The morning meeting was held under my chairmanship in the battalion headquarters in the Highlands, in the same room where I had reported to the Lieutenant when I first arrived in the Highlands. I remember the last time I came in, it felt like this room was quite cramped, but I didn't expect that now there are about a dozen people sitting here for a meeting, but it doesn't seem crowded at all.

Among the people attending the meeting, except for Pastukhov, who has the rank of captain, the rest of the company and platoon officers, including me, are all lieutenants or second lieutenants, and if an unwitting outsider comes in at this time, he will definitely be regarded as the supreme commander here.

The topic of the meeting was to discuss the construction of fortifications on the highlands. Before the meeting began, a lieutenant in the sailor company tentatively asked me if I could smoke, and without thinking about it, I nodded in agreement. Unexpectedly, as soon as he took the lead, the other participants were not far behind, and took out their cigarettes one after another. Within five minutes, the little shelter was enveloped in a cloud of smoke that choked me and coughed. Because I started smoking with my permission, in this case, I had to eat coptis dumb and find a way to overcome it myself.

The captain, a few of his experienced officers, calculated how many steel plates, T-beams, pipes, cement, and labor were needed to build new fortifications on the high ground. The results are frustrating, with many factories shut down and not even a third of the materials needed in the current situation. Moreover, it takes at least four or five hundred experienced men to build fortifications, and the total number of people on our heights is less than three hundred.

I didn't interject at all about what they said, so I chose to remain silent very interestingly. I am the Supreme Commander, and all I can do is to wait for them to come up with the final results and exercise my decision.

In the middle of the meeting, the phone rang, and the entire shelter fell silent. The captain grabbed the phone and said in a loud voice, "Hey, I'm Captain Pastukhov." ”

I was so close to the phone that I could clearly hear the voice coming from the receiver: "Comrade Captain, Sergeant Luzhkov at the forward observation post reports to you that a German unit is coming towards our position under a white flag. ”

"What?!" The captain was visibly stunned by the news, and suddenly stood up from his seat and yelled into the microphone: "Sergeant, do you know what Lu Dao is talking about? It's impossible! ”

After saying this, he sat down in his seat again, was silent for a moment, and immediately said in an irrefutable tone: "Nonsense! Either you are dazzled, or the traitor quietly stuffed this kind of news to you. ”

When I heard what the other party said, I was also very surprised and wondered: What are the German troops under the mountain going to do? Although it is said that their attacks have been repelled by us many times, at this stage, compared with us, they still have an absolute advantage in terms of technical equipment and the number of soldiers, and no army will take the initiative to surrender to an opponent weaker than themselves, which is too illogical. If you want to persuade us to surrender, just send two people, you don't need to open a team to come, that would be too much fanfare, even if anyone wanted to surrender, they would be frightened and shrunk back.

I interrupted what the captain was about to say, took the phone from him, and said to the other man in a calm tone, "I'm Lieutenant Oshanina, and you can re-report what you see." "The President taught us that there is no voice without an investigation. Without understanding the specifics of the matter, I don't just give orders.

"Comrade Lieutenant," replied the other man, perhaps frightened by the captain just now, in a panicked tone, "a German unit is coming towards our position under a white flag. ”

"How many people are there on the other side, what kind of equipment, and where is it at the moment?" I asked, still in a steady tone.

"There were forty men, not carrying any weapons, and they came fifty meters from the forward position, and then stopped, and now they are not moving on."

"All right," I said, and I was sure that the German army had not come to surrender or persuade to surrender, but had come for some other purpose. "Comrade Sergeant, keep on your guard, I'll go over right away."

I put down the phone, stood up, and said to the officers in the room in a mocking tone: "Comrades, there is a special situation at the front, a group of German devils with white flags have come to our position, and now they are stopped fifty meters from the front line, waiting for us to review. Let's go and see what they want. ”

When the people in the room heard the news, they all shook their heads for a moment, and then burst out laughing. I put on my helmet and said, "Let's go." This sentence was like a call to attack for all the people, and in an instant, both those standing in crowded rooms and those sitting on benches rushed to the door.

After a short while, we reached the forward position. Immediately, I saw a group of German soldiers stopped not far ahead, neatly arranged in four rows of ten men each. Someone next to him whispered: "The German devils standing there are really the best targets, not to mention sharpshooters, even ordinary soldiers can shoot at them, and they can kill several of them." ”

I frowned and turned my head to look at the person talking next to me, and thought, "Why are you so ignorant?" Although the other party said that it was an enemy, others came with a white flag, and it was morally unjustifiable to shoot at them casually. When the man saw me glaring at him with a serious expression, he obediently shut his mouth.

Because of the proximity to the point where you can see without a telescope, the German soldiers were stabbing and unarmed and did not carry any weapons. I was about to climb out of the chest-high trench when the captain next to me grabbed me and kindly reminded me: "Comrade lieutenant, beware of any intrigues of the enemy. ”

Intrigue?! I looked at the German soldiers standing on the other side, and I couldn't see anything wrong at all. Even if they wanted to trick all our commanders out of the city, and then use long-range firepower to kill them, using so many people as bait, it would be a bit illogical.

I finally climbed out of the trench, walked past the Germans, and stopped when I was still about twenty meters away from them. There was a rush of footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the captain hurrying over with the officers who had just been in the meeting.

On the opposite side was a German officer who saw us come out, and he greeted us with a white flag held high, followed by a soldier in a boat-shaped hat. When they were two or three meters away from us, they stopped. The soldier stepped forward, saluted Pastukhov, and then stammered in broken Russian: "Greetings, Mr. Captain." ”

"I'm not a gentleman," replied the captain coldly, then glancing at me, "this is our commander." ”

The officer was stunned when he heard the captain's words, while the soldier looked surprised, but he saluted me again and said respectfully, "Lieutenant girl, I salute you." ”

I couldn't help but frown when I heard it, didn't there be anyone in the German army who spoke Russian well? How can I find such a person, and the words that come out sound like a standard translation, which makes people feel awkward how to listen to it.

"Is there anything you guys are up to?" I asked with a blank face.

"We have come to contact you on the orders of Field Marshal von Leib, commander of Army Group North." Although the Russian he spoke was still not standard, it sounded more than he was used to. "We want to collect the corpses of the fallen soldiers, I don't know if you will allow it."

Oh, I thought they wanted to collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and I thought they wanted to surrender to me. In yesterday's battle, at least more than 500 German soldiers were killed in front of our positions. Although it is already autumn, if it is not reined in, the decay of the corpse can easily cause disease. The bodies of our own fallen soldiers have been collected, and I am having a headache about what to do with the corpses of the Germans, since they want to come and collect them, let them be collected.

"Okay," I agreed without hesitation, "you can collect the corpses in front of the position first, but your men can't cross our current position." As for the corpses of the soldiers on our positions, I will arrange for people to send them here, and then you will take them all away. ”

"Thank you." The German interpreter thanked me and turned to muttered a lot of words to the officer holding the white flag. The two of them saluted me again, then turned and walked over to the group standing opposite.

"Comrade Lieutenant," the captain next to me tugged at my sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Should I first ask my superiors for instructions on this matter, and then reply to them after obtaining their permission?" ”

"No," I know too well about Lao Maozi's habit of procrastinating, according to their efficiency, by the time the feedback from various requests for instructions and reports came back, it is estimated that the corpses of the German soldiers have already decomposed. I am now the supreme commander of the Nameless Heights, and I have the final say in everything.

Although the Germans are here to collect the corpses, and the possibility of another battle breaking out is very small, but we should not take it lightly, and the necessary precautions must still be arranged, I then said to the captain: "You immediately transfer a platoon of sailors and soldiers, and pull a cordon here, if any German devils cross the line, you can shoot directly without waiting for orders." ”

"Good. I'll arrange it right away," the captain listened to me, excitedly agreed, turned and ran back.

When the two Germans returned to the ranks, the officers waved from side to side with white flags held aloft. After a while, I saw a long line of trucks slowly driving out from the direction of the German position.