War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 31 The last supply before the war
At the same time that Kaze called for artillery fire to attack the enemy, in the temporary command post at position 19, the Aleutian company commander who was chatting with Zoya also stood up frowning.

"Something is wrong." Aleutian turned around the table, "Zoya, call Vanya."

Zoya heard the words and immediately walked towards the exit of the command post.

"And our postman Victor," Captain Aleutian added.

Zoya waved her hand, and less than five minutes after getting out of the command post, she called Vanya and the sleepy Wei Ran back.

After working hard for the past few days, Wei Ran was really happy to be able to sneak into the command of the 19th position, but he immediately realized that something was wrong after hearing the listening content relayed by Captain Aleutian.

"Simply put, Kaze just directed our artillery to hit a high-value German target?"

Wei Ran anxiously asked the question that everyone was worried about, "So this is a conspiracy by the Germans? According to the news we got before, the main force of the Germans has been piled up on the east side of the group army position, but there are still a lot of people around here. Hidden targets worthy of artillery strikes, so."

"So our previous guess was correct." Vanya said with a gloomy face, "Maybe our place is where they really want to tear apart."

"Notify everyone, continue to expand the trenches, and at the same time collect as many weapons and ammunition as possible. Our logistics materials are all going to support the current frontal battlefield. The materials left by the Germans on the battlefield are our only source of supplies." After finishing speaking, the Aleutian company commander looked at Zoya, "It's time for you to leave here, I don't want to."

Zoya didn't wait for Captain Aleushin to finish speaking, she reached out and covered his mouth lightly, "I'm a war reporter, and I'm a soldier."

"Comrade Zoya"

Before Company Commander Aleutian could speak, Wei Ran said, "If possible, can you help me deliver the letter to the rear? You are the only person we all trust here."

The Aleutian company commander's eyes lit up, Wei Ran's excuse was quite good.But I didn't want Zoya to simply shake her head, "I have a job as a reporter, and you have a job as a postman. We can do our own jobs well."

Looking at Zoya who had left earlier, the three men in the command post looked at each other, and finally shook their heads helplessly.

Under the emergency mobilization of the Aleutians and Vanya, all the soldiers in the 19th position were organized. Except for a small number of people lying on the trenches and continuing to guard, more than half of the remaining people were stepping up to dig the trenches.

The other half, led by Vanya, walked through the barbed wire fence, and searched for all kinds of weapons that could be used from the corpses of Germans and tank wrecks, just like the swarms of crows on the smelly battlefield. .

This is also the first time that Wei Ran left the trenches of Position 19 in a real sense. Looking around, the wasteland full of shell craters is full of corpses, and there are even some German soldiers who were injured and survived faintly calling for help. .

"puff"

Vanya stabbed the bayonet attached to the rifle into the chest of a German soldier who was still alive, and then pulled the bayonet out after turning the butt of the rifle back and forth to smash the opponent's heart, and then said in a low voice, "If you encounter someone who is not dead, you must kill the other party before collecting supplies. Unless it is an emergency, try not to shoot."

Seeing everyone nodding behind a tank wreckage, Vanya continued, "In a group of three, focus on collecting machine guns and machine gun ammunition, followed by grenades, and finally submachine guns and bullets. Our collection range is limited to the barbed wire. 50 meters away, after collecting all those just now, move the shells that may exist in the tank again, they are equally useful. Are there any questions?"

Seeing everyone shaking their heads in unison, Vanya immediately waved, "Hurry up!"

Everyone, including Wei Ran, dispersed in a rush, and carefully searched for usable supplies on the wet and slippery battlefield.

Following two soldiers who had heard their own stories, pulling a small sledge temporarily made of shell casings, wooden sticks, and canvas, the three of them carefully searched for every sentence of the corpse on the smelly battlefield, and took out worthwhile words from it. The weapons taken away were thrown into the sledge.

"Good luck, look what I found!"

One of the young soldiers, who looked no more than 20 years old at most, pulled out a P38 pistol from the waist of a corpse. There was even a piece of rotten intestine hanging from the cowhide holster of this pistol.

"This is the good stuff"

Another soldier dug out a small bottle of wine from a corpse's bag, smashed open the bottle with a bayonet, raised his head and took a big gulp into his mouth, then handed it to Wei Ran, "Victor, have a sip." !"

"Thank you"

Wei Ran took the wine, followed the example of the other party and poured a big gulp into his mouth, then handed it to the soldier who had just found the pistol.

Instead of participating in the wine distribution, Wei Ran walked to a corpse, and was about to pull out the two grenades from the other's waist, but he didn't expect his wrist to be held by the left hand of the "corpse".

Subconsciously, he was about to pull out the bayonet from his belt, but he didn't expect that the other party would let go of his hand, moved his arm with difficulty, and pointed at his chest tremblingly.

Turning his head to look at the two companions who were drinking, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, and finally helped him unbutton the other party's gesture, and took out a blood-soaked silver cigarette case from the inside pocket.

Seeing the pleading eyes of the other party, Wei Ran opened the cigarette case, took out a cigarette from it and stuffed it into the other party's mouth, but didn't want the dying German soldier to shake his head indistinctly, still staring at the cigarette in the former's hand cigarette case.

It wasn't until this time that Wei Ran noticed that at the bottom of this silver cigarette case, there seemed to be a picture of being pressed by cigarettes.

Carefully took out the photo and glanced at it. In this photo, there is a young and handsome young man with a wolf dog. He is holding a beautiful woman with a happy face in his arms. baby.

Passing this photo to the other party's hand, the German soldier's eyes softened a lot, and he opened his mouth and said something silently to Wei Ran.

Seeing that Wei Ran nodded and seemed to understand what he said, the German soldier struggled to squeeze out an ugly smile covered in blood, and as the photo in his hand slipped, his eyes gradually lost their luster.

'Another child has lost his father'

Wei Ran just felt a little dull, and after putting the silver cigarette case in his pocket, he numbly took off the two long-handled grenades that were also stained with blood from the opponent's waist and sent them to the simple sledge.

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