Red Moscow

After sending Terelenko away, Sokov was worried that someone would come looking for him, so he asked Adelina to leave the door open, so that those who were looking for him would see him at the door. . "Misha," Agelina said, "if the door is really ajar, we probably won't have a chance to talk, and people will come to you one after another. Some people come and see that my door is closed. , I will turn around and look for Yasha, so I won’t bother you anymore.”

When Sokov thought about it, it seemed to be the truth, and he stopped insisting on his opinion: "If that's the case, then close the door."

After Agelina closed the door, she came over again, sat down on the chair next to Sokov, and continued chatting.

Unexpectedly, the chat didn't last long before someone knocked on the door again.

Hearing the knock on the door, Sokov turned his attention to Agelina, wanting her to open the door. But she shook her head, indicating that she didn't want to open the door.

Seeing that Agelina didn't want to open the door, Sokov sighed softly, stood up and planned to open the door himself, but was pulled by Agelina. Agelina shook her head at him and said, "Misha, let him knock. If he knocks for a while and sees no movement in the room, he will leave naturally."

"I'm worried about Yasha," Sokov explained, "in case he comes to me for something."

Agelina let go of Sokov with an unhappy face and let him go over and open the door.

The person standing outside the door was indeed Yakov. He looked over Sokov's shoulder, glanced into the room, and then said with a smile: "Misha, I didn't disturb you, did I?"

"What's the matter?" Sokov asked calmly.

"The garrison and engineers have arrived." Yakov asked: "Misha, how do you plan to arrange them?"

"I have already informed Captain Terelenko of the garrison and Captain Naumenko of the engineer company." Sokov said briefly: "Let them leave a few people on duty on the high ground, and the rest are in the museum. Let’s rest inside and wait until dawn tomorrow before starting demining operations.”

"Oh, that's it." Yakov nodded: "If they come to ask me, I will answer them like this." After saying this, he looked into the room again, and happened to see Agelina taking out A book, pretending to be reading. After meeting Yakov's eyes, he immediately turned in another direction, facing away from the door.

Seeing this, Yakov lowered his voice and asked: "Misha, will you go back to your room tonight? If you don't, I won't leave the door open for you."

"Okay, okay, Yasha, don't make noises." Sokov said with some embarrassment: "I'll have a chat with Agelina and will go back soon."

Yakov joked a few more words before turning around and staggering towards his room.

When Sokov closed the door and walked back to the chair next to Agelina and sat down, the atmosphere in the room was a little awkward. Sokov laughed quickly and explained to Agelina: "Agelina, Yasha just likes to joke around. Don't mind."

Agelina blushed and hummed, looking down at the book in her hand.

Sokov glanced curiously at the copy of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" that was not his, and asked curiously: "Agelina, what book are you reading?"

"Pushkin's Collected Poems."

Hearing that it was "Pushkin's Collected Poems", Sokov thought of Pushkin's most famous poem: "If life deceives you, don't be sad, don't be impatient! You need to be calm in melancholy days: believe it, happy days will come !”

Unexpectedly, as soon as he carried it here, Agelina echoed: "My heart is always longing for the future; but the present is always melancholy, everything is an instant, everything will pass; and the past will become a kind "Missing." Since Agelina was reciting, Sokov could not stop and could only recite this popular poem with her.

After the two of them finished reading this poem, Agelina suddenly looked at Sokov lovingly and asked: "Misha, have you always liked me in your heart?"

"Ah, this, this..." Agelina's question confused Sokov, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while.

"I knew you always had me in your heart." Agelina said with a smile: "If you didn't have me in your heart, you wouldn't have written me in the book."

When Sokov heard this, he was immediately confused: I just wrote a book "The Dawns Here Are Quiet". This book seems to have nothing to do with you, right?

Just when Sokov was about to ask why Agelina said that, he heard the other party continue: "The female soldier Sonia who loves to read poems in "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" is the prototype of her. That’s me, right?”

After Agelina's reminder, Sokov suddenly remembered that in the novel, Sonia recited poetry in public about seven or eight times. Unexpectedly, Agelina actually connected this matter with herself. , and wishfully believed that this was because Sokov liked himself in his heart, so he instinctively used himself as a prototype to create the image of Sonia.

Sokov muttered to himself: Although I have known you for a long time, I had no idea that you liked poetry. How could I use you as a prototype to create the image of a female soldier like Sonia? Besides, this book was copied by Vasilyev himself. He doesn’t know you at all and will definitely not use you as a prototype to shape the image of the female soldier in the book.

But at this moment, there were only Sokov and Agelina in the room, so even if this kind of thing was admitted, it would not hurt. So Sokov blushed and said: "Agelina, I didn't expect you to see it. Yes, the female soldier Sonia in the book who likes to recite poems was modeled after you."

Agelina was just guessing at first, but when she heard Sokov admit it and even blushed, she became even more convinced that Sokov created the female soldier Sonia in the book because he was thinking about him. This character. Thinking of this, she didn't even have time to put down the book. She opened her arms to hug Sokov and kissed him on the face.

Sokov suddenly turned red with embarrassment.

There was a knock on the door at an inappropriate time.

Sokov broke free from Agelina's arm, stood up, walked to the door, and opened the door.

The person who appeared outside the door this time was not Yakov, Terelenko or Naumenko, but the museum director. Sokov looked at the other party and asked with some surprise: "Comrade Director, what can I do for you?"

"Comrade General, I just went to look for you next door. General Yakov said you were here, so I came over."

"What's the matter?" Sokov repeated the question.

"That's it." The curator said with a smile: "I'm worried that the heating in the room is not enough and you may be a little cold when you sleep at night, so I will bring you a kerosene stove." As he said that, he took half a step to the side. , said to a person in the corridor, "Take the things into the house."

Soon, Sokov saw a staff member walking in with a kerosene stove in his hand. Sokov wanted to refuse, but considering that this was the curator's intention, he did not object, so he stepped aside and watched the other person place the kerosene stove on the table in the middle of the room.

"Comrade General, the stove has been lit. When you use it, remember to open the window, otherwise you may be prone to carbon monoxide poisoning." The curator said, walked directly to the window, raised his hand and opened a small window above to ensure that the room was Air circulation. When he returned to Sokov, he handed a paper package in his left hand to Sokov: "Here are some potatoes. You can bake them on the stove."

Sokov took the paper bag and opened it. There were five or six eggs-sized potatoes inside. He wanted to say that the potatoes were roasted on the stove, but even though the outside was burnt, the inside was still raw. But after pinching it gently, he found that these potatoes were actually cooked and could be eaten directly even if they were not roasted on the stove. So he nodded to the curator and said politely: "Comrade curator, thank you." , thank you for the potatoes you gave us."

When the door closed again, Agelina asked with lingering fear: "Will no one knock on the door again now?"

Sokov said in an uncertain tone: "There probably won't be any more." After a pause, he tentatively asked Agelina: "Are you hungry? If you are, I'll put the potatoes in." Bake it on the stove.”

"Put it on first." Agelina said, "That way we can have hot potatoes whenever we want."

When Sokov put the potatoes in the paper bag one by one on the edge of the kerosene stove, he heard Adelina say: "Misha, I used to lurk in Ukraine for a while, but soon I Left, do you know why?"

Sokov looked up at her and asked casually: "Why?"

"Because my identity has been exposed!"

Sokov's hand trembled, and the potato in his hand suddenly fell to the ground. He hurriedly bent down to pick it up, and asked at the same time: "How could it be exposed?"

"Because my superior assigned a wrong latent mission at that time."

Sokov picked up the potatoes on the ground, carefully cleaned the dust on the surface, and placed them next to the kerosene stove. He looked at Agelina and asked: "Agelina, what kind of wrong lurking mission is this?" Come and listen." Maybe he was worried that the other party would have concerns, so he added, "If it involves confidentiality, you don't have to say it."

"Even if it involves secrecy, with the end of the war, these things can be declassified."

"If that's the case, then just tell me and listen."

"It's like this." Agelina said: "At the beginning of 1943, our army captured a German intelligence officer on the battlefield. Because this SS major named Lucas and one of ours named Sasha Gal looked almost exactly the same, so his superiors ordered him to pretend to be the other person and infiltrate the German intelligence agency."

"Impersonation." Sokov said with some confusion: "I think although it is very bold, it seems not wrong. Our people pretend to be Germans and use their original identities to easily obtain some top secrets." information."

"Yes, this mission was originally carried out very smoothly. Before Sagar carried out the mission, he also spent a month learning and imitating the real Lucas to the point where the fake was the real one. Even with Lu The Germans who have been working with Cass for many years did not see any flaws. He used his identity as an intelligence officer to obtain a lot of important information from the German intelligence agency." Agelina said: "But as Lucas The arrival of his wife exposed his identity."

"Then how did Lucas's wife find out Sagar's identity?" Sokov asked puzzledly: "Are you saying that even Lucas's original colleagues didn't see anything through deliberate imitation? Where’s the flaw?”

"Less than half an hour after the two met, Lucas' wife discovered that Sagal was an imposter."

Agelina's words confused Sokov: "Is it possible that Lucas's wife is also a German agent? Otherwise, how could she find out the other party's identity half an hour after meeting?"

Hearing Sokov's question, Agelina suddenly raised her hand and slapped him without warning. She blushed and said, "Lucas and his wife have been married for seven or eight years. He was transferred to Ukraine." After that, the two did not see each other for more than a year. When they reunited, they naturally had to do some things between husband and wife, and Sagar showed his flaws in this matter."

Sokov stared at Agelina dumbfounded. He never dreamed that a latent agent carefully arranged by the Soviet Intelligence Agency would reveal his identity just because a long separation was better than a newlywed.

After a brief moment of shock, he became curious about Sagar's fate and quickly asked: "Agelina, what happened next?"

"Although Lucas's wife discovered that the person she was intimate with was not her husband, she did not speak out immediately. Instead, she told Sagar that she was going out to visit a friend." Agelina continued: " After she left, Sagar immediately realized something was wrong. Lucas's wife was in Kiev for the first time. How could she have an acquaintance? He felt that his identity might have been exposed, and he quickly began to prepare for a retreat.

After he had just destroyed some information that might lead to the exposure of Kiev's underground organizations, he heard the sound of cars braking outside. He quickly looked out the window and saw a barrel truck and two trucks parked outside. Many German soldiers jumped out of the carriage. Seeing this, he immediately understood that his identity had been discovered by Lucas's wife, who was bringing someone to arrest him. So he smashed the window glass with the submachine gun in his hand and shot at the German soldiers who were gathering outside..."

Sokov was calculating in his mind. Two trucks could carry at least thirty soldiers. Can Sagar alone break out of the German encirclement? Thinking of this, he quickly asked: "Did Sagar die in the end, or did he escape?"

"Escaped." Adelina replied: "After he escaped, he found the transportation station in Kiev, and through the comrades there, he safely evacuated from the city."

After learning that Sagar escaped safely, Sokov couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with some confusion: "Agelina, since Sagar has escaped safely, why did it involve you in exposing your identity? In what you just said Here, I don’t think I heard any interaction between you?”

"You are right. Although he and I are both agents who broke into the German army, we have no interaction with each other. Even if the Germans investigate the people related to him, they will not be able to find me."

Sokov didn't speak, just looked at Agelina quietly. He guessed that the other party was going to tell a shocking secret next, which had something to do with her revealing her identity.