Rokossovsky had thought that Lunev would listen to him and would agree without hesitation. After a moment of pause, the other party asked, "Comrade Marshal, I'll go and bring him over now, is it okay?" ”

"Bring him here now?" Rokossovsky asked with some surprise: "General Lunev, if the interrogation is carried out overnight, it will not affect your rest, right?" ”

"Look at what you said," replied Lunev grinning, "our immediate priority is to unravel the spy or secret service organization that the Germans are hiding in the city, and to determine if there is an underground aircraft research institute." Not to mention that you can't rest all night, even if you stay up for three days and three nights, it's completely worth it. ”

To bring the spy to the headquarters, naturally it was not necessary for Lunev to make a personal trip, he pointed to the phone on the table and asked Rokossovsky tentatively: "Comrade Marshal, can I use your phone?" ”

"Please!" Rokossovsky readily agreed to the other party's request. Taking advantage of Lunev's telephone call to inform the fighters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were guarding Bach, he said to Bogolyubov: "Chief of staff, you go and tell the person in charge of the security that when the vehicle carrying the prisoners arrives, do not stop it, and immediately send someone to escort it here." ”

"Understood." Bogolyubov nodded and replied: "I'll go out and call the commander in charge." ”、

After Bogolyubov finished calling the person in charge of the security work, he thought that he could not interrogate the spy in the headquarters, so he made a phone call to Vinogoradov: "General Vinogoradov, Comrade Marshal intends to personally interrogate the spy, you are responsible for arranging it." ”

"What? Comrade Marshal wants to personally interrogate spies? Vinogradov thought that after handing over the spy to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he would have nothing to do with the matter, and when he heard that Rokossovsky was actually ready to interrogate him personally, his eyes couldn't help but widen in surprise: "Comrade Chief of Staff, why is this? ”

"It's complicated, it's not convenient to talk about it on the phone." Bogolyubov glanced at the staff officers who were walking back and forth, and said in a low voice: "But Comrade Marshal will definitely let you participate in the interrogation, you better arrange the interrogation room as soon as possible." ”

Vinogradov felt that since Rokossovsky was going to go out in person, it would obviously be inappropriate to use an ordinary interrogation room, so he called Shevchak, the head of the counterintelligence department, and said straight to the point: "Comrade Colonel, immediately arrange a larger interrogation room, and Comrade Marshal will personally interrogate the captured spies. ”

"Comrade General," Shevchak was stunned for a moment when he heard Vinogradov say this, and then said cautiously: "The spy has been handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now General Lunev is in charge of this matter, is it appropriate for us to intervene again?" ”

"Colonel Shevchak," Vinogradov said unhappily when he saw that the other party was pushing, "there is nothing suitable or inappropriate, it is a call from the chief of staff of the front army himself, let's prepare the room for interrogating the spy, you just do it, where is so much nonsense." ”

"Understood." Hearing that Vinogradov was angry, Shevchak's face suddenly turned red with shame, and he quickly replied: "I will prepare immediately." ”

Shevchak's idea of where the spy should be interrogated was completely identical to Vinogradov, and the usual interrogation room with a door on one side and a wall on three sides was obviously not in line with Rokossovsky's status, and it was necessary to find a spacious and bright room in which Comrade Marshal could participate in the interrogation.

Shevchak called the deputy chief and asked bluntly: "The spy who was taken away yesterday will be escorted back for interrogation in a little while." Think about it, where can be used as an interrogation room? ”

The deputy chief looked at Shevchak and said with a bewildered expression: "Comrade chief, there are three interrogation rooms in the basement of our place, and any one of them can be interrogated. ”

"Nope." As soon as the deputy chief finished speaking, Shevchak waved his hand and said: "In this interrogation, in addition to General Lunev, Comrade Marshal will also participate, and those interrogation rooms are obviously inappropriate. ”

The deputy chief of the division could not help but be taken aback when he learned that Rokossovsky was also going to participate in the interrogation, he frowned and thought for a while, and then said to Shevchak: "Comrade director, there is a small conference room on the top floor, even if twenty or thirty people are seated in it, it will not look crowded, and I think it should be more appropriate to change it into a temporary interrogation room." ”

Lunev's subordinates received the notice and sent Bach over as quickly as possible, and he was interrogated in the conference room prepared by Shevchak. Rokossovsky sat at one end of the long table, and Jurors Lunev, Bogolyubov and others sat to his left and right. There was a small square table next to the conference table, and Shevchak, who was in charge of the interrogation record, sat behind it.

Bach, who was being interrogated, sat at the other end of the long conference table, with two fighters with submachine guns standing behind him. Considering that he did not know Russian, there was also a German translator from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who stood by his side in order to translate for him at any time.

Rokossovsky looked carefully at Bach, who was sitting across from him, and saw that he was a middle-aged man in his forties, not tall, a little overweight, with round-framed eyes, and he looked like an ordinary middle school teacher. Considering that the other party was just a commercial spy and would not pose any threat to himself, he leaned over and approached Lunev and said in a low voice: "Comrade General, this is just a commercial spy, there is no need for such a big battle, let those two soldiers out." ”

"Comrade Marshal, to be precise, the other side is an industrial spy who specializes in stealing military-industrial intelligence from the Germans." Lunev nodded, waved at the two fighters standing behind Bach, and said, "Go out and close the door by the way!" The two warriors snapped to the ground, turned and walked out of the conference room, closing the door with their hands.

"Mr. Bach," Rokossovsky asked Bach with a smile as soon as the door closed: "You are a German, how can you play for the Americans?" ”

After the interpreter finished speaking, he replied respectfully: "Your Excellency Marshal, I am actually German-American, and my ancestors immigrated to Pennsylvania in the United States as early as 1680, and settled and lived there. I was an engineer for North American aviation, and in 1933, I came to Germany as a local with a dead family, infiltrated the German aviation research center, and waited for an opportunity to obtain information about German aviation, and sent it back to North American aviation by radio. ”

Rokossovsky picked up the sketch drawn by Bach, looked at the UFO drawn on it for a while, put it back on the table, stared at Bach and said: "Mr. Bach, I think you are lying!" ”

"Lying?!" When Bach heard Rokossovsky say this, a panicked expression flashed in his eyes: "Your Excellency Marshal, in front of you, how dare I lie?" ”

Rokossovsky turned his head to look at Lunev, who was sitting in deep fear, and continued: "You said that you came here in 1933, but why don't you know where the German underground aviation research center is?" ”

Bach was secretly relieved when he heard Rokossovsky's question clearly, and then replied: "Your Excellency, I really am not lying. I work at the Institute of Aeronautics, which used to be in Berlin. In order to escape the bombing of British and American aircraft, it was relocated here in February 1944.

The secret underground base we were stationed in was built over a period of three years by the Germans recruiting Polish laborers. In order to avoid leaks, after the completion of the project, the Polish laborers involved in the construction were secretly executed, and the troops who had supervised the construction were also sent to the Eastern Front. ”

Rokossovsky vaguely felt that there was still some credibility for Bach's statement, so he asked: "Is what you said true?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." Seeing that Rokossovsky seemed to believe what he said, Bach hurriedly continued to explain: "As the guard unit of the Underground Aviation Research Institute, the guard is changed every half a month. The soldiers who were initially changed were able to return to their original camps, but in order to prevent them from leaking the news, now they are sent directly to the front line as soon as they change their guards. ”

"Mr. Bach," the Germans did all this, and Rokossovsky realized the extraordinary importance of this underground aviation research institute, otherwise it would not have changed guards so often. He picked up the sketch on the table, shook it at Bach, and asked, "Can you tell us what this thing is?" ”

"This is the Belonse disc, Your Excellency Marshal." Bach replied: "It was the German engineers Schrevel and Habermore who built the UFO aircraft. ”

"Don't pick the disc?!" After Rokossovsky repeated this word, some relevant information suddenly came to mind and quickly asked: "Mr. Bach, is the aviation research institute you work at called 'Demoman Laboratory-13', whose mission is to specialize in the research and manufacture of secret flying machines, and your research work is codenamed 'Operation Ulanus'?" ”

As soon as the interpreter finished translating Rokossovsky's words, Bach jumped up from his seat, widened his eyes and asked: "Your Excellency, Marshal, how do you know this?" ”

The interpreter standing next to Bach, thinking that he was going to do something unfavorable to Rokossovsky, hurriedly grabbed him by the shoulder, and at the same time pulled out his pistol and put it on the back of his head, ready to pull the trigger at any time.

"Comrade translator, don't get excited." Seeing this, Rokossovsky quickly stood up and said to the interpreter: "Let him sit down first, I haven't finished asking yet." ”

After the interpreter put the gun away, he put his hands on Bach's shoulders, pressed down hard, and said sharply: "Sit down!" ”