War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 100
"boom!"

Clear gunshots sounded on the ice. A Soviet Red Army soldier lowered his Mosin Nagant rifle facing the sky, pulled the bolt and reloaded a bullet, and the two companions beside him also shot towards the sky. The sleigh on the ice began to shout at the top of its voice.

"Victor, what are they shouting?" After the old hunter Ino finished speaking, he simply yelled at the two reindeer to slow down, turned around and ran towards the three Soviet soldiers slowly.

"Let's stop," Wei Ran responded with a smile, and then pulled the bolt to load the submachine gun under the wolf fur blanket.

"I hope they don't regret it." The old hunter Yinuo shook the rein vigorously, and finally reminded, "Shoot when you feel almost done."

"understood"

Wei Ran responded in a low voice, lifted the wolf fur blanket covering his body a little, and quietly pointed the muzzle of his submachine gun at the three Soviet Red Army soldiers who hid their guns behind their backs.

As the distance got closer, the old hunter Ino enthusiastically waved to the other party, and at the same time greeted the other party's mother kindly in Finnish.

Almost at the moment when one of the soldiers took out the submachine gun hidden behind his back, Wei Ran, who was hiding in the wolf fur blanket, immediately pulled the trigger and fired a fine-grained shot at the three Soviet Red Army soldiers who were only more than [-] meters apart. Barrage!

In the clear gunshots of "da da da", the mutinous PPD submachine gun accurately knocked down the three Soviet Red Army soldiers who were about to hijack the sleigh on the snow to the ground.

At the same time as he opened fire, in the forest where the bonfire had just been raised not long ago, a deafening gunshot sounded suddenly behind the blue hat who was trying to take off his frozen trousers.

But it was not him who was shot, but the Soviet soldier on the edge of the forest not far in front of him who was about to put down his binoculars and pick up his rifle!
Before the soldier who had been shot fell to the ground, the sharp Finnish hunting knife in Mika's hand had already slammed into the right shoulder socket of the blue hat in front of him.At the same time, the barrel of the gun that was still emitting gunpowder smoke in his hand also turned around, ready to put it on the opponent's head to catch him alive.

But the reaction of the blue hat was not slow at all, he suddenly raised his head back amidst the screams, and hit Mika's neck fiercely with the back of his head.

The sudden soreness immediately made Mika subconsciously withdraw her hand to cover her bleeding nose.And the blue hat took advantage of this opportunity, turned his body forward to distance himself from Mikala, and was in a hurry to pull out his own pistol from the cowhide holster.

Mika, who had messed up, didn't care about capturing any prisoners at this time. He suppressed the uncontrollable tears, raised his hand, aimed at the blue hat that had already touched the handle of the gun, and repeatedly tapped the trigger!
Amidst the successive screams, the blue hat was shot in the stomach continuously, and finally lost his defense ability and fell to the snow.

Grabbing a ball of snow and applying it to his nose, Mika was already breaking out in a cold sweat. When he calmed down, he looked at the blue hat lying not far away, where the air was blowing more and the air was less. The young face had already written Full of annoyance.This was the first time he captured a prisoner by himself, but he didn't expect to screw up at the most critical point.

Less than 10 minutes before and after, the old hunter Ino yelled at the reindeer and stopped at the edge of the forest, and shouted from a distance, "Mika, have you solved it?"

"It's settled, come here!" Mika immediately responded in Finnish, and then sat next to the dying prisoner with a sad face, not knowing what to say.

Outside the forest, the old hunter Yinuo put his submachine gun aside, turned to Wei Ran and said, "I'll wait for you here."

Wei Ran nodded, picked up the kerosene lamp, followed the footprints on the snow, and walked into the forest step by step.Then he saw the captive bleeding all over the place and Mika who was frowning on the side.

"I screwed up," Mika said with a sad face, "I wanted to capture him alive."

"It's okay." Wei Ran patted Mika on the shoulder, then squatted beside the dying blue hat, "Where is your teacher Zelentsov?"

"cough cough"

A little dark red blood gushed from the corner of the blue hat's mouth, but there was a mocking smile on his face.Stretching out his hand with difficulty, he wanted to grab the Nagant revolver at Wei Ran's feet.

Seeing this, Wei Ran took a small step back, and then pushed the pistol owner into the opponent's hand.Holding his own pistol, the blue hat tried several times to raise the muzzle to aim at the two of them or at his chin, but without exception, he didn't have enough strength to pull the trigger.

Gently taking the Nagant revolver from the other party, Wei Ran said again, "Happy to you, how about telling me where your teacher is?"

"Wine," the blue hat murmured weakly, his blood-stained hand struggling to reach into his chest.

Wei Ran sighed, and helped the other party take out a blood-stained silver jug ​​from his arms, but the jug was studded with a slightly deformed bullet from a pistol.And what was brought out along with the jug was a flag that was also stained with blood.

Regardless of the flag of the 163rd Division, Wei Ran pulled out the cork of the jug and sent it to the corner of the opponent's mouth. The remaining liquid was deflected by Wei Ran's wrist and slowly poured into the opponent's mouth.

Swallowing the last sip of wine with difficulty, the blue hat looked down at the flag still in his arms, closed his eyes contentedly, and said in a weak voice, "Shoot me. I want to go home."

Glancing at the chilblain on the opponent's cheek and frozen legs, Wei Ran shook his head, put the jug on the opponent's chest, and slowly raised his hand to pull the trigger.

"Bang!" Amidst the crisp gunshots, faint gunpowder smoke overflowed from the muzzle, and the contented expression on the face of the blue hat also completely froze.

Sighing, Wei Ran put the Nagant revolver in his hand on the blue hat's chest, got up and carried the kerosene lamp, picked up the binoculars in the hands of the corpse at the edge of the forest, and walked towards the forest A sledge waiting outside.

Mika looked at Wei Ran, then at the corpse at his feet, patted his forehead in frustration, bent down, picked up the flag still in the corpse's arms, and chased after him.

"Father Yinuo, run back!" Wei Ran said while sitting on the sleigh, "That teacher probably went in the opposite direction."

"As long as it doesn't snow, we'll catch up." Father Ino said with extra confidence. After Mika, who was following behind, got into the car, he immediately returned on the same road shaking the reins.

"Victor, did that teacher really run south?" Mika asked anxiously in the warm wolf fur blanket, still blaming himself for the mistake just now.

"at least half the chance"

Wei Ran nodded, and expressed his own analysis, "That flag has been planted on the battlefield for at least a whole day, and it is likely that it is trying to use that flag to lure our troops away to clear the two encircled circles. As for the The division commander is either still staying in the encirclement to direct the breakout, or the troops who have abandoned him have fled by themselves."

Mika breathed a sigh of relief, "Is it possible that he went to the regiment surrounded by the east?"

"It's unlikely, there's no point in throwing yourself into a trap over there."

Wei Ran's tone became more and more certain, "In short, let's chase after the ruts. As long as we catch the person in the car running south, we will know where the teacher is."

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