It was already the end of July, and the German offensive on the Ukrainian and Baltic coasts was met with great resistance. The Germans are eating away at the main forces of the Soviet army in Ukraine little by little, believing that the war will inevitably be won, but at a higher cost.

The Soviets were holding off the Germans on the Khmelnytsky-Vinnitsa line, while the Germans were already making a strategic detour, planning a pincer offensive to encircle Kyiv, a tactic similar to their success in Belarus.

More importantly, the Germans had to take the Crimea. As long as the peninsula could not be captured, the Soviets would continue to attack the Ploiesti oil fields in Romania, which were extremely important to the Germans.

Therefore, the center of gravity of the German offensive was inclined to the southwest, and as for the swamps, this was a nightmare of tank assaults. It was a natural barrier, and the Soviets had only deployed troops on the outskirts of the swamps.

For a new day, Yevlov felt that everything was ready.

At ten o'clock in the morning, he called Yang Mingzhi over, and this person was full of confidence. "We're contacting Cherobie's allies at this time, and they'll have a good chance of hearing from us."

Yang Mingzhi looked at his watch, at ten o'clock in the morning, this should be the moment when people are excited.

The meeting room of the collective farm has been transformed into a command post for the troops, and a huge cedar tree has been cut down, and after removing all the branches, it has served as a huge signal tower, with antennas placed at the very top. Wires are connected to the radio station all the way into the house.

Yang Mingzhi entered the house with great interest, and the charging device he made charged the three batteries very well. I saw the radioman turn and twist, and he adjusted the power to the maximum.

"Will this work?" Yang Mingzhi pinched his chin.

"If you don't try it, you'll know if it's going to work." "We use maximum power, so that a battery can communicate for up to 20 minutes, and we should have no problem with continuous calls." ”

Three batteries are an hour of continuous communication, according to calculations, the manpower generator recharges the battery, because the efficiency is too low, an hour of communication actually requires the soldier to ride for eight hours in a row. To make matters worse, on rainy days, the charging device can be greatly disturbed, and if it gets wet, the linen that acts as an insulator becomes a conductor, and it is impossible to charge at all.

Yang Mingzhi knew the future better than anyone else, and in September it was the autumn rainy season, and it was a beautiful time, and by September when the Germans were engaged in the Battle of Moscow, they marched through the mud and advanced very slowly.

"Well, hopefully we'll be able to contact our allies once in one. In addition to food and ammunition, we also need a generator. ”

"That's for sure." Yevlov smiled.

I saw that the radio officer had finished all the preparations, and this person was wearing a headset, with the message to be sent in front of him, and a pen and paper to record the information returned, and his right hand was hanging on the transmitter.

"Sir, I'm ready."

"Okay, let's start posting!" Yang Mingzhi ordered.

The radio was ticking, it was Morse code, the signal strength was already maximum, and the radio was transmitted in all directions at the speed of light.

Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov could never have imagined that the Soviet defenders in at least two places received this message.

The dispatcher launched the message, which was expressed in words: "We are the remnants of the 284th Guards Division, we are stationed in the Pripet Marsh, and we urgently need a lot of supplies. He repeated the message, and after five minutes of continuous reporting, the friendly forces responded.

Both the nearest Nocheby and Kiev in the distance received the signal sent by this Soviet telegram cipher.

Far away in Kiev, within the headquarters of the South-Western Front, General Kirponos was strategizing, and he also commanded the entire front by radio. The other day from the Minsk direction escaped a force of the size of two divisions, they were Kuznetsov's army. It's a miracle that, in theory, these guys have already been annihilated by the Germans.

Kilponos summoned Kuznetsov directly, and he also learned that some of the troops remained in the swamp, but the exact location could not be determined.

The battle was tense, and Kirponos promised to support those men with some supplies, but the Germans approached aggressively, and the support of the defenders of the swamp was simply forgotten.

In his opinion, he commands more than a million troops, and the first task is to defend Ukraine, and the troops of only a thousand people, even if they have the title of guard, are insignificant compared to the survival of the whole of Ukraine.

In this way, Kuznetsov took the remnants of his army by train to the interior, and their destination was Moscow, where they were to carry out a regrouping.

So, the signal from the swamp reminded Kirponos that he had promised something, and immediately ordered his men to talk to them.

The telegraph operator suppressed the excitement in his heart, and the Kiev side had already heard back, and the office was boiling.

Yevlov urgently put a list in front of the dispatcher, which was an important supply that the troops had to ask for from the top of the Soviet army. There are also Yerenkina's requests here, and she wants not materials, but people. The vast majority of the grassroots political commissars of the army have long since died, and the remaining party and government officers in the army can hardly maintain the ******** of the entire army and the militia, so a number of political commissars must be parachuted.

Soon, on the Kiev side, a report was put in front of Kirponos.

"They were the remnants of the 284 Guards Infantry Division, which was supposed to be annihilated by the German 7th Panzer Division during the Battle of Minsk. Could it be, as Kuznetsov said, that their last thousand men fled to the swamp with the division headquarters. ”

"It's them, we tried to contact them before but never heard back, I didn't expect them to take the initiative to contact us." The officer said.

Since they are allies, they must be supported as promised. Looking at the list of supplies requested by this army, food and ammunition are understandable, in addition to many daily necessities, even a large number of bedding and even raincoats. There was also a gasoline generator, which Kirponos could see as to their lack of electricity, and that this radio contact must have been an attempt at great power.

If they can't contact their allies, it will be very difficult to do so later because the battery is already running out of power.

He realized that the situation was very serious, that the division headquarters of the 284th Guards Division still existed, and that there were even people from the NKVD in this ranks, and their presence was even more symbolic. He remembered Kuznetsov's words earlier: "There is a very important person in this team, Berekov from China who joined the Soviet army, he is a genius commander and an inventor. The new weapons they brought with them from the Far East will allow even the most ordinary soldiers to be equipped with at least 57 mm anti-tank guns. ”

These rhetoric were very tempting, and Kirponos also saw that Kuznetsov was careful to preserve the "secret weapon". This is a rocket weapon with a very large charge, it is launched by a single soldier, and it is enough for one person to operate, what this means is self-evident.

At this moment, the Southwestern Front is stubbornly holding back the Germans in right-bank Ukraine. Kilponos did not know that he had made history, and with his proper command, the Germans suffered so many losses west of Zhytomyr in the first two months of the war that the Germans were forced to postpone the general offensive.

Communication was intermittent, and the radio was already very hot due to the huge load, so several soldiers held thin wooden planks as fans to cool down the machine.

Kirponos readily agreed to almost all of the men's requests, and he ordered the airfield to prepare ten transport planes to urgently load the cargo and drop supplies into the swamp by airdrop. At the same time, the defenders of Cherobi were immediately notified and prepared to receive supplies for land transport.

In order to make it easier for the transport planes to find the location of the 284th Division, Kirponos ordered them to light some flames, as long as they ignited thick black smoke. After all, Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov only provided a general direction, and the "wolf smoke" would become a kind of sign to facilitate the airdrop of the aircraft.

At the same time, Kirponos also suggested that the 284th Division and the militia should build a field airfield in the area as much as possible. Regardless of how flat the land is, as long as it is a plain of about the same size, remove the obstacles, and the transport plane can take off and land directly.

This communication was so successful that Yang Mingzhi had to wonder what was the use of his desperate efforts to reload the bullets. He couldn't help but ask Yevlov, "Do you think that with the help of friendly forces, we will not have to worry about anything in the future?" ”

"This? Perhaps you know better than I do, and you are our wisest adviser. ”

Yang Mingzhi knew that the guerrilla warfare engaged in by the Soviet Union in the war was much more difficult than that of China, and of course the best was the Yugoslav guerrillas, who even had tanks and armored vehicles. On the Soviet side, there was probably the broad support of the masses of the people, men, women and children enthusiastically joining the army, and at the same time there was such a strange thing as a "guerrilla republic".

Wait a minute! Suddenly Yang Mingzhi remembered, the guerrilla republic, wasn't it established in the Pripet swamp area! They were a large group of partisans who sent representatives to a meeting, and the CPSU sent professionals to lead it, and de jure a republic of the USSR.

Thinking of this, is it possible that you have become a history maker?

The Kiev side has already shown the way for the 284 Division. "I didn't change all the original plans, now we have to build a small airport." Yang Mingzhi looked at Yevlov, "I suggest that all the soldiers who are logging in the forest be retrieved, and we will work with the villagers to clear weeds and stones on the small plain outside the village, and bulldoze the fence and some defensive positions built!" ”

Yevlov agreed. "Just do as you say."

In the telegram communication, the Kyiv side planned to send a transport plane to drop supplies the next day, and they made it very clear in the telegram. A small portion of ammunition will be transported, others such as household items and medicines will be transported in large quantities, and the first supplies will have a lot of woolen blankets and even some iron basin cutlery. Salt and vegetable seeds were also the first supplies, and Kirponos was very satisfied, these guys were not only fighting on the front lines of the war, but they also clearly planned to develop production in the middle of the war.

These things are not munitions, but they can make the life of the soldiers more comfortable, especially the salt. Yang Mingzhi estimated that if they sent enough salt, they would not be able to pickle some vegetables and salted fish, so that the lives of the soldiers would be more secure in winter.

But now, after entering the afternoon, Yang Mingzhi, as an officer, also took the lead, carrying a shovel to level the land.