War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 877 RAD's Teacher
In the dark forest, two half-track motorcycles with no lights on, and the low roar of the engine, rushed to a hunter's cabin hidden in the forest in the dark.

When the car stopped, Wei Ran couldn't tell where he was, but the wooden house built among the four pine trees that were next to each other was leaking out from the cracks in the door and window when the car stopped. There was a faint light.

"Move things down and pile them up outside the cabin."

Captain Letts whispered something, then pulled out his cane, limped open the door and walked into the wooden house.

By the time Wei Ran started to carry the ammunition box, there was already a faint light shining through the crack in the door of the wooden house.

Patiently stacking the hard-earned ammunition boxes on the platform outside the wooden house, Wei Ran rubbed his almost frozen hands and cheeks before knocking lightly on the wooden door.

"Come in." While Captain Wrights was speaking, the light from the crack of the door dimmed a lot in an instant.

Until this time, Wei Ran opened the door and walked in, and then closed the door immediately.At the same time, the lights in the room became brighter, and the chirping sound became more and more clear.

Looking at the light, the only source of light and heat in this small wooden house is the burning American gasoline stove on the table at the innermost side.

Of course, there is more than a table and a stove in this room, and there are many boxes around the walls, and these boxes are also filled with various trophies.

Turning up the fire of the stove, Captain Letts took out a small notebook and a pen from his pocket, sat at the table and warmed his hands while saying, "Victor, I'll give you two minutes. Take it yourself."

Wei Ran was stunned when he heard this, and without even thinking about it, he picked up a first aid kit used by US military medical soldiers and opened it. Although the core medicines such as morphine and dressings and gauze were gone, luckily the surgery The equipment is still complete.

Putting it on the table, Wei Ran took a blood-stained U.S. military B5 winter flight cap, a B8 goggle and a pair of A10 flight gloves, which are also standard equipment for U.S. military pilots, from a box after looking around.

If the medical kit is for emergencies, then the three-piece pilot suit is just needed. After all, driving in the dark in this coniferous forest at night, even if he is not worried about his head and hands being frozen off, he is still worried. Blind by being poked by a branch.

Putting the flying cap on his head indiscriminately, Wei Ran picked up a few extra 1911 magazines and stuffed them into his pockets. Seeing that there was no camera he was thinking of in these boxes, he immediately stopped.

"I thought you'd pick those rings"

Captain Letts pointed to the two strings of gold and silver rings in a box closest to the table and the gold tooth that was pried out from the mouth of some unlucky child.

"I'm not that greedy." Wei Ran had already stuffed the US military's medical kit into his backpack as he spoke.

"Remember to wear our steel helmet outside, otherwise our snipers will hit it on top."

After Captain Letts finished speaking, he picked up a bunch of gold rings and put them in his pocket, then unscrewed the pen and opened the book, "Okay, let's start registering for me. Start with the box closest to the door."

"Hold on"

Wei Ran hung the goggles around his neck, then stuffed the gloves into his inner pocket, and then went to the first box to count and said, "There are 16 pistols. What's the use of these pistols when we take them back?"

"As a gift, idiots who haven't been to war are happy to pay for a loot."

Letz explained casually while recording, "Next one, go faster."

"Wait a minute for fighting knives. 54."

"The harvest is good," Captain Letts muttered, "Continue!"

"37 watches, 11 pocket watches, 9 compass hands and a box of cigars."

"continue!"

Under the registration of these two people singing together, all these valuable trophies were registered, and then under the command of Leitz, they were concentrated in two ammunition boxes.

I really want money! Wei Ran couldn't help grinning when he saw the other party blatantly put those gold teeth into his pocket.

Captain Letz, on the other hand, didn't seem to care about this kind of thing at all. He not only called Wei Ran to lift the two boxes full of trophies to his half-track motorcycle and tied them with ropes, but even the half-track motorcycle was still chirping. I didn't let go of the gasoline stove, and put it into the trailer after it was extinguished.

Lighting a cigarette unhurriedly, Captain Letts refused Wei Ran's help again, stubbornly got into the driver's cab alone, and left the wooden house in the dark.

Putting on the gloves and goggles he just got, Wei Ran picked up the helmet that had been buckled on the headlights and put it on, then started the car and followed.

However, what he didn't expect was that Captain Letts didn't take him back to the fortress. Instead, after going around all the way, he drove out of this forest that turned into a battlefield!
What he didn't expect was that there was a truck waiting for them at the edge of the forest!

With the still bright moonlight, he could clearly see that there was a shield-shaped logo with a black background on the door of the Opel Lightning truck, and in the center of the shield-shaped logo was a white shovel head logo.

This is not over yet, on the outside of this shield-shaped logo, the acronym "RAD" is written in white paint, which is very conspicuous.In the center of the shovel pattern inside the shield logo, there are two uppercase letters "R·S" that cannot be distinguished whether they are red or black.

I am grateful to Professor Alexey for his careful teaching, and I would also like to thank myself for memorizing by rote the illustrated book that Professor Alexey jokingly called "Nazi Heraldry".

So even though the moonlight is far less bright than the sun, he can still be sure that the abbreviations "R·S" must be red, just as he is very sure that this truck belongs to the National Labor Service Corps (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD for short). ) under the National Schools student body as well.

The facts were exactly as he thought, and before the two half-track motorcycles were turned off, the door of the cab of the truck was pushed open, followed by two men wearing labor regiment uniforms with a sapper hanging from their waists. The young man with the shovel jumped down.

With the help of the moonlight, Wei Ran found at a glance that they were wearing armbands that were exactly the same as the pattern on the car door on their left arms.

Looking at the other party's military rank, Wei Ran finally remembered after recalling that this should be a trainee squad leader and an exempt soldier (Vormann).

"Mr. Letts"

The young man said hello in unison, but he didn't give a salute, he just stood up straight.

"Good boy, thank you for your hard work."

At this time, Captain Letts no longer had that serious or philistine look, and even his tone was extremely gentle. He even took out a pack of American Camel cigarettes, making them look seventeen or eighteen years old at most. The lads each divided one.

"Not hard"

After the young man with the armband of the trainee captain took the cigarette, he took out a lighter and lit it, and then said excitedly, "Mr. Leitz, shall we load the car now? In half an hour at most, the transport team will be ready to go." coming."

teacher?Mr. Letts?

Wei Ran stared at Captain Letz in the other car with his eyes wide open in the night. He didn't expect that the other car was actually a teacher!

"Then trouble you guys, it's all there, you can move it up by yourself, there are only two boxes in total this time."

Captain Letts gently raised his finger and pointed behind him. His slow tone made it difficult for Wei Ran to connect him with the serious and bald quartermaster before.

"Leave it to us!"

Before the trainee squad leader finished his sentence, he and his partner each picked up a heavy ammunition box and brought it into the driver's cab, and then called Captain Wrights and Wei Ran to drive their respective half-track motorcycles to the rear of the car.

With Wei Ran's active help, the heavy wooden boxes were loaded into the trailer, and even one of them didn't forget to take out an oil barrel to fill up the fuel for their two half-track motorcycles.As for the other, they used canvas to help them cover the fully loaded trailer, and carefully wrapped it back and forth with rope several times.

"Be careful these days"

Letts said before starting the motorcycle, "If the situation is not right, immediately"

"Don't worry, teacher." The trainee squad leader said confidently, "We won't have any accidents."

Captain Letts nodded, and solemnly patted the shoulders of the two of them, "See you in three days."

"see you in three days"

After finishing speaking, the two young men got into the cargo box, continued to move out the ammunition boxes one by one, and piled them under the pine trees at the edge of the forest.

"Let's go too"

After Captain Letts finished speaking, regardless of whether Wei Ran responded, he turned around and drove into the depths of the forest.

When the two of them drove their half-track motorcycles back to the garage in the fortress, Wei Ran found that there were at least a hundred young people or elderly people over fifty years old, either pushing bicycles or driving away in carriages. Fortress, a long queue rushed to the direction they had just been.

under the command of Letts.Wei Ran covered the half-track motorcycle with a piece of canvas, and then followed him into the room with the sign "Military Quartermaster Office".

"Get up at three-thirty, and do whatever you want until you get up, but if I'm asleep, don't wake me, or I'll tie you up in the stable."

As Captain Letz said, he first pointed to the clock hanging on the wall with his cane, and then lightly tapped on the bunk beds on the opposite wall, "You sleep on it, and if you're hungry, go to the restaurant to find something to eat , I should be able to catch up with dinner at this time. Also, if I find out that you are secretly taking Pervitin, I will kill you myself."

"Do you need me to bring one for you?" Wei Ran asked politely, "I mean dinner."

"Today there should be big pimple soup and roasted pork knuckle, please help me get some extra potato balls and bread."

While Captain Letts was speaking, he had already sat down on the bunk that belonged to him.

Could it be that he is still a Bavarian?
Wei Ran muttered to himself, turned and walked out of the room, searched all the way to the restaurant, ordered two identical meals.

However, when he re-entered the quartermaster office with the food, Captain Letz was already snoring loudly on the bed.

　I have something to do today, Shan Geng forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)