War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 516 The truth about Vajim, the truth about the invaders
"At least I didn't pee into the wine jug while I was sleepwalking"

Wei Ran shook the portable flagon in his hand, and asked again, "So who wants to have a sip?"

"You should have taken it out earlier, so maybe we could blow up a few more tanks just now."

Captain Roman glanced at the situation outside the tank, and kept saying, "Old rules".

Hearing this, Ajiafeng, the loader, immediately took the jug from Wei Ran's hand, "This jug looks really delicate! Is this piece of gold on the lid? Where did you get it?"

"It was given by a friend of mine," Wei Ran replied indifferently.

"Looks like you have a rich friend"

Before Ajiafeng could finish his sentence, he opened the lid of the jug, first sniffed it under his nose with a face full of intoxication, then leaned his mouth to his neck and took a sip.

"It tastes good, not vodka." Agafon said, and handed the jug to Captain Roman.

"It's gin." After taking a sip in his mouth, Roman gave the correct answer, and handed the jug to Vajim in front of him by the way.

“Good wine”

Vajim took a sip, then looked at the portable flagon with a strange expression, and then returned it to Wei Ran, "This flagon is also good, it is a good thing."

"Have another drink." Wei Ran waved his hand and refused, "Just return the flagon to me."

"I haven't met such a generous person in a long time"

Vajim immediately took another sip, "When we take Belgorod completely, if my house is still there, I will give you a whole bottle of vodka, a large bottle enough to fill this small jug several times Vodka."

"You have promised many times with the wine that you don't know is still there." Roman took a sip from the jug and handed it to Agafon.

"If you can't drink the vodka you mentioned in the end, you have to ask your wife to introduce me to a girl who works in the store." After Agafon finished speaking, he raised his neck and took a sip, and then looked unhappy. He closed the lid of the hip flask and returned it to Wei Ran who was directly in front of him.

Shaking the jug, Wei Ran found that there was at least one-third of the contents left in it, obviously they still kept a portion for themselves.

By putting it into his pocket and putting it into the metal book, Wei Ran reinstalled the metal case of the car radio in the bumps, and then fumbled to disconnect the power supply.

"Can you blame me if you can't find a girl?" Vajim said angrily, "If you want to blame, you have to blame the Germans!"

"It's really their fault"

Agafon touched the medal on his chest, "But after taking down Belgorod this time, maybe I can get another medal."

"It would be great if I could get a medal anytime soon." Vajim let out a sigh of envy.

Roman responded loudly, "I don't know if you can get the medal, but I guess no one will disagree with your joining the army this time."

"You didn't join the army?" Wei Ran looked at Vajim in surprise.

"Vajim was picked up by Roman," Agafon explained with a smile, "Haven't we talked about this before?"

"I have no memory." Wei Ran patted the strike radio station, and said without a trace, "Tell me what's going on?"

"Let me tell"

Roman skillfully rolled four Mohe cigarettes and distributed them to the people in the car. After lighting them on his own, he lifted the hatch above his head, and then said in a cloud of mist, "At that time, this car The electromechanics and drivers here are still two young men from Bryansk."

"It's a pair of Jewish twins"

Agafon added, "Unfortunately, in the previous battle in Prokhorovka, the two of them were killed by the Germans while repairing this tank."

"And then?" Wei Ran asked while coughing, this Mohe smoke was much more choking than Han smoke, and it was more powerful, he felt dizzy after taking a small sip.

"At that time, Agafon and I had only two choices"

Roman raised his neck and spewed out a cloud of blue smoke, "Either leave this tank behind, or fix it and drive back."

"At that moment, Vajim appeared."

Agafon sang and said, "This bastard not only helped us repair the tank, but his driving skills are the best I have ever seen."

"As I said, I have been driving a tractor since I was 15 years old, and I have driven all kinds of tractors." Vajim said proudly.

"Thanks to Vajim's help, we drove this tank back, and then you came," Roman continued, "You know the rest."

"What about before?"

Wei Ran looked at Vajim who was driving the tank with a cigarette in his mouth, "What were you doing before that?"

"I applied to enlist last winter and applied four times."

Vajim replied angrily, "But those bastards who recruited for the army refused me every time because of my physical disability. Are they idiots? Why didn't anyone think that I was disabled when I applied to be a tractor driver?
I was born with a slightly longer right foot than my left foot. As long as I nail a small piece of wood to the sole of the left boot, it will not affect it at all! "

"Then what? Why did you go to Prokhorovka?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"The tank division didn't want me, so I joined the guerrilla militia."

Vajim proudly explained, "I followed them to Kursk and learned how to use an anti-tank gun. At that time, I dreamed of grabbing a working German tank. Then I met the two bastards behind, They just happened to be short of a driver, and I happened to have a piece of wood nailed to the sole of my shoe."

"This guy with a long right leg, his driving skills are much better than those good boys who came out of the tank school."

Roman praised loudly without hesitation, "And he was even braver. When we were rushing back from Prokhorovka, he even pushed a German Panzer III into the river."

"Both Roman and I were frightened at the time." Agafon said happily, "What do you think that bastard did for?"

"For what?" Wei Ran asked without knowing why.

"It's just because Roman asked how many shells were left next to me, and I responded that there was one more."

Agafon patted the three shells that had just been placed by his side and laughed, "That bastard thought we only had one shell left, and then he drove the tank straight up and pushed the No. [-] tank into the river." inside."

"I was even yelling at him to stop."

Roman continued, dumbfounded, "When he stopped, the German tank was already upside down in the river, and even the escape hatch was under the water."

"Then I threw the last grenade I caught as a militiaman into the river"

Vajim said with a smile, "The two of them decided to take me in before the grenade exploded."

"You are so powerful, no one will refuse you to join the army now." Wei Ran said with certainty.

"forget it"

Vajim refused indifferently, "Although it's a pity that I can't get the military medal, I didn't come here for those beautiful little iron pieces.

So let’s talk about it after we beat Kharkov. Of course, if I have the opportunity to take back Wu Kelan from the claws of those fascis, I have no problem even if I continue to fight to the death under the name of that Jew. . "

"So that's how it is," Wei Ran murmured to himself, finally knowing why later generations couldn't find out the information about Vajim's joining the army.

At this moment, after the tank driven by Vajim bypassed a small group of isolated forests in the middle of the farmland, a small village that didn't look too big appeared indistinctly in front of it.

Although he could only look out through the observation hole of the machine gun, Wei Ran could barely see that outside this small village, there was a large stretch of winding trenches.

"Stop" Roman issued the order, he had already thrown the cigarette butt out of the turret, then leaned out most of his body, hid behind the hatch and raised the binoculars.

"What's the situation?" Agafon asked with his neck raised.

"There are trenches, bunkers, and anti-tank cones in front of the trenches."

Roman looked up at the enemy planes that were still being violently beaten by Soviet fighter jets in the air, and then looked at the tanks behind them that were responsible for covering the infantry. Then he put down his binoculars and quietly waited for the order to attack.

Soon, the command vehicle located in the center of the tank group started to move, and at the same time its loader stretched out his upper body and briefly waved the red and blue signal flag in his hand.

"Kang Dang!" Vajim, who had just opened the hatch, retracted his head and pulled the cover. At the same time, Roman also drilled back into the turret.

"We rushed over?"

Seeing that Vajim had started to speed up the tank, Wei Ran immediately asked in a loud voice.Speaking of which, under the premise of not opening the escape hatch under the vehicle, his place is almost the most inconvenient place for the entire tank to enter and exit and has the worst vision.

Of course, compared to the other three, his job is much simpler, especially after the car radio broke down.All he had to do was take care of the heading machine gun.

On the other hand, Wei Ran also discovered after the battle just now that although this tank not only has a car radio, but also has an in-car call, it is obvious that the three of Roman still prefer simple and direct body language communication. ——Kick with your feet.

"At least that's what the flag sticking out of the command car says"

Roman explained indifferently, put his eyes on the periscope and shouted, "Vajim, drive in the direction of the anti-tank cone, and slow down a little bit. Victor is ready and prioritizes the firepower point."

"Understood!" Wei Ran and Vajim responded in unison. The former held the handle of the heading machine gun, while the latter slowed down slightly.

As the distance got closer, the tanks in the front row and the artillery behind the German trenches fired indiscriminately.At the same time, some T-34s walking in the direction of the anti-tank cone also pressed on the landmines laid in advance.

"I knew these Germans would plant mines!"

Roman lightly kicked Vajim in the back of the heart, stopped a few hundred meters away from the anti-tank cones, called Agafon to help turn the turret, and aimed at a haystack behind the German trench.

"boom!"

Accompanied by the dull explosion and the shaking of the tank body, the inconspicuous haystack immediately exploded, followed by a concrete fire bunker disguised by sandbags and haystacks.

"I guess the Germans don't have any decent power there anymore"

Agafon was busy loading the ammunition, and shouted loudly, "Otherwise, with their arrogance, they wouldn't have made these boring arrangements."

Without waiting for others to respond, Wei Ran, who had been observing the outside through the small hole in front of him, finally saw a machine gun firing point coming out of the trench.

Wei Ran tried to pull the trigger after struggling to move the slightly heavy heading machine gun. Seeing that the trajectory of the bullet was still some distance away from the firepower point, he immediately shouted, "Vajim, move to the right!"

"Agafon, bunker!" Roman almost shouted different orders one after the other.

Without any waiting at all, Vajim immediately manipulated the tank body to turn a little bit to the right, so that Wei Ran could use the machine gun to suppress the opponent's firepower.At the same time, Agafon also turned the turret to the left, aiming again at the concrete bunker just discovered.

When the tank stopped again, Wei Ran immediately pulled the trigger, and Roman fired another shell after aiming briefly!
Accompanied by the tremor of the vehicle body, the trajectory of the machine gun controlled by Wei Ran swayed up and down, and the firepower bunker that Roman first discovered also exploded a group of flames with amazing lethality.

At the same time, on both sides that Wei Ran could not see, more tanks also stopped one after another and began to focus on the German trenches.

In one shell after another, the only bunkers and machine gun fire points in this trench were destroyed one after another. Even after waiting for a while, Wei Ran heard the unique whistle of Katyusha rockets passing over his head at extremely high speed. !
"Ulla!" Roman yelled loudly, and at the same time, his feet began to step on Vajim's two shoulder blades quickly.

The moment he got the signal, Vajim, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately accelerated the tank and rushed towards the anti-tank cone that was getting closer.

And Wei Ran also began to frequently move the heading machine gun left and right, clearing out all the enemies who dared to appear in the narrow shooting range.

Amidst the sound of intensive rocket explosions, the German trenches suffered a devastating blow, and even a piece of anti-tank cone some distance away from them was completely destroyed, and a defect with a width of more than ten meters appeared.

Before the gunpowder smoke completely cleared, several nearby tanks rushed head-on with a group of infantry to the destroyed anti-tank cone, and those tanks that temporarily stopped because they discovered the existence of landmines also Immediately began supporting with artillery and course machine guns.

"side!"

Inside the tank filled with noise, while Roman was speaking, he also began to stamp on Vajim's back with his boots.

Vajim, who received the signal, immediately turned to the right and rushed to the right side of the German trench.

"Victor!" Agafon also kicked Wei Ran's back, and then handed over a box of machine gun bullets.

"Thank you!" Wei Ran responded subconsciously, and at the same time took the ammunition in the opponent's hand.

"No thanks in the tank, that's redundant crap."

Before Agafon could finish his sentence, he had already pulled out a cannonball and stuffed it into the chamber, and then unlocked the turret.

After such a short period of time, Vajim had already raised the speed of the tank to the highest level, and ran almost rampant all the way to the side of the German tank.Then it completed the turn while crushing a piece of mud.

At this time, Roman's soles were still tapping on Vajim's back quickly. Seeing what he meant, he wanted to go around the side or even the back of the village!
"Victor!"

While Roman shouted, he also took his feet off Vajim's back. The latter stopped the tank roughly and pointed the front of the car at the side of the German tank.

Wei Ran, who was hit on the head again, had no time to respond, and immediately pulled the trigger, shaking the machine gun to clean up the German army in the trench.

"church!"

Roman shouted at the top of his voice, and Agafon immediately turned the turret and pointed the artillery at a dilapidated onion-roofed building on the edge of the village.

"boom!"

With the shells fired by Roman stepping on the pedal, a hole appeared in the outer wall of the building immediately, and the firepower of the machine gun originally hidden inside also completely misfired.

"Rush in?" Seeing that the small village was about to be taken down, Vajim immediately yelled and asked.

"Rush in!" Roman immediately shouted and gave instructions, "Let's go directly to the village, Victor, have you changed the bullet?"

"It's changed!" Wei Ran hurriedly responded, while shaking his head secretly, it can be said that this desperate style of play has been carved into Maozi's veins.

Before the words were finished, Vajim had already accelerated the tank again, and rushed towards the nearby village from the side arbitrarily.

However, before running a hundred meters away, a dull explosion came from the bottom of the car. The violent shock wave immediately made Wei Ran's butt leave the seat, and at the same time, he tasted a trace of fishy and salty taste in his mouth. The ears also lost their hearing in an instant, and could only watch Vajim beside him shouting at the top of his voice amidst the buzzing sound, feeling his body being squeezed against the bulkhead of the carriage beside him by inertia.

"Victor! Victor!"

Vajim continued to call Wei Ran distractedly, while trying to control the tank to move his body with difficulty.

"No problem." Wei Ran, who could vaguely hear the other party calling him, waved his hand, then wiped the corner of his mouth, and spat out half a blood-stained tooth.It wasn't until this moment that he realized the sharp pain in his right wrist.

Trying to pinch the bones of his wrist, Wei Ran heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time he squeezed hard at the bulkhead beside him, and with a crisp sound that made his teeth sour but was covered by the engine noise, he finished. Reduction of a dislocated wrist.

Until this time, he vaguely heard Vajim shout, "Our right track seems to have been blown off by a mine."

"Aim the front of the car at the village!" Roman responded loudly, "Victor, can you still operate the machine gun?"

"Already doing it!" Vajim used the only functioning left track to move the body with difficulty on the edge of the muddy ground.

Wei Ran touched the canine tooth that had just been knocked off, enduring the pain and giving a thumbs up to Rome, then tightened his grip on the heading machine gun, and brought his eyes closer to the observation hole again.

There is no doubt that there is no difference between going out to repair the tank at this time and dying, but Roman and Agafon have no intention of giving up fighting. With the cooperation of the two, the shells fired one after another They wiped out every building in the village, and eliminated those firepower points that did not pose a threat to them at all.

At the same time, Wei Ran suppressed his physical discomfort and used machine guns to clean up the German soldiers rushing towards them. Even Vajim risked opening the hatch and fired back with a Bobosha submachine gun.

After a while, two T-34 tanks drove past them side by side, rushed straight into the village, and did what their tank originally wanted to do.

Less than half an hour later, the battle here also came to an end, and a small number of prisoners were turned aside by the infantry.And the three people except Wei Ran got out of the tank in no order at the same time as the sound of gunfire stopped, and then there were various curses coming from the side.

"Lao Tzu's tiger teeth."

Wei Ran frowned and touched his gums, then stuffed the knocked-off tooth into the cushion under his buttocks, and then bent over and got out of the tank.

"Victor, are you okay?" Vajim, who was standing in the mud, was the first to ask.

"lost a tooth"

Wei Ran lifted the red and swollen lips with wounds with his hands, showing the bleeding gums to the other party, and then he squatted on the tank chassis and asked, "What happened just now?"

"What else can happen"

Roman, who was also standing in the mud, explained angrily, "It hit a landmine, and it blew off the road wheel on the right."

While speaking, Roman pointed to Agafon who was groping in the mud with his buttocks pouted more than ten meters away, and continued, "The loss of the track is estimated to be not small. It will take at least one or two hours for us to repair the tank. .”

"Be content!"

Agafon in the distance shouted loudly, "We should be thankful that at least Victor survived. His luck was really good. He was hit by a shell and a landmine, but only one fell out." tooth."

"It's bad luck, isn't it?" Wei Ran picked out his ears and eyes that were still tinnitus, and then found that there was still a little blood on his dirty fingers.

"It's lucky," Vajim shouted loudly, "so come down and help."

I finally understand why you all have such loud voices.
Wei Ran plucked his ears again, jumped off the tank, helped Vajim and Roman remove the heavy trailer cable, and then called a tank to come to help, and put their tank and the tracks that Agafon had just found It was dragged to a dry flat ground in the distance.

"Agafon, run fast, go to the village to see if you can get something to eat and drink." Roman pulled out a TT33 pistol from his waist and threw it to Agafon, rubbing the mud on his shoes while slightly He lowered his voice and said, "Bring Victor, and a pocket by the way."

"follow me!"

Agafon immediately put down his work, took the pistol and loaded it with bullets, called Wei Ran to untie two tattered canvas bags from the back of the turret, and ran to a village not far away on a muddy track. .

Under the leadership of the former, Wei Ran stumbled over the German trenches, and casually got into a seemingly complete private house.

Unfortunately, apart from the two corpses lying next to the scrapped machine guns, the only thing they found were two cracked German cans.

But Agafon didn't care, he threw the two leaking soup cans into the canvas pocket, and immediately called Wei Ran to pretend to leave from the only door on the remaining wall, and trotted past the rest of the tank soldiers and infantry soldiers. Go straight to the innermost side of the village.

"Go to that house!"

Ajiafeng picked up a submachine gun from a dead German soldier and threw it to Wei Ran. After some observation, he pointed to a house that looked the most complete, and the windows were all nailed down, and he called out to Wei Ran. After Ran got in, he immediately closed the door, and by the way pushed down a table to block the door.

Trying to pull the door, Agafon nodded in satisfaction, and said in a low voice while holding the pistol, "Look carefully, there must be good things hidden in this kind of place, and be careful, there might be Germans hiding here."

Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded, loaded the submachine gun in his hand, and walked carefully into one of the houses.

Sure enough, there was indeed something here, but it was just boxes of bullets that couldn't be eaten at all.

Ajiafeng broke open a wooden box and took a look, took out a few grenades with wooden handles and threw them into the canvas pocket, then beckoned Wei Ran to leave the room to continue exploring.

In the second room, they did find some blankets issued by the German army, and Agafon never refused to come, and directly rolled up four blankets to signal Wei Ran to carry them on his back.

When they entered the last room, both of them had smiles on their faces. Except for a large box of the Iron Cross Second Class that hadn't been awarded in time, the rest of the room against the wall was not only a box of cans and packs of cigarettes.

There were even some sausages hanging from the beams above their heads. Most importantly, they found two unopened bottles of wine, a basket of white bread and a large jug of milk on a desk near the door. !

At this time, the voices of the Soviet soldiers could already be heard outside. Agafon did not dare to delay, and immediately beckoned Wei Ran in a low voice to quickly throw all the sausages hanging above his head into his pockets, while he put the bread, milk and wine Stuffed into the innermost layer of the canvas bag.

In the end, he stuffed a few boxes of canned food into the almost full canvas pocket, and Agafon greedily grabbed a handful of the worthless Iron Cross [-]nd Class and stuffed it into his pocket, and then called Wei Ran from the half-open window Get out.

"Agafon"

Wei Ran grabbed the former, pointed to a footprint on the edge of the window, and then pointed to the footprint outside the window.

Seeing this, Agafon's eyes lit up, he turned out the window with his canvas bag on his back, followed the footprints and walked quickly, and finally stopped at the door of an inconspicuous wooden shed.

Glancing at the wooden plank on the ground inside the shed, Agafon did not act in a hurry, but after observing everything, he piled up some sundries such as iron plows on the wooden plank.

"Go back first," Agafon said while rubbing the remaining footprints on the ground with his boots.

Hearing this, Wei Ran followed the other party's head and walked in the same direction, and asked out of words, "Ajiafeng, don't you think it's strange?"

"What's wrong?" Agafon asked without turning his head.

"This village is not big, but why are there no villagers?"

"Why else"

Agafon clenched his fists, "We have come across so many villages like this all the way, those Fasusi didn't kill all the villagers, burn down all the houses, and finally planted all kinds of landmines Did you just run away?"

Wei Ran opened his mouth, and before he could say anything else, Agafon continued, "This place is already considered good, after all, those Germans used this place as their stronghold. Have you forgotten the villages you passed by before? Those who were hanged Men and women in trees, old people and children thrown into wells. Bridges and railways and roads that were blown up."

Speaking of this, Agafon's tone became more and more trembling, "Those Fazsi, they not only want to occupy this place to expand the territory, they also want to kill all the people here and replace them with their own people.

Now that we have called back, they feel that this place cannot be kept. Do you think they will return it to us in its entirety?Give up, they'll just ruin this place completely! "

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