The convoy of horses, which had always been not small, swaggered along the dirt road leading to Slavzich. The road surface has long been dry, and the convoy is moving unimpeded.

Yang Mingzhi received the good news from Balzen at half past one in the afternoon, and Balzen shouted into the walkie-talkie in an excited tone: "We have won, our army has not suffered a single casualty, and the enemy army has been completely annihilated." The seized supplies have already begun to be transported to the city. ”

There is no suspense in the battle situation, and Yang Mingzhi currently cares very much about what they have captured.

This convoy of horses entered the sight of the Soviet army at more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the convoy quickly drove in front of Yang Mingzhi.

Yang Mingzhi personally inspected it, and the enemy's baggage was very peculiar, there was no military rations, and some were only a large number of ammunition boxes. Pry open a box, and there are a dazzling array of bulk Mauser bullets. There is also a twenty-round magazine for ZB26, which Yang Mingzhi is very familiar with.

In addition to a large number of bullets, there are also many Shoko loaded with mortar shells. Yang Mingzhi knew from the appearance alone that it was really difficult for him to use this kind of shell - the caliber was wrong. If it is used as some fixed explosives, it has a lot of use.

In general, the most important of the captured supplies were these horses, more than a hundred tall military horses, not to mention Volmansky and Salinchkin, even he himself liked to see them.

He gave an order to the scouts who were escorting the seized supplies: "You don't have to worry about the rest. Grab some food and ammunition and go back the way you came, and get moving! ”

The scouts only rested for ten minutes, and then rushed to the camp at the edge of the forest with a lot of supplies on their backs.

Aren't these fighters tired? Of course they were tired, but the situation forced them to be in high spirits. From grassroots soldiers to high-ranking officers like Yang Mingzhi, everyone has confirmed the understanding that before the sun sets today, the main force of the Luo army will definitely arrive at the edge of the forest.

The enemy, on his way.

……

And so it is!

Grisesku's large army was rushing in the direction of Slavdzich, but the speed of action was seriously unsatisfactory. Moreover, he did not think that he needed to be too anxious to order the troops to advance at high speed, after all, the encirclement and suppression of the Soviet partisans, the Germans actually treacherously withdrew their troops and gave the so-called glory of victory to Romania, and this kind of high-sounding words made him happy for a while.

The battle lasted too long, and the whole division complained bitterly. This operation was carried out in a hurry, and the logistics of the troops were congenitally insufficient, and the Romanian army had to replenish supplies on the spot. But many Ukrainian villages, subordinated to Germany, could not withstand the second round of exploitation. At this time, the villagers also found a backer, that is, a small local German garrison. In the end, the Luo army received very limited supplies, which objectively delayed the speed of its advance.

Another reason for their slowness is the lack of a clear target for attack.

The enemy's huge guerrilla force, after their main body broke through the encirclement, took part in the troops to hide in Tibet. This group of stragglers is indeed not afraid of death, and they will not be forced to lie dormant by military might, but create chaos on a large scale. This kind of attack and harassment could not cause any substantial damage to the Luo army, but it really created a kind of battlefield terror.

Except for the Bovisescu regiment, which can clearly know the approximate location of the enemy's main force, the remaining two infantry regiments have not been without detours these days! It was not until the army group gave the order that the 6th Infantry Division must seize Slavdish, which was occupied by the partisans, and the various units of the Romanian army, which were scattered in the vast battlefield, really had a direction for the offensive.

When the war came to this, the division commander Grisescu felt more and more guilty.

"Those damned Russians, I'm going to shoot you all!" He had said these angry words countless times in the mobile headquarters, and the ears of the chief of staff had already heard the calluses.

His anger subsided when he received a telegram from Bovisescu on the morning of May 20. After a long time, he finally got the good news that he could retake Slavzich on May 20. As for how the enemy fled into the forest, how to carry out the encirclement and suppression work after that, we can only wait for the orders of the superiors.

Grisescu also learned of such a momentous event on May 19, that is, the Soviet army launched a huge military offensive in eastern Ukraine in the early hours of that day, and the length of its front was staggering.

As the commander of the first division, he also received an order from the army group: "After your unit has finished dealing with the Russian partisans, you will immediately rush to Chernihiv and take the train south." ”

The Soviet campaign against Kharkov officially began, and the Germans were prepared for this campaign. Although the Soviet offensive was very fierce and achieved great results in a short period of time, the Germans, especially the commander of the Sixth Army, Paulus, believed that he also had a good chance of winning.

The elite German army is stationed in eastern Ukraine, and they not only have their own strategic reserves, but also can quickly transport troops to the Donbas region through the railway system. They also had the armies of the client state, and the two Romanian armies received mobilization orders, and a total of twenty Romanian divisions were to fight with the Germans. They were not currently on the front line of the war, but as a part of the strategic reserve, they began to move eastward.

The 6th Infantry Division is naturally also within the scope of mobilization, but they are already deeply involved in the battle of encircling and suppressing the guerrillas!

From the standpoint of the division commander Grisescu, his biggest task at the moment is to take Slavdish, and as for the question of the remnants of the enemy fleeing into the forest to continue the encirclement and suppression, it is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Luo army at all!

Therefore, Grisescu could order his troops to cease operations as soon as he received a telegram from his subordinates that Slavdzich had taken them, and he could then ask the army group for instructions and wait for the latest orders.

He believed that the city could be taken by his own side without much effort. Moreover, the infantry regiment of Colonel Adam Chobanu, led by his general, quickly reached its goal. Although this infantry regiment has only exchanged fire with stragglers, they have obtained a lot of food in Ukrainian villages, and the favorable support of this infantry regiment can just solve the urgent needs of Bovisescu's department!

The battle seemed to be in Grisescu's hands, and Chobanu's infantry regiment and his wagons loaded with supplies were about to reach the edge of the forest.

It was already half past three in the afternoon of May 20, and the former battlefield had long since fallen into silence, and the executed Luo soldiers were in a state of corpse stiffness.

Like monkeys, several Soviet scouts climbed the tall red pines, hid in the pine needles, and held high-powered reconnaissance binoculars to scan the surroundings.

The scouts spotted a large crowd in the distance, and the news immediately reached Balzen.

"Alas! It's finally time to come! Order all reconnaissance teams to pay close attention to changes in the situation, and not to open fire until absolutely necessary! ”

The Soviet intelligence system acted immediately and efficiently, and the information reached Slavdzich five minutes later after the scouts saw the troops in the distance. Yang Mingzhi and his troops also operated efficiently, that is, they stayed in the positions in the forest, sent telegrams to the blacksmith village and the Missy Ferry, and in addition to reporting new enemy alerts, they also gave orders to fight at any time.

The Luo army, who came from afar, didn't know anything about this, and the infantry commander Chobanu was in a good mood.

During the march, they were still too far away from Slavzich and the noise of the wind to hear the artillery fire from afar, and the smoke from the explosion was blown away by the south wind as soon as possible. It's as if nothing happened.

Chobanu didn't receive a telegram from his colleague Bovisescu and didn't even care! He led a total of 2,100 troops, 230 horses, and 60 wagons, walking in the wilderness of half a meter high barren grass, ready to distribute the supplies to his colleagues, and save the group of comrades-in-arms who ran out of food at noon today!

The reconnaissance company also opened the way in front of this mighty team, and they were the first to make an astonishing discovery in the wilderness - a Romanian flag fluttering in the wind.

They didn't bother to report and accelerated towards the goal. What followed was a shocking sight, there were no living people, only dead people. And the scene of the dead was also extremely tragic, they wore nothing, and they lined up to be shot in the back of the head and died, the scene was very bloody!