Chapter 1428

Kirilov was silent for a long time about my question. Finally, he said, "I'll have people put up notices in food stores or bakeries, so that residents who don't have ration cards can get them from the city defense headquarters with valid certificates."

"City defense headquarters?" When I heard kirilov say that, I couldn't help but feel that I didn't set up any city defense headquarters in the two cities. Thinking of this, I asked curiously, "when was the city defense headquarters established? Why don't I know?"

"It's my decision. I asked the two guards commanders to set up their positions in the city and take the post of city defense commander." Kirilov explained to me, "the city defense commander of moziri is sivakov; And kalinkovic was appointed city defense commander by major general tavartkilaze

After listening to his explanation, I nodded and said, "this is good. The two cities have city defense headquarters, which makes the management of the city more convenient."

"By the way, one more thing, I just forgot to ask you." Kirilov asked curiously: "last night, I saw that the troops in the city suddenly entered the first level of combat readiness. What's the matter? Are the Germans ready to launch a counterattack? "

I shook my head and replied: "last night, the chief of staff received a reconnaissance report that a large number of trucks suddenly appeared in the enemy's defense area in the north, and the enemy's station was very busy. He felt that the German army might want to launch a surprise attack on us, so he tried his best to convince me that all the troops were ready for war. "

"But the whole night was quiet. Did the chief of staff make a mistake?"

"Yes. It turns out that the chief of staff made a mistake. Yesterday was Christmas Eve in Germany, and the trucks that suddenly appeared might be the convoys carrying holiday supplies for officers and soldiers; And the station seems busy, maybe the enemy is preparing for the festival. " After I explained the whole thing to kirilov, I didn't forget to say something for bzikov: "the chief of staff is not wrong in doing this. Although the Germans were defeated by us, they are certainly not willing to suffer the defeat. They may attack us at any time. That's why I agree with him to put the troops into combat readiness."

"The new year is coming, and so are the supplies that our superiors have delivered to us." Kirilov said thoughtfully, "I have a big headache now."

"What's the matter, comrade military commissar?" I saw his sad face and asked.

"You once said that chocolate and dumplings would be given to every citizen in the new year." Kirilov looked at me and said, "now there are nearly 40000 residents in two cities. It's OK to say that two pieces of chocolate can be given to one person, but that dumpling is troublesome. If you think about it, when the flour, beef and pork from our superiors arrive, we have to make dumplings ourselves. In addition to our tens of thousands of people, even if a citizen is divided into ten dumplings, that is 400000 dumplings. Our commanders and fighters have too much work to do every day. How can they have so much time to make dumplings? "

"That's a problem." I said that when distributing chocolates and dumplings to residents as new year's gifts, I really didn't take kirilov's problem into consideration. Although my ability to manage internal affairs is not as good as kirilov's, the problem that bothers him is not a problem for me. I thought about it a little bit, and then said to him, "Comrade military commissar, it's easy to do. Let's gather some elderly women to make dumplings for us. As for the work of mincing meat, it is left to those experienced workers. The main industry here is meat and poultry processing plants. "

After hearing this, kirilov laughed and gave me a thumbs up and said, "Rita, you still have a lot of ideas. Let's gather people from the public to make dumplings."

"Call as many people as you can, at least one or two thousand. Because with our troops, we have to make at least one million dumplings. We can't be busy without people. " In order to improve the efficiency of dumpling making, I specially stressed to kirilov: "Comrade military commissar, we can't let these people work in vain. They take part in this work and get 500 grams of bread a day. "

Although money is something everyone likes, in troubled times, a bite is better than anything. Kirilov listened to me and said, "I agree with you. That's it. When I get to the city defense headquarters later, I'll pass on this order. "

The jeep stopped at the gate of the city defense headquarters in sivakov. After I got out of the car, I looked around and saw that the buildings where the city defense headquarters was located were relatively complete, and the bricks and stones on the surrounding streets were almost cleaned up.

The duty officer standing at the door, seeing kirilov and I come out of the car, ran to salute me and politely told me that the commander and some division commanders were having a meeting in the conference room on the second floor.

After thanking the officer on duty, I went into the building. Then I went up the stairs, along the long corridor, to the door of the conference room at the end of the corridor, and pushed the door open.

The commanders in the meeting, hearing someone pushing the door open, all turned around and looked at the door. Seeing that kirilov and I were standing at the door, we quickly stood up and raised our hands to salute us.

As I saluted, I walked to sivakov's position and asked aloud, "comrades, what are you discussing?"

Sivakov asked kirilov and I to take a seat in the middle of the road, sit down in a nearby chair, and then reported to me with a sad face: "Comrade commander, we are discussing how to eliminate the German agents in the city!"

"German spy?" When I heard sivakov say this, I was stunned and then relieved. After all, this is a city that has just been liberated, and some of the remaining evils of the German army are normal. I asked casually, "did you find the enemy agents lurking in the city?"

"I think so." Sivakov said cautiously: "last night we received an order from the chief of staff to put the whole army into combat readiness. At about one o'clock in the morning, our operator intercepted the mysterious telegram in the city... "

"Mysterious telegram!" Before he finished, I couldn't wait to interrupt him, because I remembered that when I was in Smolensk, German radio signals were also found in the city. Unexpectedly, I also met them here. I quickly asked, "have you locked the position of German radio?"

"No, comrade commander." Shivakov shook his head and said regretfully, "the time for the enemy to send the message is too short. Before we can track it, the signal disappears."

"Did you intercept the contents of the enemy's telegram?" I then asked.

"Yes," sivakov said, winking at a nearby staff officer, who rushed forward, took a piece of paper from his briefcase and put it in front of sivakov. Sivakov pushed the paper in front of kirilov and me and said, "the content is very simple. It means that our army has entered the first level of combat readiness. It seems that there is any military action."

When I heard that the contents of the telegram were so simple, I was relieved. I pushed the telegram to kirilov, looked at sivakov and asked, "Comrade General, how do you plan to deal with the German secret agents hidden in the city?"

"Comrades commander," sivakov said firmly, "I think it is necessary to carry out a city wide search and capture the German agents who are hiding among the residents."

"How to grasp it?" After reading the intercepted message, kirilov threw it on the table and asked sivakov coldly, "Comrade General, how do you plan to find out one or two German spies from more than 20000 people in the city?"

Seeing that sivakov was speechless by kirilov's words, in order to ease the embarrassing atmosphere in the room, I said to him earnestly: "Comrade sivakov, there is no writing on the German's face. We don't even know whether he is male or female, old or young, so we rashly search the whole city, which is bound to cause chaos. Moziri has just been liberated by us. The residents here can't fully trust us. It's good if we can catch the spy in a big search, but if we can't, we will leave a bad influence in the eyes of the residents. At that time, we will have to spend more than several times of our efforts to reverse the negative image in their minds. "

"What shall we do?" "Are we going to let the German agents continue to lurk in the city?" sivakov asked, somewhat embarrassed

"Comrades, commanders," I did not immediately answer sivakov's question. Instead, I turned to look at all the teachers present and asked with a smile, "do you have any good solutions?"

After listening to my words, the people looked at each other for a few minutes, then shook their heads in order to show that they had no good way. Seeing that the teachers were helpless, kirilov asked me in a low voice, "Rita, do you have any good ideas?"

I shook my head gently and said in a voice that only the two of us could hear, "Comrade military commissar, I can't help it."

Kirilov's face was slightly disappointed when he heard my reply, but a moment later, he said to himself gently, "I have a good idea."

"What can I do?" When kirilov said there was a way, I immediately asked, "can you catch the German spy?"

He nodded, then gently spat out a word: "interior!"

Interior department?! When I heard the word, I only hesitated for a few seconds to guess what kirilov meant. I turned to sivakov and asked, "Comrade General, is there a high frequency telephone in your headquarters?"

"Yes, comrade commander." Seeing that I didn't say how to deal with the German spy, sivakov asked him if he had a high-frequency telephone. He couldn't help saying with a blank face, "do you want to use it now?"

"Yes, it's urgent." I nodded and said definitely.

"Follow me, please!" Sivakov got up and took me to his office. He pointed to a telephone on the desk and said, "Comrade commander, this is a high frequency telephone. Besides talking to you, it can even talk to the headquarters of the front army directly."

I heard that I could talk to the headquarters of the front army directly, but I said in my heart that it was really wonderful. Because of the next call, I didn't want to let too many people know, so I made a gesture of invitation to him: "Comrade General, please go back to the conference room first, and I'll come to you after the call."

When sivakov left, I immediately dialed a number and asked the operator to connect me with the headquarters of the front army. When I heard general marinin's voice coming out of the receiver, I said with a smile, "Hello, chief of staff. I'm o'shanina. Is the commander there?"“ Hello, Rita Malining replied with a smile, "Comrade commander is right next to me. I'll let him answer the phone."“ What can I do for you, Rita? " As soon as marinin's voice fell, rokosovsky's voice came out of the receiver“ That's right, Comrade General. " When I heard that rokosovsky was talking to me, I immediately gave him a detailed report on what sivakov said about the German spy. After listening, rokosovsky was silent for a long time before he asked, "where are you now? What kind of help can I offer you? "“ I'm in the city defense headquarters in moziri, "I quickly replied," I hope you can discuss with Comrade sharov and send us some internal agents with investigation experience to help us clean up the German secret agents hidden in the city. "“ Ask Comrade sharov to send someone? " Rokosovsky was startled by my proposal. He reminded me in a low voice, "Rita, you can think about this matter clearly. It's easy for them to go to you, but it's not so easy to transfer them back. I don't want to see you being held back by all this, which will affect the next battle. "“ Don't worry, Comrade General. " In order to reassure rokosovsky, I told him that I had Shangfang's sword: "when I was in Moscow at the beginning of the year, the Supreme Commander himself asked Comrade belia to write me a power of attorney. With this power of attorney, I have the right to temporarily transfer the local internal forces. I believe those in-house staff who came to help us clean up the German secret service know that I have this power of attorney in my hand, and they will not do anything excessive“ Since you are so confident, I will go to discuss with Comrade sheroff and try to send people to you as soon as possible. " When rokosovsky finished this, he suddenly asked, "what's going on with your enemy in the north?"“ No, senior general. " I quickly replied: "these two days are German Christmas, they are busy with the holiday, it is estimated that they have no heart to attack us."“ Despite this, we should not relax our vigilance. Think about how we were caught off guard by the German army two years ago in June Rokosovsky was deeply afraid that I would despise the enemy. He specially reminded me and finally said, "good luck to you!"