The decisive battle against the Third Reich

That afternoon, the exploration team moved to the Tigram Basin.

For this reason, Werner also complained: "I can't believe that we have dug trenches here and prepared to camp here for several months, but they moved us with just one word!"

"I heard they were looking for oil, right, Captain?" Alfredo asked.

Qin Chuan's company was closely guarding the exploration team, so there were no secrets at all.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

Alfredo looked at the endless desert around him and cursed: "Fuck it, we may have to stay here for a few years!"

"Why?" Werner asked doubtfully.

"Don't you understand?" Alfredo replied: "We are the only force that can get close to the exploration team. In order to keep it secret, they can't use us for rotation!"

"You mean..." Werner asked doubtfully, "We will continue to carry out this mission until they find oil?"

"To be exact!" Alfredo replied: "Our mission is to accompany them to find oil, but look at this place...does this look like a place with oil? I don't know what kind of idiot would think of it. Looking for oil here?”

Kun looked at Qin Chuan and knew that it was Qin Chuan who came up with this idea.

"The idiot you are talking about is me, Alfredo!" Qin Chuan said.

There was a silence in the carriage, and then suddenly burst into laughter. Even Alfredo couldn't help it.

"Hug... I'm sorry, Captain!" Alfredo said out of breath while laughing: "I, I don't know..."

"Of course you don't know!" Qin Chuan said, "If you knew, you would be stepped on by me now!"

The soldiers burst into laughter again.

The marching speed on the desert road was relatively fast, and the convoy entered the Timrag Basin more than an hour before dark.

Then, as before, the soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment were divided into several groups to guard the perimeter. Among them were engineers, radar soldiers, exploration teams, and Qinchuan's guard company.

When night falls, the exploration team always lights a fire. Professor Backhouse's assistant Hans takes out the violin and plays a minuet, and then a group of people gather around the fire and dance happily.

At this time, Qin Chuan would chat with his subordinates dozens of meters away from the fire, and occasionally look enviously in the direction of the fire.

"Come on, Captain!" Professor Backhouse called to Qinchuan: "Let us see your dancing!"

"Oh, no!" Qin Chuan replied: "Thank you! I'm fine here!"

When they get tired of dancing, members of the exploration team will sit around the fire, drink and chat, and some will even spread blankets next to the fire to sleep.

"Captain!" A member of the exploration team shouted to Qinchuan: "Can we listen to your story?"

"What?"

"Please!" Hans shouted: "The professor told us that you are the 'Legendary Sergeant'. Tell us your story!"

Qin Chuan couldn't refuse people thousands of miles away, so he could only walk over slowly.

"Are everything they said true?" Hans asked, "Have you defeated an enemy ten times more powerful than us, and captured the French Toulon fleet?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

"Wow, what does that feel like!" Hans's eyes were full of envy: "I think you must be very proud! Everyone is discussing you and praising you..."

"You want to know what it feels like?"

"Yes!" Hans said: "I want to be a person like you. If possible, I hope to become a soldier. But they think I am more suitable to stay in the exploration team..."

"Then let me tell you how I feel!" Qin Chuan interrupted Hans: "For example, now, when you are singing and dancing with music in front of the fire, when you are sitting in front of the fire telling stories or Do you know what I’m thinking when I’m discussing someone or something?”

"What are you thinking about?"

"Shells, blood, corpses, and screams!" Qin Chuan said: "Because this is the consequence of the fire on the battlefield... The enemy artillery will always fire pieces of shells towards the fire. The shells will destroy the fire. The pile exploded into the sky, and sparks were flying everywhere, but it was not all sparks, there were also many corpses of people who were torn apart in the air!"

Listening to Qin Chuan's words, the people in the exploration team couldn't help but have a bit of fear in their eyes. Some even looked at the dark sky, as if they were worried that a few shells would fall soon.

"Of course!" Qin Chuan continued: "This is far away from the front line, so don't worry about it, but if you have seen this kind of scene, you will form a conditioned reflex, which will make you stay as far away from the fire as possible. Even if you Sitting in front of a fire, your heart can't help but twitch. You will have the urge to put out the fire as quickly as possible, or walk away... In this case, you can still dance. Can you still sit here calmly and tell your story? "

The people in the exploration team couldn't help but remain silent.

"They are right, Hans!" Qin Chuan said to Hans: "You are more suitable to stay in the exploration team, don't let the war destroy you!"

After saying that, Qin Chuan stood up, said "Sorry" and walked away... He couldn't stay by the fire.

The members of the exploration team were stunned for a while, and then, not knowing who started it, several people silently shoveled sand and put out the fire.

The next day, Professor Backhouse said to Qin Chuan who came to him: "What a touching lesson, Captain!"

"What?" Qin Chuan didn't understand what Backhouse meant.

"I mean, those words you said last night!" Professor Backhouse said: "You made us understand the cruelty of war in an instant."

"This is not a good thing!" Qin Chuan replied.

"No!" Backhouse replied: "Of course it's a good thing. You know, they tell your story everywhere. A staff sergeant, a corporal to be exact, became a hero on the battlefield. You know how many Do young people look up to you as an idol? Do you know how many people look up to you and Hans is one of them?”

"Oh!" Qin Chuan didn't know how to answer. He really hadn't thought about this.

"If it weren't for the fact that the exploration team was equally important!" said Professor Backhouse, "I think Hans would have joined the army, just like the other students of mine."

Having said this, Professor Backhouse shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I lost my position, not because I didn't take good classes, but because most of my students joined the army, and then..."

Backhouse spread his hands towards the exploration team: "These are all my students! If you could have said what you said last night earlier, I believe things would not be like this!"