Red Moscow

"A death sentence has been issued, and it must be executed immediately. In order not to implicate my subordinates, I let all three of them leave, leaving only the female pilot as a witness.

When the three soldiers left and put the cover on their heads, the general suddenly begged me bitterly, hoping that I would let him go, and he was willing to agree to all my conditions..."

Koshkin heard this and said angrily: "Damn coward, he should have been shot long ago."

But Sokov felt something was wrong, because Aku said that his subordinates killed the general, but now in the room on the lower floor, there were only Aku, the female pilot and the general, and the rest The subordinates all returned to the upper bunker, and there was no chance to kill the general. What's going on?

With this question in mind, Sokov stopped Koshkin from continuing, and asked instead: "Comrade Aku, didn't you just say that your subordinates killed the general. But now, in the lower floor, except You and the female pilot didn't have a single subordinate present, so how did they kill the general?"

"Comrade commander, don't worry, I'm going to stop here soon." Aku continued: "The female pilot is soft-hearted. Seeing the general begging, she couldn't bear to watch it. Just when she got up and was about to leave At that time, the general made a sudden attack, rushed up and snatched the submachine gun in her hand, hijacked her, and threatened me to put down the weapon. I was worried that he would hurt the female pilot, so I had to put the weapon in my hand on the table. "

When Koshkin heard this, he immediately became angry: "Hey, why are you so careless? He snatched the weapon and even took a hostage."

"Lieutenant Koshkin, don't talk." Sokov interrupted Koshkin again, he felt that Aku's main point was coming: "Please continue, I think there are some things that you can't see even if you see them with your own eyes." It has to be real."

Hearing what Sokov said, Aku couldn't help being shocked, and then a shocked expression appeared on his face: "Comrade General, you are right. Some things may not be true even if we have seen them with our own eyes.

I put the weapon on the table, thinking that I would be a lamb to the slaughter in the hands of the general. Unexpectedly, after seeing me put down the weapon, he let go of the arm that strangled the female pilot, and even said sorry to her. Then he said to the female pilot: You go out first, I want to have a good chat with this corporal.

After the female pilot went out and put on the cover, I looked at the general opposite and said with a sneer: 'Comrade general, if you want to do it, do it. But let me remind you, three of my subordinates are above, even if you kill me, don't even think about escaping from here. '

'Don't worry, Comrade Corporal, I won't kill you. ’ The general said, put the submachine gun in his hand on the table, and said to me: ‘There are only two of us here, and I can tell you a secret. '

The general's actions made me a little confused. In order to find out what was going on, I asked back: 'What is the secret? '

The general pointed to the diamond-shaped collar patch inlaid with two gold stars, and said to me: 'Actually, I am not a general, this general uniform is fake. '

'Fake? ’ His words stunned me. I forgot that my heart was still full of hostility towards him. I reached out and touched his collar badge. The touch from my fingers made me understand that the collar badge was definitely real. So I asked back: 'Comrade General, no matter how I look at it, I don't think this general uniform is fake. '

'You misunderstood what I meant. ’ The general explained to me: ‘When I say this general uniform is fake, I don’t mean that the clothes are fake, but that my identity is fake. In fact, I am a reconnaissance staff officer in the 12th Army, with the rank of captain. My mission was to wear this general uniform, carry a false document, fly through German-occupied territory, and try to get them to shoot me down. At that time, this fake document will naturally fall into their hands. '

I didn't know if what the general said was true or not, so I tentatively asked: 'What is in this document? '

'A plan of attack, fake. The false general, that is, the reconnaissance staff officer, said to me: "We want the Germans to think that we will concentrate our forces on a certain point to launch an offensive, so as to attract them to transfer the main force there, so that our defensive operations can be strengthened. precious time of the system. '

He finally said to me: 'Comrade Corporal, I hope you will help me escape from the bunker to the Germans and deliberately let this false document fall into their hands so that they can make a wrong judgment. '"

Hearing that Aku mentioned the 12th Army, Sokov immediately thought that Ponegerin had been the commander of the Army before. If such a deception plan had really been carried out, he would have been impressed. Thinking of this, he quickly told Koshkin: "Lieutenant Koshkin, please run over and call Lieutenant Colonel Ponejelin."

"After talking with me for a while, the reconnaissance staff asked me to let him out. As he fled to the German positions, he used machine gun fire from behind to convince the Germans that he was going to join them.

I agreed to his request and said that I would let him go after all the soldiers above went to sleep.

We waited on the lower floor for an hour, and after hearing no movement above, I opened the cover to check and found that everyone in the bunker was sleeping, so I quietly let the reconnaissance staff go.

When he was more than 30 meters away from the bunker, I shot him in the back as agreed. In order to avoid accidental injury, I deliberately raised the muzzle of the gun, and the bullets flew past his head. He knew I wasn't going to hit him, so instead of running in a zigzag, he was running in a straight line.

But what I didn't expect was that the gunshots alarmed the other three soldiers. They saw me shooting crazily outside, and they didn't know what happened, so they all gathered around and asked what happened.

In order to keep the secret of the reconnaissance staff, I can't tell them the truth, I can only say that the general ran away. I was shooting him to prevent him from surrendering to the Germans. But I never dreamed that it was my own words that caused an irreparable disaster.

When I shot again above the head of the reconnaissance staff officer, a soldier picked up the rifle, put it on the shooting hole, and after aiming for a while, he decisively pulled the trigger. After a clear gunshot sounded, the running reconnaissance staff officer was shocked, as if he had hit a transparent wall, and then his body slowly fell to the ground.

Seeing that my subordinate killed the reconnaissance staff officer, in order not to reveal the secret, I couldn't blame him, so I could only bite the bullet and say ideally: 'The shooting was really accurate! '

The sound of my shooting alarmed the Germans in the distance, and found that the general during the day was running towards their position. The German commander immediately sent a dozen people to respond. When the reconnaissance staff officer was shot and fell to the ground, a German soldier crawled over, cut off the handle of the briefcase with a dagger, turned around and ran back.

The sacrifice of the reconnaissance staff officer filled me with anger. At this moment, seeing the Germans took the briefcase from his hand, I locked him and blocked his retreat with intensive firepower. Soon, the German soldier died under our random guns.

It may be that my shooting made the Germans mistakenly think that this document is really important, so they immediately sent new soldiers to continue to snatch the briefcase. In this way, they killed a total of twelve soldiers before disappearing from my sight with the briefcase. "

"How did you dispose of the body of the reconnaissance staff officer?" Sokov asked solemnly.

"We don't know if there are enemies hidden around us, so we can't go out to collect the corpses for the reconnaissance staff." Aku expressed his concerns at the time, "I was also worried that if I sent people out to collect the corpses, it might arouse the suspicion of the Germans, which would cause the As a result, our army's deception plan failed.

In the next two days, the surroundings were quiet, and the Germans who had been attacking every day recently had no movement. I personally ventured out to reconnaissance, and found that the surrounding German soldiers had withdrawn at some point. I considered that there were not many supplies stored in the bunker, and I would have to move them sooner or later anyway, so I might as well move them as soon as possible while there were no Germans around, and stay away from this dangerous place.

At the place where the reconnaissance staff died, I saw his body still lying there, but there was no time to bury it. After one last look at his body, I left with the rest of the fighter and female pilot. "

"Comrade Aku," Sokov asked his own question after listening to Aku's story: "You said that after the enemies who surrounded your bunker withdrew, you led four other comrades to break out of the siege because you were worried that the Germans would Reappear, even the body of the reconnaissance staff officer is too late to bury. I want to ask, what happened when you broke through, so that you have not returned to the team until now?"

"Comrade General, as I just said, with the fall of Vinnytsia, we are already deep behind the enemy's rear. Although the enemy who surrounded our bunker retreated, we are still in the enemy's encirclement. At a distance of more than ten miles from the bunker We encountered a German patrol at a distance of 10,000 kilometers. After a fierce battle, all three soldiers under me were killed, while the female pilot was scattered during the battle.

I originally wanted to go to the Uman area alone to find the main force here. Unfortunately, before I got there, I met a group of ordinary people who had fled. They told me that the troops in the Uman area were also surrounded by the Germans. middle. Hearing what they said, I realized that if I continued to Uman, I would be throwing myself in a trap. After repeated consideration, I decided to flee with this group of refugees, and thus came to Chernivtsi. "

Aku looked at Helus: "A few days ago, I accidentally saw Helus on the road, and I thought I was wrong. After looking carefully, I confirmed that he is my old friend Heru Si. At that time, he was riding in a jeep, and before I stepped forward to recognize him, the jeep disappeared from my field of vision.

When I heard that the troops were marching to Otac, I hurried to Otac on foot and asked around for the whereabouts of Herus. Fortunately, my luck was good, and I actually found Herus. So I told him all the stories I had experienced, and asked him to arrange for me to meet you. "

"Second Lieutenant Horus is still a good friend." Sokov looked at Horus with a sneer on his face and said, "I really arranged for me to meet you."

"Comrade Commander, I was wrong." Herus heard the dissatisfaction in Sokov's tone, and quickly admitted his mistake: "I saw that Aku was so pitiful, so I couldn't help but want to help him."

"Comrade Commander," Koshkin came in from the outside and reported to Sokov, "Lieutenant-Colonel Poniedelin has arrived!"

"Quickly invite him in!"

Soon, Ponegerin walked into the room quickly, his eyes swept over the faces of Herus and Aku, and then rested on Sokov's face again: "Comrade Commander, may I ask you?" Is there anything you can do with me?"

"Lieutenant Colonel Ponegerin, please sit down." Sokov told Ponegerin to sit down before saying, "I invited you here today because I have something important to ask you. "

Hearing Sokov's question, Ponegerin couldn't help looking again at Herus and Aku who were sitting aside, thinking that these two people were obviously not from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The two had nothing to do with each other, so they said respectfully: "Comrade Commander, if you have anything to do, please go ahead and talk about it."

"I want to ask, at the beginning of the war..." Sokov suddenly realized that he didn't know the exact time, so he turned to ask Aku, "What is the exact time?"

"July 29, 1941."

"Lieutenant Colonel Pornegelin, on July 29th, 1941, did you send a reconnaissance staff officer, posing as a general, on a special covert mission?"

"Wait a minute, Comrade Commander." Ponegerin did not answer Sukov's question immediately, but frowned and said, "The time interval is too long. Do you remember?"

"It's okay, you can recall slowly." Sokov said reasonably.

Pornegerin frowned and thought for a long time, and finally recovered part of his memory: "That's right, Comrade Commander, I seem to have remembered something. In order to contain the Germans' attack and divert their attention, we formulated He planned a deception plan, which was to deliberately let a fake battle plan fall into the hands of the Germans, so as to divert their attention from the Uman area to other areas.

At that time, a reconnaissance staff officer was used as the bait, as for the rank, I don't remember clearly..."

"It's the rank of captain." Aku reminded him.

"That's right, that's right," after Aku's reminder, Ponejielin also remembered: "It is indeed a captain. The mission he received was to disguise himself as a major general of our army and fly on a reconnaissance plane. When flying over the German-occupied area, the plane was shot down by the Germans, and he will be sacrificed or captured. The documents he carried with him will cause the German commander to make a wrong judgment, so that part of the troops in the Uman area will be transferred to the Uman area. A non-existent attack site."

"Lieutenant-Colonel Pornegerin, let me introduce you. This is Comrade Aku. Before the Germans took Vinnytsia, he was an ordinary corporal with only a few subordinates. They witnessed you The whole process of the plane your subordinates were on was shot down by German fighter jets, and even rescued the female pilot and your subordinates to the bunker."

"Comrade Commander, can you tell me where he is?"