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After Seidlitz had finished speaking, the room fell into silence, and apart from the sound of our breathing, no other sound could be heard. This shocking suggestion stunned everyone in the room at once.

I secretly thought in my heart: Seidlitz's idea is really bold enough, actually thinking of recruiting men from the German prisoners of war to form an anti-Hitler army to fight with us. However, although this idea is bold, it has great feasibility. Since the German army can draw personnel from our army’s prisoners to form the "Eastern Battalion" and form the "Russian Liberation Army" two years later, why can't we use its own Dao still ruled its people, and also formed a "German Liberation Army" composed of German prisoners of war to deal with those Germans?

Once this tempting idea came into being, I couldn't push it out of my mind. I tried my best to keep calm, and at the same time I set my sights on Cui Kefu to see how he would react to this matter. I saw Cui Kefu's smile froze on his face, staring at Seidlitz silently, as if he was thinking about how to answer the other party.

But I heard Krylov murmur quietly next to him: "Making a fool, this is a bullshit! I'm already a prisoner, I don't know how to stop."

Seeing everyone staying silent, Seidlitz looked a little flustered. He tried to explain to us: "Your Excellency Commander, I made such a request not because I was afraid of death, but to bring my motherland and The people were rescued from Hitler's brutal rule..."

"Okay, General Sedlitz, you don't need to say any more." Before the other party was finished, Gurov interrupted him and said politely: "We are not qualified to reply to the suggestion you just made. , You need to consult your superiors."

Cuikov returned to normal at this time. He quickly echoed Gurov and said, "Yes, General Sedlitz, your suggestion. After we report to the superior, we will give you a final answer. It is not early now. , I will let my subordinates send you to the front army headquarters first."

Hearing the answers from Trikov and Gurov, Saidlitz sighed in disappointment, raised his hand to salute, turned and followed the interpreter and left the room.

"Comrade Commander, this General Sedlitz is crazy!" Krylov waited for Sedlitz's back to disappear from the door. Looking back at Cui Kefu, he said, "He is too whimsical. Does he think he is a great man? He also wants to form his own army to cooperate with us. It's a pipe dream!"

Cui Kefu turned to look at the few of us, and asked noncommitantly: "What do you think about this matter?"

"Comrade Commander, I think this matter has completely exceeded our authority." Krylov replied first: "You should immediately report to the Comrade Commander of the Front Army and give him the decision-making power."

After hearing this, Cui Kefu nodded and asked me: "Oshanina, what do you think?"

In my memory, there hasn't really been any military organization like the "German Liberation Army". There must be something wrong with it, so when I answered Cui Koff’s question, I said with extreme caution: "Comrade Commander, General Sedlitz offered to cooperate with us soon after he was captured. This kind of enthusiasm, we have to be cautious, and can't just pour cold water on him blindly. Otherwise, it will make him chill."

After I finished speaking, Trikov turned his gaze to Gurov again. Before he could speak, Gurov said carefully: "I think Oshanina and Krylov have a point. The German general who wanted to cooperate with us soon after being captured is the first time for us. You must be cautious when you encounter him. However, since we have insufficient authority to handle such matters, I think we should report this matter to the Front Army Headquarters immediately, and ask General Rokosovsky to decide. ."

After listening to Gurov’s opinion, Trikov told Krylov: "Comrade Chief of Staff, go to the intelligence office to find out if there is any information about General Sedlitz. If you have one, bring it here. Let us Research and study."

After Krylov left, Trikov picked up the phone on the desk and wanted to call the front army headquarters. After hearing Rokosovsky’s voice, he straightened his body and reported, “Hello, Konstantin. Konstantinovich, this is Trikov. I have a situation to report to you..." Then Trikov reported what had just happened to Rokosovsky.

When the two were talking, I turned my ears to hear what Rokosovsky was saying, but because the call did not leak, I heard nothing except what Cui Koff said.

As soon as Trikov put down the phone, Gurov couldn't wait to ask: "Comrade Commander, how did General Rokosovsky respond?"

Trikov has never had any secrets about Gurov. Hearing his question, he immediately replied: "The commander of the front said that he would personally talk to General Seidlitz. If it is really necessary to mobilize personnel from the German prisoners. For the troops, he may still need to report to the base camp and listen to the opinions of the Supreme Commander himself."

"Do you still read the information on Seidlitz?" Gurov asked briefly.

"Look, of course." Cui Koff replied affirmatively: "Even if the selection of personnel from the German prisoners to form troops fails in the end, I don't think Seidlitz will be sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, maybe there will be more. The opportunity to work with us, so we must thoroughly understand his talent."

While talking, Krylov hurriedly walked in from the outside. He stopped in front of Cui Koff and handed a document bag in his hand to Cui Koff. At the same time, he said: "Comrade Commander, this is what Information on German generals collected by the Intelligence Service."

Cuikov opened the file bag and pulled out a thick stack of materials. After looking at it twice, he read to us aloud: "Von Seidlitz Kurzbach, born in Hanover, Germany in 1888 A family of hereditary officers in the Prussian army. His surname indicates the dignity of his family and the nobility of his family.

He has served as a backbone officer of the Prussian army since the age of 20, participated in World War I, and the rank of the artillery captain of the war ended. From 1918 to 1933, Seidlitz was held hostage in the artillery grassroots units and the National Military Department, and his rank was promoted from captain to major. Waiting until 1939, he returned to the army and was promoted from artillery battalion commander to artillery regiment commander, and his rank was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel. Promoted to major general in January 1939.

From March 1940 to June 1941, he served as the commander of the 12th Infantry Division of the German Army, leading his troops to invade France and the Netherlands. According to our data, Hitler's war of aggression against Western Europe caused the officer's position to soar. The prospects are promising all the way.

In June 1941, after the Hitler gang blatantly invaded our country's territory, Seidlitz was ordered to lead his troops to the east, and he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in less than six months. In March 1942, the fascist invading army with a smooth wind was frustrated for the first time and fell into a heavy siege by our army in the Demyansk Marsh in northwest Moscow. Seidlitz was ordered to lead the assault force with his own name to clear the siege and defeat our army. He successfully rescued the besieged troops. This battle made him famous, and he and his ‘Sedlitz’ commando team attracted the attention of our military command. of course. Hitler even loved him as a rare warrior to reuse it, and then ordered him to command the 51st Infantry Corps of the German 6th Army as an artillery general to participate in the attack on Stalingrad. "

Cui Koff read this, put down the information in his hand, and turned to Gurov and said: "Comrade Military Commissioner, it seems that Sedlitz is still a great figure. If he really wants to cooperate with us, I see this. Things can be considered."

For these words of Cui Kefu. Gurov nodded and said in agreement: "Yes, if such an outstanding German general cooperates with us, it will still have a certain effect on destroying the morale of the German army. But before getting a reply from the Front Army Headquarters , We are powerless."

After the two chatted a few words, Gurov found out that I was still standing by. He stopped talking with Cui Koff, turned around and said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, there is one thing I almost forgot. Yesterday, the German Minister of Propaganda Goebbels gave a speech on the radio. Our intelligence staff has been Record all of his speech, and when you go back later, take this recording to Comrade Ulbricht by the way."

I took the recording of Goebbels' speech that Gurov gave me. Back to the army headquarters. Ulbricht, who was notified to pick up the recording, used the equipment he brought to play Goebbels' speech for us in the headquarters. Since it was all in German, he asked us to act as an interpreter: "...Finally, even though this sounds cruel, it doesn’t matter if it’s in Stalingrad. Or it’s in Rzhev, whether it’s in full. It makes no difference whether it is in the desert of Africa or in the icy and snowy Norway. They will also fail and die. They sacrifice themselves and achieve great deeds because they die for the people."

When Ulbricht translated all the content of the speech, the Chief of Staff Vitkov slammed the table and said excitedly: "It's great, great, Goebbels's speech is really great!"

Hearing his admiration for Goebbels’ speech, I couldn’t help frowning. When I was about to get angry at him, he noticed my strangeness and quickly explained to me with a smile: "Comrade Commander, You must be very surprised, why would I say that Goebbels's speech is great?"

I heard him say this, knowing that there must be something to follow, so I nodded and waited patiently for him to say the latter. He coughed, and waited for his mood to stabilize slightly, and then said: "Comrade Commander, Goebbels' speech is tantamount to disguisedly announcing those German soldiers who are still resisting that we have completely abandoned you. For the sake of Germany's glory. , You can only choose the path of death. In this way, the illusions in the hearts of the German soldiers who have been looking forward to being rescued will be completely shattered, and our next offensive will become easier."

"Comrade Chief of Staff is right." Ulbricht waited for Witkov to finish, and then added: "This speech will be the last straw to overwhelm the camels and cause the morale of the besieged German soldiers to collapse. I can't want it. In a few days, these German troops trapped in the'barricade' factory area and tractor factory area will lay down their weapons and surrender to us."

Hearing that both of them were so confident and so unable to refute, I nodded doubtfully.

The next day, the offensive on February 1, I ordered the 171st and 308th divisions on the left and right wings to stop, and the 150th division of Pantai Lev went out to the tractor factory’s dormitory area and launched against the enemy. s attack.

Before the attack, Ulbricht and his anti-fascist comrades, as usual, first played a piece of German music. As soon as the music ended, a recording of Goebbels' speech was played immediately, and finally he made a routine call to the German positions as usual.

Let alone, with the recording of Goebbels' speech, Ulbricht and their political offensive today has achieved quite good results. As soon as the call was over, I saw through the telescope that several white flags hung on bayonet were protruding from the windows of the buildings closest to the starting position of our army.

The commanders and fighters of the 150th Division were experienced in combat. Seeing that the enemy was beginning to surrender with white flags, several small groups ready to be surrendered immediately left their positions and ran towards the buildings. As soon as they left the trenches, they were spotted by the stubborn German troops in other buildings, and the machine guns in the building immediately fired at the soldiers who ran into them. Although people were hit by bullets and fell from time to time, the rest of them still ran towards the buildings waving the white flag without hesitation.

Seeing our commanders rushing into the building, the artillery concealed behind the position decisively fired at the building where the fire was exposed. The house that was crumbling, how could it withstand the bombardment of our army’s heavy artillery~lightnovelpub.net~ In the flames and smoke of the explosion, the German soldiers who hid behind the wall and fired from height The place rolled down.

But when the artillery began to extend to the distant building, the commanders concealed in the starting position jumped out of the trenches shouting, and rushed forward with their weapons.

Seeing that our troops launched a charge, Vitkov, who was standing next to me observing the battle, couldn't help but said worriedly: "Comrade Commander, if there is no tank to cover the infantry charge, will it cause unnecessary casualties?"

I pointed to the densely packed residential buildings in front and explained to Vitkov: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you see, the factory dormitory area is too densely built. If our tanks rush up, it will easily become a target for German anti-tank fighters. With the artillery battalion’s direct aim shooting, even if the enemy is shooting in the building, the threat to our offensive troops will not be too great.” (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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