Chapter 1239: The Current Situation of the German Army in the North

At lunchtime, Yang Mingzhi feasted not only these four female soldiers, such as star fruit and Natasha not only sitting, they were even the cooks of the dishes. Yang Mingzhi didn't drink with Salinchin and the others after all, he was surrounded by a group of female soldiers, which not only made the group of men unhappy, but also attracted some gossip.

"This Berekov, if I am not resistant to alcohol, that guy lacks resistance to women! Speaking of which, why did he have to choose a female soldier to serve as a radar soldier? ”

"Who knows?" Fuming shook his head with the wine bottle, "Maybe Comrade Salinchin can have a good opinion!" ”

"Me? The reason for this...... Hey. ”

"What is the reason?" Yevlov asked.

Salinchkin first gave Fumin a look, and then prevaricated: "I think Comrade Berekov just lacks resistance to female soldiers. In fact, this is true of the vast majority of our warriors. ”

"There is a reason for this!" Yevlov joked, "We have a large number of female soldiers in our army. There are also a large number of young women in the guerrilla republics! Fortunately, our military discipline management is very strict, otherwise, I really don't know how many women will become mothers by surprise. Ha ha! ”

This is actually quite a painful topic, Salinchkin smiled awkwardly, but his mind was about the aftermath of the war. In this battlefield, out of a population of eight million in Belarus, young men joined the army on a large scale, and too many people have already been sacrificed. Therefore, the mass enlistment of Belarusian women in the army is already a helpless move! Berekov's selection of four female radar soldiers was basically out of his selfishness, and as for the thousands of female soldiers in the army, this was pure helplessness.

A soldier's daily life is essential for the maintenance of morale.

In peacetime, it is understandable that long-serving soldiers marry and have children at the station. Moreover, if a soldier dies in battle, according to tradition, his children are also raised by the unit to which he belongs, and they will officially serve when they reach adulthood. But in the harsh environment of the guerrilla republic, the combat troops must be forbidden to talk about love, although this is an oppression of human nature, and the command is very helpless.

Salinchkin is also well aware that some soldiers are still in confinement because of their excessive intimate contact with women without permission. The worst thing is a soldier who has stolen alcohol, and he has made huge profits against civilian women. This behavior led to his being sentenced to execution by a military court.

In this regard, Salinchkin has no good way but to unswervingly use the high-pressure policy and use military courts to maintain the discipline of the troops!

The guerrilla republics and the 63rd Army, the soldiers whose families were killed, they had a high degree of hatred for the German army, and this hateful attitude became the biggest reason for their scrupulous adherence to military discipline. There are half of such fighters in the guerrilla republics.

However, there were many soldiers, especially those who had been captured and forced into the army, and there were more than 6,000 such soldiers, and the vast majority of those who violated military discipline came from these people.

Salinchkin also knew that the raid on the city of Loyev was about to begin. He was inevitably a little worried that the high-quality elite troops were being consumed little by little. In his view, the reason why the elite is the elite is mainly due to its high degree of ideological consciousness. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has a major historical mission in training ordinary troops, and even units with bad ideological styles, into elites!

On June 16 in the guerrilla republics, the collective farms received the glad news of the success of the radar experiment, and celebrations were held in various places to varying degrees.

The happiest were the ordinary residents, who, although they did not know anything about the exact operation of the radar, were informed that it was a device that could detect German bombers in advance. Human life is the most important, and the newspapers advertise that if the army can detect enemy planes half an hour in advance, everyone will have enough time to flee to the forest, and the threat of air raids is no longer serious!

While the guerrilla republics were happy, it should have been the sorrow of the German army. Worst of all, the Germans themselves are not equipped with advanced radar equipment!

The closest to the swamp were the German 707th and 722nd Divisions, which could be described as old rivals of the Soviet army in the swamp, and they had been confronting and fighting each other for more than half a year. For a long time, the German two divisions suffered huge losses, and many attacks ended in failure. On the surface, the Germans were still on the offensive, but in fact they were helplessly defensive!

Hertzman, commander of the 707th Division, and Florid, commander of the 722nd Division, reached a consensus on the issue of opposing the enemy in the swamps, that is, the so-called defend their own lines and do not take the initiative to provoke them. The division commander had such an attitude, and the junior soldiers were even more happy to see it. Because it is always these grassroots soldiers who die in battle, the veterans of the army have described the damned swamp as hell, and the vast majority of the recruits who have replenished the army naturally listen to the veterans.

Only a few pretentious people still thought that with great courage, they could defeat the Soviet army in the swamps.

The German infantry could hold their own defensive lines, they could not dictate to the air force, and had to be coordinated by the division commander himself. Of course, they also hope that the air force will beat the Russians well, and the last air raid did exactly that.

The German battlefield propaganda was that 2,000 enemies had been killed, and the news was so exaggerated that many veterans did not believe it, and only the recruits were excited about it. The middle and lower-ranking officers knew some bad inside information, and the Russians, who should theoretically have no ability to let go of air, actually shot down a total of six planes!

Because Koch's aviation brigade was still ordered to cooperate with the friendly 707th and 722nd divisions, as a rigorous and pragmatic person, he reported the losses of the aviation brigade to the two division commanders very honestly, and even reported the details of the air raid operation and shared information.

The heavy paper was what the two division commanders hoped for most, since they had not been able to know the state of the swamps since the beginning of April, at great cost, they had "triumphantly routed" the invading Russians.

The rains during this period made the German army miserable, and many soldiers suffered from skin diseases due to long-term wet boots, and even the typical trench feet of the First World War! There were even soldiers who joked that this is not Gomel in Belarus, but Verdun in France! History goes back to twenty years ago, and they were a bunch of loaches in a muddy trench!

Finally, after the rain, the first thing these German soldiers did was to tidy up their housekeeping. Although there are regulations, the majority of soldiers can't take care of it at all! The barbed wire fence in front of the positions that had been erected was actually covered with the uniforms of the soldiers who had been washed.

The officers at the front knew that it should not be, and they did not stop it.

The warriors needed to vent the stress of the long-term rains, they washed their clothes en masse, bathed en masse, and even went to Gomel and Lechtsa to enjoy vacations. Two months without fighting has changed their attitude towards the local population, and they no longer see any Belarusian as a potential guerrilla.

And because of the establishment of special entertainment places in the city, there were some local women engaged in the leather and meat business, whether these women were forced or not, and the German soldiers were willing to spend in these places, followed by beer halls and bakeries, and the soldiers' allowances were probably consumed in this way.

But the German soldiers did not like the city of Lechica very much, and they sensed that the Belarusians here were living in trembling. It may not be the Wehrmacht that the locals fear, but the Waffen-SS, an SS unit of French Germans with a regiment in strength.

This unit became a formidable executioner in successive purge operations, and their behavior made the officers and men of the 707th Division ashamed of themselves.

The German soldiers' job was not only to dry their clothes, they were also ordered to inspect the minefields in front of the positions and make sure that the mines were not buried in the mud!

Since there had been no fighting for more than two months, the soldiers had to wonder how meaningful the defensive line they had painstakingly built. If the Russians don't attack, they will continue to strengthen their defenses with steel and concrete, which is a waste of effort.

So these soldiers are really getting more and more bold, in the past they were worried about cold guns and cannons coming out of the distant forests, but now a large number of forests have been forcibly cleared, and there are two kilometers of open land in front of the position! Who would be worried about being sniped?

Both division commanders believed that their line of defense was not what it used to be, and that it was, and that for two months there had been only sporadic partisan attacks on the Moziri-Gomel road, which they were in charge of. These guerrillas came from the north, and their combat strength and equipment were even more clumsy, and they were easily wiped out!

If this is the way life on the battlefield in the future, life is not bad.

However, finally on June 16, the south wind blew something from the south, and the peaceful atmosphere of the 707th Division's defense line was put to an end!