Steel Soviet Union

The Germans surrendered, and less than five minutes after Malashenko thought "it's time to end," the first German second lieutenant, with his hands raised high and a small white flag still clutched in his right hand, finally walked out of the trench.

"Please do not fire, we surrender! No more fighting, no more fighting! We have laid down our weapons and pose no threat to your army. Please allow us to surrender according to the standards of prisoners of war."

A second lieutenant holding a white flag walked out first, followed closely by German soldiers one after another who also raised their hands high and appeared on the battlefield.

Although the distance is not too close, it can even be said to be relatively far away.

But Malashenko could still clearly see from his commander's periscope that the state of the Germans could only be described as "almost inhuman". They all looked like zombies just walking out of the trenches. generally.

Except for the first few German soldiers who seemed to be okay, they were probably people close to the second lieutenant who took the lead in surrendering.

The rest are the ordinary soldiers who make up the absolute majority at the back of the team.

I can’t say that each one of them has just one breath left, but it can definitely be called a state of deja vu where death is not far away.

This one has layers and layers of bandages on his head and looks like a rice dumpling. The other one has a walking stick in his hand and a plaster on his foot, limping and hopping around. What's more, even two arms were missing. I don't know how he survived. He relied on the help of two lightly wounded people around him to walk out.

One or two of them were all disheveled, covered in blood, dejected, and even staggered when walking.

In Malashenko's view, this does not look like an army, nor does it have the same arrogance and arrogance as when it stormed across Europe and launched Operation Barbarossa.

Malashenko really felt that the group of people in front of him was not so much a professional army as it was more suitable to say that it was a team of miners who had just experienced a near-death experience at the scene of the mining accident and escaped from the mine, the kind of people who dug coal underground with hand planers.

"Damn it, this group of people is still standing in front of us? Isn't that ridiculous?"

With the high-magnification gun scope in his hand, he could see much more clearly than Malashenko. Iushkin did not wait for Malashenko to speak, but just complained first. After hearing this, Malashenko also casually said He responded.

"That's how they were beaten. Half an hour later they weren't like this. If they hadn't been like this, they wouldn't have given up the fight. These bastards just didn't see the coffin."

"Nothing, nothing? What did you just say???"

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Malashenko was speechless and did not intend to answer Iushkin's serious question, but just passed it by.

"Nothing, I want to get out of the car. Iushkin, you will take command. Now you are the acting commander."

As soon as Malashenko said this, Iushkin immediately looked excited.

"Ha, it's finally my turn!"

"Young Master You are so proud! Don't give me blind orders, or I will resist your orders!"

"Then I think you can give it a try. Anyway, I have no loss, hehe.

Ignoring Iushkin and Artem's stumbles, Malashenko finally picked up the microphone in his hand before getting off the car and spoke again.

"Attention all troops, the Germans have begun to surrender. It is not clear whether it is a large-scale organized act or a small number of individual acts. The commander of the unit should pay attention to observation. Those who surrender can be accommodated. Those who pretend to surrender and those who resist are immediately killed on the spot! I repeat Once again, those who pretend to surrender and those who resist will be killed on the spot!"

Malashenko has no time to play the game of patiently trying to persuade the Germans to surrender.

The thing is actually very simple. If you sincerely surrender, I will accept it. But if you have any tricks, I will immediately turn you into a pulp. You are not even qualified to negotiate terms. The only way for you German to survive is to surrender. Malashenko, who has already done this, has never minded adding a few more tons of corpses to the top of the Zelo Highlands.

After giving the order and putting down the transmitter, Malashenko, who was about to push open the turret hatch above his head and get out, was suddenly stopped again.

Thinking about shooting straight from the top of the "tall and mighty" IS7 turret with a conspicuous target, if the German guy on the opposite side has a better marksmanship to shoot for him, it would be really fucking dangerous. If you win, you can't afford to take the risk.

"Why are you back again? Aren't you going out?"

Seeing that Malashenko, who had already stood up from the commander's position, retracted again, left the commander's position, jumped from the turret basket to the floor of the car body, the puzzled Iushkin immediately asked Malashenko. Science reported with questions.

"It's too dangerous up there, so I'll get out from below. Remember to keep the radio open. I'll call you at any time if there's any situation, and you'll be ready to drive to pick me up at any time."

"You decide."

He opened the escape hatch on the floor of the vehicle body and drilled down. Malashenko, who came directly under the IS7 vehicle body and between the two tracks, lay down on the ground with a gun in his hand. In one step, he threw the short-barreled AK assault rifle with a folding stock out of the car. He turned around and signaled to Artyom, who was looking at him from inside the car, to close the door and then began to crawl forward.

"Damn it, the ground is filled with the smell of blood, it's choking my nose."

"Wait, this is grass!"

Not even two meters after climbing out, Malashenko saw something that shocked him.

There is a "paper man" pressed under the left track of his precious car. Now speaking, it should be a "paper man" that has been completely exploded and only the skin is left. It has been reduced from a three-dimensional state to a two-dimensional level.

Although he was a little surprised, Malashenko still chose to get closer and take a look.

At a glance, it was discovered that the German who was crushed into a paper man by the 70-ton IS7 was a German. He looked like a junior officer. He was wearing black leather gloves for officers. The back half of the STG44 assault rifle that was rolled into the soil by the IS7's tracks was clearly visible. Judging from his outfit, he was probably an infantry platoon leader or company commander.

"Just stay in the soil honestly, so you don't have to dig a pit to bury it. It just happens to be fertilizer on the spot this spring."

Malashenko, who no longer went to the regular meeting with this "German paper man", continued to move forward and soon crawled out of the rear of the IS7 with his self-defense weapon.

The first thing he did after getting out of the rear of the vehicle was to open the folding buttstock, pull the bolt handle to load the bullet and stay alert. Malashenko didn't remember when he last shot a rifle on the battlefield, but after all, he often went to the shooting range to practice shooting a few rounds when he was free. Comrade division commander was still very confident in his light weapon level and self-defense ability.

"Over there, the division commander is coming out! Hurry, go up and protect the division commander, hurry up!"

What Malashenko didn't expect was that as soon as he got off the car, the hatches of the infantry fighting vehicles in the division's direct guard tank company that had not directly joined the battle immediately opened. The reaction was so fast that Malashenko even skipped the step of giving orders.

A large number of soldiers wearing bulletproof armor, holding assault rifles and new squad machine guns, led by the company commander, rushed towards Malashenko. This is also the only "plate armor assault team" in the entire division that is not affiliated with the combat engineering unit, and it is the last "infantry defense line" around Malashenko.

"Comrade division commander, why did you suddenly get out from under the car? Where are you going?"