Chapter 2749 Subway 1945 (Part 2)
"This old woman knows a lot?"
"Of course, she told me that the subway is still functioning, and a group of Nazi bastards left here yesterday. If she doesn't know anything, why should I waste my time here?"
Alsim doesn't understand, or doesn't understand German very well. Even though he fought all the battles in 1941, he still can't speak a complete sentence in German. He can only understand a few words.
Alsim, who can't read a single word and can't even write his own mother tongue, has a language ability that is in stark contrast to his ability to kill Nazis.
Alsim, who stood by and watched for a long time, could only see that the matter seemed to be complicated. The deputy was still chatting with the old woman, so he must have something interesting in his words and asked useful questions.
"Then ask her, besides the trains, are there any Nazi bastards patrolling in the subway tunnels? Also, is there any way to know when the train will arrive in the subway."
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The first question may still have a way, but for the second question, Deputy Comrade Lian only felt that it was a dead end.
Even so, Deputy Comrade Lian, who understood the situation, still acted as an interpreter, relaying Alsim's words into German and repeating them to the old woman in front of him.
"I have never seen any Nazi soldiers patrolling. They only gather on the platform when they are on the train. It's as if they didn't see us at all and didn't care. You can't see them at other times."
Before the old man finished speaking, Deputy Comrade Lian immediately began to translate and relay to Alsim.
When Deputy Comrade Lian finished speaking, the old woman, who had thought about the answer to the second question, was very tactful and cooperated again.
"When the train is about to enter the station, the bell on the platform will ring, at least it did yesterday and before. The lights have been off for a long time, but for some reason, the bell can still ring. It's amazing."
This is indeed a fruitful harvest. The information revealed by this plain-looking old woman is much more useful than Alsim expected. It almost solves all the key problems.
The premise is that the old woman is not lying.
But there is no time to care about this now. At least it is better to know this information than not to know it. It is more or less a reference and psychological preparation.
The rain on the surface seems to be getting heavier. The scene on the surface cannot be seen in the dark subway station, but the water leaking from the ceiling can be seen flowing down. There is also sewage from an unknown source flowing everywhere on the platform, and it gathers into a stinky puddle when it encounters a low-lying area.
Obviously, not only the lighting system on this platform is out of power, but also the pumping and sewage system that is necessary for any subway station is also out of power. The lack of power supply may also be directly caused by the broken drainage pump that has stopped working long ago.
After realizing this problem, he thought of one of the solutions that had been considered in the original plan, which was to blow up the large drainage and sewage pumping station of the subway system, lead the groundwater to backflow to flood the Nazis, and solve the problem conveniently and quickly. In the end, he had to give up because of the tens of thousands of war refugees scattered throughout the subway network.
Although Alsim hesitated for a moment, he finally whispered a few words in the ear of the deputy company officer, and then the deputy company officer relayed it again.
"The drainage system of this subway is likely to be paralyzed and malfunction on a large scale. At that time, a large amount of groundwater will flow into the subway and cause floods. Moreover, the environment here is very poor and will breed epidemics. You are not safe here. It is recommended that you move to the ground as soon as possible. The Red Army will not harm unarmed civilians."
The Red Army did not attack the large drainage and sewage pumping station, but it did not mean that the Nazis would not blow up.
What kind of character you Nazis have so far has been fully demonstrated. There is nothing you can't do, only things you can't think of, and there is no bottom line at all.
The only factor that restrains the Nazis from doing unscrupulous things is whether they can think of bad ideas.
Even if the subway does not flood, the seepage groundwater and backflow of rainwater that cannot be drained out are about to flow into a small river in the subway. It is even possible that the sewage from the sewage system is mixed with it. The pungent smell that Alsim and his party smelled when they just got off the subway may be from this.
They are a group of old, weak, women and children with poor physical conditions. In a few days, there may be deaths of illness and starvation. Staying in such a dirty, dark and humid environment that is easy to breed epidemics, Alsim thinks that if these German women don’t cause a plague after a certain period of time, it will be weird.
When there is a plague, people panic, and then run to the ground when they panic.
Good guy, you Germans are spreading the plague to the leader division? Will the leader division be busy fighting or busy treating diarrhea and fever?
In any case, once the plague, a weapon of mass destruction that does not distinguish between friend and foe, spreads, especially in the control area of the leader division, there will be absolutely no good things.
It is unrealistic to expect people like Alsim to take the initiative to care about the German war refugees. It is the greatest mercy for this killer to ignore you Germans and pass by.
To put it bluntly, Alsim still considers his own people and the leader division.
As a company commander, some basic vision and foresight analysis ability are there. This has nothing to do with the level of education, it is purely the experience and ability of a commander.
"Thank you, Mr. Officer, we will consider it. But there are still explosions above our heads. I don't think we will leave for the time being. May I ask if you have any food to leave for us?"
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The German language was too complicated for Alsim to understand, but at least he could understand the word "food".
After all, it was quite commonly used, whether by German prisoners or German civilians.
"Give it to her. I didn't bring much anyway."
A few packets of biscuits, a few unopened chocolates, and a half-eaten loaf of bread wrapped in paper
As a heavy infantryman, the combat engineer used most of the weight to carry equipment and protective gear. Ordinary infantrymen didn't carry much portable rations with them. After having infantry fighting vehicles, they simply didn't bring them and put them in the vehicles. When they needed them, they could just go to the vehicles and get them.
The amount they had gathered at the moment was just what the soldiers who liked to chew snacks put in their pockets when they were free. But even with such a small amount, it was like a gift from heaven to the war refugees of the elderly, women and children in front of them. They were so grateful that they just cried and hugged their heads.
Especially the young mother who was trembling when she first saw the deputy company commander. After receiving the food, she burst into tears on the spot. While crying, she worshipped Alsim and his team as living gods, thanking them for saving her child's life.
There was something indescribable in his heart, but that was all the deputy company commander did not stay. After quickly finishing the things at hand, he set off again with his comrades.
After jumping off the platform, the Alsim team waded through the black and smelly sewage that had already covered their ankles in the subway track, feeling the double torture of soaking their feet in water and the rising stench. They just kept moving forward all the way, being cautious and vigilant all the way.
However, as the old woman said, they did not encounter any German patrol teams along the way. It is estimated that even the Germans themselves may not want to wade in this stinky water.
In the dark subway tunnel, they waded armed and walked on foot with tense nerves, and in order to avoid more troubles at night, they tried to move as fast as possible for nearly three kilometers.
Every combat engineer, including Alsim, was sweating and exhausted. If the stinky water under his feet hadn't reached his ankles, he would have wanted to sit down and take a breath.
Knowing that the longer he stayed in the water, the more he would exhaust his physical strength. Alsim didn't plan to stay. He looked around at the fork in the road that had begun to transform into multiple forks, and then looked up at the dome of the subway tunnel above his head, which had suddenly become much wider. Water was still seeping down and the situation was not good.
Knowing that time was running out, Alsim was about to encourage everyone to finish the work in one go, but he heard the deputy company officer who had just taken off the water bottle behind his buttocks and drank a sip of water suddenly screamed in a low voice.
"There is light! The tunnel ahead is coming in our direction!"