After a few people left, several guards who had been on guard duty next to them immediately rushed in.

"Sir, is this true? Are you ready to promise the Germans? "Apparently they just heard the whole thing.

"If I answered yes, are you going to do that?" Kononov gestured with his hand to cut off his head.

"Of course not...... You are our commander, we will go wherever you go, besides, even the lieutenant general can cooperate with the Germans, why can't we? ”

"Sir, that bullshit Order 270 wasn't deliberately fabricated to trick us into taking the bait, right?"

Kononov shook his head and said slowly: "It's true! They thought I didn't know, but I had received this telegram in the encirclement. Do you know why I chose to break out with the division commander? ”

"Why?"

"Because after receiving the telegram, he was stupid and trying to carry out this order." Kononov sneered, "He doesn't look at the situation either, the battle is all over the place, can't the soldiers find a way out for themselves?" Do you have to drag them to the funeral together? Still execute orders? I don't know who will be shot at that time...... Of course, it could be that he was pretending to be in front of us, in which case I would have to admit that he was a good actor. ”

"Sir...... How so...... Forehead...... I think you overestimated the division commander, he doesn't have that kind of wisdom. ”

"...... Order 270 of this bastard. Kononov said as he spoke, and he was furious, "Is it our responsibility to lose the battle?" We have done our best in this war, and in total, more than 600,000 troops have been captured in the Kyiv encirclement. Could this be the result of the ineffectiveness of one or both of these forces? The people above don't have even the slightest bit of responsibility? They made a mistake in their own command, but they wanted us to pounce on us one by one and send us to death......"

Several of the guards nodded silently - this was the regimental commander they knew, and if he had foolishly only known how to mechanically carry out orders from above, they would not have continued to obey him on the first day of the camp.

"So you decided to say yes to them?"

"It's hard for me to make up my mind. Really, my mind is very messy now,......" Kononov said intermittently, "you know me, although I have never been very ambitious, but I am also a lieutenant colonel and a regiment commander, I have also been educated by the party for many years, and I have feelings for the party." I have feelings for the Red Army, and this feeling is not something that can be broken at once...... The top is a bit stupid and a little unkind, but it's not right to betray them just because of that. ”

"Sir. You're still in love with that bullshit party and army? The guard obviously knew what Kononov had experienced, "If it weren't for the fact that the former deputy political commissar of the army group had said a few kind words to you, and had been preaching to you that there would be a Soviet-German war, the Ministry of Internal Affairs would have wanted to arrest you and put you in prison - saying that you were a British and American agent." The evidence of the instigation of imperialism to undermine Soviet-German relations is readily available. It's good now. We really fought with the Germans, and now they have something to say -- those who study German technology and theory and advocate Soviet-German cooperation are all German spies, and they are justified in both horizontal and vertical positions, what is there to be nostalgic for in such a place, if I were you, I stood up on the first day of the prisoner of war camp. ”

"But, but, ......" Kononov was clearly undecided.

Another guard advised, "Sir, you also said that you would ask for the opinion of the majority. If everyone agrees, you don't have to dwell. If everybody is against it, then let's act as if it never happened. ”

"You won't object." Kononov suddenly burst out of the sentence.

"Why?"

"Do you hear the conditions of the Germans?" Kononov turned to one of the guards and said, "Petrov, let me ask you, what did you do before you became a soldier?" ”

"What else can I do, isn't it just a farmer who farms?"

"Me too." "Me too." Several others said in unison.

"Do you have land in your house? What about you? What about you? ”

Everyone shook their heads, who can have land, needless to say before the revolution, everyone was poor peasants, and after the revolution there was no land - the land was all on collective farms.

"Well, there's no land...... If the Germans give you a piece of land in the future, will you do it?

"What? Give land? Petrov got excited.

"How much? How long to give? Where is it? ”

"Everything planted on it belongs to me? No, no, no, I mean it's all mine after paying the taxes? ”

Kononov suddenly laughed: "Look ......"

Several people scratched their heads embarrassedly and smiled: "Sir, you are an officer and don't know the hardships of the peasants ......"

"I was born to be an officer? My ancestors weren't farmers? I didn't do farm work as a child? Kononov asked rhetorically, "Let's not talk about that stupid Order No. 270, just one piece of land is enough to drive people crazy, do you know why the Ukrainians are willing to go with the Germans?" Because the Germans supported their independence, they also promised them to dissolve the collective farms, and the land was distributed according to the family or capitation, and those who were willing to join the army to fight Stalin were distributed first. ”

"The Germans don't want their land?"

"What do you want land for? Can't the Germans just charge the Ukrainians to collect taxes? ”

"It is better to collect taxes than to have collective farms."

"No wonder the Ukrainians are always said to be unreliable, it turns out that they have always wanted to divide the land and go it alone."

"Who isn't...... If I were Ukrainian, I would think so too. ”

Kononov raised his hand to stop the gossip of his subordinates: "Whether to go or stay or ask for everyone's opinion, maybe different ideas will come up." ”

The prisoners of war quickly gathered around, there were no secrets to keep in the prisoner of war camp, they also felt very strange about the scene just now, as soon as they heard Kononov say this way out, the prisoner of war camp that was chattering and noisy just now suddenly became as silent as death, finally Kononov's usual prestige is high enough, no one wants to come up and fight with him, everyone is thinking silently, and it took a long time before someone spoke: "Sir, does this mean that our chance to get out has arrived?" ”

"What do you want?"

"We can first pretend to promise the Germans, and when the time comes, we will lay down our arms and surrender to the Red Army - then we can go back to the troops? If we seize the opportunity, we can turn our guns and hit the Germans, and maybe we can make a difference. ”

"You want that?" Kononov shook his head, "It's impossible. ”

"Why?" Many people are puzzled.

"Don't say if you can hide it from the Germans. Just rushing to this Order No. 270, you will not be able to go back, and now you will not even be able to forgive prisoners, let alone those who have joined the Russian Liberation Army to fight against the past and surrender - unless you want to stay in the prison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the rest of your life......"

Several soldiers broke down and wept bitterly: "How can this be...... How can this be? We don't want to be captives, and we don't want to! ”

When a veteran said that he was excited, "Hula" suddenly pulled open his clothes, revealing two shocking wounds on his front stomach: "You see, one wound was left by the Finns the year before last, and this new one was left last year...... My wounds are all in front, I'm not a deserter! I was wounded and captured by the enemy, and I am not sorry for the party, let alone Comrade Stalin......"

Seeing him howling and crying, everyone felt uncomfortable.

"Then ......" many people hesitated, and someone interjected, "forget it, let's refuse the Germans, you can't turn your guns to fight the Red Army brothers, the bastards above are not people, but the bottom is still the same big head as us, I can't do it." ”

"Sir, we will do what you say, we will listen to you."

"Yes, Kononov is a good commander and has a lot of ideas, we listen to him, and we will do what he says."

Kononov didn't say much, only added in a low tone: "The Germans asked us to give them their lives and promised to give us land after the war......"

"How much land do the Germans give us?"

"Of course not, it's Russian land."

"How can Russia have more land?"

"You're stupid......"

"You mean? Those collective farm lands? ”

Kononov only opened the verbal, and the following has already been argued by you and me sentence by sentence.

"You're basically right." Kononov sighed, "I don't know if you have noticed where the non-Russian brothers in the prisoner of war camp have gone?" ”

"Where did you go?" After Kononov's reminder, everyone came back to the idea that there were many other ethnic groups in the prisoner of war camp, and now only Russians remain.

"They returned to China as soldiers and went to ......"

"Returning home? Divide the field? ”

"The Germans supported their independence, and promised them to dissolve their collective farms, to distribute land according to family or capitation, and to distribute it first to those who were willing to join the army to fight Stalin - this is not propaganda, it is a fact." Kononov sighed, "First Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, then Belarus, Ukraine, Cossacks...... In the end, it was our turn. The only difference is that their territory has already been occupied by the Germans, so the division of the land or something is immediate, and our territory is still in the hands of Stalin and the Red Army. ”

"They can do it, why can't we? Sir, we can also make a revolution...... Well...... Revolution, the life of Stalin and the Bolsheviks. ”

"Sir, let's also build a party, how about calling it the Russian Revolutionary Party? You are educated, you are an officer, you can be the chairman of the Party Central Committee, we are your soldiers, and in the future, you don't want you to give us official titles, just give each of us a piece of land......"

"Yes, yes......" The crowd clamored, and their emotions were very high.

"There is someone in the party chairman, it is Lieutenant General Vlasov, and today it is his subordinates who are here."

"Ahh Everyone was dumbfounded, and someone finally remembered the name, "That...... That was the original commander of the army group. ”

"It's done! The lieutenant generals are all done, what are we reluctant to do? Isn't it just a life, Stalin wants our life, and we want his life too! (To be continued.) )