Their fight was nothing more than axe slashing, and the noise of the logging site muffled up the noise of the redundant sounds, and the German soldiers were not suspicious of the five men who had been exploring the road for a long time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the two gunmen with steel helmets on their heads were genuinely in the service of Germany, they were indeed members of the Eastern Battalion, but the loggers were Soviet prisoners of war. Even if they were all former fighters of the Soviet Red Army, they were already on completely different positions.

Large numbers of prisoners of war were transported from the front to concentration camps, where conditions were terrible, where the Germans provided only a small amount of food and watched as hungry people "killed each other" in order to grab a piece of bread. Faced with the threat of starvation and the various German propaganda reports in favor of Germany, the faith of the prisoners of war began to crumble, some compromised with the Germans and were forced to cooperate, and some simply took a stand against the Soviet Union and became puppet soldiers or soldiers of the Eastern Battalion.

After Balzen had gathered all the infantry platoons, the whole company continued to retreat, taking with them the four men who had been knocked unconscious.

The reconnaissance company set up temporary ring fortifications, and the interrogation of the prisoners began immediately.

The four men gradually woke up, and when they realized that they were tied to the trunk of a tree with ropes, and there were people with guns in a circle, everyone was extremely nervous.

Balzen stood confidently and asked directly, "Anyway, who are you?" Why are you still wearing the cotton clothes of our Soviet soldiers? Are you prisoners of war? Or a folk in the service of Germany? ”

"We are prisoners of war!" Said a guy with half of his face swollen.

"Prisoners of war? Soldier, what's your name?! Balzen hurriedly asked.

"Mikhail Ivanovich Asanov, part of the 22nd Army."

"So you became a prisoner of the Germans, what are you doing now? Logging for the Germans? ”

Barzen did not know anything about the unit to which the man had belonged, but in fact the 22nd Army was involved in the Sechovka-Vyazma offensive in January. The battlefield was still far from the south of Belarus, and this Asanov was sent first to Orsha, and then to a concentration camp outside Minsk.

Like a sinner, he confessed: "In the concentration camps, the Germans did not give us winter clothes or enough food. A large number of prisoners of war froze to death and starved to death, and their bodies were pulled away and burned at will. We had fantasized that there would be a chance of life after surrendering, but hell awaited us! So in order to survive, I can only choose to cooperate. ”

This reason sounds very plausible, but the real commissar will definitely not listen to this person's explanation, and if he surrenders, he is a traitor to the great motherland.

Balzen was glad that there was no such brainstorm in the reconnaissance company at present, and all orders were arranged by him personally.

"Well, Asanov, I saw it all just now, you personally killed the man with the gun. Who are they? Why are we also wearing the clothes of our Red Army? Do you want you to choose to cooperate with the Germans like this?! ”

"No!" Asanov became agitated, twisted his neck and glared at the person tied to the trunk of another tree, "I am forced to cooperate, otherwise I will only starve to death in agony." But this man, he's a traitor, he doesn't even have the last bit of conscience! He was a minion of the German army! He's a part of the Oriental Battalion! ”

Barzen understood the meaning that those gunmen had been the Soviet Red Army, but now they were puppet soldiers. "Now the puppet army also has a new term. Oriental Battalion? It's funny. ”

Balzen walked up to the man who was still wearing a German steel helmet and said with a smile hidden in his sword: "Bastard! I saw you acting arrogantly just now, punching and kicking the lumberjacks. We are all Slavs, but you have sold your soul to serve the Germans, you are a traitor to the great Motherland. ”

He estimated that this preaching would not be able to cause this brazen man to feel guilty, and worse, this person simply raised his head and spat with all his strength!

"Phew! I'm not a Slav! You bastards! I'm Polish! ”

"Poles?!" Balzen was startled, and the other warriors were just as surprised to hear what they said in Russian.

"It turns out that you are a Pole, and they Germans are not invading your country and killing your people, but you still have to die for them. Besides, why are you wearing our military uniform, and why are you in a prisoner of war camp? If you hate us, why join the Soviet Red Army. ”

If this guy really is Pole, given the hatred between Poland and Russia for hundreds of years, it is impossible to resolve the contradiction quickly.

Back then, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth almost destroyed Tsarist Russia in 1612, and was later annexed by Tsarist Russia, Prussia and Austria as its national strength weakened. The ups and downs of history, Poland's independence was to take advantage of the chaotic period of the transition from Tsarist Russia to Soviet Russia, but he took the initiative to attack Soviet Russia, carried out indiscriminate massacres against Soviet Russia, and was also brutally counterattacked. Not only did the Soviet Russian Red Army counterattack all the way to the city of Warsaw, but it was counterattacked by the Polish army and ceded half of Belarus to Poland for peace, all these grievances became one of the reasons for the Soviet-German partition of Poland twenty years later. But in the eyes of the Soviets, they did not consider themselves to be aggression, and could it be that the territory they occupied was also an invasion. The Katyn massacre was indeed a-for-tat for the Soviet Union's indiscriminate massacre of Poland.

Based on such history, this guy has absolutely no doubt that he will be executed. Before he died, he had to frantically abuse Maozi in order to feel comfortable.

"You Russians are more hateful than the Germans! I never wanted to be a Soviet, and as a result you invaded us. As for my clothes, it was forced, just as the Germans now force prisoners of war to work! ”

Balzen immediately understood that this man was the one who liberated half of Poland during the War of 39, and he was a Pole. So such people probably do not pay close attention to what the Germans are doing in Poland in the west. In the east, on the other hand, Poland, the Soviet Union regained all of the old Belarus and carried out an ideological transformation of the entire population, which affected a considerable number of people, especially the Poles who emigrated there after 1920.

Balzen didn't quarrel with this man, he needed to get information, for example, the Eastern Battalion. But this guy was so hard-mouthed that filthy words followed, and even if Balzen had a good temper, it would be unbearable.

Asanov could see that the commander's hideous face was enduring the Polish insults, and he hastened to say: "I know a lot about the Eastern Battalion, and I will tell you all the other things as long as I know them." ”

With this assurance, the value of the Poles was much lower.

Finally, this guy actually said: "Germany is the enemy, the Soviet Union is also the enemy, at least we can now work with the Germans to kill you all, you Slavic pigs are only worthy of being slaves." ”

Balzen finally couldn't take it anymore, and he pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed the man in the throat. "Die! Rubbish! ”

The man finally repaid the fear of death, his eyes widened, blood gushing to the ground, his body trembling violently from blood loss, and after two minutes everything was fine.

Balzen's anger was still unsubsided, and the stabbing under the anger made him regret it a little now, "Am I in a hurry? ”

"Yes, the company commander is in a hurry."