Burning Moscow

In my memory, the offensive campaign carried out by the Ukrainian First Front to liberate the western states of Ukraine and the southeastern part of Poland was called the "Battle of Lviv Sandomierz", and it was also the tenth battle carried out by the Soviet army in 1944 by the Germans. The sixth blow of the Stalin assault.

After we returned from Moscow, we began to intensively prepare for the offensive campaign. But 36 hours before the start of the battle, Lunev, who was sent by Beria to the front army headquarters to serve as liaison work, suddenly hurriedly walked in and said to us: "Comrades commanders, something unexpected happened. thing."

Since Lunev’s office is not in the same place as our headquarters, his sudden appearance originally made everyone uneasy. His words made the atmosphere in the headquarters even more tense.

"Director Lunev," Konev frowned, looking at the chief of operations from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and asked slightly dissatisfied: "What happened to make you so panicked?"

"My subordinate found a corpse in an abandoned building." Lunev did not care about Konev's attitude towards him, but continued to report: "Although all his belongings on the corpse have been lost, There was no identification document, but after identification by our comrades, it was found that the deceased was a confidential staff member of the headquarters."

"Intelligence staff?" I was startled by Lunev's words in a cold sweat. As soon as he finished speaking, I preached before Konev and asked: "Comrade Lunev, do you know that all his belongings are missing? Is there something?"

Lunev looked at Konev with his eyes and replied: "I just went to the confidential place and learned that this staff officer was one of the personnel who had access to our army's offensive plan. His sudden death, I suspect that he was killed. Up."

"Missing the mouth, what?" Konev glared at Lunev and asked unceremoniously: "Comrade Lunev, you mean that this staff officer provided the German spies with top-secret information about our army and was caught by the enemy. Extinguished?"

"I think so." Lunev nodded and said: "Our detailed attack plan should have fallen into the hands of the Germans."

"Comrade Marshal," The Chief of Staff Sokolovsky was a little panicked when he heard Lunev say this. He looked at Konev and asked, "What should we do now?"

Konev was silent for a moment, and then asked Lunev: "Comrade Lunev, according to your judgment, how long has the confidential staff member died?"

After thinking about it, Lunev answered without hesitation: "At least five or six hours."

Konev nodded, picked up the phone on the desk, dialed a number, and said into the microphone: "This is Konev. Let the communications chief answer the phone.... Hello, Colonel, I want to ask. During this period of time, have you noticed any radio waves of unknown origin in the city?...Well, I see."

Konev put down the microphone and said to Lunev: "Comrade Lunev, I just asked. The communication office did not find any radio waves of unknown origin, which means that the Germans have not sent out the information for the time being. "

"Comrade Marshal," after hearing Konev's words, Lunev suddenly lit up and asked quickly: "I don't know what we should do next?"

"Lida, do you have any good solutions?" Konev turned his head and looked at me and asked: "I know you have many ideas, and you must be able to think of a good way to solve this problem."

Seeing Konev pushed this trouble to me, I was a little bit dumbfounded. But under the current circumstances, I cannot shirk it. I can only bite the bullet and think of a solution: "Comrade Marshal, I feel that since the German spies have not sent information through the radio for so long after obtaining the information, I can only explain. One thing: they don’t have a radio station. In other words, there is still room for recovery in this matter."

"What should we do?" Lunev asked again: "Should we organize a large search in the city immediately?"

"It's useless," I directly rejected Lunev's proposal: "We currently don't know who the other party is. If we rashly conduct a city-wide search, we won't be able to raise anything except panic. Effective."

"Are we doing nothing?" My words made Lunev anxious.

Although I have never worked as a police officer, I am not very familiar with criminal investigation matters. But haven't eaten pork, haven't you seen a pig run? But it’s okay to give Lunev a few ideas: "Comrade Lunev, before this confidential staff disappeared, someone must have seen him. I suggest you send someone to find out. Before he disappeared, he finally I have seen someone, and then look for it through this clue, it may be rewarding."

As soon as Lunev left the headquarters, Sokolovsky couldn't wait to ask Konev: "Comrade Marshal, what should we do now, and immediately report this to the Supreme Command?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff, don't worry." Konev said confidently: "The theft of the combat plan is just our guess. If you report it to the Supreme Command rashly, if you find out that it was just a false alarm, it would not be good. Explain. I think we can talk about it after Lunev comes back from the investigation."

But I thought about another matter. After the two of them had finished speaking, I asked: "Comrade Marshal, if our offensive plan falls into the hands of the Germans, what shall we do?"

"According to the regulations, if there is a leak, our offensive plan must be adjusted accordingly." Konev frowned and said: "However, there are only more than 30 hours left until the offensive is launched, even if we need to adjust our deployment. , It’s a bit too hasty."

I know what he said is the truth. It is almost impossible for millions of troops to be redeployed in more than 30 hours. On the contrary, it is easy to cause unnecessary confusion. Therefore, I can only smile and say: "What we can do at present is to wait here for news from Comrade Lunev."

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After waiting for more than an hour, Konev received a call from Lunev. Lunev said on the phone: "Comrade Marshal, I tell you a good news. After our investigation, it was discovered that the last contact with the confidential staff was two journalists from Moscow."

"Where are the two reporters?" Konev heard this hour and said nervously into the microphone: "Immediately control them."

"Don't worry, Comrade Marshal." Lunev said confidently, "I have sent someone to arrest the two reporters."

Konev put down the phone and said to us relievedly: "Comrade Lunev said that a clue has been found, and they are conducting an investigation. I believe they will soon give us a definite answer."

We originally thought that Lunev would come to the headquarters soon and give us an explanation. Who knows that this will take more than an hour. Some of Sokolovsky, who was uncomfortable, called the office where the Ministry of Internal Affairs was located and asked about Lunev's whereabouts, but the staff on duty in the office didn't know where he went.

Sokolovsky put down the phone, and some six gods asked Konev innocently: "Comrade Marshal, what should we do now?"

The military commissioner Krenyukov, who has never said a word, also said: "Comrade Marshal, I think the situation is very bad, and I should report this matter to the Supreme Command immediately."

"Wait," Konev frowned and thought for a long time, and finally said decisively: "We can't act rashly until we figure out what happened."

I very much agree with Konev's prudent approach. If we haven't figured out the true situation, we will hurriedly report to Stalin, and when we finally discover that it was an oolong incident, the matter will not end well.

Just after Konev decided to suspend the report, Lunev finally appeared in the headquarters. From the expression on his face, I guessed that the matter must be serious. Sure enough, as soon as he spoke, all of us were shocked: "Comrade Marshal, when we were arresting two reporters from Moscow just based on clues, we found that one of them was missing. After we talked about the arrested spy Only after the interrogation did they know that the information they had obtained had been sent out."

"What, the information has been sent out?" Sokolovsky asked in surprise: "Comrade Lunev, I want to ask, how did they send out the information?"

"According to the spy's confession, they killed the bribed confidential staff member and stole the confidential documents from him. One of them left on a motorcycle."

Hearing Lunev's words, several of us rushed to the table at the same time, staring at the map on the table. Konev glanced around the map, frowned and said: "Without a radio, if the enemy wants to send information out, they can only find a way to pass our checkpoints before they can enter the German defense zone."

Seeing the red and blue arrows and defensive marks on the map representing the enemy and us, Sokolovsky said with a weeping face: "Our defensive front is hundreds of kilometers wide. How do we know where the spy will escape from?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff," I carefully checked the distance between Rivne and the German-occupied areas, pointed at Lutsk's position, and said decisively: "If the spy wants to enter the German-occupied area, go to Lutz. The nearest in this direction."

"But how did he get into Lutsk?" Sokolovsky didn't seem to agree with my judgment. He asked rhetorically: "Know that these areas are tightly sealed off by our army, and he can't pass it at all. "

"It's very simple," I shrugged, and continued: "There are only two ways for a spy to pass through our defense zone and return to the Germans: one is to pretend to be a scout, and the other is to continue to use his identity as a reporter. "

"In the place where fighting is about to break out, even if you use the identity of a reporter, you can't pass our defense zone." Konev interrupted and said: "I think he will definitely pretend to be a scout to pass our defense zone."

"Understood, I immediately called General Pukhov in Lutsk and told them to prohibit anyone from passing through our defense zone to the enemy's occupation zone." Sokolovsky finished speaking, and walked towards the place. The phone on the desk was going to call General Pukhov, the commander of the 13th Army.

When Sokolovsky called, Krenyukov asked with some worry: "Comrade Lunev, can you be sure that the spy you caught is true?"

Lunev looked at Krenyukov for a while, and then asked in a cold tone: "Comrade Military Commissioner, do you doubt the ability of our Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

When I heard Lunev’s question, I couldn’t help laughing. I said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is equivalent to the Russian version of Jinyiwei. People who have entered Jinyiwei, it seems that no one can carry it to the end, and the 18 tortures have not yet been used up. What should or should not be said, all said honestly. I guess this captured spy had enjoyed this treatment, so he confessed truthfully.

Seeing that Kreinyukov dared not take his own words, Lunev bit his posterior teeth and said: "If there is a spy who has entered our Ministry of Internal Affairs, no one will dare not confess honestly. So I think everything the spy said. It's all true."

As soon as Lunev finished speaking, Sokolovsky walked over nervously and reported to Konev: "Comrade Marshal, General Pukhov said that half an hour ago, a scout passed Lutsk. The line of defense, to the German-occupied area, I guess this should be the person we are looking for."

Konev slammed a fist on the table, and said angrily: "Damn it, he took a step slower and let him escape."

"Comrade Marshal, it won’t take long for the enemy to get our offensive plan." Sokolovsky suggested to Konev: "We should report this to the Supreme Command immediately, and Postpone the offensive time, and at the same time redeploy troops to adjust the offensive direction."

"No~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This will definitely not work." Hearing Sokolovsky’s idea to Konev, I quickly retorted: "Our troops have almost all entered the attack position. Making adjustments at this time is bound to cause unnecessary confusion. I firmly disagree with revising the offensive plan."

"But our plan is already known to the Germans. If we don't make adjustments, the enemy can take countermeasures in a targeted manner." Sokolovsky said anxiously: "At that time, our troops will suffer. To huge casualties."

"Lida," Konev raised his head and looked at me, and asked with his usual expression: "If the Germans get our offensive plan, how should we respond?"

"Comrade Marshal, my method is actually very simple," I replied with a smile: "Since our troops have entered the attack position, we will attack in advance. In this way, even if the Germans get our attack plan, they will There is no time to adjust the defense."

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