War Photographer's Notebook
Chapter 1549 Wait for me at Gaza Hospital
Chapter 1549 Wait for me at Gaza Hospital (Added for Li Guang Shooting Birds, thanks to the leader for another reward)
Subconsciously looking in the direction he came from, Wei Ran, who was hiding in the shadow of a doorway on the street, hesitated for less than a second before finally raising his gun again, aiming at a gun-wielding Falange member and pulling the trigger!
"Da da!"
Amid the hoarse and dull sound of short shots from the silenced MP5, the militant who was running towards the crossfire building was immediately shot in the chest and fell to the ground.
We have to thank the noise caused by the flares that are fired into the night sky from time to time, and we have to thank the cover of the gunfire coming from near and far, as well as the faint muzzle flash of the submachine gun in our hands.
With this series of advantages, it was not until Wei Ran moved his gun and shot the third militant dead that someone finally found his location.
For a moment, the remaining seven or eight militants either concentrated their fire on his hiding place or came over under the cover of their companions, ready to throw the grenades in their hands into the doorway where Wei Ran was hiding.
Almost at the moment when Wei Ran took out a grenade and was about to throw it out, a clear gunshot was heard again from behind him.
"boom!"
The moment the gunshots rang out, a Falange militant who was about to throw a grenade in was shot in the chest and fell to the ground on his back. The grenade in his hand also hit the ground with a thud amid the screams of the others.
"boom!"
Amid the dull explosion, Wei Ran first heard screams, followed by loud warnings in Arabic, French, and even English—"Sniper!"
Why didn't you speak French and English?
Wei Ran muttered in annoyance, but at the same time, he put away the grenade he had just taken out, turned around and ran up to the second floor.
"boom!"
After the second gunshot, a member of the Falange party who had just appeared had his head blown off by the bullet, and the rest of them subconsciously hid in the houses on both sides.
While these Falanges were being suppressed by snipers in the distance, Wei Ran had already reached the window on the second floor, aimed at the shouting militants hiding in the doorway across the street, and pulled the trigger.
"Da da!"
After two more faint gunshots, the militant who was about to stick his head out was hit in the shoulder and head respectively. Before he fell to the ground, Wei Ran had already moved the muzzle of the gun, aimed at another militant and pulled the trigger again.
"Da da da!"
After another burst of shots, Wei Ran decisively put away his gun, took out the grenade again, pulled out the pull ring and threw it onto the stairs leading downstairs.
With a series of clanging sounds, the grenade hit the steps and jumped down, causing two people to exclaim in surprise.
"Bang! Bang!"
Before the grenade exploded, the unique clear sound of SVD gunfire was heard outside again.
"boom!"
Almost at the same time as the grenade exploded, Wei Ran had already grabbed the second grenade and poked it out of the window, letting it fall freely onto the first floor just below.
"Da da da!"
Almost at the same time, someone diagonally across the street started firing at the window. Then, Wei Ran also saw two grenades thrown in.
"grass"
Wei Ran felt a chill in his heart and he jumped out of the room.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
After three consecutive explosions, Wei Ran rolled and crawled back to the first floor amid the sound of SVD gunfire.
After listening carefully, he threw another grenade and walked out with his gun in hand the moment after the explosion.
Thanks to the cooperation of the sniper in the distance who was highly suspected to be a hot air balloon shooter, as well as some deliberate planning, the exchange of fire just now had left many Falange members lying on the street.
"boom!"
Just at this moment, gunshots were heard again behind him, and the flower pots placed at the entrance of a doorway on the right side were smashed to pieces with a loud bang.
After getting the hint, Wei Ran immediately moved the muzzle of the gun over, fired a few bullets into the doorway, and then picked up a broken brick and threw it in.
As the bricks fell to the ground, the people inside indeed let out panicked and desperate screams, and there were loud crashes.
At the same time, Wei Ran ran in quickly, aimed at a figure lying on the ground and pulled the trigger.
After killing the enemy easily, Wei Ran was not in a hurry to leave. He roughly searched the body and picked up two grenades and an American compressed biscuit. As for the AK submachine gun he used, he did not even touch it.
Looking at the direction of the second floor who was trying hard to suppress his crying, Wei Ran cleared his throat and reminded in Arabic, "The enemy downstairs is dead, and he has a weapon on him."
After saying this, he turned and walked out of the room without caring whether the people still alive on the second floor understood what he meant. After observing at the door for a moment, he ran towards the body of the next militant.
With the help of the sniper in the distance, Wei Ran shot and searched the bodies as quickly as possible. He also loudly reminded the possible survivors around him in Arabic to pick up the weapons on the bodies and to beware of the Phalange Party who might come to support at any time.
In less than two minutes, he quickly left the street where fighting might break out again, carrying two packs of 9mm bullets and several grenades found on the corpse.
The difference was that this time he ran towards the sniper. Regardless of whether the other party was a hot air balloon or not, he had just completed the language task and had shown his sincerity. Next, it was time to meet the other party.
Wei Ran ran wildly along the street, but before he reached the house where the sniper was suspected to be, he heard the sound of fierce gunfire from that direction.
"Mr. Dongfeng, this way."
Just when Wei Ran was about to go over to help, someone shouted in French from an alley on the side of the road - it was a woman's voice.
"Who are you?" Wei Ran asked as he slipped into the alley.
"Come with me"
The woman in a headscarf, also holding a silenced MP5 submachine gun, did not answer. She just said as if to prove her identity, "The hot air balloon asked me to pick you up."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately quickened his pace and allowed the other party to lead him through this alley and then run into another alley.
When they finally stopped, they found themselves at a dead end alley or an empty space like a patio surrounded by several houses.
The open space was no more than five meters square, with a straight and tall cedar tree planted in the middle. Its dense branches even touched the outer walls of the surrounding buildings.
"Come with me"
The woman urged again and asked Wei Ran to get into a dirty window.
"We meet again"
Almost at the same time Wei Ran stood firm, the window behind him was closed, and then he heard the sound of a hot air balloon in the beam of the flashlight.
"It was really you just now?"
Wei Ran asked as he turned around, and then he saw that the hot air balloon that was closing the window was indeed holding the SVD in its arms.
"What happened?" the hot air balloon asked curiously, "Why did you get out?"
"Who is she?" Wei Ran did not answer the question, but pointed at the woman who was lighting a candle next to him.
"She is Lina, the wife of my wife's brother." After a pause, Hot Air Balloon added, "She is also an 8th Liberation Army soldier and my middle school classmate."
The relationship between brother-in-law and uncle-in-law?
Wei Ran subconsciously defined the relationship between the two people in his mind according to his own understanding.
"Hello, Mr. Dongfeng, thank you for helping us."
As she spoke, the elder sister-in-law named Lina also took off her headscarf and extended her hand towards Wei Ran.
Wei Ran shook hands with the other party politely and tried hard to suppress the surprise in his heart and eyes. This was definitely a beautiful woman, but her face was covered with horrible cut scars and spots left by cigarette burns.
Obviously, she had been abused, which made Wei Ran subconsciously think of the abuse that the landlady had suffered before she committed suicide.
"Actually, I came here to find you." Wei Ran loosened his hand and looked back at the hot air balloon.
"What happened?" The hot air balloon immediately became nervous.
"We are going to take the children away from the refugee camp." Wei Ran pulled over a chair and sat down while speaking.
This room was more like a storage room, filled with all kinds of dusty stuff. The only window was tightly blocked by a wooden board wrapped in a blanket, and the not-so-big door was firmly supported by wooden bars.
"How to leave?" the woman named Lina asked subconsciously.
"We predict that the Falange may temporarily withdraw and reorganize before dawn, which may be the only window of opportunity to escape from the refugee camp."
While Wei Ran was repeating their plan, he also took out the captured bullets, placed them on the table, and pressed them into the magazine of the submachine gun one by one.
“Just as we predicted”
The hot air balloon replied, "We are going to draw the enemy here, and when the time is right, we will break out in the direction of Gaza Hospital."
"Is there anything I can do?" Wei Ran asked.
“We can’t take everyone with us”
The hot air balloon said with difficulty but clearly, "Lina and I will organize a group of people to find a way to open the gap. Dongfeng, what you need to do is to lead as many people as possible out of the gap we open with the others, especially let as many children as possible leave."
"We still have wounded people," Wei Ran reminded.
“We can’t take them away.”
Hot Air Balloon clenched his fist and said, "I need you to take those who are able to escape and run in the direction of Gaza Hospital. With the help of Doctors Without Borders, let them get shelter in the hospital."
"What about you? What about you guys?" Wei Ran, who was busy loading bullets, asked after a moment of silence.
"We are here to protect those who have no way to leave," Lina said almost subconsciously, "to protect everyone who needs protection."
"Aren't you planning to escape?" Wei Ran looked up and asked again.
“Our home is here, our family is here.”
As Hot Air Balloon spoke, he stood up and walked to the wooden door of the small room, removed the top door bar and opened the door. He pointed to the weed-covered yard outside and said, "Look, this is my wife's home and also Lina and her husband's home, but they are all dead. What qualifications do I have to leave here?"
Glancing at the deserted yard outside the door, Wei Ran sighed, and finally stood up and said, "Okay, I understand. What do you need me to do?"
"Hang a bright enough lamp on the roof of the hospital"
The hot air balloon said, "When we find an opportunity, I will shoot and smash the lamp. Then you will organize all those who are able to run out and run together in the direction of Gaza Hospital. Leave the rest to us."
"I will bring this news back immediately." Wei Ran paused, "and hang a bright enough lamp on the roof of the hospital."
"When I smash the lamp, just run out as fast as you can."
The hot air balloon finally reminded, "Leave the rest to us. No matter who falls, don't stop. You can only survive if you run into the Gaza Hospital."
"Okay." Wei Ran nodded with difficulty.
Before he could say anything else, Lina had already opened the sealed window, and Hot Air Balloon blew out the candle at the same time. "I hope we will have a chance to meet again," Hot Air Balloon said as Wei Ran was about to get out of the window.
“We will definitely meet again”
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he put the only two unfilled magazines on his belt, put away the remaining bullets, and left behind some of the compressed biscuits and all the grenades he had seized.
"Next time we meet, if I die, remember to look around me for any film." The hot air balloon said casually in a joking tone.
"I would rather you hand over the films to your friends personally."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he stepped out of the window and let the woman named Lina lead him through narrow alleys and drop him off near the side door of the hospital.
Watching Lina turn around and disappear in the light and shadow of the night and flares, Wei Ran sighed and returned to the basement level of the hospital with his weapon.
"You're back"
It seemed that Edelweiss, who had been waiting for him at the stairs, had already thrown herself into his arms while he was speaking.
"I'm back." Wei Ran gently hugged the girl who had been waiting for him.
"Can we really escape before dawn?" Edelweiss asked in a low voice, burying her head in Wei Ran's chest.
"Yes, I can escape."
Wei Ran made a promise, "I also encountered a hot air balloon. They will help us escape."
"We can't take everyone away, right?" Edelweiss looked up at Wei Ran and asked.
"no way"
Wei Ran sighed, and evasively changed the subject, asking, "Where are the sewing machine and the cradle? I need to arrange what to do next with everyone."
"Refugees who fled to the hospital reached a consensus"
Edelweiss let go of Wei Ran, sniffed, and led him to the underground floor while saying, "The refugees who fled to Aka Hospital will help the lightly injured to run together."
"This is a good thing. What about those seriously injured?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"They." Edelweiss shuddered. "They decided to stay. I, I plan to too."
'You need to leave'
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and said, "You have to leave. It's not much safer than staying. You have to take the children and all the people who escaped to the Gaza Hospital. Use the identity of Doctors Without Borders and ask the Gaza Hospital to take in all the refugees who escaped."
Hearing this, Edelweiss shuddered again, "What about you?"
"I" Wei Ran smiled, "Of course I will leave with you."
Before the panicked Edelweiss could say anything else, the sewing machine and cradle heard the noise and opened the door.
“I just saw a hot air balloon.”
Wei Ran cleared his throat and conveyed the results of his discussion with the hot air balloon to the Sewing Machine couple and nurse Sophia who had rushed over after hearing the news.
"I'll hang the light on the roof right now, and I'll watch over it myself!" Nurse Sophia said, and got up and ran out of the room.
"It's the last few hours, take a good rest." Wei Ran said before the remaining three people spoke.
"I'll go inform the other doctors here."
Cradle said, already standing up, "Edelweiss, come with me."
"it is good"
Edelweiss nodded, glanced at Wei Ran and the sewing machine that had already taken out a cigarette box, then stood up and followed the cradle out of the office.
“I’m ready to stay”
Sewing Machine threw a cigarette to Wei Ran and said, "After sending you away, I plan to come back here."
"Is there any reason why you must stay?" Wei Ran asked.
“I’m a doctor”
The sewing machine replied as a matter of course, "I can't abandon the wounded I saved. If I do, I will live in self-blame for the rest of my life."
"Where's the cradle?" Wei Ran asked as he lit a cigarette, "Are you planning to let her have one too?"
"Let her go, let her and Edelweiss take the refugees to the Gaza hospital." The sewing machine smiled and said, "Of course, she doesn't know my decision."
"Where's Yashar?"
Wei Ran continued to ask, "Where is your child Yashar? You decided to abandon your wife and child and die in..."
“It’s just dangerous here”
Sewing Machine corrected, "I just kept the cradle out of danger. I didn't mean to die here."
"Do you know what you are talking about?" Wei Ran asked with a frown.
"The Falangists won't do anything to us"
Sewing Machine has his own plan. "They may kill children, refugees and Palestinian medical workers in the hospital, and women on the wall, but they have no reason to do anything to us."
"What do you want to say?" Wei Ran asked.
"What about you?"
The sewing machine asked almost directly, "Do you choose to stay or escape?"
"Is this an invitation?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"certainly"
Sewing Machine nodded, "I hope we can form a two-person medical team to stay and care for and protect the wounded who have no way to leave."
"I accept your invitation"
Wei Ran responded particularly readily, and it was not until this time that he was able to confirm that this was the "invitation" mentioned in the return mission.
"you"
"I said, I accept your invitation."
Wei Ran repeated again without waiting for the other party to finish speaking that this was the requirement of the return mission and he had no room for refusal. In this case, he might as well agree to it straightforwardly.
The sewing machine opened its mouth and finally uttered "thank you" in a hesitant voice.
"Time is precious, spend time with your wife."
As Wei Ran spoke, he sighed in his heart. He almost had a premonition that the decision the sewing machine would make at this moment would be a farewell between life and death.
"You should also keep Edelweiss company," the sewing machine said with a smile, extinguishing the cigarette it had just taken a few puffs of. "She is a good girl as kind as an angel."
"yes."
Wei Ran sighed weakly, stood up, opened the door, and saw Cradle standing outside the door with his mouth covered.
Obviously, this woman, who was as kind as an angel, had heard their conversation just now.
Wei Ran didn't know what to say. All he could do was to open the door, let the cradle in, and then help close the door from the outside.
"Are you going to stay too?" Edelweiss, who was leaning against the wall at the door, asked faintly, "I heard everything just now."
"right"
Wei Ran gritted his teeth, let the other party throw himself into his arms, let her hug him tightly, still smiling and said, "I decided to stay."
"Let me stay too, let me stay too." Edelweiss said almost pleadingly.
"You have to escape, take the refugees with you, especially the children."
Wei Ran said with a hard heart, "This is a more dangerous mission than staying here. You and Yaolan need to take them to the Gaza Hospital and seek asylum for them in the capacity of Doctors Without Borders."
"Shouldn't I have suggested coming to the refugee camp?" Edelweiss asked self-reproachfully.
"If we hadn't fled to the refugee camp, we might be dead now."
Wei Ran said in a gentle voice, "This is not our fault. The fault lies with the Yishelie people and the Long Spear Party."
After saying that, Wei Ran gently pushed the girl in his arms away. Under her puzzled gaze, he pulled out the silenced Makarov pistol from his waist and handed it to her, "Do you know how to use it?"
"I used my grandfather's PPK pistol"
As Edelweiss spoke, she had already pulled the slide, then reached out and caught the bullet that jumped out.
"I'll leave this gun to you for self-defense. It's quiet enough and has a small recoil, but it's still pretty good in terms of power and accuracy."
As Wei Ran spoke, he took the bullets and pistol from the other party, put the bullets back into the magazine and said, "It's for self-defense, not for you to fight with the Yishelie people or the Long Gun Party."
As he spoke, he pulled out another grenade from his pocket and handed it to the other person, "Will this work?"
"I probably know how to use it," Edelweiss said as she passed the grenade over.
"This is."
Wei Ran paused, "Leave it to yourself. If you don't want to go through what happened to the landlord's wife, then it may be your last choice."
Hearing this, Edelweiss's face was obviously a little flustered, but after a moment, she took the grenade and put it in her trouser pocket.
“I’m going to leave something for you, too.”
As Edelweiss spoke, she suppressed the panic in her heart, rolled up her sleeves, and tremblingly took off the prisoner-of-war watch on her wrist, and then took off the Soviet Arrow watch on Wei Ran's hand.
"You have to live"
Edelweiss said seriously, "I want to see you alive and give me back my grandfather's watch."
"Okay," Wei Ran agreed to this hopeless agreement with a hoarse voice.
Edelweiss, on the other hand, seemed to trust Wei Ran particularly. Her overly delicate little face, which made people want to protect her, also revealed a bright and frightening smile.
Wearing the watch that was originally worn on Wei Ran's wrist loosely on her own wrist, Edelweiss stood on tiptoe again, hugged Wei Ran's neck and gave him a passionate kiss, then whispered in his ear, "I will wait for you to come to me at the Gaza Hospital. If you don't come, I will come back to the refugee camp to find you."
"Okay, wait for me at the Gaza Hospital." Wei Ran whispered in the other's ear and made a more detailed agreement again.
Thanks to the boss, thanks to Li Guang for shooting birds. Thanks to Li Guang, thanks to the birds, and thanks to Li Guang for shooting birds with his bow and arrows.
(End of this chapter)
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