Red Moscow

  Chapter 242 Bryansk (4)

  The commander in charge of commanding the German troops in the direction of Bryansk is the newly appointed commander of the 2nd Army Hans von Zalmut. After learning that the Air Force had gained air supremacy on the battlefield and that the reinforcements' counterattack had successfully shattered the Soviet attack on the second line of defense, they immediately issued an order to the front-line troops to continue their offensive to the north in an attempt to recapture the territory occupied by the Soviets. Zhizdra and other areas.

  Facing the fierce German offensive, neither Orlov's infantry army nor Sokov's 31st Guards Division fought to the death. They repelled a series of attacks launched by the German army in a row. Although they paid huge casualties, they finally gained a firm foothold on the first line of defense occupied.

  In order to reduce the pressure on the 16th Army, Zhukov ordered the 10th and 61st Armies on the left and right wings to take active actions and launched an attack on the depth of the German defense. Although the troops commanded by the two generals Popov did not make any progress, they effectively contained the enemy's forces and prevented them from attacking the 16th Army with all their strength. As a result, the fronts of the Soviet Union and Germany were stable on the first line of defense occupied by the Soviet army.

In the early morning of June 22, Sokov was standing at the gate of the division headquarters, looking at the bright sky, and said to Potukin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, although Moscow does not have a white night like Leningrad, the sky tonight is as bright as it is." Really bright."

"Yes, the summer solstice is the longest day of the year." After hearing this, Potukin nodded and said, "The Communist Party who brazenly launched a war against us last year may have chosen this day because The length of the day allows them to prolong their operations in order to achieve greater results."

  While the two were chatting, a communications soldier suddenly ran out from the division headquarters and reported to Potukin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, there is a call from the front to see you."

   Potukin looked at the communications soldier and asked, "Who is calling?"

  The communications soldier quickly replied: "It's Captain Jetrov, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1135th Regiment."

  Sokov was eager to know that Jetrov called at such a time and there was something important, so he returned to the headquarters with Potukin.

  Potukin picked up the microphone and stuck it to his ear and said, "Is it Captain Jetrov? I'm Lieutenant Colonel Potukin! What's the matter?"

Sokov, who was sitting next to Potukin, heard Jetrov's agitated voice: "Comrade Chief of Staff, Matvey and Norma, who just went out to carry out their missions, caught them in the minefield in front of the position. A prisoner."

"Caught a prisoner?" Hearing Jetrov's words, both Potukin and Sokov had expressions of surprise on their faces. Usually, the prisoners caught in minefields were engineers who cleared mines. Their task is to open a path in the minefield in preparation for the upcoming attack. Therefore, after a moment of silence, Potukin asked back: "Is it a sapper?"

   "No, Comrade Chief of Staff." Jetrov said hesitantly, "Yes... a female soldier."

"What, female soldier?" Jetrov's words almost caused Potukin and Sokov's jaws to hit the ground directly, and they thought to themselves, "Can't the Germans find someone to be an engineer? Even women were sent to minefields to clear mines.” Because the news was so shocking, both of them ignored that Jetrov did not acknowledge the other party’s identity as an engineer.

  Sokov tapped the phone a few times with his finger, and ordered: "Comrade Chief of Staff, let Captain Jetrov send someone to send the female prisoner here immediately. We need to find out why she appeared here."

   Potukin nodded after hearing this, and then said into the microphone: "Comrade Captain, the division commander ordered: send the prisoners here immediately, and we will conduct an interrogation."

  After Potukin put down the phone, Sokov immediately asked him: "Comrade Chief of Staff, is there anyone in the division who understands German?"

  Potukin thought for a while, then shook his head: "It seems not!"

   "Oh, how did I forget him." Hearing that Potukin said that no one in the teacher understood German, Sokov was a little disappointed at first, and suddenly remembered that Assia knew German, so she could be used as an interpreter. Thinking of this, Sokov quickly picked up the phone and dialed the Istria Camp. As soon as he heard Belkin's voice, he said bluntly: "Hello, Comrade Belkin, I am Sokov. I have an important task and I need Assia's assistance. Send someone to send her over immediately." .”

  The location of the Istria camp is only five or six minutes away from the division headquarters, and Assia soon arrived at the division headquarters. Asiya and Sokov reunited after a long absence, and she was very excited, but in front of the staff officers and communications soldiers in the division headquarters, she still reported to Sokov according to the regulations: "Comrade commander, the health worker Asiya is here on order, please give me instructions." !"

On a private occasion, Sokov might give Assia a warm hug, but on such a formal occasion, he can only say solemnly: "Comrade Assia, we are going to interrogate a prisoner later. , since there is no one in the division who understands German, I called Belkin specifically and asked him to send someone to take you here."

  Hearing that Sokov asked him to come here to work as an interpreter, a trace of disappointment flashed in Assia's eyes. However, she straightened her body and replied, "Comrade teacher, please rest assured that I will definitely translate for you."

Potukin had long heard the story between Sokov and Assia. Seeing the two talking solemnly in front of him, he deliberately did not expose them, but changed the subject and asked: "Comrade Assia, I heard that there is a defected German prisoner in your camp, and he is usually responsible for the translation work, why didn't he come today?"

"Report to Comrade Chief of Staff," Assia turned to Potukin and replied dryly, "Corporal Ernst was injured in the battle two months ago and was sent to the military hospital in the rear, and he has not been discharged yet. Woolen cloth."

   Several people chatted for a while, and Matvey and Norma came to the division headquarters with the prisoners. Sokov saw the female prisoner who was held between the two, tall and slender, wearing a well-fitting German corporal uniform, with her hands tied behind her back. However, with a black hood on his head, he couldn't see what the other party looked like.

  For some reason, upon seeing this female prisoner, Sokov felt a very familiar feeling in his heart. He pointed to the stool in the middle of the room and told Matvey: "Comrade Sergeant, let her sit on the stool."

After Matvey sat the female prisoner on the stool, Sokov, who sat back at the table, ordered Matvey again: "Take off the hood on her head." Hearing Sokov's order, Matvey immediately Turvey hastily removed the hood from the prisoner's head. As soon as the headgear was taken off, Sokov saw that a rag was still stuck in the female prisoner's mouth, so he gestured to Matvey, motioning him to take out the rag. After Matvey carried out Sokov's order faithfully, he took a step back and stood behind the captive with Norma holding a submachine gun.

  Seeing the unkempt look of the female prisoner, Sokov was not interested in taking a closer look, so he turned his head and looked at Assia standing behind him: "Assia, ask her name, military rank and position."

   Just as Asya was about to translate Sokov's words into German, the female prisoner suddenly exclaimed, and then asked emotionally in proficient Russian: "You... Are you... Mi... Misha?"

   Hearing the other party call out his nickname, Sokov was surprised and wondered if he was so famous in Germany? Even a German corporal knows his name, and it's still a nickname. He squinted his eyes and looked at the female prisoner, trying to see who it was.

   "My God!" Assia exclaimed, then rushed past Sokov, hugged the female prisoner, and said excitedly, "Is that you, Adelina?"

   Adelina? ! Hearing this familiar name, Sokov suddenly stood up from his seat, rushed over a few steps, lifted the hair on the female prisoner's face with his hands, and looked at her carefully. "It's really Adelina." After confirming that the captive held in Assia's arms was indeed Adelina, who hadn't been seen for a long time, Sokov walked up to Matvey and kissed him from his waist. Suddenly drew the dagger and cut the rope binding Adelina's hands.

"Adelina," Sokov and Asiya helped Adelina to sit down from left to right, and asked with concern: "Where have you been these past few months, and why did you appear here? "

  Potukin quickly waved at Matvey and the others, signaling them to retreat first, and then fetched a basin of water himself, placed it in front of Adelina, and asked Assia to help her wash her face.

   "Adelina," after Assia helped Adelina re-dress, Sokov repeated the question just now: "Where have you been these few months, and why have you appeared here?"

  Adelina looked up at Sokov and said, "A few months ago, I was sent to Bryansk by my superiors to serve as an interpreter at the headquarters of the German Second Army."

  Hearing that the other party was working as an interpreter in the German Army Command, Sokov suddenly thought of the two plain-coded telegrams of unknown origin, and quickly asked, "So, you sent those two plain-coded telegrams?"

  The astonishment on Adelina's face flashed away, she nodded, and said affirmatively: "Yes, I sent those two telegrams."

"But why did you invent the code telegram?" Potukin, who was standing aside, had seen two telegrams with his own eyes, and after seeing Adelina admitting that he had sent the telegram, he asked in puzzlement: "Don't you know , while our army is receiving the telegram, the Germans can also receive it. In this way, won't you be in a dangerous situation?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff, I guess I may know the reason." Sokov raised his hand to stop Potukin from continuing to ask, and said, "It should be that something happened to the comrade in charge of sending the report, so that Adelina When sending messages, one has to risk using clear telegrams."

"That's right, Misha, it's exactly what you said." Agelina nodded and said with certainty: "The radio operator who cooperates with me is an elderly shoemaker. Every time I have any information to I went to the shoe store to look for him in the name of shoe repair. But last month, something happened, he was arrested suddenly, and then there was no news. In order to spread the information I got, I had to risk using plain code Telegram to send a message."

   "Why did you appear here?" Sokov thought to himself, this place is hundreds of kilometers away from Bryansk, how did you, a weak girl, appear on the front line?

Adelina saw Sokov's suspicion of herself, and quickly explained: "After I sent two clear-coded telegrams in a row, I was suspected by the Germans, but they couldn't find anything about me. What about me. But in this way, I can no longer get any valuable information from them. It happened that the chief of staff of the Army Group took me to the front line to inspect during the day, and I took the opportunity to sneak out. I wanted to climb into my Unexpectedly, he was captured by two soldiers before he passed through the barbed wire."

   Hearing what Adelina said, Sokov broke out in a cold sweat. Although Jetrov's report said that Adelina was caught in a minefield, the real minefield was behind the barbed wire. If Matvey and Norma hadn't caught Agelina in time Na. Waiting for her fate, she was either killed by a landmine or shot and killed by soldiers on duty in the position. So he said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, you didn't climb into the barbed wire, otherwise we can only collect your body now."

Agelina took a sip of the hot tea that Assia handed her, then looked at Sokov and asked, "Misha, can you send me to the front army headquarters? I have important information. It needs to be handed over to superiors immediately."

"I don't have the ability to send you to the headquarters of the Front Army." Seeing that Adelina changed the subject on his own initiative, Sokov knew in his heart that the secrets she had were beyond his level. It was impossible to send her directly to the Front Army Command, and it could only be transferred through the Group Army Command. "But I can send you to the Group Army Command first, and let them send you to the Front Army Command."

Sokov picked up the phone on the table and connected to the group army headquarters. When he heard someone talking inside, he immediately said: "I am Major Sokov, the commander of the 31st Guards Division. I have something important to report to you." Comrade Commander reports."

  The person who answered the phone waited for Sokov to finish speaking, and said lazily: "Major Sokov, Comrade Commander is sleeping. If you have anything, you can tell me."

  Sokov didn't know who the person who answered the phone was, and naturally it was impossible to casually disclose such a confidential matter to the other party. Since Rokossovsky was sleeping, Malinin might not be sleeping either, so he continued: "Sorry, what I said is very important, if Comrade Commander is not convenient to answer the phone, please ask Comrade Chief of Staff to answer the phone Bar."

   Not long after, Malinin's familiar voice came from the receiver: "I'm Malinin, Major Sokov, is there anything urgent?"

After hearing Malinin's voice, Sokov first glanced at Adelina who was sitting next to him, and then said: "Comrade Chief of Staff, the person who invented the code telegraph for us is sitting next to me at the moment. She said there is an important You need to rush to the front army headquarters immediately, can you send someone to pick her up?"

  Malinin waited for Sokov to finish speaking, and asked cautiously: "Major Sokov, are you sure she is the one who invented the code telegraph?"

"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Regarding Malinin's question, Sokov replied affirmatively: "I have dealt with her before, she is a very reliable person, and I believe that what she said is true. "

   "Since this is the case," Ma Lining hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Well, I will send someone to pick her up as soon as possible."

  (end of this chapter)