Due to the slower movement, Andrei and some commanders and fighters of the 24th Division withdrew into the forest for Andrei, in this forest is safer than outside, after all, the German strong armored forces here are not useful, but when they come to this forest, all kinds of problems have come, first of all, the first problem is that now they have more than 130 people, but now there is not enough food, the army must have food to eat, once the army has no food, then it will lose the war, All wars from ancient times to the present day follow this immutable law!

According to the material: "Now the same is true of Germany, which from the very beginning of the war began to pay attention to plundering the grain resources of the Soviet Union, and historically from June to November 1941, Germany not only occupied Ukraine, the largest grain producing area in the Soviet Union, but also plundered 84% of the sugar producing areas of the Soviet Union, 38% of the large livestock and 60% of the fat pigs!"

As a result, by 1942, the Soviet Union had not only lost nearly 50% of the country's agricultural land, but also more than 40% of its agricultural machinery, and most of the remaining tractors and cars were requisitioned by the army; At the same time, a large number of young and strong laborers and horses on Soviet farms were also requisitioned to the front by the army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the end, only a few women and half-grown children were left in the fields of the Soviet Union, without the help of any machinery or animal power, to produce food in the most primitive way!

But that's not the worst thing, because the Soviet Union has historically stockpiled up to 6 million tons of grain before the war because it was not transported in time. Most of them were either snatched by the rapidly advancing Germans or burned by the panicked Soviets themselves. As a result, by 1942, there was almost not a single grain of grain left in the grain depot of the Soviet Union, which can really be said to be "poor and white"!

However, now the Germans are not as thorough as in history, Lin Jundi "prepared for war and famine" hoarded a lot of grain for the Soviet Union, and the arable land was not robbed as much as in history, and the retreat was not a collapse. But the situation remains dire.

As we all know, the Soviet Union, with its vast land, was an agricultural power, but it was not an agricultural power in terms of natural conditions. This was mainly due to the overall shortage of agricultural solar energy resources in the Soviet Union: in the main agricultural regions of the Soviet Union, there were only 46 months of sunshine above 0 degrees Celsius. As a result, most of the crops in the USSR could only be harvested once a year.

Four-fifths of the Soviet Union received only 500 mm of precipitation per year, so the average index of bioclimatic potential of farmland in the USSR was very low, at 149. This is 38% lower than Germany and 53% lower than France. It's 60% lower than in the United States!

However, this did not prevent the Soviets from growing food suitable for their own consumption, and crops like potatoes were very suitable for cultivation in the vast black soil of the Soviet Union, and they were very adapted to the cold environment of the Soviet Union, so the yield was particularly high.

"Potatoes have pulled Russia back from the brink of famine more than once in history as "life-saving food", and it was the same during the war! ”

Potatoes, the USSR needed potatoes!

Between 1942 and 1944, when grain production was at its most difficult in the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union alone produced about 100 million tons of potato fields, which alone was twice the total amount of Western aid, so the Soviet Union was able to feed a large number of troops and rear workers during the war---- Western media often say that it would not have been for their assistance. The Soviet Union would have collapsed completely: this is an exaggeration: it is not so much the credit of Western aid. It is not so much the credit of the USSR for its own potatoes.

It's like a T-34 tank loader. A day's ration is 1,000 grams of bread and 600 grams of potatoes, with which he can be fed, but when fighting in the field, a loader needs to fire 5 shells per minute, and each loaded shell weighs about 20 kilograms, which means that he has to toss 100 kilograms of shells in 1 minute, and it will not take long for him to be dizzy and weak----, which is to be able to eat but not be able to fight effectively!

Why do loaders have weakness in their limbs. It's because the food he eats has too few calories! Although the Soviets tightened their belts, potatoes and flour alone could not meet the soldiers' caloric needs, because in the cold and snowy Soviet Union, these starchy foods simply did not last long!

The supply of non-staple food is the biggest problem, but meat is a large supplier of energy--- and the soldiers will have no strength without calories. Without strength, you can't fight, not to mention the fact that Soviet-made weapons are often associated with the word "heavy". Whether it is daily maintenance or combat use, soldiers must have the same strength as "cattle"!

And in order for soldiers to have the strength of cattle, they must be allowed to eat cattle, and only by eating beef can they use "ox strength"! Everyone in the Soviet Union understands this dialectical relationship, but the Soviet Union can't afford to raise cattle!

This will make the country's meat production old and unable to rise. The grain used to raise livestock should be deducted from the rations eaten by people, because the Soviet Union even had to take care of the grain eaten by people, and where would there be a surplus to feed the cattle ?!

The distress does not only come from the lack of supply of the army, but the greater difficulty comes from the supply of ordinary civilians!

This would be a situation where all the grain in the Soviet Union were to be distributed equally among all the people in the Soviet Union, and there would certainly not be enough to eat. Stalin's solution to this was to mercilessly snap out the peasants' rations, using them to give priority to the food supply of the army and the workers in the rear.

Most of the young and strong laborers in the Soviet countryside had already gone to the front, and the rations of the peasants were in fact the rations of the women and children. In order to ensure the supply of troops, Stalin concentrated Soviet agricultural products to the maximum, and in 1942, 12.51 million tons of all 29.7 million tons of grain, 1.2 million tons of meat, about 1 million tons of sugar beet, and more than 2 million tons of milk were concentrated in the hands of the state.

All of this food was focused on supplying the Red Army, and Stalin left only 2 million tons of grain for the women and children who were still doing heavy labor in the fields, and who could only get a maximum of about 800 grams of bread and 300 grams of potatoes a day without any side food.

Because of this, the Soviet countryside during the war was generally in an extremely miserable situation, and hungry children even licked the shelves where bread had been spared with their tongues! Many people die of malnutrition, but even so, women have to work nearly twice as hard as normal to engage in agriculture, which can be said to be unreasonable and cruel!

But these Soviet women silently withstood it, because they understood that if the war was lost, nothing would exist! They tightened their belts and gave every grain of food they could save to the country and the army for free.

At that time, Western food aid only made up for part of the food gap in the Soviet Union to a low extent, and did not play a decisive role, and the so-called theory of the collapse of hunger in the Soviet Union in later generations was somewhat alarmist!

The women's supply standard is up to 800 grams of bread and 300 grams of potatoes a day, and there are very few non-staple foods---- but the difference from history is that the supply standard in history is basically not met, and sometimes the women comrades can only get half a kilogram of potatoes after working 14 hours a day, and nothing else!

Moreover, at that time, there was often a situation where only food was supplied to the laborers, and the elderly and children could only rely on the little food brought back by the laborers at home---- it was not the officials who did not give it, and there was no humanity, because there was no food at all!

As soon as the canned meat arrives from the ports of the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, it is loaded onto trains and sent all the way along the railroad to the front. But the transportation seems to be cruel, because along the way you can see those women and children who are not full of food and tighten their belts, but there is not a single canned food that can be distributed to them, all of them have to be given priority to the Red Army troops "potato roast beef" and "lard with bread" The combination of meat and vegetables meets the minimum caloric needs of the soldiers for a day, and for the sake of war, the country and the people can only bear the torment of hunger! "When you think about it, Andrei can't help but sigh at the strength of the Soviet people.

And now Andrei had to face a problem, that is, their 130-odd people did not have enough food now, so Andrei and Captain Boria of the 24th Division discussed going to the edge of the forest to find food and troops, and some soldiers here found that Comrade Captain was wrapped in a flag, and a cloth was specially tied to it

And Andrei introduced to the fighters next to him: That's the military flag, our army has been since the time of the tsars. He has a strong affection for the military flag. As a symbol of the army's establishment and a symbol of honor, the military flag is issued to the troops at and above the regimental level, and in addition to being equipped with a special flagpole, flagpole head, and military flag cover, a special person must be responsible for keeping it. When the commanders and fighters of the army organization take the oath, they should ask for the military flag, and each person who took the oath should also kneel down on one leg and kiss the military flag after the oath is completed. ”

And after Andrei introduced this, he suddenly remembered that incident, the beginning of the Soviet-German war. 24th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Soviet Army. Further on was the "Ulyanovsk Iron Division" during the Civil War in Soviet Russia. In 1941, the division was surrounded by German troops in Minsk, and a small number broke through, and the military flag was lost and the number was revoked.

It was rebuilt in 1942. Fought in the southwestern direction, participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. (In 1944, the Soviets recaptured Minsk and dug up the flag of the 24th Division wrapped around the remains of the fallen political commissar of the 24th Division, A.V. Barbashev). Later in the war, the division was integrated into the 4th Ukrainian Front and took part in the battle for the liberation of Prague. After the war, it belonged to the Carpathian Military District, where it was stationed in Lviv, Ukraine. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was transferred to Ukraine. In 2003, it was reorganized into 24 mechanized brigades. The 24th Division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1933, 1940, 1967 3 times. This division was successful in later battles, but it never became the Guards Division of the Soviet Army, because it had lost its flag.

But now the military flag is on this Captain Paulia, did he inadvertently change history, it is true, because of Andrei's advice, General Lukin's 16th Army resisted for a day and a half more than in history, and the fate of the 24th Division was affected, and Captain Paulia in front of him took over the military flag from the political commissar and then broke through.

Suddenly, the German troops were found in front, and Andrei was just about to order everyone to hide, the German artillery bombardment came, and everyone hurriedly retreated, when a shrapnel hit Captain Paulia in the neck, and the blood flowed profusely, and Andrei quickly carried the captain on his back and got rid of the pursuers.

And coming to the depths of the jungle, Andrei put down the dying Captain Paulia

"Ahem......"

With a violent cough, Boria, who had just passed out, opened his eyes with blood bubbles in his mouth, and he stared at him in a daze, and after a long time, Andrei suddenly struggled to raise his arm to relieve a lump on his body.

A soldier saw what he meant, and hurriedly stepped forward to untie something from his body for him, which was the military flag that Andrei had seen not long ago.

"Comrade Andrei......" said Boria intermittently, breathing as quickly as asthma, "I...... I'm afraid I can't, I'm ...... now Now the Western Front is ...... Eleventh Army...... Article 24...... Division...... Captain Flag Guard...... Temporary ...... of the status of captain Temporarily appoint you to take custody of this military flag......"

Boria said so much in one breath, his breath was noticeably weakened, and his heaving chest began to flatten out, and he finally pointed to the military flag, while a pair of godless eyes stared at Andrei tightly, as if waiting for him to say something.

Andrei knew what he meant, reached out and took the flag from the soldier next to him, clutching it to his chest, telling him that the flag would be with him and would never fall into the hands of the Germans - unless his heart stopped beating. Because Andrei knew that the military flag represented glory and the dignity of a soldier, he promised Boria not only for glory, but also to fulfill his dying wishes.

Seeing Andrei's movements, Boria's face showed a relieved smile, he clutched his neck, and his hand slowly let go to reveal a bloody wound under his palm, which was a hole with burnt flesh rolled around it, which made people feel heart-wrenching at a glance.

He leaned silently on the trunk of the tree, his pale lips trembling open and closed, as if silently muttering something, and a blood bubble blew out of every hole in his mouth.

Andrei could hear him say in his staccato voice: "Long live Soviet power, long live Comrade Stalin......"

Boria's voice grew smaller and fainter, and finally disappeared. Only the German gunfire was approaching not far away.

Andrei slowly stood up, he looked at Boria, who had lost the last shred of life, and raised his right hand firmly to salute him with a standard military salute. He was a soldier, a real soldier, it was true that he was just an ordinary person, but he was ordinary in life and heroic in death, because he died on the battlefield of resisting aggression.

Is it any wonder that the German Empire, which swept across Europe in World War II, failed to finally take the Soviet Union. How can such a soldier give in if there is more in an army? This is the reason for the eight-year War of Resistance in China.