Yang Mingzhi expected that Guderian would not really obey Hitler's orders. After a big fight between him and Hoth, Hoth's large army turned to attack Minsk and won a major victory. Guderian only deployed a small number of infantry and motorized divisions to the southwest to deal with the Führer, and they were only stationed in the Führer for most of the time.

If Guderian had gone exactly as Berlin wanted, then the besieged Soviet troops would not have escaped. In fact, compared with the original historical trend, the situation was even worse for the Soviet troops who were eager to break through the encirclement, because the Soviet troops fled a few days late, the "safe corridor" was even narrower, and only a small number of people were destined to get out of danger.

Yang Mingzhi and his team were on their way to retreat, and they hibernated during the day and set off at night.

The troops carried a large amount of food and water, all the heavy equipment was discarded, only a few heavy machine guns with wheels, and all the mortars that could be carried on their shoulders.

In the end, the troops did not choose to move by vehicles, most of which had already been destroyed by air strikes, and second, the trucks were too obvious.

Occasionally, German reconnaissance planes flew over in the sky, and Yang Mingzhi sat in the woods and looked at the blue sky, listening to the low roar of the planes.

Yevlov was very nervous and asked Yang Mingzhi beside him: "We retreated under the noses of the enemy, even if there were woods as cover, they just let us go so sloppily?" ”

"That's of course, because in the south-western direction we are facing, the Germans there are the weakest in the entire encirclement. Besides, we were not the priority targets for the Germans. Yang Mingzhi pointed due west, "Kuznetsov's large forces are also retreating, and the enemy is planning to completely annihilate them." ”

"Alas, the war is already like this, and even if they retreat, it will be difficult for them to withstand the enemy's encirclement. Maybe they will fight to the death and die all of them. ”

Yang Mingzhi shrugged, "Who knows." The Soviets did not allow their troops to surrender, and according to the relevant regulations, the Soviets had to fight to the last man, and those who surrendered were considered traitors to the great motherland. ”

"But we've lost ground, we've committed crimes." Yevlov muttered.

The division commander was killed, the troops suffered a heavy blow, and the division was originally full of more than 14,000 people, but now there are only 3,000 left. Those lost troops were either killed or lost, but none of them surrendered. ”

Yang Mingzhi sat up straight and sighed. "The division commander is dead, and you, Yevlov, are the acting division commander. As the deputy division commander, I think everyone will listen to me better. ”

"Why? Do you want to be a teacher? ”

"We're going to retreat into the forest, and I'm better at fighting in the forest. Once it becomes a guerrilla warfare, that's my strength. ”

Yevlov thought about it, this person is from the Chinese Anti-Japanese Federation, and they have been fighting with the Japanese for a long time in the forests of China. Then Yevlov remembered the last order of the commander of the Front, everyone should break out, so it was also against the troops and the Germans.

"Well, just think about it, we Chinese are very good at guerrilla warfare. As a last resort, you'll want me to command a large force. With that, Yang Mingzhi stood up and went to the camp where the wounded soldiers were placed to take a look.

There are not many troops of 3,000 men, and a small forest is enough to hide the whole army, and looking down on these broad-leaved trees from a high altitude, it is really a perfect hiding place to enter here.

Carambola and her companions were caring for the wounded soldiers, many of whom were partially able to take care of themselves, as the seriously wounded had been largely brutally abandoned.

Many soldiers felt guilty and had to abandon their compatriots in order to survive. Many of the soldiers could not forget their desperate eyes and vicious curses, and they were all going to die anyway.

"Little Peach, you're still working. During the rest of the day, you should get a good night's sleep. ”

Yang Mingzhi stood behind his wife, watching her work, and couldn't help but ask worriedly.

"No way, the soldiers can't do without us. Even if I don't have enough potion, I'll have to check their wounds. ”

Star fruit slowly peeled off the bandage of a wounded soldier, his right forearm was grazed by a German bullet, and part of the musculature had been lost. Star fruit had no choice, she was like a Mongolian doctor, using her own hair as a rope, and reluctantly stitched up the wound, followed by the entanglement of strips of cloth.

Now she untied the soldier's wounds, only to see that there was already a tendency to suppurate.

"Bethica, how is my injury?" The soldier asked.

"It's okay, it's okay. You just have to be patient for a while to come. ”

She was so comforted, but she told her husband a different story. "Because it has been a war before, there are a lot of impurities in the rain, his wound has become infected, and it will be suppuration in the future, and he will definitely die if there is no anti-inflammatory medicine."

Yang Mingzhi was shocked, there were more than fifty soldiers wrapped in cloth here, if they were all infected and suffered from septicemia, then he, the deputy division commander, really had no way at all.

Sometimes in order to survive, one has to be cruel. Reason told him that war is a state of survival of the fittest, and if you are injured, it often means death, both ancient and modern, both in China and abroad. But humanity is calling, these soldiers are comrades-in-arms, and they deserve to live well.

In any case, the anti-inflammatory drugs have been exhausted, and most of the remaining drugs are for bactericidal purposes. Including vodka smuggled by some soldiers, which is now used as medical alcohol. The hygienists could only use these things to rinse the wounds of the fighters, hoping to kill the bacteria or something.

Carambola was finally able to rest and examined the wounds of several soldiers, and the situation was not optimistic.

After washing her hands, the girl took off her coat and hung it on a branch to dry. The same is true for many soldiers, after the previous heavy rains, in order to avoid skin diseases, the soldiers often go to the resting place, the first thing is to clean their bodies.

Soviet soldiers were ashamed of their sloppy appearance, but most of them only had this dress.

There was a stream running through this wood, and after a brief wash, some even jumped into the river to bathe.

Star fruit is no exception, she is a woman must have enough privacy, but it doesn't matter to her husband, she ordered her husband to bring a basin of water, and Yang Mingzhi readily agreed.

In the cruel war, Yang Mingzhi can still see his own woman, Yang Mingzhi only feels a huge sense of happiness enveloping his whole body. The two wiped each other's bodies and took a shower, and then their clothes were all dried.

It was a very sunny day, and during the day the warriors lit a bonfire and cooked some porridge to replenish their strength.

In terms of food, the remnants of the infantry division, almost all the soldiers wore huge burlap bags. The long pocket is nearly two meters long and wraps around the body. It consisted mainly of flour or wheat grains, which were the largest weight other than weapons, enough for a soldier to eat for three weeks.

There is no shortage of salt in the troops, and there is even some canned meat.

If there is a shortage of weapons, it is weapons and ammunition. The troops, having lost most of their heavy weapons, are already light infantry, and they will completely retreat into the large forests southwest of Minsk.

Many soldiers knew that as long as they fled there, the German troops would be particularly safe unless they sent a very large force into the encirclement.

After a day's rest, the team set off in the evening.

Yang Mingzhi ordered a platoon of his direct unit to reconnoiter at the front, and they carried radio guides to the troops, while keeping a close eye on the enemy's situation.

The marching procession was light-controlled, no one was allowed to smoke, and no one was allowed to try to light torches, and everyone retreated in the moonlight.

After two days of marching, dormant during the day and advancing at night, this unit miraculously did not encounter the Germans.

Yang Mingzhi was even more sure of his judgment, and the German army in this direction was either not many, or the main forces were not concentrated in front of him.

After all, Guderian was notoriously in favor of lightning assault on armored clusters, and anyway, he could get a large army into the forest? So he explained his thoughts to all the junior officers, and this was what the fighters wanted to hear.

The officer explained to the soldiers the encouragement of the commander that by entering the great forest, we would be able to avoid the German advance and take a long rest.

Everything was going according to plan, and after passing through the last grove, the whole team was faced with a forest.

It is still the first half of the 20th century, and human exploitation of natural vegetation is limited. And the entire USSR retained a huge area of vegetation on its territory, so much so that Moscow was always surrounded by forests.

In the distance lies a forest and hilly area, with only a handful of roads and dozens of villages.

Before entering the forest, Yevlov raised his binoculars again to observe them, and after making sure that there was no enemy situation, he ordered his troops to advance.

The remnants of the 284th Guards Infantry Division, as well as a small number of militiamen and citizens, lined up into the forest and continued to follow the direction of the compass to the southwest.

So in the new night, the troops had retreated into the great forest, the whole army was safe, and then the great reorganization began.

All fighters counted their equipment, especially the amount of weapons and food.

The temporary division headquarters had been established, and Yevlov ordered the radioman to continue trying to communicate with the surrounding friendly forces. The broken map was stretched out, and then the light of the flashlight, Yang Mingzhi estimated the movements of the enemy and friendly forces.

"Now the north and east are Germans, most of our friendly forces are in the west, and they are still moving towards Minsk......"

"Can you say any of this?" Yevlov already admired this Chinese too much, he led the team into the forest to hide from the Germans, and now he can speculate on the location of the Germans.

Yang Mingzhi hurriedly shook his head, the so-called these are all speculations. "It is undeniable that our friendly forces will definitely try to break through, they will definitely hit a wall in Minsk, and if they want to withdraw, they will definitely go through the forest."

Yevlov nodded, the friendly army will join everyone, so there is still a good hope of breaking through to form a force of tens of thousands of people.

Yang Mingzhi was not what Yevlov thought, but he planned a guerrilla war on the spot. Because even if he broke through, the army would inevitably encounter Guderian, who was forced to move south, and even if this man did not agree, Hitler would use all kinds of threats to order him to abandon Moscow as the primary target.

The German Army Group South also encountered serious resistance, so after Army Group Center finished solving the Soviet troops in the Minsk encirclement, the German army led by Guderian's troops was bound to move south to participate in the encirclement of Ukraine. If this multi-million Soviet army had existed, Hitler and the General Staff's plan to capture Moscow would simply not have been realized.

Moreover, the encirclement of the Soviet army in Ukraine is also very necessary, because at the beginning of the war, Soviet bombers stationed in Crimea attacked the Ploiesti oil field in Romania, and without sufficient gasoline and diesel supplies, the blitzkrieg could not be achieved at all.

Yang Mingzhi knew that at the point in time he was in, it was always Kuznetsov's troops who broke through, and they were also likely to engage Guderian's troops in the south.

In the original plane, the Soviet troops who broke through the encirclement routed the obstructing German troops, and at the same time, the Soviet troops in Smolensk took advantage of the situation to move south, providing important strategic support for the Soviet troops that had just escaped the occupied area of Minsk. Eventually, this Soviet army will participate in the defense of Moscow, but the current battle situation is a little unpredictable, and Yang Mingzhi does not think that Kuznetsov in this plane can be so lucky.

Regardless of the fact that there are so many for the time being, the troops will stop and rest well, at least for a few days of sleep.