USSR 1941

"Uh... just a little trouble!" Shulka replied: "As you can see, the 51st Army is blocked here by the enemy and cannot move. There are thousands of casualties every day, and the situation is getting worse as time goes by. It's getting more and more pessimistic!"

Shulka did not tell Akadyevich the truth.

It's not that Shulka doesn't trust Akadyevich, but that Shulka understands that even if Akadyevich knows about things like this, it won't help, and it will even embarrass him... You know that Shevchenko was sent by the Supreme Command, and he could even represent Stalin to some extent.

So Akadyevich would feel very embarrassed when he knew this... He couldn't help Shulka and had to explain more on the other side.

Akadyevich, failing to see Shulka's strangeness, laughed and said: "I am not worried about that at all, Comrade Shulka! No enemy can stop you, touch you, I only worry about your enemies!"

Shulka smiled wryly.

Maybe Akadyevich is right. If you really want to break through the line of defense in front of you, it may not be difficult. The difficulty is that the 51st Army can't break through, and at the same time Shevchenko is driving the soldiers forward to die... ...and this became an unresolved knot.

At this moment, Shulka suddenly frowned, raised his head and asked, "Comrade Akadyevich, why don't we develop our own 'spies' like the enemy?"

"Develop your own 'spy'? What do you mean?" Akadyevich didn't understand Shulka's words.

"I mean captives, those German officers we captured... I don't think their value should be sent to Siberia to do hard work!"

"You mean... put them back like the Germans used captives?"

"Yes!" Shulka said. "Why not? If they can give us information!"

"A very good idea!" Akadyevich nodded heavily, and said, "Before that, we only thought of them as invaders and enemies. If they are to be punished with the cruelest punishment, they must not be allowed to escape. I never thought that they could be used to play a greater role..."

Speaking of which, Akadyevich hesitated for a while, and then said: "But this requires the consent of the superior, even the consent of Moscow!"

"Of course!" Shulka replied.

If you do this privately, you will most likely be charged with "collaborating with the enemy".

But this shouldn't be a problem, because for the wasteland of Siberia, an officer is no more valuable than a soldier, but on the battlefield, to be precise, the role that can be played in the intelligence system is obviously much greater.

Sure enough, not long after, Akadyevich, who was in contact with his superiors, returned.

"The superiors are very supportive of this plan, Comrade Shulka!" Akadyevich said excitedly: "You have opened up a new intelligence direction for us! Besides, I wonder if you have time?"

"What?" Shulka pretended not to understand what Akadyevich meant.

"I hope you can organize this plan with me!" Akadyevich looked at Shulka with sincere eyes: "You know,

We usually rarely deal with combat troops, even enemy ones. So, this project needs more people like you to participate, and I'm not sure who can be trusted and proficient in these at this time! "

Akadyevich was right.

The plan was first to break through the psychological defenses of the captives, and Akadyevich and others, as the intelligence department, were not good at this... because they did not understand the psychology of the officers and soldiers fighting on the front line.

Secondly, you need to know some basic military knowledge, so that you can know which aspects of intelligence are most needed by the military or front-line combat troops.

And it all takes someone like Shulka involved.

In fact, Shulka was waiting for this sentence, but he still frowned pretending to be hesitant, and said: "I don't know, Comrade Akadyevich! The superior..."

"I will deal with this problem!" Akadyevich replied immediately: "I will arrange everything, you and your subordinates, at least for a few days, I mean until I find a suitable candidate!"

"Okay!" Shulka nodded.

"Great!" Akadyevich hugged Shulka excitedly.

It was not without reason that Akadyevich was in such a hurry.

There is a time limit for developing a prisoner into a spy. It is impossible to capture a German colonel a month ago, then develop into a spy and then release him, and then let the German army believe that he escaped by himself... German discipline It's not as loose as the Soviet army. They will record and register the missing and dead in detail, and will also conduct interrogations on these returning officers and soldiers, and will send them back to the army only after they are confirmed.

Therefore, this kind of thing should be done as soon as possible.

The best thing is to just take a captive, develop him into a spy in a few days and then send him back, tell them that he was not captured at all, but just hid in the forest or something and found a chance and escaped.

The Germans often do this, because there are indeed many Soviet officers and soldiers in this situation... The main reason is that this is the land of the Soviet Union, and there are Soviet civilians everywhere, so many officers and soldiers who were injured or separated from the main force are among the civilians Either under the cover or protection of the underground guerrillas, they fled back to the Soviet-controlled area, and Mikhailevich was one of them.

And among the officers and soldiers who fled back, there were actually many spies developed by the German army mixed in, so the Soviet army was always hard to guard against.

Now that Akadyevich wanted to do the same, he had to do it as soon as possible.

Soon, Akadyevich and Shulka were presented with a document about the prisoners.

The two looked for candidates while looking for candidates. Shulka picked one of them and handed it to Akadyevich, saying, "Major Bauer, commander of the 83rd Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion!"

"Well, is there anything special about it?" asked Akadyevich.

"His anti-aircraft artillery unit was completely wiped out by us, and almost none of them fell!" Shulka replied: "Do you know what this means?"

Akadyevich said "Oh" and said: "No one knows whether he has been captured or not!"

"Yes!" Shulka said: "All he needs is a lie, such as where to hide, how to escape after the enemy leaves, and what route to return by!"

Akadyevich looked at the end of the document, then frowned, and said, "This guy is a party member, I hope he was not executed, maybe...he is not so easy to be persuaded!"

"We have to at least try!" Shulka said.