Red Moscow

Although Samoilov has deployed numerous patrols within a radius of 500 meters of the headquarters to prevent German spies from arson. But the German spies were not fools either. They discovered that the area planned to be set on fire was guarded by Soviet patrols, so they resolutely reselected a new arson site.

Facts have proved that their approach is completely correct. Defenses were deployed within a radius of 500 meters of the headquarters, but they chose the arson location to be within a kilometer away, which made it difficult for Samoilov and others to defend against it.

Not long after Sokov led his people to evacuate the headquarters, the enemy plane entered the sky above Klemenchug. Using the three fire fields arranged by the spies, they found the area to be bombed and dropped the bombs they carried. When bombs exploded in the city, setting fire to numerous locations, the German bombers made a turn in the air and swaggered back.

After the air raid alert was lifted, Sokov returned to his headquarters.

Although Samoilov's deployment failed to prevent the German spies from setting fire to the city, the location of the spies' arson was farther away from the headquarters, making the indicated target area larger. It is naturally impossible for the enemy planes in the air to accurately drop the aerial bombs on Sokov's headquarters when they cannot see the ground clearly.

When Sokov returned to the headquarters, he only saw two or three smoking craters on the square outside the church. The entire church building was still intact, and he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. He stopped Sameko and asked, "Chief of Staff, can you contact Lieutenant Samoilov immediately?"

"There should be an operator with a walkie-talkie by his side, and he can probably be reached." After saying this, Sameko tentatively asked Sokov: "What can you do with him?"

"I want him to send someone to the third fire site before the bombing," Sokov replied. "If he is lucky enough, he may be able to catch the two German agents who slipped through there."

"Comrade Commander, I think it may be too late." Sameko shook his head and said, "Although the bombing by the enemy plane lasted only ten minutes, it was enough for the German spies to escape."

"Just give it a try." Sokov knew very well in his heart that he was a little belatedly aware that he should have ordered Samoilov to take people to the third fire site when the headquarters was transferred. Maybe it would be possible. Catch the German spies before they escape. Although it is a bit late at this moment, it is still necessary to test his tone. If his luck is overwhelming and the German spies have not had time to escape due to various reasons, he may be caught by him: "Even if you can't catch it, you can arrange it." Hands are there to put out the fire."

Although Sameko thought that the chance of catching a German spy would be infinitely zero, but since it was Sokov's order, he naturally did not dare to neglect, and quickly ordered the operator to contact Samoilov and inform him to go to The third firefighting scene and the search for German spies who slipped through the net.

When the operator told Sameko that Samoilov had been contacted, he quickly took the headset and said loudly, "Comrade Lieutenant, I am Chief of Staff Sameko."

When Samoilov and Serelkov first went out for inspection, they did not carry a walkie-talkie with them at all. When he saw the first fire scene, he immediately realized that there was no communication tool around him, and he was afraid that something might go wrong, so he quickly ordered someone to go back to the company headquarters of the special company, and notified the radio operator to come and meet him.

But when the second fire scene appeared, Serelkov quickly calculated the approximate location of the third fire scene based on the locations of the two fire places. Then he said to Samoilov: "Comrade Company Commander, the enemy has already lit two fields of fire. If I am not mistaken, they will light a third fire field very soon."

"Do you know where the third fire site is?" Samoilov asked anxiously.

Serelkov took out a map from his satchel, unfolded it and illuminated it with a flashlight and said to Samoilov: "Comrade company commander, according to the location of the first two fire scenes, I analyze that the third fire scene should be in the north. hotel, restaurant or hotel…”

Before Serelkov finished speaking, Samoilov said with a look of shock: "Lieutenant Serelkov, your analysis makes sense. Among these three possible locations, I think the library is the most likely , there are a large number of books stored there, once a fire is ignited, the fire will be out of control."

"Then let's rush there as soon as possible." Serelkov said, "Maybe we can stop the German spies from setting fire."

The library department is about two or three kilometers away from where the two are. Since they don't have any means of transportation, they can only run forward with the patrol team.

Just halfway through the run, a fire appeared in front of him. Serelkov wailed: "Comrade company commander, it seems that we are late, the enemy has already been set on fire by the library."

Unexpectedly, after Samoilov heard this, he said inexplicably: "It's too late to say, and it's not too late to say."

Serelkov asked a little puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"If we want to stop the spies from setting the fire, we are indeed late." Samoilov said with some pride: "But I think the spies did not leave so quickly after setting the fire. Maybe we can catch them."

It was precisely because Samoilov had the idea of ​​catching spies that when they arrived at the burning library, they did not engage in fire fighting, but searched nearby. Soon, one of the patrols spotted two suspicious people who were about to leave on bicycles.

The patrol captain yelled at them to stop, but the more he yelled, the faster they rode. In this case, if it is still impossible to confirm that there is something wrong with these two people, then the patrol captain should go to the cooking class to cook. In order to prevent the opponent from escaping, the captain decisively ordered his men to shoot.

After a flurry of shots, both suspicious persons were shot and fell off their bicycles.

Samoilov and Serelkov also hurried over when they heard the gunshots. From a long distance away, Samoilov asked intentionally, "Why did you shoot, and what happened?"

"Report to Comrade Company Commander," the patrol captain hurriedly reported to Samoilov: "I found two suspicious people and saw that they were about to escape, so I decisively ordered to shoot." Pointing, continued, "Both of them were shot and fell off the car. I'm about to send someone to check."

"You can't hit the wrong person, right?" Samoilov resolutely denied this idea as soon as it came to his mind: "The air defense alarm has been raised in the city, and the residents have all entered the air-raid shelter. People riding bicycles on the street, even if they are not spies, are very suspicious, and there is nothing wrong with the patrol captain ordering his subordinates to shoot."

Thinking of this, he nodded to the patrol captain, and said in an approving tone: "Good job, Comrade Second Lieutenant. You take people over there to see if they are still alive. But whether it is dead or alive, we must find out who they are." identity of."

"Don't worry, Comrade Company Commander." Seeing that Samoilov praised himself, the patrol captain was not only complacent, but after a promise, he led his subordinates towards the two fallen on the ground.

The patrol captain brought people to the place, and saw two men lying on the ground, one of whom was lying motionless on the ground, with blood all around his body, and no signs of life could be seen. And the other person was lying on his back on the ground, covering his abdomen with his hands, humming non-stop.

Seeing a group of soldiers approaching, the man lying on the ground said in a weak voice, "Help...help...help me, I...I don't want to die."

The patrol captain looked down at the man, and then ordered his subordinates: "Search them and see what they do."

The soldiers agreed and stepped forward to search the two of them.

Soon, a soldier found a stack of cards from the pocket of the deceased's clothes. After reading it for a while, he couldn't help but change color. It happened that Samoilov led someone over and asked the patrol captain loudly: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, have you figured out their identities?"

"Not yet, Comrade Company Commander." The patrol captain quickly replied, "Please give me another five minutes, and I will definitely figure out their identities."

"No, five minutes is too long, I can only give you two minutes."

Just when the patrol captain was in trouble, the soldier who searched the deceased came over and handed Samoilov a stack of bloody cards in his hand: "Comrade company commander, I found this on the identity of the deceased."

Samoilov took it over and saw that it was actually a stack of ration certificates. He couldn't help frowning: "Could it be that these two people resell the ration certificates?" The person with the ration certificate, Samoilov was even more convinced of his conjecture.

"Comrade company commander," the patrol captain saw clearly the ration certificate in Samoilov's hand, not only panicked for a while, but could it be that the two people who ordered him to be killed were only two people who resold the ration certificate?

Seeing these bloody ration certificates, Serelkov suddenly had a bold idea in his heart. He stretched out his hand in front of Samoilov: "Comrade commander, let me see."

Samoilov handed the ration certificate to Serelkov casually, and said with a wry smile, "Maybe we hit the wrong person. These are two black market dealers who resell the ration certificate."

"No, Comrade Company Commander." Serelkov raised the ration card in his hand: "According to the cut corners on the ration card, it can be concluded that these parts suppliers have been used."

Hearing this, the patrol captain couldn't help interjecting: "The fact that so many horns have been cut off means that these ration certificates have been used, but it can't be ruled out that thieves stole them from citizens and resold them to these black market dealers... ..."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, please listen to me first." Serelkov politely interrupted the patrol captain: "After I finish speaking, it is not too late for you to express your views."

After the patrol captain retreated shyly to the side, Serelkov continued: "Comrade company commander, I carefully checked the names on the ration certificate and found that they matched the names of the spies we arrested during the day."

"What, the name on the ration card matches the name of the captured spy?" Hearing what Serelkov said, Samoilov snatched the ration card from him and carefully checked the name on it. After reading a few photos, Samoilov felt that Serelkov was right. The names on the ration certificates indeed matched the arrested spies.

"Company Commander," Serelkov continued on the sidelines: "When we were arresting, two spies slipped through the net. I once interrogated one of the spies. I went to pick up the food. Now we can basically confirm that these two people are the spies who slipped through the net."

Samoilov nodded, looked at the man still lying on the ground crying, and ordered the soldiers standing beside him: "Bandage his wound, he can't die yet, I still have a lot of questions to ask him."

When the soldiers stepped forward to bandage the wounds of the spies, the enemy plane entered the sky over the city of Klemenchug and began dropping bombs at the location designated by the spies to set fire. Seeing this, Samoilov quickly ordered everyone to move to a nearby air-raid shelter for hiding. After the bombing is over, send the spies to the hospital.

As soon as the explosion was over, the radio operator from the company headquarters found Samoilov and reported to him: "Comrade company commander, on the way I came here, I received a call from the army headquarters, saying that there is a comrade from the chief of staff. I'm looking for you for important things."

In fact, even if Sameko didn't take the initiative to contact Samoilov, he was prepared to report to the headquarters about the capture of the remaining two spies as soon as the walkie-talkie arrived.

When he heard Sameko's voice coming from the earphones, Samoilov said excitedly: "Report to Comrade Chief of Staff, I am Samoilov. I have good news for you. We have successfully The German spies who set the fire were captured."

When Sameko heard what Samoilov said, he couldn't help being stunned. The purpose of his contacting the other party was to pass on Sokov's order to let them rush to the third fire scene to catch the German spies who set the fire. But before he gave the order, he actually told himself that the spies had been caught.

Sameko was silent for a long time before asking cautiously: "Is this true, Comrade Lieutenant?"

"of course it's true."

"Comrade Lieutenant, the reason why I contacted you is that Comrade Commander issued an order not long ago."

"What order?"

"Let you go to the third fire site to search. If you are lucky, you may be able to catch the spies who set the fire." After saying this, Sameko couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile. He thought the chance of catching the spies was slim. But I didn't expect that the other party had successfully captured the spy. "Then report to me the process of your arrest."

Samoilov hurriedly reported what happened to Sameko in detail, and finally said happily: "Fortunately, Lieutenant Serelkov found that the name on the seized ration certificate was the same as the name of the spies we captured during the day. The same, thus confirming that these two people are spies who slipped through the net."

"Can you confirm?" Sameko asked cautiously.

"It's completely confirmed, Comrade Chief of Staff." In order to increase credibility, Samoilov explained to Sameko: "During our interrogation, more than one spy confessed that the two who slipped through the net went to collect the money on their behalf. Food is rationed."

"Are both of them still alive?"

"Because of the arrest of two people, our fighters had to open fire, resulting in one death and one injury."

"Where are you now?"

"Am I still staying near the third fire site?"

"Why hasn't the injured spy been sent to the hospital yet?" Sameko questioned, "If he is dead, how can we learn more useful information from him?"

"Just after we completed the capture work, enemy planes came to bomb us, so we had to hide in a nearby air-raid shelter." Samoilov quickly explained to Sameko: "We will send the wounded to the hospital."