Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 923 Traces on the Road

Like the West in everyone's mind, the wilderness in this area is very desolate. After leaving the community, people and plants disappear, except for an occasional car or two speeding past the black road and leaving a cloud of dust.

According to the previous plan, Liang En and the others would enter the mountainous area as quickly as possible, and then follow a valley that was barely passable for vehicles to find the previously marked location.

After 15 minutes out of the urban area, Liang En drove the car off the road and off the shoulder according to the GPS positioning, and then drove towards the mountainous areas further north.

"It feels easier to go this way than I imagined." After driving for a few minutes on the wasteland of the Gobi Desert, Joan of Arc said to Liang En who was sitting in the cab.

"I thought it was going to be bumpy, but now it looks like it's not a big deal other than a little bit of dust."

"We haven't entered the mountains yet. This is just the Gobi Desert." Liang En said while holding the steering wheel. "This kind of place is not very friendly to cars with low chassis, but we drive off-road."

"More importantly, this place is not a pure wilderness, but has been built by people, so even if it has not been renovated for so many years, it is much better than the wilderness."

"You said this is not a pure wilderness?" Jeanne looked out and asked, "There are some human traces here, but isn't it normal to have these things around the city?"

"Yes, it's normal to have some man-made objects around the city, but it's strange that some things appear here, such as these things—" Liang En looked around and stopped the car, then pointed Said the ruins not far away.

"But these things are a bit strange, like the pile of iron frames is not an ordinary iron frame, but the frame of the wooden barracks built by the American army in World War II."

The United States entered the war in World War II very hastily, so after the outbreak of the war, the rapid expansion of multiple armies brought a lot of problems to the Americans, whether it was weapons and equipment or basic necessities of life.

The pure weapons and equipment situation could be better, because the United States was fully providing weapons to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union at that time, so it was not a big problem to temporarily requisition weapons to arm the soldiers, but this was not the case in terms of life.

For example, at that time, many of the U.S. military could only use the C rations stored in the country, because the scale of the gathering of those personnel was never expected before, and most of the transportation capacity needed to ensure the transportation of personnel and weapons and equipment.

The problem with the barracks was even bigger. At that time, there were not so many barracks available in the United States, and it was too late to build them temporarily, so that many soldiers could only live in tents for several months.

However, after these problems emerged, the United States also carried out large-scale optimization and improvement, such as the predecessors of the ruins that Liang En and the others saw.

This is a wooden prefabricated panel barracks with steel as the skeleton and wood as the filler. It can be transported to the designated location for quick erection after mass production in the factory.

Although compared with those permanent barracks made of reinforced concrete or masonry, this kind of house is indeed much worse.But at least it is much better than living in a tent, and it can better maintain the morale of the army.

Of course, the durability of this type of building is also very bad. Basically, these buildings were basically abandoned after the end of World War II, so this type of building can often be found in some places where there are not many people. wreckage.

But there is a clear difference between this wreckage and the wreckage in other places, because when Liang En and the others inspected, they found that the structures of these temporary buildings were not abandoned and thrown here, but the buildings that were originally here.

"It turned out to be a very complete military camp here." After letting Liang En drive himself around the ruins, Joan came to her own conclusion.

"Although it is hundreds of years away from my era, many things have not changed much. For example, this barracks has the same dense internal structure and sufficient defensive buildings as my era."

As a barracks located in the local area, this barracks does not focus on military defense like those field barracks, so the overall style is like an older barracks.

But after traveling around, Liang En and the others also discovered the problem with the military camp, that is why there is such a military camp in this place.

According to the remaining buildings of the barracks, there are about 600 people stationed in this barracks, but no matter how you look at this place, it doesn't look like a place worthy of the army.

Because the location of this barracks is neither in the traffic arteries nor in the hot spots around the town, and even the surrounding environment is not suitable for simple garrison or military training.

If you want to talk about the advantages, you can only say that this place is hidden enough, but for the United States, which was hardly attacked during the entire World War II, there is really no need to do so.

"I think we are getting closer to the truth now, at least the location of this barracks looks really strange." Liang En commented on this barracks.

"And now I have a hunch that the reason why this barracks is here is related to the treasure hidden by the previous major, and all the answers will be unlocked after we enter the mountain."

As the vehicle continued to move forward, the ground began to change, and it was Jeanne who changed first. She felt that the current road conditions were much better than before.

If the roads before were pure washboard roads, then the roads now are large sandpaper roads. Although they are not very smooth, at least they are not as bad as before.

"Someone seems to have repaired the road here." After the car drove out for a few minutes, Joan of Arc said in an uncertain tone, because she vaguely saw some traces of the road on the ground.

After hearing what Joan of Arc said, Liang En stopped the car again and began to study, only to find that this side was not the ordinary sand and stones of Gobita, but some asphalt roads that had been obviously weathered and damaged.

"That's right, this is a kind of wartime road, and it's a relatively high-grade road." Because the road was weathered, Liang En quickly figured out the structure of the road and came to a conclusion.

Wartime roads are actually an emergency product, which mainly focuses on rapid construction, while quality and durability are secondary, and are even allowed to be ignored in many cases.

For example, this asphalt road is like this, it is built directly after leveling the land and laying asphalt.Maybe the road looked fine after it was built that year, but it has been obviously weathered now.

Especially the part of the road on the plain is so weathered due to the wind and sun that it is almost gone, and the road here survived smoothly because it is close to the mountain and has concealment.

"Military camps and military roads, it seems that there is likely to be a hidden military base or something similar in this place." After finishing the inspection, Liang En stood up and said, looking at the mountainous area of ​​the target location in the distance.

"According to my judgment, the next road will only take half an hour at most. I hope everything will go well."

(End of this chapter)