Lunev opened his mouth and was about to speak when suddenly the phone on the table rang.
"Sorry, Misha." Lunev reached out and picked up the phone. He didn't put it to his ear immediately. Instead, he covered the phone with his hand and said apologetically to Sokov: "I need to answer the phone. You and Ah
Thea, please go sit outside first."
"Asia," Sokov knew that Lunev's call must involve confidentiality, and it was obviously inappropriate for him and Asya to stay here, so he stood up with a cane and said to Asya; "We
Let’s go sit in the office outside first.”
Lunev waited until Sokov and Asya left his room and closed the door before putting the phone to his ear: "I'm Lunev, what can I do?"
An anxious voice came from the receiver: "Comrade Deputy Minister, the German spy who was captured by General Sokov some time ago finally confessed after our repeated interrogations."
"Oh, you confessed." Lunev said in surprise: "Did you provide any valuable information?"
"He said that he sneaked into Moscow this time to obtain important information."
"What information?" Lunev asked: "Who provided him with the information."
"It is a plan for our army to launch an assault on the right bank of the Dnieper River. The person who provided him with the information was a captain in our intelligence department, nicknamed Yoder Schoffa."
"What is this captain's name and what does he look like?"
"I don't know the specific name. I just know that he is a bald man, about forty years old..."
Seeing that he could not get more detailed information from the other party, Lunev's face became serious: "Continue the interrogation and we must dig out the enemies hidden in our Ministry of Internal Affairs."
While Runev was on the phone with the person responsible for interrogating German spies in the office, Sokov and Asya were sitting in the outer office, chatting with Runev's secretary.
The secretary asked Sokov: "General Sokov, you will be returning to the Frunze Military Academy in a few days to attend the senior commander training class, right?"
"Yes." This matter is not a secret. Many people know it. The person in front of him is Lunev's secretary. It is said that Lunev asked him to complete some of the things he studied at the Frunze Military Academy.
. So he answered truthfully: "In three or four days, the new round of senior commander training courses will officially start."
"Comrade General, I would like to ask." The secretary asked: "After the senior commander training class starts, will you still go home every day as before, or will you still live in the college, go home every Friday afternoon, and go back on Sunday evening?"
What about returning to the academy?”
Sokov really hadn't thought about the question asked by the secretary. He thought for a moment and then answered: "In the past few months, my injury has not healed and I need to stay in the hospital for treatment, so I am treated by Lieutenant Koshkin every day.
Come and pick me up. Now that my injuries are almost healed, there is no need to go back and forth every day. I think it’s better to live in the college and go home every Friday afternoon.”
"Okay, Comrade General." The secretary sat behind the desk, wrote down the matter on the notepad, and said to Sokov: "At that time, I will arrange for Lieutenant Koshkin to have him every Friday afternoon
I’ll pick you up from the college and take you home.”
"Thank you, Comrade Secretary, thank you so much..." Sokov was saying words of gratitude to his secretary when he suddenly heard two faint gunshots outside. He instinctively reached for his waist, but found nothing.
, he then remembered that he had never worn a gun since he was injured.
The secretary also heard the gunshots outside. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said to himself: "What is the sound outside?"
"Gunshots."
"This is impossible." The secretary immediately denied Sokov's statement: "This is the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. How could there be gunshots? You must have heard wrong."
"That's right, Comrade Secretary." Sokov, who has been on the battlefield for more than two years, is very familiar with the sounds of various firearms firing. He quickly said: "It's the sound of the TT-33 pistol firing. Believe me, it's absolutely
It can’t be wrong.”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another gunshot from outside. This time the gunshot was clearer than before. It seemed that the shooting position was quite close to here. Then, the sound of pistol shooting rang out again, and at the same time, the sound of Bobosha submachine gun sounded.
Sound of shooting.
"No, something happened!" The secretary opened the drawer in front of him, grabbed the pistol inside, walked around the desk, and rushed towards the door.
After confirming that the sound of shooting was nearby, Sokov quickly stood up, opened the door of the bathroom next to him, and pushed Asiya in. Seeing the secretary rushing towards the door, he quickly shouted to him: "Danger, don't...
…”
Before Sokov could finish his words, intensive submachine gun fire rang out outside. The secretary who had just rushed to the door began to twitch like an electric shock. A moment later, he fell on his back to the ground, with blood seeping out from under his body.
, stained a large area of the floor red.
Sokov saw the secretary's pistol falling three or four steps away from him. At this moment, he saw a figure appearing at the door. It was too late to rush over to pick up the gun. He quickly jumped over and grabbed it.
The gun fell to the ground, without even taking aim, it pulled the trigger towards the figure at the door.
The secretary's pistol was a TK pistol worn by members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was the first semi-automatic pistol developed by the Soviet Union and had a capacity of eight rounds. Sokov pulled the trigger desperately and drained all the bullets in the gun in one breath.
Beat it out.
When Sokov pulled the trigger repeatedly and found that no bullets were ejected from the muzzle, he realized that he had fired all the bullets. He hurriedly looked toward the door to see how effective his shooting was.
I saw a bald captain without a military cap at the door. He was holding a TT-33 pistol in his left hand and a Bobosha submachine gun in his right hand. The bullet Sokov had just fired hit his chest and
In the abdomen, the captain's body stiffened, and then he knelt down on his knees, then fell headfirst to the floor.
Sokov crawled forward a few steps, put his hand under the opponent's nose, and found that he was no longer breathing. But to be on the safe side, he still took away the pistol and submachine gun from the opponent's hand.
"What's going on, what's going on?" Lunev, who had just come to his senses, opened the office door and rushed out with a TK pistol in his hand, asking loudly: "Where is the shooting going on?"
After he saw clearly the three people lying on the ground, he couldn't help being shocked. He quickly bent down to help Sokov, and at the same time asked: "Misha, what on earth is going on?"
"Don't move, raise your hands!" Before Sokov could say anything, shouts suddenly came from the door. When he looked up, there were five or six soldiers standing at the door, all of them without exception.
Aim the gun into the house.
"I am Lunev." In order to avoid misunderstanding, Lunev stood up slowly and said to everyone: "Put down your guns and don't let go."
When the soldiers put away their weapons and went in to check if the bald captain was dead, Asiya ran out of the bathroom. When she saw Sokov lying on the ground, her eyes suddenly turned red: "
Misha, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, help me up quickly."
Seeing Asiya helping Sokov, without waiting for Runev's instructions, two soldiers came forward to help, lifted Sokov up from the ground, and arranged for him to sit on a chair next to him.
"Misha," Asiya saw a lot of blood on Sokov's uniform and asked worriedly: "Are you injured?"
"No." Sokov shook his head, staring at the secretary's body lying on the ground, and whispered: "It should be the secretary's blood that splashed on me."
Lunev looked at the two corpses on the ground and asked angrily: "Who can tell me what is going on?"
Sokov, who was sitting on the chair, looked up at Lunev and said: "Lunev, let me tell you what I know first."
"Please tell me, Misha."
"It's like this. When Asya and I were chatting with your secretary, suddenly gunshots were heard outside." Sokov explained to Lunev: "Based on my experience, I could tell immediately that the gunfire was caused by
The sound came from the TT-33 pistol. But a moment later, while the pistol was shooting, I heard the sound of the Bobosha submachine gun again.
And your secretary, after hearing the gunshots outside, immediately took out his gun and wanted to go out to see what was going on. Unexpectedly, as soon as he rushed to the door, he was shot to death by the bald captain. And
Seeing that the situation was dangerous, I pushed Asiya into the bathroom, picked up the secretary's pistol, and shot at the bald captain."
After listening to Sokov's story, Lunev turned his attention to a second lieutenant and said in a stern tone: "What on earth is going on? Why did this lieutenant shoot and kill my secretary?
"
"Comrade Deputy Minister," the second lieutenant straightened up quickly and reported to Luniev: "I received an order from my superiors, saying that this captain was a German spy lurking in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and asked me to lead people to arrest him. Who knew
He was very alert, and as soon as our men approached him, he shot and knocked down two people, and also took away a submachine gun."
When the second lieutenant said this, he suddenly stopped, stared at Sokov sitting on the chair, and began to think in his mind.
"Why don't you talk anymore?" Seeing that the second lieutenant stopped talking, Lunev was a little angry: "Keep talking."
"Yes!" the second lieutenant agreed and continued: "I saw with my own eyes that this man fired into your office with a submachine gun. I was afraid that you would be in danger, so I took the risk and rushed over with my men. Who knew that we didn't wait until we got closer?
, I heard a series of gunshots coming from the room, and then the captain fell to the ground. I thought, I thought..."
"What do you think?" Lunev continued: "Do you think it was me who shot him?"
"Yes, Comrade Deputy Minister." The lieutenant replied honestly: "That's what I thought at the time. After all, there will be no one else in the office except you and the secretary. Judging from the first action of the lieutenant,
Your secretary should have been shot and died, so the only one who can kill him is you."
The second lieutenant's words made Lunev become embarrassed: "It would be great if I had such a good marksmanship." He knew very well that in such a short period of time, with his own level, let alone continuous fire,
If the captain was shot dead with eight shots, it would be a question of whether he could pull the trigger.
Just then Koshkin came after hearing the news. When he entered the door, he saw two corpses lying on the ground. He was also startled and asked quickly: "What happened here? I was downstairs just now and heard
There was a burst of gunfire upstairs."
In fact, it was not just Koshkin who came after hearing the gunshots, but also the security forces responsible for the security of the building. They responded quickly and rushed outside Lunev's office not long after hearing the gunshots.
Sensing that there were more and more people outside the door, Lunev whispered to Sokov: "Misha, I think you should go back first, and leave the affairs here to me."
Sokov, who had just experienced life and death, was still trembling unconsciously in his hands and feet at this moment. After hearing Lunev's words, he said smoothly: "Okay, then I will go back first, and I will leave the work here to you.
Come and deal with it.”
Koshkin took Sokov and Asya to the car downstairs. While the car was warming up, he curiously asked Sokov: "Comrade General, can you tell me what happened upstairs?"
Something?"
Sokov felt that the matter could not be kept secret for long, so he simply told the truth: "Lunev's men found a German spy hiding in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the arrest, the German spy resisted and killed several
I went to capture his soldiers, snatched a Bobosha submachine gun, and tried to break into Lunev's office, but I was killed in a random robbery."
Asiya frowned when she heard Sokov downplaying the matter. She said nervously: "Misha, how about we go to the hospital now to check whether you are injured?"
"It's okay, I'm okay, there's no need to go to the hospital." After Sokov said this, he saw Asiya pouting and seemed to be angry with himself, so he quickly comforted her and said, "Are there any injuries on my body?
Don’t you know what’s going on in your mind?”
"Misha, you are so reckless." After Asiya waited for Sokov to finish speaking, she scolded him and said, "You are a general now, how can you take risks so easily?"
"Asia, it's not that I'm going to take risks, but it's self-defense." Sokov said: "If I hadn't shot at the other party, and when he rushed into the room, I would have become a lamb to be slaughtered."
"Comrade General," Koshkin heard this and asked curiously: "Why did that man rush into the deputy minister's office?"
"The reason is very simple." Sokov explained: "The man knew that he had been exposed and there was no possibility of escaping even if he was arrested, so he had no choice but to take the risk and storm Lunev's office. Once he broke into the office, he could hold Lu Nev hostage.
Nev as a hostage. Even if he couldn't take the hostage, he could still shoot Lunev to death and cause huge losses to your Ministry of Internal Affairs."
When Koshkin heard this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If Sokov hadn't fired in time and killed the captain. If the captain had really kidnapped Lunev, things would have been difficult. Fortunately, Sokov
Cove was present at the time and killed the captain in time, averting a catastrophe.
"Comrade General," thinking that Sokov saved Lunev and thus saved his own future, Koshkin was filled with gratitude to Sokov. He asked respectfully: "Where should we go next?"
"Needless to say, I must be going home." Sokov turned to look at Asiya and said tenderly: "Asiya, I haven't eaten anything today. I'll go back and help me cook later.
, okay?"
"Okay, Misha." Asya, who originally just held Sokov's arm, simply rested her head on Sokov's shoulder, "I not only want to cook for you today, but I will also cook for you for the rest of my life.