"Is it a signal? Phew......" Serov shook his head fiercely, he has been in the agency for a long time, and the leader wants to go up and smell it when he farts, is the chairman of the KGB criticized for having a fart relationship with him, and it will not be his turn to sit when he vacates the place! It's a pity that there is no one here to analyze with him, if only Alexey would be able to analyze the way from the clues.

Judging from the telegram, the First Main Directorate of the KGB began to make adjustments, the head of the First Main Directorate, Panyushkin, and the first deputy director, Roman, have been transferred, and Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky has become the new director, and Serov has only met with Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky a few times, because this new director always does not appear at the headquarters, a bit like Serov's current state, always running around in different countries. For this new boss, in fact, Serov is still a little nervous, a familiar working environment suddenly changed, which always makes people feel sad.

In his bones, Serov is still the cautious person, and he will not change just because he becomes a major general of the KGB. Paradoxically, Serov, who thinks he is cautious, always wants to use the most drastic means to deal with problems when faced with them. People are so contradictory, just like now, hearing the news that the chairman of the KGB was reprimanded, Serov's first reaction was to return to China immediately, arrest Petrov, and create a big case to give Khrushchev a reason to remove the chairman of the KGB, and for a moment he almost did it.

"General, what's wrong with you! The face is so ugly! Lukani, who saw Serov's changing face, said with concern.

"It's nothing, it's a little heartache for the destruction of the London intelligence network!" Serov played with the lighter in his hand and replied absentmindedly. The personnel of the First Directorate is changing, and if you think about it, maybe Serov should stay in Egypt and stay away from the whirlpool at home, waiting for the personnel changes to be completed before returning home, which is the safest way.

At the very least, we should do something to get back, except for Sudan's flawed political system, where a coup d'état can solve the problem, and the rest of the work, whether in Algeria in the west or Iraq in the east, is proceeding in an orderly manner. Politically speaking, Iraq is not much more stable than Sudan, and violent civil unrest can occur at any time, and the degree of disconnection between the government and the people has reached a very serious level. But in the face of Iraq, which is in a similar situation, Serov just didn't dare to go up and push it.

There are two reasons for this, first of all, Serov knew that the life of the Kingdom of Iraq would end sooner or later, and that the changes there would be in favor of the Soviet Union, with or without Serov's involvement. He was even more afraid that because he couldn't bear to participate in it, he would cause historical changes that were unfavorable to the Soviet Union. Moreover, Iraq is facing the Transcaucasia region of the Soviet Union, and its position is much more important than that of Sudan, so Serov does not dare to intervene.

If you want to stir up waves in the Middle East, Iraq is not a good choice, and the goal now is still on Algeria, although the opponent is 600,000 French troops, but in Algeria, whether it is success or failure, he will toss at will.

"On the Algerian side, how is the French October offensive going?" Serov suddenly remembered before he went to Sudan. Didn't the French army launch a clearance operation against the Algerian National Liberation Front? I don't know how the month went, whether it was really fruitful or the quagmire that Serov expected.

"Now that the French offensive has stopped, according to the French army's claims, it should have achieved a lot of results!" Lucani reacted quickly and took out the battle report announced by the French army.

"These battle reports are useless!" Serov did not open these war reports and said, "We still have to collect information ourselves, I have heard that the Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs understands the movements of the Algerians, and let the Middle East Division mobilize forces on the ground, I want to know whether the French army has achieved results this time!" ”

The October offensive of France in Algeria, after compiling intelligence from the Middle East Division of the KGB. Serov concluded that the losses of the rank and file soldiers were not significant, not to mention that the leadership of the Algerian National Liberation Front was not affected, it would be like cutting leeks. It is useless to cut a stubble and raise a stubble.

"And inquire about the French command about their own feelings!" Serov took a sip of coffee and said leisurely, "If the French still think that the October offensive has achieved great results, then our contact with the French will still be hot and cold." ”

The innate arrogance of the French, if they thought they didn't need help, Serov was in a hurry. Maybe the French won't appreciate it, and maybe they will ridicule Serov's kindness.

Since half a month ago, France's operations in Algeria have begun to enter a very embarrassing situation, like chasing rats, the duel between the two sides, those poorly equipped guerrillas are naturally not the opponents of the French, but compared with the familiarity with the desert area, the French troops mobilized from all over the country are far from being the opponents of the guerrillas, usually you chase me for a long time, except for the air force can have some results, the entire ground battlefield of the French army is exhausted.

On the part of the guerrillas, on the other hand, they resorted to time bombs and assassinations of French governors, which kept some of the settlements of immigrants from the French mainland in a state of panic. The more this is the case, the more the French hate these guerrillas who have no bottom line, and the fighters of the guerrillas also hate the French ** team with an increasing degree of repression, which is a vicious circle, and the hatred between the two sides increases day by day as the war progresses.

Naturally, it is not only the two sides that are paying attention to the French October offensive, but in addition to the parties concerned, the most concerned is Serov, who is conducting remote monitoring in Cairo, and the Middle East Department and the French Africa Department of the KGB are gathering and analyzing the situation in all aspects every day to find clues on the battlefield.

"According to the general command in Algiers, the French offensive has already suffered thousands of casualties, and the guerrillas have probably been wiped out by nearly 10,000! However, it seems that the fighting is still going on every day, so we believe that at the moment the leadership of the Algerian National Liberation Front has not been compromised and the chain of command has not been paralyzed! The game of cat and mouse will still continue! Lukani summed up the analysis reports of the two divisions and reported to Serov, "The general's judgment is correct, the French did not destroy the partisans in this offensive!" ”

"That's normal!" Serov said unmoved, "Soldiers can be supplemented, but the leadership needs a long time of training and discernment, although both are human beings, but the meaning is completely different......

"General, Hassan on the Algerian side is still going through the Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs, hoping that we will provide some weapons!" Lukani squinted her eyes and said, "However, in the recent October offensive, the French have captured a lot of our Soviet guns, and have been protesting and pressuring our Soviet Union, is it ...... to refuse the partisans."

"It's okay! Whoever has Soviet weapons is what we support? How can this be true? Serov said lazily, "If France is going to buy all our millions of rifles, I will go back to the Soviet Union now." There will be absolutely no contact with the Algerian partisans again! But the French can't, so when they're farting well! ”

Although Serov has been reading the report of the ** conference recently, he is ready to improve his ideological realm. It's a pity that there is still no result, so naturally I can't see the benefits and turn a blind eye.

Serov is not doing international charity, and the Algerians also bought it with money, so why should he not sell it?

On 22 November, the October offensive, which had lasted for a month and a half, came to an end, and the French headquarters in Algiers claimed that it had basically eliminated the living forces of the Algerian National Liberation Front and pacified the situation in Algeria, and that there was no war in Algeria now. The next day, Serov received reports from KGB intelligence officers in Algiers that the governor of Bejaya province had been assassinated and that a local police station had been attacked by guerrillas, and that all the policemen in the police station had been killed in the attack.

"The world is so wonderful, the slap in the face always comes so fast!" Serov really wanted to ask the commander-in-chief of the French ** team, does this face hurt? The first day the war was declared over, and the next day the police station was terminated, and it is not known how the Algiers General Command is now feeling.

Serov plans to return to the Soviet Union before the New Year, before which there is absolutely a chance to see the French colonial army fall back into the vast sea of the people's war, before leaving the Aswan military base, Serov has already handed over all the affairs of the Sudanese side to Colonel Igor, as for the relations with Egypt, General Battov and the Egyptian military can develop normally, and Iraq's affairs can take their course, only the Algerian issue is still in a stalemate.

A week later, when Serov felt that time had been enough to extinguish the joy of the French victory, he set out for Alexandria, where he contacted the French Consul General in Alexandria, Philippe.

This is the second meeting between the two sides, and the meeting place is still in the Soviet consul's office, for such an arrogant French consul to be able to give face to the Soviet consulate, Serov is already grateful, as soon as they meet, congratulations, "I heard that the situation in Algeria is not good, the backbone of the partisans has not been hit, and your October offensive seems to have failed!" Now, Mr. Philip, can you tell me if the command in Algiers is now in a state of mourning? (To be continued.) )

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