"Guchakov!" Sokov thought Yakov's words were very reasonable, so he called Guchakov and said to him: "Go and tell Lieutenant Samoilov to replenish the batch of ammunition we seized yesterday to Captain Gersant and the others. Remember, only give ammunition, not weapons."
"The batch of ammunition seized yesterday?" Guchakov was stunned when he heard Sokov say this, and then asked in confusion: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the batch of ammunition seized yesterday was used by German equipment, and the caliber of the bullet is different from our Mosinnagan."
Seeing Guchakov being silly, Yakov said unhappily: "Corporal Guchakov, since it is your brigade commander who asked you to convey your orders, then go quickly and don't be sluggish here."
After Guchakov left, Yakov gave Sokov a thumbs up: "Misha, your move is amazing. According to Captain Gersant, they are all rifles, with only five or six bullets per gun. Even if they get 7.92 mm caliber bullets, they cannot be used. If they were really sent by the Germans, it would be easy for us to get rid of them."
Sokov picked up the phone and answered Gurdiev's command center and asked straight to the point: "Comrade Colonel, I am Sokov. I want to ask, how many officers of the 120th Guards Regiment who retreated to your position yesterday, now?"
"There are more than 30 guard soldiers on the position, and the rest are either sacrificed or injured." When Gurdiev reported the number of troops last night, he deliberately ignored this small army of more than 80 people to avoid being transferred by Sokov. At this moment, when he heard Sokov suddenly ask about this army, he couldn't help but ask with guilt: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what are you asking about this?"
"We just came a small army," Sokov continued without realizing the guilt in Gurdiev's tone, "I want two people from your Guards to come over to see if these people are their comrades."
After figuring out Sokov's intention, Gurdiev couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and quickly replied: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the team is led by a lieutenant named Tushik. If you need him to help you recognize people, I will send him over immediately."
Sokov looked at the location of Gurdiev's division, and saw that there was no battle there, so he said decisively: "Okay, comrade Colonel, please let him come here immediately."
More than ten minutes later, a medium-sized lieutenant with a little black face appeared in front of Sokov. He straightened his body and reported: "Comrade Commander, Lieutenant Tushik, the company commander of the 8th Company of the 120th Guards Regiment, reported to you, I will obey your orders, please give instruct!"
"Comrade Lieutenant, are you the company commander of the Eighth Company?" Sokov asked in surprise after hearing the other party's report: "Then can you tell me what are the names of your third battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders?"
Tushik replied without hesitation: "The battalion commander is Captain Andref, and the deputy battalion commander is Captain Gersant."
"Yakov," Sokov turned his head and said to Yakov: "The name can match it. It seems that we are too suspicious."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Tushik showed a confused expression on his face: "Can you tell me what's going on?"
"That's right, comrade Lieutenant." Sokov called Tushik over, and the system used him to understand whether the sudden emergence of the troops was his own, so he said to him truthfully: "Not long ago, a unit came from the south, which was said to have been withdrawn from the fourth line of defense, so I will come to you to find out the situation."
"This is impossible, comrade commander." As soon as Sokov finished speaking, Tushik shouted: "The only small army I led on the position has retreated, and the rest of the comrades have all died. Where can the troops emerge again?"
"What, Comrade Lieutenant, is there something wrong?" Sokov asked vigilantly: "You know, the commander who led the team claimed to be Captain Gersant, the deputy battalion commander of the Third Battalion. Is there anything wrong with it?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, you must have been fooled." Tushik grabbed Sokov's arm and said excitedly: "Before we retreat, Deputy Battalion Commander Captain Gersant died, and the people you see must be pretending."
Although Yakov was the first person to doubt Gesant, when he heard Tushik say this at this moment, he still asked cautiously: "Comrade Lieutenant, do you say Captain Gesant has died. Have you heard people say it or have you seen it with your own eyes?"
"Of course I saw it with my own eyes." Tushik said anxiously: "Captain Gersant was injured in many places in the battle. Before his death, he ordered me to lead the remaining troops to retreat northward and come to find you. And he stayed on the position, detonated the explosives buried in advance, and died with the enemy who rushed up."
When Tushik said this, Sokov kept observing him carefully. Seeing him talking, his eyes turned red, and he knew that what the other party said was definitely not a lie. So he took him to the top of the hill, pointed to the location of the small army, and said to him: "Comrade Lieutenant, take a closer look, are those people from your third battalion?"
Yakov handed a telescope from the side to Tushik and said in a friendly tone: "Comrade Lieutenant, take a closer look, see if there are people you are familiar with?"
Tushik took the telescope, held it in front of him, and carefully observed the unit 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 Brigade Commander, I don't know any of these people, I should not be from our Third Battalion."
As a company commander, Tushik definitely cannot know everyone in the Third Battalion, but among the forty or fifty people at the foot of the hill, there is not a single person he knows, which is very telling. Sokov took the telescope, handed it to Yakov, and said to Tushik: "Thank you, Comrade Lieutenant. When these people first appeared, I felt something was wrong, so I asked you to come and identify it. Now it is basically confirmed that they are from the Eastern Battalion of the German army. The next thing has nothing to do with you. You can go back to Colonel Gurdiev first."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, can I stay?" Tushik said unexpectedly: "These people are pretending to be commanders and soldiers of our battalion. I want to stay and watch them be eliminated with my own eyes. Is it OK?"
"Stay." Sokov said rationally, considering that he had someone else coming from such a faraway place, he sent him away after asking questions, somewhat unkind, "Look at how we solve these damn enemies."
"Misha, what are you going to do?" Seeing that Sokov had decided to get rid of this fake enemy, Yakov began to ask about the next steps: "You know, although they don't have much ammunition, if they really fight, our troops will still suffer a lot of casualties."
"Leave this to 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 important things to tell him."
Samoilov soon appeared in front of Sokov. He looked at Tushik who was standing next to him curiously, then looked at Sokov and asked, "Comrade Brigade Commander, what instructions do you have?"
"That's right, Comrade Lieutenant." Sokov told Samoilov that the troops below the hill were disguised as Eastern Battalion, and then asked, "I will give you a task now, which is to solve them as soon as possible."
"The army under the hill is actually the Eastern Battalion?" Samoilov was very surprised at what Sokov said. He asked cautiously: "Comrade Brigade Commander, you can't make a mistake, right?"
"You can't make a mistake." Sokov said and pointed at Tushik: "This is Lieutenant Tushik from the 120th Guards. He is the company commander of the 8th Company of the Third Battalion. He does not know anyone in the team below. Moreover, Captain Gersant died heroically in yesterday's battle. How could he be resurrected from the dead?"
Samoilov glanced at the troops at the foot of the hill and replied unambiguously: "I understand, comrade brigade commander, I will immediately take the three-row warriors to deal with them."
"Wait," Yakov called out to Samoilov and reminded him: "We have limited troops now. When solving this enemy, you must find a way to minimize casualties."
"Reduce casualties to the minimum?!" Samoilov scratched the back of his head, looked at Sokov, and asked in embarrassment: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any good solutions?"
Sokov did not immediately answer Samoilov's question, but asked tentatively: "Liston Samoilov, did you give them a turntable machine gun when you just brought the fake Gersant to collect the ammunition?"
"No." Samoilov shook his head like a rattle and replied, "When you sent Guchakov to inform me, I became more cautious and asked them to receive only German-equipped ammunition, and did not give them the turntable machine gun."
"This is great." Learning that Samoilov did not hand over the turntable machine gun to the fake Gersant, Sokov immediately came up with a good idea: "Seither Samoilov, take the third platoon to find them now, bring more German weapons captured, and say that they would replace them with German equipment, first confiscate the guns in their hands, and then take them off by surprise."
Sokov's deployment made Samoilov's eyes lit up. He knew very well that if he really did this, he might solve the enemy without a single shot. He quickly agreed loudly, "I understand, comrade brigade commander. I will take the three-row warriors over and disarm them."
"Comrade Lieutenant, you must remember." Sokov finally told Samoilov: "Even if there is a fire exchange, I have to find a way to save the life of the fake Gesant. I want to get more useful information from him."
According to Sokov's plan, Samoilov led the soldiers from the third platoon to the location of the Eastern Camp. Looking at the fake Gersant, Samoilov smiled and said loudly: "Captain Gersant, I'm so embarrassed. The soldiers who managed the weapons just now made a mistake. They gave you all German ammunition, which made your weapons useless. After understanding this, the brigade commander asked me to give you a batch of German equipment so that you can make a comprehensive change of clothes."
The fake Gesant believed in Samoilov's words, so much so that after the other party brought people over, he took the initiative to ask his subordinates to hand over the weapons and prepare to receive new equipment. Unexpectedly, after they handed over the weapons, they saw countless black muzzles aiming at him. Seeing this, the fake Gesant also pretended to be calm and asked: "Comrade Lieutenant, what do you mean?"
Samoilov sneered and said, "Stop pretending, I know you are from the Eastern Camp. You want to sneak into our defense zone and wait for the Germans to attack, and then work with them inside and outside..."
"Comrade Lieutenant, what are you talking about?" Although his identity was exposed, the fake Gersant was still quibbling: "How could we be from the Eastern Camp? You must have made a mistake!"
"Are you wrong? You will understand after you meet the brigade commander." Samoilov waved his head at the warrior next to him and ordered: "Take this fake captain to the command center, and the brigade commander will interrogate him personally."
After the fake Gersant was taken away by the soldiers, a soldier looked at the soldiers of the Eastern Battalion who had surrendered and asked Samoilov in a low voice: "Comrade Platoon Commander, what should these enemies be dealt with? Will all be executed on the spot?"
If Samoilov could make a decision, he would definitely order all the traitors of the motherland to be shot without hesitation, but now he cannot do so without Sokov's further order. He thought for a moment, and then replied: "Tie them all, as for how to deal with them, we must wait for the order of the brigade commander."
The fake Gersant was taken to Sokov by two soldiers. He had revealed his flaws in somewhere, so he was able to see through his identity by Sokov, so he continued to defend himself: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, I think you must have made a mistake. We are not enemies but our own people."
Sokov pointed his hand at Tushik next to him and asked, "Captain Gersant, do you know him?"
After carefully looking at Tushik, the fake Gersant shook his head blankly and said, "I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, I've never seen this person before. Who is he?"
"Aren't you the deputy battalion commander of the Third Battalion?" Before Sokov could speak, Yakov sneered and said, "Don't you even know your own subordinates?"
Chapter completed!