"Yes! I know! I have already explained the situation of our Sixth Division in recent days, and our large force will arrive this afternoon. But I don't believe that we will defeat you, and if I stop fighting, I only hope that you will keep your promise and treat us prisoners of war well! ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded: "I will, there is only one thing you need to do now!" ”

"Alright! As long as you keep your promises. ”

"Then take off this military uniform of yours! Especially the tops! ”

This surprised Brimayo greatly: "Top? Why? ”

"It's not just you, but the soldiers under your command to take off their clothes! Take it off immediately. ”

"This ...... Do you ...... "What are the Russians going to do?" Brimayo suddenly felt that he had been deceived, knowing that this group of vicious fellows would be forced to take off all their clothes before they could be executed.

The Russians did the same, and so did the Germans. Brimayu instinctively thought that this Tatar-looking Soviet officer was a hypocrite at all.

From Brimayo's stunned expression, Yang Mingzhi suddenly felt that his words were biased, and he immediately added: "You! Brimayo, you just explained that your regiment's baggage is still outside the forest! You also have some wounded and a large number of horses there! We're going to have to take those supplies, but I don't want to have a shootout with your guys in the process! So, your clothes must be handed over to us! ”

Saying this, Brimayo's hanging heart was a little calmer.

He still couldn't fully trust these people, and he had no choice but to take off his military uniform. And when he was about to take off his pants, he was stopped by Yang Mingzhi immediately!

In fact, Brimayo's shirt is the most practical, and the difference between the uniforms of the officers and soldiers of the Romanian army is mainly on this shirt. The top of this Brimayo is not badly maintained, at least not seriously damaged, and in terms of practical value, it is perfectly suitable to remove all kinds of Peugeot and use it as everyday clothes.

Brimayo was therefore only wearing a white shirt, and he no longer had the slightest image of an officer. The officer's usefulness was no longer for the time being, and he and his men had to be brought back so that they could plow the ground and produce potatoes for their livelihoods on the Soviet people, who were still hurting.

Compared to Brimayo's cooperation, his subordinates have a considerable group of uncooperative. The Romanian soldiers also saw him as a prelude to a mass execution. The Soviet soldiers at the grassroots level were more beastly and short-tempered because they had just finished the fighting, and those who refused to cooperate were directly shot.

After killing more than a dozen people, the POWs were instantly numb......

However, the execution did not come! The group of guys, dressed only in white underwear and white shirts, were gathered, and the Soviet soldiers were ordered to throw some raw uncooked potatoes, which they nibbled on for lunch.

Yang Mingzhi attaches great importance to the future war situation, and he is most concerned about the real large army of the Luo army. Do they really still have thousands of fighting forces? In this way, the scale of the battle will be even larger!

Again, the battlefield had to be cleaned, the prisoners had to be transported, and the battle plan had to be adjusted in order to prepare for a larger battle.

Yang Mingzhi ordered the telegraph operator to send a report to the blacksmith village to report the results of the battle.

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And at the headquarters of the army group in the village of blacksmiths, in the early morning of May 20, they received a special telegram from the headquarters of the front.

"The great Soviet Red Army has launched a huge campaign offensive in the early hours of May 19! The Southwestern Front, together with the Southern Front, launched a decisive offensive on Kharkov! ”

This telegram is very short and very meaningful!

The chief of staff of the South-Western Front, Tupikov, who sent this telegram, ordered a special message to be sent to the partisan republics and the 63rd Army. However, as the battle was underway, the communications department of the front army was overwhelmed by a large amount of information, and this order was not translated and implemented by the telegraph operator until May 20.

The sun rose on May 20, and for various reasons, the Kharkiv offensive battle, which had been postponed by a week from its original history, had passed twenty-four hours before the battle began.

In these twenty-four hours, the results of the Soviet army are not insignificant! The course of the battle is also very similar to the original history!

The 21st and 23rd Tank Corps of the Soviet Southern Front were the first to break out of the Barvenkovo salient and advance towards the northwestern city of Zmiyev, and on the whole day of the 19th, they encountered the German 52nd Division, which was defending the place, and the 402nd Division, which was fighting out of the city. The combat goal of these two large tank armies is to tear through the German defensive line, march to Kharkov, and seek the opportunity to fight the main force of the German Sixth Army! They did not pay any attention to the city of Zmiyev, and in the early morning of May 20, they had already torn open the positions held by the German 52nd Division and were fighting according to the established plan!

To the south, the Soviet 6th Cavalry Army and the 2nd Cavalry Army advanced westward! Each cavalry corps has two infantry divisions, one cavalry division and one artillery weapon, and its strength is huge, but its combat effectiveness is not strong. After breaking through the original defensive line, they encountered the German 454th Guards Division and the 4th Division. Fierce fighting is in full swing in the wilderness of Donbass! If the Soviets had a certain advantage over the Germans, it was their cavalry.

The cavalry divisions, purely cavalry units, most of their members were Cossack elements, and they were also the most treasured existence of Marshal of the Soviet Union Budyonny.

Is cavalry a unit that is no longer suitable for modern warfare? At the top of the Soviet army, senior generals led by Budyonny believed that cavalry could still play an important role in the war.

The great advantage of cavalry is its mobility, and in order to adapt to modern warfare, their tactics are becoming more and more like those of dragoons hundreds of years ago, that is, dismounting and fighting immediately after encountering the enemy, such as sabers and wall charges, have been marginalized.

On the southern front, where the German units were seriously short of tanks, the infantry immediately dug in the Ukrainian wilderness for a long time and laid out a long defensive line! Whether the Soviets could break through the German defenses, the Southern Front did not ask too much. After all, the greatest significance of these forces is to pin down the enemy and force the two elite tank armies to have no worries.

On the Northern Front, the Southwestern Front, the 21st Army and the 28th Army crossed the Severodonetsk River and immediately broke out into fierce battles with the German defenders.

The 21st Soviet Army liberated the small city of Dernovaya on May 19. The Germans would never allow this strategic place to be occupied by the Soviets, and the German 29th Army moved south, but the vanguard ran into a wall and tended to be divided and surrounded by the Soviets.

The 28th Army, which also crossed the Severodonets River, met the 323rd and 771st Divisions of the German Army, which was urgently reinforced northward, and the skirmish began. This Soviet army group, geographically speaking, they are the closest to Kharkov, but the road to attack is also extremely difficult.

The Germans tried their best to avoid street fighting with the Soviets in Kharkiv, and they pulled more than 100,000 people from the eight divisions stationed in the city to deploy outside the city. In terms of troops, the attacking two Soviet fronts were quite capable of defeating these eight German divisions.

However, the commander of the Soviet army, Timoshenko, knew that his greatest enemy was the Sixth Army in the rear of Kharkov! Therefore, his plan was actually to encircle the German army outside Kharkov, and it was best to defeat it smoothly, and if it could not be defeated, the Soviet 38th Army would drag the enemy down, and the two tank corps and the 28th Army from the south would cut off its logistics and surround the enemy. At that time, to continue the offensive on Kharkov, the pressure will not be very great.

This was the overview of the Soviet army on May 19, when the attacking forces were trying to create an encirclement southeast of Kharkiv.

By noon on May 20, when Yang Mingzhi finished the battle with the Sixth Division of the Luo Army, the Soviet Army had made important progress!

The battle was completely under Timoshenko's control, and the two tank armies managed to tear through the defense line of the German 52nd Division, one of which turned around and officially marched towards Kharkov. And the tank army will continue to face a new enemy, and at this time, they are already engaged with the German 113th Division!

Thirty-six hours have passed, and the situation of the battle is becoming more and more favorable to the Soviet army, just like the original history, the Soviet army also achieved a huge advantage in the early stage of the offensive, as for whether it can hold the results and continue to expand the results, even Timoshenko himself is not absolutely confident.

However, the current results alone have completely exceeded his expectations! Could it be that the great Soviet Red Army was really as invincible as the lyrics, or did he somewhat underestimate the will of his own compatriots to fight, or was the strength of the German army already exhausted in the past year of war?

The command of the Soviet Front was peaceful, and Tupikov received one good news after another, especially at ten o'clock in the morning of this day, the commander of the 21st Tank Army of the Soviet Army sent good news: "We have torn apart the positions of the German army, the whole army is advancing in the direction of Kharkov, and there is nothing to resist our advance!" ”

With this good news, Chief of Staff Tupikov's long-suppressed mood finally broke out, and he even said in public: "This operation is completely planned, and we will liberate Kharkiv as soon as May 21!" ”