On the map, a meeting point of two streams caught Yang Mingzhi's attention. The order for all non-combatants was to rest and wait precisely after moving to this point.

Yang Mingzhi estimated that even if he fought with thousands of enemies, the battle would not last long. The primary purpose of this operation was to rescue the prisoners of war, and the secondary task was to destroy as much of the enemy's living forces as possible. Even if the former's combat goal is not easy to achieve, it is necessary to destroy the enemy as much as possible.

All the non-combatants have set off, and the combat unit led by Yang Mingzhi has also begun a new journey.

He was very glad that he had not attacked rashly, that he had encountered a hidden rebel army, and that he had encountered a powerful enemy.

Even if the enemy controls a road, the map shows that it is not a significant line of communication. Belarus's road network is already very poor, and the roads of good quality are mainly in the north, and the southern part of the republic is almost covered with primeval forests.

The strategic value of the roads controlled by the Germans was very limited, and its existence was at most an auxiliary to the German army.

On the map, the standard villages and strongholds of the German army, compared to the vast forests, which are very scattered. This allowed the partisans to make good use of the landscape, and the Germans had to gather around their strongholds.

Balzen led the reconnaissance battalion to move ahead of the main force as usual, and they formed a huge search net and advanced towards the village of Bainiu.

The reconnaissance battalion has contributed large quantities of rations and ammunition, and even a company of troops, to escort the evacuation of non-combatants. In this way, the combat effectiveness of this battalion has declined greatly, adhering to high morale, and the fighters are fearless.

With just over four hundred men left, Balzen was confident that at least some of his men would have RPGs available. With this kind of weapon, it is completely tactical to deal with a poorly equipped enemy.

He received an order that the reconnaissance company must dare to go to the outskirts of Bainiu Village before dark and immediately reconnoiter the enemy's situation.

The target was on their way, and they were quietly approaching.

Well, what about the situation with the enemy?

The Germans did transform the village of Bainiu. Originally, this village was a common in Belarus, hidden in the forest. Before the war, its population was just over 100 people, and farmhouses and arable land were limited.

When the war broke out, the Germans advanced along the found dirt road, passing through the village and occupying it. They first searched the Jews and resupplied them on the spot. The Germans did not find the Jews and executed anyone who dared to oppose their looting of food.

As in Belarusian villages, the Germans immediately identified a village chief as soon as they took control of it.

Today, the whole of Belarus can be said to have fallen, and the Germans took away the villagers of the village of Bainiu and eliminated some people who did not want to go. All of this is because they discovered the great value of this village - it can be transformed into a prisoner of war camp.

The village was surrounded by tall trees, and timber was always needed by the army. The village is located next to the road and is easily transportable.

At first, the officers and soldiers of the 734th Division stationed in this area carried axes to cut down trees and build new strongholds. With the first prisoners of war being sent over, logging was naturally left to these people. As long as food is allowed, they work very hard. After all, anyone who is unwilling to cooperate will be shot directly.

As a result, the area of Bainiu Village has become larger and larger, and the number of prisoners of war has exceeded 2,000. With such a large number of people, and the fact that this forest does hide guerrillas, the puppet army was also stationed here under the pressure of liquidation.

The German 734th Infantry Division was a security unit, so they were generally equipped, with few heavy weapons and few machine guns, and most of the soldiers were armed with Mauser rifles produced in 1941.

As for those puppet armies, that is, the "Eastern Volunteer Army". There was a battalion of puppet troops stationed here, and they were Poles recruited in the occupied territories of Belarus, with a strength of 500.

Until 1939, the lands west of Pinsk were Polish territory. When Poland was caught between the Soviet Union and Germany, western Poland became part of Belarus. The Poles hated the Soviet Union more than they hated Germany. That's a national hatred that has lasted for five hundred years!

They were happy to watch over and supervise the work of Soviet prisoners of war, but their armament was more mediocre. Five hundred men is only five hundred Mosin Nagant, and the ammunition is only a base.

As for Medvedev, he claimed that he saw these enemies with two tanks, and some half-track armored vehicles. They do exist!

At the beginning of the war, the Germans kept a large number of tanks No. 1 and No. 2. These early tanks had been following the more powerful No. 3 tank, and as the intensity of the war became greater and new anti-tank weapons appeared, they had to withdraw from the second line.

Both No. 2 tanks had a 37-gun gun, and their greatest usefulness had now shifted from combat to tractors – pulling overturned trees.

As for the situation in Bainiu Village, Balzen and Yang Mingzhi were completely unclear, since the German army had heavy weapons and troops, maybe it would be a vicious battle in the future.

Yang Mingzhi's high attention is very correct! The German battalion commander stationed in Bainiu Village, Langemann, received an order from the division commander, but in fact, because the whole division was scattered and the enemy situation was unknown, the German army could only order the troops in various places to remain vigilant in their own defense areas.

The somewhat lazy Germans were ordered to build defensive lines to defend their strongholds, after all, they had nothing to do but do so.

Langemann did not think he would be attacked by the guerrillas, and he had more than 1,000 fighters under his command, and the two tanks used as tractors were re-armed, but only 10 shells. He even used five half-track armored vehicles as mobile firepower to support him at any time.

The defensive line was built in strict accordance with the regulations of the German army, except that those who dug the trenches became prisoners of war.

These poor Russians, who believed that a big war was imminent, as if the large forces had already been fought back, otherwise the Germans would not have forced themselves to dig trenches. The trenches were not just as simple as digging pits, they also required reinforcement with wooden poles, and the Z-shaped trenches spared the camp by nailing a large number of wooden stakes around the perimeter of the trenches and pulling up the barbed wire!

The Germans were usually rigorous, and it took Langemann a day to accomplish this, and he proudly reported to his regimental commander that he had repaired the defensive line himself, and the prisoners of war were well guarded.

And his superiors gave him no praise, only alerts of multiple serious attacks.

"These guerrillas are not small! Are they really from the swamp? It's impossible, just a straight line distance, it's nearly a hundred kilometers! "The orders of the superiors, Langemann must obey. The higher-ups said that the attack was very serious, and he had to be more vigilant.

One of the targets of the enemy attack is the prisoner of war camp, and they want to rescue the prisoners! One of the places that was attacked was more than 30 kilometers away from his own Bainiu Village.

Prisoners of war were strictly confined to prisoner of war camps after completing their work. In order to reassure the prisoners of war, they shot and killed a dozen so-called anti-German tendencies, hoping that doing so would make the prisoners fearful.

Langemann's battalion and the puppet battalion were so prepared for battle that they spent the night in the trenches the night after learning of the latest attack.

The new day seemed to be peaceful, and throughout the morning and afternoon, the Germans found nothing, and the German soldiers in the trenches became more and more tired, and the birds chirped lonely in the forest where their guns were aimed.

When night fell, the soldiers who had been patrolling the forests on the outskirts of Bainiu Village also returned.

If the German battalion commander Langemann made the biggest mistake, this is undoubtedly it!