The Chief of Staff was shocked that Schmidt spoke to a Russian second lieutenant in such a condescending tone. But he soon discovered that when Schmidt said this, his fists were clenched, the back of his hands were pale, and the veins were exposed, as if
On the verge of bursting into rage, Schmidt was trying hard to control his emotions for the sake of the overall situation.
Bowing to one's enemy, even if the other party is famous, will inevitably have a negative impact on one's own honor. Seeing that Schmidt considered the overall situation, he did not hesitate to damage his own reputation and lowered his stature to negotiate with the Russian second lieutenant. The Chief of Staff
My heart was immediately filled with respect for him.
"Mr. Second Lieutenant," Schmidt continued: "I deeply apologize for the misunderstanding that occurred this time. Please explain it to me in front of General Sokov after you go back."
"Mr. General," Second Lieutenant Leibin replied in a moderate tone: "As long as we can safely return to our defense area, I will convey your wishes to Comrade Commander."
"Chief of Staff," Schmidt turned to the division chief of staff and said, "arrange vehicles to send the second lieutenant and General Sokov's wife back to the Russian defense area."
"Yes, your Excellency, division commander." After hearing Schmidt's arrangement, the division chief of staff couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Sokov's wife was sent out of the defense area, there would be room for change. He quickly replied: "
I immediately arranged for vehicles to send them away from our defense area."
After saying that, the division chief of staff walked up to Second Lieutenant Lei Bin, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation to him: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, please, I will take you out of here."
Lei Bin originally wanted to refuse the other party's kindness, but he thought that this place was several kilometers away from his own position, and it would be quite troublesome to walk back. He nodded and agreed to Schmidt's arrangement, and followed the division chief of staff out.
Division Headquarters.
Seeing the chief of staff leading Leibin out of the division headquarters, Schmidt punched the table hard and pushed everything on the table to the ground like crazy. The soldiers outside heard the noise coming from inside the room.
He heard some movement, worried that Schmidt was in danger, and rushed in with a gun in hand.
When it became clear that it was the division commander who was getting angry and throwing things, the soldiers were dumbfounded. They were in a dilemma for a while and could only stand there in a daze. Fortunately, Schmidt yelled at them: "Whoever told you to come in or get out, get out of here."
Get out." The soldiers who heard Schmidt's shout left the headquarters one after another as if they had been granted amnesty.
Schmidt turned and looked at the map on the wall, staring at the defense area controlled by Sokov's troops with burning eyes, gritting his teeth and said: "Sokov, I will ask you for the humiliation I suffered today sooner or later.
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When Asiya and others were interrogated by the German major, they thought that they would be sent to a prisoner of war camp as soon as the interrogation was over. Unexpectedly, they were taken outside by the Germans. An armored personnel carrier had been parked here.
There were still two men in Soviet uniforms standing, talking to a German colonel.
When she first saw the two of them, Asiya was still thinking to herself: Are the Germans planning to disguise themselves as our troops and sneak into our defense zones to cause havoc?
At this moment, she saw the second lieutenant who was talking to the German colonel. He stopped talking and walked towards her. Still far away, the second lieutenant stopped, stood at attention, saluted Asiya, and said
: "Hello, Comrade Asiya. I am Second Lieutenant Lei Bin of the 182nd Division's Scouts. I have been authorized by Comrade Commander to take you back."
Hearing what Second Lieutenant Leibin said, Asiya was stunned. She asked in an unbelievable tone: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what did you say? Are you sent by Misha to pick us up?"
Second Lieutenant Leibin naturally knew that the Misha Asiya was talking about was the current army commander Major General Sokov. He nodded quickly and replied affirmatively: "Yes, I was ordered to pick you up."
Although she heard what the other party said, Asiya was still dubious. She glanced at the German colonel standing next to the armored personnel carrier, frowned and asked, "What does that German colonel do?"
Second Lieutenant Leibin looked back and immediately replied: "Comrade Asiya, that is the Chief of Staff of the 19th Armored Division. He personally arranged the vehicles to send us back to our defense area."
"Comrade Second Lieutenant," a female health worker following Asiya asked Leibin impatiently: "Are the Germans really ready to let us go back?"
"Yes." Leibin nodded again and said, "Comrade Commander proposed to use the German corpses in the field hospital in exchange for you."
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, the Germans agreed so easily to the conditions we proposed?" Asiya felt suspicious about Rebin's statement: "Isn't there some conspiracy?"
"Comrade Asiya, I don't know exactly what the situation is now." Lei Bin explained to Asiya: "When I first proposed the terms of exchange, the German division commander was furious and even locked us up. It didn't happen.
After being imprisoned for a long time, they released us and agreed to the terms of exchange."
Asia was not a fairy, so she could not guess why the German division commander agreed to the exchange. However, she did not want to stay in this ghost place for a minute, so she said to Lei Bin: "Second Lieutenant, since the Germans want to let us go, then hurry up
Just get out of here."
After everyone got on the armored personnel carrier, the German Chief of Staff standing under the car waved politely to Second Lieutenant Leibin and the others. Seeing this, a female health worker cursed in a low voice: "Hypocritical,
It doesn’t look good at first glance.”
After waiting for the car to start, Lieutenant Leibin came close to Asiya's ear and whispered: "Comrade Asiya, I think the reason why the attitude of the German division commander changed so quickly is probably because of some deployment made by Comrade Commander.
, seriously threatened the security of the German defense line, and he had to make concessions."
Although Asiya stayed in the field hospital all day, she still knew Sokov's abilities very well. She felt that since Sokov could send people to pick her up in the enemy's defense area, there must be a series of consequences.
As long as the German army refused to agree, he would take various measures to force the Germans to submit.
As the armored personnel carrier passed through the defense area of the 19th Armored Division, a female health worker asked Leibin with some confusion: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, we are passing through the enemy's defense area now, but why doesn't the enemy blindfold us? Aren't we afraid?
When we go back, shall we report the terrain here to our superiors?"
Hearing the female health worker's question, Rebin smiled faintly, and then said: "It's useless even if we blindfold our eyes. The Germans know that since we can easily find the location of their division headquarters, their deployment is of great significance to us."
, it’s not a secret. Rather than being secretive, it’s better to let us see it casually. Anyway, no matter how hard we look, we can’t see any flowers.”
Asiya interjected at the side and said: "Although the armored vehicle we were riding in passed through several German positions, if you look carefully, you will find that they are simply insignificant positions. Even if our army knew about it, it would be useless.
There is no need to waste shells."
"Asiya is right." Lei Bin waited for Asiya to finish and then added: "The area we passed has only some simple positions. Once a fight breaks out, the Germans can abandon them at any time, so even if
We know that and we will not pay attention to these insignificant locations."
After the armored car drove forward for a while, it suddenly stopped. Rebin asked the German officer in the car with some confusion: "Mr. Lieutenant, why don't you continue to drive forward?"
"Second Lieutenant," the German lieutenant glanced at Lei Bin and said helplessly: "Your position is only five hundred meters away. If the armored vehicle drives forward, I'm afraid it will cause unnecessary misunderstandings. The rest of this paragraph
You'd better walk there on your own."
"Our position is five hundred meters away?" Hearing what the German lieutenant said, Second Lieutenant Leibin couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise. He looked at the other party and asked: "Mr. Lieutenant, are you not mistaken?"
"Second Lieutenant Lei Bin," Asiya understood German and understood the conversation between the German lieutenant and Lei Bin. She asked Lei Bin in surprise: "Is there anything wrong?"
"Comrade Asiya," Rebin turned to Asiya and said, "Our army's forward position should be two kilometers away from here. But the German lieutenant told me that it was five hundred meters further.
, is our army’s position, let us walk back next time.”
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, you are not mistaken, are you?"
"How could we be wrong?" Second Lieutenant Lei Bin replied with a wry smile: "We set off from the division's forward position, which is two kilometers away from here. I will definitely remember this."
"Mr. Lieutenant," Asia saw Second Lieutenant Rebin confused and seemed to have no idea what was going on. She looked at the German lieutenant and asked, "Can you tell me what is going on?"
"According to intelligence, after dawn, your troops advanced one to two kilometers, pretending to fight us." The German lieutenant said in a dumbfounded voice: "Originally, the positions of the two armies were two or three kilometers apart.
As your army advances, the distance between us has shortened to a few hundred meters."
After the German lieutenant's explanation, Asiya suddenly understood that it must be Sokov who ordered the troops to move forward in order to deter the Germans. Since they were not far from their own position, there was no need to ride on the German armored transport.
military vehicles to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
Asiya stood up and said to several other female health workers: "Girls, our army's position is in front of us. Let's get off the car and walk back."
Seeing everyone getting off the armored vehicle, the German lieutenant in the vehicle quickly stopped Second Lieutenant Leibin: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, we have already sent the people. You can't go back on what you promised us."
"Don't worry, Mr. Lieutenant." Lei Bin said to the German lieutenant: "We will soon send someone to bring us the bodies of the German officers and soldiers."
Lei Bin led everyone to prepare to cross the open field and return to his own position. Unexpectedly, after taking a few steps, a fat health worker walking next to Asiya asked in fear: "Second Lieutenant Lei Bin, will there be a minefield ahead?"
Right? You know, we finally escaped from the Germans. If we stepped on a mine laid by our own people, we would die unjustly.",
If the people around Lei Bin are all his scouts, he will definitely send one person to clear mines in front, and the rest will follow carefully. But at this moment, except for one of his subordinates, the rest are just rescued
For medical staff, it is obviously inappropriate for them to stay in a minefield for a long time.
Thinking of this, he ordered his subordinates: "Scout the road ahead. If you encounter a mine location, find something to mark it. We must rush to the opposite position in the shortest possible time and have someone come out to meet us."
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The soldier waited for Lei Bin to finish speaking, nodded, and opened the way ahead with his gun. At the beginning, he was very cautious and carefully checked the ground every time he took a step forward. But after walking for a while, he
Finding that there were no signs of landmines laid on the ground, he turned to Lei Bin and shouted: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, this doesn't look like a minefield."
"It's not like a minefield?" Lei Bin couldn't help but frowned when he heard the soldiers' shouts: "How could we not lay out a minefield in front of the position? In that case, once the battle started, wouldn't the Germans be able to easily
Rush to the front of the position?"
But for the sake of caution, he still shouted to the soldier: "Stop talking nonsense, continue to explore the road, hurry up to the fortifications in front, and ask people to come out to meet us." After giving instructions to the soldiers, he turned back to comfort Asi.
Ya and others said, "Let's wait here for a while. Someone will come out of the position to pick us up soon."
When the soldier exploring the path was still two or three hundred meters away from the position, Second Lieutenant Leibin suddenly saw a dozen commanders and soldiers crawling out of the trench and running towards the soldier. Seeing the running speed of those people,
Second Lieutenant Lei Bin's heart was in his throat. They were so reckless. If this was a minefield, at least half of them would report here.
But fortunately, what he was worried about did not happen. After a while, the group of people merged with the soldiers who were exploring the way. After a few words of conversation between the leading officer and the soldiers, they walked towards where Lei Bin and others were.
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When they were still seventy or eighty meters away from Lei Bin and others, the soldiers exploring the path waved their hands desperately at Lei Bin and shouted: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, come here, there are no mines here, it is very safe."
Although he heard the soldiers' shouts clearly, for the sake of safety, Lei Bin still stopped the actions of Asiya and others: "Comrade Asiya, wait until the people who are responding to us come over. Otherwise, if we step on
Landmines, I can't afford the consequences."
Soon, the person who came to respond appeared in front of Lei Bin and others. The leading officer walked directly in front of Asiya, straightened his body and said to her: "Comrade Asiya, I'm glad to see you returned safely.
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Asiya recognized the man in front of her at a glance as Captain Zheliya, the company commander of the 546th Regiment. She quickly held his hand and said excitedly: "Hello, Zheliya, I am also very happy to see you again."
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"Asia, this is not the place to talk. You should follow us back to the position first." At this point, Zheliya lowered his voice and said: "It won't be long before our army will launch an attack on the enemy's defense area."
"Initiate an attack on the enemy's defense zone?"
Seeing the surprised look on Asiya's face, Zheliya explained to her: "In order to retaliate against the enemy for kidnapping you, Comrade Commander is preparing to attack the enemy today. Now there is not much time left before the attack starts.
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When she learned that she was going to attack the German army, Asiya asked with some surprise: "Zheliya, didn't you say that the corpses of the German soldiers would be used in exchange for us? Do we have to violate the prior agreement?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Asiya." Zheliya said with a smile: "Comrade Commander has already made arrangements to return the corpses to them first, and then launch an attack on their positions after the exchange is completed.
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This chapter has been completed!