Thanks to the transportation of armored vehicles, Sokov and his team soon arrived at a village.
The car stopped at the entrance of the village. After Christopher opened the car door, he asked Sokov for instructions: "Comrade Brigade Commander, how should we search?"
"Search from house to house with the stupidest method!" Sokov looked at the wooden house with a yard outside the car and ordered decisively: "Start search from that house."
Except for the driver Vamko stayed inside and outside the car, the rest of the people got out of the car and pushed open the empty courtyard door and walked in. When they arrived at the door, Sokov winked at Christopher and signaled him to come forward to knock on the door. Christopher, who understood it, nodded, then knocked hard on the door with his fist, and shouted loudly in German: "Open the door, open the door!"
Soon, lights came out of the window, and then a few panic-slightest voice was heard asking, "Who?"
Christopher could not help but hesitate for a moment when he heard the sound from inside, and his hands stopped unconsciously. Seeing this, Sokov quickly reminded him in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant, don't forget, you are now German and you don't understand Russian at all, so keep knocking on the door."
The door opened, and a middle-aged woman in a nightgown appeared at the door. She was holding a candlestick in her hand, with two white candles inserted on it. With the help of the light of the candle, she saw four Germans standing at the door, and she couldn't help but ask in a panic: "What are you...what are you going to do?"
"A Russian soldier hid in the village, we... want to search!" Sokov, after he finished speaking, deliberately said in broken Russian: "Your, get out of here!"
"I don't have Russian soldiers at home," the woman replied in a panic, "I live alone."
Sokov ignored him and waved his head at the three people standing aside, signaling them to search. Christopher pushed away the middle-aged woman blocking the door, broke into the house first, and searched everywhere. Samoilov, who was immediately following, looked around the house from the beginning of entering the door to see if there were any clues to be found.
Christopher searched back and forth in the room, returned to the door, shook his head at Sokov, indicating that he had not found anything. Sokov had long understood this result, if the female scout was really hiding here, he might have run through the window from behind, and would he still stand here stupidly waiting for you to catch it?
His eyes turned to Samoilov, wanting to see if there was any clue. When Sokov saw Samoilov shaking his head at him, he realized that the family had no contact with the female scout, so he immediately turned around and left.
As they walked towards another family, Christopher caught up with Sokov and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I don't think this search is effective. Even if our female scout was hiding in one of them, she would definitely escape outside and hide after hearing the movements we made."
"Lt. Christopher," Sokov replied, "Don't forget that Lieutenant Samoilov was from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and finding people is considered a professional skill for them. If the female scout had really lived in that house, he would find useful clues as long as he went in and walked around."
When Christopher heard Sokov say this, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Samoilov behind him and asked curiously: "Comrade Brigade Commander, how did he do this?"
"I don't know." Sokov replied simply: "I've never asked him."
Then, Sokov and the other four used this method of alarming the snake and searched four or five families in succession, but they still found nothing. Christopher said with some disappointment: "Comrade Brigade Commander, it seems that the female scout has never been to this village."
"Lt. Christopher, don't make conclusions easily." Sokov slowed down and said to Christopher: "The task given to us by our superiors is like finding a needle in a haystack. We can only find someone through this stupid method."
"But...but," Christopher said hesitantly, "we can identify it, and it may be helpful for us to find female scouts."
"Comrade Lieutenant, then tell me, why do we tell the villagers?" Sokov looked at Christopher and said, "Tell them that we are not Germans, but Soviet troops disguised? Not to mention whether they believe it or not, even if they try their best to make them believe that we are our own people, aren't you worried that someone in the village will tell the Germans?"
In this way, they walked from the east to the west of the village, searched more than forty houses, but still found nothing. Just when Sokov decided to let everyone stop and rest for a while, and then continue to carry out the search mission, a person suddenly rushed out of the shadow on the side of the road. "Who?" Seeing a black shadow appear in front of him, Sokov raised his gun and shouted: "Rise up your hand!"
"Don't shoot, don't shoot!" Hearing Sokov's shout, the black shadow immediately shouted: "I'm here to help you."
Sokov lowered his gun and waited for the man to approach, he realized that he was a bearded man. He couldn't help but frown and asked, "Where did you come out? Are you worried that my gun will go fire?"
Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, the bearded man actually laughed and asked in a pleasing manner: "Your Excellency, I think you must understand Russian, right?"
The bearded man's words aroused Sokov's alertness. He suddenly remembered that his men were wearing German uniforms, but this man was so pleased with him. Could it be that he knew some inside information and planned to inform the Germans? So he said calmly: "Yes, Russian, I understand, what's the matter, you?"
Sokov deliberately used the wrong grammar to say this so as not to arouse the other party's suspicion. But the bearded man did not notice Sokov's abnormality at all, but instead said humbly: "I want to report to you that someone in the village is hiding guerrillas."
"Guerrillas?" Sokov couldn't help but feel happy, thinking that the guerrillas he said were the female scout we were looking for. Then he quickly approached Ernst's ear and whispered in a pretentious manner. After making a few nonsense, he looked at the bearded man and asked, "What's your name? Where is the guerrillas?"
"My name is Eugene." replied the bearded man, "The guerrillas are hiding in the house in front. The owner of the house is Dworkin, and his two sons are fighting with you in the army."
"Stop talking." Sokov heard this and immediately determined that the person in front of him was a damn Sutra, so he interrupted the words behind him and pushed hard on his shoulder: "Take us there quickly."
Under Eugene's leadership, the four of them quickly arrived in front of a wooden house not far ahead. Perhaps in order to show off in front of Sokov, Eugene raised his kick and kicked the closed door. With a loud bang, the door was actually kicked open by him.
As soon as the door opened, Christopher broke in with a gun and held the flashlight in the other hand, and then Samoilov rushed in. After a while, Sokov heard the sound of fighting inside. He screamed in secret that something was wrong and rushed in quickly.
With the help of the flashlight, he saw a middle-aged man pressing his hands on the ground by Christopher, while Samoilov held a submachine gun and pointed the muzzle at an elderly couple standing by the wall.
"I'll help you." Before Sokov could speak, Eugene, who ran in from outside, had already taken a bundle of ropes from the wall and said flatteringly: "I'll tie him up for you." After that, he tied the person who was subdued by Christopher in a few seconds.
After Christopher and Eugene lifted the middle-aged man from the ground, Sokov walked to the middle-aged man and asked, "Who are you?"
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man just snorted heavily, turned his head aside, and disdained to talk to Sokov at all. The middle-aged man didn't say anything, but Eugene next to him took the initiative to introduce to Sokov: "I know him, he is the deputy captain of the guerrillas. After being injured by the troops you surrounded and suppressed yesterday, he hid here to recuperate."
"Eugene, you dog guy." When the middle-aged man heard that Eugene leaked his identity to the German, he immediately raised his foot and kicked Eugene. Fortunately, Eugene was quick and avoided the kick. After seeing his kick, the middle-aged man said angrily: "When the guerrillas come back, they will definitely kill you."
"I think you can't see that day." Eugene said proudly: "Because you are about to be dragged outside by these Germans."
The middle-aged man sighed softly and said, "If I hadn't been injured, it wouldn't be so easy to deal with me with these German guys."
After Sokov waited for Christopher to lit the candle, he used the candlelight to see clearly the middle-aged man standing in front of him. He was wearing a white military shirt and a thick bandage wrapped around his abdomen. Perhaps the struggle just now was too intense and there were blood oozing out on the bandage.
"I think the best ending for him is to be hanged." Sokov sneered: "Take him back to the command center now."
"Mr. Officer," although Sokov was wearing only the uniform of an ordinary soldier, Eugene still looked at him and asked, "What should we do if these two immortals?"
"Let them stay here." Sokov finished speaking, shook his head at Christopher and signaled him to take the injured guerrilla out.
Seeing Sokov and the others leaving, Eugene was a little anxious, and he asked again: "Mr. Officer, what should I do? You know, if they know that I will help you, I will definitely not be able to survive. You should take me away."
"You can't sit in the armored vehicle." Sokov brought out a reason that the other party could not refute. He raised his hand and patted Eugene on the shoulder, and said coldly: "You stay here and continue to collect information for us. I will send someone to protect you as soon as possible."
In this way, Eugene watched Sokov and his friends take the guerrillas onto the armored vehicles and then go away. He turned around and saw the Dworkin couple who were walking towards him step by step with a wooden stick in his hand. He said in a panic: "Dworkin, there are some misunderstandings in this, I believe that I can explain it to you clearly."
Before he could finish his words, the wooden sticks in the Dworkin and his wife hit him in a head-on manner. For a moment, the room was filled with the dull sound of wooden sticks hitting their figure, and Eugene's screams like a pig-killing cry.
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After the armored vehicle drove out of the village, Sokov ordered Christopher: "Lieutenant Christopher, help this guerrilla comrade untie the rope."
"Yes!" Christopher agreed, pulled out the dagger, and tried to cut the rope tied to the middle-aged man.
After the middle-aged man was taken on an armored vehicle, he thought that these Germans would take him out of the village and shoot him, because the Germans used to do this. But at this moment, he was a little confused when he heard Sokov's order. He thought to himself: Strange, how could these Germans speak Russian when talking?
Just when he was puzzled, Christopher had cut the rope and pulled the broken rope off his body one by one. Sokov took the initiative to reach out to him and said friendly: "Comrade of the Guerrillas, you have suffered!"
Although the middle-aged man had heard Sokov call his comrade, he remained vigilant enough. Instead of holding Sokov's hand, he asked vigilantly: "Who are you?"
When they heard the middle-aged man’s questions, the few people in the car looked at me and I looked at you, and then everyone suddenly burst into laughter together at the same time. Especially Christopher, who had subdued the middle-aged man with his own hands, even burst into tears. Everyone’s laughter made the middle-aged man laugh, and he repeated the question just now: “What the hell are you?”
After the laughter stopped, Sokov shrugged his shoulders and said to the middle-aged man: "Sorry, this guerrilla comrade, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, the commander of the 73rd Infantry Brigade, and we were ordered to come here to carry out a special mission."
What Sokov said made the middle-aged man's breathing heavy: "You, you really... are you really our own people?"
"Yes, comrade." Sokov nodded vigorously and said, "If we were real Germans, maybe we would shoot you directly when we dragged you out of the room. Will you get into the car?" Sokov glanced at the wound on his abdomen and added, "Your injuries look bad. When we return to Stalingrad, we will take you to the military hospital."
"My name is Gumyev, and I am the deputy captain of the guerrillas." The middle-aged man said seriously: "My troops are moving nearby. If there is anything I need to serve, you can just speak up and I will do my best to cooperate with you."
Chapter completed!