War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 205 One shot and one big snowman

Chapter 205 One shot, one snowman
On the edge of the icy coniferous forest, the thick canvas tent is warmed by the cast-iron wood stove. The burnt-yellow flame is constantly licking the coffee pot, and steam with a strong coffee aroma is evaporating along the spout.

Under a pine tree not far from the tent, the reindeer had already dug through the snow with its thick hooves, and was leisurely nibbling at the remaining lichen on the ground.If you look further away, on the frozen lake facing the tent, there is a man wielding a sapper shovel and making a snowman hard.

These snowmen, which are regularly distributed at a distance of [-] meters, are all about one meter high, with pine branches carefully inserted on both sides, and even wearing a green hat woven with pine needles on the top of their heads.

Farther away, at the other end of the lake, on the shore about two kilometers away from the tent, a pine tree as thick as a thigh with its back against the foot of the mountain has been cut off with excess branches, and the trunk is wrapped with a particularly conspicuous Big red scarf.

After making the last snowman, Wei Ran stood up straight and took a breath, then stepped on the skis stuck to one side and slowly returned to the edge of the tent.

Throwing a few pieces of firewood into the cast-iron stove yesterday, Wei Ran poured himself a large cup of boiling coffee and slowly sipped it, squinting his eyes at the snowmen outside the tent, waiting patiently. Help your body recover from the physical activity you just had.

After a long time, when the coffee in the cup bottomed out, Wei Ran stood up and walked outside the tent, and took out the anti-tank weapon with the cannon from the metal book.

With two feet "哐哐哐", Wei Ran put the unfolded big frame into the trampled snow, turned around and took out a bearskin blanket from the tent, folded it up as a cushion, and sat firmly on it.

The probe looked at the muzzle brake of the gun and confirmed that it matched the magazine full of high-explosive bullets on the gun. Then he shook the crank on the right side of the gun vigorously. With a soft "click", Wei Ran reacted. Wang Fang turned the crank three more times to restore the original position and locked it, then pulled the trigger release button, pushing a high-explosive bomb into the chamber with a crisp click sound.

Unlike most firearms today, the magazine of this anti-tank gun is on the left side of the gun body, and the mechanical sights and optical sights are also on the left side of the gun body. Although it is not uncomfortable to use, it is quite uncomfortable for him.

Reaching out and turning the adjustment wheel in the middle of the cannon, the huge muzzle was slowly raised to a height where Wei Ran didn't have to bend down, and then aimed at the green hat snowman closest to him 200 meters away.

He tried pulling the trigger with a single finger, and the tremendous force made him decisively add another finger.

"boom!"

After a muffled gunshot, the snowman that the mechanical sights aimed at, together with the one-meter-long log buried inside the snowman's body, exploded in all directions under the violent bombardment of high-explosive bombs, sending out sawdust and shock waves. The splashed snowflakes are extraordinarily beautiful.

Compared with the damage caused by this gun, Wei Ran, as a shooter, is more satisfied with the cannon attached to this anti-tank gun.

Before he was sent back by the metal book, he was lucky enough to shoot that half-track armored vehicle. Although the astonishing recoil did not cause his shoulders to hurt, it also pushed him to rub backwards on the snow. A distance of more than ten centimeters.

But now with this gun carriage, most of the power is transmitted to the ground by the two big frames poked into the snow, and the recoil he can feel in the end is stronger than that of a shotgun firing a slug. Children are limited.

Without the fear of the recoil, Wei Ran became more interested, extended the shooting distance a little bit, and took great pleasure in destroying the snowmen he had built up all day long.

After this test, Wei Ran was surprised to find that the accuracy of this anti-tank gun is surprisingly good. Only using mechanical sights, it does not say where to point and shoot within the range of 300 meters, but thanks to the terrifying high-explosive shell With such a large damage range, no snowman can stand still completely.

But beyond 300 meters, it is useless to rely on mechanical sights alone. The front sight is already bigger than a snowman. This is not because the gun is inaccurate, but because manpower cannot achieve it.

Fortunately, this anti-tank also comes with an optical sight. Although the magnification is only a pitiful 2.5 times, but fortunately, the field of view is not bad. At least it can extend the distance of accurate shooting to 700 meters without any problem. .

And this distance is completely sufficient for most battlefields during World War II, and it is even a bit excessive for a weapon whose main task is anti-tank.

However, Wei Ran did not intend to waste the enormous power of this weapon. Although relying on it to damage mainstream tanks on the Soviet-German battlefield at a distance of 700 meters is basically nonsense, but even if it is a little farther away, as long as it is shot accurately, it can at least kill Living goals are definitely enough.

"When we go back, we have to find a way to see if we can change to a scope with a higher magnification."

Wei Ran kept this incident in his heart, then stood up and spread the bearskin blanket under his buttocks on the snow, and removed the anti-tank gun from the gun carriage and replaced it with a new magazine, and continued to adapt to relying on the gun alone. The bipod on the body shoots.

After all, although the cannon car is delicious, it is not suitable for all terrains. In addition, the anti-tank gun itself is not small, and it cannot be used in a narrow environment such as a small wooden boat. Mount the cannon carriage, shall we?
On the other hand, although the recoil force is a little higher due to the lack of the cannon carriage, but because there is an extendable support rod at the position of the gun stock, the shooting accuracy has improved instead.And the most powerful proof is that he only used four bullets, and with the help of that not-so-useful scope, he was very lucky to hit a green hat snowman who was 800 meters away from him. .

Now, Wei Ran didn't care about the recoil anymore. He turned the support rod at the butt position of the gun to lower the height, indirectly raised the muzzle, and aimed the sight in the scope with difficulty at the torso of a snowman one kilometer away.

"boom!"

There was another dull gunshot that spread far away. About two seconds later, a cloud of snowflakes exploded on the mountain two kilometers away from him on the opposite side of the lake.After waiting for a few more seconds, Wei Ran, who had already raised his binoculars, heard an explosion blowing with the wind.

Rubbing his shoulders that were sore from continuous shooting, Wei Ran put away the binoculars and lay down again, aiming at the selected target and pulling the trigger again.

In this test, his ultimate goal was to hit the pine tree wearing a red scarf two kilometers away, but it was obvious that this was not an easy task.

After intermittently emptying three magazines with a total of 30 bullets, Wei Ran had to temporarily stop his work. He didn't want to be unable to sleep at night due to shoulder pain.

Getting up from the soft bearskin blanket, before Wei Ran picked up the anti-tank gun and was about to reload it on the gun carriage, Wei Ran suddenly thought, can these two be stored separately in the metal book?If possible, it will undoubtedly save a lot of trouble for future use.

Thinking of this, his heart moved, and the main body of the anti-tank gun that he had just picked up disappeared in an instant, and he himself sat on the thick snow because of the unbalanced center of gravity.

Struggling to get up, Wei Ran quickly put his hands on the cannon carriage, and then watched the cannon carriage disappear completely from before his eyes.

"This is something to play!"

Wei Ran became interested, and experimented again and again to summon the cannon cart or the anti-tank gun, or summon them together, and finally figured out the pattern.

If these two things are separated, you can take out any one at will, but if you take out the two together, they will only be randomly piled up together, and it is easy to hit your own feet.If they are combined, they can only appear together.In addition, the only exception is the two ammunition boxes on the gun carriage. No matter how they are combined, they can be taken out separately.

After figuring out how to use it, Wei Ran picked up the bullet casings he had just used, put them all into the food box, then stepped on his skis and slid to the messy lake surface to carefully observe the damage effect, and finally picked up a few pieces inlaid with The fragments of broken wood returned contentedly to the tent that was steaming with heat.

Throwing the collected wood into the cast-iron stove, Wei Ran reheated the pot of stewed venison that was left over from yesterday's meal, and roasted a few big pieces of venison by the way.

Taking advantage of this little gap before eating, he took out the guqin in the metal book and plucked the strings to continue practicing the wasted piece of Xianweng's exercise. At the same time, he began to think about the arrangements for the next few days in his mind.

Since the end of the last course, nearly a week has passed since I went back and forth to Germany plus the delay in the middle.It is undoubtedly too late to go back to China right now, and it seems a bit rushed to go to Finland to look at the address and the string of detailed coordinates provided in the metal book, and he doesn't want to find out the answer so quickly.

After all, the rafters in the early days are rotten first, and now the identity he has worked so hard to disguise is just right, if he is too showy, he must be the only one who is unlucky in the end.

After much deliberation, Wei Ran finally decided to go back to Volgograd after finishing the remaining bullets, firstly to replenish some ammunition.Secondly, maybe you can ask Mr. Alexander to see if he can help process a suitable scope base.

After making up his mind, Wei Ran brought down the boiling stainless steel pot, and filled his stomach with the scorched Da Lieba. Continue to build a snowman on the ice.

The reason why the snowman was used as a target was naturally to leave as little trace as possible of the anti-tank gun. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to work hard to bring back the hit logs on the lake and use them as firewood.

Busy from dawn to dusk, when the brilliant aurora appeared above the head, Wei Ran piled up a large snowman and returned to the warm tent panting. After filling the wood stove with fuel, he immediately got into the thick bearskin blanket inside.

(End of this chapter)

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like