War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 172 Ten Bullets
At Dongguan, Tengxian County, the exchange of fire between the two sides continued into the afternoon and still did not stop. Above and below the city wall, inside and outside the city wall, were full of wailing wounded and icy corpses.

However, when the setting sun was blocked by the walls of the inner city, the roar of propellers sounded again in the sky, and at the same time, the artillery outside the city also began to roar.But this time, their targets seemed to be all aimed at Chengdong Pass in Teng County!

The sound of explosions, shelling, and indiscernible screams filled everyone's ears, but this time, including Li Suian, they all stayed in their respective positions and continued to move towards the The enemy outside the city continued to pull the trigger.

However, as the explosions continued to ring around, fewer and fewer comrades were able to shoot back, and even the company commander lay down in a pool of blood.

The command of the remaining soldiers was handed over to Li Hexian, but he also did not give an order to retreat. Instead, he commanded the people to repel the first wave of attacks and the second wave of attacks until they had only three soldiers left. When there were about ten people, the third wave of little devils rushed in along the blasted gap!
The grenades have long been used up, and most of the pistol bullets have only half a magazine left in stock. Even some recruits who survived like Li Suian, their pistols ran out of ammunition as early as an hour ago.

When these people had fired the last bullets, Wei Ran, who was about to take out his gun from the leather notebook, heard Li Hexian who was standing not far away shout, "Big knife!"

Hearing this, the remaining two No. 30 people immediately pulled out the large knife that had been carried on their shoulders, shook off the coarse cloth wrapped on it, and prepared to fight hand-to-hand with those little devils who were several times their own.

"kill!"

With a roar, Li Hexian rushed forward with a sword in his hand!
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Those men from Sichuan and Shu, as well as Wei Ran, who had been red-eyed for a long time, brandished big knives one after another, and rushed towards the devil who took the lead without hesitation.

Although Wei Ran had never practiced bayonet fighting, he was beaten by those female students almost every day at the Hongqi Forest Farm, and was practiced by Karp alone. Now his fighting ability is not weak at all.

Seeing a little devil subconsciously raise his foot to lunge, Wei Ran swung a large knife almost before he raised his gun to stab, and slammed the barrel of the opponent's gun with the back of the knife as thick as a chopstick head. After swinging the sharp bayonet , took advantage of the situation and raised it fiercely, and directly cut the opponent's right arm from the elbow with a long wound.

Without waiting for the other party to scream, Wei Ran had already let go of the handle of the knife, hit the opponent's crotch with one knee, and hit its chin with the second.

Solving the first one with ease, Wei Ran picked up the [-] cover with the bayonet in the opponent's hand, turned around and met the second devil who rushed over.

It was still swinging and flirting, and finally there was an extra stab. When the lengths of the cold weapons of both sides were equal, the [-] cap in Wei Ran's hand directly pierced the opponent's chest, and then he turned the butt of the gun forcefully and pulled it back. The second little devil was easily dealt with.Immediately afterwards, a pistol suddenly appeared in Wei Ran's left hand, aimed at the devil in front of Li Suian and pulled the trigger.

After the crisp gunshots, Li Suian, who had already fallen to the ground, watched the little devil who was about to stab the bayonet into his ears with a bloody flower burst out with a grinning grin, and then fell to his side by the bullets.

Putting away the pistol, Wei Ran quickly ran to Li Suian's side, pulled him up and shouted, "I'll protect you, you reload the other gun, if a devil comes, I'll stab him first, you reload it!" Shoot immediately!"

"Okay! Okay!" Li Suian hurriedly bent down to pick up the rifle, and tremblingly began to put bullets into the chamber.

At the same time, Wei Ran also met the third devil, and almost when the weapons in their hands had just collided, Li Suian behind him pulled the trigger in time.

This flustered shot just hit the little devil's thigh.Wei Ran's reaction was fast enough. After taking a step back, he stabbed forward forcefully, and simply stabbed the opponent's chest.

He didn't care whether shooting a bayonet was considered a foul, and he forgot to think about whether the shot just now would penetrate and hurt others.And Li Suian behind him was a recruit who was on the battlefield for the first time, so naturally he didn't expect this at all.

The unruly cooperation of these two was quite effective, especially after Wei Ran consciously moved in Li Hexian's direction and pulled him into the gang, and even lost his opponent in the three-on-one situation.

But even so, the number of little devils on the opposite side is twice as many as theirs, not to mention that many soldiers have already died under the opponent's bayonet.

Seeing that the remaining less than ten people have been forced under the city wall, and the rest of the devils also rushed into the gate of the inner city, Wei Ran took the opportunity to stab the opposite devil's chest with force. Turning the butt of the gun, he raised his foot and kicked hard amidst the opponent's screams, took out his pistol again, aimed at the devils who besieged them and repeatedly tapped the trigger!
Amid the crisp gunshots, the devils who were busy stabbing fell to the ground one after another, and the few devils who had already rushed into the inner city gate also stopped, turned around and squatted down, and began to load their rifles with bullets.

Almost at the same time that Wei Ran fired the trigger at those devils, there were also intensive gunshots from the direction of the inner city, and the devils who had just rushed in immediately screamed and lay down on the ground.

Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief, only to notice that the cotton coat protruding from the ribs on the right side had been cut open by the bayonet, and yellow and white cotton also came out from the damaged part.

After touching it, he didn't seem to have hurt himself, so he took a look at the pistol magazine, and then found that the magazine was empty.

Pulling the sleeve, the last bullet jumped out. Wei Ran caught it and stuffed it into the magazine and put it into the gun. Then he pulled the top of the sleeve again and put the gun into the leather book.

"It's really yours! It's like a magic trick!" Li Hexian walked up with a [-]-pound cover and patted Wei Ran's shoulder vigorously, and then grinned for a while because of the wound drawn by the bayonet on his ribs.

"Third Brother, are you alright?" Li Suian asked nervously, he was almost the best protected one, surrounded by Wei Ran, Li Hexian and others and sneered at him throughout the whole process.

"It's okay, skin trauma."

Li Hexian looked around while speaking, not counting Wei Ran, Li Suian and himself at this time, only five survived.Almost all of these five were injured, and one of them was the most serious. His thigh was stabbed in half by a bayonet.

Before they walked into the inner city gate supporting each other, a group of soldiers ran out of the city first. After seeing the few survivors, they hurriedly helped the injured into the inner city.

Before passing through the city gate full of corpses, Wei Ran was stunned. In just one day, the inner city has become a ruined wall, and the rutted stone road is densely covered with large and small roads. Bullet craters and broken corpses, most of the buildings on both sides were left with bare walls, and in the center of the city further away, a raging fire was burning.

What made his eyes tear even more was that the traditional Chinese medicine shop full of wounded people was gone last night. From a long distance, he could even see the hospital bed pressed by the beams and the traditional Chinese medicine cabinet burning with flames. .

Walking in despair on the stone road full of corpses, Wei Ran clenched his fists tighter and tighter, the corpses under his feet, the wounded and howling people and soldiers around, and the survivors who were crying and looking for their families in the ruins, all of these, It was like a blunt bamboo stick piercing his eyes and throat inch by inch, causing tears to flow down his face, but he couldn't cry at all.

In the doorway illuminated by the setting sun, Li Hexian looked at Wei Ran's back and sighed silently. Then, as if thinking of something, he reached out his hand to touch his pocket, and took out the bullet casing he picked up on the city wall this morning. At the same time, he couldn't help but think of the terrifying scene he saw at that time.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally put the shell casing back into his pocket, turned around and walked back a few steps alone, after searching around where Wei Ran had been standing, he finally picked up a 9mm shell. The casing of the par bomb.

As night fell, the firefight that lasted all day finally stopped, and Wei Ran, who found nothing on the ruins of the traditional Chinese medicine shop, returned to the Chengdongguan position in despair.

"Eat something!" Seeing Wei Ran approaching, Li Hexian immediately handed over the food and drink that had been reserved for him in advance. There was even a boiled egg in the bamboo basket covered with a coarse cloth.

Wei Ran just picked up the celadon teapot in the basket, filled the rough porcelain bowl with warm tea, and drank it in one gulp.

Seeing that Wei Ran was not in the mood to eat, Li Hexian shook his head at his cousin who was about to say something, pointed to a wooden box not far away, and said casually, "Since you don't have an appetite, let's add some ammunition in advance, this little devil said Not sure what is suitable and rushed up again.

Wei Ran nodded silently, walked to the side of the ammunition box, unpacked a pack of Mauser pistol ammunition, and pressed bullets one by one into the several magazines of the potbellied box.

Li Hexian also walked over almost front and back, sat down beside Wei Ran, and then took out a heavy paper bag from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran.

Wei Ran took it for unknown reason, opened the paper bag, and was surprised to find that there were ten 10mm Par bombs in it!

Seeing that Wei Ran didn't speak, Li Hexian smiled amiably, "A fellow platoon leader of mine used the same kind of ammunition in a handbag. He got it from foreigners when he was a comprador. I used two Two shreds of tobacco, these bullets were just exchanged from him."

"you"

Li Hexian stood up without waiting for Wei Ran to finish speaking, walked back, waved his hands and said, "It's nothing, thank you for saving Suian."

Wei Ran opened his mouth hesitantly, but finally accepted the precious gift silently.

(End of this chapter)