The main purpose of the reconnaissance battalion is to find the enemy's traces and immediately carry out reconnaissance.

Miroshniko's description of the enemy was already very detailed, and Yang Mingzhi did not fully believe it. Could it be that the vanguard of the enemy was really just infantry regiments armed only with light weapons? He believed the reconnaissance reports of his own people, and the burden fell on Balzen.

The reconnaissance battalion received this order in the morning, and the soldiers of the battalion immediately made simple preparations. This time it was not an armed reconnaissance, hundreds of people were mainly used as scouts, and the soldiers temporarily abandoned a lot of heavy equipment, only brought a day's rations, and two bases of ammunition, and went straight to the edge of the forest.

The troops knew only a little about this forest, but Miroshniko was happy to send a few officers as guides for the reconnaissance battalion.

For Balzen, this reconnaissance mission was about whether the ambush could go according to plan, and it was obviously out of the commander's 100,000 trust that he had entrusted himself with such a difficult task. He also felt a little guilty that the shrewd and capable soldiers under his command had done such a dirty thing and disgraced the face of the Red Army soldiers! Although in the end, the reconnaissance battalion imposed capital punishment on the soldiers who committed the crime, but this still could not undo the bad influence of the incident in the army.

The only thing that can save your image is to win!

In addition to the soldiers who were killed and wounded in the battle, Barzen's forces were reduced to more than 500 men. With the help of three guerrilla brigade guides, they groped their way along the forest on the north side of the road, thinking of the east.

The guerrilla brigade inherited their usual high speed, marching steadily through the dense forest at a speed of five kilometers per hour.

The distance in a straight line from Slavtich to the eastern border of the forest was at most six kilometres, and Barzen reached the edge of the forest at half-past twelve in the morning and saw a large open field.

In front of them was the vast plains of Ukraine, and to the east was the nearest metropolis, Chernihiv, just over thirty kilometers away.

Balzen lamented: "There should be no dense forests in the future, and some must be just scattered groves. This kind of environment is really suitable for the overall advancement of the tank corps! ”

The guide affirmed, "Yes! After we withdrew from the Latiz Forest, we walked in the wilderness for three whole days! If we were shuttling through the forest, Luo Jun would not have chased us so closely! ”

"You're still moving slowly! Look at you, you're not following our team yet! ”

"Of course!" The guide shook his head helplessly, "Of course the elite troops can move quickly. But if you don't have enough provisions, you have to protect a large number of non-combatants, and you have to stop the enemy who is trailing, and you can't march faster! ”

"That's just as well! Our high mobility is also based on the fact that the fighters are well fed! ”

Without further ado, Balzen ordered several of his soldiers to climb the trees and reconnoiter with binoculars. He himself was standing on flat ground, looking at the horizon of the weed-covered earth.

The sky is blue, the earth is green, and the horizon is really a straight line.

He shook his head: "It seems that the enemy is not in this direction, maybe they have not yet reached the forest!" ”

The guide immediately panicked, and he immediately vetoed: "No! Comrade battalion commander, the enemy is not only there, but must have moved to the edge of the forest! We had a skirmish with them yesterday, and the enemy knows that we are all in the forest, and they will never watch us flee! We ......"

"I know! So we have to keep investigating! Balzen asked impatiently, "From which direction did you enter the forest yesterday?" I forgot! ”

"It's the north!"

Following the guide's large, calloused hand, Balzen immediately crouched down to examine the map. The troops were very close to the main road, and it was also determined that the road was more than a kilometer from the forests on both sides! It is a plain in the middle of a forest with a width of up to two kilometers, which stretches towards the forest and gradually narrows.

Here, Balzen looked at the map, marking his location with a pencil. The Scout in the trees spotted the situation to the south of his current location.

The scouts quickly climbed down and reported that about two kilometres to the south, they had found several huts and even other facilities that indicated that they were a checkpoint or outpost.

Balzen was taken aback, he knew that there could be nothing wrong with the soldier's reconnaissance intelligence, and the soldier's military telescope was equipped with a "sentinel scope" with an astonishing fifteen times magnification! There are only five of these high-end and excellent optical appliances in the entire reconnaissance battalion. Good steel is used on the blade, and with the unpolluted clear air of this era, it is not surprising that scouts with excellent eyesight can spot the enemy two kilometers away.

But such a report also made Balzen suspicious, and there were many signs that the Luo army did exist, and the scouts climbing the treetops searched an area with a radius of at least two kilometers, and found nothing but enemy "checkpoints".

Moreover, the checkpoint was full of anomalies, and the scouts could see the buildings, even the barricades, but they didn't even notice a single figure! It's so weird!

With the burden still on his shoulders, Balzen knew he had to find his enemies! He had to take into account the worst-case scenario, that is, the enemy had already entered the forest and moved towards Slavdish, wouldn't it be bad for the wishful thinking of such a commander!

He immediately called the platoon commander to the battalion headquarters and assigned them reconnaissance targets on the map one by one.

Because the enemy might appear to the north, the most difficult reconnaissance task was entrusted to Tokov's company.

The reconnaissance platoons, like the reconnaissance planes released by the aircraft carrier, rushed in their respective directions, but none of them headed east. Because the scouts who climbed on the treetops of the red pine trees were already holding the sentry-specific binoculars, searching for the dark shadows on the earth.

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So, is the Romanian 6th Division really moving in the direction of the forest? The answer is yes!

The reconnaissance battalion does have good reconnaissance equipment, but the distance between them is still too far!

The vanguard infantry regiment of the Romanian army is five kilometers northeast of Balzen's current position! Because of the integrity of noon, a large number of Luo soldiers stopped to have a picnic to eat.

Today, the sun is shining, the sky is not cloudy, but the warm south wind is not so soft, the wind rustles the forest, and also blows away the curling smoke in the first place. So, if there is no wind today, the keen scout will be able to see the green smoke that rises up, and the one who can emit this smoke is none other than the enemy!

It can be said that the south wind delayed the major events of the reconnaissance battalion and also pushed Tokov's men into a dangerous situation.

The Romanian army as a whole was backward, and its army's firepower level was comparable to that of the Japanese army, but in terms of combat will, the Romanian army was really bad.

Since the vast number of Romanian soldiers were soldiers, they had to obey orders, and the vast number of soldiers first swore an oath to the king and then to the country, but the Antonescu group controlled the state affairs, and the Royal Romanian Army became Antonescu's private army.

During the talks between Antonescu and Hitler, Hitler promised Romania not only the northeastern region of Bessarabia, but also a large area of Ukrainian territory. This promise is actually pleasing to the majority of Romanians, after all, the Bessarabia region in western Ukraine is originally Romanian territory! The Romanians had their reasons to regain their homeland, but the fact of aggression with their advance to the Donbass, to the Crimea, was already irrefutable.

As the war continued, hundreds of thousands of Romanian troops who invaded the Soviet Union became more and more exhausted, and they faced more and more fierce resistance from the Soviet army, as well as the unprecedented consumption of materials and personnel on their own side! Although the 6th Infantry Division had been well rested, its strength never recovered. With only more than 8,000 men in the dignified infantry division, they became serious after being slapped in the face by the guerrilla brigade of the Soviet Union, which was regarded as a boring liquidation operation by the Romanian army.

The new losses were real, and even worse because of the hasty pursuit, it was difficult for the scattered infantry divisions to complete the tactical change from defense to pursuit in just three days.

Fortunately, there was an infantry regiment that ran the fastest, but their logistical problems became more and more serious. After two days of pursuit, they succeeded in catching up with Miroshniko, and after several fierce battles, the Romanian army did not take advantage of it at all. The casualties on both sides were very small, and the guerrilla brigade managed to take advantage of the darkness of night to greatly widen the distance between the two armies.

At this point, Luo Jun really had to slow down. Why? Their dry rations were almost exhausted, and logistical supplies were still far behind, especially as the rest of the troops were still moving separately to the west. Even if the battle is reported early, it will take a lot of time for them to change their course and come along, and then the enemy will flee into the forest!

Do you expect those friendly forces of Ukrainians in Slavdzich to defeat them? No kidding! There were no less than two thousand people in the Soviets, and it would not be easy for them to deal with a few hundred?!

Therefore, it is not surprising that the commander of the infantry regiment of the Romanian army received a new combat objective from his superiors: "Since the city of Slavzich has been occupied by the Russians, you must immediately rush there to retake it!" ”