Late at night, in the cold attic, I put on headphones, held a British kettle filled with hot water in my hand, and was wrapped in a Soviet cloak. I would stand up and move around from time to time to prevent myself from accidentally falling asleep.
past.
On the table in front of him, the pie oven with amazing battery life was still sizzling and burning a ceramic flowerpot used as a radiator. On the other side of the table some distance away, the BC1000 radio station
, and also continue to wait steadily for the latest news that may appear in the channel at any time.
Just when Wei Ran was about to light a cigarette and wake up, a flashlight beam flashed outside the window. After a brief moment of confusion, he immediately extinguished the pie stove, took off his headphones, put away the kettle and cloak, and stepped across
He stepped closer to the only window in the attic.
I glanced out through the window. Outside the barbed wire fence, a four-wheeled carriage had stopped. At this time, a figure was helping each other out of the car.
Under the constantly shaking flashlight beam, Wei Ran could clearly see familiar little faces—the injured children had arrived!
Putting away the loaded 1911 pistol, Wei Ran went downstairs as quickly as possible, opened the door and ran out. However, he had no idea that at this time, on the table in the attic, the headset of the radio was
, and it happened that at this time, there was an irregular ticking sound of varying lengths.
What he missed was not only the encrypted code from Aesop's fables that had been waiting on the radio channel all night. When he ran out, the carriage had also run towards the direction of the town, and the only ones left behind were the characters with various shapes on their bodies.
There are children wrapped in gauze, and they are holding paper bags containing food or square boxes of flashlights for lighting.
Jonas, whose face was wrapped in gauze, was the first to recognize Wei Ran, and immediately shouted in surprise with a trembling voice filled with tears and fear, "Victor! It's Victor!"
"Where is the person who sent you here?" Wei Ran asked, hugging the little guy who was rushing towards him.
The young man who renamed himself "Horst" immediately replied, "The sister said she had an emergency and left beforehand. She asked us to knock on the door ourselves. She said you were in the room."
As he spoke, the young man patted a leather medicine box on his shoulder, "She also asked me to bring this to you."
"Come first"
Wei Ran waved to the slightly flustered children, "Have you had dinner?"
"have eaten"
The girl who inherited the name "Haike" immediately replied, "We had dinner in a tailor shop, I was the first to arrive, and everyone who came later had already had dinner.
It wasn't until we all arrived that the sister sent us over in a carriage, and she also gave each of us a hat and a beautiful and warm scarf!"
"How did you all get here?" As Wei Ran spoke, he once again turned on the chandelier in the hall on the first floor.
In just a few hours, this room has been cleaned by the first wave of children who arrived. Even the scattered oil paintings and various canvases have been received.
place.
Not only that, even the fireplace was burning with scarlet coals, which made the room extra warm.
"I came by train, the same train as you."
The girl who changed her name to Heike continued to respond, "It was nurse sister Hannah who sent me here, but we got off the bus in Brussels and then took a truck to Mons."
“I took a freight train to Brussels, and then took a freight train carrying coal to Mons.”
The young man named Hoster said slightly excitedly, "I don't know the person who sent me here, but the uncle took me to the cab of the train, and I helped blow the whistle. The sound was really loud.
!" "I rushed to the tailor shop by car."
Jonas put down the small suitcase he was carrying and rushed to say, "I don't know the uncle who sent me here, but he bought me a lot of delicious food on the way, and also bought me new clothes and shoes.
Son, they also said that if I want, I can live with them in the future."
"Then why are you here again?" A little girl asked while sipping a lollipop that someone bought for her.
"I want to live with brother Okan." After Jonas finished speaking, he looked at Wei Ran and asked matter-of-factly, "Victor, where is Okan?"
Almost subconsciously, Wei Ran thought of the young man at the edge of the minefield who had an emotional breakdown due to self-blame. However, before he could speak, a young man in pajamas ran down the stairs behind him and hugged him.
He picked up Jonas and said happily, "I'm here! Jonas, why did you come so soon? I thought I had to wait a week!"
Subconsciously turning around, Wei Ran couldn't help but smile after a brief moment of sluggishness. That young man was certainly not Okan who would never come back, but he was Okan - in Dominic's ward yesterday.
When taking a group photo, he swore in front of everyone that he would be Okan from now on, Jonas's brother Okan.
Soon, the question of how everyone got to Mons turned into cheers of reunion as more and more friends came down from the stairs.
Although it was a pity that Dominic and Nadia, who were seriously injured, could not come, it was enough to make every child happy. In particular, almost all of these injured children brought small gifts—all kinds of hats.
and scarves of various colors.
Gifts were shared lively, and while Wei Ran was changing dressings for the wounded, several girls headed by Yuta and Boyi also quickly helped clear out rooms large enough for sleeping, and then lit the fireplaces in these rooms.
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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After sending the last little guy into the room, Wei Ran yawned, forced himself to sleep and returned to the attic, put on the headphones again, exhausted
Leaning against the extra warm fireplace chimney.
However, just when he was about to take a nap, there was a clear ticking sound in his earphones without any warning!
After regaining consciousness almost instantly, Wei Ran immediately turned on the desk lamp, picked up the pen and paper on the table, and translated the code into groups of numbers.
After searching against these numbers in Aesop's fables, Wei Ran quickly translated a query: "Have you survived? Please establish contact."
It's Timov!
Wei Ran immediately guessed the identity of the person who sent the telegram. However, before he could give a reply, a strong white light appeared in front of his eyes without any warning!
"Is this the end?"
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, he smelled the unique cold and dampness of the Hürtgen Forest, mixed with a trace of the unique smell that could not be concealed even in winter. When pine branches rot, they gave off a unique smell. At the same time, he also felt
I felt clear waves of pain in my left hand.
Just as he was trying hard to blink his eyes, Timov's voice came to his ears!
"I hope you all reach your destination safely!"
Almost at the same time that Wei Ran, who looked shocked, regained his vision, Captain Timov, who was standing next to him and holding a gun, continued, "I will find a way to contact you through the radio."
"I'm waiting for your radio contact!"
Before Sophie finished speaking, she had already thrown herself into Timov's arms, and then stood on tiptoes for a passionate kiss.
"What the hell?!"
Wei Ran's eyes widened as he looked at the two people hugging each other in front of him. He really didn't understand when the two people became so close.
Is it possible that I need a VIP account to watch that episode? Wei Ran couldn't help but have a ridiculous idea in his mind, and his eyes subconsciously glanced at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand, and then he saw the tattoo wrapped in his right hand.
Gauze and missing index finger.
"Victor, let's go!" Just as Wei Ran was stunned,
Timov had separated from Sophie and issued orders while loading the submachine gun in his hand.
"Ah? Here we come!"
Wei Ran quickly glanced at Sophie, who had tears in her eyes, and then at Qiqi, who was busy bandaging Dominic's wounds, and Okan, who was on guard with a gun further away.
and Horst.
However, before he could say anything, Timov pushed his shoulders and urged him to run further and further away.
"We need to draw some firepower"
Just as the people behind him were swallowed up by the thick fog and night, Timov was already speaking, turning on the flashlight, and at the same time, he pointed the trigger of the submachine gun above his head.
"Da da da!"
Almost at the same time that Timov turned off the flashlight, the pursuers immediately fired a string of bullets at them.
What a love brain that even dogs won’t eat! Wei Ran cursed and muttered, and at the same time subconsciously distanced himself slightly from Captain Timov.
Following the American soldier who was stunned by the beauty's kiss, he changed direction and ran all the way. Before he could take a breath, Timov pulled the trigger again, then turned on the flashlight again, hiding behind the tree trunk and swinging wildly.
, trying to attract the attention of the pursuers.
Taking advantage of the opponent's frantic attempt to attract fire, Wei Ran also used the flashlight's flickering light to observe his own situation.
At this time, he was still wearing the civilian clothes and the M43 military boots that he took off from the feet of the corpses of American soldiers as a German soldier, and even the wire cutters from Buck on his back.
They are all here, but the three-piece pilot suit on my head has disappeared somewhere.
If one person plays two roles, aren't you afraid that I'll get involved?
Wei Ran cursed and muttered, and ran out after Timov before the bullets from the pursuers came.
In Timov's crazy seduction, which was like a one-man show, the pursuers followed them and ran further and further away. Even the beams of the flashlight became more and more numerous.
"Victor, how far are we?" Captain Timov asked as he ran.
"how could I know!"
Wei Ran responded with a curse, rounded his arms and threw the flashlight that turned on the switch, and then asked while running, "Is the general direction correct?
"That's right! It should be right! We want to make a big noise"
As Timov spoke, he also rounded his arms and threw a mk2 grenade, and then said, "We have to wake up our people and get them ready. If they respond,
Can give us direction!"
"Don't worry about others yet, run away!" Before Wei Ran could finish his words, the grenade Timov had just thrown had exploded.
The explosion of the grenade, coupled with the wrong direction of the flashlight thrown by Wei Ran, somewhat slowed down the pursuers behind him.
However, when Wei Ran and the two ran through a depression in the thick fog, a continuous barbed wire fence covered with tin cans appeared directly in front of them!
"This is our barbed wire fence!" Timov picked up a can of spiritual meat hanging on the barbed wire fence, looked at it, and made a definite judgment. "How to get through?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice, "There may be something behind it.
Minefield.”
"I'll clear the mines, how about you buy time?" Before Weiran could answer, Timov had already stretched out his hand towards him, "Wire cutters!"
"How long does it take?" Wei Ran took off the wire cutters hanging from his waist and handed them to the other party.
"how could I know"
Before he finished speaking, Timov had already taken the wire cutters and cut off the first barbed wire. At the same time, amid the clatter of tin cans, he said, "When my side is safe, I will use yellow lights and grenades to
You send a signal, and after you receive the signal, wear a red light and follow my trace through the minefield, and I will cover you on the other side."
After saying that, Timov had already taken out an extra German square box flashlight from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran along with the only two magazines.
"Waiting for your signal" Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran had already taken the magazine and flashlight, moved laterally and ran out.
After opening the distance between the two parties by about seventy or eighty meters, Weiran looked around, found a dead tree lying on its side, took out the titanium alloy oil barrel used to hold fuel in the metal book, and filled it with
The gasoline was poured on the tree without hesitation.
Bend down to pick up a dead branch, Wei Ran took off his clothes
Fu Yao also poured some fuel on it, then put away the oil barrel, ran a distance, and then pulled the trigger of the submachine gun, firing long bursts of bullets aimed at the night sky.
Watching the flashlight beams that had been chasing him in the thick fog change direction and rush towards him, Wei Ran, who was hiding behind a tree trunk, took out a lighter he picked up in a hurry, lit the makeshift torch, and used all his strength to
Throw it towards the dead tree in the distance.
"boom!"
Along with the fireball and sound waves produced during the deflagration, Wei Ran had already run into the thick fog far away from the fire ball, and circled around to the side of the pursuers.
Once again, he took out the Soviet cloak from the metal book and put it on his body. Wei Ran, who was lying behind a pine tree, only waited for less than five minutes. The growing fireball not far away reflected a series of
Figures. Through the light of the flames, Wei Ran could clearly see that the people chasing them just now, except for two chain dogs with flashes on their chests and riding a half-track motorcycle, the rest seemed to be teenagers.
A group of furry children.
***unlucky!
Wei Ran cursed secretly, reluctantly put away the grenade he had just pulled out of his pocket, and like a fat lizard after seeing an Indian, he cautiously and quietly began to retreat on all fours.
It wasn't until the thick fog blurred the outline of the pursuers that he stood up, hid his body behind a pine tree, took out a rarely used anti-tank gun from a metal book, and aimed at the half-track motorcycle in the dense forest.
The headlights are positioned a little further back.
Pushing the muzzle of the gun to chase the opponent for a certain distance, Wei Ran decisively pulled the heavy trigger towards the opponent!
"boom!"
Amidst the dull sound of gunfire, the huge recoil pushed the muzzle gas back more than ten centimeters. The high-pressure gas sprayed from both sides of the muzzle brake also enveloped the dense fog around it and began to surge rapidly.
Before the thick, hot brass shell hit the ground, the high-explosive bullet the size of a finger had already hit the engine hood of the half-track motorcycle less than a hundred meters away.
superior.
In a flash of fire, the tiny fragments exploded by the instantaneous bullet head easily took away the driver's life.
Seeing that the motorcycle light beam in the scope was out of control, Wei Ran immediately put away the anti-tank gun and changed positions as quickly as possible.
Almost immediately, the uninjured pursuers extinguished all kinds of lighting equipment including flashlights. For a time, in the forest shrouded in thick fog, only the dead flames ignited by the fire were left.
trees, and the headlights of the half-track motorcycle that was still racing through the forest without stopping after losing control.
At this moment, the sound of a grenade exploding came from the direction of Captain Timov. Following the sound, Wei Ran, although he did not find the yellow signal light, left his hiding place as quickly as possible and ran around the bonfire.
go back.
As the distance got closer, he finally saw the yellow signal lights flashing regularly on the other side of the barbed wire fence.
He took out the square box flashlight from his pocket, pushed down the red filter, and Wei Ran, who was hiding behind the tree, also sent out a flashing red signal towards the opposite side.
Less than two seconds later, the originally flashing yellow signal turned into a steady-on mode. Wei Ran left, turned off the flashlight, put it in his pocket, and ran toward the barbed wire fence with his waist crouched.
Following the terrain, he found the barbed wire fence that Timov had cut open. Just as Wei Ran's front foot stepped over the gap in the barbed wire fence, there was an unusual "clang!" sound in the distance! The yellow signal light also went out.
Almost subconsciously, Wei Ran had already made a move to lie down on the ground, but before he could lie down, the sound of a gunshot "Bang!" was heard in his ears.
"Timov! Timov! Are you still alive?"
Wei Ran lay on the ground and shouted, but what responded to him was the sound of a strong collision and the sound of gunshots coming from a distance!
"Fuck you, uncle!" Wei Ran clenched his fists and cursed fiercely. He was even ready to take out his anti-tank gun again and fire it at the opponent!
However, at this moment, a bunch of bright and dazzling car lights suddenly lit up on the opposite side of a minefield from him.
Immediately afterwards, amidst the roar of the engines, two M10 tank destroyers looming in the thick fog began to rotate their deadly turrets!
"Boom! Boom!"
After the two deafening gunshots, the pursuers who had been gathering fire a second ago immediately stopped moving, but the two tank destroyers that appeared at an unknown time did not let them go.
Before the smoke from the shells had cleared, the M2 machine guns on the two vehicles had already sprayed out two deadly fire snakes in the thick fog along with Timov's roar!
Amidst the intensive gunfire, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief, but he also inevitably sighed.
He knew that the soldiers of the Youth League who had just chased them all the way would probably remain in the thick fog tonight like Okan, Host and Heike.
My previous attempt was just to snipe chain dogs and give those young people who may have been brainwashed a chance to make a new choice, but now it seemed so unnecessary because of the two barrages sweeping across the forest.
In less than ten seconds, Timov's roar mixed with hatred and the M2 machine gun stopped together. The two tank destroyers that each fired only one shot also extinguished their lights and began to move.
"Victor! Are you still alive? Victor!"
Timov jumped off the destroyer and ran towards the direction of the Weifan, shouting his name loudly.
"Still alive," Wei Ran responded, then slowly stood up, "How should I get there?"
"I will pick you up!"
Before Timov finished speaking, he ran over quickly, grabbed Wei Ran and whispered, "There are no mines here, come here quickly!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran suppressed the doubts in his heart and followed Timov quickly through the non-existent minefield.
When passing by the two tank destroyers camouflaged by a large number of pine branches, the disheveled crew members not only held cigars in their mouths, but even waved to them in unison.
After hurriedly saying hello to these unknown soldiers, Wei Ran was pulled by Timov and jumped into a trench. Then, led by a soldier carrying an M1 carbine, he walked into a covered shelter.
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A moment later, a middle-aged man with the rank of major walked in with a Stanley kettle and two soldiers carrying guns.
"You are the one who escaped from the German positions with Mov?
"Yes, Mr. Major!"
Timov stood up straight, saluted solemnly, and said loudly, "Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion."
"Okay, okay, it's very late, no need to make such a loud voice, and I know you"
The major waved his hand before Timov finished reporting his number, and found two cups from the box on the table. Then he opened the kettle in his hand and gave it to Wei Ran and Timov.
The two of them poured a cup of scalding coffee respectively, and then slowly explained, "A few days ago, we rescued another ranger. He was also from the second battalion. Oh, by the way, his name was Tom. He said there were three
A soldier retreated to cover him and the injured Owen and lured away the Germans."
"Tom was rescued by you?"
Timov's eyes immediately lit up and he asked excitedly, "Mr. Major, how is Tom's condition? Where is Owen? Is he still alive?"
"Owen lost a leg"
The major poured himself another cup of coffee and took a sip before continuing, "Tom is still alive, but he was shot in the back. I sent someone to take him to the hospital. I'm afraid he will be in the hospital."
I lay there for a long time before I could stand up again."
"It's good to be alive"
Timov immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but Wei Ran next to him looked shocked. He didn't expect that Timov was actually a notorious Ranger, and he clearly remembered that he had just entered this historical segment.
At that time, there was no Ranger logo on the opponent's uniform.
"Can you tell me about the situation on the other side now?"
The major sitting across from the two men took out a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and a dozen
The lighter was thrown on the table, "We are about to attack the last fortress in Wassenak. Did you see the German positions on the way back?"
Attack the last bastion of Wassenak?
Wei Ran, who had just accepted that Timov was actually a ranger, tensed up his nerves again. If he guessed correctly, what the major mentioned was probably the fortress where Captain Letts once worked!
