After hearing Malashenko's words, Vatutin immediately looked at Zhukov next to him, and they both smiled in unison and understood what they meant.
"In this case, you should go back and prepare as soon as possible. I have already talked to you about everything that needs to be said and asked. There is nothing too important anymore."
"As for the attack, I can tell you for sure that we will continue to launch the offensive tomorrow. Let your troops be ready and wait for the follow-up orders from the front army headquarters. The combat arrangements will be issued to you tonight. Since this gang
If the fascist lackeys are so ignorant, then the iron fist of the Red Army is welcome! No need to hesitate anymore, we must give the Germans a heavy blow!"
"Yes, I understand, Comrade Commander!"
Malashenko, who answered Vatutin, was a little puzzled. After thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
"Strange, these words sound strangely familiar, as if I have heard them somewhere."
In any case, after talking about all the things that needed to be discussed, Malashenko took the order and went back. He asked Iushkin, who was his driver, to get in the car and drive back.
On the other side, on the German side, it was a completely different scene.
Colonel Weickert, who had messed up the matter, was thinking about how to explain it all the way back, but in the end he couldn't think of a reasonable and good way.
There was no other choice but to bite the bullet. As soon as Colonel Weickert returned to the headquarters, he immediately received a summons from General Stemmermann, the commander of the besieged German army.
The first level of the official college is overwhelming, and the third level of the official college is even more difficult. Colonel Weickert, who was still thinking about how to say this, soon met Strimmerman, but this Wehrmacht general
My mental state seems to be very bad at the moment.
Admiral Stummermann, with his bright panda eyes and droopy eyelids, looked like a drug addict who had overindulged in sexual activities and had not slept for several days and had taken drugs. His hair was unkempt for several days.
The unwashed head looks messy, like a chicken coop.
Knowing that the commander had not slept much for several days, Colonel Weickert lowered his head and walked forward silently.
"Ah, you're back, Weickert. Come and tell me how your talks with those Russians went? What favorable conditions and good news did you get for us?"
Weickert, who has been by his side all year round, is one of those rare people who is calm and calm in times of crisis. In addition, he is usually eloquent and good at communication. In the past, many stubborn Russian prisoners were ultimately interrogated by him.
, he explained everything in detail, so at this moment, Stromermann believed that Weickert could bring him some good news.
Even though the current situation is very bad, extremely bad, Strimmerman still holds on to the last glimmer of hope in his heart.
"General, I...I...I have failed to live up to your expectations and trust. The Russians' attitude is beyond imagination and very stubborn. Our negotiations have failed."
"..."
Colonel Weickert, who simply and straightforwardly explained the results, said nothing, just lowered his head and did not even dare to look directly into Stromermann's eyes.
He thought that after hearing the news, Stromermann would be furious on the spot, reprimanding him as an incompetent waste who had ruined everything and his last hope. Then he asked the guards to drag him out and wait for disposal.
Just like what the Russians did to themselves not long ago.
But what I didn't expect was that after hearing this extremely bad news, Strommelman didn't say anything more, and even remained silent for a long time without making a sound. His fingers were also tapping the table constantly, seemingly
I was thinking about something, or maybe I was simply relieving the anxiety and uneasiness in my heart. After a long time, I finally choked out a word that was not nutritious.
"What did the Russians say? Did they give you an ultimatum?"
An ultimatum?
Colonel Weickert, who caught this key word in his words, was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it carefully, he did find the words that fit this key word in his memory. After thinking about it for a while, he finally decided to tell Stemmermann the truth.
paraphrase.
"The Russian Major General Malashenko, the Steel Butcher, also participated in the negotiations. At the end, he said that we should just stay here, and he would send tanks to take us to the sky one by one early tomorrow morning."
"..."
No one says that ultimatums must be fixed in a certain form. Throughout the history of human wars, ultimatums can be said to come in all kinds of strange forms.
But such a bizarre ultimatum as "Malashenko's tank aviation" actually made Strimmerman, who was already in a very bad mood, choked on the spot and was unable to say a word.
"Only this?"
After hearing this, Weickert thought about it carefully, and then nodded again after confirming that there were no mistakes in translation or expression.
"......Why"
The sigh inevitably contained a very deep despair, and Weickert didn't even know what to do next.
Just earlier today, he received an encouraging telegram personally sent to him by the head of state. The content was the same as before, with the same routine.
"You can rely on me and trust me like a solid stone wall, Stummerman. I promise you that you will be rescued from the siege, so for now continue to hold on."
The promise from the head of state in the telegram was very beautiful, like a bright sun suddenly rising in the endless darkness, giving people hope.
At least this is what many soldiers and officers who still have absolute trust in the Führer thought after Strimmermann ordered this telegram to be broadcast to the entire army. They still firmly believe that the Führer has come back to save them and has not abandoned them.
They are loyal and brave soldiers.
As for the SS, they were even more fanatical. The division commander of the Viking Division, Herbert Otto Giller, even made a special trip to find the original text of the telegram. He held a meeting to retrieve his troops after the armistice in the evening.
The whole division mobilized for a speech. They stood on the podium and waved the original text of the telegram in their hands at the microphone. They gave an impassioned speech with saliva flying around, describing the head of state as a god-like being who could reverse the world.
As long as the head of state is willing to make a phone call and issue a five-second order, the besieged soldiers of the head of state can be rescued immediately, and countless German tanks and reinforcements will arrive soon! And the Russians
Otherwise, they will be defeated and completely defeated. What the Viking Division has to do is to cooperate internally and externally to annihilate as many enemies as possible. This is an order from the head of state.