Red Moscow

After receiving the order, the radio operator began to call Sokov's accompanying radio continuously, but there was no response.

"What's going on, what's going on here?" Seeing that it was too late to get in touch with Sokov's radio station, Ponejielin couldn't help being confused. You must know that if the information reported by the observation post is true, the jeep that Sokov was riding in had already entered the city. If something really happened to Otatz, he would definitely be sent to a military court.

After weighing the stakes, he said to Sidolin: "Chief of Staff, immediately issue an order to the troops in the city to find the whereabouts of Comrade Commander."

Sidolin was obviously much calmer than Bonegerin at the moment: "Comrade Commander, I don't think you need to be so alarmed. You must know that the commander is operating at the same time as the 126th Regiment. There is no problem with safety."

The speaker has no intention but the listener has the intention, and Sidolin wakes up the dreamer with one word. "That's right, that's right," Pornejelin said excitedly, slapping the table with his hand, "How could I have forgotten this matter. Since the commander is operating at the same time as the 126th Regiment, I just need to contact the Lieutenant Colonel Harlem will know the situation of the commander."

After finishing speaking, he called a communications staff officer and said: "Contact Lieutenant Colonel Duharin of the 126th Regiment immediately and ask him to report the situation of the commander to me."

When Sidolin heard it, that's right, he got into a dead end anyway. Since Sokov entered the city with the 126th Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Haring, the head of the regiment, must know his situation. If you contact him directly, you can know Sokov's situation, why bother calling the radio station accompanying him in vain.

The radio station of the 126th regiment was quickly contacted. This is because Duharin immediately ordered the operator to turn on the radio station after selecting the location of the regiment command post, ready to receive orders from the superior. As soon as I turned on the phone, I received a call from the division headquarters. After the telegraph operator asked Du Haring for instructions, he immediately replied with a telegram.

After reading the telegram, Sidolin smiled and said to Pornejelin: "Comrade Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Duharin said in the telegram that there is a guard company next to the commander. He will first go around the city, and then Just come to our division headquarters. I know Lieutenant Koshkin's abilities, and with him by his side, the commander's safety should be no problem."

Ponegelin is also a smart person, but because he is a fan of the authorities, he will be confused because of Sokov's safety. Hearing what Sidolin said at this moment, his emotions gradually stabilized, "Well, we will wait here for the commander's arrival in peace."

After waiting for more than half an hour, Sokov strode in from the outside, and greeted the two of them from a long distance away: "Lieutenant Colonel Bornejerin, Colonel Sidolin, how are you!"

"Hello, Comrade Commander!" The two quickly stood up and faced Sokov, saying in unison.

Worried about Sukov's leg injury, Sidolin quickly stepped forward to help him, but was rejected: "Sidorin, thank you for your kindness. My leg injury is basically healed, and it doesn't affect my walking at all."

After sitting down at the table, Sokov looked at the two of them and asked, "What happened to the explosion at the post office? Why were all the people fighting the fire and maintaining order all Romanians, but none of our people saw it?"

"Comrade Commander, this is all my fault." Pornegerin quickly took the responsibility for the incident on himself, "After the post office exploded, my subordinates rushed to the scene quickly, but found that the Romanians had blocked the incident. I got to the scene and organized firefighting, so I got people to evacuate them back."

Sokov couldn't help frowning after hearing this: "Lieutenant Colonel Pornejelin, why did you withdraw the people? Don't you know how to let them stand aside to maintain order and try to figure out the cause of the explosion?"

"Comrade Commander, although we are now in a cooperative relationship with the Romanians, it is still unknown whether they will make small moves behind us." Ponejielin explained to Sukov: "I am doing this for safety reasons. , so the troops were ordered to withdraw to the barracks."

"Confused, simply confused." Although Pornegerin is a person he values ​​highly, but in the face of the wrong decision he made, Sokov still criticized him mercilessly: "Although our army is in the name of cooperation, The flag, to enter this city, but it does not mean that we are going to be a vassal of the Romanians. If we cannot control the city, then what is the point of our army stationing in this city? Is it just to protect the Romanians, Keep them from being attacked by the Germans?"

After being reprimanded by Sokov, Ponegerin's old face blushed, and then he admitted his mistake to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, I was wrong. I considered the problem too simply."

"Since we know that we have made a mistake, we must find a way to remedy it." Sokov said to Ponegerin: "Immediately send people to the post office again, where they will seal off the scene with the Romanian army, and find out the cause of the explosion. .”

He raised his hand and looked at his watch, and continued: "At nine o'clock, General Antoneta should start working, right? You will accompany me to see him then."

"Okay, Comrade Commander." Ponegerin quickly agreed, "I will accompany you to the division headquarters of the Romanian Army."

Although Ponegerin obeyed Sokov's order and sent troops in time to return to the post office, preparing to assist the Romanian army here to maintain order, but was rejected by the other party.

The leading Romanian officer also plausibly said: "This is the area we are responsible for. We have enough strength to fight fires or maintain order. Please go back."

The commander of the Soviet army was Major Sukharev. He glanced at the other party's epaulets and said coldly: "Mr. Lieutenant, I am Major Sukharev, the chief of staff of the 124th Guards Regiment of the Soviet Army. It's a friendly army, according to the regulations in the army, you should obey my orders, right?"

After hearing this, the Romanian lieutenant was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to his forehead and saluted Sukharev: "Hello, Mr. Major, I am willing to obey your orders!"

Sukharev didn't talk nonsense with him, and immediately asked the commanders and fighters he brought forward to occupy half of the security positions. After doing all this, he looked at the still burning post office and asked the Romanian lieutenant: "Lieutenant, what is going on here? How could the post office catch fire?"

"It should be the secret agents sent by the Germans to sabotage." Hearing Sukharev's question, the lieutenant did not dare to neglect, and quickly replied truthfully: "We will find the body of an officer of our army nearby. His neck was wrung from the back and he died, and all his military uniform and ID were gone. If it wasn't for one of our soldiers who happened to know him, we probably wouldn't be able to guess his identity until now."

"So that's how it is." After listening to the lieutenant, Sukharev roughly figured out the situation. It turned out that German spies had sneaked into the city, killed a Romanian officer, and took away his uniform and documents. . He paused for a moment and asked, "Have you taken any measures?"

"No, Mr. Major, we have not taken any measures." The lieutenant said helplessly: "You know, even if our army continues to search under martial law in the vicinity, a spy wearing our army uniform and holding our officer's certificate is still It can be unimpeded."

Sukharev heard that this matter is indeed very difficult. In any case, there are thousands of Romanian officers and soldiers in the city of Otac, and it is indeed very difficult to find a disguised German spy among them. matter.

He knew that Sokov was in the division headquarters at the moment, so he sent a reliable soldier to the headquarters to find Sokov and report to him in detail what happened here.

Knowing that the explosion at the Post Office might have been caused by German secret agents, Sokov couldn't help but fell into deep thought. There are more than one hundred thousand people in this city, and there are thousands of Romanian troops outside. Finding one or a few infiltrated German spies among them is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

Seeing that Sokov hadn't come up with a countermeasure for a long time, Ponejielin asked Sidolin in a low voice: "Comrade Chief of Staff, can you come up with any good solution?"

Sidolin pouted at Sokov, who was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, and said in a low voice, "Even Comrade Commander can't think of a good way, so what can I think of?"

"Then tell me." Seeing that Sidolin couldn't think of a good solution, Ponegerin asked unwillingly, "What kind of appearance will this German spy who killed the Romanian officer continue his sabotage?" action?"

"It doesn't matter," Sidolin said casually: "Since he killed a Romanian officer and obtained the officer's uniform and certificate, he will definitely appear as a Romanian soldier. After all, it is more convenient for him to approach Those important military facilities are convenient for him to carry out further damage."

Sokov, who was pacing back and forth, overheard what Sidolin said, so he stopped, turned his head to look at Sidolin and asked, "Colonel Sidolin, what were you talking about just now?"

Xiduo Lin Xin said that I didn't say anything bad about the commander. What did he mean by asking me that, and he said in a daze, "I didn't say anything?"

Seeing that the other party had misunderstood his intentions, Sokov reminded him: "I seem to hear what you are talking about about military facilities."

After Sokov’s reminder, Sidolin immediately understood why the other party asked him, and quickly explained: “Comrade Commander, that’s the case. Just now the division commander asked me if the German spies continued to stay in the city, what would they do? What kind of identity appeared. I judge that the German spies will definitely use the military uniforms and documents he obtained to pretend to be Romanian soldiers, which will make it easier for him to approach various military facilities and carry out systematic destruction. "

For Sidolin's analysis, Sokov agreed: "Yes, it is entirely possible for the Germans to do this."

"If the German spies are really disguised as Romanian soldiers, it will be easy to handle." Ponegelin said: "We can set up checkpoints in the city, check those Romanian officers, and maybe we can find the German spies from them."

"Lieutenant Colonel Ponegerin, what you came up with is a bad idea." Unexpectedly, he was refuted by Sokov as soon as he finished his words: "Not to mention that there are thousands of Romanian soldiers in the city, and there are only a few officers among them. There are hundreds of them, and if our officers and fighters on duty at the checkpoints want to conduct an interrogation, the workload will be very heavy."

"We have just reached a cooperation agreement with the Romanian army, and the officers and soldiers of the other party are somewhat resistant to us. If we don't ask the indiscriminate, and set up checks on the Romanian military officers, I am afraid that the conflict between them will deepen, and it will turn into an armed confrontation. possible."

"Comrade Commander," seeing that his proposal was rejected, Ponegerin was not discouraged. On the contrary, he took the initiative to ask Sukov what solution he had: "Do you have any good solutions?"

"There is a way." Sokov said slowly: "I just thought of it too, but if it is to be implemented, it needs the cooperation of General Antoneta."

"What method?" Sidolin asked impatiently.

Sokov looked at him with a faint smile, and then said: "Colonel Sidolin, please forgive me for keeping it secret, you will understand after it is implemented."

Seeing that Sokov was unwilling to speak, Sidolin knew that even if he continued to ask, he might not get the answer he wanted. He raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was just six o'clock, and there were still three hours before nine o'clock. He looked up at Sokov and asked with concern: "Comrade Commander, you must be very tired after driving all night, right? Anyway, there are still three hours before you go to the municipal building. Why don't you lie down on the camp bed for a while and take a nap?" Take a nap and recover your strength."

"There's no time." Sokov waved his hand at Sidolin, rejected his offer, and then turned around and said to Ponejielin: "Lieutenant Colonel Ponejielin, let's go to the municipal building now, this matter Things need to be prepared as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late when the German secret agents come to their senses."

"However, General Antoneta is probably still asleep at the moment, and he won't be able to go to work until at least nine o'clock." Sidolin reminded Sokov from the side, "Or, you can rest for a few hours before going there."

"Colonel Sidolin, get in touch with the Romanian side immediately and tell me that I have something urgent and I need to see General Antoneta immediately and ask him to rush to the office immediately."

"Comrade Commander, this is not very good." After listening to Sukov, Sidolin said with some embarrassment: "I am worried that we will anger the other party by using this command tone."

Sokov frowned again: "Colonel Sidolin, I want to remind you. Since our army has settled in Otac, we should have the final say on everything in the city. Let me ask, if at this moment The person who wants to see Antonetta is not me, but a German general, do you think he will wait until nine o'clock to show up in his office?"

Sokov's words reminded Sidolin that since he was stationed in Otac, he seemed a little at a loss, not knowing how to get along with the Romanian army, which was an enemy not long ago. Not only him, but even Ponegerin seemed a little timid when assigning tasks.

"I understand, Comrade Commander." Sidolin raised his head and said proudly, "Although we currently have a cooperative relationship with the Romanian army, we must take the initiative in all affairs in the city."

Seeing that Sokov nodded in agreement with what he said, he became more confident: "Comrade Commander, I will call the Romanians right away, tell them the news of your upcoming visit, and ask Anton General Ta is waiting for you in the office ahead of time."

"That's right, Colonel Sidolin." Sokov was satisfied with Sidolin's statement, and nodded at him: "Then you should call them quickly."