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Chapter 2576 "Top Secret File"

Hearing the name Adelina said, Sokov shuddered and thought to himself, "The Serova you are talking about, could it be the one who had an affair with Marshal Rokossovsky? If it is really her, then I have to think about it carefully."

Seeing that Sokov was slow to speak, Adelina pushed Sokov on the shoulder and asked curiously, "Misha, why don't you speak? Are you satisfied with the person I recommended?"

Sokov had a lot of troubles in his heart, he couldn't tell her that the actress had a special relationship with Marshal Rokossovsky, and if he asked her to play the role of Lida, there would probably be many problems. After thinking for a moment, he pretended to be puzzled and said, "Adelina, who is this person you are talking about? Why have I never heard of her? Can you give me a brief introduction to her situation?"

Adelina thought Sokov really didn't know Serova, and was about to introduce him to Serova's situation when the phone in the room rang again.

Sokov thought it was another long-distance call from Yakov, so he picked up the receiver and put it to his ear: "This is Sokov!"

"Hello, General Sokov." The adjutant's voice came from the receiver: "The deputy commander wants to see you. Please come to his room immediately. By the way, call Comrade Adelina as well. The deputy commander also wants to see her."

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

After Sokov hung up the phone, he said to Adelina: "Comrade Deputy Commander asked his adjutant to call and said he wanted to see both of us and asked us to go to his room immediately."

"What? The deputy commander wants to see me?" Ajelina asked in surprise, "Why does he want to see me?"

"I don't know." Sokov stood up and took Ajelina outside, saying, "We'll know what happened when we get there."

On the way, Adelina asked Sokov worriedly: "Misha, before we returned to the room just now, wasn't the deputy commander criticizing the members of the prosecution team? We have no connection with them, why did they ask us to go over there?"

Seeing that Ajelina was still struggling with the matter, Sokov comforted her and said, "Don't worry, it will be fine."

When he arrived at the door of Sokolovsky's room, the adjutant who was sitting behind the desk immediately stood up and greeted him: "General Sokov, you are here!"

"Coming!" Sokov answered and then asked tentatively, "Comrade Deputy Commander, is he alone in there?"

"Yes, he is alone in there." The adjutant said, turned around and opened the door, and said to Sokov and Adelina, "Come in, both of you!"

Sokov entered the room and saw Sokolovsky sitting on the sofa reading a document. He quickly took two steps forward and raised his hand to salute: "Comrade Deputy Commander, Sokov is here on orders!"

Sokolovsky heard Sokov's voice, put the documents in his hand on the coffee table in front of him, stood up and shook hands with Sokov: "Misha, you are here! Please take a seat quickly!"

After Sokov and Adelina sat down, they asked cautiously, "Comrade Deputy Commander, I wonder what you want us to do?"

Sokolovsky picked up a brown paper document bag from the table and handed it to Sokov: "Misha, take a look at this."

When Sokov was about to take the document bag, he suddenly saw a red word on it: "Top Secret Document". He hastily retracted his hand and said to Sokolovsky: "Comrade Deputy Commander, this is a top secret document. I don't think it's convenient for me to read it."

"I told you to watch, so just watch. Don't worry about it."

After hearing what Sokolovsky said, Sokov boldly took the briefcase and took out a stack of documents from it.

When he was about to look at the document, Ajelina, who was sitting next to him, also leaned over to see what was written on it.

Just when Sokov was feeling embarrassed and didn't know whether he should let Adelina see this top-secret document, he heard Sokolovsky say: "Misha, it's okay, you can let Adelina see this document. If you have any questions, wait until you finish reading it."

Since Sokolovsky said so, Sokov no longer had any scruples and began to look through the documents boldly.

The title of the document reads: "Development and Use of the KV-6 Heavy Tank."

Seeing this title, Sokov was stunned: KV-6 heavy tank? Although there are many posts boasting about this tank on the Internet, he knows that the Soviet army did not produce any KV-6 heavy tanks at all. They were all fabricated by military enthusiasts and were spread by word of mouth as the secret weapon of the Soviet army during World War II.

The document reads: In July 1941, shortly after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the Supreme Commander himself was shocked to hear that a KV-7 tank of our army had blocked the German 1th Armored Division for two days. He felt that in order to fight against the huge German armored forces, the Soviet army urgently needed a tank to boost the increasingly depressed morale, and finally chose the KV tank as the basis because it proved to be equally good in the first stage of the war. Tank engineers realized that if they combined all the components together, they could create a giant tank with the same construction time but much greater firepower, so the super tank was born, known as the KV Land Cruiser.

The KV-6 heavy tank is 15.5 meters long. Three main turrets are installed on the extended tank chassis. It is equipped with two 152mm howitzers, two 76mm guns, a 45mm gun, and sixteen machine guns. The tank is equipped with three 600-horsepower V-2 engines, with an armor thickness of 160 mm, and the crew alone is as many as 16 people. Even so, the engineers still felt that the firepower was insufficient, and they deliberately added a Katyusha rocket launcher to the rear, which made the total weight of the tank reach 138 tons. Moreover, the tank is also equipped with a wading device that can cross rivers up to 3 meters deep. Because the car pursued firepower too much, the body of the three turrets was too long, which made turning a big problem. In other words, on special terrain, you can only drive forward and cannot turn. But Comrade Stalin didn't think this was a problem at all, and even said that the car didn't need to turn, and what it could do was to drive directly to Berlin.

In December 1941, the first prototype rolled off the assembly line and was quickly deployed in the Battle of Moscow, but problems arose during its first combat engagement: Due to poor visibility in the thick fog, the rear turret blew away the middle turret with a single shot, rendering the tank useless.

The second prototype was completed in January 1942 and immediately sent to the Leningrad front. To prevent a repeat of the same mistake, the tank was equipped with an indicator so that the gunner could see the firing direction of each turret. But a new problem arose. When the KV-1 passed through the canyon, the tank body was not strong enough and broke into two pieces. Sparks instantly ignited the leaked fuel, causing a violent explosion.

The third prototype continued to fight on the Leningrad front and was tested in actual combat. This time, it scored its first victory, successfully shooting down three German planes. Unfortunately, when it continued to fire at the German positions, the three guns fired at the same time from the three o'clock position, and the huge recoil instantly pushed the tank into the ditch, and the 152mm ammunition inside exploded, causing the tank to be scrapped again.

The destruction of three prototypes in a row made the Supreme Commander realize that it was not cost-effective to build such a tank, and it would be better to produce more T-34 tanks to adapt to the use on the battlefield. Therefore, the work of mass-producing the KV-6 heavy tank was temporarily stopped...

The document also quotes a lot of information, saying how the Soviet military industrial personnel put the resumption of KV-6 heavy tank production on the agenda after the war, and planned to mass-produce this powerful heavy tank in military factories in Soviet-controlled areas when the time was right.

Following are a dozen hand-drawn exploded views of the KV-6 heavy tank.

After Sokov quickly finished reading this so-called "top secret document", the corners of his mouth couldn't help but slightly rise. He thought to himself, could it be that the Soviet army was planning to set up a "War Propaganda Bureau" to use this erroneous information to mislead the Allied forces and make them spend a lot of effort to develop this meaningless heavy tank?

Sokolovsky saw Sokov's expression and asked in a calm tone: "Misha, what do you think after reading this document?"

"Comrade Deputy Commander," Sokov put the document on his knees and looked at Sokolovsky and said, "As far as I know, our military workers installed flamethrower devices on some KV-1s and converted them into flamethrower tanks. The KV-6 heavy tank mentioned in this document does not exist at all."

Hearing what Sokov said, Sokolovsky smiled: "Misha, you are right. We did not manufacture this so-called KV-6 heavy tank."

"Then what is your purpose in giving me this document?" Sokov looked at the other party and asked cautiously, "Are you planning to let me use some means to get this document into the hands of the Allied forces, so that they will spend a lot of time and energy to develop weapons and equipment that are not suitable for battlefield use at all?"

"Yes, that's what I think." Sokolovsky nodded with a smile and continued, "I plan to have you send this document to the Allies so that they will misjudge that our army is about to start mass production of this super tank."

"Comrade Deputy Commander, I can't just hand this top-secret document to the Allied commander and tell them it's our top-secret document and ask them to study it carefully, right?" In response to Sokolovsky's statement, Sokov said awkwardly: "Even if I take the initiative to hand the document to them, they may not believe it."

"Misha." At this time, Adelina pulled Sokov's sleeve and said, "Actually, you can do this."

Just as Sokov was stunned, Sokolovsky, who heard Adelina's words, said with a smile: "Comrade Adelina, then tell me, what should we do to convince the Allies of the authenticity of our document?"

Seeing that Sokolovsky asked her to express her opinion, Ajelina was not afraid. She stood up and said, "Didn't General Patton invite Misha to visit him? Misha can take this document to him and pretend to accidentally forget the briefcase containing the document somewhere, giving the US military enough time to take pictures of this top-secret document."

"Ajelina, it's not as simple as you say." Sokov shook his head and said with a smile, "How could Barton believe that I would go to him with top-secret documents?"

"Misha, don't worry about that. I can arrange it." Sokolovsky said with a smile, "For example, before you return to Berlin, you visit General Patton's headquarters and carry a briefcase with top-secret documents. That would be reasonable."

When Sokolov heard what Sokolovsky said, he couldn't help but think of the decades-long "Star Wars Plan". The plan was launched in the late Cold War. Because the Soviet Union had stronger nuclear attack power and missile penetration capabilities than the United States, the United States was afraid that the "nuclear balance" situation would be broken and needed to establish an effective anti-missile system to ensure the survivability and reliable deterrence of its strategic nuclear forces and maintain its nuclear advantage. At the same time, the United States also wanted to use its strong economic strength to bring down the Soviet Union's economy through space weapons competition.

Now that World War II has just ended and the United States and the Soviet Union are still in their honeymoon period, they have begun to scheme against each other. I have just read this fake "top secret document", which is to make the United States and its allies misjudge and invest a lot of time, energy and economy in the wrong direction to ensure that the Soviet side will be the winner in the next arms race.

"Okay, Comrade Deputy Commander." Since Sokolovsky had already arranged everything, Sokov couldn't refuse, so he could only ask tactfully: "When do you plan to let me go to General Patton's headquarters?"

"Don't worry, Misha." Sokolovsky said with a smile: "We will arrange the specific time to meet Patton. Before that, we still have some preparation work to do, so you can stay in the hotel with peace of mind."

"Preparatory work?" Sokov asked in surprise, "What preparatory work?"

"If we want the Americans to steal our intelligence, we have to spread some rumors in advance to let them know that you have a top-secret document and that you will take it back to Berlin." Sokolovsky said confidently, "As long as the Americans believe the rumors we spread, they will let Patton contact you and invite you to visit the 15th Army. Then they will find a suitable opportunity to steal the document you are carrying."

"I understand." Sokov nodded vigorously, glanced at Ajelina beside him, and asked tentatively: "Am I going alone?"

"Of course not." Sokolovsky shook his head and said, "In addition to the guards led by Major Vaseligov, Adelina will also go with you. I know you know English, but your level is definitely not as good as Adelina's. I feel more at ease with her by your side as an interpreter."

Sokov was worried that Sokolovsky would let him carry out the order alone and leave Ajelina here to do the translation work. Now when he heard that Ajelina would go with him to see Patton, he showed a relieved expression on his face: "That's great, Comrade Deputy Commander. You know, when I went to the American prisoner-of-war camp last time, Ajelina was with me and met Patton before. If she accompanies me when I visit the 15th Army, things will go much more smoothly, at least it can eliminate Patton's suspicion."