The car arrived at the headquarters of the Army Command. After Sokov got off the car, he ordered Bobricov: "Captain, be optimistic about this prisoner. I will go in and see the commander first."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Bobricov asked quickly when he saw Sokov preparing to enter the wooden house where the headquarters was located, "Brikov hurriedly asked, "How long do we need to see him?"
"Don't worry, I can't see it for long, and someone will take him in soon."
As soon as he walked into the command center, Sokov was seen by Malining.
Malinin said to Rokosovsky: "Comrade Commander, Major Sokov is here!" After that, he came first to welcome him.
Seeing Malining coming, Sokov quickly raised his hand to salute him and said, "Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff!"
Malinin shook hands with Sokov, then pulled him to Rokosovsky and said with a smile: "Major, you are finally here, we have been waiting for you for a long time."
After saluting Rokosovsky, Romanlov and Lobachev, Sokov mentioned Georg who was still outside at the moment: "By the way, when I came here today, I brought someone not long ago
The German lieutenant who was captured by us."
But everyone seemed to have no interest in the captives mentioned by Sokov. Malining said disapprovingly: "It's just a low-level officer, just leave it to the people below to deal with it. We have more important things."
Seeing that everyone was so careless, Sokov quickly explained: "But the identity of this prisoner does not seem to be simple."
After hearing Sokov said this, Malining asked curiously: "Why isn't it simple?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff, please listen to my explanation." Sokov reported to Malining: "At night, an enemy attacked our position and was repelled by us. I have reported to the headquarters about this matter.
”
"Yes, I did report it." Malining nodded and looked at Sokov and asked, "This prisoner should be one of the sneak attackers, right?"
"I don't think it should be."
"Yes, no, no, no." Rokosovsky couldn't help but interrupt and said, "How could it be that you think it shouldn't be?"
"This captive was captured by my subordinates when they cleaned the battlefield in the early morning." Sokov continued: "When my subordinates found him, he did not resist at all, so they took the initiative to surrender. My one
A famous subordinate was worried that he might have any conspiracy when he did this, so he beat him up. There are two reasons why I can't confirm whether he participated in the night sneak attack: one is that it is very clean from his military uniform.
Unlike participating in night battles; second, from the end of the night battle to dawn, there were several hours. If he had participated in the night attack, he would have left the vicinity of our position and would never have stayed there waiting to be a prisoner.
.”
After hearing Sokov's explanation, several people realized that there might be something wrong. Malining quickly asked, "Where is he?"
"Just outside the command center, my people are in charge," Sokov said. "Chief of Staff, you can find someone to bring him in."
Just as Malinin was about to ask someone to bring Georg in, Rokosovsky added next to him: "Call the translator here again to facilitate us to interrogate the prisoners."
"Comrade Commander, this is not necessary. The captive speaks Russian and is very skilled. I guess he may be an intelligence officer arranged by us within the enemy."
When Malining learned that the prisoners outside might be intelligence personnel sneaking into the German army, his expression became solemn: "Major Sokov, do you confirm that he is his own person?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff, I cannot confirm." Sokov said helplessly: "After he became our prisoner, I also interrogated him, but he refused to say anything and only begged me to send him to his superiors.
The troops said there were important situations to report.”
After hearing Sokov's words, Malining nodded: "I understand." Then he said to Rokosovsky, "Comrade Commander, maybe it's really the intelligence personnel who sneaked into the German army. I'll verify it myself.
one time."
When Malining walked out of the command center, Rokosovsky came over and patted Sokov on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Misha, you are not simple. In just one day, nearly two were accommodated.
Thousands of commanders and fighters, such speed of expansion is really amazing.”
"Comrade Commander, I'm just lucky." Hearing Rokosovsky's praise for himself, Sokov said modestly: "Some of the commanders and fighters who broke through the Viazima area happened to pass by
The area where our headquarters is stationed, so we can accommodate nearly 2,000 people in such a short time. If we can station for a few more days, perhaps the number of officers and soldiers would be more."
"It's a pity that I can't give you a few days." Rokosovsky said with a wry smile: "The Supreme Command directly issued a counterattack order to us. In another ten hours, we will launch a counterattack against the enemy.
Your brigade may also participate in this counterattack, and I hope you can be mentally prepared as soon as possible."
To be fair, Sokov does not want to participate in this counterattack without much chance of victory. Not only does it have no support from aircraft, tanks and cannons, but it even has a serious shortage of weapons and ammunition for combat. It is impossible for officers and fighters to carry rifles without bullets to deal with them.
German tanks? You know, during the Battle of Kiev, after the commanders and fighters of the Southwest Front had run out of ammunition and food, they carried bayonets and battalions to launch many brave offensives towards the German tanks, cannons and machine guns, trying to break through the siege and go east
Retreat. However, the flesh and blood body was ultimately inferior to steel. They were killed and injured in thousands of places under the shelling, strafing and crushing of German tanks. Except for a few troops who were able to escape, the rest were either annihilated or captured by the German army.
With the lessons of the Kiev Battle, Sokov knew very well that the counterattack had been doomed to fail before the counterattack had begun. If his infantry brigade really wanted to participate in the counterattack, it would probably be the shortest existence in the Soviet military history.
a unit of
When Rokosovsky saw Sokov remained silent and was about to say something, he saw Malining coming in from outside with a bruised German lieutenant.
"Comrade Commander," Malining quickly came to Rokosovsky and introduced to him, "I'll introduce you to you. This is Comrade Georg, one of our army's invasion into the German army.
Named comrade.”
"Hello, Comrade General." Geog took two steps forward, then stood attentively and saluted: "I am Geog, and I have important information to report to you."
But Rokosovsky was not in a hurry to listen to his so-called important situation, but wanted to know his identity first: "Geog, you said you are the intelligence officer lurking inside the German army, why did it appear?
Where is our army’s defense zone?”
"Comrade General, this is the situation." After Geog saw clearly the military rank on the diamond-shaped collar of Rokosovsky and confirmed that he was the highest commander here, he truthfully reported his information: "I am the 24th."
A staff officer at the Motorcycle Army Command usually gives it to an intelligence officer under my command after obtaining the information. He will find a way to send it out..."
"Send information?" Romanov couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "Can't you use the radio station?"
After Geog turned his head and saw Romanov's rank clearly, he explained respectfully: "Comrade Major General, although we have the opportunity to contact the radio station, we cannot use it because this will reveal our identity. Therefore, we can only use this most important thing.
In the original method, I handed over the information I obtained to the intelligence officer, and then he sent the information to the designated location."
"Since there are intelligence officers who help you pass on the intelligence, why do you risk entering our army's defense zone?" Romanov continued to ask.
"Comrade Major General," said Geog with a bitter face: "I handed over a piece of intelligence to the intelligence officer the day before yesterday, and I never saw him again. I saw someone who could not contact him and realized that something might happen to him.
I had no choice but to risk driving a motorcycle into our army’s defense zone to convey intelligence.”
"When did you arrive at our military defense zone?"
"About the morning of this day," Geog continued: "I heard gunshots and explosions in the forest. I guess it must be the German troops who were sneaking into your positions. They were exchanging fire with you. In order to avoid being accidentally injured, I asked for it.
I hid in a place. At dawn, when I saw someone coming to clean the battlefield, I immediately greeted them, but was beaten up by a soldier and sent to the major's command post."
After figuring out the origin of Georg, Rokosovsky looked at him and asked, "Comrade Georg, what are your plans next? Should you return to the German command or stay with us?"
"Comrade General," said Geog, "I think my identity has been exposed. If I go back, it will be like a death sentence, so I can only choose to stay here."
"What kind of intelligence do you bring?" Rokosovsky asked bluntly: "Is it about the German combat deployment?"
Everyone thought that Georg risked his life to deliver the letter, which must be about the combat plan of the German Second Armored Cluster. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, he shook his head and said, "No, Comrade General. What I brought this time
Intelligence is not about the German military's combat plan, but another top-secret piece of information."
"Top secret information?" Rokosovsky asked curiously: "Then tell me quickly, what kind of information is it?"
Unexpectedly, Geog's next answer surprised everyone: "I'm sorry, comrade General, I can't tell you. Although this information has little to do with the military deployment of the German army, it has to do with the entire country.
It is very important to say, but I hope you can send me to the Intelligence Bureau and I will report in detail to the person in charge there."
Sokov almost couldn't help but slap him when he heard Geog say this. He worked hard to send him to the army headquarters, but he was unwilling to disclose the information to Rokosovs.
Ki and others. He instinctively looked at Rokosovsky, wanting to see how the other party was preparing to deal with Georg.
Rokosovsky frowned and pondered for a moment, then asked at Geog: "Comrade Geog, if I don't understand the error, all of us here have no right to know the information you have.
of?"
"It's exactly like this, Comrade General." Geog said with a serious expression: "This intelligence is related to the safety of the country, so I can only speak out the intelligence after I arrive in Moscow and meet the senior officials of the Intelligence Bureau.
content."
"Comrade Chief of Staff." Rokosovsky did not get angry at what Geog said, but ordered Malinin: "Arranging personnel immediately and sending him to the Intelligence Agency in Moscow."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right now!"
After Malining left with Georg, Romanlov asked Rokosovsky in confusion: "Comrade Commander, why did you let the Chief of Staff send this person to Moscow? Are you not worried? This is called
Are Georg's men sent by the Germans?"
Rokosovsky raised his eyebrows, and then said to Romanov gently: "Comrade Deputy Commander, you have been in the prison camp for too long and may not know many things about the pre-war situation, or even
The war broke out differently at the beginning. The current battlefield situation is beneficial to the Germans, so there is no need for them to do this trick to deal with us."
"Then what information do you think he brought?"
"I have no interest in knowing," Rokosovsky said lightly: "Our priority is how to complete the tasks assigned to us by our superiors and carry out a powerful counterattack on the German army in the designated area."
When Sokov heard this, the topic came, and the fate of his troops was in Rokosovsky's thoughts.
"Misha!" Rokosovsky turned to look at Sokov and asked, "When do you think we should launch a counterattack against the German army?"
"I think the counterattack time should be chosen in the evening." After Sokov proposed the counterattack time period, he said straight down without waiting for Rokosovsky to ask again: "It's winter now, and it's often five or six.
When the time was lit, it was already dark. At this time, our army launched a sudden attack on the German army. Their air force could not take off to fight. Moreover, their tanks and cannons would also play a great role because of the arrival of night.
discount……"
Sokov talked endlessly about his ideas, and Rokosovsky and others nodded repeatedly, and no one interrupted his story.
Just after the story was finished, Malinin hurriedly walked in from outside and reported to Rokosovsky: "Comrade Commander, I have arranged a staff officer and escorted the Gorge with several guards.
Comrades went to the Intelligence Agency in Moscow."
"Yeah, very good."
"Major Sokov," Malinin turned to Sokov and said, "Now, let us all hear some of your thoughts on this counterattack."
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov realized that Malining was not present when he just talked about the combat vision. Should he tell him what he had just said? "I have just talked about my vision of counterattack.
”
"Ah, I've already told you?" Malining looked around and asked in surprise: "Did I tell you when I just went out?"
"That's right."
"Chief of Staff, don't worry, I'll tell you." Rokosovsky spoke up and repeated what Sokov had just said to Malining, and finally asked: "What do you think of this combat plan?"
Malining stared at the map spread out on the table, trying hard to demonstrate the combat steps Sokov told, and judged whether it could be adopted.
After a long time, he raised his head, looked at Rokosovsky and nodded, indicating that the plan was feasible.