After receiving the order, the operator began calling Sokov's accompanying radio station non-stop, but there was no response.
"What's going on? What's going on?" Seeing that he couldn't get in touch with Sokov's radio station, Ponedelin couldn't help but get confused. You know, if the information reported by the observation post is true, Sokov's flight
The jeep has already entered the city. If something really goes wrong here in Otats, he will definitely be sent to a military court.
After weighing the interests, he said to Sidorin: "Chief of Staff, immediately send an order to the troops in the city to find the whereabouts of comrade Commander."
Sidorin was obviously much calmer than Ponedelin at this moment: "Comrade division commander, I don't think you need to be so panicked. You know, the commander is acting at the same time as the 126th Regiment, so there is no problem with safety."
The speaker is unintentional but the listener is intentional. Sidorin woke up the dreamer with his words. "Yes, yes," Ponjelin slapped his hands on the table and said excitedly: "How could I forget this?
Now. Since the commander is acting at the same time as the 126th Regiment, I only need to contact Lieutenant Colonel Duharin to know the commander's situation."
After speaking, he called a communications staff officer and ordered: "Contact Lieutenant Colonel Duharin of the 126th Regiment immediately and ask him to report to me the commander's situation."
When Sidorin heard this, he was right, he had gotten into trouble. Since Sokov entered the city with the 126th regiment, the commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Harin, must know his situation. Contact him directly.
Knowing Sokov's situation, why bother calling the other party's accompanying radio station in vain?
The radio station of the 126th Regiment was quickly contacted. This is because after Duhalin selected the location of the regiment's command post, he immediately ordered the operator to turn on the radio station and prepare to receive orders from his superiors. As soon as he turned on the phone, he received a call from the division.
The call came from the ministry. After asking Duhalin for instructions, the operator immediately responded with a telegram.
After reading the telegram, Sidorin smiled and said to Ponyjelin: "Comrade division commander, Lieutenant Colonel Duhalin said in the telegram that there is a guard company next to the commander, and he will walk around the city first, and then
Just come to our division headquarters. I know Lieutenant Koshkin’s abilities. With him by my side, there should be no problem with the commander’s safety.”
Ponedelin is also a smart man, but because he is a fan of the authorities, he is confused about Sokov's safety. At this moment, hearing Sidorin say this, his mood gradually stabilized, "Okay, let's go
Feel free to wait here for the commander's arrival."
After waiting for more than half an hour, Sokov strode in from the outside and greeted the two of them from a distance: "Lieutenant Colonel Ponedelin, Colonel Sidorin, how are you?"
"Hello, Comrade Commander!" The two men quickly stood up and faced Sokov, saying in unison.
Sidorin was worried that Sokov's leg was injured and quickly stepped forward to help him, but was rejected: "Sidolin, thank you for your kindness. My leg injury is basically healed and it does not affect my walking at all."
After sitting down at the table, Sokov looked at the two people and asked: "What happened to the explosion at the post office? Why are the people who put out the fire and maintain order all Romanian, but none of our people were seen?"
"Comrade Commander, this is all my fault." Ponejelin quickly took the responsibility for the incident on himself. "After the explosion at the post office, my subordinates rushed to the scene quickly, but found that the Romanians had blocked it.
After arriving at the scene and organizing firefighting, I asked people to withdraw."
After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help but frowned: "Lieutenant Colonel Ponedelin, why did you withdraw the people? Don't you know to let them maintain order on the side and try to figure out the cause of the explosion?"
"Comrade Commander, although we now have a cooperative relationship with the Romanians, it is still unknown whether they will make small moves behind us." Ponejelin explained to Sokov: "I did it for safety reasons.
, so we ordered the troops to withdraw to the barracks."
"Confusion, simply confusion." Although Ponedelin was a person he valued, in the face of the wrong decisions he made, Sokov criticized him mercilessly: "Although our army is trying to cooperate in the name of cooperation,
Flag, entering this city does not mean that we will be vassals of the Romanians. If we cannot control the city, then what is the point of our army stationed in this city? Is it just to protect the Romanians?
Prevent them from being attacked by the Germans?"
After being scolded by Sokov, Ponedelin's old face turned red, and then he admitted his mistake to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, I was wrong. I thought about the problem too simply."
"Now that you know you are wrong, you must find a way to make amends." Sokov said to Ponejelin: "Immediately send people to the post and telecommunications office, where they will block the scene with the Romanian army to find out the cause of the explosion.
."
He raised his hand to look at his watch and continued: "At nine o'clock, General Antonetta should start working, right? Then you accompany me to see him."
"Okay, Comrade Commander." Ponejelin quickly agreed: "I will accompany you to the Romanian Army's division headquarters."
Although Ponejelin obeyed Sokov's order, promptly dispatched troops and returned to the post office, preparing to assist the Romanian army here in maintaining order, he was rejected by the other party.
The leading Romanian officer also plausibly said: "This is the area we are responsible for. Our strength is fully sufficient to put out fires or maintain order. Please go back."
The commander of the Soviet army was Major Sukhalev. He glanced at the opponent's epaulettes and said coldly: "Mr. Lieutenant, I am Major Sukhalev, chief of staff of the 124th Guards Regiment of the Soviet Army. Now we are
We are friendly forces. According to the military regulations, 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 order!"
Sukharev didn't talk nonsense to him, and immediately asked the commanders and fighters he brought to step forward and occupy half of the guard positions. After doing all this, he looked at the still burning post and telecommunications office and asked the Romanian lieutenant: "Lieutenant, this
What happened? How could the post and telecommunications office catch fire?"
"It should be the agents sent by the Germans who are doing the sabotage." After hearing Sukharev's question, the lieutenant did not dare to neglect, and quickly answered truthfully: "We found the body of an officer of our army nearby. He
His neck was twisted from behind and he died. All the military uniforms and documents on his body were gone. If one of our soldiers hadn't happened to know him, we probably wouldn't have been able to guess his identity until now."
"So that's it." After listening to the lieutenant, Sukhalev roughly understood the situation. It turned out that a German agent sneaked into the city, killed a Romanian officer, and took away his military uniform and documents.
.He paused for a moment and asked: "Have you taken any measures?"
"No, Mr. Major, we haven't taken any measures." The lieutenant said helplessly: "You know, even if our army continues to search under martial law nearby, a spy wearing our army uniform and holding our army officer ID is still
It can flow unimpeded.”
When Sukharev heard this, he realized that the matter was indeed very difficult. In any case, there were thousands of Romanian officers and soldiers in Otac. It was indeed very difficult to find a disguised German agent among them.
matter.
He knew that Sokov was at 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.
Learning that the explosion at the post office might have been caused by German spies, Sokov couldn't help but fell into deep thought. There were more than 100,000 people in this city, with thousands of Romanian troops outside. It was necessary to find one or more of them.
An infiltrated German spy is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Seeing that Sokov had not come up with a countermeasure for a long time, Ponedelin asked Sidorin in a low voice: "Comrade Chief of Staff, can you come up with any good ideas?"
Sidorin pouted at Sokov, who was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, and whispered: "Even Comrade Commander can't think of a good solution, so what solution can I come up with?"
"Then tell me," seeing that Sidorin couldn't think of a good solution, Ponedelin asked reluctantly: "What kind of appearance will this German agent who killed the Romanian officer look like to continue his destruction?"
action?"
"It goes without saying," Sidorin said casually: "Since he killed a Romanian officer and obtained the officer's military uniform and certificate, he will definitely appear as a Romanian soldier. After all, this will make it easier for him to get closer.
Those important military facilities are convenient for him to carry out further destruction."
Sokov, who was pacing back and forth, overheard what Sidorin said, stopped, turned to look at Sidorin and asked: "Colonel Sidorin, what were you talking about just now?"
Xiduo Linxin said that I didn't say anything bad about the commander. He asked me what I meant by that, and 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 you talking about military facilities."
After Sokov's reminder, Sidorin immediately understood the reason why the other party asked him, and quickly explained: "Comrade Commander, this is what happened. The division commander just asked me if the German spies continued to stay in the city, what would happen to them?
What kind of identity will appear? I judge that the German spy will definitely use the military uniform and documents he obtained to disguise himself as a Romanian soldier. This will make it easier for him to access various military facilities and carry out systematic destruction."
Regarding Sidorin's analysis, Sokov agreed: "Yes, it is entirely possible for the Germans to do this."
"It would be easier if the German agents were really disguised as Romanian soldiers." Ponejelin said: "We can set up checkpoints in the city to check the Romanian officers, and maybe we can find the German agents."
"Lieutenant Colonel Ponejelin, you have a bad idea." Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Sokov retorted: "Not to mention there are thousands of Romanian soldiers in the city, among whom there are only officers.
There are hundreds of them, and if our commanders and fighters on duty at checkpoints have to conduct interrogations, 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 set up a checkpoint to interrogate the Romanian officers without asking questions, I am afraid it will deepen the conflict between them and turn into a military confrontation. It is not impossible.
possible."
"Comrade Commander," seeing that his proposal was rejected, Ponedelin was not discouraged. On the contrary, he took the initiative to ask Sokov what solution he had: "Do you have any good ideas?"
"There is a way." Sokov said slowly: "I just came up with it, but if I want to implement it, I need the cooperation of General Antonetta."
"What is the solution?" Sidorin asked impatiently.
Sokov looked at him and smiled lightly, and then said: "Colonel Sidorin, please forgive me for keeping this secret. You will understand after it is implemented."
Seeing that Sokov was unwilling to say anything, Sidorin knew that even if he kept asking, he might not get the answer he wanted. He raised his hand and looked at his watch. It had just arrived at six o'clock, and there were still three hours until nine o'clock. He
He looked up at Sokov and asked with concern: "Comrade Commander, you must be very tired after riding all night, right? Anyway, there are still three hours before you go to the municipal building, so why not lie down on the camp bed for a while and take a nap?
, restore your strength."
"There's no time." Sokov waved his hand to Sidorin, rejecting his kindness, and then turned around and said to Ponedelin: "Lieutenant Colonel Ponedelin, 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 by the time the German agents come to their senses."
"But General Antonetta is probably still asleep at the moment, and he won't be able to go to work until at least nine o'clock." Sidorin reminded Sokov, "otherwise, you can rest for a few hours before going over."
"Colonel Sidorin, please contact the Romanian side immediately and tell me that I have urgent matters and that I need to see General Antonetta immediately and ask him to rush to the office immediately."
"Comrade Commander, this is not good." After listening to Sokov's words, Sidorin said with some embarrassment: "I'm worried that if we use such an ordering tone, we will anger the other party."
Sokov frowned again: "Colonel Sidorin, I want to remind you. Now that our army has entered Otac, we should have the final say in 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 Sidorin that since he entered Otac, he seemed a little confused. He didn't know how to get along with the Romanian army, which was an enemy not long ago. Not only him, but also Ponejelin when assigning tasks
, also seemed a little timid.
"I understand, Comrade Commander." Sidorin 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 Sokov nodding in agreement with what he said, he became more confident: "Comrade Commander, I will call the Romanians right away and tell them about your upcoming visit, and ask Antone to
General Ta will be waiting for you in the office in advance."
"That's right, Colonel Sidorin." Sokov was very satisfied with Sidorin's statement and nodded to him: "Then you should call them quickly."
This chapter has been completed!