In addition to this, Shulka almost did not care about the fifth company and gave it to Sokolov.

If Shulka interfered in anything, it was to explain a few words to Valery, telling him not to interfere too much in the affairs of the Fifth Company.

This made Andrianka a little incomprehensible.

"I thought you'd do something to the Fifth Company!" "Or at least say something to them!" said Andrianca! ”

"I've already said what I had to say!"

"And ......" Andrianka shrugged, "Are we just waiting?" Take them on a mission to the battlefield? I don't say that if you cause any bad consequences, you will be criticized by your superiors and entangled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have you considered that this company may bring danger to the whole army! ”

"Of course I do!"

Shulka did know that there was another way out for the "deserters", and that was to flee to the side of the Germans, and that it might be a better way out...... If you flee to the direction of the Soviet army, you must always be afraid of being found out, and if you flee to the German army, you can wait for the war to end as a prisoner of war.

Of course, there are many uncertain dangers of being a prisoner of war, but I don't know how much better it is than being cannon fodder in a "punishment camp".

Therefore, if the "deserters" were ruthless, they would give the 82nd Infantry Regiment a knife from behind and surrender to the Germans at the critical moment when the battle was at its most intense...... That would be a nightmare for the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

Shulka, who was wiping his gun, stopped what he was doing.

It should be said that he is also worried.

You must know that this is a battlefield, even if he can trust the Fifth Company, it is impossible to easily put the life and death of the 82nd Infantry Regiment in the hands of others, he has no right to do so.

But the next day he was relieved.

"Comrade Shulka!" Early the next morning, Valery reported to Shulka: "Six people died in the fifth company!" ”

"What? What's going on? Shulka first thought of an enemy agent or spy.

But Valery soon overturned Shulka's idea.

"I haven't investigated it yet!" Valery replied: "They won't say anything!" ”

"What is the refusal to say?" Shulka wondered.

"These people were strangled!" Valery explained: "The body was found 100 meters from the 5th Infantry Company, but the answer from everyone was 'I don't know'! ”

This is obviously abnormal, because the platoon commander and squad leader will always count their subordinates, and a few people will be found soon, so there will be at least some clues, such as whether these people disappeared when they were on guard duty or performing some tasks, and at what time period they were located.

So, if everyone comes back and "doesn't know", it often means that everyone knows but doesn't say it.

Because Shulka had told Valery not to interfere too much in the affairs of the Fifth Infantry Company, Valery didn't know what to do when he encountered this situation.

For this, Shulka had to personally run to the 5th Infantry Company.

The camp of the 5th Infantry Company was located in a vacant warehouse in the port...... Due to the lack of inventory, there are many such vacant warehouses near the port.

In fact, the 82nd Infantry Regiment was not so idle, and they needed to be divided into two groups of day and night to rotate to check the personnel coming and going in the port.

Search, question, and check the letter of introduction (note: people do not have a soldier ID or military ID, and the way they prove their identity is to carry a letter of introduction from the unit or the street with the official seal).

However, these letters of introduction are easy to forge and can be of limited use.

The reason why the 5th Infantry Company was so idle in an empty warehouse was because they had been deserters not long ago, and they certainly could not be transformed into law enforcers under the nose of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...... Otherwise, it's a mess.

Shulka ran into Valery outside the warehouse.

Seeing Shulka, Valery complained while following Shulka's footsteps: "Comrade Shulka, I think you should assign this unit to other battalions, they can't be called an army at all, they have become a destabilizing factor in the troops......"

It is not surprising that Valery feels this way.

As mentioned before, the soldiers of the "punishment battalion" are not all afraid of death sometimes, and they may even be the least afraid of death, because they have been defined as dead people anyway.

On the contrary, it is those regular and normal troops, the reason why they are restrained is because they are worried about this and that, some want to be promoted, some want honor, some are worried about their families, and so on.

So, this 5th Infantry Company, which consisted of deserters, was of course the most difficult unit to manage.

"I think we should pick a few people out and do a severe punishment in front of them!" Valery said: "So that we will be able to command this force normally......"

Speaking of which, Valery said no more.

It wasn't because they had already stepped into the warehouse, but because the soldiers in the warehouse consciously stood up and saluted as soon as they saw Shulka walk into the warehouse.

Then, with an order, everyone lined up in a neat formation as fast as they could.

Sokolov quickly ran to Shulka, stood up and saluted, and reported: "Comrade Shulka, all 209 people of the 5th Infantry Company have been assembled!" ”

Valery stared at all of this in amazement, which had not been the case with him before.

Shulka glanced at the warehouse, where the 5th Infantry Company was clearly not idle, as they had set up trenches with sandbags and set up a row of targets in the warehouse...... However, due to the problem of ammunition supply, it is not possible to shoot live ammunition, but it is still no problem to practice tactical movements.

"209?" Shulka asked: "Comrade Sokolov, I will give you more than just these people!" ”

"Unknown attrition of six, Comrade Shulka!" Sokolov replied.

"What do you mean by unknown attrition?" Shulka asked.

Sokolov was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Report to Comrade Shulka, they were executed by my order!" ”

Valery's jaw almost dropped as he heard this.

"What mistakes did they make?" Shulka asked.

"They're trying to escape!" Sokolov replied: "I hanged them on the beams of the house!" ”

Shulka looked up and saw that there were several wooden beams across the top, and it was indeed an excellent place to hang him.

The use of lynching is strictly forbidden in the army, because it also means that the power of life and death of the entire army will be controlled by one person, and eventually the army will become a private army rather than a state army.

However, different situations should be treated differently.

These are extraordinary times, especially for a unit like the 5th Infantry Company...... A force made up of deserters must not allow deserters to appear again, otherwise it will not be able to become a normal force at all, or even a combat force.