After crossing the wall panel, Pu Su couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Not to mention that I didn't see the expected scene of making weapons in full swing, and I didn't even find a single bullet case.

It's just an ordinary workshop in front of you. Divided into rows of workbenches, about 20 workers are operating equipment to make springs.

The workers first clamped a steel pipe with a spring size and diameter according to the need, then fixed the steel wire, and then operated the winding arm with the hand to extend it according to the length.

The springs made by these workers are not the same in diameter and length, and the models produced are still very complete.

Although the efficiency is not high, they all seem to be journeymen. Among the two dozen workers, there were both White Russians and Chinese, and they all wore uniform patriotic cloth overalls and gloves.

At this time, Lao Ren was already standing at the entrance of the passage at the other end of the workshop, gesturing with an old White Russian man in a wheelchair. Seeing Pu Su and them coming in, he beckoned to him twice.

At this time, Alyosha had already walked over quickly, and before he could reach the front, he opened his arms and made a hugging motion, "Duke Shafsky, your complexion is so good!" ”

Then Alyosha bent down and hugged the old man and kissed him on the cheek. Pu Su noticed that the old man was sitting in a wheelchair and laughing from left to right to left, kissing Alyosha three times on the cheek, a ritual that represents the love of the elders for the younger in the Russian nation.

After they had greeted Pu Su, he took a step forward, although Lao Ren should have introduced Lao Ren before, Alyosha still introduced the old man in Russian.

"Mr. Pu, this is my teacher, Duke Shafsky!"

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Duke!"

Pu Su also leaned over and hugged the old man.

"There's no duke here, just an old man in a wheelchair......"

"You speak Russian very well. Young people, where did you learn? ”

The old man's face was very kind, and his hair and beard were silver-white. The upper body was draped in a flannel robe and covered with a Scottish tartan blanket below the knees.

Although sitting in a wheelchair, the elegant and graceful temperament exuded by the old man is not weak at all.

"I went to university in Russia and studied European classics for several years."

Pu Su knew that the White Russians in exile in Shanghai and those in Moscow now would definitely not deal with each other. Especially since this old man originally had the noble title of duke, at least he was also a royal relative.

If they say that they have been dealing with the CPSU, it should make them feel uncomfortable. The smartest thing to do in this case is, of course, not to tell the truth......

"Really? Is it St. Petersburg or Moscow University? ”

"Mr. Duke, I'm at Moscow University!"

Pu Su replied respectfully. He has always respected the elderly.

"Ah, Moscow, young man, you know what? I was born in the Hermitage. ”

Without waiting for Pu Su to answer, the old man sat in his wheelchair and gently chanted an old Russian ballad.

"I was born to die, please set me free"

"I may be dying, but I will still sing for you."

"I am lonely without father and mother, staggering and walking with the world"

"One day, I will fall and die. My body is like a tree, where is my burial place? ”

"My singing voice is like the chirping of a deer, when will it break and disappear?"

"I am a naked soul, yes, like an innocent child, traversing the world."

"Don't blame me, when the fruit is ripe, it will fall to the ground. Like the sun and the moon, I am a naked soul. ”

……

Halfway through the song, Alyosha and Pusu both sang along with the old man.

It is a sad ballad, full of sad emotions. The lyrics involve the loneliness of death and independence.

Although the old man is emaciated, he is curled up in a wheelchair but does not make people feel weak. His deep singing voice was moving, and at the end of the song, there was a gleam in the corners of his eyes.

"I'm old and homesick......"

After singing the last note, the old man wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief and said.

"Let's go, let's go to the workshop!"

With great difficulty, he stretched out his left hand and shook the wheelchair to turn around.

Alyosha and Lao Ren on the side were rushing to help him push the wheelchair, and the old man smiled at Pu Su and said, "Young man, please help the old man." ”

Pu Su was naturally very happy and pushed the wheelchair down the passage.

Under Pusu's observation, the passage is S-shaped, just wide enough to accommodate a cart to pass through. Once invaded, no matter how many people come, they can only pass side by side at most.

This S-shaped design allows the enemy to charge in a straight line without cover, and a submachine gun can suppress people in a dead corner.

"The man who set up this place must be a master tactician."

Thinking secretly in his heart, as soon as Pu Su pushed the wheelchair from the corner and went out, he was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Less than twenty meters in front of it was parked an English-made Vickers MkF tank. At this time, the muzzle of the gun was facing the passage from which they came out.

The Vickers tank did not have any livery insignia and still maintained the original four-color solid-edged camouflage.

This was the first time Pu Su had seen the real thing, and the instructor only took out models and pictures when he was studying in the Cheka.

The reason, naturally, is that the Soviet military has taken a fancy to it and introduced a production line for independent manufacturing. For Chinese students, it is natural to keep a hand. This model of tank is actually the T26 tank used by the Soviet Union from 1939 to early 1942.

Originally, what he had told Alyosha before was only an armored car, and he thought that it would be a light armored car at most.

Where did you think that a real tank was parked here.

Vickers is a 6-ton light tank, equipped with the famous Songhu Hui Warring States Army Chariot First Company "Tiger Company". When the Nationalist army was first put into battle on the battlefield in the Songhu battlefield, the Japanese were once shocked.

However, because the infantry and tank coordinated operations were not smooth, they were later hit head-on by the Japanese Type 94 anti-tank gun position. Heavy losses in the first battle.

Although the results were not ideal, they largely deterred the frontal combat units of the Japanese army in the Songhu battlefield at that time.

The tank was armed with a 47 mm 18 x diameter gun with a top speed of 32 kilometers per hour, a penetration depth of 25 mm at 500 meters when using armor-piercing shells, and a 7.9mm machine gun, which was obviously not far behind the Japanese Type 89 and Type 95 tanks at that time.

However, due to the fact that the generals of the Nationalist Army at that time did not have the ability to command a genuine armored infantry division, the infantry and tank coordination chaos made the armored forces too scattered, and they were finally broken by the Japanese army.

After the Battle of Songhu, some of the remaining tank units were abandoned or destroyed by the Japanese during the defense of Nanjing. The other part was lost due to the capsizing of the ferry, and the tank that was introduced in the first place has been lost.

Pu Su originally thought that the tank in the hands of the national army was brought by them, but he didn't see the words tiger and dragon when he went around the tank, let alone the blue sky and white sun emblem.

Just as he wanted to ask about the origin of this tank, Lao Ren hinted at him with his eyes. Meaning to know what he's going to ask, but it's better not to ask now.

Pu Su changed the topic and said: "Can it still be used?" ”

"Well maintained and ready to drive. The fuel tanks were full, and there were ample reserves of shells and machine-gun ammunition. ”

Alyosha replied briefly.