Chapter 1036: Development of the 17th Guerrilla Brigade
It's very interesting to say that the leader of this team is Vasilyev, he is not Jewish, he has a large number of Jews in his team! In terms of national feelings, discrimination and persecution of Jews in Europe have persisted for 2,000 years, and most Ukrainians do not want to see Jews.
When Vasilyev, with more than a thousand people, parted ways with tens of thousands of Ukrainians in Miroshniko, no one went to stop them. After all, at this time, it is still difficult to count on a little food to survive the winter.
Miroshniko followed the choice of the majority of Ukrainians, who offered them almost nothing food and allowed them to march westward in heavy snowstorms and waist-deep snow.
Vasiliev was not a Jew, he simply did not like Miroshniko's actions, and since those guys wished that the Jews would freeze to death, he simply led his brothers and acted as a guard for the Jews.
The black-pressed team struggled to move forward, and the only rabbi in the team even described it as the new "Exodus".
"You are our Moses, the frozen Dnieper is like the Red Sea that separates the sea, and when we find the guerrillas in the swamps, we enter Canaan."
Vasilyev thought this was too nonsense, but he was very comfortable, after all, he was baptized in the Orthodox Church when he was born, and he read a little bit of the Old Testament, and that Moses was by no means a mythical figure, he was real, the savior of the Jewish people.
Today's Soviet Union promotes atheism, at least against man-made gods. Vasilyev doesn't matter, but it's really admirable that these Jews have been able to maintain their faith for thousands of years.
Vasilyev never had any special feelings about Jews, he just enjoyed being championed as a leader by a group of people.
Since this parting, Vasilyev has completely cut off contact with Miroshniko......
Vasilyev's team was full of 1,000 people, which was really a new force for the 284th Division at that time.
The men walked more than 60 kilometers, and many of them lay down overnight in the snow and did not get up again. Along the way, more than 200 people froze to death, and the rest came alive to the control area of the 284th Division.
All of them were interrogated, so Yerenkina actually had a lot of information at the first time. She was a girl with a good memory and a professional education, and in Vasilyev's confession she had some key information.
Later, Vasilyev served as the battalion commander, and he was reused for his exploits! Many of the Jews who were brought back became soldiers. During the operation at the end of April, nearly a thousand liberated Jews were brought to his station in the village of Black Soil! These adults can become soldiers when they regain their physical strength. Vasilyev knew that he was likely to be a regimental commander, but most of the soldiers under his command were of Jewish ethnicity, and this "Moses" was going to be decided!
Therefore, after Yang Mingzhi read out the establishment of the 17th Guerrilla Brigade and the name of the brigade commander, Yelenkina sat up straight suddenly.
She interrupted Yang Mingzhi's words a little inappropriately, and hurriedly asked, "Comrade Commander!" Can you repeat the name just now? What is the last name of the brigade commander? ”
"Miroshniko!" Yang Mingzhi replied. But his pronunciation was a little vague, and Yelenkina signaled her objection, but Yang Mingzhi had no choice but to pronounce them letter by letter.
Putting together the letters, Yerenkina stood up suddenly: "I know this person! I know him! And not only I know! Our battalion commander Vasilyev also knows about him! Many Jews in the village of Black Earth also know him! ”
Yang Mingzhi was a little inexplicable, he scratched his head: "What's the situation?" Could it be that our people still have dealings with this guerrilla brigade? How is this possible? For a year, we have never crossed the Dnieper! ”
"But there are a lot of people from across the river!" Yerentina smiled, "Have you forgotten that Vasilyev came on foot across the Dnieper!" I have the interrogation materials of the time! You pronounce the name of this partisan brigade commander letter by letter, I don't believe that near Gorodnia there was a second high-ranking officer with the surname Miroshniko! ”
The atmosphere is suddenly delicate!
"It can't really be such a coincidence! Where is our Vasilyev? As he spoke, Yang Mingzhi looked left and right, and after a while, he suddenly remembered that many people did not attend this military meeting.
Yang Mingzhi read the document to an abrupt pause, which made Salinchkin, who was in attendance, a little dissatisfied, he had no friendship with Vasilyev, only knew that this was one of the many battalion commanders, and was not interested in his past. With a harsh reproach, he pointed: "Comrade Berekov! Continue to read the order, and we'll discuss the rest later! ”
"Alright! All right! Yang Mingzhi, who was excited, sat down again. He immediately ordered one of the guards and went to the telegraph room to deliver an urgent order, ordering Vasilyev himself to report to the headquarters as quickly as possible!
Yang Mingzhi continued to read the order document, and everyone present also knew that the 17th Guerrilla Brigade had really suffered a serious setback, and there was even a possibility that the entire army might be wiped out!
It turned out that since the arrival of the Spring Festival, the partisan brigade of Miroshniko was able to recover. There were only more than 8,000 of his men left, the old man and some young children, who died of illness and froze to death in the cold winter. This is a tragedy, but there is also a benefit, that is, the old and weak women and children have disappeared a lot, and there are many fewer worries.
The spring guerrilla brigade also harvested some potatoes, which was not much food, and they could survive if they saved some food.
At the end of January and the beginning of February, the Soviet troops in the swamps conducted a large-scale military operation and achieved a great victory! The radio station in Miroshniko's hands easily received the Novgomel broadcast, and learned that the Gomel city council of Belarus was not destroyed, but also worked in a new place of office - Novgomel.
Miroshniko resented the German aggression and admired the achievements of the friendly 284th Division, which was also a partisan force behind enemy lines, but he also adhered to his duty to persist in fighting guerrillas in the area centered on Gorodnia.
In February, the spring offensive of the South-Western Front began, Belgorod was liberated, and Soviet troops liberated the Severodonetsk River. In March, the Soviets counterattacked in the Balvenko River basin and landed in the Crimea. The whole situation was clearly biased in favor of the Soviet army.
At this time, Miroshniko was not idle, and there was a town around the city of Gorodnia where there was a small German garrison. After reconnaissance, they also learned that the German troops in the city of Gorodnia belonged to the 634th Division, where a regiment was garrisoned, and its division headquarters was most likely located in Chernihiv. At the same time, there are also the so-called Eastern volunteer battalions in the cities, all of whom are Ukrainians, recruited in urban and rural areas, and even in prisoner of war camps. These people hit Russians, Belarusians, Jews, and even Ukrainians who supported the Bolsheviks.
Miroshniko led his troops to attack a number of towns, eliminating few German soldiers and killing and wounding many Ukrainian nationalists.
But these attacks have also resulted in many innocent injuries, and chronic lack of supplies has left his people like wolves, fighting against enemy takeaway looting and even violence against women. The moment these fighters took off their pants, completely forgetting that each other was Ukrainian. They did not stop after venting, and directly shot the victim to death on the charge of traitor.
Did Miroshniko manage such evils? He's in charge! It's a pity that a large number of soldiers under his command are involved in the robbery of civilians! Because the soldiers involved in the operation had changed their outfits before and after departure, the ghost believed that they had not gone to loot clothing and other supplies.
Soldiers' crimes need to be punished, but they are really carried out according to military law, and a large number of people can be shot according to the Infantry Conduct Code. But once that's done, the next battle will be gone! Eventually, most of the criminal soldiers were locked up.
And those soldiers with violent surnames, who were reported were executed. Even so, many people are exonerated because they were not reported.
At least Miroshniko still shot people, which has some positive implications for the increasingly chaotic military discipline.