USSR 1941

"Follow the footsteps ahead!" Major Gavrilov ordered loudly: "Don't try to leave the ranks or take a new path!"

This is of course correct, no one dares to be careless in the swamp, even the soldiers walking through the swamp ahead, they have to carefully test with wooden sticks before taking a step.

"Hey, Shulka!" At some point, Agata walked behind Shulka.

"I heard that the gas mask did the trick?" Agata asked. "You saved us with it?"

"You don't need to thank me, Agata!" Shulka replied as he followed the steps in front of him cautiously: "I am also saving myself!"

"That's right!" replied Agata, "so you better be careful!"

"What?" Shulka didn't understand what he meant.

Agata laughed and explained: "Because only you are alive, you can save yourself and others at the same time!"

Shulka couldn't help but rolled his eyes. He had never seen anyone talk in such a jumping way. No wonder women are born to be good at chatting.

The sky gradually brightened, a ray of sunlight emerged from the end of the swamp, and then suddenly the entire sun appeared in front of everyone, illuminating the originally pitch-black swamp.

This is Shulka's first time in the swamp... No one likes this experience, even if it is a desert, some people want to feel the endless sand sea.

But the swamp, it's like shrinking people down and throwing them into a stinky ditch, there's sewage everywhere, there's an unpleasant rotten smell in the air, flies, mosquitoes, and many unknown and disgusting things Reptiles, they will drive you crazy.

Later, Shulka learned that some reptiles are not only disgusting, but also dangerous.

Not long after, another order came down from the front: "Don't drink the water in the swamp!"

"It's all dirty water!" Agata explained. "Some look clean, but after drinking it you get sick, with diarrhea, fever, or something else. Then you don't even think about getting out of here!"

"So how do we solve the problem of drinking water?" Shure shook the water bottle that was only half left, which meant that he would use this half bottle of water to survive the day.

"While resting!" said Agata, "boil the water and drink it!"

"How do you know this?" Shulka asked.

"My hometown is in Slutsk!" Agata replied: "It's on the edge of this swamp..."

Saying that, Agata straightened up and looked into the distance, pointing in a direction and said, "There, at the end of the swamp!"

"Oh!" replied Shulka, "maybe we'll pass by your house again!"

Agata couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and then replied: "I discovered your weakness, Shulka!"

"What?"

Agata smiled and said nothing.

Later Shulka looked at the map and realized that Slutsk was in the northeast of the swamp, but their destination was in the southeast.

Damn sense of direction!

One of the troubles brought by dawn is that the surrounding area is gradually getting hotter. The scorching sun shines on the swamp to evaporate the water, and soon the surrounding area is full of water vapor, which is humid, stuffy, and what's more uncomfortable is the stench.

This is another danger of the swamp... The germs in the dirty water will be diffused in the air because they are evaporated into water vapor, and then inhaled into the lungs through breathing, and then people who walk in it will get some inexplicable diseases.

Compared with these, the search by the German army seems a bit insignificant.

After dawn, the Germans once sent a plane to search over the swamp... Shulka believed that it was the plane sent by the Brest German army, because the German army at this time should not waste such important resources on searching the swamp.

This is of no help to their war. The Soviet army that entered the swamp was only 500 people.

German planes have the time to search, and they can kill or blow up 500 Soviet troops in other directions.

Therefore, the Germans were not reconciled to letting the Soviet army escape from Brest like this.

But so what?

The swamp area looks like an open space, but it is actually not easy to find the people below from the air, because the infantry on the ground can also hear or even see the planes flying here from a distance, so they want to All you do is smear your clothes in mud and get down on the ground...

It is actually not easy to do this, because there is often dirty water below the calf.

But in order to avoid enemy planes, it is still worthwhile to do so, and the troops can also take a break at this time.

The two German Junkers circled the sky a few times, found nothing and then flew away.

There were no more planes to search after that, Shulka thought, this should be because the German commander realized that doing so was not a cost-effective "business".

The most difficult thing in the swamp is at night.

They must find a habitat before dark, that is, high ground without water.

Then, as Agata said, the cooking team started to set up pots and find anything flammable around them to boil water.

Boiling water is always the most important thing, especially the Soviet army got plenty of food from the German army. The food was wrapped in tarpaulins and put in backpacks by the soldiers, because they knew that they had to rely on these things to get out of the swamp. up.

The actor let out a satisfied admiration while gnawing on the buttered bread: "The Germans really enjoy it. It's hard to imagine that this is the ration of their soldiers!"

The actor was right. Compared to the Soviet soldiers who only had mashed potatoes and black bread with grass seeds or even mineral powder, the food of the German army was simply rare and delicious.

"That's not surprising, Okunev!" replied the thief: "Their diet also includes honey and chocolate!"

"Wow!" The actor's eyes showed envy and suspicion.

"That's impossible!" said the actor. "Chocolate? They give chocolate to soldiers?"

As I said before, after the Soviet light industry was extremely weak, chocolate was a high-end food for them.

"Nothing is impossible!" replied the thief.

"How do you know?" The old soldier asked, "Maybe it's just you talking nonsense..."

But the next second, the veteran stopped talking, because the thief had secretly thrown a small piece of something to a few nearby people, and then said in a low voice, "Don't let anyone see it!"

Of course, Shulka is indispensable for this... In fact, the thief stuffed Shulka with two pieces.

"Where did you get this?" the veteran asked.

"Remember when we attacked the enemy's headquarters?" The thief explained, "You only know how to check the dead body and pull out the telephone line, but you didn't find the chocolate in the drawer!"

The soldiers couldn't help but suddenly realized... Finding good things has always been the specialty of thieves, and they can't compare.

"I forgive you!" The veteran raised the chocolate in his hand.

"What?" The thief was a little puzzled.

"A month ago, you stole my pen!" replied the veteran, "I was going to beat you right when I got out of this swamp!"