Colonel Reinhardt and Count Stakhwitz successfully joined forces at the village of Pishawn, and an hour later the town of Kupyansk, on the banks of the Oskol River, about 10 kilometers northwest of the village of Pishawn, was attacked by the Panzergrenadier Division of the "Großdeutsch".

Another hour later, the good news came, and the vanguard of the German Sixth Panzer Army from the west arrived in time to join the siege of Kupyansk.

Fierce fighting continued until about 8:30 p.m., when a part of the 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment of the Panzergrenadier Division of the "Großdeutsches" was on the east side of the railway bridge in the middle of the city, across the river from the 15th Panzer Division from the west side of the bridge.

The two armies faced each other across the blown railway bridge, which meant that the pincers were closed, and the 37th Army, the 57th Army, most of the 9th Army, and the 38th Army, with a total of nearly 300,000 troops, were surrounded by the Germans.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the bright stars fell on the land, and only the sporadic sound of gunfire remained on the vast battlefield.

The officers and soldiers on both sides of the battle are not iron men, and the flesh and blood still need to rest.

An eerie scene occurred in the calm night in the western part of the village of Pishawn, about five kilometers northeast of the village of Kurilivka, where Colonel Reinhardt and Colonel Count Stakhwitz met.

The flat ground suddenly rose up, revealing tiny gaps, and a pair of eyes watched the dark night warily in the gaps.

After a few moments, the ground was lifted higher and was panned to the side.

The ground is the cellar cover built by the local villagers, and when the cover is lifted, a figure emerges from the cellar, and the figure squats on the edge of the cellar and looks around, raises his hand and waves at the entrance of the cellar, and then turns around, bends down and runs north.

Four more men emerged from the cellar and ran north of the village, following the dark shadow in front of them.

The five figures sneaked through a dirt road less than ten meters wide to the north of the village and plunged headlong into a cornfield on the north side of the dirt road.

After walking through the cornfield for tens of meters, it was not until the end of the north side of the cornfield that the five of them stopped and regrouped.

Lying under the corn stalks, the five people looked to the north, and faintly saw pairs of pillars of light.

Major General Kozlov, commander of the 37th Army, whispered: "Everyone, pay attention, we are going to pass through the wheat field in front of us, where the view is very open, everyone try to keep your body down. Crossing the wheat fields in front is the road, as you can see, there is a convoy of Germans passing on the road. We're going to take advantage of the gap after the convoy drives and cross that road. ”

Major General Shamshin of the 22nd Tank Corps said: "We understand that everyone should be careful, and after crossing the road, our escape plan is half successful. ”

Major General Kozlov said: "Everyone be smart, let's go." ”

The lights on the highway faded away, and the highway was once again covered in darkness.

The five men rushed out of the cornfield one by one, bent over, and ran toward the highway surrounded by night.

During the day, the Soviet tank units that launched a counteroffensive against Colonel Reinhardt were none other than the 22nd Tank Corps led by Major General Shamshin.

The 22nd Tank Army, with its own courage and sacrifice, slowed down the advance of the SS 104th Heavy Armored Brigade and bought time for friendly forces to escape the encirclement, but it did not have much effect other than adding a lot of sacrifices.

Unfortunately, the commander of the 37th Army, Major General Kozlov, who dutifully stayed with the 22nd Tank Army and personally led the troops to block the attack, did not expect that the German offensive would be too fast.

Their troops were dealing with the Germans from the south, but unexpectedly, the Panzergrenadier Division of "Großdeutsch" from the southeast arrived first, cutting off the retreat of the troops.

The rear road was cut off, and the south was again tracked by the enemy, and the broken troops immediately collapsed and lost command.

Holding that they absolutely could not be captured, and at the same time it was a kind of luck, Major General Kozlov and Major General Shamshin decided to let the troops break out of the siege in pieces.

The Germans' forces moved too fast and had limited forces, capturing at most some of the towns and villages, and there were large gaps between the towns and villages to escape, which was the intention of the two major generals.

While the encirclement has just been formed and has not yet been tightened, it is necessary to escape as soon as possible, otherwise when the follow-up enemy arrives, the encirclement will shrink and shrink, and the most precious opportunity to escape will be lost.

Two major generals with two adjutants, a driver, a total of five people, hid in the cellar until twelve o'clock in the night, and officially embarked on the road of escape.

The five men stumbled and ran through the wheat fields, occasionally lying on the ground and looking around, hiding from all the wind and grass.

Major General Kozlov was the first to rush out of the wheat field and drill into the drainage ditch on the south side of the road.

The two adjutants and the driver were behind, and Major General Shamshin was the last to arrive at the gutter.

There was no water in the drain, so Major General Kozlov quietly climbed up the ditch with his hands and feet, looked left and right on both sides of the road, and was pleased to find that there was no German convoy nearby.

Turning around, Major General Kozlov whispered to the fellow refugees who had climbed up with him: "Let's go, hurry up." ”

After saying that, Major General Kozlov was the first to stand up and strode across the road.

Safely crossed the highway and arrived at the north side of the road, and was about to jump into the north side of the road at the moment when Major General Kozlov saw three equally sneaky figures crossing the road on the left.

Major General Kozlov jumped into the drainage ditch on the north side of the road, stuck his head out and looked to the left, clearly seeing the three figures submerged in the darkness on the north side of the road.

Major General Shamshin also saw the three figures and whispered: "It's our own people, should we contact them?" ”

"It's not necessary, it's easier to expose the target if there are more people. The Germans came from the south and west, and we ran in a northeasterly direction so that we could get away from them. After speaking, Major General Kozlov stuck out his head to look at the road, but seeing no convoy appearing, he got up and rushed out of the drainage ditch, stepped on the wheat field outside the drainage ditch, and ran in a northeasterly direction.

Major General Shamshin hurriedly followed behind and ran in the wheat field for a while, and Major General Shamshin was surprised to find that there were three black shadows on the left side who were also running in the wheat field, and they were running faster than himself.

The three black shadows seemed to see Major General Shamshin and Major General Kozlov and his party, running all the way towards Major General Kozlov and his party.

After about three or four minutes, three figures caught up with Major General Shamshin, who was running behind, and neither side said hello, but ran silently through the night until they passed through the wheat fields and turned behind a ridge that was used to divide the fields.

Major General Kozlov and Major General Shamshin were older, and their physical strength was no match for that of the young and strong soldiers, so they sat down with their backs against the ridge and gasped for breath.

At this time, Major General Shamsin had time to ask about the identities of the three new recruits.

One of the three said: "We are from the 121st Tank Brigade, I am Captain Welhy, which unit are you from?" ”

"I'm Major General Shamshin in the 22nd Tank Army."

"Ah, Comrade General." Captain Vershy hurriedly raised his hand to salute Major General Shamshin.

"Shhhh Shamsin said.

"Whisper, someone's coming." Major General Kozlov reminded.

Major General Shamsin and Captain Welsh hurriedly leaned down, looked left and right, and soon saw two figures running wildly in the wheat fields where they came.

The two figures ran through the wheat fields, about fifty meters to the left of Major General Shamshin's position, and ran in a northeasterly direction.

Major General Shamshin and his entourage, none of them summoned the two figures until the other disappeared into the night.

After resting for about five minutes, the group set off again and ran northeast.

I don't know how long I ran, but Major General Kozlov, who was running at the front, suddenly let out an exclamation.

"It's a swamp, don't come here."

Major General Shamsin hurriedly stopped and, together with Captain Vershi, dragged Major General Kozlov, whose legs were stuck in the swamp, out.

In front of them was a swamp blocking the road, and several people were full of strong anxiety.

Major General Kozlov sat on the ground, rubbed the mud off his legs on the dry ground, then stood up and said: "The front should be a swamp by the river, the area is not too large, let's go east along the edge of the swamp first and see if we can get around?" ”

The eight men turned around and headed east, groping their way through the night.

Unconsciously, the east was white, and the eight people were still walking on the edge of the swamp.

Captain Welch asked, "Comrade Major General, it's about to dawn, what are we going to do next?" ”

Major General Kozlov said: "Let's first find a place to hide, eat something, and replenish our strength. Look for the direction of the road and then hit the road. ”

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, the eight of them were sleepy, tired and hungry, and found a sparse grove and went in.

As soon as they entered the woods, the eight people were surprised to find that there were already two people hiding here before them.

After greeting each other, Major General Kozlov learned that the two men were also from the 37th Army and belonged to the 275th Infantry Division.

The fleeing group expanded even further, with ten men hiding in the woods, sharing the water and food they were carrying.

As soon as he talked about his next escape plan, Major General Shamshin suddenly shouted: "Shhhhh ”

Everyone hurriedly stopped talking, pricked up their ears to listen, and heard the sound of airplane engines outside the woods.

Hiding behind a tree trunk, Major General Kozlov looked at the sky to the south, two helicopters hovering low, the black Iron Cross emblem on the side of the fuselage was clearly visible, and the slender barrel of the machine gun protruded from the hatch on the right side of the fuselage.

The two planes were slowly circling in circles at low altitude, and one of them suddenly opened fire, strafing the wheat fields east of the woods.

Major General Kozlov looked east in amazement, and soon saw three figures standing in the wheat fields east of the woods, three figures with their hands raised and looking in horror at the helicopters hovering overhead.

Unlucky guys, they dodged the German Army, but they failed to hide from the German Air Force.

Major General Kozlov sighed in his heart for the three captured soldiers, and as he sighed, Major General Kozlov saw another helicopter turn its nose and fly towards the woods where everyone was.

Without being reminded, Major General Kozlov hurriedly retracted, looked left and right, found a lush bush and burrowed in.

The others also sought shelter in the woods to hide from the helicopters overhead.

In a panic, Captain Versey also rushed to the bushes where Major General Kozlov was hiding.

Seeing Captain Verch crawling to his side, Major General Kozlov shouted angrily: "What are you doing, this place is too small to accommodate the two of us, you ······"

A cold muzzle pressed against the jaw of the major general, and Major General Kozlov hurriedly shut up.

"Comrade Major General, get up and come with me."

"You, what are you going to do?"

"What do I want to do, you ask?" Captain Versey raised his hand and fired several shots into the air with his pistol, then turned the muzzle of the gun and continued to stare at Major General Kozlov's chin.

As a last resort, Major General Kozlov could only stand up with his hands held high on the orders of Captain Vershi.

As soon as he stood up, Major General Kozlov saw that not far away, Major General Shamshin was also being held to the chin with a pistol by one of his own men, and his hands raised raised to get out of the bushes.

"You want to join the Germans? You want to commit treason? Shame on you. Major General Kozlov said angrily.

Captain Welch said: "It's a pity, Comrade Rear Admiral, what I'm going to tell you now is that you were captured by the glorious German Navy, don't talk nonsense, go out with me. ”

"You guys, the German Navy? Why is the German Navy here, and there is no sea here, etc., you are DreamWorks? The unit that likes to pass off as Soviets? ”

Captain Verch smiled: "Comrade Major General, you are very knowledgeable and even know our names. That's right, we are the DreamWorks unit of the German Navy. ”

"You ······ It's too much, it's too shameless. ”

"We are the winners, and the winners are not to blame."

Escorted by Captain Vershi, Major General Kozlov walked out of the woods with his hands held high.

Another DreamWorks soldier escorted Major General Shamshin, while a third, armed with a Bobosha assault gun, escorted the others out of the woods in turn to report to the helicopter hovering over the trees.

Looking at the helicopter overhead, Major General Kozlov's heart was dead.

I escaped the pursuit of the German Army, almost evaded the pursuit of the Luftwaffe, and finally fell into the hands of a group of German Navy who came ashore, and my luck was so bad.

About half an hour later, Chen Dao, who had just arrived at the Mandol Command Headquarters, received the news and excitedly said to Mandolfer: "Look, my strategy has worked. The Army and Waffen-SS blocked the ground, the Air Force 101 Special Air Service Regiment searched the sky, and the Navy disguised themselves as routs, penetrating like the sea and infiltrating them to capture them.

I should have pioneered this three-dimensional plan for capturing prisoners by the navy, land and air force. You see, it's only been one night, and two major generals have been caught. With these two major generals, tonight, the broadcast material of the Deutsche Welle radio station is available. ”

Mandolfil said approvingly: "You can always come up with a lot of new tactics, and this way of capturing prisoners can be patented." ”

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