Yang Mingzhi snorted, everything was according to her arrangement. I changed my clothes, but what remained unchanged was that my injured arm was wrapped in sackcloth, and then my neck hung down on my chest.

He was not hungry, took a slice of bread and walked alone to the office of the division headquarters, and as soon as he pushed open the door, a sense of disobedience came to his face.

This meeting was actually four people talking, and the four people were also the actual core leaders of the 284th Division, Yang Mingzhi was one of them, and even many times, his opinions were finally convincing. Now he saw all three people sitting around a table with maps laid out on the table.

The atmosphere was quite serious, even a little too serious. "Why, did something happen?"

"Yes, something really happened." Yevlov said immediately.

"What the hell is going on?"

"It's the commander of the Southwestern Front, Kirponos."

"How is he? Is it hurt? Or is it dead? Yang Mingzhi asked knowingly.

"Yes, dead." Yevlov frowned, "Berekov, our friends are gone. He encountered Guderian's troops, in which he was killed. “

Yang Mingzhi's expression did not change, he pretended to be calm and found a chair to sit down, and sighed. "When did this happen. Could it be that he died a long time ago, and you didn't tell us who were fighting on the front line? ”

"Not really. The information was received this afternoon. Yevlov said.

Yang Mingzhi knew that Kirponos would definitely die, and today was September 17, and Kirponos died. Yang Mingzhi didn't know when he would die, but if he didn't die, Timoshenge wouldn't take over. The history of the plane hadn't changed dramatically, and he saw that the map on the table had been remarked. "Now, is the Soviet army in Ukraine surrounded, I see you have drawn a few more strokes on the map."

"Yes. So this meeting is probably going to take a little longer, and we really need to think about what to do in the future. Yevlov said.

Now, even Fumin and Yelentina are completely convinced that the Soviet army has suffered a complete defeat on the battlefield in Ukraine. Kyiv has fallen, German tanks have rushed into the streets, and most of the citizens simply did not have time to evacuate. On the contrary, in order to hold the city, the Soviet authorities at once armed hundreds of thousands of citizens into a militia, and even many women were organized.

These temporary militiamen have only patriotic fervor, and their military literacy is very poor, and their weapons and equipment are just as poor. Arms warehouses were forced to open, and many old rifles were picked up for battle.

Kilponos ordered the army and civilians to defend to the death, unlike Pavlov in Belarus, who did not do practical things, but in the end he still achieved some results that disrupted the German army's battle plan and objectively bought time for the Moscow authorities. It's a pity that the war in Ukraine, the Soviet Union still has to lose.

"Alas, the enemy has already occupied the south, the Cherobi railway station has also been occupied by the Germans, we are already a de facto island, and we are surrounded on all sides by German troops. Even Bryansk will soon be occupied. Yevlov said regretfully, "So what should we do?" Now you have wisdom in the whole army, and you are still our staff officer! ”

The burden was on Yang Mingzhi, and Yevlov's words seemed to have the meaning of picking a child and not doing it. Also, he doesn't know the history of the future, and he's not the kind of person who can turn the tide.

All three looked at Yang Mingzhi, as if he had already thought about the future development path.

"If you look at me and listen to me, then I'll say something."

"Okay, you can say it, and we'll hear it." Yevlov said.

Yang Mingzhi paused for a moment and said: "The problem we are facing now is very serious, we are surrounded, so we can contact the outside world, I am afraid that only our radio equipment is left." Other than that, we have no one to rely on for the foreseeable future. Nor can we expect the Soviet troops on the periphery, or from the top, to support us. We are actually in enemy-occupied territory, we cannot surrender, we must continue to fight.

So we can only rely on ourselves and continue to be self-reliant. Let's reclaim farmland to grow potatoes and vegetables. We continue to use rationing, and at the same time mobilize soldiers to cultivate and ensure that we have enough food.

Secondly, we need to continue our military operations. The arsenal continues to make weapons, and we want to use the strengths of the light infantry to use the forests and swamps of Belarus as cover to surprise the enemy. Either take the form of surprise warfare and ambush warfare with large forces, or sparrow warfare in the form of small detachments. After we succeed, we will seize whatever we can use on the enemy.

In the end, we have to defend ourselves against enemy retaliation, we have to store supplies, and open new settlements. We're going to set up warehouses in the forest and set up winter camps. In the event of a retaliatory attack by the enemy, we have the ability to maneuver them. “

Yang Mingzhi's words can be summed up in three points: self-reliance, continuing guerrilla warfare, and making good preparations for counter-encirclement and suppression.

There is no other way to do these routines, and they are the same as those of the Chinese Red Army back then. In many ways, the terrain in Belarus, which is very similar to that of the Chinese Soviet Republic, is very advantageous for the defenders.

The opinions seemed to the three of them, and Yevlov suddenly became enlightened. "This seems to be the safest way to do this, and you Berekov are indeed real experts in guerrilla warfare."

Yang Mingzhi waved his hand: "It's nothing, we are very poor, we don't have heavy weapons, so we have to use light weapons more." The enemy has the enemy's methods of warfare, and we have ours. He beats us, we run, so that they can't find us, and when they let go, we attack suddenly. You see, in several battles, we adopted the method of night attack, and achieved an exaggerated battle loss ratio. This is the essence of guerrilla warfare and movement warfare, and our thousands of soldiers are lucky to survive, and we have no time to fight positional warfare with the enemy. “

"Well said." The other three couldn't help but applaud.

Yevlov said: "In the future, we will still follow the old rules and not make any major adjustments." Soldiers continued to train and produce food, collective farms continued to make tools and weapons, and the whole army and civilians were united. There are more than 10,000 people in our base area, and they are distributed in three large collective farms. I think we have such strength that many guerrillas will have to take refuge in us in the future. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded: "This must be the case, so we have to strengthen the production of grain." ”

"There's no problem, we don't have a shortage of food now, because the potatoes we planted were actually ready to be harvested." "Now it's time to harvest!?" Yang Mingzhi was overjoyed.

"yes, so you don't have to get too excited." Yevlov said with relief, "The commander of the Front is dead, and soon there will be a new person, and whoever that person is, we will have to be self-reliant." The 284th Division was stationed here, and it was still the territory of the Soviet Union. Now it's time to get to the specifics of the troops. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded, this is the fundamental problem of the meeting.