Early the next morning, sivakov called me. He said to me in an excited voice, "Comrade commander, the German spy sent another telegram last night."
"What's on the telegram?" I asked nervously at once.
"It's nothing," sivakov replied, "just say that our troops in moziri have been released from combat readiness, and at the same time, they are distributing ration cards in the city and so on."
When I thought of sivakov's excited tone, I couldn't help asking strangely, "Comrade General, what do you find in particular?"
"It was captain razumeyeva who was in charge of monitoring last night," sivakov was a little excited when he heard me ask. "She judged from the characteristics of the enemy's telegraph operator that this telegraph operator was the same person as the one in Smolensk."
"What, the same person?" When I heard the amazing news, I suddenly stood up from my seat.
"Yes, comrade commander." For my question, sivakov said in a positive tone: "after repeated confirmation by Captain razumeyeva, it's really the same person."
"I know!" I just hung up.
Maybe I was a little excited when I found out that the enemy operator I found in moziri was the same person as the operator in Smolensk, so that I caught the attention of bezikov. He asked with concern, "Comrade commander, what's the matter?"
I looked up at bezikov and said, "chief of staff, general sivakov called to say that they had intercepted a telegram from a German spy last night, and confirmed by Captain razumeyeva that they were the same person as the operator found in Smolensk."
"The same person?" As like as two peas, I heard the news from him just like what I just said. But after a moment's hesitation, he bent over the map in front of him and seemed to be looking for something.
I could not help but ask curiously, "chief of staff, what are you looking at?"
Hearing my question, he looked up at me and asked, "Comrade commander, if I remember correctly, the person who leaked the information last time was a staff officer of the 77th division of Jinwei?"
"Yes, a staff officer of the 77th division. For this reason, the division commander, major general askarepov, also made a special review to me, saying that he was lax in his defense, and he did not find any German secret agents lurking in his troops. " After I said this, I looked at bzikov and asked curiously, "is there any connection between the two?"
"Comrade commander, please have a look." He pushed the map in front of him towards me a little bit, and then said: "the last time he sent information to the German spy, it was a staff officer of the 77th division of the guards. But this time, it happened that the location of the German secret service was also in the defense area of the 77th division of the guards. "
"What, in the defense area of the 77th division of Jinwei?" Bezikov's words startled me. I quickly pulled the map in front of me and carefully checked the garrison numbers of Shiyue street and Soviet street in the west of the city. I found that it was the 215th regiment of the 77th division of Jinwei. After reading it, I murmured, "if sivakov and they find the right place, then the spy is the telegram sent out in the defense area of the 215th guards regiment."
"Comrade commander, I have a bold inference." Bezikov raised his voice and said to me, "if the operators of moziri and Smolensk are the same person, then the German spies will not dress up as ordinary citizens, because no citizens follow us here from Smolensk, so I think the spies must be lurking in our troops."
"Lurking in our troops," I rapped my fingers on the table, repeating what bzikov had just said. After repeated thinking, I think what he said is reasonable. I quickly grabbed the phone in front of me and dialed the headquarters of sivakov.
As soon as I heard sivakov's voice, I asked frankly, "Comrade General, please ask captain razumeyeva for me, where was the last German spy posted in Smolensk?"
"All right, comrade commander." Sivakov said politely, "Captain razumeyeva is next door. Please wait a moment. I'll call her here."
After a while, the voice of razumeyeva came from the receiver: "Hello, comrade commander, this is razumeyeva. Do you have any instructions?"
"Captain, the last time I asked you to monitor the enemy station in Smolensk, the enemy's operator sent two telegrams later. Do you remember the general location?" I'm deeply afraid that razumeyeva doesn't pay attention to this issue, and specially stressed: "you just need to tell me which street the signal of the enemy's radio station appears."
After being chief of staff for a long time, bezikov became more and more familiar with his own work. Hearing that I was asking razumeyeva about Smolensk, he quickly found out a map of Smolensk and put it in front of me. I nodded at him and laughed, then marked out what razumeyeva said with a pen.
When I finished marking on the map and looked at the number of the troops stationed in the area at that time, I couldn't help taking a breath of air, because what I saw was still the station of the 215th regiment of the guards. Seeing this, I coughed softly, and then said to razumeyeva, "Captain, come to my headquarters with general sivakov immediately."
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An hour later, sivakov and razumeyeva came to my headquarters. After saluting me, sivakov asked with a puzzled look: "Comrade commander, I don't know if you have any instructions for me to come here?"
"Comrade General, please have a seat." I reached out to him and made a gesture of invitation. Then I pushed the map of moziri and Smolensk in front of him, pointed to the circled position on it, and said to him, "look, this is the approximate position of the enemy that we locked when they released in the two cities."
Sivakov looked at the map carelessly. When he saw the position of the circle on it, he jumped up from his seat and cried out, "it's impossible. It's absolutely impossible."
"Captain razumeyeva," I waved to razumeyeva, called her to the table, pointed to the two maps that made sivakov mad, and asked, "look, is the location of the spy station marked on the map right?"
Razumeyeva took two maps and looked at them carefully. Then she put them back on the table, nodded at me and said, "yes, comrade commander, absolutely right. The two cities found the location of the enemy's radio station, and they all marked it correctly. "
"Thank you, comrade captain." After smiling at razumeyeva, I turned to sivakov and said, "general sivakov, do you understand something now?"
Shivakov nodded in dismay and said weakly: "Comrade commander, I understand that since the German radio station was located in the same unit twice, it means that there are German agents lurking in our team. What we need to do now is to find a way to dig out the spy. "
"Yes, Comrade General." Seeing that he understood my intention, I nodded with a smile and said, "all the evidence we have now points to the 215th regiment of the guards, which proves that the enemy is lurking in our troops."
"What shall we do?" Sivakov raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve. Pitifully, he asked me, "will it cause unnecessary panic to immediately review the 215th regiment of the guards?"
"Yes, comrade commander." For sivakov's worry, bezikov also agreed: "we have just recovered moziri. If we carry out large-scale inventory in the army at this time, it may cause people panic."
Although there was a large-scale reduction in the number of troops in the liberation of moziri and kalinkovich, the 77th division of Jinwei was the last to enter the battlefield, so the troops were relatively complete. At the moment, the total number of troops in the 215th regiment of Jinwei is still as high as 2000. If they are rashly checked, I am afraid there will be scenes out of control.
Seeing my delay in speaking, bzikov asked cautiously, "Comrade commander, what should we do now?"
"Wait a minute," I said rather reluctantly, "we'd better leave the investigation of potential agents to the internal staff sent by the higher authorities. After all, what they are good at is to clear our internal enemies."
"When will the interior staff sent by the superior arrive?" Don't ask zikov nervously.
I shook my head and said, "I don't know. When it's time to come, it comes naturally."
As soon as I finished, I heard the voice of the head of the guard, Yushchenko: "Comrade commander, comrade commander."
I turned and looked in the direction of the voice. Yushchenko came to me with a tall, thin officer. Before and after they came to me, Yushchenko introduced them to me with a smile and said, "Comrade commander, I'd like to introduce you to my former colleague, Captain Gosha, who is now working in the secret service section of the headquarters of the front army."
As soon as Yushchenko's words were finished, the tall and thin officer stepped forward, raised his hand to salute me, and respectfully reported, "Comrade General, I'm captain Gosha of the secret service section of the front army. I came to help you clear up the German secret service on the order of Comrade sharov."
"Hello, Captain Gosha." I went forward to hold his hand and said with emotion, "we have just locked the position of the German spy. We don't know how to start. You have solved the big problem for us."
"Comrade General," Gosha heard me say, eyebrows slightly online, some surprised to say: "you have locked the location of the German spy?"
I took Goza to the table, pointed to the two maps on the table, and said to him, "Comrade captain, according to our monitor operator, the sender in moziri is the same person as the sender in Smolensk."
After hearing this, Guosha asked without expression: "Comrade General, can I meet the operator who is responsible for monitoring?"
"Yes," I nodded, then pointed to razumeyeva standing beside me and said, "it's the female captain's monitoring. If you have any questions, you can ask her directly."
Gosha turned to razumeyeva and asked like interrogating a prisoner, "Comrade captain, are you sure that the sender in moziri and the sender in Smolensk are really the same person?"
Although she was not happy with his tone, razumeyeva politely replied, "yes, comrade captain, for a skilled telegraph operator, we can judge whether it is the same person by the way of the sender."
"I have no problem." Without waiting for razumeyeva to finish, Guosha coldly interrupted her later words and said to me, "Comrade General, according to the information collected at present, German spies may be lurking in the 215th regiment of the guards."“ Yes, comrade captain I looked at the expressionless man and asked, "do you have any way to find out the German secret agents among the more than 2000 members of the regiment?"“ No problem, "Guosha said confidently as soon as I finished," since you have provided so many useful clues, I believe that in one day at most, we can find out the spy who lurks in our army. " Seeing his self-confidence, I couldn't help but feel a thump in my heart. I said that he would not carry out torture to extort confessions. Maybe the 215th regiment of the guards would be in danger at that time. I immediately reminded him, "Comrade captain, I hope you will not involve innocent people while you find out the internal secret agents."“ Please rest assured, Comrade General. " "Now that we have so many clues, we don't have to examine the officers and men of the 215th regiment of the guards one by one, but we can narrow the scope of the examination to a very small one," she replied“ Narrow it down to a very small area? " After repeating his words, I asked curiously, "Comrade captain, I don't know how to narrow it down?"“ In combat forces, ordinary soldiers are in danger of dying at any time. If the agents sent by Germany only disguise themselves as ordinary soldiers, they may be reimbursed after a war. The Germans will not be interested in such a role that is easily lost. " When Gosha heard my question, she began to analyze it to me: "in this way, the more suitable role is an officer, and he is also an officer who is not easily in danger of his life. That is to say, at least the company and battalion level officers of the regiment. " When I heard Gosha say this, I turned to sivakov and said, "general sivakov, I think captain Gosha has a point. We should narrow the scope of the review to the company and battalion officers of the 215th regiment of the guards."“ I see Sivakov stood up and replied, "I'm going to take this captain to the 77th division of the guards to examine the company and battalion officers of the 215th regiment of the guards." I thought sivakov would at least wait until tomorrow to give me a final reply, but at two o'clock in the afternoon, he called me and excitedly reported to me, "Comrade commander, the German spy who lurks in the 215th regiment of the guards has been found out by the comrades of the Ministry of interior."