The Germans surrendered, and less than five minutes after Malashenko thought "it's time to end," the first German second lieutenant, with his hands raised in the air and a small white flag still clutched in his right hand, finally walked out of the trench.
"Please don't fire, we surrender! No more fighting, no more fighting! We have laid down our weapons and pose no threat to your army. Please allow us to surrender according to the standards of prisoners of war."
A second lieutenant holding a white flag walked out first, followed closely by German soldiers one after another who also raised their hands high and appeared on the battlefield.
Although the distance is not too close, it can even be said to be relatively far away.
But Malashenko could still clearly see from his commander's periscope that the state of the Germans could only be described as "almost inhuman". They all looked like zombies just walking out of the trenches.
generally.
Except for the first few German soldiers who seemed to be okay, they were probably people close to the second lieutenant who took the lead in surrendering.
The rest are the ordinary soldiers who make up the absolute majority at the back of the team.
I can’t say that each of them has just one breath left, but it can definitely be said to be a state of deja vu where death is not far away.
This one has layer after layer of bandages on his head and looks like a rice dumpling. The other one has a walking stick in his hand and a plaster on his foot. He is limping and hopping around. Some even have two arms.
It was gone. I don’t know how I survived, so I relied on the help of the two lightly wounded people around me to walk out.
One or two of them were all disheveled, covered in blood, dejected, and even staggered when walking.
In Malashenko's view, this does not look like an army, nor does it have the same arrogance and arrogance as when it stormed across Europe and launched Operation Barbarossa.
Malashenko truly felt that the group in front of him was not so much a professional army as it was a team of miners who had just experienced a near-death experience at the site of a mining accident and escaped from the mine, the type of people who dug coal underground with hand planers.
"Damn it, this group of people is still standing in front of us? Isn't that ridiculous?"
With the high-magnification gun scope in his hand, he could see much more clearly than Malashenko. Iushkin did not wait for Malashenko to speak, but just complained first. After hearing this, Malashenko also said casually.
He responded.
"That's how they were beaten. Half an hour later, they were not like this. If they hadn't been like this, they wouldn't give up the fight. These bastards just didn't see the coffin."
"Nothing, nothing? What did you just say???"
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Malashenko was speechless and did not intend to answer Iushkin's serious question, but just passed him by.
"Nothing, I want to get out of the car. Iushkin, you can take command on my behalf. Now you are the acting commander."
As soon as Malashenko said this, Iushkin immediately looked excited.
"Ha, it's finally my turn!"
"Young Master You are so proud! Don't give me blind orders, or I will resist your orders!"
"Then I think you can give it a try. Anyway, I won't lose anything, hehe."
Ignoring Iushkin and Artem's stumbling words, Malashenko finally picked up the microphone in his hand before getting off the car and spoke again.
"Attention all troops, the Germans have begun to surrender. It is not clear whether it is a large-scale organized act or a small number of individual acts. The commander of the unit should pay attention to observation. Those who surrender can be accommodated. Those who pretend to surrender and those who resist are immediately killed on the spot! I repeat.
Once again, those who pretend to surrender and those who resist stubbornly will be killed on the spot!"
Malashenko has no time to play the game of patiently trying to persuade the Germans to surrender.
The thing is actually very simple. If you sincerely surrender, I will accept it. But if you have any tricks, I will immediately turn you into a pulp. You are not even qualified to negotiate terms. The only way for you to survive is the German guy.
Malashenko, who had already surrendered, never minded adding a few more tons of corpses to the top of the Zelo Highlands.
After giving the order and putting down the transmitter, Malashenko, who was just about to push open the turret hatch above his head and get out, was suddenly stunned again.
Thinking about shooting straight from the top of the "tall and mighty" IS7 turret with a conspicuous target, if the German guy on the opposite side has a better marksmanship to hit him, it would be really fucking dangerous.
If you win, you can't afford to take the risk.
"Why are you back again? Aren't you going out?"
Seeing that Malashenko, who had already stood up from the commander's position, retracted again, left the commander's position, and jumped from the turret basket to the floor of the car body. The puzzled Iushkin immediately asked Malashenko.
Science reported with questions.
"It's too dangerous up there, so I'll get out from below. Remember to keep the radio open. I'll call you anytime if there's any situation, and you'll be ready to drive to pick me up at any time."
"You decide."
He opened the escape hatch cover on the floor of the car body and drilled down. He came to the bottom of the IS7 car body. Malashenko was lying on the ground between the two tracks, still holding the gun in his hand.
He threw the short-barreled AK assault rifle with a folding stock out of the car in one step. He turned around and signaled to Artyom, who was looking at him from inside the car, to close the door and then began to crawl forward.
"Damn it, the ground is filled with the smell of blood, it's going to choke my nose."
"Wait, this is grass!"
Not even two meters after climbing out, Malashenko saw something that shocked him.
There is a "paper man" pressed under the left track of his precious car. Well, now speaking, it should be a "paper man" that has been completely exploded and only the skin is left. It has been reduced from a three-dimensional state to a two-dimensional level.
Although he was a little surprised, Malashenko still chose to get closer and take a look.
At first glance, I discovered that the person who was crushed into a paper figure by the 70-ton IS7 was a German guy. He looked like a low-level officer. He was wearing black leather gloves for officers, and it seemed that he was caught in the tracks of the IS7.
, the rear half of the STG44 assault rifle pressed into the soil is also clearly visible. Judging from his outfit, he is probably an infantry platoon leader or company commander or something.
"Just stay in the soil. You don't have to dig a hole to bury it. It will be used as fertilizer this spring."
Malashenko, who no longer went to the regular meeting with the "German paper man", continued to move forward, and soon crawled out of the back of the IS7 with his own self-defense weapon.
The first thing he did when he got out of the back of the car was to open the folding butt of the gun, pull the charging handle to load the gun and stay alert. Malashenko couldn't remember the last time he fired a rifle on the battlefield, but after all, it was a normal day.
When I had nothing to do, I went to the shooting range to shoot two shuttles to practice my skills. The division commander was still very confident in his own light weapons level and self-defense ability.
"Over there, Comrade Division Commander is out! Quick, go up and protect Comrade Division Commander, move quickly!"
What Malashenko didn't expect was that as soon as he got out of the car, the hatches of the several infantry fighting vehicles in the guard tank company directly under the division headquarters that had not directly joined the battle immediately opened wide, and Malashenko reacted so quickly that even Malashenko
The steps of ordering are saved.
A large group of soldiers wearing bulletproof armor, armed with assault rifles and new squad machine guns, rushed towards Malashenko under the leadership of the company commander. This is also the only unit in the entire division that is not affiliated with the battle.
The "plate armor commando" of the engineering force is the last "infantry defense line" around Malashenko.
"Comrade Commander, why did you suddenly get out from under the car? Where are you going?"