Stepping on the rumbling sound of cannons, Lynn walked down the steps into a basement. The power lines throughout Berlin had long been cut off, and five kerosene lamps had been lit in the basement for lighting, so that the smell of gunpowder, ink, kerosene, and other smells were mixed together, and it smelled completely strange.

Seeing four or five officers wearing steel helmets and camouflage combat uniforms gathered around the square wooden table, Lynn paused and paused, "Excuse me...... Who is in charge here? ”

The two officers straightened up in unison, their faces covered in stains, but they could still tell that they were no more than 40 years old, and the collar badges faintly visible on their necks were also in the style of captains.

"What's the matter?" The officer on the stairs was speaking in a casual and inquiring tone, but when he saw the German soldiers who followed Lynn into the basement escorting a Soviet colonel, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he quickly turned his head and shouted: "General! Checkmate! Behold, these soldiers captured a colonel of the Russian army! ”

Almost everyone in the basement reacted to such a loud voice, but the officer diagonally opposite him was still focused on the battle map and still had words in his mouth. It was only when he noticed the changes in his surroundings that the officer raised his head, his eyes swept over the astonished and curious crowd, and finally landed on the Soviet colonel, and then he said in a loud voice as rough as a donkey: "Oh, this guy ...... It's a Russian colonel! Ha! ”

In the first few days of his arrival on the battlefield, Lynn also experienced temporary deafness, so it was easy to speculate that the German general had an ear problem.

After staring at the Soviet colonel for several seconds, the small-eyed but piercing general finally turned his gaze to Lynn and looked briefly: "Waffen-SS? Oh, sergeant, your men captured this Russian? ”

With his loud voice and poor hearing, Lynn stood up and replied loudly, "Yes, sir! ”

"Felix! Interrogate him and see what information you can get! When the general called out to his subordinates, his voice was not restrained at all, and he could hear the hoarseness caused by too much speech in the roughness, and what made Lynn feel even more uncomfortable was that he directly accepted the prisoners, but he didn't even give himself an approving look, so he buried his head in pondering the battle map on the table again.

"Yes, sir!"

The tall and burly middle-aged officer left the wooden table as soon as he finished speaking, and he walked straight to Lynn without deliberately lowering his voice: "Sergeant, you and your men have done a very good job, and the general has no other meaning than reservations about certain actions of some SS units!" ”

Lynn remembered that some wartime documents contained records of Waffen-SS violence in occupied areas, and she could understand the general's strange attitude. He raised his head slightly, facing the middle-aged officer, and said, "Berlin 11th Night Battle Contingent, SS Sergeant Lynn. Gargo, who was ordered to lead his troops to fight in the 8th Defense Zone, raided the Soviet command and captured a senior Soviet officer, and is now handed over to the 6th Defense District Command! ”

This was a simple handover formality, and the middle-aged officer wearing the green collar badge gave Lynn a military salute: "Lieutenant Colonel Staff Officer of the 281st Infantry Division of the German Wehrmacht, Interim Chief of Staff of the 6th Defense District Command Felix. Kaman,Feng Feng. General Notstiz's order to receive, hold and interrogate Soviet prisoners of war! Other than that...... Sergeant Gargo, there are a few orders we have just received that you may not know yet! ”

Lynn couldn't predict, she just hoped that what she was about to hear wasn't terrible.

"Just this morning, Artillery Admiral Helmut. Weidling was appointed the new commander of the city defense of Berlin, so ...... We have here two orders from the City Defense Command, which are somewhat contradictory. The previous night task force, which ordered the various defense districts to cover the sortie, returned to the downtown area, signed by Lawrenz. Bach. The latter ordered that after the night task force had completed its night raid mission, it would be placed under the command of the corresponding defense zone, signed by Helmut and Weidlin! ”

As a veteran but not yet a hardcore World War II military fan, Lynn has never studied the last battle of the German Third Reich, only knowing that during the Battle of Berlin, the appointment of high-level personnel in Germany was like a marquee, and many of them were chaotic and contradictory, and the last stick was unexpectedly handed over to Admiral Dönitz. As for Colonel Bach's dismissal from the post of commander of the city defense, whether he was wounded and killed, miscommanded, or for some other reason, he was completely confused.

Lieutenant Colonel Kaman's tone did not have an obvious point, and Lynn was not easy to judge, so he simply asked the other party directly: "Sir, I don't know much about the issue of document aging, may I ask...... Which order should my soldiers and I carry out now? ”

The lieutenant colonel was many ranks higher than the sergeant, but instead of putting on a show, Carman replied tactfully: "The previous order is supposedly invalid now, sergeant!" ”

Lynn thought about it, and there was absolutely no benefit to openly disobeying orders at this time, so she made a decision with the mentality of acting at the opportunity: "In that case, sir, the 11th Night Battle Task Force in Berlin will be under the command of the 6th Defense District Command from now on!" Give us a task! ”

At this time, General Notstiz, speaking in his loud voice again, was only discussing with his men how to hold a few major street intersections. It was clear that the Soviet ground forces had crossed the river in large numbers under the cover of air force and artillery, and their armored forces were quite difficult to deal with the German infantry units, which were seriously short of tanks and heavy weapons.

Lieutenant Colonel Carman turned his head to look at the general, but did not go over to ask for instructions on this issue, he thought about it alone for a moment, and said in a soft tone: "In this way, sergeant, you have also fought all night, and I will arrange a place for you to rest, and I will inform you when there is a battle order!" ”

If you get elite night soldiers to the forefront of street battles to be used as cannon fodder, it is a tyrannical thing. Lynn hurriedly responded, "Obey!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Carman immediately summoned one of the guards and told him to take Lynn and his party to the dugout to rest and find some food, fresh water, and ammunition for them.

Before leaving, Lynn thanked him, and Carman only nodded slightly, turned around and followed the soldiers escorting the Soviet colonel to the inner corner, as for what kind of means he would use to make the stubborn enemy speak, Lynn didn't have to worry at all, the Wehrmacht was no better than the secret police or something, there were not so many torturous tricks.

Walking out of the basement where the headquarters of the 6th Sector was located, the sound of artillery and explosions was once again in my ears. Against the backdrop of these thunderous roars, the gunfire was like the rain of spring. Lynn turned his head to look back, only to see the ruins of the building that had been drilled out of the sewer flickering from time to time, and the ruined neighborhood in the distance was rising thick or faint columns of smoke, it seemed that the defenders' anti-tank fire was wrestling with the attacker's tank self-propelled guns, and I hope that the brave Wehrmacht officers and soldiers can repel a few more rounds of Soviet attacks!

Some questions were not good to ask Kaman face to face, and seeing that the guard in charge of leading the way had been at the headquarters before, he handed him a cigarette and asked him about the situation. Judging from the information revealed by this man, the officers were also puzzled by the rapid change of the commander of the city defense. Bach's situation is not mentioned in the order documents from the High Command and the City Defense Command, as if he was only used to take over the position temporarily, and as soon as a suitable candidate appeared, he immediately and neatly abdicated the position of others, without causing the slightest trouble.

But Lynn always had a faint feeling in her heart that things were not as simple as they seemed on the surface.

"Alright, this is it!"

The guards led Lynn and his party to the entrance of the bomb shelter. In Berlin at the end of the war, large and small air defense facilities were scattered throughout the neighborhoods. Some of them were sturdy fortifications built by German engineering units, some were only rebuilt from underground civilian facilities such as subway tunnels, and some were even cellars and basements for citizens. In terms of safety, only the first is truly the ideal concealment, while the last two are stray bullet fragments used to hide from street fighting, and if bombed or shelled, the bunker may simply become a grave.

Walking into the bomb shelter, Lynn observed a little, although this is not a high-level fortification connected to the main defense system in the city, at least it is reinforced with concrete, and the upper part is a pure ruin of a building, there is no risk of collapse caused by the collapse of a high-rise building, and what is more commendable is that it also has a "back door", that is, an escape passage connected to the sewer - this seems to be artificially excavated by the construction troops, so a round steel door similar to a tank hatch is also set up, It can be completely locked from either side, making it easy to block enemies when they appear.

(To be continued)