The conversation between the two men did not matter at all with the soldiers of the Second Regiment who accompanied them. The army was lined up in four columns, most of the baggage was thrown on the captured wagons, and the soldiers marched lightly. In fact, there was only one woman in the entire second regiment, Natasha, and now, through this conversation, some fighters learned such an astonishing news - Natasha Spiroskina's total record has exceeded 200 people.

After these weekday trainings, the bored fighters, who mainly rely on playing poker and maintaining their guns, have gained new talking points.

Natasha, she doesn't care.

By now, the enemy's revenge for killing her parents had been counted, and the reason for the battle, in addition to the very noble "fight for the Soviet Fatherland" propagated, was to fight for Commander Berekov.

The commander himself was here, riding a big horse in high spirits, and behind him were a group of guards, as well as a battle-experienced division reconnaissance battalion to escort him.

The girl was full of admiration and gratitude for the commander, and she would never dare to be as intimate as Besica.

Yang Mingzhi has always known that Natasha, whom he likes to see, is in the army behind him, and it was not until this battle that this girl really lived up to expectations and achieved great results.

He didn't plan to talk to the girl, and deliberately relaxed some military discipline controls, that is, allowed the soldiers to talk freely while marching. Therefore, the march was very noisy, and the people were talking nonsense, and the noise was heard by the local defenders before they reached the camp in the village of Missy.

At half past two in the afternoon, Yang Mingzhi's "front-line command" finally moved to the Missy Ferry, followed by nearly 3,000 soldiers and 50 carriages.

At half past three in the afternoon, the 3rd Regiment, which was moving more slowly, also arrived at the Missy Ferry one after another. Even though this force has suffered serious losses, the proportion of female soldiers is still very large. After all, most of these female soldiers and girls fought for the first time, and they sacrificed so many comrades in the first battle, so their spirits were a little depressed. Perhaps this is the difference between recruits and veterans, just like the soldiers of the second regiment, they will no longer mourn after seeing the sacrifice of their comrades, their spirits have become somewhat numb, and some almost all shake their heads and regret the dead, and then continue to fight.

Yang Mingzhi arrived at the Missy Ferry, looking at the wide Dnieper River, and his feelings were complicated. "It's the river again, and it seems like I've been away from it for too long."

In fact, only six days have passed since the first troops crossed the river. But these six days seem to be as long as a month, and the spirit of any warrior is not in a continuous rotation during these days!

Yang Mingzhi is also an ordinary person, as long as he crosses the river, he will soon be able to return to the blacksmith village and reunite with his wife, what a happy thing!

However, as the commander, he must not cross the river with a reed, and the brothers fought together to the left bank of the river and achieved a great military victory, of course, they returned triumphantly together, and it is better to have a victory parade in the largest residential area of the blacksmith village, which will surely boost the morale of the past unprecedented!

Let's talk about this Missy Ferry, the head of the blacksmith village, Kavitsky, is now the temporary person in charge here, and he is all doing the personnel scheduling after the third regiment goes to the battlefield.

In his urgent report to the commander, he revealed: "We originally had twenty ferry cables, which were light but not wear-resistant. During the previous transport of prisoners of war, there was a major accident in which the cable broke. Luckily, the arms of the POWs were tied and strung together, and we were able to easily catch all the people who fell into the water, and there were no dead people. ”

Even so, Yang Mingzhi was greatly surprised, he didn't want to hear the reason for the broken cable, he just wanted to transport all the troops across the river. After learning that after the inspection, there were still fifteen ferry routes that were absolutely safe, he immediately ordered: "We don't have time to grind any longer, soon all the warriors and huge trophies will gather here!" The troops must cross the river immediately and move now. ”

The soldiers of the 2nd Regiment had only been resting for a while before receiving the order to cross the river, and the soldiers were very much looking forward to this. After all, as long as they cross the river, they can run back to the blacksmith village before dark, and return to the barracks they have been absent for a long time!

The attrition of the 2nd Regiment throughout the operation was quite small, and the total number of casualties was just over 100. The victims were already buried on the battlefield, and the wounded were rushed to this ferry port at the end of the battle yesterday, and those people had already returned ahead of schedule.

The remaining 2,000 people, who took the battalion as a unit, officially began to cross the river at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the vast number of soldiers began to board the raft one after another.

As before, each raft is still in the ferrying mode of carrying 30 people. Compared to the situation at the time of departure, these soldiers standing on the raft were lightly armed, so no one was worried that they would fall into the river, and even if they did accidentally fall into the water, they should be able to escape easily.

Seventeen ferry routes, a total of thirty-four rafts, it was absolutely no problem to pass one battalion at a time.

Yang Mingzhi thought so, Kavitzki thought so, and the officers and men present all thought that crossing the river was already a very easy task.

Isn't it easy? A round trip on one route would take a maximum of twenty minutes for a soldier to move quickly, and the same would have taken for a regiment to cross the river in just over an hour.

What's more, they still have a secret weapon, the captured Type 1124 gunboat, which has also been used as a barge with a larger carrying capacity. According to Kavitsky's meaning, the ship was a simple troop carrier, capable of carrying one company at a time, and its efficiency was also higher.

The means by which the Soviet troops crossed the river were nothing more than ferries, gunboats and independent rafts and canoes. In fact, Yang Mingzhi also knew that if there was a bridge here, then the whole army would be able to pass through the river today.

Unfortunately, this is a beautiful idea, and the construction of a pontoon bridge is not realistic at present.

The efficiency of the current means of crossing the river is not bad, and Yang Mingzhi is very resolute to stand on the left bank of the Mixi ferry and watch the troops cross the river one after another. The crossing of the river did go as he expected, and the first group of people to cross the river was as high as two battalions, most of them standing on rafts and ferrying steadily, and some of them in canoes. As for the gunboat, it became a heavy equipment for the troops, especially the recoilless guns that had made great achievements.

If there was anything that displeased him, it was that the soldiers boarded the raft, a process that took a lot of time. Fortunately, a thousand people could be transported at one time, but after a little more friction, the second regiment crossed the river in just over an hour.

Once the raft was fully loaded, the people on the other side began to pull the tow rope, and the soldiers on the raft began to cooperate with the paddles. By half past three in the afternoon, a line had completed a round trip and started the second round of transportation.

It was also at this time that the officers and men of the 3rd Regiment also arrived at the Missy Ferry, along with an even larger contingent of wagons they had brought with them.

A huge number of female soldiers, their uniforms are quite unique, and their appearance at the Missy ferry port immediately became a new landscape.

A large number of soldiers were blowing their whistles at it, even soldiers standing on rafts on the river. This is already considered harassment, Yang Mingzhi frowned and didn't want to care about it, he led the guards directly to Anatoly, the commander of the third regiment, and gave a simple order: "Now, all your troops are lightly armed and stand by and line up here." I see that your people are tired from walking too far and sitting on the ground to rest, which is not allowed! ”

"Yes! Comrade Commander! I command all to stand. ”

"Excellent! Remember my order, your men followed behind the second regiment, and when they had all crossed the river, your men boarded the raft. ”

"Yes! But what about the wagons that we are in charge of, and some of the captured weapons and ammunition? If ......"

"None of this is left to rest for now!" Yang Mingzhi raised his head, glanced at the long line of horse convoys, and sighed slightly. "Well, we've seized too many horses and vehicles! However, none of these things are as precious as people! I declare that you have finished the escort of the booty, and now hurry to the other side with your personal equipment! After that, you will go to dinner after you have reorganized your troops, and after you have recuperated, you will all go home tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes! Comrade Commander! Anatoly smiled with relief.