"After making a death sentence, it must be executed immediately. In order to avoid implicating my subordinates, I asked all three of them to leave, leaving only the female pilot as a witness.

When the three soldiers left and covered the cover above their heads, the general suddenly cried and begged me, hoping that I could let him go and that he would agree to all my conditions..."

When Koshkin heard this, he said indignantly: "Damn coward, he should have been shot to death."

But Sokov felt something was wrong, because Aku said that his subordinates killed the general, but now in the room on the lower floor, there were only Aku, the female pilot and the general. The rest of the subordinates returned to the upper floor of the castle and had no chance to kill the general. What was going on?

With this question in mind, Sokov stopped Koshkin and continued, and asked on his own initiative: "Comrade Aku, you just said that your subordinates killed the general. But now, in the lower level, except for you and the female pilot, there is no subordinate present at all. So how did they kill this general?"

"Comrade Commander, don't worry, I'm about to end here." Aku continued: "The female pilot was soft-hearted. When she saw the general begging, she couldn't bear to watch. Just as she got up and was about to leave, the general suddenly attacked and rushed up to steal the submachine gun from her hand, kidnapped her, and threatened me to put down the weapon. I was worried that he would hurt the female pilot, so I could only put the weapon in his hand on the table."

When Koshkin heard this, he was furious: "Hi, why are you so careless? He actually robbed the weapon and even took a hostage."

"Lt. Koshkin, don't talk." Sokov interrupted Koshkin again. He felt that the point of Aku was about to say: "Please continue to say it. I think some things may not be true even if you see them with your own eyes."

When Aku heard Sokov say this, he couldn't help but feel shocked, and then a shocked expression appeared on his face: "Comrade General, you are right. Some things may not be true even if we see them with our own eyes.

I put my weapon on the table, thinking that I would become the lamb to be slaughtered in the general's hands. Unexpectedly, after seeing me put down my weapon, he let go of the arm of the female pilot and even said sorry to her. Then he said to the female pilot: You go out first, I want to have a good chat with this corporal.

After the female pilot went out and covered the cover, I looked at the general opposite and sneered, "Comrade General, if you want to do it, just do it. But I remind you that my three subordinates are on top. Even if you kill me, don't try to escape from here."

‘Don’t worry, comrade Corporal, I won’t kill you.’ The general said, putting the submachine gun in his hand on the table and saying to me: ‘There are only two of us here, I can tell you a secret.’

The general's actions made me a little confused. In order to figure out what was going on, I asked back: 'What's the secret?'

The general pointed to the diamond-shaped collared seal with two Venus stars inlaid and said to me: 'Actually I am not a general, this general uniform is fake.'

‘Fake?’ I was shocked by his words. I forgot that I was still hostile to him. I reached out to touch his collar seal. The touch from my fingers made me realize that the collar seal was absolutely true. So I asked back: ‘Comrade General, no matter how I look at this general uniform doesn’t seem fake.’

'You misunderstood what I mean.' The general explained to me: 'I said that this general uniform is fake, not that the clothes are fake, but that my identity is fake. In fact, I am a reconnaissance staff member of the 12th Army and the rank of captain. My mission is to wear this general uniform, take a fake document, fly through the German occupied area by plane, and find a way to shoot me down. At that time, the fake document will naturally fall into their hands.'

I didn't know whether the general was saying true or not, so I asked tentatively: 'What is the content in this document?'

‘A plan of offensive, fake.’ The fake general, the reconnaissance staff, said to me: ‘We must make the Germans think that we will concentrate our efforts to launch an attack at a certain location, so that they can transfer their main forces over, so that our defensive warfare can gain valuable time to strengthen the defense system.’

He finally said to me: 'Comrade Corporal, I hope you can help me leave the gang and escape to the Germans, and deliberately let this fake document fall into their hands so that they can make a wrong judgment.'"

After hearing Aku mentioned the 12th Army, Sokov immediately thought that Bonegelin was the commander of the Army before. If he had really implemented such a deception plan, he would have an impression. Thinking of this, he quickly ordered Koshkin: "Lieutenant Koshkin, please come and call Lieutenant Colonel Bonegelin over."

"After chatting with me for a while, the reconnaissance staff asked me to let him go. When he fled to the German positions, he fired from behind with a machine gun, so that the Germans believed that he was going to join them.

I agreed to his request and said that after all the soldiers above would go to bed, I would let him go.

We waited on the lower floor for an hour. After hearing nothing was going on, I pushed the cover open to check and found that everyone in the castle was sleeping, so I quietly let the reconnaissance staff go.

When he was more than 30 meters away from the castle, I shot at his back as agreed. In order to avoid accidental injury, I deliberately raised the gun and the bullets flew over his head. He knew that I would not hit him, so he did not run the Z-shaped shape when running, but ran along a straight line.

But what I didn't expect was that the gunshot alarmed the other three soldiers. They saw me shooting wildly outside, and they didn't know what was going on, so they all surrounded me and asked what was wrong.

In order to keep the secret of the reconnaissance staff, I can't tell them the truth, I can only say that the general ran away. In order to prevent him from surrendering to the Germans, I was shooting at him. But I never dreamed that it was my own words that caused an irreparable disaster.

When I shot at the top of the reconnaissance staff again, a soldier picked up the rifle, put it on the shooting hole, and after a while, he pulled the trigger decisively. After a crisp gunshot, the running reconnaissance staff member was shocked, as if he was hitting a transparent wall, and then his body slowly fell to the ground.

Seeing that his subordinates killed the reconnaissance staff, in order not to disclose the secrets, I could not blame him, so I could only bite the bullet and say idealistically: "The fight is really accurate!"

The sound of my shooting alarmed the Germans in the distance and found that the general in the daytime was running towards their positions. The German commander immediately sent more than a dozen people to respond. When the reconnaissance staff was shot and fell to the ground, a German soldier crawled over, cut off the briefcase's handle with a dagger, turned around and ran back.

The sacrifice of the reconnaissance staff made me full of anger. At this moment, seeing the Germans take the briefcase from him, I locked him up and blocked his retreat with dense firepower. Soon, the German soldier died under our rifle.

Maybe my shooting made the Germans mistakenly think that this document is really important, so they immediately sent new soldiers to continue snatching the briefcase. In this way, they died twelve soldiers before they disappeared from my sight with the briefcase."

"How did you deal with the body of the reconnaissance staff in the end?" Sokov asked with a serious expression.

"We don't know if there are enemies hidden around us and we can't go out to collect the bodies for the reconnaissance staff." Aku expressed his concerns at the time. "I'm also worried that if I send someone out to collect the bodies, it may arouse suspicion from the Germans and lead to the failure of our army's deception plan.

In the next two days, the surroundings were quiet, and the Germans who attacked every day in recent times had no movement. I took the risk to go out for reconnaissance and found that the German soldiers around me had withdrawn at any time. I considered that there were not many materials stored in the undercastle, and I had to transfer sooner or later, so it would be better to move as soon as possible to stay away from this dangerous place when there were no Germans around me.

When I passed by the reconnaissance staff, I saw his body lying there, but I didn’t have time to bury it. After a last look at his body, I left with the remaining soldiers and female pilots.”

"Comrade Aku," Sokov raised his own question after hearing the story Aku said: "You said that after the enemy surrounding your castle retreated, you broke through with four other comrades because you were worried that the Germans would appear again, and even the bodies of the reconnaissance staff would not have time to bury them. I want to ask, what happened when you broke through, that you have not returned to the team yet?"

"Comrade General, I have just said that with the loss of Vinnica, we are already deep behind the enemy. Although the enemy surrounding our castle retreated, we are still in the enemy's encirclement. A dozen kilometers away from the castle, we encountered a German patrol. After a fierce battle, all three soldiers under my command were sacrificed, while the female pilot was disbanded in the battle.

I originally wanted to go to the Uman area alone to find the main force here, but unfortunately before I could get to the place, I met a group of fleeing people. They told me that the troops in the Uman area were also surrounded by the Germans. Hearing them say this, I realized that if I continued to go to Uman, it would be like to fall into the trap. After repeated consideration, I decided to flee with these refugees and came to Chernovtse.

Aku looked at Herus: "A few days ago, I accidentally saw Herus on the road. I thought I had read it wrong. After a careful look, I confirmed that he was my old friend Herus. He was riding a jeep at that time. Before I could come forward to recognize him, the jeep disappeared from my sight.

When I found out that the troops were driving to Otac, I hurriedly walked to Otac and asked about the whereabouts of Hrus. Fortunately, I was lucky and actually found Hrus. So I told him all the stories I had experienced and asked him to arrange for me to meet you."

"Lieutenant Khrus is still very friend." Sokov looked at Khrus and said with a hint of mocking on his face: "I've really arranged for me to meet you."

"Comrade Commander, I was wrong." Khrus heard the dissatisfaction in Sokov's tone and quickly admitted his mistake: "I saw that Aku was so pitiful, so I couldn't help but want to help him."

"Comrade Commander," Koshkin walked in from outside and reported to Sokov: "Lt. Col. Bonegelin has arrived!"

"Hurry up and invite him in!"

Soon, Bonegelin walked into the room quickly, and his eyes swept across the faces of Khrus and Aku, and then stopped on Sokov's face again: "Comrade Commander, is there anything you have to do with me?"

"Ltd Colonel Bonegelin, please sit down." Sokov called Bonegelin to sit down before he spoke, "I have an important thing to ask you today."

When Ponegelin heard Sokov's question, he couldn't help but look at Hrus and Aku who were sitting aside again. He thought that these two people were obviously not from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I guess what the commander was asking had nothing to do with these two people, so he said respectfully: "Comrade Commander, please tell me if you have anything to do."

"I want to ask, in the early stages of the war..." Sokov suddenly realized that he didn't know the specific time, so he turned his head and asked Aku: "Where is the specific time?"

“July 29, 1941.”

"Lt. Col. Bonegelin, on July 29, 1941, did you send a reconnaissance staff member to pretend to be a general to carry out a special secret mission?"

"Wait a minute, Comrade Commander." Bonegelin did not answer the question raised by Sokov, but frowned and said, "The time interval is too long. I have to think about it carefully to see if I can remember it."

"It's okay, you can recall it slowly." Sokov said rationally.

Bonegelin frowned and thought for a long time, and finally recovered part of his memory: "Yes, Comrade Commander, I seem to remember something. In order to curb the attack of the Germans and divert their attention, we formulated a deception plan, which was to deliberately let a fake combat plan fall into the hands of the Germans, so that their attention would be transferred from the Uman area to other areas.

At that time, the person who was used as bait was a reconnaissance staff member. As for what his military rank was, I can't remember it very clearly..."

"It's the rank of captain." Aku, who was standing beside him, reminded him.

"Yes, yes," said Aku's reminder, Bonegelin also remembered: "It is indeed a captain. The task he received was to disguise as a major general in our army. When he flew over the German-occupied area on a reconnaissance plane, the plane was shot down by the Germans, and he would be sacrificed or captured. The documents he carried with him would make the German commander make a wrong judgment, and thus draw some of the troops in the Uman area to go to a false attack site."

"Ltd Colonel Bonegelin, let me introduce you to Comrade Aku. Before the Germans occupied Vinnica, he was an ordinary corporal, with only a few subordinates. They witnessed the entire process of the plane your subordinate was shot down by German fighter planes, and even rescued the female pilot and your subordinates to the bunker."
Chapter completed!