivating land to grow potatoes, and by mid-April, the potatoes they had sown in February would be ready to be harvested. Even though the fruit may not be very large, it can still cope with it for a long time. Add to that their capture on the battlefield, and perhaps without this aid, famine would not have been possible. ”

"Of course there is no famine!" Timoshengo couldn't help but increase his tone, and the whole person was a little angry. "Now that unit has just made great achievements, in addition to the loss of personnel, the material loss is the most serious. It was a group of highly conscious troops, if there was a lack of food, they could only reduce the food ration, maybe no one would starve to death, but most of the people would be severely malnourished, if the soldiers looked hungry and decadent, what kind of combat effectiveness was there to talk about? So, I wish we were shipping all the food this time! ”

"But it's not enough to just deliver food." "They also need weapons and ammunition, medicines, and clothes that fit. ”

"I know all of this, so I'm really struggling." At this moment, Timoshengo only felt very sorry for those people. They are an army with the title of Guards, and their feats are only from the point of view of destroying the enemy, and I am afraid that none of the entire Soviet army can compare with it. And not only that, not to mention the fact that the troops with fewer personnel than the Germans lost in battle, not to mention the exaggerated results of killing 7,000 enemies and losing 2,000.

Timoshenko continued to look down with the list, and suddenly, some strange terms came into view.

"It's funny, could it be that they want to have disinfectant in the shipping list? Why do they need ethylene oxide? Do we have these things now? ”

Tupikov nodded: "Of course there is ethylene oxide, a disinfectant, and it is packaged in a storage tank of fifty liters. They are in great demand, and it is not clear why Yevlov wants it. I'm afraid it's still used as a disinfectant, they want us to supply as much as we want, and our army is not much at the limit of what it can supply now, just a hundred tons, and these finished products also come from the chemical plant in Luhansk. ”

Of course, Timoshenko knew the danger of this antivirus, and couldn't help but worry about the safety of the airdrop operation. In addition to this flammable gas, a large amount of ammunition and explosives is enough for the plane to turn into a "flying coffin".

Continue to look at this list, in addition to ethylene oxide, the list also has ammonium nitrate, all kinds of vegetable seeds, and a bunch of miscellaneous small daily necessities.

Timoshenge couldn't help but be happy: "They are planting the land when they fall to the ground, and when we send a bunch of fertilizer over, they believe that the land can be productive." If the marshes had a good crop, there wouldn't have been a handful of inhabitants. I guess the idea of fertilizer was definitely not Yevlov, it was Berekov's idea. ”

Tupikov replied honestly: "Most of the things on this list that we think are strange are Berekov's requests. This man is mysterious, he always has wonderful ideas in his head, maybe he is trying to find a way to make something. Comrade, you have to pay attention, although they did not have TNT, they made their own old-fashioned picric acid and quickly threw it into the war with good results. So we have to support them, even if they need something unbelievable, we have to meet them. ”

Timoshenko was persuaded by Tupikov that, as commander-in-chief of the Front, it was he who personally ordered the 284th Guards Division to have sufficient autonomy and not to slack off, and to find ways to wreak havoc in enemy-occupied areas, including large-scale battles. They have fully implemented their orders, and their demands have been met.

The list of airdrops for this time was very lengthy, the transport planes and bombers were ready-made, except that it took a few days to pull the glider with a large load of gravity.

There are also up to fifty fighters escorting the airdrop, which will carry two auxiliary fuel tanks and fly from Severodonetsk to Pripyat with a round trip without any problems.

Timoshenko fully authorized the airdrop plan, and had no objection to the items on the list, if there was, it was that he hoped that the airdrop would be launched sooner, after all, the warriors in the swamp needed this batch of supplies too much!