Chapter 173 Murdoch’s Mystery (Second update, please subscribe)
March 24.
After entering Germany, you need to be careful at every step, everyone may be the enemy - the Germans mobilized almost all men to join the National Commando, from gray-haired old men to young children. .
They may launch Iron Fist rockets from a corner at any time, or they may hide in the corner and shoot.
Kang Guowei changed gears and slowly drove the jeep around a corner on the dirt road. After digging into the pit, he drove to a long piece of grass. After turning off the engine, he grabbed a newspaper from the passenger seat and got out of the jeep. He lit a cigarette and handed the "Qinglong Banner" - the military newspaper of the task force - as he walked. He flipped the newspaper to the sports section. He browsed the headlines and looked for the football scores of each team. Although the football match between troops was just a simple competition, for each search team, it was definitely an honor to outdo each other.
"Why did we stop?"
Lin Tai asked, sitting in the front seat of the jeep. Lin Tai is twenty-one years old, one year younger than Kang Guowei. As a Shandong native, he is tall, muscular and has dark skin that looks very healthy.
He studied in junior high school in his hometown in Shandong. After Japan occupied Shandong, he, under the leadership of the principal, fled to the rear area, from Shandong to Hubei, and from Hubei to Sichuan. He was only 13 years old at the time. After joining the army last year, he thought he would go fight the Japanese, but he never imagined that he would come to Europe. He had known Kang Guowei since they were doing basic military training in China. After arriving in India, they were also in the same company, and now they are two , one is the squadron leader and the other is the squadron deputy.
Kang Guowei put down the newspaper and leaned back on the chair and said.
“The Allies haven’t attacked the town in front yet. The Germans may have planted mines on the road, or they may have set up an ambush. Let’s wait a while.”
He said,
"Let's rest for a while and wait a while to confirm that it is safe before going over."
"Captain, otherwise, let two brothers go in and take a look."< br>
Medical worker Mi Jiyuan stood up from the back seat of the jeep as he spoke. Holding hands and looking into the distance, the town of Meux in the distance was right in front of them. While they were waiting, several Germans came from a distance, led by an old man. They walked away holding a white flag. He came over, got closer, and saw the appearance of the allies clearly. The old man was stunned for a moment, and then he said.
"Gentlemen, there are no soldiers in the town anymore. All the soldiers have left, only some old people, women and children."
"Are there weapons in the town?"
"Sir, the weapons are piled in front of the square."
Soon, the search team entered the town, and before they piled weapons in front of the square When hundreds of small weapons, including shotguns, were thrown into the car, Lin Tai asked some nearby villagers in somewhat blunt German. They learned from the villagers that in a certain potash mine of the Windstall Mining Company There has been unusual "activity" nearby. So Kang Guowei immediately ordered a curfew in the area, and then sent a small team to search the potash mine.
Like the industrial and mining companies they encountered along the way, the salt mine was also empty without a single worker. Soon they entered the Keseroda mine, and what they discovered next shocked everyone. people.
“…At ten o’clock this morning, our people entered the mine from the main tunnel. At first we thought this was where the Germans stored weapons. According to intelligence, there were hundreds of cars driving into the mine before and after. Later we were 700 meters above the ground In the main tunnel about 1 meter thick, 550 large sacks were found stacked against the wall, all of which were German Mark banknotes. Further inside was a 1 meter thick brick wall with a heavy steel safety door in the center. , there may be a cellar hidden behind it”
Listening to Kang Guowei's report, Li Yian and his party came to the cellar. Looking at the thick steel safety door, Li Yian's breathing became rapid.
Even before he opened the safety door, he knew what was inside - gold!
All the gold reserves of the German National Bank are here!
This should be the legendary "Murdoch's Treasure"!
“I almost forgot about this treasure...”
Perhaps it is because he has been so busy recently that Li Yian did not even think of the existence of this treasure.
“I must write down everything I can think of when I look back!” he thought in his mind. , Li Yian said.
“Bring the explosives!”
The modern steel safety door may not be able to explode even if it is exploded, let alone prying it open, but the brick wall around the safety door will Very easy to break. It only took half a stick of yellow dynamite to explode.
After the smoke cleared, people found themselves as if they had entered the treasure house described in "Arabian Nights". The surrounding scene was difficult to describe in words: what lay before them was a illuminated secret room 23 meters wide and 45 meters long. There are more than 7,000 marked bags, knee-high, arranged in 20 rows, each row is about 1 meter apart, and many of the bags have the word "Melmo" printed on them. The bags belonged to pseudonymous Nazi SS accounts. A number of wooden chests are found on the other side of the room.
What's in the box?
It’s gold!
2 boxes per box, each weighing 10 kilograms, and hundreds of bags of gold utensils and products; more than 1,300 bags of gold marks, gold francs and gold pounds; hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins; hundreds Bags of foreign exchange banknotes; 9 bags of rare ancient gold coins; as well as billions of German marks in cash, and even diamonds and jewelry. In other tunnels, a large number of precious works of art were found from museums in various European countries and stolen from private individuals: oil paintings, prints, pencil drawings, sculptures, antique clocks, stamp albums... There were even several bags of gold products from people who died of extinction. Gold teeth extracted from the mouths of the Jews in the camp.
How much gold is stored here?
Li Yian didn’t have time to count at all. Time, the most important thing now is to take away everything that can be taken away before the Allies discover this place!
Without the slightest hesitation, Li Yian ordered directly.
"Everyone evacuated to the top of the mine and carried out vigilance on the outside."
Everyone, not including Li Yian himself, immediately after the subordinates left, Li Yian Got busy. Busy trying to fit everything into the space.
How many things are there in the mine?
Li Yi'an didn't know it clearly, but he had already made up his mind - not even a Reich Mark could be left behind. There was no other reason. Everything would either disappear, or it would have to be reported to the Allied Command.
The easiest way is to disappear them all!
Only disappearing can explain everything - no one will believe that more than a hundred task forces and dozens of trucks can transport everything here.
After all, when the Germans transported these things, it took thousands of trucks to transport these things into the salt mines. As for now, of course, they have all disappeared.
Fortunately, there is enough space.
Gone, gone.
From then on, it was a mystery.
A few hours later, the search team left the town as if they had never been here before.
Of course they have been here, and their experience here will also be written in the military diary. After all, they once captured a batch of light weapons including shotguns, and that was it.
Not long after they left, Allied troops also stationed here. They also received information about strange activities near the mine. Although some people swore that there was gold hidden in the mine, however, After a search by the Allied forces, except for the damaged brick wall of the safe, there was no trace of anything else.
Even Allied intelligence agents found Dr. Paul Raff, director of the German National Museum, in the town, who claimed to be looking after some famous paintings hidden in the mines. Werner Vick, chief cashier of the foreign exchange department of the German National Bank, was also found. Vick confessed to the US military that all the gold reserves of the German National Bank are currently in the mines.
But when they entered the mine, both of them were dumbfounded.
Where did the gold go?
Where did the artwork go?
Everything was clearly in the mine. But now, they have all disappeared.
No one knows the answer, no one knows what happened.
But in the following decades, too many investigations surrounded the "mystery of the disappearance of Murdoch's gold", from the Allies to Germany to the private sector.
But, no matter what, it just disappeared out of thin air, as if it had never existed.
The "mystery of the disappearance of Murdoch's gold" and the "mystery of the fire in the Palace of Versailles" are therefore known as the two major mysteries of World War II.
Whether it is the disappearance of Germany's gold reserves or the disappearance of Versailles treasures in the fire, they have attracted various official investigations and various folk speculations.
In the end, all the mysteries point to a group of people called "Nazis" - not only to the exiled Nazis, but also to an illusory thing - the revival of the Third Reich.
It seems that some people have really guessed it, and there seems to be a slight connection. Even later, with the connection of various investigations, the missing treasure also involved "Hydra", almost exposing the other side of the coin.
However, for this world, mysteries will always remain mysteries.
(End of this chapter)