"What, let all the prisoners go?" After receiving this order, Papuchinko couldn't believe his ears and asked quickly: "Comrade Chief of Staff, I heard it right?"

"No, Lieutenant Colonel Papchinko, you heard it right." Cidolin replied: "This is the order of the division commander to let the prisoners of war move the weapons and ammunition we seized to the square of the Workers' New Village and let them all go."

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Papchinko asked in wonder, "Why did the division commander issue such an order?"

"Didn't you catch thousands of prisoners?" Sidolin explained to Papchinko: "One of the fact that we don't have that much food to raise these prisoners, and secondly, we can't send them to the prisoners' camps on the other side. In this case, tell me, what should we do? Can't we shoot them all?"

If he only shot dozens of prisoners who were extremely guilty, Papchinko would still accept it, but if he killed thousands of prisoners in one go, what was the difference between it and inhuman beasts? He was very resistant to such a thing. After listening to Cidolin's explanation, he immediately understood why the division commander made such a decision and quickly replied: "I understand, Comrade Chief of Staff. After the prisoners moved the ammunition to the central square, I would immediately let them go."

In order to avoid accidents, Papuchinko did not announce this order too early, but only urged the soldiers to take the prisoners and transport all the captured weapons and ammunition back to the central square of the Workers' New Village as soon as possible.

Seeing that the prisoners were about to move their things, they ordered people to call Vasily and the second battalion commander and said to them: "Comrades in the two battalion commanders, after the prisoners move all their weapons and ammunition to the square, they will be driven outside the residential area to release them." He did not explain the specific reason, but in order to prevent the two from questioning their orders, he finally emphasized, "This is an order issued by the division commander himself, go and execute it."

When Captain Vasily heard the order to release all the prisoners of war, he really wanted to argue with Papchinko, but when he heard that it was Sokov's order, he swallowed the words he wanted to say back into his stomach, nodded, and turned around and returned to his troops.

After the prisoners moved the ammunition, they assembled in the square in accordance with the orders of the Soviet commanders and soldiers. While the assembly was still in progress, some soldiers thought to themselves, would the Russians distribute food to themselves later? You must know that from noon to now, they have not eaten anything, and they have long been hungry to put on their chests on their backs.

Unexpectedly, after completing the assembly, Romanian officers and soldiers discovered that the Russians not only did not distribute food to them, but instead drove them to the west. Although the Romanian army had never massacred civilians or prisoners of war after entering the Soviet Union, they had seen the beasts of the SS who had done such things with their own eyes. At this moment, when the Russians drove themselves out of the residential area, their first reaction was to drive themselves outside and shoot them.

A timid soldier was frightened and turned his head to cry at the Soviet soldier behind him, "Please, spare me, I have never done anything bad. Please, let me go..."

The soldiers in charge of driving them could not understand Romanian, but just pushed the submachine gun in his hand to his waist and said coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and go forward, hurry up!"

The other Romanian soldiers who felt that the situation was wrong also began to cry to the soldiers of the new battalion, hoping that they could spare their lives. The Soviet commanders and soldiers who were full of anger were too lazy to explain to them, so they smashed the prisoners who shouted the most with the butt, causing them to shut their mouths obediently.

When all the prisoners of war were driven outside the residential area, Captain Vasily, who was a translator, walked to their front with a stern face and shouted at them: "Soldiers, you are free, now go back to your own positions."

When the translator translated Captain Vasily's words, all the Romanian officers and soldiers were stunned. They never dreamed that they thought that the Russians drove themselves outside the residential area to shoot themselves, but they knew that the other party wanted to release themselves. Some soldiers who were crying with joy quickly fell to the ground and began to draw crosses on their chests, thanking God for their grace.

Seeing that some of the prisoners were standing in place, some were kneeling on the ground to pray, but no one left. Captain Vasily was a little impatient. He repeated the words just now, but no one moved. Vasily turned around and winked at the warrior behind him. The warrior who understood them quickly pulled the bolt.

Hearing the sound of the gun bolt, the prisoners immediately became alert. They looked at the warrior in horror, seeing what he would do next. The warrior raised his gun and shot "dada" at the top of the captains, and then shouted at them: "Get out quickly, if you don't get out, I'll shoot you."

Unexpectedly, his words had an unexpected effect. A Romanian soldier who knew a little Russian muttered a few words to his companions around him, and then he heard the soldiers shouted: "Get out quickly, don't you hear it, get out quickly, why not shoot!"

Hearing the shouts of his companions, the captives began to move. First, a few people walked forward slowly. Seeing that the soldiers of the new battalion around him showed no sign of shooting, they accelerated. Seeing that their companions were not shot, the Romanian soldiers finally believed that the Soviet army was really ready to release them, and they also took action one after another and walked quickly towards the position on their side.

The soldier was still waving his arms in the crowd, shouting in broken Russian excitedly: "Get out quickly, don't you hear it, get out quickly, why not shoot!" Hearing the grammatical error in his mouth, looking at his unusually exaggerated body movements, the soldiers standing around laughed so hard that they leaned back and forth.

After letting all the prisoners go, Captain Vasily returned to the central square with his own troops. Papchinko, who had been waiting here for a long time, immediately came up to shake hands with him, and said politely: "Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Captain."

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" Vasily stood in front of Papchinko straight and asked respectfully: "What is our next task?"

Papchinko turned around and pointed at the piles of weapons and ammunition, saying, "According to the orders of the superiors, except for these anti-tank guns and supporting ammunition, the rest of the weapons and ammunition will be brought back to Mamayevgang by you."

Vasily glanced at the ammunition boxes and then asked, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I want to ask, is this the command of the division commander?"

"Yes, it's the command of the division commander." Papuchinko also explained to Vasily: "The division commander said that if we want to use these weapons and ammunition, we still need to change the equipment on a large scale, which will have an adverse impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops in a short period of time. Therefore, the easiest way is to hand it over to the reduction regiment, after all, you have always equipped German weapons."

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Faced with the mountain of ammunition, Vasily knew very well that he had to rely on hundreds of soldiers under his command to carry their shoulders, and at least it would take a whole night to make a night. Then he pointed at the trucks that had been used to pull anti-tank guns on the edge of the square and asked Papchinko tentatively: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, can we use those trucks to carry ammunition?"

"Oh, those trucks are fine," Papchinko reminded Vasily, "Comrade Captain, although we have released all the Romanian captives, they will not launch shelling us in a short period of time. But the Germans cannot explain it clearly. Maybe they will retaliate against us after they learn that the Romanian army is destroyed and cover this area with artillery fire, so your actions must be quick."

"Don't worry, comrade Lieutenant Colonel." After hearing Papuchinko's concern, Vasily said confidently: "We can transfer all the weapons and ammunition in the square before the enemy's shelling begins."

In fact, both of them were redundant. The two battalions that attacked the Workers' New Village were completely wiped out. Although the thousands of captured soldiers were released, they lost the equipment of the two battalions and eight German anti-tank guns. For such embarrassing things, the Romanian officers could not cover up, so how could they take the initiative to report to the Germans?

It was precisely because the Romanian officers concealed their failure from the German army, and the German army was having a headache about all the ammunition stored in Gorodice Town and was blown up by the Soviet army, and they had no energy to ask about the Romanians. Moreover, they always looked down on the army of the Servant Kingdom. It was precisely because of this that Captain Vasily and his subordinates were able to successfully transport the seized ammunition back to Mamayev Hill.

When Sokov learned that Vasily had transported all the ammunition back to Mamayev, he called Berkin himself and said to him: "Comrade Political Commissar, I am Sokov. I heard that Vasily had transported the ammunition back?"

"Yes, comrade in the division commander." Belkin, who had already served as the regiment commander, felt warm when he heard Sokov still called him the political commissar. "How do you plan to allocate this batch of ammunition?"

"Captain Andre's third battalion has been fighting against the enemy in the old city." Sokov had already had a distribution plan for the batch of ammunition transported back. When he heard Belkin ask, he said without reservation: "Arranging manpower immediately and sending them some ammunition."

"Yes!" Berkin replied respectfully: "I will arrange the manpower immediately and send ammunition to Captain Andre's troops."

"Also," Sokov added: "Although the number of troops in the Third Battalion sounds quite large, most of them are temporary armed residents, and their combat effectiveness is still too weak. It just so happened that your regiment has no combat mission recently, so they draw combat backbones from the New First Battalion and the New Second Battalion to the Third Battalion, and strive to improve the combat effectiveness of the Third Battalion in the shortest time."

"I understand." After Berkin agreed, he asked carefully: "Comrade Commander, I want to ask, when will the Marine Battalion be built?"

"The Marine Battalion is now assisting the 122nd Guards' Regiment to defend the workers' village," Sokov thought for a while and replied, "Before November, I'm afraid it will not be built."

"What about November after?" asked Belkin.
Chapter completed!