On the night of February 15, 1944, Chelkass encircled the last field airport of the Nedgers.

Before the last German plane took off from the airport, General Stmorman, the commander of the 11th Army, came to the plane, handed his diary to the pilot, and instructed in a heavy tone: "Maybe people outside can use it."

At this time, Giller, the commander of the 5th "Viking" Armored Grenadier Division of the armed SS, who was standing not far away, said in an anxious tone: "General Stemorman, please board the plane to evacuate immediately. This is the only opportunity to evacuate!"

If it weren't for his straight military uniform and dazzling medals, he would be more like a professor in the university. In fact, Giller was one of the most combat-friendly and honored commanders in the Waffen SS.

"No, I am the commander of this breakthrough battle. I must not retreat at the last moment. I must fight until the last moment!"

Stemorman shook his head firmly, and then said to Giller very seriously, "General Giller, you are a rare and excellent general in the Third Reich. At this time, the one who should be evacuated by plane is not only me, but you."

"General Stemorman, our division is the only armored force in the encirclement and the only hope for the entire army to break through the numerous encirclements.

As the commander of this armored force, I should take on the heavy responsibility of attacking the attack when breaking through the encirclement!”

Giller also firmly refused to evacuate by plane, because he had long been determined to stay and save his troops.

On May 1, 1943, Giller was appointed commander of the 5th "Viking" Armored Grenadier Division of the Wrathful SS.

The appointment was controversial at the time, as everyone suspected that Giller did not have the experience in the position.

But soon the soldiers realized that their new division commander was not only a strict disciplined commander, but also a kind and a kind person to his subordinates.

Soon, Giller showed excellent organizational skills again. Under his training, the "Viking" master had iron perseverance.

On November 1, 1943, Giller was awarded the Oak Leaf Knight's Iron Cross for commanding the "Viking" division's outstanding defense in the Donets and Dnepr River areas and southwest of Kharkov.

Soon after, he was promoted to SS Regional Commander and Lieutenant General of the Armed SS.

"Okay, then let's work together!"

Seeing that Giller had made a decision, Stmormann did not persuade him because the upcoming difficult breakthrough war really required an excellent general like Giller to stabilize the morale of the army so that as many German soldiers could escape and ascend to heaven.

On February 16, a blizzard fell, with visibility of only 10-20 meters.

The wind and snow were mixed, and after the bloody battle overnight, the German soldiers were even more distressed. General Stemorman finally decided to set the breakout time at 23:00 on the 16th.

Because the ground was frozen at that time, it was more conducive to marching, and the visibility was extremely poor at night, which was conducive to the German army's concealing actions.

General Stemorman divided the German army into two echelons, the first echelon consisting of the "Viking" division, the 72nd Infantry Division and the B Army cluster. Their mission was to create a gap in the Soviet defense line.

Then the second echelon composed of the 88th, 57th and 389th divisions will follow up, and they also shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending.

The German army's breakout direction pointed to Leizuka in the southwest to meet with the 1st Armored Division.

In order to keep it a secret, General Stemorman canceled the preparations for artillery fire and announced that he would act with the German defenders. Finally, he saluted the soldiers with awe: "I wish you all good luck and see you outside the encirclement!"

"salute!"

The German officers present saluted General Stemorman in awe, and they knew what the general's decision meant.

For Stmorman and others, the most painful thing is not to sacrifice their lives to break through, but to have to order more than 2,000 seriously injured people to be kept.

These seriously injured people will be quietly waiting for the arrival of the Russians with a few military doctors who volunteered to accompany them.

Everyone knows that neither the German nor the Soviet army has the tradition of treating each other's prisoners of war well on the Eastern Front battlefield, and it is often the case that guards in prison camps send German prisoners of war with wooden sticks to drive away.

What kind of future and destiny will these seriously injured and volunteers suffer? Even if they use their feet, they will know what will happen.

But now, what can they do besides this?

Could it be that you have to solve it yourself?

After a full meal, the German officers and soldiers were waiting nervously. It was obvious that the German soldiers were not affected by the Soviet offensive.

On the contrary, when they thought that the tormenting long wait had passed, they were about to fight for life and death, the German army began to become more and more motivated.

At 23:00, the time to break through has finally come!

The armored vehicles of the "Viking" division began to roar. In the ranks of infantry, the company platoon leaders issued the same order almost at the same time. "Everyone is bayonet!" "Assault!"

Under the cover of night, the first German troops embarked on the road to break through.

The German army abandoned artillery and supplies, gathered all the soldiers to launch a breakout quietly.

However, the German army's breakthrough was soon discovered by the Soviet army.

Soviet troops used flares to illuminate the night sky as bright as daytime. Under the flares, Soviet tanks and night-air bombers opened fire violently at the German column.

The battle soon turned into a massacre.

However, because there were too many German soldiers breaking through, the German army once occupied the 239.0 highland.

At this time, the Soviet reinforcements arrived and launched a cruel hand-to-hand battle with the German army.

In extreme chaos, the German troops of different troops gradually became mixed together in the dark. By dawn, the system above the German company would almost no longer exist.

German officers and soldiers struggled to advance on a nearly knee-dead road, Soviet artillery shells continued to explode in the German ranks, and more and more people fell down.

But the others still walked forward firmly. After a night of cold and cold field march, the German officers and soldiers consumed a lot of physical strength, and they only had one belief: even if they crawl, they had to crawl back to their own defense line!

General Konev, the highest commander of the Soviet army, set up five blocking lines in the direction of the German army's breakthrough. The first two were infantry, the third were artillery, and the fourth and fifth were tanks and cavalry.

When the German army broke through the Soviet army's first three lines of defense, they only encountered a weak resistance. They all thought they had escaped safely, and they all fired their guns into the sky and cheered.

However, at about 6 o'clock in the morning on February 17, when the Germans broke through to a wide area, Soviet tanks and cavalry, who had been ambushing for a long time, appeared.

The t34 tanks lined up in dense formations and rushed into the crowded German marching column, wantonly crushing the German officers and soldiers who had already dispersed their formations.

In order to avoid accidentally hurting the tanks around him, the Soviet tank group tried not to fire, but instead adopted a direct crushing method.

They rushed over the German truck and crushed it from the trailer and carriage, like crushing matchboxes. The wounded German soldiers and war horses on the carriage were crushed into meat pies by tanks.

The Soviet cavalry followed behind the tanks, chasing the fleeing German soldiers, waving their swords and slashing and killing them. Even the hands raised by the surrendered German soldiers were chopped off.

When the surviving Germans rushed to the front of the Soviet positions, they were swept down by machine guns.

The battle was no longer considered a battle at this time, and it turned into a unilateral massacre of the Soviet army.
Chapter completed!