War Photographer's Notebook

In the jungle about a mile away from the mountain road, under the watchful eyes of Squad Leader Liang and others, Wei Ran dug a smoke stove next to a big rock that he learned from the battlefield of recruiting freshmen.

As a small cup of kerosene was poured on the firewood he picked up, Luke, a British businessman who had just let Squad Leader Liang help to bandage the wound, also took out a zippo lighter, and reached out to ignite the wet branch covered with kerosene.

The moment the flames sprang up, Squad Leader Liang immediately placed the enamel kettle at the mouth of the stove, then reached out and took out a bamboo tube from the back basket, opened it, took out the small bamboo spoon with a long handle inside, and dug out the small fingernail cover miserly. A large clump of white grease flung into the enamel kettle.

Before he could re-cover the bamboo tube, Tan Shouzheng, who had been waiting for a long time, poured a handful of broken coarse tea leaves into the pot from another opened bamboo tube, and at the same time kept flipping the tea leaves with a pair of talons. Frying.

At the same time, Squad Leader Liang also changed a bamboo tube and opened it, squeezed out a pinch of salt from it and threw it into the pot. By the way, he did not know where to find a piece of dried old ginger that was only the size of a little finger and threw it into the pot. In an enamel pot.

When everyone could smell the unique aroma of tea, Tan Shouzheng also untied the two jugs from the wooden shelf on the donkey, pulled out the wooden plugs, and poured all the water inside into the enamel jugs.

With a soft chirp, the tea fragrance became stronger and stronger.However, before the three of Wei Ran could take a deep breath, Squad Leader Liang had already put the lid on the kettle, and then he personally untied the cloth bag in the back basket, grabbed a handful of fried rice from it, and distributed it evenly Some bamboo tube cups or lunch box lids that Tan Shouzheng dug out.

While waiting for the water to boil, Squad Leader Liang took Tan Shouzheng to place a pot on another stove, then brought a bucket of water from a stream not far away and poured it in, and covered it with a pot that was originally made of water. A wooden pot lid held together by a wooden frame on the donkey.

At the same time, Wei Ran has also put away the gravity knife again, and brought a few small miscellaneous fish with their internal organs removed to the stream to clean them, and let Zhou Guochang use banana leaves to put them together with some unknown tropical plants, They were wrapped layer by layer and thrown into the stove.

It wasn't until everything was done that Wei Ran sat on a stone far enough from the stove and exclaimed, "Squad Leader Liang, we really have everything!"

"It's not easy to get all these things together"

Squad leader Liang said with emotion, "Our company is from Guizhou Province. When many people miss home, they rely on this bowl of oil tea to survive."

"Second platoon leader exchanged the seized devil's flagon for glutinous rice"

Tan Shouzheng said almost like a treasure, "The deputy company commander led people to catch a wild boar in the forest, and used that pig to cook a bamboo tube of lard."

"I bought the tea with one silver dollar before going abroad."

Squad leader Liang looked at the bamboo tubes in the back basket with ecstasy, "At that time, there were two full bamboo tubes of tea leaves and one bamboo tube of tobacco leaves, and now only half of them are left."

"In the past, every time we won a battle, all the people in the whole company would drink oil tea together around two big pots."

Tan Shouzheng stared blankly at the burning stove and muttered, "We will drink camellia oleifera together even if we are defeated. No matter we win or lose, there will always be a few fewer people drinking camellia oleifera each time than last time."…

"Now we are the only ones left"

Squad Leader Liang bent down, took out a flaming wooden stick from the stove and lit the pipe pot, and muttered in the same ecstasy, "Those teeth must be homesick."

Next to the moss-covered boulders, smoke engulfed in a large amount of water vapor floats forward along the flue, and at the same time becomes thinner and thinner due to condensation, and a little smoke sticking to the surface also plays a role in repelling mosquitoes. The function is like an ever-expanding firewall, driving away those poisonous mosquitoes.

In the center of this firewall, Zhou Guochang sighed secretly, then simply turned around, as if avoiding the smoke that was not enough to choke people out of tears.

The British businessman Luke took out a pipe from his bag and lit it, and then silently took out a Minghai brand rangefinder camera produced by the devils during World War II, and brought the four people around the smoke stove All included in the viewfinder frame.

"Why do you have a camera?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"snatched"

Luke put away the camera and explained with a little satisfaction, "Zhou Zhou and I first escaped from the oxygen light. At that time, in order to leave there safely, we hijacked a nuclear reporter. I took this camera from him. snatched it."

"Why do I seem to have done this job before?" Wei Ran couldn't help grumbling.

"What did you say?" Luke asked closer.

"Nothing." Wei Ran waved his hand and asked following the topic, "Where is that reporter?"

"Ugh."

"He died when Mr. Luke's pistol went off"

Zhou Guochang wiped the corners of his eyes, and said rather complainingly, "Before we even discussed how to use that devil reporter to leave Oxygen Light, it was shot in the throat by Mr. Luke's pistol.

If it weren't for that gunshot, we wouldn't have been trapped in the oxygen light for so long before escaping, and we wouldn't have exposed the quinine we hoarded, and we wouldn't have been chased by those devils for so long. "

Wei Ran glanced at the apologetic Luke indiscriminately, but Wei Ran was already full of doubts.The fire went off, and it happened to hit the throat. This excuse can only deceive a brat like Zhou Guochang. Not to mention he doesn't believe it, even Squad Leader Liang obviously has some doubts.

Just when Wei Ran was about to ask something, the camellia water in the enamel kettle was already boiling.Tan Shouzheng, who was smoking a cigarette, immediately patted his butt and stood up, holding a kettle and filling each of the bamboo tube cups containing fried rice with turbid tea with oily luster.

At the same time, Squad Leader Liang also pulled out the burnt banana leaf packages from the stove, and opened them layer by layer, revealing the small miscellaneous fish that had been steamed inside.

Although such a few small fish are not enough for everyone to eat, and the seasoning is only coarse salt, whether it is Zhou Guochang who has been hungry for a whole day or the British businessman Luke, the food is extraordinarily sweet.

And even Wei Ran had to admit that even though the conditions were a little rough, the simple bowl of Camellia oleifera was still exceptionally delicious.

It's just that, just like those small miscellaneous fish that are not enough to fit between the teeth, this cup of oil tea can only be regarded as drinking enough water and adding some salt, because from the second bowl onwards, no matter the British businessman No matter how much Luke begged, Squad Leader Liang and Tan Shouzheng stopped adding even a single piece of fried rice to anyone's bamboo cup. …

A group of five people almost ate the fish with their fingers and drank the camellia, but Squad Leader Liang picked out the boiled old ginger from the kettle and tied it to the backpack with two twisted straws. It is ready to use next time.

Pour the boiling water in the pot into everyone's kettle one by one, but Tan Shouzheng grabbed Wei Ran and motioned him not to move.

"Untie the collar, there seems to be a leech on your back."

While Tan Shou was speaking, he reached out his hand and pulled out a wooden stick with charcoal remaining from the stove that hadn't been covered in time.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately handed the rifle in his hand to Zhou Guochang who was standing beside him.

This small, sudden trust made Zhou Guochang stunned, and after he realized it, he immediately took the rifle with both hands.

"Will it work?" Wei Ran asked while unbuttoning his neckline.

"will use"

Zhou Guochang said confidently, "I used to have one, it was a gift from Mr. Luke. If it was open, I could hit a wine bottle that is forty battles away!"

"In this case, this gun is for you to use." While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already unbuttoned all the buttons of his jacket.

However, before he could lower his head, Zhou Guochang subconsciously took a step back as if he had been taken aback.

Slowly lowering his head, Wei Ran's heart skipped a beat. At this time, three or four large leeches were already hanging on his chest and abdomen, which were full of blood and swelled like purple grapes!

"You have it on your back too, more than your front."

Tan Shouzheng said gloatingly, but at the same time he nimbly tapped one of the leeches with the small wooden stick in his hand.

Under the stimulation of the high temperature, the leech let go of its mouth immediately, and landed on a stone at Wei Ran's feet with a thud.

"puff!"

When Wei Ran stepped on the leech, a stream of dark red blood exploded under his feet, successfully staining the rock like a red maple leaf.

Before he raised his head, whether it was Squad Leader Liang, Luke, or even Zhou Guochang who was just taken aback, they were all holding their own cigarette pouches, pipes, or even dry cigarettes, as if they were treating Wei Ran as an ashtray. I scalded those disgusting little bugs that were filling their stomachs.

Under this operation, a dozen or so big leeches fell down around his body.

"Take off your pants"

Squad leader Liang said without doubt, and then took a sip of the cigarette pot, "You too, take off all your clothes and check carefully."

Before the words were finished, Squad Leader Liang himself began to take off his tattered British military uniform.

It doesn't matter after this inspection, there are four or five big leech lying on Wei Ran's thigh, and even in the small exposed gap between the leggings and socks, there is a locust that is only bigger than a melon seed shell. Large and small circles of leeches.

Because of this, it was inevitable for him to be surrounded by the rest of the people to scald the bugs.Of course, the rest of the people were not much better, and the most serious of them was Luke.

This is also helpless, although the bullet wound on his arm was not too serious, and it was simply bandaged by Squad Leader Liang, but there was still some bloody smell coming out, which naturally attracted more leeches. …

After carefully checking the clothes, everyone redressed themselves and carefully sprinkled 666 anti-leech powder that didn't seem to be very useful.

After everyone put on their anti-mosquito masks, Tan Shouzheng brought a bucket of water to extinguish the charcoal fire in the smoke-free stove, and then, under the order of Squad Leader Liang, walked to the back alone with a gun.

"Brother Wei, did you really lend me this gun?" Zhou Guochang, who was in the middle of the five-member team and separated from Wei Ran by a donkey, asked excitedly.

"There are not many bullets. Besides, you'd better be able to hit a bottle that is forty battles away." Wei Ran seriously reminded.

"I can testify to this"

Luke, a British businessman walking in the front with Squad Leader Liang, held up three fingers, turned his head and said with a smile, "I saw this with my own eyes, and more than once."

"To be able to play so accurately, you must have practiced a lot, right?" Wei Ran asked seemingly casually.

"of course!"

Zhou Guochang replied with a little satisfaction, "Before the devils got into free electricity, I would practice guns with my father every week. I have killed several tigers over the years."

"In this case, this gun is for you to use, but whether you can shoot and when to shoot, you have to listen to Squad Leader Liang."

Wei Ran once again made a promise, if there is a fool who is willing to help him carry the gun, he naturally has no objection, especially in exchange for the trust of the other party.

What's more, in this dense jungle, even Enfield, who can shoot a semi-automatic rate of fire, may not necessarily have a pistol or a submachine gun to use-not to mention that the gun does not have a few bullets.

"No problem! No problem!" Zhou Guochang immediately assured.

After dismissing Zhou Guochang, Wei Ran took a few steps behind without a trace, switched positions with Tan Shouzheng who was behind him, and then opened a little distance, and secretly took out the titanium alloy saber in the metal book.

As expected, there was no silencer attached to this pistol, not only that, but there were only a few bullets in the magazine.

Taking out the bullets borrowed from Zhou Guochang's luggage, Wei Ran filled the magazine with one round after another before putting it away.

When he had made all the preparations, they were only ten meters away from the mountain road they had left not long ago, and the donkey obediently stopped under the comfort of Squad Leader Liang.

There was no need to say hello, Wei Ran and Tan Shouzheng carefully walked to the side of the road and looked around.

"There are horseshoe marks, it seems that they have been chased." Qin Shouzheng and Wei Ran made a judgment almost at the same time.

"More than that, I guess they might come back soon, maybe even already." Wei Ran lowered his voice and made his own judgment, "Even if they ambushed us at the fork ahead, I wouldn't be surprised at all. "

"There are so many of us."

"If more people were useful, we would have won already"

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Wei Ran slowly backed away.Tan Shouzheng pursed his lips, spat out the grass leaves in his mouth, and stepped back to hide his figure.

The two returned to Squad Leader Liang, Wei Ran briefly described the situation, and Squad Leader Liang also took out a tattered map from his pocket, frowning and looking at it secretly.

Leaning forward to glance at the contents of the map, Wei Ran couldn't help shaking his head secretly. This is a completely English map. The only thing Squad Leader Liang can understand is probably the red paint arrow drawn on the map, which represents the north. As well as Mansi Town and Mo's Village circled by red paint, and a white line connecting the two places and extending south.

"Squad leader, what should we do?" Tan Shouzheng approached and asked.

"Wait a little longer." Squad leader Liang was extremely calm, "When it gets darker, let's go over with the lights on."

"Go over with the light on?" Zhou Guochang obviously didn't expect Squad Leader Liang to make such a decision.

"Just turn on the lights"

Squad leader Liang patted the donkey beside him, and after hesitating for a while, he said flatly, "Wei Ran, you and Shouzheng are walking with Guochang and Mr. Luke in the woods by the roadside, and I'm riding a donkey on the road outside. "

"no!"

Tan Shouzheng, Zhou Guochang and Wei Ran all vetoed the former's decision with one voice.

"Those medicines are more important than oil tea!"

Squad leader Liang said very seriously, "If you can't drink oil tea, everyone will miss home at most, but if those medicines are really robbed by the little devils, brothers will not even have a chance to go home!"

"I'll walk with you by the light!" Tan Shouzheng said stubbornly.

"Snapped!"

Squad leader Liang slapped him on the back of the head lightly, "Shouzheng, even if you die, even if you crawl, you must give me those medicines and send them to the company commander!"