War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 490 The Hope of Living
At the crossroads where the cold wind was howling, two half-track motorcycles were pulling a large enough pine branch behind each of the cargo boxes.

After the other two young men quickly collected all the loot they could find, they immediately drove into the coniferous forest on the right side of the road under the command of the middle-aged man named Kang Tan.

Before setting off, Wei Ran took out the Soviet cloak from the metal book and put it on his body again. As for the origin of the cloak, he was almost frozen to death so he didn't care how to explain it. At worst, he picked it up on the road.

"Dorian, turn off the lights!" Kang Tan, who was sitting next to Wei Ran, twisted his neck and shouted.

"But."

Before the boy in the Soviet Budyonny winter hat finished speaking, Kang Tan continued, "Close it quickly!"

"it is good!"

Dorian frantically turned off the headlights, almost stepping forward and backward, and the half-track following behind also took the initiative to turn off the lights.

"Your name is Kang Tan?" Without waiting for the other party to respond, Wei Ran pointed at the thigh wound that the other party was covering, "Do you want me to look at the wound for you?"

"Are you a doctor?" Kang Tan turned his head and asked, while speaking, he tightened the belt on his leg.

"Veterinarian" Wei Ran replied vaguely.

"Wait first, now is not the time to stop." Kang Tan waved his hand to reject Wei Ran, turned his head and said, "Dorian, speed up!"

"Which way do you usually drive?" asked the young man named Dorian.

"Go straight ahead, as long as you don't hit a tree." Kang Tan responded with a slightly louder voice, then looked down at the boots on Wei Ran's feet, and asked curiously, "What's your name? ? How come I haven't seen you before."

"Victor" Wei Ranhun said indifferently, "I was in another car before."

"That's it"

Kang Tan responded noncommittally, but then fell silent, just glanced at the watch just snatched from the corpse from time to time, and then glanced at the cargo bucket being dragged by the caterpillar.

"The snow isn't big enough"

Wei Ran also stared at the snow on the cargo bed, and said as if talking to himself, "At this speed, it may be difficult to cover the ruts in half an hour, not to mention that the surrounding pine trees block too much snow."

"Dorian, pay attention to pick places with fewer trees." Kang Tan reminded again, tilting his head sideways, "but the general direction remains the same."

"Okay," Dorian replied, trembling.

"Kang Tan, are you and Dorian from the Soviet Union?" Wei Ran pointed at each other's hats while speaking.

"We are not Soviet"

Kang Tan pressed the hat on his head, "We got this from the corpse that was unintentionally dug up when we leveled the road the day before yesterday. Dorian and I were lucky, and each grabbed a hat."

"Corpse?" Wei Ran was stunned.

"There are a lot of corpses, at least over a hundred." Kang Tan looked at Wei Ran strangely, "Did you not meet them?"

Wei Ran shook the cloak on his body, walked down the slope and said, "Yes, I was lucky enough to pick up a cloak."

"You are indeed lucky."

Kang Tan pressed the hat on his head again, "When I took the hat off, the scalp was still stuck inside, but it's really warm. If I wasn't worried about getting a gun, I wouldn't want to put it on for a moment. Take it off."

"Could it be the corpses left by those Soviet Red Army soldiers during the winter battlefield?"

Wei Ran murmured to himself, but he no longer entangled in the origin of the two hats. Although this was far from the answer he expected, it is obvious that the more important thing now is how to run as far as possible before being frozen to death a little.

I don't know whether it was luck or the intensifying snowstorm. Half an hour later, when they had to stop in the almost suffocating cold wind and the blinding snow, there was no one behind them. movement.

"Stop! Stop first!"

Kan Tan greeted Dorian who was driving, and the half-track that was following him stopped side by side next to a collapsed pine tree.

"We! We must avoid it!" Kang Tan squinted his eyes and shouted, while speaking, his body was swaying.

"There is no way to start a fire in this kind of ghostly weather!" The man in charge of driving on another motorcycle covered his eyes and replied in the cold wind of the call sign. The protective overcoat on the motorcycle was found, and at the same time, this clothes can be regarded as the warmest one among the clothes on everyone's body.

"I remember there was... a roll of canvas on the cargo bed of your motorcycle"

Wei Ran, who was also about to freeze to death, pointed tremblingly at a waist-thick pine tree not far away, "Enclose, enclose, fix it with a motorcycle."

"Gail. Hurry. Go and have a look!" Kang Tan urged.

Hearing this, the man named Gail immediately called another young man in the same car to remove the oil drum in the cargo box, and then found that there was really a large roll of greasy canvas inside.

"This canvas is really big!" Gail said happily.

"It seems to be an insulation tent for parking armored vehicles"

Dorian, a young man with most of his body stuck to the hood panel, said, "I've seen those Germans use this thing."

"We've seen it too"

While Gail was speaking, he was about to shake off the large roll of canvas, but he didn't want to be held down by Wei Ran and the last man whose name he didn't know the name of indiscriminately.

"Quentin, and you. What are you doing?" the man named Gail asked in confusion.

Wei Ran glanced at the man named Quentin, who said bluntly, "With such a strong wind, once you shake it off, it will fly away, and you can't even chase it back. Fix it to the car with a rope first. "

"well!"

Hearing this, Gail quickly passed the rope tied with canvas through the buttonhole, tied it to the road wheel of the half-track motorcycle, and then carefully unfolded it under Wei Ran's command, and then circled around it. The selected pine tree was wrapped around it, and tied tightly with a belt picked up not long ago. By the way, the two sled cargo boxes that were dragged by motorcycles were included in the tent.

At the same time that they finished their work here, Dorian and the man named Quentin had already waved the shovel, one covered the outer edge with snow, and the other got into the inside according to Wei Ran's command, sticking to the tree trunk and tearing the shovel inside. There is not much snow and all the photos are real.

"Don't let the car turn off," Quentin reminded Gail, and then helped Kang Tan, who was shot in the thigh, into the temporary tent.

"We don't have much oil," Gail muttered, checked the two cars separately, made sure the engines were running, and then followed Wei Ran's ass into the tent.

"Is there a light?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice, "I want to check on Kang Tan's wound."

"I have it!" While Dorian was speaking, he had already taken out a square flashlight from the pocket of the blood-stained German uniform on his body, and turned on the switch.

"Turn it off!" Wei Ran and others yelled in unison, Dorian was terrified, and quickly turned off the switch and handed it to Wei Ran.

"I'll go outside and watch." Gail, who was wearing the warmest clothes relatively, had already bent down and got out of the tent before he finished speaking.

After receiving the flashlight, Wei Ran unbuttoned the Soviet cloak on his body, and covered the two cargo buckets protruding into the tent with the cloak for inspection.

I have to admit that there are quite a lot of things in these two cargo boxes. Among them, in the cargo box dragged by the motorcycle that Wei Ran and Kang Tan were riding on, except for the three bulging soldier backpacks, the rest of the space is filled with everything. It was food, a bag of flour, a large basket of potatoes, onions, and carrots.

Most importantly, in a metal box he was particularly familiar with, there were six bottles of potato wine printed in Finnish, as well as a tin can of cheese and a large bottle of kosher salt!Of course, there are also some Deutschmarks and Finnish banknotes of different denominations, and cigarettes that take up almost all the remaining space at the bottom!

I'm afraid it's not the purchase car of the chef or the quartermaster, right?Wei Ran teased secretly, and after fastening the lid of the metal box, he took out two small first-aid boxes from the armed belt scattered in the cargo bed.

"Dorian, and Quentin, pull the cloak for me so the light doesn't come out."

Seeing the two nodding, Wei Ran immediately covered Kang Tan's thighs and his upper body with his cloak.When he turned on the flashlight switch pinned to the collar, he was finally able to see Kang Tan's injuries clearly.

Fortunately, although the wound tore open the flesh, it was only a scary bloody opening from the bullet. Not only did the blood vessels and bones not be injured, even the bullet was not left inside.

Ripping open the pants around the wound slightly, Wei Ran opened the first-aid kit, took out a small packet of sulfa powder and sprinkled it on the wound, and then wrapped the wound with dressing and gauze amidst Kang Tan's moaning.

Then he opened the belt tied around the wound, Wei Ran waited for a while, and then turned off the flashlight when he saw that the wound did not spill a lot of blood.

"How's the situation?" Dorian asked eagerly.

"It's not bad, it's just a flesh wound."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he stood up and put the cloak on his body again, and then took out a bulging backpack from the cargo box he had just rummaged through, and opened it.

A smile appeared on his face until he took a sleeping bag, a set of warm knitted underwear and training uniform from inside.Needless to say, that set of knitted underwear, but this sleeping bag, in Germany during World War II, was only issued to soldiers deployed in the northernmost region.

"Sleeping bag?" Kang Tan's eyes lit up immediately after Wei Ran handed him the sleeping bag.

"We also have three backpacks in the car!" While Quentin was speaking, he had already taken out three backpacks from another cargo box that was stretched into the tent.

"Put them all on," Kang Tan said in a low voice, "at least you won't be frozen to death."

"Finally, I have some clothes to wear!" When Dorian took over the knitwear from Wei Ran, his body was shaking uncontrollably.

　Surprise plus a new chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)