War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 592 Zhao Shengli's Resume
In the night, Zhao Shengli and Wei Ran ran silently in the coniferous forest. At this time, more than two hours had passed since they let go of the American soldiers. Not only were there no pursuers behind them, but even during the Not only had they climbed over the rocky hill next to the road, but they had almost climbed to the top of the second hill.

Before that, Wei Ran always felt that his physical strength was not bad. After all, the silicone dummy in Hongqi Forest Farm was not for nothing, and the stupid dog with brain problems was not for nothing.

But now, Zhao Shengli, who is leading the way, is still walking like flying with a backpack heavier than himself, but he is already panting and sweating profusely.

"Victory. Victory, how long is it?"

Wei Ran leaned on an oak tree with a crooked neck and asked, panting, they didn't stop for a minute in the two hours, and except for going down the mountain at the beginning, the rest of the time was spent on the way up the mountain in the dark .

"I estimate that we will be able to reach the top of the mountain in half an hour at most."

Zhao Shengli untied his backpack and put it aside, took out a water bottle and unscrewed it to take a sip, then handed it to Wei Ran, "When we cross this mountain, there will be a place to rest and have a meal."

"You said the same thing half an hour ago"

Wei Ran took the kettle and filled it up, "Your physical strength is really good."

"What am I?" Zhao Shengli was as humble as ever.

"You're nothing, I'm nothing."

Wei Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead. The uphill was not going straight up and down. There were no steps or cable cars on the hillside. The steep slope made them go up repeatedly along the zigzag route. It is indeed reduced a lot, but the distance has to be increased several times.

The most important thing is that Zhao Shengli's speed is too fast. If Wei Ran wants to keep up with the opponent's footsteps, he has to pay more physical exertion.It wasn't until this time that he realized what the hell it meant when Chen Qi said that Zhao Shengli ran so fast in the tunnel that even American machine guns couldn't catch up to him.

"When I was seven years old, I grazed cattle for the landlord's family"

Zhao Shengli sat down against the tree trunk and said with a silly smile, "At that time, my family was poor, and I couldn't even eat enough to eat all year round. I went to the mountains to find herbs and catch wild animals while grazing cattle. In order not to let the supervisor of the landlord's house find out, Just run and run back.

At that time, when the cattle were brought to the place in the morning, they had to run up the mountain with a basket on their backs, and they had to run back before noon, or they would be discovered by the supervisor.When the supervisor returned in the next half an hour, he had to run to the mountains again, and finally ran back before the sun went down. "

"It's quite far, isn't it?" Wei Ran calmed down and asked.

"may not"

Zhao Shengli fumbled and took out a pack of American cigarettes seized not long ago from his pocket, handed one to Wei Ran, and then lit it on his own, "It's four or five miles in one trip, and half of them have to climb mountains. Back and forth, and sometimes after work at night, I have to go to check the covers I put on in the morning. At that time, I was running barefoot, and I was reluctant to wear a pair of straw sandals. If you haven’t worn it, you’ll sell it for money.”

"What happened next?" Wei Ran took the match and lit the cigarette in his mouth and asked.

"Later, our regiment leader led a team to pass by our place and killed the landlord. Everyone shared the grain and the fields."

Zhao Shengli rubbed the corners of his eyes when he said this, and his voice changed slightly, "Unfortunately, my mother didn't catch up with the good time. Later, I begged the head of the team to take me with me. Earlier, I was thin I was skinny and skinny, so the group leader assigned me to the cooking class to help Squad Leader Sun. At that time, I had gained more than a dozen catties in half a month, and Squad Leader Sun said that I grew fat faster than piglets."

The little humor in Zhao Shengli's brisk tone did not make Wei Ran laugh, but felt his throat sting.

"At that time, I could make three bowls of rice for one meal"

Zhao Shengli smoked a cigarette and continued to recall, "I stayed with Squad Leader Sun in the cooking class for three months, and my head was as tall as a fist. At that time, Squad Leader Sun would find a way to get me meat to eat. Ever since I was a child, I have never eaten so well or eaten so much during the Chinese New Year.”

"Then how did you get into the reconnaissance class?" Wei Ran asked, wiping his face.

"I didn't go to the reconnaissance class at first"

Zhao Shengli said with a smile, "Squad Leader Sun said that I was messing around the stove every day, so he sent me to the communication class. I worked in the communication class for almost two years. Later, the regiment decided to form a reconnaissance company. The station was picked away."

"You still use the radio?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

"I used to be a messenger."

Zhao Shengli said proudly, "I am young and my memory is not bad. Everyone is willing to teach me. So I can repair radio stations, make telegrams, connect telephone lines, and even electricians. It happens that the reconnaissance company also needs me like this. I was picked out."

"I guess there is no one in the reconnaissance company who can run faster than you," Wei Ran said sincerely.

"There are not many people who run faster than me in the company, but I have seen people who run faster than me"

Zhao Shengli stamped out the cigarette butts with his rubber shoes, and said with some annoyance, "Just a few months ago, before we came to this position, we encountered a wave of unstoppable soldiers. Hey! You haven't seen that battle before, how many times?" Nan Hanbing of Number Thousand, fled all the way and threw things all the way.

How good is a big eight-grain gun?The cheeks that Squad Leader Sun and the others picked up behind were numb from joy, and the feet of our running behind were almost numb.Later, those difficult soldiers didn’t even want their backpacks and helmets and ran all the way stupidly. At that time, the American soldiers who ran with them kicked him off the truck, so they were still unwilling to surrender and chased the United States. People's trucks are running like idiots. "

"What happened later?" Wei Ran couldn't help asking.

"Later, they still let them run a lot"

Zhao Shengli said with a bitter face, "At that time our battalion chased behind for a whole day and night, my thighs were cramped from running, and many of them were not stopped and let them go into the woods. Those Nanhan soldiers were not tall, and some They are shorter than me, but their feet are really fast, and their heads are stronger than the donkeys that pull food in the cooking class."

"Forehead"

Wei Ran twitched the corners of his mouth, but this time he really couldn't help laughing, because he had already almost guessed which army was the unstoppable army that ran fast and broke.

After Wei Ran finished smoking the cigarettes on his fingers, Zhao Shengli stood up and picked up his heavy backpack, "Have you rested enough? Let's walk slowly next, and find a place to rest after turning over the mountain."

"Let's go!" Wei Ran also stood up, stomped out the cigarette butt, buried it with soil, and stood up with his bag.

Under the leadership of Zhao Shengli, it took them nearly an hour to finally climb over the mountain.

Under the leadership of Zhao Shengli, the two walked halfway up the mountain for more than 10 minutes, and finally stopped on a small platform halfway up the mountain.

To Wei Ran's great surprise, after Zhao Shengli pulled away the fallen leaves all over the ground, a ditch nearly two meters long, one and a half meters wide and one meter deep was revealed.

"Comrade Wei Ran, clear out this ditch and cover it with some branches from the surrounding area." Zhao Shengli had already untied the engineer shovel tied to his backpack while speaking, "I'll dig a stove out, let's eat later Take a good rest."

"This is."

"It was left when I came back last time"

Zhao Shengli pointed to the foot of the mountain, "That's the road leading to the rear of the Americans. We have scouted here several times."

It is estimated that the US military positions behind will be eaten soon
Wei Ran muttered to himself, quickly put down his backpack, took out the engineering shovel he brought, and began to clean the trench.

This work is not difficult. First, clean up the silted leaves inside, and then shovel the surrounding area and trample the soil in the ditch firmly, which means the main work has been completed.

The rest is to make two bunks inside with dry fallen leaves, and finally pick up some branches to add a top, and cover the dead branches and leaves that have been cleaned up before to make a camouflage.

While he was busy here, Zhao Shengli had already dug out a big basketball hole on one side of the ditch, and then dug three long radial ditches outside, and used wooden sticks and the excavated soil to fill the ditch. Three long trenches were topped and surrounded by fallen leaves.

In short, this is a smokeless stove specially used to prevent high-altitude detection by aircraft.

After completing the construction work quickly, the two brought some dead branches and lit them in the dug-out stove, and then opened the captured cans and set them aside.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Shengli was also diligently carrying an empty water bottle, and fetched clean water from a mountain spring pool not far away. By the way, he didn't know where to pick up a hood full of red hawthorn fruits.

"Picked by the side"

Zhao Shengli handed the hat containing the hawthorn to Wei Ran, and while picking off a handful of hawthorn leaves and a few hawthorn berries, stuffed them into several kettles that were being heated, and explained, "The location was chosen here for Drinking water is convenient, and there are two buckets of thick hawthorn trees over there. This hawthorn tree is a good thing, not only the fruit is delicious, but the leaves can also be used to make tea."

"This can also make tea?" Wei Ran had already thrown a hawthorn fruit into his mouth while speaking, and the sour taste immediately made him frown.

"I didn't know it before"

Zhao Shengli also threw a fruit into his mouth, "We have a comrade-in-arms from Gui Province in our company, and they drink tea with hawthorn leaves. And if you eat too much fried noodles, it's easy to lose it. Drinking this is just right." .”

While speaking, Zhao Shengli had already opened the backpacks of the two of them, took out all the things one by one, and sorted them out while calculating by the fire in the stove, "Now we have a big eight-grain bullet, and the matching bullets must have hundreds of bullets. Ten rounds, and nearly two hundred rounds for the carbine. There are also a dozen grenades and two pistols."

Having said that, Zhao Shengli counted by the light of the fire and continued, "There are a total of one hundred bullets in the pistol, which should be enough for us."

“A lot to eat”

Wei Ran pointed to the things in front of him and said, "In addition to the opened ones, we also have six cans, a dozen biscuits and a few pieces of chocolate, and four water bottles. These things are really heavy."

"They are all good things that can be used, enough for us to persist for four or five days without any problem."

Zhao Shengli smiled honestly, picked up a flashlight, tried to turn it on with his hand, then closed it and put it on his belt. Said, "I've wanted to change the telescope for a long time. The lens I used before was worn out."

"Shengli, why are you still carrying a slingshot?" Wei Ran picked up a seized 1911 pistol, and asked questions that he had long ago while checking.

Unexpectedly, after this question was asked, Zhao Shengli fell silent.

"I pretend I didn't ask." Wei Ran knew that he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly said, "Why don't we talk about tomorrow."

"This slingshot was made for me by my father when he was alive"

Zhao Shengli smiled, picked up the heated can and handed it to Wei Ran, and stretched out his hand to poke two branches from the top of his head and handed it to Wei Ran, "Eat it while it's hot, sleep when you're full, and you have to get up early tomorrow Woolen cloth."

(End of this chapter)