Chapter 108

O'shanin recalled stopping here, red eyes, tears rolling in the eyes.

What does he suffer from? I know it in my heart. Although the loss of the fortress was expected by me, I was still sad to hear this news suddenly. After all, I have been in this era for several months. How can I be heartless without plants and people? I stood up, walked behind him, leaned down, hugged him from behind, gently rubbed his cheek against the scar on his right face, and asked softly, "what happened then?"

Oshanin took a deep breath, calmed his excitement, and then continued: "I'm the only one left in the building, and the rest of the people have been captured for many sacrifices. The German army found that there were still people fighting in the building. Instead of sending their infantry to die, they directly bombarded them with artillery. Originally, the building was riddled with holes, and then it was hit by dozens of shells. Finally, it collapsed, and I was buried alive in the smoke and dust in the sky.... "

Although he is now alive in front of me, when I heard him say that he was buried alive in the building, I still couldn't help saying "ah" softly.

"I don't know how long I've been dizzy. I didn't wake up until I was excited by the cold rain. I looked at the surrounding environment and found that there was a huge cement board slanting on the column above the position where I was lying, blocking the falling bricks and stones, leaving a small safe space in the middle. Because of this, I was not killed by the bricks and stones alive. I struggled to climb out of the ruins until I reached the place where Sasha saved me. All this almost exhausted my strength. The sharp pain in my right cheek and the shrapnel wound on my body made me faint again. "

I stood up straight, gently stroked the long scar on his right face and asked, "does it still hurt?"

He grabbed my hand, shook his head and continued: "it wasn't long before I felt someone shaking my body and shouting in Russian:" comrade, wake up! Comrade, wake up! " When I opened my eyes, I saw a Soviet soldier squatting in front of me, with ragged clothes, a face full of smoke and blood. Seeing that I woke up, he waved to the side, and soon another soldier who was also in ragged clothes came. Without saying a word, they lifted me up from the ground and helped me forward. I asked them, "where are we going?"‘ Comrade commander, "the soldier replied solemnly," the fortress has been occupied by the Germans. We are going to be prisoners! "

"Are you captured?" I asked in surprise.

He nodded and continued to tell his story: "hearing this, I tried to break free from the support of the two soldiers and cried out:" let me go, I will never be a prisoner! " But I was weak after the injury, and I struggled a few times, but I couldn't get out of the hands of the soldiers‘ Please keep quiet, comrade commander. " The soldier suddenly said to me seriously, "the communication between the fortress and the rear area has been completely interrupted. We are now out of ammunition and food, isolated and helpless. We can't make unnecessary sacrifices."‘ I will never be a prisoner! " I growled in a low voice‘ No one wants to be a prisoner, comrade commander. " The soldier looked around, then frowned and said, "we are all blocked by the Germans. We can't get out at all. If we want to leave here, we have to be prisoners." I snorted and said nothing. The soldier explained to me, "the German army is persuading us to surrender again. We are going to surrender and then find a chance to escape. Do you understand, comrade commander? " After hearing what he said, I didn't say anything more. I honestly let two soldiers help me to join the surrender team. "

"Wait a minute," I couldn't help interrupting him, saying my doubts: "didn't you say you were the only one left? Where did the others come from? "

"There are many buildings in the fortress, and there are defensive troops in each building. Although my building was destroyed by the German army, and all the commanders and fighters in it were killed, many of the defenders in the building were still fighting bravely. Seeing that the strong attack did not work, the German army turned to propaganda and called on our soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender. "

"Oh, so it is. You go on I thought that the German commander was quite capable. He knew the truth of "subduing the soldiers without fighting" and he knew how to launch a propaganda offensive against the tenacious garrison.

"When we entered the German position, two German soldiers with submachine guns came up. They simply searched us and escorted us out of the fort. After walking West from the fortress for about ten minutes, I came to the town, where there were four or five hundred Soviet prisoners of war. Most of them were ragged and depressed. The two German soldiers pushed us hard into the crowd and turned straight away. After observing the environment, I found that there were only more than 30 German soldiers on guard, and they did not take strict care of us. "

"How did you get out?" I really wanted to know how he got out of danger, so I couldn't help interrupting him again.

"We spent the night in the town, and the next morning the German troops escorted us to the border. Maybe it's because of the shortage of troops. There are not many German soldiers escorting us. There are only less than 50 people on motorcycles.

At noon, we approached the border and walked to the edge of a forest. The German officer in charge stopped the troops to have a rest. The prisoners of war walked a whole morning in the scorching sun. If they had not been forced by the German soldiers with guns, many of them would not have been able to hold out on the way. Now it's hard to get to the place. The prisoners of war don't care what they can do. They sit on the ground and gasp. Except for seven or eight guards, the rest of the German soldiers hid in the forest for lunch, leaving the tired and hungry prisoners in the open to endure the scorching sun.

Looking at the German soldiers left behind, Ivanov, the soldier who saved me, complained in a low voice. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He came close to my ear and whispered, "commander, you see, these German devils are beginning to complain. As long as they relax their guard, we can find a chance to escape."‘ Run away? " I asked him, "where are you going?" He pointed to the forest where there were no German soldiers and said, "run into the forest, as long as you run into the forest, the German devils will not catch us.".

After observing the surrounding environment, I quickly rejected his proposal, shook my head slightly and said, "we are at least 50 meters away from the edge of the forest. How much do you think there is hope that the German devils will not find us there?" Hearing that I rejected his proposal, he was a little worried: "if you rush through here, you can rush into the forest in 15 seconds at most. If you don't act, you can't even run after crossing the border."

"If it's night now, we'll have a better chance of escaping from here, but now we're going to die...". It seems to prove what I said. A soldier not far from us suddenly jumped up and ran towards the forest dozens of meters away.

The man only ran more than ten meters away, and the German soldiers in charge of the guard had found him. There was no warning at all. Several submachine guns were fired at the same time. Although the mud around the man was splashed by bullets, he was determined to escape the control of the German soldiers, so he ran all the way without stopping. However, the man's luck was limited. Although he successfully approached the edge of the forest, he was finally hit by a bullet. I only saw several blood flowers on his body, then stretched out his hands into the air, as if trying to grasp something, but finally fell to the ground.

After hearing the gunfire, the German officer rushed out of the forest with a group of people to see what happened. He didn't show much surprise when he learned that a prisoner of war had tried to escape and was killed. Obviously, he had thought in advance that someone would try to escape. And I'm sure no one will be able to run.

He stood in front of the line with no expression on his face and said, "gentlemen, please remember your identity. You are prisoners of war! When we get to the camp, we will give you the treatment you deserve. If anyone tries to escape, he will come to the same end as this man. " Then he scanned the team and said, "now I need some volunteers to come out and bury this guy."

After listening to the German officers, all the prisoners remained silent, and no one took the initiative to stand up as the volunteer. The main reason is that everyone is tired and hungry, and no one can do the physical work of burying bodies.

"No one really wants to be a volunteer?" Seeing that my proposal was not answered, the officer's face began to darken, and his hand touched the pistol at his waist.

Seeing that no one was making a sound around me, I pulled Ivanov next to me, then stood up and said, "I'll come."‘ And me. " Ivanov also immediately stood up.

"Guard, Shovel them with them, and bury them quickly, so we can make our way." Seeing that someone finally took the initiative to stand up, the officer asked two soldiers to escort us to bury the body, and then he took people back to the forest to eat.

Ivanov and I walked into the forest with bodies full of craters. After walking about 20 meters, the German soldiers stopped us and handed us two engineering shovels to dig on the spot.

When digging the pit, I whispered to Ivanov, "when we fill the soil later, we will use this engineer to shovel them while the German soldiers are not paying attention." Ivanov gently agreed, and then buried himself in digging.

It took half an hour to dig a shallow pit for the body. After dragging the body into the pit, we began to fill it slowly. Two German soldiers were watching us at the beginning. After a long time, they relaxed their vigilance and stood by the pit chatting. Seeing that the time was ripe, I made a look from Ivanov, then shoveled up a shovel of soil to the German soldiers. Taking advantage of the chance that they were blinded by the dust, we rushed over like lightning, and slashed down with the engineer shovel in our hands. The two German soldiers didn't even say a word, so they fell flat on the ground. We picked up the submachine guns on the ground and ran to the depths of the forest

"You are so lucky." I couldn't help but say with emotion: "fortunately, the German officer made a whim and asked you to bury the dead prisoners of war, so that you had a chance to escape. If he doesn't pay attention to the dead bodies on the side of the road at all, but directly escorts you to the prison camp, it is estimated that you are in danger now. "

"We've been walking in the forest for a week, during which time we've been feeding on wild fruits. If we didn't happen to be rescued by the Scout of the outer Baikal division, maybe we would have died in the forest. After the battle of Smolensk, my company was transferred to the outskirts of Moscow. In September, someone came to the army to recruit military dog trainers. Because of my experience, I took the initiative to sign up for this mysterious army. Before long, we were transferred to the north of Moscow for closed training. Yesterday, we received a notice from our superiors that the Western Front Army lacks enough anti tank forces at present, so we assigned our company to the front army. " O'shanin held my hand tightly, looked up at me and said excitedly, "I didn't expect to meet you here. This unexpected reunion is so happy."