War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 326 The Aria Resounding Through the Battlefield
While waiting for the return of political commissar Sergey, Wei Ran obtained an oil barrel from the young soldier Boris without the slightest smell of fuel, and then walked to the distance alone, hiding under a hole that could completely block him Behind the oak tree, he poured all the barrel of vodka he brought into it, and also filled his own kettle by the way.

He took the emptied oil barrel back into the metal book, and he put the oil barrel full of vodka on the branch of the oak tree.

After returning to the trench, he found Boris who was still waiting for him. Wei Ran led him to find the oak tree again and said, "Boris, do me a favor. After Daniela and I set off, you come here, Give Captain Valentin the barrel of oil on the oak tree. Remember, this must be done after Danila and I have set off."

Boris looked up at the faintly visible oil drum on the oak tree, then at Wei Ran, and finally nodded, "I will help you deliver the oil drum to Company Commander Valentin on time."

"Okay, let's go back." Wei Ran patted each other's shoulders, and the two returned to the trench one after the other.

In such a short time, political commissar Sergey has brought an artillery observer.The spotter carried a Bobosa submachine gun over his shoulder and a radio with a tarpaulin cover on his back.

The postman Raffle also received a Bobosa submachine gun and several magazines, and even a canvas ammunition bag with two lemon grenades on his belt.As for Nurse Lano, she also had a Mosin Nagant rifle with a scope in her hand at this time.

Based on these alone, it is known that Company Commander Valentin and Political Commissar Sergey have agreed to her and Daniela's request.

"Let me introduce"

Political Commissar Sergey said succinctly, "This is Andre, the artillery observer who is working with you. Your task is not only to lead Andre to find the German artillery position, but also to protect his safety."

Having said that, Commissar Sergey paused and added, "After completing the task, you will lurk nearby and continue to observe the German positions until you receive an order to retreat."

"Comrade Commissar, what about me?"

Wei Ran asked, one of his return missions is to assist Lano to complete the cover mission. As for the cover mission, he does not know, but he knows that he still has a mission to kill at least 10 German soldiers. .

Political Commissar Sergei glanced at Wei Ran, sighed and waved his hands, "Comrade reporter, please come back alive, there are still soldiers in our position waiting to be interviewed by you."

"And vodka, I'll wait for your promise to be fulfilled when you come back."

Valentin next to him reminded that while speaking, he personally distributed a bulging sack and a helmet wrapped in canvas to everyone.In addition, they each got a new cloak, and Wei Ran, like the postman Raffle, got a Bobosa submachine gun and matching ammunition.

"Give me some extra rifle bullets!" Wei Ran made his own request after putting on the equipment he got.

Hearing this, Valentin immediately dug out an ammunition bag full of rifle bullets from the ammunition box not far away and handed it over.

Putting the ammunition into his pocket, Wei Ran raised his camera and took a photo of the postman Raffle, then handed the camera to Company Commander Valentin, "Take a group photo for us."

Valentin nodded when he heard the words, then handed the camera to the soldier Boris who had been standing not far away, and then, together with the political commissar Sergey, called everyone to stand in a row and took a group photo.

"Okay, it's time for us to go." Danila, the sniper who hadn't had much communication with Wei Ran, urged, "We'll have to wait until the night when the fog clears."

"immediately!"

Wei Ran quickly took out the film from the camera, stuffed it together with the film taken a few days ago and his own satchel to Company Commander Valentin, and then loaded the last reserved film into the camera Said, "When I get back, trade vodka for these things."

"I'll wait for you to come back to exchange these things." Valentin took Wei Ran's satchel, and then raised his hands together with Commissar Sergey to give a military salute.

The crowd returned a quick salute, and then, led by the postman Raffle, ran along the trench to the polluted water source.

"Revri, are you sure you can go around here?" Daniela asked in a low voice, "When I came back, the Germans were already searching for me, and"

"Don't worry, there are only five of us, they won't be able to catch us," Revley replied confidently, then motioned for everyone to keep quiet, and followed him all the way to the end of the trench.

Looking at the pond in the distance that was shrouded in mist and exuding a stench, Raffle climbed out of the trench carefully, and then beckoned everyone to follow.

A group of people followed each other out of the trench, crawled along the edge of the pond and moved laterally, a little bit away from the position behind them in the thick fog.

In the trenches, the soldier Boris also sent the half barrel of vodka to Valentin as agreed with Wei Ran.

"It seems that our comrade journalists don't plan to come back either." Political commissar Sergey sighed, and the smell of alcohol wafting from the oil barrels also became unattractive.

"Sergey, are you and Tonya really not friends?" Captain Valentin asked, lighting a cigarette.

"We are classmates"

Commissar Sergei took out the group photo, pointed to the crossed-out names on the back and said, "We are still members of the same choir, but look, the only one who can continue to sing now may be myself Some of the others died, some were injured like Tonya, and some I don't know where they went."

"Sergey"

Captain Valentin flicked a few puffs of cigarettes, and said with a smile on his face, "Sing a song, let's sing a song with our trumpet, how about singing the song you usually hum? "

"aria?"

Political Commissar Sergey hesitated for a moment, looked up at the direction where Wei Ran and others disappeared, then turned his head to look at the direction of the emergency station behind the position, then stood up, "Then sing an aria from "Rigerto!" "

Soon, Commissar Sergei's loud singing sounded from the loudspeaker in the center of the position. The singing passed through the fog and penetrated into the German position two hundred meters away.At this time, a German soldier was climbing onto a wooden pole to repair the loudspeaker that suddenly broke down two days ago.

However, after hearing the singing from the opposite side, he immediately cut off a few wires at the end of the speaker with the small pliers in his hand, and then shouted down, "Our speaker is broken, maybe we need to replace it with a new one. Okay, go talk to the quartermaster!"

"Are the three horns broken?" a chain dog under the wooden pole asked with his neck up.

The German soldiers on the wooden poles cut off the wires of the other two speakers and responded, "It may be that the rain these days caused a short circuit, and they are all broken."

While the chain dog under the wooden pole was cursing secretly, in the first aid station behind the Soviet army, Tonya, whose neck and face were wrapped in gauze, hummed silently along with Commissar Sergei's song, and at the same time remembered The agreement with those friends of the choir.

"After the war is over, we must go to the stage of the Big Petrov Theater to sing the complete Rigoletto. So before the end of the war, everyone must try to survive and practice their voices. Finally, when the time comes Let's compete on stage to see which bastard has the most medals on his chest!"

"Another agreement, we all go to the front line to fight the Germans, and no one is allowed to hide in the military band and wait to die."

"How about we all hide the fact that we're members of the choir?"

"Then it's decided!"

"Then it's decided"

Lying on the hospital bed, Tonya muttered silently, briefly glanced at her fractured thigh, then closed her eyes calmly, and silently contacted the voice part she was in charge of.

"Is the artist singing?" Daniela muttered in a low voice, "I didn't see him when I came back."

Nurse Lano opened her mouth to say something, when Wei Ran, who was crawling side by side on the other side of Daniela, hurriedly said, "It's him, he taught us how to sing in the morning."

"He shouldn't be here." Daniela sighed, then closed his mouth, silently followed the postman Raffle in front of him, and continued to hide behind the bushes by the lake and move forward a little bit.

Under the leadership of Revley, a group of five people circled around the smelly pond for more than half a circle, then got into a dense grass, and continued to move forward slowly in a line.

At the most dangerous time, they could even hear the voices of Germans talking on the other side of the thick fog, and they could smell the aroma of coffee and even broth from the German positions.

At this time, everyone remained absolutely silent, and every movement was as slow as a frozen lizard.

Cautiously walking through the wild grass, Raffle at the front didn't get up at all, and led the people behind him to move forward along a canal that was at most half a meter deep and one meter wide.

At the end of this canal is a small apple orchard, but the apples on the tree have been picked by the nearby Germans long ago, and even the wooden house on the side of the apple orchard was burned to pieces .On one of the apple trees, there were still five stinking corpses hanging.

Among the bodies were two old men, two young men, and a young boy who looked to be eleven or twelve at most.

Raffle glanced at the corpse hanging on the tree, and then looked away after a short pause, leading the crowd through the apple orchard and into a small birch forest next to them.

"It's safe for now"

Revley said in a low voice, and then called Wei Ran and others to come around and explain, "Next, we only need to pass through the fire points of the two German machine guns to get around, but we have to wait until night."

"Revri, this direction seems to be opposite to the direction I'm going." Daniela reminded after enduring all the way.

"don't worry"

Revley said confidently, "As long as we bypass these two firepower points, the rear will be much safer, and I can even borrow a horse-drawn sledge to take you wherever you want to go."

"Can we destroy these two firepower points?" Nurse Lano asked in a low voice.

"No." Revley and artillery observer Andre gave negative answers at the same time.

"It's easy to kill them," Raffle said, shaking the submachine gun in his hand, "There are only five or six people in the two firepower points, but if we kill them, we won't be able to come back from here."

Nurse Lano nodded awkwardly, "I didn't expect that."

"Okay, let's keep our voices quieter."

Revley finally said in a low voice, "Although there are not many Germans here, we can't run away if we encounter a patrol. Now I will hide everyone with fallen leaves, and we will continue to set off in the evening." Bar."

Although Daniela was impatient, she also knew that she had to be more calm at this time, so she simply followed Raffle's arrangement.

Speaking of which, this young postman is quite clever. He actually found a tree hole for Daniela and Nurse Lano where brown bears hibernate. and then arranged Andre in a depression surrounded by a bush, while himself and Wei Ran hid on the left and right sides of Andre respectively, making the three of them face to face in a similar manner The angle of the Mercedes-Benz logo is hidden in the thick pile of fallen leaves.

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