"Did you call just to verify the accuracy of the information?" Malinin asked and answered his own question before Sokov could speak: "You can rest assured about this, since the commander personally called you to inform you, that

The combat plan will definitely be implemented. As soon as the commander returns from Moscow, we will start making preparations for the war."

"Well, Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army, actually the reason why I called you today was not about this plan." Sokov said with some embarrassment: "It was about other things."

"Something else?" Ma Lining asked with some confusion: "What is it?"

"That's it, Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army." Sokov glanced at Meresiev standing next to him, and said into the microphone: "One of my regiment commanders reported to me that he had a soldier

, was an employee of the State Bank of Belarus before the war. Shortly after the war broke out, he was ordered to transfer the gold in the vault. Unexpectedly, he was bombed and intercepted by the German army on the way. In order to prevent the gold from falling into the hands of the Germans, they had to

Don’t sink the gold into the nearby swamp.”

Malinin is also a smart man. When he heard this, he immediately realized that since Sokov called him, it must be related to this batch of gold, so he tentatively asked: "Comrade Sokov, where did this batch of gold sink?

Is it in your defense zone?"

"There are still some parts within the range of friendly forces." Sokov said straight to the point: "Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army, I am calling you because I want you to come forward to coordinate the search work between us and friendly forces."

"How much gold is there in this batch?"

"180 tons!"

This amount made Malinin take a breath: "How did such a large amount of gold sink into the swamp?" He was worried that Sokov didn't understand what he meant, and specifically explained: "It was thrown into the swamp piece by piece.

Or was it put in a wooden box and sunk in the swamp?"

How to throw the gold into the swamp, Sokov really didn't know. He quickly covered the microphone with his hand, looked at Miresiev and asked: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, should this batch of gold be scattered and thrown into the swamp, or should it be packed in

Throw it in a wooden box?"

"Of course I put it in a wooden box and threw it away."

"Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army," Sokov said into the microphone after figuring out how the gold was thrown into the swamp: "The gold was put in wooden boxes and thrown into the swamp. In other words, our search work has become simpler.

.”

Sokov's statement is correct. If gold is thrown into the swamp piece by piece, even if you know the specific location, it may not be easy to fish out so many gold bricks piece by piece.
Chapter completed!