In the Soviet Union, chocolate was a luxury, and even the city dwellers of Moscow could only eat it on festivals, and they were reluctant to buy it at all, because the prices were very high, not to mention the vast countryside. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The cocoa needed to make chocolate had to be imported, as well as a lot of granulated sugar, which also needed to be imported, and only the milk was his own - Vasily had never even seen chocolate before joining the army! Even at the top of the Soviet Union, chocolate was a good thing: the staff officers knew that the deputy commander-in-chief also liked chocolate, and only ate the ones of very good quality, but not very often.

Although Lin Jun likes chocolate very much, he will not let the people below find a way to satisfy his preferences in large quantities, but he will go to the mall to buy some for the children during the festival, and put them at home as a good thing to entertain guests - in the Soviet Union, chocolate is too luxurious!

Now a pile of chocolate as thick as bricks appeared in front of his eyes, of course, so that the comrades in Minsk could not turn around at once: in fact, Leonov's introduction was a little problematic, and these were a mixture of D-type rations and K-type rations of the US army -- when the Americans sent this batch of supplies to the Soviet Union, the K-type rations, which were the most cost-effective, were not available and did not have time to produce compressed baklavaries, and many K-shaped ration packages replaced the baklava with D-type rations of the same volume.

What is a D-type ration? It's military chocolate. Alyosha immediately divided a large chunk of it, and it was divided into six small pieces along the dividing line, and each of them tasted one piece. Everyone ate with relish, although the taste was not as good as the chocolates that the chief put in the living room during the festival, but in the hearts of Vasily and others, this kind of military chocolate was almost a delicacy in the world.

Of course, the taste of this U.S. Army D-type ration is not as good as the chocolate produced by Mars (one of the products is "Dove"), which Lin Jun likes, but it is obvious that the Americans themselves can eat chocolate on the front line is also good for morale, not to mention that it can quickly replenish calories. In fact, these military chocolates from Helmsey, Pennsylvania, didn't taste very good -- "only slightly better than boiled potatoes." ”

If the military chocolate tastes too good, the greedy soldier will eat it without an emergency, while the military chocolate is usually served as an emergency food. Of course, it was the fastidious American GIs, who in a difficult combat environment, had "little feeling" for anything heavier than boiled potatoes!

Demira poured a can of beef stew and roasted beans that Leonov had opened into an open iron bucket to make the potatoes and carrots taste better.

looked at the tin can in his hand and handed it to Sasha on the side: "There is still some butter." ”

The big guy took it, carefully scraped out the half-cured butter with a spoon, and spread it on his bread slices, so that it would taste much better.

Before Leonov returned to the headquarters, the Shidorenko group returned, and while they were still on the stairs, they heard Shidorenko's voice: "I said comrades, did we run to the kitchen of the headquarters of the Germans?!" ”

"Yes, you can't be wrong! There was coffee, beef stewed potatoes, etc., and lemon tea! "Ivan in the back has a more sharp nose, and he is there to report the name of the dish.

The snipers had to lament that the Americans had enough supplies, even to the point of wasting them -- the elaborate packaging alone probably cost a lot of manpower and material resources. A little envious, but not worshipped. Having spent time in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Leonov knows why the Americans can do it: if there is no country on the edge of a great power that can threaten it, and if there is a large ocean separated from other powers, its economy can easily become highly developed.

Sure enough, Sidorenko went to trouble the German kitchen and killed three fascists who ate dinner in an hour, until the Germans entertained themselves with mortars. Under such hospitality, Shidorenko, of course, was "embarrassed" to not leave, and returned to the resting place to see if he would get any more benefits before midnight, and as a result, he caught up with a feast.

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At noon today, Lin Jun, who was in the basement of the headquarters to discuss the next battle plan with Kondrusev, received a report: A train carrying American aid food arrived at the factory area in the east of the city. The freight station in Minsk, west of the city, is now in complete ruins, and the Red officers and soldiers who recaptured it for the fourth time are holding on there. But Minsk is not the only railway station that can carry supplies, several factories in the east have direct access to railways, and now they are zero-hour freight stations.

Sufficient manpower was immediately organized to collect and transfer the supplies, and the first batch was sent to several hospitals - Minsk had not received new food supplies for a week, and support troops and ammunition were the highest priority of the transport department, because it could hold on for a long time on the food in the city. But in addition to cured meat, not even a single dog on the street is missing from Minsk (all of them have been improved by the fighters. What is most lacking are high-energy foods and vegetables.

Lin Jun saw what he wanted to see on the general list sent - this special train also pulled two wagons of vegetables: a full eighty tons of lettuce!

Is eighty tons a lot? It's pitiful, and when it comes to Minsk, it's probably gone with a mouthful per person. A few days ago, Lin Jun sent a telegram to Moscow: We still have food, if possible, bring me a train of vegetables, radish, pumpkin and lettuce!

When the battle came to this, the commander also wanted to get some vegetables for the troops, which made the comrades in Moscow a little "speechless"! American supplies to the Far East had already arrived near Moscow by rail, and behind a food train with the highest priority to Minsk, Muscovites had put on two wagons of leather lettuce that had been improvised from farms and hurried to Minsk.

Giving a train of American military food, in Lin Jun's opinion, it would be better to give him a train of pumpkins or carrots to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops! Now the whole of Minsk, including the defenders and townspeople, eats also, if they were given a choice between a can of beef and a stick of raw lettuce, nine out of ten would choose lettuce!

Many people have not seen vegetables or fruits for more than a month, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand what the needs of the soldiers on the battlefield are, and if there is a radish or something, the soldiers will even change their watches!

The distribution work was handled by the people below, and Lin Jun and Kondrusev now had a problem to solve - the Germans used the tactics of close pressing!

Lin Jun was really a little "speechless" about such a situation -- it stands to reason that this was the Red Army's street fighting tactics against the German army at Stalingrad: The main tactic of the German army was the joint operation of various arms of the armed forces, and great importance was attached to the coordination of ground bombardment by infantry, engineering troops, artillery, and air force. In order to counter this tactic, the Soviet commanders adopted a close-quarters strategy, trying to keep their front line as close as possible to the German army, which resulted in the German artillery units not being able to play the advantage of long-range attacks.

At present, the German army pays attention to the coordination between various arms of the army, and the Red Army is the same, and the Red Army also uses a weapon on the battlefield that makes the German army gnash its teeth - the solidification ******, so that the German army can come up with this tactic of "using the will of the soldiers to achieve victory".

At present, the western city of Minsk is in ruins, the effect of using ordinary bombs is mediocre, the Soviet Air Force uses a lot of low-cost solidification ****** during raids, and the overwhelming fire during cluster bombing can even burn an entire battalion of German troops at the beginning! After suffering a few losses, the Germans used the tactic of close pressing - if you dare to throw, you will burn your own people!

"Deputy Commander, at the moment there is a fierce battle between the enemy and us for every house, workshop, water tower, railway embankment, and even for a wall, a basement, and every pile of rubble."

"We recaptured the living room, but we still had to fight the fascists in the kitchen." Lin Jun's words are just right, in some buildings that still have a certain value, the battle is going on room by room. Sometimes at night, the fighters could hear the Germans talking from a few dozen meters away, often followed by a vicious battle after a few grenades were smashed.

The day before yesterday in the southwestern part of the city, the soldiers defending the Palace of Culture heard music coming from the German positions not far from the opposite side, not "SS Blitzkrieg is advancing" ("The SS is advancing", and now it is also called "Mass"). The author heard it on the radio once, and he couldn't laugh or cry, probably the one who played it only knew that it was called "Mass", and did not know the content and meaning of the lyrics, a complete Nazi military anthem. ), but "Katyusha". The Red Army, stationed in the position, occupied the German position with a charge, recaptured the record and the gramophone - how could the song of "Katyusha" be heard in the fascist position!

The distance between the positions of the two sides was less than fifty meters, and less than a company of an attacking Red Army battalion survived, but the soldiers thought it was worth it! The command did not punish the commander who privately decided to attack, because Lin Jun and Kondrusev knew that such a military spirit could be used! The Germans now did not have the strength to launch a large-scale offensive for a while, and the Red Army was not afraid of short-handed encounters.

"Since the Germans want to fight like this for a few days, then accompany them, which is exactly what I want."

Lin Jun's plan is clear, and the Germans are now very cooperative - playing close pressing? That's the best way to delay time! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )