"Comrade Brigade Commander," Beret hurriedly approached Sokov's ear after hearing Askel's translation and whispered: "Tell me, do the Germans have no idea that we have occupied this position?"
"No?" Sokov said unexpectedly when he heard Bereh say this: "There is a lot of noise in our attack here, and the enemy cannot be unaware of it. Maybe at the beginning of our attack, the German commander who was standing here had already reported to their peak through the radio."
"Corporal Ball," Sokov cheered up again and asked the prisoners standing in front of him: "According to your explanation just now, you are just a engineer. Why is your upsurge to act as a correspondent?"
"That's right, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." Seeing that Sokov finally asked the point, Ball quickly replied respectfully: "In the long battle, our communications soldiers suffered a lot of losses and could not be supplemented in the short term. Therefore, the commander drew personnel from other troops to carry out the communications soldiers' mission."
"I think such an order can be conveyed through the radio station." Sokov saw a radio station that was blown up by a grenade in a corner of the command center, and asked thoughtfully: "Why do your superiors ask you to have a trip?"
"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel!" As soon as Ball heard the translation, he quickly replied: "Because the radio station was broken, the division headquarters could not contact the defenders here, so he sent me here to convey the order."
"Where is the order?"
"Here!" Ball quickly took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Askel who was standing beside him. After taking it, Askel took it, he didn't even look at it, and walked over and handed it to Sokov.
Sokov unfolded the paper and saw a few lines of letters scribbled on it. Unfortunately, he couldn't understand it at all. After watching it in a pretentious manner, he handed it to Gurdiev on the side, and said with a smile: "College, look at it."
Gurdiev Bisokov was self-aware. He looked at the other party with contempt and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, I don't understand German, I can't understand what is written on it."
Sokov smiled awkwardly, handed the order back to Askel again, and said to him with a red face: "Comrade Captain, do you know the words above? Can you read us what it is."
Askel took the order, browsed it carefully, nodded, and then said to Sokov: "Lieutenant Colonel, Ball did not lie. The content of this order is basically consistent with what he said, that is, they should hold their positions and never allow our troops outside the encirclement to break through the defense and rush to Orlovka to meet with the inner team of the city."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, I can now fully confirm it." Belei suddenly said in shock: "The Germans still don't know that their positions are lost!"
"Is this really the case?" Sokov said half-believingly and ordered Askel: "Captain, ask him when did he set out from the German Division?"
After Askel asked Ball, he responded to Sokov: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, he set out from the German Division a hour ago. Before leaving, he did not know that this place had been occupied by our army, otherwise he would not have come here rashly just now."
After listening to Askel's translation, Sokov looked at Bere and Gurdiev, who were sitting on the left and right, and then asked, "Two Colonels, do you think what he said is true?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander," said Bereth the first statement: "I can't think of any need for this Corporal Ball to lie? We will ignore whether he is a member of the German Communist Party D. But the order he carried, as he said, was to order the enemies who stood here to strengthen their defense, firmly block the attacks of friendly forces, and prevent them from rushing to Orlovka to meet us."
"I think Colonel Bere makes sense." Gurdiev nodded and said, "If the Germans had really known that we had seized this important position, they would have sent out large troops to attack us. But now there has been no movement, proving that they had not noticed it at all."
After the two colonels finished speaking, Sokov did not express his opinion immediately. He gently tapped the table with his fingers and began to think quickly in his mind. From the occupation of the position to the present, the series of deployments he has made are all to deal with the enemy's attack. However, just now, the German army knew nothing about the loss of this important position, and maybe he could make good use of this matter to gain more time.
"Corporal Ball." Sokov stopped his finger and looked up at Ball and asked, "What will you do next after you send the order?"
Facing Sokov's question, Ball's face was confused, and he didn't know how to answer. Seeing that Ball was not speaking for a long time, Sokov guessed that the other party must not understand his meaning, so he quickly added: "I'm asking, after you send the order here, should you return to the division headquarters immediately or stay here."
After figuring out what questions Sokov wanted to ask, Ball breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "After I send the order, I will return to the division headquarters immediately and report the situation here to the chief."
Sokov thought to himself: If he kept Ball here and saw that he had not returned for a long time, the German commander might think that something had happened to him on the road and would send new communications soldiers to deliver the letter. The matter of occupying the position may be exposed. But before he figured out Ball's true identity, he would send him back like this. Maybe everything he did now was to paralyze himself and want to have an illusion that he was a reliable person, and then let him go. When he returned to the German division headquarters, he would report the situation here without reservation to the German commander truthfully, and the Germans would still know that the position here was occupied by him.
"How should I deal with this Ball?" Sokov asked himself silently in his heart: "Are you going to let it go or not?"
After thinking for a long time, Sokov did not come up with a good solution, so he decided to hand over the conflict to Bere and Gurdiev: "The two colonels, the Corporal Ball who surrendered to us, whether we keep him or let him go, may lead to the leakage of information about our army occupying this place. Tell me, what should I do?"
"I think it's better to let it go." Bi Lei said cautiously: "The Germans know that it's only a matter of time before we seize the position here. If he answers the German military division and helps us hide this matter, we will have more time to build fortifications."
"Then what do you mean, Colonel Gurdiev?" Sokov turned his head and looked at Gurdiev and asked politely, "Do you let him go or continue to detain him?"
Chapter completed!