The fighting in the city was all over, and there were naturally a large number of dead bodies on the battlefield, and the Soviet army liberated the city and shouldered the responsibility of cleaning up the battlefield.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion also immediately dug some pits, and they took away the corpses of the enemy they were looking for, such as valuable shoes, and threw them into the pits to bury them.

Just those three soldiers who committed crimes, they were sentenced to death.

Blindfolded by rags, the three stood in front of a wall of ruins, and a firing squad of soldiers from the reconnaissance battalion, under the personal command of Balzen, carried out the execution.

Yang Mingzhi didn't have to look at the execution. He was lying on his back, and all he could hear was a burst of gunfire......

"I hope you all have a longer memory." He looked back at the onlookers and left with his hands behind his back.

Balzen was in a mixed mood, and he shouted at the fighters: "Comrades! These three scum are dead! Everyone must take this as a warning, if there is another crime, if you don't work with the commander, I will kill him myself! ”

Yang Mingzhi vaguely heard this. This incident touched him a lot, and the reconnaissance battalion fought two major battles in a month, high-intensity battles and crazy long-distance raids, and everyone's mental pressure was very great. Under high pressure, these soldiers really do anything!

Fortunately, shooting three people should be able to set an example for everyone.

At this moment, the clean-up of the city is still going on, and the fighters of various units are digging deep into these bricks and rubble, looking for the corpses of the enemy, and even the corpse parts, for unified burial. They are also looking for usable items, especially cutlery and clothes.

In this kind of work of "picking up rags", the paratrooper brigade has the most abundant harvest. They were the first to enter the city, numbering more than 2,000 men, and after taking away civilians and prisoners of war, they searched building by building.

They found a large number of clothes, but some of the houses were not damaged by the rocket bombardment, the wardrobes were opened by the soldiers, and a large number of neat clothes were found. Clothing, its strategic value is even equal to food! The first snow will fall in about four months, the temperature will plummet below freezing, and there are more than 55,000 people in the guerrilla republic, and the clothing reserves are not sufficient! In order to avoid freezing to death, any clothes should be collected! Even from the dead bodies of the enemy!

Slavdzich is a small city after all, a large number of buildings collapsed in the war, and a large number of valuable clothes, food, and daily necessities are destroyed!

The paratrooper brigade and reconnaissance battalion also did not find much useful anything. The paratrooper brigade was more generous than in the case of the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion stuffing what they could use into their pockets.

Even if they find an iron spoon, they turn it in! A large amount of supplies is piled up in an empty house, temporarily used as a warehouse.

It was past six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was setting, and the sun was setting in the west.

Taking advantage of the bright light in the last two hours, the vast number of officers and men also began to set up camp for tonight.

The ruins of the city became the camp of the paratrooper brigade and the reconnaissance battalion, and the forest area on the northwestern edge of the city became the camp of the 2nd Regiment of the 284th Division. There were no more enemies around, and the soldiers lit bonfires in squads, and for a while, the city was dotted with stars!

From the encounter on the 17th to the siege on the 18th, more than 5,000 soldiers were completely spinning! Everyone was tired, and many soldiers ate the field rations, and then fell asleep wrapped in stalls.

Yang Mingzhi didn't sleep well at night, and his spirit was barely supporting.

The high-intensity battle was a serious blow to everyone's spirit, and he really wanted to find a place to sleep, but the reality forced him to cheer up 120,000 spirits!

He returned to the city's headquarters, and soon Balzen followed.

Seeing that all the regimental and battalion commanders had arrived, Yang Mingzhi didn't say anything to greet him.

A few "furniture" were added to the headquarters, with some broken tables in the center of the room, and a dozen chairs guarding them. Yang Mingzhi sat there and sat upright, signaled the officers to be ready, and announced directly: "Now! We convene a military meeting! Comrades, first of all, tell me how many prisoners of war you have captured and how many civilians you have found! ”

"I'll start with that!" Tepunov raised his hand.

"Good! You said! ”

"Yes! Comrade Commander! In this battle, we captured seventy-eight prisoners of war, and after a brief interrogation, they were all Ukrainians, not Germans! We also found ninety civilians, most of them women! ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded, and glanced at Balzen out of the corner of his eye: "Very good, what about the others!" ”

"Report!" Balzen stubbornly said: "We didn't catch a prisoner of war, and we only found a civilian!" ”

"Oh? Did the reconnaissance battalion really not capture a single prisoner of war? ”

Yang Mingzhi's question was completely knowingly, Balzen pursed his lips and affirmed again: "Yes! It is true that no prisoners of war were caught, and by your order, we did not take them at all! It's about to kill it! As for the civilian, it was the woman. ”

After his words were finished, Yang Mingzhi looked left and right, and said in a summary manner: "In this operation, only the paratrooper brigade and reconnaissance battalion have the conditions to capture prisoners, and the second regiment can only participate in cleaning up the battlefield because it did not directly participate in the battle.

Maybe our rocket artillery is too powerful and kills too many enemies and civilians! Or maybe the vast number of our fighters are venting their anger on these traitors and shooting them without accepting surrender. We still captured the prisoners, and also captured their battalion commanders!

For these people, we define them as traitors. Before the operation, I had an order that we would not leave traitors alive in this operation! Now we've captured more than 100 people, and we're brainstorming how we should deal with them. ”

When it came to the execution of the traitor, the command post quickly fell silent. Balzen stared left and right, his attitude was naturally to shoot him directly, because of the scandal in the reconnaissance battalion, it was not appropriate for him to talk more today.

Fortunately, Lavrenty broke the embarrassment and said: "Commander! Since we all believe that these people are traitors, then according to the state's punishment for traitors, shoot them directly. ”

"That's right! Shoot directly! Balzen followed up decisively and immediately shut up.

The battalion-level officers present, especially all the officers of the 2nd Regiment of the Guards Division, had the same attitude at the beginning, and some even simply drafted the execution method.

That is, those traitors were ordered to take off their clothes, and then machine gun mowing the grass......

"No! This is pure barbaric slaughter! I have no objection to that," Tepunov rebuked, rejecting such cruel punishment in his own right.

"This is not a massacre! They are traitors, we are traitors! Lavrenj pointed to the right path.

"Nope! This is indeed a massacre! They were, of course, traitors, but also citizens of the USSR! For these traitors, a victorious trial by legal means is needed! If you are summarily shot by us soldiers, is this against the principle? ”

"Principles?" Ravlenj pursed his lips and shook his head, "There is no need to be principled about these traitors, I think, shoot them directly at dawn, so that we have to feed these bastards a mouthful of food!" ”

"Then let them starve!" Yang Mingzhi finally made a decision: "I appreciate the determination of the comrades of the paratrooper brigade to adhere to the principle, and the military discipline of the paratrooper brigade is also the best in this operation!" You deserve to be an elite unit. For these traitors, and for those civilians. I know that many soldiers think that those civilians are actually traitors, whether these people are traitors or not, or take them back for trial! I don't want to kill anyone by mistake.

Our guerrilla republic also has courts, and the comrades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can play the role of judges. They convicted these people, and we executed them, which is in accordance with the law. Personally, I would prefer to let these traitors dig up as labor in the brimstone mines to atone for their sins, and I will not tolerate the death penalty if they are eventually sentenced.

In the same way, our soldiers commit crimes, and I will not tolerate them! Comrades, please note that we are Soviet Red Army soldiers, and our glorious identity must be remembered at all times! We must not engage in banditry and must act in strict accordance with the prescribed discipline!

Today, three soldiers who deliberately insulted and killed civilian women have been executed in the execution of battlefield discipline. What happened shows that there is still a big problem with our military discipline! You are all officers, you must restrain your subordinates!

Now I have decided that those prisoners of war and civilians will be taken directly to the crossing of Missy when the sun rises tomorrow. ”

Tepnov breathed a sigh of relief, and he continued to ask: "Commander! Are we going to give these people some rations and take them away tomorrow, they can't go hungry? ”

"They must be starved! Only when hungry will they not resist! That's right! Yang Mingzhi knocked on the table, "Tapunov, where is that Moise now?" ”

"He's in solitary confinement! Rest assured, we did not abuse him. ”

"Very good, this person still has use value, tomorrow he will stay here. That is how the matter of prisoners of war is arranged, and now we discuss what Moise has to offer about the Romanians! ”