Pripyat Marsh.

It was formed due to the low terrain of this area...... Every winter, the Soviet Union is covered in snow and ice, and when the weather warms and the snow melts, the water flows naturally towards the low-lying areas, creating this 600-kilometer-long and 200-kilometer-wide swamp.

The fleeing Soviets were going south, which was lucky, because it meant they only had to walk 200 kilometers.

Of course, this is a theoretical distance.

In fact, the Germans were also advancing in the south, so in order not to fall into the German encirclement as they crossed the swamp, they should have crossed the swamp diagonally, and the distance would have been much longer than expected.

But the Soviets did not rush into the swamp, because before that they had to do one thing.

Al Tu was escorted out of the car by the two men and taken to Major Gavrilov.

Not far away, two of the Major's guards found a tree, a tree that had died for some unknown reason, not a single leaf left, except for a few black branches that stretched out into the sky like devil's claws.

The guard took out the rope, threw it between the branches, and tied a loop to one of the ends......

As soon as Atul saw the frame, he knew what they were going to do.

"No, Major!" Altu looked at Major Gavrilov in horror and said with tears in his voice: "You can't do this, Major! I'm willing to be interrogated......"

"Altu!" Major Gavrilov interrupted Artu: "You think I'm going to risk my life to take you out of the swamp?" No, you're not worth it! ”

"Please......"

Atul wanted to say something, but Major Gavrilov bowed his head at the guard, who stuffed Atul's mouth again.

"Comrades!" Standing on a rock, Commissar Fumin said to the soldiers gathered: "Altu betrayed us, he not only surrendered to our enemy, but also provided the enemy with a lot of information that was unfavorable to us, and many of our comrades died at the hands of the Germans because of this, this betrayal of the motherland and the people is shameful, ugly, and absolutely intolerable......

As he listened to these words, Shulka somewhat understood Major Gavrilov's intention to bring Artu here alive.

He was going to execute Altu in front of his soldiers.

On the one hand, this is for the anger of the people, so that they will not unite to launch a mutiny as before...... This is what I am most afraid of during the war, because I can't live long anyway, so there is nothing I dare not do.

On the other hand, it can boost the morale of the troops and warn them not to follow the path of Altu.

Because of the urgency of time, the Germans could chase after them at any time, so the commissar of Fuming also made a long story short, and after loudly announcing Altu's hanging, the guards escorted Altu under the tree.

Altu's desire to survive was strong, and he struggled constantly, but he realized it was all in vain after the guards gave him two punches...... He could only let the guards put the rope around his neck, and with great fear, Altu's feet trembled like leaves blown by the wind, and his helpless eyes looked at this man and at the other, as if he wished someone would stand up and speak for him.

But the result was obviously going to disappoint him, and no one would pity him for his arrogant and domineering ride on the heads of the soldiers.

Commissar Fomin nodded, and Atul knew that this was his last moment, and whimpered in despair, but the two guards on the other end had tightened the rope together, and they tightened the rope over their shoulders like slender men, and then walked in the opposite direction......

The whimpering stopped, and Al was hoisted up like a weight, and in the struggling sound of the ropes, his feet kicked and kicked in the hope of stepping on something, which soon turned into a convulsion, and finally his whole body was loosened and his whole body was paralyzed like a pile of rags.

The soldiers let out a cheer, and the guards tightened the rope to tie the other end to the trunk, and deliberately dragged his feet under Altu's body as they passed under his body, so that it could hang under the trunk and sway in the wind, causing the Soviet soldiers to laugh.

Shulka didn't laugh.

He felt a pang of fear for no apparent reason, and although Altu deserved it, Shulka still had a hard time adjusting to the atmosphere...... They take away a person's life with ease, even with a bit of banter, which is incompatible with Shulka's modern education and respect for life.

But Shulka knew he had to adapt to that, because these were the war years.

"Does anyone speak German?" Gavrilov asked.

Soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and no one stands up.

"Forget it!" Major Gavrilov said: "I think the Germans will definitely bring an interpreter, they will figure it out!" ”

As he spoke, he wrote a few words on a white cloth: "The fate of the traitor!" ”

When you're done, hang it on Altu.

So Shulka knew that Gavrilov meant something else...... Humiliation of the German army.

Shulka could almost imagine seeing Altu hanging from a tree and shaking slightly when the German pursuers arrived here.

Shulka guessed correctly, and Colonel Lucas personally led his troops here, and when he saw this, he, who had always been calm and a gentleman, was also enraged.

"Damn Russians!" Colonel Lucas trembled with indignation: "They actually humiliated me in this way, with the corpse of a Russian traitor...... They thought I would care! They thought I cared! ”

Although Colonel Lucas said he didn't care, his actions revealed the answer...... Colonel Lucas may indeed not care about the life or death of a Russian traitor. The problem is that this Russian traitor was his prisoner and under his protection, but it was intolerable that the enemy had taken him from among the armies and hung himself in front of him.

On the other hand, Shulka and the others distributed the supplies on the car and went into the depths of the swamp.

At first, Shulka thought that the swamp was not as scary as it was portrayed in movies and television.

It looked like a flooded area, land in some places, calf deep in others.

It's the "traps" that are scary...... Some places are empty, but because they are all covered with sewage or sludge, the surface is completely indistinguishable, and you will fall into these "traps" as soon as you step down.

If it's just sewage, it's mud, it will make it impossible for people to break free, and even the more they struggle, the deeper they sink until they swallow up the whole person.

However, if you are advancing in a group, this danger is basically non-existent, and your comrades will soon use ropes to pull you out of the mud "trap".

But soon, Shulka learns that the dangers in the swamp are more than that.