Chapter 2169: escape plan

  When the German commander saw Henrik entering, a look of disgust flashed in his eyes. He has always disliked Poles, let alone a Pole who had defected from the Krajov Army. He had a heartfelt disgust for such a traitor.

  Although he wanted to verify the authenticity of the deployment map with Henrik, the German commander was still unwilling to talk to Henrik. He winked at his chief of staff, indicating that the other party should ask about this matter.

   "What's your name?" The chief of staff stepped forward and asked.

  The intelligence officer quickly pushed Henrik, and said in a low voice: "The chief of staff asked you something, answer him quickly. Tell the truth, don't lie."

  After learning about the other party's identity, Henrik quickly nodded and said, "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, my name is Henrik, and I'm a Polish intelligence agent who just joined in the second half of this year."

   "Henrik, let me ask you." The chief of staff picked up the deployment map rolled into a roll, and asked Henrik: "How did you get this deployment map?"

   "I bought it from a Russian officer."

   "Bought from a Russian officer?!" The chief of staff asked indifferently: "Can you ensure that the information he provided is true?"

"I can be sure, Your Excellency Chief of Staff. This defense plan is real." Henrik didn't wait for the chief of staff to ask again, and then continued on his own: "After the Russians sold information to us for the first time, in order to verify I went to the area with my brother-in-law to conduct reconnaissance on the authenticity of the deployment map, and finally found that the real terrain was more than 90% similar to the deployment map.”

  The chief of staff asked puzzledly after hearing this: "Who is your brother-in-law?"

When the intelligence officer went to find Henrik, he had roughly figured out the relationship between Henrik and Dobzharski. When he heard the chief of staff ask, he quickly interjected and replied: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, Henry Ke's brother-in-law is Dobzharski, the senior intelligence officer I mentioned."

   "Oh, so that's the case." The chief of staff nodded, and continued to ask: "Have you checked the second deployment map?"

   "No." Henrik answered very readily.

"Why?"

"Because when we got the second defense map, the Russian officer had already been exposed." Henrik concealed the real cause of Dobzharski's death from the Germans, but followed his script to deceive the Germans: "We realized that if we didn't move quickly, we might be captured by the Russians, so we left the village overnight with the defense map. When passing through the Russian defense line, unfortunately, my brother-in-law was killed by a Russian landmine..."

  The chief of staff tapped his finger on the table lightly, thinking quickly about what Henrik said. After a while, he asked again: "You said that you can confirm that this deployment plan is true, and on what basis did you make such a conclusion?"

"It's very simple." Henrik replied: "The deployment map we bought last time is part of this deployment map. After I got the map, after careful comparison, I found that the two are completely consistent. That is to say, it should be true."

  The German commander had already got the answer he wanted, and he winked at his chief of staff again, signaling that he could send Henrik away.

   "Henrik, the information you provided is very useful to us." The chief of staff was quite polite to Henrik: "Now you can leave."

  Henrik nodded and bowed to thank everyone, left the commander's office, picked up the small suitcase outside the door, and happily went home to announce the good news.

"Gentlemen," the German commander said to the chief of staff and the intelligence officer: "In this way, the defense plan obtained by the intelligence personnel is largely true. Our next combat deployment should refer to this plan." Arming map to make adjustments."

   "Your Excellency, Commander," although all indications indicated that this deployment map was true, the German chief of staff tentatively asked the commander out of caution, "Why don't we send someone over to verify it?"

   "There is no need for this." The German commander shook his head and said, "Don't forget that the scouts we sent in the early stage basically never came back. There is no need to send scouts to die for a piece of information that has been verified."

  Seeing that the commander did not plan to send scouts to reconnaissance, the intelligence officer couldn't help but secretly heave a sigh of relief. He didn't expect that Sokov's troops were well-prepared, and the scouts they sent basically never came back. If they really send someone to verify the authenticity of this information, it is possible that they will die in vain again.

  Although the chief of staff felt that it was inappropriate for the commander to do so, since the other party had already issued an order, he could only follow the order.

  Besides, when Henrik returned home with a small suitcase, the family was worried about his safety. Seeing that he had returned safely, the family breathed a sigh of relief.

  Jermon saw the suitcase in Henrik's hand, and asked tentatively, "What's in this suitcase?"

  Henrik put the suitcase on the table, and opened it in full view.

   After seeing clearly what was in the box, the family members were shocked.

   After a while, Henrik's sister asked tentatively, "Henrik, where did you get so much money?"

   "Where else could it be," Henrik said triumphantly; "Of course it's the money we got from selling information."

  Jermon asked in surprise: "Didn't you just say that the intelligence officer deliberately swallowed up the money and even kicked you out of the office. Why did his attitude towards you change so much in the blink of an eye?"

   "Do you still remember that the intelligence officer personally brought someone to my house to arrest me just now?"

"Remember." Sister Henrik said, "When you were taken away, we were still worried about your safety. But in a blink of an eye, you not only came back safely, but even brought back a box of money. It's just unbelievable."

"I was quite scared at the time, thinking that the intelligence officer was going to take me back and shoot me. After all, such things have happened many times before. In order to prevent certain secrets from being leaked, those who have been in contact with those secrets must be silenced. "Henrik said with lingering fear: "But when I got to the place, I found out that the intelligence officer took me back because the German commander asked whether the defense map was true or not. He was not sure, so he called me back to verify."

When he said this, Henrik stared at the small box in front of him, and said to himself: "I thought, this is a rare opportunity, I should take this opportunity to ask him for money, if he doesn't give it, I will not testify to him. Then I raised the matter of 8,000 pounds to him, and this time he answered simply, as long as I truthfully answer the Commander’s question, he will give me the 8,000 pounds he promised.”

"It seems that the Germans are quite trustworthy." Germon grabbed a stack of banknotes, carefully examined each piece of money, and said in his mouth: "I thought the money was completely wasted, but I didn't expect the Germans to pay for it in the end. Still give us the money."

  Henrik's sister looked at the money on the table, but had a different idea: "Since the money has been obtained, should we consider leaving here?"

   "Leave here?" Jamon asked in surprise, "Then where are we going?"

   "I think we can go to Gdansk." Sister Henrik said: "No one knows us there, and we can use this money to live a good life."

"Gdansk?!" After repeating the name of the place, Henrik remembered the place his sister had mentioned. It was called Danzig by the Germans, and it was an important port on the Baltic Sea coast. If possible, he could go there by boat. other European countries. Thinking of this, he tentatively asked: "Dear sister, it is nearly 200 kilometers from here to Gdansk, how should we get there?"

Henrik's sister looked at her brother and said, "Dobzhanski has a few friends who are engaged in black market business, and they will go to Gdansk to purchase every once in a while. According to the time, they will go to Gdansk again tomorrow." It's time to go, I'll ask them if they can take us out of the city."

Henrik and his sister were discussing about fleeing the city, but Jamon was not happy, "We just arrived today, and we haven't lived for two days, why are we going to another city? Anyway, we have money now , it’s the same no matter where you live, if you stay here, you won’t have to travel back and forth.”

"You can't say that," Henrik reminded his father. "The Russians and the Germans will soon be fighting in this area. If the Germans win, we can go back to our home; If the Germans lose, I'm afraid we will need to leave here and flee to other cities. At that time, it may not be so easy to find transportation."

"Without further delay, I will go to those friends of Dobzhanski and ask them when they will go to Getansk." Henrik's sister is unwilling to stay in this kind of city any longer, and just wants to leave early , So after making this suggestion, regardless of his parents' objections, he left home alone to find Dobzhansky's friends.

   Watching his daughter leave, Jamon felt a little unhappy: "Damn it, we just arrived in the city today, so we have to stay for a few days before leaving."

Seeing that his father was unwilling to leave the city, Henrik said to him: "This is just a small city, not much better than our village. But Gtansk is different. It is a bustling big city. It is also a very important port, and the supplies are much more abundant than here.”

   Hearing what his son said, Jamon inevitably hesitated again. According to his thinking, it is best to settle in this city. Anyway, it's relatively close to the village, only twenty or thirty kilometers away. After the Germans beat off the Russians, my family can return to the village without hesitation. But if you really go to Getansk and want to come back then, I'm afraid it will not be so easy.

  Thinking of this, he said to Henrik: "Son, I still think this city is good. How about I stay with your mother and you and your sister go to Gtansk?"

"No, no." Seeing that Jamon wanted to stay, Henrik quickly shook his head and denied it: "Our family is finally reunited. If we are separated, it may not be so easy to get together again. So I still suggest, If my sister can find a car to Getansk, we will leave the city tomorrow."

"Yeah, our family is finally reunited, how can we separate again?" After Henrik finished speaking, his mother went on to persuade Jamon, "You know, we are at war now, if we separate again, we will be separated again in the future." Whether we can meet again is still unknown."

The words of the two made Jamon's determination unavoidably shaken. Seeing this, Henrik said while the iron was hot: "I was in the German army headquarters today, and I heard the news that there will be a war in a few days. You know, this battle Once a fight breaks out, not only the frontier will be in full swing, but even our city, which is only a dozen or twenty kilometers away from the frontier, will be affected by the flames of war. Not only may the city be bombed by Russian planes, but even their Artillery can also move the artillery positions forward and bombard the city directly. At that time, people staying in the city will be in danger; and even if we want to escape, I am afraid we will not be able to find suitable means of transportation."

  Germon stared at the money on the table, and said thoughtfully: "So much money, if you encounter German interrogation on the road, it will definitely be confiscated. What should we do with it?"

"It's very simple." Henrik reached out and grabbed two handfuls of money from the suitcase, pushed them in front of his parents respectively, and said to them, "Each of us hides some money on us, even if we meet a German Searching, even being robbed halfway, we can still save a certain amount of funds.”

   Thinking of the possibility that the money he had finally obtained might be robbed on the way to Getansk, Jemon, who was a little tempted, began to waver again. He shook his head and said, "If we stay here, I don't think the money will be lost."

  In the following time, Henrik kept persuading Jamon, hoping that he would change his mind. But Jamon, who was willing to give up his life and money, had all the money in his hand, so how could he spit it out easily, so he insisted on staying in the city and never going to Getansk.

  In the evening, Henrik's sister finally returned home. She looked very tired, maybe she had walked too much, and Henrik noticed that her walking posture was a bit wrong, and her legs were trembling slightly.

  But that’s not what Henrik cares about. He wants to know if his sister has contacted the means of transportation to leave the city: "How is it? It's all settled?"

  "Yes." Henrik's sister nodded, and said with a dazed expression: "Tomorrow there will be a truck heading to Getansk. The driver is a friend of Dobzharski's. He promised to take our family out of here."

  But after hearing this, Jamon said capriciously: "Go, you go, I will definitely not go."

Hearing what her father said, Sister Henrik had a surprised expression on her face, and she turned to look at her younger brother: "Henrik, what's going on, why doesn't our father want to go with us Getansk?"

Henrik smiled wryly after hearing this, and said: "It was a good idea, and he also agreed to go to Getansk. But then I accidentally said that we might be interrogated by the Germans or robbed by bandits on the road. The money he was carrying might be robbed. When he heard that, he was immediately unhappy, and it was better to stay in the city, at least he didn’t have to worry about his money being robbed.”

After figuring out why his father was unwilling to leave, Sister Henrik said to him: "Don't worry, this friend of Dobzharski's often runs this route, and he is very familiar with the checkpoints along the way. We will go with him tomorrow, We can avoid being interrogated by the Germans along the way. As for the bandits you mentioned, you will never encounter them in the area controlled by the Germans. We can safely and boldly go to Getansk without any worries."