Struggle in Soviet Russia

Mozhaisk, a permanent fortification construction zone less than fifteen kilometers from the city.

Two consecutive days of heavy rains turned the construction site into a mud pond. In order to ensure the progress of the project, the engineers and people involved in the construction of the fortification had to fumble in the mud pond almost knee-deep.

In the combat plan of the General Staff Headquarters, it was intended to block the German forces from Yaltsovo to Yelnya and not allow them to continue to advance to the outskirts of Moscow. However, the development of the war far exceeded the worst prediction of the General Staff Headquarters. Today, Yaltsovo and Yelnya have fallen into the siege of the German army, and even the defense from Lezhev to Vyazma has become loose under the German offensive.

In order to prevent the war situation west of Moscow from collapsing completely, leaving the gate to the capital Moscow completely open, as mentioned by the General Staff, a new line of defense from Volokolamsk to Kaluga was included in the construction plan. Yes, this line of defense is the last system of defense on the German road to Moscow. If this line of defense is breached by the Germans, the Soviets will have no danger to defend in the area west of Moscow.

As the dusk approached, when the rain stopped at first, the tired people who seemed to have difficulty in walking staggered away from the construction site and met at the assembly point of the trucks in charge of transporting them, waiting for those trucks to send them back to the city.

In a tent less than 20 meters away from the truck assembly point, Evaldas, a member of the Mozhaisk City Defense Construction Committee, was looking down and sorting out the documents he was in charge of. No one noticed that he was there. When sorting out the documents, a copy of the permanent firepower and civil firepower distribution map of the fortification area was easily put into the crotch. This map is a top-secret document and cannot be taken away at will.

When people do things that shouldn't be done, they will always be a little guilty. The same is true for Evaldas. The moment he walked out of the tent, his hand carrying the briefcase even trembled.

There was a jeep parked outside the tent. It belonged to Evaldas. His driver was already waiting in the car. Stepping on the mud and getting into the car, he waved his hand to the driver and signaled to drive immediately, then he slightly arched his waist and spied the checkpoint not far in front of the road through the stained glass window. The construction work in the base area is very tightly guarded. The people responsible for the inspection are from the NKVD. Regardless of the low position of Evaldas, there will be no affection in front of these people.

Soon, the jeep drove to the checkpoint. A guard armed with a gun stopped them and walked over to beckon the driver to roll down the window.

Evaldas tried his best to keep calm. Seeing the guard's gaze, he smiled specially at the other party, and then gestured to pass the briefcase over. He always had a fluke in his heart, thinking that as long as he took the initiative to pass the briefcase over, he might have escaped the body search check.

Today's Evaldas was very lucky. He thought it might be rain, which made these guards relax their vigilance. The other party just checked his briefcase and waved to let him go. Not only this one checkpoint, from the fortification area to the downtown area of ​​Mozhaisk, all three checkpoints passed smoothly along the way.

When the jeep passed the last checkpoint, Evaldas breathed a sigh of relief. Then, another heat flow rose in his body, and a figure of a woman appeared in his mind. This figure is so graceful and graceful. The owner is so gentle and passionate, if not so, he would not indulge in that woman, so as to commit treason.

The jeep drove into the downtown area of ​​Mozhaisk, and after going round and round, it finally stopped at the northeast corner of Lenin Square. Evaldas almost couldn't wait to jump out of the car, carrying the briefcase in his hand, and jogging all the way. He rushed into a two-story apartment building on the side of the road.

Of course, Evaldas did not know at this time, his every move was under the surveillance of others, even on the opposite side of this apartment, in a curtained window on the second floor, there were several eyes. Staring at him closely.

At night, Victor’s jeep drove slowly into the downtown area of ​​Mozhaisk. He got off at a distance from Lenin Square. The two people who came along were Alexei and Olica. .

All three of them were dressed in casual clothes, just like ordinary citizens. They walked along the sidewalk in the direction of Lenin Square. When they reached the northeast corner, they turned into a four-story building on the side of the street. Floors.

The Soviet system has a well-known advantage, that is, when determined to do one thing, it can often mobilize as many resources and manpower as possible in the shortest time. In order to monitor Evaldas, the four Several rooms on the first floor have been secretly requisitioned by the NKVD.

In a room on the second floor of the building, Victor met members of the team responsible for monitoring people.

The room where the surveillance team is located is not large, at best more than 40 square meters. There is only one table in the entire room, on which is placed a similar thing to a radio tape recorder in the 1990s. This is a radio with a wire-tap. The technical staff of the NKVD took advantage of the time yesterday afternoon to install six wire-tap receivers in the opposite room, the purpose of which is to monitor all movements in that room.

Before opening a gap in the window curtain, Victor took the binoculars from a watcher and looked at the opposite room.

The window in the opposite room did not draw the curtain, and in front of the old-style dressing table in the room, a man and a woman were exercising almost frantically. The man of the two was the target of surveillance, Evaldas. As for the woman, she was a tall young woman with a big golden wave.

Putting down the binoculars, Victor reached out to the surveillance personnel around him, and the other side handed over a document with his heart. This is the relevant information collected by the current case team, including both about Evaldas, about the woman, and Many people who have connections with them.

The document was thick and heavy in his hand. Victor took the document in his hand, turned and walked out of the surveillance room, and entered the opposite room.

This room is relatively spacious, with complete furnishings and should belong to the original residents.

Victor walked to the sofa in the middle of the room and sat down, lit a cigarette for himself, and then flipped through the documents page by page.

The woman who mingled with Evaldas is named Ruta Assad Kate, a Lithuanian born in Minsk in 1918, graduated from Minsk Technical School, and is now a member of the Mozhaisk City Broadcasting Station announcer. Judging from her personal resume, she really can't find any problems. She has never left the Soviet Union, and there are no foreigners among her friends. But what is interesting is that in addition to having a close relationship with Evaldas, this woman also maintains an intimate relationship with six other men at the same time.

The document also lists the information of the six men, which is also very detailed. It can be seen that the notice issued by Victor is still useful.

Victor carefully looked at the information of the six men, and he was shocked that he discovered the name of Antip Artemievich Ostakov in it. This guy Viktor knew him a few days ago. Just met. This person is currently the communications director of the 42nd Internal Guard Brigade, and the 42nd Internal Guard Brigade is currently deployed in Vyazma. In terms of affiliation, this guy is Victor's subordinate.

The expression on his face did not change at all. Victor continued to look at the files. He found that as the investigation deepened, the snowball was expanding rapidly, and more and more people were involved. Among these people, maybe some are providing information to the woman named Ruta, maybe some are just dealing with her normally, or even some are on the line of Ruta, these are not easy to judge now, but in Victor’s view, continue to be so simple It’s not a good strategy to keep an eye on him, he must take some action.

I read the document from beginning to end, during which two cigarettes were added, and the whole room was filled with a strong smell of smoke.

Seeing that he had read the entire document, Olica took the first two steps without sitting on the sofa, so she squatted across from Victor and dragged the document over to look through it.

While she was looking through the documents, Victor said to Alexei who was standing at the door: “I will immediately issue a notice after returning to the 42nd Internal Guard Brigade, the 17, 105, 106, 107 and Dzerzhinsk. The communications director of the Border Defense Corps went to Gzhatsk to participate in the meeting within two days."

Alexei nodded, took out a small notebook and wrote it down.

"Are you going to take action against Ostakov?" Olica raised her head and glanced at him and asked. According to the notice that Victor said, Ostakov was also on the list of participants.

Victor turned his head and glanced at her, but just in time to see the spring light under her skirt, he hurriedly nodded nonchalantly, and said: "Among the people in contact with this Ruta, it's hard to say that anyone has a problem now. But I believe that this Ostakov must have a problem, he is at least providing information for Ruta."

Olica nodded, she agreed with this speculation.

"Of these people, Ostakov is the best to control," Victor continued. "After all, we are in a war zone. Comrade Ostakov is on the way from Vyazma to Gzatsk. Encountered German airstrikes, car crashes and deaths, this kind of thing is very likely to happen, as long as the work is done properly, there is no need to worry that anyone will doubt it."

Ostakov’s rank is captain. It stands to reason that if you want to take measures against him, you need to apply to Moscow. However, that was in peacetime, and in today’s wartime, as the head of the Western Front. , Victor has the right to take measures against any suspicious object.

"I will do it myself," Olica looked a little excited, and she volunteered.