Red Moscow

  Chapter 2181

Seeing that Henrik was about to be taken away by the patrol team, the strong man became a little anxious. He quickly grabbed the patrol leader and said to him: "Mr. No money was given."

   "How much do I owe you?"

  The strong man quickly replied, "It's the money for a cup of coffee and a few pieces of bread."

   Upon hearing this, the patrol captain took out a mark from his pocket and handed it to the brawny man: "Here, I'll give it to him."

  The strong man took the money, and obediently let go of the patrol captain's arm, stood beside him and nodded to thank him: "Thank you, Mr. Corporal, you are so kind."

  When the patrol captain brought Henrik to the garrison commander, Henrik's parents and sister were being tortured, and the officer in charge of the case wanted to find out Henrik's whereabouts from them. But they only knew that Henrik had gone out early in the morning, but they didn't know where he went.

  But their answers were regarded as prevarication by the German interrogator, who immediately ordered his subordinates to use torture.

   Suddenly, there were bursts of screams in the interrogation room. Jamon, who was being whipped with a leather whip, began to regret secretly. Wouldn't it be nice for him to stay in the village and be the village chief? He just wanted to covet the 8,000 pounds, but he escaped from the village with his son and went to a German-controlled village. area. I originally planned to find a suitable time to smuggle to London to enjoy the blessings after I came to Getansk, but I didn’t expect the smuggler who was in charge of the smuggling said that the sea blockade is tight recently, and it will take a while before I can leave. I have no choice but to stay in this city. inside.

  Who would have thought that a group of Germans broke into the residence suddenly today, without any explanation, they arrested their husband, wife and daughter, searched the house for a while, and sent them to the Garrison Command. When he first came, he asked about his son's whereabouts, and he answered truthfully, but he was severely beaten.

   Just as Jamon was beaten unconscious, an officer walked in from the outside, went straight to the interrogator, and whispered something in his ear. The interrogator learned that Henrik had been caught, and it was meaningless to re-interrogate the people in front of him, so he ordered his men to wake up Jamon with cold water, and then took him to a cell and locked him up.

  After Germon and others were taken away, Henrik was brought into this room. When he saw the room full of torture instruments, he was so frightened that his legs went weak.

  When the interrogator saw Henrik's appearance, he knew that he was a coward, so he slapped the table hard and asked sharply, "What's your name?"

  Henrik was terrified, and quickly replied truthfully: "I, my name is Henrik!"

   "Say, are you a Russian spy?"

   "No, Mr. Captain, I'm not a Russian spy." Henrik tried his best to defend himself after seeing the military rank on the opponent's shoulder strap, "I'm just a Pole loyal to Germany, and I have never served for the Russians."

   "Really?" The interrogator got up and walked to Henrik, and asked coldly, "Are you really loyal to Germany?"

   "Of course, Mr. Captain..."

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he was slapped loudly by the interrogator, and then he slapped him desperately: "Damn the Poles, you actually provided false information to us, so that we were killed by the Russians." I was caught off guard and caused heavy casualties to the troops, even if I smashed your corpse into thousands of pieces, the hatred in my heart would still be hard to get rid of."

  By the time the interrogator was tired from the beating and stopped to gasp for breath, Henrik had already been beaten into a pig's head. He tried his best to defend himself: "I didn't provide false information to the empire, all the information I got was true." Because his face was swollen from the beating, his voice became distorted.

   "You're dishonest." The interrogator went back to the table and sat down again, ordering the left and right: "Treat him well."

   "Mr. Captain," a soldier in charge of the execution asked, "What move do you plan to use?"

  The interrogator thought for a while and replied, "Let's use ducks to float."

  The so-called "duck floating in water" is a kind of torture used by the German army. It is to cut a person's hands behind his back, tie his two thumbs with a rope, and then hang him up. So far, no one who has been subjected to this kind of torture can survive for a quarter of an hour. The interrogator ordered his subordinates to use this kind of torture today just to see how long this "Russian spy" can last.

  Henrik has always been pampered, how could he have been tortured like this. The thumbs of both hands were tied with ropes, and the moment he was lifted off the ground, he couldn't take it anymore and begged for mercy repeatedly: "Mr. Captain, please let me go. If you want to know anything, just ask, and I will definitely answer truthfully. "

   Although seeing Henrik being tortured, he was willing to confess, but the interrogator did not order him to be released, but asked coldly, "Tell me, when did you work for the Russians?"

   "Mr. Captain, please believe me, I really didn't work for the Russians." Henrik said in a crying voice: "I am loyal to Germany."

   "Then why did you provide us with a fake deployment map?"

   "No, Mr. Captain, that's not a fake map, it's real."

   "At this time, you still want to get away with it." The interrogator gestured to the soldier pulling the rope next to him, and ordered: "Hang him up again."

When the soldiers pulled the rope higher, Henrik's cry became more tragic: "Ah, it's broken, my finger is broken! Please, Mr. Captain, put me down, what do you want to know, I I'll tell you all."

   The interrogator felt that it was almost done, so he nodded to the soldier, indicating that Henrik could be put down.

  When Henryk's feet touched the ground, he started to cry.

  The interrogator knocked on the table twice with his hand and said, "Don't cry, tell me what you know."

Henrik was deeply afraid that the other party would have even more brutal tortures waiting for him, so he hurriedly told how he and his brother-in-law Dobzharski crossed the line of defense and sneaked into the Soviet-controlled area for reconnaissance. Speak up.

  After the interrogator finished listening, he couldn't help frowning. He found that Henryk was not only a coward, but also a fool. The trap set by the Russians was full of loopholes, and he was actually coaxed around. A piece of information of little value completely confused him, so much so that he would bring back false information as true information.

   After figuring out what was going on, the interrogator ordered Henrik to be brought into the cell, and he personally reported the interrogation information to the garrison commander.

   After reporting the situation, he asked the garrison commander for instructions: "Your Excellency, Commander, how should we deal with him?"

  The garrison commander felt that Henrik had said all he needed to say, and there was no point in staying any longer, so he casually said, "Drag him out and shoot him."

   "Shot?!" The interrogator didn't expect the commander to answer so simply, and then asked tentatively, "What about his family? Are they sent to a concentration camp?"

   "There is no need to waste our precious food for such inferior people." The commander snorted coldly, and said to the interrogator: "Shoot with Henryk."

After the garrison commander sent his subordinates away, he got in touch with the commander of the front-line army by phone, informed the other party of Henrik's situation, and finally said: "From the results of our interrogation, Henrik is not Either some Russian spy, or a money-hungry Pole, and I have ordered the whole family to be shot."

After answering the phone, the commander of the army group rang the bell to call his chief of staff, and said to him: "Henrik has been arrested in the city of Danzig. After the garrison commander interrogated him, it turned out that the Russians discovered that he was greedy for money." , and took advantage of his weakness to provide him with a piece of false information to confuse us, resulting in huge losses to our army. Today, this Henrik has no value, and the garrison commander of Danzig has ordered Killed his whole family."

Knowing that Henrik's family was executed by the Danzig garrison commander, the expression on the chief of staff's face did not change at all. To him, the Henrik family is an inferior person with no sense of existence, and they die when they die. Has nothing to do with myself.

  The chief of staff doesn't care about the life and death of Henrik's family, but he still cares very much about how the commander plans to deal with the intelligence officer. He said cautiously: "Your Excellency Commander, from what we have so far, the intelligence officer did not collude with the Russians and deliberately provided us with false information. If you look at it this way, he is just dereliction of duty. It's fine. I don't know what you think?"

  Actually, when the chief of staff said these words, he didn't know the bottom line. You must know that the German army has strict military discipline, and will never tolerate those officers and soldiers who are disadvantaged in combat or have made serious mistakes. The process committed by the intelligence officer led to the loss of the town of Pultusk, and thousands of German soldiers were killed. If the commander wants to be held accountable, he may not escape death.

After listening to the chief of staff's words, the commander pondered for a long time, and finally said: "Chief of staff, although I know that the intelligence officer was deceived and did not collude with the Russians. But military discipline is military discipline, and because of his mistakes, we His defense line was breached by the Russians, and thousands of officers and soldiers were killed in battle. When a large corps fights, military discipline must be strict, so he must not be treated too lightly."

   "Then what are you going to do with him?" asked the chief of staff.

   "Didn't I already tell you, shoot him!" The commander said, "The mistakes he committed are enough to send him to his death."

   "Your Excellency, is there no room for change in this matter?"

"Chief of Staff, when our army first entered Russia, one of my subordinates commanded troops to attack the Russian defense line. In the end, the position was not taken down, and the troops suffered heavy losses. It stands to reason that he was my old subordinate, and I should have leniently punished him for his repeated military exploits. But in order to stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale, I finally ordered him to be shot. Tell me, I even shot my subordinates with outstanding military exploits. This kind of person has caused heavy losses to our army, can I let him go?"

When the chief of staff heard this, he thought it was over. Since the commander said so, then the intelligence officer must not be able to survive, so he could only say vaguely: "Okay, Your Excellency, Commander, I will immediately order the intelligence officer to be detained." Go out and shoot."

  After the chief of staff called and gave the order to execute the intelligence officer, the commander asked him again: "Now that the Russians have controlled the Puutusk area, what should we do next?"

As the chief of staff of the group army, he knew very well that if he could not regain the Puutusk area as soon as possible, and once he was investigated by Shangfeng, he might be thrown away as a scapegoat, waiting for his own fate, that is, going to a court-martial. Then he was shot again.

"Your Excellency, Commander," the chief of staff said cautiously after trying to understand the truth, "I think we should organize a counterattack and launch a counterattack against the Russians when their foothold is not stable, recapture the Puutusk area, and restore our The original line of defense."

   "You have a good idea." The commander nodded after hearing this, and asked, "Then how do you plan to fight back?"

   "Your Excellency, this is how I think about it." The chief of staff took a few steps forward, walked to the wall, pointed to the map hanging on it, and began to explain.

At the same time, in the headquarters of the 48th Army, Sokov was convening a meeting of division commanders. After the commendation, he discussed with everyone to study the shortcomings and deficiencies in today's offensive campaign, and what measures should be taken. To make up for these shortcomings and deficiencies.

   Someone asked in puzzlement: "Comrade commander, we have never held such a summary meeting before. Haven't we won countless victories?"

"The past was the past, and the present is the present." Sokov said seriously: "The reason why I want to hold this summary meeting is to let the division commanders understand the problems that you have in commanding operations, and to ensure that in the next battle , do not make similar mistakes again. Got it?"

  The commander who asked the question blushed and replied, "Understood!"

   Just then, the phone on the desk rang.

  Sidorin picked up the phone and listened to it, then passed the receiver to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, it's the Marshal calling. It seems that there is something important for you."

   Sokov was worried about something important, so he dragged the phone and walked to the next door: "Hello, Comrade Marshal, I'm Sokov, what instructions do you have?"

   "Misha, what are you doing?"

   "I am organizing a summary meeting for the division commanders to find out the problems they have in today's combat, and then formulate corresponding solutions to avoid similar mistakes in the next battle."

   "Not bad, not bad," Rokossovsky praised after hearing what Sokov said, "No wonder your troops always win battles, it seems there is a secret."

  Sokov knew very well that the Soviet Army never made any post-war conclusions, which caused some commanders to make the same mistakes repeatedly in battle, causing the troops to suffer undue losses. However, Rokossovsky called today, definitely not to sum up the meeting for himself, but to have other more important matters.

   "Comrade Marshal," Sokov asked tentatively, "Do you have anything important to ask me? If not, I'm going to a meeting."

   "Don't worry, Misha." Rokossovsky said with a smile on the other end of the phone: "I want to ask you something."

"what's up?"

   "Have you sent scouts to Danzig?"

   "No, Comrade Marshal." To Rokossovsky's question, Sokov replied without hesitation: "I have not sent reconnaissance personnel to the Danzig area."

   "If you hadn't sent scouts, this would be a strange thing."

"whats the matter?"

   "We received reports from intelligence agents lurking in Danzig that the German army carried out a large-scale raid in a certain area of ​​Danzig City today and arrested many people. Among the arrested people were intelligence personnel from your army defense zone."

  (end of this chapter)