Chapter 1406: Aftermath

The fierce close-range armored confrontation came and went quickly. This peak heavy tank duel between the Stalin heavy tank and the King Tiger took less than five minutes to come to an end.

The King Tigers, which were not many in number and only had a dozen or so, faced opponents that were several times their number at a close range of less than 300 meters. It was not easy for them to persist in fighting until the last moment. This must be acknowledged.

At least from the perspective of a soldier, Malashenko admired these Germans more, and of course he deserved respect. Soldiers with strong courage are always rare.

It is true that most of the King Tigers ended up with a miserable end of being penetrated by the turret and exploded on the spot in a close-range shooting.

However, not all King Tigers were like this. The courage to die generously and fighting are not the same thing in the final analysis. There were still German armored soldiers who could not bear it and chose to surrender before the final moment came.

"These Germans don't take their lives seriously. They are addicted to dying in vain. Do they think this is a game for children?"

After climbing out of the top cover, he sat on the edge of the turret and did not jump out of the car immediately. Iushkin, with his eyes slightly narrowed, was smoking a cigarette in his mouth, looking at the Germans who had just surrendered their cars not far away, and his words were full of contempt and disdain.

"Well, if it's not like this, what else do you want them to do? Fight to the death with us? Our soldiers will also suffer more casualties, and this result is the best. The sooner the Germans surrender, the sooner we can end it."

Unlike the "brutal and warlike" Iushkin, Artyom, the new loader who replaced Kirill, is a "pacifist". He always expressed his hope that there would be as few battles as possible, which is very different from Iushkin.

But this is not the biggest problem in the communication between the two. Iushkin and Artyom, whose relationship has been getting better and better, can still achieve "seeking common ground while reserving differences".

After all, we are all comrades who have sworn an oath under the same red flag, and we are also comrades in life and death in the same car. This little problem is nothing.

"You are right, but this is not enough"

Iushkin, who had finished smoking a cigarette, waved his right hand lightly, and the cigarette butt, which was slightly larger than a fingernail, was bounced out in a parabola. It fell into the snow not far away, making a "chi chi" sound, and the rising white smoke covered the face of the German soldier who died in the snow on one side, which was exactly the same lifeless and miserable.

"If all the Germans can surrender voluntarily, without us taking action and being more conscious, at this time, this war can really be considered to be about to end, my brother.

Reality is indeed very bleak, but sometimes it is not bad to have beautiful ideas. It is fine if it cannot happen in reality, but can't people be allowed to imagine it? Just take it as a joke, that's all.

"Let's go, let's not sit here any longer. Comrade Commander seems to have something interesting over there, let's go and take a look. "

Malachenko could not hear what Iushkin was saying to Artyom. At this moment, he was more than a hundred meters away from his car. He was standing in front of a prisoner with the highest military rank, trying to see if he could interrogate him to get something valuable.

"Name, rank, and position."

""

Malachenko spoke very loudly, and even in the whistling cold wind in the awful weather after the rain just stopped, he could still hear it clearly and loudly.

The German prisoner in front of him was a major. Compared with the huge German mechanized offensive assault group just now, this guy was obviously not the one with the highest rank.

The reason why he was "honored" to stand in front of Malachenko and be interrogated was mainly because there was no surviving German prisoner of war with a higher rank than him, and the rest were just small fish and shrimps wearing lieutenant uniforms.

It took a lot of time to go Malashenko really felt that it was unnecessary to interrogate those guys, and secondly, it would make him look cheap.

A major general personally promoted a captured German lieutenant? Was this German lieutenant a relative or godson of Hitler? If it got out, it would be embarrassing for his buddies.

Being able to catch such a major and interrogate him personally was the limit of what Malashenko could do, as he cherished his limited time. As for the result, who knows.

"Von von Ramstein, major of the Wehrmacht armored forces, position is position is"

""

"Okay, okay, there's no need to talk about the position, stop! Stop!"

Malashenko didn't know whether he was too imposing or the guy in front of him was really too cowardly. In short, this idiot who tripped up three people with every word was really annoying, as if someone knew you were in a hurry and deliberately stuttered.

"Where is your main force? What is the next specific movement? Are there other German troops on the way to attack behind you? Things like these tell me that cherishing time is good for both you and me. ”

When he first learned German, Malashenko was a tone-deaf rough man who spoke "Mao-flavored German". It is no exaggeration to say that even Comrade Ma himself made fun of it.

But now, Malashenko has become a master who can speak German at the speed of Russian and machine gun-like.

This extremely fast speaking speed actually confused the captured German major for a while. He had never seen a Russian who could speak German so fluently and so fast. Driven by curiosity, he even had the urge to ask "Who are you?" on the spot.

But the situation was stronger than people. If he didn't want to die and still valued his life, he had better do what the big Russian in front of him said. The most important thing was to answer his questions quickly. Although he was afraid, Major Ramstein, who still retained a clear mind and judgment, spoke quickly.

"No more, we are the last batch. The division commander believes that the first wave of attack troops and the second wave will be enough to solve the problem after they meet. In order to attack you, we have mobilized all the armored units in the offensive preparation force. There are no fully organized armored units under Hill 239 now."

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"What did you say? You have mobilized all the fully organized armored units? That's it???"

Malachenko's expression at this moment was speechless and surprised. He imagined many possible answers that the German major in front of him might give, but in the end he never expected that the words he blurted out would be like this.