"Take him down and lock him up first." Sokov turned to Kester and said, "Interrogate him in two days."
When the police escorted Avdeyev to go out, Sokov suddenly thought of a key figure: "What about Dan Niang's brother? Was he killed or captured?"
"I don't know." Avdeyev, who was standing at the door, shook his head and replied: "After the battle started, his people were never seen again. They were neither alive nor dead."
"Okay, I understand." Sokov waved to the policeman who was holding Avdeyev: "Take him down."
"Comrade Commander, what is going on?" Anisimov, who participated in the entire interrogation process, was confused at the moment. He asked puzzledly: "Isn't he the one who sent the telegram to the Germans?
?”
"According to my judgment, he should be telling the truth. He was not the one who sent the message to the Germans last night." Sokov said thoughtfully: "The person who sent the message to the enemy should be someone else.
.”
"But, Comrade Commander." Although Kester was skeptical of Sokov's statement, due to his status, he did not dare to refute it in public. He could only put forward his question tactfully: "If he hadn't sent the report
Man, then who sent the report to the enemy?"
"Avdeyev was arrested by our police for theft. But he never admitted it during the interrogation." Sokov looked at Kester and asked: "He knew that stealing ration cards was a felony.
, and someone will definitely search his residence. Comrade Captain, can you tell me why he would risk exposing his identity to steal a dispensable ration card? "
Sokov's words stopped Kester. He thought about what Sokov said carefully and felt that what the other party said made sense. No matter how stupid Avdeyev was, he would not risk exposing his identity.
, to steal a ration card. This thing is indeed very valuable to ordinary citizens, but as a worker in a soap factory, Avdeyev usually gets a lot of extra subsidies. Even without a ration card, he can
Can have a full stomach.
With this question in mind, he tentatively asked Sokov: "Comrade Commander, how do you judge?"
"I think he might have been framed." After Sokov said this, he saw Anisimov and Kester both looked surprised, and quickly added: "Maybe he was lurking
The spies in the city saw that Avdeyev was no longer willing to work for them after returning to the city, so they deliberately used him to divert our investigation clues."
Having said this, Sokov paused for a moment, reorganized the vocabulary in his mind, and asked: "Where is the old man who said his ration card was stolen?"
After Sokov reminded him, Kester realized that he had never seen the old man who reported the crime from beginning to end. He quickly ordered people to find the policeman who arrested Avdeyev. He waited for his subordinates to come.
When he arrived, he asked directly: "Where is the old man who said that the ration card was stolen?"
"I don't know, Comrade Director." The little policeman replied quickly: "I thought that since the prisoner had been caught, I returned the ration card to him. After the old man got his ration card, he thanked me and
He turned around and left."
"What does he look like?" Kester continued to ask.
The little policeman thought for a while and replied: "The old man is short, has a slight stoop when he walks, has a goatee, and is wearing a black knee-length woolen coat, but it seems that it has not been washed for a long time, and there is no
There are specks of mud on few places.”
"Thank you, comrade policeman, you can go down." After sending the little policeman away, Sokov said to Kester: "Comrade captain, ask your people to pay attention to a short, hunchback, goatee, wearing a
The old man in the black woolen coat. Maybe if we find him, we can figure out a lot of mysteries."
"Yes!" Kester quickly agreed: "I will definitely let my subordinates pay attention to this person."
"After discovering this person, don't touch him yet." Sokov said: "After sending someone to find out where he lives, it will not be too late to arrest him. Also, I have already contacted the 75th Guards Division, which is responsible for the defense of the city.
The division commander, Colonel Gorishny, has said hello, if you need help, please feel free to contact him."
After leaving the police station, Sokov hurried back to his headquarters, where he met Zhukov who was waiting impatiently.
Seeing Sokov appear, Zhukov said with some dissatisfaction: "Misha, why have you been gone for so long?"
"Comrade General, the situation is like this." Sokov quickly reported everything he saw in the police station to Zhukov in detail, and finally said: "I think the old man with the goatee is the most suspicious.
Only by catching him can we figure out what the whole thing is about."
Zhukov agreed very much with Sokov's analysis. He nodded and said: "Misha, you are right. According to the report of my subordinates, the agent who sent the report last night was obviously a veteran. And that Av.
It took less than two months for Jeev to sneak into Lugansk from being captured by the Germans. Unless he was a genius, he would never be able to send a message like a veteran. He sent a message to the Germans last night.
The spy must be someone else."
"Comrade General, the manpower of the Civilian Police Branch is limited. It will be very difficult to rely on them to find this old man." Sokov took the initiative and said: "I plan to send the division guard battalion and the patrol team of the 75th Guards Division.
We are looking for this old man in the city. We have to dig three feet into the ground to find him."
"The Germans don't know when they will point their attack at Luhansk again." Zhukov reminded Sokov: "If the German agents in the city are not eradicated as soon as possible, the intelligence in the city will be continuously leaked.
Leak it out.”
In order to repair the fortifications, each division recruited a lot of citizens to participate in the construction, and among them there were inevitably German spies. After they mastered the defensive positions of the troops, they could send out intelligence through the radio. If their own defense situation fell to the
In the hands of the German army, they can formulate targeted combat plans.
He first gave Gorishny a nod and asked him to send people to assist the police in searching for the mysterious old man.
After assigning the task, Sokov still felt uneasy and worried that Gorishny's subordinates were inexperienced, so he went straight to the guard camp and called Tenev, Seryosha and Samoilov to him.
He said to them: "Comrades, I have a difficult task now that I want to entrust to you to complete."
"Comrade Commander, please give me the order."
"Last night, the telecommunications monitoring team discovered that there was a radio signal that did not belong to us in the west direction of the city. They suspected that there might be German agents sending reports in that direction." Sokov said to the three of them: "Today I made a special trip to the police.
The branch, coincidentally, met a thief who was caught red-handed there, and a radio was found from his residence..."
"Comrade Commander," when Samoilov heard this, he couldn't help but interjected and asked: "Is this thief the secret agent who sent the report last night?"
"He is serving the Germans, but he is definitely not the reporter." Sokov shook his head and said: "According to Comrade General, the reporter is a skilled person, and a person captured by the police can even send a message.
, and it simply cannot reach that level of reporting.”
"Then why was a radio station found from his residence?" Samoilov continued to ask.
"I suspect that the enemy deliberately released smoke in order to divert our attention." Sokov explained to the three of them: "Although Avdeyev promised to serve the Germans after being captured, when he really
He escaped from the control of the Germans, but wanted to live an ordinary life. The German agents hiding in the city discovered his intention, and deliberately framed him. Firstly, they diverted our attention, and secondly, they warned those people.
People with the two ends of the head and the rat should not be half-hearted.
Your task is to search for an old man in the city who is not tall, has a slight stoop, and has a goatee. He is wearing a black woolen coat with a lot of mud spots on it. The conditions in the city are difficult now.
Washing clothes is not an easy task, and I think he may not be able to change his clothes within a few days. This will be very helpful for you to find him."
"Don't worry, comrade division commander." Tenev expressed his position to Sokov, "I will immediately organize manpower to conduct a large-scale manhunt throughout the city, and we must catch the hidden German agents."