Chapter 1271

At the command of Nekrasov, two soldiers immediately jumped out of the trench and bent over to run towards the German in front of them. Looking at the far away figure of the soldiers, Nekrasov turned to me and asked, "Comrade commander, will the Germans really surrender?"

I shrugged my shoulders and said with some disapproval: "Comrade division, we should know that every soldier's life is precious. If we can persuade the Germans to surrender, we can reduce many unnecessary casualties."

A few minutes later, the German officer, escorted by two soldiers, came to the armored car. I sat in the car motionless, and nikolasov got up and went out. The German officer took a quick glance at the epaulets of Nekrasov, then straightened up and said respectfully, "Hello, sir. I'm Lieutenant Vincent of the 339th division of the German army. I salute you."

Listening to his fluent Russian, I feel much more at ease. As long as there are people who understand Russian in the besieged German army, then my shouting will not be casting pearls before swine. Nekrasov looked at him and asked, "Lieutenant Vincent, who is your commander?"

"Captain Linus." The second lieutenant replied respectfully, "he is our supreme commander."

"How many people are there on the hillside?" Asked Nekrasov.

The second lieutenant did not immediately answer his question, but asked in a slightly too modest tone, "Sir, I don't know who I am honored to speak to now?"

"I'm major general nikolasov, the commander of the 52nd division of the Soviet guards," said nikolasov impatiently after making his identity known. "Lieutenant, did your commander send you to negotiate the surrender?"

Vincent heard the identity of Nekrasov, his face showed a contemptuous expression: "general, your level is too low, even if you make any promise to us, I think it may not be fulfilled in the end."

Niekrasov was so angry at Vincent's words that he pointed to the other side and said, "if you don't surrender, we will destroy you all immediately."

Vincent sneered and said with disdain, "Sir, although your forces are stronger than ours, and you have heavy weapons like tanks. But don't forget that rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry. Even if we are all wiped out by you in the end, you can also pay a heavy price. "

"Go away!" In the face of Vincent's provocative tone, Nekrasov finally broke out. He pointed to Vincent's nose and said, "you go back immediately and tell your captain that if you don't surrender, you will be destroyed by us! Get out of my face and don't let me see you again. "

After a few words of conversation, they broke up in discord. Vincent snorted and turned to leave. I called out, "wait a minute!"

I stooped through the hatch and came up to Vincent. He looked him up and down, and then said to the handsome German lieutenant, "after you go back, tell your captain that you are surrounded by our regiment. It's meaningless to continue to resist. Only by laying down your arms and surrendering to our army can you have a chance to survive. It's a choice between life and death. I believe it's easy for him to make the final decision. " Then I waved to him and said, "well, lieutenant, you can go back."

Who knows, his second lieutenant not only didn't leave, but stared at me in a daze. Seeing that he was staring at me endlessly, and that my face was not happy, Nekrasov came up to him, gave Vincent a push, and said impatiently, "well, lieutenant, you can go back to your commander."

Vincent was pushed to stagger and came back to me. He leaned forward slightly and asked respectfully, "Sir, are you general oshanina, commander of the sixth group army of the guards?"

I didn't expect an ordinary German lieutenant to know me. After a brief surprise, I tried to ask in a calm tone: "yes, Lieutenant Vincent, I'm o'shanina. Do you have any advice?"

As soon as I made my identity known, Vincent made an unexpected move. He straightened his body, raised his hand to salute me, and then said to me respectfully, "Sir, since it's your promise, I will immediately go back to report to the captain and ask him to let the troops lay down their arms and surrender to you."

I didn't expect that the German Lieutenant's attitude would be respectful before and after the meeting after he made his identity known. However, I didn't care to study deeply, but urged him: "well, Mr. lieutenant, please go back quickly and let your troops lay down their arms and surrender to us. Otherwise, as soon as our artillery arrives, it will cover the hillside with fire. Don't blame me for not saying hello in advance. "

"Sir, please give me five minutes." Hearing that I wanted to bombard the hillside, the second lieutenant quickly raised his right hand, opened his fingers, and said in a hurry, "in five minutes, I will persuade the captain to lay down his arms."

"All right, lieutenant." Seeing that his attitude was so respectful, I said, "I'll give you ten minutes. Ten minutes later, if I don't see you come out and surrender, I'll order the artillery to fire. "

"Don't worry, sir. In less than ten minutes, I promise the captain will take people down the mountain and surrender himself. " Vincent said, raised his hand to salute me again, and then trotted back to the hill with the simple white flag on his shoulder.

Looking at Vincent's back, Nekrasov asked me curiously, "Comrade commander, do you say that the German army will lay down its arms and surrender to us?"

"I don't know." I replied very simply, "but we can only gamble now. Of course, it's good for the enemy to surrender voluntarily. We can reduce many unnecessary casualties; Even if they don't surrender, they are not afraid. As long as they are covered with rocket fire twice, they can be wiped out for most of them. "

Although I gave Vincent ten minutes, only five or six minutes later, I saw a group of dejected German soldiers, led by a German officer holding a white flag, coming out of the woods on the hillside.

Seeing that the enemy really came out to surrender as promised, nikolasov pointed to the front and excitedly said to me, "Comrade commander, look, I didn't expect that the enemy really came out to surrender to us."

I saw more than 100 German soldiers coming out of the woods. Believing that they were not playing a conspiracy, I waved my head to Nekrasov and said, "well, sir, let your men accept the German surrender."

The German officers and men who came down from the hillside showed great cooperation when they saw our officers and men who surrounded them. After they put the gun in the designated position, they stood by and waited for our disposal.

Seeing this situation, while excited, he asked strangely, "Comrade commander, do you know the commander of the German army?"

"The commander of the German army?" When I heard this question from nikolasov, I instinctively shook my head and said, "Comrade division commander, all the German commanders I know are now in our prison camp."

"But, as you can see, the second lieutenant who just came to negotiate had a very bad attitude when he talked to me first." Niekrasov said somewhat unconvinced: "as a result, you only said a few words to him, and he immediately bowed to you and tried his best to please you. It's really strange."

The speaker did not mean to listen, and the listener meant to. What niekrasov said brought me a wake-up call. If I don't know what's going on, once I'm targeted by the Ministry of internal affairs, I can't clear the matter even if I jump into the Dnieper River. So I told him, "Comrade division commander, ask someone to call the German commander. I want to have a chat with them."

After a while, Vincent and a dozen German officers came to me. I took two steps towards them. Just as I was about to speak, I heard a captain in the crowd shouting something, and the officers quickly lined up in two rows. After queuing up, the captain issued another command, and then all the German officers raised their hands and saluted me solemnly.

I didn't return the gift. Instead, I went up to Vincent and asked him in a low voice, "Mr. lieutenant, can you tell me what's going on?"

"Sir general," said the German captain politely to me in fluent Russian without waiting for Vincent's reply, "because you are the one we admire, I ask you to salute and show our respect to you."

I looked this captain Linus over carefully and found that I didn't know him at all, so I couldn't help asking curiously, "Captain, do you know me, or have we met before?"

"Yes, sir, we have." "We met at the beginning of this year, not far from here," Linus replied

When I heard Linus say that, I was even more confused. If I had seen him a few months ago, he should not have appeared in front of me, but should have been killed by us or put into a prison camp. Thinking of this, I shook my head and said in a positive tone, "Captain, you must have made a mistake, because I have no impression of you at all."

"Yes, sir." When Linus saw that I denied the fact of knowing him, he quickly explained, "have you forgotten the exchange of prisoners of war a few months ago?"

"Exchange of prisoners of war a few months ago?" When Linus said this, it immediately reminded me that, led by Lieutenant Colonel Huber, who was the first one in Manstein, I used the body of Ike, the division commander of "skeleton division", to exchange for the body of haridonov and 200 captured wounded“ I remember that, Captain, but I don't remember seeing you anywhere

Linus listened to me and said with a wry smile, "Sir, I was one of the six people who carried the coffin. It's normal that you didn't notice such a small person as me."

"By the way, Captain, I have one more thing to ask you." After a quick glance at Vincent next to me, I asked, "even if we met in the exchange of prisoners of war, you can't surrender so easily?"

"Sir, do you want to hear the truth?" Linus asked with a wry smile.

"Of course," I said, nodding, "of course I want to hear your truth."

"Mainly because you are so famous in our army." Linus looked at me with adoring eyes and said devoutly: "since the battle of Kursk, a series of achievements you have made have been circulating in our troops. In particular, following the fall of Belgorod, Kharkov and other cities one after another... "

"Mr. captain," as soon as Linus said this, I impolitely interrupted him, and then corrected, "we are liberating our own city."“ Yes, yes, liberation, liberation Linus quickly echoed me in a flattering tone“ Because your troops are the first to rush into the city every time, our generals are afraid of you. As soon as they hear that the attacking troops are under your command, their consideration is not how to beat back your attack, but how to withdraw the troops safely in the fierce attack you organize. " What Linus said really made me laugh and cry. In the Soviet army, except for the commanders who often dealt with me, there were only a few people who knew me in other troops. But I didn't expect that, among the German commanders, I became the person who made everyone talk about it. Niekrasov reminded me in a low voice: "Comrade commander, the captured weapons have been collected. Will someone send them to the headquarters of the front army on the other side of the river?" I nodded, and then gently said: "Sir, comrade, please wait a moment, I'll have a few words with them." Facing the German officers' line, I said in a loud voice, "officers and gentlemen, you are now the prisoners of the sixth group army. Next, I will send someone to take you to the rear camp. Don't worry, I will let the superior give you the treatment you deserve as prisoners of war. " On hearing my promise, Linus nodded and said to me, "Sir, I have heard from some of my colleagues about how to abuse our prisoners of war in the Russian POW camp. That's why I led the troops to occupy this hillside and make the final resistance. But since you have said that, I will restrain my subordinates and let them cooperate with you. " Looking at Linus and his subordinates, escorted by a platoon soldier, walking along the road in an orderly way, Nekrasov said with emotion: "Comrade commander, I didn't expect that your prestige in the German army is so high. After just a few words, these German prisoners will honestly cooperate with our soldiers and go to the prison camp to report."