While Kurbalov was reporting, Malashenko was also flipping through the documents in his hand.
Without the help of a translator, regardless of whether it is German or German, Malashenko has now achieved the ability to speak and read. After reading concise and concise documents at a glance, he immediately raised the corner of his mouth.
"Interesting, but how did this thing appear on that German guy? Who is he? According to my understanding, the place where this thing should appear is not in our control area, but somewhere with high authority.
On the desk of General Nazui."
Faced with the questions raised by Malashenko, Kulbalov also looked puzzled.
Although there are various possibilities in theory, in Kurbalov's opinion, most of them may not be tenable. After thinking about it, he can only follow his guess a little bit.
explain.
"I'm not sure, Comrade Commander."
"The German guy who was captured said he was a lieutenant colonel's staff officer and was affiliated with the Berlin Garrison Headquarters. But he didn't carry any documents that could prove his identity. When asked what happened, he just replied that he was in a hurry and didn't care.
He needs to bring it, and he doesn’t think he needs those things anymore.”
"He also said that he stole this thing specially to prove his sincerity. The purpose of his trip here was to surrender to us. He kept saying that he felt that this war was hopeless and could not be won at all. If he continued to fight against us, there would be only death.
One, so he had already planned to join us and get some confidential things to prove his value."
"But I don't think this makes sense. If he really came to surrender, why did he run away after seeing our soldiers?"
"The squad leader who interrogated a few words on the spot also mentioned this issue, but the German guy actually said that he thought the top soldier was too low-level to understand the information he provided, and he wanted to find someone who could really understand this stuff.
Someone came to explain the situation, so the first reaction was to run away."
"I think this statement is pure nonsense. He just made up excuses for himself and made up any reason to fool us. I even think that this document may be fake. It's just that the Germans saw that they couldn't stand it anymore, so they made it.
This is a fake trick to scare us and buy them time, delaying as much as possible. I think we should not be fooled by them and must continue to attack, Comrade Division Commander."
"Well"
After hearing this, Malashenko did not say anything directly, but just nodded noncommittally to show that he understood the general meaning.
In fact, as far as the document itself is concerned, the things recorded above are quite "shocking".
The document itself is not long and only describes one thing.
The general idea is that the Wehrmacht has confirmed something: the armed SS responsible for defending the city has unsealed a batch of poison gas weapons and has been transported to the front line and distributed to the troops.
Because the unsealed weapons warehouse is under the jurisdiction of the Waffen-SS, and since the Cherkasy gun shooting incident in 1944, the relationship between the Wehrmacht and the SS has become unprecedentedly tense and sensitive, and has taken a turn for the worse. It has been said that
It's like a situation where both sides look down on each other, "You think I'm a traitor, and I think you're cowardly and incompetent."
Unless necessary, the SS and the Wehrmacht are basically doing their own thing. Anyway, both sides have their own independent command, logistics, and combat systems, so it's not like anyone can live without them.
Can't go down anymore.
To sum up, the Berlin Garrison Headquarters controlled by the Wehrmacht only knew that what was stored in the warehouse was a batch of poison gas weapons that were transported into the city by the SS shortly before the Battle of Berlin. According to the SS gang,
What the madman said at the time was "just in case you need it" and "it's better to have it and not use it than not to have it when you need it".
Due to the sensitivity of the tense relationship between the two armies, and the imminent battle in which the Soviet Red Army was about to reach Berlin.
It was already "a clay Buddha crossing the river who could not protect himself", and the National Defense Forces, who had no time to care about others, had no time and no intention to intervene in this matter.
So even now, those lunatics of the SS have opened the weapons warehouse and distributed gas bombs to front-line troops.
The Wehrmacht still does not know what type of poison gas weapons the SS distributed, how many in quantity, and detailed combat orders on whether to use them, when to use them, and how to use them.
Of course, the document did not go into detail about the grudges and grudges between the Wehrmacht and the SS. It only briefly described the whole incident as "only a general idea, but no details." However, Malashenko had previously learned from various sources that
These things had been heard from the mouths of German prisoners.
After reading this document, Kurbalov thought it might be a fake, and the German lieutenant colonel who claimed to have come to surrender was also lying.
The purpose of doing this is most likely to frighten the Red Army with the horror of "poison gas weapons". Even the time required for the Red Army to prepare for large-scale poison prevention is enough for the leader's continuous sausage-slicing tactics in the past two days.
The German, who was almost losing his waist, took a breather and strengthened his defenses. To put it bluntly, it was to create a favorable situation for his own side and buy time.
It cannot be said that Kurbalov's analysis is wrong. There is no possibility at all. If you think about it carefully, you cannot rule out this possibility.
But if you think about it again and analyze it from another angle, combining the relationship between the SS and the Wehrmacht, the tense relationship is "just one centimeter away from tearing the face apart". The situation and events described in this document can also be
The logic is self-consistent and cannot be found to be proven false.
Therefore, the difficult problem was thrown in front of Malashenko at this time.
Should the frontline troops be required to maintain the offensive, continue to cut sausages, and not give the Germans a chance to breathe, or should the troops be withdrawn immediately to make more complete preparations for gas and chemical weapons prevention?
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Malashenko, who was holding the document and said nothing, was thinking that a thorough decision based on all currently known factors would take some time.
When Kulbalov, who understood the situation, did not interrupt, Malashenko, who leaned on the chair with his eyes closed and thought for nearly a minute, slowly spoke when he opened his eyes again.
"So far, have there been any reports of encounters with SS troops from the troops on the actual contact line?"
".Not yet. So far, the enemy garrison forces we have encountered are all from the Wehrmacht. From the German prisoners captured, there is no interrogation about the presence of SS troops in the war zone. It seems that this area is completely under the responsibility of the Wehrmacht
defensive."
After repeated weighings, Malashenko had made up his mind after hearing this. There could never be a situation on the battlefield where he did not take any risks and made pure profits with zero risk. That was not called a war, but a free prostitution.
There will be risks in any situation on the battlefield. The difference lies in the assessment of the risk coefficient and whether the benefits obtained are worthwhile.
Obviously, Malashenko's words that followed were enough to give the final answer.