Karsokov shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I can't guess that I've never seen such a car before."

"What are you doing here?" A familiar voice came not far away: "What is this car doing?"

Sokov looked in the voice and saw that the person coming was Berkin. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the other party walking directly to the back of the truck compartment and quickly called out: "Deputy Brigade Commander, don't go over."

But he still shouted too late. When he arrived behind the car, Belkin was staggered and almost fell down.

Berkin covered his nose and stumbled to Sokov and Karsokov, asking breathlessly: "What was the car in the past? Are there poison gas bombs?"

"Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, the Chief of Staff and I are studying what this van is used to transport." Sokov said helplessly: "But unfortunately, I have not yet figured out what the real purpose of this vehicle is."

Berkin saw the hose in Sokov's hand and asked curiously: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what are you holding in your hand?"

"It's a hose." Sokov handed Belkin over the hose in his hand: "I don't know what it is for."

Belkin, who took the hose, began to study it carefully and urgently wanted to figure out what the hose with movable joints at both ends is for.

Soon, he saw the clue. He walked to the back of the truck again and gestured the hose to the open car door.

Seeing this, Karsokov couldn't help but start asking: "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, have you seen anything?"

"I seemed to have found something." Belkin pointed to the car door he had looked at, "Look, there is a hole in the car door, the door protruded with a threaded buckle, put the hose into the hole, and tighten the movable joint, and one end of the hose can be fixed to the door."

Karsokov forced himself to resist the stench, walked over, looked carefully, then nodded and said, "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, you are right. This hose can really be fixed in the hole in the door. But where is the other end fixed?"

Belkin bent down, looked at the bottom of the car, then turned his head and said to the scout standing beside him, "Comrade Scout, please use a flashlight to help me shine it."

The scout agreed and illuminated Belkin with a flashlight so that he could see clearly the situation under the car.

"I've figured it out, comrade commander." When Belkin stood up straight again, the other end of the hose that he had originally held in his hand was gone. He turned to Sokov and said, "One end of the hose is fixed on the door of the car, and the other end is fixed on the exhaust pipe. It seems that the Germans want to discharge all the exhaust gas generated when the car is driving into the car."

As soon as these words were said, everyone was puzzled.

Karsokov said in shock: "The Germans are brain-related. What do they want to do by venting the exhaust gas produced by cars in a sealed car?"

But Sokov's reaction was different from everyone else, and he had guessed the purpose of this van.

However, he did not immediately give the answer, but looked at Belkin and asked, "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, what would happen if a group of people were locked in a car and then discharged car exhaust into the car?"

"Oh my God! Comrade Brigade Commander, how could you have such a ridiculous idea?" Belkin said with shock: "If people are locked in this sealed car and discharge exhaust gas into it, all the people inside will definitely die. If these people are asleep, they may die in sleep without pain. But if people are still awake, they will die slowly in pain, and will also experience incontinence before death..."

At this point, Belkin's words came to an abrupt end. He turned to look at the car, then turned to look at Sokov, and asked in a shocked tone: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you mean that the Germans drove people into this van and then killed them with the exhaust of the car?"

"Yes, I think this should be the truth."

Belkin's breathing became rapid. He bit his back teeth and asked, "What are the targets they killed? Our commanders, guerrillas, underground resisters, or someone else who were captured by them?"

Sokov endured the stench and came to the rear of the truck, looked at the black carriage and said, "I think the people who were locked in the carriage should be the Jews?"

"Jew?" Belkin said in confusion: "Why is the target of the massacre the Jews?"

"In the eyes of the Germans, Jews cannot be considered humans at all. Killing them with bullets is simply a waste. Therefore, they will choose a cleaner and hygienic way to clean up these Jews, lock them in closed cars, and kill them with car exhaust. It should be an environmentally friendly way that the Germans think of. As for the captured commanders and fighters, guerrillas and underground resisters, they are usually sent to prisoners of war camps or concentration camps for labor, and will only be dealt with after the person's body completely collapses."

Sokov said all the facts. The Germans initially used collective shooting to clean up Jews. Once Himmler visited the concentration camp and watched his subordinates shoot the Jews, but the blood was accidentally splattered on his body, which made him feel disgusted. In order to avoid similar situations from happening again, he ordered people to choose a simpler and more direct way, which led to the birth of the gas chamber. This van should be regarded as a mobile gas chamber, but the gas was replaced with car exhaust.

"However, according to the deputy brigade commander, if a person dies in a state of waking, he will suffer from incontinence before his death." Romanlov asked with interest: "Cleaning the car afterwards is a troublesome thing. How can it be considered a clean and hygienic method?"

Sokov smiled faintly: "Romalov, do you think the Germans will clean the car themselves after they have dealt with the Jews in the car?"

Sokov's words aroused Belkin's interest. He approached Sokov and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Brigade Commander, can you say more in detail? Tell me how the Germans used poison gas to kill the Jews."

Seeing that Belkin wanted to know, Sokov did not hide it, he began to tell: "When the train transports the Jews from their residence to the concentration camp, a wave of screening will be carried out. Young and strong and skilled people will stay, and the rest of the old, young, women and children will be sent to the gas chamber.

In order not to let the Jews find out that they were being sent to massacre, the Germans would tell them that they would disinfect and bathe when they entered the concentration camp, and then arrange for them to live in. So they brought them outside the gas room designed similar to the public bathroom, and arranged for people to cut their hair for them first, and then let everyone take off their clothes and lined up to enter the gas room one by one.

After everyone entered the gas chamber, they would close the doors and windows and release poison gas into the room. When the Jews waiting to take a bath found that what was spraying out from the spray head was not hot water, but poison gas, they would try their best to escape. But the doors and windows had been closed long ago, and any of their efforts were futile, and they died in pain without exception.

When the Germans passed through the observation hole and found that all the people inside were dead, they would send a corpse collection team composed of Jewish prisoners into the room and send the corpse to the incinerator for burning to eliminate all traces. As for the ashes produced after the burning, vehicles would be dumped into the river to prevent any evidence from being left behind."

"Damn German!" When Berkin heard this, he punched hard on the table with his fist. The sound was so loud that he scared Karsokov and the scouts beside him. Berkin gritted his teeth and said, "If I encounter these beasts, I will definitely shoot them all with my own hands."

Seeing Belkin so excited, Sokov was about to speak a few words, but he heard the other party say in a heavy tone: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I will tell you that I am also a Jew."

Sokov raised his eyebrows and asked unexpectedly: "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, are you also Jews?"

"Yes, I am a Jew." Belkin nodded and said in a affirmative tone: "In fact, not only I am a Jew, but there are still quite a few Jews in the army. Not only are there Jewish soldiers, but also officers, and even several generals, they are also Jews."

After hearing what Belkin said, Sokov immediately remembered that Antonov, who later took over as Chief of General Staff of Marshal Huaseylevsky, wasn't he a Jewish general? And Major General Katukov, who is now the commander of the First Brigade of Guard Tanks, was also a Jewish person.

"Comrade Brigade Commander," Karsokov suddenly said to Sokov: "The scouts reported that they discovered a concentration camp guarded by the German army. At first, they thought it was a prisoner-of-war camp that imprisoned our commanders and fighters. After conducting close reconnaissance, they found that the people in it were all civilians."

"Concentration camp for civilians?" Belkin turned his head and asked Sokov tentatively: "Comrade Brigade Commander, are the civilians detained there being the Jews we just mentioned?"

"It's totally possible." Sokov agreed with this statement. He turned his head and looked at the scout who had not left yet and asked: "Comrade Scout, how far is the concentration camp from us? How many civilians are there in prison and how many German troops are there?"

"There are about a few thousand civilians, and the guards have about two platoons of troops." The scout replied: "It is more than seventy kilometers away from us."

Originally, Sokov also considered that if the concentration camp was not far from him, he could still consider sending people to rescue him. However, when he learned that it was more than 70 kilometers away, he immediately gave up this unrealistic idea. He marched more than 70 kilometers with thousands of civilians, crossed the defense line and returned to his defense zone. The difficulty was not inferior to the fact that Uncle Liu and Huang fled from Xinye to Jiangxia, and he might have fallen into the German encirclement halfway. Not only did the people not rescued him, he would have even trapped himself in.

Seeing Sokov being silent, Karsokov asked carefully: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what did you think about it? Should we save it or not?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov turned his head and looked at Karsokov and said seriously: "The concentration camp is too far from us, not to mention whether the troops we sent can seize the concentration camp. Even if all the guards are eliminated and the civilians who are imprisoned are rescued. But why do you take thousands of civilians, walk more than 70 kilometers, cross the front line and return to our army's defense zone?"
Chapter completed!