War Photographer's Notebook

Next to the third floor of the wrecked building on Ordzhonikidze Street, the sniper Leva crawled into a room and watched the battle outside for nearly an hour through the shooting holes, as well as the enemies on the fourth floor of the opposite building distribution, and then carefully returned to the corridor.

"Captain, the situation of the recruits below is not very good." Leva whispered against the wall of the corridor, "Condescending, flanked by flanks, those below are obviously inexperienced rookies. Fortunately, the armored vehicles of the Chechens were killed. They destroyed it, but I'm afraid the damage will be huge if it goes on like this."

"Do you want to help them?" Ruslan asked sideways. "Our height is not enough, let's go to the next door." Captain Garp stood up while speaking, "Opua, attract firepower."

"give it to me!"

On the way here, the soldier in charge of driving the infantry tank had already crawled into the room where the grenade launcher was placed.

At the same time, Demoman Rezli has already used the electric drill he carried with him to drill three holes in the floor of the stairs, and fixed a fixed pulley with a rappel rope with expansion screws.

Before the dropped rope hit the ground, Leizli had already slid down with two ropes in his arms, and then tied the rope that had passed through the pulley at one end to the blown-out stair railing at the fastest speed.

He waved his front foot to signal, and Wei Ran and Feishanke hung down holding the rope one after another to occupy a favorable terrain.

When Deputy Captain Ruslan came down, he immediately led them to explore the five-story building next door along the first-floor corridor that had already been explored.

At the end of the line, the driver Opuya, who was still on the third floor, carefully smashed a nail connected with a wire into the wooden door frame, then took out a bottle of diesel from his arms, poured it on the door frame, and lit it with a lighter.Without waiting for the flames to rise completely, he picked up the little kitten, which was not as big as a palm, stuffed it into his arms, and slid down the first floor along the rope. When his feet touched the ground, Rezri also cut the rope Pulling hard, while running to catch up with the person in front, he put away the rappel, and let Opua beside him help him stuff it into the backpack.

At the end of the corridor, Wei Ran, who rushed to the front, once again took out the wire cutters under the cover of his backpack, and easily cut the padlock on the iron door full of bullet holes.

When he retreated to get out of the way, Feschenk immediately opened the iron door, and the machine gunner Serge, who was lying on the floor in the middle of the corridor, was also ready to fire.

Fortunately, there were no enemies outside, but on the side of the building opposite, there was no gate for entry and exit at all, and at one end of the alley, which was only less than two meters wide, there were burnt-out car wreckage and fallen objects. The wreckage of the building is tightly blocked.

Captain Karp pointed in a direction, and Ruslan immediately led the team to the dark side of the building next door.

"Tat-tat-tat!"

At the same time they ran out, a series of bursts were fired from a distance, leaving a cloud of white smoke on the stone brick floor at the door, stammering back and forth at the door, lips four and four.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sniper Leva immediately pulled the trigger in the direction of the incoming bullets. Immediately afterwards, the ammunition soldier Agni also arched his back and let Sergi put the bipod of his PKM machine gun on his body, and headed towards the opposite side of the road. The upstairs pulled the trigger and fired a long burst of fire.

Taking advantage of their cooperation with each other to suppress the enemy, the person who rushed out first also took advantage of the favorable terrain, while the people behind also ran out and rushed towards the building next door.

Almost at the same time when the last person hid in the shadow of the building, the wreckage of the building where they were hiding before was on the third floor. As the flames burned, the small nail that was only shallowly nailed to the door frame was also burnt due to the carbonization of the door frame. It fell off under the pulling force, and the two bricks tied to the other end of the wire connected to it also fell to the ground violently.

Pulled by this huge force, the flame grenade launcher whose muzzle was stuck in the shooting hole was also pulled by the rope tied to the trigger, one after another "noisy" towards the opposite side. The building fired an astonishingly powerful grenade!

Every time a shot is fired, whenever the rising muzzle is held up by the shooting hole, the next shell hits a higher floor, and the muzzle shakes disorderly due to the recoil, which also makes the opposite building floor
Each floor was randomly hit with a round of grenades.

These grenades that can't guess where the next round will hit are completely toads jumping on the feet. For a while, the enemies who were firing at Wei Ran and others were immediately attracted by the firepower, whether it was rockets or machine guns. They all greeted the three-story building.That building also had its upper storey removed by heavy fire.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wei Ran and others have already found the entrance of this five-story building.

No time was wasted on the first and second floors, and everyone quickly climbed up the messy and dusty stairs to the third floor.And walking in the last Rezli, he moved very quickly and placed a booby trap made of grenades and RPG rockets picked up next door in the stairwell.

Climbing up to the third floor and listening to the movement, Captain Karp gestured towards Ruslan, who immediately entered with the messenger Vasli, the deputy shooter Yakov, the medical soldier Ivan, and the ammunition soldier Agni. third floor.As for the rest, they covered each other and climbed up to the fourth floor.

Before he came out of the stairwell, Wei Ran smelled second-hand smoke mixed with dust and gunpowder smoke. At the same time, the sound of gunfire coming into the stairwell from the fourth floor was also very clear.

Under Karp's signal, the demolitionist Rezley and the most powerful machine gunner Searle also guarded the stairs leading to the fifth floor on the top floor and the third floor downstairs, while the rest of them covered each other and entered the fourth floor.

"Click!"

Wei Ran pulled the trigger subconsciously the moment he saw a figure walking out of a room, but when the person who was shot in the chest and between the eyebrows fell to the ground, he finally realized that this enemy turned out to be a woman.

There was no time to pause, let alone think, the remaining five people covered each other, followed the gunshots to deal with the enemies who were hiding in the room and fired at the Russian soldiers below through the shooting holes.

As the rooms were cleaned up one by one, Wei Ran also discovered some patterns - in all the rooms with enemies on this floor, there were basically four people in groups.

In addition to a sniper and a machine gunner in these groups, there is also a Chechen veteran who is almost in the same Soviet uniform, but with white cloth strips wrapped around his arms as an identification friend or foe. These veterans basically have an RPG and a Soviet-made pistols of various models.

As for the remaining one in the group of four, although he was obviously also a Chechen, he was only dressed as a civilian, and he looked like a well-built ammunition soldier.

Coincidentally, before cleaning the last room on the fourth floor, everyone tied a strip of white cloth on their right arms, which Wei Ran saw as extremely unlucky, and also seized several more advanced walkie-talkies.

"Snipers and machine gunners are basically mercenaries"

Leva tore off the scarf from the face of a dead body, the sniper, a red-haired white woman with a cropped head and a ship's rudder tattooed on her neck.

Look at the machine gunner with the same skin color next to him. On his neck are tattoos, a chain wrapped around his neck twice and an anchor.Obviously, this is a pair of wild mandarin ducks who came to earn extra money.

"And our radios have been tapped, this battle doesn't look too promising."

Captain Culp listened to the friendly call from the seized Motorola walkie-talkie, and pressed the walkie-talkie on his shoulder helplessly, "Death knell, have you found it?"

"I found it," Ruslan replied briefly.

"Stay where you are, turn off the radio." Captain Culp issued a new order.

"Death knell received" Ruslan's response came from the intercom with a crackling noise.

"Death knell?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, silently turned off the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder, and conveniently put the boxes of 9mm pistols he had just dug out from the enemy's body into his pocket.

"Victor, tell Lezri to be ready to blow up the ascending stairs at any time, and also ask Serge to help Ruslan guard the entrance, and send the messenger to meet me by the way. The rest of the people are ready to kill, let us help the stairs Those poor rookies under the hood."

Following the order, Wei Ran turned and ran towards the stairwell, and conveyed Captain Karp's order to Serge.

Hearing this, Serge the machine gunner immediately took him

He went downstairs with his machine gun, and after a while, Rezley also ran up with the weapon in one hand and the half-meter-long drill bit that he had not had time to put away in the other.

"Leave it to me here!"

Leizli put the drill bit into the holster at his waist, took out a directional mine and fixed it on the wall with an electric drill while Wei Ran was still there, almost at the front and back, the messenger Vasli also ran up with a gun.

"The fourth room"

Wei Ran raised his hand to help the other party point to the room where Captain Karp was, and then he himself randomly chose a room facing the street outside, and pulled away the dead body of the sniper lying next to the shooting hole, lying on his back Next to him, he aimed his low-sounding sniper rifle at an enemy wearing an asbestos fireproof suit and carrying rockets on the building across the street and pulled the trigger.

The distance was less than [-] meters, so there was no need to consider too many environmental factors at all. As he pulled the trigger, the enemy who was about to shoot out the rocket was shot in the face, and suddenly his neck was thrown back, with a With his arrogant attitude, the rocket was fired into the air.

Gently moved the muzzle to aim at a condescending enemy who manipulated the grenade launcher and fired at the Russian soldiers on the street. When he pulled the trigger for the second time, the opponent also fell down straight.

Moving the gun again to aim at the opposite side one floor lower than him, a sniper lying on the table behind the window pulled the trigger for the third time.

With such a short distance, such a noisy and chaotic background environment, and a good enough low-sound weapon in hand, even if this is the Grozny battlefield, it is really not too difficult for the enemy to rush into this building.

Even, in order to save the precious micro-sound ammunition, after Wei Ran emptied the remaining bullets in the magazine, he stingily replaced it with the MSG90 sniper rifle that was still stained with the blood of the previous owner—— anyway The muzzle of this gun is also screwed with the silencer, although its movement is slightly larger than the weapon in his hand, but the effect is the same.

With each round of bullets fired, Wei Ran no longer remembers how many people he killed, but the battle outside became more and more fierce as the sky darkened, and those recruits from the 131st brigade and those who came from nowhere The refugees also retreated to the train station.

It just so happened that at this time, there was a sudden sound of directional mine explosion from the stairwell connected to the corridor behind him.Immediately afterwards, Razri blew the whistle forcefully.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately returned the sniper rifle that was still in good condition to its original owner. By the way, he also pulled an American M57 grenade from the body that had become cold, pulled out the safety pin and put it here. under the neck of the corpse.

When he ran out of the room, Captain Karp and others also came out one after another.Seeing this, Rezley immediately pressed the detonator.

"boom!"

Accompanied by three consecutive explosions almost touching each other, thick smoke and dust spewed out from a room on the side of the corridor.

Before the smoke cleared, Rezley pressed the detonator again after replacing the detonating wire.

"Boom!" There was another explosion, followed by a series of screams from the stairwell.

After such a short time, Feschenk had already grabbed the rope fixed on the floor with expansion screws, and walked into the room where the explosion had just occurred.

"Victor! Wire cutters!" Feschenk yelled.

Hearing this, Wei Ran rushed into the room, reached into the interlayer between his back and backpack, and took out the wire cutters under the cover of smoke and dust. At the same time, he also saw clearly the one on the floor that was blown out, with a diameter of 1.5 meters. Punch holes left and right.

It was not only the floor of this floor that was blown apart, even the floor of the third floor below had a hole of the same size in the same position. At this time, Agni, the ammunition soldier, was wearing a The goggles raised their necks and looked up.

After regaining his senses, Wei Ran cut off a more obstructive steel bar at the fastest speed, and once again used the cover of his backpack and body to retract the wire cutters, then grabbed the rope with both hands and slid down first.

Standing firmly with the help of Agni, Wei Ran cut off the raised steel bars around the blasted hole on the floor of the third floor as quickly as possible.

such a short time
Husband, besides Leizli and Feschenk, Captain Karp and others also slid down one by one.And Agni, who was waiting in the room in advance, also gave everyone an American-style goggle.

"Where did it come from?" Captain Karp asked curiously as he took it over.

"There is a mercenary group stationed on the third floor, all of whom seem to be American ex-soldiers."

While Agni explained, he also handed one to Wei Ran who had finished his work.At the same time, Serge, the machine gunner, had already rappelled down to the first floor by grabbing the rope.

"Nobody hurt?"

While Karp asked, machine gunner Serge, deputy shooter Yakov, and Ruslan's deputy captain also rappelled down the rope to the second floor to establish a defensive circle.

"No." While Agni spoke, he and Opua grabbed the rope and slid down.

After everyone descended to the second floor, Leizli and Feschenk also descended directly from the fourth floor, and the pilot Opuya, after everyone followed Leizli out of the room, fell a little to the end of the rappelling rope. Diesel ignites it.

In the dark corridor, Leizley pulled two pre-arranged detonating wires from the door of a room at the end of the corridor to connect the detonator, then decisively pressed the switch, and threw a rope that was also fixed on the floor in advance. go down.

While the rest of the people descended to the first floor, he had already pulled out two rockets picked up from upstairs from his backpack, and paired them with a grenade to set up a booby trap in the dark and messy corridor.

Back on the first floor, the sky outside had been completely suppressed, but the dim sky made the surrounding firefights much more obvious.Even Wei Ran heard a loudspeaker shouting something in Chechen in the distance.

Although he couldn't understand the contents of the loudspeaker, the screams and vague wails that sounded from the loudspeaker from time to time made him frown.

"Check Ammo"

Captain Karp reminded with a cold face.They led a team with Ruslan, used the car, armored vehicle and even the wreckage of tanks everywhere as cover in the night, stepped on the corpses of those young Russian soldiers or the corpses of Chechens or even black people who did not belong here. He rushed straight to the direction of the presidential palace. "call out--!"

Just as the group of them covered each other and crossed a street, the iconic whistle of mortar shells piercing the air suddenly came from the air!

"boom!"

Accompanied by an explosion, the building that was about a hundred meters away from them, which was irrelevant to their movement, was hit by a shell and exploded into a flash of light.

However, the two teams led by Captain Karp and Ruslan did not stop, but accelerated their progress further.

However, when they were about to reach the downstairs of what appeared to be a residential building, a series of shots were fired abruptly from the semi-basement windows at the corner of the building.

"what!"

Yakov, the deputy shooter who was running ahead, immediately uttered a scream and fell beside the wreckage of an overturned truck, followed by a suppressed wail.

"Tat-tat-tat!"

Wei Ran and Fei Shenke, who had already run to the back of the next bunker, immediately pulled the trigger on the fire point of the machine gun hidden behind the basement window of the tube building.

The two VSS sniper rifles, which were firing continuously and without any muzzle flash at all, easily stopped the machine gun that had just hit Yakov.

At the same time, medical soldier Ivan also turned around and ran back immediately, and ran back as soon as he picked up Yakov.

But under his dim vision, Wei Ran could clearly see that the ammunition soldier Agni and the sniper Liewai also seemed to carry a person and ran over!When it was getting closer, Wei Ran was short of breath after hastily turning his head and glanced back. Apart from Yakov whose legs had been broken at the calf, the driver Opuya and the communication soldier Gas were also carried back. inside!

However, compared to Yakov, Opuya, who was shot in the chest, could no longer make a sound at this time, and the messenger Vasli, who was gritting his teeth desperately, had one leg disappear from the middle of the calf.

At the same time, under the cover of Wei Ran and Feschenk's firepower, Leizli also

Throw a grenade through the basement window.

"boom!"

Accompanied by an explosion that was not very eye-catching on this battlefield, the people who were slightly hindered immediately set off again, covering each other and sneaking into the brick building.