The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Perhaps because he was too sleepy, Qin Chuan barely managed to sleep for a while until it was almost dawn.

Sleeping in such cold conditions is by no means a pleasant experience, because you will also feel the cold pervasively seeping in from the gaps and even pores during your sleep, causing your body to tremble with conditioned reflexes. Way to keep yourself warm and energetic.

Then, when you wake up and stand up, you will find that your whole body is as stiff as a mummy that has just been dug out and has been sleeping in the ground for thousands of years... At this time, you should be grateful that you woke up in time.

When Qin Chuan broke off a piece of bread with his frozen hands and put it in his mouth, Gerhard opened the door from outside and walked in. He shook the snow off his body and complained: "Damn weather, it's raining again. It’s snowing!”

"Is the situation okay?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Yes!" Gerhard bounced on the spot like a spring, and then replied: "We suffered a total of thirty-five casualties last night, but do you know? Fifty-six people suffered frostbite in the second half, including Eleven others froze to death!”

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be startled when he heard this. The loss of soldiers due to frostbite was greater than the loss in combat.

It seems impossible to continue like this. If more than a hundred people are reduced every day, Holm's more than 5,000 people will be finished in less than two months.

At this time, the whistling sound of artillery shells was heard in the air.

These artillery shells are somewhat different from the previous Soviet fire preparations...the previous artillery shells were all in pieces, but now they are exploding little by little.

Qinchuan looked at the explosion of the artillery shells, and then realized that the Soviet army was targeting the buildings on the east bank of the Lovaj River.

Obviously, the Soviet army wanted to destroy the buildings one by one so that the German army would lose the little space it had to keep out the cold.

Qinchuan and Gerhard couldn't help but look at each other, and they both saw the fear in each other's eyes... After bombing each other like this, the east coast of Holm will soon turn into ruins, and of course the lives will suffer. There are thousands of people in Holm, most of whom are Soviets.

"Captain, Lieutenant Colonel!" a correspondent reported: "Colonel Sline wants you to come to the headquarters for a meeting!"

This was completely expected by Qin Chuan, and it was time to hold a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

The headquarters is located at the Central Hospital in Holm.

The hospital is located in the center of the east, and is located in a recess of high ground, making it difficult for artillery shells to hit here, making it an ideal defensive location.

It took Gerhard and Qin Chuan fifteen minutes to get here... The heavy snow made everything difficult.

"Gentlemen!" Colonel Slaine said when everyone was present: "I think it's time for us to discuss the difficulties now. We can't make a fire, the soldiers can't eat hot food, and the non-combat attrition is serious. Now …”

Colonel Slain was quiet for a moment and listened to the rumbling gunfire outside. "The Soviets are bombing their houses one after another. Yes, these are their houses and their people, but They don't care!"

But at this moment, the gunfire stopped.

Then came a stiff German call from the radio: "Soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment, you have no way out! Germany has abandoned you. You have no food, no ammunition, and no reinforcements. We will also destroy all your houses." Blow them all up! Surrender and come to our side, where we have hot food and warm beds..."

Colonel Slain couldn't help but spread his hands and said, "Great, how did they know our serial number?"

"They may be prisoners, Colonel!" Gerhard said, "Several of our people were missing during last night's battle!"

"Or it could be guerrillas!" Colonel Slain turned his attention to Major General Hartmann.

"What?" Major General Hartmann spread his hands.

"General!" Colonel Slain said, "I remember your police force is responsible for law and order!"

"That's right!" Major General Hartmann replied: "Is there any problem?"

"But several of my soldiers were assassinated last night!" Colonel Slain said: "They were stabbed to death from behind while they were sleeping in the room, and this..."

As he spoke, Colonel Slaine raised his hand towards the shouts of the Soviet troops outside and said: "They grasped our intelligence in time, and last night they attacked the west side where Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard was stationed instead of the east side where we were stationed. . What does this mean? I don’t think you’re doing your job!”

Major General Hartman's face looked ugly, but after a while he nodded and said: "I will deal with these problems. After that, I put on my hat and turned around and left!"

Then, the police battalion conducted a thorough search of the town and found two radio transmitters and several receivers, as well as several Russian-made Tokarev pistols. Five people were confirmed to be related to the Soviet army. Secretly contacted, one of them is a woman, yes, a woman, so thin and hungry that only skin and bones are left.

"We caught the person you wanted, Colonel!" Hartman brought the five people to Slain: "I want to know how you want to deal with them?"

"Lock them up!" Colonel Slain said, "Let's see if we can get some information out of them!"

"No, Colonel!" Hartmann said, "I think we should kill him as a warning to others!"

It was obvious that Major General Hartmann was demonstrating to Colonel Sline. He was telling Colonel Sline in another way that dealing with these people was within the purview of the police.

Of course, this also meant to warn the people of Holm.

Colonel Slaine was unable to stop him and could only watch as Major General Hartmann slowly built a gallows outside the hospital. Major General Hartmann even ordered the people in the town to rush to the square to watch.

Then with a command, five people were hung on the noose.

The woman may have not tied the noose properly, or the noose was too frozen to tighten. She hung on the rope and struggled for a long time without dying. Her legs were hanging in the air, kicking and shaking, as if she was trying her best to reach her. Step on something.

After a while, it seemed that even Major General Hartmann couldn't stand it any longer and signaled a soldier to go up and help.

The soldier stepped forward, grabbed the woman's legs and pulled them down with his own weight. The woman struggled for a few times and stopped moving.

Colonel Slain closed the window and sat back in his seat.

Although he knew that the ruthless execution of these captured intelligence officers was inevitable, he still couldn't stand Hartman's behavior.

Looking at the corpse still hanging on the rope outside and shaking in the wind and snow, Qin Chuan couldn't help but sigh... The rules of war are cruel, and sometimes it is difficult for you to distinguish who is the enemy and who is a civilian.