War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1149 Encounter in Outflanking
"Boom! Boom!"

When two dull explosions came from the depths of the jungle, it also rained heavily overhead without warning.At the same time, Wei Ran also swam across a stream that was about to swell at the fastest speed.

The sudden torrential rain, which was enough to block his vision, was a good thing for him.At least it is enough to wash away the traces he left along the way, and after the stream is flooded, it is also enough to stop the pursuers who have a small probability of chasing here for a while.

Correspondingly, he wanted to continue on his way, but it was already impossible. No matter how anxious he was, it was undoubtedly the most correct choice to find a place to shelter from the rain at this time, not to mention
Neil and the native soldier Kai Kai were obviously dead, no matter how anxious he rushed over, it would not help the matter at all. If he stayed here for a while, maybe he could buy some time for Hugo and Valoro.

Deliberately walking to a high place, Wei Ran found two trees next to a huge boulder, first hid under the tree, took out the sailor bag in the metal book, took out the canopy made of umbrella cloth and tied it up On two trees, with the other side taut, a sharpened wooden stick was passed through the wire loop and nailed to the ground.

Finally, he took out the hammock and tied it together. Wei Ran immediately took off his clothes, first burned off more than 20 fat leeches all over his body with a lit mosquito coil, and then replaced the wounds on his head and legs. After taking the medicine and waterproofing it again with a condom, I twisted the clothes and hung them on a branch to dry, and fixed a whole set of burning directions in the lid of the copper-nickel mosquito-repellent incense tube, and put it in the hammock directly below the .

Taking out the binoculars that belonged to Captain Evans, he stared vigilantly at the swollen river in the distance. He was completely relieved until the turbulent water flow was enough to stop all the pursuers, and he took back the boulder again. Under the canopy on one side.

Lying on a dry hammock with his bare buttocks and holding a shotgun, Wei Ran did not forget to take out a blanket from the sailor bag that was used as a pillow to cover his stomach so as not to catch a cold, so he was in the mood to fiddle with the camera he just got, while secretly thinking He wondered whether the timing booby trap he had just set up with human heads hit any devils, and if so, how many devils were killed.

Anyway, the task of killing the 20 devils should be completed. Next, we have to take 10 photos.
Wei Ran put away the camera and muttered, pulled the blanket to cover his body, but he didn't dare to close his eyes at all.

After resting in the hammock for three hours, the rainstorm stopped at some point without warning.

Putting away the canopy and hammock, and extinguishing the plate of mosquito coils that worked well, Wei Ran put on the clothes and shoes that can still wring out water, and carried a devil's backpack with grenades and other things on his back, carefully carrying a shotgun. He walked towards the direction where he saw Neil for the last time.

It's just that, after searching back and forth, he didn't find Neil's body until it was dark. Not only Neil, but also the body of the native soldier Kai Kai was gone.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he touched the edge of the path carefully, but Wei Ran clenched his fists shortly after he raised the binoculars.

At this time, just beside the path, the heads and limbs of Neil and Kaikai had already been nailed to the trunk of a big tree by wooden wedges, and their disemboweled torsos were randomly discarded on the side of the path. on a big rock.

Not only that, but at this time, there were no enemies on the path.Only because of the heavy rain just now, the muddy puddles accumulated in the intermittent ruts.

Instead of leaving the forest hastily, Wei Ran went against the direction of the Kokoda trail and walked towards the airport without a sound. At the same time, he was secretly worried about where to find Hugo and Valoro.

After walking like this for two hours, the sky was completely dark, and what's worse, it started to rain heavily again.

There was no other way, Wei Ran had no choice but to brave the rain, and with the faint yellow light released by the ugly and ingenious square box flashlight that was seized together with the camera, he walked five to six hundred meters deep into the jungle, and managed to find a In the shelter from the wind and rain, the canopy and hammock were set up again.

I managed to find a few dead woods to cut off the rain-wet surface, and then cut the dry parts inside into thin strips. It was very laborious to use a piece of cotton soaked in kerosene pulled out of the lighter lit a bonfire.

Taking good care of the bonfire that was emitting thick white smoke, Wei Ran, who hadn't eaten much all day, took out the satchel in the metal book, dug out the American-style lunch box from the inside, and put it upside down in the socks The rice was washed carefully, filled with water and placed beside the campfire.

This use of rice in socks is indeed a characteristic of the devils in World War II. According to the standard of devils, a sock filled with rice is almost five days' rations.

Of course, even a devil like an animal would not easily use worn socks to hold rice, so it would not be dirty if it was dirty, not to mention that he had checked these rice socks specially when he searched for supplies.

And in the backpack he seized at this time, there were two pairs of socks filled with rice, a total of four. According to the devil's standard, this was enough for more than half a month's ration.

Lighting the mosquito coils again burned off the leeches all over the body, and then took off all the soaked clothes and put them on the side of the campfire. Wei Ran took out the British P44 kettle filled with beer before entering this period of history.

As expected, he didn't even smell of beer in the kettle.Fortunately, Wei Ran didn't care. After taking off the outer canvas cover, he took out the cup and filled it with rainwater, and put it on the side of the campfire as well.

It was not until the British P44 kettle taken out of the metal book and the British enamel kettle that had already been emptied in the waist were filled with boiling water, and an extra cup of water was boiled, Wei Ran finally took out a can The ghost can opened a gap, placed it on the lid of the lunch box and slowly heated it.

After waiting patiently for a while, when the water vapor from the lunch box had a strong aroma of rice, Wei Ran couldn't wait to put it on the side of the moss-covered stone, lifted the lid, and put the heated rice Open the can and pour all of it on top of the rice.

While guarding the bonfire to dry his body, Wei Ran also finished eating the full-fledged rice bowl spoonful by spoonful.

After cleaning the lunch box and stuffing it back into the satchel, he took back the metal notebook. He first folded the dry clothes and put them in the waterproof canvas sailor bag, and then bandaged the wound again. Then he raised the shotgun at hand and raised the sky above his head, letting the The accumulated rainwater poured down, and the bonfire that had been lighted so hard was extinguished with a "chick".

In the blink of an eye the next morning, the torrential rain that had been raging in the middle of the night had long since stopped. Wei Ran packed up all his things before the sky fully lit up, and returned to the edge of the trail with his shotgun on his back and continued north. Go forward, trying to find any traces left by Hugo and Valoro.

This stop and go, the sun above the head has risen to the highest point soon. Wei Ran, who was planning to stop to rest, suddenly heard the faint sound of grenade explosions and Sten submachine guns in the distance. Unique sound when strafing.

Dazed for a moment, Wei Ran immediately quickened his pace and rushed over.

Soon, the sound of the exchange of fire was getting closer, and he finally saw a squad of devils facing away from him, each relying on trees and rocks for cover, and confronting the direction of a small stream in the distance.

In addition to a machine gun team responsible for suppression, this team also strengthened a two-person grenadier team.

At this time, the devil in the team responsible for firing the grenade was putting the weapon in his hand horizontally on the trunk of a tree, and aimed the muzzle at the opposite side of the creek.

After the other devil stuffed the grenade into the grenade, the devil immediately pulled the firing lever, and accurately shot the grenade towards the opposite side in a flat manner.

Can you still play like that?
While Wei Ran was muttering to himself, among the eight devils who used rifles, four of them began to suppress you one by one, while the other four, like the same four-member machine gun team, were led by the leader of the first group. The outflanking began.

Seeing that there were only two grenadier teams and the four rifles with [-] caps that were responsible for attracting firepower and attention at this time, Wei Ranjing, who was hiding behind the filling, waited for a while and then raised his hand. Picked up the shotgun in his hand.

Almost at the same time that the grenadier team with only two people fired a shell, Wei Ran also aimed at the other two while two of the four suppressing devils were pressing bullets into the rifle. Pulled the trigger!
"Boom!"

Two gunshots fired in a row, and the backs of the two devils suddenly turned red.

"Boom!"

There were two more gunshots, and the two devils who had already loaded their bullets were immediately covered in faces by the shotgun at close range.

After a while, the devil who had already found a grenade and was about to stuff it into the grenade also dropped the grenade in his hand in a panic, and frantically tried to pull out the pistol from the hard leather holster around his waist.

"boom!"

Wei Ran even waited for half a second until the devil unbuttoned the leather button of the holster, and the devil who was in charge of firing dropped the grenade in his hand and prepared to hide behind the tree before pulling the trigger!

"boom!"

After the second gunshot, Wei Ran, who had also completed the outflanking, appeared in his hand with a slender Mauser bayonet. With a few strokes, he cut off the grenade carrying bags on the two devils, and then pulled down two more grenades. He pulled out the safety pin and stuck one on the tree trunk, throwing one after another in the direction of the devils who had just left to outflank.

Before the two grenades exploded, Wei Ran was already carrying the carrying bag with the grenades in one hand and his shotgun in the other, turned around and ran diagonally down the stream in the distance!

Almost on the front and back feet, Hugo, who was just suppressed on the other side of the stream and couldn't lift his head, also had a bright moment. He waited for a while and saw that the suppression disappeared, and there was a shotgun shot from the downstream direction, and he immediately greeted Valo. Luo supported him and limped downstream!

(End of this chapter)