War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1147
"boom!"

Over the dense jungle, another grenade fired from a grenade hit the canopy of an arbor and exploded. After splashing a large amount of shrapnel, it also easily blew off a branch that was only as thick as an arm.

After the grenade exploded, the jungle was temporarily quiet.It is not too far from this tree, behind a big stone that can be the size of a car and covered with moss.

Wei Ran cautiously probed his surroundings and continued to move aimlessly towards the depths of the jungle with his waist down, and at the same time, he did not forget to wave the anti-Japanese sword in his hand to chop open the vines and vines blocking the way at will. The clinging poisonous snake can also be regarded as deliberately leaving some clues for the pursuers behind.

He clearly knew that there were devils chasing after him all the time, after all, this place was still within the range of the grenades on the path, and those restless devils who were quarreled last night had no reason to give up so easily.

Deliberately controlling the speed, he led the pursuers deeper. After running for more than half an hour, Wei Ran immediately speeded up, while trying not to leave too many traces.

After running like this for more than ten minutes, he immediately turned around and went around in a circle at a faster speed to the direction where Neil shot before.

Finding someone in this dense forest is both simple and troublesome. To put it simply, as long as you follow the mark, you can always catch up. What's more, Neil was shot in the shoulder, and the bloodstains scattered along the way are conspicuous enough up.

It was troublesome, naturally because the canopy covering the sky and the dense bushes and weeds obscured almost all sights—especially those chasing soldiers.

After running towards the direction where Neil shot last time for about 20 minutes, Wei Ran finally saw a lot of messy footprints and broken vegetation branches on the ground.

Bending down to pick up a bright Arisaka rifle bullet, he thought for a moment, then walked sideways for a distance of about five or six meters, and cautiously chased after it under the cover of vegetation.

This time it didn't take long at all, Wei Ran saw a large pool of blood on an unknown broad-leaved plant that had been crushed.In the blood, there were more than a dozen shell casings of 9mm pistol bullets and an empty magazine of a Sten submachine gun.

"Bang!" At this moment, there was a clear gunshot not far from the front.

Immediately afterwards, he heard a voice shout in Japanese, "I hit him, right in front."

Subconsciously raised his head and squinted his eyes to look at the surrounding trees. After thinking for a while, Wei Ran opened the long canvas bag containing the grenade, took out a few grenades from inside and pinned it to his waist, and then put the bag It is hidden under a Y-shaped forked tree together with the grenadier that was forced into it.

Closing the surrounding vegetation to cover the canvas bag, Wei Ran walked forward for a further distance, and then he vaguely smelled the unique smell of burning mosquito coils and the more intense smell of feces.

Following the smell, he walked forward carefully a few steps. When he slowly pushed aside a banana leaf, he saw at a glance not far ahead, a devil with his trousers down to his knees, sitting on a A branch of a dead tree sticking out was almost completely parallel to the ground. There was even a banana leaf on the branch that served as a natural toilet seat.

Apart from the particularly conspicuous snow-white butt, Wei Ran also noticed that there was a smoking mosquito coil hanging on another tree branch beside the devil whose back was facing him.

And on the other side of its body, on the trunk of the dead tree lying on the ground, there was a devil's backpack.And the devil who was defecating with his back turned to him had a rifle on his lap.

Looking at the shotgun in his hand, Wei Ran put it aside, bent his waist, and moved slowly in the grass and bushes, carefully closing the distance between the two sides.

As the smell of feces and mosquitoes became more intense, he also heard the devil's grunting when he was exerting force, and the characteristic spraying sound when he was scurrying.At the same time, the chatter of the devils could be faintly heard in the distance.

Without wasting too much time, an anti-Japanese broadsword quietly appeared in Wei Ran's left hand.But soon, the weapon in his hand was replaced by a slender Mauser bayonet.

In the humid dense forest filled with insects and birds, the light blue smoke that was rising straight up was violently disturbed by the airflow. My waist feels cold.

"puff!"

With a soft sound, the Mauser bayonet in Wei Ran's hand stuck to the edge of the hem of the jacket and pierced the devil's back waist, accurately piercing one of its kidneys.

Grasping the back of the devil's neck, Wei Ran pulled out the bayonet and lifted it up.From the position of the back of the heart, the lung lobe was first pierced, and then the heart was pierced.

Putting away the bayonet and holding down the Type 97 sniper rifle that was about to fall, Wei Ran first used the bayonet to carefully dig out the fallen leaves next to the devil's feet, and removed the two grenades with the safety pins removed one by one. Tuck it in and carefully press it down with the devil's foot.

Let the devil keep the shitting posture, and put the sniper rifle between his legs, and use the gun sling to wrap the two hands of the corpse as the third leg support, holding it firmly balance.

A quick glance at the direction where the sound came from in the distance, but he just picked up the backpack on the trunk of the tree in the distance and the mosquito coil box hanging on the branch next to it, which was still emitting faint smoke, and turned around with the last He quickly ran back to the place where he had just hidden and picked up the shotgun.

The cat walked around behind the dead tree, and Wei Ran placed the mosquito coil box that he had been holding in his hand on a particularly conspicuous stone, but he himself moved carefully to a distance, peeking at the horizontal tree secretly. Lying in the direction of dead trees.

Almost at the same time as he was getting ready, devils with guns on both ends appeared first, but then, 22 devils came out from behind!
At the end of these devils, two more devils joined forces and dragged Neil, a white soldier whose life and death were unknown, over.And on the waists on both sides of these two sub-units, there is also a devil who seems to be the sub-leader.

"Meijin-kun, your marksmanship is really accurate."

One of the devils, who seemed to be the team leader, praised from a distance, "That shot just hit his thigh."

"Stop!"

The devil on the other end, who seemed to be the team leader, called out to the team vigilantly, waved his hand and asked tentatively, "Meijin-kun?"

The devil who died in the middle of shit naturally wouldn't respond to him, but the more than 20 devils had already used their weapons to aim at the surroundings in a circle, and at the same time quickly spread out to find cover.

Among them, in addition to the 14 riflemen who used [-] large caps, there were two groups of machine gunners who set up their Type [-] machine guns next to the two trees.

Even the two soldiers who were dragging Neil pushed their captives to the ground.And the two captains also hid behind a tree vigilantly.

"You, go and see what's going on with Meijin-kun!" The vigilant sub-captain commanded.

Hearing this, the devil he had chosen immediately held the [-] cover with the bayonet on it, bent over and walked cautiously towards the devil sniper.

"he died!"

After a vigilant observation, the devil said loudly, "He's dead! Meijin-kun is dead! He was stabbed to death with a bayonet in the back! His weapon is still there."

"Check it out," said the team leader immediately, "Be careful."

"Yes!"

The ghost who came up to die responded loudly, first carefully checked the surroundings, then slowly squatted down to look at the face of the corpse bleeding from the corner of the mouth, and finally reached out and touched his upper body and knees carefully. trousers and down to the thighs.

"Safety!"

The devil responded, first carefully unfastened the sniper rifle that was used as a support, and at the same time turned around and shouted, "Come here and help me."

Soon, another devil ran over with its weapon on its back, took the rifle and put it aside, helped to set up the corpse, and dragged it to the open space beside the dead tree.

It wasn't until this moment that the vigilant team leader secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and walked out with another team leader from behind the big tree where he was hiding.

"Search around, don't put."

"boom!"

It didn't finish this sentence, and the dead tree that was less than five or six meters away exploded. For a while, branches, shrapnel, grass blades, and even the porridge-like feces and other things all flew up, tightly covering it. everything around.

Under this unexpected explosion, the more vigilant team leader subconsciously took a step behind, allowing the team leader in front to help bear most of the splash damage, while the less vigilant team leader It would be a disaster for the team leader, the two devils dragging the dead bodies, and a few devils who followed out and hid.

Moreover, these devils who were either knocked down by the grenade or were taken aback did not notice at all. Less than a second before the explosion, two grenades had already shot out from the dense forest beside them. They flew over at very short intervals.

"Duh!"

With an inconspicuous sound, one of the grenades hit the trunk of a big tree. Before it bounced and landed, the second one flew over and hit a member of the machine gun team on the head. Relying on its own weight, the enemy let out a scream before it exploded.

"Boom! Boom!"

In the two explosions that were almost close together, the third grenade also flew over and landed beside the other machine gun team.

"boom!"

Accompanied by the third explosion, Wei Ran has already retreated decisively with his gun in hand. By the way, he also took away the burning mosquito coil box, unscrewed it while walking, and broke off the burning mosquito coil head, and flew it far away.

At the same time, the devils behind them had already started aimlessly counterattacking.The captain of the Vigilant Devils Division, who had escaped by luck, was also covering his thigh with one hand and the back of his bloody head with the other, issuing orders hoarsely.

Stuffing the mosquito coil box into his trousers pocket, Wei Ran also opened the seized backpack and discarded the seemingly useless things in it, deliberately creating clues for the pursuers to pursue.

Until there are only some medicines for treating malaria and deworming ointment left in this backpack, as well as a few boxes of canned food and two socks filled with rice, plus a package containing various lighters, rings and watches, which are obviously trophies When the small cloth bag.

Only then did he stop, and set up an accompanying mine as quickly as possible, and threw the tent cloth, raincoat, blanket, and engineer shovel fixed outside the backpack on the ground at will, covering up the incident of the accompanying mine. At the same time, it is also tied to the companion line.

Deliberately stepping on the tent cloth to leave a muddy shoe print, Wei Ran took a few steps forward, then opened the small cloth bag containing the loot, casually took out a watch from it, deliberately It was placed on a mossy stone and the dial reflected a ray of sunlight overhead through the tree canopy.

After arranging these things, he rummaged through the small cloth bag, took out two lighters, tried them out, and put them in his pocket. Then he took out a 3W watch produced by West Malaysia for the UK and wore it on his wrist. hand.

After doing this, he also went to the place where the canvas bag and the grenadier were hidden.

After some comparison, he dumped the contents of the rucksack into the captured devil's backpack, and even fixed the grenadier horizontally on the backpack.

As for the original long canvas bag used to hold the gun barrel, he didn't waste it, but rolled it up randomly and stuffed it into the bag and carried it on his shoulder.

Carefully pushing away the bushes and walking more than ten meters away, Wei Ran climbed up a tall tree with a dense canopy, then took out the gas mask satchel from the USS Johnston destroyer, pulled out the binoculars from it, and pointed it at the captured soldiers Neil's team glanced in the direction.

Seeing that the team hadn't caught up and didn't return along the same path as before, he simply hung the binoculars around his neck. After putting away his satchel, he dug out from his pocket the mosquito coils that he had just picked up and intended to be used as bait box.

The cylindrical mosquito coil box is made of white copper, with a diameter of about 10 centimeters and a height of about ten centimeters.

The cover at one end is full of holes, and when it is unscrewed, there is a space for placing the lit mosquito coils.

Going down and opening another layer of tray-like lids, this space like a tea barrel is filled with trays of mosquito coils.

Pour out the mosquito coils inside one by one. At the bottom of this extra thick mosquito coil box, there is a disc-shaped cloth bag that seems to be filled with lime. Under the cloth bag is a photo that may be a family portrait. and two discs of gold that can be two millimeters thick.

"No wonder it's so heavy"

Wei Ran muttered, put all the mosquito coils back, fastened the two covers, and stuffed them into the backpack he had just seized.

After such a short time, there was finally movement in the distance.

Soon, he saw the two squads who were attacked by him come out carrying the injured accomplices on a makeshift stretcher.

The difference is that the ones who walked in the front this time were the two-headed devils carrying Neil on a stretcher, followed by a few lightly injured soldiers with sticks, and then the soldiers with weapons. And the seriously injured soldier carried on a stretcher, and a squad leader who was also lying on a stretcher.

After counting, Wei Ran smiled, and even counting the devils who carried the stretcher, there were only 16 of them who were still intact and capable of fighting.

Lying on the stretcher, there were only three seriously wounded, including the squad leader, and Neil, who seemed to have fallen into a coma. There were two wounded walking on a stick by himself. Successfully bombed and not carried by them.

"This number is wrong"

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows. There are only 21 of the crippled and not crippled. So besides the shitty sniper who was left there just now, there are 5 more?
Can you think of a way to keep the rest?Wei Ran put down the binoculars quite excitedly, and started his own calculation.

(End of this chapter)