After only the beginning of the meal, Shi Quan and Elena dropped their knives and forks and ran out of the RV. Before he could start the ignition after taking off the motorcycle, Elena got on the motorcycle and hugged Shi Quan from behind, and then deliberately

He blew on the former's neck and said, "Let's go, knight!"

"If you don't want me to hit a tree, just be honest."

Shi Quan subconsciously shrank his neck, started his motorcycle and rushed out of the forest amidst Elena's laughter. He ran along the tractor road between the two forests. When he arrived at the other side, He Tianlei had already been waiting on his motorcycle for a long time.

After following He Tianlei for less than a kilometer to the east, Shi Quan finally saw Dayi Wan and Liu Xiaoye waiting by the RV.

"Where is the artillery position?" Shi Quan asked, patting away his slightly cold hands on his stomach.

"Follow me!" Big Ivan pointed to the forest behind him, "It's less than 30 meters inside."

"How did you find this place?" Shi Quan asked as he followed Big Ivan as he walked inside.

"It's all thanks to Ono." Big Ivan pointed at the arrogant little girl standing next to the RV, "Elena has a drone in the car, and Ono said he wanted to see if he could find anything from the air."

"Then you found out?"

"Then the drone lost control and fell."

Big Ivan pointed straight ahead, "It fell right there. Leizi found those things when he followed Ono here to look for the drone."

"So you broke my drone?" Elena held Liu Xiaoye's neck, clenched her fists and pressed her knuckles against Liu Xiaoye's forehead and started to exert force.

"Ivan said he would be reimbursed!" Liu Xiaoye tried to change the subject, trying to change the subject, "They also gave me a bonus!"

"I did say it, but what I said does not count. The big boss of the club is Yuri." Big Ivan grinned and sold the hero. His skillful operation was undoubtedly the true legacy of the old Soviet Union.

Ignoring the two girls' nonsense, the three brothers continued walking a few steps and saw two shriveled tires and a rusty iron pipe.

"What is this?" Shi Quan asked as he knelt down and knocked on the iron pipe.

"These are the gun carriage wheels and hoe of the Zis-3 anti-tank gun. Do you know Zis-3? One of the best artillery in the Soviet Union!" Big Ivan asked proudly.

Of course Shi Quan knew, and Ivan the Great was not exaggerating at all. Zis-3 was indeed the best artillery in the Soviet Union at that time, and could even be said to be the best artillery during World War II. Moreover, this evaluation was made by the German Krupp Company during World War II.

Given by the artillery engineer.

"You just said that at least one anti-tank artillery regiment is stationed here?" Shi Quan stood up and looked around, where is it?

"Follow me!"

Big Ivan led Shi Quan two steps inside and measured the remaining "Zhi"-shaped shallow pit on the ground with his feet. "This was a habit shared by the Soviet and German artillery forces at that time. They dug the gun emplacements lower to reduce the exposed area. This

The two extending trenches are where the auxiliary hoes are placed."

After walking a few meters further, Big Ivan pointed at his feet, "This is the second artillery position. We just counted it. If we continue walking forward from here, there are a total of 24 artillery positions, which happened to be during the Battle of Kursk."

The number of anti-tank destroyer artillery regiments before the Battle of Kursk was only 20."

Shi Quan walked along the artillery position and carefully looked forward in the direction where the muzzle of each artillery position pointed. This artillery position was almost parallel to the edge of the forest. There was only a distance of more than 20 meters between the two, and it was sandwiched between the forest.

Although there are dense pine trees growing in the more than 20 meters between the edge and the artillery position, none of the 24 gun positions is blocked by pine trees.

He could even imagine that the Soviet artillery stationed here fired 76mm shells from these hidden gun positions to the westernmost end of the hilly forest!

What proves his point are the two black arrows less than 10 kilometers away from him in the map field of view. This distance is just within the maximum range of the Zis-3 anti-tank gun!

"Now we can at least confirm that the German position should be in the hilly forest opposite."

"And we can roughly determine the location of the ammunition depot," Big Ivan added after he finished speaking, "If he really exists."

Shi Quan nodded in agreement. This is common sense. If the hilly area opposite the cultivated land was a German position, anyone with a brain would place the ammunition depot on the side facing away from the battlefield. Otherwise, it would become a job for the enemy.

target?

"Have they found their artillery stacking point?" Shi Quan asked, pointing to the remaining artillery pieces.

Big Ivan pointed deeper into the forest, "Less than 30 meters away from here should be the place where the Soviet artillery stored ammunition at that time. These traces of suspected trenches on the ground lead to there, but the artillery shells and other materials must have been used by the Soviet artillery at that time.

The army artillerymen took them away, otherwise more artillery wreckage would have been found here."

"Let's go and have a look!"

After Shi Quan finished speaking, he walked in along the faint traces of trenches in the forest. This direction was exactly the location marked by one of the green arrows on the map!

Walking along the remaining ditch to the end, the sky-blocking pine trees blocked all the light above the head, only the mottled light and shadows the size of bottle caps were missed, moving back and forth on the ground covered with pine needles as the tree crowns swayed. And this thing under my feet

This area is obviously lower than the surrounding area. If nothing else, this was the artillery headquarters and ammunition storage point at that time.

“There’s not much to see in this place”

Big Ivan pointed to the top of his head, "The absence of any scars on the surrounding pine trees proves that this place was not hit by the Germans, and the artillery has been withdrawn, so there will definitely be no supplies left here."

"How would you know if you don't look for it?"

Shi Quan picked up the mobile phone and said, "Xiaoye, bring three metal detectors and three shovels."

"immediately!"

Liu Xiaoye, who was learning radar operation from He Tianlei at the edge of the forest and was on guard duty, responded quickly, and not long after, he ran over carrying three heavy backpacks, one deep and one shallow.

When Iwan saw Shi Quan and Elena taking the backpacks and starting to assemble the detector, he could only sigh helplessly and open the backpack Liu Xiaoye threw at his feet.

"Elena, look counterclockwise along this area." Shi Quan pointed at the location of the green arrow and said.

Elena, who was in a very good mood, nodded happily, held up the metal detector, and started drawing circles with Shi Quan in the opposite direction. Big Ivan sighed again, and could only walk into the circle in the opposite direction.

Draw circles.

The three people walked and walked, bending down from time to time to dig out a can or even a cannon shell from the nutrient-rich black soil, but as Big Ivan said, there was nothing valuable at all.

It wasn't until Elena behind him let out an exclamation, and at the same time the green arrow in the map's field of vision dispersed into mist, that Shi Quan showed an imperceptible smile.

"What did you find?" Big Ivan dropped the metal detector he was holding in his hand and ran over.

"It looks like a plane!" Elena shouted excitedly, "I seem to have dug out the tail skin!"

"Plane?" The Shiquan brothers couldn't help but look up at the dense pine trees above their heads and around them. How did the plane fall?

But now is not the time to think about this. The two brothers ran over to help Elena expand the excavation area little by little. But as the hole got bigger and deeper, the three of them looked a little weird.

What kind of airplane is this? It’s just the butt of an airplane! And it’s an airplane butt that doesn’t even have a tail fin and is only less than two meters long!

"This is the Pei-2 plane." After Ivan said it, he felt it was inaccurate, so he said it again, "This is part of the Pei-2 plane, but where did it fall from?"

Shi Quan was equally curious. He really couldn't understand why such a broken airplane had the nerve to hold a green arrow on its tail?

The only way to answer the doubt was to continue digging. The three engineer shovels flew up and down until the surrounding black soil was cleared. Big Ivan threw away the engineer shovel in his hand, held the cone tail with both hands, and lifted it up with force to stand it upright.

Pushed aside.

There was a muffled sound, and the tail of the plane fell down again. The three of them looked at the things exposed from inside in surprise, and they all looked like they had seen a ghost.

"Why is there a corpse in here?" Elena pointed to the scattered corpse at her feet with a confused look on her face.

"To be precise, he is a pilot." Big Ivan walked over and looked at the remaining clothes on the ground. "This is a cotton jacket that was only issued to pilots during the Soviet period."

"But which pilot have you seen wearing a tank hat?" Shi Quan asked, holding up the leather tank hat with a vague shape.

"I've never seen a pilot fall from the sky hiding in the tail of a bomber." Big Ivan spread his hands, bent down and looked at the tail cone of the plane, trying to find some clues.

"Let's bury him first."

Shi Quan took out the body bag from his pocket, opened it and spread it next to him, calling for Elena to help collect the body of this strange pilot. As the pieces of bones were picked up by the two of them into the body bag, what was left on the ground was

A pile of remaining clothes and a dirty glass bottle.

"There seems to be a note in this bottle!"

Elena picked up the glass bottle and looked at the weak sunlight above her head. The mouth of the glass bottle was wrapped with layers of cloth strips. Through the stains on the bottle, she could vaguely see a piece of mold stained inside.

Shi Quan took out a clean cotton glove, took the bottle and carefully wiped the stains on it.

"vodka bottle"

Big Ivan came over at some point, pointed to the mark on the bottle and said, "This is the Volga brand vodka produced in Leningrad before the war. This bottle alone can sell for more than 100 US dollars."

"The note inside it might be worth more."

Shi Quan threw away his gloves, took out a strong flashlight and looked through the bottle at the words that could still be seen on the note: "He is a pilot of the 1st Army of the Soviet Air Force...Kursk...he is in

Before the sacrifice...the German...ammunition depot...this important...victory..."

Turning the bottle, Shi Quan continued to read, "If I am still alive after the war, I will lead you..., the 4th tank..."

The three of them looked at each other blankly, and shouted in unison, "Vasili!"
Chapter completed!