Chapter 1099: Grab the cannon

As far as artillery is concerned, the normal establishment of the 6th Division of the Romanian Army should have 36 75-mm field guns and 16 100-mm howitzers.

However, these paper formations were still in place when the unit entered the Soviet Union, and after a year of war, and after a major replenishment in January 1942, the division's field artillery was restored to the level of 24.

For this operation, because it was a mobile operation, the 100-mm howitzer was still a heavy weapon of the First World War level, and it could only be used on the more than 20 medium-caliber field guns made in the Czech Republic. Excluding a few that were being overhauled, only 20 of the artillery regiments were finally transported to the front.

These 75-mm guns were not very powerful, and they proved to be very successful in shelling Soviet positions. But what can the Luo army do, even if this poor agricultural country supports the great war launched by Germany, their military strength is still too weak, and it is not easy for the infantry division to have such a large number of heavy weapons.

Overall, seeing these artillery, Grisescu's depressed heart finally recovered a little, after all, this is a cannon that can hit high-explosive shells ten kilometers away!

That night, the Romanian army camped on both sides of the road leading to the forest, and in order to avoid further enemy attacks, the entire camp retreated to an area two kilometers away from the forest.

At present, the main force of the Sixth Division is three regiments, mixed with some special arms units and full-time baggage troops, with a total strength of nearly 7,000 troops.

With such a large number of troops, Grisescu did not worry about military rations, they carried a lot of them, and looted some from Ukrainian villages along the way, enough for everyone to eat for a week.

He did not intend to report to the army group until he got the exact enemy situation, and he really did not know how to report it.

Romanians have no idea what the future holds.

On the contrary, it is true that the Soviet army is ambitious, and that night, in the quiet night, one side is uneasy, and the other side is preparing for war with all its might!

Deep in the forest, Soviet soldiers even gathered around a campfire to eat grilled fish and baked potatoes, and everyone was served a typical Belarusian-style sour soup made of wild vegetables, pickled radishes and mushrooms.

These veteran Soviet soldiers, who have long put life and death on the line, do not need to use any slogans to encourage them to fight, and it has become instinctive to attack the invaders. After they had finished their meal, they checked their weapons one last time around the campfire, confident in the battle for tomorrow.

The majority of soldiers did not know that the command had set up those clever plans. In fact, Yang Mingzhi did not hold a military seminar until nightfall, and the reason why this was so was also because the reconnaissance battalion had made a major discovery. The dexterous sentinel, who climbed the red pine treetops like monkeys, saw the enemy's heavy weapon, the field artillery, in the last rays of the day.

You can be full of contempt for the Luo army, but the enemy has arrived with a large number of field artillery, so it has to be taken very seriously.

"Comrades! Our scouts sent important information that enemy artillery had arrived. From the mouth of the previous prisoner of war, we learned that the artillery regiment of the Romanian army had more than 20 75-mm guns and 10 100-mm guns. These weapons are not very strong, and if they had hit, they would have actually hit our heads, and heavy casualties would have been inevitable. Let's talk about it, that's our biggest threat. ”

Thirty cannons are also worthy of shouting? The attitude of the regimental and battalion commanders of the Soviet army was surprisingly unanimous, that is, even if the 152-mm heavy field artillery was used by the Luo army, they used it in a mess. Not to mention the small 75mm tube!

In this regard, the commander of the paratrooper brigade, Tapunov, also directly expressed his contempt: "Comrade commander, you look up to the Romanians too much!" They were beaten like sons by our army in Odessa! Especially their artillery, which is not worth mentioning at all. You can think of the Romanian army as a pure infantry unit! ”

Tepunov's words attracted a high degree of recognition!

"Excellent! After all, they are not German troops, and I now feel that I am too serious to face them with the attitude of facing the German army! But we shouldn't be too relaxed, those cannons are real tools after all! Luo Jun didn't like them, so we snatched them and used them for my use! ”

"What? Commander! Do you mean that our army's task tomorrow is to snatch the artillery back? ”

Yang Mingzhi was choked for a while, and hurriedly vetoed: "No! Our army should not be too proactive yet, and how it will act tomorrow still needs a report from the reconnaissance battalion. If the enemy can enter the city in a big way, it would be better for us to fight an ambush. As for those artillery, our army can capture the best, and if we can't capture it, we have nothing to lose! Our army already has more powerful and flexible rocket artillery, and those bulky artillery are not for us! ”

Ravlenj decisively answered: "Commander! I think that if we can seize it, we should try to seize it! Our old comrade-in-arms Doronin, he still prefers these artillery pieces to rocket artillery! ”

Ravlendi's words caused Yang Mingzhi to fall into some meetings, and that Doronin was the only remaining talent of the 284th Division Artillery Regiment, and the five German-made 75mm guns captured by the previous troops were his lifeblood. However, these guns have gradually been marginalized, replaced by self-produced rocket artillery and recoilless guns with mobile and flexible ammunition, and even the longer-range Exocet rocket launchers.

If you think about it carefully, in terms of value for money, these guns are quite good. Of course, the arsenal can produce its own shells, and the shells can be reloaded when they are collected, and the worst of them can be used to carry out the distribution of gunpowder. He also knew that he wanted to leave the artillery of the Luo army unscathed in the war, how could this be possible! Just being able to capture one is not a small success!

The military discussion gradually turned into a reverie about artillery, and everyone coveted the guns of the Luo army. As for how to fight tomorrow, some people say that the whole army will be reckless, and it will be able to disperse the Luo army in one go. There are also people who respond to changes with the same to see how the Luo army will act, find a flaw and then defeat it.

Regarding these two opinions, Yang Mingzhi naturally supports the latter.

This was by no means a sudden act of instigation, and the army should not have launched an all-out attack in a state of inadequate preparation and uncertainty about the enemy's situation. He also estimated that the enemy would be more chaotic on the battlefield, and that they would have to go to the ruined Slavzich to find out. Besides, the large army is currently in a completely new position, how to find the enemy from afar? None of them can be sure that there are 5,000 elite Soviet troops hiding in the forest!

Yang Mingzhi didn't give any combat orders, he just gave an exploratory offensive order. That is, after dawn, the reconnaissance battalion will be able to mark the exact location of the enemy's artillery position, and then fire a few rockets to try to destroy it directly! Erase the greatest threat to the troops.

This night, Yang Mingzhi and his soldiers slept quite peacefully, only the soldiers at the sentry were still in the company of the owls.

At the Missi crossing, three women's battalions led by Joshua crossed the river, and even the cavalry battalion of Womansky Jr. arrived at the village of Missi with horses. These units, under the command of Anatoli, commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 284th Division, served as a strategic reserve.

Yang Mingzhi was full of thoughts, all he was thinking about was that he used the five thousand main forces under his command to try to defeat the entire Luo Army Infantry Division. It really ignored the reinforcements of nearly 3,000 people at the Missy Ferry.