In order to avoid making rokosovsky worry about my safety, I drove back after I finished the assignment. It was the first time I heard of such a SS army. I quickly covered the microphone and asked Gusev: "general, do you know what kind of army this is?"


    "It''s definitely not the skull division," gushev replied without hesitation. "Neither the Viking division nor the goring division are of this kind. It seems that they should be a new SS."


    Seeing that I couldn''t find out the answer I wanted to know from Gusev, I could only release my hand covering the microphone and said to askarepov, "Comrade division commander, taking advantage of the favorable situation for our army, you should try your best to expand the occupied area and consolidate it. Our follow-up troops will soon cross the river to support you."


    After putting down the phone, I always felt that it was too strange for a Ss to be defeated so easily by our army, so I dialed the headquarters of the front army. The one who answered the phone was malining. After listening to me, he said, "Rita, I know this unit. This is a special SS unit set up by Hitler with the released poachers at the suggestion of Himmler in early 1940. It is specially used to deal with guerrillas or gangsters. The members of this unit are very good at shooting."


    "However, comrade chief of staff," I asked puzzledly after listening to malining''s introduction, "according to general askarepov''s report, the combat effectiveness of this unit is very poor. After only fighting with us for more than ten minutes, it was a complete defeat."


    "Don''t worry, Rita. Listen to me slowly." Malining continued to explain to me without delay: "in order to better organize this unit, Himmler has deployed a group of regular SS officers to enrich this unit. SS captain Oscar dillwanger is the brigade commander, named dillwanger brigade, which belongs to the skeleton division."


    When I heard the name of skeleton master, my heart beat faster. But when I heard malining''s explanation, I didn''t interrupt. Instead, I listened to what he was going to say.


    "According to our intelligence, this unit was transferred to Poland at the end of 1940 to take care of a concentration camp here. Later, they were mobilized many times to either serve as guards or to encircle and suppress the guerrillas. But no matter where the force is transferred, there will be details and looting of civilians.


    In the fight against the guerrillas, they also showed a very fierce side. As long as they suspect that they are helping the guerrillas, the villagers will be executed, all the food will be burned and the villages will be razed. If they encounter the minefields laid out by the guerrillas during the campaign, they will let the innocent women and children walk in front of the troops and make a passage for them in the minefields. "


    From marinin''s story, I know that this dielwanger brigade is a team of beasts that do no evil. So as soon as marinin finished, I nodded and said, "chief of staff, I see. I will give an order to general askarepov later that all officers and men who capture the dielwanger brigade will be shot on the spot, and we will never accept their surrender. "


    After I finished my conversation with malining, I put down the phone and repeated what malining said to Gusev. Then I said, "Comrade General, please give an order to the army. All officers and soldiers who capture dielwanger brigade will be shot on the spot. We will never accept their surrender to this kind of two legged beast."


    "Don''t worry, comrade deputy commander." Gusev nodded his head and said with certainty, "I will convey your order immediately."


    I asked the signalman to connect me to the temporary headquarters of askarepov. When I heard the other party''s voice, I immediately asked in a loud voice, "Hello, comrade division commander, where are you now?"


    "Report, comrade deputy commander," askarepov reported excitedly, "we have arrived at Madame Curie''s old house and surrounded about 100 SS here."


    I asked cautiously, "Comrade division commander, is the SS army you mentioned the one you just mentioned?"


    "Yes," askarepov replied truthfully, though he did not know why I asked, "the fighting capacity of this SS is really poor. Although there are more than 100 of them, I only need one battalion at most to solve them all."


    According to past practice, our army needs at least one regiment to be sure of destroying a company of the SS. Now askarebov actually says that with one battalion, the besieged SS company can be easily destroyed, which shows how poor their combat effectiveness is.


    I was deeply afraid that in order to reduce the casualties of the troops, askarepov would accept the surrender of the officers and men of dielwanger brigade. I quickly gave him a detailed account of what I had learned, and finally told him, "Comrade division commander, I remind you that as long as you are the officers and men of this army, we will not accept their surrender. Do you understand?"


    "I see, comrade deputy commander." After listening to me, askarebov gritted his teeth and said, "you can rest assured that I will never let go of a two legged beast from dielwanger brigade. I will definitely wipe them out completely."


    According to the plan, the Zhouqiao camp dispatched by rokosovsky should complete the erection of the bridge on the viswa River in the morning. However, due to the continuous German shelling, the bridge just closed, and before the tanks and cannons stopped nearby passed, they were broken by the German artillery.


    When he heard that the bridge had been destroyed by German artillery fire, Gusev was immediately flustered. He looked at me and said anxiously, "Comrade deputy commander, what should we do? If the tanks and cannons can''t cross the river, the light troops on the West Bank won''t be able to last long under the strong German offensive. "“ Although our heavy weapons will not be able to cross the river for the time being, the situation is not likely to develop in a direction unfavorable to our army. " I comforted Gusev and said, "you should immediately organize more river crossing equipment and continue to ferry new troops to the other side. Remember to bring more mortars and 40 rockets. As long as our troops have these weapons, it will not be so easy for the enemy to drive them into the visva river."“ Yes, yes, "Gusev said, nodding his head and saying," I''ll organize the materials you said immediately and send them to the other side as soon as possible. " While Gusev was organizing supplies, I quickly called Galitsky and told him: "Comrade Colonel, you should stop attacking for the time being. When the 40 rocket launchers you are equipped with arrive, you can attack the German army in the front."