Although Samoilov deployed numerous patrols within a radius of 500 meters from the headquarters to prevent German spies from setting fires. But the German spies were not fools either. They discovered that there were Soviet patrols in the area where the arson was planned.
After setting up defenses, they decisively re-selected a new location for arson.
Facts have proved that their approach was completely correct. Defenses were deployed within a radius of 500 meters of the headquarters, but they chose the location of the arson one kilometer away, making it difficult for Samoylov and others to guard against it.
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Not long after Sokov led his men to evacuate the headquarters, enemy planes entered the sky above Kremenchug. Using the three fire fields arranged by the spies, they found the area to be bombed and dropped all the aerial bombs they carried.
When the bombs exploded in the city, setting fire to numerous locations, the German bombers turned a corner in the air and flew back in a swaggering manner.
After the air raid alert was lifted, Sokov returned to his headquarters.
Although Samoilov's deployment failed to prevent German spies from setting fires in the city, the location of the spies' arson was further away from the headquarters, making the target area larger. Enemy planes in the air could not clearly see the ground.
Under the circumstances, it is naturally impossible to accurately deliver the aerial bomb to Sokov's headquarters.
When Sokov returned to the headquarters, he only saw two or three smoking craters in the square outside the church. The entire church building was still intact, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He called to Samek.
Asked: "Chief of Staff, can you contact Lieutenant Samoilov immediately?"
"There should be a radio operator with a walkie-talkie around him, and he can probably be contacted." After Sameko said this, he tentatively asked Sokov: "Do you have anything to do with him?"
"I want him to send people to the third fire scene before the bombing," Sokov replied: "If he is lucky enough, he might be able to catch the two German spies there who slipped through the net."
"Comrade Commander, I think it may be too late." Samek shook his head and said, "Although the bombing by enemy planes only lasted ten minutes, it was enough for the German spies to escape."
"We have to give it a try." Sokov knew very well in his heart that he was a little late-minded. He should have ordered Samoilov to lead people to the third fire scene when the headquarters was transferred. Maybe he would be able to
Catch the German spy who has not had time to escape. Although it is a little late now, he should still try his luck. If his luck is overwhelming, the German spy may be caught by him before he can escape due to various reasons.
: "Even if you can't catch him, you can still arrange for people to go there to put out the fire."
Although Samyko believed that the chance of catching the German spy was infinitely close to zero, since it was Sokov who gave the order, he naturally did not dare to neglect it and quickly ordered the telegraph operator to contact Samoilov and inform him to go there.
Fighting fires at the third fire scene and hunting down German spies who slipped through the net.
When the operator told Samyko that he had been contacted, he quickly took the earphone and said loudly: "Comrade Lieutenant, I am Samyko's chief of staff."
When Samoilov and Serelkov first went out on patrol, they didn't carry a walkie-talkie with them at all. When he saw the first fire scene, he immediately realized that he didn't have a communication tool around him, and he was afraid that he would be in trouble, so he quickly ordered someone to go back to the special company.
Company headquarters, notify the radio operator to come and meet you.
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 scenes. Then he said to Samoilov: "Comrade company commander, the enemy has set fire to
Two fires were set off. If my estimate was correct, they would have lit a third fire soon."
"Do you know where the third fire scene is?" Samoylov asked anxiously.
Serelkov took out a map from his satchel, unfolded it, illuminated it with a flashlight and said to Samoilov: "Comrade company commander, based on the locations of the first two fire scenes, I analyzed that the third fire scene should be in the library to the north.
hotel, restaurant or hotel…”
Before Serelkov could finish speaking, Samoilov said with a shocked face: "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, and once set on fire, the fire will be uncontrollable."
"Then let's rush there as soon as possible." Serelkov said: "Maybe we can prevent the German spies from setting fire."
The Library Department is about two or three kilometers away from where the two of them are. Since there is no transportation, they can only run forward with the patrol team.
Just halfway through, fire appeared in front of us. Serelkov wailed: "Comrade company commander, it seems we are too late. The enemy has been set on fire by the library."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Samoilov said inexplicably: "It's too late to say it's too late, and it's not too late to say it's not too late."
Serelkov asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"
"If we were to stop the spies from setting the fire, we were indeed late." Samoylov said with some pride, "But I think the spies didn't leave so quickly after setting the fire. Maybe we can catch them."
Precisely because Samoilov had the idea of catching a spy, when they arrived at the burning library, they did not invest in putting out the fire, but launched a search nearby. Soon, one of the patrols discovered
Two suspicious people were preparing to leave on bicycles.
The patrol leader loudly ordered them to stop, but the more he shouted, the faster the other party rode. In this case, if it is still not possible to confirm that there is a problem with these two people, then the patrol leader should go to the cooking class to cook.
.In order to prevent the other party from escaping, the captain decisively ordered his men to shoot.
After a burst of gunfire, the two suspicious people were shot and fell off the bicycle.
Samoilov and Serelkov heard the gunfire and hurried over. Still far away, Samoilov asked pretentiously: "Why did you shoot? What happened?"
"Report to comrade company commander," the patrol leader hurriedly reported to Samoylov: "I found two suspicious people. Seeing that they were about to run away, I decisively ordered to shoot." He pointed in the distance with his hand.
Pointing, he continued, "Both of them were shot and fell out of the car. I'm about to send someone to check."
"You won't hit the wrong person, right?" As soon as this idea came into Samoylov's mind, he decisively denied it: "The air raid siren has been sounded in the city, and the residents have entered the air raid shelters one after another. At this moment, there are still
People riding bicycles on the street, even if they are not spies, are still very suspicious. There is nothing wrong with the patrol leader ordering his subordinates to shoot."
Thinking of this, he nodded to the patrol leader and said in an approving tone: "Well done, Comrade Second Lieutenant. You take people over to see if they are still alive. But whether they are dead or alive, we must find out who they are."
identity of."
"Don't worry, comrade company commander." Seeing Samoylov praising him, the patrol leader was not only complacent, but after agreeing, he led his men and walked towards the two men who fell to the ground.
The patrol leader led people to the place and saw two men lying on the ground. One of them was lying on the ground motionless, with blood all around his body. There was no sign of life. The other man was lying on his back on the ground.
He covered his abdomen with both hands and kept humming.
Seeing a group of soldiers surrounding them, the man lying on the ground said in a weak voice: "Help...help...help me, I...I don't want to die."
The patrol leader looked down at the man, and then ordered his subordinates: "Search them to see what they do."
The soldiers agreed and stepped forward to search the two men.
Soon, a soldier found a stack of cards from the deceased's clothes pocket. After looking at it for a moment, he couldn't help but change his color. Samoylov happened to lead someone over and asked the patrol leader loudly: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, please understand.
Have they identified themselves?”
"Not yet, Comrade Company Commander." The patrol leader quickly replied: "Please give me another five minutes, and I will definitely find out their identities."
"No, five minutes is too long. I can only give you two minutes."
Just when the patrol leader was in trouble, the soldier who was searching the deceased came over and handed a stack of bloody cards to Samoylov: "Comrade Company Commander, this is what I found on the identity of the deceased."
Samoilov took it and saw that it was a stack of ration certificates. He couldn't help but frowned: "Are these two people reselling ration certificates?" Thinking that Sokov had personally caught reselling the ration certificates a few days ago.
As a ration card man, Samoilov became even more convinced of his conjecture.
"Comrade Company Commander," the patrol leader saw clearly the ration certificate in Samoilov's hand and felt panicky. Could it be that the people he ordered to be beaten to death were just two people who were reselling the ration certificate?
When Serelkov saw these bloody ration certificates, a bold idea suddenly came to his mind. He stretched out his hand in front of Samoilov: "Comrade Company Commander, let me see."
Samoylov casually handed the ration certificate to Serelkov and said with a wry smile: "Maybe we hit the wrong person. These are two black marketeers who resell the ration certificate."
"No, Comrade Company Commander." Serelkov raised the ration certificate in his hand: "Based on the cut corners on the ration certificate, we can determine that these spare parts dealers have used them."
When the patrol leader heard this, he couldn't help but interjected: "With so many corners cut off, it certainly means that these ration cards have been used, but it does not rule out that thieves stole them from citizens and resold them to these black market merchants...
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"Comrade Second Lieutenant, please listen to me first." Serelkov politely interrupted the patrol leader: "It's not too late for you to express your opinion after I finish speaking."
After the patrol leader stepped aside shyly, Serelkov continued: "Comrade company commander, I carefully checked the names on the ration card and found that they match 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 his hand and looked at the name on it carefully.
After a few pictures, Samoylov felt that Serelkov was right, and the name on the ration card did match the captured spy.
"Comrade Company Commander," Serelkov continued on the sidelines: "When we were arresting two spies, two spies slipped through the net. At that time, I interrogated one of the spies. He said that the two spies took everyone's ration cards and went to the designated place.
We went to the location to collect food. Now we can basically confirm that these two people are spies who slipped through the net."
Samoilov nodded, looked at the man still lying on the ground and wailed, and ordered the soldiers standing beside him: "Bandage his wounds. He can't die yet. I still have many questions to ask him."
When the soldiers stepped forward to bandage the spies' wounds, the enemy planes entered the sky over the city of Kremenchug and began to drop bombs at the locations designated by the spies for setting fire. Seeing this, Samoilov quickly ordered everyone to move to a nearby air-raid shelter to hide.
.After the bombing is over, send the spy to the hospital.
Just after the explosion, the telegraph operator who came from the company headquarters found Samoylov and reported to him: "Comrade Company Commander, on my way here, I received a call from the Army Headquarters saying that Comrade Chief of Staff was there.
Important matters come to you."
In fact, even if Samyko did not take the initiative to contact Samoilov, he was prepared to report the capture of the remaining two spies to the headquarters as soon as the walkie-talkie arrived.
When he heard Samyko's voice coming from the earphones, Samoilov said excitedly: "Comrade Chief of Staff, I am Samoilov. I have good news to tell you that we have successfully succeeded."
The German spy who set the fire was captured."
Samyko was stunned when he heard what Samoilov said. The purpose of contacting the other party was to pass on Sokov's order to have them rush to the third fire scene to capture the German spy who set the fire.
But before he could give the order, he actually told him that the spy had been caught.
Samek was silent for a long time before he asked cautiously: "Is this true, Comrade Lieutenant?"
"of course it's true."
"Comrade Lieutenant, the reason why I am contacting you is that Comrade Commander issued an order not long ago."
"What order?"
"Let you go to the third fire scene to search, saying that if you are lucky, you might be able to catch the spy who set the fire." After saying this, Sameko couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile. He thought that the chance of catching the spy was slim.
But I didn't expect that the other party had successfully arrested the spy. "Then report to me how you were arrested."
Samoilov quickly reported what happened to Samyko 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 spy we arrested during the day.
The same, thus confirming that these two people are spies who slipped through the net."
"Can you confirm?" Samek asked cautiously.
"It is completely confirmed, Comrade Chief of Staff." In order to increase credibility, Samoilov explained to Samyko: "During our interrogation, more than one spy confessed that the two who slipped through the net went to collect the goods on their behalf.
Food rations."
"Are both still alive?"
"Due to the arrest of two people, our soldiers had to open fire. As a result, one was killed and the other injured."
"Where are you now?"
"Am I still stuck near the third fire scene?"
"Why hasn't the injured spy been sent to the hospital?" Samek asked: "If he is dead, how can we get more useful information from his mouth?"
"Just after we completed the arrest, enemy planes came to bomb, so we had to hide in a nearby air raid shelter." Samoylov quickly explained to Samyko: "We will send the wounded to the hospital right away."
This chapter has been completed!