Chapter 261

With the help of the villagers, the bodies of our soldiers and the wounded were sent to the rear by truck, while the bodies of the German soldiers were dragged to the wasteland outside the village and directly thrown into a large pit that had been dug.

Zhuoya's body was put into a coffin provided by the kind villagers and stored in the village church.

Although all the prisoners have been killed by us, leisdayev has already known the serial number of this unit from the captured German officers and soldiers: the 332nd infantry regiment of the German army, headed by lieutenant colonel liujielier.

After dealing with the affairs in the village, I directly gave the order to the division's troops through the telephone: all the German officers and soldiers in the 332nd infantry regiment would be sentenced to death and would never accept their surrender.

For this order, although the commanders and battalion commanders felt strange, they carried it out to the letter. Only yegorov, chisgakov and sherebriakov raised their objections. They felt that we should give the other side the treatment that a prisoner of war should have, rather than shoot them casually.

When I told the story of Zoya in detail, they were silent and did not raise any objection to my order to execute all the prisoners of the 332nd German regiment.

All night long.

At noon the next day, I was having lunch with lesdayev, Yushchenko and several company commanders at the temporary command post at Polina's home. Soldiers on guard outside the village reported to us through walkie talkies that a troop was coming, led by deputy division commander General chisjakov. So I immediately took them out to meet him.

Seeing from a distance that chisjakov, two other commanders and a group of soldiers came towards me, my heart suddenly jumped, and I felt a little bit bad.

"What's going on?" I said to myself, "why didn't chisgakov even say hello and bring the commanders of other troops to see me?" I left resdayev behind and they went up quickly.

"Hello, sir!" Chisgakov first stopped and saluted me.

When I saluted back, I found that general sokolovsky, the chief of staff of the front army, was standing beside him. I looked at the chief of staff with some surprise, wondering why he came to me from the headquarters of the front army at this time. I saluted him and said politely, "Hello, chief of staff sokolovsky. Welcome to the eighth division of the guards."

"Hello! Comrade oshanina. " Sokolovsky returned a salute with a bitter face, then frowned, pointed to the officer beside him and said to me, "I'd like to introduce you. This is from the people's Committee of interior..."

"Comrade chief of staff, let me introduce myself." The officer stepped forward, raised his hand haughtily, interrupted sokolovsky and said to me, "Hello, Mr. oshanina! I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon. I'm major zuyev of the people's Committee of internal affairs. Do you remember me? "

I shriveled shriveled mouth, did not speak, the heart said I have seen so many people, how can remember who you are? So he shook his head and said he didn't remember seeing him anywhere.

"We met in the red brysno subway station, don't you forget?" The major reminded me kindly“ Before I got to the subway station, you had a conflict with my subordinate, Lieutenant dornikov. "

I was a little impressed by what he said. At that time, Lieutenant dornikov and I had different opinions on how to deal with the people on the subway train. In the end, we had to find a relationship to solve the problem. I'm looking for Colonel bezikov of the central guard, and the interior lieutenant is looking for this major.

I didn't like the people in the interior department all the time, but since other people showed friendly behavior, I couldn't refuse people thousands of miles away, so I held out my hand to shake with him, and said hello to him by the way, and asked about his intention: "Hello, comrade major! Why do you come to the eighth division of our guards today

The major shook hands with me and said with a smile, "I've been ordered to arrest you!"

His words were like a flash of lightning, which made me stupid. After a long time, I broke away from him and asked, "arrest me? Why? Did I do something wrong? "

Without waiting for zuyev's reply, several officers behind me were already shouting in disorder.

In particular, Captain Yushchenko, also from the Ministry of internal affairs, first jumped out and questioned: "Comrade major, I am also captain Yushchenko from the Ministry of internal affairs. Now I am the company commander of the eighth guard division of the guards. I want to ask what is wrong with division commander oshanina and why do I arrest her?"

"Yes! Why? " Lesdayev and several company commanders also cried out in unison.

"Be quiet!" At this time, I calmed down, waved my hand to calm everyone down, and then turned to major zuyev seriously and asked, "Comrade major, can I know the reason for my arrest?"

Zuyev nodded his head and replied: "according to the photos provided by Red Star reporter Comrade ellenburg to Comrade Stalin, you personally ordered the brutal killing of nearly 100 German soldiers who laid down their arms and surrendered, which had a serious impact. In order to avoid similar incidents, I have been ordered to arrest you and hand over to the military court. "

I nodded, then said to sokolovsky, who was standing beside me and kept silent: "Comrade chief of staff of the front army, I want to know who will command the eighth division of the guards after I am arrested." Sokolovsky's eyes glanced at chisgakov beside him, and then replied, "according to Zhukov's order, after you are arrested by the Ministry of interior, major general chisgakov, the deputy division commander, will take over the post of the eighth division of the guards." I know a lot about chisgakov's ability. I'm relieved to let him take the post of teacher. Then I turned to zuyev again. I tried to squeeze a smile on my face and said, "Comrade major, before you formally arrest me, I want to show you something. You won't object to my proposal, will you Major zuyev nodded slightly in agreement. Then I said to sokolovsky and chisjakov, "two generals, please come with me." I took a group of people to the village chapel, went to the coffin parked in the hall, I told Yushchenko: "Comrade captain, open the coffin."“ Yes Yushchenko agreed loudly, and then he and the other two soldiers moved the lid of the coffin. Zuyev, sokolovsky and chisjakov all feel strange when I bring you to the church. When the coffin lid is removed and Zhuoya's broken body appears in their sight, everyone present is filled with indignation. Even zuyev is no exception. He looked at me in surprise and asked, "Comrade oshanina, that's why you ordered the execution of all the German prisoners?" I nodded and began to explain to them the real reason for killing the captives: "if they catch this young girl named Zhuoya and just shoot her or hang her, I will not express anger. After all, this is a life and death war. But as you can see, what did they do to Zoya? First, she was raped and insulted by dozens of German soldiers; After hanging her, she hung her body on the gallows for a month and a half; The most extreme thing is that they even insulted the corpse, not only cutting off her eyes, but also digging out her eyes. Seeing that our army was going to fight here and prepare to flee in a hurry, the German soldiers demolished the gallows to destroy the criminal evidence, and threw the remains of Zhuoya, who still had a rope on her neck, into an earth pit for burial. " At this point, I stopped for a moment, saw the angry expression on everyone's faces, knew that their goal had been achieved, and then went on to say: "is it the style that the Germans should do when they do this? It can be said that they are not human beings at all, but animals. For such a two legged animal, we should pay an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and blood for blood. I want to let these bandits know that when they want to act recklessly in our country, they should carefully weigh what kind of consequences they will bring and what kind of price they will pay. " Sokolovsky walked forward two steps with a cold face, came to me, patted me gently on the shoulder and said, "Mr. oshanina, I really didn't expect things to be so complicated. I will report to Comrade Zhukov immediately." Major zuyev came over and said to me in a low voice, "Mr. oshanina, let's go. It's a long way back to the city. If we don't go any further, it will be dark when we enter the city."“ Comrade major. " All of a sudden, chisjakov, who had never spoken, said, "please take good care of our teachers."“ Yes, comrade major Lesdayev and Yushchenko echoed and said, "our teachers will ask you." Zuyev saluted the commanders on the scene and made a solemn promise: "please rest assured that I will make it convenient for Mr. oshanina within my authority." Then he made a gesture of invitation to me. After shaking hands with sokolovsky, chisjakov and resdayev, I strode out of the lecture hall accompanied by zuyev.