War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 101 Anti-killing and Hunting
On the frozen lake, two reindeer were panting heavily, pulling the sleigh cart behind them and galloping on the soft snow.In the distance, the Finn's artillery on the high ground tirelessly continued to suppress the enemies in the encirclement.

At this time, the three of Wei Ran had returned to the bifurcation of the rut marks, and followed the traces extending south without slowing down.

Not long after crossing the frozen Niska Lake and heading south, a truck stopped at the edge of the forest. Beside the truck, a series of messy footprints extended into the forest.

Under the signal of the old hunter Ino, Wei Ran extinguished the kerosene lamp, and Mika got out of the car, strapped on his skis and was in charge of exploring the road ahead.

But as they moved forward, scattered corpses with their clothes stripped appeared along the way!On the snow and even on the surrounding tree trunks, there were also explosion marks of different sizes.

"It's from the Civil Guard!" Mika looked at each corpse carefully with a flashlight, and said angrily, "I've seen these people before, and they went to the sauna together a few days ago!"

"Don't touch those corpses!" the old hunter Ino called out to Mika, and said nervously, "Go back the way you came, hurry up!"

Mika also thought of something belatedly, and carefully retreated to the side of the sleigh.

"It seems that the other party has an experienced hunter"

After waiting for Mika to get into the car, Ino yelled at the reindeer to move away from the opponent's footprints, "Mika, did they take the skis away?"

Mika shook his head upon hearing this, "Only took two sets."

"Then they can't go far, let's find a place to camp and chase after dawn!"

After the old hunter Ino finished speaking, he steered the sleigh into the depths of the forest for hundreds of meters, and then stopped at the edge of a pine tree, "Mika, put up the camouflage tent, Victor, put your The kerosene lamps are lit to the brightest and hung in the tent."

The two immediately understood Ino's plan when they heard the words, and swiftly put the light-transmitting white camouflage cloth around the pine tree, and then hung the relit kerosene lamp inside.

After the two got back into the car, Yinuo moved the sleigh cart nearly a hundred meters away, and then motioned for the two to set up the deerskin tent.

After nearly half an hour of busy work, a fire was lit in the opaque deerskin tent. The three of them took turns sitting in the sleigh outside the tent, wrapped in wolf fur blankets, and using binoculars to monitor the lights that were burning a hundred meters away. Camouflage tent with ice blue lights.

The long and cold night passed away quietly, and when it was dawn, the kerosene lamps hanging in the camouflage tent had been extinguished because of exhaustion of fuel, but the enemy the three of them were expecting did not take the bait from beginning to end.

After Wei Ran and the two of them dismantled the two tents and put them on the sleigh, the old hunter Yinuo took advantage of Wei Ran's time to refuel the kerosene lamp and said, "It's only four hours before dark. Those people must be found as soon as possible. Mika, Victor, and I will follow the footprints in the sleigh, and you two will follow on your skis."

Without waiting for Mika and Wei Ran to say anything, the old hunter Ino patted his knee, "This is the best way, I can't move forward with skis now. Well, get ready to go!"

Before he finished speaking, the old hunter Ino yelled at the reindeer, and kept a distance of more than five meters from the string of footprints extending deep into the forest and moved forward quickly.

Wei Ran and Mika looked at each other the same way, each took up their weapons, stepped on their skis, and kept a distance of more than [-] meters from the sleigh in front left to catch up.

As the three went deeper into the forest, the corpses of the Finnish Civil Guard appeared again near the footprints, but unlike before, these already frozen corpses were almost all shot to death.

Ino, the old hunter in charge of exploring the road, couldn't help but raise his vigilance, keeping an eye on the surroundings for signs of abnormality.

However, until they left the forest, the footprints that followed all the way finally stopped in front of a wooden house located between the edge of the forest and the lake.

Seeing this, the old hunter Yinuo sitting on the sleigh immediately raised the sniper rifle that had been placed beside him, while Wei Ran and Mika took off their skis in no particular order, and walked carefully to the house with their submachine guns in their respective hands. wooden door.

Gently pushed the door open with the muzzle of the gun, and the suppressed sobs immediately entered the ears. The two looked at each other, and walked into the door cautiously. Then they saw a woman tied to a pillar and two people tied back to back. Stop the little boy.

"Is there anyone else in the house?" Mika asked in Finnish, holding a submachine gun.

Seeing the tied woman shaking her head with tears streaming down her face, Mika immediately pulled out the Finnish hunting knife at her waist to cut the rope, and then pulled out the cloth ball from the woman's mouth.

"What's going on?" Mika asked while helping to untie the ropes on the hands and feet of the two children.

"A group of people in camouflage broke into the house before dawn and took my husband and our sleigh!" the woman cried, holding her two daughters in her arms, "They seem to be Russians! "

"Which direction did they run to?" Wei Ran asked immediately after checking the other rooms.

"I don't know, I don't know." The woman said with tears streaming down her face.

"What does your family's sleigh look like?"

"The reindeer or the dog?" Mika added.

"Red, the sleigh is red with a white fox fur blanket," the woman replied, wiping away tears. "We repainted it just before Christmas and it was pulled by a reindeer."

"How many of them are there?" Wei Ran, who had already walked to the door, finally asked.

"Five people, they only have five people!"

Mika, who had also reached the door, asked, "How long have they been away?"

"In less than two hours," the woman replied hastily, "and they changed into my husband's clothes."

"Lock the door, your husband will be back soon." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he helped him close the wooden door nailed with deerskin.

"Can you catch up?"

Outside the door, Wei Ran asked Mika and the old hunter Ino.

"I can't run," Mika said confidently. A reindeer pulling six people can't run fast at all, and it will be very conspicuous.

"Sit tight!"

The old hunter Ino was even more straightforward. He took the goggles that Mika handed him and put them on. Then he shook the reins vigorously and shouted at the two reindeer to run. At the same time, he did not forget to explain, "They must be heading towards Lake Vauki. Run away, only by going there and going north, it is possible to bypass our blockade and meet another division of the Soviets, so as long as we hurry up, we will catch up soon!"

"Lake Vauki in front?"

Wei Ran's eyebrows twitched, but he remembered clearly that the village where Akim, who invited him to help investigate the commander of Division 163, was located on the easternmost side of Lake Vauki!So you can see the missing teacher soon?

(End of this chapter)