At 3:30 in the morning, Wei Ran was awakened by the sudden light coming on from his deep sleep.
When he opened his eyes, he immediately saw Captain Letts, who was fully dressed, standing beside the bed looking at him. The head of his silver-wrapped cane was still tapping the bed frame of the bunk bed, making a clicking sound.
A soft clicking sound.
"Get up quickly when you wake up," Captain Letts reminded in a low voice, "We are going to start work."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately got out of bed, put on his boots as quickly as possible, and then put on the three-piece silly flying suit he got last night and the helmet hanging on the bedside.
When he was ready, Captain Letts immediately turned off the lights and limped out of the room with him.
However, Wei Ran thought they were going to carry out transportation at night again, but he didn't expect that this time, Captain Letts actually took him to the oil warehouse.
"These oil barrels placed against the wall were all transported last night. A can of oil was taken from each barrel and put into the empty barrel. We have to make up for the losses incurred yesterday before dawn."
While Captain Letts explained in a low voice, he also handed Wei Yan a rubber tube less than one meter long and a 10-liter water tank.
This...is this even okay?
Wei Ran looked at the greasy tools in his hands, and then at Captain Letts who was walking out of the warehouse and preparing to lock the door from the outside, as well as the row of 200-liter oil drums against the wall in the warehouse and the empty tanks that had been prepared in advance.
Bucket, finally nodded resignedly.
Taking off the cumbersome steel helmet and three-piece pilot suit on his head, Wei Ran, like a shameless oil guzzler, gently unscrewed the oil drums that had just been shipped last night under the dim light, and used
The siphon principle draws a can of fuel from each bucket, and then pours it into the 200-liter empty bucket prepared in advance.
At the same time, Captain Letts had gone into another warehouse next door, dragging a sack and occasionally throwing a few potatoes, onions, carrots, sausages or even packets of seasonings into it.
After about an hour, the door of the oil warehouse was opened a crack again, and Wei Ran, who had already completed his work, immediately got out.
"Are you done?" Captain Letts asked in a low voice.
"It's done." Wei Ran, who was holding a steel helmet and a three-piece pilot suit, yawned and replied in a low voice. He never expected that he would get up in the middle of the night to steal fuel.
Upon hearing this, Captain Letts immediately locked the door, and then took a sack full of vegetables, fruits, and various food and drinks from the warehouse next door, and then took two bags from the warehouse where coal was stored.
A tin bucket filled with coking coal.
As expected, these items were brought into the garage and loaded into the trailers of the two half-track motorcycles covered by canvas.
By the time they finished all this work, it was already five o'clock in the morning, and the fortress was gradually becoming lively. But they had already returned to the room, took off their clothes and lay on their respective beds and continued to sleep soundly.
By the time he was woken up again by Captain Letts, it was already half past seven in the morning.
After eating a fairly hearty army stew and a cup of coffee for breakfast, Captain Letts finally fulfilled his duties as a quartermaster, and Wei Ran, who was nominally his assistant, was not idle at all.
When I arrive, I either send some vegetables to the kitchen, prepare some ammunition for the firepower point, or send some medicine to the infirmary.
As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is impossible to be straight. With such a boss, if Wei Ran does not get some benefits for himself, he will be sorry for this job.
So without even waiting for dinner, he had already packed all kinds of medicines into the "picked up" US military medical bag. By the way, he also filled the British army's kettle that originally only contained some hawthorn leaf tea and the portable wine bottle.
It's full of wine and I don't know who should have drank it.
Not only that, even for the anti-tank gun that he had never had a chance to use this time, he took advantage of helping deliver ammunition to the air defense unit and replenished the ammunition. He also took a few extra high-explosive armor-piercing bullets and threw them into his bag.
spare.
Of course, in addition to these, he also did not forget to pay attention to who had a camera and film in his hand. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, even he had already
I began to worry about where to put the extra pairs of socks and the issued standard gloves, but I still hadn’t “borrowed” the crucial camera.
"Victor, you are more suitable to be a quartermaster than me."
During dinner, Captain Leitz chewed his dinner slowly while praising Wei Ran who was sitting opposite.
"If I have the opportunity in the future, I will work hard in this direction."
Wei Ran responded frankly to the other person's compliment, and at the same time lowered his voice and asked, "Is there anything I need to pay extra attention to?"
"The chain dogs we keep in the fort never check the garage."
Captain Letts leaned forward and lowered his voice and continued, "If they find out, don't panic. Just say that it is to prepare for reissue due to insufficient supply. Those idiots don't know how to manage a warehouse."
"They only know how to chew bones," Wei Ran responded with a hint of contempt, which was immediately replaced by the former's nod of approval.
After finishing dinner while chatting about chain dogs, the two waited until it got dark, then drove the half-track motorcycle again, carrying the supplies loaded on it in advance and leaving the fortress. Just like yesterday, they rushed along the creek to the mill in the forest.
beside.
Still with the help of a small boat converted from half an oil drum and a narrow waterway, these supplies were transported to the abandoned castle on the other side by Letts' daughter Sophie.
After delivering supplies and ammunition to this place, the two of them drove the car to the wooden house and also put some ammunition here.
Only this time, there were no trophies in the wooden house. Instead, there were two children who looked to be about the same age as Dominic who had just been delivered yesterday.
Compared with Dominic, the conditions of these two little guys, who were wearing the uniforms of the Youth League or the Labor Service Corps respectively, were not in good condition. Although the two young men did not suffer any external injuries, their pale and frightened faces and constantly shaking bodies were...
But it all implies that they must have experienced some terrible things.
"Bindfold their eyes and tie their hands behind their backs." Captain Letts issued an order that was anticipated by the guards.
Seeing that the other party had no intention of explaining, Wei Ran reached out and took the rope from the other party, tied the hands of the two obviously frightened children behind their backs, and then covered their eyes with cloth strips.
Under the command of Captain Letts, the two children were helped into the empty tow truck. Then Captain Letts directly covered each of them with a thick canvas and tied them tightly with ropes.
Without any explanation or any hint, Captain Letts drove the car ahead and hurried back to the mill with the gas.
Silently, he sent the two teenagers, whose hands were tied behind their backs and blindfolded, into the waterway, and watched as they waded farther and farther through the cold river under the leadership of Sophie, and were eventually swallowed up by the darkness.
"Let's go back." Captain Letts slammed the floor and left the mill again with the ignition.
"Don't you want to explain?" Wei Ran asked before the other party started the car. "Explain what?"
Captain Letts asked a question, and then said nonchalantly, "They are just poor people who were frightened by the war. They will die in this forest sooner or later."
"So you saved them?" "Saved?"
Captain Letts snorted and strenuously stepped into the driver's seat, "I'm just helping those little losers collect the bodies in advance. Okay, go back quickly. You go ahead of me this time."
Hearing this, Wei Ran opened his mouth, and finally raised his legs and sat in the driver's seat, steering the half-track motorcycle and walking ahead along the stream.
The journey back to the fortress was smooth, but Captain Letts did nothing else that night, and the Weiyan finally no longer had to get up in the middle of the night to steal oil and food.
I followed Captain Letts and worked like this for another two days. By the evening of the third day, when Wei Ran was able to lead the way and drive in the dark to the cabin in the forest, there were also people in the cabin. Not too many, but not too much.
Too little loot. Before that, they had just sent an extra cart of supplies and a barrel of fuel to the mill.
"Listen Victor"
Captain Letts took advantage of the guard to collect the registered trophies.
When he was loading the truck, he said, "This is the last batch. After the supplies are delivered to the mill tomorrow afternoon, I will find someone to take you to participate in a sneak attack on the American camp. You will die in that conflict.
"
"Then shall I rush to the mill myself?" Wei Ran asked while fixing the two boxes of loot with ropes.
"Yes." Captain Letts nodded, "The safety over there will be left to you from now on."
"Don't worry," Wei Ran responded absently, and at the same time couldn't help but wonder when the American soldiers Timov and Buck appeared over there at the mill.
"Let's go"
Captain Letts got into the driver's seat of the half-track motorcycle with difficulty, "Let's see what good things they brought this time."
Under his leadership, the two half-track motorcycles drove out of the forest again. As expected, there was already a truck waiting for them outside the forest.
"Teacher Letts"
The two young men from the labor group who had met three days ago jumped out of the cab and said hello in unison.
"What good things did you bring this time?" Captain Letts asked with a smile.
"We got the medicines Dominic needs, enough for him to take for a long time."
While the trainee squad leader was speaking, he had already untied the rope and carried one of the boxes filled with trophies into the cab.
"This time we got a lot of flour and cheese," another exempt soldier said, pointing to the truck behind him, "and there is also a Christmas gift that my brother prepared for Sophie in advance." "Christmas gift?" Captain Letts was stunned.
Stunned, "Isn't it only November?" "Yes, teacher"
The exempt soldier explained as he put the flour into the trailer, "My brother secretly got it from the contraband warehouse. He said Sophie must like it, so he asked me to deliver it in advance. Anyway,
These things should have been burned, and there was no need to worry about anyone discovering them."
"You all have to be careful. If you are caught by those chain dogs, you will be in trouble." Captain Letts couldn't help but remind him.
"Don't worry, Mr. Letts."
The trainee squad leader, who was also carrying a bag of flour, said confidently, "Since his brother joined the chain dog, we can always get the news in advance, but you should pay attention to your safety."
"Who would have trouble with a quartermaster?"
Before Captain Letts finished speaking, the exempt soldier carried a canvas roll less than one meter long but as thick as a thigh and placed it in the trailer. Then he covered it tightly with the flour brought by his companions.
Strictly.
"That's true, Mr. Letts, are everyone here now?" the trainee monitor asked with concern.
"We're all here." Captain Letts nodded, lit a cigarette and sighed, "Now we just have to wait for the war to end."
"My brother said that this war may not last long." The exempt soldier said with a trace of happiness.
"This war should have ended long ago"
The trainee squad leader who had already brought another bag of flour followed, his tone equally full of expectation.
In the low-pitched exchanges between the three teachers and students, the two half-track motorcycles were quickly filled with various supplies.
After patting the flour on his hands, the trainee monitor stretched out his hand and said, "Teacher Leitz, the next time we meet is after the war in the forest, I hope."
"Hopefully we will all be alive by then"
Captain Letz protected the other party and patted the other party's back gently, "Franz, and Thomas, you two must live, and Thomas's brother Jerome must also live."
Thomas, tell your brother for me that I have known for a long time that he likes Sophie, and I would be happy to see Sophie date him."
"I will tell my brother," the exempt soldier Thomas said with a silly smile, and at the same time gave Captain Leitz a gentle hug.
"Okay, we're leaving, goodbye.
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As the two young men waved goodbye, Wei Ran drove a half-track motorcycle and followed Captain Leitz back to the camp again.
As expected, I waited until 3:30 in the morning.
Weiran did another oil drain and successfully distributed a barrel of fuel, which made up for the deficit caused by sending extra fuel to the mill.
Knowing that this was his last day at the fortress, Wei Ran, while working with Captain Letts, also found out his plan from the other side's mouth.
According to the plan of this balding old man, the castle has already stocked up enough supplies to last a whole winter. Therefore, in order to ensure safety, we will reduce contact with there and stop delivering supplies.
On the other hand, in view of the current situation, Captain Letts is also prepared. According to his plan, he will take the opportunity to find a way to escape when the Americans capture this fortress. Of course, if the Americans cannot attack here,
He could only continue to be his quartermaster.
But no matter what, before the war in this forest ends, he will find a way to escape and join his daughter Sophie, and by the way, he will also bring Dominic's parents and younger brother with him.
In the evening of this day, the Weifan team followed Captain Letts to deliver the supplies prepared in advance to the mill for the last time.
Unlike before, this time Captain Letts and his daughter Sophie chatted for a long time in the night. Accordingly, the moving work was also handed over to Wei Ran and Dominic who was waiting at the other end of the waterway.
After he sent the last few boxes of supplies along with his backpack, Sophie waited for him to climb out of the waterway and immediately handed him an ordinary watch. At the same time, she showed the watch dial on her hand and said,
"Victor, I have already set the time on these two watches. At nine o'clock tomorrow evening, I will open the water gate on the other side. You only have five minutes. After five minutes, I will close the water gate.
So if you don't make it within five minutes, you have to find a way to swim back before you drown."
"No problem, I will arrive on time at nine o'clock tomorrow night." Wei Ran said, taking the watch that was obviously seized from the Americans and putting it on his wrist.
"See you tomorrow, Victor." Sophie took the initiative to hug Wei Ran, then simply turned around and jumped into the waterway, dragging the empty oil drum boat and disappearing.
After sealing the floor for the last time, Captain Letts said as he walked out, "Tomorrow evening, someone will take you to the supply point of the cabin. Then you will hide in the cabin and come over by yourself after dark. You know that, right?"
?”
"Know the road." Wei Ran nodded. He ran there every night, so of course he knew the road.
"Let's go." As Captain Letts spoke, he had already started the half-track motorcycle.
The two of them drove back to the fort one after the other, and took another round of ammunition supplies to the cabin supply point.
When the two of them returned to the fort again, Captain Letts put down what he was holding and took him straight to the canteen with his cane. After each of them had an incredibly caloric dinner, he sat down with a man who looked to be in his fifties.
old man opposite.
"Jens, this is Victor, the newcomer who arrived a few days ago."
"What? Mr. Quartermaster, do you want to seduce people into my place again?"
The old guy named Jens picked up a wrinkled apple and took a bite. He stared at Wei Ran's mutilated right hand and asked, "What's wrong with your hand?"
"Sniper shot" Wei Ran replied with a normal expression.
"Snipers? Americans or Soviets?" Jens asked rather inquisitively.
"Soviet people," Wei Ran replied casually. "When?" Jens continued to ask.
Putting down the fork in his hand, Wei Ran smiled and replied, "This time last year, I was in Kiev."
“Good luck”
Jens finally did not continue to ask, but took another big bite of the apple, chewed it, and let the juice wet his beard.
Seeing this, Captain Letts glanced at the soldiers passing by without any trace, and took over the topic with a normal expression, "Anyway, let him and you go to the front line to fight the Americans. This idiot is not suitable to be my assistant at all.
He has caused me a lot of trouble in the past few days."
"I don't care if he dies on the battlefield," Jens said in advance, "The Americans have become less stupid recently, and it is said that they are already attacking the village of Hürtgen.
Listening to the exclamations of the young soldiers around him, Jens winked at Wei Ran who was sitting opposite, "So soldier, do you still insist on going to the front line with me?"
"Yes, sir"
Wei Ran pretended to stand up and said, "Sir, I am a soldier, and I will defend our land to the death!"
Secretly taking a look at the young soldiers around him who looked like they had been injected with chicken blood, Wei Ran pretended to straighten his right arm and mumbled, "Hey! Have you eaten?"
"Hey! That's awesome!" Amidst the clatter of cups and plates, the surrounding eavesdropping youth club members subconsciously stood up and stretched out their arms in response.
They all glared at Wei Ran, who had a smile of success on his face. Captain Leitz and Jens also smiled leisurely, stood up and pretended to give the same passionate, but equally vague responses.
With such great fanfare, Wei Ran was transformed from a quartermaster's assistant into a frontline combatant. After the meal, Wei Ran also received an additional small gift from Letz - a G43 rifle with a scope and two spare magazines.
.
"Your mission is to die in the battle. Don't die there because of the heat of your mind." Captain Letts lowered his voice and reminded Wei Ran in his ear.
"Do not worry"
Wei Ran took the rifle and played with it for a while, then looked at the stg44 assault rifle hanging on the wall with eager eyes.
"You are going to die, so don't waste such a good weapon."
Captain Leitz knocked the steel helmet on the guard's head angrily, and whispered in a particularly stingy voice, "Even this gun, Jens is going to bring back."
"Uncle Letz..." Wei Ran changed his name to a more personal one, and after a moment's hesitation, he said, "Can I ask you a few questions?"
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On the bed, he slowly lit a cigarette and asked in a puff of smoke, "What do you want to ask?"
"How do you hope this war will end?" Wei Ran asked, sitting upside down on a chair.
"Any ending." Letz paused, "I just want it to end quickly." "What if I have to choose one or the other to win or lose?"
"Of course I won the battle," Letz replied without thinking. "Although I am now a quartermaster, I am also a soldier. As long as I am a soldier, who wants to lose the war?"
"Of course they are French and Italian," Wei Ran muttered to himself.
"But rather than victory or defeat, I hope this war ends soon." Letz once again emphasized the outcome he wanted to see, and then asked, "Is this what you want to ask?"
"Of course not" Wei Ran smiled, "Can you tell me about Dominic's parents?"
Before the other party could speak, Wei Ran grinned and said, "To be honest, I don't know much about Uncle Carsten and Aunt Heidi."
"It's normal if you don't understand them."
Captain Letts handed the cigarette case to Wei Ran, and after he smoked one, he handed over the lighter. It was not until Wei Ran lit the cigarette that he explained, "Heidi used to be my wife's colleague.
They are both teachers at the same school, except that Heidi is a math teacher and my wife is an art teacher. However, it was my wife who introduced Heidi to Carsten more than ten years ago.
Something happened."
"Where's Uncle Carsten?" Wei Ran asked, "I only know that he is a mechanical engineer."
"Yes, he is indeed a mechanical engineer."
Captain Letts said with a proud face, "But he can become an engineer only because of my financial support. Otherwise, that guy would have starved to death long ago, not to mention continuing his studies."
I almost forgot that you are the sole heir of the last noble family...
Wei Ran grinned secretly, and then said in a deliberately uncertain tone, "I seem to have heard Uncle Carsten mention this matter many times. He always said that he..."
"Always say that he should become a construction engineer and then help me build a beautiful and strong castle, right?"
Captain Letts didn't wait for Wei Ran to finish speaking, he had already predicted
Unexpectedly, Wei Ran said what he didn't want to say at all, "I've been listening to him talk about this kind of nonsense longer than that little loser Dominic has been in this world.
You see, after all this time, I haven’t seen any castle. On the contrary, I paid for his and Heidi’s apartment and car.”
Although it sounded like a complaint, Wei Ran saw a smile on the face of this serious-looking middle-aged man.
"What about you?" Wei Ran poured him a cup of coffee and asked about his doubts over the past few days, "Are you also a teacher?"
"I'm just a physical education teacher"
Captain Letts glanced at his crippled foot subconsciously, "That was before the war started. After the war started, I was drafted into the Mountain Division and became a mountaineering instructor for those young soldiers."
"And then you went to Poland?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously. "Yes."
Captain Letts shook his head regretfully, "But fighting is really different from mountaineering. Mountaineering is very dangerous, but fighting is cruel. Facts have proved that it is really not what I am good at. To prove this, I even asked what I am good at and what I like.
Mountain climbing has been deprived.”
"War always brings something, and it always takes something away." Wei Ran said subconsciously.
"yes"
Letz nodded subconsciously, grabbed his sleeves and said with a smile, "So after I recovered from the injury, I became an instructor of the Youth League. But I didn't like that job very much, so with the help of some friends, I
He joined the rad, and later became the quartermaster of this fortress because of his knowledge of the forest and surrounding villages and towns."
"Quartermaster is the job that suits you," Wei Ran said seriously. "Indeed, I even got the rank of captain because of it."
Letz, who was supposed to have a serious face, said with a wink, then took off his hat, scratched his remaining hair and said distressedly, "But this job is not easy, look at my hair, it's almost falling out."
Empty."
"I guess it must be because your sleep quality is not very good," Wei Ran hinted with the same wink.
"That's true." Letz shook his head helplessly. Obviously, for this courageous quartermaster, hair loss is also an unsolvable problem.
Just when Wei Ran wanted to continue asking something, a knock on the door came from outside. Captain Letts immediately put on his hat, stood up with a silver-covered cane, and deliberately raised his voice and said, "Okay.
"Young man, go to bed early, you will go to fight tomorrow. The only thing I can do is let you enjoy this room alone."
After saying that, Captain Letts had opened the door, greeted the youth league members who were about to say something at the door, and limped towards the next room.
