War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 318 The Siblings Who Met in the Field Hospital
After staying with Mr. Charlotte in Italy for three days, Wei Ran saw that he had nothing to do next, so he found some excuses and returned to Volgograd with the two letters of authorization.

Seeing that the precious vacation of only half a month was wasted for nearly a week, and thinking about the huge sum of money spent to buy a house for Kajianka not long ago, Wei Ran felt physically and mentally exhausted for a while, and at the same time was full of Motivation to make money.

Glancing at the long wooden box from Moscow that was still on the long table, he took a deep breath, and finally decided to take a nap first to relax his tense nerves.

He locked the shutter door and got into the warm bedroom and slept comfortably until noon the next day. Then he got up and made a decent lunch for himself. After eating and drinking, he went out to the supermarket for a big purchase.

With this purchase, he replaced the contents of the food box with chocolates and seasonings, and then emptied the oil barrel full of high-concentration alcohol and poured in bottles of frozen cold vodka.In the end, all the bullets in the anti-tank gun magazine were replaced with the original ammunition seven or eighty years ago.

After making all possible preparations, Wei Ran finally mustered up the courage to open the long wooden box that Teacher Daria brought back from Moscow.

Just like what I saw in the apartment in the ring building in Moscow, there are not many things in this box, a telescope that has been hit by a bullet, a pair with a scope, notches and two rings SVT40 semi-automatic rifle, a Soviet cloak and helmet.

Of course, in addition to these, there is also a piece of information about the owner of the apartment and his father provided by Teacher Daria.It's a pity that what is recorded in this information is an ordinary family and has no reference value at all.

Taking out the things other than the materials and placing them on the long table one by one, Wei Ran took a deep breath and summoned the metal book.

As always, the metal book on the table automatically turned to the blank page 16, and the metal quill also automatically floated up, drawing a picture of Su lying on a stretcher on the pale yellow paper. army soldier.

The soldier was wearing a steel helmet, and the binoculars hanging from his neck had slipped to the edge of the stretcher.The body is covered with a Soviet cloak, but a very recognizable muzzle is exposed at the shoulder position. There is no doubt that this soldier is holding an SVT40 semi-automatic rifle under the cloak.

Role identity: Pravda reporter Victor
Return mission: Assist the field nurse Lano to find her fiancé, kill at least 10 German soldiers, assist Lano to complete the cover mission, and take at least 5 photos.

Pravda reporter again?
Wei Ran muttered to himself, he still remembered the first time he was sent back to the battlefield of Stalingrad by the metal notebook, he used his identity as a reporter from Pravda.

In his thoughts, more and more intense white light gradually filled his field of vision, and at the same time, he also smelled the smell of damp soil, disinfectant, and the unique smell of birch forest.

When the white light faded and his vision returned to normal, Wei Ran immediately found himself lying on an iron frame hospital bed.On the left and right hospital beds, there were still wounded lying next to each other.

"Are you awake?" Just as he was looking around, a thin female nurse came over with a tray and asked.

"What's wrong with me?" Wei Ran subconsciously lifted the blanket off his body, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't have a broken leg or a broken arm.

"According to the wounded who was sent with you, you were buried in the soil stirred up by the blast wave at the front line." The lady nurse began to change the dressing of the wounded on the other bed next to him while talking.

"Is there anything I can do for you?"

Wei Ran tried to stand up, and immediately asked after seeing that there was no feedback from the body, and at the same time, he was secretly wondering whether the nurse in front of him was the Lano mentioned in the return mission.

"You are helping us by getting the bed out as soon as possible."

The thin nurse continued without looking back, "Your personal belongings are in the wooden basket under the bed. If you think you are fine, you can leave now. If you don't want to go back to the dangerous battlefield, you can use your It's still an excuse for dizziness, as long as you don't worry about being court-martialed."

Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly bent down and pulled out the wooden basket under the bed. There were not many things in the box, only a Soviet-style water bottle and a bulging canvas bag.

In the canvas bag, in addition to two film rolls in airtight tubes, there is also a Leica camera stained with mud and a small notebook with plastic skin.

Putting the canvas bag on his shoulders, Wei Ran blew the dirt off the camera, and then pressed the shutter on the ward full of wounded.

After taking the first photo, he walked out of the canvas tent full of hospital beds and found that he was in a dense birch forest shrouded in mist. As far as he could see, there were only a few people hiding under the trees. In addition to the canvas tents, there are sheets or strips of gauze drying on ropes between the trees.

And in the forest glade not far away, there is a log building that looks like a hunter's cabin.In the thick fog, soldiers would run in from outside the birch forest with stretchers from time to time, and hurriedly sent them into the building that looked like a hunter's hut.

Similarly, from time to time, some wounded were carried out of the hunter's hut, either into tents, or into the depths of the birch forest shrouded in dense fog.

"Rano! Rano! Come here!"

While Wei Ran was in a daze, there were bursts of shouts from the direction of the hunter's hut. Immediately afterwards, the female nurse who had just had a short exchange in the tent came out and asked while running towards the direction of the hunter's hut, " What's wrong?"

"Your brother Ivan! The person on the operating table is your brother Ivan!" At the door of the hunter's hut, a middle-aged woman also wearing a white coat waved and shouted vigorously.

Soon, Lano was pulled into the hunter's hut by the other party, and not long after, a thin young soldier who seemed to be in his early 20 years old at most was carried out by a stretcher, and followed Lano into Wei Ran That tent that just came out.

Under the observation of Wei Ran, the soldier was carried by the crowd to lie on the hospital bed, while the nurse named Lano just looked at the young soldier's amputated right arm with red eyes.

"Sister, it's already fine, at least I survived, right?"

The young Ivan comforted, "At least I didn't injure myself like those soldiers who pretended to be injured. Although my hand was beaten by the Germans, at least I can leave the battlefield alive and go home, can't I?"

The optimistic young soldier said so much in one breath, and Nurse Lano, who had been holding back tears, finally smiled, "It's true to think so, at least you can bring your medal and go home alive."

"I don't know if mom and dad are okay, I haven't heard from them for a long time."

Ivan glanced at the severed arm wrapped in gauze again, pretending to be relaxed and said, "But I will be able to see them soon."

"They should be fine, after all, they are so far away from the battlefield." Nurse Lano hesitated for a moment and asked, "Ivan, is Daniela okay? Do you have any news about him?"

Ivan shook his head, and after a moment of silence shook his head, "I only know that his company was sent to the west of the forest. The last time I saw him was two weeks ago. A scoped rifle, and I haven't seen him since. But at least I haven't heard of his death."

Hearing this, Nurse Lano sighed, "I see, Ivan, if you concentrate on recovering from your injuries, someone will probably send you home soon. Remember to tell your parents that I love them and let them not worry about me."

"I don't care if you tell them in person when you go back."

The young Ivan looked around, "Sister, can you get me something to eat? It's best to get me a glass of wine. I haven't had a drop of wine in a month."

"Where's the wine you're rationed?" Lano was indeed changed from the subject, "Isn't every soldier given 100 grams of vodka?"

"100 grams of vodka with water"

Ivan complained angrily, "The vodka allocated to our company was blown up by a German plane before it could be moved off the truck. That's our monthly quota!"

What he said not only caused the other eavesdropping wounded in the tent to burst into laughter, even Wei Ran who was standing outside the canvas tent almost laughed out loud.

"I'll get you something to eat." Nurse Lano said helplessly, "But you don't have to think about vodka, we don't have a vodka quota here."

"Comrade Lano, if you don't have vodka, alcohol will do."

On a hospital bed closest to Ivan, a middle-aged soldier whose legs had been amputated shouted angrily, "If I can fill up my water bottle with disinfectant alcohol, maybe I can grow two legs tomorrow." White and tender new legs."

"It seems like this happened"

Another soldier lying in the far corner of the tent shouted again and again, "I heard that when fighting the Finns a few years ago, a soldier grew a new palm after his limb was amputated."

"How is that possible!" In the tent full of wounded, all the amputee wounded, including Ivan, questioned in unison, but then someone asked excitedly, "Tell me, how did he do it? "

"I heard he killed a Finnish prisoner"

The soldier who was the first to talk nonsense lowered his voice solemnly, and continued after attracting everyone's curiosity, "Then he chopped off the palm of the Finn and ate it, of course, with a lot of vodka to eat raw It fell off. Although it sounds disgusting, but when he sobered up the next day, he grew new palms, but it's a pity."

"What's the pity?" Ivan believed it to be true and asked after him.

"It's a pity that his left palm was amputated, but what he ate was his right palm, so he has two right palms."

Speaking of this, the wounded in the tent finally realized that this bastard was fooling them. For a moment, everything including pillows and enamel water cups flew onto the man's head.

Nurse Lano, who was also fooled, rolled her eyes, shook her head helplessly at Ivan who was gnashing his teeth, turned around and walked out of the tent to get him some food.

Outside the tent, Wei Ran, who was also dumbfounded, also inserted the camera lens through the ventilation window of the canvas tent, pointed at these soldiers who were having fun, and pressed the shutter again.

(End of this chapter)