"Follow the footsteps in front of you!" Major Gavrilov ordered loudly: "Don't try to leave the team or take a new road!"
This is of course correct. No one dares to be careless in the swamp, even the soldiers who are walking in the front through the swamp. They have to carefully test with their wooden sticks before taking a step.
"Hey, Shulka!" At some point, Agata walked behind Shulka.
"I heard that the gas mask worked?" Agata asked: "You used it to save us?"
"No need to thank me, Agata!" Shulka replied while cautiously following the steps ahead: "I am also saving myself!"
"That's right!" Agata replied: "So you'd better be careful!"
"What?" Shulka didn't understand what this meant.
Agata laughed and explained: "Because only if you are alive can you save yourself and others at the same time!"
Shulka couldn't help but rolled his eyes. He had never seen anyone talk in such a jumping way. No wonder women are naturally good at chatting.
The sky gradually became brighter, a ray of sunlight emerged from the end of the swamp, and then suddenly the entire sun appeared in front of everyone, illuminating the originally dark swamp.
This is Shulka's first time in a swamp... No one will like this experience. Even if it is a desert, some people want to experience the endless sea of sand.
But the swamp is like shrinking a person and throwing him into a stinky ditch. There is sewage everywhere, and the air is filled with an unpleasant rotten smell, flies, mosquitoes, and many unknown disgusting things.
Reptiles, they will drive you crazy.
Later Shulka learned that some reptiles were not only disgusting but also dangerous.
Soon after, another order came from the front: "Don't drink the water from the swamp!"
"This is all dirty water!" Agata explained: "Some of it looks clean, but after drinking it, you will get sick, have diarrhea, fever or other diseases. Then you can't even think about getting out of here!"
"So how do we solve the drinking water problem?" Schur shook the half-filled kettle, which meant that he would have to use this half of the kettle to survive the day.
"While you're resting!" Agata said, "boil the water and then you can drink it!"
"How do you know this?" Shulka asked.
"My hometown is in Slutsk!" Agata replied: "It is right on the edge of this swamp..."
After saying that, Agata straightened up and looked into the distance, pointed in one direction and said: "There, at the end of the swamp!"
"Oh!" Shulka replied: "Maybe we will pass by your house again!"
Agata couldn't help being stunned when she heard this, and then replied: "I discovered your weakness, Shulka!"
"What?"
Agata smiled and said nothing.
Later, after looking at the map, Shulka realized that Slutsk was in the northeast of the swamp, but their destination was in the southeast.
Damn sense of direction!
One of the troubles brought about by dawn is that the surrounding area is gradually getting hotter. The scorching sun shines on the swamp and evaporates the water. Soon, the surrounding area is filled with water vapor, humid, stuffy, and what's even more uncomfortable is the stench.
This is another danger in swamps... Germs in dirty water will be evaporated into water vapor and spread in the air, and then inhaled into the lungs through breathing, and then people walking in it will get some inexplicable diseases.
Compared with these, the German search seemed a bit insignificant.
After dawn, the Germans once sent a plane to search over the swamp...Shurka believed that it was a plane sent by the German army in Brest, because the German army at this time should not waste such important resources on searching the swamp.
This did not help their war effort. Only 500 Soviet troops entered the swamp, and the German planes had the time to search, so they could kill or blow up 500 Soviet troops in other directions.
Therefore, the Germans were not willing to let the Soviet troops escape from Brest.
But so what?
The swamp area looks empty and unobstructed, but in fact it is not easy to find the people below from the air, because the infantry on the ground can also hear or even see the planes flying here in the distance, so they have to
All he did was smear his clothes with mud and lie down...
It is not easy to do this, because there is often dirty water under the body that goes up to the calf.
But it's still worthwhile to avoid enemy aircraft, and the troops can also take a rest.
Two German Junkers planes circled in the sky for a few times, found nothing, and then flew away.
After that, no more planes came to search. Schulka thought that this should be the German commander realizing that doing so was not a cost-effective "business."
The hardest thing about being in the swamp is the night.
Before dark, they must find a habitat, which is a highland without water.
Then, just as Agata said, the cooking team began to set up pots and find anything that could burn from the surroundings to boil water.
Boiling water is always the most important thing, especially since the Soviet army received plenty of food from the Germans. The food was wrapped in tarps and placed in backpacks by the soldiers, because they knew that whether they could get out of the swamp would depend on these things.
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The actor munched on the buttered bread and exclaimed with satisfaction: "The Germans really know how to enjoy it. It's hard to imagine that this is the ration for their soldiers!"
The actor was right. Compared with Soviet soldiers who only had mashed potatoes and black bread with grass seeds and even mineral powder, the food of the German army was simply delicious.
"That's not surprising, Okunev!" the thief replied: "Their food also includes honey and chocolate!"
"Wow!" The actor's eyes showed envy and suspicion.
"That's impossible!" said the actor. "Chocolate? They give chocolate to soldiers?"
As mentioned before, after the Soviet Union's light industry was extremely weak, chocolate was a high-end food for them.
"Nothing is impossible!" the thief replied.
"How do you know?" the veteran asked, "Maybe this is just nonsense..."
But the next second, the veteran stopped talking, because the thief secretly threw a small piece of something to a few people nearby, and then lowered his voice and said: "Don't let anyone see it!"
Of course, Shulka was also responsible for this... In fact, the thief stuffed Shulka with two pieces.
"Where did you get this?" the veteran asked.
"Remember when we broke into the enemy's headquarters?" the thief explained: "You only knew to check the body and unplug the phone cord, but you didn't find the chocolate in the drawer!"
The soldiers couldn't help but suddenly realized...finding good things has always been the specialty of thieves, and they couldn't compare.
"I forgive you!" The veteran raised the chocolate in his hand.
"What?" The thief was confused.
"A month ago, you stole my pen!" the veteran replied: "I am planning to beat you up when I get out of this swamp!"