Chapter 183

I went back to the command post and sat for a long time before I felt warm. I rubbed my cold hands and said to chisgakov, who was sitting beside me, "it's so cold outside. It didn't seem so cold when we came here just now, did it?"

"Yes, it's much colder than in the morning. It looks like it's cooling down," he replied as he added coal to the charcoal basin in the corner

Looking at the gray sky outside through the observation hole, I said with some worry: "it's cold. The soldiers sleep in the trenches at night. Can they be protected?"

After hearing this, the colonel said to me in surprise: "Comrade division, who told you that soldiers sleep in trenches at night? There are usually special barracks behind the trenches for the soldiers to rest

"Well, I must have made a mistake." In order to cover up my ignorance, I quickly digged off the topic and said, "major shedulin, why haven't they come back so long?"

As soon as the voice fell, Xie Dulin's loud voice came from the outside: "Sir, comrade, I'm back!"

Then, armed with submachine guns, a smoky face of shedulin appeared in front of us. As soon as he came to the table, he put his submachine gun on the table, and then said to us, "Comrade division, comrade Colonel, this is the submachine gun we just captured. What's wrong with you?"

Chisgakov picked up the submachine gun and looked over and over for a long time, but he didn't see a bright hall. Then he handed the gun to me and said in frustration, "I see that all parts of the gun are intact, and I don't find anything wrong."

I took the submachine gun, the first feeling is too cold, almost holding a piece of ice. I slapped the submachine gun on the table and said discontentedly, "it's like taking it out of the ice cellar. It's so cold that my hands hurt. Don't beat around the Bush for us, major. Let's get to the bottom of it. "

Xie Dulin said with a smile: "it's still the division commander who observes carefully. What's wrong with this gun is that it's as cold as ice and it hurts when you hold it on your hand."

Listening to his reply, chisjakov and I looked at each other, but we still didn't understand what was going on. The captain frowned and said, "what's the matter?"

Seeing that we were a little displeased, shedulin quickly explained, "you see, because it was cold and the German didn't use antifreeze on the gun, the bolt was frozen." As he said it, he pulled the bolt hard and did not move.

Seeing this, I immediately understood that because of the cold weather and the lack of special antifreeze in Germany, all the bolts were frozen. To understand this, I immediately asked excitedly, "Comrade major, what was the result of the battle just now? Was there a large number of casualties in our army?"

"Report to our division commander that the casualties of our battalion are not large. After fighting, we have completely annihilated the enemy. Only five people have been killed, 18 wounded, 159 destroyed and 147 captured."

I was very satisfied with the result, and then asked with concern, "where are our troops? Have they all been withdrawn?"

"No," he said, shaking his head, "the original line of defense of our battalion is in that forest. Except for seven companies retreating back here, eight companies and nine companies are in the positions just recovered."

"Where is general katukov?" I asked again.

"He's in the position over there, spreading out the tanks, covering the fortifications."

"Are there any officers in the captives? Find another German speaking soldier to help us interrogate the prisoners and understand the enemy's deployment. " After all, chisjakov is a veteran soldier for many years. He thinks about things more comprehensively than I do.

"I arrested a captain, said to be the commander of the German company. But without an interpreter, he knows Russian himself. " With that, he turned his head and called from the outside, "bring up the prisoners."

With his shouts, two soldiers came in, escorting a dejected German officer. The officer was dressed in a special way, with a towel on his head, a wrinkled cornice hat, and a torn coat covered with mud.

Chisgakov and I sat at the table, and then we asked the soldier to move a wooden stool and let the officer sit down, and then we started the formal trial.

It was chisjakov who asked, "name, position, rank?"

The officer replied honestly, "my name is Lawrence. I'm the captain of D company of the 23rd infantry division of the German defense forces."

"What is your mission?"

"After breaking through the line of defense of the Soviet army, cut off your retreat, cooperate with the troops of frontal assault, and annihilate you all."

"You speak Russian well. Where did you learn it?" I was very curious about why he spoke so fluent Russian, so I asked curiously, and also wanted to know why there were so many Russian speaking officers in the German army.

"I went to Russia in 1936 and studied at the Military Academy of vorongze, so I can speak Russian."

"Nonsense This time, the speaker was Xie Dulin. He yelled at the captain and said, "how can our military academy in vorongze make the bandits students?"

"It's true, it's true," the German captain turned his eyes to chisgakov, who was sitting next to me. "You must know, Mr. Colonel, that at that time our two countries were still allies. It was very common for us to send people to each other's military academies and schools."

Shedulin turned to look at chisgakov and asked, "Comrade Colonel, is this true?" Before he could answer, I had already taken over the topic: "well, comrade major, I believe what he said is true." I said I believe that this is not a free talk. Since the two countries can join hands to divide Poland, what else is impossible? I took a look at chisgakov and said, "continue the interrogation!"“ Why didn't you attack today? " Asked chisgakov again“ According to the plan, today's division headquarters will send two infantry battalions and a tank unit to cooperate. However, due to the tense fighting on the other side of Taiyangshan City, these units have been put into that place to participate in the fighting. " It turned out that the German army did not fight today because the reinforcements were transferred to other directions. It turned out that we were not relieving the pressure on Sun Mountain City, but the bloody troops there restrained the German troops who were going to attack us.