Chapter 1721

After learning that we had established telephone contact with the leaders of Hitler's bunker, Zhukov immediately put forward a series of clauses to make Germany surrender.

While listening to what I said, Klebs wrote down all the terms we proposed in his notebook. After all this, he pointed to the phone that had just been brought in by the signalman and asked carefully, "can I use this phone to contact Dr. Goebbels and pass on all the terms you proposed to him?"

"Certainly, general Klebs." When I heard him say this, I replied very simply, "please help yourself. We are anxious to know what Goebbels' reply is." With that, I winked at the signalman standing by and signaled him to get through to Hitler's bunker immediately.

Klebs took the phone from the signalman and began to speak into the microphone. Although he spoke Russian, our translator, Captain Kleiber, translated for us faithfully: "he asked the other party to announce Himmler's betrayal on the radio... He is reading the terms we proposed: 1. Surrender of the Berlin City guard; 2; 2. All capitulators must surrender their weapons; 3. To ensure the life safety of all capitulators.... "

After Klebs finished calling, I knew from the solemn expression on his face that Goebbels didn't give him a satisfactory answer, but I still asked, "general Klebs, I don't know how Goebbels answered you?"

Klebs said with a bitter smile: "Dr. Goebbels said with a strong attitude: he will never surrender, because once he surrenders, the German people will lose everything. At this tragic moment in Germany, he is determined to follow the example of the head of state. He asked me to tell you that we would never surrender. "

Although I have known for a long time that Goebbels will never surrender, I still feel a little disappointed when I hear klebsieu's report, because after the failure of this negotiation, many important figures of the Communist Party chose to commit suicide. In other words, general klebsieu, who was standing in front of me at the moment, finally shot himself in the temple and became a martyr.

I know that as long as Klebs returns to Hitler's bunker, he will face the fate of suicide. I am considering whether to persuade him to give up the idea of suicide. However, I heard trakov say: "general Klebs, since you do not agree to surrender, do not want to stop the destruction of Berlin, and do not want to end the unnecessary sacrifice of both sides, including the peaceful residents. Then the negotiation between us can only end in failure. "

Klebs said nothing, but nodded to us, took the cap on the table, put it on his head, and left the room with his adjutant and interpreter.

"These diehards." After klebsieu's back disappeared from the door, trakov gritted his teeth and said, "we have used fake negotiations to delay our precious time. I think we should immediately give orders to the troops, so as to completely seize the parliament building today and smash the resistance will of the Berlin city defense forces."

When trakov told Vladimirov to let the troops in front of him speed up the attack, Klebsiella unexpectedly appeared at the door. Seeing the return of klebsieus, I was a little surprised and asked, "Sir, how did you come back? Did Goebbels change his mind?"

"No, general oshanina." "I forgot to take my gloves," he said apologetically as he came up to us

I looked at the place where Klebs had just sat, and there was a pair of white gloves on the chair. Klebs picked up his gloves and said to us with some embarrassment, "you see, it's really left here. I'm sorry to disturb you. Goodbye. " With that, he gave us a military salute, turned around and walked out of the room slowly.

Looking at each other's back, trakov whispered: "hell, how could he be so careless that he would forget his gloves."

But in my heart, there was another idea. Maybe Klebs knew that he would die if he went back, so when he left here, he seemed a little restless, otherwise he would not forget his gloves.

Bozarsky was a little frustrated when he saw that trakov ordered the troops to speed up the attack. He could not help asking anxiously, "Comrade commander, give our artillery some tasks. We will certainly crush the German resistance with intensive artillery fire."

"Our troops are fighting the enemy floor by floor and room by room in the Capitol building." For bozarsky's request, trakov did not hesitate to deny: "if we bombard the Capitol at this time, the artillery may hurt our own people."

While pozalski was looking disappointed, I suddenly heard Vladimirov, the chief of staff, walking out, say in surprise, "general Klebs, why are you back?"

I looked at the door, and there was Klebsiella standing awkwardly at the door. When he heard Vladimirov's question, he stammered, "when I just went out, I found my... My briefcase... Missing... So I came back to look for it!"

Klebs forgot his briefcase?! When I heard him say that, I immediately bent down and looked on the floor to see if he had put his briefcase on the chair he was sitting in. I didn't expect to hear trakov say, "general klebsieu, what briefcase? When you came, I didn't look at your briefcase at all. "

"Yes, I definitely did." "The papers I gave you came out of the briefcase," Klebs replied, somewhat flustered“ Don't look for it, Rita Trekov might have seen me bending over to help klebsieu find his briefcase. He stopped me and said to klebsieu, "general klebsieu, I remember very well that you took the three documents out of your pocket. You didn't have any briefcase with you." I sat up straight and continued to listen to the conversation between trakov and Klebs. Klebsieu insisted: "general trakov, you must be mistaken. I carry my briefcase with me wherever I go. Maybe it was because I stayed up late yesterday that I couldn't concentrate. So when I left, I forgot my briefcase. " When Klebs said this, there was a flash of confusion in his eyes, but I caught him. When I saw him arguing with trakov about whether he was carrying a briefcase, I felt like a mirror in my heart. He must have known that he would die if he went back, so he wanted to stay. But it would hurt his military honor to ask us directly, so he had to find other reasons to prevaricate. Maybe he would like us to detain him in a rage, so that he would not have to go back to Hitler's bunker. I looked at the door, and saw that Klebsiella's adjutant, Colonel duffunger, and the interpreter were standing at the door. I stood up, waved to them, and said aloud, "Mr. Colonel, and the interpreter, please come to me." As soon as I opened my mouth, the whole room fell into silence. Klebsieu, who was arguing with trakov, also listened and cast a curious look at me, trying to find out what I asked his adjutant to do. When Colonel duffunger came to my face, I stood up and said in a calm voice, "Mr. Colonel, please go back with the interpreter. Klebs is determined to stay."“ Why? " After listening to the translator's words, Colonel Duffing immediately opened his eyes and looked at me fiercely and asked, "even if the negotiation between the two sides breaks down, you can't detain our general." I waited for him to get angry and said with a smile, "no one has detained your general. But after a fierce negotiation all night, he had a heart attack because he was so emotional that he was giving first aid in our field hospital. Please go back and tell Dr. Goebbels about this unfortunate incident Klebsiella's reaction was not slow either. Listen to me, he quickly sat down in the chair beside him, covered his chest with his right hand, and pretended to be in pain. Seeing that Klebsiella was so cooperative, I continued to say to dufflebenger, "Captain, do you see that? General Klebs is in a terrible condition and needs to be sent to the hospital immediately Colonel Duffing took a look at his officer, then nodded slowly and said to me, "I see, sir. I will report the chief of general staff's condition to Dr. Goebbels." With that, he raised his hand to salute us, and then left the headquarters with the interpreter. Seeing his adjutant and interpreter leave, Klebs sat up straight, nodded to me and said with a feeling, "thank you, general o'shanina. I will always remember what you have done to me." Although I left Klebsiella on my own initiative, I couldn't leave him in this headquarters. So I got up and went to the high-frequency telephone. I called Zhukov and told him about my leaving Klebsiella. After hearing this, Zhukov was very surprised, and then complained about me and said, "Rita, you are so rash. How can you leave Klebsiella at will? We should let him go back and give a detailed report on our negotiation process to Goebbels to see if it will make the other side change their mind and order the troops to stop this meaningless resistance. "“ "Marshal," when Zhukov heard that he was still under the illusion of Goebbels' surrender, I immediately reminded him, "I don't think that in any case, a rebel leader like Goebbels will take the initiative to surrender to our army. Therefore, even if general Klebs goes back, it won't make any difference. On the contrary, he may have to follow Goebbels and die for Hitler. "“ What's the use of his staying? " Zhukov asked after a moment of silence“ If we ask him to call on the Berlin City guard at the right time to stop resisting, lay down their arms and surrender to our army, then we can reduce a lot of unnecessary bloodshed. " I was deeply afraid of Zhukov's opposition, so I said in a positive tone, "I believe he will cooperate with us." When Zhukov saw that I had already executed before I played, he knew that it was useless to blame me any more. He could only sigh and say, "OK, I see. You'll send Klebsiella to the front command immediately. "