Fortunately, what Guchakov was worried about did not happen. Kopeto took his infantry squad and brought five German prisoners to the division headquarters smoothly.
When he came to Sokov and Koida, he straightened his body to salute the two of them, but he was in trouble for whom to report to. Fortunately, Sokov saw his embarrassment, so he nodded to Koidan on the side and said, "Let's report to your division commander."
"Comrade Commander," Kopeto quickly turned to face Koida and reported loudly: "I have sent you five prisoners on the order of the battalion commander Captain Guchakov."
Koida looked at the five prisoners standing at the door and found that there was one of them. He couldn't help but nodded with a smile and said with satisfaction: "It's a good job. When you go back to see your battalion commander, you will convey my gratitude to him. Thank you for your heroic fighting on the front line, which has blocked the crazy attack of the German army."
After sending Copeto away, Koida immediately called an interpreter and began to interrogate the prisoners. The first person to be tried was the German second lieutenant, and the other four officers and soldiers. In order to prevent them from providing false information, Koida ordered people to lock them next door and prepare to interrogate separately one by one: "Your name, rank and position."
"My name is Kahn, with the rank of lieutenant, and he serves as the platoon leader of the 2nd Company of the 114th Regiment of the 6th Armored Division."
Seeing the second lieutenant cooperated so much, Koida continued to ask: "Please tell me truthfully that you know you can't seize my position, why are you still attacking desperately?"
Hearing Koida's question, Second Lieutenant Kahn hesitated. Seeing that the other party was not talking, Koida was so angry that she slapped hard on the table and shouted loudly: "Answer me!"
"We received the death order from Marshal Manstein," said the lieutenant with guilt. "At all costs, we must take down your positions, and even transfer the right-wing attacking troops here to participate in the attack."
When Sokov heard that the German army had transferred the right-wing attacking troops here to participate in the attack, he immediately understood that the enemies who had disappeared from the Guard Division's position had all come to his position.
Koida was very puzzled about the answers of the German prisoners. In order to figure out what was going on, he continued to ask: "Why did Manstein transfer all the troops attacking from other directions to us? Also, why did he give you the order to die and must seize our position?"
Sokov, who was sitting aside, thought to himself, he didn't expect the German lieutenant to say that this road was the nearest road to Kursk. Unexpectedly, the other party had been saying for a while, "Our division commander General von Hornadolph was killed in front of your fortification. After Manstein learned of this bad news, he was very furious and gave us such a death order."
"This is impossible." Koida immediately jumped out of her seat when she heard this: "How could we kill your division commander? You must have made a mistake."
Sokov also felt that Lieutenant Kahn was talking nonsense. German generals were all a group of fearful devils. Their command was usually dozens of kilometers away from the front line to prevent him from being in danger. Thinking of this, he said, "Lieutenant, you are lying. Your General Hornerdolph is probably hiding in the command center dozens of kilometers away from the front line, drinking coffee with his chief of staff. How could he die in front of our position?"
"It's true, General." Second Lieutenant Cohen knew the Soviet rank. Although he saw that Sokov was much younger than Koida, he was carrying the rank of Major General on his shoulders. He knew that he was the one who kept his word in the house, so he quickly defended himself: "Our division commander General Hornadolph personally took a tank to participate in the attack, but when he approached your position, he was destroyed by your strange anti-tank weapons.
There were more than a dozen tanks participating in the battle with General Hornerdolph. After they found that the division commander's tank was destroyed, they immediately came over and tried to rescue the division commander. But when they got closer, they found that the division commander was riding in was burning with no one around. They knew that the division commander must have encountered an accident, so they reported the news to the division chief of staff.
The Chief of Staff felt that this matter was of great importance, so he reported to Marshal Manstein. After the Marshal learned the news, he issued a death order to us, asking us to take back General Hornerdolph's body, and to break through your defense, encircle you, and then wipe out the entire body to avenge General Hornerdolph."
In order to find out whether the content confessed by Lieutenant Kahn was true, Koida winked at his chief of staff and signaled him to investigate the matter. The chief of staff, who understood the gods, nodded, walked aside and picked up the phone and called Guchakov, "Comrade Captain, I am the Chief of Staff of the Division. All the prisoners you sent have arrived smoothly before."
When Guchakov learned that the prisoners he sent to the division headquarters were all sent safely, he felt much more at ease: "Comrade Chief of Staff, thank you, thank you for calling me for calling."
"Comrade Captain, you're wrong. I'll call you, not to inform you for the smooth arrival of the prisoners." The Chief of Staff said: "According to the prisoners' confession, they attacked our positions like crazy because the tanks on which their division commander General Hornerdolph were destroyed by our anti-tank weapons. I now order you to send people to the front of the position to check out a blown Leopard tank, and there were some people inside."
Guchakov was a little uneasy: "Comrade Chief of Staff, are you saying that in the German tank we destroyed, there is a crew member of General Hornerdolph the commander of the 6th Armored Division of the German Army?"
"That's how the captive confessed." The chief of staff said with a serious expression: "Your task now is to find out whether there is General Hornerdolph in the Leopard tank you destroyed."
"I understand, Comrade Chief of Staff." Guchakov replied on the phone: "I will figure it out as soon as possible."
Sending people to the position to check a destroyed tank is a task that seems simple, but it is not easy to do. Now the German offensive has never stopped. The personnel who leave the position to perform reconnaissance will fall into the hands of the enemy if they are not careful.
However, since it was an order issued by the superior, even if there was a sea of ​​swords and fires in front of him, he could only break forward with his teeth. Guchakov ordered the communications soldiers to call Captain Narva and asked directly: "Comrade Captain, how many people are left in you?"
Chapter completed!