One thing Yang Mingzhi had to admit was that after the end of the war at the end of March, he really did not pay much attention to the Second Regiment.

For more than a month, the Second Regiment has been trying to regain strength, and the four battalions of the Regiment have now been restored.

Because he is the main regiment, its staffing is very abundant.

In the current war, many infantry divisions of the Soviet Army have not yet been able to achieve full personnel, and Yang Mingzhi has always been dissatisfied with the current situation that the total strength of the 284th Guards Division is less than 10,000. His desire to restore the infantry division to its supposed size of 15,000 men now seemed unrealistic, as the unit received a new designation, the 63rd Army.

This kind of behavior of slapping a swollen face and becoming a fat man made Yang Mingzhi very embarrassed, and also forced him to find ways to increase the combat strength of the army to tens of thousands in order to be worthy of this name.

However, what he didn't know was that the current strength of his beloved 284th Guards Division, in the entire Soviet Army's infantry division, had reached the strength of a standard infantry division.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, because the Soviet army suffered too much loss, it was forced to implement the compendium division system, and the whole division had three compendium infantry regiments, each regiment was about 1700-2000, which was basically a three-three formation, plus directly subordinate artillery and other compendium detachments, and the whole division was about 8000 people. Basically, by the end of World War II, most of it was in this formation.

In May 1942, the Soviet army carried out many offensive campaigns in the first half of the year, and the casualties of the troops were heavy because of the poor overall quality of the soldiers and the problem of operational concepts. In May, a large number of infantry divisions could no longer guarantee a strength of more than 8,000 troops. Among them, the logistics troops must be discarded, and those who can really participate in frontal combat are left with a maximum of 5,000 people, and the strength of many infantry regiments can only be pieced together into two battalions, with a strength of more than 1,000 troops.

The current Southwestern Front is facing this terrible situation, the Soviet army attacked from the Severodonetsk River in April, liberated Belgorod, and also occupied the left bank of the Barvenko River, strategically forming a salient that echoes Belgorod from afar, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Soviet army is going to liberate Kharkov.

The Soviet army is gaining momentum, and Stalin, who is far away in Moscow, and most of the senior officials of the Military Council, want to believe that only another full-scale offensive is needed, not only Kharkov, but the entire Donbas basin will be liberated, and Kiev is just around the corner.

But the situation with their own troops, Timoshenko and Tupikov knew very well.

A large number of infantry divisions began a counteroffensive in March and fought all the way until the end of April, and according to the plan, there was another large-scale battle in May. This will be three months of non-stop fighting, even the most elite troops will not be able to withstand such a scuffle, not to mention that the vast majority of these Soviet soldiers are still peasants and citizens in January.

In the history of that plane, the Soviet army will launch an attack on Kharkov on May 12, and this plane, for various reasons, may be the butterfly effect caused by Yang Mingzhi, which makes the offensive time lag.

Timoshenko had at least more time to rest his troops and replenish the ranks of recruits sent from the rear, and even then he lacked confidence in his troops, after all, in his opinion, an infantry division should be in fifteen thousand men! Apparently he did not know that the strength of the Soviet army had shrunk.

This change in the establishment of the Soviet army was, first, a last resort after the sudden and heavy blow to human resources, and second, it was also to adapt to the actual needs of the war and make the command of the troops more convenient.

The establishment of the independent regiment that Yang Mingzhi created in the guerrilla republic was more out of practical needs. Let's talk about this independent regiment, its attributes are more like an infantry brigade.

Thus, the 284th Guards Division was, in a sense, more numerous than some infantry divisions of the Southwestern Front. Because, the strength of this guards division is a real combat force, more than 8,000 front-line soldiers, and it is indeed a force that cannot be underestimated.

The 63rd Group Army, on the other hand, currently consists of a division, a brigade, and two independent regiments, as well as some militia battalions that do not have a clear establishment.

There were four battalions of the 2nd Regiment, each with a strength of more than six hundred men. The standard battalion size of the Soviet army was often more than 500 men, and the strength of the second regiment exceeded 2,500 men, with three infantry battalions and one artillery battalion. The so-called artillery battalion, equipped with a large number of mortars and recoilless guns. The infantry battalion is currently fully capable of having one RPG shooter per squad and one recoilless gun per platoon.

The elite is always the elite, it's just that after the paratrooper brigade was airborne, it seemed that their combat effectiveness was more fierce.

The reason is also very simple, the vast number of soldiers of that group of people, fully use semi-automatic rifles, and the firepower on the books crushes all the German small arms, not to mention that there are RPGs to add icing on the cake.

In the current 2nd regiment, Lavrenty is the commander, and Evgeny is the deputy commander. The two no longer led their battalion, and the position of battalion commander was given to subordinates.

Company commanders named Titov and Lyapov were promoted, and these two Yang Mingzhi were actually familiar with them, because they were veterans of the original "special anti-tank battalion".

This war will remain in human history as a meat grinder, and the huge casualties of the Soviet army made it very rare for soldiers on duty at the outbreak of the war to survive the war. Yang Mingzhi reluctantly accepted the fact that his original brothers were not much left.

These veterans have inherited the spirit of the army, and they have all served as junior officers, which also proves the cruel fact that as long as you live long enough, you will definitely be promoted, because your comrades in the same period have died, and you will definitely make achievements after many battles.

These two men served as commanders of the two main battalions of the regiment, and the other two battalions, one led by Ninelli and the other by a man named Rukovsky.

Ninelli Yang Mingzhi knew very well that the militia battalion he belonged to was elite, and he had fought a lot with him. As for that Rukovsky, he and his subordinates were formed by refugees recruited later, and because they did not know it, their combat effectiveness was questionable.

Now Yang Mingzhi must also pay good attention to this Rukovsky, because his battalion is an artillery battalion.

For a long time, the 284th Division's invincible Doronin had been training his artillery, and the five captured German field guns were his lifeblood.

Doronin had already been given the strength of an artillery regiment, but it was difficult for him to take his turn in the current operation. What's worse, the recoilless artillery team he trained fell into other units to form artillery battalions, and he couldn't do anything if he was unhappy.

At present, Rukovsky has also added a rocket artillery squad, and these members have learned some theoretical knowledge in addition to training, but they do not even have the experience of test firing. However, after the battle, it seems that a good rocket launcher made by the arsenal is a "fool's product", that is, the elevation angle is set according to the ruler, and the trigger is pulled, and the whole firing process is actually very similar to a recoilless gun.

After the second group finished eating, they left the canteen one by one, and they hurried back to their respective dormitories, and immediately began to change their outfits, prepared a full set of digging tools, and lined up outside the dormitories one by one, waiting for the order to go to the farmland......