Seryozha took the fake major to another room and immediately began interrogation. But no matter what Seryozha asked, the other party remained silent without saying a word. Seryosha thought for a while, then called a soldier and said to him: "Call Sergeant Samoylov here."
Sergeant Samoilov was the sergeant who guarded the Ministry of Internal Affairs warehouse that Sokov brought back when he was the chief of staff of the Southern Group. After returning to Mamayev Heights, Sokov fulfilled his promise and not only appointed him as the platoon leader of the third platoon of guards, but also promoted his military rank from sergeant to staff sergeant.
Hearing the soldier say that Seryosha had something to do with him, Samoilov felt quite strange. Although he was brought back by the brigade commander himself, the company commander had always been stern with him, and even when he reported work to him, he was very polite. He looked so indifferent, why did he suddenly send someone to call him today?
With this question in mind, Samoilov followed the soldier to the room where Seryosha was. He walked quickly in front of Seryosha, stood at attention and raised his hand to salute: "Comrade company commander, third platoon leader Sergeant Samoylov has been ordered to come, please give instructions!"
"Comrade Sergeant, I came to see you today because I have an important task for you to complete." Before Samoilov could ask what the task was, Seryosha pointed towards the middle of the room with his hand: " Just take useful information out of his mouth."
Samoilov turned around and saw an officer with the rank of major sitting in the middle of the room. Behind him stood two soldiers holding submachine guns. Seeing this situation, Samoilov curiously asked: "Comrade Company Commander, who is he? Is he a deserter?" There was a reason for him to ask this. After the Soviet army was retreating steadily in the front and many troops were defeated, , not only soldiers but also many officers escaped, but school-level officers were rare.
"He is not a deserter." Seryosha replied: "He is a German disguised as a commander of our army. Your task is to extract useful information from his mouth."
"Comrade Commander, please give me half an hour." After figuring out what task Seryosha had assigned him, Samoilov couldn't help but smile. As a former member of the Internal Affairs Corps, interrogation was his best skill. matter. Therefore, he said with confidence: "I will definitely make him confess that he even wet the bed when he was a child."
"Okay, I'll give you half an hour." Seryosha knew that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had its own way of interrogating prisoners, otherwise he would not have called Samoilov to assist him. He nodded in agreement, then asked, "How can I help you?"
"Please call two of my former subordinates over." Samoilov looked at the fake major sitting in the middle of the room and said coldly: "I need their help."
Seryosha was not interested in seeing how Samoilov interrogated the prisoners. When the other party's old subordinates arrived, he left the room with the two soldiers guarding the prisoners. He asked two soldiers to guard the door while he went to report to Sokov.
When Sokov saw Seryosha coming in from the outside, he thought he was reporting the results of the interrogation to him, so he asked: "Comrade Lieutenant, how are you? Have all the Germans been recruited?"
"No." Seryosha shook his head and replied: "The Germans are very stubborn and refuse to say anything."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Sidorin heard what Seryosha said and immediately suggested to Sokov: "I think it's better to send him to the Army Group Headquarters. There is an agency there that specializes in dealing with German spies. I think they can start from Something came out of the mouths of these two prisoners."
Sokov could not easily call out the spies he had captured in his headquarters, so he said to Sidorin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, we cannot hand them over just yet. In my estimation, they are definitely more than These two people must have accomplices hiding nearby. If these hidden enemies are not eradicated, once the fighting gets fierce, they will wreak havoc in the rear and we will be devastated."
"But, Comrade Brigadier." Seeing that Sokov was unwilling to hand over the person to the army headquarters, Sidorin said anxiously: "If the prisoners never confess, we still won't know where the rest of the enemies are hiding. I think we should call the Army Headquarters and ask Commander Chuikov to send comrades from the enemy engineering department to help us with the interrogation."
Regarding Sidorin's proposal, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little moved. If he could get help from the enemy's engineering department, he might be able to get some useful information from the prisoners' mouths. Just when he was about to agree, he saw Seryosha still standing in front of him and asked angrily: "Comrade Lieutenant, what are you still doing standing here?"
"Comrade Brigadier." Seryosha said hesitantly: "Maybe we can get the information we want from the prisoners without the help of the enemy engineering department."
"Comrade Lieutenant, didn't you just say that the prisoners refused to say anything?" After hearing these words of Seryosha, Sidorin asked with some displeasure: "Then please tell me, how do you get away from the enemy?" Get the information we need from his mouth?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Seryosha bravely said, "Although I haven't been able to get anything out of the prisoners, Sergeant Samoilov is conducting the interrogation now. I believe he will definitely get the Germans to confess. of."
"Sergeant Samoylov?" Sidorin couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the name, and then asked: "Lieutenant Seryosha, who is he? Does he know how to interrogate prisoners?"
And Sokov felt that the name was very familiar. After thinking for a while, he remembered that it was the sergeant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that he had brought back. He asked Seryosha tentatively: "Is it the sergeant that I brought back?"
"Yes, Comrade Brigadier." Seryosha replied with a smile: "He is leading two subordinates to interrogate the prisoner at the moment. I believe it will not take long before we can get the information we want. .”
"Comrade Brigadier, who are you talking about?" Sidorin heard the exchange between Sokov and Seryosha and couldn't help but asked in surprise: "He really has such great ability. He can interrogate us and find out what we need." information?"
"That's right, Comrade Chief of Staff, I think he should be able to do it." Sokov nodded and said: "The Sergeant Samoylov we are talking about turned out to be affiliated with the Internal Affairs Army, and he must have some skills in interrogation. The unique aspect, I believe that no matter how stubborn the German prisoners are, he will be able to ask for the information we want."
Although Sidorin was still dubious about Sokov's statement, at this point, he could only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He nodded and said: "Well, since you are so confident in this Sergeant Samoilov, then we will wait for another half an hour. If the time is up, he has not asked us what we want to know. If we don’t have the intelligence, we can only send the prisoner to the Army Group Headquarters and let the comrades from the enemy’s Engineering Section interrogate him.”
"Lieutenant Seryosha, go back and keep an eye on Sergeant Samoilov. If he gets the Germans to confess, come back and report to me immediately." After Seryosha received the order, when he was about to turn around and leave, Soko The husband stopped him again: "Wait a minute, you gather the troops first. Once you get the hiding place of the remaining Germans, you must immediately lead people to capture them all."
"Comrade Brigadier, have you forgotten?" Seryosha heard this order and quickly reminded Sokov: "You have given two orders. One is to take people to maintain order near the dock to ensure that the front army headquarters Able to cross the river safely. After this order was cancelled, you ordered me to gather the troops and prepare to search nearby residential areas to check whether there are any German spies and deserters from our army hidden there..."
Less than ten minutes after Seryozha left, he hurried in and said excitedly: "Comrade Brigadier, the prisoner has confessed."
"It's great that you confessed." Sokov couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard the news, and quickly asked: "What did he recruit?"
"There are seven people in their action team." Seryosha replied: "The two of them disguised themselves as our troops and gave us false orders to retreat. Once our troops started to retreat, the Germans hiding in the settlements would We will use telegraphs to notify German troops in the distance and ask them to come over and take over our defense area.”
"The German spies are indeed hiding in residential areas," Sokov confirmed his suspicion and then asked, "Do you know their specific location?"
Seryosha put a hastily drawn sketch on the table, pointed to a rectangle on it and said: "This is a building that was blown up by German planes. The remaining Germans are hiding in the basement inside. inside."
"Is the news reliable?" Sidorin asked before Sokov could speak.
"It should be reliable." Seryosha nodded and said, "I believe in Sergeant Samoylov's interrogation ability. The prisoner must not have told lies."
"Now that we know where the enemy is, take action immediately." Sokov urged: "Lieutenant Seryosha, immediately lead the guard company to surround this building. No enemy is allowed to escape. No one alive. If you can’t catch him, you will die.”
"Comrade Brigadier, to catch these cunning German spies, one guard company may not be enough." Sidorin reminded Sokov: "Do you think you can deploy other troops to cooperate?"
The guard company of the infantry brigade is a reinforced company with more than 200 people in the company. Using so many people to arrest five German spies, Sokov originally felt that it was a bit overkill, but after listening to Sidorin's words, he felt that for the sake of safety, he decided to deploy another unit to cooperate. Guard company. So he called the third battalion and asked the battalion commander, Captain Andre, to come over and receive combat orders.
Andrei had been following Sokov through life and death recently, and knew that it would definitely not be a small matter for him to call him. Therefore, before coming to the brigade headquarters, he notified the entire battalion to assemble urgently and be ready to carry out new tasks at any time. He came to the headquarters, saluted Sokov and asked: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what are your instructions?"
"Comrade Captain, the situation is like this. In a residential area near us, there is a German special agent team. Two of them pretended to be officers from the front army headquarters and came to us to pass false orders. We have already arrested them. According to their confession, the remaining agents are hiding in the basement of this building." Sokov pointed at the sketch and assigned the task to Andrei: "The task of your battalion is to serve as perimeter security to prevent the enemy from escaping. .As for the search mission inside the building, it will be completed by Seryosha’s security company.”
After the battle of the third battalion some time ago, there were still more than 500 wounded including the wounded. Since this mission was very important, the wounded were not allowed to participate, but there were still as many as 400 people involved in the operation. There were more than 600 people in the third battalion plus the security company. With so many people pouring into the residential area, they were immediately discovered by the secret agent hiding in the ruins. He quickly sounded the alarm to the people hiding in the basement.
At the beginning, the special agent leader thought that the Soviet army would not notice the building destroyed by bombing. Unexpectedly, after seeing the Soviet troops entering the residential area, they immediately surrounded his location, and then a group of soldiers with live ammunition rushed into the building, and went straight to the basement. Only then did he realize that something was wrong, and quickly ordered the telegraph service sent a report to the military personnel to inform the military of the information that had been exposed.
There are only two units in the building, and there is a basement under each unit. Soldiers from the guard company rushed into the building in two groups. Although the special agent on guard had a submachine gun in his hand, he had just fired two bursts when he was blown up by a grenade thrown by a soldier from the security company, leaving him bloody and unrecognizable. After taking out the guard post, the soldiers rushed forward in a swarm and continued towards the basement.
The agents in the basement did not expect the Soviet troops to arrive so quickly. Before the operator could send out the alarm telegram, the soldiers had already rushed in. After one shot, the special agent team leader and two other agents were killed on the spot. Seeing that the situation was not good, the operator obediently raised his hand and became a prisoner.
As the commander of the guard company, Seryosha did not rush into the building like the soldiers did, but found a hidden place outside the building to direct the battle. After he heard a burst of fierce gunfire and several explosions, everything calmed down. He knew that the battle inside was over, so he walked out of the hiding place and stood outside the building, waiting for the soldiers inside to come out and fight. Report the results yourself.
Sergeant Samoilov led three platoons of soldiers, escorted the captured telegraph operator, and carried the body of the killed agent out of the building. Seeing Seryosha standing outside the building, Samoilov quickly ran over and reported to him: "Comrade company commander, Sergeant Samoilov, commander of the third platoon, reports to you that our platoon successfully killed Four German agents captured one alive and seized a radio."
"Well done, Sergeant Samoylov." Seryosha looked at the four corpses thrown on the ground by the soldiers and the trembling prisoners beside him. He nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "You take the prisoners and The radio station will return to Mamayev Heights first and report the results you have achieved to comrade the brigade commander. I believe he will be very happy."
