War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 5 Sniper

Lieutenant Lev took out a book stained with blood from his arms, "I just found this from the German soldiers you killed. Those people should be artillery observers of the German army. Maybe it has been included in the German army. Human artillery strike range.

And even if the building hadn't been demolished with artillery, they would definitely have sent people over to search.After all, as you said, this place has been completely occupied by the Germans. "

"I just watched them pass by and kill two casually"

Oleg looked around at a loss when he heard the words, then struggled to get up, found an exceptionally well-preserved small photo frame from under the bed and stuffed it into his arms, "Let's go!"

"If I have time, I can take a picture of you."

Wei Ran held up the camera hanging around his neck and said, unlike the radio station on his back, he can use this outdated Rollei DSLR. This was when he was working as a part-time tour guide for his aunt's travel agency. The main way to earn extra money, most of those domestic tourist groups will not refuse to spend 100 yuan to change into a Soviet military uniform and take a black and white film photo.

Seeing Oleg looking at him, Lieutenant Lev urged, "You better hurry up."

"Pose up quickly"

While urging, Wei Ran adjusted the old dual-camera in his hand. This camera is much better than the one he bought at a high price, and the difference is not too big. Naturally, it is not difficult to operate.

"Come on, I'm ready."

Oleg was sitting on that small bed, holding the photo frame he had taken out of his arms again, and carrying the Mosin Nagant sniper rifle with an optical sight on his shoulder.

Glancing at the family of three in the photo, Wei Ran swiftly opened the viewfinder on the camera lid, stepped back to the door, and hurriedly took a photo of the ruined home.

Lieutenant Lev, who had already retreated into the corridor, had already walked down the stairs with his gun almost the moment the shutter sounded.

Seeing this, Wei Ran and Oleg in the room quickly followed up, and a group of three quickly moved along the collapsed corridors on the first floor, for fear that shells would fall from the top of their heads at some point.

"Victor, where are you going?"

Oleg asked in a low voice while walking with a sniper rifle on his shoulders, and at the same time he did not forget to pass the canned box he brought out of the room to Wei Ran, "Do you want two bites? I just caught it this morning mouse, a very fat mouse."

"No, thanks"

Wei Ran quickly waved his hand to refuse, then pointed to Lieutenant Lev who was walking in the front, "Go with him to destroy the German artillery position."

"I'll go with you!"

Oleg said voraciously, "If the Germans really blow up my house, I'll blow up their cannons."

"You do"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Lieutenant Lev, who was walking in front, said directly, "Follow, we just happen to be short of manpower."

"He's still a."

Lieutenant Lev still didn't give Wei Ran a chance to finish his sentence, and said in a flat tone, "There are only two kinds of people in Stalingrad, the living and the dead."

The three people who were advancing quickly in the ruins fell into an unspeakable silence. After they passed through a building ruin with only bricks and rubble left, the roar of engines and the explosion of grenades came from behind them.

Looking out along the crack in the wall, Lieutenant Lev sighed, picked up the gun again and continued to move forward.

"Wait first." Oleg, who was walking in the middle, suddenly called Lieutenant Lev, "Are you going to the building opposite?"

"There are Germans there?" Lieutenant Lev asked, stopping.

"There are snipers in that building, very powerful snipers." Oleg said with certainty.

"how do you know?"

Oleg clapped the rifle in his hand, "My father was killed by the sniper in that building. He was very accurate, even more accurate than my father."

Lieutenant Lev hesitated for a moment, walked to the end of the corridor, took off the boat cap and put it on the muzzle of the submachine gun and slowly stretched out the window sill.

"boom!"

A moment later, the boat cap on the muzzle of the gun was accurately hit by a bullet from an unknown location. Before the boat cap fell to the ground, Lieutenant Lev took a quick look with his head, and then quickly retracted, tightly Then, the second bullet hit the edge of the window sill, splashing a cloud of bricks.

"How's the situation?" Wei Ran leaned against the wall and asked.

Lieutenant Lev shook his head, "The open space between the two buildings is at least 70 meters, and it's hard to get there alive if we don't deal with the sniper. But at such a short distance, we are simply living targets."

"I can cover you." Oleg pointed to the top of his head. "I'll go to the second floor to restrain him. You run over to finish him off, and then I'll go over there."

"Are you sure?"

Before Oleg could answer Wei Ran's question, Lieutenant Lev said bluntly, "Go up, get ready and throw something down."

A happy smile appeared on Oleg's face, and he ran upstairs along the crumbling stairs.

After Oleg's figure completely disappeared in the stairwell, Lieutenant Lev said seriously to Wei Ran, "Victor, you just wait here. If I fail, you can find a way to get there at night, that artillery The position is right in front of the street corner, at most one or two kilometers away. If he didn't kill me, don't come to rescue me no matter what the situation is, just throw a grenade at me."

Before Wei Ran could say anything, half a brick was thrown from upstairs, and then there was a crisp gunshot from the opposite side.

Almost at the moment when the gunshot reached his ears, Lieutenant Lev jumped out of the window sill, bent over and rushed towards the middle of the two buildings, the wreckage of the tank with only the chassis left.However, when his back was leaning against the track of the tank, he realized that Wei Ran had also followed him!

"How did you come here?!"

"Always have someone to cover you"

Wei Ran couldn't explain it to Lieutenant Lev, so he picked up a fragment of the helmet from his feet and stuffed it into his chest. After searching around, he picked up another piece and handed it to Lieutenant Lev.

"I've never seen you so afraid of death and not so afraid of death." Lieutenant Lev muttered, calmly took the palm-sized piece of helmet and stuffed it into the inner pocket of his clothes.

Do you think I want to follow you to death?
Wei Ran cursed secretly, endured his nausea and dragged over the body of a German soldier, leaning it against the edge of the wreckage of the tank with great effort, "Lieutenant, trick him into shooting at us, and then the two of us alternately suppress that sniper with submachine guns?" Sample?"

Lieutenant Lev stabilized the corpse and nodded towards Wei Ran. Seeing this, the latter directly raised the submachine gun in his hand above his head, pulled the trigger randomly in the general direction of the building, and shouted at the same time, "Probe! "

Hearing this, Lev immediately pushed the corpse in his hand out, revealing most of the helmeted head.

"boom!"

There was a clear gunshot, and the body was knocked to the ground by the bullets.Seeing this, Lieutenant Lev immediately jumped out from behind the wreckage of the tank, and almost at the same time as Oleg in the rear pointed at a window on the third floor of the ruined building and pulled the trigger!

"Victor! Quickly change the magazine! The room on the third floor!"

"immediately!"

Wei Ran, who happened to empty the magazine, hurriedly pulled out a magazine from his belt and replaced it. After Lieutenant Lev finished firing a drum, he quickly pulled the trigger and continued to suppress. At the same time, Oleg behind them also aimed at other From time to time, a shot came from the room, suppressing the German sniper hiding in the building so that he didn't even dare to show his head.

Under the alternate cover of the three of them, Wei Ran and Lieutenant Lev ran downstairs as fast as possible. When they got here, even if the sniper upstairs found them, he could only throw a grenade down at most, otherwise Once he dared to lean out and shoot directly below, it would be tantamount to setting a live target for Oleg.

"boom!"

Without the suppression of Wei Ran and the two of them, there was another crisp gunshot from a certain room on the third floor. Wei Ran and Lieutenant Lev downstairs immediately looked at where Oleg was hiding, but what worried them was that since After the gunshot, Oleg has not fought back.

(End of this chapter)