The night sky is very bright, and stars are everywhere in the sky, and the snow on the flat ground is shining like a mirror.

But Gerhard told Qin Chuan that the more this happens, the colder it will be, and it will be warmer if it snows a little.

Obviously, he was right.

The mercury in the thermometer was falling rapidly. Qin Chuan looked at it and it all dropped to minus 36 degrees.

Everyone was curled up in a corner and shivered all over, even in the house.

In this case, no one can sleep. It can even be said that if they fall asleep, they will be frozen to death by accident. They can only put all the clothes they can find on their bodies and fight against the cold in the dark.

Due to extreme fatigue, Qin Chuan felt drowsy, and the collar that stood up was already full of ice crystals condensed by exhaling water vapor.

Qin Chuan touched the backpack with his trembling hands, and there was a piece of bread inside.

Although he lost his appetite and even shivered when he thought of bread as hard as ice, Qin Chuan knew that his body needed food, so he could only pluck up the courage to take it out, and used some strength to break off a small piece and put it in his mouth. After slowly sucking it, he chewed it a few times and swallowed it.

When Qin Chuan saw Gerhard tearing the newspaper and the leaflets he picked up, he couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

Gerhard rubbed his hands and stuffed the newspapers and leaflets into his clothes and said, "Try it, Captain, this will warm you up a little!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned, and soon realized that this was indeed a method... Paper is a bad conductor of heat and can keep it warm.

So without saying a word, Qin Chuan also did as Gerhard.

"Has it been so cold here?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Tonight is special!" Gerhard replied: "Because we would always make a fire in the room and sleep next to the warm fire!"

"Hmm!" Qin Chuan nodded.

But that was just "usual". The "usual" Holm is the second-tier line, and there is not much danger in making a fire, but today is different from the past.

However, what Qin Chuan didn't know was that although he had conveyed the order so that no one was allowed to make a fire, there were still people who disobeyed the order with the mentality of being lucky or could be said to be so cold that they could not stand it.

In an abandoned house, several German soldiers carefully covered the windows with rain ponchos, and then poured some gasoline on a small pile of split firewood.

"I've had enough of the cold here!" said a soldier: "If this continues, we will die!"

"Yes!" Another soldier agreed: "They said there was danger, but what is the difference between being frozen to death and being bombed to death? I would rather choose to be bombed to death!"

"As long as we are careful, we won't expose our location!"

"Yes, the Soviets must be hiding in their beds and sleeping!"

...

Then they looked at each other and finally plucked up the courage to burn a match to light the firewood. They looked outside carefully for a while, and saw that there was no movement, then they laughed "hehe" and the next second they approached the fire and greedily absorbed the heat.

"I just said nothing will happen!"

"Speak quietly, don't let others discover it!"

...

Before he finished speaking, the whistling of artillery shells came from the air. The soldiers' faces changed drastically. It was too late to escape. "Boom" a piece of artillery shells hit the house where they were. Then with a "expanding" sound, a wall collapsed.

Qin Chuan and Gerhard walked out of the room and saw that there was still a little unburned flame at the explosion, so they understood.

"These rabbits!" said Gerhard: "The order has been conveyed several times!"

"I think we should go and inspect it!" Qin Chuan said: "There will always be people who can't help it!"

"Hmm!" Gerhard agreed: "It may be warmer after walking!"

Qin Chuan and Gerhard were inspecting on both ends. When they passed by the repair shop, they heard a "kneading" sound coming from inside, and a little light was faintly emitted from inside.

Qin Chuan couldn't help frowning, lifted the raincoon blocking outside and got in.

"Captain!"

"Captain!"

...

When several German soldiers saw Qin Chuan, they couldn't help but hurriedly stopped their hands and stood aside.

Qin Chuan looked at a kerosene lamp lit in the house and said dissatisfiedly: "It seems that the lesson given by the shells just now was not enough!"

"Report to Captain!" a soldier with an oily face replied: "We are repairing tanks!"

Qin Chuan knew that they were not lying because they could see that they had tools in their hands under the light of the kerosene lamp.

"Why don't you wait until tomorrow to repair it?" Qin Chuan asked.

"We are worried that it's too late!" the soldier replied.

"What's too late?"

"Captain!" the soldier explained: "This tank cannot move, it is very close to the front line, and this area is the area we want to give up..."

So Qin Chuan understood.

As the soldier said, the repair shop was very close to the front line, and the Soviets could hit it with just one charge. In other words, if it was not repaired as soon as possible, the tank would fall into the hands of the Soviet army at any time.

"Captain, please understand our mood!" Another soldier said: "We are tank soldiers, and we don't want to be just an infantryman on the battlefield... Sorry, Captain, I don't mean to look down on infantrymen..."

"I understand!" Qin Chuan interrupted him and asked back, "Is it possible to fix it?"

"Kurutz said it won't take long to move, Captain!" the oily soldier replied.

“Kuruts?”

"It's him, captain!" The oily soldier turned his eyes to a small German army in the corner.

"Hello, Kuruc!" Qin Chuan greeted him, but strangely he looked confused and looked at the side with some at a loss.

"Sir!" explained the oil-stained soldier: "Kuruts is a Latvian. He doesn't understand German, but he knows some English. We communicate more with gestures!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but say "Oh".

It is not surprising that Latvians appear among German soldiers. From a modern perspective, Latvia is a member of the Soviet Union, but it actually became independent during World War I. Until 1940, the Soviet Union sent troops to occupy Latvia and incorporated it into the Soviet Union.

Similar to Latvia are Lithuania, Estonia and other countries.

Wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance. The first thing these countries hate is the Soviet Union that has no reason to annex their Soviet Union, which has caused Germany to attack the Soviet Union and drive the Soviets away from their territory, and it is considered "liberators."
Chapter completed!