Red Moscow

  Chapter 371 Catch the spy

  Seryozha took the fake major to another room and immediately started interrogation. But no matter what Seryozha asked, the other party remained silent without saying a word. Seryozha thought for a moment, then called a soldier and said to him: "Call Sergeant Samoilov here."

  Sergeant Samoilov is the sergeant who was brought back by Sokov to guard the warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs when he was the chief of staff of the Southern Group. After returning to Mamayev Post, Sokov fulfilled his promise, not only appointed him as the platoon leader of the third platoon of the guards, but also promoted his rank from sergeant to sergeant.

Hearing that the soldier said that Seryozha had something to do with him, Samoilov was quite surprised. Although he was brought back by the brigade commander himself, the company commander has always been serious about himself, and even when he reported work to him, he always He seemed to be indifferent, why did he suddenly send someone to call him today?

   With this question in mind, Samoilov followed the soldier to the room where Seryozha was. He quickly walked up to Sergey Shalesha, stood at attention and raised his hand to salute: "Comrade Company Commander, Third Platoon Sergeant Samoilov has been ordered to come, please give instructions!"

"Comrade Sergeant, I'm looking for you today because I have an important task for you to complete." Before Samoilov asked what the task was, Sergey pointed to the middle of the room with his hand: " It's about taking useful information out of his mouth."

  Samoylov turned his head and saw an officer with the rank of major sitting in the middle of the room, and behind him stood two soldiers with submachine guns. Seeing this situation, Samoilov asked curiously: "Comrade company commander, who is he? Is he a deserter?" It is not only soldiers who escape, but also many officers, but school-level officers are rare.

   "He's not a deserter." Seryozha replied: "He's a German disguised as the commander of our army. Your task is to get useful information out of his mouth."

"Comrade Company Commander, please give me half an hour." Samoilov couldn't help but smile after figuring out what task Seryozha entrusted to him. As a former member of the internal affairs force, interrogation is his best matter. So he said confidently: "I will definitely let him confess to even the thing about wetting the bed when he was a child."

   "Okay, I'll give you half an hour." Seryozha knew that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had its own way of interrogating prisoners, otherwise he wouldn't have called Samoilov to assist him. He nodded in agreement, then asked, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

   "Please call two of my former subordinates." Samoilov looked at the false major sitting in the middle of the room, and said coldly, "I need their assistance."

  Seryozha was not interested in watching how Samoilov interrogated the captives. When the other party's old subordinates arrived, he left the room with the two soldiers guarding the captives. He left two soldiers guarding the door while he went to report to Sokov.

  Seeing Seryozha coming in from the outside, Sokov thought he was reporting the results of the interrogation to him, so he asked, "Comrade lieutenant, how is it? Have all the Germans been recruited?"

   "No." Seryozha shook his head and replied, "The Germans are stubborn and won't say anything."

"Comrade Brigadier," Sidolin immediately suggested to Sokov after hearing what Seryozha said, "I think it's better to send him to the headquarters of the Army Group. There is an agency dedicated to dealing with German secret agents. Something came out of the mouths of the two captives."

Sokov would not easily call out the spies caught in his headquarters, so he said to Sidolin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, we can't hand them over for the time being. In my estimation, there are definitely more than one of them." Two people, there must be accomplices hiding nearby. If these hidden enemies are not eradicated, once the battle is fierce, they will wreak havoc in the rear, which will make us burnt out."

"But, Comrade Brigadier." Seeing that Sokov was unwilling to hand over the man to the Army Group Command, Sidolin said anxiously: "If the captives keep not confessing, we still won't know where the rest of the enemies are hiding. In my opinion, it is better to call the Army Group Command and ask Commander Chuikov to send comrades from the enemy engineering department to help us interrogate."

  Regarding Sidolin’s proposal, Sokov couldn’t help but feel a little moved. If he could get help from the Enemy Engineering Division, he might be able to extract some useful information from the captives. Just when he was about to agree, he saw Seryozha still standing in front of him, so he asked angrily, "Comrade Lieutenant, what are you still standing here for?"

   "Comrade Brigadier." Seryozha said hesitantly, "Maybe we can get the information we want from the prisoners without the help of the enemy engineering department."

"Comrade Lieutenant, didn't you just say that the prisoners are unwilling to say anything?" Hearing these words of Seryozha, Sidolin asked back with some displeasure: "Then please tell me, how did you learn from the enemy?" Get the information we need from your mouth?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sergey said boldly, "although I have not been able to get anything out of the captives, but now Sergeant Samoilov is conducting the interrogation, and I believe he will definitely get the Germans to confess. of."

  "Sergeant Samoilov?" Sidolin couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the name, and then asked: "Lieutenant Seryosha, who is he, and does he know how to interrogate prisoners?"

   But Sokov felt that the name was very familiar. After thinking for a while, he remembered that it was the sergeant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he had brought back, so he tentatively asked Sergey: "Is that the sergeant I brought back?"

"Yes, Comrade Brigadier." Seryozha replied with a smile: "He is currently interrogating the prisoner with two subordinates. I believe it will not take long before we can get the information we want." .”

"Comrade Brigadier, who are you talking about?" Sidolin asked in amazement when he heard the relationship between Sokov and Seryozha: "He really has such a great ability to interrogate the people we need. information?"

"That's right, Comrade Chief of Staff, I think he should be able to do it." Sokov nodded and said, "The Sergeant Samoilov we are talking about was originally affiliated to the Internal Affairs Forces, and there must be something wrong with the interrogation." Unique, I believe that no matter how stubborn a German prisoner is handed over to him, he will be able to ask us for the information we want."

  Although Sidolin still had doubts about Sukov's statement, but now, he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He nodded and said, "Okay, since you all have such confidence in this Sergeant Samoilov, let's wait for another half an hour. If the time is up and he hasn't asked us what we want to know Information, we can only send the prisoner to the headquarters of the group army, and let the comrades of the enemy's engineering department interrogate him."

"Lieutenant Seryozha, go back and watch Sergeant Samoilov. If he lets the Germans confess, come back and report to me immediately." After receiving the order, Seryozha was about to turn around and leave when Soko The husband stopped him again: "Wait a minute, you gather your troops first, and once you get the rest of the Germans' hiding places, you must immediately take people to capture them all back."

"Comrade Brigadier, have you forgotten?" Hearing this order, Seryozha quickly reminded Sokov: "You once issued two orders. I can cross the river safely. After this order was cancelled, you ordered me to gather the troops and prepare to search the nearby settlements to see if there are German spies and deserters from our army hidden there..."

   Less than ten minutes after Sergei Sha left, he hurried in and said excitedly: "Comrade Brigadier, the prisoner has confessed."

   "It's a great confession." Sokov couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard the news, and quickly asked, "What did he confess?"

"There are seven people in their operation team." Seryozha replied: "The two of them disguised themselves as our army and gave us a false order to retreat. Once our army starts to retreat, the Germans hiding in the settlements will be killed. We will send a telegram to the German troops in the distance and let them drive over to receive our defense zone."

   "The German spies are indeed hiding in the settlement," Sokov asked after confirming his conjecture, "Do you know their exact location?"

Seryozha put a hastily drawn sketch on the table, pointed to a rectangle on it and said: "This is a building that was bombed by German planes, and the remaining Germans are hiding in the basement inside." inside."

   "Is the news reliable?" Sidolin asked before Sokov could speak.

   "It should be reliable." Sergey nodded and said, "I believe in Sergeant Samoilov's interrogation ability. The prisoner should not have lied."

"Now that you know where the enemy is, act immediately." Sokov urged: "Lieutenant Seryosha, immediately lead the guards to surround this building, and no enemy is allowed to escape. Live If you can't catch it, you will die."

   "Comrade Brigadier, to catch these cunning German spies, one guard company may not be enough." Sidolin reminded Sokov: "Do you think we can deploy other troops to cooperate?"

  The guard company of the infantry brigade is a reinforced company, with more than 200 people in the whole company. Using so many people to arrest five German spies, Sokov originally felt that it was a bit of a sledgehammer, but at this time, after hearing what Sidolin said, he decided to deploy another army to cooperate for the sake of safety. Guard company. So he made a call to the third battalion and asked the battalion commander, Captain Andre, to come over to receive combat orders.

  Andrei has been following Sokov through life and death recently. Knowing that he called himself, it must not be a trivial matter, so before coming to the brigade headquarters, he notified the whole battalion to gather urgently and be ready to perform new tasks at any time. He came to the headquarters, saluted Sokov and asked, "Comrade Brigadier, what instructions do you have?"

"Comrade Captain, the situation is as follows. In a settlement near us, there is a German special agent team. Two of them pretended to be officers of the Front Army Command and came to us to pass false orders. We have already arrested them. According to their confession, the rest of the spies are hiding in the basement of this building." Sokov pointed to the sketch and assigned tasks to Andrei: "The task of your battalion is to serve as a perimeter guard to prevent the enemy from escaping. .As for the search task in the building, it will be completed by Seryozha's guard company."

  After the battle of the third battalion some time ago, there are still more than 500 people including the wounded. Since this mission is very important, the wounded are not allowed to participate, but there are still as many as 400 people participating in the operation. The third battalion plus the guard company had a total of more than 600 people. So many people rushed into the settlement, and they were immediately discovered by the special agent hiding in the ruins. He quickly sounded the alarm to the people hiding in the basement.

  At the beginning, the special agent leader thought that the Soviet army would not notice the bombed-out building. Unexpectedly, after seeing the Soviet army entering the settlement, they immediately surrounded the place where they were located, and then a group of soldiers with live ammunition rushed into the building, and they went straight to the basement. The staff sent a report to inform the military of the news that had been exposed.

  The building has only two units, and there is a basement under each unit. The soldiers of the guard company rushed into the building in two ways. Although the spy in charge of security had a submachine gun in his hand, he had just shot two bursts before being blown up by the grenade thrown by the soldiers of the guard company. After killing the guard post, the soldiers rushed up in a swarm and continued to rush towards the basement.

  The secret agents in the basement did not expect the Soviet army to come so quickly. Before the telegraph operator sent an alarm telegram, the soldiers had already rushed in. After a shot, the spy team leader and two other spies were killed on the spot. Seeing that the situation was not good, the radio operator obediently raised his hand as a prisoner.

   As the company commander of the guard company, Sergey did not rush into the building like the soldiers, but found a hidden place outside the building to direct the battle. After he heard a burst of intense gunshots and a few explosions, everything became calm, and he knew that the battle inside was over, so he came out of his hiding place and stood outside the building, waiting for the soldiers inside to come out to fight Report the results yourself.

  Sergeant Samoilov led three rows of soldiers, escorted the captured radio operator, and carried the body of the killed spy, and walked out of the building. Seeing Sergey standing outside the building, Samoilov trotted over and reported to him: "Comrade company commander, third platoon leader Sergeant Samoilov reports to you that our platoon successfully killed Four German agents, captured one alive, and seized a radio station."

"Good job, Sergeant Samoilov." Sergey looked at the four corpses thrown on the ground by the soldiers, and the trembling captives, nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "You take the captives and The radio station will go back to Mamayev Post first, and report the results you have achieved to Comrade Brigadier Commander, I believe he will be very happy."

  (end of this chapter)