The New Third Regiment, which was supposed to arrive in the Kuban in the middle of the night, did not arrive at the designated position within the allotted time. Seeing that the new third regiment had not been in place for a long time, I was dissatisfied with Major Godunov and directly ordered the chief of staff of the division, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you go and send a telegram to Major Godunov to ask him where the new third regiment has arrived and why it has not yet reached the Kuban?" ”

Ilya was ordered to contact Godunov, and after a while he returned to the command and handed me a telegram with the report: "Report to Comrade Commander, Major Godunov said in a telegram that his troops had just left the 'landing field' when they were besieged by superior German forces, and that the troops had no choice but to fight and retreat and re-enter their original positions. The current situation is that the enemy cannot attack and they cannot get out. ”

Although Ilya had reported to me what was on the telegram, I took it to my eyes and read it carefully several times. Finally, he handed the telegram to Pandereev, who came over, and said regretfully: "Comrade division commander, according to this telegram from Major Godunov, it is possible that the new third regiment will not be able to participate in the battle to capture Zaporosh. ”

Bandereev took the telegram and looked at it twice, handed it to Oberstein, and then asked in a tentative tone: "Comrade Commander, can you allow Lieutenant Colonel Kosgaard's third regiment to be rebuilt?" ”

The safety of the logistics supply line is related to the life and death of our 79th Infantry Corps, so I immediately denied the reckless mention of Bandereev: "I'm sorry, Division Commander Bandereev, in order to ensure the logistics supply line of our army, Lieutenant Colonel Koska's third regiment cannot be transferred casually. ”

Although my answer had been expected by Pandereev, he did hear me answer him. There was still a look of disappointment on his face. There was a moment of silence. He muttered to himself: "At the moment there are only the 1st Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Sederikov, the 2nd Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Oleg and the 4th Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar in our division. The total strength of these three regiments, after days of fierce fighting and division of defense, is less than 5,000 men, and I think it is almost impossible to take Zaporosh with such strength. ”

"Don't worry, old man." Seeing the loss of Bandereev, Kirillov stood up in time to comfort him: "Even if Lieutenant Colonel Kosgaard's third regiment and Major Godunov's new third regiment cannot be rebuilt, you can still get the cooperation of Gurdiev's division." Together with the tank brigade and artillery regiments, I believe that there should be no problems with the capture of Zaporosh. ”

After waiting for Kirillov to finish speaking, Pandereev said with a bitter face: "Thank you, Comrade Political Commissar, I also hope that after receiving the cooperation of the 308th Division, I can smoothly capture Zaporosh and destroy the German command system." ”

Towards dawn, a call came from an observation post on the western side of the city to report that two scouts had returned to the city and had brought back a German prisoner. After hearing the good news, Ilya, who answered the phone, happily shouted into the microphone: "Great." It's great. I now order you, immediately let the comrade scouts bring the prisoners to our command. ”

Put down the phone. He reported to me loudly: "Comrade Commander, the observation post has just reported that two of our scouts have returned from behind enemy lines and have succeeded in bringing back a German prisoner. I have ordered the scouts to send the prisoners directly to the headquarters. ”

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you are doing the right thing." After I had complimented him politely, I commanded, "Go and bring the scouts and the captives here." ”

After Ilya left, I said to Bandereev: "Comrade division commander, this is your headquarters, and you and the political commissar Oberstein will be responsible for interrogating the German prisoners later." Comrade Kirillov and I sat next to me and listened. By the way, you should have Ensign Gretka come with me called me first. For the interrogation later, it would be most appropriate for him to act as an interpreter. ”

After about five or six minutes, Ilya walked in with a scout. I looked carefully at the scout behind Ilya and saw that it was an acquaintance, Sergeant Adil who had gone on several reconnaissance missions when we had gone north to meet the Don Front.

I waited for Sergeant Adil to salute me, bowed slightly at him, and greeted him warmly, saying, "Hello, Sergeant Adir, I didn't expect us to meet here again." ”

Sergeant Adil was a little excited that I could recognize myself at a glance, and said, "Comrade Division Commander...... No, it should be Comrade Commander, do you remember me? ”

"Of course I do." I continued to smile and said, "When I led my troops north to meet the Don Front, you went on several dangerous reconnaissance missions, and you were wounded as a result. At this point, I turned to the German prisoner, "By the way, comrade sergeant, tell us how you captured this German?" ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as my words came out, Sergeant Adil's face showed a painful expression. I was startled by his reaction and quickly asked him what was wrong. After my repeated questioning, he said in a heavy tone: "Report to Comrade Commander, when we were conducting reconnaissance near the airport, we found a German three-wheeled motorcycle with a German officer on board, and they were driving along the improvised highway in the direction of the airport, and the reconnaissance captain decisively ordered us to attack and intercept it.

Unexpectedly, although there were only three Germans in the car, they were extremely tenacious, and they hid behind the motorcycles and fired back at us. Seeing us rushing up from several directions, one of the soldiers began to burn the bun jiàn that he was carrying at all times. When we, having paid the price of five or six soldiers, captured the German officers alive. Only then did we discover that among the objects burned by the Germans, in addition to the documents they carried at any time, there were also their documents.

Before we could extract anything useful from the mouths of the Germans, the defenders of the airfield, who had heard the gunshots, rushed up quickly in armored vehicles. The captain had the prisoners thrown into the sidecar, and ordered me and another scout to take the prisoners back to the Kuban, and the rest of the men to join him in stopping the rushing German troops. ”

Sergeant Adil's words were interrupted at this point, and Kirillov asked with concern: "Comrade Sergeant, what happened later?" Have your captain and the rest of the warriors withdrawn? ”

Hearing Kirillov's question, Adil shook his head. Choked up, he said, "The two of us are driving motorcycles." Towards the Kuban as fast as possible. I only heard the sound of gunfire behind me for a while. It stopped completely, and I guess the captain and the rest of the scouts were killed. There were twenty-four of us in the reconnaissance team, but in the end, only two of us were left. ”

Kirillov raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, comforting: "Comrade sergeant, your comrades-in-arms will not die in vain, we will avenge them." Now, you go out and bring the German prisoners here. We need to know something useful from his mouth. ”

When the German prisoner was taken to the command post, I knew from his black uniform that he was not an ordinary Wehrmacht officer, but an SS officer, and from his mouth I should be able to ask something useful.

The interrogation of German prisoners took place at the division headquarters in Bandereev. The interrogation was carried out by Pantai Reev and Oberstein, who sat side by side at a wooden table, facing the SS prisoner standing in the middle of the room with two heavily armed fighters behind him. Second Lieutenant Gretka, who had been temporarily recruited from the military headquarters, sat on the side of the two and played the role of interpreter. Kirilov and I sat on two chairs by the wall. Quietly watched the whole interrogation.

"Your name, position, and rank?" Pantai Leev asked coldly.

Second Lieutenant Grettka translated this sentence in time, but the captive only snorted coldly when he heard it. No answer was made. Greteka probably thought that the other party had not heard clearly, and repeated what he had just said. This time, the captive reacted, and he yelled at Gretka. And after hearing his words, Gretelka's face suddenly flushed.

I was curious about what the captives had said, which would make Gretka blush, so I turned sideways and whispered to Kirillov: "Comrade commissar, do you understand what the captives are saying?" ”

Kirillov nodded and whispered to me: "The captives scolded Gretka as a traitor, a traitor to the Motherland, a damned Judas, betrayed the great German Empire, and nothing good will end in the future." ”

After listening to Kirillov's translation, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and said to myself, no wonder the expression on Gretka's face was so ugly, it turned out that this captive scolded people too harshly. I took a closer look at the captive's epaulettes and saw that it turned out to be a third-class commando squadron leader, the equivalent of a second lieutenant in the Wehrmacht.

"Smack!" Seeing that the German prisoners were so arrogant, Bandereev was so angry that he slapped the table fiercely, raised his voice and continued to ask: "Name your name, rank, and position in the army." ”

The SS squadron leader was quite stubborn, and he still ignored Gretka's translation, and just sneered at the class Taileyev.

At the prisoner's non-cooperation, Pandereev trembled with anger, and his hands trembled involuntarily. I watched the scene calmly, wondering to myself if if I hadn't sat down next to him, Bandellev would have called in and dragged this SS prisoner out and shot him.

Bandereev repeated the original question several times, but the captives still ignored them. Seeing that Bandereev was on the verge of going berserk, I felt that it was time for me to play, at least to relieve Bandereev. Thinking of this, I stood up and slowly walked over to the captive and stopped. After looking him up and down, I had to admit in my heart that the Aryan blood was good, and almost all the men were handsome.

Seeing that I was looking at myself, the captives turned their eyes on me. As his gaze swept over my collar badge, his disdainful expression immediately retracted, and he straightened up and said a few words to me respectfully.

Although I learned German for a few days with commanders and fighters who knew German, I really couldn't understand this extremely fast German. So I had no choice but to turn to Major Grettka in the back for help.

The second lieutenant noticed him, quickly stood up, straightened up and reported to me: "Comrade commander, he is asking if you are General Oshanina?" He said that he had heard of your name for a long time, and that you were one of his most admired commanders. ”

"Yes, Mr. Commando Squadron Leader III." Now that the other party recognized me, I didn't hide my identity anymore: "I am Major General Oshanina, commander of the 79th Infantry Corps of the Soviet Red Army, can you tell me your name, rank, and position?" ”

The captive hesitated for a moment, then replied loudly, and Greitka promptly interpreted: "Your Excellency, my name is Shumidt, the leader of the 3rd SS commando squadron, and the communications staff officer of the 'Skeleton' armored infantry division. ”

When I learned of his identity, I was secretly happy in my heart, but I did not expect that this kid was actually a communications staff officer of the SS, and I must have gotten a lot of useful information from his mouth. As soon as he finished speaking, I immediately asked, "Tell me, Your Excellency Commando Squadron Leader, what did you do after rushing to the airport?" ”

I also know that I will probably not get any answer to my question. What happened next was exactly as I expected, and Schmidt looked at me silently, not in the slightest attempt to answer me.

Seeing this expression on his face, I knew in my heart that if I followed the conventional interrogation method, it would be more difficult to get useful information from his mouth than to ascend to the sky, so I had to go to an alternative way to get the effect it deserved.

I stood there and pondered for a moment, then asked Schmidt with a smile: "Your Excellency, Commando Squadron Leader III, have you seen Hitler's Mein Kampf?" ”

When I heard this question, not only Gretka, who was acting as the interpreter, was stunned, but even Pandereev and Oberstein, who were in charge of the interrogation, were also stunned, and no one would have thought that I would ask such a question. In fact, this is also a kind of trial technique, if you ask a straightforward question, it may be perfunctory. I have now deliberately pulled the conversation into a place that is out of reach in order to distract the captive, so that we may have a chance to get some of the information we want to know from his mouth.

After listening to my question, Shumidt nodded vigorously: "Do you need to say this, Your Excellency, General?" In our country, almost all literate children have read this book. ”

"Good!" Seeing that Schmidt's attention was drawn to me, I thought to myself, and then added: "Hitler was a great man, who in just a dozen years he quickly grew Germany from a defeated country to a world power. Are you right, Your Excellency Commando Squadron Leader III? ”

Shumidt was obviously confused by my whimsical questioning, and when he heard me ask him, he nodded vigorously, and at the same time his face showed a confused expression. (To be continued......)

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