The small town of Tsosen, south of Berlin, is not a well-known place, even if it is limited to the GDR, and it has been famous since the beginning of this year, when the Soviet command of the Western Cluster in the GDR moved from Berlin. This is why Tsosen has appeared in the eyes of some people from an obscure small city, at least in terms of military value.

The Western cluster had a special position in the Soviet Red Army, with the best equipment and the most well-organized personnel, and they were on the front lines of the Cold War in large numbers, numbering hundreds of thousands. Much more than the number of troops of the second order in the rear. Not to mention the fact that the military districts in the Soviet Union, which have only a few tens of thousands of people, can be compared.

Senior General Matvey Vasilyevich Zakharov, who was at the helm of the Western Cluster, had at his disposal the most warlike troops in the Soviet Union, four-fifths of his troops were prefixed with Guards or Red Banners, and each unit had a glorious history. In every sense of the word, the Western Cluster is far more glorious than the troops of any military district, even the Moscow Military District.

Since the beginning of this year, there has been news that General Zakharov will be awarded the title of marshal before the end of the year, becoming a member of the same level as the generals of the Ministry of Defense.

But now General Zakharov is not in a good mood, and the news from the stations of various units makes General Zakharov can't help but stroke his huge forehead, making the already very thin hair on his forehead look even more rare.

"Since yesterday, the phone calls of the commanders of the troops in the various stations have blown up the general headquarters! Agents of the Main Directorate of Military Administration went on a rampage in the barracks, questioning soldiers without going through the local commander, and even a few soldiers were arrested and sent to the local Directorate of Internal Affairs of the GDR, and the actions of the General Directorate of Military Administration were not announced, and now they have a very bad effect in the army! "The deputy chief of the General Staff of the Western cluster, Colonel-General Sokolov, introduced with a look of embarrassment, "What I am most afraid of now is to receive a call from the commander below, Comrade Zakharov, should we think of a way to ......"

"Figured out? What can you do? Let me hold Serov down with my rank? General Zakharov said coldly, "Serov is a member of the KGB, even if he is nominally a soldier, it is not under our control." In terms of the style of KGB Chairman Shelepin, who can let Sherepin deal with him? And in terms of the nature of the work, only Serov made trouble with the Red Army, and the Red Army had no way at all, some things have changed in the past twenty years, and some things have never changed......"

General Zakharov clearly meant that twenty years ago, when a series of ministers of internal affairs in Yagoda and Beria were in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Red Army was like a lamb to the slaughter in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, no matter how high rank and how high its status. There is absolute equality in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the life of a general is not worth anything more than the life of a soldier, and a high rank is more dangerous.

Now the times are different, but the KGB, as the successor, like the Ministry of Internal Affairs, still has the right to dictate to other departments, and the Red Army looks strong, but after Serov removed the hats of more than 70 generals in the name of Bonapartists within a year, except for the high-ranking generals of the Ministry of Defense, the heads of ordinary troops are really unwilling to oppose Serov.

Admiral Sokolov hesitated for a moment and said, "But this has some impact on the reputation of our Western cluster......

"If you knew it would have an impact, why didn't you take military discipline seriously? In what name should I stop Serov? I said that the Main Directorate of Military Administration did not have the right to punish the Red Army soldiers? Or is it wrong to impose penalties that create friction with German residents? General Zakharov fiercely put the internal reference document on the table and said, "People punish the fighters in question according to the regulations, what reason do you use to stop them?" ”

General Zakharov is not without the idea of protecting the reputation of the Western cluster, he had already called the chairman of the KGB in Moscow Sherepin last night, and told the KGB controller the news of Serov's inventory in the Western cluster, and now he remembers Sherepin's words, "Once Yuri finds out the problem, no one in the KGB can stop him, and if Yuri thinks that he is clearing some problems for the country, then even I can't stop it!" I can still transfer him back if I am at home, but I can't do anything in Germany, in fact Yuri himself is in the Caucasus to carry out the inventory, and I arranged for him to be ...... in Berlin"

"Comrade Zakharov, if you have a good personal relationship with Marshal Bagramian, you can make Yuri's investigation less open-minded, otherwise, maybe the problems you are facing now have just begun!"

Recalling these words in his mind, General Zakharov said helplessly, "Didn't Serov record it in the file? This shows that he has shown mercy to his subordinates, and if we forcibly prevent the investigation of the General Directorate of Military Administration, the Caspian Tigers will go crazy, and it is not good that a few more generals will retire early because they are Bonapartists......"

"If it were just when the country was founded, Serov might have been Comrade Dzerzhinsky's right-hand man!" Admiral Sokolov's self-talk made Admiral Zakharov's face change, and it was not a good joke.

Serov, who was in the 65 th Guards Tank Regiment, received a steady stream of telegrams from representatives of the KGB garrisons in various places, and with the chief of the General Administration personally supervising the formation, the agents of the General Directorate of Military Administration showed 200 percent efficiency, reflecting the original features of the KGB as an institution.

But this kind of efficiency really made Serov unhappy, grinding his teeth and commenting, "A group of bastards who occupy the pit and don't shit, have this efficiency, will I personally find the door?" Even if you put out one-tenth of your current enthusiasm, you won't have 200 friction incidents recorded in five months......"

"Notify the General Directorate of Military Administration to the Northern Cluster, the Southern Cluster and the Central Cluster, the Central Cluster, forget it! In the Western Cluster, the liquidation operation was carried out simultaneously in the Northern and Southern clusters, and it was necessary to put a stop to some backward tendencies of the Red Army soldiers on the territory of fraternal countries, well, let the comrades of the 11th Division contact the Polish and Hungarian Ministries of Internal Affairs! Invite the Ministries of Internal Affairs of the two countries to participate in the liquidation operation and settle disputes between the Soviet garrison and the residents of the host country! "The central cluster only nominally still exists a command structure, and the specific troops have been abolished, and the four major clusters in Serov's mouth are according to traditional terms, in fact, in addition to the command structure of the central cluster, the other troops have been scattered in the other three clusters, and naturally there are no troops for Serov to investigate.

"Hungary and Poland? We have a decent relationship with the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I'm sure it's not a problem! Isenmotny was referring to the events in Poland and Hungary three years ago, when she and Serov had been traveling for a long time between the two countries. Sherepin knew Serov very well, he guessed correctly that the inventory in the Western cluster could only be regarded as the beginning, and Serov's goal was the stationing of troops abroad for the entire Soviet Union.