The carriage fell silent for a moment, except for the regular "click" of the railroad tracks outside.

Then, after a long while, the warriors suddenly came alive:

"No, it can't be, you're the 'escape hero'?"

"We talked about you just now!"

"They said that the plan to rescue Odessa was also made by you, right?"

……

"Where did you know that?" Shulka is a little strange, this plan has been a military secret until then.

But of course, after the Battle of Odessa it ceased to be a secret.

But the fact that these soldiers who were protecting the train was able to know it still surprised Shulka.

"Kyiv has long been spread!" Yakov explained: "We travel back and forth between Kyiv and Odessa all the time, so we always get the latest news! ”

Shulka let out an "oh".

"I think we owe it to you, Comrade Shulka!" Yakov said.

"Why?"

"Because of this plan!" Yakov explained: "It's a good plan, and you may not know what it means for us...... We are Odessa people, there are our families, our friends! ”

"Yes, Comrade Shulka!" Another soldier said: "We can't imagine what will happen if Odessa is occupied by the enemy!" ”

……

This is something Shulka didn't expect.

Shulka only thought about strategy, stratagem, deduction, and of course, his own safety, but he didn't expect that under every battle, there were thousands of family and friendship.

"It's nothing, comrades!" Shulka replied: "This is what I should do." In fact, it was Major Gavrilov who saved Odessa, the other officers and soldiers of the 9th Mechanized Army, and you...... As long as we can unite together, we will surely be able to drive the aggressor out of our homeland and achieve victory! ”

"Yes, Comrade Shulka!"

"Well said, Comrade Shulka!"

……

Major Gavrilov patted Shulka on the shoulder and said, "We should probably ask you to make a speech, I mean to the soldiers and civilians of Odessa!" ”

"No, Comrade Major!" Shulka said: "I only have one problem to care about right now! ”

"What's the problem?"

"Where's the side?"

The soldiers laughed "coaxingly".

The side booth was placed in a small compartment deep in the carriage...... That is said to be a side place, but in fact it is just a bucket, and all kinds of filth make people unbearable to look at directly.

"Watch out for those boards ahead, Comrade Shulka!" Yakov reminded: "You have to step on them, or you risk getting scared!" ”

Shulka was worried with his feet, those boards were really loose, if he stepped on it, it was not only startled, it was estimated that the whole person would fall...... The bottom of the train in this era was nailed with wooden planks, and this is indeed the case with disrepair.

But that wasn't much to Shulka, who seemed to be used to it since he came to the plane...... Peacetime marching operations are often solved on the spot, and often have to be solved quickly, so they are not much better.

At least not in the rain on the train, Shulka was able to sleep on the box.

The only regret is that you can't smoke in the carriage, because the carriage is full of ammunition, and it is not a joke if it detonates.

Shulka thought that this might be the reason for choosing to transport stuffy tanks in a car...... From the point of view of protecting the safety of the train, it is necessary to open several observation holes on both sides of the carriage in any case, so that the soldiers hiding inside do not completely see the situation outside.

But doing so is likely not only to fail to protect the train, but is likely to backfire...... The carriage was loaded with ammunition, and the partisans only had to climb into the car at a certain position and stuff a grenade into the hole, and then there was a "boom......

Shulka learned from Yakov that the speed of the train is about 50 kilometers per hour, which means that it takes more than ten hours to reach Kiev.

During this time, the soldiers had a dinner of unpalatable black bread...... This made Shulka know that the previous statement was correct, and that the Odessa soldiers had left them with better supplies in order to repay the mechanized 9th Army for relieving the siege.

Before you know it, it's night, but it doesn't make any difference to the warriors who are stuck in the carriage, because they can't see anything anyway.

Shulka took the time to sort out his equipment, a habit he had developed since joining the battle, and he didn't want to find only two rounds in his bullet bag when something unexpected came.

"Why don't you get a pistol!" Second Lieutenant Gavrilov asked: "After all, you are already a company commander!" ”

"I did!" "But they told me that there was a serious shortage of pistols! ”

"Yes!" "It may be puzzling," Yakov said, "that pistols are much lighter and smaller than rifles, but there is a severe shortage. But that's normal, because the battlefield needs rifles more than pistols, so all the rifles are brought from the Crimea, and they don't want to waste precious space and capacity on pistols! ”

Yakov has been protecting transport troops for some time, so he knows a lot about these.

"Go back and I'll apply for it for you!" Major Gavrilov said.

"No, Major!" Shulka said, "Maybe I can get a handful from the Germans!" ”

The warriors laughed knowingly.

But at this moment, only a "boom" was heard, and then the train suddenly stopped, and the soldiers in the carriage involuntarily fell into a pile under the strong inertia.

Then there was gunfire outside.

"Enemy!" Yakov's face changed dramatically in the light of a flashlight: "It's the partisans, we have been attacked by the partisans!" ”

After a pause, Yakov ordered loudly: "Open the door and protect the train!" ”

"No!" Shulka hurriedly stopped: "Don't open the door!" ”

"Comrade Shulka?" Yakov looked at Shulka suspiciously.

"They've been ready for a long time!" Shulka said: "They will block the car door with fire!" ”

"That's right!" Major Gavrilov agreed: "They will even throw grenades at the carriage!" ”

"But the major ......," Yakov said nervously, "if we don't go out, wait until they get rid of the others......

Needless to say, what will happen next is to blow up the train after the guerrillas have eliminated the fighters guarding outside the carriage.

So staying inside is also death.

"Follow me!" Shulka didn't explain either, grabbed his rifle and headed deeper.

Walked to the side and stepped on it, and a few planks were cocked up to reveal a hole leading to the bottom.

"We can get out of here!" Shulka said.