It may be that they saw their companions lay down their weapons and soldiers holding rifles around them. Although they were still standing in the same place, they all obediently put down their guns.
At this moment, a series of shouts came from the rear of the train: "all the people are ready to have their certificates ready for our inspection."
I turned my head and looked in the direction of the sound. An elderly captain came with a dozen soldiers on his back. At each place where the crowd gathered under the car, one or two soldiers would be left to check the passengers with certificates in cooperation with those on guard nearby. The captain may have participated in some battle, and the two medals on his chest are particularly conspicuous.
I didn't say anything. I just stood in the direction of his coming. I planned to wait for him to come and ask what happened, so that I would stop our train.
At the beginning, the captain didn't notice us. He walked and stopped all the way, and stopped from time to time to see how his subordinates checked their certificates. When he was only seven or eight meters away from us, he inadvertently saw me, as if he had been stabbed by something. Then he fastened the fengjikou of his military uniform and pulled the hem of his military uniform. Then he trotted to me, raised his hand and said, "Comrade General, Captain oSIP reports to you that our company is carrying out the task."
I raised my hand for a change and asked coldly, "Captain, are you in charge here?"
The captain looked left and right, nodded, and answered positively, "yes, we are leading the troops to carry out the task here."
I nodded slightly, then asked, "Captain oSIP, can you tell me what kind of mission you are on?"
After hearing this question, oSIP did not immediately answer it. Instead, he looked at me with vigilance and said, "I'm sorry, Comrade General. I have no right to disclose our mission to you until I know your identity."
Dornikov, standing next to him, stepped forward and said impatiently, "Captain, are you blind?"?! Don't you see the rank on Comrade General's shoulder? "
In response to dornikov's rebuke, oSIP replied humbly, "I'm sorry, comrade captain. My task is to stop the train and check the documents of everyone on board. I can't give you more details until I know who you are. "
Seeing captain oSIP's so rigid attitude, I haven't made any response. Yushchenko, standing on the other side of me, can't help it. He came up to me and politely said to me, "Comrade General, please lend me your special pass first, OK?"
I guess Yushchenko probably wanted to give each other a bad impression, so he cooperatively took out the special pass prepared by belia for me from his pocket, and asked for dornikov's certificate and gave it to Yushchenko.
Yushchenko put his documents together and slapped them in the palm of the other party's hand. He didn't say anything, but snorted coldly.
As soon as oSIP took the certificate and looked at it, his mouth became O-shaped. He didn't close his mouth for a long time. He probably didn't expect that my two accompanying officers were all members of the Ministry of interior, not to mention my passport personally issued by the Minister of interior, belia. After he closed the certificate, he raised his hand and saluted me again. He held the certificate in both hands and handed it to me. He stammered: "sorry, general... And Comrade... I don't know your identity. Please forgive general..."
I took back oSIP's papers, changed dornikov's and Yushchenko's military cards to them, and put my special pass in my pocket. Then I asked oSIP gently, "Comrade captain, now that you know our identity, can you tell me what kind of mission you are carrying out?"
"Well, general... No, comrade Soviet hero." Half way through his words, he caught a glimpse of the Red Star Medal hanging on my chest, and immediately changed his name to me, becoming more respectful: "this morning, a staff officer of our army group was attacked on the way to deliver the message on a three wheeled motorcycle, and all the staff officers and two soldiers of our company died. When they were found, their uniforms, weapons and documents were all gone, and the documents they carried were also lost. The motorcycle they were riding was parked 60 kilometers east of here. The superior was worried that the enemy would get on the train in our army's uniform and sneak into our rear area to do damage, so he ordered us to stop the train on this line, strictly check the passengers, take back the documents and eliminate these bold Germans. "
It's said that some German may have sneaked into our rear, intercepted and killed our staff and robbed important documents. Dornikov and Yushchenko, who are close to me, are also anxious. They look at me together and ask seriously, "Comrade General, what should we do?"
I thought about it, and then told Yushchenko: "Captain Yushchenko, you go and gather our people together, and cooperate with captain oSIP's people to check all passengers' documents." After the order, I asked oSIP, "Captain, do you have anything else to add?"
"Comrade captain," oSIP said quickly as he walked up to Yushchenko, "when you ask your men to check your ID, they should not only check whether the photo matches you, but also pay attention to the staples on the ID. The materials we use are different from those in Germany. They all use stainless steel, but we use ordinary materials, so after a long time, there will be some rust. "
"I see. I'll go now." Yushchenko is also an acute person. After listening to oSIP's introduction, he has to leave with his legs raised.
At this moment, I suddenly remembered a detail he told me when I was reunited with oshanin in Moscow. He stopped Yushchenko and told him, "Comrade captain, for those who are suspicious, we must check the bottom of their boots. The spikes on the bottom of our military boots are generally round, while the German boots have the same appearance, but the soles use square spikes. Do you remember? "
"Remember, Comrade General." Yushchenko agreed, and with a few soldiers around him, he ran to the place not far away where there were many passengers.
Seeing Yushchenko leave, dornikov, who was not assigned a task, was a little worried. He couldn't wait to ask me, "Comrade General, what's the task for me and my subordinates?"
I turned to look at him and said with a smile, "Captain, you and your people will stay here first. I'm sure we can use your place later."
Although dornikov knew that I was a bit perfunctory in what I said, he could not refute it. He could only honestly promise, "yes."
As I had been standing in the same place, oSIP did not dare to leave, so he had to stay with me. As for the inspection, he left it to his department. The seven or eight soldiers who used to guard our area were also sent away by him.
After a while, there was a loud noise in front of us. Then I saw Yushchenko and some of them coming towards us. Seeing this, I couldn't help nodding, satisfied with Yushchenko's efficient work.
Yushchenko came up to me and excitedly reported, "Comrade General, we have caught four people without identification."
"Four?" Thinking of captain oSIP's saying that only three officers and men of our army were killed, how could four Germans come out? I carefully looked at the four "Prisoners" who were cut back by the soldiers, and I always felt something was wrong. I closed my eyes and thought for a moment. Then I opened my eyes and asked, "Comrade captain, have you checked the soles of their four shoes?"
"Sole?" When Yushchenko heard me say this word, he was stunned. Then he shook his head and said, "sorry, comrade general, I haven't taken care of it yet. I just want to bring them here early and let you have a look. "
"Come on, comrade captain, let the soldiers check the studs on their soles." As for Yushchenko's recklessness, I said a little dissatisfied: "I think you must be mistaken. You don't see that they are all Asian faces. How can they be German?"
In the face of my criticism, Yushchenko did not dare to explain. He quickly ordered the soldiers to lift up the soles of the four people's shoes one by one, and found that the spikes on their boots were really round, not square like the German. After the inspection, Yushchenko may also realize his mistake and wave to the soldiers to let go of the four men.
After the four were released, oSIP stepped forward and asked, "I have a question. Why don't you four have documents? Don't you know that when you go out, you should take your good identification with you? "
After listening to oSIP's words, all four of them bowed their heads. After thinking about it for a moment, I immediately thought of a possibility and asked them, "answer me, are you all sitting in aisle seats?"
As soon as my voice fell, a small black and thin man raised his head and asked me in surprise, "Comrade General, how do you know we are sitting near the aisle?"
To his question, I smile but don't answer, just look at the other three people, want to hear what they say. Then the second man raised his head and said in a positive tone, "yes, comrade general, yes. I'm really sitting near the aisle. Have we all been stolen? "
After hearing what he said, dornikov stepped forward, grabbed each other's collar and asked excitedly, "did you find anything unusual in the car?"
Dornikov's words made the man frown and think hard. In order to ease the other party's nervousness, I especially comforted him: "Comrade soldier, don't worry. Take your time to think about whether someone has collided with you when you are in the car."
My words immediately reminded the other party, his face immediately showed a clear expression, and then said to me: "Comrade General, I remember that although there are many people in the car, it is not too crowded. A second lieutenant in a black leather jacket accidentally hit me when he passed me because the train was shaking. I guess he may have stolen my identification. "
"Do you remember what he looked like?" Dornikov interrogates each other like a prisoner.
The man first shook his head, then nodded and said, "I only remember that he was medium-sized, with a round face and a scar on his left cheek."
After listening to the soldier's statement, dornikov lost his breath. He glanced at Yushchenko with disdainful eyes, and then asked me, "Comrade General, let me take someone with me this time. I promise you that I can find out these German spies in disguise."
In the face of dornikov's request, I refused without thinking about it, and then told oSIP: "Comrade captain, let your people stay at the door of the carriage, let the soldiers under the carriage get on the train in batches with their units, and bring those who are left alone here."“ What about ordinary citizens? " After accepting my order, oSIP didn't immediately carry it out. Instead, he stayed in the same place and asked me, "there are many of them. How can we distinguish them?"“ Let them each find a familiar person to testify for themselves. As for the single passengers who have no one to testify, bring them here. " Seeing that oSIP wanted to leave after receiving the order, I added: "as for female passengers, they can get on the bus directly. I don't think the German will send women to carry out such a dangerous task." As the screening method was complicated, it took about half an hour for oSIP to return to my position with a group of people. There are more than 30 soldiers and ordinary citizens surrounded by soldiers. After taking a look, I ordered Yushchenko: "Comrade captain, take someone to check the soles of his shoes." Yushchenko, who had been holding a stomach of evil fire for a long time, heard my order, immediately called his more than a dozen soldiers, rushed into the crowd, and involuntarily raised someone's foot to check whether the nails on the soles were square or round. With little effort, four people were pulled out of the crowd. You Xian, holding the military ID card found from them, excitedly said to me, "Comrade General, if you find it, it's them. Not only are the spikes square, but also their certificates are the soldiers beside them. " I took the four military ID cards that Yushchenko had handed me, turned them over and gave them back to the four soldiers who had been wrongly arrested just now. I also kindly reminded them: "when you go out in the future, you should be alert. You are lucky this time. I can help you. Next time you encounter such a thing, you may be directly arrested as German spies. Do you understand? "“ I see, Comrade General. " Four soldiers took the military card, gave me a lot of thanks, and got on the train one after another. I looked at the four German spies, and found that one of them, a German in a second lieutenant's uniform, had a round face and a long scar on his left cheek. I turned to dornikov, who was standing beside me, and said, "Comrade captain, you are the most experienced in dealing with such German spies. The next thing is up to you."