In the height of summer, Siberia is like a large pasture with lush vegetation everywhere in sight. The goshawk soared carefree in the blue sky, the horses galloped through the vibrant wilderness, the clear water of the meandering river glowed like jewels, and it passed through a bend in the field, and near the flat land of the river beach stood a sizable camp, adjacent to a long double-track railway, walled with tall wooden piles and barbed wire, and towering watchtowers with machine guns erected in all four directions. At sunset, Soviet soldiers with guns on their backs were on guard around the camp, facing the direction of the large lumberyard to the east, a long queue came on foot in the afterglow of the setting sun, some heavily armed soldiers occupied the hills on both sides, and looked indifferently at the short-sleeved vests in the ranks, all of them shaved their heads, and most of the people who survived the harsh winter were young people, with strong arms and strong torsos, and they carried axes and saws. These lethal tools keep the detainees on high alert most of the time.

Woohoo・・・・・・

A long whistle sounded on the railroad line, and many people in the walking line looked curiously, but no one stopped without permission. In a short time, a train with a red flag and a five-star logo on the front of the train slowly stopped on the platform next to the camp, and unlike the previous trains that came to load timber and ore, this one was full of people, those dejected faces and lost eyes seemed familiar. Seeing the identities of the men in the carriage, the foot procession and many of the people in the camp suddenly became excited, whistling, laughing and taunting, and expressing their gloating emotions at gunpoint. When the foot party arrived at the camp, the poor creatures who had just been driven out of the carriages were still lining up by the railroad to count their counts, and they seemed to have a lot of luggage with them, while the camp personnel gathered to the familiar whistle. An officer wearing a Soviet-style military cap and a red collar badge walked up to a simple wooden platform, spoke into a loudspeaker, and said in not very standard German:

"German prisoners of war, I still have to call you that, but then those of you who have voluntarily changed their status will become my German comrades. According to Order No. 129 of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the imperialists led by the United States and Britain took the initiative to provoke war, which was a declaration of war against peace-loving and freedom-respecting people all over the world. In the past year or so, the foreign prisoners of war who were undergoing re-education through labor in the Soviet Union have behaved well and changed their minds considerably, so we have decided to admit people of the right ideology to join our international combat column, to give you a chance to fight to make up for the mistakes of previous wars, to help you return to your homeland, and to free your compatriots from the occupation of the United States and Britain. Now... Please raise your right arm if you swear to break with everything in the past and volunteer to join the International Combat Column! ”

In the open space in front of this wooden platform, there were as many as seven or eight thousand black presses, and most of them were captured officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht. For the first two or three seconds, they were still comprehending the words of the Soviet officer on the stage, and then the sound of the people raising their right hands in unison and the sound of their sleeves rubbing against each other became the wind. The Soviet officer on the stage glanced at the crowd a few times and said in a loud voice with great satisfaction: "Welcome, German comrades!" ”

Since there is a consensus and the detainees and the detainees have been together for a long time, things have become simpler. With the exception of a few hundred who did not raise their hands, the rest were allowed to return to the barracks to take their personal belongings and then walk out of the camp in a labor formation to the railway platform, passing by those who had been escorted into the camp on the way.

In the past, they were opponents who hated each other on the battlefield and were eager to kill each other, but at this time, they did not have the heart of smiling and hating, and the German officers and soldiers who walked out of the camp with their heads held high became victors, while the American and British officers and men, who were still arrogant not long ago, could only accept the punishment of fate with their heads down. It was impossible for one train to hold the thousands of people who had left the camp, and the Soviet officer gave orders over the platform radio: Labor Team 1 to Labor Team 6 went first, and the rest waited here for the next train.

Although there was still a lot of filth left in the train carriages that had not had time to be removed, the people who felt reborn climbed into the carriages with great joy and soon filled every freight car, leaving the rest waiting for the next train to arrive next to the railway, but they were neither impatient nor angry, but waited quietly with a little apprehension. The camp behind them was more than just 14 months of time, how many of their comrades lost their lives to escape, how many of them could not survive hunger, cold, disease and intense labor, the Soviet Union's announced death rate for prisoners of war was a merciful number, but the real mortality rate may never be calculated. …,

Woohoo・・・・・・

With the sound of a long whistle, the train started slowly, and it would go along the tracks to the west, which was the direction of Europe, and it was also the direction of the motherland, and the people in the carriages who had worn out their military uniforms and turned white rejoiced, and among the crowd that remained by the tracks for the time being, a tall and thin middle-aged man stood out from the rest. He raised his chin slightly, his gaze was so calm, there was no trace of restlessness in it, his waist was straight, and he stood with his legs together, like an officer calmly waiting for orders from his superiors. The train faded away, and finally disappeared from sight completely, and the atmosphere of euphoria cooled down, and many people spontaneously gathered around the tall and thin man, but not too close, but left the right space.

"General!" Someone respectfully asked, "Do the Soviets want us to die for them?" "There is simply not enough time to think about it in the blink of an eye, and after thinking about it, survival ** is the only motivation for most people to raise their right hand. The tall and thin man turned his head to look at the person who asked the question, he was his subordinate during the war, he did not run away when the war ended, and he still respected himself in the prisoner of war labor camp. Now, the general looked at his subordinates with approval and said softly: "We have all sworn allegiance to the same man, but he is dead, and it is enough for us to remember that we are a German." ”

A simple sentence is full of helplessness about fate, but their choice today does not mean blind obedience tomorrow, and everyone's heart has rekindled their vision for the future, they are different, but they point to the same direction in the dark......

Four hours later, with the stars twinkling overhead, the cool breeze of the summer night feeling very comfortable, and finally a one-eyed monster appeared on the horizon in the distance, and it snorted and drove by. Just as the people waiting in place looked ahead, the radio horn on the platform suddenly sounded: "Carl. General Gottman, Morinck. General Schneider, Rudolph. General Dietrich, please come to the platform radio room! ”

At first in Russian, then in German, the waiters at the railroad tracks turned their curious eyes to the platform, and three middle-aged men who had already taken off their collar badges, epaulettes, service insignia, and medals of honor walked onto the platform one by one, and one of them quietly wore an iron cross with an extremely simple style on his chest - any medal with a swastika was not allowed in the prisoner of war camp, and this one was obviously obtained by the owner before the Nazis came to power, The medal was clean and flawless in order to be allowed to be retained by the Soviet detainees. The first to arrive waited at the door of the radio room for a moment, and did not walk in with them until the other companions arrived. The people outside looked at the radio room curiously and apprehensively, lest something unexpected might happen at this time, and some noticed that the train coming from a distance was much longer than the previous one, perhaps enough to carry the remaining half of the people away.

After waiting for about ten minutes, seeing that the train was about to stop, a calm and deep voice sounded from the iron horn, saying in standard and fluent German: "I'm Carl. Gottman, who had just been appointed commander of the 19th Infantry Regiment of the Soviet International Combat Column, was temporarily assigned to the seventh, eighth, and ninth divisions of the Labor Regiment. ”

The train did not stop completely, but the direction of the front of the train was obvious, and almost a third of the people along the tracks immediately began to move forward, bustling but without the slightest confusion.

Immediately afterwards, a hoarse and somewhat trembling voice changed from the iron horn, and the speaker forced the excitement in his heart and said, "I am Morink. Schneider, commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment, and the 10th, 11th, and 12th teams of labor were temporarily under my command, and we boarded the 10th to 18th carriages. ”

Although there was no repetition of what his colleagues had said earlier, the officers kept order and the soldiers obeyed orders, but the people included in the group spontaneously obeyed the rules, and the other third of them were in an orderly manner. Looking at this scene, many of the Soviet soldiers on the platform with guns on guard showed complicated eyes, they knew that these former opponents came from hundreds of teams with different numbers, and they had not had even the simplest joint training with each other, neither before nor after being captured, and the quality they showed at this time was surprising and admirable. It is good to fight side by side with such an army, but geopolitics and national character doom Russia and Germany to become true brothers, and perhaps one day those present will be again on opposite sides of the battlefield, and such an army will become a headache for the enemy. …,

"I'm Rudolph. Dietridge. The third, rather old voice, sounded, but he was not so old, he had no extra emotion, but simply announced the order for the formation of the new troops, and the last four labor heaps were grouped into the 21st Infantry Regiment, a third larger than the first two, and the allocated carriages were also two more cars. In the process of boarding, people also noticed that the train with up to 30 cars has two locomotives, and the power does not have to be worried, and the constraints of the rails will also allow them to pull the cars together to run to the destination, does this indicate that two groups of people from different countries, different nationalities and even different faiths can work together on the battlefield for a common purpose of survival?

This may become a question that many German generals who have returned to their mission have been pondering this night.

A few days later, Tromsø, Norway.

"Based on the establishment of the Soviet army, 40 infantry regiments are 70,000 or 80,000 people, which is enough to form a corps!" With the new information transferred from the base camp, Lynn's first reaction was to blurt out.

"The Soviets were not short of weapons to equip these troops, and they had collected a large amount of guns and ammunition after the end of the war alone, and most of them were brought back to China along with machine tools, could they have anticipated the situation today?" Heinrich Brown was transferred from Senior Staff Officer and Inspector of the Imperial Headquarters to Commander of the "Tromsø Security Battalion". Lieutenant Colonel Trencole immediately responded to Lynn's words.

Ottel, who is still the commander of the Northern Task Force. Colonel Stephenfen was not only Lynn's salon drinking friend, but the two also had many topics in common in military affairs, and the wife became friends, and they were good collaborators in both public and private affairs.

He pulled his voice and said: "Don't think that the Russians will have any good intentions, I think they are just letting our compatriots go to the battlefield as cannon fodder!" Officer Gargo, we suggest that the intelligence department hurry up and contact the German ** officers in those infantry regiments! Let them know of our existence so that they can give the Soviets a hard blow when they look for acres in the future! ”

The reason is obvious, and Lynn is ready to make a proposal to the base camp without being reminded by Steplenfen - and it is estimated that both the Führer and Rommel thought so when they received the information. Modern warfare is a struggle for national strength, and national strength can be divided into economy, industry, science and technology, personnel, and so on, in which professional combatants cannot be replaced by any factor. By the standards of World War II, it only takes a few weeks of training to train a soldier, but training a qualified soldier requires not only a long period of training, but also the help of veterans and the cultivation of actual combat, and the training of a qualified non-commissioned officer or even a qualified officer is a more complex and lengthy process, not to mention the training of excellent non-commissioned officers, excellent officers, and generals. By the time Germany surrendered in 1945, the country's economy had collapsed, most of its industrial facilities had been destroyed by Allied air raids, and the rest had been dismantled and taken away by the Soviets. Now this huge wealth is divided into two, more than half of them are trapped in the Soviet prisoner of war camps, and the other is interned in the prisons and labor camps of the Western Allied forces, due to the conditions of detention and the mentality of the prisoners, the living conditions of these prisoners are quite bad, but fortunately, more than a year has passed, and the overall mortality rate has not reached such an alarming level, and the mental will of the officers and soldiers has not yet reached the point of complete destruction. Although the revival of the empire relies on cutting-edge technologies such as disc aircraft and nuclear weapons as a strategic deterrent, a sufficiently strong army is still the absolute guarantee for its re-emergence!

Trenkol followed up with an analysis: "There are all professional officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers, and these infantry regiments only need a short time to form combat effectiveness, and I guess that the Soviets' plan is far more than these 40 infantry regiments, and once these troops go to the front, the Soviet counteroffensive should be launched, and I don't know how many of our compatriots will die under the air raids and artillery fire of the Allies!" ”

Lynn paced back and forth in the room, speculating: "The rearmament of prisoners of war who had been held for more than a year and the reorganization of them into regimental units -- the Soviets took a great risk -- if these infantry regiments defected or even joined forces, it could change the situation on the battlefield of the Soviets in an instant, but the Soviets still did this, and there must have been deep considerations." By the way, the United States was afraid of the Soviet nuclear threat that we had faked, and the Soviet top brass did not know about it, and they were afraid that the United States would use atomic bombs on the battlefield, so they did not take advantage of the situation to launch a major counteroffensive after severely damaging the Allied troops on the southern front. There is reason to believe that ・・・・・・ Soviet Union will also form more German infantry regiments and even artillery regiments, and as the war develops, there may be scattered armored units. ”…,

Trenkoll frowned, touched his cheeks, and said: "After all, the flames of this war still burned on ourselves, if the Soviet army's great counteroffensive crossed Poland, wouldn't Germany be reduced to a battlefield again?" General Gargo, do you say there is such a possibility? ”

"It's hard to say, it's hard to say!" Lynn stopped in front of the wine cabinet, took out four wine glasses, picked up the crystal glass bottle containing the whiskey and poured half a glass of wine into each glass. Major Kovag took one cup each. As the glasses were clinked, Lynn proposed, "Pray for our fellow citizens!" ”

All three responded: "Pray for our fellow citizens!" ”

After taking a sip of wine, Lynn suddenly felt that his thoughts were much clearer, before returning to the base camp, he heard Rommel mean that the empire had made a "large investment" in the Soviet Union, secretly helping a certain non-dominant political faction to take advantage of the war to climb the peak of power, but he refused to disclose the specific situation of this political faction, Lynn was curious, and felt that it was unlikely that this cooperation would continue and achieve gains, but judging from the current situation, The animosity between the Soviet Union and Germany had faded with the end of World War II and the outbreak of the East-West War, and as long as the two sides could successfully cooperate on the battlefield, the Reich would have a greater chance of realizing this political opportunism and thus be less pressured from the East when the Reich returned to the world stage.

"If the Allies also release the detained German ** people to form a combat unit, there will inevitably be a situation where the German ** team and the German ** team will meet on the battlefield in the future, wouldn't that make our people fratricidal?" Steplenfen said worriedly in his loud voice.

"I don't think that's going to happen!" Trenkoll immediately denied, "The Allies and the Soviets will not let such a situation occur, not that they have a benevolent heart, but that they will use psychological warfare to decide the victory in advance - let the German ** team in the opposing front defect, or the German ** team on their own side turn their guns."

"That's right! The more this is the case, the more the two sides will increase the temptation, and then the installation of inspectors, threats and oppression will not come in handy, whoever offers a high political price will be able to win this powerful third-party force, and in this deal, we undoubtedly have a great advantage and opportunity. Lynn said this, but there was a hidden concern in his heart that he did not express to these colleagues of a slightly lower rank, that is, the Soviet Union had more reason than the United States and Britain to doubt the existence of the huge remnants of the Third Reich, and they hurriedly formed this large number of infantry regiments led by German prisoners of war, I am afraid that it was not purely out of concern about the war ahead, and perhaps there was a vicious conspiracy behind it. Clear