The girl looked at Lin Hua and said with excitement, "Comrades, I've been waiting for you to come."
"Who are your comrades?" Seryosha, who was standing next to Lin Hua, pointed at the German officers who raised their hands and said viciously: "Only these damn fascists are your comrades. "
Lin Hua observed the situation and saw that when the girl saw the German guard being captured by the soldiers, not only did she not show any panic, but on the contrary, she also showed an expression of joy on her face. He quickly raised his hand to stop Seryosha, looked at the young and beautiful girl, and repeated the question just now: "Who are you and why are you here?"
The girl took off her headscarf, revealing her thick dark chestnut hair, and said with a serious expression: "My name is Agelina. I was a student at Voloklamsk Academy of Literature before the war, because I can speak French and English proficiently. I can’t speak German, so the relevant leaders in the city, after conducting an investigation on me, asked me to stay in the German-occupied areas and engage in underground work.”
"Ah, is that so?" Seryozha couldn't help but exclaimed when he heard this. He quickly changed to a kind tone and said: "Girl, please forgive me for being rude just now. I thought... I thought ..." In a hurry, he couldn't find the right words to describe Agelina.
"You want to say that I am the kind of bitch who sells himself out, right?" Unexpectedly, Agelina said openly: "Ever since I served as a translator for Germans, everyone who knows me sees me this way. Mine. The comrades detained in the prisoner-of-war camp looked at me with hatred, thinking that I was a weakling who betrayed the motherland and betrayed myself to the enemy in order to survive." As she spoke, her eyes could not help but turn red. He hurriedly raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his face.
"Comrade Agelina, you have been wronged." Lin Hua stepped forward and hugged this young girl who had lived among the enemies for several months and was full of grievances. He gently patted her back with his hand and said understandingly. : "I know that because of your special status, in order to complete your mission, you have to silently endure the misunderstandings of your comrades. You can't even tell them who you are, what you do, and why you want to work with the enemy. , not even hinting to them.”
Hearing what Lin Hua said, Agelina's tears fell like broken beads, and soon the clothes on Lin Hua's shoulders were soaked. She cried and said: "Comrade Commander, I have long been I'm tired of all this. You don't know how disgusting it is to live among the fascist invaders. You have to pretend to be happy every day and force a smile with these guys who deserve to go to hell..."
"It's all over, Agelina, it's all over." Lin Hua continued to comfort him: "From now on, you are back among your relatives."
Agelina broke away from Lin Hua's arms, wiped away the tears on her face with the back of her hand, straightened her hair, tried her best to put a smile on her face, and said to Lin Hua: "I'm sorry, comrade commander, please forgive me." , my feelings were too fragile... I had no choice but to see our Red Army soldiers appear in front of me at once and arrest all these fascist invaders, I was so excited."
"Misha," Seryosha said from the side: "Let's go see the soldiers imprisoned here."
Seryozha's words reminded Lin Hua, and he remembered that he was so busy chatting with Agelina that he actually forgot about the commanders and fighters imprisoned here. So he, surrounded by everyone, headed towards the place where the soldiers were detained.
The Soviet prisoners of war who were imprisoned here will never forget this scene many years later: First, a company of German soldiers, led by several German officers, entered the prisoner of war camp in a swaggering manner; then, they first sent people to take over the camp. He then moved to the watchtowers around the camp, and then disarmed all the guards who came out of the house. What happened in front of them made them stunned.
At this time, a German second lieutenant, surrounded by a group of German soldiers, came among them and announced in his familiar language: "Comrades, you have suffered. I am Lieutenant Sokov, commander of the Istrian company. I was ordered to rescue you, you are free!"
After Lin Hua finished speaking, the entire venue fell silent. The prisoners of war stood up slowly, looking at the people wearing German uniforms around them with dull eyes, thinking to themselves: "Is this a German conspiracy?" ?"
"Comrades, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that the prisoners of war had no reaction to what Lin Hua said, Seryosha raised his voice and said, "Didn't you hear what the lieutenant said? You have been liberated, you are all free. .”
"Is everything you said true?" This time a voice finally came from the prisoners of war: "Are you really the Red Army?"
In order to reassure the prisoners of war, Lin Hua turned to Seryosha and said, "Give me your boat hat?"
"Why do you need a boat-shaped hat?" Seryozha asked in confusion when he heard what Lin Hua said.
"Don't talk nonsense," Lin Hua didn't bother to explain to him, but urged him: "Hurry up!"
Seryozha muttered quietly, unbuttoned his military coat, took out his boat-shaped hat from his arms, and handed it to Lin Hua. After Lin Hua took the hat, he first took off the German large-brimmed hat on his head and tucked it under his arm. Then he put the boat-shaped hat on his head and said to the prisoners of war in front of him: "Do you believe it now?"
When the prisoners of war saw the boat-shaped cap on Lin Hua's head, they finally reacted: "Yes, they are our own people, our own people." "Thank God, we are saved."...
I don't know who took the lead. The prisoners of war and their comrades in German uniforms began to hug, and some people kept shouting "Ula". Agelina, who was standing behind, raised her hand to wipe away the tears caused by excitement, and looked at the exciting scene in front of her with a smile.
After Lin Hua asked Vanya to take care of the rescued prisoners of war, he struggled to squeeze out of the crowd and came to Agelina. He asked a little surprised: "Agelina, I heard that there are two prisoners of war in this camp." There are more than a thousand prisoners of war, but now it seems that there are not even a thousand, where have the rest gone?"
"Lieutenant Sokov," Agelina suppressed the smile on her face and said to Lin Hua: "Please come with me, I will take you to see something."
Lin Hua followed Agelina to a corner of the prisoner of war camp. Agelina pointed towards the forest in the distance and said, "Comrade Lieutenant, look over there."
Lin Hua looked in the direction of Agelina's finger and saw piles of wood-like things piled at the edge of the forest. His first reaction was that it was the wood that the Germans were preparing to use for heating. But then he thought about it, and felt that if it was just a pile of wood, Agelina would not have brought him here specially. He asked tentatively: "Agelina, what is that? It cannot be used by Germans for heating." Wood, right?”
Agelina's handsome face became extremely serious: "Comrade Lieutenant, how is this possible? Those are the bodies of our comrades. Because the environment in the prison camp was so poor, countless prisoners of war died every day, and the Germans put them Drag the body out and hide it by the forest, preparing to wait until the weather gets warmer before sending prisoners of war to bury it.”
Lin Hua led a dozen soldiers and followed Agelina to the place where the corpses of prisoners of war were piled. The remains of countless Soviet prisoners of war, wearing thin and tattered military uniforms, died in various postures, and were then stacked in piles by the Germans like logs on the edge of the forest.
When he saw the piles of corpses, Lin Hua felt blood rushing to his head and his body was trembling with anger. He put his finger on the trigger and wanted to rush back to the prisoner of war camp immediately to guard the captured German soldiers. Drag them all here and shoot them.
Seryosha, who followed him out, obviously noticed his emotional fluctuations, so he walked up to him and asked in a low voice: "Misha, shall we go back to the prisoner of war camp now and kill all the guards?"
Lin Hua turned to look at Seryosha and almost blurted out the order to kill all the German prisoners. But in the end he calmed down and hurriedly changed his words and said: "No, Seryosha, we are not executioners. Even if we are enemies, as long as they lay down their weapons, we cannot massacre them."
