At around one o'clock in the night, a tattered GAZ 51 truck quietly left the farm without turning on the lights. Elena, who was driving the truck, wore a night vision goggle on her head. Sitting next to her were Nasha and Liu

Ono. In the back compartment, the three Shiquan brothers were lying on a pile of soft straw, blowing the cold wind and counting the stars in the sky.

Along the field road, the dilapidated old Gas slowly drove to the lake. Big Ivan was the first to jump out of the car and accurately found the gun block that was thrown into the mud at the lake in the afternoon. At the same time, Shi Quan and others

All the necessary tools have been moved down.

"Ono goes to look out on the roof of the car. Nasha, you and Elena use an inflatable boat to search by the lake."

Before Shi Quan finished speaking, the three women took action on their own. Liu Xiaoye turned on the low-light night vision device and climbed onto the roof of the car like a monkey to observe the surrounding situation.

Nasha and Elena carried the rubber boat to the lake. One person held an extended metal detector, and the other held a strong magnet salvage rope and started working.

As for the three Shi Quan brothers, they helped each other put on their diving masks, each chose a position and slowly walked into the river. As the cold lake water gradually submerged their heads, the three of them invariably turned on the bright lights fixed on their shoulders.

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Only when they got down into the lake did they really see the structure of the lake. No wonder Big Ivan said that many people had drowned in this lake.

This lake that doesn't even have a name is almost a cliff-like geological structure. It spreads more than ten meters along the lake surface toward the center of the lake. There is less and less silt, but more and more gravel. Even the depth suddenly increases.

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The three brothers controlled the speed and slowly descended. When the depth gauge indicated that they had reached 36 meters underwater, they finally stepped on the gravel covered with water plants and garbage. But this was not over yet. Directly in front of them, in the direction of the center of the lake

At most a distance of six or seven meters, the underwater cliff appeared again!

There was nothing to hesitate. He Tianlei went left to Shiquan and to the right, and the three brothers explored down again along the cliff. When the reading of the depth gauge dropped little by little to below -50, the three brothers, less than ten meters apart, formed a fierce formation.

It was deflected by the current and floated far away!

Why are there undercurrents underwater?

Shi Quan tried his best to calm down, controlled his body to get closer to the rock wall, and saw the opportunity to grab a protruding rock with force.

It was only then that he had the intention to look at He Tianlei and Dayi Wan. But except for the vague light group, they could not be seen at all in his field of vision!

Two full minutes later, two green light pillars rose from the bottom of the lake to the left of Shi Quan, and then sent out a long and short flashing frequency. Seeing this, Shi Quan breathed a sigh of relief. This signal was the frequency they had agreed upon.

Indicates temporary safety.

At first, the laser pointer responded to the signal in their direction. Shi Quan suppressed the worries in his heart and continued to drift to the right while holding on to the rock wall. It was less than 30 meters away from the only green arrow left in the lake, but the pavement was

The incoming water made it very difficult for him to move.

Controlling his body to descend little by little, Shi Quan lay on the bottom of the lake covered with weeds and slowly wriggled forward like a shrimp.

one meter

two meters

Ten meters

twenty meters

When he saw the crack on the rock wall on the right side of his body, which was three meters long and half a meter wide, he found the source of the undercurrent.

There is actually a spring under this lake, and it is so big! But where does this water go? This spring has been flowing out for many years, so it stands to reason that this lake will only get bigger and bigger. He couldn't help but look back behind him

In the direction of Big Ivan and the two brothers, these two unlucky guys were not washed into the underground river, right?

Temporarily giving up the intention of sending a signal, Shi Quan continued to move forward along the rocky lake bed. Until his body passed the spring above his head, the impact pressure of the surrounding water also slowed down a bit.

At the same time, he finally saw what the green arrow marked!

It's not Stalin's hammer! No, to be precise, it should be more than Stalin's hammer! That's not right, but he really doesn't know how to describe what he saw in front of him.

Under the green arrow is indeed the Stalin Hammer gun mount covered with a lot of garbage and dense weeds. But under the gun mount, not only is there no gun body, but a German Panzer III tank!

In addition to the tank, there is also a crane lying on its side next to the tank and gun mount! Even the ropes on the crane's hook are still connected to the gun mount!

What's even more frightening is that in the mud-filled gap between the tank and the gun mount, there is actually a diver stuck! The sudden appearance of a human figure under the dark water scared Shi Quan to death!

After calming down, Shi Quan carefully floated over. Under the bright light, he could see clearly that there were more than just divers here. Apart from the stuck diver, there was also an unlucky guy stuck in the tank turret.

Woolen cloth!

It seems that the local excavation party didn’t discover this place, but they couldn’t fish it out! Not only that, they even used a crane in their previous salvage attempts!

But where is the cannon body? There is no cannon body?

Shi Quan was not in a hurry to touch the steel group in front of him, which was sleeping together in an awkward position. Keeping this arrow could help with positioning. After all, he was just here tonight to find out the situation.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he took out a drink bottle in a net bag from the bag. There was a small LED light in the empty bottle, and a high-power fishing line was tied to the mouth of the bottle.

After releasing his hand and letting the plastic bottle float upward with the fishing line, Shi Quan fixed the wire passing through the spool to the crane.

Shi Quan had just finished his work when another green arrow floating on the lake in the map view suddenly dissipated into a cloud of mist without any warning. He subconsciously turned around and saw that the water behind him was faintly flashing.

With the green light, it seems that Big Ivan and the others have also made a discovery.

He controlled the laser light to point in the direction of Big Ivan with three long and one short frequencies. After waiting for the other party to reply with a signal of the same frequency, Shi Quan took one last look at the gun mount and the No. 3 tank, and then controlled his body to slowly float up.

When the three of them emerged from the water one after another, Big Ivan took off his mask and shouted excitedly, "Yuri, I have good news and bad news here."

"Don't be too pretentious now. Let's talk about it later."

Shi Quan smiled and took the rope Elena threw from the shore, and climbed up the lake shore on the soft mud.

"Leizi and I found Stalin's Hammer"

Big Ivan allowed Nasha to help him take off his dry diving suit, "but the bad news is that its tracked gun mount is missing."

"I also have two pieces of good news here."

Before Shi Quan could say the second half of the sentence, Big Ivan shouted, "You found the gun mount, right? What's the other good news?"

"Another good news is that there is a Panzer III tank underneath it." Shi Quan took off the weights from his waist and threw them into the car, and continued to add, "A complete Panzer III tank!"

"Brothers, I also have bad news."

He Tianlei also came over to join in the fun, "I looked at the depth gauge before I came up. Ivan and I found that the depth of the cannon body is 71 meters. It is not easy to fish it out at this depth."

"This is really bad news"

Shi Quan couldn't help but frowned, "The place where I found the gun mount and the tank was 63 meters deep, and there was a spring with a very high flow rate nearby. The undercurrent we encountered was the spring water that spewed out from there."

"What about using the floating bag that was used to salvage the self-propelled artillery?" Big Ivan had a bad idea.

This is indeed a bad idea. Once the floating bag is inflated, it is likely to be carried away by the current. If it is punctured by something while floating, there may be an accident.

"Let's consider floating bags as a backup first. Besides, where can I buy floating bags in this place?" Shi Quan neither refused nor agreed, "Elena, have the bottles been assigned their positions?"

"It's all fixed with fishing wire, and the LED lights have also been taken out." Elena replied.

“Go back to the farm to study how to fish it out first, and we’ll come back when we think of a solution!”

When the dilapidated old Gas drove back to the farm, everyone swarmed into Shiquan's RV.

“Start with the easy ones”

Shi Quan drew a cross-section on the A4 paper with a few strokes, "The lake has a two-step structure under the water, with only a gentle slope more than ten meters away from the shore.

In other words, we have to find a way to float the salvaged objects to a gentle slope first, and then solve the trouble caused by the mud. The Stalin Hammer gun body weighs more than 5 tons, the gun mount is at least 11 tons, and the Panzer III tank also weighs at least 15 tons.

Weighing tons, any one of them will be in great trouble if they get stuck in the mud."

"How about we cut down some trees in the fir forest next to it?" Big Ivan didn't know if he was hit on the head by Stalin's hammer underwater, and he came up with these bad ideas one after another.

"You might as well build a pier there."

Nasha rolled her eyes. There was too much noise in cutting down trees, and the amount of work was too large. People in the surrounding villages would probably know about it before they even laid out the fir trees.

"Repair the pier?"

He Tianlei's eyes lit up, "Nasha is right, we can really build a pier!"

Seeing that everyone was focusing on him, He Tianlei said happily, "Let's buy a flatbed trailer. It doesn't need to be too good. It doesn't matter if it's scrapped. We just need to park it in the mud on the shore."

"This is indeed a method"

Big Ivan took out his notebook and wrote down, "Just leave this matter to me. There is a flatbed truck transporting wood in Guzivka Village. You can buy some logs over there when the time comes. They will definitely be used."

"The problem of transporting them out has been solved, what's left is how to get them to the surface."

After Shi Quan and He Tianlei brothers described the underwater conditions on both sides, everyone fell into deep thought. It was not an easy task to make the trophies float up without being affected by the current.

"I have an idea"

Elena drew a simple diagram on the paper, "This is actually a problem of addition and subtraction. Let's ignore the gun body. It is so far away that the impact of the water flow will not be too big. Yuri just said that there is a Panzer III tank underwater.

. We can completely use it as an anchor point. As long as the buoyancy of the salvage bag offsets the weight of the gun mount and the remaining buoyancy is less than the dead weight of the tank, then we don’t have to worry about the current taking away the floating gun mount.”

"What about the No. 3 tank?" Nasha pointed to the small tank drawn on Elena's sketch, "How to get it out?"

The Panzer III tank is not the Panzer III assault gun. Its total production is only more than 6,000 units. This production quantity is almost half less than the Panzer III assault gun. At the same time, because it was produced earlier, its surviving quantity is also longer.

Much less. In other words, it is worth more!

"Isn't there a crane there?"

Shi Quan said calmly, "Just use that crane as an anchor point. Although the weight is indeed a bit lighter, don't forget that we are here for Stalin's Hammer. Tank No. 3 can only be regarded as an unexpected gain. If that crane
Chapter completed!