As usual, before the troops set out for battle, there were important high-ranking generals, and the soldiers who gathered in front of each other made an impassioned pre-war pledge meeting!

The armies of all countries have such assemblies in order to arouse the high morale of the soldiers, and also to pursue a good fortune when going on a campaign.

Yang Mingzhi wrote a speech overnight, and Fuming re-edited it.

It was not yet half past three in the morning, and the dawn of the morning actually shone on the earth. Soon the summer solstice will be approaching, and the daylight in Belarus will also be at its peak!

The morning trumpet sounded at five o'clock in the morning as usual, but the vast number of soldiers could not hold back the excitement in their hearts at all, they got up before the trumpet, took all the equipment with them, and began to assemble in their respective camps under the leadership of the squad leader and platoon leader!

The military playground in the blacksmith village is not large, and there is also some vegetation in it. The playground is also a short distance from the barracks and residential areas, precisely for air defense purposes.

The soldiers learned that there would still be a pre-battle mobilization at the headquarters before the start of the march today, and they had already begun to march to the playground.

More than two thousand fighters, almost all of whom carried a heavy weight of thirty kilograms. Among them, ammunition and military rations are the mainstay, especially ammunition, which accounts for the vast majority of the load. These fighters have participated in too many military operations, but not once has the command made them carry such heavy equipment.

A lot of people simply joke that they are armed to the teeth! They do have a reason to say this, because in terms of firepower, isn't this unit the strongest in the Soviet army?

The degree of equipment of the three main regiments is more like that of the Soviet troops in the sixties of that plane. The squad machine gun was mainly replaced by the MG34, interspersed with a number of ZB26 and DP machine guns. The squad must have an RPG player, and the whole squad has ten rounds of ammunition, so that the most basic infantry squad has exaggerated anti-tank capabilities at a distance of 200 meters!

Each platoon must have a recoilless gun squad, and each battalion must have a rocket artillery platoon.

Although the use of Catfish rocket artillery against Loyev is really a surplus of firepower, considering the rapidly changing situation on the battlefield, for example, Balzen's reconnaissance battalion also carried ten "Catfish". In this way, the heavy weapons of the task force:

Each battalion of 70 mm recoilless guns, a total of twenty guns, each with forty rounds of ammunition.

Fifty machine guns per battalion, a total of two hundred.

Each battalion has at least 52 RPG groups, totaling 220 groups, with a total of 2,200 rounds of ammunition.

The regiment had 20 45-mm field guns with a total of 2,000 rounds of ammunition.

The regiment was armed with a total of fourteen catfish rocket launchers.

In addition to these standard heavy weapons, the paratrooper brigade was better equipped by carrying four 82-mm mortars with 400 rounds of ammunition.

Riflemen were the majority of the special regiments, and most of the Soviet units were indeed the main branch of the army. However, the special feature of the task force is that the fighters are armed with a large number of semi-automatic rifles such as SVT38 and SVT40, and their firepower alone is very impressive. What's more, their heavy weapons are insanely numerous!

It is also because of these heavy weapons that the important role of the carriage is highlighted. The above heavy weapons and ammunition are also mainly distributed to the vast number of soldiers, and each person is responsible for some special ammunition. In addition to a large number of potatoes on the carriage, there was spare ammunition, especially recoilless shells, and the whole regiment carried a total of 2,000 rounds!

So many fighters are also joking, they are not going to surround Loyev and attract the enemy's main forces to come to the rescue, but plan to raze that city to the ground and go to war! Everyone imagined that when the enemy's reinforcements were crushed by their own troops, it would be the tragic artillery fire that blew up the enemy in the encirclement into wisps of green smoke!

More than 2,000 fighters gathered in the playground with their entire regiments fully equipped shortly after the morning trumpet sounded. Behind them, there were a large number of onlookers, thousands of whom had already surrounded the playground.

Under this kind of loud voice, Yang Mingzhi and others came to the playground with great interest.

The blacksmith village had already brought in the loudspeaker equipment, and the communications department had begun to prepare for the war, so when Yang Mingzhi began to speak, it was equivalent to broadcasting to the entire guerrilla republic, and even the pre-war mobilization of the headquarters could be heard in the mines, the Homnich military station, and the Missy Ferry.

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Yang Mingzhi, Yevlov, and even Salinchkin and Lyudbalev took turns to speak.

In addition to once again telling the tactical and strategic essentials of this operation, they once again denounced the crimes of the invaders, such as Salinchkin, and directly cited some bloody cases, in an effort to stimulate the revenge of the warriors.

The final result was naturally an astonishing burst of fighting enthusiasm from the troops, and the entire playground, and even the entire blacksmith village, the voices of Ulla rose one after another.

Because the peaceful inhabitants of the blacksmith village were also mobilized, they did not need any orders, they woke up in the cool early morning, put on their best clothes, and gathered together on the main road in and out of the village.

Just three weeks earlier, the troops had completely defeated the Romanian army, and thousands of fighters carried red flags in triumph.

The Soviet Red Army was invincible! The aggressor will be completely defeated! The Romanians, these accomplices of the Germans, are stupid! These ideas are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In the new military operation, the soldiers who went out will return triumphantly, and tens of thousands of people will see them off with infinite expectations, waiting for the so-called fighters armed to the teeth, advancing to the battlefield.

Lots of flowers collected by children, potatoes cooked overnight by women, and even dried fish that they themselves were reluctant to eat. The road was so crowded that the police chief Karasky had to pull everyone under his command out to maintain order.

When the speech ended, Yang Mingzhi raised his arms and officially announced the start of military operations.

A special task force of 2,700 people, infantry squads with powerful firepower, carrying machine guns, RPGs, and huge backpacks, walked in neat steps. Such infantry squads can be described as the core of the troops, with a total of more than 200 squads, and they seem to have been copied. Their weapons are surprisingly consistent, their pace is surprisingly consistent, the queue is neat, and they look majestic, who doubts their combat effectiveness?

They formed four columns and, amid the cheers of the people, gradually walked out of the village.

At this moment, many fighters added some boiled potatoes to their loads, and many people basically ate them immediately, after all, they had to eat a lot of food with so much equipment on their backs. However, no one felt tired, and the soldiers had long been accustomed to it, and they could actually carry these burdens on their backs and complete the fifty-kilometer march before dark.

And they did, but because they were in a swamp and the road to the north was too winding. The whole army had two days to reach the combat area and finally reach the outskirts of the city of Loyev, and there were really no problems.

After leaving the city, the four battalions were divided into two parts. According to the layout of the encirclement of the city of Loyev, the paratrooper brigade was to reach the left bank of the Dnieper directly at the Missy crossing and go all the way north.

The three battalions of the main forces, under the direct leadership of Balzen, marched directly to Loyev.

In terms of the difficulty of the march alone, the paratrooper brigade had a relatively smooth road, and after crossing the river, they could follow the established dirt road directly north to the north, and would first reach the east of the city of Loyev. The main three battalions were a little more troublesome, at least until dawn on June 22, and there was no problem in reaching their destination.

Even if the paratrooper brigade arrives at the target first, they cannot launch an attack on their own, and everything must be at the disposal of Balzen, the commander of the front.

For Balzen, he also realized that this was a rare re-emphasis on himself by the commander. As soon as he left the village, he turned the commander's weight into a spur to the soldiers.

His order was very simple: "The whole army marched for two hours and marched to the destination as fast as possible!" ”