The correspondent handed over the latest information to Yang Mingzhi, and he couldn't help but feel nervous when he looked at this piece of paper.

Seeing this, Yevlov hurriedly asked: "The front line is fighting, how is the battle situation?" ”

"We repelled the enemy's attack."

"It's wonderful! But why don't you laugh? ”

"Look at Balzen's message!"

Yang Mingzhi really couldn't laugh, because the victory of the resistance was inevitable, but the price paid was a bit big. It's definitely not that Balzen did anything special, it's because of those German tanks!

Both Yevlov and Fomin read the contents of the message.

"What? The thickness of the armor is already 90 mm, and it is so thick! Yevlov frowned, "We have not encountered such German tanks before. Our shells actually don't work! ”

"Of course! The blasting warhead is already ineffective against such a thick steel plate! Yang Mingzhi pinched his waist and blamed himself: "This is my mistake, to deal with this thickly armored tank, we need real armor-piercing shells, or we will use catfish rockets to bombard directly." ”

"Although the casualties were a bit severe, they still won." Fuming said comfortingly, "Next, we still have to implement the following combat plan step by step. ”

"Yes, I'll have to order the troops from Homnich to speed up."

The Soviets had gathered a large number of combat troops in the forests of Homnich, and while Barzen was desperately trying to hold back the enemy in the north of Loyev, Homnich's reinforcements were on a rapid march.

The 1st and 2nd regiments of the 284th Division, plus the reinforced cavalry battalion of the younger Volmansky, had a total strength of nearly 5,000 men.

They received an order to kill them in the forest west of the city of Loyev as soon as possible.

They were armed with some heavy weapons, and the recoilless guns were heavily armed, and the number of shells was even greater. As a result, in order to achieve the fastest possible advance, the combat units and the baggage units had to distance themselves.

Roshakov and Lavrenti ordered the light infantry in the troops to speed up from the baggage troops. However, there were no real roads ahead of them, and the soldiers had to navigate through the primeval forests of the temperate zone.

It is impossible to maintain a forced march speed of 10 kilometers per hour, although they are light infantry, they carry a weight of more than 20 kilograms, and a fast run will not only quickly exhaust them, but also seriously break their feet if they are not careful, and thus withdraw from the battle.

For this reason, the reinforcements of these two regiments did not catch up with Balzen's blocking battle after all, and by the time they came into contact with Balzen's outlying sentinels, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

They groped for nine hours in the primeval forest and walked a long distance of 49 kilometers in a straight line. Thanks to long-term physical training, only this unit can carry a large amount of equipment and run nearly fifty kilometers in such a short time!

When he heard the news that reinforcements had finally arrived, Balzen, who had been worried that the enemy would launch a third attack without giving up, was completely relieved.

At half past five in the afternoon, the reinforcements had arrived at 4,000 men, and in addition to the wagons of ammunition and reserve rations, they were still tossing and turning in the twists and turns of the forest, and the combat troops had arrived.

Balzen hurried to their camp with great interest, and he saw this powerful new force, as well as a large number of cavalry troops, which he did not expect.

Balzen did not pay any more attention to these troops, and as soon as the two regimental commanders and the cavalry battalion commander arrived, the military meeting began.

After all, except for the cavalry battalion, the rest of the troops were subordinate to the 284th Guards Infantry Division, and they were all old comrades-in-arms.

After a few pleasantries, Balzen began to explain the results so far.

Especially after hearing about the casualties of the troops, Roshakov was a little worried about the future of the operation: "I really can't imagine that the Germans have strengthened their tanks, so that we can only shoot them in the side at close range, and then we can destroy them?" ”

Balzen explained in detail: "If you use a catfish rocket, you will definitely be able to destroy it!" The strengthening of the enemy's tanks was nothing more than a thickening of the armor. ”

"So, does the enemy still have tanks?" Ravrenj asked.

"There should be none, they must have put all the tanks into battle without reservation. So tomorrow, in the event of a general offensive, we will not deal with enemy tanks. However, I estimate that the enemy should have three thousand more combat troops. As he spoke, Balzen pointed to the north, "The scouts I sent have just returned, and after they have passed through the forest, they have found the enemy's camp along the river, which is not small. They also have a lot of machine gun positions, which will be our biggest enemy tomorrow! ”

The two regimental commanders nodded, as for how to deal with these machine guns, their ideas coincided with Balzen's.

In response to this operation, the reinforcements carried another batch of catfish rockets. These rockets, which are more powerful than large-caliber howitzers, will first be prepared for artillery fire.

"Since you are all supportive, you will hand over all the rockets to our department. Tomorrow, your troops will be deployed according to the previous plan, except that during the battle, after our troops have launched rocket artillery strikes, you will start to charge. What do you think? ”

"I'm okay with that." Lavrenty said.

"I agree. But what about our allies to the east? Will the paratrooper brigade act in a step-by-step manner? Roshakov's question is also Barzen's.

Balzen pinched his chin: "For this matter, we have to contact Tepnov directly." As far as I know about the man, the guy's greatest strength is that he will resolutely carry out orders, no matter what trouble there is along the way. ”

In this way, more than 4,000 fresh troops who came in a hurry quickly began to deploy.

The vast number of warriors marched for too long, and everyone was tired. The 1st and 2nd regiments of the 284th Division moved to six kilometers northeast of the city of Loyev, and centered there, formed a long serpentine formation with their troops in battalions, and laid an ambush under the cover of the forest.

The Soviets knew the terrain well, after all, the maps of the regions in their hands were precisely drawn by the Soviet authorities before the war.

The forest where the two infantry regiments hid was ten kilometers long, and there was also a lake on the northern edge of the forest that was four kilometers long. Nearly four thousand infantry were deployed in the forest, and the cavalry battalion was deployed in the record of the lake. At eight o'clock in the evening, the last moment of the sunset, the two regiments of the 284th Division completed their deployment, and the cavalry battalion moved to its rightful position.

The Germans did not find out about the movements of the Soviet troops, and the German commander Getzal was in a dilemma at the moment, and he received an order from the division commander to continue to hold on to his current position, and the so-called new reinforcements were being planned, and he would retreat without an order, and the consequences would be shooting.

Therefore, the Germans did not continue to retreat because they obeyed the order, the soldiers were frightened, and the so-called sentries did not dare to continue deeper into the forest. Therefore, the Germans did not know anything about the massive build-up of Soviet troops. The Germans never expected that in the macro formation, the Soviet army's total of 9,000 troops had completed the prototype of the pocket formation.

At midnight on June 26, the officers and men of the three battalions of the paratrooper brigade ambushed in the Deniprazze, with a large number of rafts, officially began to cross the Dnieper River 20 kilometers northeast of Loyev.