War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 827
In the dense forest that still smelled like gunpowder smoke, Wei Ran was carrying a kerosene lamp alone, chasing the direction where Tan Shou was leading the donkey, looking for the shadow of the other party.

But what worried him most was that along the way, every now and then he would encounter a crater from an aerial bomb.And at this time, he was extremely worried, for fear that he would find Tan Shouzheng and the donkey who had disappeared nearby.

"Shouzheng! Qin Shouzheng! Qin Shouzheng!" Wei Ran shouted the other party's name loudly, but never got a response from the other party.

After waiting for a while, he turned up the flame of the kerosene lamp, and continued to wave the machete to carefully search for possible clues around.

"Is this Tan Shouzheng's hat?"

Wei Ran withdrew his steps, bent down and picked up a broken German hat from under a collapsed banana tree.

He leaned close to his nostrils and smelled it. The strong smell of sweat, the smell of gunpowder smoke mixed in it, and the smell of tobacco stained on the brim of his hat made him very sure that this was Tan Shouzheng's stuff.

He leaned over to the oil lamp and checked carefully. Fortunately, he didn't find any blood stains on the hat and its surroundings, which is undoubtedly good news.

Throwing the hat into the back basket, Wei Ran searched the surroundings more and more carefully, and finally, he managed to find a straw sandal about ten meters away from the hat.

Looking back at the location where he found the hat, Wei Ran took a few steps back, taking the hat as the origin in his mind, and drew a line passing through the location where he found the straw sandals. This line, looking up to the direction of the top of the mountain in front of the right.

Walking along this road all the way to the top of the slope, he found more and more, broken bushes and grass leaves, buttons with thread ends, blood-stained branches, and even branches with cloth strips hanging on them.

When he climbed over the top of the mountain along this line, he also found the submachine gun that belonged to Tan Shouzheng lying on a piece of gravel.And here, it is almost one kilometer away from the location where Wei Ran found the hat!
"Shouzheng! Tan Shouzheng! Where are you!" Wei Ran shouted again.

"Ah—uh—! Ah—uh—!" On the other side of the mountain, halfway up the mountain, a series of donkey brayings came suddenly.

Wei Ran swears, he never thought that at this moment, he felt that the donkey's barking sounded so good!

"Shouzheng! Tan Shouzheng!" Wei Ran shouted, quickened his pace, and ran towards the direction of the donkey with the oil lamp in his hand.

As the distance got closer, Wei Ran gradually saw clearly that the donkey was standing next to an unknown tropical tree that was only as thick as a thigh at most. It will be a kick.

After walking a few steps forward, he finally saw clearly that the donkey's rein had been wrapped around the tree trunk several times, and on the other end of the rein was Tan Shouzheng, who had fallen into a coma!

He raised the oil lamp and looked behind the donkey carefully. He also found an underage black bear. However, this little black bear, which was not as big as Beria, seemed to have just been kicked by the donkey. His stomach was still gasping for breath, but dark red blood had overflowed from the corners of his mouth and nostrils, and it was obvious that he couldn't survive.

After confirming that there were no other dangers around, Wei Ran immediately squatted beside Tan Shouzheng, untied the donkey's rein from his arm and tied it to a tree, and then inspected him.

Although Tan Shouzheng's face was covered with scratches, even the nail on the big toe of one foot was peeled off.Moreover, the elbow and wrist of the arm tied to the rein have also been dislocated, and even the clothes on his body have been torn into rags.

But fortunately, at least, his breathing was fairly even, and there were no fractures or serious injuries to his body.

After a little hesitation, Wei Ran dug out from the back basket the towel that he had just used for businessman Luke not long ago, carefully folded it, and stuffed it into Tan Shouzheng's mouth. Ann went back.

Under the stimulation of severe pain, Tan Shouzheng immediately woke up, and then saw Wei Ran under the light of the oil lamp.

Waiting for him to help him pull out the towel stuffed in his mouth, Tan Shouzheng turned his head to look at the donkey not far away, "donkey, quinine and rice"

Before Wei Ran agreed, Tan Shouzheng lost consciousness again.

Gently testing the opponent's breath and pulse, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief, carefully tied the armor on the opponent's arm that was prepared before saving Luke, and then got up to check on the donkey.

Compared with Tan Shouzheng, this donkey had no serious scratches except for the bridge of the nose.Moreover, the bamboo baskets hanging on both sides of the body were still covered with lids, and they were tightly wrapped by tarpaulins and blankets. Looking around and at the bottom of the bamboo baskets, there was no damage or leakage.

Look at the pannier that Tan Shouzheng has been carrying on his shoulders all the time. It is also covered with a lid, and it is tightly tied with a rope. Try to open it.The basket was filled with dried horse meat and small fish, and even smoked dried bamboo shoots.

Thanks to Tan Shouzheng's desperate protection, these incomparably precious supplies in Savage Mountain were all intact and packed in thick bamboo tubes, except for the only pot of water left before going to bed, which knocked open the wooden stopper in a panic and sprinkled it. Not a drop of it was left.

Although Tan Shouzheng is still in a coma now, Wei Ran roughly guessed what happened at that time.Undoubtedly, the explosion of the aerial bomb dropped by the little devil frightened the donkey, and in a panic, he chose a random direction and started running wildly.

In order to prevent the donkey from getting lost, Tan Shouzheng took away the precious rice and quinine in the bamboo basket. He insisted on not letting go the whole time, letting the frightened donkey drag him over the hill, and finally stopped by the tree. !
"Stubborn donkey, both of you are stubborn donkeys!"

Wei Ran sighed in admiration, pulled out the Browning Hi-Power pistol from the wooden gun box on Tan Shouzheng's waist, pointed it at the top of his head, and pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

The crisp gunshots echoed repeatedly in the mountains, but perhaps they were too far away, until the echo disappeared, there was no response from Squad Leader Liang.

Put the pistol back into the wooden grab box on Tan Shouzheng's waist. After thinking for a while, Wei Ran took out the quinine kept by Tan Shouzheng from the bamboo basket carried by the donkey and put it in his own basket, and then put it in Tan Shouzheng's basket. He also gave himself the contents, and put the dying bear into the vacated back basket.

Finally, Tan Shouzheng, who was still in a coma, helped the donkey on the back. Then Wei Ran untied the rein, hung the oil lamp around the donkey's neck, led the donkey with one hand, and carried the bear basket with the bear in the other, and limped towards the donkey. The direction of arrival.

Halfway through the journey, Tan Shouzheng, who was lying on the donkey's back, also woke up. After a short period of confusion, he grinned and asked, "Wei Ran? You saved me? I thought I was dreaming."

"What good dream did you have?" Wei Ran simply stopped, put down the basket, and helped the other person get off the donkey's back, and asked with a smile.

"I dreamed that black and white impermanence came to arrest me"

Tan Shouzheng grinned stupidly and said, "I was looking for my submachine gun to shoot them, and then I woke up. By the way, what about Squad Leader Liang and the others? Where are they? Where did you get the bear?"

"They went to find a place to re-campaign, and everyone's okay except Luke's broken bones. This bear was kicked to death by this donkey."

"Just an extra meal," Tan Shouzheng said, licking his lips.

Wei Ran sat down on the basket where the bear was imprisoned, wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "It's you, why did you run so far?"

"The donkey is startled"

After Tan Shou was trying to find cigarettes in his clothes pockets that had been shredded into rags, he limped to his feet, untied the cover of the bamboo basket on one side of the donkey, took out a British army backpack from inside, and went on Another iron cylinder with the "555" trademark was taken out of the bag.

Opening the cylinder, Tan Shouzheng took out two cigarettes from it, and handed one of them to Wei Ran.

After the two of them lit the cigarettes with the oil lamp, Tan Shouzheng said happily in the smoke of nicotine, "I grabbed the rein and ran with it all the way, and my hat and shoes flew up! Then I ran up to the top of the mountain and fell." I fell down, and then was dragged down the mountain by this stupid donkey, and then passed out from the pain!"

"You're lucky"

Wei Ran pointed to the splint on the opponent's hand, "If this donkey is stronger, your arm will be torn off."

"You can't let go even if you tear it off"

Tan Shouzheng smirked a bit, and happily crushed the cigarette until it was hot, and stuffed the butt into the tin box again.

With Wei Ran's help, Tan Shouzheng changed into a new British army uniform and sandals.The former also motioned for him to shoot overhead before setting off.

This time, before the echo of the gunshot subsided, a gunshot sounded from a distance away.

"Let's go, Squad Leader Liang and the others are over there."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he led the donkey and limped to the front, while Tan Shouzheng, who had stepped on the submachine gun again, followed behind with a bamboo pole.

Gradually, the communication between the two groups of people changed from the gunshots of each other to shouting at each other's throats, and then turned into constantly shaking oil lamps.In the end, people from the two parties successfully joined together beside a bamboo forest halfway up the mountain on the other side of the mountain that had not been bombed.

"Shouzheng, are you alright?"

Squad leader Liang asked Qin Shouzheng, who was grinning and giggling, with distress. A step later, Zhou Guochang came over with a guilty expression on his face, knelt down on the ground again, and said in a crying voice, "Brother Shouzheng, it's all my fault."

"You bastard," Tan Shouzheng pulled Zhou Guochang up with his uninjured hand, and said nonchalantly, "You didn't fly the plane to throw the bomb."

"I..." Zhou Guochang opened and closed his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, and his face illuminated by the oil lamp became more and more guilty.

"crying egg"

Tan Shouzheng waved his hand nonchalantly, and beckoned Wei Ran to open the back basket as if asking for credit, pointed at the little black bear that was still alive inside, licked his lips and said, "Squad leader, Guochang, can you have an extra meal! I haven't eaten meat for a month!"

"You caught this?" Squad Leader Liang asked in surprise.

"This donkey kicked to death"

Wei Ran tugged at Xiong's ears, "It doesn't seem like he's dead yet, but he's definitely not going to survive. Guochang, you need to keep upright hands for a few days. You have to help Squad Leader Liang do more things these days."

"I'll do it! I'm willing to do any job!" Feeling guilty, Zhou Guochang hastily agreed, even though everyone except him didn't think it was his responsibility.

Giving the other party an excuse to make him feel better, Wei Ran decisively changed the subject and asked, "Where is Little Master? Where did he go?"

"He went to find a new camp nearby, and looked for water by the way."

Squad leader Liang then changed the subject and said, "When he finds the camp, we'll kill this bear to make oil and eat meat!"

"I also picked up a turtle"

Wei Ran lightly kicked the bottom of the back pan, then pointed to the bruise on his thigh and said, "That turtle was the size of a helmet, and it just hit my thigh."

"Zhou made turtle soup for me, and his craft is very good."

Luke, who was originally lying by the bamboo forest, also followed suit, and also teased Wei Ran, "Wei, your bone-setting skills are also very good. But my balls are going to be crushed by you. After we walk out of this mountain , I will find a woman with big breasts to try, if I am really trampled by you, then I will"

"You can come to me then"

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Wei Ran waved the machete in his hand and jokingly said, "If you can't use it, just cut it off. My craftsmanship is quite good."

"When I didn't say anything." Luke, who was lying on the stretcher, spread his hands pretending to be helpless, and followed closely, grinning with everyone, showing the laughter of the rest of his life.

When this smile infected the guilty Zhou Guochang, the barriers and differences between Luke and everyone disappeared.

Just at this moment, two consecutive gunshots were heard suddenly from far away.

"It's little master!" Zhou Guochang said immediately, "He must have found water or a place where he can rest in peace!"

"Let's rush over!"

Squad leader Liang hadn't finished speaking, he had already pulled out the box gun from his waist, pointed it at the night sky and pulled the trigger to respond.

Since Wei Ran and Tan Shouzheng were more or less injured, Zhou Guochang and Liang Squad Leader worked together to lift the businessman Luke lying on the stretcher, and Wei Ran and Qin Shouzheng each held a hand. The donkey followed behind, looking for the direction of the gunfire and started to move forward again.

(End of this chapter)