(607) Snowpiercer
"According to the plan, our team will survey a distance of several thousand kilometers from the east of Korla in the Tianshan Mountains to Kashgar in the west. Every morning, I got on the bus and rushed to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. The Gobi Desert is particularly vast and looks very close, but it takes an hour or two for a car to reach the foot of the mountain. Then a prospector put everyone down according to one kilometer, and the prospector walked along a line of three or four kilometers to the north, and according to the regulations, he must run every point on the line, and make all records. During the inspection, there were three people in a line, one person was engaged in instrumental measurement, one person was engaged in geology, holding a compass, looking for directions, and specifying routes, and one person was a guard, carrying a light machine gun on his back. We were armed with pistols. At that time, everyone was very nervous when they went out every day, and it was particularly emphasized that the radiation of the line recorded in the notebook was a state secret and could not be lost, because if it was lost, it would be a serious leak. In addition, if the detection instrument encounters special circumstances, such as enemy spies or armed personnel, it must be smashed. ”
"At first, because I didn't understand, I did exactly what the experts asked me to do, and sometimes I was too rigid. When the prospector inspected along the designated route, he came across a high mountain, no matter how high he was, he had to climb up, and when he touched a ravine, no matter how deep he was, he had to go down, and he passed through this ravine and climbed up again. Therefore, it seems that the distance of three or four kilometers is very physically demanding. Sometimes the ditch is too deep, there is no way, the deep ditch in the Tianshan Mountains is four or five hundred meters high, and the miners have to walk flat on the cliff, keeping the original direction unchanged, and the road on this cliff is the road taken by the yellow sheep. When I looked down along the line, my head was dizzy, and I didn't dare to look up, and I didn't dare to look up, so I only walked along the Yellow Sheep Road in the middle of the hill towards the measuring point. It's not enough to just walk with trepidation, you have to measure the point while walking to see if there is anything abnormal. After climbing for a day and going back, everyone is exhausted, and they have to report to see what the situation is today, whether there are any confidentiality issues, and they can rest when they are finished......"
Yang Shuoming held her daughter in her arms, maybe Yang Lanyu was too tired, she said and fell asleep in her father's arms.
Seeing his daughter sleeping sweetly, Yang Shuoming faintly had the urge to transfer her away in his heart.
Yang Shuoming's gaze turned to his daughter's room, and when he saw all kinds of colorful ore specimens displayed in the surrounding closets, he couldn't help but sigh and dispel this idea.
When he was young, his greatest wish was to be able to do what he loved and get happiness and benefits from it. And as a time-traveler from the afterlife, he is also a victim of the education system of the later generations, and he knows the taste of repressed pain.
Now that his daughter has fulfilled her childhood ideals, what reason does he have to deprive her of happiness?
Looking at his sleeping daughter, he seemed to see his younger self again.
China's future belongs to millions of young people like her.
Thinking of the young people who were still fighting on the battlefield, his heart became firm again.
Because he spared no effort to speed up the development of China's nuclear weapons, the purpose is to let these young people achieve the goal of making their lives better at the least cost of bloodshed.
The future of the world is yours. Yang Shuoming thought in his heart.
At this time, on the other side of the world, another group of young people about the same age as Yang Lanyu were embarking on an unprecedented journey.
It was a sunny evening, and four members of the "Wild Geese" boarded the plane. At 7 o'clock, Commander Helka and Captain Sathorn piloted the plane over the North Sea. Four hours later, the plane arrived at a pre-set skydive site in the Tremak area. At this time, the weather was fine, and the plane began to descend sharply. In the clear night sky, the members of the Wild Goose Team can clearly see the face of their hometown: meandering rivers, majestic mountains, deep whirling valleys, and snow-covered land...... They can see the lights coming from their homes and cars, and perhaps some of the lights are on at the homes of their relatives or friends. How have they been in the last few years? Are they still alive? Will they be put in concentration camps? Paulsun, Herlberg, and Haugland had mixed feelings, and if they had not escaped Norway at the time, they would now be being held in a concentration camp in Hardagvida, in the bitter cold near Tremark.
Haldag? The Vinda area is a 3,500-square-kilometre area where no grass grows. When winter comes, the place is closed to the outside world for 6 months because the snow and ice are too thick. Hardag is full of rocks and lakes, and although reindeer, grouse, ptarmigans and snow foxes can occasionally be spotted there, the natural environment is too harsh for any animals or plants. Only the adventurous will set foot in that area.
Flying over the Haldag region is an intense and exciting one. In such clear weather, Haldag looks like the Antarctic region and the far north of Canada, with ice, snow and rocks everywhere in sight. The only signs of human presence in the area are a few small hunting houses built along the lake. Looking down from the air, a herd of hundreds of reindeer below looks like little more than a few dots in the vast expanse of snow and ice. Normally, the Haldag region can seem daunting, but for the members of the Wild Geese, it is an exciting and exciting time to return to their homeland and fight for the freedom of their homeland.
The Hardag region is a place where people choose to take risks, but not many people survive there. When the Germans occupied Norway, German patrols searched for Norwegian civilians and British paratroopers who had joined the resistance. To make sure they could get back before dark, they usually only travel for half a day and then turn around and head back immediately. For the Germans, it was a frozen hell, but for the four-member Wild Gees, it was about to become their new home.
Sergeant Hill of the Royal Air Force opened the skydiving hole in the cabin floor, and the time for the parachute jump was up. The hearts of the 4 warriors began to beat violently with excitement and fear, and their own war was about to begin. Four people lined up in front of the skydiving hole, everything was ready, the cold air of the night entered the cabin, and at 11:20 p.m., Sergeant Hill dropped six packages loaded with supplies from the plane. Immediately afterwards, four members of the team jumped one after the other: first Paulsun, then Haugland, then Scherstrup and Hellberg.
No one can predict what will happen in the next few seconds. When the warriors jump 16 feet out of the cabin, the parachute will open automatically. Since the planes are flying at 200 feet per second, the skydivers have to jump one after the other. The reason is simple: if you hesitate for a few seconds when you jump, you will be hundreds of yards away from your companion when you land, and you may even miss the jump area. All the members of the Wild Goose team jumped without hesitation within a second or two of receiving the order to jump.
Everyone was nervous when they jumped down from the skydiving hole under the cabin. When they jumped down and saw Norway right below us, they were excited again. Hill dropped two more packages after the warriors had jumped and closed the skydiving hole. When the plane turned around and was about to fly back, in the bright moonlight, he could see 12 parachutes lined up in the air. Aircraft commander Helka recorded in his flight report: "When they arrived at the parachute site, they jumped one by one without hesitation. The last package is dropped 700 to 1,000 feet in the air, in a southerly direction (with a clear view of the ground below). We saw the front 11 parachutes land safely before leaving. ”
After successfully unloading the parachutists, the plane flew to the Stavanger and distributed thousands of leaflets before turning around and flying back to England. The parachutists and supplies fell heavily on the rough ground, "but fortunately none of us were seriously injured when we landed, despite the rocks on the ground." Paulsson wrote in his chronicles. As soon as the four warriors landed, they immediately unlowered their parachutes, because they all knew that a strong wind would hit and the parachute could drag them far away and break their bones. Hellberg injured his arm when he hit the ground, and it took at least a week for the wound to heal completely.
For the next four hours, they searched around for eight packages dropped by planes, which they used to carry out their missions and survive in the wild. The darkness of the night and the complex terrain caused great trouble in the search mission. At 4 o'clock in the morning, the search was still ongoing. On the first night after arriving, they camped not far from the landing site, where they unfurled their sleeping bags behind a huge rock and prepared to rest. It was only at this time that Paulson told the other three members of the purpose of their trip: that they were to act as an advance party for the British troops who arrived later, and to blow up some kind of reserve at the Vimok hydroelectric power station.
"It was only before I started training that I learned from Colonel Wilson about the important surname of this mission. It was possible that the Germans would use heavy water to create a bomb that would blow up half of London. "I don't know what heavy water is, and I don't believe in the existence of such weapons (you know, people born after the First World War would hardly have imagined that there would be bombs with a power of more than 500 pounds). But for the sake of the motherland, we must also accomplish this task. ”
Each member of the Wild Goose team searched for the eight packages dropped by the plane in different directions, and it took them two days to find all the supplies in the snow-covered mountains. One of the reasons for the slow progress was because they found the ski equipment in the last package, and if they could have found it in the first place, they could have completed the search in a matter of hours. In the local environment, it is simply impossible to move without ski equipment.
The weather had been fine for the past two days, and they were all taken aback when they finally settled their bearings. They landed on the eastern side of Mount Virgin, 10 miles west of where they had planned to land, so that they were about 20 miles away from Vermog. Under normal circumstances, this distance is not a problem at all for these ski experts. But the problem was that they carried with them supplies weighing up to 700 pounds, including a month's worth of food, radio equipment and weapons. They decided to hide half of the supplies in a secret place in case they could pick them up after the operation. But they had to bring enough food rations because they couldn't come into contact with the locals. To make matters worse, they couldn't cross the mountains right away, as their heating stove was broken during the airdrop. Not having a stove to dry clothes and cook is a big problem. The members of the Wild Goose team eventually decided that they would stay in the lowlands for a while longer in order to find some firewood to make a fire to keep warm.
Three days after their arrival in Norway, a snowstorm hit the Haldag region, severely hampering the Wild Geese's plans to reach their intended location and establish a base. In just a few hours, the bitter cold came.
Norwegian explorers Amundsen and Nancy came here to train before their expedition to the Antarctic because of the strong snowstorms. It's even more dangerous than Antarctica, because it's a plateau, and there are only a few mountains on it, and Mount Hardag is 3,000 feet above sea level, and it's all flat and unobstructed, so the mountain wind is very strong, especially when it's windy and snowy, and the temperature can drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius. In a snowstorm, people can't even see a few feet in front of them, so it's easy to get lost and get lost. Such a harsh climate can terrify even seasoned veteran climbers.
The blizzard on Mount Hardag is terrifying, and it can bury more than a dozen people alive in just a few hours. Rich mountaineering experience and advanced mountaineering equipment can only play an auxiliary role, but cannot fundamentally solve the problem. Techniques such as digging snow cellars and building shacks were passed down from generation to generation by the older generation of nomads, and are appropriately used here. In order to survive in such an environment, a certain amount of courage and knowledge is essential, and the young people in the Wild Goose team have all these qualities. To be fair, only Norwegians can carry out such a difficult task in such an environment.
To weather the blizzard, Herlberg and Paulsson carried all their luggage to a nearby valley where they knew there was a shack when they were children. To their dismay, the shack was gone, so they had to find their way back in the dark night and dense snow and fog to join the rest of the group (it was later confirmed that the shack had been moved elsewhere).
That night, they tried to radio contact the British, but without success. Norway's long and narrow valleys, steep mountain peaks, and bad weather often make communication links a major problem. After another night of hiding in the snow, the four members of the Wild Geese set out on a "heavy and tired journey". They hauled 250 kilograms of radio equipment, two heat accumulators, Eureka household machinery (needed to communicate with the aircraft), a hand generator, wilderness survival equipment, a white-sprayed "Stern" submachine gun, and a month's rations for four people. The devices are divided into 8 packages weighing up to 30 kg. In order to deliver a package, an individual needs to travel back and forth between the departure and termination points twice a day.
The members of the Wild Geese braved the wind and snow to cross the Sangdal Valley, where the ice had not yet fully frozen, and the plateau was too rugged for skiing, with a thick layer of snow reaching their knees. Although the blizzard was lighter, a thick layer of ice formed on their ski equipment, which made their march even slower. Although they carry ski wax with them, they are reluctant to use it now, and they have to save it until they retreat after the destruction mission.
Skiing is a physically demanding sport because it requires muscles, lungs, and heart for energy. When you're exhausted, malnourished, and in harsh natural conditions, skiing is an ordeal, and you have to waddle around in your snowshoes. The "muscle training" that the members of the Wild Goose received in the UK helped them a lot, enabling them to overcome these difficulties.
Another big problem for them is not being able to ski in the open area because they need to be close to the woods so that there is a firewood supply for heating. Heating is very important, and in a cold climate, a hot diet can ensure their physical strength. Melting snow and sweat soaked the warriors' clothes, which quickly froze together with their skin if they were not dried out.
Although they wanted to walk in a straight line to reach their intended location, during the season most of the rivers they passed were not covered with solid ice, and they had to take a detour. There were a few places where they could walk directly on the river, and there was a lot of snow on the surface of the river, soaking their shoes. They travel very slowly, often only a few kilometers a day. To make matters worse, one of Paulsun's ski sticks broke, and it was only a month before they could get new supplies.
On August 24, the members of the wild goose team finally arrived at a farm called Barutun, and everyone was exhausted, hungry and cold. They found some meat and flour on the farm, and six days after their arrival, they finally had a decent meal. Normally, it is normal to find a shelter to take refuge in a critical moment, and after consuming other people's food, they should leave a corresponding gift to express their gratitude; But this time it wasn't the usual situation, and the members of the Wild Geese had to steal. "For the first few days of our arrival in Norway we had been living in tents and snow dens, which were getting heavier and heavier as they became wet, and we knew that there must be hunters' huts nearby, and we wanted to find one to live in, because there would be no one in the huts during this season," Paulsson wrote. ”
To their excitement, they found a sleigh on the farm, and it was even more coincidental that the sled turned out to be Paulson's old belongings. "It's really strange that I had that sleigh when I was a child, and it was lost at the beginning of the war, and it actually reappeared when we needed it most." Paulson writes. Everyone unanimously attributed this to God's will. (To be continued)