Chapter 1139

I saw two officers just staring at me in a daze, but did not speak. Just as he was about to let travkin take them down and lock them up, the old officer suddenly stood at attention and saluted me. At the same time, he said something loudly in German. I understood nothing except his own name in his words.

Fortunately, gretka did the translation for me in time: "Hello, general oshanina, I'm the reconnaissance battalion of the great German division." When I heard the word, I asked, "what does it mean?"

"Yes, sir." Gorus coughed, a little embarrassed to explain: "for example, I'm a lieutenant with one bar and two stars now. If I catch you alive, my superior will add a bar to my epaulet, so I'm a lieutenant commander."

With a chill in my heart, the image of Manstein's old shame and anger immediately appeared in my mind. In his mind, I am a thorn in the flesh, which must be removed quickly. Thinking of this, I tentatively asked gorus, "Mr. lieutenant, can you tell me now what your mission is?"

Gorus hesitated for a moment, and finally gathered up his courage and said: "Sir, according to our Air Force reconnaissance report, there should be a military command near this area, so we are ordered to destroy the command here. If possible, we will take one or two senior Russian officers back alive, so that we can grasp the distribution of Russian forces in southern Kursk. "

Gorus's words made us take a breath. We thought that the German army was here by mistake. Unexpectedly, they were ordered to attack our headquarters. Fortunately, I made a quick decision and sent the reconnaissance battalion to kill them. Otherwise, they might sneak in one day and we would be the captives.

Although the hero of this operation, travkin, was standing behind them, I still looked at gorus and asked, "Mr. lieutenant, tell me about your capture experience?"

Gorus' face turned red when I asked. I thought he would be furious and refuse to answer my question, but he hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, I have to say that your operation is very successful and can be written into the combat textbook. I never dreamed that in your own defense area, in order to deal with us, your army would put on German uniforms and let a group of our traitors act as accomplices. So that when they rushed in front of us, I thought it was our troops who came here. " As he said this, he glared at Grimes and gretka. Although gretka was called a traitor by him, he was very calm and translated the original words of gorus to us without expression.

I saw the muscles on gramus's face twitching violently, obviously stimulated. I was afraid that he would do something too much on impulse, so I hastened to say, "Mr. lieutenant, you are wrong. They are not traitors of Germany. On the contrary, they are still heroes in the anti Communist camp. In the future, when you rebuild your motherland, they will become the mainstay of the whole country. " My words calmed the expression on gramus' face, while gretka straightened his waist.

Then he turned to me and said, "Sir, I don't understand what you mean by rebuilding our country. Do you think your army can defeat the army under Marshal Manstein? You should know that in addition to our "grand German division", there are also SS "Hitler division", "imperial division" and "skeleton division", which you cannot defeat. "

After listening to the translation, Danilov couldn't help laughing. When he saw that there was confusion on their faces, he stopped laughing and said to them with disdain: "two officers, I won't tell you about the result of our army's repulsion of your" great German division "in butovo. What I want to tell you is that in the partial counterattack we launched yesterday, the "Hitler division" and the "imperial division", which you think are invincible, were defeated by us. Just a few hours ago, the skull division, which had gathered at the front of our army and tried to launch an attack, suffered heavy casualties under the heavy artillery fire of our army. Is this what you call the invincible army of your German Empire, Lieutenant

After hearing this, gorus showed an unbelievable expression on his face and repeatedly said: "this, this is impossible. The three main divisions of the Ss are invincible in the world. All the troops who fight with them are either annihilated or captured. No one has ever defeated them."

I saw goru's hysterical expression. I waved to travkin and ordered him, "Captain, let someone come in and take them away. Lock them up and deal with them when we're free."

Travkin turned to the door and made a sign. Immediately, four soldiers with assault rifles came in, pulled gorus and the two of them out of their seats and escorted them out.

After the prisoner was taken out, I beckoned to travkin, who was standing by the door, to stand in front of us. After he came, I said in a gentle tone, "Comrade captain, we have just heard the German prisoners talk about your experience, but it is not detailed. Can you tell us something about it?"

Travkin was a little embarrassed when I said this: "Comrade commander, the fighting process is very simple, there is nothing to say."“ Comrade captain, you can't say that. " "According to our original plan, whether it's a sneak attack or a strong attack, there will be a lot of casualties in our reconnaissance battalion and villagers," bezikov added. As a result, under your command, not only all the German soldiers were captured easily, but also none of us died. Such an example can be called a classic. You must give us a good account of it. When I write the summary of the battle, I will add this paragraph to it. "“ Captain travkin, the chief of staff has a point. Your fighting experience is very useful to us. " Kirilov said to travkin with a smile: "if you spread your experience in the army, we can greatly reduce the casualties of the army in the same operation in the future." When kirilov finished speaking, I said while the iron was hot: "well, comrade captain, don't dawdle. What's the matter? You can tell me quickly. We have a lot of work to do. " At my urging, travkin no longer refused, but told us today's action: "after dawn, we touched the German sentry and quietly entered the village. As soon as they entered the village, they were found by the early rising German officers and men. These former German officers and men of gramus immediately yelled and tried to let the other party hear their authentic German. After hearing their shouts, several German officers and soldiers who had pointed their guns at us thought that they were their own people, so they put down their guns one after another and willingly became our prisoners. In order to prevent the German army from leaking the net, before the operation, I told several company commanders to take all the people who were caught in the village, whether they were German or our villagers, to the sun farm, and then screen them. " Akhromeyev, who was taking a record, suddenly asked, "how did you get detected by the German army and have a short exchange of fire, while at the same time causing injuries to several soldiers and villagers?"“ Well, comrade major. " After taking a look at ahlomeyev, travkin truthfully replied, "because of the smooth operation in front of us, some of our commanders and fighters are slack. One of them, on the way to escort the German prisoners to the suntan, said a few words of Russian carelessly, but it was found out by the enemy. The captives came, grabbed an assault rifle and fired at our commanders and soldiers and the surrounding villagers. Fortunately, he is not familiar with our guns, so he did not cause too many casualties. "“ Comrade akhromeyev, please write this down. "I am deeply afraid that akhromeyev, for the sake of the glorious image of our army, will not put this small mistake on record. I hastened to remind him:" let our commanders and fighters take warning and avoid making similar mistakes again. "“ Yes, comrade commander. " If I didn't say that, akhromeyev might have omitted this paragraph directly. After hearing my reminder, he took up his pen again and added this paragraph. After reporting the whole battle, travkin respectfully asked, "Comrade commander, may I go back to the camp?"“ Wait a minute, comrade captain. " Seeing that travkin wanted to leave, kirilov quickly stood up and stopped him. Then he said with a smile, "because of the brave and indomitable fighting spirit you and your subordinates showed in the battle of destroying the German small forces, and the great achievements they have achieved, the group army command has decided to award you and your subordinates medals and medals." This operation of travkin not only eliminated the German troops who attempted to attack our headquarters, but also successfully rescued the villagers who were used by the German troops. I think it's not enough to give him a medal for his credit. So as soon as kirilov finished, I added, "and Comrade travkin, from today on, you are no longer a captain." At this point, I deliberately pause for a moment to see his reaction. There were two sharp twitches in the corners of his mouth, but he was still standing upright, as if the person I was talking about was not him. In response, I nodded with satisfaction and went on, "I've decided to give you the rank of captain. When you get back later, add a star to the epaulet“ Serve the motherland of the Soviet Union The new travkin straightened up and said aloud“ Comrade captain, your service is very good. " Danilov also laughed and said with satisfaction: "well, you were very tired after lurking outside all night last night. Go back to rest first. As for the award, we will wait until you and your subordinates wake up. Go on, go back and rest. " After travkin left, Danilov went up to ahlomeyev again, bowed his head and asked him, "Comrade major, have you finished writing?" Seeing that akhromeyev nodded, he went on to say, "we should immediately report this special summary of the battle to the headquarters of the front army, so as to make general watujing happy."