Chapter 21 Volume 03 Chapter 1 Crossing Hungary

At last the time came when they were all packed into open wagons, with eight horses for every forty-two soldiers.It must be admitted that horses are more comfortable on the road than humans, because they can sleep standing up.It doesn't matter whether you stand or sit, what matters is that this troop train is taking another batch of newcomers to Galicia, to the slaughterhouse. Generally speaking, soldiers were relieved.As soon as the train left, they somewhat had a shadow of their own destiny.Before this, they were in a distressed situation with a bleak future, racking their brains to speculate whether to set off today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.Now, their hearts are much more at ease.

The supply sergeant Wannik told Shuike not to be busy, and what he said was not wrong at all.It was several days before they got into the gondola, during which time rumors continued to circulate about the distribution of canned food.The maintenance sergeant was an experienced man, and he insisted that it was not the case.Rationing cans is unreliable.The more likely thing is to make an open-air mass, because the advance team in front used an open-air mass to comfort.With ration cans there will be no open-air mass.Conversely, open-air mass is a substitute for ration cans. Sure enough, the canned stew did not come, and it was the Abbe Iber who took the place of the canned stew.It can be said that he killed three birds with one stone. He held an open-air mass for the three advance teams at the same time, and blessed the officers and soldiers of the two teams that drove to Serbia and the one team that drove to Russia.

From the beginning of the journey, there was a strange secret in the staff car where the officers of the advance team stayed.Most of the officers were buried in a German cloth-bound book entitled The Sins of the Priests by Ludwig Gunhoeffer.They looked at the first sixty-one pages at the same time.The battalion commander, Captain Sagnare, was standing by the window, also holding the book in his hand, also turning to page 161.He stared at the scenery outside, thinking about how to explain to them how to use the book plainly, because it was an extremely confidential matter. By this time the officers were wondering if Colonel Shroedel was completely mad, beyond cure.Naturally, they knew that his nerves were a little abnormal in the past, but they didn't expect him to suddenly go crazy like this.Before driving off, at his last Besprechung call, he informed the officers that a copy of Ludwig Gunhoeffer's The Crimes of the Priests would be available to each of them, which he had ordered to be sent to battalion headquarters.

"Gentlemen," he said with an unusually secretive expression on his face, "don't forget to turn to page 161." They perused the first sixty-one pages, but could not make out what it was about, except that a Mr. Albert was constantly cracking jokes.Those jokes have nothing to do with the previous stories, and they seem to be all nonsense.Lieutenant Lukasch was so angry that he bit off the cigarette holder. "The old man's gone crazy," thought everyone. "This time he is finished, and he will definitely be transferred to the Ministry of Defense."

After thinking about everything carefully, Captain Sagnar left the place by the window.He wasn't particularly good at teaching, so it took him a while to figure out a way to explain the importance of page 161.Like the colonel, he said "gentlemen" first, although he always called the other officers "brothers" before getting into the car. "Gentlemen," he began, explaining that the colonel had given him certain instructions the night before on page 161 of The Crimes of the Priests by Ludwig Gunhoeffer. "Gentlemen," he continued solemnly, "this instruction is about a new set of telegraph ciphers to be used in combat, and it is completely confidential."

Candidate Bigler took out his notebook and pencil, and said in a very warm tone, "Sir, I'm ready." Everyone stared at Officer Candidate Bigler, whose zeal for knowledge was a little silly. Captain Sagnar continued his speech: "I have already mentioned this newly invented method of sending coded telegrams in wartime. It may not be easy for you to understand why I invite you to read "The Priest" by Ludwig Gunhoeffer. Our Sins, page 161, but gentlemen, the details of the new cipher, adopted at the behest of the regiment to which our regiment belongs, are found on that page of this book. As you probably know, in There are many kinds of ciphers for sending important telegrams on the battlefield. The latest we have adopted is a supplementary digital method. Therefore, you can cancel the cipher and decipher method issued to you by the Wing Staff last week."

"Grand-Duke Albrich code," muttered the studious Bigler himself, "8922—R, adapted from Greenfield's code." "This new code is very simple," Captain Sagnar continued, "For example, an order came down:" Order the 228 highland machine gun to shoot to the left. ’ Our telegrams would read: “Things—with—us—and—we—looked—to—the—promised—so—Martha— You-so-urgent-then-we-Martha-we-then-we-thank-ok-finish-we-promise-do-want- —opinion—very—prevailing—voice—finally.' As I said, it was very simple and not at all cumbersome. The staff called the battalion, and the battalion called the company. The company The chief received this secret telegram and turned it out in the following way: He took up "The Crimes of the Priests", turned to page 161, and on the opposite page 160, looked for "things" from top to bottom. These two words. Look, gentlemen, the word 'matter' first appeared on page 160, and counted sentence by sentence, it happened to be the 52nd word. Very good. On the opposite side of page 16 On one page, count from the top down to the fifty-second letter. Please note that the letter is "o". The second word on the telegram is 'heel'. On the first sixty pages it is The seventh character is equivalent to the seventh letter of the first sixty-one pages, which is 'n'. In this way, we get the two letters 'on' ⑴. Go on like this until we put 'order 228 The high ground machine gun fires to the left, this order is completely reversed. Guys, this method is really clever and simple, and there are no people with the background of page 161 of "The Crimes of the Priests" by Ludwig Gunhoeffer Don't even think about digging it out."

Everyone looked at the page where life was at stake with a sad face, and gradually became distressed.There was silence for a while, and suddenly the alternate officer Bigler was taken aback and shouted: "Report sir, God, there is something wrong with the password." Passwords can be very confusing indeed. No matter how hard everyone tried, except for Captain Sagnar, no one could find the letters on the opposite page 161 according to the order of the initials on page 160, and then find out the details of the secret code. "Gentlemen," Captain Sagnar stammered himself after listening to the nervous speech of officer-candidate Bigler, who believed it to be well-founded, "how did this happen? My book "The Priests" There is nothing wrong in "The Sins of You", but yours is not right!"

"Sir, I'm sorry..." It was the alternate officer Biegler who spoke again. "I would like to point out," he went on, "that Ludwig Gunhoeffer's book is in two volumes. If you take the trouble to turn the title page, you will understand. It says:" Novel, published two volumes. 'We have the first volume, and you have the second volume,' explained the conscientious Biegler. 'So obviously we have pages 160 and 161 that you does not match.Ours is very different here.In your book, the first word of the telegram is translated as 'on', but our spelling is 'bo'⑵. "

It seems that Bigler is obviously not as foolish as everyone thinks. "The brigade command sent me the second volume," said Captain Sagnar. "There must be a mistake. It seems that the brigade command has messed up." Candidate Bigler looked around triumphantly.At this point, Captain Sagnare went on: "Gentlemen, this is a strange thing. Some people in the brigade are too simple-minded." When the truth came out, anyone who watched Lieutenant Lukasch would find that he was wrestling with a strange urge.He bit his lip and was about to say something, but when he finally opened his mouth to speak.But he changed his mind and talked about other subjects.

"The matter need not be so serious," he said in a tone of unaccountable embarrassment. "While we were stationed at Brooke, the code-deciphering method was changed several times. We'll have a new one until we get to the front. But I personally don't think we'll have much time for riddles when we get to the front. Think about it. Look, before someone can decipher a secret code, our company headquarters, battalion headquarters, and brigade headquarters will already be blown to pieces. This kind of secret code has no practical value." Captain Sagnare reluctantly agreed. "Actually," he admitted, "from my own experience on the Serbian front, no one has had time to work out such code words. I'm not saying that codes are useless if we stay in the trenches for a while. And, they did change the passwords, too." Captain Sagnar fully retreated from the argument he just made: "The staff officers are using less and less codes on the front line. One of the main reasons is that our field telephones are not very effective, especially when the artillery is fired. I can't pronounce the words clearly. I can't hear anything at all. So things get messed up." He paused. "Gentlemen, there's nothing worse than messing things up in the field," he said, with seriousness. "Gentlemen, we're almost at the thorn cloth," he went on, after another pause. "Each person will give out five taels of Hungarian sausage. Take a break for half an hour." He glanced at the timetable. "We left at 4:12. Everyone had to gather on the train at 3:58. Starting from the eleventh company, we got off the train one after another. The rations were distributed at the No. 6 storage center, one at a time. Platoon. It's Officer Candidate Bigler who's in charge." Everyone looked at Officer Candidate Bigler as if to say, "You little daredevil, now you're an ego!" But the industrious junior officer, Bigler, had already pulled out a piece of paper and a ruler from his handbag, he had drawn lines on the paper according to the number of squads, and asked the squad leader how many People, no squad leader can tell the exact number.They could only provide Bigler with some vague figures written in letters in notebooks. Lieutenant Lukasch was the first to jump out of the staff car.He went to the gondola in which Schweik was sitting. "Come here, Schweik," he said. "Don't be silly, come on, I have something to ask you." "Sir, I'd be happy to tell you." Lieutenant Lukasch took Schweik away, and he gave Schweik a very suspicious look. Captain Sagnare's explanation failed badly.While he was explaining, Lieutenant Lukasch was exercising some of his detective skills, which did not take much trouble, because Schweik had said to Lieutenant Lukasch the day before they set off: "Sir, the battalion headquarters has some I got the book for officers from the wing office." So when they were on the second track Lieutenant Lukasch asked him directly: "Do you know Gunhoeffer?" "Who is he?" Schweik asked with interest. "A German writer, you fool!" Lieutenant Lukasch replied. "Thank God, sir," said Schweik with the air of a martyr. "It can be said that I don't know any German writers. I once knew a Czech writer named Ladislav Hayek. He wrote a manuscript for "Animal World"⑷." "Listen, don't do this," Lieutenant Lukasch interrupted. "That's not what I'm asking you. All I'm asking you is: Are those books written by Gon Hovel, have you noticed?" "Are you talking about the books I brought from the battalion office to the battalion headquarters?" Schweik asked. "Oh, yes, a full sack, I moved to the company office with great difficulty. I found out what happened after I looked through my books. Said: "This is the first volume, that is the second volume, and the officers know which volume they should read. ’ So, I thought, they must all be in a trance, because if anyone wants to read a book like The Crimes of the Priests from the beginning, or any book at all, they must start at the first volume.Because we don't read from the back to the front like the Jews.So, sir, I'll call you when you get back from the club, and tell you about the books, and ask you if things were turned upside down during the war, and the books had to be read from the back: the second volume first , What about after reading the first volume?You tell me to stop talking nonsense.So I went to ask our supply sergeant, Wan Nick, because he had some experience in the front.He said the officers probably thought the war was like a fucking picnic with the usual reading stuff, like going out for the summer.He said that they had no time to read at the front because they had to run away.So, sir, I'll just send the top volume of this story to the battalion office, and I'll leave the rest in our company office.What I mean is to send the second volume to the officers after they have finished reading the first volume, just like the book circulation office, but suddenly the order came, saying that we are going to set off and notify the whole battalion to send the rest of the books to the regiment for storage where to go. " Schweik breathed a sigh of relief, and then he continued: "Sir, there are all kinds of things in those stores. There is also the top hat worn by the cantor of the Budijuweis church, when he was enlisted in the army. The one you're wearing." "Hey, Schweik," said Lieutenant Lukasch with a long sigh, "I tell you, you're messing around so much that you don't understand it yourself. I'm tired of calling you an idiot. No words to describe you. If I called you an idiot, I'd be flattering you, which I am. Whenever, whatever they say about that book, you don't care. You Heard nothing, knows nothing, remembers nothing. Well, now you go back to your gondola and tell Wannick he's a fool. I've told him three times to get the exact number of soldiers Bring it up. When I need the numbers today, I can only use last week's old list." "All right, sir," cried Schweik, and walked unhurriedly towards his open car. "Sergeant," said Schweik, when he had returned to his place, "I think Lieutenant Lukasch is in a good temper today. He told me to tell you that you are a fool, because he has told you three times to kill the soldiers here." The number of people told him." "For God's sake," said Wannick, the ration sergeant, angrily. "I've got to fix those bastard sergeants. Is it my fault they didn't bother to give me the numbers in each squad? How the hell am I supposed to guess how many there are? Dare I say Well, our advance party is wonderful. But I expected it, I expected it. I must have known that everything would be messed up. Four rations are missing in the kitchen today, and three more tomorrow. They They didn't even inform me if anyone was in the infirmary. There was a guy named Nicodem on my list last month. I didn't know until the pay day that he had died of acute tuberculosis in the infirmary. They have been Got his rations for him. Got him a uniform too, but God knows where that one went. The lieutenant couldn't handle his company, and called me a fool at the end." Not long before this, Captain Sagnar had a very tense conversation with alternate officer Biegler: "You are strange, Biegler," said Captain Sagnar, "five taels of Hungarian sausage No, why didn’t you come and report to me right away? I had to investigate why everyone returned from the storage. The officers also returned, so it seemed that the order was empty words. What I confessed is:” Go to the storage place according to the chain, and distribute them in rows. ’ That meant that if there were no rations to be issued, the soldiers would go back to the trains in groups.I told you to keep order, but you let it go.I think you'd be glad you didn't have a ration of sausages, so you wouldn't have to rack your brains to count them. " "Report to the officer, the soldiers did not receive sausages, but each received two postcards with pictures." Candidate officer Bigler sent two such postcards to the battalion commander as samples.The postcard was issued by the Vienna Museum of War History, and the curator is General Wei Nuweizhi.On one side was a caricature of a Russian soldier, a Russian peasant with a shaggy beard, embraced by a skeleton.Below it reads: The day the treacherous Russians are wiped out will be the day when all the people in our empire will be happy. Another postcard was sent by the German Empire, which was a gift from the Germans to the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.There is a motto printed on it, Viribus unitis, (6) below it is a picture of Sir Edward Gray (7) hanging on the gallows, and there are one Austrian and one German soldier below, saluting happily, and there is also a painting by Grintz. A poem excerpted from the book "Iron Fist".The German newspapers said that the clever lines in that book were like whipping a whip, full of light-hearted humor and irresistible wit.The following paragraph is one of them. The Gray gallows was supposed to be held up for all to see, and here hung Sir Edward Gray. This should have happened a long time ago, so why didn't it?You must know that no tree will be a gallows for this Judas to hang on. After seeing this sample of "light-hearted humor and irresistible wit," Captain Sagnare returned to the staff car.Cards were played there, except for Officer Candidate Bigler.Candidate officer Bigler was flipping through a stack of newly written manuscripts, all about various aspects of the war, because his ambition was not only to make a name for himself on the battlefield, but also to become an outstanding writer.The titles of his works are very loud, but what he writes is only the titles.These include the following: The nature of the armies involved in the Great War; who started the war?Austro-Hungarian policy and the birth of the Great War; observations on the war; lectures on the outbreak of the war to the masses; reflections on politics and the war; days of glory for the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Slavic imperialism and the Great War; war documents; history of the Great War Documents; Diary of the Great War; Journal of the Great War; The Dynasty during the Great War; Peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at war; My experience in the Great War; My military diary; How to fight against the enemies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; To whom the victory belonged ?Our Officers and Soldiers; Worthy Deeds of Our Soldiers; Austro-Hungarian Heroes; Iron Brigade; My Front Tablets; Field Army Handbook; Days of Struggle and Days of Victory; My Field Experience; In the Trenches; Officers Confessions; enemy planes and our infantry; after the battle; our artillery - faithful sons and daughters of the fatherland; offensive and defensive in war; iron and blood; victory or death; our heroes captured. After examining these, Captain Sagnar asked the junior officer Biegler what he was up to.Officer Candidate Bigler said happily that each title represented a book he was about to write.There are as many titles as there are books. "If I were to die at the front, sir," he said, "I'd like to leave some sort of memoir or something." Captain Sagnar led the junior officer Biegler to the window. "Look what else you have. I'm very interested in your stuff," he said sarcastically. "What's in that notebook you hid in your civilian uniform?" "Nothing," replied Officer Candidate Bigler, with a girlish shy face. "Sir, you can see for yourself." A note was pasted on the notebook, which read: The summary of the great and famous battles fought by the Austro-Hungarian army was compiled by Adolf Bigler, an officer of the Imperial Royal Army, based on the historical data of the battle, and commented. By Adolf Bigler, officer in the Imperial Royal Army. The summary is written very simply. It begins with the Battle of Norringkin on September 6, 1634, then on to the Battle of Zenta on September 11, 1697, and the Battle of Galdi on October 31, 1805. Battle of La, May 22, 1809 Battle of Aspen, Battle of Leipzig, 1813, Battle of St. Lucia, May, 1848, June, 1866 The Battle of Trautno on the 27th and the capture of Sarajevo on August 19, 1878.All of these campaigns are graphically drawn identically.In each battle, the alternate officer Biegler drew some rectangles with solid lines to represent the Austro-Hungarian army, and then drew some rectangles with dotted lines to represent the enemy.Both sides are divided into left, right and middle wings, with a reserve army behind them.Arrows are drawn back and forth on the diagram.The battle of Norlingin was the same as the capture of Sarajeev, just like the deployment of players before the start of a football match, and the arrows indicate which side the two sides should play. Captain Sagnar continued to flip through his notebook with a smile, and stopped when he saw a passage about the Battle of Trautno between Prussia and Austria.Alternate officer Bigler wrote: The Battle of Trautno should not have been fought at all, because the terrain is mountainous, the powerful Prussian column is condescending, threatening us, and adopting a situation of encircling the left wing of our division. Expand the military. "Then according to you," said Captain Sagnar with a smile, returning the notebook to Officer Candidate Bigler, "the Battle of Trautno was fought only if Trautno was a plain. Oh, Very well, you have promoted yourself so quickly to 'Adolf Bigler, Officer of the Royal Imperial Army.' At the rate you are advancing, you will be a Field Marshal before we reach Budapest. But, my God, you ain't even an officer yet. You're a midshipman. Just as a corporal has no right to call himself a sergeant, so you ain't no right to call himself an officer." Seeing that he had finished speaking, the junior officer Bigler saluted, blushed and walked across the carriage to the corridor at the other end of the carriage.He went into the toilet and whimpered softly.Later, he wiped away his tears, strode to the corridor, and said to himself: must be strong, very strong.But he got a headache and felt very uncomfortable. He walked to his corner and lay down.Later, when Prischner, the standard-bearer, came to let him sip brandy from the bottle, he was startled to find Officer Candidate Biegler absorbed in Urdu Kraft's book: A Course for Self-Teaching: How to Be Virtuous Die! "Before the army arrived in Budapest, the junior officer Bigler leaned out of the car window, so drunk, he kept shouting at the desolate wild scenery: "Move forward; for God's sake, move forward! !" Later, under the orders of Captain Sagnar, the messengers Matuschi and Basil put the alternate officer Biegler on the same seat.Candidate Bigeler lay there dreaming that he had received the Iron Cross⑼ and the Order of Merit⑽; dreamed that his exploits were mentioned in the victory report;He wondered how to lead a group of people, but still only a major.He suspected that he was supposed to be a major general, but in the middle of the post, he replaced the word "⑾". Then he got in a car, and the car exploded, so he arrived at the gate of heaven. The slogan at the gate was "God and the Kaiser". He is led to God, who turns out to be none other than Captain Sagnare.The captain chides him for impersonating a major general, and then he slips into a new dream.During the War of the Austrian Succession⑿ he was defending Linz⒀.The battlefield was a patch of bunkers and palisades, and Lieutenant Lukasch fell at his feet dying.Lieutenant Lukasch was saying something sentimental and flattering to him.Then he felt he had been hit by a bullet, and he was off the horse.Traveling through space, he fell to the floor of the car. Basil and Matuschi lifted him up and put him back on the seat.Matuschi then reported to Captain Sagnar that something strange had happened to Candidate Biegler. "I don't think it's the brandy," he said. "Cholera more likely. He drank water at all the stations. I saw him at Marzzoni..." "Cholera ain't coming up so soon. Go get the doctor and show him." The doctor who belonged to this battalion was called Wilfel.When Dr. Werfel returned from examining Officer Candidate Bigler, he burst out laughing. "Officer Candidate Bigler, your desire for rank has caused you a little trouble. You don't have cholera or dysentery. Thirty brioche brioche and too much brandy. —Well, as I said, there's something a little wrong with the body." "It doesn't matter so much?" Captain Sagnare asked. "But it's still the same. If the news gets out..." "I gave him a cure," continued Dr. Wilfel. "I'll leave the rest to the battalion commander. I'll take him to the infirmary. I'll write him a medical certificate certifying that he has dysentery. Malignant dysentery. Must be quarantined. Candidate Biegler must be sent to the hospital. Go to the disinfection room." Captain Sagnar turned to his friend, Lieutenant Lukasch, and said in a very official tone: "The alternate officer in your company, Bigler, has dysentery. Tell him to stay in Budapest for treatment." As a result, the courageous alternate officer Bigler was sent to the Military Infectious Disease Hospital in Novaya Buda. In the swirl of the war, he lost his pants. ⒁ ------------ ⑴Spelled together, it is pronounced as "ang", which is the English preposition "in". ⑵Spelled together, it is pronounced like "bo", which is not a word at all. (3) Hungarian city, in the northwest of Budapest. ⑷The name of this person is similar to the author of this book.At the same time, Hasek worked as the editor of "Animal World". ⑸ refers to Hebrew reading from left to right. ⑹Latin, meaning: "Sincerity and unity." ⑺ British Foreign Secretary at that time. ⑻ The traitor who betrayed Jesus. ⑼ A Prussian medal at that time. ⑽A kind of ribbon representing meritorious service, generally inlaid on the upper left of the military uniform. ⑾Major is Major, and Major General is Major-general. The English translation is: the last word is lost. ⑿ From 1740 to 1748, in order to recognize the issue of the Austrian Queen Marie Theresa, several major countries in Western Europe were involved in a war. ⒀A city in Austria, facing the Danube. ⒁ alluding to his diarrhea.