Chapter 177: Henschel's Observations

After Henschel was captured, he was forced to work as a farmer. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the Soviets did not simply and rudely shoot him and his brothers, but they did not treat him very well.

They were dressed in their original clothes, and the epaulettes were all removed. The men took up shovels and worked hard to dig up the potatoes in the field, while the village women worked as overseers, armed with rifles, to supervise the work.

Several people were very dissatisfied with this, and their passive attitude of slacking off work directly angered the peasant women. A gunshot rang out, and the bullet hit the ground in front of the prisoner.

The peasant woman scolded and scolded, but the Germans did not understand it at all.

"It's better to hurry up and work, otherwise our current treatment will be gone!" Henschel ordered the men.

"But we are Wehrmacht soldiers, and even if we are prisoners of war, we should not be farmers!"

Henschel paused and walked over to the men. "You have all seen the Soviet prisoners of war who were captured by us, you don't understand what they are like? If the Soviets want to retaliate, we will only be able to work here in single clothes. “

As soon as he said this, the crowd was speechless.

"What's more, these barbarians don't sign the Geneva Conventions at all, what else can we do?"

Ask yourself, this strange group of Soviet troops was already good for prisoners of war. In cold weather, at least the shelter remains warm, and people do not freeze to death. The daily meal is just a simple potato, and it will not starve to death.

The Germans tortured and killed Soviet prisoners of war at will, or simply did not give food, or gave a little bit, watching the prisoners of war kill each other. If Jews, Gypsies, or members of the CPSU were found among them, the Germans would kill them immediately.

Henschel and his men said this, and the excavation stopped.

All of a sudden, everyone was sabotage, and the peasant women couldn't figure out the current situation and immediately reported it to the army. Soon after, all seven prisoners of war were taken to the barracks interrogation room.

"You don't dig the potatoes well, you don't work badly. What do you want to do? Don't you want to work with us? Yerentina made a frightening gesture and questioned them.

Henschel immediately assumed that he knew he was wrong, but he nodded a little, much to the shame of his men.

He told him the reason for the incident.

Yerentina slowly raised her head, her eyes sharp at the soldiers behind Henschel.

"You Nazis, because you are not SS soldiers, I ordered your lives to be spared. But this is only if you cooperate with us, otherwise what use do I want from you? “

"Nope! We are not Nazis! We are the Wehrmacht, we are soldiers, and it is our duty to obey orders! A soldier pointed the way.

This person spoke too directly, and the others were only afraid that these words would anger the blue-hatted woman in front of them.

Yerentina stood up and walked quietly to the man.

"Obey the orders of your Nazi governors, so deliberately slaughter our ordinary residents. Let me tell you, most of the Soviet inhabitants of your place have a blood grudge against you.

We don't want to find out whether you are SS or Wehrmacht, whether you were killing people on orders, or whether they were motivated by your own personal intentions. Anyway, you are all Germans, and the peasant woman did not shoot you, and it is already a great deal of restraint. “

This remark could not help but make Henschel think that this is the reason, if they had not been protected by soldiers, they would have been beaten to death by the Soviet villagers with sticks.

Yerentina continued: "You think digging potatoes is an insult to you. If you feel humiliated and commit suicide, you would rather be captured than kill yourself with a gun, and hide in the pile of dead people in an attempt to pretend to be dead and fool around. Even as soldiers, you are not qualified! Now I'm telling you, digging potatoes is getting the next meal. If you refuse to dig, where will the food come from? “

Yerentina explained the simple truth, there are no idlers here. "You are a cheap labor force, and only labor is worthy of food. Besides, you eat no different than most Soviets. You invaders loot our food, and we have to get preserved potatoes. So what's the complaint now? “

Henschel listened to this and promised to continue to cooperate.

At this moment, his heart was shaken. If he had integrity, he would have committed suicide a long time ago, and now he is captured obviously because he is a coward. Then a coward is still worthy of this military uniform.

Whatever his men thought, Henschel only begged the Soviets to keep their promises.

To dig potatoes is to dig up their own rations, and German prisoners of war are no longer passive. In the past few days of captivity, Henschel discovered that this was clearly a large military camp.

Shockingly, they also have tanks.

It's not that tanks are difficult to travel in swamps? Maybe this is only for German tanks, this is still the territory of the Soviet Union, here they know better.

Tanks weren't enough, and when there was a strange noise in the sky, the POWs were still digging potatoes.

Until a group of heavily armed soldiers twisted them all away, the work at hand stopped completely.

As Henschel was being escorted, he saw the door of a large wooden hut open and a fighter jet flying out.

"My God, you still have the Air Force!"

The soldiers didn't let a few people stop, they were escorted away, all of them were stuffed into their barracks, and the doors were locked.

A few hours later, however, an unkempt man was stuffed into the room, and when Henschel saw that he was dressed and had a face, he immediately asked, "Dichdeurschen?" “

"JA" pilot Hans was thrown into this cell to await interrogation. Unexpectedly, he was not the only captive, and Hans immediately became energetic.

The compatriots wanted to see each other, and the German captives immediately began to talk, and the purpose of the two groups was the same.

"Now we all know that the enemy is here. The size of the Soviet army in this swamp was at least one division. Henschel smiled wryly. He deliberately said a lot about the strength of the Soviet army, and the actual combat force was only more than 5,000 people.

"That's so many! I saw in the sky that their camp was very large. No way! Henschel immediately stood up, "I need to run back and get my life." “

"Don't worry, although you will be unhappy, but our situation is very dangerous. Even if we run away, we have to look for opportunities, and now we can only admit it. “

Henschel also didn't know who would win the war, so let him choose whether to flee to the German camp. After all, this place is full of angry residents who can't wait to eat themselves.

Hans and Henschel discussed a lot.

"Now you try to stay cooperative, otherwise you will definitely be abused. Even if you betray them (officers of the 715th Division), it's nothing, after all, they sent us to death! “

These words, which were supposed to be the heart of the cholera army, Hans did not respond immediately.

At this moment, a group of soldiers arrived, the door was opened, and Hans was about to be taken away.

"Mark my words! This damn war, be smart, don't provoke them, because that's self-defeating! Henschel finally admonished. (To be continued.) )