The first-class soldier led Lin Hua and the others outside the camp gate. He shouted to the two soldiers inside through the door: "Hurry up and open the door, let Mr. Captain and the others go in." The two soldiers inside did not dare to neglect and hurriedly Opening the camp door wide, the first-class soldier turned sideways and made an invitation gesture to Ernst, "Please come in, Mr. Captain. I will report to the lieutenant first and ask him to come out to greet you."
The soldiers of the Istrian company lined up in neat columns and entered the camp through the open gate. Sergeant Andrei, who was walking in the middle, winked at Grisa and Zelia beside him and motioned them to occupy the two machine gun positions at the entrance. The two nodded understandingly, each led a few subordinates, entered the sandbag fortifications on the left and right, and stood beside the German machine gunners.
The German lieutenant who was having lunch in the wooden house saw a troop entering his prisoner of war camp through the window glass next to him. He quickly stood up and wanted to go out and ask what was going on. At this time, the first-class soldier hurried in and reported to him: "Mr. Captain, a troop is coming outside..."
"I know a troop is coming," the lieutenant said angrily, "What part are they from and what are they doing here?"
"They are from the 106th Infantry Division," the private first class replied hurriedly: "The captain leading the team said they were ordered to take over the prisoner of war camp."
"What the hell, were you ordered to take over the prisoner of war camp?" When the lieutenant heard what the first-class soldier said, he couldn't help but said in surprise: "Why didn't I get notified?" As he said that, he grabbed the phone on the table and wanted to call his superiors. After asking, he picked up the phone, but there was no sound. He slammed the phone on the table and said, "The damn guerrillas have cut off the phone line again."
The lieutenant walked to the wall, took off his military coat from the coat hook, and while putting it on, he said to the first-class soldier: "Gather the troops immediately!"
Lin Hua and others came to the open space in front of the wooden house. While the first-class soldier was going to report to his superior, he looked towards the place where the commanders and soldiers were detained and saw hundreds of ragged people in the open space. The officers and soldiers sat there. Since there was no shelter around them, they could only huddle together and use each other's body heat to keep warm.
"Do you want to do something?" When Vanya saw this scene, his eyes burst out with fire. He walked to Lin Hua and asked in a low voice: "The Germans are not prepared. We can kill them in the shortest possible time." Get rid of them all."
"Wait a moment, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Lin Hua looked at the surrounding terrain. Although the sentries and machine gun positions at the door were under his control, the machine guns on the wooden watchtowers around him could still give him troops caused huge casualties. Therefore, he planned to capture the thief first and capture the king first. After capturing the top commander of the prisoner of war camp alive, he asked him to order the German soldiers to lay down their weapons and surrender. "When the German commander comes out, we will act on our own initiative."
While the two were talking, the door of the wooden house opened, and a first-class soldier ran out from inside. After saying a few words to Ernst, he ran to the row of wooden houses next to him and shouted loudly: " Assemble, urgent assembly!”
Then several German officers walked out of the wooden house, and the first one was a lieutenant. He saw Ernst standing beside the queue with his hands behind his back, and walked quickly over. After raising his hands in salute, he asked politely but vigilantly: "Mr. Captain, which section are you from? What are you doing here?"
"Lieutenant," Ernst said with an air of arrogance, "we have been ordered to take over the prisoner of war camp. Gather your men immediately."
When the lieutenant saw that Ernst was ignoring him, and the troops he saw were almost all equipped with submachine guns, and there were several machine guns in the middle, he couldn't help but asked with some guilt: "Mr. Captain, can you Can you show me your ID and the order to take over the prisoner of war camp? You know, our communication lines have been destroyed by the guerrillas, and we are temporarily unable to contact the outside world."
"When your men are all gathered, I will announce the order in public." Ernst was no longer nervous at this moment. Instead, he ordered the surrounding soldiers matter-of-factly: "You guys go take over those few Watchtowers!" After saying that, he pointed to the four watchtowers with his hand. Although the officers and soldiers could not understand what Ernst said, seeing him pointing to the watchtower with his finger, Andre, who was standing next to him, guessed what was going on and quickly led a group of soldiers to take over the watchtower.
Seeing that the new captain regarded himself as a transparent person and sent his subordinates to take over his defense as if no one else was around, the lieutenant became a little anxious: "Mr. Captain, you have no right to randomly send people to take over the defense of the prisoner of war camp."
Lin Hua couldn't understand what Ernst and the lieutenant were talking about, so he turned his attention to the other German officers standing in front of the wooden door. Unexpectedly, he found a figure wearing casual clothes and a turban standing at the door. The tall young girl was waiting for a pair of round eyes to look at her. When she found Lin Hua staring at her intently, she couldn't help showing an expression of disgust on her face. She turned her face to the side to avoid any contact with Lin Hua's eyes.
At this time, the German soldiers had already come out of the wooden houses not far away. Because the gathering was too hasty, many of them had not put on their military uniforms and were dressing as they walked. "Is everyone here?" Ernst asked the German lieutenant without looking back, looking at the gathering German troops.
The German lieutenant glanced quickly over there, and then replied: "Yes, Mr. Captain, my people are all here. Do you think you can give me the order to take over the prisoner of war camp?"
"Okay, I'll give it to you right away. But I need to ask for permission first." After Ernst finished speaking, he turned to look at Lin Hua, waiting for him to make the final decision. Seeing that Andre and his men had occupied four watchtowers respectively, Lin Hua knew that the German guards had no chance to make a comeback, so he shouted at Vanya: "Second Lieutenant, come on!"
"Platoon, follow me!" Vanya shouted loudly, leading the soldiers like tigers down the mountain towards the chaotic group of German guards.
When the German lieutenant heard that the officer in front of him wearing the uniform of a second lieutenant was giving orders in a language he was familiar with but could not understand, he couldn't help but asked in panic: "You, who are you?"
Although Lin Hua didn't understand what the German lieutenant was saying, he saw the frightened look on his face, so he raised his submachine gun, pointed the muzzle at him, and said sternly: "We are the Soviet Red Army. You are captured. Raise the gun." Get started!"
Seeing the German lieutenant trying to draw his gun, Pavel rushed forward and pressed the hard muzzle of the gun against the lieutenant's lower back. When the other party didn't dare to move, he took out the pistol from the holster and inserted it into his waist with his backhand. Several other German officers saw countless black holes pointing at them, but they still had the courage to resist, so they obediently raised their hands.
"Take them all away!" As soon as Lin Hua gave the order to Pavel, the tall girl rushed to Lin Hua, reached out and grabbed his arm, and asked excitedly: "You, are you the Red Army? "
"Yes, we are the Red Army." Lin Hua gently broke away from the girl's hands and asked warily: "Girl, who are you? Why are you here?"
