War Photographer's Notebook

In the bumpy infantry vehicle compartment, when the smell of gunpowder smoke seeping in from the shooting holes penetrated into the nostrils along with the chill, Wei Ran, who had already tensed up his nerves, became more sober.

But compared to the muffled and sometimes intense firefight outside the carriage, the people in the carriage continued to chat after they were ready for the firefight.

"Comrades, we haven't been together like this for almost three or four years. Any of you are married?" Machine Gunner Serge asked at the top of his voice.

"Me! I'm married too."

The bearded Feschenk said proudly while tying the two AK magazines together with tape, "And I already have a son." "What's your son's name?" Wei Ran asked loudly, and at the same time Also ready to meet acquaintances again.

"Ninell, of course it's called Ninell." Feschenck replied loudly, "Do you remember Ninell?" "Of course I do."

The soldier in charge of driving the infantry tank was the first to say loudly, "Major Ninel is a true patriot. If he is still alive, maybe he is also in the vehicle directing us to fight at this time."

"If he didn't commit suicide because of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, he would definitely not agree to our participation in the war."

The sniper Leva hugged his SVD and said with almost certainty. As soon as he said this, everyone except Wei Ran nodded.

"But we have a reason to come out and fight"

Captain Karp followed up and said that everyone with different thoughts couldn't help but nodded again. If there was no reason to fight, they would not have appeared here.

"Let's go back to the topic just now."

The soldier sitting in the driver's seat said, "I'm also married. I got married in 92. Last summer, my wife and I had our first child. Our second child will be born next spring. "Captain Ruslan, you have two children?"

Medical soldier Ivan asked in surprise, "When I saw you last time, weren't you still chasing that uke rotten singer?" "She's my wife now."

Ruslan, the driver, said proudly, "And just like Feshank, we also have a son. His name is Thorn, and he uses my wife's father's name. That little guy can already walk now."

"Thorn?"

Wei Ran shook his head. If he remembers correctly, one of Maya's elder brothers seems to be named Thorn. They met each other when they were guests in Hasa last time.

"Captain Ruslan, is your other child a boy or a girl?" The soldier in charge of driving the infantry chariot asked the question Wei Ran wanted to ask. "How do I know? That little guy hasn't been born yet." It seems to be Ruslan, the vice-captain of the team, said proudly, "I don't care as much about whether it's a boy or a girl like Captain Karp, but it's better to be a girl.

In this case, when Thorne grows up, I will send him to the Suvorov Junior Military Academy early, and then spoil my daughter well. "

"I envy you guys"

"I'm not married yet, I don't even have a girlfriend," said the soldier in charge of driving the infantry vehicle.

"Opua, I remember you have a girlfriend, are you not together?" Captain Karp asked curiously. …

"No"

Opuya, who was in charge of driving, said indifferently, "She wants to immigrate to the United States, but I don't want to go. How can I go to the United States, so we separated."

"Actually, going to America is also a good choice"

Ruslan couldn't help sighing, "My wife has always wanted to go to the United States, and she said that she will prepare for this after the second child is born."

"I want to go to America too"

The bald soldier who seems to be an ammunition soldier said, "The mine I work in has not paid wages for half a year. We all know English, or even more than English. If we go to the United States, it will be better than starving to death."

"Agney, are you married?" Culp asked, changing the subject.

"I got married, I got married at the end of 91, but my wife died."

Ammunition Soldier Agni rubbed her face vigorously, "She was a store cashier and was shot dead by a bastard who robbed a store two years ago."

"How could this be..." Medic Ivan muttered with his lips moving. "When she was taken to the hospital, I was still preparing to repair the ventilation system in the mine more than 100 meters underground."

Agni moved her red eyes to the edge of the periscope, and said while looking at the empty city outside the chariot, "I didn't even have time to see her one last time."

"Has the robber been caught?" a soldier with a radio on his back asked.

"caught"

Agni didn't take his eyes off the periscope, "I caught him in Smolensk, that bastard just wanted to get some bread for his daughter, who hasn't eaten for days, that ridiculous guy for ten A kilo of bread and a dress, and accidentally killed my Kolyuzhna."

"Didn't you kill him?" the communications soldier asked subconsciously. "I cut off his pinky finger"

Agni showed a look of despair, "Should I hang him on the street lamp? If he dies, his daughter will starve to death."

"It's really cheap for him." The messenger angrily hammered on the bulkhead, and there was only aggrieved and resentful in his tone.

"Yeah, it's really cheap for him." Agni wiped the corner of his eyes and asked, "What about you? Vasli, what's your situation now?"

"I work in a radio station"

The communications soldier subconsciously touched the earphones he was wearing, "But I'm not an announcer, I'm just a worker in charge of repairing radios. I thought I'd never see you again in this lifetime."

"Radio station in Chelyabinsk?" asked Opya, the pilot. "Yes," the signalman Vasly responded loudly.

"Aren't you married?" Ruslan, the driver, asked the second question.

"No"

Vasri grinned, "I always think about what Captain Karp said when we were disbanded, and I was worried that I would be called back to join the battle at any time, so I never fell in love, so that if there is any accident, I don't have to worry about it. Make any girl sad."

"I am married"

Sitting next to Wei Ran, a soldier who didn't seem to like talking very much said that he might not even be 1.7 meters tall, but he was quite strong in length.

The weirdest thing was that there was an electric drill hanging around his waist, and a drill bit that seemed to be half a meter long and the thickness of a thumb.In his arms, he held a rocket launcher. …

"Rezli, when did you get married?" Sniper Leva and his deputy shooter Yakov asked in unison.

"Two days before departure"

Rezri showed a simple and honest smirk, "It's my colleague at the Tula Arsenal, she is a weapon quality inspector."

"Sorry, I shouldn't have called you here," Captain Karp murmured apologetically.

"It's okay, that's fine."

Rezley still had a naive smile on his face, "As you said on the phone, it would be nice if we can completely erase our existence this time, so that we can at least live the lives of ordinary people in the future."

Before Captain Karp could say anything, the commander Ruslan abruptly reminded him loudly, "Comrades, this is the end of the chat."

As soon as he spoke, the people who were chatting just now turned their eyes to the periscopes in their seats.

"It's 14:[-]pm"

The driver Ruslan continued, "On the way, I saw a girl selling flowers, a restaurant having barbecue, and a small street vendor selling clothes, but why didn't I see any customers?"

"Slow down," Captain Garp gave the order vigilantly. "The train station is right in front of you"

The unease in the tone of the driver Ruslan became more and more obvious, "As long as we turn left there and enter Ordzhonikidze Street, we can even see the presidential palace directly, but listening to the sound of firefighting around, this is not right , too quiet for those Chechen lunatics to give the city away." "The terrain around the railway station is not suitable for defense," said Serge the Machine Gunner.

"Captain, pay attention to the buildings on the side of the road!"

The sniper Leva reminded loudly, "The outer walls of the buildings I see here have shooting holes! What about your side?"

"Our side is the same!" Vasry, the signal officer, responded immediately. "Get over and abandon the car!"

Captain Karp gave the order decisively, "Weapon weapons are ready, let's go to the building on the left to find a place to hide, and check to see if there are any mice hidden inside."

As the order was issued, Wei Ran immediately folded the steel stock of the assault rifle and carried it on his back, then took out the VSS micro-sound sniper rifle equipped with a pso-1 scope from the canvas bag at hand, and loaded it Put on the wooden butt with a cheek rest and load the bullets, and prepare to rush out of the carriage with the rest of the people at any time.

At the same time, the driver, Opuya, immediately turned the car around and approached a dilapidated building on the side of the road, backed up and violently stabbed the rear of the infantry vehicle into a messy shop facing the street.

"Bang!"

As the two armored doors at the rear of the car opened, everyone filed down to cover each other and occupied this not-so-large room.

Before the car was turned off and stopped, the machine gunner Serge had already put his pkm on the side of the front of the car and was ready to fire at any time. Feschenk, who jumped down first, also called Wei Ran to put the pkm on the car body. The camouflage net unfolded to cover the turret on the roof.

By the time they had hastily covered the infantry chariot, Captain Karp and Ruslan had each led a team, covered each other through a wooden door, and walked into the dark corridor.

Without commanding at all, the short soldier named Rezli placed a mon50 directional mine at the stairway leading to the basement, and covered them with an inconspicuous rag. …

Captain Ruslan also took the opportunity to take the opportunity to take a brief look at the only few rooms on the first floor. When he came back, he immediately shook his head at Captain Karp. Obviously, he didn't find anything.

"upstairs"

Captain Karp issued an order in a soft voice. Hearing this, Wei Ran and the bearded Feschenk, who were closest to the stairs, immediately moved in exactly the same way, tilted 45 degrees to the left and raised the VSS sniper rifles in their hands, alternately covering the start. Go in the direction of the second floor.

"Tack!" "Tack!"

Two sets of weak gunshots sounded from the hands of Wei Ran and Feshanke behind him respectively. The two men who ran down from upstairs, wearing civilian clothes but carrying AK rifles in their hands, were also in their respective rooms. The moment a small steel bar was added to the bridge of the nose and between the eyebrows, it also fell down straight.

Slightly moving his body to pass the falling corpse, Wei Ran, who was almost holding a weapon horizontally, did not let down his vigilance or even moved his position, while Feishanke, who was behind him, jumped over the corpse and rushed to the stairs on the second floor mouth, leaning against the wall and aiming in the direction of the third floor.

"Tack! Tack!"

There were two more weak gunshots, and the two enemies who were about to rush into the stairwell from the second floor were also shot dead by Wei Ran and Captain Karp, who was also holding a weapon behind him.

When Captain Karp patted his shoulder lightly, Wei Ran immediately rushed to the other side of the stairs on the second floor, and bent down to give way to Fessenke who was shooting towards the third floor. Facing the wall, he turned and squatted down for half a circle, and the weapon in his hand was also aimed at the direction of the third floor.

At this moment, Yakov, who seemed to be the deputy shooter of the sniper Leva, also cooperated with Captain Karp to kill three enemies who rushed into the stairwell from the second floor.

When the medical soldier Ivan and the car commander Ruslan took over the two of them, Karp and Yakov also crossed each other and controlled the stairway on the second floor and the corridor outside.

In the weak gunshots that sounded one after another, the 12-member team quietly entered the second floor of the almost-destroyed rough house in a way of alternating cover like a solitaire.

However, the short soldier Leizli at the end of the team was not in a hurry to go upstairs. Instead, he stepped on the handrail of the stairs and manipulated the electric drill to fix a heavy and tiring mon100 discus to the front of the stairs with expansion screws. above, and put a dirty gray cloth cover over it.

After he has set up the tripwire and is on the
When all the explosives were installed under the stairs leading to the second and third floors, in the corridor on the second floor, Wei Ran, who had already had his turn to take the lead, also put most of his upper body and the weapon in his hand into the street facing the outside. s room.

"Click!"

In the weak gunshots that were perfectly covered by the intermittent firefights outside, a red and white plaid Arab kerchief under a helmet and a khaki camouflage uniform in this room are sitting on a chair and holding a binoculars , the back view looking out through the shooting hole was also accurately hit by Wei Ran in the back of the heart and the back of the head.

Before the man fell to the ground, Ivan, the medical soldier next to Wei Ran who was holding a pss silent pistol, fired two shots in no particular order, and hit another man in this room who was wearing civilian clothes and had a back on his shoulder. The back of the heart and the back of the head of a man holding a rocket launcher. …

Almost at the same time that the two of them covered each other and entered the room to replenish their guns, the team behind them continued to move forward without any pause at all, silently cleaning the next room.

"Afghans and Chechens"

Medical soldier Ivan took three grenades from the body of the Afghan soldier while making a judgment, and after distributing one of them to Wei Ran, he pulled out the safety pins of the remaining two and separated them. Tucked under the still-warm soldier and under one leg of the DShka tripod next to him.

Almost at the same time as he stood up, Wei Ran also stuffed the grenade with the safety pin removed into the sweater of the Chechen corpse.

When the two of them hurried out to make up to the end of the line, the people in front had already cleared out two more rooms, and the second floor of this building was basically cleared to the end.

"Up to the third floor"

At the same time Captain Culp issued the order, he removed the emptied magazine and replaced it with a new one, and then threw the magazine with only two bullets left into the magazine bag.

After receiving the order, Wei Ran, who had found his position, immediately entered into the ancient rules with Da Hu, so Gu Fulin agreed to go to the second floor to form a team, so his team was written second floor.

Only half of the rooms remained on the third floor of the building, and the remaining half seemed to have been shelled and collapsed.

Compared with the second floor, which took a little more thought, the top floor of the third floor of this building is much quieter. Among the few intact rooms, the only one alive is a kitten that is only a little bigger than a slap There is nothing else.

On the contrary, in those almost open-air rooms, not only were several boxes of rockets and several rocket launchers hidden, but there was even a set of "flame" grenade launchers mounted in the gap in the corner, almost facing the street downstairs!

"Those rookies down there are in trouble!"

Almost at the same time that Ruslan's vice-captain finished speaking, there was sudden gunshots around him!All of a sudden, the firefight that was still pattering just now suddenly became intense!
"call out!"

Amidst the unique whistle, on the roof of the building opposite, several figures in camouflage uniforms fired rockets at the beginning and end of the convoy of tanks and infantry vehicles below!

At the same time, from the direction of the stairwell behind them, there was a unique explosion sound!And the weird sound like thousands of steel pillars hitting the concrete floor at the same time!

There was no scream, no counterattack, but Wei Ran knew that one of the big iron plates that Leizli installed on the corridor wall just now must have played a role!

"Look outside," the sniper Reva reminded in a low voice.

Hearing this, Wei Ran and Fessenke immediately went to a shooting hole and looked out. At this moment, at the corner of another street, several infantry vehicles painted partly white suddenly rushed out and headed towards the The soldiers of the 131st brigade, who are setting up defensive positions in the streets and lanes below, fired rounds of shells and intensive machine gun fire!
All of a sudden, gunshots erupted on the street outside the building, and Rezley returned to his position in the stairwell, and pressed the detonator under the cover of the explosion outside.

"boom--"

After a series of inconspicuous explosions, the stairwell from the first floor to the third floor was completely blown up, like a mudslide, burying those who came in just now...

The enemy who sneaked up but was hammered into a dish by an iron plate also buried the entrance to the basement of the building.

"Should we help them?" Ruslan tore open a fruit candy produced by Kaban Lake Candy Company and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Those rookies should be able to handle it."

Captain Culp found a corner and sat down, "Keep concealed, we will reach the Presidential Palace after dark to complete our mission first, if we can kill those three bastards, this war will end soon. "

Hearing this, everyone went back to the relatively safer and more secluded corridor and sat down against the wall. They sat down quietly while looking for things to do, but there was no one at all, chatting like they did in the chariot before. Their own private affairs, even okay, there is not even a single person in this team to talk.

Diagonally facing the stairs, Wei Ran sat on an upside-down broken washbasin, took out a box of expensive SP6 armor-piercing bullets from his bag, and pressed the bullets fixed on the clips into the few magazines that had just been emptied , At the same time, he was also silently guessing in his mind the affiliation of the team led by Captain Karp.

It is not an easy task to equip such weapons and obtain such abundant ammunition in the stretched first Chechen war.

Even, especially before boarding the infantry tank, Captain Karp's words "From now on we belong to the 131st Brigade" made him even more concerned.

Now it is attached to the 131st brigade, so what about before?To what had these people, who had clearly not seen each other in years, been previously affiliated with?Does the so-called "no number" really have no number?Since there is no serial number, what is the reason for Raizli's sentence "It's not bad to completely erase our existence"?
He can naturally understand the meaning implied here, but why should this team be erased?And it seemed that they were all willing to take risks in this flesh and blood mill, as if they were willing to have their existence wiped out.

Especially everyone here, even Wei Ran, is not a rookie who has been killed outside and crying for his mother.

Such a capable and well-equipped squad was thrown into such a battlefield where special operations were ineffective. Was it because the commander was too stupid, or was it some kind of extravagance?Or... Kill people to silence them?
With more and more doubts and puzzles in his heart, Wei Ran showed a look of helplessness on his face.

It's really useless to think about these things in the game now. Surviving first, and surviving until the end of this war is obviously the most important thing. As for such a small team, throwing it here is a waste...

Be it the Soviet Union or Russia, even if the Ermao Wu is rotten, why should such a wasteful thing be done less?

Shaking his head to dispel the random thoughts in his mind, Wei Ran took out the small Kyiv 30 camera from the sundry bag again by accident, and put it in front of everyone, taking pictures of each of them while they were not injured. Posted a picture of a weapon in his arms.

Finally, he got close to Captain Karp and sat down. Wei Ran wiped a dusty plastic leather book on his lap, and then handed it to the former along with the pen he had taken out of the metal book in advance.

"What?" Captain Culp asked in a low voice.

"Now do you have anything to say to your soon-to-be-born daughter?"

Wei Ran paused, then continued to whisper, "Of course, there is also your wife, Ms. Dahlia, if there is one, how about writing it down?"

Captain Culp patted Wei Ran's cheek lightly with the plastic leather notebook, and reminded in a low voice, "Give you three seconds to put away your pencil case, and let me see you doing so badly at this time." For professional matters, I will strip you naked and hang it on the street lamp!"