When I woke up from my coma, I found myself lying on a grassy field, surrounded by many soldiers. I was holding my hands on the ground and trying to get up, but a second lieutenant next to me came over and grabbed my shoulders and said with concern, "You're awake, does it matter?" ”

I sat up with his help, touched the back of my head with my hand, which was still in terrible pain, tried to squeeze a smile out of him, and replied, "Thank you for your concern, it's just that the back of my head still hurts a little, but it doesn't matter." "At this point, I looked around again, and found that we were in a clearing in the middle of the forest, and there were nearly a thousand people in Soviet uniforms, and I was surrounded by colonels or lieutenants, and a little farther away were those non-commissioned officers or ordinary soldiers. Hundreds of Germans with guns were on guard in the north, east, and west directions near the forest, but there was no one in the south. In addition to the infantry, there were several tanks and armored vehicles guarding us, with machine guns and muzzles pointed at our position.

I whispered to the lieutenant, "Do you know what this place is?" ”

The second lieutenant shook his head and said, "Comrade Major, I don't know what to do. When I was captured, I was taken straight here. ”

I asked curiously, "How did you get captured?" ”

The second lieutenant said with a wry smile: "The troops were scattered by the Germans, and I wandered in the forest for several days and unexpectedly encountered a so-called search party. I thought they were my own people, so I came out of hiding to contact them, but I didn't expect them to be traitors from the Eastern Battalion. So, I became a prisoner in a daze. ”

The second lieutenant and I were chatting when a captain came up to us with a cat on his back and said in a low voice, "Hey, two, we plan to escape from the south where there is no German defense, will you join?" ”

"Run? Where to run? Listening to his words, I once again observed the surroundings and decisively rejected his proposal, and kindly pointed out to him: "Comrade Captain, look, our location is at least three hundred meters from the nearest wood, how likely do you think it is that we will not be discovered by the Germans before we run there?" ”

After listening to my words, the captain thought for a moment and said, "We can first crawl and move to a place only fifty meters from the forest, and then get up and run quickly, and it will only take ten seconds to run into the forest." ”

"Yes, Major, Comrade Captain has a point, we can sneak closer to the edge of the forest, and then get up and run quickly into the forest."

I glanced at the muzzle of the black hole, shook my head, and said to him in a low voice, "What's the use of running into the forest?" We don't even know where we are, and after a few days of wandering around, we will either be captured by the Germans or starved to death in the forest. See for yourself! ”

After hearing my words, the second lieutenant was stunned again, obediently closed his mouth, and did not echo the captain's frozen proposal. Seeing that we were unmoved, the captain moved to another place to lobby the other commanders.

At that moment, three officers jumped up from where they were sitting and ran wildly towards the forest a few hundred meters away. Everyone had been hungry for a long time, but they weren't slow.

With a snap of a gunshot, a high-speed bullet with a powerful force, after completing its flight in the air, hit the officer who was running in front of him on the back. A brilliant splatter of blood splattered, and his body swooped forward, slamming heavily to the ground, and then lying motionless.

Seeing that their companions had fallen, the other two officers sped up their running, and in just a dozen seconds, they were able to run into the forest. At that moment, the screech of the cannonballs flying in the air was heard, and then the smoke of the explosion of two shells on the ground enveloped them. After the smoke cleared, I saw two freshly baked craters with green smoke scattered around many stumps and severed arms that originally belonged to humans.

A German armored car drove quickly towards the accident site, stopped at the place where the officers were ambushed, got out of the car, checked the corpses on the ground, got back into the car, turned around and drove towards where we were.

The second lieutenant and the captain who had persuaded us to flee were pale from the fright, and perhaps they were secretly glad in their hearts that they had listened to me and had not taken any rash risks, otherwise they would have become two cold corpses by now.

I am not able to pinch and calculate, I can predict what will happen in the future, but I analyze it according to the deployment of the Germans. The reason why they did not defend the southern edge of the forest was that they had anticipated that someone would try to escape. And it is also certain that no one will be able to escape, because all the Soviet prisoners of war have always been within their fire range.

The armored car stopped in front of our ranks, and out of the car came a German lieutenant, who walked up to us with his hands behind his back and said in Russian without the slightest expression on his face: "Guys, I think you already know the consequences of escaping. I want you to remember that if you try to escape, there is only one outcome, and that is death! ”

Listening to the words of the German lieutenant, all the people fell silent.

Unexpectedly, what he said next made the originally quiet team noisy. "There are so many disobedient guys in your ranks, and you will be punished for failing to stop their stupidity in advance. Dinner was cancelled tonight, lest everyone have eaten enough and think about running away. ”

"Why are we going to cancel our dinner, we don't know they're going to run away." Someone in the team shouted loudly.

"yes, yes! A few of them made mistakes, and they punished us all for something. ”

The lieutenant frowned at the commotion, then drew his pistol and, without hesitation, shot the officer who had made the most noise in the head. As the officer fell to the ground, the crowd that had been shouting loudly suddenly fell silent.

"Who has a problem with canceling dinner? Stand out! Seeing that his authority had been adjusted, the lieutenant's face began to darken when he shot and killed someone. Then his expression gradually began to go crazy, and the nearest prisoners of war lowered their heads in humility, not daring to meet the madman's gaze.

Seeing that the prisoners of war were silent, the German lieutenant put the pistol back into its holster, turned to board the armored car, and directed the vehicle back to its original starting point.

After a while, a German corporal with four or five soldiers, carrying iron pickaxes and sapper shovels, picked out a few strong commanders and fighters from among the prisoners of war, stuffed the tools into their hands without saying a word, and drove them to bury the few prisoners of war who had been killed.