artillery arc

Chapter 375: Wreaths on the Street
On the way to the home of the herdsmen representative, Wang Zhong and his team met the logistics workers who were collecting the bodies.

The dead Ante soldiers were placed on the side of the street, ten centimeters apart, filling the entire left side of the street, while the right side was an empty driveway.

A GAZ truck and a United States-supported Studebaker truck were parked one after the other, and the hired workers were constantly carrying bodies onto the trucks.

Wang Zhong originally wanted to say, "My soldiers cannot be piled up like salted fish in a can," but he immediately dismissed the idea - the trucks had a lot of tasks to do, and it was already a struggle to squeeze out two to collect the bodies.

Suddenly, Wang Zhong saw Nellie carrying a basket with a bunch of wild flowers in it.

He was shocked, and his first reaction was that Nellie's boyfriend was dead in there.

Then he saw Nellie pinning a small flower on the collar of each soldier who died.

Wang Zhong patted Gregory on the shoulder and signaled him to stop the car.

One of the hired workers noticed him, stared with wide eyes and was about to speak.

"Shh." Wang Zhong raised his index finger, signaling the employee not to speak.

The car stopped at a corner of the street full of corpses. Wang Zhong quietly observed Nellie's eyes from a bird's-eye view, but found that she was not crying, but just silently distributing flowers.

Although Nellie did not cry, the scene was extremely sad, reminding Wang Zhong of the sad folk song "Alyosha".

The song goes: He can no longer give flowers to girls, it is the girls who give flowers to him.

Just as Wang Zhong was looking at his little maid with emotion, a group of soldiers nearby started singing "I Still Have the Last Grenade" - no, it was "The Last Courage"!
I am the "original author", I can't be led astray by others! Even if everyone in the country calls this song "I Have One Last Grenade", I will call it "The Last Courage" - Wang Zhong thought.

Nellie looked at the soldiers who interrupted her mourning and found that these soldiers were obviously doing it on purpose, staring at Nellie while singing.

Wang Zhong also noticed this. Just as he was about to speak up to stop the soldiers from teasing his little maid, he saw Nellie come forward and pin a small flower on each of them.

The soldier playing the balalaika said, "I have a sister at home, who is about your age."

"General, you are such a fool. You actually brought such a young girl to the battlefield!"

Nellie: "Watch your mouth. If you talk nonsense, be careful that your mouth will be torn apart by the swamp witch."

Wang Zhong's eyes widened. Normally, Nellie would not be so sharp-tongued. At most, she would look at him with contempt or as if he were a fool.

It seems that Nellie has usually shown mercy.

The soldiers looked at each other, then laughed and started to tease: "Swamp witch?"

"Will she still summon the Thing in the Woods?"

"Give women the potion that turns unfaithful men into toads!"

Nellie shook her head, with an expression that said, "If you don't listen to the old people, you will suffer the consequences."

Wang Zhong watched all this and felt that Nellie was like a mother who could do nothing about her naughty child.

At this time, the soldier holding the balalaika said, "You get so angry when we say something bad about the general, and even bring up the swamp witch to scare us. You must like the general very much, right?"

Wang Zhong coughed and said, "Andrei, Daka, and Kholopakov, don't tease my orderly, or I'll punish you and Vasily to carry manure together."

When the three soldiers heard their names, they immediately looked over and found that it was Wang Zhong. They quickly stood up and were about to salute, but found it was not convenient to salute with the instruments in their hands.

After a flurry of activity, they hid their instruments and saluted Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong waved his hand: "Okay, time to relax, don't be so reserved. Also, saying goodbye to the body is a serious matter, don't laugh and joke around."

“Report!” the balalaika player raised his hand. “We think our comrades would rather leave listening to this song.”

The Barin player echoed: "They may have to fight the Prosom devil in hell!"

Immediately the balalaika player kicked the heel of the balin player: "Of course our comrades will go to heaven, we can't touch the devil of Prosom!"

Wang Zhong: "No matter what, be serious and send them off for the last time. Of course, I'm not saying this song is not good, I'm saying you can't flirt with girls during the farewell. Also, you can't flirt with my orderly at any time!"

The three "musicians" all laughed: "Your orderly is too young, just like our sister!"

"Yes, yes, I was just teasing my sister just now!"

"Look at the flowers she gave us. They are not flowers that grown-up girls would give us. They are wild flowers that only little girls would give us."

Wang Zhong scolded, "Be content! Now, just play some farewell songs for your comrades!"

The three of them looked at each other, then sat back in their seats in tacit understanding and started playing music.

It is a song that Wang Zhong is very familiar with: "Far Across the River".

When Wang Zhong was a child, he watched the CCTV version of "How the Steel Was Tempered" and was deeply impressed by the theme song.

The most impressive part is that after the climax of the song, when the hero is about to win, he ends up sacrificing himself.

The protagonist collapsed before dawn, which made Wang Zhong extremely sad.

Although we are still a long way from defeating Proson, it is most appropriate to use this song to bid farewell to our comrades.

Nellie came to Wang Zhong while singing a sad song.

Wang Zhong: "When did you pick the flowers?"

"Just now, you were fighting, and I had nothing to do, so I picked flowers." Nellie turned her head to look at the bodies on the street and bit her lip. "This is all I can do. Cook, feed everyone, and then put flowers on them."

Wang Zhong put his big hand on Nellie's head, pressed her boat hat into his palm, and rubbed it hard: "You did a good job. Keep going, the soldiers will like it. We have more important things to do, please send the soldiers off for me."

Nellie nodded.

Wang Zhong withdrew his hand and signaled Gregory to drive.

Then the convoy drove away in a flash.

Nellie carried the flower basket and watched Wang Zhong leave. Then she took off her crumpled boat-shaped hat and carefully restored it to its normal state.

The three young men playing the music finished playing the last note just as the convoy disappeared at the corner of the street. The balalaika player let out a long sigh and turned to look at his companions: "The general really knows our names! I haven't even spoken to him before!"

The Bahrain performer also said excitedly: "The legend is actually true! He really knows all of our names! No one who died in the general's army is anonymous!"

"I thought it was the military chaplain who was fooling people! It turns out to be true!"

Nellie turned around and looked at the three people: "Do you know my name?"

The three of them looked at each other.

The first said, "The General's maid!"

Nellie shook her head.

The second: "The General's sister!"

Shake his head.

The third one: "General's - Diligence! Soldiers! This is absolutely correct."

Nellie: "I asked for my name, not my identity!"

This time it was the three of them's turn to shake their heads.

Nellie ignored them and continued to put small flowers on the fallen soldiers.

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Wang Zhong's motorcade stopped in front of a three-story building.

The neighborhood where the building is located suffered less damage, and even a bakery was open for business! Several soldiers of the Melania People's Army were in front of the bakery, trying to buy bread in Melania.

Wang Zhong patted Vasily on the shoulder and pointed to where Melania was. Vasily understood and jumped out of the car before it stopped and ran to help translate.

Wang Zhongze got off the bus under the guidance of a local guide.

The guide said: "I won't go in. For us old settlers, seeing herders is like seeing a hare in the field seeing an eagle. After all, when I was a child, most herders were part-time bandits! Until the end of the civil war, they were part-time bandits. Sometimes they came to sell various products from livestock, and sometimes they came to extort money!"

Wang Zhong nodded: "Thank you, sir."

Then he came to the door himself and knocked on the wooden door.

He had already confirmed with a cheat that there were no enemies in the house.

After knocking twice, the door finally opened a crack. A young man in his early twenties looked at Wang Zhong before pulling out the bolt and opening the door completely.

"Come in, General," he said.

Wang Zhong: "I'm looking for a herdsman representative. Are you that person?"

"Yes, I am. What's wrong? Is there anything I can help you with?"

Wang Zhong: "Are you familiar with the grassland?"

The young man shook his head: "I was only ten years old when I came to settle in the city."

Wang Zhong raised his eyebrows: "Just now the old guide said that your family moved into the city five years ago because of policy changes. Does that mean you are only fifteen years old?"

He looked at the young man's nearly two-meter height and muscular body, and exclaimed inwardly: He's fifteen years old?
Young man: "Yeah, I just look older."

Wang Zhong: "Well, it doesn't matter. If you are not familiar with the grassland, is there anyone who is familiar with the grassland? This is very important. We need people who are familiar with the grassland conditions to fight against the Plosson devils."

Young man: “Then you have to ask my father.”

"Where is he?"

"it's here!"

A very impatient voice came from above everyone's head.

Wang Zhong looked up and saw a sturdy middle-aged man standing on the stairs leading to the second floor.

Wang Zhong: "Can you tell us——"

"I can't!" The uncle rejected Wang Zhong instantly.

Wang Zhong: "We need to resist the Proson devils!"

"When the Prosens occupied this place, they didn't do anything to us," said the uncle.

Wang Zhong: "The Prosens will turn us all into slaves!"

The uncle snorted and crossed his arms: "I am the Tsar's grassland inspector! I am only responsible to His Majesty the Tsar! Without His Majesty the Tsar's order, no one can order me around!"

Wang Zhong pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the uncle's head: "You are committing treason!"

"Is it treason to pledge allegiance to the Tsar? I think you are the one who commits the most treasonous crime!"

Wow, they are worthy of being a gang during the civil war.

Seeing that the other party was not buying it, Wang Zhong immediately had a new idea.

He put away his pistol and said to the uncle, "You want authorization from His Majesty the Tsar, right? All right, I'll call Yebao and ask her to give you the authorization in person! Come to the headquarters!"

Uncle: “What if I don’t go?”

Wang Zhong: "That is refusing to accept the orders of His Majesty the Tsar. It is treason!"

The uncle thought for a moment and waved his hand: "Lead the way. If you lie to me later, I won't tell you a word unless it's His Majesty the Tsar!"

(End of this chapter)