Fortunately, the man named Asanov was willing to tell everything he knew, no matter what, because the group in front of him was indeed a partisan and intended to fight the Germans. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Asanov now decisively made a condition with Balzen and others: "It's up to you to decide whether the three of us will stay or not, but I hope you don't shoot us, because we are still useful." Don't think that we axe-wielding people are cowards, in fact, everyone has been plotting to escape for a long time, as long as we escape to the swamp, it is to catch fish and eat frogs, we can live! We are willing to be guerrillas! ”

"Would you like to join us?"

Balzen has not revealed his identity yet, and it is impossible to trust people at will in the deep battlefield. This Asanov's words may be sincere, or he may be trying to find a way to survive.

The man continued: "We were forced to labor by the Germans to build a defensive line here to prevent the Red Army in the swamps from expanding the war. You must be those Red Army units! Let me join you, there are more than 500 prisoners of war like me! We don't want to be called like cattle anymore, it's humiliating! ”

"You know the humiliation too?!" Balzen said viciously. "The soldiers' regulations make it clear that the Soviet Red Army is not allowed to surrender! And you surrendered! Are your officers, your commissars, a bunch of idiots? They should have forced you cowardly surrenderers early to stabilize the morale of the army, otherwise we would not have been so badly defeated in Minsk! ”

This Asanov did not know the details of the war in Belarus last year, in short, at the beginning of the war the Red Army suffered huge losses, and many people were captured.

He argued: "Actually, no one wants to be captured, and those of us were captured in an offensive campaign!" We were knocked unconscious by the bomb, and then we were prisoners. If I hadn't been unconscious, I would have died in battle. ”

"But you are still captured after all, and you are carrying an axe to cut wood for the Germans and help them build positions, you are fighting against the Red Army, and I can cut your throat right now."

"Then you cut it!" Asanov raised his head unchanged and looked at the other two, visibly frightened.

Balzen was also unambiguous, the blade of the dagger was directly pressed against the man's throat, but Asanov still had his eyes closed, and he raised his head with a calm expression. In that case, there was no point in killing him so hastily. Balzen put away the knife and said, "It doesn't look like you're a coward, but those two of your companions have peed their pants." All right! I believe that you are not the one who voluntarily surrendered and betrayed the country for glory. ”

"I'm certainly not that kind of person! And I still want to exterminate these fascists, you will never think of what they have done in the prisoner of war camps! I want to escape, I want to join the guerrillas and become one of yours! Give me a gun, I'd rather kill those Germans right now. ”

Balzen thought about it, and the value of this person was indeed great. The soldier untied him, but he did not get his rifle.

"Asanov, you just said that there are more than five hundred people like you in the prisoner of war camp in the enemy's position, and there are other Eastern battalions in the service of the Germans, and now you must tell us this information. By this credit we can forgive your sins. ”

"Yes, but I would love to know where you belong, and I hope that the Red Army will destroy the enemy's positions, free our people, and kill all the Germans and real traitors!" Asanov paid special attention to the medal on Balzen's chest, and the fact that he was able to get this shows that this partisan unit is not ordinary.

The number of the 284th Guards Division should not be revealed now, and Balzen said meaningfully: "Indeed, you can guess who we are." Why did the enemy build a line of defense? Who are they guarding against? ”

"That's you!" Asanov said excitedly, "In the prisoner of war camp, we heard those people from the Eastern battalion chatting in Russian, claiming that the Germans had lost 7,000 people in recent times!" This is completely different from the great achievements advertised by the Germans. I believe that all this is true, you must have come from the swamps, you are those Red Army. ”

Balzen didn't answer, giving the impression that it was acquiescence.

"Well, if it were you, I believe that such a Red Army unit would fulfill my long-cherished wish. I'll tell you everything I know now! ”

In fact, in the previous reconnaissance, Balzen had a basic understanding of the enemy's firing points. Moreover, he did not believe that this Asanov, as a prisoner of war who was forced to labor, could explain the enemy's heavy firepower points, troop deployment, and defensive depth as a professional spy, and that he was only a small soldier after all.

It is true that the German army in front of him is the 707th Division, which is a group of defeated generals, and the 284th Division has a natural contempt for it. But they do have a lot of troops, and they must have grown wise.

The enemy's strength has increased, and what the hell is the Eastern Battalion? About the quality of the personnel of the German soldiers, the situation of infantry equipment, the composition of the Eastern battalion, became the most urgent knowledge of Balzen.

Through Asanov's confession, he did not see how many machine guns and submachine guns the German soldiers were armed with, most of them were young and also armed with rifles. From his point of view alone, when he was a soldier in the Soviet 22nd Army, he faced a lot more elite German troops than this group of people! The barrage of automatic fire is very powerful, and the artillery fire is also very dense.

But what about now? "I saw that the Germans were not only equipped with their own general-purpose machine guns, but also some machine guns from other countries, such as one with a magazine stuck in the top."

Balzen knew something about this, it was a Czech-made machine gun, and the 284th Division had captured some of it when it had fought the Romanians, but the deputy division commander Berekov was strangely excited about this.

Since he had not personally been to the German positions for spy reconnaissance, this Asanov's confession was very valuable.

Balzen immediately ordered: "Ivar, good notebook, hurry up and write down everything this man said!" What about the telegraph operator! Hurry up and get ready to send the news! ”

This move convinced Asanov that this was the vanguard of the Soviet army in the swamps, that they were scouts and could not be called partisans!

As for his personal opinion of the German soldiers, Asanov said in 1510 that he did not rate their combat effectiveness very highly.

When the topic came to the Vostok battalion, Asanov raised his eyebrows and angrily rebuked: "That's the dog of the Germans!" Their fighting power is worrying, and most of them are made up of foreigners. Like the one you killed, he's a Pole! Some Poles joined the Eastern battalion, as well as Estonian and Lithuanian, all of whom stood on the opposite side of the Soviet Union, just outside the forest on the German line. ”

"Also supervising your logging in the forest? Right? Balzen asked.

"That's right! In any case, they were all Soviets, it may be that they still do not understand what the USSR is, and a new big war broke out! Now they are completely our enemies, and in terms of violent methods, they are worse than the Nazis. As far as I know, the Germans were served by Poles, Belarusians, and Ukrainians, some apostate among prisoners of war, some against the Soviet Union. ”

"Is it the remnants of Tsarist Russia? This is understandable, they have always opposed the USSR! And what about those apostates? ”

Asanov said coldly: "They will organize some prisoners of war, lock them in rooms and ask them who would like to pick up guns, attack the Soviet Union with the Germans, and promise the prisoners of war to establish a new Russia after the elimination of the Stalin regime." Such people, lured by the lure of bread vodka, and with the promise that the safety of their lives could be guaranteed, went down the road against the Bolsheviks. But they had to be recognized by the Germans, they needed a letter of submission! ”

"Is it to prove to the Germans that they are sincere and become puppet soldiers?" Balzen asked.

"Yes! The chosen ones really took up their guns right away and really hit the Red Army. They selected a number of prisoners of war to be executed, and the executioners were these renegades. So, the people you see wearing German steel helmets but wearing Soviet cotton clothes, they have all gone through such trials like this. ”

The scene was so cold that even the person in charge of recording stopped writing.

This is probably the case! Balzen did not feel that the war waged by the Soviet Union to the west in '39-'40 was a glorious reconquista, as the authorities advertised. The partition of Poland can be understood as a kind of revenge for the massacre it committed twenty years ago. But what about the others? The three Baltic states were annexed, and a million Red Army attacked Finland.

Under the Great Purge, many people were affected, and some people were full of anger in their hearts, and when the Germans came, they were willing to take revenge on the Soviet Union, which was emotionally possible.

The political aspect was not something that Barzen could understand, as a military man he could only obey orders, but he had a bad impression of the Poles in his bones.

The Vostok Battalion was a group of puppet soldiers who served the Germans, helping them to carry supplies, organize logistics, and even fight wars. These Poles also hated the Slavs, and they would not let go of the opportunity to commit violence. Balzen even believed that such an Eastern battalion would have to show its German masters that they were useful, and that they must have participated in the torture of prisoners of war and the massacre of ordinary people.

Although this special information is not serious military information, if it is sorted out and publicized to the military and civilians in the swamp, the hatred will deepen. In the depths of a desperate situation, hatred will also become a powerful cohesive force that will greatly boost morale!