Chapter 28: The Defector

The moment Lynn felt like the whine of an air raid siren, he felt that he was still on the front line of the brutal and bloody field, he suddenly woke up from his sleep, and subconsciously reached out to grab the weapon, but there was no firearm beside him - even weapons such as daggers had to be handed over to the armory after training every day.

"What's the situation? Is the enemy invading? ”

The second lieutenant of the SS, Shu Ze, who had also been awakened from his sleep, shouted in a panicked tone that no one liked.

Although he didn't pay attention to this babbling guy, Lynn was not without such worries. There is no absolutely safe hideout in the world, and even if they really escaped to the distant Antarctic, wouldn't the US military still hold a large-scale "High Jump Operation" to conduct a comprehensive search two years later?

Accustomed to sleeping in a kimono on the battlefield, Lynn hurriedly dressed, and although it was only a coat and pants, it was still a beat slower than the blonde ensign Wolrich, only about the same as "Superman" Boseman who had an extra pair of glasses to wear. Everyone walked towards the door while buckling their belts, but Shu Ze, whose hair was a little messy, ran to the balcony instead.

As soon as the door opened, the whining alarm was almost in the face - because the space of the cave was basically closed, the screeching "noise" was completely stronger than anything I had heard before.

No one explained what was happening, no one delivered orders, and the hallways were filled with bewildered faces. In the high-decibel alarm, Lynn faintly heard the second lieutenant Shu Ze, who was walking to the balcony, shouting: "The guards are walking towards the opposite passage, it should be to the dock!" ”

I don't know if I heard it or not, but Boseman said, "Let's go, go downstairs first!" ”

Feeling that this was the best thing to do at the moment, Lynn was right behind the bullfighter. There were not many people on the stairs, and in a moment's effort, the officers and soldiers who poured in from the corridors on both sides filled it, but fortunately, the power supply was not interrupted at this time, and the bright lights made the officers and soldiers still maintain the most basic continuity in the panic, and they saw that they had gone down from the fourth floor to the second floor, and suddenly heard someone below shouting, "Everyone go back to their rooms, and you must not move without an order!" ”

At first, the sound did not stop the flow of people from moving down the stairs, but the barracks gate was obviously blocked, and the stairs between the first and second floors were crowded with officers and soldiers, and the people could not take a step forward anymore, and the voices asking everyone to return to their rooms were almost roaring, and the officers and soldiers in front realized that the road was impassable, and finally began to turn their heads and call out to their comrades to retreat. Immediately afterwards, the whining sirens stopped, and a calm male voice came from the radio speaker: "Except for the guards on duty who have been ordered by the base command, all other personnel are not allowed to leave the dormitory room without authorization, maintain order, maintain order!" ”

At this time, the flow of people on the stairs finally began to return, and Lynn and the three of them had to obediently return to the fourth floor.

Second Lieutenant Shuze, who hadn't had time to comb his hair, seemed to have left the room before, only pulling in the back, so he came back before Lynn. He stood on the balcony and peered out, the voice over the loudspeaker repeating the command.

The blonde ensign Wolrich rushed to the balcony as soon as he entered, glanced out next to Shuze, turned back to Lynn and Bosman, and said, "It doesn't look like there's an enemy!" ”

Lynn and Boseman naturally walked to the balcony very curiously, the large crystal lamp at the top of the cave had been adjusted to the brightness that only had noon, illuminating the outer walls of the Imperial Base Camp, the 1st Barracks of the Imperial Guards and the remaining two barracks that had not yet been completed, and four armored vehicles and dozens of soldiers with guns had been deployed on the square square in front of the Imperial Base Camp, but they did not see what Shu Ze said before, "the guards went to the opposite passage".

Shu Ze, who had been looking here for the longest time, speculated: "Maybe the enemy's warship has appeared in the nearby sea!" ”

Wolrich immediately retorted: "In that case, it should be the sailors and not the guards who rush to the docks!" I think there's a small group of enemy task forces approaching our base! Yes, most likely Soviet! ”

Is it really Soviet?

Before coming to this era, Lynn's view of the "Red Empire" had always been regrettable, but after a few months of tempering on the Eastern Front of World War II, he had to fight to the death with the Soviets every time he met, and his views on them had unconsciously turned into a knife-edge opposition. It is said that at the end of World War II, the Soviet army had already occupied Finland and northern Norway, but the German [***] troops in the south-central part of the country did not formally surrender to the Allies until mid-June - it was not that the German troops there were stubborn, but that the United States and the Soviet Union both focused on grabbing technical equipment and scientific personnel, and the combat troops were also transferred to the Pacific theater in large numbers. Only then did Norway finally "recover" more than a month after the surrender of the native German army.

After a full four or five minutes, the man who was speaking on the radio finally put an end to his tedious and infinitely repeated warnings, and everything around him suddenly fell silent, but there was no sound of gunfire or anything else associated with the battle, which was very confusing. Lynn looked at her watch, and at 1:20 a.m., it was May 16, the 13th day since she arrived at the "shelter" and the 6th day since she left the hospital. In the morning, my favorite tactical theory class was arranged, but after this alarm that was by no means a drill appeared, could Yuzi still be as calm as before?

After about a cigarette, someone came up from downstairs and knocked on the door from room to room or went straight in.

"The second ordinary officer squad will gather downstairs!"

Colonel Claudio, the instructor in charge of the basic subjects, and Lieutenant Colonel Severo, who was in charge of firearms training, were already waiting in the front hall, and the 42 cadets assembled in a group under their orders, and then ran forward under their leadership, and directly crossed the main square into the opposite passage - this was basically a reverse-repetition of the path when they first entered the base, and took the small train on the platform, Follow the railroad tracks through the exercise ground to the ordnance warehouse, and once there, the faint sound of gunfire makes the atmosphere change abruptly.

Before they could get close to the doorway to the dock, the small train stopped, and the officers and cadets got off the train and received their combat equipment, each of them three pieces of steel helmets, assault rifles and ammunition bags, Lieutenant Colonel Severo personally helped the logistics officer count the number of people and the corresponding number of weapons received, and Colonel Claudio explained the task to the cadets who had already received their weapons.

"Some defectors are trying to seize the submarine and escape from the base, the guards have blocked them in the Pier 4 area, you go in and follow the command of General Delka, don't care about the identity of those defectors, as long as they are still resisting, treat them as enemies on the battlefield, and shoot and kill!"

Hearing the word "defector", Lynn thought that he had misunderstood, but after a little thought, it was true that only emergencies within the base could cause such a sudden alarm.

The specific number of "some" is, Lynn has no way of knowing before entering the dock area through the doorway, but he feels that the atmosphere at the scene is extremely tense, and every senior officer has a grim expression, and before Colonel Claudio can explain more, there are middle-aged men wearing the collar of the landing soldier and epaulettes on the other side urging loudly, and the students have to rush to the dock area with ignorant thoughts, but what awaits them is not the brutal battle of guns and bullets. On the smoky wharf, many soldiers wearing steel helmets, armed with submachine guns and assault rifles, and wearing gray and white combat uniforms, bowed their heads and bent over, scattered and cautiously gathered around the corner of the pier.

Lynn only glanced at it from afar, and was immediately shocked. In the dock area, surrounded by many soldiers, there were at least thirty corpses lying on the ground, and the blood that flowed showed a thick rose red color under the incandescent light. Most of them were sailors or old Wehrmacht navy attire, with few weapons at hand, and there were four or five bodies lying on the deck of the submarine closest to the pier, apparently trying unsuccessfully to slap the deck guns and stern anti-aircraft guns, and there were several bodies floating faintly on the water next to the submarine.

The fratricidal battle of the companions, if you don't see it, there will be less mourning, in the case of the general situation, the last few "defectors" who were forced into the corner raised their hands and surrendered, but the situation was not understood, a group of soldiers rushed onto the submarine, at this time, the roar of the diesel engine pierced the calm, and the water surface at the stern of the boat immediately burst into a large blister, but the marines were obviously not familiar with the structure of the submarine, they could not open the hatch that was closed from the inside, seeing the submarine slowly retreating backwards, they shouted in a hurry, An officer commanded them to get the mooring cable back up, but the thrown cable fell into the water, and as the submarine retreated, the length of the cable was clearly insufficient.

Faced with such a situation, Lynn and the landlubbers couldn't help at all, so they could only stand from a distance with their guns in their arms and watch in a daze. At this time, a six-wheeled SDKFZ231 heavy armored combat vehicle arrived at the dock, and a young officer, dressed in a colonel's uniform instead of a combat uniform, sat on a rotating turret equipped with a 20-mm machine gun and shouted to the marines on the submarine: "Get out of the submarine!" Get out of the submarine! ”

Although the sea water was cold, the soldiers could not take care of it at this time, and the companions who were watching on the edge of the dock hurriedly threw them lifebuoys, and the six-wheeled armored car continued to move with the submarine for a distance, seeing that it was forty or fifty meters away from the low channel position, the officer drilled into the turret, and after a while, its powerful machine gun fired, and a series of machine shells immediately drilled rows of holes in the submarine command cabin tower and hull shell, and occasionally fell on the surface of the water that caused a very high splash. And its dense clicking sound also impacted the auditory senses of everyone present.

The hull was hit with so many bullet holes, the water must not be able to dive, but the submarine did not stop there, but continued to retreat slowly, and the hull was still turning, seeing this situation, the armored car continued to migrate using the gap between reloads, and the second round of fire was obviously aimed at the stern rudder, and in a moment, there was a screeching sound of tracks from the passage to the armory, and a gray-and-white painted Leopard tank appeared on the dock. But on the occasion of fratricide, Lynn felt that its momentum was no longer suitable to be described as "majestic". Before it could reach its power, General Delka, a small general with gray temples and a solemn appearance, who was in charge of the on-site command, hurriedly ordered some personnel to be dispatched to the upper hangar by small train.

This was the first time Lynn had heard of such a "hangar" as an "upper hangar", and it would be his first visit, because the cadets of the second class of ordinary officers, these elite soldiers who had just risen from the ranks of non-commissioned officers to the rank of captains, were also particularly trusted to be included in this support unit.

(To be continued)