War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 122 The Major Who Watches the Gate ([-]-in-[-] Update)

Along the ruined streets, facing the constant explosions, when everyone returned to the bank of the Spree River with the major uniform on Marko, the three of Wei Ran frowned. Mario, who was held in the arms of Father Hans, looked around curiously.

"Go back to the clinic first." Father Hans simply turned around and walked towards the small clinic.

Wei Ran glanced at the Moltke Bridge, which was completely blocked. In just one night, the bridge had already been stretched several times with barbed wire, and there were still a lot of vehicle wreckage piled up on the bridge. Behind the fire bunker, an explosive device has been placed.

A no-passing sign was also hung on the utility pole by the side of the road.Under this sign, two chain dogs with submachine guns were carefully checking the IDs of those who wanted to cross the bridge. For a child to leave Berlin is simply a dream.

"Can't we get out?" Marco asked with a pale face.

"difficult"

Father Hans looked back at the chain dog at the bridge, quickened his pace and said, "If you pass by now, you may be arrested, and you will either be hung on the gallows or die directly in the ruins by the roadside."

"It's the 23rd"

Wei Ran sighed secretly, chased after Father Hans, quickly moved away from the heavily guarded Moltke Bridge, and quietly returned to the clinic deep in the alley under the cover of thick fog.

"Didn't go out?" Dr. Rocky asked as expected. While speaking, he poured a bucket of sewage mixed with medical waste and feces on the ruins not far from the door.

"I can't get out." Father Hans hesitated for a moment, and was about to say something when Dr. Lodge pointed to the clinic behind him, "I promised you yesterday, as long as you don't go in with weapons."

"Thank you." Father Hans nodded heavily, and was the first to enter the clinic holding Mario with a curious face.

Wei Ran looked thoughtfully at the pile of rubbish that was used to dump garbage, smiled politely, and pushed Marco into the very busy clinic that had just opened.

The bombing last night, as well as the non-stop artillery strikes that started early this morning, caused considerable casualties to nearby residents and soldiers stationed there.It also allowed this dentist's office to take on the function of medical emergency.

With the busyness of Dr. Lodge and his little nurse, residents or soldiers injured in the bombing were treated one by one, but from time to time, one or two corpses were carried out of the clinic and sent to unknown places.

After the Marko brothers and Wei Ran settled down, Dr. Hans took out a white coat from the closet against the wall and put it on, "Keep quiet here, I'll go downstairs to help."

Before the words were finished, Father Hans, who was over half a century old, had already stepped down the slightly crooked stairs to help Dr. Rocky.

"Brother, where are the Soviets and the Jews?" Just as Father Hans left, Mario, who was honest a second ago, immediately pulled out the knife from his waist and opened his teeth and claws.

Marco patted his forehead, "Mario, our mission is to protect this clinic from being destroyed by the Soviets and Jews, so we have to ambush here quietly, try to keep quiet so that they don't find out, you understand me mean?"

"Like a wild duck hunter?" Mario asked excitedly.

"Yes, like a hunter of wild ducks."

Marco simply pulled out the P38 pistol at his waist, emptied the bullets and handed it to his younger brother, "Mario, you just hide behind the window and pay attention to the situation outside. This is a very important task, and only my most trusted soldier to complete."

"give it to me!"

Mario took the pistol excitedly, forgot to even salute, and took off his clothes excitedly, revealing the black Boys League uniform secretly worn inside.

Before Marco could say anything, Mario unbuttoned his collar, revealing the khaki youth uniform inside, and said triumphantly, "Look, I brought your old uniform too!"

Marco patted his forehead, and now he began to doubt whether this younger brother who was nearly ten years younger than himself was really as stupid as Hans' father said.

But Mario didn't care about that, he quickly took off the two sets of uniforms, put on the sweater and overalls again, and then carefully folded the two sets of uniforms and placed them on the bed prepared for him. He pushed a chair to the window and sat down with his calves upside down, carefully watching the fog outside along the cracks in the bricks blocking the window.

"You stay here with Mario?" Wei Ran, who had seen enough excitement, also took off his unfit German uniform, and dug out a white coat from the closet that Father Hans had just opened, "I Go down and see if I can help you."

"Okay." Marco quickly stood up and said, "If you need my help, you can call me at any time."

Regardless of the two brothers with very different personalities, Wei Ran put on his white coat and was the second to open the door and leave the second floor.

In less than 10 minutes, four or five people were sent to the clinic. Most of them were scratched by glass or masonry fragments during the explosion, but two unlucky ghosts were also broken by the explosion. The ribs were cut or the stomach was cut to expose the internal organs.

"What are you doing down here?" Father Hans, who was busy stitching up an old woman's wound, asked casually after seeing Wei Ran come down.

"help you guys"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he raised his hand to signal a woman with a big gash in her back to lie down on the bed, and asked the nurse for gloves to put on, put on anesthesia, and started suturing after simple debridement.

When he finished his busy work, Dr. Lodge couldn't help frowning and said, "Dr. Hans, you taught this young man? Why are you so rude?"

Father Hans looked suspiciously at Wei Ran, who was opening and closing his movements widely, and gave a noncommittal "hmm", and continued to be busy with the work in hand.

With the help of Father Hans and Wei Ran, the progress of treating the wounded in this humble clinic has been accelerated a lot.And Wei Ran even had the opportunity to participate in a difficult operation to remove wood fragments from the stomach after he had stitched up the trauma all morning.

It was also through this operation that Dr. Rocky and Father Hans also had an intuitive understanding of his medical ability, so they simply handed over some simple trauma suture work to Wei Ran.

On the other hand, Wei Ran is also very serious. It is more intuitive to use big living people to accumulate experience than to use those small animals around Hongqi Forest Farm.Especially when treating those soldiers wearing German uniforms, there is almost no burden on their hearts. After all, if they are saved, they are regarded as a success in training, and if they are saved, they are regarded as contributions to the anti-French suction thread.

With the help of three big men and a small nurse, this small clinic finally became quiet around noon.

But before they had a bite of the lunch prepared by the little nurse, a gray-faced old woman ran in in a panic, "Doctor Lodge, please help me. My daughter is buried in the rubble, she It's almost over!"

"Where's the person?" Rocky dropped the slice of bread he just picked up and looked out the door.

"She was crushed under the ruins!" The old woman explained with tears in her eyes. The muddy tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, leaving a clear mark on her dusty old face.

Rocky was startled, and said bitterly, "Mrs. Phyllis, I can't leave the clinic."

Father Hans, who stood aside, was stunned for a moment, and also put down the slice of bread in his hand, "Let me go! Victor, can you go with me?"

Wei Ran subconsciously glanced upstairs, and nodded after a little hesitation.Led by the old woman, Wei Ran and Father Hans walked through the ruins, and finally got into an apartment facing the street.

The apartment seemed to have been bombed by aerial bombs, and the entire upper part had collapsed, and there were even smoke or flames in some places.But in the remaining second half, it was extremely lively. The surviving residents helped each other to carry the injured neighbors out. Some of them even had their wounds stitched up by Wei Ran or Father Hans not long ago.

Under the leadership of Mrs. Ferris, Wei Ran and Father Hans, who was carrying a medicine box, got into a collapsed room at the end of the corridor. The first thing they saw after entering the door was the collapsed roof.

"You can see my daughter through the corner of the wall!" While speaking, Mrs. Ferris took out a box of matches in a panic and tried to light the candle she had been holding tightly in her hand. "Wait a minute, you wait a moment, I Candles will be lit in no time!"

"Take it easy"

Father Hans untied his white coat, took off the flashlight in a square box hanging on his belt, pressed it on, lay down on the ground, and pushed the medicine box into the triangular gap in the corner of the wall.

Wei Ran, who was about to take out the kerosene lamp, stopped quickly, and the second got into the gap less than ten centimeters wider than his shoulders.Following the faint groans, the two walked around the collapsed floor, and finally found a woman whose half of her body was suppressed by the ruins on the innermost side.

Just glanced at it with the not-so-bright flashlight, but Father Hans sighed, the woman's two legs were tightly pressed, and the dark red blood was already flowing down the floor. The upper part of her body was leaning on an old sofa, with one hand tightly clutching one leg of the sofa, and the other holding a palm-sized photo frame.

After seeing Papa Hans, the woman showed a look of disappointment on her face, she opened her mouth as if she was about to say something, and her big praying eyes looked at Wei who was lying next to Papa Hans. Burning, saying something silently.

Crawling forward subconsciously, Wei Ran put his ear to the woman's mouth, and vaguely heard her ask amidst the explosions from outside, "Dr. Rocky, isn't he here?"

Wei Ran glanced at the woman who might die at any moment, and shook his head with difficulty, "He can't leave the clinic for the time being."

The woman tried her best to put her mouth close to Wei Ran's ear, and asked intermittently, "Can I trust you?"

Seeing that Wei Ran nodded without hesitation, the woman seemed to have exhausted her strength and said, "At night, let Dr. Rocky come. Come and see me. Just. Tell him. Don't let the soldiers around you know."

Almost at the same time as she finished speaking, the woman lost her breath.At the same time, a tear also slipped from the corner of the woman's eye and dripped onto Wei Ran's face.

Unobtrusively glanced at Dr. Hans who was helping with the lighting, Wei Ran had a little understanding. Just to take out the flashlight, Father Hans untied his white coat, revealing the German uniform he was still wearing. On the contrary, before putting on the white coat, he had already taken off the uniform that belonged to Marco, so only a shirt could be seen at the collar.

After trying the woman's breath, Wei Ran shook his head at Father Hans, who sighed and left the flashlight to Wei Ran, who pulled the medicine box by himself and crawled out backwards.

Picking up the flashlight and taking a last look at the woman, Wei Ran picked up the photo frame that was still in her hand and turned it over.In this photo frame, besides the woman buried in the ruins, there is also a curly-haired man and a little black-haired girl standing between them.

But this man was not the Dr. Lodge she wanted to see for the last time.Looking at the sofa leg tightly held by the woman's other hand, Wei Ran already had some guesses in his mind.

Before he could climb out of the ruined room, the crying of Mrs. Ferris was heard behind him.Wei Ran couldn't help looking at the corpse in front of him again, and then crawled backwards.

"Mrs. Phyllis, she has something she wants me to bring to you." Wei Ran returned the flashlight to Father Hans who was about to go back, sat down at the door, and said to the old lady who was slumped on the ground.

"What?" The old woman, Phyllis, was immediately attracted.

Wei Ran glanced at the ruins in the door again, and said after deliberation, "She said that this house is full of memories, and she wants to stay here for one more day, she also said."

"What? What else did she say?" Mrs. Phyllis grabbed Wei Ran's shoulder and said.

"She said that the war will end soon, and she hopes you can continue to live." Wei Ran continued to tell a lie that would be verified in the near future.

Mrs. Ferris let go of her hands and leaned blankly on the cracked door frame, letting unstoppable tears flow from the corners of her eyes, but her eyes only looked at the collapsed room.

Shaking his head secretly, Wei Ran stood up, took off his blood-stained white coat, shook it and put it on again, and walked farther and farther along the cracked corridor.

On the way back to the dentist’s clinic, a radio van with a loudspeaker was broadcasting an impassioned speech with mustaches on a street full of ruins, but the upright young soldier standing on the radio van seemed to be blinded by thick fog. There are no ruins on the street or civilians in need of help.

And in the back of this radio truck with live ammunition, some children who are about the same age as Mario are already carrying postman bags and buckets of paste, and posting posters in various places on the street.But these children's hard-working, conscientious and even fanatical looks seemed more and more absurd in Wei Ran's eyes.

Dodging those soldiers like mad dogs, and returning to the clinic at the end of the alley under the cover of thick fog and ruins, Wei Ran found that several soldiers with submachine guns had surrounded the place.At the entrance of the clinic, Dr. Rocky and Father Hans, who came back first, were arguing with them, and then they were forced to the wall by two submachine guns against their chests.

It wasn't until this time that a lieutenant got off the motorcycle and said proudly, "We have received a report that there is a hidden place here"

"What's hidden here?"

Before the words fell, Marco, whose face was wrapped in gauze, had already walked out of the clinic wearing the major uniform he picked up.

With a sound of "snap!", all the soldiers, including the lieutenant, saluted Marco in unison.

Responding to these soldiers who looked no older than himself, Marco took a look at the certificate of the lieutenant, returned it to the other party, and then said slowly, "My troops were requisitioned three days ago. This clinic, Lieutenant, what did you say was hiding here? Deserters or Jews? Or Soviets?"

After being harassed by Marco, this young lieutenant, who had obviously never been on the battlefield, and most likely never even left the city of Berlin, panicked and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Or, what kind of report did you receive?" Marco continued to ask.

"We received a report that someone hid in this clinic with a child this morning and never came out." The lieutenant straightened his body and replied, "We suspect."

"Mario, come out."

Marco didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and shouted without looking back.Then Mario, who was wearing the uniform of the Youth League, came out, looked proudly at Papa Hans who was standing in the corner, stretched his right arm towards the lieutenant, and even took out the A certificate issued by the Youth League.

It wasn't until his younger brother received the gift from the other party that Marco said, "This is the child I brought over in the morning. Do you think he is a Jew? Or do you think I am a deserter?"

"Major, this may be a misunderstanding." The lieutenant said quickly.

"It's better to be a misunderstanding." Marco covered the gauze on his face, and said impatiently, "Okay, leave as soon as possible, I will receive treatment here for a few days, don't come here for a few days."

After dismissing the soldiers led by the young lieutenant, Marco's forehead immediately broke out in cold sweat, and Father Hans, who had been cornered by the gun, had a hard time seeing Mario pleasing to the eye, and said with a smile, "This little idiot The stuff is still useful, but Marco, who taught you to do this?"

"It's her." Marco pointed to the nurse who was removing the gauze from his head, and said with a happy face, "She came up with the solution. Fortunately, I have acted in dramas before, and fortunately, Mario secretly brought his uniform."

"Since this is the case, why don't you brothers continue acting." Wei Ran, who had been hiding in the corner to watch the excitement, came over and teased, "Maybe it can help this clinic avoid a lot of trouble."

"That's a way." Father Hans' eyes lit up, and he said after gesturing to the nurse to take Mario away, "That little idiot is definitely willing to do such a thing. Rocky, what do you think?"

"I don't know anything, I'm just a doctor." Dr. Rocky said in a cloudy voice, making it clear that he was throwing the blame.

"Then it's settled." Father Hans patted Marco's shoulder vigorously, and helped him remove a bloody gauze stuck to his forehead. "This clinic depends on you to protect it."

　Thanks to Feiwushou and Atu Xiaozhu for rewarding 100 points respectively

　　
　
(End of this chapter)