War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 104 Dear Comrades, Please Continue to Guide Me.

When Mika, covered in blood, knocked on the door of a wooden house, a young girl with freckles screamed the moment she saw him, and then attracted a couple in the house. Middle-aged couple.

Under Mika's emergency communication, the middle-aged couple immediately helped the old hunter Ino, who was almost unconscious, into the wooden house, while the young girl ran away on the blood-stained sled. .

Not long after, a middle-aged man carrying a medicine box rushed into the house led by the girl. Taking advantage of this time, Wei Ran also lit the ice-blue kerosene lamp again.

With Wei Ran's assistance, the country doctor was busy until that night before he finished all his work. After he left, including Wei Ran, who had received two stitches on his buttocks, the three patients were lying or lying down. Occupying the warmest floor in front of the fireplace, enjoying thick broth and freshly baked bread while chatting.

"Mika, what are you going to do when your injury recovers?" Wei Ran asked while fiddling with the camera in his hand.

Mika opened his mouth with great effort, and ate the food that the girl named Sally sent to his mouth, and then replied, "Of course I will marry Sally, but if the Soviets dare to call, I will Still going to fight."

"And leave another scar on the other side of the face? I don't want to marry an ugly man with wounds all over his face." The girl named Sally said angrily, "Open your mouth!"

Mika opened his mouth obediently, and let the former use a small spoon to send the broth into his mouth. After swallowing it, he changed his mouth and said, "As long as there is no war, I will always be with Sally. Vic How about you?"

"Me?" Wei Ran looked at the camera not far away, and said with a smile, "I might be a photographer."

The old hunter lying on the other side of Wei Ran said with a smile, "I thought you would be a doctor."

"What about you?" Wei Ran turned his head and looked at the old hunter Yinuo with great interest.

"If I can live until the end of the war, I might continue to be a hunter." Father Ino touched his injured shoulder and said worriedly, "But I don't think this war will end so soon."

Mika and his fiancee Sally frowned upon hearing this, and asked in unison, "Do you want to fight again?"

"Compared to the Soviet Union, we in Finland are too small."

Father Ino sighed, "It's like a hungry wolf who finds a rabbit by the side of the den. Before it eats it, the wolf will not give up even if the rabbit bites its paw."

Wei Ran nodded secretly, as the saying goes, even though this old man is just a hunter, he can see it very clearly.

"I don't know which idiot invented war." Sally looked at Mika's wound wrapped in gauze with distress, "Do those greedy Soviets want to occupy the entire continent before they are willing?"

"Sooner or later, there will be lunatics who are more greedy than the Soviet Union." Wei Ran muttered to himself, and the not-so-big wooden house fell into an unspeakable silence.

"Rest early." Mika sighed, "Tomorrow we will go to the battlefield to see if we need any help."

"By the way, tell Captain Korpi that I will return the pistol and binoculars to him later." The old hunter Ino chased after him and said, "Also remember to tell him what happened during the day."

"Are you leaving tomorrow?" Sally asked in disbelief holding a wooden soup bowl, and even Wei Ran frowned.

"Don't worry Sally, I'll be back when the war is over." Mika comforted his fiancée clumsily, while Wei Ran and the old hunter Yinuo sighed in no particular order.

After tossing and turning, the long night passed, and when the day came again, Mika had already changed the medicine for the wound, and got up early to pack his luggage.

"Mika, take this pistol and binoculars." Wei Ran dug out the TT33 pistol and the binoculars seized yesterday from his bag and handed them to Mika.

Needless to say the pistol, but the brass 7X50 Zeiss telescope is a good thing.And Wei Ran can be sure that this is definitely not the standard equipment of the Soviet Red Army, on the contrary, it is very likely that it is a personal item purchased by the division commander himself.

"It's a beautiful gun"

Mika took a look at the pistol that was still covered with dried blood, and put it on his belt together with the holster. By the way, he handed the Nagant revolver that was originally on the belt to the man who was standing beside him and looked at him. Sally.

But from the beginning to the end, he didn't pick up the telescope, but pushed it to Wei Ran, "I remember you are a scout, you can keep this telescope for use."

"Take it, I don't need such a heavy guy."

Wei Ran involuntarily handed the telescope to Mika, then took out his camera and asked, "How many films are left, how about taking a group photo for you?"

"Let's take a picture first!" Mika signaled Wei Ran to hand over the camera to Sally, and then pulled him to stand beside Father Ino.

"Wait first!"

Mika seemed to have thought of something, turned around and ran out of the house, and pulled out a red flag from the sleigh cart parked outside the door, "Although I don't know if the bastard we killed yesterday is the teacher we are looking for, but At least we captured their flag."

While speaking, Mika handed Wei Ran one corner of the flag, and he stood back to the other side of the old hunter Ino and grabbed the other corner of the flag.

During Sally's countdown, there was a crisp shutter sound, and then the camera returned to Wei Ran's hand.

"Let me take some pictures for you too!" Wei Ran said holding up the camera, he still needs to take four pictures to complete the return mission.

"Sally, find a place to put the flag away first." Mika handed the flag in a mess to his fiancée, who took it and threw it directly on the chair behind him.

Wei Ran looked at the flag with bullet holes in it strangely, and then with a smile of enlightenment, he took a single photo of the old hunter Ino and Mika holding a weapon, and finally gave Mika He took a group photo with his fiancée Sally and their family.

When the last shutter sounded, Wei Ran's field of vision was occupied by dazzling white light, and when he came back to his senses, he had already returned to the warm room with the curtains drawn.

With a soft clattering sound, the cowhide book placed on the carpet automatically turned to the fifth page.Under the black and white photo, the metal quill wrote:

"Sniper on the Snow Field"

Civic Guard sniper Mika Raikkonen, after the Battle of Suomusalmi, was awarded the Freedom Cross (Military) 2nd class and was promoted to Commander of the Civil Guard at the front, June 1944, 6 during the continuation of the war , died in Vyborg. In this battle, a total of 19 Soviet Red Army soldiers were killed.

Korpi, the company commander of the Civil Guard, was awarded the Cross of Liberty (Military) 3rd class for his sacrifice at the Battle of Suomusalmi.

Sally Breen, wife of Civil Guard Company Commander Mika Raikkonen, who had a son, died of hypothermia after drinking in the winter of 1949.

Civic Guard sniper Ino Vatanen, who was awarded the Cross of Freedom (Military) 2nd class after the battle of Suomusalmi, returned to the village of Ahora due to his disability to replace Mika Raikkonen as a ranger , after the unexpected death of Sally, took care of his son until the fall of 1952, when he died of a stroke.

After writing this, the metal quill started a new line, listing the medal numbers obtained by the three of them one by one.

While Wei Ran was waiting, this metal quill continued to write after a new line as always, "The war buried too many secrets and destroyed too many short-term happiness. Perhaps all the living can do is forget. "

With the sound of pages turning, the metal quill briefly wrote under the slowly turning red vortex, "Dear comrade, please continue to guide me to the target."

After the finished metal quill landed on the soft carpet with a "click", Wei Ran reached out and took out the contents in the vortex, and then found that it was exactly the brass plane that was forced on Mika before parting. Zeiss 7X50 times binoculars.

Looking at the short words under the red swirl again, Wei Ran laughed dumbly, walked to the window, opened the curtain and raised the binoculars in his hand.In the clear and sharp vision, the mountains and forests in the distance can be seen clearly.

Vaguely, he seemed to see a young man with a Mosin Nagant sniper rifle on his back, wearing a white camouflage suit but wearing a tank cap and goggles, flashing away from the camera on his skis, leaving only one With a big smile and a crisp shout, "Dear comrades, please continue to guide me to the goal."

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