Yang Mingzhi was in the company of Ivanov in the village of Catfish, discussing and mapping all the equipment needed for the fertilizer plant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yevlov and Yerentina are also dealing with their own affairs.

In the collective farms, the villagers went to reclaim new fields as usual to sow potato roots, and the achievements of the soldiers in reclaiming land were increasing day by day.

The shearing season is coming to an end, all the sheep raised on the collective farms are bald, and a large amount of wool is being spun into yarn by washing and processing. The carpenters and papermakers in the village are still producing daily necessities, large and small.

Some of the lightly wounded have recovered and are returning to their units one after another. As soon as they returned, a new task was placed in front of them. These people also had to take farm tools with them to clear the wasteland, or follow the task of cutting wood.

Catfish Village is a little better, and there is always smoke and dust rising around the blacksmith village, which is the smoke of burning charcoal, and there is also black smoke from smelting metal. During this precious interlude between wars, industry was developing rapidly.

The Germans, and even the Soviets in the distance, did not know much about what was happening in the swamps. They probably knew that there had been a terrible battle here, and the result was a crushing defeat for the Germans, which forced them to revise their strategy for the area.

The encirclement and suppression of more than 10,000 people lured out a large number of Soviet guerrillas hiding in the swamps and forests, and their combat effectiveness even far exceeded that of the regular army. Timoshenko, who was the commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Front at the time, was very fond of the 284th Guards Division, which was assigned to him.

Air assistance against the swamps is being prepared, and it is planned that he will be handed over to the Chief of Staff Tupikov in its entirety.

The airdrop operation is already a sure thing, as for what kind of transport team to take, what kind of escort team, this is the key to the task.

Tupikov was in charge of this, and he also initially wanted to use the honest TB3 bomber as a transport aircraft.

This aircraft was old and obsolete by any standard, and in the chaos of the early days of the war, the Soviets had to put this aircraft into operation in an attempt to stop the German armored forces. But the German fighters were as easy as eagles preying on them.

He clearly realized that the TB3 had been embarrassed to be used, and the new Li-2 transport aircraft could be used for this long-distance transportation.

In order to ensure the safety of transportation, escort fighters are also very important.

It was the Soviet Union that first developed a monoplane fighter with retractable wheels, but it was also the last biplane fighter abandoned by the Soviet Union. The I-153 and I-16 were completely eliminated, and fighters such as the Lager-3 became the main combat models.

In January, the Southwestern Front and the Southern Front fought side by side in the implementation of the Battle of Barvenkovo-Lozovaya, which allowed the Soviet troops to break through German defenses on a frontal distance of 100 km.

Soviet troops occupied the Kharkov-Lozovaya railway and advanced thirty kilometers south of Barvenkovo. Such a breakthrough put the lines of communication of the German Donbass grouping at serious risk, pinning down a large number of enemies from moving in other directions.

However, the German resistance was not weak, and this battle was commanded by Timoshenko, and the results of the battle were not satisfactory. Due to problems with the coordination of troops, many troops made slow progress and missed out on fighters.

In this operation, more than 30,000 enemies were annihilated, and the Soviet army suffered more than 40,000 casualties. But the outcome of the battle could not be seen only from the point of view of annihilation of the enemy and self-inflicted damage, the Soviet army did disrupt the strategic layout in the Kharkiv direction, in which the Soviet forces were already directed towards the key city of Kharkiv. On this front, the Soviet and German armies gradually fell into a stalemate, and after this battle, both sides consumed a lot of materials.

On the whole, the current form looked favorable to the Soviet troops. The Germans had already intensified their offensive on Sevastopol in the Crimea, and once it was lost, the Kerch Peninsula would be lost, and the door to the Caucasus would have been opened. Therefore, the Soviet troops launched a landing operation on the Kerch Peninsula!

At almost the same time, the so-called second outbreak of Khomnich in the Pripet swamp, located 600 kilometers northwest of Kharkov, was originally an operation to encircle and suppress the partisans and the Gomel city committee, but turned into a battle.

Yevlov's report had already been placed on Timoshenko's table, 7,000 enemies were annihilated, and the Soviet casualties were less than 2,000. But the owner of the Gomel city party committee became a notary, because the huge seizure of German-made weapons, the piles of steel helmets, and more than 6,000 intact and different soldiers' dog tags with different steel seals have explained everything.

The results of the battle were naturally transferred to Moscow by Timoshenko, and it was Stalin who gave the order for the aid of the Soviet troops in the swamps.

Tupikov is wondering whether to continue to let the old TB3 bomber transport supplies, or let the advanced Mile-2 take the lead? The former Soviet army still has this large holding, and the latter really should be used on the blade of steel.

Fortunately, he doesn't need to worry anymore. In a telegram from Moscow, Stalin personally ordered: "We must come to the aid of Pripyat at all costs, where there is a hidden army of extremely effective guards, who will take the initiative to seek fighters, and when they receive sufficient assistance, after all, it will create great chaos in the rear of the German army, objectively speaking, to assist our army in a full-scale counteroffensive." ”

The leader has already made a decision, and the plane has naturally chosen Li2. The Battle of Barvenkovo-Lozovaya went relatively well for the Soviet troops, at least the city of Severodonetsk was much safer, there was an airfield on its outskirts, and many of the planes of the two aviation regiments that reinforced the South-Western Front during the campaign were here!

In order to maintain the front and prevent the Germans from continuing their offensive based on the Donbass, the Soviet defense line has accumulated a large amount of military supplies from the rear, of which ammunition is very abundant!

After the study and decision of his staff committee, the airdrop plan for the Pripet swamp was also discussed.

Tupikov looked at the list of documents, and saw that this trip was planned to be dispatched in ten crosses2, and there were also twenty BT3s. He couldn't help but question: "These TB3s have a slow speed and low ceiling, and they are useless except for carrying weight, and if the plane is shot down, it will be a serious loss of materials." ”

But the staff officers could only helplessly explain to him: "According to the leader's order, we must provide assistance at all costs, and if it is only the poor performance of the aircraft, we will reduce the amount of assistance, which is a blatant opposition to the leader's order." ”

This sounded very reasonable, and Tupikov gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, and simply agreed. But after all, the performance of the aircraft is here, if these thirty transport planes are all 2, there is no doubt that the safety factor is extremely high. But where are there so many Mile-2 transport planes? There are a lot of old TB3s available, and they are still thinking about Sevastopol to send weapons and ammunition to support the operation.

In view of the current situation, the most suitable choice must be made.

Looking at the list of "deliveries" again, it's time to schedule an important and non-important table.