Ten minutes later, Yushchenko and several fighters came to my car, a man and a woman.

I pushed the car door and walked down, looked at the two children who were struggling in the hands of the soldiers, and asked strangely: "Captain Yushchenko, what happened to these two children, what happened?" ”

Yushchenko stepped forward to salute and reported: "Comrade division commander, we just caught two children in the forest. When I asked them what village they were from, they wouldn't say, so I brought them here. Then he turned around and shook his head at the warriors behind him, and ordered, "Bring them here." ”

After the two children were pushed over by the fighters, they still didn't say a word and just struggled desperately. I said to the fighters who captured them, "Let them go, they're just kids." ”

When the two children were freed, they both looked at me with hatred and anger in their eyes. I looked down at them and asked kindly, "Children, you belong to that village, why do you end up in the forest?" ”

After a brief silence, the girl with the turban on the right, who was slightly older, timidly asked, "Who are you?" ”

"My own people."

Hearing me say this, the hostile gaze of the two disappeared. The boy in the cotton hat even stepped forward and boldly asked, "Can I touch your star emblem?" ”

Touching the star emblem? Can't you see so close? Despite this, I unusually cooperatively bent down and let the boy reach for the star emblem of his hat. The girl also mustered up her courage, walked up to me, and reached out and touched the two gold stars of my bright red collar badge.

After touching the star emblem and collar badge, the two children glanced at each other, then threw themselves into my arms, cried loudly, and said intermittently: "I...... We've finally found you...... You guys, Comrade Commander! German...... The Germans are killing people in the village, please ...... You go to the rescue...... I...... My family! ”

Somewhat helpless, I gently patted the two children on the back and asked softly, "Child, child, don't cry, don't cry." Hurry up and tell me what the hell is going on? ”

It took a while for the two children to stop crying. The girl stood up straight, wiped tears from her eyes, pointed to the depths of the forest, and told me, "I am ...... "The village," the girl said very quickly, and with the sound of crying, I couldn't hear what village she was talking about, "and this morning, the Germans who were in the village drove the whole village to the church, and then took them out of the village in batches and shot them. My brother and I escaped through the window with the help of my mom and a couple of kind aunts. Originally, we were reluctant to leave our mother and run away alone, but it was my mother who asked us to come out to find our own troops, so we left the village and ran on the road. ”

Hearing that the Germans were slaughtering the villagers in the village, I knew that I could not delay any longer, and immediately ordered Yushchenko: "Comrade Captain, you go and assemble the team immediately, except for one platoon to cover the sappers to clear the mines, the rest of the people will follow me to the village to save people." ”

"Yes!" Yushchenko agreed, and went on a mission with a few fighters.

I got my two children into the car, stood outside the car and continued to ask them, "How many Germans are there in the village?" ”

"47 pcs. Five of them were officials. The girl replied to me.

"What kind of gear do they have?"

The girl did not answer my question, but turned her eyes to her brother. From her reaction, I guessed that it was probably the boy who knew the most about weapons, so I also looked at the boy and asked, "Little friend, do you know the way?" ”

The boy nodded and replied: "They have a few submachine guns, the rest are rifles." After pausing for a moment's thought, he added, "The officials are all pistols." ”

"Are there any heavy weapons?" I asked again.

"Comrade Commander, what do you mean by heavy weapons?" The child asked me puzzled.

Just at this moment several fighters ran over, one of them with a mortar on his shoulder. I beckoned the soldier with the cannon to come over, then pointed to the mortar on his shoulder and asked the boy, "This is a heavy weapon." ”

In order for the boy to see clearly, I asked the fighters to put the mortar on the ground. The boy looked closely, then looked back at his sister, who shook her head, looked back at me, shook her head, and said, "I've never seen it." ”

I was relieved that the Germans in the village had no heavy weapons. There were only 47 Germans in the village, and they were all small arms, and I could bring a few hundred men to beat them later, and that wasn't just chopping melons and vegetables, and dividing them all by two.

When Yushchenko had finished assembling his troops, I came to the front of the group with my two children and said in a loud voice: "Comrades, these two children have escaped from a nearby village, and they told me that there is a group of deranged Germans who are slaughtering their relatives in their village, and you say, what should we do?" ”

"Go and destroy them!" Hundreds of voices shouted in unison.

Seeing that everyone's morale was high, I felt more confident about this battle, so I shouted, "Okay, let's go!" ”

"Wait a minute, Comrade Division Commander." Yushchenko suddenly stood up and blocked my way with open arms, "It's too dangerous in the village, so I'll take the troops there, you can stay here and wait for news." ”

I frowned, and said in my heart that I had waited so long, and I was finally looking forward to a small battle with a very high probability of winning, and you still want to take credit from me. So he sank his face and said to him coldly: "According to the regulations, the commander's order does not need to be discussed, so hurry up and carry out the order!" Then he added in a stern tone: "Go now!" ”

"Yes!" Yushchenko reluctantly agreed, and then shouted loudly at the fighters: "All of them, listen to my orders: turn right towards Lu, form a three-way column, and walk in unison!" ”

At the sound of his command, the heavily armed warriors walked into the forest with neat steps. I followed with my two children, and Grissa followed me as a guard with a submachine gun from the car.

Upon entering the forest, the neat procession marched slowly through knee-deep snow. Seeing this, Yushchenko adjusted the queue in time and let everyone move forward in a scattered formation.

On the way to the small village, I started chatting with two children: Zhiludao's sister is Marina, who is 10 years old; The younger brother's name is Anton, and he has just turned eight years old. After walking for a while, I felt a little tired and out of breath.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Marina pointed ahead and said, "Our village is in front, and if you walk a few minutes further, you will see the entrance to the village." ”

It was then that I heard the hoarse cries and screams of women coming from the direction of the village, but then after a dense burst of gunfire, everything fell silent.

"Comrade Captain," I called out to Yushchenko, who saw that he was not far from my left, and when he heard the sound and turned around, he added breathlessly, "Did you hear the gunshot?" It must have been the Germans slaughtering the villagers again. Get your troops moving faster. ”

"Understood!" Yushchenko agreed, and then gave an order to the fighters on the left and right: "Comrades, we can no longer let the fascist bandits continue to brutalize our people, and speed up to destroy them. ”

The surrounding warriors said yes, then quickened their pace and ran deep and shallow in the snow.

It didn't take long for us to approach the edge of the forest, and the entrance to the village was already in our sight, and Yushchenko, who had just run at the front, ordered the troops to temporarily stop advancing and stand by in place.

I walked up to him and asked angrily, "Comrade Captain, why are you stopping your advance?" ”

Yushchenko, who looked angry, handed me the binoculars in his hand and said through gritted teeth: "Comrade division commander, look at it, these damn German brutes!" ”

I picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of Yushchenko's finger, and saw dozens of corpses piled up in the snow under the corner of a large wooden house near the entrance of the village. Among them, on top are more than a dozen young girls in the prime of cardamom, all of them naked, their snow-white breasts stained red with blood. Seven or eight German soldiers in military overcoats with bayonets and rifles were walking back and forth in front of the corpses.

Seeing this tragic scene, I slammed my fist on the snow in front of me, startling Yushchenko and his sister and brother next to me, and I gritted my back molars and said viciously: "Captain Yushchenko, send a company to the back of the village, and don't let any of these brutes escape." ”

"Yes!" Yushchenko agreed, and immediately ran to the side to give orders.

I turned my head and saw that the soldier carrying the mortar was not far from me, and immediately beckoned to him: "Comrade soldier, you immediately set up the mortar, and when our people go around the village, you will immediately open fire!" ”

When the soldier heard me say this, he replied with some embarrassment: "Report to Comrade Division Commander, the snow here is too deep for mortars to be erected. ”

Listening to his words, I almost kicked over, you SB, the snow is too deep, you don't know how to pick up the snow.

I took a deep breath, suppressed my anger, leaned down and began to dig through the snow in front of me as hard as I could. Seeing my actions, the siblings and the warrior were stunned for a moment, but immediately understood my intentions and stepped forward to help me clear the snow.

Just as he was about to dig out an open space where mortars could be erected, a soldier suddenly cried out in a low voice: "Look, the Germans are escorting the villagers out again." ”

I hurriedly raised my binoculars and looked towards the entrance of the village, only to see seven or eight naked young girls covering their breasts with their hands, driven out of the village by a dozen German soldiers armed with submachine guns. There was a German soldier walking behind the furrow with his coat open and wearing a belt as he walked.

When I saw this, I immediately understood in my heart that these inferior German soldiers had ravaged these girls, and then drove them outside to shoot them. At this moment, I didn't care about waiting for the signal of the troops that were going around the back of the village, and I wondered if the target would be exposed, so I shouted at Yushchenko: "Captain Yushchenko, you can't hesitate any longer, and immediately lead the troops to attack." ”

Yushchenko was visibly stunned for my order, after all, there was a distance of nearly two hundred meters from here to the entrance of the village, and there was a thick layer of snow. Soldiers charge knee-deep in snow, their speed is affected, and they pay a huge number of casualties. Perhaps it was for this reason that Yushchenko became a little hesitant when he heard my order.

Seeing that these young girls were about to be poisoned by the Germans, I couldn't care much about it, and since Yushchenko stayed where he was, let me personally lead the charge. I grabbed the submachine gun from Grissa's hand, raised it above my head, and shouted: "Comrades, follow me!" Then he took the lead in knee-deep snow and rushed forward.