Sophie repeated it softly, and then she continued to explain, "When my mother was alive, she was a helper of the Comet Line - she returned to Belgium after she felt that the White Rose Organization was too idealistic.
Comet line added."
"Back when your mother was Belgian?"
Wei Ran asked in a low voice in surprise. The "helper" the other party mentioned just now is not a simple word. For the Comet Line organization, "helper" is almost an exclusive title for its members.
"Strictly speaking, our family is actually Belgian, we just live on German land."
No wonder the fiefdom is so close to the border...
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and then heard Sophie continue, "Actually, before I hid here, I used to work for G Group."
"G Group?! That G Group in Belgium?" Wei Ran looked at the girl in front of him in even more surprise.
If the White Rose Organization is just a group of passionate students working in vain in Germany, then whether it is the Comet Line or the G Group that the girl just mentioned, they were both well-known underground resistance organizations on the European battlefield during World War II.
The Comet Line is an organization that advocates "fighting without weapons," and its main goal is not to defeat the Germans by defeating the Germans, but to rescue Allied pilots in distress and assist them in escaping back to Allied territory.
Don't underestimate this resistance organization, with more than 70% of its members being women. The Comet Line is the largest of the few escape networks on the European battlefield in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany.
Not only that, throughout World War II, even the Yin Guo's MI9 coveted this organization and always wanted to control them in their hands.
However, these brave women who relied on their own attics, cellars, and carriages to save Allied pilots did not even pay attention to the exiled Belgian government. How could they be controlled by gay men from the country who also wore skirts?
But even so, in order for their own pilots to come back alive, MI9 still invested a large sum of money in Comet Line like a shameless licking dog, and continued to cooperate until the autumn of 1944 when World War II was about to end!
As for the G Group that Sophie mentioned later, it should not be underestimated. This group was established by a group of students in 1942 and can be said to be the most effective resistance organization in Belgium.
Or to put it more bluntly, this student group dedicated to wreaking havoc can almost be regarded as the Belgian railway guerrillas!
Throughout World War II, not to mention the countless railway lines destroyed by these societies, communication and transmission lines alone cost the German army occupying Belgium tens of millions of man-hours.
But compared to these two resistance organizations with great achievements, Wei Ran became more and more curious about Sophie and her family.
Seemingly sensing Wei Ran's doubts, Sophie waved to him to sit down on the stone steps, slowly lit a cigarette and explained, "In the earliest days, my mother, Dominic's parents, and I
Along with Qiqi and Heike, we have all joined the White Rose. As I have told you, it is almost the enlightenment organization for all of us to resist consciousness."
"What happened next?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"Later..."
Sophie looked up at the roof and recalled in a puff of smoke, "Later we realized that the effect of those leaflets was limited. We have to admit that compared with Mr. Adolf's speech, our leaflets actually had no effect.
Too contagious. So instead of taking the same risk by handing out those flyers, why not do something more valuable?"
"So you went to Belgium?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
Sophie nodded, hugged her knees and recalled almost babbled, "At that time, my father happened to be injured on the front line, so my mother and I simply left some clues at home, and then fled to my grandmother's house in Belgium.
After my mother became an official helper of the Comet Line, I also became a Courier of the Comet Line. We were there to help Allied pilots, making fake passports for them, helping them evade Nazi raids and escape to England.
Later, my mother
My mother was exposed. In order to avoid being caught by the Germans and implicating me and my father, she chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. Shortly after that, I quit the Comet Line and joined the G Group."
"Why do you want to come back?" Weiran asked abruptly, "Belgium is already the territory of the Allies, right? Even in July, it is worse than this..."
"Because Qiqi and Heike, they and I are good friends who grew up together. In the summer, they were wanted as members of the White Rose and had nowhere to go and found my father. My father rescued them and sent them to
After arriving here, he contacted me again."
Sophie's face showed a look of exhaustion that did not match her age. "At first, I just planned to take them to Belgium. Friends who passed through the Comet Line helped them hide until the end of the war. But before I could arrange the route, my father
He also sent some orphans he found in the city for me to take away with him.
Later, the war suddenly broke out in this forest. As I told you before, Dominic's classmates appeared on my father's recruitment list. In order to take these children to Belgium, we
The time to escape is also being delayed, and the list of people in need of rescue is getting longer and longer."
"How many people are still missing now?" Wei Ran asked the core question.
"My father and his three students, as well as Mr. Jens and Mr. Otto who were killed in action, Dominic's parents and his younger brother, they are the only ones left."
Sophie put out her cigarette butt and said worriedly, "If it hadn't been for this war, they would have been the last ones to evacuate."
"White Rose, Comet Line, G Group" Wei Ran sighed with admiration, "You have so many secrets."
"Dad said you are a trustworthy person"
Sophie crushed the cigarette butt and walked back to the small space behind the stairs. "Although I have many secrets, I haven't hidden them from you. Brother Victor, I need your help. I want everyone here to survive."
Come down."
"I know, I know, I will keep it a secret for you." Weiran promised again and again, "I will also do my best to help you keep everyone here alive."
"What about the two Americans? Especially Mr. Timov, who can move around freely." Sophie changed the subject and asked in a low voice, "Do you think we should distribute weapons to him?"
"Forget it," Wei Ran thought for a moment and replied, "Let him and Dominic be responsible for carrying Mr. Buck."
"I think so too"
Sophie nodded, picked up a pile of helmets and walked up and said, "I will distribute the helmets to everyone first. Brother Victor, how about you take charge of distributing weapons after dinner? Also, that camera and those
The films are all hidden in the weapons box. I’m not sure whether I can escape to Belgium alive this time. It’s better to wait until the war is over before taking out those photos.”
"Leave it to me." Wei Ran also picked up a pile of helmets and promised again.
Under the busyness of the two of them, everyone, including Timov and Buck, distributed a labor corps helmet.
In addition, under Sophie's organization, Weihan and Dominic also carried some storable supplies into the stairwell where the medicines were originally stored. Then they covered them with canvas and piled a layer on top.
Dried pine needles and reeds collected from the forest.
Finally, the floor was nailed down and the wooden bed was moved to its original position, and it was noon.
They were not the only ones busy this morning. On the other side, Qiqi, Heike and Host, along with the rest of their friends, moved all the materials hidden in the ruins into the basement and packed them all.
Entered into empty oil barrels.
Even the stone house on the other side of the moat, which was originally used to store oil drums, was fully camouflaged with the ubiquitous pine branches and fallen leaves and large patches of moss amid the concerted efforts of everyone.
Before the sun went down, all the chickens and goats that Sophie and others had raised here were driven out and allowed to roam freely.
In the basement filled with supplies, everyone except the wounded Buck sat or stood around the long table and had a hearty meal.
On the side of the dining table where cups and plates were littered, he was wearing a labor union uniform.
Sophie finished the last bite of food in the lunch box, looked at everyone under the light of the kerosene lamp, and said, "At 11:30 tonight, we will set off through the forest to Belgium. Host, you can take it with you later.
The chosen one will follow Victor to get the weapon."
"Yes!" Host, who was also wearing a labor corps uniform and a steel helmet, stood up with his chest raised and his head raised, giving a confident and contented response.
"Heike, Qiqi and Nadia, stay here to help me prepare food for everyone to replenish their strength on the road. The rest of the friends will check their backpacks last."
After speaking, Sophie winked at Wei Ran.
"Come with me"
Wei Ran hooked up with Host, who immediately took a few selected young men, followed Wei Ran out of the basement, and sneaked into Sophie's room in the dark.
Nowadays, all that can be seen in this room is the working American oil stove and the red radiator on the broken table, the weapons on the bare bed, and the wood under the bed filled with old clothes.
box.
Signaling everyone to enter the small room, Wei Ran locked the door, then picked up the five MP40 submachine guns placed on the bed and handed them to the young men who followed Host.
Among these people were Okan and Dominic, as well as two other kids of the same age as Dominic. According to these two young men, they were classmates in the same class as Dominic and Nadia.
"listen to me"
Before distributing the ammunition bags to these young people, Weiran reminded, "Our main purpose this time is to take everyone to escape to Belgium quietly, so without my order, no one is allowed to load the ammunition without permission, let alone
shot.
Once we make an impulsive move, whether it attracts Americans or Germans, none of us will survive."
"In that case, wouldn't it be great if we didn't bring weapons?" Dominic asked subconsciously.
"That's a good question"
Wei Ran explained while helping these young men put on their ammunition pouches, "The purpose of these weapons is, firstly, to have the ability to fight back in case they are accidentally exposed for other reasons, and secondly, to disguise themselves, so as not to be lucky.
It’s not good to be suspected by them when you bump into a chained dog.”
At this point, Wei Ran pulled out another box, took out the tattered clothes inside and asked, "Okan, are you sure you can still know the way after dark?"
"I definitely know you"
As Okan spoke, he reached out from the box and took out a German standard engineer shovel and hung it on his body skillfully. Then he took an American wire cutter and said, "I just patrolled the border with Uncle Otto a week ago.
I know where every piece of barbed wire is, where every American position is, and where every minefield is."
"That's good"
Wei Ran waited until Horst also took an engineer shovel and a pair of U.S. military wire cutters from the box, and then hung the only German wire cutters in the box on his waist.
The hawk-beak pliers are larger than those held by Okan and Host, and the grips are made of bakelite, but they are just like the MP40 submachine gun and Bobosha submachine gun. They basically belong to the German sappers who want to get American pliers, and the United States
Soldiers like German pliers. To put it bluntly, they are all foreign monks who can chant sutras.
Finally, he pulled out a box, and Wei Ran took out a U.S. military medical bag from his old clothes and fixed it on his waist. Then he gave each of Okan and Host an extra box flashlight and a pair of leather gloves, and then he put them on the bed.
The old clothes were put back into the wooden box and pushed under the bed again.
"Dominique"
Wei Ran arranged the things hanging on his body and whispered in a low voice, "Wait a minute, you and your two classmates will be responsible for taking turns carrying the stretcher with Timov."
"I want, too…"
"You don't know the way. None of the three of you know the way."
Wei Ran reminded the other party before he finished speaking, "In addition, when you are carrying the stretcher, no matter who is cooperating with Timov, you must remember to let Timov walk in front at all times."
"We remember it," Dominic and his other two classmates replied in unison.
"Next
You guys just rest here."
Wei Ran walked to the door and gave a final reminder, "Horst, you are here to supervise everyone. Anyone who dares to load a submachine gun will have his weapon confiscated immediately."
After saying that, Wei Ran opened the door and walked out of the room, closed the door and listened for a moment, and then walked to the next room.
After a while, Timov, wearing a labor corps uniform and a German-style steel helmet, had also returned. Even hanging on his waist was the 1911 pistol that the Guards had seized from him.
Glancing at the .45-caliber bullets on the table, Wei Ran sat on his bare bed and took out from under the pillow the three-piece pilot suit that Captain Letts had given him as a gift.
"Victor, have you ever shot down our pilot?" Buck, the wounded man lying on the bed, asked curiously.
A gift from Sophie's father, Mr. Letts.
Wei Ran explained while hanging his goggles around his neck, "Mr. Letts is a quartermaster, so it's easy to get these trophies. Not only that, everything we eat and use here was thought up by this quartermaster."
It was confiscated and shipped here."
"As bold as our Quartermaster."
Timov said while wiping his weapon, "Our bastard quartermasters are always withholding things. When we first came here, we didn't even have enough tents, but that bastard was already driving a Willis, pulling the truck that was supposed to be issued.
Our Coca-Cola and C-ration cans are sleeping with French women."
"The quartermaster is a fat guy," Wei Yan buckled on his leather flying cap and put on his helmet again while responding.
"He is indeed a fat guy." Timov nodded in agreement, and the room suddenly became quiet.
"Victor, have you decided where to go after arriving in Belgium?"
Buck was the first to break the silence, "Maybe you can go to France with us, we are sure..."
"Let's wait until Belgium to discuss this matter."
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, stuffed his gloves into his pocket, then picked up the medicine box on the bedside, and said while changing Buck's dressing, "Timov, Buck, we will do this after we arrive safely in Belgium."
Let’s decide where everyone will go.”
"That's fine." Timov nodded, wisely ending this controversial topic.
After carefully re-bandaging Buck's wound, Wei Ran carried the medicine box into the basement and continued to change dressings for the other injured children.
While he was busy, Sophie, who was supposed to prepare dry food for herself, walked alone into the forest next to the sluice gate, once again took down the phone hidden in the canopy, and connected it to the phone line. She sat down with her legs crossed.
On the cold stone, I waited quietly for the phone to ring.
However, until Wei Ran changed medicines for all the wounded, until Qi Qi and others prepared dry food for everyone on the road, until everyone worked together to block the access to the basement with various logs, soil and stones prepared during the day.
Entrance.
Until 11:20 in the night, the forest beside the sluice was still as quiet as last night, which made people feel hopeless.
Rubbing her face hard and wiping away the cold tears, Sophie hid the phone in the trunk of the tree again, and covered the phone line with stones and moss. Then she put her hands in her pockets and lowered her head to walk across the moat.
Before the broken bridge.
"this is yours"
Qiqi said as she handed Sophie a lunch box with food, a kettle with hot coffee, and a gray blanket that could be worn as a cloak.
Hanging the kettle and lunch box on her belt, Sophie wrapped the blanket tightly and let Qi Qi help her fasten the temporarily sewn buttons. Then she took the submachine gun Wei Ran handed her and said hoarsely, "We
lets go!"
Before Sophie finished speaking, everyone subconsciously looked at Wei Ran and the young men behind Wei Ran who were carrying submachine guns. "Let's go"
At the same time that Wei Ran gave the order, Dominic and Timov also worked together to lift Buck who was lying on the stretcher.
Amidst the creaking noise, Host and Okan, who rushed to the sluice in advance, worked together to turn the wheel and open the gate.
Under the leadership of Wei Ran, a group of people lined up through the cold and damp waterway, and then opened the floor of the mill in the dark and climbed up.
After some observation, Wei Ran carefully led Host and Okan who were following him out of the mill first, followed by Sophie and Qiqi who were also holding submachine guns, and then Timov and Okan who were carrying a stretcher.
Dominic, and the children on both sides of the stretcher.
At the end of the team were Heike, Nadia, and two other young men holding submachine guns.
In the dark night, Okan looked around, then took out the compass he gave his brother as a birthday gift from his arms and glanced at it, then patted Wei Ran on the shoulder and raised his finger.
direction.
Under the guidance of this young man, Wei Ran led this long team, supporting each other and holding each other's hands as they advanced quickly under the cover of night in the silent coniferous forest.
Perhaps the only benefit of the war that has lasted for several months is that they don't have to worry about any wild animals that can hurt people in this forest even at night.
But compared with this small advantage, the mines buried somewhere, and the Germans or Americans lying in wait, are the source of even more frightening fear.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After sneaking in the forest so carefully for almost half an hour, Wei Ran and Host, who were walking at the front, stopped indiscriminately.
, and raised his fist.
Almost at the same time that the two of them gave the signal, Okan, who was walking behind them, immediately turned around and shook the luminous dial of the pocket watch-style compass in his hand, signaling everyone to stop and lie down on the ground immediately.
It wasn't until the footsteps, which were not loud in the first place, disappeared that everyone heard the faint sounds of crying, screaming, pleading from the front right, mixed with wanton laughter, and a faint faint light.
Before Wei Ran and Host, who were walking at the front, could see the situation clearly, the faint light in the distance suddenly became brighter. Then, they noticed one after another that a figure seemed to emerge from the bright light.
They ran towards the direction of their advance.
Immediately afterwards, the light became stronger again. When the light weakened, another figure holding a flashlight and cursing chased after him.
"What's wrong?" Sophie came up and asked.
"I don't know," Wei Ran said in a low voice, "but it seems that a girl ran into our path."
"Victor..."
"Keep an eye on Timov, stay quiet, I'll go over and take a look."
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party's request to be fully uttered before he put down the submachine gun in his hand and reached over.
After a while, the figure holding the flashlight had caught up with the figure who ran out first and threw him to the ground.
However, the figure holding the flashlight was not in a hurry to go back. Instead, he grabbed the figure and pressed her against a lying pine tree.
Seeing that the other party's back was turned to him, Wei Ran immediately quickened his pace and ran over.
As the distance got closer, he finally saw clearly that the one lying on the pine tree was a naked blonde girl with her mouth covered. And behind her, there was a girl covering her mouth with one hand and another.
The chained dog is holding the head of the flashlight, with its pants down below the knees, and is shaking its body constantly!
