Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 58 Letter

"What the hell is this?" The box that was dug out from the basement wall before was not particularly strong, so Liang En just used a crowbar to pry off the box cover lightly.

Unexpectedly, the box contained neither a wooden training gun nor a real firearm, but a dozen hollow steel pipes with a bayonet stuffed into each end.

"It seems that neither of us guessed right, but what is this, a spear?" Liang En took out a hollow steel pipe with a thin layer of rust on it, and Liang En showed a puzzled look on his face. "When did the empire on which the sun never sets equip this weapon?"

Obviously, this kind of weapon made of steel pipes and bayonets should be a standard weapon, because the dozen or so spears in the box are almost identical, and the bayonets are all standard military bayonets.

"Wait, I know this thing." After seeing the spear in the box, Pierce was stunned for a few seconds and then said suddenly. "It's really a Homeland Guard weapon."

"As I said just now, the UK lost a large amount of light weapons after the Dunkirk evacuation, so it is difficult to prepare enough weapons for these militia-like homeland guards while fully guaranteeing the regular army."

Pierce also took out a spear as he spoke, then raised the spear and looked at it. "That's why Churchill, the Prime Minister at the time, said that he should try his best to equip the members of the Homeland Guard with weapons, even if they have a spear in their hands."

"Wait, this should be a rhetorical technique." Liang En opened his mouth in surprise after hearing what Pierce said here, "It's similar to when we say that we are armed to the teeth, it certainly doesn't mean that we need to wear titanium alloy braces on the teeth and bite them." people."

"You're right, but that's what the British logistics department did at the time." Pierce shrugged. "They directly produced 25 spears made of steel pipes and bayonets, and then issued them to the Homeland Guard."

"Well, it really seems like the British can do it." Thinking about the famous TV series "Yes, Minister", Liang En felt that the British bureaucracy could really do this kind of thing.

Fortunately, although 25 pieces of this thing were produced at the time, most of them were recycled after the war, so there are not many left until now. Now, one piece can be sold for thirty or forty pounds, which is enough for two people. It took a few minutes to dig in vain.

As for the second mezzanine on the first floor, it was a complete waste of people digging, because after digging, they only saw a dense mass of wires inside.So if you guessed correctly, there was a high probability that it was just a distribution box in the past.

"I guess they blocked this because it was next to the door after it was disassembled, so it looked a bit ugly." Liang En said with a displeased face, after all, the scrap wires inside were really worthless.

"So let's go to the next place quickly." Pierce couldn't bear the impulse to go up to the second floor to have a look at this moment, because compared to the previous two places, the mezzanine that Liang En found on the second floor just now is obvious. Much more valuable.

The reason for saying this is because the two people saw some residual wooden baseboards and pretty-looking wallpapers in that room, and this is obviously not for ordinary soldiers or even low-level officers.

"Think about it, a mezzanine hidden in the commander's room." While hitting the load-bearing wall with a hammer, Pierce said excitedly. "Maybe there may be the private money of the head of the regiment back then."

"But hiding private money should not be enough to paste a layer of cement on the wall." Liang En retorted while chiseling off those cement blocks. "In that case, how does he get the money out?"

"Uh—" Asked by Liang En, Pierce froze for a moment, but he quickly found a plausible excuse.

"Maybe the other party hid something in it before being dispatched to the battlefield. He planned to wait until the house was abandoned after the war to retrieve it, but he didn't come back alive from the battlefield."

I have to say that Pierce's reason is quite reasonable.Because judging from the wallpaper left on the wall, this interlayer should have been built during World War I.

And in that cruel war, more than 90 British troops died in battle alone, especially the standing army at the beginning of the war was almost non-existent, so those who hid things failed to take away their hidden things in the end It's not surprising either.

Different from the previous two mezzanines, the third mezzanine has a layer of iron-covered wooden boards in addition to the outermost layer of red bricks built to cover up.

This also shows from the side that compared to the two hastily closed mezzanines below, this mezzanine has obviously been carefully camouflaged, and naturally there is a high probability that some important items are hidden.

Apparently, a wooden board covered with a thin layer of iron was not enough to deter two treasure hunters with special tools.So the two people took out two LED headlight belts from the car regardless of the darkness of the sky, and then opened the last barrier.

A wooden box the size of a shoebox lay quietly in the small hole, looking dark.After taking out the box, Liang En discovered that the black layer on the box was a layer of dirty wax.

Check it carefully to make sure there is nothing else in the hole in the wall.Liang En and the others returned to their car with this thing.

After 20 minutes, they returned to the warehouse behind the Emerald thrift store, and then carefully removed the wax layer on the box at the workbench, and then opened the box.

"Could this be a nesting doll?" Pierce subconsciously complained, looking at the tin box inside the wooden box and a letter on the tin box.

"Let's take a look at this letter first." Liang En said as he put on his gloves, and then opened the letter with a tool.After unfolding the stationery.The slightly messy text on the top brought the two of them back to the night of war a hundred years ago:
"March 1917, 3, sunny, our entire regiment will soon be sent to the European continent to fight the Germans in the trenches. According to the superiors, we will end the war and go home before Christmas this year. "

"But none of the regimental officers believed this, because this sentence has been said since the beginning of the war until today, but Christmas after Christmas has passed, and the war is not over yet."

"What's worse is that the faces of the boys showed that they were about to be taken to the execution ground. The camp was as silent as a morgue."

"I also encountered a lot of problems when I went to collect supplies. Even though we were about to go to the front line, the canned beef assigned to the regiment was replaced with corned beef, and the amount was only half—"

"When the war started, almost all the veterans in the regiment were lying in the cemetery. Now there are only a group of recruits who have been trained for at most a month. There are also many people who are not suitable for service and children who have not reached the age. Take them to the There is no difference between the battlefield and taking them to death."

"Okay, let's stop complaining here. I will lead a group of rabble into the meat grinder tomorrow. I hope I can come back alive."

"Also, the box contains the loot obtained from the suppression of the riots not long ago. I hope I can come back alive to take them out, and then exchange them for money to give some comfort to the family members who lost their father, husband, and son."

(End of this chapter)