Chapter 1072 Manhunts all over the city

   "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 person: "What about Tanniang'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, no one saw him again. No one was alive or dead."

   "Okay, I understand." Sokov waved at the policeman who was detaining Avdeyev: "Take him down."

"Comrade commander, what's going on here?" Anisimov, who had participated in the entire interrogation process, was at a loss at the moment, and asked puzzledly, "Isn't he the one who sent the telegram to the Germans?" ?”

"According to my judgment, what he said should be the truth. The person who sent the report to the Germans last night should not be him." Sokov said thoughtfully: "It should be someone else who sent the report to the enemy. .”

"But, Comrade Commander." Although Kester was skeptical of Sokov's statement, due to his status, he did not dare to refute it in public, and could only ask his own questions in a tactful way: "If he didn't send the report People, then who sent the report to the enemy?"

"Avdeyev was arrested by our police for stealing. But he never admitted it during the interrogation." Sokov looked at Kester and asked, "He knew that stealing a ration certificate was a felony. , and someone will definitely search his residence. Comrade Captain, can you tell me why he risked his identity to steal a dispensable ration certificate?"

  Sokov's words stopped Kester from asking. He carefully recalled what Sokov said, and felt that what the other party said made sense. No matter how stupid Avdeyev was, he would not risk his identity to steal a ration certificate. This thing is indeed a very precious thing for ordinary citizens, but as a worker in a soap factory, Avdeyev usually gets a lot of extra subsidies, even without a ration certificate, he can still have a full stomach.

  With such doubts, he tentatively asked Sokov: "Comrade Commander, how do you judge?"

"I think he might have been planted." After Sokov said this, he saw the surprised faces of Anisimov and Kester, and quickly added: "Maybe it's a lurking The spies in the city saw that Avdeyev was no longer willing to work for them after he returned to the city, so they deliberately used him to divert our clues.”

   Speaking of this, Sokov paused for a moment, reorganized the vocabulary in his mind, and asked, "Where is the old man who said that his ration certificate was stolen?"

   After being reminded by Sokov, Kester realized that he had never seen the old man who reported the crime from the beginning to the end, and quickly ordered people to find the police who arrested Avdeyev. When his subordinate arrived, he asked bluntly, "Where is the old man who said the ration certificate was stolen?"

"I don't know, Comrade Director." The little policeman quickly replied, "I was thinking that since the prisoner had been caught, I would return the ration card to the other party. After the old man got his ration card, he thanked me, 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, his back is a little hunched when he walks, he has a goatee, and he is wearing a black knee-high woolen coat, but it looks like it hasn't been washed for a long time. Some places are covered with mud."

"Thank you, Comrade Policeman, you can go down now." Dismissing the policeman, Sokov said to Kester, "Comrade Captain, let your people pay attention to a short man with a hunchback and a goatee, wearing a The old man in the black wool coat. Maybe we can find him, and we can clear up many mysteries."

   "Yes!" Kester quickly agreed: "I will definitely let my subordinates pay attention to this person."

"After you find this person, don't touch him." 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 in charge of the city's defense. The division commander, Colonel Gorishny, said hello, if you need any assistance, please contact him."

  Leaving the police station, Sokov hurried back to his headquarters, where he saw Zhukov who was waiting impatiently.

   Seeing Sokov appear, Zhukov said dissatisfiedly, "Misha, why have you been away for so long?"

"Comrade General, the situation is like this." Sokov hurriedly 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."

Zhukov agreed with Sokov's analysis very much. He nodded and said, "Misha, you are right. According to the report of my subordinates, the spy who sent the report last night is obviously a veteran. And that Afu It took less than two months for Jeyev to sneak into Luhansk from being captured by the German army. Unless he is a genius, it is absolutely impossible to send a report like a veteran. He sent a report to the Germans last night The secret agent must be someone else."

"Comrade General, the police sub-bureau has limited manpower. It may be very difficult to rely on them to find this old man." Sokov said proactively: "I plan to send the guard battalion and the patrol team of the 75th Guards Division to Look for this old man in the city. Even if you dig three feet, you have to find him."

"The Germans don't know when they will attack Luhansk again." Zhukov reminded Sukov: "If the German spies in the city are not eliminated as soon as possible, the intelligence in the city will be continuously leaked." Leak out."

  In order to rush to repair the fortifications, each division recruited a lot of citizens to participate in the construction. Among them, there were inevitably German spies. After they mastered the defensive positions of the troops, they could send out information through the radio. If the deployment of their own side falls into the hands of the German army, they can make targeted combat plans.

  He nodded to Gorishne first, 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, worried that Gorishny's subordinates were inexperienced, so he went straight to the guard camp and called Tenev, Seriosha, and Samoilov to him. Say to them: "Comrades, I now have a difficult task for you to complete."

   "Comrade commander, please give the order."

"Last night, the telecommunications monitoring team found a radio signal that did not belong to us in the west direction of the city. It was suspected that there might be a German spy sending a report in that direction." Sokov said to the three people: "I went to the police today. It just so happened that the branch office encountered a thief who was caught on the spot, and found a radio station from his residence..."

   "Comrade Commander," Samoilov couldn't help interjecting when he heard this, "is this thief the spy who sent the report last night?"

"He is serving the Germans, but he is definitely not the sender." Sokov shook his head and said, "According to what Comrade General said, the sender is a skilled person, and a person who is captured by the police is considered a sender." , and simply can’t 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: "Although Avdeyev promised to serve the Germans after being captured, when he really Out of the control of the Germans, but want to live the lives of ordinary people. And the German spies hidden in the city, after discovering his intention, deliberately planted it on him. First, to divert our attention, and second, to warn those People at both ends of the first mouse, don't be half-hearted.

  Your task is to search for an old man with a short stature, a hunchback and a goatee in the city. He was wearing a black woolen overcoat with quite a few mud spots on it. The conditions in the city are tough now, and washing clothes is not an easy task. I think he may not be able to change clothes for a few days. In this way, it will be very helpful for you to find him. "

   "Don't worry, Comrade Commander." Tenev stated to Sokov, "I will immediately organize manpower and conduct a large-scale manhunt throughout the city. We must capture the hidden German spies."

  (end of this chapter)