"I can afford 230,000 US dollars." Zha Xifeng quoted another "sky-high price" when Wei Ran just said a word.
"Comrade Cha, please allow me to think about it."
Wei Ran said seriously, "This is not a matter of commission. It can even be said that commission is not important. I will at least try to determine the true identity of your adoptive father first."
"Thank you, thank you, Comrade Wei Ran!" Upon hearing this, Zha Xifeng stood up excitedly and held Wei Ran's hand firmly.
"Comrade Cha, do you still remember the specific time when you first met your adoptive father?" Wei Ran emphasized, "I mean, the specific time when you were captured by them for the first time."
"Can not remember"
Zha Xifeng shook her head regretfully, "I only remember that it was probably spring, probably in March, or... or April, it definitely can't be May."
Seeing Wei Ran's weird look, Zha Xifeng spread his hands and said, "At that time, I was just an orphan who didn't even have enough to eat. How could I care what day it was?"
"Where is the specific location?" Wei Ran continued to ask.
"To the west of Ha Giang City, a small village within 20 kilometers of the main peak of Laoshan"
Zha Xifeng replied almost subconsciously, "At that time, what was hidden in our village was the Type 59 130mm cannon produced by China. The scrap metal that was blown up is still dumped in the forest outside the village."
"Can't we find out from the more difficult official records the time when the artillery attack occurred there?" Wei Ran asked.
Hearing this, Zha Xifeng shook his head, "I can't find it. I didn't even find out which artillery unit the troops stationed there were."
"I understand," Wei Ran said after a moment of silence, "Comrade Cha, please give me some time."
"well."
Zha Xifeng nodded quickly, and after sitting down again, he said, "Frankly speaking, I have been thinking about whether I should ask you to help me for a long time.
But after you found the captain of the USS Johnston, your performance during the interview made me hesitate.
I admit, I underestimated your investigative abilities until I saw the photos in the library above you and the stories in them."
Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled and spread his hands, "I just can't and don't want to lie."
"I guess this is a common problem among historians, right?" Zha Xifeng asked with a smile.
"certainly"
Wei Ran nodded, "No historian would lie. Our professional mission is to restore the truth."
"Is it like the documentary you shot in Antarctica?"
Zha Xifeng obviously thought of something interesting and said with a smile that could not be concealed, "The first half of your documentary and the clips released earlier were so tempting that Comrade Channing was so excited that he lost sleep for several nights.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so anxious to bring me to Kazan to meet you.”
"Documentaries need to be processed artistically"
Wei Ran spread his hands in an "upright" manner, and through this conversation, the two of them also chatted about the Antarctic topic in a tacit understanding.
When the sun went down and the sky outside the basement completely darkened, Zha Xifeng also declined Wei Ran's invitation to have dinner with him, and only left his adoptive father's relics with confidence, and then got on Chan Ning's car.
Driving a sidecar motorcycle, the two disappeared into the night together.
"Big business?" Suisui couldn't help but asked curiously when she saw Wei Ran looking distracted.
“Not a business”
Wei Ran smiled, took out his cell phone and replied, "It's a help. I have to ask Xia Shushi. I'm sure he can help."
“What time is it?”
Before Suisui finished speaking, she had already snatched away Wei Ran's cell phone, "Besides, there's still a time difference. Let's contact you tomorrow. Let's eat first."
Hearing this, Wei Ran had no choice but to suppress some doubts in his heart and let Suisui pull him back home and sit at the big dining table on the first floor.
"This afternoon you and that Mr. Cha, ah, no, Comrade Cha."
Suisui snapped her fingers and said again, "When you and Comrade Cha were talking about things this afternoon, Aunt Anna came to see me."
"Divide the spoils?" Wei Ran took a sip of the hawthorn leaf tea brought by Lola and asked with a smile, "Or is the spoils divided unevenly?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Suisui said proudly, "Teacher Anna plans to hire me as the director of the studio."
"What?!"
Wei Ran, who almost choked, looked at Suisui sitting next to him in surprise, "You? Are you the director of a studio? Why?"
"Of course it's because I can make money!" Suisui became more and more proud when she said this.
"What about them?" Wei Ran asked, "Teacher Anna and Mr. Culp, are they ready to retire?"
"They are ready to concentrate on directing"
Suisui said with a smile on her face, "I have accepted their offer, and I will slowly make the handover with the studio in the next few months."
"No, wait."
Wei Ran put down the enamel teapot in his hand, "Are you going to quit your own business? Are you too busy?"
“What’s too busy to do?”
Suisui is particularly confident, "Thanks to Kamei for helping me recruit so many outstanding employees, I have no shortage of manpower now."
"As long as you're not tired"
Wei Ran pretended to be helpless and shook his head, but his heart could not help but tighten. He almost subconsciously began to wonder if those teachers were secretly digging some hole for him to jump into.
.
While he couldn't help but think wildly, Suisui couldn't wait to appoint Marta, who also had the need to edit videos, to serve as her "assistant to the studio director" in addition to being her personal doctor.
Already.
Not surprisingly, Marta, who is now steadily updating Wudong Frontline videos every week, readily accepted this new job without any mention of salary, and also hooked up with her little partner Lu Xinda.
While accompanying these enterprising girls to have dinner and listening to their heated discussions about making money, Wei Ran found an opportunity to take photos of the things that Cha Xifeng left behind after dinner.
He also compiled the known clues and some inner doubts into words and sent them to Xia Shushi in China.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the night when he was waiting for Xia Shushi's reply, Mr. Hans, who had exchanged the "Berlin Guard of Honor" for Major Schubert's relics a few days ago, also
He took his black assistant to the Danube River in Vienna.
"Have you brought anything?" A woman in a long skirt sitting on a leisure bench by the river asked without looking back.
"Brought it"
As Mr. Hans spoke, he had already opened his briefcase and took out the relics he had exchanged from Wei Ran.
"Go deliver it to Major Schubert's family."
The woman in the long skirt just glanced at it and then returned her gaze to the sparkling river, "Evaluate that Chinese man."
"Just a greedy ordinary person, but he was packaged to be very successful."
Hans replied as he put away the relics, "There are many beautiful girls around him, and those girls seem to be smarter than him."
"Is anyone following you along the way?" the young woman in a long skirt asked casually.
"No." Hans shook his head firmly, "It was very peaceful along the way."
"Go ahead"
The woman in the long skirt had already put on her sunglasses as she spoke, stood up facing the setting sun, and walked towards an old building on the opposite side of the road.
In the blink of an eye, early the next morning, while Wei Ran and Suisui were busy exercising in bed, Xia Shushi also sent a series of WeChat messages, followed by a voice call.
"You scumbag friend really knows how to choose the right time," Suisui complained helplessly.
"Continue later"
Wei Ran smiled, separated the two of them, got out of bed, answered the other party's voice call, and started to put on pajamas.
"Where did you get it?" Xia Shushi asked straightforwardly.
"What?" Wei Ran asked pretending to be confused.
"What else?"
Xia Shushi asked, "As for those photos you sent in the middle of the night yesterday, where did you get them?"
"In the hands of a Vietnamese," Wei Ran replied, "can you find anything?"
“It’s not that easy”
Xia Shushi paused and continued, "But I can see something."
"Tell me about it," Wei Ran, who had already put on his pajamas, said while walking out of the bedroom with his cell phone.
"It's elite"
"You still need to tell me?"
"Mainly the Little Bayi Radio Station"
Xia Shushi had no intention of quarreling with Wei Ran and said straightforwardly, "According to your description, that team carried out artillery guidance and possibly captured prisoners. In this case, there is no need for them to bring that small Bayi.
Radio.”
"How do you say that?" Wei Ran asked, sitting on the sofa in the small living room on the second floor.
"Whether it was a self-defense counterattack or a subsequent round of battles, the power of the Xiaobayi radio station was too great. Let alone Xiaobayi, even a two-watt silicon radio station would be unable to report the position as soon as it was turned on if it performed the task of artillery guidance.
will be detected."
Xia Shushi said firmly, "So that radio station might just be a photo prop. What they actually carried to carry out the mission was most likely Radio 884 and Command Plane 861. You can confirm this in that group photo."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately found the colorful group photo and at the same time heard Xia Shushi say, "The third person from the left in the front row and the first person on the right noticed the headphones around their necks and the luggage bags hanging on their chests.
Is there an antenna sticking out of it? That’s the 861 command plane I just mentioned.
In addition, there is the one on the left side of the back row, which is the 884 radio station."
"So what do you want to say?" Wei Ran asked while looking at the photo carefully.
"The frequency band of Xiaobayi is between 1.6MHz and 12MHz. It is used to equip division-level infantry units. It is impossible for such a ten-person team to carry out cross-border missions, and there is no need at all."
Xia Shushi explained eloquently, "The 861 command plane I just mentioned is mainly equipped for artillery, but it is also equipped for infantry squads. It can be regarded as a supplement to the 884 radio station. The two can communicate.
We were using stations like 884 back then, and the Monkeys were also using them. Both sides even had a Zaun talk show on the radio channel. But the appearance of the 861 command plane was a bit strange."
"How do you say that?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"At that time, most of the cross-border reconnaissance or other missions used the 7013 command aircraft, which only had two bands, 66.432MHz and 66.612MHz. At the Laoshan front line, this was the only radio that the Vietnamese army did not equip. In other words,
The confidentiality will be higher using that machine."
"So?" Wei Ran asked patiently.
"Those who use the 861 command plane are most likely to be artillerymen. In other words, at least the team in the photo is most likely dedicated to performing artillery observation and guidance tasks, rather than the various reconnaissance brigades that later perform special operations."
"So grabbing the tongue is just a casual thing?" Wei Ran asked.
"That's not important"
Xia Shushi said, "Now we can talk about the timeline. I saw what you sent me, saying that the team appeared in the spring of 1984. The specific month is not sure, right?"
"right"
"On April 2, 1984, our 40th Division of the 14th Army conducted artillery cleaning of the two mountain areas for 26 days, and captured the main peak of Laoshan before 5:30 on the morning of the 28th."
Xia Shushi paused and continued, "Then on July 6 of the same year, monkey agents attacked our artillery detection radar and field hospital. The chief designer became angry, and then the subsequent special operations began.
To sum up, I guess that the team in the photo you are looking for is probably the artillery observation scouts sent before the capture of Laoshan, to be precise, before the 26-day artillery battle."
Without giving Wei Ran a chance to speak, Xia Shushi continued, "Then let's talk about the five-leaf camouflage in the group photo. As far as I know, the addition of a mask to the five-leaf camouflage was only done in 1985, and the mask was
The style is also different from the one in the photo, it looks more like they DIYed it themselves.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! From these two points, it may be a breakthrough, and maybe you can find the unit you belong to."
"How do you explain the other things?" Wei Ran asked, "For example, the paratrooper knife."
"have no idea"
Xia Shushi replied simply, "Not only do I not know how to explain the paratrooper knife, but the paratrooper pot is also awkward, and the vest worn by the man in the other photo is also a problem."
"Wait, paratrooper pot?"
Wei Ran subconsciously looked at the kettle among the things on the table, "Isn't this a 78-kettle?"
"The cloth cover on the outside is indeed a 78 pot, but the inside is a 65 paratrooper pot."
Xia Shushi explained, "Actually, there is no difference. It's just that the handle of the lunch box of the paratrooper bottle was sprayed with green paint. In my opinion, the main reason why I put the 78 pot sleeve on this pot is just to better protect the kettle."
"Continue talking about the vest in the second photo," Wei Ran urged while studying the kettle.
"That vest can definitely be the equipment used by the 139th Division of the 47th Army during Operation Black Panther in 1987, but there is an unexplainable thing."
After a pause, Xia Shushi continued, "As I just said, on April 2, 1984, the 40th Division of the 14th Army conducted artillery sweeps of the Liangshan area for 26 days.
If our previous speculation is correct, the person in the photo is most likely an artillery observer in an artillery formation under the 40th Division of the 14th Army.
But if our speculation is correct, he could not have participated in Operation Black Panther in 1987."
"So it's inconsistent?" Wei Ran smacked his lips, feeling that the other party just wasted his morning exercise time.
"But I am more than 80% sure that my guess is correct."
Xia Shushi said stubbornly, "I just don't understand how paratroopers' equipment appears, and how the people in the photo are wearing the vests from Operation Black Panther in 1987."
"Can you find the identities of these soldiers in the group photo?" Wei Ran simply asked the most critical root question.
"Let me try"
Xia Shushi replied, "I will send it to you when I find the relevant records. In addition, I suggest you try to scrape off the paint on the outside of that glorious bomb. There may be something hidden inside."
"I'll try it later," Wei Ran said, reaching out and picking up the glory bomb.
"If you find anything, please send it to me as soon as possible." After Xia Shushi finished speaking, he simply hung up the phone.
Weighing the glory bomb in his hand, Wei Ran threw the phone aside, took out the paratrooper knife from the metal book, and carefully scratched the thick black paint on the glory bomb with the sharp stainless steel blade.
As the paint peeled off bit by bit, he also noticed that the shell of the grenade was really engraved with elegant Chinese characters!
