War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 134 The Basement in the Center of the Battlefield
In the brightly lit basement, Mikhail, who was surrounded by Jewish women, finally let go of Mario's wrist because of Ivan's prompt stop, and the latter threw himself into Marco's arms crying loudly. .

"This idiot."

The Jewish girl Mora who was hiding in the corner rolled her eyes and muttered something, bent down to pick up the bread that had just fallen on the floor in shock, stuffed it into her mouth again, and took a bite.

Allowing Dr. Lodge to inject himself with anesthesia to deal with the wound that burst when he was struggling to get up, Mikhail fell asleep again before listening to Ivan's explanation.

After another injection of penicillin, Dr. Rocky put on the first aid kit, "It's not a bad thing, since he's awake, he shouldn't be in too much danger."

After listening to Wei Ran's translation, Ivan who was guarding Mikhail's bed also heaved a sigh of relief.But when he saw his crippled left leg, the expression on his face became extremely lonely.

In the blink of an eye, it was April 4th, and Mikhail in the basement was completely awake.Although he still can't get out of bed, at least the high fever has subsided.Even this Slavic man, who looked less than 30 years old, easily bought Mario with the second-class Patriotic Order with the missing sickle hammer inlay on his chest, and helped him steal it from Father Hans' medicine chest Drink medical alcohol with water.

The ghost knows how the two idiots who don't understand the language, and the age difference is more than 15 years old, managed to communicate.But in any case, Mario finally made his first friend here besides the little Jewish girl Mora.

At 25:[-] in the afternoon, Wei Ran crawled out of the basement with a silver pocket watch borrowed from Dr. Lodge. After covering the entrance and exit with a bathtub, he took out a telescope from his cowhide notebook and pointed it at Mal. Coe pointed out the direction of the bunker for him in the morning.

In the lens of the telescope, gunpowder smoke billows from all over the ruined city.Unfortunately, due to the occlusion of the building debris, the entrance of the bunker could not be seen from the direction of the clinic.

"In 5 more minutes, Mustache will commit suicide." Wei Ran put away the binoculars regretfully.Then he took out the camera from his bag.

This morning, he used this camera to take a group photo for everyone including Ivan and Mikhail.However, even though he has completed all the shooting tasks, even though Mario and the little Jewish girl Mora in the basement are still fine, he still has not been able to return to his own world.

But it has reached this point, Wei Ran is not in a hurry, anyway, Germany will surrender in two days, so you should not wait until the end of the Nuremberg trial at the end of the year to go back, right?
Since he couldn't go back for the time being, Wei Ran simply hid himself, and pressed the shutter again and again to the city in flames of war. If it wasn't for the distance from the Capitol, he would even have planned to take a picture of the classic moment of planting the flag .

However, just as he was putting a new film on the camera in his hand and was about to continue pressing the shutter, he turned his head inadvertently, only to find that in the direction of the Ministry of the Interior behind him, several T-34 tanks and Follow the Soviet Red Army!
Before he could react, the German troops in the anti-aircraft tower and the opera house also spotted the Soviet Red Army. The raging artillery fire poured over like water, leaving those tanks and a large number of infantry in place!

"Fuck!"

Shocked to find that he was in the middle of the exchange of fire between the two armies, Wei Ran was so frightened that he put away his camera in a hurry, opened the deformed bathtub and jumped into the basement!

"Ouch!"

Marco, who was about to go up to check the situation, was crushed to the ground by the neck of Wei Ran who jumped off, and before he got up, he heard the latter shouting loudly, "Bombardment! Squat down by the wall! Zhang Open your mouth! Don't lean against the wall!"

"What's wrong?!"

Before Mikhail, who was playing the finger-scratching game with Mario, could react, he was carried to the corner where Ivan was by Father Hans and Doctor Rocky, and was crowded with a group of panicked children and women around him.

"Victor, what's the matter?" Ivan asked in a hoarse voice.

Wei Ran didn't need to answer at all, the dense explosion and violent vibration gave him the answer he wanted to know.

Pulling up Marko who was acting as a meat pad, Wei Ran took off the kerosene lamp above his head and threw it out of the basement, then shouted in Russian at the top of his voice, "Several Soviet tanks and many infantrymen appeared in the direction of the Ministry of the Interior building just now. , they were spotted by anti-aircraft towers and artillery from the opera house!"

Ivan and Mikhail, who was struggling to move to his side, looked at each other, and shouted in no particular order, "So we are in the middle of the battlefield?"

Wei Ran nodded vigorously, and shouted in response, "Soviet tanks are very close to us, maybe only a few hundred meters away!"

"Captain, I want to go back!" Mikhail endured the pain from the abdominal wound, looked at Ivan with burning eyes and shouted loudly, "I want to go back and join the battle!"

Before Ivan could answer, after a deafening explosion, the concrete ceiling above his head cracked a crack more than one meter long with the thickness of a fist in a violent tremor!
The wet soil leaked out from the cracks, pouring out a long snake in the center of the basement, and even the bathtub that was originally used to cover the entrance and exit flew out!Amidst the screams of those children and women, everyone was shocked and sat on the ground!
"Cushion! Put something under your ass!"

Father Hans struggled to get up, pulled off a blanket from the bed, rolled it up and sat on it, then pulled Mario and Moore over and let them sit on his two legs.

Although the others couldn't hear what he shouted clearly, none of them were fools. They all put the sheets and bedding they could find at hand and even the basket containing bread under their buttocks.

After shelling for an unknown period of time, the Soviet Red Army began to fight back, pouring a large amount of artillery fire on every target within their reach.

It’s just that it’s hard for Wei Ran and others who are located in the middle of the two warring parties. The shells flying over their heads, and the occasional misses, and the bomb craters that exploded near the basement made everyone present couldn’t help but greet the person who fired the shells. The whole family!
After the artillery confrontation that lasted intermittently for several hours, the vibrations caused by the ground being crushed by the tracks moved from far to near.In the nearly collapsed basement, the people whose eardrums were about to bleed from the shock staggered to their feet, and then fell to the muddy floor in a whirl.

"I'll go and have a look!" Wei Ran shook his head vigorously, then pointed to himself while shouting, and then pointed to the entrance and exit that had been buried by broken bricks and tiles, "I, go have a look!"

Father Hans picked out his ears, then nodded to Wei Ran.And Ivan even handed over the submachine gun he had been holding in his hand.

Waving to Ivan, Wei Ran, with the help of Marco, pulled away the bricks all over the floor, and carefully climbed out of the basement on a wooden ladder.However, almost at the same time as he emerged, a T-34 tank happened to rumble and run over the entrance, and the broken bricks splashed from the tracks even nearly hit his head!

Wei Ran was stunned, and after seeing the feet behind the tank, he slid down the ladder, took advantage of the light above his head to make a gesture of silence, and then crawled and hid in the shadows of the basement .

　Continue to repay debts, add updates to time-covered memories, add updates to time-covered memories, add updates to time-covered memories

　　
　
(End of this chapter)