"For victory!" The soldiers cheered with their kettles held high, then poured spicy vodka down their throats.

At this time, a water bottle with vodka was already standard for soldiers, and they generally had two water bottles, one for water to take to the battlefield, and the other to hold alcohol to leave at the base.

Of course, there are also some good wines among them, and they can't help but replace their kettles filled with wine, Yakop once did this, but was left at the base by Qin Chuan and not allowed to go to the battlefield.

This punishment would not have worked if it had been done in other units...... Not being able to go to war is a good thing for them, and in fact a good thing for any unit, including the First Steps.

The problem is this: the First Infantry Corps still has honor, and it is considered a shame here that it cannot go to the battlefield, and if it comes so many times and it will be kicked out of this team, it will not be what these German soldiers with a deep honor plot want.

That's why there is such a saying: "An army must have a sense of honor."

This sense of honor is both general and personal. Just imagine, if a soldier does not have a sense of honor, the officer will not be able to cure him at all...... What punishment could be compared to life other than honor?

Sometimes Qin Chuan felt that these German soldiers were stupid, because Qin Chuan thought that this so-called honor was very empty, had no substantive meaning, and could be said to be nothing compared to life, but they would rather risk their lives to fight for it.

So it's really silly, but it's cutely silly.

"Major!" Werner said: "Next time, should we take Stalin here and end this war?" ”

The soldiers couldn't help but laugh.

This is of course a joke, Stalin is not only far away from Moscow within helicopter range, Stalin's Kremlin is not something that helicopters can enter and exit at will, and it is not even easy to find the Kremlin, although it covers an area of 28 hectares...... In order to prevent the Luftwaffe from bombing the Kremlin, the Soviets painted all the buildings of the Kremlin in camouflage, covered the buildings with cloth, and the glittering gold on the top of the church was also covered with paint.

However, the German soldiers had enough capital to make this joke, because Qin Chuan knew that what they had done was enough to shock the Kremlin, which was thousands of miles away.

Just as the soldiers were celebrating, the signal soldier next door reported to Qin Chuan: "Major, the colonel asked you to go!" ”

The colonel here refers to Alexander, and Qin Chuan vaguely feels that this will not be a good thing.

Sure enough, when Qin Chuan rushed to the interrogation office set up in the base, he saw Alexander shaking his head and saying, "Major, Stepoff committed suicide!" ”

The German soldiers were well prepared, but in order for Stepkov to speak, he had to pull out the strip of cloth that was in his mouth, and then Stepkov bit off his tongue...... If a man has the courage to bite off his tongue, there is nothing that will allow him to tell valuable information.

"What about the other major general?" Qin Chuan asked.

"He is the chief of staff of the 97th Infantry Division, his name is Seninovich!" Alexander replied: "Although he is willing to cooperate with ......"

As he spoke, Alexander gave way and raised his head towards a lighted room on the left.

Qin Chuan leaned over and saw that Seninovich was already drinking tea at the table and "talking happily" with the German officer who interrogated him.

There is a saying that "a dog that barks doesn't bite", and this Seninovich seemed to be fierce and scolding when he was arrested, but as soon as he entered the interrogation room, he was immediately coaxed.

"He doesn't know anything about the offensive plan!" Alexander spread his hands: "We think that the Soviets knew the plan of attack at least at the division level, we caught the right people, and the operation was successful, but ......"

Alexander shook his head helplessly.

So the plan came to a dead end...... As Alexander said, everything was done right, but it turned out to be in vain.

"Are you sure?" Qin Chuan asked unwillingly.

"Sure what?"

"Are you sure this Seninovich doesn't know the offensive plan?"

"Yes, we're sure!" Alexander replied: "Because there is no way back, you know...... Document 227, he only needs to confess a little useful information, and even only needs to be a prisoner, then he is a 'traitor to the motherland'. There is no need for him to hide anything from us! ”

Alexander was right, and this is also the reason why captured Soviet officers and even Soviet soldiers usually behave in two extremes: either commit suicide or cooperate with the Germans with all their might.

The reason is simple, the moment they become captives, they know that they have no way back. This is one of the reasons why the Germans were able to turn against some of them and safely put them back to gather intelligence.

"Looks like we're going to have to think of something else!" Alexander said.

Qin Chuan knew what Alexander meant, the road of capturing prisoners and finding evidence seemed to be impassable, the Soviet army would inevitably have more preparations after this incident, and the commandos had no time to prepare for another operation.

Because it was already November at this time, the river had begun to freeze, and the Soviet army could launch a counteroffensive at any time.

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan said to Alexander: "No, he knows the plan!" ”

"What?" Alexander looked at Qin Chuan suspiciously.

Qin Chuan didn't say anything, but took Alexander into another room, then took out a map and spread it on the table, observed it for a while, then pointed to the map and said: "The Soviets will attack from two directions at the same time, that is, the Don River and the Volga River, and the breakthrough point is in the defense area of the Romanian 3rd Army and the 4th Army respectively......"

"How do you know that?" Alexander asked.

"I don't know!" Qin Chuan replied: "It was Seninovich who confessed!" ”

Alexander was stunned when he heard this, and then, as if he understood something, looked in the direction of Seninovich and turned back, then nodded slightly.

"That's right!" Alexander said: "This guy said at first that he didn't know anything, but when we pressed him, he finally confessed this offensive plan. ”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan pointed to the map and continued: "The newly formed Southwest Front of the Soviet Union is responsible for attacking the defense area of the Romanian 3rd Army, and the defense area of the Romanian 4th Army is the Stalingrad Front of the Soviet Union, with a total of about 1 million troops for the attack. ”

Hearing this, Alexander couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"You've scared me, Major!" Alexander lowered his voice and said, "What you say is as if it's true!" ”