The stench of silt enveloped the river town that had become an isolated island. Four water pumps originally used for irrigation extracted clean and clear river water from the temporary river channel. After the extension of the water dragon, it returned to the original river channel, drawing a parabola.

On the accumulated silt.

The sewage mixed with a large amount of silt gathered into a small puddle at the base of the temporary dam, and was then pumped out by four other water pumps and returned to the rushing river.

In the center of the original river, more than a dozen rubber boats were pulled back and forth by ropes by people on both sides of the river, carefully exploring the treasures that might be hidden under the mud.

Behind them, mineral water bottles equipped with small LED lights had floated in the mud at the bottom of the explored river. Plastic bottles of various colors flashed irregularly, suggesting that buried objects below might be worth salvaging.

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"Big discovery!"

On a rubber boat closest to the center of the river, a young man belonging to the Bosque Club reported on the radio and waved a small flag in his hand.

"What discovery?"

Elena, who was standing on the shore and conducting the command, immediately picked up her handheld platform and asked. Even though she and Genia were both standing on the shore, they were not much safer than those rubber boats in the river. If there was an explosion, they would be the same.

to face fatal danger.

"The barrel is a barrel, almost as high as the mud."

The young man reached out of the rubber boat, held a section of the gun barrel that was only less than five centimeters above the mud, and said with unusual certainty, "The 76mm gun looks like a T-34 tank."

When the two were communicating, Shi Quan, who was staring at the lower reaches of the river, had discovered that a green arrow was missing from the map.

Instructing Deng Shuxiang and Asak to watch the water pump, Shi Quan rode an off-road motorcycle and rushed in the direction of Elena. On the other side, Big Ivan was not much slower than him. Speaking of which, the two of them were responsible for flushing the river mud.

The work is basically the simplest and easiest work in the entire excavation site.

When the two of them arrived, He Tianlei was already observing the surrounding situation. And the gun barrel, which was only slightly above the mud, was also wrapped with a circle of LED lights to mark its position.

"Yuri, do you want to fish it up?" Elena turned and asked, "The opportunity is rare. Maybe by the time the river's flushing action reaches here, it will have slipped to other places."

Shi Quan did not rush to answer, but turned to look at He Tianlei, "What's your opinion?"

"The slope of the river bank here is gentle enough. It is indeed possible to pull it up and try it. However, I am afraid that it will affect the position of other discovered objects. If that happens, all the previous work will be in vain."

"Will not"

Gennia walked over and threw the strong magnet tied with paracord in her hand, "As long as there is no explosion, those buoys will not fall off easily, even if their positions have moved."

"What I'm worried about is an explosion." He Tianlei hesitated for a moment and finally said, "Although there is a certain degree of danger, it is worth trying."

"Then let's start!" Shi Quan weighed for a moment and made a decision.

"Everyone exits the river and clears out the spectators on the shore." Elena made the decision immediately, and the rest of the club immediately returned to the center of the town and drove the expedition vehicles over to form a string.

With the help of villagers on the shore, the rubber boat floating on the mud was dragged back to the shore by a rope, and then evacuated to the open space in the center of the town together with members of the detection team.

The young man who first discovered the gun barrel held anchor pins and carefully hung them one by one on the main body of the tank under the gun barrel.

After he was pulled back to the shore, the ten Taitu vehicles began to exert force. The thick steel cables gradually tightened as the convoy slowly advanced. Soon, a series of bubbles appeared in the mud.

In order to speed up the progress, Big Ivan drove the trench digging machine over and connected it with the lead truck. The dragging speed accelerated again. It only took less than half an hour to pull out a fish wrapped in fishy odor from the mud.

A behemoth of mud.

"This is not a T-34!" Gennia, who was guarding the shore, was the first to notice something was wrong. Although the barrels were the same, the turrets were vastly different!

"Pull it up first, then give it a kick!" Shi Quan responded, and then slowly stepped on the accelerator.

Amidst the roar of the engine, the unidentified tank was dragged to the farmland on the shore after a struggle.

After removing the dragging steel cable, Haining immediately drove the maintenance vehicle aside and started a strong wind blower to give the discovery a "wind wash".

The pulpy silt was blown away by the strong wind column into the wheat field, which acted as fertilizer, and at the same time revealed the true face of this tank!

"This is SU-76"

Shi Quan immediately regretted what he said, "No, this is the SU-76i, an emergency product modified from the chassis of the captured Panzer III tank!"

“You’re right”

Big Ivan was extremely excited and confirmed Shiquan's judgment, "It's the SU-76i. This is a rare item."

"Tug it to the river and take a bath." Shi Quan shouted. Asak and Deng Shuxiang immediately reattached the tow bar and used a container truck to pull the hybrid self-propelled artillery through the wheat field and stopped at

The banks of temporary river channels.

The slightly turbid river water was drawn up and poured over the self-propelled artillery, washing away the remaining silt.

After the self-propelled artillery was washed clean inside and out, the strong air blower was started again and all the water stains on it were blown away.

Before the strong wind blower stopped working completely, Big Ivan had already quickly jumped onto the tank chassis and used a piece of red chalk to draw a circle around the remaining shield-shaped badge mark on the tank turret, "The upper right corner is missing."

The shield and key logo, this is the emblem of the LAH division!"

“Really rare”

Shi Quan couldn't help but sigh, there is a huge difference between the SU-76i and the SU-76. What's more, the former is basically an emergency self-propelled artillery temporarily modified from the captured German Panzer III tanks, and only 200 units were produced in total.

The latter was developed by the Soviet Union on the T-70 tank chassis. As of the early 1950s, the total production volume exceeded 14,000 units!

Such a disparity in production already makes the SU-76i extremely rare in existence, not to mention that the one in front of you still bears the mark of the LAH division!

What does this mean? It means that after it was captured by the Soviet army and transformed into a self-propelled artillery, it was captured again by the German army in a certain battle and used as its own equipment! This can be seen vaguely from the "su-76i(r)" on the barrel.

The number can be used as the strongest evidence.!

Whether it is Shi Quan, Big Ivan, the two Elena sisters or even Bosque's other employees, anyone who knows a little bit about the history of this self-propelled artillery secretly sighs for good luck. If nothing else, just this self-propelled artillery

The artillery has completely recouped all the costs previously invested!

"If our colleagues in Ukraine are willing to invest in the cost, this baby will definitely not be our turn." Elena sighed.

"It doesn't take much. If they have 200,000 US dollars, they will definitely immigrate to the United States directly. How can they risk losing money to dig rivers here?"

As Big Ivan spoke, he circled around the first piece of loot. "It doesn't look damaged on the outside. It seems that the LAH division took the initiative to sink it in order to cross the river."

"If it were me, I would definitely use the captured weapons and equipment to pave the way first."

As Shi Quan spoke, he took the plastic wrap sent by Liu Xiaoye, climbed onto the chassis with Elena, carefully wrapped the paint on the barrel and turret, and finally wrapped it with canvas.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Half of the value of this SU-76i comes from its pitiful production and survival, while the other half, or even the other half, comes from these two sets of paints. Covering it with plastic wrap and canvas can only prevent sunlight.

Direct radiation accelerates their oxidation, and is also intended to block the eyes of interested people.

"If you go by your thinking, there may be more tanks in this river that were selected and then abandoned by the LAH division." Elena said with raised eyebrows.

"And it should be near the self-propelled artillery just now."

He Tianlei said with almost certainty, "Since they want to pave the road, they will definitely focus on paving it in one line. I think they can focus on finding out the soil points next."

"That makes sense." Big Ivan nodded. "Do you want to use a trench digger to dig a ditch later? It's only less than 300 meters. This can save a lot of trouble."

"Dig a canal in the middle of a small town? You can think of it." Shi Quan grinned. This bad idea was only what Ivan could think of.

"Isn't it enough to dig shallower?" Big Ivan was full of confidence. He took out a wad of dollars from his arms and walked towards the onlookers, and easily negotiated the small business.

After paying a small price of less than 5,000 US dollars, two channels with only one meter wide and half a meter deep were quickly formed. The river water was redirected along one of the channels to wash away the silt of the river where the self-propelled gun was just unearthed, and then pumped again

Driven by him, he took the silt back to the river along another channel.

While He Tianlei was busy with the work, Shi Quan motioned to Big Ivan, Elena and Nasha to follow him back to the RV.

"What's wrong?" Big Ivan asked confused.

"Ask me a question"

Shi Quan picked up the pen and drew the LAH division badge he just saw on the self-propelled artillery on the satellite map still spread on the table. "Do any of you know the origin and meaning of this badge?"

Although this side issue troubled Ivan the Great, it did not trouble Nasha, a researcher on the history of World War II. She pointed at the badge drawn by Shi Quan with a pen and explained, "The gap in the upper right corner of this shield logo represents

Panzer Division, if there is a gap in the upper left corner, it represents the Panzergrenadier Division."

"What about this key?" Shi Quan continued to ask.

"This is because the first division commander of this unit was Dietrich." Nasha recalled the knowledge she had learned, and said after hesitating for a moment, "I remember that his name seemed to have 'forged key' in German or

It means 'lock picking tool', that's why it has such a mark."

"Yuri, you called us here just to ask this?" Big Ivan asked without knowing why.

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"Just a moment."

After Shi Quan finished speaking, he stood up and walked into the bedroom. Not long after, he took back a foot-long copper key, "This is the key we found in the globe. Of course, this one was also engraved by Shuxiang, but don't you think it

Is it similar to the key in the LAH division’s badge?”

In fact, there was no need for Shi Quan to explain. Da Yiwan and others had already guessed what Shi Quan wanted to express almost as soon as he showed the key.

"Is this... too far-fetched?" Elena asked, considering her words.

"It's indeed a bit far-fetched." Shi Quan nodded, "But when I saw the badge on the turret, the first thing I thought of was this key."

"Nasha, how did Dietrich die in the end?" Big Ivan turned around and asked.

Nasha thought for a while before answering Big Ivan's question, "After the war, he was imprisoned in Landsberg Castle to serve his sentence. It was the prison where Mustache wrote "Mein Kampf". Although he was sentenced to life imprisonment, in fact

Shang was released from prison in 1955, and was later sentenced to a year and a half by West Germany, but like last time, he was released after serving only half a year. If I remember correctly, he probably died around 1966

.”
Chapter completed!