War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 4 Oleg's House

"No, nothing"

Wei Ran quickly waved his hand, he naturally would not tell Lieutenant Lev that tomorrow in history, that is, September 1942, 9, the Soviet Front Army really took back the Mamayev Post temporarily, after which the Soviet Union The two sides continued to occupy this highland alternately, and the battle situation became more and more tragic day by day.And this point in time was even written in his college textbook.

"Okay, the shelling is over. You can run towards the Volga River. There are large troops there. If you are lucky, you may be able to leave here alive." Lieutenant Lev was about to get up and leave the trench while speaking, but he didn't want to be caught. Wei Ran, who has quick eyes and quick hands, pulled him back again.

"I'll go with you" Wei Ran said before the other party opened his mouth.

If what the cowhide book said was true, and he wanted to return to the original world, one of the important tasks was to help Lieutenant Lev complete the task.In other words, whether he wanted to die with Lieutenant Lev or not, as long as he wanted to go back, he had no choice.

Lieutenant Lev looked at Wei Ran seriously, and after a moment of silence, he pointed to the corpses everywhere in the trench and said, "I'll give you a minute to pick up some useful weapons, and we'll set off in a minute."

"Okay, okay!"

Wei Ran quickly let go of his hand, endured the stench of dead bodies, gritted his teeth, found five or six full-loaded magazines and two long-handled grenades from the bodies of several German soldiers, and pinned them to his belt.

"Your camera is too in the way," Lieutenant Lev couldn't help reminding.

"I'm a reporter" Wei Ran said while stuffing the camera into his arms. He didn't forget that another task that was prompted in the leather notebook was to take 6 photos.

"Let's go when we're ready"

Lieutenant Lev didn't insist anymore, and after carefully observing the surrounding area, he climbed out of the trench and rushed towards the ruins of the building on the other side of the street.

Wei Ran, who followed closely behind, quickened his pace while recalling the history learned in professional courses, but although every key node time and event was recorded in history, it was impossible to record every detail on the battlefield, otherwise If so, he and Professor Alexei would not have spent so much effort and failed to find the clue of the T-34 tank.

Entering the ruins of the building without any risk, Lieutenant Lev gestured for silence, and proceeded cautiously along the cracks in the walls.

Wei Ran, who was walking behind, looked around nervously, for fear that a group of German soldiers would rush out from any corner.But as the two moved forward, amidst the sound of gunfire one after another, the sound of the firefight directly in front became more and more clear.

Lieutenant Lev, who was walking in front, stopped, turned around and pressed his palms towards Wei Ran. The latter immediately understood what the other party meant, quickly lowered his figure, and hurriedly followed.

With the help of the cover of the surrounding ruins, the two continued to move forward cautiously.As the distance got closer, they finally saw clearly that on the edge of the ruins, in a shell crater with a diameter of five or six meters, six or seven German soldiers were madly heading towards the ruins directly in front of them. strafing.

And in the very center of the crater, there are still two unlucky guys who were shot in the chest and a soldier who was yelling something into the radio station.

Seeing that Lev had already pulled out the grenade, Wei Ran quickly grabbed the opponent's wrist and shook his head, then pointed to the direction of the shell crater, and imitated the gesture of the German soldier holding a radio station.

Lieutenant Lev seemed to understand what he meant, nodded and inserted the grenade back into his waist, picked up the Bobosha submachine gun again and pulled the trigger!

"Da da da!"

Amidst the clear gunshots, the German soldier who was operating the radio station was the first to be shot in the chest. Lieutenant Lev, who paused for a while, saw that Wei Ran hadn't fired, and immediately raised the muzzle of his gun slightly, rushing to catch up with the remaining enemies. Hit them in the back before turning around.

"Although the gun in your hand is made in Germany, it can still kill Germans." Lieutenant Lev muttered half as a joke, half as a reminder, and then jumped into the bullet hole full of corpses with his gun in his hand.

Wei Ran opened his mouth. Although he often went hunting with Professor Alexey, he mostly hunted wild boars and wild ducks, but he never aimed his gun at anyone.But now is not the time to do psychological construction. After recovering, he quickly crawled forward and crawled into the bomb crater.

"Can you understand German?" Lieutenant Lev pulled away the corpses lying on the radio station, and asked Wei Ran while searching for their supplies.

"I don't understand, do you understand?"

Wei Ran squatted next to the radio station and asked, he had seen this station before, it was a Feld. It was already a high-tech product at that time, and it didn't even start to be devolved into infantry platoons until 1941.

And the reason why he is so familiar with it is because Professor Alexey's studio has the same model that he doesn't know where to find.But it's useless just seeing it. Even Professor Alexis is not very proficient in using it, let alone him.

"I haven't learned German." Lieutenant Lev pointed his gun at the radio station and was about to pull the trigger while speaking.

"Wait a minute!" Wei Ran quickly stopped the other party, "Keep this radio station for now, maybe it can be used."

Lieutenant Lev frowned and asked, "Do you know how to use it?"

"I know how to use it, I'm a reporter." Wei Ran gritted his teeth and said, he understood, but if he said no, this guy who didn't look much older than himself would definitely pull the trigger.

But Wei Ran, who majored in history, knows that communication or intelligence is more powerful than the gun in his hand. As long as they can find someone who can understand German, they may be able to get more useful information from this radio station.

"You carry it on your own"

Lieutenant Lev took a telescope from the neck of a corpse, tried to see that it was still usable, and immediately hung it around his neck, and then took out a notebook from the arms of another corpse After looking at it, he frowned and stuffed it into his arms.

"I carry it on my back"

Wei Ran glanced at the corpse bleeding from the corner of his mouth, endured his nausea and took off the earphones and microphones, fumbled to put them on by himself, then picked up the radio and carried it on his shoulder, but he was almost carrying the radio on his back In an instant, he regretted it.

This big iron lump looks about the size of a large shoebox, but it weighs quite a bit, at least forty catties.With such a thing on his shoulders, not to mention a snake-bone antenna swinging at least one meter above the top of his head, the danger can be imagined in this chaotic battlefield.

Lieutenant Lev couldn't bear to watch Wei Ran die, so he reached out to help him lift the antenna down into a circle and hang it around Wei Ran's neck, "If it's not too heavy, just carry it on your back, maybe it can help you block a bullet."

Wei Ran was too lazy to talk nonsense with the other party, so he directly changed the subject and said, "Which direction shall we go next?"

Lieutenant Lev did not reply in a hurry, but climbed to the edge of the shell crater, took off the boat cap on his head and shook it vigorously in front of him. Not long after, a building with only three floors left flashed. There was an imperceptible reflection.

"Let's go find the sniper, and hurry up." Lieutenant Lev put on his boat cap again and climbed out of the crater.

Seeing this, Wei Ran, who was carrying a radio, hurriedly followed. Under the cover of broken arms and scrapped tanks, the two trotted through the ruins of another building with only its foundation and the street full of trenches, and slipped into the The building where the sniper was.

Almost at the same time that the two of them had just climbed up to the second floor, a half-grown man who looked at most fifteen or sixteen years old came out of a room not far away with a gun in his hand.

Glancing at the Mosin Nagant rifle with an optical sight in the opponent's hand, Lieutenant Lev slightly lowered the muzzle, "Were you sniping those Germans just now?"

Seeing this, the middle-aged boy simply put away his gun, "It's me, how did you get behind them? This area was completely occupied by the Germans a week ago."

"My tank is over there." Lev briefly explained, and then stretched out his hand and said, "I am Lieutenant Lev from the 644 Independent Tank Battalion, and this is Victor, a reporter from Pravda."

"Oleg, I'm Oleg." The half-sized man reached out his hand and shook Wei Ran's hand, then made way for the two to follow into the room, "Welcome to my house."

"This is your house?"

Wei Ran looked around and said that the walls of the house here are full of praise, the wall facing the direction of the shell crater has less than one meter left, and the other three walls are also densely covered with bullet marks. As for the ceiling above the head There is nothing at all, and you can see the planes flying by with thick smoke and the puffs from the anti-aircraft guns without any hindrance.

There were even broken bricks all over the floor, so that there was no complete floor, only a wooden bed padded with bricks barely kept its job.

And between the small bed and the doorway, there was a bonfire heating a tin can that I didn't know where to get, but the mush boiled in the tin can couldn't tell what it was.

"Sooner or later, I will restore this place to how it was before." Oleg said with great confidence.

"How long have you been here?" Lieutenant Lev asked while observing the surrounding environment.

"From the beginning of the war to the present," Oleg sat down on the bricks by the bonfire, and said in a slightly smug tone, "I have killed nearly 20 Germans."

"Get out of here as soon as possible, the Germans will come to you soon." Lieutenant Lev's words made Wei Ran and Oleg's faces full of astonishment.

(End of this chapter)