Red Moscow

In the middle of the night, Sokov, who was deeply sleepy, suddenly felt someone shaking his shoulders. At the same time, he also heard someone calling his name softly in his ear: "Misha, Misha, wake up. Misha, Misha..."

Sokov, who had been on the battlefield for several years, immediately woke up. He opened his eyes suddenly and found that the person shaking his shoulders and calling his name was Agelina. He quickly asked: "What happened?" Yes, Agelina?”

Seeing Sokov open his eyes, Agelina said softly: "Misha, I always feel that something is wrong, and I want to ask you a few questions."

Seeing that nothing happened, Sokov's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and sleepiness returned. He closed his eyes and asked feebly: "Agelina, it's the middle of the night. If you have any problems, you can't wait until dawn." Will you ask again later?”

"No, Misha." Unexpectedly, Agelina said in a serious tone: "If I don't figure it out, my heart will never be at ease."

Seeing that Agelina was so solemn, Sokov opened his eyes again, looked sideways at her and said, "Whatever you want to ask, just ask, and I will answer you truthfully."

"What documents did you say the plumber stole?"

Hearing this question, Sokov replied with some laughter and tears: "I don't know, Comrade Deputy Commander didn't tell me, and I didn't ask. In fact, it's better not to know some things. If you know, you might get yourself into trouble." To cause unnecessary trouble."

Adelina did not answer Sokov's words, but continued to ask: "I remember you told me that when General Sokolovsky's adjutant asked you what to do with the plumber, you said that he should be shot immediately. And General Sokolovsky readily agreed to your proposal and asked the adjutant to lead people to shoot the plumber who had just been arrested. "

Sokov heard that there seemed to be something in Agelina's words, and he quickly sat up, leaning against the back of the bed and asked curiously: "Agelina, did you find anything wrong?"

Agelina nodded and continued: "I think this document must be classified as top secret. Once the contents inside are leaked, it will cause quite serious consequences. For the sake of confidentiality, the suspect who stole this information will definitely be detained." Execution as soon as possible is why your proposal was easily agreed to by General Sokolovsky. And according to my guess, those who have come into contact with this information will be isolated or sent to a safe area. "

Sokov raised his eyebrows, mentally calculating how many people had come into contact with this document. In addition to the dead female translator and plumber, there was also the pudgy female sergeant and Sokolovsky's adjutant. If Agelina was right, these two people would soon leave the hotel. disappear. If such a situation really occurs, it means that once this top-secret document is leaked, the consequences will be unbearable by Zhukov, not to mention Sokolovsky.

But right now, all this is just speculation. We can only wait until dawn tomorrow to see what the specific situation is. Sokov raised his hand and patted Agelina's arm outside the quilt, and said softly: "Agelina, go to bed first. If you need anything, we'll talk about it after dawn tomorrow."

After lying down again, although Sokov closed his eyes, he was not sleepy at all. He was thinking that if he really found out that the adjutant and the female staff sergeant were not in the hotel after dawn, it would mean that the information contained in this once-stolen information was more confidential than he imagined.

Early the next morning, Sokov took Agelina to the restaurant for dinner.

While I was eating, I suddenly heard two officers passing by whispering: "It's strange, why did Comrade Deputy Commander suddenly send his adjutant back to Berlin? If he leaves like this, some of our work will not be carried out. ”

"Who says it isn't?" Another officer continued: "He was originally going to take us on a mission today, but when he left like this, the mission had to be put on hold temporarily."

The conversation between the two shocked Sokov. It seemed that Agelina's guess was correct. The adjutant was transferred back to Berlin. It is estimated that the female staff sergeant also went back. Thinking of this, Sokov suddenly lost interest in the food in front of him.

Agelina also heard the conversation between the two officers, so she leaned forward slightly, approached Sokov and said: "Misha, it seems that my analysis is correct..."

Before Agelina could finish speaking, Sokov raised his hand to stop her from continuing. He realized that the water on this matter was too deep, and he had better not get involved easily, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble: "Eat , Don’t worry about things you shouldn’t.”

Agelina understood what Sokov meant, nodded, stopped mentioning the matter, and continued to eat.

After breakfast, Agelina asked: "Misha, there are no court hearings these days, what should we do next?"

Sokov thought for a while and then said: "Didn't Officer Bayer say that he wanted to help Captain Hossenfeld find his wife and children? Anyway, we don't have anything to do these two days, so why not accompany them to find someone." "

The two came to Bayer's room, and happened to see Bayer and his son preparing to go out. Agelina quickly asked with concern: "Officer Bayer, where are you planning to go?"

"I plan to take Zolda outside to try my luck and see if I can find Captain Hosenfeld's wife and children."

Seeing that the purpose of Bayer and his son was the same as his own, Sokov said: "If that's the case, then we will go with you."

"Okay, Comrade General." Since Sokov offered to go out with him to find people, Bayer naturally wanted to do it and quickly nodded in agreement: "Then let's go."

If you want to go out to look for someone, it's not enough for Sokov, Agelina, and Bayer alone. After all, this is the territory of the US military. If there are no guards around, if something happens, not even a person will come back to report the news. No. It was out of this consideration that Sokov called Vaserigov again and asked him to take two soldiers to go out with him.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the door of the hotel, he was stopped by the sentry on duty at the door: "I'm sorry, Comrade General, do you have a warrant from Comrade Deputy Commander?"

After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help being stunned, and then asked: "What, I need to show General Sokolovsky's warrant when I leave the hotel?"

"Yes, Comrade General." The sentry replied respectfully: "The hotel has been under martial law since last night. No entry or exit is allowed. If you want to leave, you need a warrant from Comrade Deputy Commander."

Hearing what the sentry said, Sokov knew very well that if he didn't get Sokolovsky's warrant, he might not be able to leave the hotel today. So he turned around and said to everyone: "Wait for me here for a while, I will go find comrade deputy commander now."

When he arrived at the door of Sokolovsky's room, Sokovsky was about to knock on the door, but the door opened from the inside, and a strange lieutenant colonel walked out and asked politely: "Comrade General, are you Who are you and what are you doing here?”

Seeing this unfamiliar lieutenant colonel, Sokov was even more certain that the conversation he heard in the restaurant was true. Sokolovsky's original adjutant had been transferred and replaced with a new person to take his place. . He coughed lightly, cleared his throat and said, "I am Sokov. I have something to see Comrade Deputy Commander."

"I'm sorry, General Sokov." The lieutenant colonel replied politely: "Comrade Deputy Commander is still resting..."

Before the lieutenant colonel finished speaking, Sokolovsky's voice came from the room: "Is that Misha outside?"

"Yes, Comrade Deputy Commander, it is indeed me."

"come in."

Upon hearing Sokolovsky's instructions, the lieutenant colonel quickly turned his body to one side, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation to Sokovsky: "General Sokovsky, please come in."

Sokov walked into the room and saw Sokolovsky sitting on the sofa in the living room. He quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Hello, Comrade Deputy Commander!"

"Misha, you're not an outsider, so you don't need to be so polite." Sokolovsky pointed to the empty sofa next to him and said, "If you have anything to do, sit down and talk."

Sokov did not obey Sokolovsky's order to sit down, but said: "Comrade General, I just met the sentry on duty at the door of the hotel. He said that the hotel has been under martial law since last night. Anyone entering or exiting the hotel must have your warrant."

Hearing what Sokov said, Sokolovsky raised his eyebrows, and then asked the lieutenant colonel standing next to him: "Lieutenant colonel, what's going on? Why hasn't the hotel's martial law been lifted yet?"

"Comrade Deputy Commander," after hearing what Sokolovsky said, the lieutenant colonel said quickly: "I will immediately call the following to inform them to lift the martial law in the hotel." After saying that, he walked to the table and picked up the The phone above starts dialing.

While the lieutenant colonel was on the phone, Sokolovsky once again asked Sokov to sit down and said apologetically: "Misha, my original adjutant returned to Berlin in an emergency, and the new adjutant did not understand the situation. , I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused to you by not lifting the ban on the hotel in time. By the way, what are you going to do? I remember telling you last night that there will be no court hearings these days. "

"Comrade Deputy Commander, this is what happened." Sokov quickly reported to Sokolovsky in detail about his plan to go outside with the Bayers and his son to find Hosenfeld's wife and children. Finally, he said: "We can't be sure whether they are still in the city, so we can only go out and try our luck."

"Oh, that's it." Regarding the establishment of a secondary security headquarters in Berlin, Sokolovsky, as the deputy commander of the cluster in Germany, naturally knew about it. When Sokovsky said this, he nodded slightly. , and then said: "But you also saw that most of the city was destroyed by the war. Even if the German captain's wife and children came here, they might have been evacuated to the countryside."

When Sokovsky heard what Sokolovsky said, he couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart, secretly thinking that if he was really evacuated to the countryside, it would be troublesome. Originally, finding a few people in this city was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but it would be even more difficult to find people in the countryside.

When Sokov arrived at the hotel, he saw that the sentry at the door was no longer there. He waved to a few people and said, "Let's go."

After leaving the hotel, Vaserigov immediately came over and curiously asked Sokov: "Comrade General, wasn't the enemy who stole the information executed last night? Why is the hotel still under martial law?"

Sokov turned to look at Vaserigov and said to him: "Major, the thing is like this. General Sokolovsky's original adjutant, the colonel who came to pick us up outside the city, has been detained overnight. He was sent back to Berlin. The new adjutant who took over his post did not know much about the situation here, so he did not lift the martial law in the hotel in time. "

After hearing Sokov's explanation, Vaserigov asked with some surprise: "That colonel did a good job, why was he suddenly transferred back to Berlin?"

Naturally, Sokov would not tell Vaserigov that because the adjutant saw a confidential document, Sokolovsky sent him back to Berlin overnight out of the need for confidentiality. He could only shake his head, frowned deliberately and said, "I don't know either."

Bayer, who walked aside, saw that Sokov and Vaserigov had been muttering, and asked Agelina curiously: "Agelina, I wonder what comrade general and major are talking about?"

After listening to Agelina's translation, Bayer unexpectedly said: "Oh, I happened to see the colonel when he left."

"Oh, you saw it?" Agelina asked in surprise: "What did you see?"

“I saw the colonel leading people to put the body of the female translator into a coffin and put it on a tarpaulin truck parked outside the hotel. Then he and another female translator got into a jeep and took them We left with the truck.”

After listening to Bayer's story, Agelina did not dare to be negligent at all, and then repeated what Bayer said to Sokov.

Sokov asked Bayer with a shocked face: "Officer Bayer, did you really see another short, fat female translator also leave the hotel with General Sokolovsky's adjutant?"

"That's right, Comrade General." To Sokov's question, Bayer gave him an affirmative answer: "You also know that I am known as the 'living file' in the police station. Not only the files I have read can With a photographic memory, you can remember people clearly even if you have met them before.”

Sokov did not doubt Bayer's memory at all. Since the other party said so, there must be nothing wrong. He thought to himself that it seemed that Agelina's guess last night was correct. There must be a shocking secret in this document that was once stolen. Otherwise, Sokolovsky would not be so eager to send his adjutant and his wife to him overnight. The female translator was sent back to Berlin.

At this moment, Sokov couldn't help but worry about the adjutant and the female translator. If they knew about this top-secret document, would there be any car accident or encounter other dangers on the way back to Berlin? After all, only the dead can truly keep things safe. secret.

"Misha, Misha." Agelina saw that Sokov suddenly started to be in a daze, and quickly pushed him with her hand, asking with concern: "What are you thinking about?"

Sokov turned to look at Agelina, tried hard to squeeze out a smile on his face, and said with some difficulty: "Agelina, I was thinking about what you said last night. It seems that your guess is That's absolutely correct. Fortunately, I didn't read that document at the time, otherwise I would have been on my way back to Berlin."