Bitola's camp had been built against the mountainside. It looked more like a crude cluster of temporary fortifications. Before nightfall, Tarolin and his group returned to the camp.
Afterward, they interrogated this Serbian operative. Clearly, when dealing with such people, the military was best at applying torture, even though they were not professional interrogators to begin with.
After a night of torment, this Serbian extremist finally could not endure any longer.
Inside the interrogation room, interrogator Antalier reported to Moss, Bitola's Supreme Military Commander:
"This man is named Gerlovski. He is a Serb from the former Macedonian region. According to his own account, he was likely trying to probe our strength. It seems the Serbian remnants are being very restless."
"Gerlovski was a company commander in the former Serbian 16th Division. He was born into a Serbian Orthodox family in Macedonia, and his father is a local priest in Bilato."
"Therefore, Gerlovski had been poisoned by narrow-minded nationalist ideology since childhood. After the Kingdom of Serbia annexed Macedonia, he resolutely chose to join the army and took part in both Balkan Wars..."
A Serb, an Orthodox believer, an extreme nationalist, born into a minor family in Macedonia... Without question, this Gerlovski was a typical Serbian operative.
Moss said, "Sure enough, the Serbs have never given up their desire to destroy us. The Empire paid an enormous price to eliminate the Kingdom of Serbia."
To conquer the Kingdom of Serbia, Austro-Hungarian casualties had exceeded four hundred thousand. Of course, this figure included ordinary civilians.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire did not actually care much about civilian casualties. After all, when the situation on the Serbian front had been at its worst, the Serbs had only managed to invade the Province of Bosnia.
And the Province of Bosnia was home to Serbs, Croats, and