Chapter 744 Dead End

"For victory!" The soldiers cheered with their kettles raised high, and then poured the spicy vodka into their throats.

At this time, a kettle filled with vodka was already standard equipment for the soldiers. They generally had two kettles, one for water to take to the battlefield, and the other for wine to stay at the base.

Of course, there were also some wine lovers who could not help but replace their water kettles with wine. Yakop had done this before, and was kept at the base by Qin Chuan and not allowed to go to the battlefield.

This punishment would not work in other troops... Not being able to go to the battlefield is a good thing for them. In fact, it is a good thing for any troops, including the First Infantry Regiment.

The problem is: the First Infantry Regiment still has honor, and not being able to go to the battlefield is regarded as a shame here. If you come here a few more times, you will be kicked out of the team, which is not what these German soldiers with a deep sense of honor want.

Therefore, there is such a saying: "An army must have a sense of honor."

This sense of honor includes overall and personal. Just imagine, if a soldier has no sense of honor, the officers can't punish him at all... Apart from honor, what other punishment can be compared with life?

Sometimes Qin Chuan thinks these German soldiers are stupid, because Qin Chuan thinks that this so-called honor is very empty and has no real meaning. Compared with life, it can be said that it is not worth mentioning, but they would rather risk their lives to fight for it.

So this is really stupid, but stupid in a cute way.

"Major!" Werner said: "Next time, should we catch Stalin here and end this war?"

The soldiers couldn't help laughing when they heard it.

This is of course a joke. Stalin is not only far away in Moscow and beyond the range of helicopters, but the Kremlin where Stalin is located is not accessible to helicopters at will. It is even not easy to find the Kremlin, although it covers an area of ​​28 hectares... In order to prevent the German Air Force from bombing the Kremlin, the Soviets painted all the buildings of the Kremlin with camouflage colors, covered the buildings with cloth, and the glittering gold on the top of the church was also covered with paint.

However, the German soldiers had enough capital to make this joke, because Qin Chuan knew that what they did was enough to shock the Kremlin thousands of miles away.

Just as the soldiers were celebrating, the signalman next door reported to Qin Chuan: "Major, the colonel asked you to go!"

The colonel here refers to Alexander, and Qin Chuan vaguely feels that this will not be a good thing.

Sure enough, when Qin Chuan rushed to the interrogation office set up in the base, he saw Alexander shaking his head and said: "Major, Stekov committed suicide!"

The German soldiers had made sufficient preparations, but in order to make Stekov speak, they had to pull out the cloth stuffed in his mouth, and then Stekov bit off his tongue at this time... If a person has the courage to bite off his tongue, there is nothing that can make him say valuable information.

"Where is the other major general?" Qin Chuan asked.

"He is the chief of staff of the 97th Infantry Division, named Seninovich!" Alexander replied: "Although he is willing to cooperate..."

As he said, Alexander made a little room and raised his head to a lighted room on the left.

Qin Chuan leaned forward and saw that Seninovich was already drinking tea at the table and "having a good chat" with the German officer who was interrogating him.

There is a saying that "barking dogs don't bite". Seninovich seemed very fierce and swore when he was arrested, but he immediately became timid when he entered the interrogation room.

"He knew nothing about the offensive plan!" Alexander spread his hands: "We believe that the Soviets knew the offensive plan at least at the division level. We caught the right person and the operation was successful, but..."

Alexander shook his head helplessly.

So the plan fell into a dead end... Just like Alexander said, everything was done right, but the result was a waste of effort.

"Are you sure?" Qin Chuan asked unwillingly.

"What are you sure about?"

"Are you sure that this Seninovich doesn't know the offensive plan?"

"Yes, we are sure!" Alexander replied: "Because he has no way out, you know... Document No. 227, he only needs to confess some useful information, or even become a prisoner, then he is a 'traitor to the motherland'. He doesn't need to hide anything from us!"

Alexander is right, this is also the reason why captured Soviet officers and even Soviet soldiers usually have two extreme behaviors: either commit suicide or fully cooperate with the German army.

The reason is simple. The moment they became prisoners, they knew that they could not go back. This is also one of the reasons why the German army was able to incite some of them and put them back to collect intelligence with confidence.

"It seems that we have to think of other ways!" Alexander said.

Qin Chuan knew what Alexander meant. The way of capturing prisoners and finding evidence seemed to be blocked. The Soviet army must have more preparations after this incident, and the commandos had no time to prepare for another operation.

Because it was already November, the river had begun to freeze, and the Soviet army could launch a counterattack at any time.

After thinking for a while, Qin Chuan said to Alexander: "No, he knows the plan!"

"What?" Alexander looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

Qin Chuan did not say anything, but took Alexander into another room, then took out a map and spread it on the table. After observing it for a while, he pointed to the map and said, "The Soviets will attack from two directions at the same time, that is, the Don River and the Volga River. The breakthrough points are in the defense areas of the Romanian 3rd Army and the 4th Army..."

"How do you know this?" Alexander asked.

"I don't know!" Qin Chuan replied, "It was Seninnovich who confessed!"

Alexander was stunned when he heard this, and then he looked at the direction of Seninnovich and turned back as if he understood something, and then nodded slightly.

"That's right!" Alexander said, "This guy said he knew nothing at first, but under our questioning, he finally confessed the offensive plan."

"Yes!" Qin Chuan pointed to the map and continued, "The Soviet Union's newly formed Southwestern Front is responsible for attacking the Romanian 3rd Army's defense zone, and the Soviet Union's Stalingrad Front is responsible for attacking the Romanian 4th Army's defense zone. The total force deployed in the attack is about 1 million. After breaking through the two armies' defense lines, they will attack along the highways and railways, and finally meet in Karachi to surround the 6th Army!"

Alexander was stunned after hearing this.

"You scared me, Major!" Alexander lowered his voice and said, "You said it as if it were true!"