In the vast night, the farmland in the south of the city of Itrica shone with a dazzling fiery red.

Four or five figures flashed around the blazing light of the campfire.

A few seconds later, two more bonfires were lit, forming a huge equilateral triangle in the vast farmland, which stood out against the dark night.

In the southern part of Idrica City, "Chen Dao" stood on the third floor of a three-story residential building with three adjutants, looking at the bright three-point fire in the distance, and everyone's faces were very complicated.

Major Bach said in a deep voice: "After tonight's mission is completed, tomorrow at the latest, the Stalinist line will be history, and the road to our rear will be opened." ”

Chen Dao asked, "You mean, we will return to China soon?" ”

Major Lorenz said: "That's what he said, we can't stay on the front line forever and not go back. ”

Captain Nobel continued: "I envy our good companion, Captain Nietzsche, and how I wish I could lie in the hospital in his place and suffer from his wounds. ”

Major Bach mercilessly dismantled the mask of Captain Nobel.

"You think you can escape that Excellency's sanctions by lying in the hospital?"

Captain Nobel swallowed with difficulty, and said with a wry smile: "Let's not be so pessimistic, we can be regarded as making great contributions to this battle, and Your Excellency should not punish us heroes." ”

Major Lorenz said: "In the style of that Excellency, we will not lose a single cent of the rewards and medals that should be given to us, but after the reward, those who should be sent to the concentration camp will be sent to the concentration camp, and those who should be kicked to the front will be kicked to the front, in short, we will not be able to escape the wrath of that Excellency in any case." ”

"Chen Dao" asked blankly: "Will any of us be sent to the concentration camp?" That Excellency wouldn't be so cruel, would he? ”

"It won't be all of us, only the most serious crimes will be sent to concentration camps," said Major Lorenz. ”

The most serious ・・・・・・ "Chen Dao" and Captain Nobel squinted their eyes. He looked at Major Bach who was standing beside him.

Major Bach didn't seem to notice the strange gaze of the two, and said lightly: "The plane is coming." ”

Major Lorenz stopped talking and pricked up his ears to listen to the movement outside the window.

The humming of the night grew louder and louder, and after a minute or so, Major Bach and the others noticed that the window frames were vibrating with it.

A large formation of JU-52 transport aircraft, guided by radio, flew to Idritsia. It was easy to spot the fire on the ground, and quickly turned the nose of the plane and flew in the direction of the firelight.

When it was about to reach the sky above the fire, the hatch of the JU-52 transport plane opened wide, and one after another vigorous figures jumped out of it.

The figure left the group and landed in mid-air, white umbrella flowers blooming in the night behind it.

A battalion of paratroopers floated in the sky, and parachutes floated in the sky like dantong seeds.

After the parachute landed, hordes of paratroopers emerged from the cornfields, potato and wheat fields. The paratroopers galloped in the direction of the campfire and then headed for the city of Idritsa, led by their guides.

After entering the city, the paratroopers climbed into the trucks parked on Route 563, loaded them, and the convoy of trucks drove towards the western Stalinist lines.

In one night, the transport group appeared in the city of Itrica seven times, sending all the remaining two regiments and division headquarters of the 7th Parachute Division to the front line to supplement the insufficient number of infantry of the 10th Panzer Division.

The roar of engines of transport fleets and truck fleets rang out all night. It doesn't disappear until dawn.

West of the city of Shebezh, on the Stalinist Line. After a night of repairs, the officers and soldiers of the Waffen-SS police division crawled out of their hideouts.

After a bloody battle, they had already cleared all the fortifications of the defensive line and trampled the defensive line named after Stalin under their feet.

They once tried to capture the city of Shebezh behind the defensive line in one fell swoop, but they were met with desperate resistance from the Soviet troops and reinforcements in the city.

While the commanders of the police divisions and the officers of the front-line units were busy organizing the final blow to the city of Shebezh, in the forests and on the roads in the east of the city. The paratroopers of the 10th Panzer Division and the 7th Parachute Division had already taken the lead in the attack, informing the defenders of the city of Shebezh with a fierce attack that their retreat had been cut off.

In the panic of the defenders in the city of Sheberi, a deafening roar was heard again in the sky west of the city.

Under the escort of a group of fighters led by Garland himself. The bomber group of the 1st Air Division of the Naval Air Corps once again came to the Eastern Front to participate in the "warmth" of the defenders of the city of Shebezh.

"Let's go, don't let them run."

Garland shouted excitedly, and the fighter group broke away from the group and rushed towards the Soviet fighters entrenched over the battlefield.

A group of 40 HE-111 and JU-88 bombers flew over the city of Shebezh, the hatch in the belly of the plane was wide open, and dense aerial bombs instantly appeared over the city.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the city disappeared to the ground.

Looking down from the sky, the bomber pilots saw that the smoke and dust over the city of Shebezh covered the sky and completely flooded the entire city.

When the bomber group dropped the bomb, Garland and the wingman worked closely together, and "two heads" were recorded.

While searching for the next point of merit, Garand witnessed the spectacular sight of the city of Sheberi ravaged by aerial bombs on the ground.

Garland shouted over the radio: "The whip has been drawn, it's time to send candy, I hope the brothers in the army don't resent us for stealing the battle merits." ”

The first group of bombers had just made a U-turn in the sky, and the second group of bombers appeared in the sight of the soldiers of the police division.

It was a relatively small fleet of about thirty aircraft.

Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers of the police division, the group flew over the city of Sheberi and sprinkled large snowflakes in the sky.

Snowflakes fell to the ground and dotted the ruins of the castle.

The Soviet infantry quickly rushed out from between the ruins, who picked up leaflets on the ground and read them with a frown.

To the west of the city of Sheberi, the soldiers of the police division are doing the same thing.

Picking up some of the leaflets that had floated outside the city, the soldiers of the police division were also curious to ask the soldiers of their comrades who knew Russian to translate the contents.

The leaflets were uploaded and soon delivered to the commander of the police division, Alfred Lunenberg

After reading the translated leaflet in his hand, Lunenberg immediately grasped two core contents of the leaflet.

The first core content is: The leaflet indicated that if the defenders of the city did not surrender, German naval aviation would carry out an air raid on the city of Shebezh once an hour until the defenders of the city decided to surrender.

The second centerpiece is the lower right corner of the leaflet, signed by Heinz von Rosen, commander of the German Naval Air Force, and Adolf Garland, commander of the 1st Air Division of the Naval Air Force.

I thought it was the Air Force who threw the leaflets. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be naval aviation, and Vice Admiral Uneenberg could not be calmer anymore.

If the Soviets in the city could not resist the threat on the leaflets and raised the white flag and surrendered, they would definitely surrender to the friendly forces east of the city.

The reason is simple, the Polish governor-general, General Rosen, and his governor's guard were in the city of Pustoszka, east of the city of Sheberzh, and it is likely that they had arrived in the east of the city at this time, and were waiting for the surrender of the Soviet troops in the city.

Stimulated by the "Iron Cross", I didn't expect that even the navy would come ashore to snatch the war achievements.

Lunenberg instinctively wanted to report his judgment to the headquarters of the 16th Army, but after seeing the two names in the lower right corner. Immediately changed his mind.

Although he did not have much contact with His Excellency the Polish Governor-General, from the exchanges between his colleagues, Urnenberg learned that His Excellency the Polish Governor-General was a master negotiator who could (skillfully) speak (understand) and be good at (sophistry) (debate), not only himself, but even his immediate boss, the commander of the 16th Army, would probably be disgraced if he reasoned.

Seeing the whole division up and down. Hard work, life and death. The imminent exploits of the battle were taken away from him, and Lunenberg felt that he had to do something.

While thinking and waiting, Lunenberg did not wait for the surrender of the Soviet army, but waited for the second round of bombing by the bomber group.

Looking at the city in the distance, which was in flames, Lunenberg was extremely excited, and the city of Shebezh was bombed by a second round. It shows that the Soviet troops in the city have not yet decided to surrender, and they still have a chance.

As soon as the dust cleared over the city of Shebezh, a VW82 barrel truck rushed out of the Stalinist line and drove along the road to the city of Shebezh.

Looking at the white flag waving in the wind on the front of the car, Lunenberg prayed secretly. I hope that my messenger will be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

"Let the police artillery regiment prepare for the shelling, wait for my order." Lunenberg said.

Lunenberg's response was simple and brutal.

His messenger sent a message to the commander of the Soviet troops in the city of Shebezh that if the Soviet troops in the city did not surrender, the artillery of the police division would carry out a non-stop artillery bombardment of the city in the interval between every two air raids until the Soviet troops in the city surrendered.

If the Soviets in the city refused to surrender, the artillery shells of the police division artillery regiment and the aerial bombs falling from the sky would completely wipe the city off the map.

During the long wait, Lieutenant General Lunenberg did not have nothing to do.

On the road leading to the rear, convoys of trucks uninterruptedly transported truckloads of artillery shells from the rear to the positions of the artillery regiments of the police division.

After receiving the report from Uenberg, the command of the 16th Army paid close attention to the surrender of the city of Shebezh.

We must not let the meritorious deeds in hand run away, this is the consensus of the command of the group army.

In order to cooperate with the forced landing operation of Urnenberg, the command of the army group transferred artillery shells from the infantry division near the police division and supported it to the police division.

There is only one purpose for this, the exploits that the naval aviation wants to snatch away with aerial bombs, and the army can snatch them back with artillery shells.

Half an hour passed, and without waiting for a reply from the Soviet troops in the city, Lunenberg issued an order to the artillery regiment to fire three rapid shots at the city of Shebezh to exert psychological pressure on the defenders in the city.

After the shelling, another ten minutes passed, and Urnenberg was wondering if the messenger he had sent had been killed.

His adjutant ran into the division headquarters and excitedly shouted to him: "The messenger has returned, and with him the Russians have returned." ”

Upon meeting the messenger sent out, Lunenberg learned that the reason why it had taken so long to get a reply was because the commander of the defenders in the city insisted on sending a farewell telegram to his superiors before surrendering, so he had delayed the time.

"Immediately notify the command of the army group and ask them to contact naval aviation and ask the bombers to stop bombing."

After Uneng Berg finished speaking, he tugged at the hem of his military uniform, straightened his collar, and then said to the Russian envoy: "You lead the way, and I will go to meet your commander." ”

On the Stalinist line, on the side of the road leading to the city of Shebezh, after less than fifteen minutes of waiting, Lieutenant General Uneberg waited for two Gass M-1 sedans.

An officer with a colonel's epaulette jumped from the M-1 sedan headed by Gas, who was the highest-ranking officer in the Soviet army.

After saluting and greeting each other, Lieutenant General Unenberg learned that the other party was the commander of the 107th Division of the 16th Army under the 11th Army of the Soviet Army, Colonel Eugene.

"I really didn't expect that the highest officer in charge of the defense of Shebezh and this section of Stalin's line would be just a colonel." Lieutenant General Lunenberg voiced his doubts.

"The Supreme Commander turned out to be my superior, Major General Lopatin, the commander of the Sixteenth Army, but he was ambushed by your army when he led the army headquarters to retreat to the rear, and now his whereabouts are unknown, and I temporarily replace him in commanding the troops." Colonel Eugene said.

Colonel Unenberg raised the corner of his eye, and after a little thought, he remembered the familiar name of "Major General Lopatin".

"Your superior is now a guest at the headquarters of my subordinate, Colonel Dietrich, the head of the First Police Regiment, and you will soon be able to meet him."

After a brief pleasantries, the surrender ceremony officially began.

The Soviets in the city of Shebezh left the city in formation, marched to the western outskirts of the city, laid down their arms under the watchful eye of the soldiers of the police division, and then marched to the rear of the battle line, where the prisoner of war camp would be their best destination.

The surrender ceremony lasted until late at night, and after counting, more than 42,000 officers and soldiers and wounded were captured in the remnants of the Soviet 16th Infantry Corps, the remnants of the 21st Mechanized Corps, and the remnants of the garrison in the fortified area.

On the long list of prisoners of officers, the commander of the 21st Mechanized Corps, Major General Lyuschenko, and the commander of the 16th Infantry Corps, Major General Lopatin, tied for first place.

At dawn the next day, on Highway 563, which connects the cities of Shebezh and Idricsa, trucks, armored vehicles, and then an endless line of infantry marched towards the east.

Standing beside Highway 563 in the city of Idricsa, "Chen Dao" took three adjutants and shook hands with Admiral Scheer, who had been transferred here.

Jumping into the armored car, four people sat in the compartment, their bodies swaying with the bumps of the hull, and for a whole hour, no one spoke.

In the end, it was Major Bach who spoke first.

"Before noon, we arrived at a field airfield, then we flew to the port of Danzig, and then it was ・・・・・・ in short, we had to be mentally prepared." (To be continued.) )