USSR 1941

The Jurav air-raid shelter was due to an accidental storage of a large number of military supplies.

Shulka, who visited the Brest Fortress in modern times, remembers a story told by his guide:

"Before the outbreak of the war, a batch of supplies arrived at the Kobrin Fortress. But because it was late at night and Captain Herzsky, who was in charge of the warehouse, was on vacation in the city of Brest, the motor soldiers drove the car with the supplies into Zhurav The air-raid shelter was temporarily parked and was going to be moved into the warehouse the next day... No one knew that there was this batch of supplies until Major Gavrilov retreated here with layers of defense and wanted to use this air-raid shelter to hide. But by then it was too late, Major Gavrilov's troops had less than a hundred men left!"

With Shulka at this time, of course he would not let this happen.

"I'm pretty sure there's no water there!" Matvey insisted. "Especially that air-raid shelter, they've even become the toilets of the 372nd regiment!"

A few soldiers snickered.

"I'm pretty sure there's water there, Comrade Matvey!" Shulka insisted. "What's more, even if there's no water, what do we have to lose? The biggest loss is to finish the task later, don't you think? "

Hearing this, Matvey stopped talking.

"Take me there, Comrade Matvey!" Shulka ordered. "If the platoon commander punishes us for this, I will take all responsibility, and I will say that I ordered you to go!"

"Yes, Comrade Platoon Leader!" Matvey replied helplessly, then turned to the rear right and said, "We should go in this direction, but we must be careful, because the sentries may think we are deserters!"

Going backwards would indeed be considered a deserter, and it was usually impossible to argue, as Shulka had learned before.

However, this did not change Shulka's mind, and he insisted that Matvey lead the way.

When Shulka and his party were heading towards the Zhurav air-raid shelter, there was a burst of intense gunfire behind them, which was a German machine gun.

Apparently, the other two squads had a problem getting water.

"What are you doing, Shulka?" Okunev ran to Shulka and said in a low voice, "Maybe you are right, fetching water is indeed dangerous. But you should know that instead of carrying out the task, you chose to hide." Get up, this may be more dangerous!"

"Don't worry, Okunev!" Shulka said, "Things are not what you think, I am on a mission!"

The Zhurav air-raid shelter is a bit far away, but Matvey is very familiar with the terrain. Although he has poor eyesight, as he said, he can walk around the fortress twice even with his eyes closed.

This may not be bragging, because the visibility is very poor in the dark night, and Okunev, who is also familiar with the terrain, sometimes hesitates, but Matvey's footsteps do not stop at all... He has a map in his mind , He even knew where there was a Soviet outpost and how to avoid it.

Twenty minutes later, a group of people arrived at the Zhurav air-raid shelter.

"It's here!" Matvey said and raised his head forward. He was a little surprised when he found that the iron door was locked.

"Strange!" said Matvey, "it's not usually locked!"

"Maybe they knew the Germans were coming!" Okunev said.

Matvey found a stone from the side and was about to throw it on the lock, but was blocked by Shurka.

"Don't do that!" Shulka said. "It's going to make a lot of noise and they might take us for Germans!"

Matvey couldn't help but glanced at Shulka unexpectedly, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed... As a veteran, he didn't think of this.

"Let me try!" A private named Fovalikov volunteered to squeeze forward.

"How?" Shulka asked.

Fovalikov didn't say anything, took out a wire from his hand as if by magic, stuck it into the keyhole and fiddled with it for a while,

But within a few seconds, there was a crisp sound of "cough" from the lock.

"Wow, Fovalikov!" The soldiers, including Shulka, looked at him with admiration. Only Matvey had a weird expression on his face, but he didn't say anything.

It was only later that Shulka found out that Fovalikov had accidentally exposed his identity just now...he was a thief, and soldiers used to throw this and that for no reason, including Matvey. .

When the iron door was opened, as Matvey said, what came out was a foul smell.

Although they knew that there was no one inside, the group of people carefully divided into two rows and walked in against the wall holding their guns.

It was spacious inside, but it was so dark that nothing could be seen until Okunev turned on the flashlight.

Then……

"God, what is this?" Okunev couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's a car, a car with stuff!"

This is obvious because the trunk of the car is piled high, and although it is all covered with army green canvas, you can still see the protruding corners of the boxes.

Matvey looked at Shulka in surprise, then ran up a few steps and pulled out the military thorn to cut off the rope tied with the canvas, and then lifted it hard, and a cart full of supplies appeared in front of everyone.

"Open it, Matvey!" Okunev couldn't wait, if he hadn't held the flashlight, he would have done it himself.

In fact, there was no need for Okunev to say that Matvey had already started. He moved a box, and then pried the lid off with military stabs, and it turned out to be a mortar.

"Great!" Matvey said. "This is a batch of munitions. We are short of these things!"

"Here's the food!" shouted Fovalikov from the other side. "A whole load of bread!"

"There is water here!" Another soldier shouted: "My God, there is also vodka. Comrade squad leader is right, we have come to the right place!"

"There are more than twenty cars!" Okunev counted generously, and then exclaimed: "This is simply a treasure trove!"

...

Okunev is right that this is indeed a treasure trove.

In wartime, especially when surrounded by the enemy and severely short of supplies and ammunition, nothing is more important than these supplies.

So the soldiers couldn't help cheering, and several of them even picked up the bread and started biting it.

Shulka should have stopped them, because this was the property of the army, and even if it was discovered first, it would not be close to the water. As the squad leader, Shulka is obliged to stop them, and can even do some ideological work on them.

But Shulka didn't do this, not only didn't do it, but he joined it... What the hell, if they didn't discover these things by themselves, everyone would still be hungry, so what if they ate a few bites? !