The Tokov Company even adopted a battle formation, relying on a large tree as a cover, and approached the target covertly.

As a pioneer, he was very careful, especially the soldiers in the first row, who had the most scouting pressure.

There is a lot of grass under the pine forest, and the breeze blows through the forest, and the rustle of the leaves is a good way to hide the footsteps of people, which also makes the investigation more difficult.

A good scout can distinguish other sounds from the wind, and some even have a dog's nose and can smell the smell of gunpowder from the scent of grass and earth.

One of the soldiers on the front line suddenly sensed a strange aura, and he immediately leaned his back against the tree and made a strange movement.

Tokov, who was not far away, was very surprised, and the sign language of the fighter was explaining: "I noticed someone smoking in front. ”

Who smokes? First of all, the fighters of the reconnaissance battalion do not smoke while armed reconnaissance, because it is a death.

The only possibility is the enemy.

Tokov immediately made a series of gestures, especially a throat-slitting motion. He signaled: "The vanguard continues to reconnoitre, and when it is found, the enemy is directly beheaded. ”

So, is there really an enemy smoking? The answer is yes.

Ukrainian soldiers from two police battalions, ordered to search in the forest. It is said that it is searching, but in fact, it also takes into account the work of hunting. If there were bears, rifle bullets could easily kill them, and there were so few opportunities to eat fresh meat these days, they were tired of the canned meat that had been stored for two years, and they thought it was like eating zombies.

After a long search, they were two kilometers away from Slavdzich, not to mention bears, and at most they found a few turtledoves and hares that were too agile in their movements.

The two soldiers sat bored by the tree, went to the toilet, dug out the cans that they had been bored with for a long time, and finally smoked a few cigarettes.

The smoke drifted away in the wind, making it visible to the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion of individual nose hounds a hundred meters away. Now, the reconnaissance battalion continued to advance, and a large number of soldiers sensed the sound of people talking in the wind.

At this point, the Tokov company immediately took action, and at the order of the company commander, a squad of fighters put the submachine gun behind him, with a dagger in his mouth and a hemp rope in his hand, and looked and touched it.

The two Ukrainians were unaware of the approaching danger until the knife was pressed against their necks.

According to the order, the reconnaissance battalion needed only one "tongue" and that's it.

Two Ukrainians, one of whom had his throat cut on the spot, fell to the ground in horror and bled profusely.

The other was a large hand stretched out from behind, and the hemp rope held on it was directly strangled around the neck, and several scouts rushed up and tied his hands and feet again.

This clean attack will settle the battle in just ten seconds......

Tokov informed Balzen in the rear at the first time, and the whole battalion was completely united in three minutes.

Balzen was in a really good mood at the moment, even if the troops arrived at the edge of the city to reconnoitre, they saw a fur, and only the captives could explain the internal details.

The captive arrived at the right time, because he learned that it was a German, and he immediately took the telegraph operator with him, Mira.

The telegraph operator Mira was not only a veteran, but also spoke German very well.

Seeing that the prisoner of war tied up like a fat pig to be slaughtered was wearing a German steel helmet, he was about to ask in German, but he was surprised to see that this guy had a stamp embroidered on his right arm.

"Battalion commander! Is this person really German? He asked.

"Isn't it?"

"Nope! I remember that there were a lot of puppet troops here, and if you look at this man's armband, I think he was a Ukrainian. ”

Balzen came to his senses, and he also noticed the man's yellow and blue armband.

This prisoner of war closed his eyes, as if waiting for death, was he playing dead? Balzen decisively kicked him in the crotch, and shouted in his mouth: "Fool! You are Ukrainian! Don't play stupid on me, I know you understand Russian! ”

The blow was so hard that the onlookers felt pain. The captive, who pretended to be dead, also screamed in pain, and waited for a while before he regained his strength.

How to interrogate the prisoners, Balzen did not have many means, he learned the model of the commander Yang Mingzhi, and first used meritorious service to live as a bait to pry open the prisoner's mouth. If the captive has a hard mouth, then scare with a knife. If the captives are stubborn, then there is nothing to say, since there is no use value, just kill them.

Fortunately, this captive is very cooperative.

"Don't kill me, I'm willing to tell what I know! Don't kill me. ”

Balzen breathed a sigh of relief and continued to fiddle with the dagger, "If you had cooperated so well, I wouldn't have kicked you!" Now tell me about Slavdish, and yours. ”

The captive confessed very honestly: "We belong to the police regiment in Chernihiv, we are all Ukrainians!" We were ordered to strengthen the city of Slavdzich against the attack of your partisan brigades! I can't believe you're here so soon! ”

The captive Xue Xue explained his identity, just a year ago he was drafted into the Red Army, and after being captured, he was immediately treated differently by the German army at that time because of his willingness to cooperate with the German army.

Because of the limited manpower and material resources of the German army, it was impossible to take into account the decisive battle with the main force of the Soviet army and dominate the occupied area of millions of square kilometers. Some German division commanders immediately selected people from among the prisoners of war to establish early puppet army units.

After several changes, this puppet military system, which was once opposed by Hitler, Goebel and others, was forced by the war situation and finally began to be institutionalized and made clear.

Balzen was not at all resentful of the fact that these Ukrainians had been the Soviet Red Army, he knew very well that many Ukrainians had long had a tendency to secede from the Soviet Union, and he even believed that this group of anti-Soviet people played a big role in the defeat of Kiev last year.

But to his great curiosity, the captive said the word "guerrilla brigade". As the interrogation continued, the details of Slavdzich became clearer and clearer.

Naturally, Balzen could not have fully believed the confessions of this guy, and some of the circumstances of his intelligence were still shocking.

He said to the onlookers: "It seems that it is an indisputable fact that Slavdzich was occupied by Ukrainian traitors, and the Germans simply let this group of traitors govern that city." There were 1,100 people there, and they were all traitors! According to the orders of the superiors, all traitors must be exterminated. ”

"Then destroy all the enemies!"

"That's right! Traitors are even more hateful than Germans! If the Red Army soldiers could fight to the end, we would not have been so badly defeated. ”

……

The soldiers gossiped, and some objected: "We? We're going to kill them all! The captives confessed that there were still 400 old and weak women and children there! Could it be that those children also joined the Young Pioneers, and they have now become staunch traitors? I can kill traitors, but I won't kill children! ”

"Sergey, are you going to be a coward?" The soldier's squad leader criticized.

"I'm not a coward! I am a soldier of the Red Army, and every soldier of the Red Army should have firm principles! I don't kill people who don't resist, and I don't kill women and children who don't resist! ”

"Stupid, those people are traitors!"

Seeing that a dispute was about to start, Balzen decisively stepped forward to intervene. "Shut up, y'all! Those women and children are still in the city, and we can't hesitate to attack because of those people! As for whether to kill those people or not, let's wait until all the traitors' army is wiped out! ”

With that, Balzen pulled out the dagger from his waist and handed it to the scout named Sergei. "Soldier, your squad leader said that your brother is a coward, you have to prove that you are not a coward with practical actions, now, kill this person on the ground!"

The soldier Sergei is also unequivocal, he is really not a coward, and he also has principles in doing things, for example, this prisoner, this is not a prisoner but a traitor, and the end of a traitor is death.

This situation surprised the bound captive, and he simply burst into tears in his panic: "You can't kill me, you are a guerrilla brigade, a regular Soviet unit!" Keep your promises! ”

Balzen shook his head with a wicked smile, squatted down and pointed to the west with his right hand: "We are not a guerrilla brigade!" We have come from the swamp, and today we are going to take the lives of all you traitors! Let you die today! ”

The captives understood everything. It's all over! It's all over! He closed his eyes......

Soldier Sergei finished his work coldly, his eyes were like gray wolves, and he wiped the blood stains of the knife and handed it to his battalion commander.

Balzen nodded with satisfaction: "Now, it's time for us to report to the commander!" Tokov! ”

"Here!"

"Your men take off the clothes of these two corpses, find two bodies that look like the dead bodies, and change them. Pretend to be an enemy and go to the edge of the forest to reconnoitre! ”

"Yes! Battalion commander! ”