The Germans certainly knew what would happen to someone like the 332nd Infantry Regiment if their background was exposed and they fell into the hands of the Red Army as prisoners of war.
After all, this is not a matter of life for a few people, or dozens or hundreds of people, but a matter of life and death for an entire main infantry regiment.
I have something to say. Malashenko, who understands the ins and outs of the matter and the truth behind it, really wants to say something.
At least when it comes to dealing with their own people, the Germans are still very righteous and do not choose to "die as a Taoist friend rather than die as a poor Taoist" or "flight together when disaster strikes".
Just imagine, if the Germans honestly exposed the rubbish of the 332nd Infantry Regiment, drew a clear line with this group from the beginning, and betrayed them in exchange for certain benefits, then Malashenko would feel that this was the case
In fact, it can be successful, at least it can be done here.
Malashenko asked himself that if he really encountered this situation, the best he could do was to pick out the scum of the 332nd Infantry Regiment and deal with it alone. There was no reason to make it difficult for the remaining more than 10,000 people to surrender to the German army. After all, it was his loving father's order.
This is limited to the 332nd Infantry Regiment, a group of scum and rubbish. Malashenko does not care about the situation and the person, and only executes orders.
Maybe if you are in a good mood, you will be able to provide some high-quality treatment to Major General Graeme and the senior officials of the 41st Armored Corps because of the German guy's meritorious service. At least, let this group of people stop before they are handed over to friendly forces in the rear and taken to prisoner of war camps.
It's no problem if you have a full meal. Maybe if you're in a good mood, you two can have a drink.
But now, Major General Graham and his negotiation team never mentioned the existence of the 332nd Infantry Regiment to him until they left.
If it weren't for the fact that when cleaning the battlefield, a German major who pretended to be dead with a broken leg and couldn't run was pulled out from the pile of dead people. It just so happened that this coward was afraid of death, so he shook everything he knew out of the bamboo tube, and let him
Malashenko was able to know the truth of everything.
As for Major General Gram and his gang, Malashenko didn't think he could learn such a complete truth from their mouths.
Even if Major General Graham and his group come back for a second round of negotiations, they will most likely bring some magically modified "truth" to try to deceive themselves again. All in all, there is a high probability that they will not confess the person so straightforwardly, you know.
That's no joke, the fate of a main team.
"What's next? What are you going to do? Do you think what this German major says is credible?"
While Malashenko was busy negotiating and preparing to interrogate the prisoners of war in person, the political commissar who led and commanded the forward field division also happened to arrive and participated in the short but efficient interrogation work with Malashenko.
After leaving the interrogation tent, he immediately asked Malashenko questions.
"I'm also going to ask you if you think it's credible. If you want me to tell you, then I think there's no reason for him to continue lying after having a gun pressed against his head, making him wet his pants and trembling all over. It doesn't make sense."
Comrade Ma lit up the cigarette in his mouth and closed the lighter. Comrade Ma, who had a fairy spirit in his mouth, obviously didn't have a good face, and the tone he blurted out was also quite unkind.
"I don't have time to play house with these fascists. The situation has changed now."
"Didn't they leave a liaison officer here with us? Just in time, let this Sukka go back and bring a letter, a handwritten letter from me. I want these bastards to know what will happen if they dare to lie to me.
Come out and surrender honestly, I will prevent them from ever having a chance to regret in this life, I will do what I say!"
The nature of the incident has actually undergone some subtle changes up to this point.
If the previous leading division followed Vatutin's orders, they only needed to hold the encirclement line and prevent the Germans from breaking through, and that would be enough to complete the mission.
So now, after finding out that the encirclement circle contains a group of fascist scum that the loving father Comrade Stalin ordered to be killed. Malashenko feels that it is necessary to lead the division to let this group dare to play tricks and deceive people.
Now you know what the real wrath of Stalin and the iron fist of the Red Army are.
As for what to do next, there is actually no need to say much, it is so simple that you can figure it out just by thinking about it.
At the same time, on the other side, in the lifeless and terrifyingly quiet headquarters of the German 41st Armored Corps.
Army Chief of Staff Major General Graeme, who had just driven back with his negotiating team, was sitting at the table with Army Commander Lieutenant General Dritz. They were talking to each other with solemn expressions, discussing something.
Beside these two people, other various personnel in the entire headquarters, although on the surface they still seem to be doing their own thing and busy, in fact their thoughts are not at all on the work in hand, at least.
Most people can no longer focus on the work at hand.
Major General Graham's unhappy expression when he walked in probably meant that the talks had not yielded any good results.
Even among these small roles in the headquarters, most of them do not know the specific content of the negotiations, let alone what demands they made and how they were rejected by the Russians on the opposite side, but this does not prevent people from guessing. Otherwise, people are
What about an independent individual creature with independent thinking? In such a life-and-death matter that concerns one's own life, how can one not let people guess?
And with just a little guessing, most of the results will be bad. This is inevitable.
The headquarters seems busy, but in fact some people are absent-minded. Many of them even feel that their lives are probably hopeless. The result of failure is to fight to the death with the Russians? I'm afraid it won't be long.
, I have to hand over my life in this ice and snow.
What's worse is that in this situation, there is no one who can send you a suicide note home. The entire army is surrounded by Russian iron walls and cannot escape. Where can you find someone who can send you a suicide note? That's it.
You die in obscurity, without a sound. Your relatives at home don't even know whether you are dead or alive. You don't see people when you are alive, and you don't see your body when you die. How can this not make people feel desolate?
"It means that the Russians saw through our plan, is that what you mean?"
The two big bosses, Lieutenant General Dritz and Major General Graeme, who were sitting at the table for a secret discussion, had no intention of paying attention to what other people around them were thinking. They just wanted to win as much as possible for the fate of the entire Armored Corps.
Vitality and hope.
"That Malashenko didn't admit it directly, nor did he say anything similar, but this is what he wanted me to see in his words and deeds. I'm pretty sure that he just didn't say it clearly and wanted me to go on my own.
Guess, my will collapsed under the unpredictable psychological pressure, and I took the initiative to confess to him or let him know something."
"If you have met him, you will know that that Russian kid is not simple. He even showed me his super heavy tank at the negotiation site. There was a huge series of slogans printed on the tank. I recognized it.
In Russian characters, it says "Avenge the Hero Kirill."
"God, he just wants to use that thing to create pressure on me! It's a super tank that I've never seen before, I've never heard of it before! It's huge, strong, and powerful, and it just stops there.
It makes you look at it quietly without moving, and it has a great sense of conquest and visual impact."
"For a moment, just for a moment, when the tank occupied the entire boundary of my sight, Malashenko looked directly at it with a sneer, while the Russian soldiers around him were wearing armored body armor and holding their weapons.
When all the new assault rifles were watching me, I almost told the truth. I am lucky to have come back alive from Malashenko, I am serious, Deritz."
"Now we must think about how to tell him the truth more appropriately so that he will think that we were not deliberately lying to him before. Only in this way can we win opportunities and hope for more people. Now is the time to make the necessary sacrifices
And the decision is made, you know what to do, old man."