Outside of Smolensk.

In a dense grove, Yevgeny, dressed in camouflage uniform, lay quietly on the ground, carefully noting the movement outside the woods, it seems, the opposite side is calm, and there is not even a shadow of a person in the field by the road, but he knows very well that the opposite side is definitely not as calm as it seems, and the enemy may be waiting for them to throw themselves into the net!

"Did you find anything?" Boris asked quietly.

Yevgeny shook his head slightly, he had been observing for a quarter of an hour and there was nothing but one or two voles and small birds.

"'Dung Stone' ordered us to move on, as far as we could, to the appointed position." Boris reminded.

Yevgeny sighed at this, he didn't really want to carry out the orders of the dung company commander, because several battles were similar to the current situation, and what seemed to be no threat was in fact a deadly danger.

Yevgeny hesitated, not knowing whether to carry out the company commander's order, or continue to observe carefully, just when he hesitated, the company commander Vyachek had already arrived, and he complained loudly: "Yevgeny platoon commander, what the hell are you doing?" Why don't you carry out my orders, we should march in stride, straight into the heart of the enemy, you coward, hesitate not like a man! ”

Saying that, without waiting for Yevgeny to answer, he gave the order on his own: "Comrades in a platoon, listen to my orders, run forward, occupy the high ground opposite, charge!" Ulla! ”

After a neat "Ula", a platoon of fighters rushed out of cover with their heads held high, roaring and charging forward. This made Vyachek very satisfied. exclaimed: "This is the aura that the great Red Army should have!" We are all about crushing the enemy's resistance with an indomitable fighting spirit. Comrade Yevgeny. Your timid command style is simply a desecration of the appearance of the Red Army! ”

Just when Vyachek triumphantly counted Yevgeny, thinking that the next task assigned by his superiors would be successfully completed, the Red Army soldiers in the charge were suddenly attacked by the enemy, and bullets fired from three directions announced the beginning of a massacre, and in the crisp fire of automatic weapons, Vyachek's company was slaughtered in minutes.

"Fools, you're all utter fools!"

After the end of the "battle". An officer wearing the rank of lieutenant colonel constantly spat in the face of Vyachek and others: "Why don't you do a fire reconnaissance and blindly throw the whole company into it?" Why charge in an open area, thinking that the enemy is blind? What makes me most angry is that this is not the first time you have made similar mistakes, you have fallen into the same pit again and again, should I praise you for your persistence or should I scold you for not having long brains? ”

Yes, this is an exercise, specially designed to educate Yevgeny, a rookie who has just entered the military academy. In order to give them an intuitive impression of the war, and also to make them become talents faster, the military schools of the USSR had to use some quick means.

Of course, for these rookies who don't have much experience. Even if it's just a drill, they're a mess. All kinds of ridiculous things emerge one after another, and even the blood-fainting goods are directly scared to faint.

However, for Yevgeny's company, the biggest problem was not anything else, but their company commander Vyachek. This guy can also be regarded as the second generation of the military and the second generation of the red, and he was also extremely excellent in the junior military academy before, and even joined the party before he was admitted to the regular military academy, which belongs to the object of key cultivation.

But the ability of this one, well, in the words of Yevgeny, Vyachek is more suitable to be a party stick or a trumpeter than a really responsible and judgmental soldier. Vyachek is a complete academic, the kind of person who blindly obeys his superiors and books, and he will carry out the orders of his superiors unconditionally and indiscriminately, and will not allow anyone else to give any opinions, and anyone who does not listen to his orders will be labeled as a counter-revolutionary who is afraid of death or disobeys military orders.

What's even more terrifying is that he will copy the one in the textbook, even if the book says that eating is good for physical and mental health, he will immediately come to him every day. All in all, this is a rigid, stubborn, and self-centered person. Anyway, the cadets, including Yevgeny, and the soldiers who cooperated with them did not like this guy, and gave him the nickname "Dung Stone" behind his back.

The instructor left, ordering all the trainees to sum up the lessons, and at this time the smelly and hard Vyachek seemed to be resurrected on the spot with full blood, and he returned to the state of an aggressive, summing it up in his characteristic style:

"Everyone has heard the words of the instructor, your appearance is very bad, and you are not worthy of the title of Red Army soldier at all. I think the most critical problem with failure is that you don't learn to think and how to command a battle. Moreover, some comrades are particularly cowardly, and this is a matter of strict thinking, and I think that we must immediately start rectifying the atmosphere, and only when we rectify the atmosphere can we improve and win victory again......"

This bunch of nonsense made the crew of the squad (all the officers in the company are cadets, that is, a cadet squad) very speechless, and the big guys understand that the only person responsible for the failure of the entire squad is Vyachek, this stupid and arbitrary person has lowered the average IQ of the squad and sent the entire company to hell with one stupid order after another, and he is the one who should be the most self-critical.

Obviously, Vyachek does not think he needs to be self-critical, and he believes that the key reason for his defeat is that his teammates are not obedient and do not follow his "correct" instructions 100%, and that in order to win, he must completely and thoroughly implement his intentions. And in order to thoroughly implement his intentions, it is necessary to ruthlessly organize a few thorns in the squad, such as Evgeny.

For some reason, Vyachek's first impression of Yevgeny was very bad, believing that Yevgeny was not a revolutionary comrade at all, but had the air of bourgeois freedom and counter-revolution. In the case of the concept given to him by Lao Tzu, all the bourgeoisie and the counter-revolution that takes the bourgeois road must be thoroughly hit and stepped on 10,000 feet, that is, they will never be able to turn over.

"Yevgeny, you have to do a deep review. Why did not detect the enemy's ambush. Why will the comrades be lost. Write a 10,000-word review and read it in public tomorrow! ”

Yevgeny didn't buy his account, although Xiao Ye usually looked like he didn't hum or ha, he seemed to have no temper, but he was a person who was round on the outside and square on the inside, and he would definitely fight to the end on issues of principle, otherwise he wouldn't have been so stiff with his mother Victoria. Clearly, Yevgeny was not the one who felt the need for review. It was Vyachek, so he pushed him back without mercy.

"It is you who need to do a deep review, all the comrades are reminding you to be cautious, only you have been working brute all the time, you are the one who has chosen the wrong direction of the assault, and it is you who do not listen to the advice of your comrades and insist on throwing yourself into all the troops, to put it mildly, the fool that the instructor just said is what you are referring to, you are the one who needs to do a review and needs to give an explanation to all comrades!"

"You ......" Vyachek's nose crooked. He didn't dare to imagine that Yevgeny would dare to openly contradict him and contradict him, a dignified party member. Is this to confront the leadership of the party?

He roared: "You counter-revolutionary! Want to rebel? ”

Yevgeny's poisonous tongue was also very powerful: "To be honest, when is it equivalent to rebellion, but when it comes to creating your wretched rebellion, I'm afraid it's to clean up the door for the party!" ”

"You...... You ......"

"What are you, you, me, and me, the instructor just asked you to be our captain temporarily, and you really think of yourself as a leader? What qualifications do you have to order us to review, and I think the collective opinion should be fully respected. Comrades, if you think that Comrade Vyachek needs to review your mistakes, please raise your hands! ”

Brushing brush, except for Vyachek, almost all the students raised their hands high, which was too slap in the face, Vyachek immediately became angry, pointed at Yevgeny and roared: "What are you instigating, you are using the pseudo-democracy of the bourgeoisie against the dictatorship of the proletariat!" ”

Hush......

Laughter and opposition erupted, and everyone had enough of Vyachek, who had never preached in the sermon, or rather that he naturally thought that the truth was on his side. Once or twice, everyone can still bear it, but in the long run, it will be unbearable. And this time it was the general eruption of contradictions.

"Comrade Political Commissar, a group of bad elements of the bourgeoisie, headed by Yevgeny, are inciting comrades who do not know the truth to oppose the leadership of the Party. They have been lawless in their correct leadership of the Party, which I have humiliated and attacked in every possible way. If we continue to deal with them now, we will inevitably bring shame to the academy in the future and cause heavy losses to the country and the party. I beg you to suppress these counter-revolutionaries by decisive means! ”

Colonel Isakov, political commissar of the Armored Forces Command Academy, actually didn't like Vyachek either, he felt that Vyachek was not very capable but liked to toss, and often did some inexplicable things that he needed to clean up. Nobody likes to be in trouble, especially the one who likes to get into trouble and doesn't wipe his own ass.

The only reason why Isakov had to endure was that Vyachek, as the head of the Propaganda and Education Bureau of the Propaganda and Education Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, was said to be able to catch Sverdlov's line, and it was said that he would be able to go up in the future, at least to the level of a member of the Central Committee.

Vyachek's Lao Tzu is barely considered the central leader, and wiping the ass of the central leader is not a particularly troublesome and annoying thing.

"And what do you want?" Isakov asked.

Vyachek said angrily: "At the very least, Yevgeny must be expelled, and it is better to send him to a military court to hold him accountable!" ”

Speaking from the heart, Isakov is very contemptuous of this, look at your level of personal goods, your mind is full of water. However, he can't say it directly, even if the son of the head of the Propaganda Bureau is brain-dead, it is also a correct brain-dead, and he is a hundred times stronger than others.

In Isakov's opinion, sending Yevgeny to a military tribunal is really a big fuss, and it is quite difficult to operate, but since there is a demand for the salary of the central leadership, it is not difficult to do it?

Yevgeny didn't expect that he would be targeted by a sinister snake just telling the truth, but for a while there will be no accident on his side, so let's turn the camera around for a moment and take a look at the situation on the side of old Hemstra.

In early September, after some efforts, they finally found Petrovsky under the leadership of Beloborodov. After the confluence. After another rectification. The number of soldiers gathered under Petrovsky's command reached more than 9,000, which was barely a division.

However, these 9,000 people generally only had light weapons, and ammunition was still very scarce, and Petrovsky knew very well that to force the crossing of the Bug River with such a pitiful force was tantamount to seeking death, so on the one hand, he did not move, and on the other hand, he also carried out active reconnaissance operations to find possible places to cross the river.

"According to the intelligence obtained from reconnaissance. The main forces of the enemy have already entered Belarus, and the main forces of the remaining troops are concentrated on the line of communication between Verkhniya and Sheldce. One of them is searching for and sweeping the partisans left by our army in East Poland. Judging from the disposition of the enemy's forces, the two main railway lines from Warsaw to Belarus, which were related to the smooth supply of the enemy's second and third tank clusters, were the top priority of their defense. With our present forces, any attempt to cross these two railway lines will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the enemy, who will immediately concentrate all his forces on encircling us. ”

Petrovsky looked at the expressions of the officers, and everyone was still relatively calm, so he continued: "So, if we want to cross the Bug River safely to East Prussia, we must divert the enemy and divert their attention from the railway line. So that we can take the opportunity to get out of the net! ”

"Just give the order!"

Petrovsky nodded: "Let's attack the east and west, and attack Sheldice with a little armored force first." Destroy the enemy's railways and land lines of communication, raise your momentum, and attract the enemy's main forces...... When the enemy's main forces move south, the defenses of the natural north face become empty. And the main force of our army took the opportunity to drill through and get out of trouble in one fell swoop! ”

Is this plan feasible? It should be said that there is a certain degree of certainty, as the main force of the German Army Group Center penetrates deep into Belarus, there are not many regular German troops left in eastern Poland, and most of the people used to maintain law and order are Hungarian servant troops or two devils recruited from western Poland.

Of course, in order to realize Petrovsky's vision, it is not so simple, the key point is to move the enemy from the north to the south, if the enemy from the north does not move, everything will be in vain.

This is only one of the difficulties, and the problem is the safety of the small armoured units used to attract the attention of the enemy. Petrovsky, after all, has limited strength, and whether he can hurt the enemy in the south is a question. Having hurt the enemy in the south, how to stand out under the enemy's encirclement in the north and south is the second problem. There is even such a possibility as zài, in case you can't defeat the enemy in the south, and you are directly dragged by the enemy in the south, how can you get it?

In other words, the appearance of the armored forces determines the success or failure of this breakthrough operation, and who will command this force has become the core question. At one point, Petrovsky was ready to get on his horse himself, because he was really not at ease with the other officers. In the end, this difficult task fell on the shoulders of Beloborodov, who took the initiative to make a request to Petrovsky and impress Petrovsky.

"Afanasi. Comrade Pavrandievich, you must move quickly and ruthlessly, you must not hesitate the slightest, as long as you do this, I am sure that you will succeed! Let's go, I'll be waiting for you on the banks of the Bug River! ”

Shaking Belborodov's hand heavily, Petrovsky watched as his command car disappeared at the end of the road. When all the tanks and armored vehicles were gone, Petrovsky returned to the temporary command post, and that night he wrote in his diary: "Afanasy. I don't know if Comrade Pavrandievich will succeed or not, even if he has a detailed plan, and it seems that there is a high probability of success, but there is never a shortage of accidents on the battlefield, and I am afraid that such an accident will befall us again......"

I don't know whether to say that Petrovsky is a crow's mouth, but he really got it right, the accident did happen, according to the original plan, Belobrodov's armored forces would first capture Sukhozhebre, creating a posture of coercion Shedelce. But just after arriving on the outskirts of Sukhořebre, the unexpected happened.

According to previous reconnaissance, Sukhořebre was supposed to have only one company of the Wehrmacht and a battalion of the Royal Allied Army of Western Poland. It is not a particularly problematic to take it down with Beloborodov, a reinforced battalion-sized armored battle group. However, when Loborodov arrived in Sukhozhebre, the results of the reconnaissance were completely different, and an armored unit appeared in the small city out of nowhere, apparently the elite German Panzergrenadiers (with five tanks No. 3 and four tanks No. 2).

"Damn, where did this force come from?" The sweat from Beloborodov's forehead came down.

If there were German armored forces in the area, then Beloborodov's battle group would only be surrounded by the encirclement, should it be fought or withdrawn? Please note that Petrovsky could no longer be consulted at this time, because according to the previous agreement, in order to prevent early detection by the Germans, both sides were to maintain strict radio control.

As the minutes ticked by, Beloborodov was already sweating all over his head, and the pressure on him at this time was unimaginable. After a long time he asked, "Are you sure the enemy really has only nine tanks?" ”

The staff officer immediately replied: "The reconnaissance unit has only found nine tanks for the time being, as for whether there are any ......"

Beloborodov did not hesitate to interrupt the staff officer's words and gave a categorical order: "Attack according to the original plan, let the comrades pay attention to the destruction of the enemy's armored forces first!" (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank Prince Chu and Comrade Juventus!