Soul to the Rhine

Chapter 129 End
On July 7, Brest-Litovsk returned to Soviet hands, and the history of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union ended.

In the evening, the Soviet army held a grand celebration feast here.Different from usual times, this time it was a real victory. Their morale continued to rise and their emotions were high, so all the soldiers danced in the central square, laughing and laughing, and they never stopped.

"Rossia, do you want to come dance? There are very nice young men over there!"

The speaker was Laura, the Soviet female soldier who had captured Heinrich's troops almost a month ago. She was a typical white Russian beauty, tall, blonde, and sexy.The people are very friendly and have been taking care of the two of them for a while.

Rosia shook her head: "Ilana is not in good health yet. I will stay with her here and won't go."

"Okay, I'm tired too, let's take a rest." Laura said, putting down her arms, sitting next to her, and looking at Elana: "Does your stomach still hurt?"

Elana nodded slowly: "A little bit."

"Ah, that damn German devil, he was so cruel to women." Laura still looked angry when talking about MacArthur, but Rosia and Ilana couldn't take it.

Fortunately, this girl is a guy with well-developed limbs, a simple mind, and explosive strength. She is single-minded and can't turn.She chattered a few words and then changed the subject: "What are your plans next? There is no Red Cross in Brest. Maybe you can follow our Fourth Division troops back to Minsk."

Returning to Minsk is the real nightmare. Both of them shook their heads. Rosia hesitated for a moment, but still said her plan: "I originally planned to wait for Ilana to recover, and we would return to Poland. I was in It was a long time working there.”

Laura tilted her head and thought for a while, then nodded: "That's good. Poland borders here and is very close. We just happen to be preparing to enter Poland and concentrate all our efforts on attacking the German mainland. You can follow us."

Hearing this, Ilana looked a little uncomfortable, but she had been sick, and Laura didn't feel anything was wrong. She said to herself: "In this way, you go to Warsaw first, then to Prague, and then to Vienna and Milan. , and finally go back to France, it will be safe to go around Germany, and you can also see great art in these places. How about this route? "

Rosia was dizzy by the number of place names in her head. After counting carefully, she found that she had to pass through five or six countries along the way. She couldn't help but be speechless. Just crossing the border was so troublesome.

"No, I'll stay in Warsaw first, you will be stationed in Poland soon, it should be safe there."

"Of course." Laura nodded proudly: "I also want to see what Warsaw is like. You have lived there for so long, and you want to take me to play with you."

"It's my pleasure." Rosia agreed happily, but I don't know if the current situation in Warsaw is good or not, and Laura probably won't be in the mood to play anymore.

A strong bonfire was burning in the center of the venue, and the soldiers gathered around to dance a folk dance. Unlike the one in the refugee camp, the smiles on their faces were sincere, thorough, and free from worries.

Although Rosia felt quite heavy, she couldn't help but laugh when she saw them so happy.

Not long after, Laura got up and entered the field again, dancing with a group of female soldiers.The two looked at each other quietly for a while, and then Ilana suddenly said: "Sia, let's go for a walk outside, it's a bit hot here."

"Yes!" Rosia nodded, reached out to help her up, turned and walked outside the venue. The path there was different from the brightly lit ones here. There were only a few lights hanging on the roadside. The light was very weak, but it felt like But very quiet and cool.

The two of them walked slowly along the lamppost, and the night breeze became more and more refreshing.But Rosia was still a little worried when she looked at Ilana aside.

Ilana's character has changed so much. When she was at the Berlin Medical School, she was a carefree and mischievous little girl who loved looking at handsome boys. When she arrived in France, she experienced various dangerous and bloody scenes on the home front, but Until the separation, she was still optimistic.

Finally coming to the Eastern Front, she gradually became calm and silent, and then became like this.

She grew up, but the process was poignant.

Rosia couldn't help but sigh. In fact, she had experienced nothing compared to Ilana, but the difference was that she knew the outcome of the war early on. She knew what she would experience, what she would encounter, and what she would lose. , because she has always viewed everything here with an extremely pessimistic attitude, so she was not driven crazy by the war. In this situation that had been foreseen, she stuck to her true intention in a very stupid way.

The two walked for a while without a word, and Rosia finally couldn't help breaking the silence: "Ilana, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Ilana replied with a smile: "I'm fine, my stomach doesn't hurt anymore."

Rosia also smiled, then looked at her, hesitated, and asked: "Did MacArthur tell you anything that day?"

On the day Heinrich was captured, she vaguely saw MacArthur's mouth moving before grabbing the gun, but because of the distance, she heard nothing.

These days, she has been unwilling to believe that MacArthur really wanted to resist, but the punch he punched Ilana was too hard, and her spleen and stomach were greatly damaged. If it was really a cruel trick, the sacrifice would be too great.

Ilana's footsteps stopped. Her eyes looked through the darkness and seemed to see the scene in Minsk on July 7. After a long time, she sighed: "I'm sorry, he only told me he was sorry."

Rosia was slightly startled, and then she felt that it was indeed the case.MacArthur is usually quite annoying, but remembering him at this time makes people feel inexplicably sad.

The dead are gone, but the living are still there. Living in memories is really painful.

It seemed that after Ilana said these words, a big stone was lifted from her heart, and her expression changed extremely subtly.

The two of them walked not far, and a low building appeared in front of them. This place was very different from other places, because it was heavily surrounded by barbed wire. It was airtight and very depressing, as if, it was as if ...

Concentration camp built by the Germans.

When this thought appeared in Rosia's mind, her heartbeat skipped a beat.

Because this group of Soviet troops was marching westward, they always brought the German troops captured in Minsk with them during the march.Normally, Rosia and the others could not see any prisoners, and of course they could not get any information, because at first she tried to use her Red Cross status to test the situation of these prisoners, but to no avail. They were all warnings from Soviet soldiers.

But this time, by mistake, they found a prisoner-of-war camp where people were temporarily held.

It's a POW camp, yes.

The two looked at each other, their expressions inexplicably a little excited. Although Rosia knew that there was no chance of her seeing Heinrich, she subconsciously looked towards the prisoner of war camp.The dense barbed wire fence blocked most of her sight. She stepped back and stood on tiptoes, but she could only see the vaguely moving human heads exposed inside. She could only see a little hair, not even the face.

She had always heard that the Soviets took revenge on the captured German soldiers after the war and vented their hatred, but she still couldn't imagine that scene. Was it really like the Jews who were imprisoned in the concentration camp?

Rosia can completely understand the hatred of the Soviets. After all, they also paid countless blood and lives to win victory.But she didn't dare to think about Heinrich's life. She was afraid that the Soviets would single him out from the ranks of officers and shoot him, even though what he had done was enough to kill him a hundred times.

"who?"

Rosia was still trying to look in, but there was a shout in the distance, and the bright light swept over, stinging her eyes and she quickly covered her eyes with her hands.

Several soldiers carrying guns came over and looked at them. Their expressions softened slightly, as if they recognized them: "Please go back, madam, this is not the place you should be."

Rosia put down her hand, blinked her sour eyes, and asked cautiously, "Is this a prisoner of Guan? I..."

"Please go back." The soldier's expression became serious and he blocked her gaze. His body was meticulous and straight.

Rosia had no choice but to give up, said sorry, and then took Ilana back the same way.

For a while later, she always wanted to lean over here when she had nothing to do, but I don’t know if those soldiers had reported the matter. Every time she came secretly, she would be caught, and then she would be dispirited. go back.Several times in a row, even Laura had to warn her that if she did this again, their army would no longer care whether she was French or whether she belonged to the Red Cross, and would directly punish her as espionage.

Rosia didn't dare to go anymore, but Laura seemed to feel something was wrong, and asked her directly if she had any contact with the officer who was captured that day.

To this, Rosia could only reply: "I have nothing to do with him, it's just because of work. You know, the Red Cross pays more attention to these things."

An organization like the Red Cross that crosses borders does like to meddle in other people's business. Although Laura felt something was wrong, she still believed her, but she spent more time with her in the future.

Rosia originally thought that the Red Army's invasion of Poland would only take a month or two, but she did not expect that it would be delayed until Christmas.

Although Germany has no chance of winning on the Eastern Front, Berlin's top leaders seem to have their own considerations.If the German army surrendered at this time, tens of millions of people would have to spend an even crueler winter in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps. The Soviets would not provide them with cotton-padded clothes and medicines. In this way, the number of people who would freeze to death would definitely be higher than during the war. People died, so the command had no choice but to give the order to continue fighting.

Although the battlefield on the Eastern Front is still continuing, the Soviet Union has successfully led the battlefield out of its own territory. Now is the time to conquer Germany's various little brothers and various slave countries. The entire Eastern Front is full of voices of liberation.

After entering 1945, Rosia finally followed the Red Army all the way into Poland.

From 1939 to 1945, after going around for such a long time, she finally stepped on the land of Warsaw again.

This dilapidated city is almost no longer a city, not even a wilderness, because it is riddled with holes and scars.It turned out that the street where she worked had been razed to the ground, and the square where Henry was shot no longer existed. Broken bricks were piled on both sides of the road and in the corners, and the entire city was extremely depressed.

Laura, who was with her, did not expect that the capital of a country would look like this, and they, the Soviet Union, also occupied half of the country. For this, she could only express her condolences to the city as a soldier.

The Soviet troops lived in military camps. Now that they were here, Rosia just found a better hotel to stay in. She didn't want to stay in such a dilapidated Warsaw, but now she didn't dare to go back to France.

One is that in August last year, when the Allied forces entered Paris and France recovered, it was the time when all kinds of revenge incidents were concentrated.Secondly, she had not written a letter to Aunt Mesa for such a long time. She didn't know what to write, and she didn't know how to explain her behavior and experiences in the past two years.

So I have been dragging on like this until now I have arrived in Warsaw.

As Germany was about to surrender, things became more and more concentrated. Here she heard the news that the US and Soviet armies had joined forces at the Elbe River, and then the Soviet army captured Berlin.

Then, US President Roosevelt died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Then again, Hitler, who had been coaxing all the time, committed suicide in the basement of the Chancellery, and the Soviet army occupied Berlin.All kinds of military generals in Germany, no matter whether they are sitting on the bench or hot, they should be damned, and they should be captured.It's just that the most embarrassing thing among them is the death of Rommel. He was such an outstanding military general, but he was eventually forced to death by Hitler himself.This incident made many people incomprehensible, and even the Soviet army sent condolences to Rommel, a super opponent.But there is no way, the world of madmen has always been incomprehensible to ordinary people.

Finally, on May 5, the Third Reich surrendered unconditionally.

The Third Reich only existed for 12 short years, but it left a cold memory that people will never forget.

At this point, the thrilling history is almost coming to an end.The news was like a tornado. After it came out, the whole of Europe was immersed in huge cheers. After five years and eight months, the most brutal war in history finally came to an end.

The hotel where Rosia stayed temporarily was abuzz all day long. People rushed to tell each other, cheered and hugged, shed tears of joy, and various languages ​​​​were mixed in this place.The soldiers who returned home hugged their wives and children tightly, and everyone was overwhelmed with excitement.

And when Rosia heard the news, he stood there in a daze, and after reacting, his heart was sour.

How many years have passed, from the end of 1937 to this era, to the end of the war in 1945, a full seven years.For seven years, Europe was full of smoke and war. She went from Berlin to Warsaw, then to Mezieres, to Calais, to Dunkirk, to Paris, and finally to Lithuania, the Soviet Union, Stalingrad, Minsk... a whole circle around Europe, and finally she came back here.

In seven years, she has traveled to so many fields and countries. This was something she had never thought of before, but now she has done it.She remembers everyone's face and their stories. She has laughed, cried, been lucky, been difficult, been hurt, been protected, liked people, and seemed to be liked, and counting them down, so With so many experiences, she could almost write an autobiography.These things always existed in her mind, as if they happened just yesterday, but they also seemed like a long time ago, making her heart feel ups and downs, tossing and turning.

But nothing can compare to the end of the war. The war is finally over. All this torture is over. Every day in the future will be better than the present!
Then, on September 9, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

Although she had not paid much attention to the Far East battlefield, when she heard the news, Rosia really shed tears, shedding hot tears for the end of the several-year war of aggression against China.

She didn't know who these tears were for, nor did she know that her feelings were so rich. In short, they were as turbulent as the sea and could not stop.

The world's anti-fascist victory is a great move in human history.The surrender scene was broadcast live all over the world, and the voice of the American general's speech was like a long-lost ray of sunshine, illuminating every dark corner of the world that had suffered from war.

"From this solemn moment, out of the bloodshed and carnage of the past, will emerge a better world, a world that upholds human dignity and works to realize its most precious aspirations, liberty, tolerance and justice!"

(End of this chapter)