War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 6 Wei Ran's First Kill
Suppressing the worries in their hearts, the two ran into the ruins as fast as they could, and found the stairs leading to the second floor at the other end of the corridor.

But Lieutenant Lev did not rush up, but aimed his gun at the wooden door of a room on the edge of the stairs, and winked at Wei Ran.

With a soft "squeak", Wei Ran pushed open a wooden door next to the corridor with the muzzle of his submachine gun, and then saw a scrawny little girl who was only about ten years old at most holding a light blue blanket to hide. In the corner, staring at the two people outside the door with a pair of eyes trembling.

At the same time, outside the corridor window, the sound of the motorcycle engine was getting closer and closer!
The two looked at each other, got into the house in no particular order, and looked outside against the crack on the wall. What made Wei Ran's adrenaline rush was that there was only one wall between them, and two German half-track motorcycles had already parked on the clearing.

What's more terrible is that because of the shelter of the building itself, even if Oleg didn't have an accident, he couldn't hit them at all!
Before Wei Ran could figure out what to do, Lieutenant Lev had already ignited a long-handled grenade, opened the door and threw it out along the corridor window!

After the "boom" explosion, the three German soldiers who had just gotten off the half-track motorcycle were completely silent, but soon, the shouts of the Germans came from another building not far away!

"Victor, I'll stop them!" Lieutenant Lev had already replaced the magazine for the submachine gun while speaking.

"Fuck you! Run!"

Wei Ran was about to run upstairs, but within two steps he retreated, picked up the little girl who was still shivering in the room, and whispered, "Let's go upstairs!"

"Don't forget that there are snipers on it," Lieutenant Lev reminded, and ran up the stairs that might break at any time.

Almost at the same time that Wei Ran climbed up to the second floor, the second grenade thrown by Lieutenant Lev behind him also jingled and rolled down the stairs.

Regardless of complaining about this reckless lieutenant, Wei Ran hugged the skinny little girl and hid in a small room next to the stairs, and then covered the whole body of the little girl with the light blue blanket.

Almost at the same time as he finished his work, the rumbling explosion sounded again, but Wei Ran, who was about to come out of the room to help, heard a very clear gunshot, followed by Lieutenant Lev's scream!
"It's broken!" Wei Ran subconsciously wanted to open the wooden door that had just been closed casually, but then he raised his hand as if stung by the doorknob.

Only through a wooden door, Lieutenant Lev's screams continued, and he could still vaguely hear the sound of leather shoes hitting the ground and Lieutenant Lev's friction against the floor as he struggled to crawl.

How could I be so unlucky!

Wei Ran stretched out his hand again impatiently, but in the end he didn't have the courage to open the wooden door. The smell of dead bodies was everywhere around him, Lieutenant Lev's screams outside the door, and the unhurried knocking of leather shoes and the ground, Even the German conversation that he couldn't understand came out not long after, like a heavy hammer hitting his heart that grew up in peaceful times.

Inexplicably, he only felt nauseated and nauseated, but he also knew that if he made any sound at this time, he would be killed!
Finally, the brief German conversation outside the door faded away, and a calm male voice with a thick accent asked slowly in Russian, "Where is your companion?"

Can't wait!

Wei Ran took out the long-handled grenade stuck in his waist, summoned up his courage, pulled open the wooden door and threw the grenade out!

The enemy outside the door had expected this sudden movement, but the grenade that flew out still startled him, and subconsciously wanted to hide in the direction of the stairwell!Almost on the front and rear feet, Wei Ran rushed out in a stride, and pulled the trigger on the fallen figure!

There was a clear and brief gunshot, and the body of the fallen figure trembled, but then he realized that the bullets didn't seem to hit him.

Wei Ran pulled the trigger, only to realize that there were only a few bullets in the magazine just now, but fortunately, he reacted quickly enough, holding the butt of the gun with both hands, swung the submachine gun in his hand, and hit the German sniper hard. The hand just raised the pistol on the arm.

Amidst the clear gunshots, a blood-stained PPK pistol slipped from the German soldier's hand, but Wei Ran had already let go of the gunstock, and took out the posture of a bloody battle with Maozi when he was in college. A brick slapped the opponent's face fiercely!

This heavy blow directly knocked the German soldier who was about to stand up on the stairs full of shell casings!
"Victor!" Lieutenant Lev shouted while throwing a Mauser bayonet with a scabbard attached.

Hurriedly taking the bayonet, Wei Ran, already furious, pulled out the scabbard and stabbed the sniper viciously into the stomach!

The smelly and warm blood flowed down Wei Ran's hand from the wound, wet the cuff and then splashed onto his face.But Wei Ran, who had already lost his mind, did not stop at all, mechanically repeating the action of pulling out the bayonet and stabbing it in again and again.

"Victor, Victor"

Lieutenant Lev climbed up with difficulty at some point, hugged Wei Ran's shoulders, and locked his hands at the same time, "He's dead, he's already dead."

"died?"

Wei Ran looked at the corpse he was riding under, then at the dark red blood gushing from his mouth and his eyes that lost his spirit, Yu Wang couldn't control his vomiting anymore, and vomited "Wow". on the face of the corpse.

"You eat so well, there are even vegetables."

Lieutenant Lev was not too dirty, stretched out his hand to push away Wei Ran's vomit, took out an oval-shaped soldier card from the neck of the corpse, wiped it carelessly and handed it to the former, then picked up the PPK pistol , without raising his head, asked, "The first murder?"

"Yeah..." Wei Ran tried his best to control his retching, glanced at the soldier card in his hand, and scrambled away from the corpse.

"It's good to get used to it, but you can kill a sniper for the first time, and you are still a captain. You are really lucky. If you can survive until the end of the war, you can at least get the same rank. Of course, as long as you Live three days in Stalingrad, at least you can be a company commander."

The nagging Lieutenant Lev returned the grenade he picked up to Wei Ran, "But remember to pull the string before throwing the grenade next time."

"You'll die if you pull the string." Wei Ran took the grenade and put it on again, "What about you? Did you get shot just now?"

"Thanks to the one you gave me before." Lieutenant Lev grinned and took out a fragment of a steel helmet from his arms. The sharp edge of this fragment was stained with a trace of blood.

"You're lucky too." Wei Ran let out a sigh of relief, and his mood gradually calmed down.

(End of this chapter)