章節 58: Chapter 57: The Old Soldier Who Died Generously
An old-fashioned biplane propeller plane was flying towards Cairo in the sky.
This was the last plane and the last pilot of the British Royal Air Force stationed in Egypt.
They were originally stationed in Egypt because of the war needs of the First World War. Now that the British Empire has declared Egypt's independence and the whole world is "on vacation" after the world war, there is naturally no need for Britain to replenish planes to Egypt.
So Winston, the old pilot, became the last pilot of the Royal Air Force in Egypt. Although he still sticks to his post, he longs to meet his own death in a mission like his colleagues who died in the war.
Limited by the performance of the aircraft itself and the freedom brought by flying in the sky, most pilots in World War I were romantic in character, and they admired the chivalrous battles like the famous Red Baron, and they also longed to die in a fierce and honorable battle.
Therefore, when Winston received the mission from the veteran to take him into Cairo, the old pilot happily agreed. He once again drove the plane, carrying a veteran of almost the same age as himself, and once again stepped into the battlefield and died bravely.
"We have entered Cairo, but I am afraid we can't land. There is no place to land in the city. I can only lower the altitude. You find a way to parachute!" Winston shouted to the veteran sitting in the back seat as he flew the plane into the sky over Cairo.
Looking down at the city of Cairo below, noticing the eye-catching blood-red museum in the city, the veteran knew that was his goal.
So he said to Winston: "Fly towards the museum, find a place nearby to fly lower and let me down!"
For a special group of people like veterans, jumping from a height of fifty or sixty meters would not be a problem. In fact, when he was young, he had done the same thing in the war, jumping off a low-flying plane and jumping directly into the battlefield.
"No problem, sir! I will put you in the position closest to the battlefield, and you can go directly into the battlefield!" Winston responded excitedly.
Although low-altitude flying is still a very dangerous thing even at the speed of this old World War I aircraft, the feeling of approaching death brought by the danger makes Winston, the old pilot, feel like he is alive again.
If he can die in this mission and shed blood in the sky like his comrades, this is exactly the ending he has always dreamed of.
He is old, and he has long felt that he should go to the blue sky with his comrades.
The veteran noticed Winston's thoughts, but did not dissuade him.
As a veteran, he can understand the pain of all his comrades having died on the battlefield and only he survived.
In fact, if it were not for the responsibility and mission, the veteran would also like to choose to die generously like Winston, die on the battlefield, instead of watching himself getting old and dying in bed.
However, the veteran also understands that the most important thing at the moment is to fulfill his mission and solve the disaster that is happening in Cairo. Otherwise, even if he really dies on the battlefield, he will fail his honor and responsibility.
With this in mind, the veteran climbed out of the cockpit, grabbed the cockpit, stood on the wing, and patted Winston to indicate that he was ready.
Seeing this, Winston slowed down the plane's flight speed and gradually lowered the altitude.
They quickly passed a building, and Winston was looking for an opportunity for the veteran to jump down.
However, at this moment, the veteran noticed that a group of monsters that looked like ghouls on the ground were attacking the museum from all directions, and they were fighting fiercely with the enemies guarding the museum.
Because of the attack of these ghoul-like monsters, the originally dense enemies in the square were obviously attracted to the surrounding streets, and the square seemed empty for a while.
Noticing this, the veteran also noticed the pool in the square that had long been stained red with blood, and an idea came to his mind.
He patted Winston, pointed to the pool in the square, and asked, "Can you throw me into that pool?"
"No problem! Watch me!" Winston understood what the veteran meant, pushed the joystick, and controlled the plane to fly towards the square.
The plane soon flew over the square. Winston slowed down again. In addition, the square was empty, so Winston could be said to be flying close to the ground.
But he didn't care. Instead, he turned around and said loudly to the old soldier standing on the wing and preparing to jump down: "Good luck!"
"Good luck to you too!" The old soldier also gave Winston a blessing, and then took the opportunity when the plane flew over the pool, and suddenly jumped off the wing, and jumped into the pool full of blood.
The water in the pool was not deep, but with the old soldier's skills, he still used the water in the pool to buffer the impact of jumping from the plane, and quickly climbed to the shore. He
took off the knight's sword on his back for convenience, and took a look at the blood-stained garter on his leg and the words "Honi soit, qui mal y pense" on it. The old soldier drew his sword and fought with the enemies around him.
However, he did not rush to the museum immediately, but approached a street next to it.
Just before jumping down, he looked around carefully and noticed that while those ghoul-like monsters were attacking, a group of black-clad soldiers were also attacking this side.
Although he didn't know who they were, they were still companions at this time. And remembering what O'Connor had told him before, someone in the city was stopping all this, the veteran naturally planned to join them first and gather their strength together.
At this time, Winston in the sky naturally pulled the joystick to pull up the plane after the veteran jumped down.
Although he planned to die on the battlefield, Winston did not drive the plane directly to hit the museum. He just wanted to die on the battlefield, not to commit suicide.
However, just as he passed the entrance of the museum, a spear suddenly flew out from the entrance of the museum and stabbed into the nose of the plane!
Although the spear was cut off by the propeller of the nose in just a moment, the spear also broke the wooden propeller.
Winston, who noticed this, did not try to force the plane to land. Although he would most likely survive if he made an emergency landing, Winston, who had already made up his mind to die, did not plan to survive. Instead, he pressed the joystick and aimed the nose of the plane at the bald man who threw the spear at him at the entrance of the museum, and slammed into him.
Before the First World War, Europe was full of idealism and many heroic fantasies about war. I remember that at the beginning of the First World War, many people went to the battlefield with enthusiasm and ideals. It was not until the entire First World War destroyed everything that humans truly realized that there was no beauty in war and the terrible cruelty of war.
However, there were still many veterans who retained the romanticism of that era, yearning for a real battle, and then died generously.
Just like General Patton said, for a true soldier, the ideal way to die is to be killed by the last bullet in the last war.
(End of this chapter)
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