033 Siege (11)
Under the white fluorescent light, General Serov clenched his fists tightly and scanned everyone in the small room with a vicious gaze, and everyone he scanned felt their scalps tingle.
In the midst of those people, two people dressed in tattered white cloth and masked heads were kneeling on the ground, flanked by Soviet soldiers with loaded guns, who did not dare to come out.
Just last night, when Serov and other senior generals were fully prepared, left the hidden place on the ground, and headed for a secret bomb shelter, the Chinese unmanned attack aircraft raided them, the original general and several senior staff officers were killed on the spot, and the rest were also killed or wounded, only he, Serov, a local intelligence chief, because he had received similar training in the past, reacted in time, and escaped.
For a time, the entire defenders of the city of Ukraine were leaderless, and Moscow, after learning of this bad news, urgently issued several orders, appointing Serov as the new general of the defenders, and at the same time carrying out wartime promotions, promoting him to lieutenant general by two ranks, and as for the other vacant positions, it was up to Serov to decide who would fill them.
In the eyes of those who do not know, this is good news for Serov "General". However, after learning of this "good news", Serov was not happy at all, because it meant that Moscow blamed him for the whole mess.
General Serov took a deep breath.
“…… Olga. ”
"Here!"
"Do you have any eyebrows about the enemy spy you investigated?"
“……”
The girl was silent.
"I knew it."
General Serov clutched his head in distress and reached for the cigar that had been on his left, only to find that this was no longer his spacious office.
"General, there are many people waiting for you outside, and they want to report your losses."
"Let them go to someone else...... Bastard! I need to deal with such a big thing myself? What do the people below eat? ”
The secretary smiled wryly, his new boss probably didn't know what was going on at the top of the garrison, and the people who were supposed to do it were wounded or killed, and the vacated posts were still waiting to be appointed by his new boss.
While the secretary wondered who would fill the vacant positions, his boss was thinking about something else.
"Let's not care about the enemy's spies, everyone knows how serious the losses are in this attack, and I think it must be that someone leaked information to the enemy within us."
With General Serov's cold tone, the air in the room suddenly became tense.
"Lieutenant Colonel Savchenko, I would love to know when you began to betray our Motherland, to our great Soviets. Can you answer me? ”
"You're a ...... nonsense"
"Pay attention to what you say, since last night you are not a lieutenant colonel, but a prisoner, can you understand what I mean?"
The prisoner Savchenko stared at his old boss, Serov, with a triumphant face, eager to rush up and tear it apart.
"Savchenko, my old friend, don't look at me like that. Oh, look at what I said, everything who betrays the Soviets is an enemy of the Soviets, how can I be friends with the enemies of the Soviets? ”
Serov sat in his seat and talked, and the people around him looked at Savchenko indifferently, and there was another person kneeling on the ground, and no one defended them.
Finally, under the threat of death, Savchenko could not hold on.
"General Serov, please let me go for the sake of our past comrades' friendship, even if it is for me to build fortifications outside the city, I have never done anything about intelligence, I have never betrayed, I have always served the country loyally......"
Savchenko spoke for a long time, and when he was halfway through speaking, he saw Serov's fingers trembling slightly, thinking that Serov was moved by his sincerity, so he became even more emotional. Actually, this is completely his delusion, the delusion of a person on the verge of despair.
"Enough! Do you think I'll listen to the of those who betrayed us? ”
Serov rose up in anger and waved his big hand, and the fighters on both sides immediately dragged the two kneeling people out of the way.
After the most important things were done, Serov began to deal with the vacant posts. He promoted many of his lieutenants, and then ordered them to promote their own men to fill their places, which took him only half an hour.
After those who had come to ask for official positions had left satisfied, Serov had time to pick up his pipe and look at his new office, which was much smaller than the original one, and had no windows, but with a wooden desk, bookcase, and floor, Serov was quite satisfied. His gaze moved from the large desk to the bookcase, from the bookcase to the coat rack at the doorway, and finally, to the slender girl standing by the coat rack, Olga.
"Standing !!"
The girl's straight figure trembled slightly, and she quickly stood up again. Seeing this, the smile in Serov's eyes became stronger, he spat out the smoke ring and said:
"Those people are gone, why are they staying here? Do you want something from me? ”
"Don't dare to ......"
"Hehe, don't say that, I appreciate people who are competent and loyal to the Soviets, regardless of age. Your performance that day, especially at the end, was able to hold on to your target even when those disposables had already failed, but I was amazed for a long time. What are you doing standing there? Come here, come here. ”
Olga trembled over to her desk and stood upright.
"Good standing, much better than I used to be. Show what you look like on the battlefield! ”
"Yes!"
"Good."
For some reason, Serov actually found a little bit of his demeanor from this girl, which also made him determined to train this girl.
"Your name, Olga, isn't it? Do you know what our worst enemy is right now? ”
"Internal ...... Spies? ”
After hearing Olga's answer, Serov found that he was really more and more satisfied with the girl.
"Well, that's them. They are entrenched within us, like parasites in the tiger's body, gnawing at us all the time! For example, yesterday, if it weren't for those two bastards who leaked intelligence, we would not have been attacked by the Chinese at that time! If this continues, sooner or later the city we are defending will be attacked by the Chinese from within! I remember three days ago I gave you an order to hunt down the foreigners who remained in the city, and now what's going on? ”
"The report has been very slow in progress, and only one Chinese cigarette vendor has been caught."
"Then keep catching! As long as they are still human, they will always show their feet somewhere, and no target can be spared! As for the vendor, the person in charge of the interrogation is already doing it, right? Did you ask anything? ”
"Report, don't know ......"
"Don't know? Well, too. ”
It was only then that Serov remembered that the girl he valued, Olga, was nothing more than a junior executive in charge of the search, and she was still far from the level of knowing something.
Thinking of this, Serov had a huge plan in his head, one that would foster people who were absolutely loyal to him in areas he couldn't touch.
"Hehe, I don't know? Then I'll let you know!! ”