War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 95 The scalded prisoner
"When are we going to leave?" Mika eagerly asked with a rifle in his hand.

"Victor stays here and continues to stare." The old hunter said unexpectedly, "Mika, you and I follow those people farther away, and then deal with them."

Without waiting for the two young men to say anything else, Yinuo turned around while supporting the ski poles, and rushed out along the slope.Seeing this, Mika immediately got up, stepped on the skis to catch up with the former, and ran away before Wei Ran could react.

"You can trust me"

Wei Ran looked at the binoculars in his hand and the submachine gun in his arms, then he lay obediently on the wolf fur blanket, and continued to stare at the frozen lake outside the forest and the opposite forest.

Until an hour later, a short and vague sound of firefighting came from a distance, and within ten minutes before and after, it fell into silence again.During this period, the field of view of the binoculars held by Wei Ran remained silent, and no Soviet Red Army came out of the opposite forest at all.

More than half an hour later, Mika and Ino's father each used a rope to drag a prisoner fixed on a ski back to the camp.On the legs of the two prisoners, there were also several Mosin Nagant assault rifles and a PPD submachine gun with the drum removed, and of course, a Soviet sack full of various trophies. Backpack.

Handing over the duty of guarding to Mika, Wei Ran and Ino's father pushed one of the prisoners into the tent and began to question him.To Wei Ran's surprise, the prisoner this time turned out to be a blue hat, and from the fierce eyes of the other party, he knew that it might be difficult to ask something from his mouth.

Repeatedly pinching the other party's sleeves, there was no paper ball stuffed inside to keep warm like the captives last time, and the collar was opened, except for a sweater and shirt that were not too thick, there was nothing else inside. Warm clothing.And on his face and hands, he already had a lot of chilblains.

"Which regiment of the 163rd Infantry Division is on the opposite side?" Wei Ran tried to ask, and then the blue hat spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on him.

Before Wei Ran could say anything, Father Yinuo had already grabbed the captive by the back of his neck and pressed his face against the hot stove.The pungent smell of burnt protein diffused in the tent, and the blue hat was about to scream, but Father Ino had already stuffed the glove into his mouth.

The lingering green smoke made the air in the tent extremely choking, and it wasn't until the prisoner passed out from the severe pain that Father Ino removed his face from the stove, and then scraped away the pine needles on the ground, He grabbed a handful of snow and applied it to the wound on the opponent's face.

This cold and hot also made the other party wake up again.Seeing this, Ino's father pulled out the glove from the other party's mouth, "Victor, ask him if he has been to Ahola Village."

Although Wei Ran didn't understand why, he still translated the original words.At the same time, Father Ino also picked up the kettle that had already been boiled on the stove. Looking at him, it seemed that he was ready to pour boiling water on the prisoner's face at any time.

Under such a threat, the prisoner shook his head with difficulty, "I have never heard of this place, we are all stationed in the forest on the other side of the lake."

Wei Ran shook his head at Father Ino first, and then asked, "Is your teacher Zelentsov in the forest?"

"Not here." The blue hat looked at the boiling kettle hanging above his head in fear and gave a negative answer.

"Where is he?"

"I don't know, I really don't know."

"I don't know anything, where did you get the order to go to the 44th Division for help?" Wei Ran asked abruptly.

The blue hat's face changed, and then he closed his eyes flatly. Looking at him like that, it seemed that he didn't care whether he would be scalded to death by the boiling water on his head.

Ino gently put down the kettle, picked up a bunch of pine branches and rolled them up, squeezed the opponent's chin and stuffed it into his mouth, then dragged him out and replaced him with the second prisoner.

Compared with the blue hat, this prisoner was exceptionally cooperative, and in the answer he gave, the commander Zelentsov was hiding in the command post in the forest, and the task of their team Like the prisoners captured before, they all crossed the frozen lake to contact the 44th Division for help.

"Ask him, have you ever been to Ahola Village?" Ino asked while holding the reboiled kettle. This time, he even took out a map and pointed out the location of Ahola Village on it.

Referred the question to the prisoner, who replied without hesitation, "Yes, we have been there."

"Has the guy outside been there?" Father Ino continued to ask, one of his hands had already grasped the handle of the kettle.

After listening to Wei Ran's report, the extremely cooperative prisoner quickly replied, "I have been there, he must have been there, we spent several days resting in that small village."

Almost at the same time when Wei Ran gave an affirmative answer, Father Yino roughly pinched the prisoner's mouth open, stuffed a bunch of pine branches into it, and then dragged it outside to line up with the blue hat , and poured boiling water on their faces!
Wei Ran frowned, silently lowered the curtain of the tent to block the tragedy and screams outside, and sat quietly in the tent wiping the submachine gun in his hand.

After a long time, the screams suppressed in the throat stopped abruptly.A few minutes later, Yinuo got into the tent with a water bottle full of snow in one hand and a sack full of loot in the other.

"I hope I didn't scare you," Ino said lonely.

"No," Wei Ran replied with his head down, as if all his attention was on the submachine gun in his hand.

However, his attitude made old Ino start talking. After pouring out all the contents in the sack, the old guy picked up a Nagant revolver and handed it to Wei Ran, and explained: , "My son is the captain of the Civil Guard of Ahola Village, and Mika's brother is a member of the Civil Guard of Ahora Village. After they were captured by the Soviets, they were tortured to death by the same method."

Wei Ran stopped his movements, sighed and said nothing, this old man may be cruel, but he has not experienced what the other party has experienced, so he is not qualified to persuade the other party to be kind.

Before the start of the Soviet-Finnish War, in the eyes of the Soviets, Finland was just a small role that "at most one shot would be frightened and voluntarily surrender".In this battle, the role played by the Soviet Union as the aggressor was far from being as great and noble as the image in the Soviet-German war.

It can even be said that in any war, the side that is the aggressor will have much less scruples when fighting on the other side's land.This was the case with Germany in World War II, and it was the case with the Japanese who recruited nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union, which did not take Finland seriously, was also not much different.

Even in the relatively peaceful 21st century, Ugly Country and his group of criminals bred kangaroo comrades-in-arms, and they did similar things in other people's land.

It may not matter whether war annihilates human nature or whether it is caused by the ugliness of human nature.But Wei Ran knew that if one day he was lucky enough to return to the Huaxia battlefield, maybe he would make the same choice as Ino's father.

cruel?Maybe it's not cruel, it's just revenge.

　repay the debt,
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