Chapter 73: A Bunch of Uninvited Guests
Claustrophobia refers to panic symptoms that arise when you are in an enclosed space such as an elevator, a carriage, or even a room. Weiss did not have claustrophobia, agoraphobia, acrophobia, or hydrophobia, either in the past or in the present, but this is not to say that he was born fearless. Enclosed in a large wooden box for food, it shook as the vehicle moved, everything was out of his control, and an irrepressible feeling of panic grew in his heart, and he was still like this, and the situation of the other nine warriors can be imagined. It is precisely in order to give his companions the greatest psychological comfort that he insists on personally participating in this most difficult and critical operation, so as to use his psychological advantages, combat experience, and special skills unknown to outsiders to ensure the maximum success rate.
After the truck restarted, it drove for about ten minutes to the air transit site, and then stopped and went several times, and the voices of people asking and answering could be faintly heard outside, most of the time in Ulster, and the further back on, the more Norman was spoken. In this era, there are no X-ray machines, no security detectors, as long as the Normans do not open the box and check it, and the people in the box do not make a sound, it should not be difficult to mix up.
Hearing someone outside say "unload quickly", Weiss knew that the truck had reached the end of the trip. According to information provided by the underground resistance, cargo is loaded and unloaded in a semi-manual and semi-mechanical manner. For food products that do not have potential safety hazards, they may be treated more directly and rudely during loading and unloading. At this time, you must support the wall of the box, and you must not let the body or firearm collide with the box to make abnormal noises, and there can be no firearm misfire.
The plank doesn't block brain wave detection, which is a huge plus for Weiss. He detected that the enemy's transport ship was nearby, surrounded by heavily armed Norman soldiers, as well as unarmed men whose identities could not be determined, because they were neither hostile nor allies in the same faction. Weiss had encountered such a situation many times before, either as civilians who had gone with the flow or as Norman laborers from other occupying powers.
In Weiss's special vision, more than 20 unarmed people with no inclination came and went, moving the boxes brought by the truck to the cargo hold of the transport ship one by one, they always maintained a relatively stable rhythm and speed, and after about ten minutes, the box where Weiss was was finally lifted - in order not to attract the enemy's detection, the underground resistance group used the weight of a normal person plus the weight of weapons and ammunition to exchange the corresponding food boxes, but they did not have the time or the conditions to be completely accurate, after the replacement, The actual weight of the box may deviate to a certain extent, and these workers who move bricks every day are actually likely to notice the change, but they are indifferent to the reason for the change...... Weiss was undoubtedly right, and the two men carried the wooden box he was in to the pile of goods in the hold, without saying a word.
After more than ten minutes, the workers stopped moving boxes to the pile, and the first pass was considered safe. After the Norman transports took off, they could sneak out and lay out the back hand, in between, they also had to solve a "small problem": the position of the boxes in the pile was roughly in reverse order, and the boxes about the bottom of the carriage were more likely to be placed on top of the pile, but Weiss and their time from the halfway hijacking to vacating the goods and changing people was very rushed, and it was too late to change the boxes containing people to the bottom of the carriage, if they were unlucky, the ten boxes were not on the top or outermost, but were pressed by other boxesIf you want to come out quietly in the middle of the flight, how can you get it?
Workers outside were still carrying cargo one stubble after another, and some kind of noisy roaring loading and unloading vehicle was busy in the other cargo holds. After more than two hours, the loading and unloading work was finally over, and the surroundings were quiet, and then another mechanical roar, and after a sustained tremor, the environment stabilized again.
Is it finally taking off......
Weiss tried to detect his location with his "human radar", but the detection wave did not respond to normal wooden crates and cargoes such as food, and could only confirm that nine companions were nearby, and that there were no Norman soldiers in the hold. He tried to open the lid from the inside, but it didn't move. What else can I do? Just lie down and wait! This lay, he accidentally fell asleep, and had some strange dreams, until someone gently tapped the wooden box, and he suddenly woke up, and responded to his companion outside with the same tap. After a while, the lid of the wooden box was opened from the outside, and a familiar voice came to my ears.
"Look, sir, we've made it in! God bless the Federation! ”
Weiss crawled out with his pistol and spinach bullets, and the only light in the cargo hold was a few wall lamps on, and the light was dim, and he could still see his surroundings in a general way. The air here is not very well circulated, but it is much better than in a wooden box.
"Who came out first? How many more people? Weiss asked, looking around. At this time, there were 5 warriors beside him, and it seemed that 4 more were trapped inside waiting for help from their companions.
"I'm lucky." A round-faced warrior replied with a smile, "As you told me, when the ship starts, I pry open the box from the inside, push it open, and then look for Jiger, Rudos, Barrosen, Elaire, and then you." ”
The cargo in the hold was piled up into several Peruvian pyramid-shaped piles, and the pile they were in had been moved a little bit away, so it was no wonder that the soldiers were sweating profusely. Weiss squinted his eyes and looked at it, pointed to the two corners of the pile and said, "Oh, look that way and there, they should be there." ”
The fighters didn't ask him how he found out, and he moved the boxes in a hurry.
The four of them moved the boxes in groups of two and two, and Weiss didn't go over to help, but moved his muscles a little, looking left and right in the cargo hold. It is estimated that this transport ship is specially used to carry cargo, and there is no passage between the cargo holds, and if you want to "go through the door" inside, you have to climb the vertical ladder to the corridor above the cargo hold, and go to other places through the corridor.
With directional guidance, the soldiers were able to free their companions without incident, but it was possible that the sound of them moving the wooden boxes disturbed the enemy, or that the crew was patrolling the various cargo holds as usual, and Weiss noticed two Norman soldiers coming to the corridor above the cargo holds, and hurriedly signaled that everyone was hostile. This cargo hold is the size of a football field, and people can be hidden behind the pile, but the messy boxes will not be restored for a while, and the Normans will definitely find anomalies as long as they come to take a look. Weiss made a quick decision and asked one of the warriors to follow him up the ladder, while the rest of the men hid in the shadows and waited for an opportunity.
The height of the cargo hold was about seventy or eighty feet, and it didn't take much time to climb up, Weiss and the warrior he picked out moved very lightly, and barely made any sound, but the corridor above the cargo hold was a hollow steel plate, and the Normans obviously saw something moving on the vertical ladder, so they asked each other if they had found anything, and Weiss heard their conversation and decided to have a preconceived idea, muttering in Norman language, "It's not like words, it's too unlike, how can this work." ”
Hearing the voice, the Norman soldiers who came along the corridor shouted with rifles, "Who are you?" ”
Weiss climbed up the corridor unhurriedly, muttering discontentedly as he waved his hands so that the other could see that he had no weapons in his hands: "We? We are Army soldiers forgotten on ships! ”
The Norman soldiers on the ship were not so easy to fool, and one of them asked vigilantly: "Army soldiers?" You stand still! Tell your name and unit number, and, where are you from? ”
"There's something strange about his accent." Another muttered.
In order to get in and out, Weiss and the nine guerrilla task force fighters he brought with him all wore Norman coats over their clothes - these were trophies from the battlefield, and it was not easy to see the problem from their outfits if you didn't look closely, but the accent was really a troublesome thing. The Norman Empire is also a vast country, with a population of more than 100 million, and different accents in the south, east, and west, but their education is very popular, and the soldiers who join the army can basically speak a standard, almost "earthy" Norman language.
Wei Si originally wanted to get close to them and solve the problem with martial arts, but this acting skill can explode, and the accent is not easy to pretend, since the other party has noticed it, he suddenly changed his face and threatened: "You two better not move, because there are many guns pointed at you!" We've got you in control of it! ”
The two hurriedly looked left and right, and while they were distracted, Weiss drew his gun in his right hand, loaded and opened the safety in one go, and roared in Ulster with a low "Get down" in Ulster. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only sixty or seventy feet, that is, about twenty meters, and although the two Norman soldiers missed the opportunity, they did not raise their hands in amusement, as in some movie scenes, but quickly opened their guns - Weiss started early, leaned down and rolled forward, Qiang Qiang avoided their bullets, and then raised his hand to snap four times, and one of them rewarded two bullets. The Norman soldier fell, but the danger was not over, and Weiss hurried forward, and saw that one of the Norman soldiers was still struggling to pull the bolt, and unceremoniously fired two shots.
"Come on!" Weiss hurriedly called out to his companions, and the Normans on the ship heard the gunfire and would soon come back. What they have to do is not only to withstand the enemy's counterattack, but also to seize control of the transport ship in the shortest possible time. Once the enemy sends a telegram, even if they eventually take control of the transport, the plan to attack Tashur will be twice as difficult, and the chances of success will be cut by at least half.
Having killed the two Norman crew members as easily as snapping the necks of chickens, Weiss's combat blood surged again. He ordered his warriors to stay behind him, and he ran along the corridor, swapping out the six-round magazine as he ran, and entering the melee demon state with two guns in both hands. At the end of the corridor, a steel hatch blocked the view, but he used his hearing and senses to accurately judge the enemy's movement - when the Norman soldiers inside pushed open the hatch, he touched the ground on one knee, raised his hands flat, stepped on the best beat, and fired six bullets in succession, killing the two Norman soldiers who had not had time to cross the hatch on the spot.
As soon as the hatch was opened, Weiss could observe the enemy in the depths of the passage, and based on his knowledge of the general structure of the enemy transport, he judged that the bridge was located above the front. Observing, judging, and waiting for his companion to respond, he alternately withdrew the pistol magazine and filled the magazine with the bullets from the holster, so that the two pistols reached the "N+1" state, that is, the magazine was full, and there was still one round in the chamber of the gun.
Lacking cover in the corridor, Weiss beckoned his men to follow him through the hatch, leaving half of them to prevent reinforcements from the enemy at the bow through the corridor, and he took four other soldiers to seize control of the bridge.