"Boom, boom, boom! Rat-a-tat-tat!"
Just as Joseph committed suicide, the German military outside the thicket launched an attack into it.
Dozens of German Armored Fighting Vehicles charged into the thicket, while many infantrymen disembarked from Armored Personnel Carriers and fought alongside them. The German military's fierce assault instantly shattered the Russian army's defenses.
"Comrade Voroshilov, the Germans have broken in. Our troops have suffered catastrophic losses. We simply cannot withstand the German attack any longer," Colonel Karlov reported.
Marshal Voroshilov immediately made his decision. "Surrender. Surrender to the Germans at once!"
Colonel Karlov was not at all surprised that Marshal Voroshilov had given such an order. He did not want to die either. Marshal Voroshilov was the same kind of man. Thus, under such circumstances, it was hardly unexpected for Marshal Voroshilov to order their surrender.
"Surrender! We surrender!" Once Colonel Karlov's order was issued, the remaining Russian soldiers raised their hands one after another and surrendered to the German military. With the battle having reached this point, they knew that if they continued resisting, death was certain. Rather than that, they might as well surrender to the Germans. At least then, they could preserve their own miserable lives.
"I am Voroshilov, member of the Russian Politburo and People's Commissar of Defense. I formally represent the Russian troops here in surrendering to your forces!" Before a German Captain commanding a company, Marshal Voroshilov tried his best to preserve his dignity. Yet from the moment he gave the order to surrender, they no longer had any dignity to speak of.
"Voroshilov? A Russian marshal?" The German Captain was stunned as well. He had apparently never imagined that he would catch such a big fish here.
"Where is Joseph?" the German Captain asked instinctively. According to the intelligence the German military had