Chapter 340

After more than an hour, the officers and soldiers who went to bury the bodies came back to the captives with tired bodies. Some people just sit on the ground to have a rest, while some people do not sit down to have a rest when they come back to the team, instead, they talk to people everywhere.

I don't know when the second lieutenant I know colluded with the captain again. The captain was one of the members of the burying team just now. He directly found the second lieutenant and pulled him aside. They squatted together and muttered for a long time. Then the second lieutenant came back to me and said in a low voice, "Comrade major, let's run away at night."

"Dark?" I was puzzled and said: "it's not all white nights recently. How can I run in broad daylight. Do you want to end up like the three officers who were shot and smashed just now? "

"Don't you know, comrade major?" The second lieutenant said in a low voice, "the white night ended yesterday. From today on, from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. the next day, there are five hours of night every day. We can sneak into the forest at night. "

Hearing the second lieutenant say this, I can't help but feel that it's best for me to escape. Otherwise, when I'm sent to a POW camp or concentration camp, I will be doomed. So I asked the second lieutenant quietly, "this plan was put forward by the captain just now. Did he choose the escape route?"

The second lieutenant nodded his head and said, "just now the captain was sent by the Germans to bury his body. When he was digging a hole at the edge of the forest, he carefully observed the terrain. There were no Germans in the forest. He also said that as long as we escape into the vast forest, the Germans will have nothing to do with us, and we have hope to escape from the encirclement. "

To be fair, if he hadn't mentioned the word "encirclement", I might have been impulsive to take part in their escape at night. But when he mentioned the encirclement, I realized that there was no point in such an escape, even if I escaped into the forest? We have no idea where we are now? What's more, we don't know where to run to be safe. Besides, we all wander around in the endless forest with our bare hands. The final result, as I just told them, is either to be captured again or to starve to death. Therefore, when the second lieutenant asked me whether I would take part in their operation, I politely refused him.

As night fell, there were no stars and moon in the sky. In order to prevent the prisoners from escaping, an armored car of the German drove to the side of the prisoner's team. Every ten minutes, the German on the car fired a flare into the air to observe whether there was any change in the prisoner's team.

The captain, with more than a dozen officers and men willing to try to escape with him, including the second lieutenant, crawled forward like the edge of the forest under the cover of night, as he said during the day. When the old flares went out and the new flares didn't rise, the captain got up from his prone position and took the lead to escape into the forest.

The gunshots I imagined didn't ring. It seems that their escape was not found by the Germans. At that moment, I felt a little regret in my heart. I knew it was so easy to escape, so I should escape with them.

My regret lasted only a few hours, and it turned into happiness.

Just at five o'clock, a group of Germans stormed into the line of prisoners of war and drove all the prisoners lying on the grass to rest. Then we took out dozens of strong men from the crowd, one with a tool in his hand, and asked them to dig a hole 50 meters away from us.

In half an hour, dozens of people dug a big pit more than 20 meters long, more than 10 meters wide and more than one person deep. Seeing such a big pit, I began to be afraid. According to the movie and TV series, digging a pit is to prepare for the next massacre. Is that pit my burial place?

When the diggers returned to the ranks, the German lieutenant of yesterday appeared again. He stood on the armored car with an angry face, holding a horn in his hand, and yelled: "Russian soldiers, we killed some ignorant guys here yesterday afternoon, and cancelled your dinner in order to punish you for not giving back. Unexpectedly, in the evening, fifteen more officers and soldiers ran away. They thought they would be safe if they ran into the forest, but they were trapped in the swamp. " At this point, he turned to the direction of the forest and yelled a German I didn't understand. Then a group of fully armed German soldiers came out of the forest. Among them were seven or eight ragged Soviet prisoners of war. My eyes are good. From a long distance, I can see that the second one is the second lieutenant I know. But I didn't see the captain. Maybe he was killed.

Seeing several prisoners of war being held in front of us, the German Lieutenant continued to say in a loud voice: "these prisoners of war who run away without permission will be severely punished." He bowed his head and said to the lieutenant, "before you are executed, I will give you two choices: first, each of you will go to the team and choose a companion to die with you; The second is to stand still. When the time comes, ten people will be buried with you. The time is one minute. Now it's time The German Lieutenant raised his hand, looked at his watch, and read aloud, "60, 59, 58, 57..."

When I heard the German Lieutenant's offer, I took a breath of cold air. It turned out that he wanted to set an example to others. He wanted to implement such a strict system of sitting in company among prisoners of war. In the future, even if anyone wanted to escape, he would have to consider it again and again. At this time, it suddenly occurred to me that the relationship between me and the second lieutenant was pretty good. He would not pull me to carry on the back, would he? At the thought of this, my legs trembled and I could hardly stand.

However, the second lieutenant didn't seem to want to pull me on my back. After he entered the team, he had a little chat with a soldier in a low voice, and then they walked out shoulder to shoulder. With his example, other people soon chose their companions to go to the execution ground with them“ Aha, it seems that there are some good hearted people among you bloody Russians. " I see that my counting of seconds is not over, and the number of people on the execution ground has come together. The German Lieutenant looked at the group of officers and soldiers with a somewhat ironic look and said in a loud voice, "I don't know if you are not afraid of death, or because you are afraid that if I get angry, more bodies will be made among these prisoners of war?" Seeing that no one paid any attention to him, he felt a little bored and waved to his soldiers and said a word of German. So the soldiers drove the prisoners to the pit they had just dug, and then pulled the trigger on them. After the prisoners were shot, some fell directly into the pit, and some fell beside the pit. After the German soldiers finished shooting, they went forward and pushed the bodies beside the pit into the earth pit. Seeing his soldiers coming back to touch him, the German Lieutenant began to deliver his speech again: "Russian soldiers, now start to form a unit. The soldiers stand on my left and the officers stand on my right. Time is one minute. When I finish counting seconds, if anyone stands still, he will be shot on the spot. " As he began to count the seconds, the whole POW team was in a mess, and everyone rushed to both sides of the armored car to seize their own position. I was also coerced in the ranks of officers and pushed to the designated position.