War Photographer's Notebook

In the dark underground passage, Asol and Gala, who were leading the way, led Wei Ran and others to continue walking in the underground passage, which was definitely not good in taste.

Although Asol had just said that they would soon encounter a gate with a Chechen handle, in fact, this underground transportation system was far more intricate than they thought.

Sewage wells, heating wells, underground traffic trenches that existed when the military fortress was first built before World War II, and even the air defense system built during the Cold War.

All of these were connected and connected by the Chechens, and landmines, traps, and even Chechen guards of varying sizes were placed in all kinds of inconspicuous but ultimate places, as well as a small number of refugees who escaped from the surface. .

Under the leadership of Ashor and Gala, two mercenaries who seemed to be very cooperative, they walked through a fork in the road and passed through refugee gathering places. When they stopped again, they were not far ahead. On both sides of a fork connected to the sewage road, there was an electric light on each side, and between the two lights was a large iron gate guarded by two machine gun forts pointing in different directions.

There was no pause at all, and Athol warmly greeted the two machine gunners sitting in the fire bunker in French to open the door.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the door was opened very simply, without interrogation or checking of any documents, and one of them yanked open the iron door.

"thanks"

Athor changed into English and said politely, and then he was the first to get in regardless of whether they understood it or not.

When Wei Ran and Feishanke also walked through the rusty iron gate, they immediately felt the heat wave and the strong body odor.

Looking around, on both sides of this underground corridor less than two meters wide, at a height of more than one meter from the floor, there are densely integrated pipelines of various sizes and sizes, some of which can emit heat On the pipeline, there are clothes that seem to have just been washed or leather boots, and a kerosene lamp with a chirping sound is hung on a higher position.

There are a few wooden benches placed against the wall under the pipe, and even the floor is covered with a carpet that I don't know where I got it.

On those chairs, there were a few Chechen soldiers with bare feet sitting crookedly in twos and threes.

However, looking at the disposable syringes and blood-stained ampoules thrown in the lunch box next to them, as well as the weird, crazy and relaxed expressions on their faces, it is clear that these Chechen soldiers guarding the gate may have already knocked on the door. hi.

Looking at each other, everyone tacitly released the whispering pistols in the inner interlayer of their respective body armor.

"Wait a moment"

Just as the group of them was about to pass through the passageway held by these drug addicts, a Chechen soldier wearing a turban and holding an AKS74U in his arms stared at his bloodshot eyes and called for a stop in English with a strong accent. everyone.

Seeing that everyone stopped and looked at him, the Chechen soldier yawned and shook his hand with scissors, "Is there any smoke?"

"Yes, of course."

While speaking, Wei Ran released the micro-voice pistol he had gripped again, and took out the Marlboro that the American soldier had given him not long ago from the ammunition bag on his chest, and handed it to the other party.

The Chechen soldier took the cigarette and took out one to light it. He put the cigarette case in his pocket as a matter of course, and then took out a packaged disposable syringe and an ampoule containing powder from the aluminum alloy lunch box beside him. Handed it to Wei Ran, "How about bringing me some of your cigarettes when you come out?"

"No problem." Wei Ran happily took the syringe and ampoule and put them in his pocket.

They walked through the passageway handled by these obviously unconscious Chechen soldiers without any risk. The group walked less than ten meters forward, and there was a concrete explosion-proof door that was half open.

Continuing to pass through a section of explosion buffer wall, the underground passage not only increased in width to nearly three meters, but also there was a dim miner's lamp with a metal protective net at intervals above the head.

Look at the left, right and under your feet, the red brick walls and the pitted floor, and even the intricate and rusty pipes near the wall.
Road, all these may make the history of this underground passage easily traced back to the time when this military fortress city was just established before World War II.

When everyone walked along the tidal walk and walked forward for a distance of 90 meters and turned three consecutive [-]-degree turns, an underground hall connected with several forks appeared directly in front of them.

From here, the red-clad underground walls were replaced by book concrete. The rooms connected to this hall are also equipped with metal explosion-proof doors, and the specific purpose is written in rusty Russian. Obviously, here The thick Soviet-style underground buildings come from the Cold War era.

In addition to these underground buildings, there are many people in this bright space, including blacks and whites, Chechens, and Afghans wearing turbans. Wei Ran even saw a few Asians inside. He was of Asian descent, and the appearance of the other party who bowed at every turn made him guess the breeds of these Asians in an instant.

You are everywhere...

Wei Ran murmured to himself, wrapped his arms around Asol's neck pretending to be affectionate, and asked in a low voice while walking forward, "What is this place?"

"transfer station"

Athor glanced at the f1 big lemon grenade hidden in his sleeve, swallowed and said in a low voice, "This is called a transfer station, where commissions are settled, information is exchanged, weapons are rested and ammunition is replenished, everyone will Come here. The managers of each mercenary group are also stationed here, if you want to change the team, you only need to find them."

"Where is that shopping mall?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice, "What is there?" "The command center on the ground"

Athor explained in a low voice, "It's also a resting point on the ground. You can see it just now. The road is too far, and there are many mines and traps on the way. It's okay if there are only one or two people. If the number It’s bigger, so it’s more convenient on the ground.”

"Who did you kill in Madagascar? How did you manage to escape from prison?" Wei Ran changed the question abruptly, and Asol couldn't help shivering, looking at Wei Ran in horror.

"Don't stop." Wei Ran lightly punched the opponent's chin with the butt of the grenade.

When he came back to his senses, Atsol, who was obviously terrified, took a deep breath, trembling with extreme repression, and reluctantly replied, "I shot and killed a child, you... how do you know about this?" Yes?"

"Mrs. Margot told us"

Wei Ran pretended to answer plainly, but in fact he was staring at the expression on the other person's face, which was both expected and unexpected, and he could tell from his horrified expression that this matter was actually true.

"You...you are..."

"It's your employer." Wei Ran tapped Atsol's collarbone lightly with the grenade in his cuff, and asked when the other party's psychological defense was most relaxed due to panic and panic, "How do we go next?"

"There will be three forks in the road ahead"

Asol took a deep breath and replied, "I don't know where the fork on the left leads. It has been guarded by Chechens to prevent anyone from approaching or passing through. The road in the middle leads to this underground air defense system." The ammunition depot at the end of the bunker is usually where the ammunition is collected, but it is also guarded by Chechens.”

"So we take the one on the right?" Wei Ran asked with a smile. "right"

Athol nodded, "That passage not only leads to the air defense system under the security department building, but also connects to the direction of the Petroleum Research Institute in the northern part of the city, so as long as the Poles guarding there don't meddle in their own business, we can pass smoothly. of."

After a short pause, Athol continued, "But if you want to go to the presidential palace, you have to go to the Ministry of Security building first, and then you can go around from there."

"What about the deployment of troops?" Wei Ran continued to ask, "The building of the Ministry of Security is an important commanding height, where the battlefield of the presidential palace and the train station can be observed almost at the same time."

"So there are a lot of people?" "At least there are definitely a lot of people on the ground."

Asol slowed down a little, and waited for several Chechens carrying rocket ammunition boxes to walk away from them before continuing, "If you want to go to the presidential palace, you have to go through there."

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Having said that, a dim fork in the road appeared on the right hand side of their group.

The people who didn't stop looked at each other, adjusted their positions tacitly and walked in.

Gradually, the bustling underground hall behind them left only a lighted hole for them.And directly ahead, there is also a fence gate.

On the other side of the fence gate, not only were there four soldiers in camouflage uniforms playing cards around a table, but there were actually two machine gun bunkers built with sandbags beside them.

And behind those two firepower bunkers was a falsely concealed explosion-proof door.

"who?"

Just when Wei Ran and Feschenk followed Atsol to the dim yellow light in front of the fence, a soldier in camouflage uniform on the other side of the fence had already picked up the foldable AK rifle on the table, and at the same time asked aloud in English with a Slavic accent.

"Musketeers Mercenary Corps"

Athor kicked the fence door impatiently, "Open the door quickly, we are going to take a shortcut and go to the general hospital in the north to get some benefits." "The musketeer who does women's business? You are late." The iron fence The soldier in camouflage uniform sat down again, put down the gun in his hand, picked up the poker cards on the table, and said gloatingly, "We received an order this afternoon to prohibit any mercenaries from going to the complex from here." The battlefield of the hospital." "Why?" Athor asked dissatisfied. "Of course it's because the manpower there is enough for the time being." The gloating in the soldier's tone became more and more undisguised, and even the other four people around the table laughed, "You stay here and continue to clean up the train station. Russians."

"So even your Polish team can't pass?" Athor couldn't help asking.

"Musketeer, are you a child still nursing?" Another soldier who seemed to be from Poland laughed and mocked, "Get out of here, this is not the place you should come."

"Captain, if this is the case, let's go back." Karp who was standing behind said loudly, "We will go through the ground at worst."

"Your people are right, you can pass through the ground." The four soldiers in the fence laughed unscrupulously, "If you want to come back through this passage, we will open the door for you."

"As long as there is no new order, you are not allowed to come back." Another soldier sat down on the card table while teasing Athor.

Seeing this, Asor and Gala, who hadn't spoken much, looked at each other. They spread their hands towards each other. Not only did they not have any anger on their faces, but they already showed an expression of anticipation to watch the excitement.

At the same time, the ammunition bag Agni and the demolitionist Rezli had already retreated quietly under the cover of the bodies of the people in front, hiding their bodies in the darkness where the passage was not illuminated by the light, and the one who retreated first Serge, the machine gunner, set up his machine gun early and pointed the muzzle in the direction he came from.

"Let's go back." Seeing Liu Xiaoyin winking at him, Asher immediately issued an order loudly.

It was said that the four Polish soldiers hiding on the other side of the fence threw two playing cards on the table with eager eyes.And Wei Ran and Fei Shenke, at the same time that the two cards fell on the table, each dragged their responsible guides to the two sides to get out of the way.

"despair--!"

In the two weak gunshots that almost completely overlapped, blood mist rose from the temples of the two card players hiding in the opposite positions.Almost at the front and rear, the two captains, Karp and Ruslan, have already pulled out their micro-sound pistols, and pulled the trigger through the gap between the railings!

"despair----!"

There were two more gunshots that almost completely overlapped, and the other two poker players from Poland also burst out a cloud of blood on their foreheads or the back of their heads.

Before the four of them got to the end, Wei Ran had already let go of Athor and rushed over. Using the cover of his backpack, he pulled out the wire cutters, and easily bit off the entangled and locked iron chain of the fence gate.

However, just as he tore open the iron chain wrapped around the fence door at least five or six times, the metal explosion-proof door between the two unattended machine gun fire points was suddenly opened from the other side!
"Squeak—"

With a sour and piercing rubbing noise, a soldier holding two bottles of red wine in his arms and two military lunch boxes in his hands also revealed half of his body when the four soldiers who were killed fell to the ground.

"Snapped!"

The soldier reacted very quickly and dropped the wine bottle and lunch box in his hand, while turning sideways, he also grabbed the explosion-proof door that he opened with his own hands!

"clang!"

The 9mm caliber subsonic armor-piercing projectile made a crisp sound when it hit the metal explosion-proof door, but it failed to hit the opponent!
Seeing that the explosion-proof door that can only be opened from the opposite side was stuck by the lunch box, Wei Ran didn't think much about it, he pulled open the iron fence door and rushed over, stuffing the wire cutters in his hand into the door Crack!At the same time, he began wrestling with his hands on the crack of the door.

Seeing that the explosion-proof door could not be closed, the soldier inside held the door lock dial with one hand, pulled out the pistol at his waist with the other hand, rubbed it on the door frame, and stretched out to Wei Ran outside the door. At the same time, He also raised his voice, and started shouting in Polish that Wei Ran couldn't understand!

Seeing this, Wei Ran resolutely let go of the hand that was still stuck in the door frame, took out the Mauser bayonet in the metal book, and slashed his wrist severely before the hand and the gun he was holding stretched out. !

"what--!"

The soldier across the door uttered a scream, and the blood spurted out from the slashed artery in the wrist also smeared Wei Ran's face, and the pistol also began to fall.

"Tap! Tap! Tap!"

Before the pistol fell to the ground, Feshanke, who rushed over a little later, raised his gun through the open door, and pulled the trigger repeatedly at the other side! i Beetle sect.

The NATO-made Beretta pistol also hit the wire cutters stuck in the door before its owner fell to the ground.

"Good job." Feshank patted Wei Ran's shoulder, and passed through the airtight door for the first time.

Just when Wei Ran wiped off the blood all over his face and regained his sight, Captain Karp, who had followed him, turned on the kettle to signal Wei Ran to wash the blood stains on his eyes while asking, "Lezley, can you Blow up here?"

"difficult"

Rezley tapped the concrete wall with the butt of the submachine gun in his hand, "This is an underground air defense system built according to Soviet standards during the Cold War. Unless the ammunition depot is detonated, the explosives in our hands cannot destroy the main body here. structure."

"Two minutes, Bray, don't let the people behind touch it." Captain Karp saw that Wei Ran had waved his hand to indicate that it was all right, and immediately pushed Athol and Gala through with deputy captain Ruslan. Multi-centimeter thick airtight explosion-proof door. "Thanks to you"

The machine gunner put the pkm in his hand aside, sat in the machine gun fortress on the side of the explosion-proof door, held the same pkm machine gun mounted here, aimed at the passage outside, and praised. "I got it in exchange for dog blood..."

Wei Ran muttered something in Chinese, bent down to pick up the wire cutters, put them away in his bag, and then went through the explosion-proof door.

Just one door away, this side has turned into an underground passage built with red bricks and a sewer fork with a sewer that can be called almost extending in all directions.

"What's next?"

At the same time as Karp asked, in unison with Ruslan, he dismantled the Famas that had been carried on his shoulders into parts and threw them into the sewer.

"Go straight along this passage to the security department building." Athor raised his finger in the direction, and at the same time threw out the unusable Famas in his hand.

"There must be another exit here?" Ruslan asked as he put the stock on his VSS.

"These underground sewage systems are almost all outlets"

Gala, who hadn't spoken much before, said after throwing away the kamaz in his hand, "It's just that quite a few of them are planted with a large number of mines. I'm afraid only those Chechens know which wellhead can get out safely. "

"Then trouble you to continue leading the way." While talking, Karp had already loaded the weapon in his hand with bullets.

Wei Ran, who came in one step later, was not slow either, but he would not easily throw away the submachine gun he had taken all the way, he just emptied the chamber and stuffed it into the bag, replacing the VSS that had been in it before.

When he was also ready, Lezli and Agni, who were in charge of mines, also passed through the explosion-proof door, but at this time, each of them had a green pkm chain box in their hands.

When Serge, who was carrying the pkm behind him, also came out, Feshank immediately locked the airtight door, and helped Leizili place a directional mine next to the corpse on one side of the airtight door.

"Gentlemen, we'd better not have a conflict ahead," the mercenary Gala reminded worriedly, "Less than a hundred meters ahead is the security department building. Many Chechens and Afghans are stationed on the ground of this building. It is said that even the Germans were there. If they got their attention, we might not even have a whole body left.”

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other and silently made preparations.Still, the two mercenaries walked in front, while Wei Ran and Fei Shenke walked a little further behind.

In a short distance of [-] meters, this channel is showing a slight sinking trend, and at the same time, there are more and more forks around it.

When they turned a corner, two beams of light came fiercely from the front and converged on the two mercenaries in front.

Almost when the two of them subconsciously covered their eyes, the two captains behind them raised their guns and pulled the trigger!
"Click!"

Two gunshots sounded, and the two flashlights went out immediately, Wei Ran and Feishanke also raised their guns and pulled the trigger!
However, at this moment, Gala, a mercenary who has been honest all the way, violently pushed his companion Athor towards Wei Ran and Fei Shenke!Just when the two of them were dodging subconsciously and preparing to fight back, Gala had already rushed into a sewer fork with a sewer in the middle under the cover of Athor's body!

"Assaulter!" Captain Garp yelled softly, and at the same time accelerated to the place where the flashlight was just turned on in the distance.

There was no time to hesitate, Wei Ran and Feschenk chased in the direction where Galla was escaping, while the machine gunner Agni used the PKM gun before Asol, who was pushed down by his good brother, was about to stand up. Mouth against his head.

Compared with Asol, who was stiff in body and wished to scratch his good brother Gala alive, Wei Ran and Fei Shenke also scolded their mothers while chasing them.Let alone the bad smell in the sewer, there are still many forks in the road.

Gala, who wanted to survive, naturally didn't mind stepping on feces or even escaping from the human corpses that appeared here for some reason, but the two who were in charge of chasing after him were not so disgusting. "Don't let me catch the bastard!"

Feschenk, who almost fell, cursed viciously, "Otherwise I will nail him to the wall!"