If, at the beginning of the battle, the bridge had been blown up with high-powered weapons, the Germans would not have been able to use the railway spur.

All Rychev could think of was the rockets that his battalion was equipped with to bombard the bridge.

His reconnaissance continued until five o'clock in the afternoon, and the paratrooper battalion collected a lot of important information. As soon as he returned to the battalion headquarters, he tried to contact the main force.

In fact, during the time of his departure, the battalion headquarters was already communicating with the regimental headquarters.

The communications corpsman reported the current situation to the returning Rychev: "The large force arrived at half past two o'clock this afternoon in the southwest of the city of Loyev, about three kilometers from the city. They were scattered in the forest, and three battalions had already arrived at the preset ambush sites. ”

"Really? It's just wonderful. Try to contact you again now, and I'll explain to Balzen about our investigation!" ”

At the same time, Balzen was already putting on a "crab formation" in the forest. The so-called "crab array" is only slightly resembling a crab in appearance. Even if the regimental headquarters, Balzen and his direct troops were stationed here, and most of the baggage was placed here. They were located directly west of the city, and the officers and men also lined up in a wide three-kilometer front.

The Vorohitin battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 284th Division made a detour back to the northern part of the city, where they set up an ambush in the woods, also lined up in a wide formation.

284 was the Yevgeny division of the 2nd Regiment, and they were in ambush in the south of the city, because the Dnieper River was to the east, and their formation was compact.

Because the northern part of the city was the place where the Soviet garrison was under the greatest pressure, Balzen divided a company to help Voroshitin defend it. In the end, the formation sent by the Soviet army on the right bank of the river was like a crab spreading its big pincers, which could hold the entire city of Loyev in its arms.

Balzen is actually very busy now, and his current position is likely to become a long-term camp for future sieges.

Therefore, the vast number of warriors, having stopped, took their accompanying shovels in their respective assigned positions and began to dig trenches. All of them were ordered to strictly enforce infantry conduct, so the trench was determined not to be shallower than 1.5 meters.

This is a big project, although the majority of soldiers are still very tired, in order for the battle to go smoothly, everyone can only continue to fight hard.

Balzen wanted to keep the morale of his soldiers, and he took up a shovel and joined the necessary and arduous work. Until the communications soldier ran to the scene of his work with the radio on his back and handed over the headset.

Balzen took the headphones and directly heard the words of Rychev, who was only across the river.

"Hey! I don't think you should be so messy without following the rules of secrecy! Balzen's disappointed accusations.

"Don't worry! The Germans must not have been able to detect it! Besides, even if they detect it, it doesn't matter! ”

"Phew! You're really optimistic. Now tell me, what important information have you observed? How many enemies are there? What about their firepower? ”

"I'm about to report this to you! Isn't translating code faster than having a direct conversation? ”

At this point, Rychev stopped talking nonsense, and directly reported the investigation of the afternoon according to his notebook.

The two sides of the communication are basically operating huge radio walkie-talkies, and they can not only communicate with each other quickly, but even discuss with each other.

Balzen not only learned that the Germans were using the Soviet army's railway system, but also knew that these railways still had traces of destruction, which also showed that the German army's road building skills were also very good. His large forces had not yet launched a reconnaissance of Loyev, so Rychev's reconnaissance report was crucial.

Intelligence showed that the Germans had a strong defense of the railway bridge, and that there were even concrete-reinforced forts and improvised machine-gun forts made of sandbags, a situation that worried Balzen.

"Alright, I'll contact the command right away in these situations, and we'll have to listen to the commander's analysis." Balzen replied.

"Well, who are you sure will be the first to act on tomorrow's battle?"

"First act? Tomorrow's action has already been studied on our side, regardless of priority. Originally, I would have told you about this later, but since you asked, I'll explain it now. ”

Balzen and the others had already made plans, and the time for the attack was set for seven o'clock in the morning. No matter what time the sun rises, the enemy will surely get up at seven o'clock in the morning, and they will certainly haunt the streets of the city.

The Soviets had no intention of launching a charge at Ulla, and the troops would simply pin the enemy into the city in the form of artillery bombardment, as an oath that the Soviets surrounded the city.

Rychev understood what he meant and asked: "Since there is no distinction between priorities, we can also attack freely?" ”

"Yes! By tomorrow morning, our gunboats will be in combat positions as well. Your troops, like the rest of the army, use artillery fire as a whole, while the precision shooters try to eliminate as many enemy exposures as possible, and that's it. ”

"In that case, can I use the Catfish rocket launcher tomorrow?"

Rychev's problem made Balzen very baffled, and everyone studied and decided before setting off that rocket artillery is a killer weapon, and it is not allowed to be used indiscriminately unless necessary.

Balzen immediately asked: "Bazooka? Are you going to blow the city to the ground? ”

"Nope! I am planning to blow up the enemy's bridges! I think you are also aware of the passage of trains in this area, and the enemy is using them to transport supplies looted from our land, and this cannot go on any longer. I beg you, I plan to try to blow up the railway bridge tomorrow! ”

"Are you serious?!"

"I'm serious!"

Seeing that Rychev's attitude was so resolute, Balzen hesitated. He hurriedly said: "This matter must be decided by the commander!" ”

……

The communications corps of the army recorded all the information, and then, at Balzen's behest, sent a report to the blacksmith village.

On the other hand, Yang Mingzhi, Yevlov and others resolutely stayed in the headquarters and constantly received telegrams from the front.

Where did the troops arrive? How much is the non-combat attrition of personnel? How much food is consumed? The command is all understood.

But the latest information also made Yang Mingzhi very stunned.

"The enemy didn't even let go of that railway branch, and they not only used it, but also used it very frequently?" Yang Mingzhi had planned that after the final occupation of the city, the railway bridge would become the most important vehicle for the rapid passage of the guerrilla republics across the Dnieper River, and since the Germans were making full use of it, the Germans would certainly not be satisfied with its change of hands.

Because the information did not come all at once, the first thing that came was the information that the Germans used the railway branch lines to use trains frequently.

Yang Mingzhi and others immediately began to study this, and everyone present quickly reached a consensus - since the Germans are already using it, blow it up!

"The Germans must have refused us to use the bridge, we blew it up, no one could use it. Obviously, in terms of losses, the losses of German traffic were the most serious, and we still crossed the river with the original ferry, not only did we not lose anything, but we were able to harvest a lot of scrap iron! We can make more shells to blow up the enemy! Yang Mingzhi's dialectic made everyone have no regrets.

Immediately afterwards, the newly translated telegram was sent to the command headquarters, and Yang Mingzhi took a closer look, this was Rychev's request. He just glanced at it, immediately smiled, and then took the telegram and handed it directly into the hands of the commander of the paratrooper brigade, Tapunov.

"Look at it! Your paratrooper battalion commander and ours really coincide with each other! He was going to blow up the bridge! ”

"Really?!" Tepunov looked at it carefully and immediately asked: "But what do you think of his plans to bombard the bridge with rocket artillery?" ”

"What do I think? So what do you think? ”

"This ...... I think that with rocket bombardment, you can only blow it up if you hit the key part of the structure! Even if the rocket launchers can do the job, they will have to blow up to the bridge piers! ”

"I didn't think much about that!" Yang Mingzhi pinched his chin and thought about it, and suddenly snapped his fingers: "That's it, let's order the paratrooper battalion, when we act tomorrow morning, first bombard the enemy's bridgehead with rocket artillery, and after the troops complete the occupation, bury explosives on the spot and blow up the bridge deck!" ”

No one raised fundamental objections, and Yang Mingzhi examined Balzen's telegram again, and made no request for the offensive on the day of the summer solstice.

Orders from the command were quickly returned, and Balzen and Rechev received their own precise tasks that needed to be implemented.

All missions will begin after 7 o'clock in the morning on June 22, and there will be no sneak attack in the early morning, and there will be an extremely obscene Soviet offensive the next day.