Chapter 1533

I turned and asked the garrison commander standing behind me, "Comrade General, how can we get down there?"

The garrison commander said politely, "please follow me. I'll take you down there." With that, he took the lead in walking towards a path not far away.

It is said that it is a small road. In fact, it is a car road paved with asphalt, which can be used by one and a half tons of trucks. I don't know whether it was built before the war or after the German occupation. The driveway circled down against the pit wall. Every other distance, there was an iron gate. There were four or five soldiers standing at the gate. As soon as they saw us walking past, they immediately pushed the iron door open, then flashed aside, stood at attention and straightened their waist to salute us.

Seeing this, I could not help frowning. I called the garrison commander's name and asked, "general brakov, why are the guards so tight here?"

"General oshanina, our original order was to escort these rescued prisoners of war to the railway station in these two days to see Siberia off." Brakov replied with a wry smile, "I'm afraid they'll run away, so I sent troops to guard."

"So far, has anyone escaped?" As soon as brakov's words were finished, brakov, who was in parallel with me, suddenly asked, "I don't seem to see you setting up guard forces in other places except for the soldiers guarding at several iron gates?"

"There are." Brakov pointed to the top of the pit and explained: "in the guard tower around the pit, we originally had machine gun fire points. At the same time, there were two tanks at the exit. I removed these vigilance forces only after receiving your notice of coming. "

Lunev looked up and asked casually, "did any prisoners of war escape from here?"

"No As for lunev's question, brakov gave a very simple answer: "this road is the only way to the POW camp. With the heavy German troops, there is no possibility for the pow to escape."

When we came to the end of the motorway, I finally saw the whole picture of the so-called prisoner of war camp: it was a deep pit about one kilometer long and 300 meters wide, and the pit was full of ragged prisoners of war. I carefully observed that in the middle of the pit, there were no buildings of any kind. There were only innumerable caves on the surrounding soil walls, which should be a place for prisoners of war.

I looked down at the prisoners below for a while, then turned to brakov and asked, "Comrade General, how many people are there? How many meals can they have a day now? "

Brakov thought about it and replied, "according to our rough statistics, there are more than 20000 people. We usually serve them two meals, bread and oatmeal in the morning and hot soup for dinner

"Not enough, Comrade General. You have not done enough." It's said that prisoners of war can only eat two meals a day, and my brow is even tighter. I pointed to the skinny prisoners with dull eyes below and said angrily, "don't you see that they have suffered inhuman torture here? If they are not fed, many people will die of hunger and malnutrition. "

After hearing what I said, brakov shrugged his shoulders and said to me indifferently: "general oshanina, according to the orders I have received, they are traitors to our motherland. We can't be too kind to traitors. "

"Comrade General," although I can't get used to brakov's face, I thought that he was konev's subordinate after all, so I still tried to restrain my situation and said in a calm tone, "from now on, they are Ukraine. I asked tentatively," are you general bonejerin? "

"Yes, I'm bonejerin." The other side looked me up and down, broke away from the two soldiers who helped him, straightened up, raised his hand and saluted me solemnly: "Hello, Comrade General! Major general bonejerin, commander of the 12th group army of the southwest front army, reports to you that I will resolutely obey your order. Please give me instructions! "

"Hello, general bonejerin!" Although the other person's body sent out a stench, but I still pretended to be nothing, reached out to him, politely said to him: "my name is o'shanina, is from the base camp representative."

He looked at me and asked tentatively, "Comrade General, I want to know what the superior is going to do to send us to Siberia."

"Instead of going to Siberia, you will be rejoined into the army, and you will take up arms and fight against the Communist aggressors." I didn't hide my intention from bonejerin: "I'm here to take charge of your adaptation work."

Seeing the surprise on bonejerin's face, it seems that they can't accept this reality in a short time. I think they have heard that they will be sent to Siberia for a long time, so they are full of despair about their future. It's incredible to hear me say that now.

At this time, lunev stood up and spoke. He may have considered that I will have a lot of contact with this general in the future, so he came to explain to bonejerin from my standpoint: "according to the initial decision, you will be sent to Siberia to receive labor reform. As Comrade oshanina pleaded for you many times in front of the Supreme Commander himself, the Supreme Commander himself changed his mind and decided to let you stay in the army and take up arms to fight with the Communist aggressors

After listening to lunev's explanation, he took the initiative to hold my hand and said gratefully, "general oshanina, thank you, thank you! If it wasn't for your kind words, I don't think most of the soldiers and I would have a chance to go back to our hometown alive. "

"Well, general bonejerin, don't be so polite." I was eager to recruit more than 20000 officers and men in the pit, so I didn't say any more nonsense. Instead, I went straight to the theme: "can you tell me how you were captured?"

"One month after the outbreak of the war, my 12th group army, general muzichenko's 6th group army and general tyrenev's 18th group army from the southern front attacked 18 non army and two mechanized army, and set up a defense in the direction of uman to block the German army's attempt to rush to Kiev." With a wry smile, bonejerin said: "as the German army successfully carried out a breakthrough in the region of Zhitomir, our three army groups were surrounded by the German army. Although our troops didn't get the support of the air force, in the face of the German army which occupied the air superiority and equipment superiority, the commanders and fighters still carried on the tenacious defense, which made the enemy pay a huge price. My troops held fast to the village of podvesoko and fought doggedly until August 15. As the enemy rushed near my headquarters, I commanded the members of the headquarters to continue fighting with the enemy. When the bullets were finished, I fought with the enemy in a white-edged battle, and then I was captured because of serious injuries. "

After learning about bonejerin's capture Sutra, I said, "since you were captured at the beginning of the war, you must have a relative understanding of this concentration camp?" Seeing that he nodded his approval, he continued to ask, "can you tell me something about the situation here?"

After listening to my question about the prisoner's camp, bonejerin showed a painful expression on his face: "Comrade General, according to what I learned when I was wounded in the German hospital, nearly 100000 of our officers and men were captured and imprisoned here in the battle of uman. But when they got here, the Germans didn't give them food or even drinking water. I heard that the prisoners of war were really hungry in the end, so they began to eat earth. But when the soil is eaten into the stomach, it can't be digested at all. It will form a ball in the stomach and can't be excreted at all. People will die of severe pain due to stomach distension. "

"Eat the earth, hum!" When he heard this, he sneered twice and said with disdain, "it's the first time I've heard someone say that soil can be eaten. It's just a fable."

"This comrade." Although lunev was dressed in military civilian clothes and had no military rank, bonejerin saw that he was a big man and quickly defended: "I didn't lie. It's true."

"Comrade lunev, I believe in general bonejerin." Bonejerin's words reminded me of the victims who ate guanyintu, so I resolutely supported his statement, and then I urged him to "continue to speak."

"The prisoners of war had no choice but tried to rush out of the huge pit, but the German machine gun drove back those who tried to escape As you can see, there are no buildings in the pit, so when it rains, people can only dig a hole at the edge of the pit to escape the rain. " After listening to his explanation, I understood why there were so many caves on the pit wall. It may have been used to shelter from the rain at first. After a long time, these caves became their shelter. Just listen to bonejerin continue to say: "with the passage of time, people continue to die, but also to torture no idea of escape, just quietly waiting for the arrival of death."

When bonejerin finished, the garrison commander brakov said, "Comrade General, what he said is true. According to our interrogation records of the guards, we can know that hundreds of people die here every day. The cause of death is the lack of food and drinking water, and also because of the extremely poor sanitary conditions, the outbreak of the epidemic, leading to the large-scale death of prisoners of war. "

I frowned and thought for a moment, and then told brakov: "Comrade General, you immediately organize people to screen the prisoners, and then transfer them to other places. The environment here is really bad. By the way, the patient should be treated in time. "

"Yes, Comrade General." Brakov said with great cooperation: "I will arrange the manpower as soon as possible to carry out the screening and placement work."

"General bonejerin, I want to ask you a question." When I was giving brakov a mission, lunev asked unexpectedly, "have you ever been in murhead prison camp?"

"Murhead POW camp?" After repeating this strange place name, I asked lunev strangely, "what is this place?"

To my question, lunev continued to ask with a smile, "have you ever met Vlasov?"

Listening to lunev's mention of Vlasov's name immediately attracted my attention, and I turned my eyes to bonejerin to hear how he explained the matter.

"Yes, after I was discharged from the hospital, I was put in the murhead prison camp by the German." "There, I did meet Vlasov. He said that he wanted to form a Russian Liberation Army and invited me to be the commander of the army, but I resolutely refused," he replied truthfully

"Comrades of the garrison commander," said lunev. After he finished, he immediately turned to brakov, who was standing beside him and said, "arrest him immediately and send him to Moscow."

"Why did you arrest me?" With brakov's order, the two soldiers who helped him out of the pit immediately twisted his hands. I don't know what happened. As he struggled, he cried excitedly: "let me go, let me go. What have I done? You should treat me like this."“ Wait a minute, "I'm at a loss as to why lunev suddenly issued such an order. I quickly raised my hand to stop the two soldiers and asked them to let him go. Then I asked," Comrade lunev, what's the matter? "