As soon as it was dawn, Su Bojing, the military commissar who had been busy outside for two days, rushed back to the headquarters of the front army.

As soon as he walked into the war room, he asked Bogolyubov, who was talking to a staff officer: "Chief of staff, has Danzig really been occupied by our troops?" ”

"That's right, Comrade Military Commissar." Bogolyubov replied with a smile on his face: "The remnants of the swamps who fled into the mouth of the Vistula River are now also surrounded by Batov's troops, and it is only a matter of time before they are destroyed." ”

"It's just wonderful. The liberation of Danzig and Gdynia meant the end of all the fighting of our army in East Pomerania, so that we could draw our forces westward to take part in the battle for the capture of Berlin. Speaking of this, Su Bojing specially asked: "Is Comrade Marshal in his office?" ”

"Yes, yes." Bogolyubov nodded vigorously and replied: "Comrade Marshal, since he always had something to deal with, stayed in his office all night. ”

"Comrade Chief of Staff, what is the important matter?" Su Bojing wondered if Rokossovsky had stayed in his office all night because of the capture of Danzig and Gdynia by the troops. Then he asked tentatively, "Is it for the liberation of Danzig and Gdynia?" ”

"Comrade Military Commissar." Bogolyubov explained to Subotin: "If it were only one thing, Comrade Marshal would not have stayed in his office all night, there were other things. ”

"Can you tell me about it?" Bogolyubov's words aroused great curiosity in Subojing.

Considering that Su Bojing had been busy with military discipline in the past two days and had no attention to other matters, Bogolyubov pulled him to sit down at a table by the wall and told him in detail what had happened from yesterday to today.

The German model machine and the matter of the three engineers, Su Bojing is not interested in it yet. He was intrigued by the American industrial spy named Bach and Gavrilov's execution of the SS guard. As soon as Bogolyubov finished speaking, he stood up and said: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you are busy with work, so I will not bother you." I will now go in and see Comrade Marshal and have a good chat with him. ”

Rokossovsky, who was in his office, had just finished calling Zhukov to find out if the commando team he had sent had arrived at the designated position. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Su Bojing walking in from outside, and he said with some surprise: "Comrade Military Commissar, you are back!" ”

"It's back!" After sitting down across from Rokossovsky's desk, Su Bojing looked at him and said: "I heard that many things happened during my absence for the past two days. ”

When Rokossovsky saw that Su Bojing had come in from the side of the war room, he guessed that Bogolyubov must have given him a general introduction to the situation, so he nodded, "That's right, a lot of things have happened, and Comrade Chief of Staff must have introduced them to you." ”

"Yes, Bogolyubov gave me a general briefing." Su Bojing frowned and asked, "I heard that there is a German-American who is now being detained by us. I would like to ask you, what are you going to do with him? Will it continue to be detained, or will it be transferred to the allies through diplomatic channels? ”

Rokossovsky had not yet received more and more important things from Bach's mouth, so naturally he would not let him go easily, and when he heard Su Bojing's inquiry, he immediately replied: "It stands to reason that Bach is an American-German, and after he identifies himself, we should hand him over to the allies through diplomatic channels." But the situation is a bit peculiar, he has a lot of important information, and we can't let him go until he gives it to us. ”

"Comrade Marshal, this is not appropriate." Seeing that Rokossovsky planned to continue to detain Bach, Su Bojing was a little anxious: "If the allies knew that we had detained their spies, they would definitely protest." ”

"If they want to protest, let them protest." Rokossovsky felt very uncomfortable when he saw that Su Bojing was actually speaking from someone else's standpoint, but he still said patiently: "Comrade Military Commissar, I know that the detention of German-Americans will make the allies lodge a diplomatic protest. But the secrets in this man's possession are so dangerous to the security of our country that if we don't dig up all these secrets and release him back, there will be endless troubles in the future. ”

"What, to the security of our country?" Su Bojing was taken aback by Rokossovsky's words, and hurriedly asked: "Comrade Marshal, what the hell is going on?" ”

Rokossovsky knew that when Bogolyubov briefed Subotin, he must have been worried about being heard by the staff officers or communications soldiers next to him, so he did not mention the big secret hidden in Bach. At this moment, there are only two people in this office, himself and Su Bojing, and they know everything and say everything.

After listening to Rokossovsky's account, Su Bojing asked with some surprise: "Comrade Marshal, will the Belonze disc and super fighter-bomber created by the Germans really pose a threat to our national security?" ”

"That's right, Comrade Military Commissar." Rokossovsky was deeply afraid that Su Bojing would not understand his painstaking efforts, so he said earnestly: "The defeat of the Germans has entered the countdown, and these cutting-edge technologies they have developed will definitely be divided up by the victorious countries after the war." Don't look at Britain and the United States as allies with us, and now they are on the same front with us and join forces against the Germans. But once the war is over and the common enemy is gone, it is unknown whether several nations will be able to coexist peacefully as they are now. If these technologies are mastered by other countries, if a new war breaks out in the future, we will fall into a situation of being passively beaten because of the backwardness of science and technology. ”

"So, this Bach can't be put for the time being?" After Su Bojing figured out the cause and effect, he couldn't help but secretly blame himself in his heart, feeling that he had neglected such an important matter when he had recently patronized the matter of rectifying the military discipline of the troops. Although he agreed with Rokossovsky's arrangement to continue to detain Bach, he asked with some concern: "If the allies get the news and ask us for this spy through diplomatic channels, what should we do?" ”

"Even if an ally sends us a diplomatic note, we can find a way to delay it for a while." Rokossovsky had already considered what Su Bojing was worried about, and he said confidently: "When Lunev gets the information we want to know, it's not too late to let Bach go." ”

After discussing the matter of Bach, Subotin talked about Gavrilov again: "The chief of staff also told me that Gavrilov found dozens of SS guards disguised as Wehrmacht in the prisoner of war camp and executed them all? ”

"Yes, they were all executed." Rokossovsky was worried that Subotin was making a fuss about this matter, and hurriedly explained to him: "These SS guards used to be in the prisoner of war camp, so it can be said that they did all the bad things, and the rescued commanders and fighters all wanted to cut them into pieces. And Gavrilov just did what they wanted to do, and did not have the conditions to do. ”

"Comrade Marshal, I have an idea." Su Bojing said thoughtfully: "After we entered East Pomerania, thousands of prisoners of war were put into our prisoner of war camps every day. I reckon there must have been quite a few SS men among them who had laid down their many crimes, but it would be difficult for us to identify them as long as they disguised themselves as Wehrmacht. You see, if you can send some of the rescued commanders and fighters to the various prisoner-of-war camps to screen and find out the hidden SS soldiers. ”

"That's a good idea." Rokossovsky knew that many of the rescued commanders and fighters had suffered a lot in the prisoner of war camps, and when they returned to the battlefield, they would vent their anger on the enemy, and in recent times, there have been many incidents of torture and killing of prisoners of war. If some of these commanders and fighters were really sent back to the POW camps to participate in the screening work, so that they could personally get rid of the SS soldiers who were trying to escape punishment, it would probably be a good thing for them: "Comrade Military Commissar, you and I have jointly issued an order to the commanders of the various armies to send the soldiers rescued from the POW camps as soon as possible to form a screening team and go to the POW camps everywhere to carry out the screening work. ”

Speaking of this, Rokossovsky sneered and continued: "How many heinous crimes these damned SS soldiers committed throughout the war, and now it is their turn to pay the blood debt. ”

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