Struggle in Soviet Russia

Lviv, the building of the People's Committee of the Interior.

It was raining lightly outside the window, and inside the rain-filled glass window, the light of a table lamp spread all over the room.

Behind the desk, Victor held a cigarette that was about to burn out between the fingers of his right hand, and the light blue smoke from the cigarette **** curled up in the light of the desk lamp.

"Ling Ling..."

Some harsh telephone ringing rang, drawing Victor's attention away from the report in front of him. He was about to snuff out the cigarette **** that was about to burn his fingers, and took the telephone receiver.

Ji Ana’s voice came on the phone, and she asked if the retreat order she had received was true. Victor gave her a concise reply. The order was indeed issued by him himself. Moreover, the transfer of the training school must be completed tonight. All students and instructors of the school must take the truck arranged by the General Administration to Stalino. Transfer.

After hanging up the phone, Victor turned his attention to the report before him. This is a briefing on the deployment of troops from the Kiev Special Military District to the border area. According to the reality of this briefing, the Soviet army is currently within 60 kilometers of the border, except Outside the border guards, there are only the 6th and 12th group armies.

According to the concept of the Kiev Special Military Region, a total of 45 divisions will be deployed to the border areas of West Ukraine in the near future. However, so far, these troops are still scattered in the vast area from the border areas to the Dnieper River. It will take two to three weeks to complete this deployment of troops.

It’s a pity that Victor knows very well that the Alliance has no time for two to three weeks to use. The Germans have already assembled troops in the border area. The tanks and artillery they transported by train are all in place, although they don’t know them. When will the attack be launched, but according to Victor's estimation, it should not exceed these two or three days.

The feedback from the Eastern Carpathians undoubtedly confirmed Victor’s speculation, because Romania had assembled a large army on the border there, which was undoubtedly a precursor to the start of the war.

As the head of the Lviv People’s Committee of Internal Affairs, Victor violated several regulations in one day today: First, he has issued orders to the border guards, guards, and internal guards, and temporarily canceled the provisions of the People’s Committee of National Defense. The "gun and ammunition separation" policy requires border guards and guards across Lviv to open ammunition warehouses and distribute the stocked ammunition to front-line combat troops.

Secondly, when the war broke out and the superiors did not issue any orders, he made a decision without authorization and requested the two secret service training schools of the People's Committee of the Interior of Lviv to move to the rear. Not only that, he also used his power to move some civilians to the rear, such as the Anrina family.

In the end, he ordered the internal security forces to assemble in the direction of Lviv city without asking for instructions from the higher authorities.

Taking into account the reality, if the war did not break out within the time conceived by Victor, he would inevitably be severely punished without asking. Comrade Kobrov, who is now in charge of the Ukrainian NKVD, is not that easy to talk about.

The phone on the desk rang again, and when Victor brought the receiver to his ear, there was a man's hurried voice, mixed with dull gunfire.

The call was made from Sentry Station No. 13 in Sambir. There was a platoon of guards stationed there. Their task was to protect the No. 13 railway bridge on the Transnistria, and the railway that passed through this railway bridge. Railway transport from Rzeszow to Strei.

In the phone call, the sentry station No. 13 reported that an unidentified enemy army disguised himself as an internal guard, trying to defraud the control of the No. 13 railway bridge. The sentry found out his identity. After that, they are launching a stormy attack on the sentry station.

At present, the sentry station has temporarily repelled the attack of this group of enemies, but it is not known whether the opponent has a follow-up attack plan. Therefore, they need support from the nearest border troops.

For the application for help from sentry station No. 13, Victor promised to send border guard troops in the shortest possible time, but before the arrival of the support troops, they must guard the sentry station firmly and firmly grasp the control of the railway bridge.

After hanging up the phone, Victor first contacted Culkin and asked him to come to his office immediately. Then, after hanging up the phone, he unfolded a map on his desk, at No. 13 Transnistria. The location of the railway bridge is marked in a circle.

The door of the office was knocked quickly. Before Victor could speak, Culkin opened the door and walked in.

"I got bad news," Victor said, standing up from behind his desk, reaching out and tapping on the map in front of him. "Ten minutes ago, the No. 13 railway bridge in the Sambir section of the Transnistria was attacked. ."

Culkin was taken aback for a moment, then quickened his pace and walked to Victor's desk. He looked down at the map, found the circled location, and asked, "How is the situation, is sentinel No. 13 lost?"

"Not yet," Victor took out a cigarette and handed it over, "They temporarily repelled the enemy's offensive, but it is not yet certain whether the enemy will launch a follow-up offensive, so they need a certain amount of support."

"No, we don't just need to provide them with support, but also determine the situation of all sentry stations," Victor walked around from behind his desk and said, "I suspect this was not an accidental attack, but a large-scale attack. Harbinger."

There was a hesitant expression on Culkin’s face. You must know that in the recent period, the various sentry stations in the Lviv border area have not been attacked, but it turns out that those attacks were all caused by small groups of guerrillas. The team initiated it without much threat.

"Issue a notice immediately, asking all staff above the lieutenant level of the committee to stand by in the conference room." Victor ignored the suspicions of his subordinates. He continued to give orders, "Let the Communications Department immediately gather all telephone lines into the conference room and confirm the The border guard brigade and guards have unblocked communications."

"Comrade Captain," Culkin asked hesitantly, "Is this order a bit sloppy?"

"Follow the order," Victor walked to the coat rack and reached out to take off his military cap. Just as he was about to put it on his head, he heard the phone on the desk ring again.

He nodded to Culkin and motioned for the other party to answer the call.

Culkin picked up the phone, his face changed soon, and he asked in a deep voice: "When is the matter?"

He didn't know what the answer was on the phone, and he said again: "I will report to Captain Victor Victorovich. You must stick to your posts, and support will be here soon."

Victor stopped his hand and stared at him closely. If nothing else, there should be another attack.

Sure enough, after Kulkin hung up the phone, he said with a serious face: "Shaostop will let the station be attacked. The guard platoon has suffered serious losses and needs reinforcements."

Victor did not look at the map. He knew where this would stand. It was also in Sambir, 22 kilometers away from the No. 13 railway bridge.

In less than ten minutes, two consecutive key checkpoints were attacked, which is enough to raise one's vigilance.

"Convey my order, Culkin, I'm afraid we don't have much time," Victor said in a heavy tone when the general cap was put on his head, and then he turned and went out.

With the order of emergency mobilization, the entire building of the People's Committee of the Interior was boiling, and the cadres responsible for various tasks rushed back from their homes and gathered in the large conference room on the first floor of the building.

During the time when the personnel were concentrated, Culkin reported on the attacks on the four outposts. In addition, he also arranged for the messengers to contact the sentry stations one by one. As a result, three sentry stations lost contact. , There are two sentinel stations that cannot provide the new contact codes issued today.

When things have developed to this point, all signs prove one thing, that is, a large wave of enemies are trying to seize the traffic arteries, bridges and railway hubs in the border areas. This is definitely not a guerrilla attack. On the one hand, it is Because the guerrillas do not have such great strength, on the other hand, attacking such places is meaningless to the guerrillas.

Considering the possibility of imminent war, at midnight, Victor called the People’s Committee of the Interior of Kiev to report on the complicated situation in Lviv at this time, and put forward his own guess: the war might be within 12 to 24 hours. When the outbreak broke out, the Committee should immediately issue a warning to the Kiev Special Military District.

At this time, Victor could not predict how Kiev would react, he could only do his job well.

In order to deal with the likely upcoming war, he made several arrangements and asked his subordinates to implement them immediately: sort out all the documents above the "secret" level in the bureau, and prepare to burn them together at any time; arrange lurking personnel to ensure that in the event of a war When the outbreak broke out and Lviv was lost, the NKVD could still obtain intelligence information about Lviv; request the General Administration of the Militia to issue a mobilization order and issue weapons and ammunition; order the General Police and the city guards to take over banks, consumer goods and residents The warehouses and grain storage depots of the Service Committee are ready to do the work of material transshipment at any time; the engineers are ordered to install bombs at important factories, power plants, and municipal facilities in the urban area. Once the war breaks out and Lviv falls, they will Exploding bomb...

Having been in this world for nearly two years, Victor has been preparing for the coming of this war every moment, but it was not until the war was imminent that he realized that what he could really do was really pitiful.