War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 329

"After dawn, I will definitely come over and take a picture of him." Wei Ran solemnly promised.

"Thank you"

Daniela sighed, then gently took the SVT40 semi-automatic rifle from Pavel's corpse and carried it on his shoulder, and put his own Mosin Nagant sniper rifle in the opponent's hand, while saying He muttered to himself, "This gun was awarded to Pavel when Comrade Commander came to inspect the front line not long ago.

Because under the witness of Comrade Commander, he used a rifle without a scope to kill four machine gunners on the opposite German position in succession.At that time, the teacher said that if he killed 100 Germans with this gun, he would personally help him apply for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. "

Speaking of this, Daniela pointed to the four "卌"-shaped notches and one "Chuan"-shaped notch on the left side of the gun stock, and said hoarsely, "He killed 23 Germans with this gun. , It’s still far from 100, the bullet was flying towards me, but he pushed me away and took the shot for me.”

"The rest of the notch is up to you," Nurse Lano said softly, taking the former's hand.

Daniela sighed, took out two lemon grenades from his waist, pulled out the safety pins, and stuffed them under the body of the sniper Pavel.

"Let's go." Daniela finally saluted, extinguished the flashlight, and was the first to walk out of a stone house with only ruins left.

The four of them went back to the big rock waiting for them in Raffle in silence. The young postman saw that they didn't come back with the wounded, and Daniela seemed to have changed a weapon, so he understood something in an instant.

"Tell me about the arrangements after dawn." Daniela suppressed her inner emotions and rubbed her face vigorously.

Hearing this, everyone put up their cloaks and formed a circle around the big rock that was as tall as a person.

Revley turned on the oil lamp and placed it in the middle, while Andre took out a map and placed it under the light of the oil lamp.

"Are you coming or am I coming?" Daniela asked Andre.

"Come on, listen to your thoughts first."

Daniela nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Victor, you and Andre are going to complete the mission together. When the time comes, Lano and I will protect you from a distance and help you attract firepower. If... we don't block it Germans who might show up, you have to lure them away for Andre."

"Danila, what about me?" Revley asked urgently without waiting for the others to speak.

"You go back later," Daniela said without thinking, "We don't all need to die here."

“I will not go back”

Revley said seriously, "If you don't arrange a task for me, I will wait nearby. When the Germans show up, I will ride my horse and lead them away."

"Do you know what it means to stay?" Nurse Lano asked, frowning.

"Know"

Revley nodded seriously, "In short, I will not leave, I will not be a shameful deserter, some of you come from a big city like Moscow, and some come from a safe rear, I am different, away from us Not far from here is the village where I grew up, I have no reason to let you outsiders work hard for our village, while I live like a mouse hiding in the distance, I can't do this kind of thing."

"Then stay here." Artillery observer Andre said abruptly, "Revri, you are with me."

"Okay! Okay!" Raffle nodded excitedly.

Daniela sighed, no longer dwelling on this topic, but instead said, "In this case, Victor, you."

"Let's make a group by myself"

Wei Ran made a decision without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, "I won't be too far away from you, if you have an accident, I will help buy some time, Raffle, then you have to find a way to take Andre Run away, his job is to command the artillery, so don't rush to kill the Germans in front of you."

Seeing that Revley nodded, Daniela looked at Andre and saw that the other party had no objection, so he said, "That's it for now! There is nothing to arrange until we see the artillery position. Revley , Before dawn, take Andre to the edge of the forest to find a place with a good line of sight."

Hearing this, the postman Revley immediately extinguished the oil lamps surrounded by everyone, and led Andre towards the direction of the German artillery positions in the dark.

"Danila, how did you find this place?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice after the two had gone away.

"Originally we were looking for the German command post outside the forest"

Daniela pointed to the direction opposite to the artillery position, "We caught the attention of the Germans after killing a few insignificant characters, and then they chased them into the forest. You know what happened later, Pavel I was wounded trying to save me. I carried him around the forest for a long time before I got rid of the Germans and found them building artillery emplacements on the other side."

Glancing at Nurse Lano who was holding a Mosin Nagant sniper rifle in her arms, Wei Ran wisely didn't ask again, "I'm walking around, so I won't disturb you for now."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party to speak, Wei Ran got up and walked to another direction not far away, letting the thick fog cover his figure.

Hiding behind a thick red pine tree, he took out a portable flagon from the metal book and took a sip. After the sip of wine brought him a little bit of warmth, he eavesdropped on the scene on the other side of the thick fog. While exchanging heartfelt love with their lovers, they took out the food box from the metal book, took out all the chocolates inside and put them in the bag.

Stuffing a piece of chocolate into his mouth, Wei Ran put away the food box and began to think about the next action plan.

There is no doubt that the risks they will face this time mainly come from the encirclement and suppression by the Germans, and it is even very possible that this encirclement and suppression started after the grenade at the mouth of the mine exploded.

Even if the explosion did not attract the attention of the Germans, after the artillery position was destroyed by the Soviet artillery fire directed by Andre, the Germans would definitely realize that there were Soviet artillery observers nearby.

The only difference between the two before and after is that the latter can make them less stressed, but it does not mean that they can survive within the sphere of influence of the Germans.

While Wei Ran was thinking about how to live longer, there were screams one after another in the fog-shrouded forest near the shack where they had stayed.

In the screams, some people stepped on animal traps that could break their legs, and some German shepherds were bitten by animal traps, and some even screamed before they were thrown from the top of their heads. Falling wood hit the helmet, and he either died or lost consciousness.

Just when these German patrols were being played around by the lame Joya, and followed the traces left by the other party to a direction deviated by nearly 90 degrees from Wei Ran and others, he himself yelled in a low voice. The pregnant donkey dragged his few belongings and the two girls from the same village on a small sledge, and slowly ran deeper into the pine forest.

On the side of Wei Ran and others, the artillery observer Andre, after finding a concealed location with a good enough line of sight, followed the postman Raffle back to the stone where Daniela and Nurse Lano stayed behind.

Everyone finally discussed the plan after dawn and possible unexpected situations. By the way, they each got a few pieces of chocolate wrapped in tin foil from Wei Ran.

"Our journalist comrades are like my grandma, they can always conjure up all kinds of delicious things." Andre peeled off a piece of chocolate and took a bite, then rewrapped the rest and put it in the ration bag inside.

"Then we may have to wait here for a long time. Naturally, we have to take out all the good things." Wei Ran fiddled with the camera in his hand and said, "After dawn, I will take a group photo for everyone."

"By the way, can you take a picture with Daniela alone?"

Nurse Lano asked, "If you can survive, this photo will be our wedding photo, if you can't survive, then it will be"

"We will definitely survive." Daniela interrupted without waiting for the former to finish talking about the other possibility. "Of course, we will also take a group photo of the two of us, and Pavel, his photo will also be taken."

"Don't worry, I will definitely take pictures of them all." Wei Ran said in a low voice, "If I have the chance, I even want to take a picture of Qiao Ya, but unfortunately, his shack is too dark, even if I take pictures, I can't see it. clear."

"There will be a chance," Revley said with certainty.

"Okay, let's take a rest before dawn." Wei Ran changed the subject and said, "I'll be on duty at night, you guys go to sleep."

"Wake me up when you're sleepy"

After Raffle finished speaking, he stood up, although he easily comforted the horse borrowed from Joya and lay down on the ground, but he also wrapped the blanket tightly, and closed his eyes against the warm horse's back.

Seeing this, Andre shrugged, imitating the former and leaning on the same side of the draft horse, intentionally or unintentionally giving up the position on the other side to Daniela and Nurse Lano.

Wei Ran, who was still sitting on the edge of the big rock, shook his head, got up and walked a little farther away, hid behind the pine tree just now, took out the half-track motorcycle from the metal book, put the reindeer skin on the car The blanket was untied and draped over his body.

A few hours later, when the morning sun shined through the thick fog to bring some light to the forest, Wei Ran, who hadn't slept all night, immediately put away the animal skin blanket on his body and was ready to start it to run by itself to attract firepower. He urinated on the pine tree beside him, and then walked towards Daniela and the others calmly.

It could be seen that these people were very vigilant. Just when he deliberately stepped on and broke a pine branch, Daniela and Andre sat up in no particular order and raised the weapons they had been holding in their arms.Immediately afterwards, Revley also opened his eyes, only Nurse Lano was still sleeping curled up near the horse's back.

Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, and the three people who had already woken up yawned in no particular order, then put away their weapons and got up.

Everyone posed silently beside the draft horse, and let Wei Ran take a group photo for them. Afterwards, Raffle and Andre moved out of the way, leaving the area covered by the camera to the shoulders and back. Daniela, who was holding a semi-automatic sniper rifle, and Nurse Lano, who was carrying a Mosin Nagant sniper rifle, but snuggled her whole body into the arms of the former.

After taking the two group photos in silence, Wei Ran followed Daniela in silence, and found the body of the sniper Pavel and left him the only photo.

When the crisp shutter sounded, both he and Daniela, who was not far away, knew that what awaited them next would be a desperate situation.

(End of this chapter)