With the advent of the Great War, Romania's economy prospered, and the city's revenue increased dramatically, allowing more people to feel the benefits of industrialization. In addition to the benefits of the army being expanded by six divisions, education, medical care, public security, and infrastructure construction have all been improved to varying degrees, and this is the result of financial prosperity. These are not only enjoyed by the people of their own country, but also by another special group of people.

In the northern Romanian border city of Le de Uzzi, Bruno, a border officer, is preparing to patrol the border with his men in fifteen minutes. The reason for him to do this is that there are now too many people smuggling into Romania, yes, smuggling into Romanian territory.

Most of these people were Russian-Austrian civilians in Galicia, which is located in the southeast of present-day Poland in the upper valley of the Vistula River. Western Galicia was occupied by Austria during the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, and the eastern part was also occupied by Russia in 1867. Now that war has broken out, millions of soldiers from both countries are fighting to the death, leaving the local population unspeakably miserable, many of whom have been left homeless by the fighting, and nearby neutral Romania has become a haven for these fleeing people.

Romania also understands the difficulties of these people, but unfortunately now that the Romanian economy has just improved, there is nothing that can be done about it. Only after accepting 110,000 refugees, Romania

The government closed borders to prevent subsequent refugees from entering, so this also led to frequent smuggling. These refugees often try to cross the border into Romania in order to survive, which also adds to the pressure on Bruno, who is a border policeman.

After he checked his weapons, ammunition and equipment, he looked at his subordinates who were going to lead the inspection, and Polek, who was still single in his thirties, was the best marksman and eyesight in his team, so he was holding a Mauser 98 rifle. His deputy, Camille, was putting a revolver in the holster at his thick waist. The others were also preparing their own lives, and the most timid of his subordinates, the Basques, was praying before the trip, knowing that it was a desire not to encounter deserters, which was why they needed to be fully armed.

In fact, in the city of Le de Uzzi, the largest port port to Galicia, all the policemen know that the last thing they like to encounter is the deserter. Most of them, armed men who fled the battlefield, would carry guns and steal into Romanian territory, and most of them had no other means of livelihood than to do some illegal deeds or even kill, which also made the law and order environment in Le de Uzi worse and worse recently, and their Director Albert was a big headache for this.

However, I heard that the police and garrison are going to make a big operation against the security of Ledeuzzi, but this is not something that he can know specifically about as a small police leader. Now he just wants to do a good job of this patrol, so that he can justifiably win a three-day vacation for everyone, after all, they have not taken a vacation for more than a month.

Seeing that everyone was ready, Bruno looked at the pocket watch he had bought for 120 lei and said loudly to his subordinates. "We're going to leave in five minutes, everyone is making the final preparations, and we're still patrolling the border for two days."

Hearing the words of their captain, the police officers who had already prepared answered their superiors in a variety of ways.

"All set, Captain."

"Got it, Captain."

"We're just leaving, Captain."

“………”

Looking at the different answers of his 14 subordinates, Bruno was not angry. The police are like that, and it's not bad for them to behave like the army.

Five minutes later, Bruno and his men walked out of the police station, and after placing tents and household items on three pack horses, they began a two-day patrol.

They walked along the fence on the Romanian side of the border, through the sparsely populated and empty wilderness through the snowy wasteland.

"Be careful, the snow here is too deep to cover up the pit, don't step into it."

Bruno spoke to the patrol behind him as he passed by the pit dug by the hunters they had encountered earlier.

Members of the border police replied. "Got it, Captain."

Looking at the sunlight shining through the snow-covered wilderness, Bruno felt like they shouldn't be able to touch the stowaways this time. Because if people appear on the snow-white ground now, it will be too conspicuous and easy to be discovered, so Bruno feels that the results of this patrol will not be too large, that is, it will play a deterrent role.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, Bruno's feelings were right. However, after they climbed a low hill, two people appeared in the wilderness, and after seeing the border fence that had been destroyed by them in the distance, a patrol of border police did not know the identities of these two people.

Bruno didn't care about his premonition that he would be slapped in the face, and he told Pollek, who had the best marksmanship and was the only one with a spear. "I'll tell them to stop later, if these two people run away, you will shoot the snow warning in front of them, go and don't hit anyone, otherwise the police station will pay a medical bill."

Pollek retorted to his captain's words. "That time it was because the wind blew the sand into my eyes, and I slipped my hand and made a mistake, for which I also lost a month's salary, you can rest assured that I will pay attention to it this time."

Bruno ignored his rebuttal and turned to his deputy, Camille. "You take five people, from the left bread, and I take the remaining five from the right bread, and I can't let them run."

Camille nodded in agreement with him, and then he nodded to five men to make their way through the woods. Bruno also chose five people to order, and we slowly touched it from the right. As for the remaining two, of course, they are in charge of taking care of the horses and supplies.

In fact, it's very difficult to hide in the snow, not to mention Bruno, who is still wearing a black police winter uniform. When they stealthily sneaked up to 300 meters, the two smugglers spotted the police slowly approaching.

"Quick, go separately."

An older and more experienced stowaway shouted at another stowaway next to him, and quickly changed directions. Of course, the young stowaway did not sit still, and began to run forward at all costs.

Bruno has been a border police officer for many years, especially since there have been so many smugglers lately, that he and his officers are very experienced. He and his deputy, Camille, led their respective teams to chase after their nearest targets, when Polek's gun rang out and hit the young stowaway, stunned the stowaway, who had never experienced this situation, and Bruno immediately scared him loudly in the back. "We'll hit you when you're running, and if we catch you, you'll be locked up for a few months at most and put back, don't do stupid things."

I don't know if Bruno's words worked, or if he knew that someone was looking at him in the distance and making him not dare to move, so he was quickly knocked down and handcuffed by the police officers brought by Bruno. At this time, Bruno walked over and saw that the young stowaway who had already been tested was just a teenager with a face of only 16 or 7 years old. Through his dirty clothes and panicked expression, coupled with his emaciated body, Bruno sighed secretly, another war refugee.

Under the initial interrogation of the police officers afterwards, it was indeed as he expected. The young man Podolvsky lived in a small town called Vitlina in Austrian Galicia, and his home and family were destroyed by artillery fire during the Russian attack on Austria-Hungary, leaving him alone. And the other young man who had just been with him was from his town, named Bebrovsky.

After a while, I saw my deputy, Camille, and his party, escorting a young man in his twenties from the direction of the woods.

However, he saw in the young man named Beunovsky, who was still unconvinced. I saw that he kept trying to look back at a certain police officer behind him, but his whole person was restrained by the two police officers on the left and right and couldn't move, so he could only walk forward.

When I got closer, the corner of the young man's mouth was bleeding a little, and it seemed that he had been taught a lesson. Bruno didn't react to this, the police beating people were nothing in the years, let alone stowaways, and now the city is getting worse and worse because of the stowaways, so everyone doesn't like them. Including the church, because when people are hungry, they don't care whether you are a messenger of God or not, so the church has also been plagued by them.

Looking at the two people who had been captured, Bruno turned to two of his subordinates and shouted. "Luke, Bolf, you two escort them back early tomorrow morning."

The two police officers named Luke and Bolf replied. "Okay captain."

"Willis, Pol, Cathar, and Bilier, you four will simply repair the broken fence so that no one will be let in again."

After giving instructions to his subordinates, Bruno looked at the sky. Feeling that the delay made it impossible for them to reach their scheduled camp before the sun set, he spoke to his deputy, Camille. "Let's camp in the col up ahead, just enough to keep the wind out."

"No problem, Captain."

Then a group of police officers took two trophies and walked towards Bruno's fingers, they patrolled the border line for a day or two, and they knew the mountains and forests along the way, and they knew where to rest in this road.

It didn't take long for the col that Bruno had pointed out before to appear, which was actually not a very good camping spot, but the east side was not covered but it was unlikely that the east wind would blow on this day, so I chose this place.

Of course, after arriving here, the group began to collect firewood to make a fire, set up tents, and feed the horses, all of which were very happy. Even the two stowaways who were caught by them were arranged to go to the side to fight, of course, there were police officers working on the side and surveillance.

After they had done all this, the four officers who had repaired the border fence also returned, and this was the most relaxing moment for them, the hard-working border patrol officers. They sat around watching the food in the pot boiling on the bonfire, sipping hot coffee with a cup in their hands, and the whole person felt sincerely relaxed, and by the way, they also talked about light topics, nothing more than that they encountered a ridiculous thing when they went to the police, and Podolvsky and Bebunovsky, who were arrested by them, also sat two or three meters away from them.

At this time, the captain Bruno took the coffee pot and walked up to them with three cups, and when they saw him coming, they both stared at the steaming coffee pot. Seeing the two of them in the eyes, Bruno handed them the cup in his hand, and then he poured the coffee from the pot into the cup they were holding.

After doing all this, Bruno raised the coffee in his hand and spoke to the two young refugees. "Respect this damn war and keep it away from us."

Podolvsky and Bebunovsky also raised their glasses and replied. "To this damn war."

After tax, the two picked up the coffee and drank it in a big gulp, it seemed that they were hungry and frozen.

"Ahem, cough, cough"

Podolvsky couldn't help coughing because he drank too quickly.

Looking at Podolvsky, who was coughing, Bruno persuaded him. "Drink it slowly, no one will touch your coffee."

Bruno then gave them a share of the food, and there was only so much Bruno could do with the refugees. Bruno knew what would happen to them. They would be held in Romania for a short time, then repatriated, and sentenced to three years of hard labour by both Russia and Austria. Considering that this is a time of war, it is almost certain that the place of service will be more dangerous, and the two of them have half the chance of not surviving during the hard labor.

However, Bruno has nothing to do about it, and now a large number of refugees have entered Romania through various means, which has greatly strained the already small police force. This approach can only be avoided unless the government is able to admit refugees, depending on how government policymakers think about it.

After eating, Bruno and his party except for one person who remained vigil for the night, the others hid in the tent early to sleep, and even Podolvsky and Bebnowski were assigned a small tent. Soon everyone fell asleep in exhaustion, even the two young people who were smuggled were no exception, but it was not that Bruno was completely relieved of the two, how could he be so ignorant as a policeman, but that there was an iron chain attached to the feet of the two people, and there were several bells on them, which was the reason why Bruno was bold and relieved.

The night was very quiet, and nothing happened except for the change of the watchman. Early in the morning, after collecting their belongings, Bruno and his party continued their departure, while the captured Podolvsky and Bebnowski were to be sent to the bureau for temporary detention.

After parting at this col, Bruno and his men continued their journey, and they had to walk all the way to a small river called Nalua and then return to Le de Uzzi. It will meet with another border city, Botoshani, and if they are lucky, they will be able to sit by the river with their colleagues and have a coffee.

"It's almost time to get there, and it's better to see the patrols in Botoshani so that you can taste their coffee, which is much better than our police station."

As he climbed over a white hill, Camille, the deputy, told Bruno, who was at the front, about his desire to reach the end. It's just that the deputy's words did not interest him in the slightest, and he stood on the top of the hill and was stunned. Seeing that the captain was motionless, Camille also stepped forward with a little curiosity, but he was also stunned. Then the officers of these patrols were stunned. ()

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