"Guchakov!" Sokov felt that Yakov's words made sense, so he called Guchakov and said to him: "Go and tell Second Lieutenant Samoilov to tell us what happened yesterday. The captured ammunition will be replenished to Captain Gsante and the others. Remember, only give ammunition, not weapons."
"That batch of ammunition seized yesterday?" Guchakov couldn't help but be stunned when he heard what Sokov said, and then asked in confusion: "Comrade Brigadier, the batch of ammunition seized yesterday was used by German weapons and equipment. The caliber is different from our Mosin Nagant.”
Seeing Guchakov dilly-dallying, Yakov said with some displeasure: "Corporal Guchakov, since it is your brigade commander who asked you to deliver the order, then go quickly and don't wait here. .”
After Guchakov left, Yakov gave Sokov a thumbs up: "Misha, your move is really amazing. According to Captain Gsant, they are all rifles. , each gun only has five or six rounds of ammunition. Even if they get 7.92 mm caliber bullets, they cannot use them. If they are really sent by the Germans, it will be very easy for us to deal with them. "
Sokov picked up the phone and connected to Gurdiev's headquarters. He asked straight to the point: "Comrade Colonel, this is Sokov. I want to ask about the members of the 120th Guards Regiment who retreated to your position yesterday. Commanders and fighters, how many of them are there now?”
"There are still more than 30 Guards soldiers on the position. The rest are either sacrificed or injured." When Gurdiev reported the number of troops last night, he deliberately ignored this small unit of more than 80 people. To avoid being transferred by Sokov. At this moment, when Sokov suddenly asked about this unit, he couldn't help but asked with a guilty conscience: "Comrade Brigade Commander, why are you asking this?"
"We have just arrived here with a small force," Sokov did not notice the guilt in Gurdiev's tone and continued: "I want two of your Guards soldiers to come over to see if these people are They are their comrades."
After figuring out Sokov's intention, Gurdiev couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied: "Comrade Brigadier, the team is led by a lieutenant named Tusik. If you need him to help you identify If there is someone, I will send him over immediately."
Sokov glanced at the location of Gurdiev's division and saw that there was no fighting there, so he said decisively: "Okay, comrade colonel, ask him to come over immediately."
Ten minutes later, a lieutenant with a medium build and a dark face appeared in front of Sokov. He straightened his body and reported: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Lieutenant Tusik, commander of the eighth company of the 120th Guards Regiment, is reporting to you. , I obey your orders, please give instructions!"
"Comrade Lieutenant, are you the commander of the eighth company?" After listening to the other party's report, Sokov asked in surprise: "Then can you tell me, what are the names of the commander and deputy commander of your third battalion?"
Tusik replied without hesitation: "The battalion commander is Captain Andreev, and the deputy battalion commander is Captain Gsante."
"Yakov," Sokov turned to Yakov and said, "The names match up. It seems that we are too suspicious."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Tusik said with a puzzled expression on his face: "Can you tell me what is going on?"
"That's it, Comrade Lieutenant." Since Sokov called Tusik over, the system used him to find out whether the sudden appearance of the troops was one of its own, so he told him truthfully: "Not long ago, A troop came from the south, said to have withdrawn from the fourth line of defense, so I asked you to come over and find out more about the situation."
"This is impossible, Comrade Brigade Commander." As soon as Sokov finished speaking, Tusik shouted: "Only the small unit led by me withdrew from the position, and the rest of the comrades were sacrificed. How could it be possible? The troops showed up again.”
"What, Comrade Lieutenant, is there anything wrong?" Sokov asked vigilantly: "You know, the commander leading the team claimed to be Captain Gesante, the deputy commander of the third battalion. Is there anything wrong?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, you must have been deceived." Tusik grabbed Sokov's arm and said excitedly: "Before we retreated, the deputy battalion commander, Captain Gesante, died. The person you saw must have been It’s fake.”
Even though Yakov was the first person to have doubts about Gsante, when he actually heard Tusik say this, he still asked cautiously: "Comrade Lieutenant, you said that Captain Gsante has been sacrificed, you Did you hear it from someone, or did you see it with your own eyes?”
"Of course I saw it with my own eyes." Tusik said anxiously: "Captain Gsante was wounded in many places during the battle. Before he died, he ordered me to lead the remaining troops to retreat north and come to look for you. He stayed on the position, detonated the explosives that had been laid in advance, and died together with the enemy who rushed up."
When Tusik said these words, Sokov had been observing him carefully. When he saw his eyes turning red as he spoke, he knew that what the other person said was definitely not a lie. Then he took him to the top of the hill, pointed to the location of the small unit, and said to him: "Comrade Lieutenant, take a closer look. Are those people from your third battalion?"
Yakov handed a telescope to Tusik from the side and said in a friendly tone: "Comrade Lieutenant, take a closer look. Are there anyone familiar to you there?"
Tusik took the telescope, raised it to his eyes, and carefully observed the army at the foot of the hill through the lens. After watching for a while, he put down the telescope, shook his head slowly, and said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, I don't know any of these people. They should not be from our third battalion."
As a company commander, Tusik certainly couldn't know everyone in the third battalion, but among the forty or fifty people at the foot of the hill, there was no one he knew, which was very telling. Sokov took the telescope, handed it to Yakov, and said to Tusik: "Thank you, Comrade Lieutenant. When these people first appeared, I felt something was wrong, so I asked you to come over and identify them. Now it's basically It is certain that they are from the Eastern Battalion of the German Army. What happens next has nothing to do with you. You should go back to Colonel Gurdiev first."
"Comrade Brigadier, can you let me stay?" Tusik said unexpectedly: "These people are actually pretending to be commanders and fighters of our battalion. I want to stay and watch them be eliminated with my own eyes. Okay?" "
"Just stay." Sokov considered it a bit unkind to let someone come from such a far away place and send him away after asking questions, so he said reasonably: "Let's see how we solve the problem. These damn enemies."
"Misha, what are you going to do?" Seeing that Sokov had decided to get rid of this fake enemy army, Yakov began to ask about the next steps: "You know, although they don't have much ammunition, they are really If we fight, our troops will still suffer a lot of casualties."
"Leave this matter to Second Lieutenant Samoilov," Sokov said confidently: "He comes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and knows how to deal with similar incidents." After that, he called Guchakov over and ordered: , "Go and call Samoilov over. I have something important to tell him."
Samoilov soon appeared in front of Sokov. He glanced curiously at Tusik standing next to him, then looked at Sokov and asked: "Comrade Brigadier, what are your instructions?"
"That's it, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Sokov told Samoilov that the troops under the hill were disguised as the Eastern Battalion, and then asked: "I will give you a task now, which is Get rid of them as soon as possible."
"That unit at the foot of the hill is actually the Eastern Battalion?" Samoilov was very surprised by what Sokov said. He asked cautiously: "Comrade Brigadier, can you be mistaken?"
"There's no mistake." Sokov said and pointed towards Tusik: "This is Lieutenant Tusik from the 120th Guards Regiment. He is the commander of the 8th Company of the 3rd Battalion. He doesn't know the guy below at all. Anyone in the team. Moreover, Captain Gesante died heroically in yesterday's battle, how could he come back from the dead?"
Samoilov glanced at the troops at the foot of the hill and replied unequivocally: "Understood, Comrade Brigade Commander, I will immediately take the third platoon of soldiers to deal with them."
"Wait a minute." Seeing Samoilov turning around to leave, Yakov stopped him and warned: "Our troops are limited now. When dealing with this enemy, you must find a way to kill him." Casualties are kept to a minimum.”
"Minimize casualties?!" Samoilov scratched the back of his head, looked at Sokov, and asked with some embarrassment: "Comrade Brigadier, do you have any good ideas?"
Sokov did not answer Samoilov's question immediately, but asked tentatively: "Second Lieutenant Samoilov, when you just took that fake Gsant to collect ammunition, did you give them a turntable machine gun? "
"No." Samoilov shook his head like a rattle and replied: "When you sent Guchakov to inform me, I had an extra thought and only let them receive ammunition with German equipment. , didn’t give them the turntable gun.”
"This is great." Knowing that Samoilov did not hand over the turntable machine gun to the fake Gsant, Sokov immediately came up with a good idea: "Lieutenant Samoilov, you can do it now Take the third platoon to look for them, bring some more captured German weapons, and say that you will replace them all with German equipment. First, seize the guns in their hands, and then capture them by surprise."
Sokov's deployment made Samoylov's eyes light up. He knew very well that if he really did this, he might be able to deal with this enemy without firing a shot. He quickly agreed loudly, "Understood, Comrade Brigade Commander. I will take the soldiers from the third platoon over and disarm them."
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, you must remember." Sokov finally told Samoilov: "Even if there is a firefight, we must find a way to save the life of fake Gsant. I want to get more useful information from him. intelligence."
Following Sokov's strategy, Samoylov led three platoons of soldiers to the location of the Eastern Battalion with a batch of German equipment. Looking at the fake Gsant, Samoilov smiled and said loudly: "Captain Gsant, I'm so sorry. The soldier who just managed the weapons made a mistake and gave you German ammunition. Make your weapons unusable. After Comrade Brigade Commander learned about this, he asked me to send you a batch of German equipment so that you can carry out a comprehensive replacement."
Fake Gsant believed Samoilov's words to be true, so much so that after the other party brought people over, he took the initiative to ask his men to hand over their weapons and prepare to receive new equipment. Unexpectedly, after they handed over their weapons, they saw countless black holes pointing at them. Seeing this, the fake Gesante pretended to be calm and asked: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what do you mean?"
Samoilov sneered and said: "Stop pretending, I know you are from the Eastern Battalion and want to sneak into our defense area. When the Germans attack, we will cooperate with them inside and outside..."
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, what are you talking about?" Although his identity was revealed, the fake Gesante was still arguing: "How could we be from the Eastern Camp? You must be mistaken!"
"Is there any mistake? You'll understand when you see the brigade commander." Samoylov shook his head at the soldier next to him and ordered: "Bring this fake captain to the headquarters. The brigade commander will interrogate him personally. .”
After Fake Gsante was taken away by soldiers, a soldier looked at the helpless Eastern Battalion soldiers and asked Samoilov in a low voice: "Comrade Platoon Commander, what should we do with these enemies? Are they all to be executed on the spot?"
If Samoilov could make a decision, he would definitely order all these traitors to the motherland to be shot without hesitation, but now he cannot do so without receiving further orders from Sokov. He thought for a moment, and then replied: "Tie them all up. As for how to deal with them, we have to wait for the order of comrade brigade commander."
The fake Gsant was escorted in front of Sokov by two soldiers. He didn't know where he showed his flaws, so that Sokov discovered his identity, so he continued to defend himself: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, I I think you must have made a mistake, we are not enemies but our own people."
Sokov pointed to Tushik beside him and asked: "Captain Gsant, do you know him?"
After the fake Gsant looked at Tusik carefully, he shook his head in confusion and said: "I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, I have never seen this person before. Who is he?"
"Aren't you the deputy commander of the third battalion?" Before Sokov could speak, Yakov sneered and said, "Don't you even know your own subordinates?"
Knowing that the lieutenant standing in front of him was the commander of the third battalion, Fake Gsant couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart, but he reacted quickly and immediately came up with a response: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, I've only been the deputy battalion commander for a few days, and everyone in the battalion hasn't recognized him yet. Even if I don't know him, there's nothing wrong with him, right?"
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