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Chapter 149 Tank Trap

"This... bear paws and stuff can be kept."

Liu Xiaoye swallowed his saliva as he spoke, "I haven't eaten fresh bear meat yet. The box of canned bear meat I bought when I was at Lake Baikal last time. The meat was so sour and sour that it didn't taste good at all."

"I said at that time that what you bought must be expired." He Tianlei smiled while handling the bear skin on hand, "I will share the meat with you after I finish this big skin."

Of course, everyone had no objection. Only He Tianlei, a serious Mongolian man, could do this kind of work skillfully. If it were the other people in the club, the most they could do would be to cut off the front and rear legs or chop off the ribs.

After He Tianlei disemboweled the bear and finished cutting the flesh, Big Ivan also drove in along the tracks they left.

This was just the right time. The bear meat, which weighed several hundred kilograms, was cut into pieces, wrapped in plastic wrap, and stuffed into the refrigerators of four cars to freeze. As for the rest of the stuff, such as the internal organs, we couldn't just leave it there.

Then, He Tianlei controlled the excavation arm to directly dig a large pit one meter deep and buried them all.

After driving forward for a few dozen meters, four vehicles stopped at the edge of the dark bear cave. Shi Quan pointed at the entrance of the cave and said to Big Ivan, "The barrel is in this cave. Do you want to go in and take a look?"

"

"Forget it! The smell is too disgusting."

Big Ivan shook his head without thinking, "But how did you find this place?"

"Thanks to that little guy"

Shi Quan pointed at Bingtang, who was lying behind the windshield of the cab with a confused look on his face, and started talking nonsense, "I originally wanted to walk around the bunker to pick up a leak, but this little thing just ran into the woods for some reason.

Here, when I found it, the big brown bear was guarding it under the tree. Originally, I was worried that the bear would leave a cub or something, so I found this place and went in to take a look."

"Male brown bears don't spend the winter with their cubs. It's common sense."

After speaking, Big Ivan couldn't help but pat Shi Quan on the shoulder, "Thanks to you for making this common sense mistake, otherwise we wouldn't have found this place."

"It doesn't matter how you find it, Lei Zi, the rest is up to you."

He Tianlei made an OK gesture, lay down at the entrance of the cave and took a look inside, then manipulated the excavation arm and stretched directly into the entrance of the cave to lift off the top. The smell of fishy smell filled the air with the wind, and everyone watching the excitement took it out in tacit agreement.

The mask covers the mouth and nose.

When He Tianlei stopped the digging arm, Big Ivan took a look and drew a rough outline on the grass with his toes. "Dig down one meter, no more. Then we will know what is buried here."

The excavation arm flew up and down along the area drawn by Big Ivan. Soon everyone heard a muffled "dong" sound, and the bucket hit something!

"It must be su152!"

Big Ivan sounded unusually sure, "The digging bucket must have hit the top armor! If the cannon howitzer is in this position, it would be impossible to hit it!"

How much do you really know about weapons and equipment? Shi Quan cursed and pulled out his engineering shovel, and was the first to rush forward and dig up the loose soil in the shallow pit.

"I'm telling you! It must be the SU152!" Big Ivan used an engineering shovel to pry open the partially hidden hatch cover, "Now look at what treasures are inside!"

As the hatch cover opened, the beam of a strong flashlight illuminated the narrow space inside the self-propelled gun.

Except for the thick layer of soil at the bottom, the most eye-catching thing is the corpses of the five members. These corpses were still at their posts until they died. One of them was looking at the hatch cover above his head with empty eyes.

And bullet holes the size of peanuts can still be seen on his forehead.

"That's a Soviet hero"

Big Ivan pointed the beam of his flashlight at the body that was looking up and holding a TT33 pistol in his hand. On the top of his left chest, there was a golden five-pointed star. In the view of the map, it was this

A five-pointed star is topped with a bright light golden arrow!

"That's the Gold Star Medal. The Soviet Red Army in World War II had the tradition of wearing it on the battlefield with all its honors." Big Ivan sighed, "Wear it for one more day if you can. At that time, no one knew when he would die.

"

"dig them out"

Shi Quan pointed at the ammunition rack with his flashlight, "But be careful, there is still ammunition in it."

Everyone retreated, and He Tianlei controlled the digging arm against the edge of the self-propelled artillery to carefully dig away the soil and the black logs mixed in. Gradually, the full picture of a su152 self-propelled artillery with no fatal injuries visible on the outside was revealed.

"Yuri, do you know why it is here?" As he spoke, Big Ivan pulled out a piece of rotten wood only as thick as his wrist from the soil dug out by He Tianlei and handed it to Shi Quan.

"Why?" Shi Quan took the wooden stick in confusion, and with just a slight squeeze, the dark and moist wooden stick turned into brown-red sawdust.

"It fell into a trap dug by hunters."

Ivan the Great pointed at the wooden stick in Shiquan's hand and said, "The time to recover Poltava was from the end of August to early September in 1943. It was the hottest time of the year and it was also the time when the land was easy to dig.

.”

"You mean, this is a trap dug by the Germans?"

Big Ivan nodded, "These traps are big and deep. They are dug almost twice the size of Soviet tanks, and they are also camouflaged with wooden sticks. As long as the tanks of the Soviet Red Army fall into them, they will be trapped in a short time."

Don't even think about it.

Their main function is to delay the advance of Soviet tanks and self-propelled artillery units. The German soldiers will hide in the trenches behind them in advance. They only need to jump on the tank and throw a grenade into the turret or just use a pistol.

It can take care of the Soviet Red Army that was beaten to pieces. Of course, these ambush assassins generally rarely have a chance to survive."

"The success rate doesn't seem to be very high, right?" Shi Quan pointed to the excavation site in front of him, "If nothing else, it would take at least ten people to dig this one for half a day."

Big Ivan shook his head, "It is true that the amount of work is a bit large, but for the besieged German army at that time, it was one of the best ways to solve the shortage of ammunition. I guess this forest was probably the last place where the German army was trapped.

, after all, with such a dense pine forest blocking it, whoever is the attacker will suffer a big loss."

"Although this method is time-consuming, it is also destructive."

Shi Quan couldn't stop sighing. These tank traps were just disgusting things. If there weren't too many of them, two out of every ten tanks would fall into them, and the remaining eight would slow down unconsciously.

You must know that Soviet tanks are often followed by infantry. Without the armor of the tanks, the Soviet Red Army would be a living target for the German firepower!

"This method was also used by the Soviet Union. Especially in the Battle of Kursk, countless German tanks were buried alive in this way." Big Ivan spread his hands, "otherwise, where do you think those colleagues got the tanks from?"

"Do you think there are any traps around here?" Shi Quan asked with eyes shining.

"You can search, but there shouldn't be too many." Big Ivan pointed to the excavation site, "Let's go, it's time to ask those Soviet heroes to get out of the car."

When she said this, Liu Xiaoye had already laid out five body bags with the club's emblem on the grass not far away. This was the job she had found for herself - collecting corpses.

At the excavation site, the Su152 self-propelled artillery covered with red rust shell had completely peeled off the soil that surrounded it. He Tianlei only had to wait for He Tianlei to clear the gentle slope and pull it out directly.

Opening the hatch cover again, Elena put on goggles, a mask and rubber gloves and carefully got into the inside of the self-propelled artillery. The space inside was very small, and only the three of them were suitable. But Nasha was already beside her.

I set up my SLR, and Liu Xiaoye had no experience with explosives, so she was the only one who went down.

Now the club is no longer a one-man operation for Shi Quan, and the excavation process has become much more formal. As pieces of bones were handed to Big Ivan by Elena, and then passed from Big Ivan's hands to Shi Quan, and finally, they were handed over to Big Ivan.

Shi Quan sent it to Liu Xiaoye for sorting, and Nasha was responsible for taking photos and recording it.

After completing the transportation of the corpses in an assembly line style, Elena left the self-propelled artillery and replaced it with He Tianlei who got in to deal with the shells that had not had time to be fired. Fortunately, the preservation condition of these shells was pretty good.

The su152 only has a total of 20 rounds of ammunition, and the ammunition stock of this 152 is only 8 rounds.

After taking out the separate cartridges and those heavy and scary shells and burying them collectively in a specially dug deep pit not far away, the self-propelled artillery was completely free of safety hazards.

"Brother Quan, I think you should come over and take a look." Liu Xiaoye waved and shouted, "There is a woman among these corpses."

"Woman?" The two brothers looked at each other and walked to the grass where the body bags were placed.

"You can tell from her pelvis that this is a woman."

Liu Xiaoye pointed to one of the bones and explained in detail, "And I found a strip of cloth on her chest, which must have been wrapped around her chest to conceal her identity, and there was a small photo frame around her neck with a man inside.

"

Shi Quan flipped through the plastic storage box placed next to the corpse, and there was the Gold Star medal inside! And in the small photo frame on the necklace, it could be vaguely seen that it was a man wearing a Soviet military uniform.

"Each of these five Soviet Red Army soldiers has a Gold Star Medal." Nasha walked over with her SLR and said, "One of them even has a Lenin Medal."

"Everyone has one?!" Big Ivan turned over each one in disbelief. It was just like Nasha said.

"Five Soviet heroes drove the Su152 self-propelled artillery, and one of them was even a woman." Shi Quan looked at the number on the Venus medal through the sealed bag, "Ivan, can I find out the specific identity with the number?"

"Take a photo and send it to Ludenkov. He will definitely be able to find out."

"That's right." Shi Quan put on a cotton glove, took out the golden five-pointed star from the sealed bag, used his mobile phone to take a close-up of the back of the medal, and then sent it directly to Ludenkov.

"Quanzi, this self-propelled artillery seems to be broken." The matter here has not been resolved yet, and there is also a situation on He Tianlei's side.

The brothers returned to the scene and saw that He Tianlei had already hung a thick traction steel cable on it alone. At this time, he was pointing a bright flashlight at the second of the six road wheels on the right, "This road wheel

The axle has been disconnected."

"It seems that this is why it was abandoned by the Soviet Red Army."
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