Sometimes, the prolonged comfort made the soldiers feel that war could not even break out. Around Batykinskaya, of course, it has turned into huge barracks, where soldiers cut down trees, dig trenches, build communication trenches, and so on. The time has entered June, and the shadow of war has not appeared.

Yang Mingzhi's daily job is to teach soldiers to use new weapons, and for the needs of actual combat, he even demonstrated it in public. After two operations, the mound of dirt that was used as a target was completely flattened, and it is clear that the performance of these weapons, not to mention the anti-tank capabilities, is somewhat similar to the heavy artillery of the division.

What's more, this weapon only needs to be operated by one person, and the only thing to note is that no one is allowed to stand behind the shooter.

Because the special anti-tank battalion did not have a fixed position, Pugachev gave Yang Mingzhi the order to "put out fires" at any time. Yang Mingzhi really couldn't stand the Soviet army's long snake formation, which was later canceled in the Battle of Kursk and replaced by an "anti-tank stronghold", which was exactly what he said to everyone in the division headquarters at the beginning, anti-tank guns must be used intensively.

Just do your own thing. Anyway, after the start of the war, Minsk had more time to organize arming.

After the start of the war, the troops responsible for the defense of Minsk were to be assigned to the North-Western Front, under the command of Colonel-General Kuznetsov, and later the commander would become Marshal Timoshenko.

But the result of the war Yang Mingzhi also knew very well that defeat was inevitable, and the 284th Infantry Division might be able to torture the German armored troops in the early stage of the war because of its RPG weapons, but the projectile ran out and stopped. After that, they either resisted to the death, or retreated with the large army to the capital.

Of course, death is not possible, but Yang Mingzhi does not doubt the will of these old Maozi to fight.

Seeing that his wife star fruit was still washing her clothes and taking care of her bed, and she would have to suffer the same hardships as the Soviets in the future, Yang Mingzhi had mixed feelings in his heart when he thought of this.

"Xiao Tao, don't clean up yet, come to my side."

Yang Mingzhi hugged his young wife, "I really pity you, because I insisted on bringing you to this place." ”

"It's okay, just follow you. This is the Soviet Union, and we are all comrades in the Anti-Japanese Union. ”

"Yes, comrade, but the war of the future will be something you have never seen before. That's not the devil sweep we've experienced, and it's not the devil of hundreds of people searching the mountains to arrest us. You have already seen when we came, a lot of armored tanks, I tell you, the enemy will have five thousand of these Iron King Eight crushed over. We may not be able to resist it, or even sacrifice ourselves in the Soviet Union for the cause of communism and to fight international fascism. ”

Yang Mingzhi told the worst at the beginning, only to see the girl just snuggling in her husband's arms.

"Husband, as long as you remember the promise. We will not die, and you will lead the troops back to our country and kill all the little devils. ”

She was relieved to have such a thought, and Yang Mingzhi was very pleased. Anyway, this girl has been fighting with the devil for nearly a year, although she has never fought with a gun, but she is also a good fighter, at least she knows how to protect herself in the war.

In the barracks, some villagers who did not leave peddled their milk to the soldiers, which Yang Mingzhi must buy. Because of the distance from Minsk, nutritional products are not easy to buy, and fresh milk and yogurt are already a luxury.

In the eyes of the fighters, their battalion commander was squandering his allowances. I drank some milk myself, my wife drank more, and even bought some boiled eggs and fed them to her. All in all, this behavior is maverick enough, just like the confession he gave to his warriors.

In decades of arduous warfare, the Chinese army summed up the three-three system infantry tactic, with three people forming a battle group, an infantry squad deployed in an inverted triangle, and so on.

And at this moment, the Soviet army is still the same, the combat team has three in the front and two in the back, and the frontal firepower is strengthened, but the flanks are very bad, and it is too easy to be outflanked by the enemy and eaten in one bite when acting on large groups.

Yang Mingzhi's foresight had to be used on his small number of troops, and he would not insult the Soviet army top brass a large number of pigs who would only be loyal to Stalin and would not fight, so the war would make them the first to meet Marx.

In June, the Soviet Union had completed its military expansion, and the total number of troops in Eastern Europe exceeded 5 million. But the Soviets did not risk sending a large number of troops directly to the border, because this could lead to an early war. Because even at this moment, as if the German army was about to attack in the next second, Stalin and the top brass still hoped for peace.

In early June, Pugachev saw the latest information from the military headquarters that the German armored and motorized divisions had left for the border, which was completely inconsistent with the previous information. Stalin decided to take a desperate gamble, and just eight days before the start of the war, a message from TASS was published in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia.

According to the rumors published in the foreign press that the Soviet-German war was about to break out, the Soviet official considered these nonsense...... "The implication was to hope that the Germans would return to the negotiating table, but Germany did not respond at all, and the armored forces continued to gather to the east."

Therefore, Stalin finally made up his mind that war was inevitable, all armies were ready for war, and the red button was pressed.

A new order was issued, and Pugachev gave an order to the troops to immediately reorganize their armaments.

"Comrades, the leader orders us that the war is about to begin and that we must defend the great Motherland at all costs." This was what the fighters had been waiting to hear for a long time, and Pugachev was determined to abandon his illusions and prepare for war in full.

At this moment, Yang Mingzhi also held a meeting with his soldiers, and the current number of soldiers has expanded to 550, including auxiliary health workers such as his wife star fruit. This is all the soldiers he can command at the moment, and they are armed with most RPGs (a few are divided to assist defense), as well as anti-tank guns, anti-tank grenades, light machine guns, PPSH38 submachine guns, and other weapons.

Even because of Yang Mingzhi's bad taste, he even formed a professional sniper squad to shoot at the driver's window of the enemy's tank.

Seeing that everyone had already assembled, Yang Mingzhi held the horn rolled up by paper and shouted: "Soldiers, the war is about to begin, you must be mentally prepared. The weapons in your hands are unique among the six million men of the entire Soviet army. Each of you has the potential to become a tank killer, and as long as we destroy the tanks of the Germans, then our positions will be foolproof. ”

Ulla! Ulla! The soldiers shouted, the battalion commander was very confident, and the soldiers were confident that they had seen the experiments with their weapons.

But Yang Mingzhi's so-called self-confidence is more of a cover-up, so he knows that when he tells the cruel reality, the political commissars will be the first to jump out unhappily, accusing this of being a cholera military behavior, but fortunately, the political commissars of the special anti-tank battalion have no other use except for nonsense and shouting slogans to stimulate the blood of the soldiers. But he knew that Pugachev would listen to his words.

The war was about to begin, and now Pugachev needed Berekov's predictions of the future too much, so he set up a commissar, and there were only two people in the division, and he asked his Berekov to say something cruel.

He poured a glass of kvass and sent it to Yang Mingzhi. "Drink, Comrade Berekov, this was bought from Minsk, and it will be difficult to drink it in the future after the war."

Lao Maozi's national drinks vodka and kvass made Yang Mingzhi feel that kvass was still more delicious. After drinking it all, he sighed as Pugachev meant.

Suddenly, the old man suddenly became serious: "Berekov tell me, what is the future, how will the Germans attack?" ”

Yang Mingzhi was also taken aback by the drastic change in this guy's expression, but when he asked about the future, he had no choice but to speak. "Comrade Division, you believe that I am from the future, but perhaps many people will think of the Tsar's wizard Russ **** when they know my existence. Now let me tell you the real history, the German army will attack at 3 o'clock in the morning on June 22, and 5 million troops and more than 5,000 armored vehicles will break through the border, and we will not be able to parry it at all. ”

As he spoke, Yang Mingzhi pointed in the direction of Minsk. "It will be one of the key targets of the German attack, we are the second link of the entire Soviet line, and we will have to face the German armored cluster soon after the start of the battle. If you ask me, did we hold on? I can tell you, no! ”

"Didn't we defend ourselves against the enemy's attack?"

Yang Mingzhi nodded, he walked under the hanging map and pointed. "Look here, this is the direction of the offensive of Army Group Center of the German Army, to which Army Group North, to which we now belong, will be routed and more than half a million people will be taken prisoner."

"Nope! Even if I die in battle, I will not be a prisoner! Pugachev took the case.

Yang Mingzhi turned his head and smiled: "Of course, I know the integrity of Comrade Division Commander. And I never intended to die or be captured. ”

Minsk is on the road to Moscow, and it is also a large city and a transport hub.

"Our enemy will be Field Marshal von Bock, the key of the German army, and his subordinates are Guderian, Hodt and Rommel, all the best generals in the German army." Yang Mingzhi leaned on the table and looked at Pugachev: "Comrade division commander, what we are facing is actually the most elite unit of the German army, and the future battle will be very difficult. So we are doomed to heavy losses, and what awaits you, division commander, is either to choose to fight to the last man, or to retreat strategically. “

Pugachev was in a conflicted mood and was defeated before the fight. "Prepare for the worst, so you can be honest in the face of difficulties, do you mean?" He asked.

Yang Mingzhi really didn't think much about it, he was eager to fight with Guderian and use an RPG bazooka to let him taste the punishment of communism. But how could he die in vain if he still had a great mission, so Yang Mingzhi's eyes were aimed at the geography around Minsk.

"Comrade division commander, we should be able to stop the first round of the enemy's attack, but then with the serious depletion of our anti-tank weapons, we are no longer able to continue the counterattack. Leaving behind is naturally the mantis arm as a car, so the division commander must make preparations with both hands and choose what kind of breakthrough method to choose. ”

Yang Mingzhi gave two options, the first was to retreat with the large army towards the capital, but it could easily lead to a rout. The second is to retreat into the forests of western Minsk, to which Yang Mingzhi decisively proposed the second plan.

"The rout and the rout will inevitably happen, the entire front will collapse, and we will lose millions of front-line troops, but we have defended the capital and annihilated 300,000 enemies. As for our 284th Division, after suffering heavy losses, I am afraid that there is only one way to retreat to the forest. ”

Pugachev at this moment listened to the preaching of this Chinese, as if he was a military strategist, as if there was no way to retreat to the forest, and the Germans would break through the friendly forces, so that the 284th Infantry Division was surrounded. Yang Mingzhi talked about why the Soviet armored troops were vulnerable, because the Soviet tanks were indeed vulnerable. Special 26 tanks are thin-skinned and stuffed, and they will be slaughtered by enemy tanks. The only effective Te-3476 and KV2 big heads, they either have limited deployment for the time being, or have serious mechanical problems.

As for the enemy, they were mainly armored forces, who simply did not have time to take care of the forest, and after slaughtering Soviet tanks, continued their advance towards Moscow.

"As soon as we withdraw to the forest and settle down, then we will use the forest as a base with the troops who have suffered the same thing, and we will attack the Germans in enemy-occupied territory. This is my plan, at least so that we will not die in battle, we will not be discredited as deserters, and we will even have greater results. For example, bombing railways everywhere and destroying enemy supply lines. ”

This is the so-called guerrilla warfare, and Pugachev listened very carefully, and perhaps this is the most ideal option.

"Okay, okay, you go down. Hopefully, that won't be the case yet. ”

This Berekov really insulted the Soviet army well, and the great Soviet Red Army will be a shameful rout? This kind of thing comes from this so-called futuristic mouth, but it seems very plausible.

War was already inevitable, and Pugachev looked at the map of the Soviet Union and fell into deep thought. One way or another, the war has not yet begun, everything is still unknown.