When the German commander saw Henrik entering the door, a look of disgust flashed in his eyes. He had always disliked Poles, let alone a Pole who had defected from the Krajow Army. He had a feeling for such a traitor.
A feeling of disgust from the bottom of my heart.
Although he wanted to verify the authenticity of the defense map with Henrik, the German commander was still unwilling to talk to Henrik. He winked at his chief of staff, indicating that the other party should ask about the matter.
"What's your name?" the chief of staff stepped forward and asked.
The intelligence officer quickly pushed Henrik and whispered: "When the chief of staff asks you something, answer him quickly. Tell the truth and don't lie."
After Henrik understood the other party's identity, he quickly nodded and bowed and said: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, my name is Henrik, and I am a Polish intelligence agent who just joined in the second half of this year."
"Henrik, let me ask you." The chief of staff picked up the rolled-up defense map and asked Henrik: "How did you get this defense map?"
"I bought it from a Russian army officer."
"Bought from a Russian officer?!" the chief of staff asked calmly: "Can you ensure that the information he provided is true?"
"I can confirm, Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, that this defense plan is authentic." Henrik continued without waiting for the Chief of Staff to ask again: "After the Russians sold intelligence to us for the first time, in order to verify
To determine whether the defense map was authentic, my brother-in-law and I went to the area to conduct reconnaissance, and finally found that the real terrain was more than 90% similar to the defense map."
After hearing this, the chief of staff asked puzzledly: "Who is your brother-in-law?"
When the intelligence officer just went to find Henrik, he had already roughly figured out the relationship between Henrik and Dobzharski. When he heard the chief of staff asked, he quickly jumped in and replied: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, Henri
Gram's brother-in-law is called Dobzharsky, who is the senior intelligence agent I mentioned."
"Oh, so that's it." The chief of staff nodded and continued to ask: "Have you checked the second defense plan?"
"No." Henrik answered very readily.
"Why?"
"Because when we obtained the second defense map, the Russian officer had already been exposed." Henrik concealed the real cause of Dobzharsky's death from the Germans, and instead followed his script to deceive the Germans:
"We realized that if we didn't move quickly, we might be captured by the Russians, so we left the village overnight with the defense map. When we passed through the Russian defense lines, my brother-in-law was unfortunately killed by a Russian landmine...
"
The chief of staff tapped his fingers lightly on the table, thinking quickly about what Henrik said. After a while, he asked again: "You said you could confirm that this defense map is true, and you are
On what basis do you draw such a conclusion?”
"It's very simple." Henrik replied: "The defense map we bought last time is part of this defense map. After I got the map, after careful comparison, I found that the two were completely consistent.
That is to say, it should be true."
The German commander had already gotten the answer he wanted, and winked at his chief of staff again, indicating that he could send Henrik away.
"Henrik, the information you provided is very useful to us." The chief of staff was quite polite to Henrik: "You can leave now."
After Henrik nodded and bowed to thank everyone, he left the commander's office, picked up the small suitcase placed outside the door, and went home happily to announce the good news.
"Gentlemen," the German commander said to the chief of staff and intelligence officer: "In this way, the defense map obtained by the intelligence officer is to a large extent true. Our next combat deployment should refer to this map.
Use the defense map to make adjustments."
"Your Excellency, Commander," although all signs indicated that this defense map was real, the German Chief of Staff tentatively asked the Commander out of caution: "How about we send someone over to verify it?"
"There is no need." The German commander shook his head and said, "Don't forget, basically none of the scouts we sent in the early stage came back. There is no need to send more scouts to die for the sake of verified intelligence."
Seeing that the commander did not plan to send any more scouts for reconnaissance, the intelligence officer couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He did not expect that Sokov's troops were well-defended, and the scouts sent basically never came back. If he really sent more people,
If you verify the authenticity of this information, you may die in vain again.
Although the chief of staff felt that it was inappropriate for the commander to do this, since the other party had given the order, he could only follow the order.
Besides, when Henrik returned home with his small suitcase, the family was worried about his safety. Seeing that he returned safely, the family breathed a sigh of relief.
Germon saw the suitcase in Henrik's hand and asked tentatively: "What is in this suitcase?"
Henrik put the suitcase on the table and opened it in full view of everyone.
After seeing what was in the box, the family members were shocked.
After a while, Henrik's sister asked tentatively: "Henrik, where did you get so much money?"
"Where else could it be," Henrik said proudly; "Of course it's the money we got from selling information."
Jamon asked in surprise: "Didn't you just say that the intelligence officer was determined to embezzle the money and even kicked you out of the office? How come his attitude towards you changed so much in the blink of an eye?"
"You still remember that the intelligence officer personally brought people to my home just now to arrest me, right?"
"Remember." Sister Henrik said: "When you were taken away, we were still worried about your safety. Who knows, in a blink of an eye, not only did you come back safely, you even brought back a box of money.
This is just incredible.”
"I was quite scared at the time, thinking that the intelligence officer was going to take me back and shoot me. After all, this kind of thing had happened many times before. In order to prevent certain secrets from being leaked, people who had come into contact with those secrets would be silenced.
Henrik said with lingering fear: "But when I got to the place, I found out that the intelligence officer took me back because the German commander asked whether the defense map was true or false. He was not sure, so he called me back to verify."
When he said this, Henrik's eyes were fixed on the small box containing pounds in front of him, and he said to himself: "I thought at the time that this was a rare opportunity, and I should take the opportunity to ask him for money. If he didn't give it,
I won’t give him a witness. Then I asked him about the eight thousand pounds. This time he answered simply. As long as I answered the commander’s questions truthfully, he would give me the promised eight thousand pounds.”
"It seems that the Germans are quite trustworthy." Germon grabbed a stack of banknotes, looked at each piece of money carefully, and said: "I thought that this money was completely wasted, but I didn't expect that the Germans ended up
Just give us the money."
Henrik's sister looked at the money on the table and had a different idea: "Now that we have the money, should we consider leaving here?"
"Leave here?" Jermont asked in surprise, "Then where are we going?"
"I think we can go to Gdansk." Sister Henrik said: "No one knows us there. We can use this money to live well."
"Gdańsk?!" After Henrik repeated the place name, he remembered the place his sister had mentioned. It was called Danzig by the Germans. It was an important port on the Baltic Sea coast. If possible, you could go there by boat.
Other European countries. Thinking of this, he asked tentatively: "Dear sister, it is nearly two hundred kilometers from here to Gdansk. How should we get there?"
Henrik's sister looked at her brother and said: "Dobzhaski has a few friends who are engaged in black market business. They go to Gdansk to purchase goods every once in a while. According to time, they will be there again tomorrow.
It’s time to set off, I’m going to ask them if they can take us out of this city together.”
Henrik and his sister were discussing escaping from the city, but Germon was not happy, "We just arrived today and haven't stayed for two days yet, so why should we go to other cities? Anyway, we have money now."
, it’s the same no matter where you live, if you stay here, you won’t have to travel back and forth.”
"You can't say that," Henrik reminded his father: "The Russians and the Germans will soon fight in this area. If the Germans win, we can return to our home; but if
If the Germans lose, I'm afraid we will need to leave here and flee to other cities. By then, it may not be that easy to find transportation."
"Without further ado, I will go find Dobzharsky's friends now and ask them when they will go to Getansk." Henrik's sister is unwilling to stay in this kind of city any longer and just wants to leave as soon as possible.
, so after making this suggestion, he left home alone to find Dobzharsky's friends, regardless of his parents' objections.
Seeing his daughter leave, Jiemen was a little unhappy: "Hell, we just arrived in the city today, we have to stay for a few days before leaving."
Seeing that his father was unwilling to leave the city, Henrik said to him: "This is just a small city, not much better than our village. But Getansk is different. It is a prosperous big city.
It is also a very important port, and the supply of supplies is much more abundant than here."
Hearing what his son said, Germon couldn't help but hesitate again. According to his idea, it would be best to settle in this city. Anyway, it is relatively close to the village, only twenty or thirty kilometers away. After the Germans have beaten away the Russians,
, my family can go back to the village in a big way. But if I really go to Getansk, I’m afraid it won’t be so easy to come back.
Thinking of this, he said to Henrik: "Son, I still think this city is good. How about I stay with your mother and you and your sister go to Getansk?"
"No, no." Henrik saw that Germon wanted to stay and quickly shook his head in denial: "It's not easy for our family to reunite. If we are separated, it may not be so easy to get back together again. So I still suggest,
If my sister can find a car to getansk, we will leave this city tomorrow."
"Yes, our family is finally reunited, how can we be separated again?" After Henrik finished speaking, his mother continued to persuade Germon, "You know, there is a war now. If we are separated again, in the future
Whether we can meet again is still unknown."
The words of the two people made Germon's determination somewhat shaken. Seeing this, Henrik struck again while the iron was hot and said: "I was in the German headquarters today and heard the news that there will be a war in a few days. You know, this battle
Once the war breaks out, not only will the fighting be fierce at the frontier, but even our city, which is only ten or twenty kilometers away from the frontier, will also be affected by the war. Not only may the city be bombed by Russian planes, but even their
The artillery can also move the artillery position forward and bombard the city directly. At that time, the people staying in the city will be in danger; and even if we want to escape, we may not be able to find suitable transportation."
Jiemen stared at the money on the table and said thoughtfully: "With so much money, if the Germans interrogate you on the road, it will definitely be confiscated. What should we do with it?"
"It's very simple." Henrik reached out and grabbed two handfuls of money from the suitcase, pushed them in front of his parents, and said to them: "Each of us has some money hidden in us, even if we meet a German
We can save a certain amount of funds even if we encounter a robbery on the way."
Thinking that the money finally obtained might be robbed on the way to Getansk, Germon, who was a little tempted at first, began to waver again. He shook his head and said: "If we stay here, I think the money should be
Nothing will be lost."
In the following time, Henrik kept trying to persuade Germon, hoping that he would change his mind. But Germon, who was willing to sacrifice his life rather than his money, would not be willing to spit it out easily once the money was in his hands, so he
I decided to stay in the city and definitely not go to Getansk.
In the evening, Henrik's sister finally returned home. She looked very tired. Maybe she walked too much. Henrik noticed that her walking posture was a little wrong and her legs were shaking slightly.
But that's not what Henryk cares about. He wants to know if his sister has contacted transportation to leave the city: "How is it? Is everything settled?"
"Yes." Henrik's sister nodded and said with a somewhat dazed look: "Tomorrow there will be a truck going to Getansk. The driver is a friend of Dobzharsky. He promised to take our family out of here."
But after hearing this, Jiemen said willfully: "I want to go, you go, I will never go."
Hearing her father say this, Sister Henrik had a surprised expression on her face. She turned to look at her brother: "Henrik, what's going on? Why doesn't our father want to go with us?
Getansk?”
After hearing this, Henrik smiled bitterly and said: "Originally I said it well and he agreed to go to Getansk. But then I accidentally said that we might be interrogated by the Germans or robbed by bandits on the way.
The money he carried might be robbed. When he heard this, he immediately became unhappy and actually thought it would be better to stay in the city, at least he wouldn't have to worry about the money being robbed."
After understanding the reason why her father was unwilling to leave, Henrik's sister said to him: "Don't worry, this friend of Dobzhaski often runs this route, and he is very familiar with the checkpoints along the way. We will follow him tomorrow.
We can avoid being interrogated by the Germans along the way. As for the bandits you call, you will never encounter them in the areas controlled by the Germans. We can go to Getansk safely and boldly without any worries."