Seeing that his orders were carried out decisively, all the Soviet prisoners of war obediently stood on two sides, and the German lieutenant, who was in charge of everyone's life and death, was in a good mood, and he stood on the armored car and shouted proudly: "Captain Rai!" Where is Captain Rai? ”

The traitor Rai, who had long since changed into a German uniform, ran from among the soldiers who were guarding around the prisoners of war, came to the armored car, saluted the German lieutenant, and reported: "Lieutenant report, Captain Rai, commander of the 47th Eastern Battalion, reports to you and is waiting for your orders." ”

"You immediately arrange for manpower to escort the Russian prisoners of war here to the prisoner of war camp. Remember, only the soldiers were escorted over, and all the officers were left behind. ”

Captain Rai said yes and ran back to his team to set up the task. After a while, hundreds of soldiers of the Oriental Battalion in German uniforms came to the crowded captured soldiers, divided them into eight groups in groups of 100, and escorted them to the forest to the north.

After the captured soldiers were escorted away by the troops of the Eastern Battalion, Captain Rai came back to report to the German lieutenant, the cold-blooded executioner nodded, and then turned his gaze to our army of only seventy or eighty officers. He looked at us for a moment, then raised his voice and commanded Rai, "Mr. Captain, you have your men take these Russian officers to the pit. ”

As he gave the order, a group of traitors and scum rushed at us, punching and kicking everyone near the burying pit.

We were surrounded by heavily armed soldiers, both from the Eastern Battalion and authentic German soldiers. I felt more and more uncomfortable, and in my limited knowledge of history, I clearly remembered that during the Soviet-German war, it was very common for the Germans to massacres Soviet prisoners of war. Because for the German army, Soviet prisoners of war were a big burden, and in addition to wasting valuable manpower and material resources to guard them, they also had to beware of the resistance that the prisoners of war might launch at any time. So I suspect that the German lieutenant's plan was to first remove the officers from the prisoners of war. Get rid of the officers, and the rest of the soldiers will be left without a leader. And for the Germans, the best way to get rid of these officers was to physically eliminate them.

My hunch soon came true.

The armored car drove to a stop next to our ranks, and the German lieutenant stepped down from the armored car. Rai was instructed to take five political workers from the ranks and take them to the pit to stand in a row, and then five German soldiers came out of the column and stood opposite them. Feeling that the atmosphere had been terrifying enough, the German lieutenant stood on the side of the executing soldier and said loudly: "As long as you shout 'Long live Hitler', you can survive." ”

The five political cadres standing next to the pit stood there with their heads held high, and none of them answered his words. The German lieutenant raised his fist above his head with one hand and shouted angrily: "I count to five, and if no one shouts, you will all die." With that, he began to count, and for each number ...... "one, two, two," he held out a finger. By the time he counted to five, his fists were all open, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to him, he waved his hand violently at Lu Xia and shouted a word of German.

Following his command, the executing soldier pulled the trigger. After the gunshots rang out, some of the political workers standing on the edge of the pit fell directly on their backs into the pit, and some of their bodies shook in place and slowly fell to the ground.

Rai reckoned that he had done the same thing before, and he immediately commanded several of his men to push the corpses into the pit, while at the same time grabbing five officers from among us.

Of course, no one gave in this time, and after a new round of gunfire, the five officers also fell in a pool of blood.

When Rai's men came to the team for the third time to arrest people, some people were frightened, and one of the major was so frightened that he peed his pants on the spot, and the water stains ran down his pants to the ground, and a stench immediately wafted around him.

Rai actually looked at the officer with disdain, then pointed at him with a finger and ordered his men: "You two. Drag him out of the air! Two soldiers came at once, and the major walked out.

Although I was terrified to death, I still tried to keep my composure, and when I saw the major who was scared to pee his pants, I said in my heart that he wouldn't shout Long live Hitler because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, right?!

Unexpectedly, I guessed correctly again this time, as soon as the muzzles of several German soldiers were raised, the major who was so frightened that he couldn't stand up squatted on the ground and shouted: "Long live Hitler!" Long live Hitler!! ~~" Seeing that someone finally gave in, the German lieutenant had a smug smile on his face, and he asked the soldiers to drag the death-fearing ghost aside and retake an officer from the ranks to take his place.

With an example of life, almost every group of prisoners next had one or two officers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, who were dragged aside and escaped being shot because they shouted "Long live Hitler". When the commander of the 10th group of Soviet troops collapsed in a pool of blood, there were already seven surviving officers standing next to them.

Fifty people advanced into the pit at once, and the wounded who were not dead were groaning loudly in pain, and the German lieutenant frowned. He turned to Rai and said, "Captain Rai, go and help those people in the pit, lest they upset people." ”

Rai agreed, asked for two long-handled grenades from the soldier next to him, walked to the edge of the pit, pulled the string, waited a few seconds, threw the grenade into the pit, and then lay on the ground. After two loud bangs, flesh flew wildly, and the groaning in the pit stopped abruptly. However, Rai didn't expect the grenade to be so powerful, and it was splashed with blood.

When he returned to the German lieutenant in embarrassment, the lieutenant looked at him and said impatiently: "All right, Mr. Captain, change the next group." ”

This time I was unfortunately selected to be one of the eleventh group of victims. When I stood by the pit, looking at the bloody corpses inside, smelling the choking smell of blood, and trying to keep my composure, my mind was thinking quickly, should I shout "Long live Hitler" like the officers in front of me?

When the German lieutenant saw that among the officers waiting to be executed, there was actually a female officer, and there was a look of surprise on his face. He walked up to me, looked me up and down, and said in a cold tone: "This lady, if you shout long live Hitler, you will be spared death." ”

Although I really wanted to shout for my life, I couldn't help but hesitate a little when I saw that the officers on the left and right were all righteous and awe-inspiring and looked at death as if they were at home, and opened my mouth and held back. I looked up at the German lieutenant and hoped that he would offer me other options for my life, but to my disappointment, the lieutenant apparently did not want to waste any more time, and when he saw that I was not responding, he turned back to the executing soldier and raised one hand into a fist high above his head.

Seeing this scene, I knew that he should enter the five-second countdown next, and when the time was up, he would give the order to fire, and even the gods would not be able to save me. But let me shout Long live Hitler, I really couldn't shout, and seeing that he had straightened his third finger, the melody of a revolutionary song popped up in my head, and at this critical moment, I could not care about anything, and began to hum loudly.

The German lieutenant heard the tune I was humming, stopped the countdown, and slowly lowered his raised hands, and the soldiers who had originally raised their guns also lowered their muzzles and listened carefully to my humming.

"Mr. Lieutenant, the Colonel has an urgent matter for you, so I want you to come over immediately." Rai ran to the lieutenant's side and reported loudly to him.

"The Colonel called me?!" When the lieutenant heard Rai say this, he hurriedly ordered: "Where is he, take me quickly." ”

Although I continued to hum the song, my eyes moved with the backs of the German lieutenant and Rai in the distance, and found that more than ten meters away, I don't know when an open-top car was parked on the road, and there was a driver and an officer wearing a large-brimmed hat sitting in the car, which was probably the colonel that Rai said. There were two three-wheeled motorcycles in the front and back of the car, and German soldiers wearing steel helmets and submachine guns sat in the cars.

The German lieutenant walked up to the officer, stood up and saluted, and reported something to him. The officer nodded his head as he heard his report. Then, as if giving another order to the lieutenant, the lieutenant glanced over to me, followed by another standing salute, and trotted over with Rai.

The lieutenant walked up to me and said coldly: "This lady, don't sing anymore, our colonel wants to see you, come with me." After saying that, I turned around and left, and I hurriedly followed.

As soon as he walked a few steps, Rai caught up and asked flatteringly, "Mr. Lieutenant, what about the rest of the people?" ”

The lieutenant said angrily: "The old rule, shoot them all." ”

Rai asked again: "What about the officers who shouted "Long live Hitler?" ”

"All the same, all shot, not one left."

Hearing the lieutenant's cold order, I couldn't help but shudder, it seems that he is teasing us, even if he shouts long live, the last one will not escape the fate of being shot. It's just that I don't know what kind of fate awaits me after I go to see the colonel?

When I walked up to the open-top car and saw the officer sitting in the car, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: good intentions are rewarded, and it seems that my life is safe.

The colonel in the car put his hand on the door, smiled at me and said, "Hello! Officer girl, I didn't expect us to meet again. ”

I looked at the rank on his shoulder, smiled and replied, "Yes, Colonel von Tolmann, I didn't expect to see you here." ”

Colonel Tolmann nodded at me and said approvingly, "I just heard you humming the "Kaiser Wilhelm's Training Song", but I didn't expect you to hum so well. ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, what do you know?" What I hummed was not "Kaiser Wilhelm's Training Song" at all, but "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions", but both songs used the same tune. ”