The Soviet Sixth Mechanized Corps was ordered to crush the German 14th Panzer Division, which had already suffered heavy losses, and the whole situation was very delicate at the moment.

On the advancing front of the German Army Group Center, the two panzer armies advanced the fastest. Hort has already captured Vilnius, and Guderian is advancing towards the phased goal of Babruisk.

The Germans temporarily corrected the objective of the attack, making Minsk the main direction of attack, for which the Panzer Divisions of Kuhn and von Fonck changed the route, and they were to be the main force for the capture of Minsk.

Pavlov was greatly surprised by the sudden change in the German army, and he also realized that he had made a terrible mistake. The Germans, having tore through the gaps in the defensive line, did not engage in a decisive battle with most of the Soviet troops, but went straight to Minsk. Two armored divisions and a large number of motorized divisions, bypassing large Soviet forces, had only one goal - Minsk

But the tide of the war turned in a striking turn, and on the outskirts of Minsk, Kuhn's army suffered an unprecedented setback. The tank units, which the Germans were so proud of, were completely useless, and the 14th Panzer Division was reduced to a motorized division almost in a matter of hours.

Now Pavlov saw a major opportunity to annihilate at least one of the elite German armies if he was decisive enough.

The follow-up units of the Soviet Army, led by the 6th Mechanized Corps, advanced to the west, and the 284th Infantry Division entered a full-scale counteroffensive under the orders of Pugachev.

In order to prevent annihilation, the German fighters set out, and they were also attacked by Soviet fighters, and a three-dimensional annihilation battle began.

Yang Mingzhi and his special anti-tank battalion followed the tank troops. He put his wife and the wounded fighters in the team in their original positions, and he did not say much more in the face of his wife's worries. "Stay here, be a nurse and wait for me to come back."

He didn't know what would happen to him, facing his wife, who had been married for several months, and after giving his last kiss, he carried a steel gun to participate in the counterattack.

Don't think too much about it when the war was going on, Yang Mingzhi ordered his troops to advance according to the previously planned formation.

The special anti-tank battalion is always a maverick, and the three-three infantry advance method makes the offensive surface of the entire battalion a huge inverted triangle. This formation guarantees exactly the same firepower at all angles, which is like the inverted trapezoidal formation of the Soviet army.

That is, they have the synergy of armored tanks, otherwise the shortcomings of weak flank fire will be immediately exposed.

Pavlov ordered his last fighters to clear the German planes of interference, while Army fighters took off in the hinterland. At the staging areas of the German army, the Soviet Air Force was the first to drop the bomb of revenge.

It was a real mess for Kuhn's 14th Army, which had been leading his troops to retreat yesterday with a mysterious weapon, and now it looked like the Soviets were on the offensive against.

"Order the troops, retreat, we must move closer to the friendly forces."

The order had just been issued, and the Germans were already in disarray during the bombardment.

Soviet self-propelled guns joined the artillery battle, and the Germans did not take advantage of it at all.

A sense of pride melted into his heart, Yang Mingzhi was very excited, and the Soviet army at this moment was already like a torrent of steel. Even though there are a lot of vulnerable Te-26s in this army, many infantry now ride on tanks, and once they engage in an exchange of fire with the enemy, they will jump down, and instantly evolve into a combination of infantry and tanks.

The current form of the battlefield is like a sandwich biscuit, and the Soviet Sixth Mechanized Corps is divided on both flanks and ready to encircle this German army. The 7th Panzer Division was behind Kuhn, with the main forces of the Soviet Western Front in the rear, and behind them were the huge infantry divisions and servant corps of the German army.

"Comrades, the key to today's battle is to avoid the rounds of German completion and reinforcements! We must hurry to the front! Yang Mingzhi saw the state of the battle more clearly than Pugachev.

A tank regiment was stopped by him, and the fighters of the special anti-tank battalion stood on the tank. They were responsible for blocking the retreat of the German army from the north, and Yang Mingzhi even asked the regiment commander to speed up the pace of the attack. "Our 284th Division has received the order to cooperate with you to completely annihilate the enemy, and now it is only possible to save them if the enemy reinforcements catch up in advance!"

The tanks began to speed up, and although the Te-26 was a bunch of thin-skinned guys, they could run wild to seventy yards with one foot on the accelerator.

Yang Mingzhi stood behind the turret of the tank, he clung to the railing welded by the turret, and watched with a telescope in hand.

The enemy was unable to build fortifications during the retreat, and the defeat of the tank units dealt a huge psychological blow to the infantry. Coupled with Kuhn's retreat order, the group only wanted to connect with their allies as soon as possible.

So this tank regiment was eager to win, and they were the first to appear on the enemy's retreat.

"It's now, all the soldiers get out of the car!" Yang Mingzhi ordered.

The Germans quickly put up a makeshift defense, relying on their remaining tanks, self-propelled guns, and half-track armored vehicles to continue to put up stubborn resistance.

However, such resistance seemed to be of little significance, Yang Mingzhi led the three companies to sprung up, and all armored units were his targets.

Right in front, enemy tank machine guns were spewing fire, and many fighters were shot and fell. Yang Mingzhi hurriedly ordered the soldiers to crawl forward, only to see that these enemies were brutally attacked by Soviet tanks in the next second.

"Rush! Te-34, use your 76 cannon to blow these Nazis to pieces! Yang Mingzhi shouted, and the morale of the soldiers behind him was greatly boosted.

The German dogs jumped over the wall in a hurry, their self-propelled guns had already shown a horizontal firing angle, and they had a choice to specialize in fighting the Te-34, and Yang Mingzhi was still cheering just now, and soon some of the Te-34s that were the first were destroyed.

For the infantry in front of the vanguard was exposed, in Yang Mingzhi's opinion, this group of old Maozi comrades-in-arms were not afraid of death at all, and they had an orc style in their bones. The Soviets suffered a lot of losses, the soldiers had bayonets on their rifles, and some ran with light machine guns.

"Comrades, charge me! To the enemy's division! Advance! ”

Yang Mingzhi got up, everyone shouted Ula in unison, and attacked the enemy's division headquarters, but Yang Mingzhi didn't know the specific location.

At this moment, Kuhn was being protected by a number of half-track armored vehicles, and important personnel of the division headquarters were in such a defensive core. Therefore, Yang Mingzhi noticed this detail, and his keen sense of war told him that he must be a great official to be protected in this way.

He pointed in that direction: "Comrades, attack!" We've got to destroy those vehicles! ”

Five hundred men suddenly shifted the direction of the attack, causing many comrades to follow suit, and some light tanks assisted the attack.

Kuhn panicked, his troops could not stop such a frantic attack of the enemy, who had been copying their tactics before, and a combined infantry force was heading towards the divisional headquarters. They were so overwhelmed that Yang Mingzhi allowed his own people to use the few remaining RPGs, and the enemies who stood in their way were killed one after another.

Now Kuhn really understood what was going on with him. The enemy was lying in ambush in the grass, and suddenly the rocket flew out, dragging its long tail to destroy its own target.

The distance is getting closer and closer, the German army of nearly 10,000 people is retreating, and the Soviet army of more than 40,000 people is attacking. The superiority in strength was undoubtedly highlighted, and at this moment Kuhn was left with only a few troops by his side. They were hit by a tank regiment of the Soviet army and mysterious weapons.

Three armored vehicles were completely blown up, and the Germans quickly formed a network of machine-gun fire to try to protect the division commander of the core.

The Germans moved very quickly, and a large number of attacking Soviet troops fell in response. Yang Mingzhi was horrified to see that his soldiers had also died, and immediately ordered to lie down.

Bullets whizzed above his head, it was the enemy's MG34 machine gun, the rate of fire was very fast, and anyone who was hit was basically killed on the spot.

The commander of the first company staggered over and asked, "Battalion commander, what should we do now?" ”

"Ambush, let the snipers try!"

Yang Mingzhi deliberately planted snipers in his team, and now they do have a certain effect. But the Soviet army's charge did not stop, these old men did not hesitate to die, and many people were simply wasting their lives in vain.

The commander is a pig, let his men feed the enemy's eye-catching, the infantry runs faster than the tank, this is not looking for death!

The lower-level political commissars of the Soviet army often took the lead and often died first, and Yang Mingzhi had already silenced his battalion political commissar Kochakin. "You are responsible for Stalin, and I am responsible for my fighters." On the military side, he did not give the commissar a little face, and directly expressed his refusal to command the army by fools.

Therefore, the special anti-tank regiment served as a cover for fire, so that the fighters of the Sixth Mechanized Army were tough.

Now Yang Mingzhi saw that the German armored vehicles were about to run, whether he wanted to get out of this battlefield or rush in his direction.

Kuhn could never have imagined that the relatively open area in front of him was overgrown with weeds, and that there was an army in ambush underneath it. If you calm down, the friendly troops will accuse this of cowardice, and only the brave charge is a hero, and you have to lie on the grass Demacia!

Yang Mingzhi knows the benefits of lying on the grass, and now that the Germans are coming, he is the first to get up and carry the RPG.

"It's now! Fire! ”

More than a dozen bazooka fighters suddenly appeared, the bazookas raised huge white eyes, and the enemy's armored vehicles were completely blown up.

Yang Mingzhi wiped his sweat, the enemy's armored vehicle was on fire, and some people covered in flames got out of the car. He raised the launcher in his hand and waved: "Comrades, for victory!" Wada Mouth! Ulla! ”

Ulla! Slav! The special anti-tank battalion was armed with a considerable number of submachine guns, and the powerful firepower knocked the German survivors out of their minds.

Kuhn was sitting in the carriage, he had been seriously injured in the huge explosion, and now he staggered out, and before he could recover himself, he saw a bearded man appear in front of him, followed by the butt of the ruins gun. After that, Kuhn's life came to an end.

There were still German troops retreating, but the way back was gone, and the Soviets completed the encirclement.

Yang Mingzhi would never have imagined that it was his special anti-tank battalion that killed the commander of the German 14th Panzer Army. Friedrich Kuhn, who was supposed to be defeated by the Soviets in 1943, did not expect to meet strange people on his own plane, and this army was completely annihilated by the Soviets a week after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war.

Yang Mingzhi didn't know that this person was the commander of the armored division, or Pugachev, who knew the goods, recognized him. His excitement was difficult to express in words, and he simply punched Yang Mingzhi. "You little comrade did a good job, you destroyed the enemy's commander! You deserve to be received by Stalin! ”

Honor or something aside, since Yang Mingzhi knew that this enemy was annihilated, the rest was not complacent.

"Comrade division commander, we must retreat now, there are still German troops in front of us, we must assemble in Minsk and return to our original positions to continue defending."

Pugachev nodded, and soon he also received an official order.

The victory was expected by General Pavlov, and regardless of the methods used by his own men, a German panzer division collapsed. The news informed Moscow, and even Stalin was not very convinced.

"How can you be sure that your troops have completely annihilated the German 14th Panzer Division? As far as I know, your troops are being routed on all fronts. ”

Pavlov replied to the leader that everything was under control, and now the 7th Panzer Division remained, with the Soviet troops in front of them, who had just won a great victory, and behind them hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops who hoped to withdraw to Minsk.

The 284th Infantry Division did not establish new positions, they were the first to retreat. The 6th Mechanized Corps was ordered to stay behind to hold back the Germans.

The troops captured a number of prisoners, for whom the Soviets did not give them any more chances. Yang Mingzhi witnessed the killing of prisoners, which is a taboo for soldiers, but it is reasonable at this moment.

More than three thousand people who surrendered to the Germans were executed, just as they would have executed Soviet prisoners of war.

The rhetoric of the Soviet army was rational and terrifying: "To hell with the Geneva Conventions." If we do not execute these captured Germans, it is unreasonable to let them go and let them turn around and continue to beat us, and we will not have time to feed them if we are escorted back. Therefore they must die. ”

The fascist army was unprecedentedly cruel, and such a glimpse on the battlefield was only part of the entire tragic Soviet-German war, the German and Soviet armies were crazy, and both sides were slaughtering prisoners of war against each other, including the peaceful inhabitants.

Yang Mingzhi shook his head and ordered his men to retreat in the troop transport truck of the Sixth Mechanized Army.

Everyone returned to the position, and Yang Mingzhi went straight to the division's field hospital. The wife had been waiting for a long time, and the two met to report their safety.

The girl's mood was even more excited, and he ignored the smoke of her husband's body and the soot on his face, and hugged him directly. "You are really as promised, and you are not hurt at all!"

Yang Mingzhi stroked his wife's little head, and the girl couldn't cry anymore.

"Okay, I'm back, and we still have some losses this time. But your husband and I, our battalion killed the commander of the enemy, and I have already booked a medal. ”

"Medals are not rare for me, I just hope you are well. We have to go back to China! ”

Yang Mingzhi smiled, he was about to retreat on a large scale, and he realized this better than anyone else. Even with the first victory since the beginning of the war, the German army has not stopped.

Soon, the Moscow side figured out the situation of the battle, and it was indeed the 284th Infantry Division that completed an excellent defensive task and directly killed the enemy commander. For great achievements, Stalin ordered: "The 284th Infantry Division will immediately increase the title of Guards, and the division commander Pugachev and the battalion commander Berekov will be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of the Golden Star." ”

The commendation order was soon issued, and the infantry division became the Guards Infantry Division, a great honor that fell on every soldier. But Pugachev did not have much joy, knowing that his troops had done a great job and would be the target of public criticism.

But it is undeniable that Berekov's prediction that the German army would occupy Tyumen on June 28 was no longer possible, and the history of this day was completely rewritten, with only a small remnant of the 14th Panzer Division left to defeat, and the victory inspired all Soviet soldiers.

At the same time, Hitler learned that the front line was actually like this, and what was that Guards 284th Division and the 6th Mechanized Army. He urgently ordered the Hote troops who were attacking Minsk south to besiege the Soviet army and resolutely occupy Minsk, and ordered Guderian to send the main force to besiege Minsk.

As in history, Guderian only wanted to be the first to storm Moscow, and his Panzer Army, led by his Panzer Division, did not strictly follow Hitler's orders.

Therefore, the actual battle situation is not the same as that seen on General Pavlov's map. There were not many troops in the south of the German army, and it was easy to tear huge gaps there.

But at this moment, he desperately wanted to save face, and hoped to use his remaining troops to repeat the miracle again and annihilate the Seventh Panzer Division, which had fallen into relative isolation.

The result is conceivable, Yang Mingzhi clearly told Pugachev: "Rommel is a genius of war, and he has always liked to make a big deal with a small one. Pavlov is still making mistakes, his previous order was to retreat, the front line has been routed, and the large forces on which he pinned his hopes are already a rabble. We have only one way to retreat. ”

Pugachev did not take this opinion.

"We can't retreat, you are Chinese, maybe you are more flexible." We, the Soviets, will hold on to the city, and once Minsk is captured, the road to Moscow will be open. ”

Yang Mingzhi did not argue with him, he was the division commander and was responsible for the order. In fact, Yang Mingzhi knew that he was already very bold, and he always told the truth in front of the division commander, but the big truth at this moment was completely fearful of the enemy.

Lao Maozi is a tendon, and he doesn't know the truth that a big husband can bend and stretch. There are no more weapons left to organize the enemy's offensive, heavy artillery shells are consumed, and so are bullets, and there are not many RPGs left that can defeat the enemy.

But the joy of victory made the fighters overly optimistic, and he heard these statements from his own people, as if the Germans were easily defeated.

Yang Mingzhi issued a new order: "Before the new battle begins, you gather all the grain you can get, preferably wheat grains, the more the better." There were also plenty of bullets, and spare clothes and shoes. We must be prepared. ”

The soldiers were ordered to prepare.

In future retreats, food will be a luxury. Yang Mingzhi also prepared more for his wife, including a glorious bullet at the most critical moment.