Chapter 55 Working Sessions
Andrei, who left the headquarters and came to the conference room of the secret service department, is not in a good mood now, after all, the special forces under his command are now doing the work of ordinary internal affairs forces, but the internal affairs troops must be ready for the next battle, especially the supervision team, it should be pointed out that there is no order No. 227 yet, so it is not so much the supervision team as the interception team, the task is to block the timid soldiers, and order them to return to the army. Skirmishers www.biquge.info away from the battlefield will be added to the new unit as a supplementary source. However, those who incite the flight will be arrested and executed. Therefore, the current Ministry of Internal Affairs Supervision Team does not have so much power, but after the implementation of Order No. 227, according to the report of the Stalingrad operation of the NKVD of the Soviet Union, it also said: from August 15, 1942, the Supervision Team intercepted a total of 140775 soldiers who retreated from the front line, of which: 3,890 were arrested, of which 1,189 were executed, and 2,961 were sent to the Soviet Red Army punishment camp; The remaining 131094 were all repatriated to their original units or transit camps.
Therefore, the power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs supervision team is not as exaggerated as that of soldiers in the city, and it is difficult to directly shoot their own people with machine guns, but it is only set up for the "punishment battalion" composed of officers and political commissars who have escaped from the battle, and it is not like in the movie where you can fire at ordinary soldiers casually. Moreover, the directive only mentions the "execution" of panic-mongers and cowards, and does not mention that deserters can be fired with machine guns on the spot, and Order No. 227 is only aimed at commanders.
As for the ordinary soldiers and sergeants who escaped from the battle, they were not arrested and sent to the punishment camp together with the officers and political commissars, but were assigned to the "Meritorious Service Company", and the supervision team (or blocking team) was only responsible for supervising the punishment camp, and did not have the right to execute the soldiers of the Meritorious Service Company.
Of course, if the overseers want to shoot deserters, they can also be executed according to the handling of inciting deserters and shaking the morale of the army, so in fact, indiscriminate killing of innocents is probably really inevitable, after all, there is always a gap between theory and practice. In fact, because of their special status, the officers and men of the internal affairs forces are always above the top, and it can be said that in addition to the officers and local cadres with extremely high status, many Red Army officers and local cadres have no right to question the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so the internal affairs troops can usually be described as arrogant and domineering.
And Andrei was thinking about it, Turchinov came in, and there was a lieutenant by his side, and the lieutenant came to Andrei and said: "Report to Major Yakov, the captain of the overseer, Lieutenant Gurov, reports to you." Andrei waved his hand and said, "Two comrades, sit down first, let's have a meeting first." ”
So the two of them sat on the other side of the table and put sugar in their black tea, both of them picked up the teacup and drank the tea, without opening their mouths, and Andrei understood that this was waiting for him to open his mouth, so Andrei took a sip of tea and said: "Two comrades, you should know that our army is going to launch a siege relief campaign next, although our internal affairs troops do not need to go to the front line to charge, but in the rear and the second line we must do our tasks well, and if the war situation is tense, our internal affairs troops will also go to the battlefield!" ”
And Gurov spoke first: "Comrade Major, our battle squad is ready, and when the time comes, my soldiers will form a detachment of more than a dozen people to patrol the rear, and we will take severe measures against deserters!" As soon as he heard this, Andrei knew that this lord had such a temper that he would kill innocents indiscriminately, so Andrei said: "Comrade Gurov, I would like to remind you that our main task is to stop the timid fighters and order them to return to the troops. The stragglers who are far away from the battlefield will be added to the new unit as a supplementary source of troops, you must know that because of the serious losses some time ago, we are not enough troops now, you can't all shoot them! Thinking of this, Andre also regretted that he had too much to talk about at the beginning, the Overseer team that was supposed to be born with Order No. 227 appeared in advance, if there was Order No. 227 now, I'm afraid this guy would dare to shoot all the deserters!
As soon as he heard Andrei's words, Gurov was embarrassed and said: "Comrade Major, you also know that once this breaks and escapes, it will be a bunch of people, and if you don't execute them decisively, I'm afraid that the front-line troops will collapse directly!" And Andrei said: "Lieutenant Gurov, have you forgotten? Those who incite to flee will be arrested and executed."
Suddenly Andrei remembered one thing, female soldiers, during World War II, the Soviet Red Army suffered serious attrition, and the supply of soldiers was insufficient, so it had to recruit a large number of female soldiers, and in a short period of time, a total of 800,000 female soldiers were recruited, the vast majority of whom were young girls. They took off their "bragi", put on red army uniforms, and defended the country with their youth and blood. This is the largest group of female soldiers in human history, and in addition to health care and communications, they also take on the most dangerous tasks such as snipers, machine gunners, scouts, tank crews and pilots. If this female soldier escapes, I am afraid that she will also be killed together, and many female soldiers are still students who have just left school!
Thinking of this, Andrei continued: "There are still many female soldiers in the front-line army, I ask you to care for them as if they were your own sisters, even if you sacrifice your own lives, you must ensure their safety, because they are future mothers, and the hope of our country rests on them. Can you do it? ”
After a short silence, Gurov said excitedly: "Comrade Major, we can do it, and I assure you that as long as it is within my ability, not a single female soldier will be harmed!" ”
Hearing this assurance, Andrei said: "Well, Comrade Gurov, the specific situation still needs to be flexibly grasped by your front-line commanders and fighters according to the situation on the spot, after all, your supervision team is a separate formation, and other internal affairs troops also need to perform other tasks in the rear!" ”
And knowing that Andrei would not interfere too much in his work, Gurov immediately stood up and saluted and said: "Comrade Major, please rest assured that we will faithfully complete our mission!" Hearing Gurov's assurance, Andrei knew that the next thing would be easy, but he would still send people from Unit A to observe the work of the Overseer team and avoid indiscriminate killing of innocents as much as possible.
Then, Andrei's eyes looked at the head of the secret service Turchinov, and at that moment there was a knock on the door outside!