And when the chief of the secret service returned, Andrei knew that it was all over, and Andrei said solemnly: "Comrade, you have to know the key to the problem, now that the enemy is present, the people of the guard battalion cannot be sacrificed in vain, and the next thing to deal with other commanders and fighters, especially the soldiers of the two companies, I think they are exactly the people who should be alive in the 378th Infantry Division!" Andrei just felt that the commanders and fighters of these two companies should be the most alive, because they were bloody, and they did fight against the investigators, which was equivalent to a mutiny to some extent, but this did not reflect a kind of comradeship, against the investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it can be said that once the two sides merged, it was a lose-lose ending, but these soldiers still came, although they did not do something wrong and should be punished, because they were willing to sacrifice for their comrades, so people deserve respect and deserve to live. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The battlefield is different from other places, the battlefield is a place of life or death, comrades are the arms you rely on, these soldiers are indeed much stronger than other wine bags and rice bags, at least they are still bloody, and after the hygienist tells them, they will put down their weapons in shame, so they don't deserve to die, at least they shouldn't die under the guns of their own people.

And the chief of the special service section also said: "Comrade Andrei, you are right, I have also worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for so long, and there has never been a situation in my memory where ordinary commanders and fighters dared to confront us. Although we also have weapons in our hands, when facing the muzzle of the gun, many comrades are still afraid, but these soldiers are indeed very brave, but we can't just let them go, after all, such a big thing must have to be dead and alive! ”

Andrei understood the meaning of the words of the head of the secret service, it was not enough to shoot more than 100 people, such a big thing alarmed Beria, don't forget what the order said, some people had to be sent to the punishment camp.

Historically, this was in 1943, and on August 29, Stalin issued a new revised Order No. 227, allowing men aged 17-45 and women aged 18-30 who had been exiled to concentration camps in Kazakhstan and Siberia in Central Asia after 1937 to join the army "to clear their lives against the motherland," with the exception of criminals convicted of robbery and homicide. At the end of September, the order extended the release to "troubled soldiers" who had been imprisoned after the start of the war on June 22, 1941, for "deserting from battle, shaking the morale of the military, and delaying the warplanes." According to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union in 1956, a total of more than 1.3 million labor prisoners and "problem soldiers" were sent to the front, they had to go through the NKVD review in advance, usually ordinary prisoners went to ordinary troops, and serious offenders went to punishment camps before they were formed, but because Andrei and Krochkov put forward this idea, now the punishment camps have appeared in advance, but the exiles have not been integrated into the army for the time being because the number of troops is not so short, and now it is mainly aimed at deserters and some soldiers who violate discipline!

But don't think that such a unit has no combat effectiveness, in fact, the officers and soldiers of these punishment battalions also paid their own sacrifices for the victory of the war!

At the beginning of June 1944, the 1st Belorussian Front of the Soviet Union secretly dispatched hundreds of sabotage teams to carry out the "Bagration" offensive to encircle and annihilate the German Army Group "Center", focusing on German military stations, railway junctions and warehouses. A sabotage team code-named "Rabbits" consisted entirely of correctional soldiers, some of whom had been thieves and some of whom had been theater actors, and these experiences gave the "Rabbits" a huge deal of room to operate, stealing German vehicles, clothing and documents in Minsk, and then disguised themselves to destroy German vegetable and fruit supply bases, oil refineries and ammunition depots. They also cut off the military telephone lines between the German Army Group "Center" and Berlin, creating good conditions for the "Bagration" offensive.

In the Battle of Oder-Vistula in early 1945, the 123rd Correctional Battalion served as the vanguard of the forced crossing of the Vistula River, opening a landing bridgehead for subsequent troops. Without any artillery cover, the attack of the 123rd Punishment Battalion began in the middle of the night on January 2, and as soon as they set off, they were suppressed by the unusually heavy fire of the Germans, and the soldiers had to stick to the rubber boat and paddle sideways, listening to the bullets fired from the opposite shore whizzing over their heads, and from time to time mortar shells hit the ferry boat full of soldiers, and the fragments of the human body and the rubber boat were blown into the sky.

The 123rd Correctional Battalion had lost more than half of its rubber boats by the time it reached the center of the river, and the river was full of floating corpses, but the soldiers still stubbornly climbed the riverbank, but they were mercilessly strafed by German machine guns, and some desperately hid under the reedy floodplains or embankments, desperately continuing their last few minutes of life. After repeated battles, by noon the next day, the 123rd Correctional Battalion, which had suffered heavy losses, finally occupied the bridgehead with the support of a large force, and a captured German soldier said with trepidation: "You crossed the Vistula with corpses." After this battle, only 47 of the 670 officers and men of the 123rd Correctional Battalion survived, all of whom were awarded combat medals, and one company commander, Buniyatov, was awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union".

In order to atone for their crimes, some high-tech soldiers who were punished signed up for a special air punishment battalion, which was commanded by the "Hero of the Soviet Union" Ivan Fedorov. Since the beginning of the month, the battalion has shot down almost a hundred enemy aircraft in just 3 months! In one battle, the battalion pilot Seshenkalenko piloted the Yak-9 fighter was besieged by a number of German BF109 fighters, he relied on the onboard 37 mm caliber cannon to bombard the approaching German aircraft, after a scuffle, Seshenkalenko shot down 3 enemy planes, and his own plane was also seriously damaged, had to jump from a height of nearly 7,000 meters. The parachute did not open until it was only 500 meters above the ground, but Seshin Kalenko did not go to see the Grim Reaper, and he fell into the snow of the canyon, which was more than 1 meter thick. Later, Sheshin Kalenko regained consciousness and, after several months of recuperation, returned to the front.

Thinking of these, Andrei felt that he should let them go to the punishment camp, so after discussing with the chief of the special service, he decided to send a group of commanders and fighters to the punishment camp, and after discussing for a long time, Andrei used the radio to report the handling opinions to his superiors, and at this time it was already dawn, when there was a sudden knock on the door outside, and Andrei quickly asked: "What's the matter?" The voice came from Ulanova, "Comrade Andrei, Comrade Chief of the Special Service Section, the cooking squad has made breakfast for you, please go to the restaurant to eat!" “

"Okay, let's go together!" Saying that, Andrei beckoned the chief of the secret service to go with him, and the breakfast was as rich as ever, and he was eating, when suddenly the correspondent came and reported: "Telegram from the superiors." ”

Andrei put down his fork and said, "Take it." ”