Yang Mingzhi completely changed the image of "muddy" a few days ago. He's not afraid of things, it's just disgusting and boring! Now that a bunch of things are in front of him, the whole person is more energetic!

For the two regiments and one battalion involved in the operation, he was completely assured of how the fighters were, and what kind of weapons and equipment the fighters would use was even more ambitious.

In the afternoon, a military meeting will continue, and Salinchkin will continue to attend as a special representative. This man is a person who can make friends, and he is a person who knows how to maximize benefits.

Therefore, he would not report anything that would expand the tasks of the superiors.

In fact, no one believes it if it is reported! Who would believe that there is some kind of weapon that can be launched from the Dnieper and go directly to attack a city with a population of 200,000 people ?!

The afternoon meeting was a purely military meeting, and all the regimental and battalion commanders involved in the operation were present, and everyone gathered around the map table and listened to their commanders talking.

On the other hand, the communications room of the command has been replaced by Alekseev himself, and all the male communicators are present.

The female correspondents all went back to their dormitories to rest, and after the shocking scene of the early morning, Alekseev was completely sure that his Peria was a genius. He secretly made up his mind that the child must learn to operate the telegraph immediately, and it took her five days to learn the Soviet army's double-encrypted code, and she must be able to learn how to operate the telegraph in five days.

The month given by the commander was no longer a time constraint, but a waste of the child's time. Judging from the current situation, the child can quickly translate telegrams, except that he can't send the telegram, if the superior orders the radio to be silent, then the child has a reason to go to work!

Alekseev's mind was naturally still on the telegraph.

The orders of the superiors were too brief, and many details were not explained at all. He was keenly aware that the 17th guerrilla brigade definitely had content, after all, the troops could not cross the river, and stupidly waited for the so-called guerrilla brigade to find it in person.

He waited forever, and finally at four o'clock in the afternoon, a new telegram arrived!

Compared to the early hours of the morning, the telegraph operator at this time was prepared, the pen and paper were ready, and when the red light suddenly turned on, everyone was ready.

The only sound in the communication room was the ticking of the different rhythms of the code, and the rustling of the tip of the telegraph operator's pen across the paper......

Soon, Alekseev personally took the new intelligence and stormed the large office where the meeting was taking place.

He roared, "New orders! A new order was sent from above. ”

Suddenly, everyone's eyes turned to this person, and Yang Mingzhi stood up excitedly and shouted, "What did the superior order?!" ”

"See for yourself!"

Saying that, this new order was placed in front of Yang Mingzhi.

Yang Mingzhi did not find it new, this new order is a revision and expansion of the previous order, not only indicating the exact time of the 63rd Army's operation, especially introducing the serious difficulties that the 17th Guerrilla Brigade is currently facing.

By 1942, the Soviet army had significantly revised its troop size, for example, the size of an integrated division was reduced from 15,000 to about 10,000.

Some of the larger units were dismantled into more mobile and flexible brigades.

As a rule, a brigade consists mainly of two regiments with a strength of about five thousand. After all, this kind of small unit has only a few thousand people, and compared with the previous unit composed of 20,000 or even 30,000 troops, it can give full play to the advantage of high mobility in some special battlefields.

Guerrilla brigades, on the other hand, generally have fewer combat strength than regular infantry brigades.

There were a large number of guerrilla brigades fighting in the German-occupied territories, some of them formed by scattered stragglers, and some of them were regular troops who were breaking through and were ordered to start guerrilla warfare on the spot. These units were given a new type of formation, and many guerrilla brigades, which began with just over 1,000 men, were asked to expand their forces in the occupied areas.

Therefore, in the entire German-occupied zone, there was no more powerful force than the 63rd Army and their partisan republics. The second level is naturally the guerrilla brigades scattered in the forests and swamps, the second level is the guerrilla regiments, guerrilla brigades, and finally the guerrilla detachments.

With the creation of the command of the partisan movement, Ponomarenko was ambitious. It can be said that the existence of a guerrilla republic gave him so much confidence that he even wanted to reproduce it.

Therefore, Yang Mingzhi kept looking down, and an incomparably complex situation was clearly written on the paper.

"What the hell! Our Comrade Ponomarenko, he ...... The operation, which he personally commanded, failed! ”

"What's going on? Berekov?! Yevlov hurriedly asked.

Yang Mingzhi wiped his sweat, looked at the expectant eyes of everyone regretfully, shook his head and said, "Now we completely understand the situation of the 17th Guerrilla Brigade!" They want to learn from us and gnaw out a stable guerrilla zone in enemy-occupied areas! Alas, they failed! Now they are being pursued by the enemy and have been forced to transfer! ”

"So? Our mission saved them?! Yevlov continued to ask.

"That's right! It's not just about saving them! And give them the queen of the palace! I am now wondering if our army is too small with 5,000 troops! Because of the enemy's strength! ”

"How many troops?"

"At least one division!"

"A division?!" Yevlov was surprised, as were the others.

The officers have a high level of confidence in their own troops, but they are not conceited. If the Soviet army faced an enemy with a division of 10,000 people, even if these guys belonged to the German army with the lowest combat effectiveness such as the security forces, their huge strength should not be underestimated! After all, the bullets fired by the rabble can kill just as much.

Seeing that everyone was paying close attention, Yang Mingzhi simply stood up and read out the telegram in public......

It turned out that the overly idealistic command of the guerrilla movement command ultimately led to the losses and difficulties that the current 17th Guerrilla Brigade has suffered.

A rout retreated to the Pripett swamps, where they withstood repeated encirclements by the Germans, not only won the victory, but also opened up a large area of liberated areas, and even established a state of their own. Stalin and a group of his close comrades-in-arms approved the legitimacy of the guerrilla republic and accepted it as a union republic.

These measures, without exception, stimulated Ponomarenko's nerves.

He was the first chronicle of Belarus before the war, and now he is the first chronicle of the guerrilla republic, and he is tasked with expanding the guerrilla movement. The guerrilla republic existed only in the southern part of Gomel Oblast, and even if that Berekov was a guerrilla genius, the maximum results he and his tens of thousands of fighters could achieve were still very limited. Their influence is currently confined to southern Belarus and is unlikely to be highly variable for some time.

The guerrilla movement was in full swing, and after entering 1942, the overall strength of all guerrilla units in the enemy-occupied areas after the trough was strengthened.

Ponomarenko was able to contact as many as twenty-five guerrilla brigades, which varied in strength, from nearly 10,000 men at the highest to 3,000 at the least.

Ten partisan brigades operated in dense forests along the line from Leningrad to Bryansk, while in Ukraine there were only two.

The partisan brigade that exists in Ukraine, the 17th partisan brigade has been operating in the north of the Chernihiv region. The other, the 19th Guerrilla Brigade, operated near Sostka in Sumy Oblast.

By May 1942, the guerrilla movement in Ukraine was still not developing well, with vast plains and only a large number of forests in the northeastern corner.

Forests and swamps provide a natural barrier for the guerrillas, and in the plains it is even more difficult to develop guerrilla movements. There are a large number of small-scale rebel groups in these areas, and their strength is very limited, and the results they can achieve are even more limited.

To make matters worse, Ukraine is now arguably the biggest strategic priority for the German army, especially in Kharkiv and Poltava oblasts, where the Germans have massed heavy forces and the activities of local resistance groups have suddenly disappeared – because the Germans have resorted to the tactics of killing a thousand people by mistake, which is a cruel but effective counter-guerrilla method.

And the reason for the real and complete suppression of the local partisans was the large number of German regular troops gathered here!