War Photographer's Notebook

On the street shrouded in darkness, the team, which has been reduced by one-third, is more and more careful to avoid the bullets flying from all over the place, as well as the mortar shells fired by the Russian army itself, almost sticking to the shadow of the building, Cautiously headed in the direction of the presidential palace.

At the front of the team, Wei Ran with binocular night vision goggles on his head, also replaced the weapon in his hand with a pss pistol that is more compact and convenient for shooting with night vision goggles, but behind him, he put the barrel on his shoulder Feschenk just replaced his low-sound sniper rifle with a night vision scope.

Gunshots, cannons, and screams, under the cover of night, a six-story building that seemed to be a shopping mall appeared directly in front of it.

However, before Wei Ran could see clearly that the enemy was hiding on the first floor of the building, a woman's scream came from the direction above his head.

Subconsciously raised his head, in the green field of vision, a figure leaped down from the third floor while screaming, "Plop!" It hit Wei Ran less than three meters in front of Wei Ran, and let the concrete wreckage mixed in The thick steel bars passed through the naked abdominal cavity and chest cavity!
"Turn off the night vision goggles and take cover!" Captain Karp, who was also wearing binocular night vision goggles, was the first to issue the order.

Before he had time to think, Wei Ran turned to the right together with the people behind him, pressed his body against the base of the wall, and hid behind a piece of dwarf pine for decoration.But before turning off the night vision goggles, his gaze subconsciously focused on the girl who had jumped off the building.

She wasn't wearing any clothes, and her thin body probably looked thirteen or fourteen years old at most. Her waist-length wavy hair stuck to the bloody steel bars, and her face of despair and helplessness was also She stared blankly at Wei Ran who was closest to her.

Just at this moment, an English curse came from the direction of the third floor above his head, followed by a man unfastening his belt, and poured a stream of fishy urine out of the building, so that he could not die. on that little girl.Sighing secretly, Wei Ran, who had already turned off the night vision device, blinked vigorously. After completely adapting to the dark environment, he immediately raised his micro-sounding pistol and aimed it at the French windows on the third floor.

But after some hesitation, he could only lower the muzzle of his gun and pull the trigger at the little girl with a face full of despair four meters away.

In the subtle gunshots that were perfectly covered by the sound of firefighting around, a hot bullet casing was caught by Wei Ran before it hit the ground, and he threw it to his feet.And the little girl who shouldn't have appeared on the battlefield, let alone be naked in this winter night, was relieved at the same time.

Just at this time, in the direction they were planning to go, two white-painted infantry vehicles also drove over. Behind the two infantry vehicles, there were more than [-] Chechen rebels armed with various weapons. .Even behind them, rebels began to gather.

And on the third floor above the head, the man who was still peeing also shouted in French, "Just, those Chechen lunatics are about to attack, come here while this is the time, we just met some beautiful ladies."

"You really don't forget to hit the cannons everywhere." From the direction above the head, the faintly audible French ridicule also came from the walkie-talkie.

"Anyway, come here quickly!" The peeing person on the third floor said with a smile, "It's already off-duty time, come and patronize the girls' business."

"We've already gone downstairs, remember to put away your mines." "Come straight up from the safe passage, it's in a clothing store on the third floor."

While the people on the third floor responded loudly, they finally emptied the inventory in their bladders, and continued talking while walking into the shadows on the third floor.

"Go in"

Captain Karp glanced at the rebels who had begun to gather at the crossroads in the distance, and softly issued orders to Wei Ran and Feishanke.

Hearing this, the two immediately got up cautiously, and walked into the dark first floor of the shopping mall carefully against the base of the wall.

With the help of night vision goggles, they looked at the escalator that had been blown up and the direction of the second floor. A group of people leaned against the wall and found a safe passage to the upstairs.

Captain Karp didn't call to stop, and Wei Ran, who was walking in the front, naturally wouldn't stop.Stepping on the stairs full of rubbish, a group of people came to the stairs on the second floor lightly.

Turning on the night vision device, he looked out cautiously and quickly retracted his upper body. When there was no response from the second floor, he probed again, then stuck out his upper body, and finally walked into the second floor.

Looking at the broken chandelier above his head, the broken floor-to-ceiling windows around him, and the corpses on the floor who couldn't tell which side he belonged to, Wei Ran made a safe gesture behind him.

Soon, Captain Karp and others also entered the second floor, and hid on the side of the entrance and exit of the stairwell against the wall.

"Serge is on guard, wait to catch the alive."

Captain Culp issued an order in a low voice, and the machine gunner Serge immediately pulled out a pss micro-sound pistol from his waist. The cat bent down and touched the position where he could see the entrance of the first floor, lying on the two frozen corpses There was a machine gun on the side.

"Lezri, how many explosives are there?" Ruslan asked in a low voice. "There are still 6 directional mines, three rockets, and a lot of TNT." Rezri replied in the same low voice.

"Prepare to blow up the stairs, collect some ammo later if conditions permit."

While Captain Karp reminded everyone, he also put the low-sound sniper rifle at his feet, and then took off his body armor and ammunition bag.

Wei Ran, Fei Shenke, and Ruslan's vice-captain were also not slow in their actions. Turi went back to Qianliwan and Qiu Yi received the medicine, but Dong Bailun Ruowu was crying because he was sniping at Liefeng and the ammunition, but he was afraid of the dragon He Baileng hid behind a shelf on the second floor facing the stairs diagonally, put his low-sounding sniper rifle on it, and was ready to fire at any time.As for Rezley, he unhurriedly took out two pieces of plastic explosives the size of a cigarette case from his bag, leaned against the wall like playing with plasticine, and kneaded them into cone-shaped pillars of shaped charges in the dark.

At this moment, the machine gunner in the distance swayed at Wei Ran, who was wearing a night vision goggle, with an infrared laser pointer.

"Here they come, four."

Wei Ran translated the meaning implied by the constantly flashing guide, and at the same time, he and the two captains also turned off the slightly leaking night vision devices and put them together with the weapons in the corner.

"No need to die, clean up." Karp issued the latest order almost raving.

In less than 2 minutes, French and English conversations and comments about Chechen girls came from the first floor.

Soon, the group of four walked into the dark stairwell, and one of them reminded in French through the intercom, "Tony, we are coming in."

"Come up directly, it's on the left." Bi Na quickly responded from the intercom, and at the same time made Wei Ran and others get ready.

Soon, with the knocking of boots and steps, a person holding a lighter and lighting a cigar came up first, and behind him, three other people followed.

Almost at the moment when these four people passed by the stairs leading to the second floor, talking and laughing, and preparing to go on to the third floor, Wei Ran, Fei Shenke, and the two captains rushed out in unison.

He covered his mouth with his left hand, hugged his head with his right hand and pulled it hard, amidst four crisp "click" sounds that almost overlapped.These four people also lost their lives in an instant, only the cigar in the mouth of the leader was left, with a scarlet flame, spinning and smashing on the dusty steps.

Dragging the corpses back to the dimly lit second floor, the four kept removing the ammunition bags and camouflage uniforms from the upper bodies of the four corpses and put them on. Then they took their respective weapons and threw them over their shoulders as they walked upstairs. While adjusting the straps of the ammo pouch.

When passing by the cigar, Ruslan's vice-captain also naturally bent down to pick it up and blew it vigorously, then stuffed it into his mouth and took a big puff.

And behind them, Leva and Agni also followed up with their silent sniper rifles.

Turning around the corner of two stairs, the iron fire door leading to the third floor was ajar. From the crack of the door, the girl's crying, pleading and desperate screams could still be faintly heard.

Looking out through the crack of the door, Deputy Captain Ruslan said in a low voice, "All I can see is a bonfire, 8 people, four are having dinner around the bonfire, and the other four are playing with women."

"Catch half and keep the other half." While Captain Garp was speaking, he had already replaced the pistol in his hand with a new magazine, and put the old magazine into his pocket.

With a sound of "squeak", the metal door was pushed open, and the vice-captain Ruslan, who was smoking a cigar, took the lead and led the crowd to stride over.

"Why are you so slow?"

A white man with his lower body naked and guarding an oil barrel with a bonfire waved enthusiastically towards them. "Just pissed on the first floor"

Captain Culp responded with proficient French and a tone of enthusiasm and expectation, and at the same time threw a canvas bag just picked up from the corpse to the person who was also sitting by the campfire, "Next, this is our whore Capital."

Following the throwing of the canvas bag, the attention of the four people subconsciously turned to the throwing canvas bag. At the same time, a black man with a wine bottle in his hand also subconsciously opened his hands to catch the canvas bag.

However, on the face of the white man who had just asked the question, a look of panic appeared under the constantly beating firelight, and his hand subconsciously touched his naked lower body!

"despair--"

After four light sounds that almost overlapped, blood mist erupted from the eyebrows or temples of the four scum around the campfire.

Without waiting for the black corpse who had already caught the canvas bag to fall down, Ruslan, who was closest to him, rushed over, grabbed his neck with one hand, and helped him hug the canvas bag with the other, and regained his stability. Sitting on a sofa with a label on it.

Before he let go, the three of Wei Ran walked quickly and silently to a storefront not far away that was lit with pink lights, and there were still screams of despair from women, laughter from men and the sound of physical collisions.

"Raise your hand!"

Captain Karp, who was the first to go in, raised his micro-voice pistol and shouted in French to stop the four strong men who were venting wantonly around two girls who were obviously underage.

And Wei Ran and Fei Shenke had already rushed over with their guns raised, ignoring the two strong white men who subconsciously raised their hands, instead they went to the other two and avoided the little girl they pushed over.

Before the two scumbags touched the submachine guns on their shoulders, Wei Ran and Feshanke had already put the muzzles of the guns on their heads in unison.

When the two of them obediently raised their hands, Ruslan, who was a step behind, also walked in with the sniper Leva.

Seeing that the number of people is not dominant, one of the white men who raised his hands from the beginning to the end looked at the white cloth strip on Captain Karp's arm with an apologetic smile, and then Tian French asked, "Can you put the gun down? , the resistance uses our store’s problems, if we can commit crimes, we are afraid to respond, we are our own people. I swear, these two lovely Chechen ladies volunteered to accompany us through this cold and dangerous winter night.”

"French?"

Captain Karp grabbed a cotton coat hanging on a shelf, helped a naked little girl with blood on her lower body, and wrapped her body in the cotton coat.

"Aren't you a Chechen?" The white man immediately became alert, and his tone was no longer as friendly as before.

"You guessed it right, can you answer the question now?"

While Captain Karp responded in French, he had already lifted up the second weeping little girl, and also pulled a cotton coat to help her put on carefully.

The white man looked at all the weapons that had been taken away by the sniper Leva. At this time, a companion who was undressing at the request of the other party replied after a little hesitation, "Corsica."

"Outlaw?"

Captain Karp glanced at the weapon on the bar next to him, "Name, serial number."

"Gala, 4th Paratrooper Company, [-]nd Parachute Regiment, Anti-Armor Team." The white man replied simply after some hesitation.

"And you?"

Captain Culp asked another relatively honest white man. "Athor"

While Wei Ran silently read the other party's name, the Caucasian boy who was also doing the French salute and with his trousers pulled back below his knees calmly replied, "The number is the same, I'm from the support group."

Glancing at the other two white men who had been stripped of all their weapons by the sniper Leva, Captain Karp waited for Ruslan to take the two little girls out before asking slowly, "They too? "

"Yes" nodded to the man named Shila, "They are from the first company."Captain Karp waited for Leva to take away the weapons on the two men, and then said abruptly, "Take off your clothes."

"What did you say?" Jiala asked in astonishment. "Take off your clothes"

Captain Karp repeated patiently, "Just take off your camouflage uniforms, I just want to borrow some clothes from you."

Gala and Ashor glanced at each other, reluctantly took off their camouflage uniforms with the other two disarmed men, and threw them on the bar of the clothing store.

"Tie them up and collect weapons."

Captain Karp finished speaking to Feshank and Wei Ran, and then looked at Leva, "Send them the clothes, and you can change into one too."

Hearing this, the sniper Leva picked up the clothes that the four prisoners had just taken off, walked out of the clothing store, and walked quickly towards the stairwell.

At the same time, Feschenk also found a pair of jeans from this clothing store, cut them into cloth strips with a knife, and tied the four people tightly next to each other.

Wei Ran was also not idle, and carried the weapons, ammunition, and backpacks seized from the clothing store outside as quickly as possible, and placed one of them beside the oil drum that was burning outside the bonfire.

These weapons are not only the fr-f2 sniper rifle and the expensive p88 pistol he saw before he strayed into this historical segment.Or to be more precise, at least there are not one p88 pistol, but four!
One of the four p88 pistols has a pattern engraved on the grip patch that I have seen before, but the grip patches of the other three, except that one side is engraved with the triangle logo of the Second Paratrooper Regiment, the other side The carvings are different and very distinctive.

In addition to the four expensive pistols and matching magazines and the sniper rifle, the weapons he brought out also included a Minimi machine gun and two AT4 rocket launchers that were seized in the corridor just now, and A mgl grenade launcher produced in South Africa, plus a Famas rifle and an mp5k-pd submachine gun with the stock still folded.

Looking at the four corpses still sitting on the sofa around the oil barrel, apart from the fact that their pistols were not so extravagant, the weapons they used were quite similar.

Of course, apart from weapons, Wei Ran also collected a lot of dollars, various ammunition, some compressed biscuits, military cans, and a few cigarettes, plus a small bottle of sildenafil that he did not know where to find.

When he put away these weapons, ammunition, and various supplies in different categories, suppressed screams came from the clothing store.

Looking up at the flashlight covered in a red plastic bag in the store, Wei Ran leaned over to the oil drum to warm himself up. After his body warmed up, he took off the kettle on his waist and took a sip of cold water. Leaning against the edge of a hot oil drum.

Not daring to get too close to the bonfire, Wei Ran chose a sufficiently dark place, staring at the other dark places on the same floor, while carefully sorting out the camouflage uniform and ammunition bag that he had put on in a hurry, and then put them on A pair of camouflage trousers that he picked up was put on his body.

However, at this moment, footsteps and chatter and laughter that Wei Ran couldn't understand came from another stairway far away from the agreed floor.Even, there seemed to be mixed with the wailing of a suppressed woman!
Before he had time to think about it, Wei Ran took out an empty magazine from his pocket and threw it towards the door of the clothing store as a reminder, while he himself completely hid his body in the shadow of a load-bearing pillar.

In less than 20 seconds, an accented French greeting came from the shadows, "Just? Are you there? I got two more fresh items, how about five hundred dollars each?"

"Send it here for us to see!" came the response from the man named Gala in the clothing store.

"What are you guys doing? Why are you showing all your weapons?" While speaking, the figure had drawn out his pistol vigilantly and stopped in his tracks, while the two people behind him
The individual also immediately put down the things they were carrying, and each raised the AK rifle in their hands.

"We were just servicing our weapons, come here!" Gala yelled.

Hearing this, the person in the lead stretched out his hand to the walkie-talkie on his shoulder, and at the same time began to wave his hand to signal to back away.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately pulled the trigger towards him! "Click!"

After two clear gunshots, the man in the lead fell to the ground. When Wei Ran fired the third shot, one of them raised his weapon towards him, while the other was ready to hide with a lunge. open.

Then, at this moment, Wei Ran vaguely saw a cloud of blood burst from the temple of the person who raised the weapon towards him, and then the third bullet he fired hit the bridge of his nose .

At the same time, the man who had already thrown out pulled the trigger of the AK rifle in his hand before the bullet hit him!
"Da da da!"

After the extremely piercing gunshots, the fourth bullet fired by Wei Ran hit him in the neck, and the bullet fired from the rifle in his hand also hit a row of fluorescent tubes above his head that had long lost power supply.

"They are all dead"

While reminding his teammates who were shooting in the distance, Wei Ran stepped out of the shadows and shot each of the three men.

At the same time, the snipers Leva and Feschenk, who had already changed their clothes, also ran over and cut open the two still struggling sacks with their knives.

As expected, each of the two sacks contained a blond girl who was tightly tied up with a rope and whose mouth and eyes were also sealed with tape.

Although it is difficult to see the appearance of the two girls because of the circles of black tape and the dim light, it can be seen from the thin figure that the two girls are now 15 years old. It is overestimated .

"These scumbags!" Feshank gritted his teeth and cursed angrily. "What's going on..." Wei Ran muttered subconsciously, even though he had already guessed the answer.

"The lonely courtyard run by those damned mercenaries." Leva helped a girl and said as he walked into the distance, "I bet those Chechen lunatics don't even know about it."