Soon, Major Ball was brought to Akadiyevich's temporary headquarters.
Just as the German army usually executed Soviet political commissars, if the Soviet soldiers knew who among the captured German soldiers was a party member, they would pull him to the side of the road and shoot him in the back of the head.
Fortunately, Major Ball did not receive such treatment, but the bruises on his face and the blood at the corners of his mouth told Shulka that his life was not easy.
"Major!" a translator asked Bauer in German: "We need to know more information about you!"
The translator was brought by Akadiyevich. The General Intelligence Bureau will always have people who can speak German, otherwise they would not be able to carry out intelligence work.
Major Ball said nothing, looked at the people in front of him with contempt, and then smiled.
"You'd better tell everything you know!" Akadievich stepped forward, grabbed him, and said to him harshly: "Otherwise you will know what will happen to you!"
"What will be the fate?" Major Ball asked back: "Give me a shot in the head? Or send me to Siberia? I know what my fate will be, don't try to scare me!"
"Really?" Akadievich punched him hard, and then asked while punching him: "Then do you know this? Or this, and this?!"
"Comrade Akadiyevich!" Shulka stopped this senseless act.
As mentioned before, although Akadiyevich is the director of the General Intelligence Service, the Soviets usually speak with fists and feet, and the Intelligence Service is no exception.
"Let me try!" Shulka said.
Akadievich nodded slightly, then pushed Major Ball to the ground and turned away.
Shulka handed Major Power a cigarette.
Major Ball refused, although his eyes were full of longing.
"Go on!" Shulka said: "If you are not afraid of death, will you still be afraid of smoking a cigarette?"
Major Power seemed to think it was reasonable, and then he took the cigarette and held it in his bruised and bloodshot lips.
Shulka lit it for him.
Before Shulka could speak, Major Ball said: "If you think this will make me speak, you are wrong!"
"Of course not, Major Ball!" Shulka replied with a smile: "Have you ever thought that you have hope of going back alive?"
"Do you think I have?" Major Ball laughed: "I know these tricks of yours, trick you into getting what you want, and then..."
Shulka smiled and shook his head: "You are an anti-aircraft artillery battalion. You should know that the information you know is not of much use to us!"
Major Ball couldn't help but be stunned. This was right.
What important information can the anti-aircraft artillery battalion know? All they have to do is disperse to a certain anti-aircraft artillery position according to orders, and then pay attention to enemy fighters in the air... The value of the information they can know is not even as much as that of an infantry soldier. Infantry soldiers are at least They also know the firepower deployment on the defense line or the location of anti-tank guns, but the anti-aircraft artillery troops have almost no idea.
"Then... why do you want to know more?" Major Power asked doubtfully.
Shulka did not answer. He wanted to whet Major Ball's appetite first, or it could be said to be brainwashing him.
As for how to brainwash, there are actually many examples.
"Who do you think will win this war, Major Ball?" Shulka asked while lighting his cigarette, like two soldiers chatting in a trench.
"Of course it's us!" Major Ball replied proudly: "We have already reached here!"
"Really?" Shulka asked back: "If I'm not wrong, your situation on the African battlefield is not optimistic either!"
At this time, Rommel's army encountered the British Army's Alamein Line of Defense in North Africa, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
For Rommel, who had insufficient troops, equipment, and supplies, being in a stalemate was a disadvantage, and the longer it went, the less optimistic he became.
But Major Ball did not admit this.
"On the contrary, Major!" Ball replied, "We are unstoppable in North Africa!"
"So..." Shulka said: "You think you can defeat Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States at the same time?"
At this time, although the United States had not yet directly participated in the war between Britain and Germany, it had provided a large amount of American equipment in North Africa and had reached an agreement, and then landed in North Africa in November, a few months later.
There was something strange in Major Ball's eyes, and then he replied: "What are you talking about? I am already your prisoner, and these have nothing to do with me!"
"No, this has nothing to do with you, Major!" Shulka asked: "Do you think you can defeat so many countries at the same time? In other words, do you agree with your head of state's approach? At the same time, you can defeat the British, French, Soviet,
The United States is at war, and he tells you that Germany will win the war! Do you believe he is right?"
Major Ball couldn't help but fell silent.
In fact, any normal person will understand that this is impossible.
If anyone still believed it when the German army quickly attacked the city of Moscow, then the failure of the Battle of Moscow and the failure of the Battle of Stalingrad had made most German officers and soldiers realize that this was an unwinnable war.
Shulka believed that Major Bauer thought the same way, because he was a soldier on the front line and he knew what kind of energy the Soviet army had, instead of the fanatical SS soldiers in the rear who blindly thought that the failure of the front line was due to the army or
It was the general who made the mistake.
But Ball continues to struggle.
"France is already under our control!" Major Ball said: "The United States may not participate in the war!"
"You think so?" Shulka laughed.
This could not even convince him that France was like a time bomb that could explode at any time, and it was only a matter of time before the United States entered the war.
"Okay!" Ball asked angrily: "What the hell does all this have to do with me?"
"If this is an impossible war to win!" Shulka continued: "Then Major Ball, I hope you will think clearly whether what you are doing now is saving Germany or dragging Germany to the bottom.
the abyss!”
When Shulka said this, Major Ball was stunned.
The high quality of the German army also has two sides.
High quality allows them to exert greater subjective initiative on the battlefield, sometimes even with a stroke of genius.
But it also has its side effects. These highly qualified and better-educated officers and soldiers will think about the outcome of the war and the future, and they will see further.
And Shulka just wanted them to see further.
If Major Ball could see further, then Shulka would have succeeded. (To be continued)