Chapter 22 The general will also retire
If the needed support had arrived, Serov would have torn his face and confronted the commander of the military district head-on, and there was no need to be a strong man here, which was not in line with his principle of being able to do his best and not make noise. Waving his hand, Isemimutny and the two put away the pistol that was holding General Galitsky's secretary, and without supporting Serov, he still had to come to the Transcaucasian Military District, even if he could only be a strong king, at least he had to show his attitude, this matter must not be finished.
"You're here to show the authority of the General Directorate of Military Administration?" General Galitsky slammed the briefcase he was holding on the table with a loud bang. This action shows that the old Red Army, which had been baptized by the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, did not buy Serov's door-to-door demonstration.
If an ordinary person is faced with the anger of a general, he may temporarily avoid his edge, but that is an ordinary person, Serov is not in the definition of that ordinary person, as for the obvious bad attitude of the commander of the Transcaucasian Military District towards the KGB, he can also understand that 21 years ago, this today's general was planted in the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs once, and finally escaped death belongs to the very few lucky people in the Red Army system who survived from the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
To this day, Senior General Galitsky is still indignant at the torture used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to extract confessions. But one yard to one yard, no matter what General Galitsky thinks in his heart, Serov, whose duty lies, still has to appear here.
"The General Administration of Military Administration is already authoritative, and I don't need to come over to show it!" Serov said lightly, "Just because we don't show up in normal times doesn't mean that we don't exist, keeping the Red Army and the Central Committee in step at any time is the purpose of the establishment of the General Military Administration, whether you like it or not!" And I would like to remind Comrade Galitsky that cooperating with our work and not confrontation is what a Red Army soldier should do, and you don't want what happened twenty-one years ago to happen again, do you? ”
"You're threatening me?" General Galitsky looked up suddenly, his expression fierce like that of an angry polar bear.
"Yes!" Serov's expression did not change at all, and he said to himself without seriousness, "According to the statement adopted by First Secretary Comrade Khrushchev on the issue of the retirement age of cadres of the Red Army, the retirement age for the rank of general is sixty-five years old. Comrade Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky, born in 1897, and you still have three years to go before you serve, I hope that before you retire, you will do your best to stand on the last shift, implement the spirit of the Central Committee, build up the Soviet armed forces, and make him ......stronger and stronger."
Serov said these words not only in a written report, but also as a suggestion to the old Red Army. There is only one key point in this tirade, and the sixty-two-year-old General Galitsky is not far from retiring. Now Serov may still have nothing to do with this active Red Army general, but two or three years later, Galitsky retired, and when Serov saw this man again after the tea was cool, he was just an ordinary old man.
The atmosphere in the room froze instantly, leaving only Serov and Galitsky to look at each other. Galitsky's gaze was indignant, and Serov's gaze did not change, no different from when he sketched the vase.
"What do you want to do with deserters?" Serov did not continue to be aggressive and turned to the next question.
"After being caught, according to the verdict of the military court, I will not interfere!" General Galitsky also cleverly chatted with Serov about the handling of this matter, which was better than making the atmosphere more and more stiff without either of them giving in.
"If you hand over people to our secret court, you won't have to work hard with the comrades of the military court!" Serov walked to the window and pushed it, letting the sunlight outside, squinting his eyes and feeling the warm sunshine, "This is a typical case, we must have a typical case to deal with, otherwise the relationship between the Red Army and our department may be very bad in the future......"
Someone must take a step back in this matter, and Serov naturally hopes that it will be the Red Army that will retreat, and as for the General Directorate of Military Administration, take a step back, hehe! He had never thought of such a possibility. With the passage of time, those veterans of World War II will slowly withdraw from the stage of history, and the difference is between a dignified retirement and a disgraceful resignation.
"Can you come out alive if you go to the secret court? Maybe they have their own reasons! "General Galitsky was in a bit of a trance when he spoke, the secret court, which he had also visited twenty-one years ago.
"I'm sure I'll shoot these two deserters! Privately watching the underground publications of the enemy country, dissatisfied with the society, and attacking state security personnel! I suspect that two people have been seduced by imperialism! Serov turned around and opened his mouth every time he opened his mouth, and the two people were charged with more crimes, but this was not to wronged the two deserters, they were all in accordance with the law.
It was at this moment that the phone on the table rang to break the stiff conversation. General Galitsky picked up the phone, "Here, it's okay, it's just a visit, no, absolutely ......nothing," and then glanced at Serov and handed over the phone and said, "Looking for you?" ”
Looking for me? Who knew I was here? Serov took the phone suspiciously, and he heard Shelepin's unique voice coming to his ears, "Yuri, don't make trouble, come back quickly!" What are you doing in the Caucasus without sitting in Moscow? ”
"I'll take care of things!" Serov's face was quite embarrassed, and he hoped that Shelepin on the phone would be merciful, and he was still pretending to be with Galitsky here.
"From now on I allow you a week in the Caucasus, and in seven days I must see you in Moscow! I have an important task for you, and only you can do it......" Xie Lepin ordered visibly suppressing his emotions.
"A week? Well, in a week it should be possible to catch the two deserters involved in the case, I heard that the internal affairs forces have shrunk the suspicious area, and I believe that there will be results in a few days! Serov sighed and said that his boss really knew him very well, and he was discovered when he just came to the Caucasus. But what exactly is the task?
"Okay, don't delay!" With an uneasy tone, Sherepin repeated the date of his return. He really doesn't have much to do about the ace director and time bomb in his hands.
Putting down the phone, Serov said to General Galitsky, "I have a request to send Red Army units to search the 300 square kilometers of suspicious mountainous areas in the name of combat exercises. I'm going to shoot them......"
"Of course it's okay, it's a good thing to catch someone early!" General Galitsky had no reason to refuse, not to mention that he could have sent the dangerous Caspian Tiger away earlier. He heard all the phone calls just now, but he didn't expect that the call from the chairman of the KGB still couldn't immediately recall Serov.
The dialogue between Sherepin and Serov was different from the ordinary dialogue between superiors and subordinates, and this situation made General Galitsky look at him, as if the young head of the Third General Directorate had an unusual position within the KGB.