Chapter 877

After sedlitz's words, the room suddenly fell into a silence, except for the sound of our breathing, there was no other sound. This startling suggestion shocked everyone in the room.

I thought to myself: sedlitz's idea is really bold. He even thought of recruiting people from German prisoners of war to form an anti Hitler army to fight with us. However, although this idea is bold, it has great feasibility. Since the German army can transfer personnel from the prisoners of war of our army to form the "Oriental battalion" and form the "Russian Liberation Army" two years later, why can't we treat them in their own way and also form a "German liberation army" composed of German prisoners of war to deal with those Germans?

As soon as this tempting idea came into being, I couldn't get it out of my head. I tried to stay calm and look at trakov to see how he would react to it. Trikov's smile froze on his face, staring at sedlitz without saying a word, as if thinking about how to answer each other.

But I heard Krylov murmur in a low voice: "nonsense, this is nonsense! They are all prisoners. I don't know how to stop. "

Seeing that all the people kept silent, sedlitz seemed a little flustered. He tried to explain to us: "Your Highness commander, I make such a request not because I am afraid of death, but to rescue my motherland and people from Hitler's brutal rule..."

"Well, general sedlitz, you don't have to say any more." Before the other party finished, gurov interrupted him and said politely, "we are not qualified to reply to the proposal you just put forward. We need to ask the superior for instructions."

At this time, trikov also returned to normal. He quickly echoed gurov and said, "yes, general sedlitz, we will give you the final reply to your proposal after we report it to our superiors. It's late now. I'll let my men take you to the headquarters of the front army first. "

Hearing the answers from trakov and gurov, sedlitz sighed with disappointment, raised his hand, saluted, turned and followed the interpreter out of the room.

"Comrade commander, this general sedlitz is crazy!" After cedritz's back disappeared from the door, krailov looked back at trakov and said, "he's too fanciful. Does he think he's a great man? It's just a daydream to set up our own army to cooperate with us

Trekov turned to look at us and asked noncommittally, "what do you think of this?"

"Comrade commander, I think this matter has completely exceeded our authority." Krailov answered in advance: "we should report to the commander of the front army immediately and give him the decision-making power."

Trekov nodded and asked me, "what do you think of oshanina?"

In my memory, there is no such military organization as the "German Liberation Army". There must be something wrong with it. So when I answered trakov's question, I said with great caution: "Comrade commander, general sedlitz offered to cooperate with us soon after he was captured. We should be cautious about his enthusiasm, and we can't pour cold water on him blindly, otherwise it will make him cold. "

After what I said, trakov turned to gurov again. Without waiting for him to speak, gurov said carefully: "I think both oshanina and Krylov have a point. It's the first time for us to meet the German general who will cooperate with us soon after being captured, so we must be cautious in treating him. However, as we do not have enough authority to handle such matters, I think we should report this matter to the headquarters of the front army immediately and ask general rokosovsky to make a decision. "

After listening to gurov's advice, trakov told krailov: "chief of staff, go to the intelligence department to find out if there is any information about general sedlitz. If there is, bring it here and let's study it."

After krailov left, trakov picked up the phone from his desk and called the headquarters of the front army. After hearing rokosovsky's voice, he straightened up and said, "Hello, Constantine konstantinovich, this is trakov. I have something to report to you... "Then trakov reported what just happened to rokosovsky.

While they were talking, I leaned my ear to hear what rokosovsky was saying, but because the phone didn't leak, I didn't hear anything except what trakov said.

As soon as trakov put down the phone, gurov could not wait to ask, "Comrade commander, how did general rokosovsky reply?"

Trikov had no secret from gurov. Hearing his question, he immediately replied, "the commander of the front army said that he would talk to general sedlitz in person. If we really want to draw people from German prisoners to form troops, he may also need to report to the headquarters and listen to the opinions of the Supreme Commander himself. "

"Do you still read about cedritz?" Gurov asked briefly.

"Look, of course." Trekov replied positively: "even if the matter of selecting people from German captives to form an army is not passed in the end, I don't think sedlitz will be put in a prisoner's camp. Maybe there is a chance to cooperate with us, so we need to know him thoroughly."

Just then, krailov hurried in from the outside. He stopped in front of trakov, handed him a document bag in his hand, and said, "Comrade commander, this is the information about German generals collected by the intelligence service."

Trakov opened the file bag, took out a thick stack of information from it, looked at it twice, and read it aloud to us: "von Seidlitz kurtzbach, born in 1888 in a family of hereditary officers of the Prussian army in Hanover, Germany. His family name shows his great family background and noble family.

He has been a principal officer in the Prussian army since he was 20 years old. He participated in the first World War, and the division's rank at the end of the war was artillery captain. From 1918 to 1933, sedlitz took hostages in the artillery grass-roots units and the national military department, and his rank was promoted from captain to major. In 1939, he returned to the army. He was promoted from artillery battalion commander to artillery commander, and his rank was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel. He was promoted to major general in January 1939.

From March 1940 to June 1941, he was the commander of the 12th infantry division of the German army and led the troops to invade France and the Netherlands. According to our data, Hitler's war of aggression against Western Europe made this officer's position soar rapidly and his prospects are bright all the way.

In June 1941, after Hitler's gang invaded our territory, sedlitz was ordered to lead the Ministry to the East and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in less than half a year. In March 1942, the Communist invading army, which had a good journey, was defeated for the first time and fell into the encirclement of our army in the jamyansk swamp northwest of Moscow. Sedlitz was ordered to lead his own name of the assault troops to the rescue, after the defeat of our army, he successfully rescued the besieged troops. This battle made him famous. He and his "cedritz" commando team attracted the attention of the general headquarters of our army. Of course, Hitler regarded him as a rare general, and then ordered him as an artillery general to command the 51st infantry of the 6th German army and take part in the attack on Stalingrad. "

After reading this, trakov put down his information, turned to gurov and said, "Comrade military commissar, it seems that this sedlitz is still a great man. If he really wants to cooperate with us, I think this matter can be considered."

Gulov nodded and said with approval, "yes, if such an outstanding German general cooperates with us, it will have a certain effect on the disintegration of German Sergeant spirit. But there is nothing we can do until we get a reply from the headquarters of the front army. "

After a few words of conversation, gurov found that I was still standing by, so he stopped talking to trekov, turned to me and said, "Comrade oshanina, there is something I almost forgot. Yesterday, German propaganda minister Goebbels delivered a speech on the radio. Our intelligence staff has recorded all of his speech. When you go back later, you can take this recording back to Comrade ublish by the way. "

I went back to the army headquarters with a recording of the Goebbels speech that gurov had given me. Ublish, who was informed to collect the recording, played Goebbels' speech for us in the headquarters with the equipment he brought. Because it was all German, he asked us to act as a translator: "in the end, although it sounds cruel, there is no difference for soldiers, whether in Stalingrad or lerev, whether in desert Africa or in ice and snow Norway. They will also fail and die, and they will sacrifice themselves, Because they died for the people. "

When ublish finished translating all the contents of the speech, chief of staff Vitkov slapped the table and said excitedly, "great, great, this speech by Goebbels is really wonderful!"

I can't help frowning when I heard that he praised Goebbels' speech so highly. Just as he wanted to get angry with him, he found my difference and explained to me with a smile: "Comrade commander, you must be very strange. Why do I say Goebbels' speech is great?"

When I heard him say this, I knew that there must be some afterwords, so I nodded and waited patiently for him to say the following words. He coughed, and when his mood was a little more stable, he continued: "Comrade commander, Goebbels' speech is tantamount to declaring in disguise those German soldiers who are still resisting that we have completely abandoned you. For the glory of Germany, you can only choose death. In this way, the illusions in the hearts of the German officers and soldiers who have been looking forward to being rescued will be completely shattered, and our next attack will become easier. "

"The chief of staff is right." After witkov finished, ublish added: "this speech will be the last straw to defeat the camel, which will lead to the collapse of the morale of the surrounded German officers and soldiers. I think that in a few days, these German forces besieged in the "barricade" factory area and tractor factory area will lay down their arms and surrender to us. "

Listen to two people say confident and so can't refute, I had to half doubt nodded.

The next day, that is, the attack on February 1, I ordered the 171st and 308 divisions on the left and right wings to stop advancing, and from the 150th division of bantaileiev to the dormitory area of the tractor factory to launch an attack on the enemy.

Before the attack, as usual, Ulrich and his comrades in the anti Communist League played a piece of German music. As soon as the music was over, the recording of Goebbels' speech was immediately played, and at the end of the day, a routine call was made to the German positions as usual. Needless to say, with the recording of Goebbels' speech, their political offensive today has achieved quite good results. As soon as the call was over, I saw through my telescope that several white flags hanging on bayonets were stretched out from the windows of the buildings nearest to our starting position. The officers and men of the 150th division had rich experience in fighting. Seeing that the enemy began to wave the white flag and surrender, several small units ready to surrender immediately left the position and quickly ran towards the buildings. As soon as they left the trench, they were found by the stubborn German troops in other buildings, and the machine guns in the buildings immediately fired at the soldiers who ran. Although from time to time someone was hit and fell by a bullet, the rest of them still ran to the buildings waving the white flag. Seeing that our commanders and fighters rushed into the building, the artillery concealed behind the position decisively opened fire on the building where the fire point was exposed. In the light and smoke of the explosion, the German officers and soldiers who hid behind the wall and shot down from the height with the collapse of the wall. But when the artillery began to extend to distant buildings, the commanders and fighters hiding in the starting position jumped out of the trench with a cry and rushed forward with weapons. Witkov, who was standing beside me to observe the situation of the war, could not help but worry when he saw that our troops launched a charge. "Comrade commander, if there is no tank to cover the infantry charge, will it lead to unnecessary casualties?" Pointing to the densely populated residential buildings in front of me, I explained to wittkov, "chief of staff, you see, the buildings in the factory dormitory area are too dense. If our tanks rush up, they will easily become the targets of German anti tank fighters. With the direct fire of the artillery battalion, even if the enemy hides in the building to shoot, it will not pose a great threat to our attacking troops. "