"Yes, comrade division commander, if you think about it carefully, we are taking precautions for today. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info It's not something I'm going to calculate, and what happened to me was predestined from the beginning. They don't send me airdrops, I'm afraid they will have to take care of themselves. ”

After saying that, Yang Mingzhi stood up and twisted his neck: "Comrades, follow me." ”

The four men stood next to a map of the Soviet Union on the wall of the gun, and Yang Mingzhi pointed to the area of Crimea.

"Judging from our current intelligence, our Southwestern Front has been losing ground, hasn't it? And to the north, the Northwest Front, our old boss is carrying out a full-scale counterattack under the leadership of Zhukov. The battle on the outskirts of Moscow continued, and the Germans finally began to retreat. Therefore, I personally think that the enemy's strategic center will be diverted to the south, and Timoshenko will probably not be able to give us assistance, because this distance is really too far away! ”

"Oh? My chief of staff, you are the only one in the whole division who can talk about the whole war. Yeretina said, "Actually, Timoshenko and Tupikov have praised you, claiming that you should go to the front headquarters, and your insight into the battle situation has been recognized by them. So maybe you're right. ”

Yang Mingzhi smiled innocently, this is not a battlefield insight, just a prophetic prescience as a traverser. The future movements of the German army are also based on various considerations, and they will not become unrecognizable at the strategic level because of their own little butterfly.

He said decisively and modestly: "It is also inevitable that the enemy will turn to the south, and this is determined by the German strategy. ”

Deep in the swamp, there really isn't much information to be learned. The battle reports obtained by the 284th Division are now all sent by the Gomel underground organization. The latest intelligence shows that the Soviet army has lost Donbass, and Odessa and Crimea are in danger.

As for Ukraine, as for the Soviet Union, this is a huge granary, a huge base for oil and coal production, and its strategic value is very important.

Yang Mingzhi continued: "I am a division staff officer, and I have said these things before. The aim of the Germans was to occupy the entire Soviet Union, not only to capture Moscow, the economic, cultural and political center, but also to need Soviet resources. Therefore, they divided their forces into two routes, one planned to capture Moscow, and the other planned to take Ukraine and the Caucasus. For oil. Comrades, how can our tanks work without oil? Therefore, the core purpose of the Southwestern Front is to resist the German army and defend the energy of the Soviet Union.

Comrades, Germany started this war, and they were not at all well prepared. Moreover, their total strength, even with the addition of those client states, our army is still much larger than theirs. The army of five million is spread over a huge front, you see, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, this is a distance of more than a thousand kilometers, and our huge strategic depth will slowly dilute the enemy. They had to choose a key attack, so ......" Yang Mingzhi knocked the Caucasus on the map. "Here, the Baku oil fields, but also the region south of the Caucasus. The ultimate ambition of the German army is to occupy the whole world, they will invade Iraq, Persia, and then India, and join the Japanese! Therefore, the core task of our Southwestern Front Army is to delay as much time as possible! ”

"So, we have to give up for the time being? Are they in a strategic retreat, preserving strength? And we have to be self-reliant. Yevlov continued to ask.

"I'm afraid so. I'm sorry to tell you. Yang Mingzhi looked at everyone expressionlessly, and the scene was a little dignified.

Fuming immediately clapped his hands a few times: "Oops! Don't be very serious. We still have a lot of potatoes, and we still have plenty of ammunition. If it's a big deal, I'll continue to rob the Germans. Besides, Riguskov from the blacksmith village, he collected all the human and animal manure and made nitrate on a large scale, and we have more and more gunpowder, and more and more weapons. ”

Isolation is already an established fact, everyone look at me, I look at you, and smile bitterly one after another.

"Let's go back and sit." Yevlov stretched out his right hand, "Dear Berekov, there is actually another matter that needs your opinion. ”

The four were re-done, and Yevlov pointed out the problem of prisoners that now arose.

"As for the captives, Yerentina and I mean to keep them and dig potatoes for us, I wonder what you think of this plan?"

"That's good. Let them produce food for the people, I remember that Henschel was willing to cooperate. Yang Mingzhi said.

"But you also know that our fighters, as well as ordinary citizens, are basically extremely hostile to these people. After all, this group of people kills people everywhere on our land. Therefore, many fighters wanted to be shot directly, and their emotions were suppressed by me. So I think these prisoners of war should be separated. ”

He meant it was almost a concentration camp. Yang Mingzhi thought about it and agreed with this opinion. "Well, build new barracks, keep the prisoners under control, and send troops to garrison them."

"And give them some tools." Yerentina interjected: "We don't raise idlers, we can not kill this group of prisoners of war, but they must work. Work at least 12 hours a day, don't blame us for being ruthless, if this group of people can live, we will do our duty. ”

"And what about the doctors and nurses?!" Yang Mingzhi suddenly asked, "The doctor is still of German origin in the United States. This idiot was supposed to be our ally, but he stupidly went back to Germany! ”

At this point in time, on December 7, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the United States swept away isolationism and joined World War II. At this point, the United States and the Soviet Union had become de facto allies, and the common enemy was the Axis powers.

"Those nurses and doctors!" Yerentina straightened her chest, "These people are not combatants, I told those young women that if they want to live, they will honestly continue to work as nurses." But as you all know, they are enemy women, and our warriors are a bunch of old men. There is no violence against women at the moment, because I am under the pressure of discipline. I'm afraid they can only take care of the wounded and atone for their sins. The American you are talking about, he is already willing to cooperate with us, and these people have a high value for this, just to make up for the lack of doctors and nurses. ”

When Yang Mingzhi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, we have a proverb in China that we would rather be a dog in the era of peace than a person in the era of war. War is terrible for us, so let's cut back on killing. In this war, those German girls are the enemy, but we can make them our people by means. ”

"Let them become Bolsheviks?" Yerentina immediately understood. "Are you sure they can? A bunch of Nazis. ”

"After all, after the end of the war, Germany was also held by the Bolsheviks for half a year, and if it were not for the return of the disbanded army to Berlin, or for the counterattack of Comrade Lenin organized under the city of Warsaw. Germany has long had a red flag fluttering! Comrades, now we have another chance. Sooner or later, we will occupy Berlin, and we will not be able to kill all 80 million Germans. We want to tell them that it is wrong to believe in the Nazis. They were originally ordinary people at the bottom of society, oppressed by the capitalists, and now they are enslaved and fighting against us. And we will give them hope, which will naturally turn them into our comrades. What do you think, Yerentina? ”

This was said to make Yerentina very comfortable. "You've finished everything I have to say, and you're acting as if you're the commissar. Even though we're isolated, you're still dreaming of a great victory in the war. It's good and I'm happy. Well, I'm going to let my people educate those young women about new things and hopefully they will come to their senses and become a part of us. (To be continued.) )