Sokov confirmed that the enemies inside and outside the hotel had been completely eradicated, and then entered the hotel to meet Zhukov.
Who knew that as soon as he saw Zhukov, the other party asked harshly: "Col. Sokov, I want to ask you why there are so many enemies in your defense zone?"
After receiving Sivakov's report, Sokov always thought that the number of German troops infiltrated the city was only a dozen people, but unexpectedly, there were more than fifty enemies who attacked the hotel last night. They not only wore Soviet uniforms, but also all equipped with submachine guns.
At this moment, when he heard Zhukov's questioning, Sokov could only lower his head and replied: "Comrade General, please give me a day, I will definitely find out the truth."
"Okay, then I'll give you 24 hours, and I hope you can give me a satisfactory reply."
"Comrade General," Sokov couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Zhukov was willing to give him 24 hours to thoroughly find out the matter. He continued, "This place is too dangerous, let's live in another place."
"Where do you think is safer?"
"Go to my command." Sokov was very at ease with the security work near his command, so he said without hesitation: "All kinds of defense measures there are better than hotels. Not to mention more than fifty Germans, even if they come to a battalion, they would not want to rush into my command in a short time."
"Since you said that, let's go to your command."
Sokov returned to the command center and was relocating Zhukov and his subordinates, Vitkov sent someone to report that the prisoners had been interrogated and had received important information, asking him to go back immediately.
When Zhukov learned that the interrogation had been found, he was also interested. He said to his adjutant: "You must have been tired all night yesterday. Let's go and rest with the comrades in the communications team." After that, he turned around and said to Sokov: "Misha, take me to see what important information you have obtained."
Witkov, who was looking at the interrogation records in the command center, saw Zhukov and Sokov walking in together, quickly got up to greet him, and after raising his hand to salute, he asked respectfully: "Comrade General, were you not injured when the hotel was attacked last night?"
"I'm not injured." Zhukov urged the other party impatiently: "Come and take the prisoner's interrogation record and I want to know what the enemy has confessed."
"Comrade General, there are too many interrogation records, I think I will report to you."
After sitting down at the table, Zhukov said to Vetkov: "Tell me, comrade Colonel, what have the Germans recruited?"
"According to the confession of the prisoners, there were 60 people in the airdrop this time, but after the paratroopers jumped, some of the paratroopers lost contact. They might have fallen to death, or they might have been shot dead by our army when they landed." Witkov reported: "The remaining enemies gathered in the north of the city, where they obtained our army uniforms that had been prepared."
"Wait a minute." Zhukov heard this and raised his hand to interrupt Vitkov: "Did the enemy say, how did they obtain the uniform of our army?"
Witkov nodded: "There are two warehouse administrators who have been guerrillas. They were captured by the enemy a few months ago. Yesterday they received a notice asking them to prepare sixty sets of military uniforms and secretly put them in a ruin in the north of the city. Someone will take them away at that time." Before Zhukov asked again, he continued to say, "I have notified the police branch to arrest the two warehouse administrators in the clothing warehouse."
"Chief of Staff, call Captain Kester, the director of the police branch," Sokov heard Vitkov say that there were two Kuguans who provided military uniforms to the enemy, who were once captured guerrillas. He immediately remembered Avjeev who was detained in the branch, and quickly ordered: "Let him send someone to bring Avjeev over."
Zhukov once heard Sokov report about Avdiev. At this moment, he heard him order the police to send the person over and immediately realized the problem. He asked Sokov tentatively: "Misha, do you think the reason why the German spy framed Avdiev was because he refused to cooperate with last night's action?"
"Yes, comrade General." Sokov nodded and replied affirmatively: "Besides this, I can't imagine any other reason that the enemy will deliberately expose a lurker to us."
"According to my judgment, the number of enemies lurking in the city is far beyond our imagination." As soon as Sokov finished speaking, he immediately added: "Not only did someone provide them with clothes, but also people also conducted reconnaissance near the hotel in advance. What's even more outrageous is that after the first batch of enemies who attacked the enemy were annihilated, the enemy who arrived immediately pretended to be the troops commanded by Captain Seryosha. The enemy knew so well about our army that it proved that some of them lurked inside our army. I think a large-scale inventory should be conducted."
Sokov knew that Vitkov's proposal was good, but he was worried that specific personnel would easily go to extremes when executing this order. If the hidden enemies were not revealed, they would accidentally hurt a lot of their own people, which would inevitably affect the morale and morale of the troops. It was precisely for this reason that he waved his hand and rejected Vitkov's suggestion: "Comrade Chief of Staff, the situation is tense now. If you carry out a large-scale cleanup activity within the troops, it will inevitably shake the morale and morale of the troops. I think this matter should be investigated privately."
Seeing that Sokov disagreed with his suggestion, Vitkov was a little anxious: "Comrade Commander, if the enemy hidden in the army is not found out as soon as possible, I am worried that they will send more information to the German army continuously, and our situation will become more difficult by then."
"We have added a large number of soldiers some time ago, and several black sheep are inevitable." Sokov explained to Vetkov: "If someone informed the German army and started a large-scale investigation, it will not only alarm the enemy, but also affect our military morale and morale, which will be very unfavorable to the next battle. Therefore, I do not agree to the major investigation at this moment."
"I agree with Misha's statement." Zhukov, who has been acting as an audience, expressed his support for Sokov with a clear attitude: "It is completely necessary to clean up the enemies hidden among us. But we must pay attention to methods and not make big fuss. We should not avoid the hidden enemies being found out when we get it, but instead cause panic, and that would be more than worth the loss."
"But, Comrade General." Seeing that Zhukov also supported Sokov, Vetkov said helplessly: "Are we just watching the enemy hiding among us?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Chief of Staff. No matter how cunning the fox is... it's a rabbit." Sokov wanted to say: No matter how cunning the fox is, it can't escape the hunter's eyes. But just halfway through, he suddenly remembered that in Russia, the most cunning animal was not a fox, but a rabbit that looked harmless. He quickly changed his words and said: "No matter how cunning the rabbit is, it can't escape the hunter's eyes. No matter how deep the enemy is, it will always be exposed."