In March, Belarus is still icy and snowy, and it looks like a white world at first glance. However, if you observe carefully, you will find that there are many inconspicuous movements under this snow-covered world.

For example, the armored train and Pang Ivan led their company to shuttle through the dense forest, approaching the German occupied area bit by bit. As the company commander and deputy company commander of the first company of the 152nd Infantry Division of the 32nd Infantry Army, a subsidiary of the 16th Army of the Red Army, their mission is to understand the deployment and firepower configuration of the local German army.

"Do you like the new political commissar?" Fat Ivan poked the waist of the armored train and asked in a low voice.

The armored train did not know how to answer this question, because he really lacked understanding of the new political commissar. Since he didn't understand, what else should he like or dislike him?

The armored train did not have a deep impression of the new political commissar. Apart from being so young and indifferent to the bookish spirit of a gentle and gentle man, there was nothing else. The new political commissar spoke very softly, but he was not a mother. Anyway, the voice gave you a very fresh feeling. Anyway, the armored train felt that the new political commissar was very suitable for being an announcer.

Not only does the sound sound good, but the armored train also thinks the new political commissar is a bit weird. He has also seen many political commissars. Other political commissars are either old-fashioned, weird, or vulgar. In short, the political commissars always give people a feeling that it is difficult to deal with.

But this new political commissar is not like this. He does not have the unique performance of young grassroots political commissars. He does not talk about class struggle or combat situations at the beginning, nor does he have various slogans like a long passage. On the contrary, the new political commissar is very quiet and does not express his opinions casually unless necessary, which makes him a little bored.

What's even more strange is that this political commissar is too unfaithful to political struggles. He has to be the highest instructions for the other political commissars to fart, and he has to be told to the meeting for a few days. But this person has no interest in those notes, and just conveyed them verbally.

To be honest, the maverick new political commissar made the whole company feel uncomfortable, and I don’t know what the new political commissar wants to do. Especially as the company commander, Pang Ivan. He had no idea at all, for fear that all the new political commissar in front of him would be disguised by the new political commissar in order to let them relax their vigilance and then beat them up in one go.

"You're a snake shadow, are you?" said the armored train.

"This is called caution that can make a thousand-year-old ship. I know so well that they are good at disguising, they are good at catching pigtails, and they like to report the most. They are all despicable villains who eat people and don't spit bones!" Fat Yiwan said with a look of fear of the ropes being bitten by a snake for ten years, "It's not an exaggeration to prevent them, if you are not careful, you will be caught..."

Before he could finish his words, Yu Guangzhong could see the new political commissar crawling over, immediately closed his mouth, pretending to be sitting upright, as if he was about to find an enemy to die together.

"Comrade Commander, is there any news in the first row?"

Fat Ivan shook his head and replied in a low voice: "Comrade Political Commissar, there is no news yet. But this is not a row of people not working hard. It is the enemy's strict defense..."

Before he finished speaking, the new political commissar interrupted him: "Comrade Commander, I am not going to hold the first row accountable. What I mean is, are you considering following the first row?"

Fat Ivan uttered in his heart. He really didn't believe that the political commissar was so reasonable. When the former political commissar encountered such a situation, the first thing he called was to deal with the person in charge, and then he was to put a hat on it. Did this person find his conscience?

"Comrade Commander?Comrade Commander?"

After the new political commissar's repeated calls, Fat Ivan came to his senses. He replied: "Comrade Victor is ready to respond, so there should be no problem."

"That's good!" The new political commissar glanced at the armored train, nodded, and slowly crawled back to his position.

"Do you think this kid will hold a grudge against you?" Fat Ivan asked with some concern.

"Not it?" The armored train was a little unbelievable. Can you hold a grudge if you have such a thing? What a small heart!

Fat Ivan was a little embarrassed and criticized: "My big brother, you are just too careless. The political commissar is not a good guy. If you block his chance to show off, how could you not be resentful?"

Next, Fat Ivan began to instill various "fighting" experiences into the armored trains, but the armored trains went in and out of the right ear. His mind was floating far away, thinking about his father and the girl who saved him once...

When the battle was about to break out, the two main commanders in the company were a little absent-minded, and the one who really focused on the battle was the new political commissar. In fact, we are also very familiar with this person, Yevgeny, the nephew of a certain immortal.

After studying at the Armored Forces Command Academy for a year and a half, as the officer gap caused by the large-scale expansion of the Red Army became larger and larger, future officers who had not completed their studies had to graduate early. For example, Yevgeny was awarded the rank of lieutenant and was sent to Fat Ivan's company to act as political commissar.

Why are the political commissar rather than the platoon leader? The main reason is that the superiors consider that officers like Yevgeny who graduate early lack professional abilities and experience, so they may be careless of their lives by letting them directly command the troops. Therefore, this type of officer is arranged in the position of political commissar. One can observe and learn to improve their professional abilities, and the other is that they do not directly command the troops, and there will be no serious consequences due to insufficient personal abilities.

According to the above, this type of officer will be transferred to the command major after half a year or a year of political commissar, and then the command major will be a natural result.

However, Yevgeny had no interest in the political commissar. He only liked to fight wars and naturally was not interested in the twists and turns in political work. As Fat Ivan said, he was not like the political commissar at all.

Yevgeny was very excited about being able to go to the front line. He couldn't wait to fight with the German devils, but what made him depressed was that as a reconnaissance force, the most important thing in his company was to figure out the enemy's troops layout, that is, if you can not alarm the enemy, it would be better not to alarm it.

From Yevgeny's diary, we can see this depression: "My troops have been hiding in the dense forests of the Belarusian front. From time to time, I can see German patrol troops outside the forest. How I want to bear these messes with my own hands. But battlefield discipline does not allow it. Leaders at the military and division level strictly require us to implement the "Maskirovka" discipline. The so-called "Maskirovka" discipline is a strict concealment at the battle level."

However, Yevgeny didn't have to be depressed for too long, because the battle started quickly. Three days later, after figuring out the configuration of the German front line, Rokosovsky decisively ordered the attack to begin.

First of all, further fire reconnaissance was further carried out. Evgeny's company and other brothers began to carry out fire strikes on the German defense line, exposing the hidden fire points of the German army.

Rokosovsky originally thought that fire reconnaissance would encounter a greater obstacle. But what he did not expect was that the German defense line was like "a ragged cloth head that could be broken with one stab". The fire reconnaissance alone caused a lot of trouble.

As the Bryansk Front Army launched a full-scale attack, the German army seemed extremely fragile, and the 5th Mechanized Army captured Perepisia without any effort. Please note that this is the first place where Rokosovsky drew a red circle on the map before. The other point is west of Perepisia, called Oneshnia.

Why were these two small cities attracted by Rokosovsky? The reason is very simple. These two cities are located between Gomel and Chernikov, just at the junction of Belarus and Ukraine. Most of the supplies of the German offensive cluster south of Chernikov had to be transported through Gomel's railway line. After occupying these two cities, the German military's material supply route was cut off!

The hundreds of thousands of German troops who attacked Nirren had to rely on this railway line to ensure food, drink, defecation and sacrificing. If the railway was interrupted, it would be equivalent to breaking the backbone of the German attack. Unless the German army was willing to give up Kiev and retreat westward, this railway would never be allowed to be cut off by the Red Army.

Rokosovsky's idea was very simple. He was not sure about attacking Gomel. He was entrenched with a powerful German army cluster near Gomel. Moreover, there were many rivers in this area and the terrain was soft and not easy to fight. If he was really stupid to Gomel, he would probably be disappointed.

So Rokosovsky used his brain to think of a solution. Gomel could not be beaten, but he could still pinch the German army's seven inches without capturing Gomel. It was enough for him to cut off the railway line.

After occupying Oneshnia, the Germans should be anxious. At that time, it was his turn to defend the Germans to attack. Look at the terrain around Oneshnia, there are rivers and swamps, which are not suitable for mechanized troops to deploy. To put it bluntly, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as it can be defended, it will definitely make the Germans unable to survive.

On the afternoon of March, with the support of 90 Su-1s and 180 Il-2s, the 152nd Infantry Division launched a general attack on Oneshnia. In the words of Yevgeni, "There are rivers near Oneshnia, swamps are densely packed. The ground is also extremely muddy, and this ghost place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are about two battalions of German devils stationed here, and the second German armed SS Division, which was heading south from Gomel to reinforce, also began to move quickly. Our army is under great pressure!"

"In the first few days of battle, we stayed on the second line as a reserve team, and were basically resting. But the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly. On the third day, the division headquarters suddenly ordered our reconnaissance battalion to move quickly towards Hoyniki. It is said that Vlasov's puppet army (the so-called Russian People's Liberation Army) cavalry were approaching the main battlefield. Our battalion's task was to block them!"

"I have seen the scene of the Red Army cavalry attacking during the exercises. It was what Uncle Andrei showed me in 1932. Just a cavalry company, the impact was amazing! The iron-rolling momentum was so scary. Although the puppet army was a scum of the nation, they were Cossacks after all, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated!"

"In order to help our battalion resist the impact of the puppet cavalry, the division headquarters specially allocated a combat artillery company to us. However, I doubt the power of the 45mm anti-tank gun. The power of that caliber bomb is really limited. Can it defeat the enemy's cavalry?"

The explosion-killing bombs mainly rely on fragments to strike soft targets, but the 45mm anti-tank caliber is too small, and the fragments that can be produced by shells are really limited. Moreover, not all fragments are lethal. Only shrapnel weighing more than 5 grams and flying speeds above 200 meters per second can truly effectively kill the enemy.

Look at the 45mm bomb, the total weight is only 2.14 kilograms. How much lethal can such a small point have? What's more, when the grenade explodes, the distribution of the fragments in all directions is uneven, and 60-70% of the fragments can be generated on the side of the bullet. The warhead is 15% to 20%, and the bottom of the ammunition is only 5% to 10%.

In other words, if you want to use shrapnel to sweep across the enemy's cavalry formation, you must ensure that the shells land in front of the enemy and cannot produce jumps. This is too difficult for a high-speed artillery such as a 45mm anti-tank gun!

In fact, there is also a simple method, which is the shrunk bullet. This ammunition is filled with a large number of steel balls or steel pillars. After the ammunition is fired, it will conical scattering surface forward with the help of the bottom ejection drug. This is a powerful tool for harvesting life. Unfortunately, because the Bryansk Front Army had no priority for supply before, there were many problems in ammunition reserves. For example, the shrunk bullets that harvest life were rarely distributed. At this time, the war defense gun company used to support Yevgeny had basically not had a few shrunk bullets.

However, for infantry such as Yevgeny, having artillery is better than not having artillery. After taking over the command of war defense artillery, the reconnaissance battalion immediately began to march, preparing to occupy favorable terrain to build positions before the arrival of the enemy cavalry.

Soon, the reconnaissance battalion arrived at the designated location of the division headquarters, which was a small village, but there was a German army entrenched in the village. The reconnaissance battalion's mission was to drive away the Germans and build a blocking position in the village before the puppet cavalry arrived.

To be honest, it is easy to fight the German army. The 3rd Company of the Reconnaissance Battalion rushed in without any effort under the cover of the mortar. Seeing that the German army was about to run, the battalion commander of the Reconnaissance Battalion decisively ordered the war defense cannon to start shooting.

At that time, the first company where Yevgeny was located was near the war defense artillery company. He witnessed the battle throughout the whole process: "The 45mm anti-tank gun began to shoot at the German devils who fled to the open area to prevent them from digging trenches on the spot. However, the German devils had a high combat qualities. After the initial panic, they soon began to concentrate their firepower to shoot at the war defense artillery company. The bullets were so loud that the anti-shield sounded... I could see that in the battle, the gunman, the aiming hand and the loading hand veterans were very calm and performed their duties in an orderly manner. However, the new recruits responsible for carrying ammunition behind were uneven..."

Yevgeny continued to recall: "The ammunition hand Qixin was frightened and panicked. She lay on the ground like a rabbit, digging the foxholes. She wanted to get down to the ground immediately. Later I learned that this guy usually hates earthworks the most. He always uses various excuses to avoid labor, either because the soil is too hard or the shovel is too bad. Or because his stomach hurts. But in the rain of bullets, this guy didn't need to order. He dug a beautiful foxhole for himself in the blink of an eye..."

"Cerkaschenko and Balasky, who are also recruits, performed much better. I heard that Balasky was almost sent to the punishment battalion because of his poor performance. However, after the outbreak of the battle, the two performed particularly bravely. Cherkaschenko braved the rain of bullets and kept transporting ammunition between the guns and the ammunition truck. As a groom, Balasky's original task was to pull the gun cart and the mule horse to a safe area and hide it together. However, after completing his job, Balasky did not watch the wall, but raised his rifle and bravely shot the enemy who was detouring from the side."

"The battle was at a stalemate. With the dull roar of the diesel engine, a T-35 was killed from the forest. After a while, two other T-35s also appeared one after another. With three tanks and guns, the German army quickly collapsed. At this time, the battlefield was in chaos, with Germans running around and comrades chasing them. After a big slash, there were corpses everywhere in the muddy wilderness..."

The first battle of Yevgeny began in a hurry and then ended in a hurry. He didn't feel satisfied at all. He felt that the Germans were too vegetarian, and before he could fully perform, he was cut into melons and vegetables. At that time, he was very proud and thought that the battle was so simple and smooth, but soon he would find that it was too natural. The Patriotic War was not abusing vegetables, but a contest of will. Those who were not prepared enough would soon be eliminated ruthlessly.

Rokosovsky's troops cut off the connection between Gomel and Chernickov, which caught the German army off guard. Because according to the German pre-war analysis, it was believed that the Bryansk front was very weak and had no ability to attack at all. But who would have thought that Rokosovsky would dare to attack on the initiative, which made the German army not know how to deal with it.

There seemed to be only one choice before the Germans, that is, to order Gomel's troops to enter the battlefield, to repel the Red Army in one fell swoop, and to restore contact with Chernykov. But only Guderian and Kleister knew that it was not easy to do so. As Rokosovsky analyzed before the war, the Germans actually faced the problems of insufficient troops and unfavorable terrain.

Especially the terrible terrain that made people feel so painful that the first and second tank clusters, mainly armored forces, were very worried. They complained and complained and flew to the desks of Guderian and Klester like snowflakes, making the two generals furious... (To be continued)

ps: Bow to thank the Glorious Charter, hzangdd and comrade Juventus!
Chapter completed!