War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 833 Crash
In the rain that almost obscured the sight, an exhausted team hid directly under a tall and lush banyan tree after barely leaving the depression next to the river.

"Just, let's just stay here." Zhou Guochang begged, beating his soaked and swollen thighs, "I can't walk anymore, I really can't walk anymore."

"Then let's go here." Squad leader Liang responded hoarsely, and helped the little monk Sehao unload the bamboo basket and other things from the donkey.

At the same time, Wei Ran and Tan Shouzheng also removed the bamboo basket from the other donkey and put it together with the baskets of the others.

"I'm going to chop some banana leaves"

Wei Ranqiang pulled out the machete with all his energy, walked a few steps away, and cut a big hug full of wide and thick banana leaves.

Distributing a large part of it to the crowd, Wei Ran emptied the two panniers with the help of Squad Leader Liang, put the canvas bucket in it, and then made a super-large funnel out of banana leaves and placed it on top.

It took less than 5 minutes for such a combination to be released, and the canvas bucket was filled with rainwater.

Line up to fill their canisters with fresh rainwater, and then put the refilled canvas buckets next to the two donkeys, but they didn't even have the heart to eat, so they each barely built a bucket with raincoats and tarpaulins. The simple shack was sprinkled with a layer of anti-leech medicine powder, and he couldn't wait to lie down, and he snored loudly after a while.

In contrast, it was the little monk Sehao who borrowed the soap from Wei Ran early on, took off his clothes, and carefully scrubbed his body and his ill-fitting British uniform in the rain.

Squad leader Liang, whose eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, silently pulled out the box gun from his waist after several unsuccessful attempts to ignite the fire, and leaned against the thick tree trunk, staring blankly at the gradually rising river in the distance.

In his sleep, Wei Ran once again returned to the river that was densely covered with floating corpses, and once again saw the soaked and swollen corpses of expeditionary soldiers, saw the rotting corpses by the stream, and even saw the The aerial bombs dropped above their heads, and they heard the rumbling noise of the little devil's bomber flying by at low altitude!

"Ah!" Wei Ran turned over with a loud cry, and he also had a matte titanium alloy pistol in his hand.

Looking around, in the dark night, the only thing that can be seen is the kerosene lamp hanging on the tree trunk, and Squad Leader Liang sitting under the kerosene lamp with a box gun in his hand.And the only thing that can be heard is the sound of rain.

"Go to sleep for a while." Wei Ran stood up and said softly, "I'll watch in the middle of the night."

"it is good"

Squad leader Liang responded with a hoarse voice, and at the same time he inserted the weapon in his hand into the gun case, he was already snoring.

Taking off the oil lamp and putting it next to him, Wei Ran took off his smelly and wet clothes, cleaned up the leeches that had crawled all over his body at some point, then picked up the soap that the little monk gave him, and walked to the shade of the tree Outside, the lingering corpse stench on his body and clothes was being scrubbed under the rain.

After such a wind and rain, he was completely awake.It's a pity that the only thing he can do in this jungle night with lightning, thunder, and wind and rain is just chewing dried meat under the kerosene lamp, watching the night sky that is constantly lit with lightning, and from time to time, he has to drive away the ghosts from above his head. The leech that fell on the banyan tree and was about to eat.

I don't know how long it took, but the two donkeys that were also sleeping soundly woke up in no particular order, and then began to neigh restlessly, and in the jungle not far from them, there was also a faint green light that flashed away .

Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't even wait to stand up, he picked up the submachine gun in his back basket, aimed at the direction where the two green lights disappeared and pulled the trigger!
"Da da da!"

The crisp and dense gunshots were especially harsh in the rainy night. In the distant jungle, there was also a low growl and a wail interrupted by the gunshots.

"what happened?"

Tan Shouzheng was the first to wake up, and at the same time he got up, he had already grabbed the submachine gun and finished charging the bill.Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Wei Ran's answer, Squad Leader Liang and others were awakened one after another.

"It's okay, go on to sleep." Wei Ran put away his submachine gun, "There may be some beasts that have already been chased away."

Hearing this, Tan Shouzheng was the first to put down his weapon and lay down on his seat again.But then, he stood up, took out his soap, and said as he walked out, "You guys continue to rest for a while, I'll be on duty at night, and wash your body by the way."

"I want to wash it too." After smelling the smell on his body, Zhou Guochang also got up and asked Wei Ran to borrow the soap.

Seeing this, Wei Ran simply lay down again, but before he could close his eyes, he could vaguely hear the unique noise of an airplane propeller in the rain!
Subconsciously turned over and got up again, Wei Ran pulled the oil lamp over, raised the glass lampshade and blew it hard.

Immediately afterwards, Squad Leader Liang and the young monk Sehao, who had already lay down again, as well as Tan Shouzheng and Zhou Guochang also ran to the bamboo baskets that were placed together immediately, and were in a hurry to put them on the donkey's back.

"Wait first!" Wei Ran yelled first, "Something seems wrong, there is something wrong with that plane!"

"If you have any questions, leave here first!" Squad leader Liang responded hoarsely.

"No, there seems to be something wrong with that plane."

Wei Ran's tone relaxed a lot, "Its engine seems to be on fire. If you look carefully, the fire is very clear."

Before he finished speaking, a bolt of lightning flashed in the night sky.With the help of this flickering glare, everyone who looked up could vaguely see that there seemed to be faintly visible flames on the wing of the low-flying plane!
In the blink of an eye, the roar of the plane has overshadowed the white noise of the rainstorm.But before everyone could say anything, one of the wings of the plane in the night sky suddenly turned into a ball of fire!Immediately afterwards, the plane, which was barely flying above the treetops, also began to shift direction, and was blocked by the dense jungle.

"boom!"

Not more than ten seconds later, a deafening explosion accompanied by tremors on the ground came from a distance.The two donkeys also kept kicking their kicks in excitement, and kept barking uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

"boom!"

Another explosion came from the distant jungle. Even through the dense jungle, they could see the night sky dyed red by the flames!

Everyone shivered in unison, looked at each other, and shouted in unison, "Go and see! Catch the little devil!"

As soon as the words were spoken, everyone immediately took action, relit the oil lamps, removed the tarpaulin that served as a rain screen, wrapped the bamboo baskets, or carried them on their shoulders, or fixed them on the sides of the donkey, and walked quickly towards the plane Walked in the direction of the crash.

Under the guidance of the night sky dyed red by the flames, everyone would not go in the wrong direction, but after leaving the road opened by the large army in front, it is not easy to walk in the primitive jungle where few people come. There was a torrential downpour that seemed to be releasing a flood. When they arrived at the fire point, at least half an hour had passed.

However, the fire was only caused by the fuel spilled from a broken wing and a few big trees that were broken. Even Wei Ran didn't see the plane's engine.

Fortunately, although the wreckage of the plane is not here, the canopy of those tropical trees with one layer cut off once again helped them guide the way.

Avoiding the flames that were still burning and didn't even know if there would be an explosion, everyone continued to walk forward for more than ten minutes. After discovering two engines that were also burning with weak flames, they finally saw a plane remains of the main body.

In the torrential rain, the plane dragged a hundred-meter mark on the ground, and the remaining wings on both sides of the fuselage were firmly stuck in the roots of two broken trees.These two fallen trees also covered the nose and tail of the aircraft with their respective canopies.

But even so, Wei Ran recognized at a glance that it was a [-] heavy bomber equipped with a lot of devils.

After realizing the specific model of the aircraft wreckage emitting blue smoke, Wei Ran immediately raised his vigilance and raised his hand to stop the companion behind him.

"Back up!" Wei Ran and Squad Leader Liang shouted in no particular order.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Guochang, who was about to run over, asked in confusion.

"This is a plane specially designed by devils to drop bombs"

Squad leader Liang was the first to say, "Our division headquarters shot down a plane like this before, and the one with a bomb on it, if it blows up, we won't be able to get away so close."

"Squad Leader Liang is right"

Wei Ran followed up and said, "And the main body of this plane seems to be complete, maybe there are still people alive. You all step back, I will go over to have a look first, if there is no danger, you can go over."

"I'll go." Squad leader Liang had already pulled out his box cannon while speaking.

"Let me go"

While speaking, Wei Ran had already taken off the pannier and handed it to Squad Leader Liang, "Back back, all of you."

"If there is a bomb, run away," Squad Leader Liang reminded worriedly.

"Do not worry"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he took the flashlight from Tan Shouzheng. This flashlight was one of the two flashlights seized from the devil when he met Zhou Guochang and Luke.Along the way, the previous one became a bait to lure the devils to bomb, and this flashlight also became dimmer and dimmer because it was lit less and less.

Trying to remove the battery and reinstall it with the gun stock lightly smashed a few times according to the method when I was a child, Wei Ran pushed the button again, seeing that the brightness has improved a lot, and then he carefully put it on.

At the same time, Squad Leader Liang also led the overly curious Tan Shouzheng and others to the distance and began to retreat.

Bending down and drilling through the lying canopy, Wei Ran first looked at the highly recognizable machine gun tower on the back of the machine.Seeing that there was no corpse here, he immediately raised his vigilance and walked around to the nose of the aircraft.

As expected, the cockpit nose firepower tower of this plane was also severely damaged, and the bloody corpse inside could be clearly seen through the tear.Although the condition of the cockpit is better, but when the flashlight is attached to the thick bulletproof glass, you can still see the corpse still sitting in the driver's seat.

After carefully confirming that there is no way to get out even if there are living people inside, Wei Ran went around to the hatch on the right side of the tail.

Carefully pushing open the hatch that was severely deformed by the impact, the moment he put the flashlight in, he saw four corpses that looked like blood gourds.

There is no need to check with your hands at all, just look at the strange bending angles of their respective heads, or the dark red blood overflowing from the corners of their mouths, and even the bones of their flight suits pierced through their thighs, and it is known that the impact when they landed has already killed them. .

Letting the beam of the flashlight extend to the inside, Wei Ran finally saw the last crew member in the bomber.

It was still sitting in the navigator's seat at this time, but what Wei Ran didn't expect was that when he bent down to get into the cabin, the navigator turned his head and looked over with difficulty.

Stepping closer, Wei Ran took a flashlight around the devil's body, and immediately noticed that his spine had completely lost strength, and he was still able to stay in the position at this time, all thanks to the safety belt. reliable.

Not only that, when Wei Ran pulled off his flight suit, he immediately smelled feces, and at the same time noticed that his chest and ribs had collapsed.

"What location did you bombed just now? How far is it from here? Why did you fall?" Wei Ran helped the other party tighten the flight suit again, and patiently asked each in Chinese, English and German.

"Help me, help me," the devil with severe spine and rib fractures said weakly in German with a thick accent.

"Where did you bombed just now, how far is it from here, and why did you fall?" Wei Ran asked again.

"Engine failure" After the devil finished speaking, he stretched out his hand with difficulty to the aerial charts on the table in front of him.

However, before its fingers touched the aerial map stained with dark red blood, it drooped heavily as if it had lost all its strength.

He put his hand under the devil's nose to try it out, and then put it on its neck for a try. Wei Ran sighed regretfully, hugged its neck and turned around vigorously. With a crisp click, Completely extinguished the possibility of resurgence.

Picking up the flashlight again and walking to the side of the driver's seat, Wei Ran glanced at the scars on the forehead and the collapsed bridge of the nose of the body that hadn't cooled off yet, and then glanced at the instrument panel that was still stained with blood.After thinking for a moment, he turned around and walked out of the cabin, bent down and got under the severely damaged muscle belly.

After careful inspection, he didn't run back a few steps until he was sure that the bombs on the plane had been emptied, and called for the hiding Squad Leader Liang and others to come over.

"Is there a bomb inside?" Tan Shouzheng was the first to ask.

"No, only the aviation machine gun has bullets in it."

Wei Ran led everyone inside and said, "Let's all go in and have a look. Let's search together, maybe we can find something useful."

"This will work"

Before Qin Shouzheng could finish his sentence, he and Zhou Guochang had already pulled off a goggle from the corpse at the door in no particular order.

After Squad Leader Liang and the young monk tied the donkey to the collapsed tree trunk, Tan Shouzheng and the other two also took off the goggles from the heads of the other two corpses and handed them over.

Although I don't know if this thing is useful, neither squad leader Liang nor monk Sehao refused this small gift.

Reminded by Wei Ran, Tan Shouzheng and Zhou Guochang also took off the watch on the wrist of the corpse and distributed it to Squad Leader Liang and the young monk who had just hung the goggles around his neck.

Wei Ran, on the other hand, not only rejected watches that might have an astonishing amount of radiation, but also rejected goggles that were almost useless in the jungle.Instead, they rummaged through boxes and boxes and found a first-aid kit made of cowhide that was not too big in the cabin.

Although he didn't find a parachute in this cabin, he found something better than a parachute-two inflatable life rafts, and several cans of rice and fish.

Ironically, the pilot of this little devil doesn't like skydiving or even doesn't deserve a parachute, but the allocation of life rafts is also weird.

Although life rafts have been generally equipped on various types of military aircraft of the little devil since 1939, they are not suitable for the carrier-based fighter jets that most need life rafts.

Although he can't figure out the brain circuit of the devil, it doesn't affect Wei Ran to turn the two inflatable life rafts out and put them aside. Even if they don't need them in the future, they can be slightly modified and used as waterproof backpacks.

In the end, all the uncooled corpses were thrown out, and everyone got into the dry cabin again, and Wei Ran, who walked at the end, barely closed the severely deformed cabin door.

"Do you want to start a fire?" Zhou Guochang asked first, "At least you can boil some water."

"Forget it, it's almost dawn." Squad leader Liang waved his hand, "Let's talk about it after dawn, and then we'll have a good meal before we set off."

Hearing this, everyone naturally had no objections, and each took off their soaked clothes and hung them to dry everywhere. Tan Shouzheng and Zhou Guochang also took their soap again and went outside to continue taking their baths.

Finding a random place to sit down, Wei Ran opened the first aid kit he found with the last light of the flashlight.

Contrary to his expectation, in this cowhide first aid kit with a lot of traces of use, in addition to a small copper flashlight and two spare batteries, there are also some triangular bandages, gauze, iodine, alcohol, etc. for trauma debridement and dressing and a large bottle of cod liver oil, zinc oxide, which is used to treat burns.

But in addition to these normal medical supplies and some such as tweezers, scissors and absorbent cotton, the remaining space is filled with an iron cylinder similar to a common iron tea bucket in later generations, and a brown infusion bottle about the size of a glass infusion bottle. Glass medicine bottle.

On the tin tube with the ghost soldiers painted on it, the words "March in the Army" were also written.But the handwritten label on the brown glass bottle only had a Japanese word that Wei Ran could not understand, followed by the words "商剤", and what appeared to be dosage instructions.

He opened the tin bucket and took a look. Inside were pills that looked like chocolate beans, and even smelled sweet.

Then he unscrewed the glass bottle he took out, poured out a white pill from it and smelled it.Wei Ran frowned and looked carefully at the label on the bottle that only said the dosage, and finally realized what it was.

In future generations, just the weight of these things in this medicine box may at least be able to exchange for more than ten years of free living and living.With a little luck, maybe you can go to the VIP channel to reincarnate in advance, delete the number and start again.

But in this era, these things have common names among devil soldiers. The ones contained in the iron sheet are usually called marching pills. Eat one to refresh your mind, and eat two to be invulnerable.

As for what was contained in the glass bottle, it was the more expensive "Assault Ingot". Just one of these things can maintain a high degree of concentration, work overtime, long-distance flight, long-distance marching and combat. You will unconsciously shout "onboard". If you eat a handful, you can fly the plane to the lively and lively American warships.

Looking at this plane again, Wei Ran finally remembered that devils during World War II, especially pilots, really took drugs in order to cope with overtime and dangerous night flight missions.

He even had no doubt that before the plane made an emergency landing, the pilot and even all the crew members of the plane might have taken drugs.

“Too bad there are no surgical instruments and syringes and such”

Wei Ran muttered regretfully, and put the white pill back into the bottle calmly.Then I took out the bottle of iodine that was wrapped with a sponge, and then took out absorbent cotton, filled it with tweezers and filled it with iodine. Enduring the stinging pain, I carefully applied it on the wounds bitten by leeches and mosquitoes all over my body. .

After painting for himself, Wei Ran didn't spare the rest of the people, anyway, he just found a devil plane that just fell off, even the little monk Sehao, who was clean with six roots, couldn't help but look around curiously , In a short period of time, I will never really close my eyes and go to sleep.That being the case, it is natural to help them deal with the bite wounds on their bodies and the wounds scratched by branches and grass leaves.

Counting the time by pinching the watch, Wei Ran smeared himself and the others with alcohol to remove iodine, and the cabin also began to smell of medical alcohol.

But everyone was rarely quiet, but they either leaned against the bulkhead of the cabin, or simply lay down, quietly listening to the white noise brought by the non-stop rainstorm outside.

"Squad leader, can we go out?" Tan Shouzheng asked abruptly.

"Yes," Squad Leader Liang replied almost raving.

"I want to eat the oil tea made by my mother." Tan Shouzheng muttered to himself, "There are crushed peanuts, yin rice, and oily fruits in it, and shredded green onions and sesame seeds are also added."

"Grumpy"

A loud protest came from Zhou Guochang's stomach, followed by Wei Ran couldn't help laughing.Zhou Guochang touched his belly in embarrassment, but he didn't want everyone to hear the gurgle again.

This time, even Squad Leader Liang and Tan Shouzheng wiped the corners of their eyes and laughed.After a while, the laughter in the cabin became louder and more unscrupulous, so much so that even the little monk Sehao, who couldn't understand Chinese, couldn't help showing a big smile on his face.

"Don't sleep anymore!" Squad Leader Liang sat up excitedly, "Light a fire! Let's drink camellia!"

(End of this chapter)