"I solemnly salute Adolf. Hitler swore allegiance. I swear allegiance to him and to my superiors. Adolph. Hitler: Long live the victory!"

On a moving SDKFZ251 half-track armored vehicle, six embarrassed but energetic soldiers face their young and charismatic commander and relive the oath they took to join the Waffen-SS. After this, Lynn said to them in a solemn and affectionate tone:

"Brothers, from now on, we will move side by side towards a new goal. This is a path full of difficulties and dangers, but also a great path to ultimate victory, where our proud fighting ideals will be continued, and our iron will will be reborn in Nirvana! Brothers, remember that no matter how bad the situation may be, we will never abandon each other! ”

"Never abandon each other!" The soldiers replied in a low and powerful voice.

Nodding, the young SS sergeant bowed to his feet and cautiously moved to the front of the carriage. An unknown SS soldier wields an on-board MG42 machine gun, which has a convex shield and a long chain of metal bullets dangling dozens of rounds from the bolt, which looks like a violent, mechanical aesthetic, but in fact a lethal human body exposed to armor and defenses. Unless a steel-core warhead is used, an ordinary thin steel plate will be able to prevent it from working.

"Hey, buddy, I'll take you for a while!"

Lynn's proposal was met with an immediate positive response from the SS soldier, and it seemed that standing here with a high level of mental concentration was also a hard job.

The machine gun was not his specialty, and all Lynn wanted was to see the situation he was in better. The armored car they are riding in now is at the very end of the armored column, the "Night Leopard" and "Panther" in front of them have melted into the night, and only tank No. 4 with armored petticoats and a half-track armored vehicle of the same model can be seen in the line of sight. Lynn calculated in her mind that when she left the city, there were 26 tanks and armored vehicles, and by this time there had been a decrease of 9, that is, a third of the number of tanks. Of the damaged vehicles, 3 were the most combat-ready Leopard tanks, 2 were the 4th tanks with a well-balanced and stable surname, and 4 were the most resistant half-track armored vehicles. This is not the case with combat vehicles, and the rate of loss of accompanying combat infantry is higher. If not, how could Lynn and his six soldiers sit in their seats? Either on foot, or crouch behind the butt of the tank to be a "meat shield"!

Although it has been far away from the suburbs of Berlin, where the Soviet troops are most concentrated, the resistance along the way has not been completely eliminated, this German armored column is still attacked by artillery fire and bullets from time to time during the march, and the bullets fired from a distance occasionally hit the baffle of this armored vehicle, and the sound of the bang made Lynn have to carefully lower his head, but his eyes are still staring at the vehicles in front of him for a long time, thinking to himself: Since this armored convoy is escorting **OSS, then he himself must be on one of the vehicles. The comfort of the half-track armored vehicle is the best, and the relatively spacious compartment can also be placed on a sofa and bed, but its defense is so poor that an anti-tank rifle or a large piece of shrapnel can penetrate the compartment baffle, and judging from the first breakthrough of the building fire blockade and the subsequent head-on exchange of fire with the Soviet blocking forces, even the reinforcement of the armored vehicle is not safe enough. The No. 4 tanks had a similar flaw - at the end of World War II, their armor was no longer sufficient to withstand the attacks of the Soviet T-34, Su85 and Allied "Sherman", and it was difficult to escape from the enemy's heavy tanks. In this way, the most likely to become the "Venerable Vehicle" should be one of the Leopard tanks, but their inner compartments are cramped and noisy, and can those in power above bear the humiliation and condescension?

The more questions and confusion he had, Lynn even began to suspect that the armored column was just a front to divert the attention of the Soviets from the top brassiers, and that if those in power were willing to leave, it was entirely possible to take other safer routes, such as secret tunnels, light planes, and even miniature submarines. However, with the current progress of the Battle of Berlin and the surrounding environment, the danger of leaving by plane is not small, and once it is intercepted by enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighter planes in the middle, it will be the end of the story.

Away from the buildings on the outskirts, the terrain on both sides of the road becomes slightly more open. There were many factories in the area, but due to the fierce and protracted bombing by the Allied forces, most of the factories and facilities were relocated to the southern mountains or remote countryside between 1943 and 1944, and scattered into hidden secret workshops, leaving only the dilapidated factories full of chaos. However, it was under such circumstances that Germany's military production reached its peak in 1944 – and when I think of this, Lynn certainly does not forget the famous architectural genius Albert. Speer. According to the official history, Speer stopped Hitler's scorched earth orders at the end of the war, was captured by the British and underwent the Nuremberg trials, and became the only official in the inner circle of the Third Reich to be exempted from the death penalty.

Syllable...... Syllable...... Dada...... The sound of gunfire in front of Lynn made Lynn honestly draw her attention to her eyes, and at this time, a series of bullets could be faintly seen flying towards the right side of the road with a dark red shimmer. Listening to the sound of gunfire, it is estimated that there were scattered Soviet soldiers using anti-tank rifles and other firearms to harass from a long distance. In this case, their own Leopard and No. 4 tanks will not easily consume a limited number of shells, and even the machine gun fire for suppression is a little stingy - from the armored command vehicle in front to this armored transport vehicle, Lynn did not see a large number of piled up ammunition boxes, the infantry with infrared night vision equipment battery packs do have some, under the deployment of Major Ziggenke, his combat squad got two boxes, Lynn and Brewer reused the familiar night combat equipment, And Noah obtained an 88mm anti-tank rocket launcher left behind by the fallen soldiers, which can be regarded as a "heavy old business".

Seeing that Lynn was a little overwhelmed with the machine gun, the SS soldier, who had taken turns to rest for a while, took the initiative to get up and said, "I'd better come, sir!" ”

Lynn had just shifted back a position when he heard an inconspicuous "dang", and before he could turn his mind, he saw the SS soldier in front of him, who had not yet touched the handle of the machine gun, sit down slowly with his abdomen clutched, and his expression of shock quickly turned into extreme pain.

In the dimly lit carriage, Ren Lynn's eyes widened and he couldn't see the bullet holes, but the blood gushing from the SS soldier's fingers was not false in the slightest. Seeing that something was wrong, Wolfrum moved in to help, but before they could try to stop the bleeding for their companion, the soldier, whose name they did not know, froze in the front of the carriage and landed without a snort.

Another life has irretrievably fallen beside him, and Lynn's mood is like a large dark cloud suddenly drifting in the wind and beautiful weather, and the kind of loss and sadness that is clear in his heart is not something that can be put aside if he wants to. Witnessing this situation, he even had a deep worry: the reason why history is as most people know, is not because the **oss who secretly broke through failed to reach the destination in the end, but was turned into ashes along with the car halfway, so that the oral accounts of those survivors have become "nonsense"?

With the death of the machine gun shooter, only Lynn and his six soldiers were left in the compartment of the half-track armored car, and Vofrum bravely took the position of the machine gun shooter, but he did not fire blindly, so as not to actively expose the specific location of the armored car to the opponent, and the noise outside did not change much, it seems that the attacker is still just a straggler of the Soviet army.

The noisy environment largely cut off the sound exchange between the cabin and the cab, and in the absence of outsiders, the youngest Techmel was the first to ask questions.

"Sir, where are we going?"

Lynn sat down on the spot and replied calmly: "I only know that we are escorting extremely important people out of Berlin, and I would like to know where to go!" ”

That was the end of Titchmer's question, and Brewer, who was sitting across from him, fumbled in his satchel for a while, pulling out a pack of cigarettes, which seemed to have quite a few in it. He handed one to each of his companions in the carriage, struck a match for Lynn to light it, and asked in a low voice, "Sir, I'm not questioning your decision, but I just want to know...... What's the point of doing that for us? ”

Smelling the familiar smell of tobacco, Lynn's tense mood eased. In fact, for soldiers who are always on the verge of life and death, cigarettes are indeed a good thing, sometimes even more valuable than weapons and food, and it seems that Brewer still has stock in stock at this time. Although they have not been together for long, Lynn has seen him barter with his neighbors and fellows twice, food for cigarettes, and cigarettes for food, which is not questionable, but in the heavy atmosphere of the empire's imminent collapse, it is really easy to think of the Jews who "can do business in everything".

Between the clouds and the mist, Lynn calmly replied: "Have you ever thought about what the final outcome would be if we obeyed our duty as soldiers and continued to hold on to Berlin to fight the enemy?" ”

Barely thinking, Brewer replied, "Die in battle, or be captured!" ”

Lynn looked at the others, including Wolfrum, who was still listening carefully while standing in the machine-gun position, and said, "When I was a child, I dreamed of one day being able to put on a military uniform and fight bravely in a hail of bullets, so that everyone would respect and be recognized. Later, as I grew older and more cognizant, I learned that there is such an army in this world, they have an unyielding iron will and an arrogant fighting character, they regard loyalty as the supreme honor, and even make people feel that there is a mysterious aura hanging over them. One day, I unexpectedly became a member of this army. To be honest, I have been confused, afraid, and even thought that I would not open my eyes after closing them, but there is an invisible force that drives me forward. After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly realized that this is the power of dreams! ”

Despite the sound of gunfire outside the carriage, there may not have been any shortage of large-caliber machine-gun and anti-tank bullets among the bullets that flew nearby, but even so, the soldiers listened attentively to Lynn's affectionate words.

"The evacuation of Berlin with the intention of avoiding death or capture in order to obtain better living conditions after the fall of the Third Reich, but half an hour ago, when I learned from an old friend that the existence of this force was part of the 'Aryan Ark' project, I found that my mind had always been imprisoned by the old model, always oscillating between the feeling and the reason, in fact...... Not everything can be analyzed and judged with rational thinking! Today, from today, from now on, let's fight for that seemingly empty dream, even if it is just wishful thinking after all! ”

(To be continued)