Red Moscow

The chief of staff was shocked that Schmidt spoke to a Russian second lieutenant in such a humble tone. But he soon discovered that when Schmidt said this, his fists were clenched, the backs of his hands were pale, and his veins were bulging. He seemed to be on the verge of anger, but for the sake of the overall situation, Schmidt was trying hard to control his emotions .

Bow down to one's enemy, even if the other party's reputation is prominent, it will inevitably have a bad impact on one's own honor. Seeing that Schmidt considered the overall situation, he did not hesitate to damage his reputation, and lowered his figure to negotiate with the Russian second lieutenant, the chief of staff's heart was filled with respect for him.

"Mr. Second Lieutenant," Schmidt continued, "I apologize for the misunderstanding. Please explain it to General Sokov when you go back."

"Mr. General," Second Lieutenant Lei Bin replied neither humble nor overbearing: "As long as we can safely return to our defense zone, I will convey your intention to Comrade Commander."

"Chief of Staff," Schmidt turned to the division chief of staff, "arrange vehicles to take the second lieutenant and General Sokov's wife back to the Russian defense zone."

"Yes, sir." Hearing Schmidt's arrangement, the chief of staff of the division couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief. As long as Sukov's wife was sent out of the defense zone, there was still room for things to change. He quickly replied: " I immediately arranged for vehicles to send them out of our defense zone."

After finishing speaking, the chief of staff of the division walked up to Second Lieutenant Lei Bin, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation to him: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, please, I will send you out of here."

Lei Bin originally wanted to reject the other party's kindness, but considering that this place is several kilometers away from his own position, it would be quite troublesome if he really had to walk back. He nodded and agreed to Schmidt's arrangement, and followed the division chief of staff out of the division headquarters.

Seeing the chief of staff lead Rebin out of the division headquarters, Schmidt punched the table hard and pushed everything on the table to the ground like crazy. The soldiers outside heard the movement in the house, worried that Schmidt would be in danger, and rushed in with guns.

When it was clear that the division commander was throwing things in a rage, these soldiers were dumbfounded. They were in a dilemma for a while, and could only stand there in a daze. Fortunately, Schmidt yelled at them: "Whoever tells you to come in or get out, get out of here." The soldiers who heard Schmidt's yell were amnesty and left the headquarters one after another.

Schmidt turned to look at the map on the wall, stared at the defense zone controlled by Sokov's troops with fire-breathing eyes, and said through gritted teeth: "Sokov, I will ask you for the humiliation I suffered today. of."

When Asiya and others were interrogated by the German major, they thought they would be sent to a prisoner of war camp as soon as the interrogation was over. Unexpectedly, they were taken outside the house by the Germans. An armored personnel carrier was already parked here, and two people in Soviet uniforms were standing beside the vehicle, talking to a German colonel.

When she first saw the two of them, Assia was still thinking to herself: Are the Germans still planning to disguise themselves as our army and sneak into our defense area to wreak havoc?

At this moment, she saw the second lieutenant who was talking to the German colonel, stopped talking, and walked towards her. After a long distance, the second lieutenant stopped, stood at attention, saluted Asiya, and said, "Hello, Comrade Asiya. I am Rebin, the scout second lieutenant of the 182nd Division. Authorized, come to pick you up."

Hearing what Second Lieutenant Lei Bin said, Asiya couldn't help being stunned. She asked in an unbelievable tone, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what did you say? You were sent by Misha to pick us up?"

Second Lieutenant Lei Bin naturally knew that the Misha that Asiya was talking about was Major General Sokov, the current commander of the army group. He nodded quickly and replied affirmatively, "Yes, I was ordered to pick you up."

Although she heard what the other party said, Assia was still dubious. She glanced at the German colonel standing beside the armored personnel carrier, frowned and asked, "What does that German colonel do?"

Second Lieutenant Lei Bin glanced back, and then replied: "Comrade Asiya, that is the chief of staff of the 19th Armored Division. He personally arranged the vehicles and sent us back to our defense zone."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant," a female health worker following Assia asked Rebin impatiently, "The Germans are really planning to let us go back?"

"Yes." Rebin nodded again, and said, "Comrade Commander proposed to exchange the corpses of the German soldiers in the field hospital for you."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, did the Germans agree to the conditions we proposed so easily?" Assia felt very suspicious of Rebin's statement: "Is there no conspiracy?"

"Comrade Assia, I don't know exactly what the situation is now." Rebin explained to Assia: "When I just proposed the terms of exchange, the commander of the German Army was furious and even locked us up. The result was not After a long time, we were released again and agreed to the terms of exchange.”

Asiya is not a fairy, so she couldn't guess why the German commander agreed to the exchange, but she didn't want to stay in this ghostly place for a minute, so she said to Lei Bin: "Second lieutenant, since the Germans want to let us go, we should hurry up." Just get out of here."

After everyone got on the armored personnel carrier, the German chief of staff standing under the car waved politely to Second Lieutenant Rebin and the others. Seeing this situation, a female hygienist scolded in a low voice: "It's hypocritical, you don't have good intentions just by looking at it."

After the car started, Second Lieutenant Leibin leaned close to Assia's ear and said in a low voice: "Comrade Assia, I think the reason why the German division commander's attitude changed so quickly may be due to the deployment made by Comrade Commander." , seriously threatened the safety of the German defense line, so he had to make concessions."

Even though Assia stayed in the field hospital all day, she still knew Sokov's ability very well. She felt that since Sokov could send someone to the enemy's defense zone to pick her up, there must be a series of consequences. As long as the German army refuses to agree, he will take various measures to force the Germans to submit.

The armored personnel carrier passed through the defense zone of the 19th Armored Division. A female health worker asked Rebin with some doubts: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, we are now passing through the enemy's defense zone, but why doesn't the enemy blindfold us? Isn't it afraid After we go back, shall we report the terrain here to our superiors?"

Hearing the female health worker's question, Rebin smiled lightly, and then said: "It's useless even if we blindfolded, the Germans know that since we can easily find their division headquarters, their deployment is very important to us." , it’s not a secret. Instead of hiding it, it’s better to let us see it casually, anyway, no matter how we look at it, we can’t see any flowers.”

Assia interjected from the side: "Although the armored vehicle we took passed through several German positions, if you observe carefully, you will find that they are some irrelevant positions. There is no need to waste shells."

"Assia is right." Rebin waited for Assia to finish speaking, and added: "The area we passed through only had some simple positions. Once a fight broke out, the Germans could abandon them at any time, so even if we We know it, and we don't pay attention to these insignificant locations."

After the armored vehicle drove forward for a further distance, it stopped suddenly. Lei Bin asked the German officer in the same car a little puzzled: "Mr. Lieutenant, why don't you continue to drive forward?"

"Second Lieutenant," the German lieutenant said helplessly after glancing at Lei Bin, "Your position is only 500 meters away. If the armored vehicles drive any further, it may cause unnecessary misunderstandings. The rest of the paragraph Road, you should go on your own.”

"Our position is 500 meters away?" Hearing what the German lieutenant said, Second Lieutenant Lei Bin couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise. He looked at the other side and asked, "Mr. Lieutenant, are you right?"

"Second Lieutenant Leibin," Assia knew German, understood the conversation between the German lieutenant and Leibin, and asked Leibin in surprise, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Comrade Assia," Rebin turned to Assia and said, "Our army's forward position should be two kilometers away from here. But the German lieutenant told me that it would be another 500 meters , is our army’s position, let’s walk back next time.”

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, you can't make a mistake, can you?"

"How could it be wrong?" Second Lieutenant Lei Bin replied with a wry smile, "We set off from the division's forward position, which is two kilometers away from here. I will never remember this wrong."

"Mr. Lieutenant," Assia saw that Lieutenant Leibin was confused and seemed to be confused about the situation, so she looked at the German lieutenant and asked, "Can you tell me what's going on?"

"According to the information, after dawn, your army moved forward one to two kilometers, and it looked like it was going to fight us." The German lieutenant said dumbfoundedly: "Originally, the positions of the two armies were two to three kilometers apart, but As your army advanced, the distance between us was shortened to a few hundred meters."

After the German lieutenant's explanation, Assia immediately understood that it must be Sokov ordering the troops to move forward in order to deter the German army. Since it is not far from our own position, there is no need to take the armored personnel carrier of the German army to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

Asiya stood up and said to the other female health workers: "Girls, our army's position is ahead, let's get out of the car and walk back."

Seeing everyone getting out of the armored vehicle, the German lieutenant on the vehicle quickly stopped Second Lieutenant Lei Bin: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, we have already delivered the man. You must not go back on what you promised us."

"Don't worry, Mr. Lieutenant." Rebin said to the German lieutenant: "We will send someone to bring the bodies of the German officers and soldiers to us soon."

Lei Bin led the crowd to prepare to cross the open field and return to their own position. Unexpectedly, just a few steps away, a fat health worker walking beside Assia asked in fear: "Second Lieutenant Lei Bin, isn't there a minefield ahead? You know, we managed to get away from the Germans, if If you step on a landmine planted by your own people, you will die unjustly.\

,"If the people around Lei Bin were all scouts under him, he would definitely send one person to clear the mines in front, and the rest followed behind carefully. But at this moment, except for one subordinate, the rest are medical staff who have just been rescued. It is obviously inappropriate for them to stay in the minefield for a long time.

Thinking of this, he ordered his subordinates: "You scout the way ahead, and if you encounter a landmine location, find something to mark it. We must rush to the opposite position in the shortest possible time and let someone come out to meet us. "

The soldier nodded after Lei Bin finished speaking, and opened the way ahead with his gun in hand. At the beginning, he was very cautious, checking the ground carefully every time he took a step forward. But after walking for a while, he found that there was no sign of landmines on the ground at all, so he turned his head and shouted at Lei Bin: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, this doesn't look like a minefield."

"It's not like a minefield?" Rebin couldn't help frowning when he heard the shouts of the soldiers: "How could it be possible not to set up a minefield in front of the position? In that case, once the battle started, wouldn't the Germans be able to easily Do you rush to the front of the position?"

But just to be cautious, he still shouted at the soldier: "Don't talk nonsense, continue to explore the road, hurry to the front fortification, and ask someone to come out to meet us." After giving orders to the soldiers, he turned back to appease Asi Ya and the others said, "Let's wait here for a while, and someone will come out of the position to pick us up soon."

When the soldier who explored the road was two to three hundred meters away from the position, Second Lieutenant Lei Bin suddenly saw more than a dozen commanders crawling out of the trench, and ran towards the soldier. Seeing the running speed of those people, Second Lieutenant Lei Bin's heart was in his throat. They were so reckless. If this was a minefield, at least half of them would confess here.

But fortunately, what he was worried about didn't happen. After a while, the group of people joined the pathfinding warriors. After the leading officer and soldier had a brief conversation, they walked towards where Lei Bin and the others were.

When they were still 70 to 80 meters away from Lei Bin and the others, the soldiers who explored the road waved their hands desperately at Lei Bin and shouted: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, come here, there are no landmines here, it is very safe."

Although he could clearly hear the shouts of the soldiers, for safety reasons, Lei Bin stopped the actions of Asiya and the others: "Comrade Asiya, wait a little longer, wait until the people who respond to us come over. Otherwise, once you step on the Landmines, I can't afford the consequences."

Soon, the person who came to respond appeared in front of Lei Bin and the others. The leading officer walked straight in front of Asiya, straightened his body and said to her, "Comrade Asiya, I am glad to see you have returned safely."

Assia immediately recognized the person in front of him as the company commander of the 546th Regiment, Captain Gelia, and quickly held his hand, saying excitedly: "Hello, Gelia, I am also very happy to see you again." .”

"Assia, this is not the place to talk. You should follow us back to the position first." Speaking of this, Zelia lowered his voice and said, "It won't be long before our army will launch an attack on the enemy's defense zone."

"Initiate an attack on the enemy's defense zone?"

Seeing Asiya's astonished expression, Zelia explained to her: "To retaliate against the enemy for taking you away, Comrade Commander is planning to launch an attack on the enemy today. Now there is not much time before the start of the attack. .”

Knowing that an attack on the German army was going to be launched, Assia asked with some surprise: "Gelia, didn't you mean to exchange us with the corpses of the German army? Are we going to violate the prior agreement?"

"Don't worry, Comrade Assia." Relia said with a smile: "Comrade Commander has already made arrangements to return the corpses to them first, and then attack their positions after the exchange is completed. "