Steel Soviet Union

Calvus is about to leave for home, and what happened on the battlefield has nothing to do with him anymore.

Logically speaking, he didn't need to say these words, but after all, he had the friendship of comrades who fought side by side here. Even though he and Major Schwerner often didn't deal with each other on weekdays, there were even times when he disobeyed orders on the battlefield and went it alone according to his own ideas. Such vicious incidents of overt and covert violation of military orders have happened before, but Carlus still hopes that Major Schwerner can return to Germany alive and survive until the end of the war.

Can we still hope to win this hopeless battle?

At least Karvus himself no longer has such illusions. Fighting all the way, losing all the way, and retreating all the way are the most real situations, and there is no hope of reversal and comeback. Just look at the division in the hands of the steel butcher. There are even more heavy tanks in the entire Army Group Center. Who knows how terrifying the heavy industrial production capabilities of those Russians are.

Just ask, how can there be any hope of winning such a battle? Are the Russians lining up with their necks stretched out, waiting for you to kill them? Do not make jokes.

Calvus believed that with Schwaner's IQ and EQ, he would not fail to understand what he meant, and what happened next was not surprising, but there was still a little bit of surprise mixed in.

"I understand what you mean, of course"

With an expression that looked like he was thinking about something, it was not easy for him to continue speaking. Calvus, who was not in a hurry to ask questions, knew that Schwaner must have something else to say, but it was really difficult to say this and he didn't know how to make it reasonable. Just an expression.

"We are all soldiers, Carl, Wehrmacht soldiers who have sworn an oath under the military flag."

"Our glory has been passed down from the Prussian era to this day. If this glory is gone, what else do we have? What's the point of living as a waste with nothing?"

There will always be conflicts in people's hearts. This is how complicated human nature is based on the conflict between reality and ideals. In other words, human beings are such complex creatures.

Especially when you stand at a crossroads where you can see the future but have to face something, it doesn't mean that you can do whatever you want. There is always too much helplessness in life, isn't it?

Calvus, who was leaning against the pillow on the bedside, was also meditating. When he was young, he was once passionate and full of fanaticism, but his former self had become much more realistic under the wash of cruel reality. What you think in your heart and what you actually do are sometimes even different things. It is also true that actual actions do not prevent your mind from thinking in another direction and thinking about problems. Calvus is very aware of his state.

I don’t know how long it took, but after the inner struggle and entanglement, I finally came up with an answer that could convince me, an answer that would be even if it was a step back to the post-Versailles Peace Treaty era, or even worse than this.

"Alive, at least we are still alive. Only the living are qualified to change and build the future of the motherland, no matter how bad it is. You can't do anything if you die, right?"

Calvus answered the question raised by Schwaner with a question. Strictly speaking, this is not even an answer, but it does have an extraordinary significance.

Sitting at the end of the bed, Siwana held his breath and squinted his eyes, thinking for a long time without making a sound.

When he stood up from the bed again, Major Schwerner had already picked up the military cap that he had placed at the end of the bed and put it back on his head. His eyes looked like he was entering a tent when he came. Like the door, it has once again regained its perseverance as in the past.

"Everyone has the power to decide their own destiny, and I have mine too. I hope we will meet again, my brother, I wish you a safe journey."

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Kalvus did not speak any more, but just maintained his bed-ridden posture, silently watching the back of Major Schwerner leave and walk out of the tent of the field hospital.

The young soldiers of their generation have indeed not endured the suppressed and twisted inner torture and unforgettable pain of the older soldiers of the previous generation in the post-Versailles Peace Treaty era. They can only learn from written records and other people’s preaching and descriptions. Feeling what has been described as the end of the world for soldiers.

What kind of thing can make a person give up the hope of life and the courage to live?

Maybe the answer is different for everyone, and most people will never face such a moment in their lives.

But Calvus felt that maybe Schwaner had faced all this in just a few minutes, and had indeed made a choice and had the corresponding consciousness.

What the future will bring is something that no one can say.

But Calvus hopes that one day the last half of Schwaner's words will be true, just like his own last words are completely false and true from the heart.

The cold and desolate night will eventually pass, and the dazzling rising sun will illuminate the earth.

After barely sleeping all night, Malashenko, who was lying on the camp bed with his eyes wide open and looking at the roof of the tent, arrived at his supposed post early and was ready to go.

The formal order from Vatutin was issued yesterday, and Operation Bagration entered the second half of the clean-up phase. The defeat of the German Army Group Center has been determined. The Red Army is advancing and galloping across the land of Belarus, moving its front lines forward to pursue the enemy and expand its results.

This group of stubborn enemies in the northern protrusion is the last strategic group in the hands of the Germans that has not been defeated frontally. It is the last hope in the eyes of the Germans to launch a counterattack and reverse the situation. It must be destroyed.

As long as this nail is pulled out, the overall victory of Operation Bagration will be settled, and the decisive hand of history will once again draw a successful conclusion to this major military operation that can be recorded in the annals of human war. The pen was handed into the hands of Malashenko.

Malashenko did not want to say how "honored" he felt about this, but he could serve as the main decisive force in the breakthrough, leading the friendly comrades behind him who had been reorganized one after another to send the small 200,000 people in the salient. Fascist bastards are on their way.

Malashenko really has to say that this is really the most suitable antidote for him who is eager for revenge at the moment. Killing these fascist fanatics is what he wants to do most now.

"Let us end this. Comrade Commander will always be by your side."

Behind the resolute figure standing half-length outside the turret with a harmonica in his hand tightly, there are countless rockets trailing orange-red tail flames and shrill screams, and a group of heavy artillery with a mighty force that can be said to be earth-shaking, firing with all their strength. , and rushed straight towards the enemy-occupied position that was not too far away and had been discovered.