Chapter 1229 Manstein's Death Order

   Fortunately, what Guchakov was worried about did not happen. Coppetto took his own infantry squad and brought the five German prisoners to the division headquarters smoothly.

   Coming in front of Sokov and Koida, he straightened his body and saluted them, but then he had a hard time who to report to. Fortunately, Sokov saw his embarrassment, so he nodded at Koyda and said, "You should report to your division commander."

   "Comrade Commander," Kopetuo hurriedly turned to face Koida, and reported loudly, "I have sent you five prisoners under the order of the battalion commander, Captain Guchakov."

Koyda glanced at the five captives standing at the door, and when he found that there was a second lieutenant among them, he couldn't help but nodded with a smile, and said with satisfaction: "Good job. Please go back and meet your battalion commander and ask him Convey my thanks, thank you for your heroic fighting on the front line to stop the crazy attack of the German army."

   After sending Kopetuo away, Keida immediately called for an interpreter and began to interrogate the prisoners. The second lieutenant of the German Army was interrogated first, and the other four officers and soldiers, in order to prevent them from providing false information, Koyda ordered people to lock them up next door, and prepared to interrogate them individually: "Your name, military rank and position. "

   "My name is Kahn, with the rank of second lieutenant. I am the platoon leader of the 2nd company of the 1st Battalion of the 114th Regiment of the 6th Armored Division."

  Seeing the second lieutenant's cooperation, Keida continued to ask: "Please tell me the truth, why are you attacking desperately when you know you can't take my position?"

   Hearing Keida's question, Second Lieutenant Kahn hesitated. Seeing that the other party did not speak, Keida was so angry that he slapped the table hard and shouted, "Answer me!"

   "We received a death order from Marshal Manstein," the second lieutenant said with a guilty conscience, "We will take your position at all costs, and even transferred the right-wing attacking troops here to participate in the attack."

  Sokov heard that the German army had transferred the right-wing attacking troops here to participate in the attack, and immediately understood that the enemies who had disappeared from the guards' positions had come to their own positions.

Koyda was very puzzled by the German prisoners' answers. In order to find out what was going on, he continued to ask: "Why did Manstein transfer all the troops attacking from other directions to our place? Also, he Why do you have to give you a death order and must seize our position?"

Sokov, who was sitting by the side, thought to himself that he did not expect the second lieutenant of the German army to say that this road is the shortest road to Kursk. Unexpectedly, the other party waited for a long time before he said: "Our division commander von General Hornerdorf died in front of your fortifications, and Manstein was very angry when he heard the bad news, so he gave us such a death order."

   "It's impossible." Keida immediately jumped up from his seat when he heard this: "How could we kill your division commander? You must have made a mistake."

  Sokov also felt that Second Lieutenant Kahn was talking nonsense. German generals are a group of ghosts who fear death. Their headquarters are usually dozens of kilometers away from the front line, just to prevent themselves from being in danger. Thinking of this, he said, "Second Lieutenant, you are lying. Your General Hornerdorf is probably hiding in the headquarters tens of kilometers away from the front line, drinking coffee with his chief of staff. How could he die? What about in front of our camp?"

"It's true, Your Excellency General." Second Lieutenant Cohen knew the ranks of the Soviet Army. Although he saw that Sokov was much younger than Keida, he was carrying the rank of major general on his shoulders. He knew that the people in the room counted It was he who quickly argued: "Our division commander, General Hornerdorf, personally participated in the attack in a tank, but when he approached your position, he was destroyed by your strange anti-tank weapons.

   There are as many as a dozen tanks participating in the battle with General Hornerdorf. After they discovered that the division commander's tank was destroyed, they immediately leaned over and tried to rescue the division commander. But when they approached, they found that the Panther tank the division commander was riding on was burning, and there was no one around. They knew that the division commander must have encountered an accident, so they reported the news to the division chief of staff.

  The chief of staff of the division felt that the matter was of great importance, so he reported it to Marshal Manstein. After the Marshal learned of this news, he gave us a death order, asking us first to **** back the body of General Hornerdorf; second, to break through your defenses, encircle you, and then wipe them out completely. Avenge General Hornerdorf. "

  In order to find out whether the confession made by Second Lieutenant Kahn was true, Keida winked at his chief of staff and signaled him to investigate the matter. The understanding chief of staff nodded, walked aside, picked up the phone and called Guchakov, "Comrade Captain, I am the chief of staff of the division. The prisoners you sent all arrived successfully before."

  Knowing that all the captives he sent to the division headquarters were delivered safely, Guchakov felt more at ease: "Comrade Chief of Staff, thank you, thank you for calling me specifically."

"Comrade Captain, you made a mistake. I called, not to inform you of the smooth arrival of the prisoners." The chief of staff said: "According to the confessions of the prisoners, the reason why they attacked our army positions like crazy is completely Because the tank on which their division commander, General Hornerdorf, was riding was destroyed by our anti-tank weapons. I order you now, immediately send someone to the front of the position to check a bombed Panther tank, which has Someone."

   Guchakov was a little uneasy: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you mean that one of the crew members of the German tanks we destroyed was General Hornadorf, the commander of the German 6th Armored Division?"

   "That's what the captive confessed." The chief of staff said with a serious expression: "Your task now is to find out whether there is General Hornerdorf in the Panther tank that you destroyed."

   "I understand, Comrade Chief of Staff." Guchakov replied on the phone: "I will find out about this as soon as possible."

  Send someone to the position to check a destroyed tank. This task seems simple, but it is not easy to do. Now the German offensive has never stopped, and personnel who leave the position to perform reconnaissance will fall into the hands of the enemy if they are not careful.

  But since it was an order from the superior, even if there was a sea of ​​swords and flames ahead, he could only bite the bullet and rush forward. Guchakov ordered the messenger to call Captain Narva, and asked bluntly, "Comrade Captain, how many people are left in your company?"

   "Report to the battalion commander, including the wounded in the whole company, there are still 29 people left." Narva replied with a solemn expression: "But please rest assured, comrade battalion commander, we will definitely persist until the arrival of reinforcements."

  (end of this chapter)