A paratrooper brigade and reconnaissance battalion completed the occupation of Slavdish, or rather, liberation. The main forces of the 2nd Regiment of the 284th Division, also carrying a large number of baggage and heavy weapons, reached the forest on the edge of the city.

Yang Mingzhi received reports from these troops, and it was clear that the results of the rocket artillery bombardment were very satisfactory, and he was full of confidence to report the victory to the soldiers.

The joy of victory overflowed everyone's faces, and Yang Mingzhi shouted happily: "Comrades! Slavzich has been liberated, tonight, let's all go into the city for the night! ”

It's already four o'clock in the afternoon, it's a sunny day, the sun is still very high, it will set the horizon at eight o'clock in the evening, and the sunset will even last until half past eight! After all, the dimensions of Belarus are too high, and the daylight hours of the day are growing rapidly until the day of the summer solstice!

Yang Mingzhi had plenty of time to walk the last five kilometers to Slavdish, and he estimated that the city would be uninhabitable even if it was bombed by himself!

He regretted that most of those buildings were private houses, and since they were private houses, they had a large number of daily necessities, which was very important to the lives of the people of the guerrilla republic, especially the soldiers. It's a pity that a large number of daily necessities, and even noble clothes, are afraid that they will be blown to ashes by their own rocket artillery!

So, in reply to the telegram from the commander of the paratrooper brigade, he ordered: "Your brigade and friendly units immediately search the city and salvage everything that can be used while the sun is setting." ”

Naturally, Tepunov complied, and he also reported that he had captured many prisoners of war, and even civilians.

Yang Mingzhi continued to order: "For all prisoners of war and civilians, you will strictly guard them, and lynching is prohibited!" Soldiers who retaliate against prisoners of war without authorization will be temporarily disarmed and kept in centralized custody. ”

The battle is over, and it is indeed a troublesome thing to deal with post-war matters in this way after the city is broken.

In that plane, half of the six million Soviet soldiers who counter-attacked on all fronts in Eastern Europe were residents from the Ural Mountains and even Siberia. These people had a difficult life before they became soldiers, especially Central Asians and Siberian natives. These soldiers are also brave and good at fighting, but they have done a very bad job in terms of military discipline.

It is even said that because the elite units of the Soviet army were depleted in the first two years of the war, the overall quality of the new units was poor. After these units captured enemy cities, as soon as they were taken out of the management of officers and commissars, military discipline collapsed, and the Red Army turned into bandits.

The Soviet army's rectification of military discipline was as simple and crude - direct shooting. Even so, military discipline is still bad.

This is what Yang Mingzhi feared the most, he defined Slavdzych during his pre-war mobilization, that is, the city is a city that has rebelled against the Soviet Union, and all the inhabitants of the city are traitors and enemies!

This view was highly recognized by the vast number of officers and men, and Yevlov, the deputy commander, did not deny it, and Fuming, the general head of the political department of the group army, also directly acquiesced.

The act of killing the prisoners that he feared most was that it had already happened, and how many captured enemies were left? I'm afraid there's not much left!

It's okay to punish traitors, and putting traitors to justice is the way to go!

However, it didn't matter if the traitor lived or died, Yang Mingzhi was more concerned about what to do next after the troops liberated Slavdzich. Is it waiting here? Or did you take the initiative to look for the 17th Guerrilla Brigade?

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Yang Mingzhi led Ravlianji's troops and arrived at their destination in more than an hour.

He saw a campsite in the forest, a makeshift field hospital, and Natasha.

The girl had entered the battle as a sniper, and she had no chance to open fire, for the enemy had already been taken down by the screaming and charging soldiers. The girl then gave the gun to Igor for safekeeping, and with the help of her short-term painstaking surgical skills, she began to play the role of a war doctor.

"Excellent! You continue to bandage the wounded! ”

Yang Mingzhi encouraged her a few words, and then walked out of the forest and stood under the city of Slavtish, which had been reduced to ruins.

The air was still filled with the smell of gunsmoke, some wildfires had not yet been extinguished, ruined buildings, charred ground, and the corpses of enemies that had been carried by soldiers to a pile of piles.

He noticed that beside the pile of corpses, several heavily armed soldiers were guarding a dozen thinly dressed men, who, judging by their black attire, were prisoners of war.

Hehe, these people who dig pits are only very worried that they are digging their own graves!

In fact, these enemies are dead, they are traitors, and they will be executed after the verdict.

These people are at least alive now, Yang Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and said to himself: "It seems that you have done a good job according to my orders after all!" ”

On the other hand, the paratrooper brigade and the reconnaissance battalion formed a joint command post in the city, and after receiving the commander's order, they ordered their troops to act strictly according to the order.

It's just that it's hard to say whether the officers and soldiers below are doing their duty.

The city was in ruins, and only some of the reinforced concrete buildings survived the explosion, while others were more or less damaged.

Because Slavdzich had not been attacked like this in the past year, the city's inhabitants were not only in good condition, but also had very good supplies. Standing in the rubble, Yang Mingzhi looked left and right, and through the collapsed walls, he could see clearly the wooden bed, wardrobe, and even the dusty clothes scattered in the house. He also saw some soldiers with guns on their backs, standing on the second floor of half of the wall tower, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and carrying some boxes downstairs.

Led by the receiving soldiers, Yang Mingzhi and his guards walked through the streets named after Stalin and soon arrived at the headquarters of the troops.

It was a relatively intact two-story house, and there was a broken plaque hanging on its door, and Yang Mingzhi could see that it should be a department store. It's just that there are no goods in this store for a long time, and the city has long been transformed into a large military camp by the Ukrainian puppet army.

Half of the second floor of the house had collapsed, and at the door of the dilapidated building, there were already soldiers standing guard, and when they saw that the commander himself had arrived, they saluted and shouted inside.

"Comrade Commander! You're finally here! "The paratrooper brigade Zhang Tepunov came up to meet him.

"Yes! I'm finally here! Tepunov, how are you? ”

"I'm fine! The battle was won, and we were a great success. And! Tepnov smiled excitedly.

"And what? Did you catch a big fish? ”

"Ahh Right! It's a big fish! Let's go inside and have a look! ”

After all, this is a department store, and there is a relatively large space in the house. Apparently this place has been cleaned up and a lot of clutter has been removed. It was still early, Yang Mingzhi looked left and right in the room, and saw a person sitting in the corner.

I saw that this person's hands and feet were tied, and a ball of cloth was stuffed in his mouth. Judging from his clothes, this person is a puppet army. It's just that how can such a puppet army stay in the command headquarters, could it be that this is an officer?

"Tapunov, who is this man?"

"It's the enemy's officer!" Tepinov explained, and ordered the guards to pull the cloth from the man's mouth.

Yang Mingzhi hunched over and stared at the enemy.

And Moise was also very surprised, could this Soviet officer be a Mongol? What surprised him the most was the Soviet troops themselves. They were all dressed in very standard earth-green uniforms, and even used Katyusha rocket artillery (he thought so), and these people were basically regular troops.

Moise boldly asked, "Who are you?" You are the 17th guerrilla brigade? ”

Yang Mingzhi was stunned for a moment, he quickly turned his head and smelled Tepunov: "Have you just interrogated this person?" ”

"Interrogated, he and his people are Ukrainian nationalists, and they formed a police battalion to defend the city."

"Huh? But the intelligence sent by the reconnaissance battalion that they fought with the Germans! Also, Where is Balzen? ”

"He's gone to straighten out his people!" Tepunov really didn't want to talk about the matter of the reconnaissance battalion, and his topic was the Moral Army: "This prisoner's name is Moise, and he claims that the reinforcements of the German army are only thirty people, sitting on a few armored vehicles and motorcycles, but the Germans and the vehicles are all shattered by our rocket artillery. ”

"What a pity for motorcycles!" Yang Mingzhi stomped his feet and faced this puppet army officer named Mo Yise again. "So, your name is Moise, and your men have a battalion! It's a pity that your combat strength is much greater than that of the German army, and we were easily defeated. You are a citizen of the USSR, and I think you know how the law convicts traitors. ”

"Of course I do! Isn't it just death! ”