War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 171 Crossfire
Wei Ran walked on the bumpy stone road, thinking about what else he could do.However, what made him desperate was that until he had seen the Dongguan position, he found that he had no ability to control the battle situation, let alone play any decisive role.

"Wei Ran, you are finally back, I thought you were a deserter."

Li Suian shook the old slide in his hand while speaking, "I got the gun last night, and I still have 10 rounds of ammunition."

"Without mine?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"No." Li Suian whispered in embarrassment, "My brother thought you were a deserter."

Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, "I went to help the stretcher team, how could I be a deserter."

"Why don't you use mine?" Li Suian was about to hand the rifle in his hand to Wei Ran, "I have a big belly box and that's enough."

"You keep it, I also have a belly box." Wei Ran patted the holster on his waist while speaking.

Hearing the words, the former didn't insist. He put his hand into his pocket and took out a cornbread wrapped in straw paper. "I left it for you, eat a couple of bites."

"You can eat some too." Wei Ran took the corn pancakes, broke off half and handed it to Li Suian, and the two of them leaned against the cold city wall and ate the cold pancakes in two or three bites.

"Where's your brother?" Wei Ran asked after taking a sip from the water bottle handed over by the other party.

Li Suian, who chewed slowly, pointed to the top of his head, "Where is the city wall?"

"Eat slowly, I'll go up and have a look." Wei Ran returned the kettle to the other party, and climbed the steps up the city wall without waiting for the other party to say anything.

Facing the flaming sun, Wei Ran saw more and more little devils outside the city and the bunkers they repaired overnight.

However, before he found Li Hexian, suddenly there was the roar of propellers from the northwest!When he turned his head subconsciously, he immediately saw several planes flying over from a distance!
not good!

Wei Ran's heart sank, these planes flying in formation are definitely not yesterday's reconnaissance planes, they are for air strikes!
"Air attack! Aircraft! Northwest direction!"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the first few planes had already fired their cannons, waving a barrage of fire snakes and rushing towards Teng County, which was filled with cooking smoke!And behind these planes, those bombers with a slower speed even dropped bombs after flying over the county town!
All of a sudden, the entire county was shrouded in successive explosions and flames soaring into the sky!The people who hurriedly escaped from the houses one by one were all chased by those fire snakes, and fell down in pieces under the shock wave of the bomb explosion!

"Go to the bunker!"

Li Hexian, who led the team down from the city wall, pushed Wei Ran involuntarily, and ran towards the bunker under the city wall.

Almost at the same time they jumped into the bunker, the aerial bomb also landed on the stone road less than 50 meters away from them.

The broken bricks and tiles and mutilated corpses raised by the violent explosion and shock wave were thrown into the air, and then smashed down again.

The screams of the people before they died and the curses of the defenders had been completely covered up by the deafening explosions and the roar of the aircraft propellers, but everyone's clenched fists and angry expressions on their faces were so conspicuous.

But the few planes in the sky, relying on the lack of anti-aircraft firepower of the defenders on the ground, hovered, dropped bombs, and fired again and again with extreme arrogance, clearly turning this small town into scorched earth!
During the extraordinarily long torment, before those planes flew away, the little devils outside the east gate had already rushed over under the cover of machine guns and mortars!

"Up to the city wall!" Li Hexian was the first to jump out of the bunker, and rushed up the city wall with the soldiers.Wei Ran glanced at Li Suian who was curled up in the bunker with his head in his arms, and finally said nothing, drew his pistol and followed.

Before he could find a position, the first soldier to go up had already started pulling the trigger.Wei Ran ventured to take a look outside, and then quickly hid behind the wall.

Compared with the only water-cooled heavy machine gun on their side, the little devils on the opposite side not only have a dozen mortars lined up, but also the armored vehicles behind them have already driven up!At the same time, on both sides of the battlefield a little closer, there are machine guns several times larger than their own!

Looking left and right again, Wei Ran, who had already ignored many people, directly took out the semi-automatic rifle in the leather notebook, aimed at the firepower of those machine guns and pulled the trigger!
With a distance of three 400 meters, without an optical sight, and the city wall under our feet is still being bombarded by the opponent's mortars, under such conditions, it is conceivable how difficult it is to hit the machine gunner hiding behind the sandbags!

As he pulled the trigger again and again, finally, the first machine gunner lay down on his back, lightly moved the muzzle to point at the other machine gunner, and Wei Ran pulled the trigger again until the first magazine was emptied. The machine gunner fell down.However, what made him desperate was that within such a short period of time, the machine gun at the first firing point began to shoot out deadly barrages again!

Hiding behind the wall, Wei Ran took out the second magazine from the ammunition bag on the gun stock and replaced it, but before he could stand up, a puff of blood burst from the chest of a thin soldier not far away. He fell heavily on his back.The [-] cover in his hand with the cracked butt tied with cloth strips also fell on the uneven ground.

Wei Ran was stunned, put the rifle that had just been replaced with a magazine back into the cowhide book, and rushed over. He still remembered that this little soldier named Siwazi came with the Lao Army, and his father and several brothers all died in the army. on the battlefield.

Taking a quick look at the other party's injuries, Wei Ran's heart was already cold, his right chest was hit by a bullet, and the bright red blood had already changed the color of that brand new cotton padded coat in such a short time.

Without hesitation at all, Wei Ran took out a shot of morphine from his pocket and pushed it into his body.Si Wazi, whose mouth was already overflowing with blood, looked hard at his blood-soaked chest, and opened his mouth silently as if he wanted to say something.

Wei Ran hurriedly lowered his head, put his ear to the other's mouth, and then heard Siwazi say intermittently, "I beat you to death. Two earned. One earned."

"Four kids?"

Wei Ran looked at the young soldier who had stopped breathing, tremblingly stretched out his hand to cover the opponent's eyes, then took out the semi-automatic rifle from the leather book again, pointed at the little devil who was getting closer, and pulled the trigger again and again .

At this moment, he no longer cared about the firepower of the machine gun, and now he only thought about killing one more person!
Thanks to the advantage of the rate of fire of the semi-automatic rifle, and the shorter and shorter distance between the two, even if Wei Ran can't hit every shot, at least seven or eight of the ten bullets can be hit.

After he emptied the last magazine, he immediately picked up the big [-] cap that was still stained with Siwazi's blood, and continued to pull the trigger on the little devil who had almost rushed to the bottom of the city, without noticing that the gun was not far away. Li Hexian's horrified expression.

But this time, before he could empty the bullets in the gun, there was a series of cannon shots in a forest outside the city!Immediately afterwards, the corner of the city wall just tens of meters away from him was violently shelled.

The almost continuous explosion not only knocked the defenders away!Even the city wall itself collapsed in the dense explosion and a gap was created!
"The city wall has collapsed! Pistol Team! Follow me to block the hole if you are still alive!" Li Hexian shouted at the top of his voice.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately put the [-] cover in his hand beside Siwazi's body, pulled out the belly box from his waist, and was the first to run down the city wall, rushing towards the gap in the city wall filled with smoke and dust!
And behind him, Li Hexian glanced at Si Wazi's body, bent down to pick up a bright shell case and a used morphine injection, put them into his pocket, then quickened his pace, and rushed down after Wei Ran.

At the same time, at the bunker next to the steps, Li Suian, who had just plucked up the courage to climb out, saw this, gritted his teeth and drew his pistol to follow the crowd.

By the time their group of five or six arrived near the gap, almost five No. 60 defenders had gathered there.At the same time, the little devils outside the city also concentrated their firepower, covering a group of soldiers rushing over, intending to seize the gap in the city wall.

"Grenade ready!" One of the middle-aged soldiers closest to the collapsed city wall shouted loudly.

Hearing this, everyone pulled out a grenade from their waists and unscrewed the cover.Li Suian glanced at his cousin and Wei Ran in front of him, hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a grenade from his waist, and unscrewed the cover like everyone else did.

Soon, a little devil holding a [-]-piece cover appeared at the top of the collapsed city wall. The middle-aged soldier who was closest to him raised the box cannon in his hand, as if he hadn't aimed at all, and hit the neck of the former.

This shot was like a signal. Everyone used their teeth or hands to pull the firing wire, and then threw the smoking grenade through the gap!

After one after another of the explosions, the middle-aged soldier closest to him glanced out, raised his pistol, and tapped the trigger repeatedly.

The little devil who almost rushed in was easily wiped out, and the middle-aged soldier who was called the company commander by the rest of the soldiers said, "Let's stay here, this little devil will definitely have to rush over."

Sure enough, soon after the little devils outside the city continued to suppress them with artillery fire, they sent the second and third teams of soldiers to continue to attack the gap unwillingly!

Under the command of the company commander, under the cover of the city wall, everyone used grenades to blow up the little devils who climbed up the collapsed city wall to the ground again and again, barely holding the gap.

However, although the little devil temporarily gave up attacking the gap in the city wall, the artillery hidden in the woods outside the city became more and more fierce, and the artillery and the few armored vehicles, tanks, and mortars that almost drove under the city wall Under the violent bombardment of the mortars, the defenders on the city wall suffered more and more casualties.

At the gap in the city wall, Wei Ran took a picked-up Hanyang-made gun, took a little aim and then decisively pulled the trigger. After knocking down an enemy, he immediately shrank to the edge of the city wall and loaded it.

He couldn't remember how many devils he had killed, let alone how long the exchange of fire had lasted, but half of the pistol bullets on his armed belt had been consumed, and the only two grenades had also been consumed early. If it weren't for the reinforcements sent later to help, I'm afraid this place would have fallen long ago.

Having stabilized his mind, Wei Ran stretched out half of his body, aimed at the figure outside and pulled the trigger again.

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