It's been a good day!

Natasha thought so, she put the dangers of yesterday aside, and on the morning of the new day, after repelling the third round of German attacks, she also joined the counterattack led by Balzen herself.

They captured a large number of officers and soldiers of the police regiment, and as her comrades gathered them, Natasha fell silent.

Seven of the Cadet Battalion soldiers she had selected were currently involved in the pursuit, and they gathered around the commander to talk about today's battle.

The troops were obviously able to continue the pursuit, and the regiment commander gave the order, and everyone could only stay here and clean up the battlefield.

"It's unfortunate that I can continue to kill enemies, and now I'm asked to pick up corpses." The young soldier Leblasky, a member of Lenin's Young Pioneers, wore a red scarf around his neck. When the corpse was examined for usable items, blood stains were also heavily stained on the clothes.

This man was indeed very bold, and the numerous corpses did not stimulate his nerves in the slightest. He picked up some heavy armed belts, as well as more than a dozen pairs of shoes, and threw them at the makeshift loot dump.

After all this work, he returned to Natasha, so the expression on his face was not good.

"What? Does the battlefield make you uncomfortable?" Natasha asked.

"Phew! I felt great, I shot two enemies, and I could still do it again, but the regimental commander wouldn't let us pursue. ”

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"Instructor, aren't you annoyed?"

"Me?" Natasha shook her head, "Soldiers have a duty to obey orders, and we must obey orders. We're just here to wait, waiting for the next order. Besides, there are so many prisoners of war to be guarded. ”

"Leblasky, don't complain about anything!" Ruslan interjected.

"But, deputy battalion commander, I ......"

"I know you're eager to fight, don't you just want to be outstanding in front of the instructor?"

Hearing this, Leblasky smiled.

Natasha kicked him in the eye and said, "You are indeed a brave man, and bravery at the wrong time is sometimes reckless." So I can't admit that you're a good soldier right now, and as a soldier, you shouldn't complain to me. ”

"Alright! Okay......" Leblaski rubbed his shoulders and sat down on the grass to himself, "I'm tired anyway, so I might as well take a break." ”

At the same time, Balzen was sorting prisoners of war. In order to avoid escape, a large group of prisoners of war was divided into small groups, and the soldiers of one squad kept a close watch over twenty prisoners of war, and the prisoners of war would certainly not dare to flee if they dared to flee, because ten pairs of eyes were staring at any rash move.

Balzen leaned down and inspected the troop of his troops.

The troops captured hundreds of rifles, but there were few machine guns. Those captured armed belts had boxes of ammunition hanging from them, but unfortunately there was too little ammunition captured. Some of the cartridges had only a few rounds left, indicating that their owners were running out of ammunition.

This detail forced Balzen to ponder: "Didn't the enemy carry more ammunition?" Or is it stunned that it has been blown out? He felt that the Germans were too stingy with this group of puppet troops, and they couldn't even give more ammunition, so it was no wonder that these guys would raise their hands and surrender en masse.

The sound of gunfire in the distance continued, and Balzen's side continued to carry out rhythmic shelling of Loyev.

Suddenly, not far away, on the surface of the Dnieper River, there was a sharp whistle.

What is that?

Natasha and most of the officers and soldiers turned their heads to look east. The fog had almost dissipated, and everyone stood up and looked up, only to see a black shadow emitting faint black smoke on the wide sparkling river, which was rapidly going upstream, and the waves it brought made it even more obvious.

"Hey, hey! It's our gunboats! Leblasky was as excited as a monkey, and he was not only happy, but also deliberately complained: "The regimental commander is really! The only gunboat we had had gone to fight for the results, and we, the battle-hardened warriors, sat here quietly. ”

Natasha looked at the gunboat and shook her head: "Don't say it, our pursuit of the Germans is over." Alas, in fact, gunboats could have arrived early to help in the battle, especially yesterday's battle. It was long overdue, presumably because the fog was blocking the course. ”

The only gunboat of the 1124 type, which these days has been acting as a cargo ship linking the Soviet defense line of Loyev and the Missy ferry. It transported all kinds of wounded at the beginning of the battle to the Missy ferry by water, and then transported some food and medicine to the front line. It ran out of ammunition at one point, and now it has a "small mobile turret" on the river.

Because, not only did its two 76-mm tank guns replenish the ammunition, but the Soviets temporarily brought four recoilless guns on board with up to 200 rounds of ammunition in reserve.

The small gunboat carried a heavy load, and when the fog subsided, it made its way through the broken bridge. Because the gunboat did receive an order to assist Balzen in the morning, but because of the fog, he had to temporarily change his action, that is, to bombard Loyev, to achieve a kind of containment.

When the battle quickly turned into a strangulation of the enemy by various troops, the gunboats rushed north to participate in the final battle.

The gunboat was armed with six guns, ten machine guns, and there were as many as thirty people on board. It carries a lot of weight, and the draft becomes deeper, and if it weren't for the high level of the river during this time, the gunboat would have run aground long ago!

The perspective then shifts to the Germans.

Quetzal could never have imagined that he would be so high-spirited that he would go south with 5,000 men and more than 10 tanks, and today was the second day of the official battle, and he would be reduced to almost the total annihilation of his army.

Obviously, he seriously underestimated the strength of the Soviet army because of his arrogance, and also found that the Soviet army in the Pripet swamp was indeed too cunning. They were so elusive that they blocked their way to escape.

The situation was very bad, only more than 1,000 German officers and soldiers escaped from the pursuit of the Soviet cavalry, and a large number of Soviet troops were moving here in three directions, north, south and west.

I saw that a large amount of earth was still blown up on the flat ground, which was a shell thrown by the Soviet army. The figures of the Soviet soldiers could only be faintly seen through the telescope, and they were simply outside the effective range of the MG34.

The war has come to this point, and Quetzal stomped his feet angrily. In order to escape for their lives, his men had already thrown away most of the heavy equipment, especially mortars, and even a lot of heavy machine guns, and the Germans had lost even the heavy firepower to counterattack.

In order to survive, the Germans had to advance eastward, even knowing that there was a wide Dnieper.

What else can Quetzal do? Look at the artillery fire of the Soviet army, they are actually "charging in the barrage". The bombardment was gradually destroying the position of the German troops, and in such an open area bombarding the German troops, who could not even find cover, the lethality must be maximized.

At this point, Getzal could only think of the only way to survive - to flee to the banks of the Dnieper, throw away the extra load, take off his clothes that were as heavy as lead, and jump into the river to swim to the other side.

As for how many people can swim through, it is a matter of fate.

Quetzal shouted: "All soldiers, follow me across the river!" We swam to the other side and it was completely safe. ”

For a while, the German officers and soldiers couldn't care about whether this order was reliable, and if they stayed, they were doomed to die, so it was better to fight in the end!