While Yang Mingzhi was supervising the cleaning of the battlefield, the front-line headquarters, the telegraph operators led by Diana, had already begun to send the good news they urgently needed to the group army headquarters in Blacksmith Village.

The dripping sound of Morse code has not stopped since the end of the battle, so Yevlov, who was guarding dozens of kilometers away, basically knew the result of the rout of the Sixth Division of the Romanian Army early.

The situation of the war has developed so far, and Yevlov himself is not so surprised, it seems that such a result for the 63rd Army is a normal performance.

However, for Salinchkin, this was the biggest victory he had witnessed since he landed and joined the force.

The units of the whole army that really participated in the war were two regiments and one brigade, plus the division was a reconnaissance battalion; according to the current standards, the troops participating in the war were equivalent to the size of a reorganized division.

Judging from the preliminary results and statistics alone, this Romanian division, the two main regiments were completely annihilated, and the remaining enemy threw away a large amount of military supplies and threw them into the mouse!

Salinchkin had been in his office, and the communications department of the guerrilla republic was quick to translate the precise code. His assistants, with these telegram documents with good news, frequently entered his office.

Almost every ten minutes, the latest telegrams arrived, from the initial declaration of a complete victory, to the subsequent telegrams counting the results of the battle and the captures.

"A large number of steel helmets, a large number of guns and ammunition, more than a thousand military horses, and a carriage full of canned food and bread and potatoes?!"

"The preliminary statistics of the captured steel helmets alone are more than 5,000, and the total number of enemies annihilated is basically the same?!"

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These successes hit Salinchkin's heart again and again, and he was in a happy mood and praised in public: "That Berekov, you are really a military expert!" ”

Salinchkin was in high spirits, and the military command of the 63rd Army could not interfere in the command, but could only make some suggestions on the side, as well as do something logistically.

Looking back on the fighting in the past few days, the entire guerrilla republic has been mobilized, except for the 8,000 people who crossed the river to fight, the entire civilian men who have been mobilized to serve as logistics, medical personnel to treat the wounded and sick, as well as to escort prisoners of war and supplies, to assist the guerrilla brigade in retreating, and as a strategic reserve unit, the total number of people actually participating in this operation is as high as 30,000!

The total number of Soviet troops mobilized was three times that of the enemy compared to the number of troops surveyed, and in this way, there was a realistic basis for a great victory.

The only thing that struck him was that the telegram he received claimed that the losses of the troops in this battle were small.

In his cognition, this kind of hard-fought confrontation between two infantry divisions, not to mention killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of themselves, and destroying so many Luo troops, is the loss of the Soviet army really negligible?

Salinchkin was suspicious, so he left directly to the headquarters of the army group! The first was to congratulate him, and the other was to ask Yevlov, who was the deputy commander, if he had any secret reports from Berekov!

"What a big win! We basically wiped out a Romanian infantry division! ”

Salinchkin's straight to the point of congratulations was also another Yevlov's excitement: "Of course! It was indeed a winning battle, and we won it! In this way, we will be able to send our congratulatory messages to the friendly forces attacking Kharkov! ”

On this very day, May 22, the situation on the Kharkov front was still favorable to the Soviet army!

Two elite tank armies had broken through the German defenses in the wilderness south of the city. The 21st and 28th armies also began an offensive in the northeastern direction of the city of Kharkov.

The strong German ** team seems to have been declining rapidly in the year after the start of the war. For the current results, Timoshengo is also quite satisfied! "Continue this development, the German army continues to retreat, Kharkov is ours!"

This was his long-cherished wish, Stalin's, and even more so the long-cherished wish of the vast number of grassroots fighters.

With the war going well, the vast majority of officers and soldiers believed that the German defensive line would inevitably shrink to the west, and the battle situation would once again form a Kharkiv salient for the Soviet army.

However, the war has been fought so far, and Timoshenko has to consider the fact that the battle lines of the Southwestern Front and the Southern Front are a little too long! If there are enemy reinforcements, if there are reinforcements, they will advance from the south, and their own defenders must successfully stop them. and the two tank armies, which were advancing all the way, collided head-on with the armored forces of the German Sixth Group, and these were bound to be bloody battles that would determine the victory of the battle.

TASS has been delivering the news to the world in the past few days that the Soviet army has made a full-scale counterattack on the Kharkov front, and the German army is losing and retreating.

This victory was really needed by all the anti-fascist battlefields around the world, as well as by the people in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union and the guerrillas who were struggling to fight.

Salinchkin and Yevlov fully believed in the propaganda of TASS, and now they also had a great victory to report to the command of the Front, to the command of the partisan movement, to the leader Stalin.

The two gathered at the headquarters of the group army and exchanged information with each other, which was nothing more than "the invincible Soviet Red Army will definitely defeat the enemy", "the defeat of the German ** team is coming", and what else is "the combat effectiveness of the servant army of the Axis countries is really terrible".

The words of the two men all revealed contempt for the enemy and optimism about the battle situation.

While they were talking about the situation and the end of the battle, the new telegram was still being delivered by the telegraph operator.

A new translated telegram was delivered to Yevlov.

"That's it! Go down, Solkina! ”

The back of this young girl is very pleasant. After instructing her, Yevlov did not forget to glance at her, and so did Salinchikin.

However, Salinchkin was more interested in the content of the telegram.

Yevlov smiled and picked up the document: "Don't be in a hurry! Comrade, let's see what Berekov has seized. ”

When he actually saw these contents, his soothing expression instantly turned serious, and finally he simply frowned.

"Hey! What's going on? What did Berekov say? Salinchkin urged.

"It's a casualty! Terrible casualties! The soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 284th Division, who participated in the battle, bravely launched a bayonet charge against the Romanian army! The battle was won, but our army suffered huge casualties! ”

"What? And what's going on? "As soon as I hear the phrase huge casualties, Sarinch's golden head is big!

He was quite familiar with the current composition of the 284th Division, especially the Third Regiment, which was unique in that it was filled with many female soldiers.

Using female soldiers as combat infantry, there was a scepticism about their ability to do Salinchkin.

This unit actually charged at the enemy's bayonets ?!

It wasn't until he picked up the telegram and looked at the data clearly that his otherwise cheerful face became serious.

"It's unbelievable! Our female soldiers were so brave when they charged at the enemy! ”

"Looks like it's true!" Yevlov shook his head: "It's a pity! I admire the troops who dare to charge bravely at the enemy, and even when I am a soldier, I am willing to charge for the sake of the country! However, they are female soldiers, and as soldiers, they are also women! Hundreds of young girls died! This...... Too ......",

For a moment, Yevlov didn't know what to say, he paused for a moment, and finally confessed: "Hey! At the end of the day, we won. Combined with the previous casualty statistics, from May 17 to today, the total number of casualties has reached 1,500! I really don't know if the casualties on this telegram totaled a thousand are true. If all are true, then the charge of the 3rd Regiment is undoubtedly the most casualty operation! ”

The telegram clearly recorded that the permanent loss of the 3rd Regiment was more than 750 men!

"Some of the wounded were able to return to the team after recovery to continue the fight against the invaders." "Classified as a permanent loss, the Third Regiment will eventually lose more than eight hundred people!" This was a third of the regiment's losses, and compared to other units, the casualties of this unit were really heavy! Isn't it really his head of the regiment who is doing? Did they really have to launch a bayonet charge at the enemy? It's crazy to have a bunch of women fight bayonets! Adjutant! ”

"Here!"

"Who is the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 284th Division?"

"It's Anatoly Anatolysky."

Hearing this name, Salinchkin immediately had an impression, and he continued: "I remember that this comrade was in charge of the Missy Ferry, and the 3rd Regiment also seems to have never been a front-line unit. ”

Yevlov nodded: "Yes, in this unit, there are two female battalions that participated in the Second Battle of Khomnich!" However, in that battle, both battalions experienced bloody battles, completed their tasks brilliantly, and suffered relatively bad casualties. Half of these girls have been lost! None of us wanted these young girls to suffer serious sacrifices, but the reality is that they too have to fight like male soldiers. I really admire them! However, if they think about it carefully, maybe they think about it at that time, maybe the battle situation is not enough to have to go to the bayonet charge or even bayonet battle. ”

"Your words are very pertinent! Perhaps we should ask Comrade Berekov to speak, and that Comrade Anatoly himself to report on his work. With that, Salinchkin snapped his fingers: "Adjutant, write it down for me, and I will inform Comrade Yerentina in a moment!" When the troops come back, let her interrogate the commander of the third regiment of the 284th Division! ”