Autumn rains fell on the Dnieper, and the whole marshland was wet, and after the water level rose, it was muddy everywhere.

Even with the rain, the sentinels stuck to their posts. They stood guard in the forest with ponchos, most of the sentries sticking out of their semi-crypt-like sentry posts, the upper part covered with branches. These are bunkers, which are generally used as concealed outposts, and once a battle is fought, bullets are fired from these places, taking the enemy by surprise.

There are many such outposts in the forest, Yang Mingzhi and others are very worried about the retaliation of the German army, and they must take precautions, and the farthest outpost is actually twenty kilometers away from Catfish Village.

The rain kept falling, and the soldiers continued to work in this difficult environment. During the extraordinary period, the army did not raise idlers, and the external sentinels were vigilant and observant, and they still had a lot of gains, that is, they intercepted some war refugees.

However, whether these people are refugees or spies of the German army, they need to be brought into the barracks to be screened, so Yelenkina and the others are busy.

On this day, more than a dozen intercepted people were brought into the interrogation room, and Yerentina reluctantly did her job as an interrogator. In fact, this is almost her old job, and she was originally a member of the NKVD.

"Is that the twelve? How can there still be children! ”

"That's it, it's these twelve that the Scouts brought back." Said the young female interrogator.

"Okay, okay, Sonya, you come and interrogate them, I'll just watch." Yerentina is too weak even alone, as the division political commissar of the army, she is a young woman who has a lot of official affairs. The work of counter-espionage and investigation must not be forgotten, and it was in the barracks that she immediately began to train her subordinates.

Sonya is such a person, she is like a policewoman, and she asks according to Yerenkina's instructions.

I saw these twelve people, most of them were women, a group of relatively obese Russian aunts. They escaped with their luggage, as well as their children.

There is nothing wrong with these aunts, and the ingredients are very simple.

"We escaped because the Germans were killing people in the villages." An aunt said.

"And what about your husband, what about the children?"

"Dead! They're all dead! ”

The woman spoke very naturally, and there did not seem to be the slightest look of frustration, and Yerenkina immediately became vigilant. After interrupting Sonya's question, she said solemnly, "You repeat, your husband, your children. Are they all dead? “

"Dead, all dead." The woman said.

"Was it killed by the Germans?"

"Dead, all dead......"

The woman kept repeating this sentence, and Yerenkina was also a woman, and she understood a lot from this person's eyes. I couldn't help but say to myself: "Alas. There is no problem with this woman, it can't be a spy or something. I'm afraid that this person's family will be killed, and the whole person's heart is dead in such a tragedy, and asking these questions will only be indifferent. Soldier, leave this man behind. ”

Among these people, there is absolutely no problem with the children, and the women are basically forced to flee. After everyone was searched, there was also a search of luggage, and they only carried some daily necessities and clothing, which were very ordinary things. These women were indeed ordinary peasant women.

And the suspicious ones are the only men left, and on this day the sentry brought back two men, and they are both young people, which is very abnormal.

It stands to reason that young people in Belarus are basically drafted, and young men of appropriate age have no right to refuse at all, except for people with disabilities. Therefore, when the 284th Division was defending the perimeter of Minsk, most of the recruits of the unit enlisted in this way. But it's a pity that most of them died honorably after several wars. It is also a glory that they were not captured but sacrificed on the land of the motherland.

However, the appearance of these two people was too suspicious, and Yelenkina simply interrogated herself.

"Young man, tell me your address, where are you from?"

"We are coming from the east side of the Dnieper! Comrade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs! A man immediately saluted, and Yerenkina was shocked.

Because of this etiquette, this is not a military salute, but the Komsomol salute. "You! Comrade, you are a member of the Komsomol? ”

"Yes! I think the Red Army comrades made a mistake, we were not trying to infiltrate the spies here, but received orders from our superiors to cross the Dnieper and look for the Soviet Red Army hidden in the swamps. ”

"And the other one too?" Yerentina asked.

"Yes! I'm Nikolai Ivanovich Bersky. He was Semyon Sergeyevich Virgin, and we were all Komsomol members. ”

Yerenkina nodded, it seemed that the warriors were too reckless, she only knew before the interrogation that yesterday, the villagers of the blacksmith village went to the banks of the Dnieper River to fish, which was actually a simple and crude fried fish. Unexpectedly, the sound of the explosion attracted a flat boat, and the militia immediately captured the boat, and the people on board and the things they carried were captured.

The militia was used to seeing the two of them for a day, and the next day, including their things, they were sent to the barracks in Catfish Village.

Each had a satchel containing their documents, but the satchel had been confiscated.

"So, you are members of the Komsomol League, so where are the documents of the two of you? Rather than rhetoric, documents are more effective. Listen, I'm from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and if you're a spy, you'll still leak clues, and no matter how much you make your documents, you'll make mistakes. ”

In normal intervals, they tend to act a little unnatural, which the sensitive Yerentina will notice, but both of them have confident smiles at the moment.

"But the documents have been confiscated by the soldiers!" Bersky said.

"Oh? And what's going on? "Yerenkina can't help but ask Sonya about this." I'm the political commissar of the division, and I'm very busy, why didn't you tell me about the confiscation of things just now? ”

Sonya couldn't help but scratch her head in embarrassment, it was true that she was not doing her job properly.

"Okay, the person who ordered you to hurry up and bring the things, they said that there are documents in the backpack, I can understand a lot by looking at it."

Sonya immediately got up, and soon she returned with her bag. The man immediately took out the mess in his bag and behaved very bluntly.

A good civil servant needs time to practice, and Yerentina was too lazy to bother with Sonya, so she immediately checked these things. "Notebooks, pens, student IDs, Komsomol IDs. Hehe, you're still a bunch of students. ”

"Of course, we are university students, but we are literature majors, and it seems that we have nothing to do with the war. But ......"

"Don't talk yet." Yerentina snapped Bersky's babbling as she flipped through the papers. I saw that the two of them were still in the same school, and they were actually sophomores at Ryazan University.

The student ID card is so, and there are some interesting things recorded in the notebook. These two people did not keep a diary, and the time was numbered in the notebook, which seemed to record the journey of the two. "From Ryazan to Smolensk, to Bryansk, and finally to us. You've got a long way to go. ”

"Of course, we responded to the call of the leader and went deep into enemy-occupied territory, like many guerrilla detachments that entered here. We are members of the Komsomol and we must fight on the front line, even at the cost of our lives. This was the order given to us by our superiors, and we and many of our classmates joined the local partisans on the outskirts of Bryansk. And both of us received an order to cross the Dnieper and enter the swamps in search of a special force. ”

Yerentina nodded, the young man named Bersky said it well. The Communist Youth League cards of the two were stamped with red official seals and steel seals. More interestingly, the needles used for binding are already a little rusty. There have been some incidents with this certificate, but I saw that Bilsky and Vilkin joined the regiment in 1938, "You two are really old members!" I believe in you, and welcome to the 284th Guards Infantry Division, an invincible unit that has been fought in a hundred battles! ”

The two smiled with satisfaction, and Bersky continued: "Comrade, there is one more thing I must tell you. In the future, many of our comrades will cross the river, and our task is to join the guerrillas here, to guide the guerrillas to obey the orders of their superiors, and the guerrilla war has already begun. ”

These words reminded Yerentina that what the army needs most now is soldiers, and the joining of these two young people is just the beginning, and in the future, there will be more Komsomol members who will penetrate into the swamp through the enemy-occupied area thousands of miles away? This must be discussed.

"Alright, you two will be assigned a room soon. Since you are all literature majors, the army is in dire need of a professional clerk. For the time being, don't think about going to the battlefield with a steel gun, as soon as the battle is over, you will act as an accountant and a clerk, and share your worries for the political commissar. Yerenkina wrote a note to arrange for them to leave, and she hurried to the division headquarters. (To be continued.) )