War Photographer's Notebook

At 1995:1 a.m. on January 7, 33, Leizli, who was in charge of the night, patted Wei Ran and Feishanke who were sleeping soundly under a blanket in the cargo bed of the truck.

When the two of them opened their eyes, they immediately saw the lights above the head outside the cargo container flickering for a long time and then for a short time.

He patted his cheek hard, and Wei Ran, who was forced to accelerate the start-up, immediately jumped out of the cargo bucket, stepped on the smelly stagnant water, and ran to the door of the room where La Ming and the two children were resting. He knocked hard on the explosion-proof door.

Without waiting for the people inside to open the door, he immediately ran back to the rear of the car and climbed onto the cargo bed, put on an asbestos fire-resistant suit as quickly as possible, and put the gas cylinder that had been prepared on his back.

When the three of them jumped out of the truck, the explosion-proof door was pushed open, and the three of them, who had been sleeping in firefighter uniforms these days, also helped each other out.

"There are still 2 minutes." Feshank glanced at his watch, "Get ready."

"take this"

Leizley picked up four time bombs made of radio casings and plastic explosives from under the lifted hood of the jeep and handed them to Wei Ran and Feschenk, "stuck them into the gaps in the gas pipes, and the white countdown timers 1 minute, the red one is only 20 seconds."

"enough"

Wei Ran and Fei Shenke responded to each other in unison, and at the same time each took over two brick-sized radios of different colors.

Just when everyone put on their night vision goggles and Leizley picked up Lamin and got ready, the lights above his head were completely extinguished.

Seeing this, Wei Ran and Feshenke immediately walked in the front with a silent pistol in one hand and a fighting knife in the other, while Gan Na and Alyosha, the two immature cousins, stood on the left and on the right. Grabbed Rezri's tank strap and followed closely.

When the group of them passed through the explosion-proof door leading to the warehouse, there happened to be an explosion from a distance in the underground passage, followed by the shrill and rapid alarm sound after the entire underground air-raid shelter was powered off!

At the same time, Malikov, who was in charge of warehouse entry and exit registration, had also unscrewed the natural gas connection in the room, then put on night vision goggles, held a PSS micro-sound pistol, and opened the door in the dark.

Looking at the plastic explosive that was as big as two bricks in his hand, Malikov didn't hesitate at all, and just like what Rezley taught him two days ago, he put four AA batteries into it and modified it with a beverage bottle. into the battery slot of the gun, and then stuffed it into the gap in the cargo pile full of rockets.

"tat"

Two consecutive shots cleanly dealt with the two bewildered young guards at the warehouse door. Malikov sighed secretly, looked into the night vision device, poked his head out from the other side of the passage, and then ran this way in panic. Then he looked at the dazed Chechen guards in the other two passages not far away, and Wei Ran and others who had already run past.

"Go quickly" Rezri reminded in a low voice while passing by the other party.

Hearing this, Malikov immediately quickened his pace, clutching his son Alyosha's hand with one hand, and Ganna's hand with the other, followed behind Rezri, and ran to the other side of the passage against the wall.

Wei Ran and Fei Shenke, who stayed at the end, also promptly stuffed the timer radio with a countdown of only 20 seconds into the dense pipelines on both sides of the passage and beside the wall.

When the two of them speeded up and overtook Rezley and came back to the front, someone had already raised a flashlight in the darkness, but soon, the person who raised the flashlight and the flashlight itself were shot by Wei Ran or Feschenk with a pistol !
"boom!"

Almost at the same time that they missed those who subconsciously fled, two dull explosions sounded together, and only the gas pipes as thick as cucumbers and the heating pipes as thick as arms were blasted on the wall one after another. , The rushing hot water and ignited natural gas instantly caused the people who just passed by to scream one after another.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Wei Ran and Feschenk also stuffed the 1-minute countdown radio in their hands into the pipe gap by the wall again.

Even Feschenk, who was running at the front, took off his night vision goggles, held up a shiny flashlight, and shouted in Chechen and English, "Give way to the fire brigade" and "Everyone, don't panic, keep to the right and stick to the wall and move forward." Continue to move and evacuate!" and other reminders.

After a while, Feschenk and even Malikov and Wei Ran also shouted, and those who had just been awakened from their sleep almost didn't have time to think about it, so they gave them a wide enough path.

"Why was that firefighter carrying a person just now?" A blond woman asked blankly in English.

"Yeah, what are they?"

"boom!"

Two more explosions drove away the only remaining doubts in their hearts. The hot water poured down from their pockets and the gas ignited by the explosion also caused these people to scream one after another for the second time.

Covered by darkness, light beams, explosions, flames and shouts, their group is getting closer and closer to the boiler room that is emitting thick smoke and flames. The only two remaining Russian prisoners who were still alive were successfully helped out of the dressing room!
However, almost at the same time that the two tortured and almost disfigured Russian prisoners came out of the dressing room, two men in German camouflage and two men in American camouflage pointed the beam of the flashlight at Culp trio!

"What are you doing?!"

Just as a man in American camouflage asked this question, Wei Ran and Feishanke, who had already walked behind them, pulled the triggers on their backs, backs of heads and flashlights!
In the weak gunshots that were easily covered up by the screams, the four people simply fell to the ground,
"hurry up!"

Serge, who was lying on the ground with a machine gun on the door of the power room, reminded him, and at the same time Wei Ran and others followed Captain Karp and others to step over the corpses soaked in fuel and burning at the door of the power room, he immediately picked up He raised his gun and followed.

"Speed ​​up! There are still 22 seconds left!" Lezri, who was carrying the man on his back, broke out a dangerous countdown without even looking at his watch.

Hearing this, everyone immediately quickened their pace again, got through the explosion-proof door connected to the power room, and almost fell into a ball and hid on the side of the explosion-proof door.

“9！8！7！6！5！4！”

During the countdown of Rezli, Agni installed the handwheel on the gear shaft on the other side of the explosion-proof door at the fastest speed and shook it rapidly.

"3! 2!"

Agni didn't wait for the last two countdown numbers to come out of Rezli's mouth, then pulled out the handwheel and flung himself sideways, lying on the ground and curled up.

"1!"

"boom!"

Accompanied by an explosion that could almost be called shaking, a large amount of dust and some broken bricks fell from the top of the head, and the blast door that was locked at the last moment also made a low humming like a big drum.

On both sides of the explosion-proof door, everyone's eardrums were like an 800 yuan sledgehammer, only the uninterrupted humming remained.

Patting the dust on his head, Agni was the first to get up, and reinstalled the handwheel on the explosion-proof door and turned it rapidly.

"Demoman confirms the situation, Malikov, Assaulter, lead the way!"

After Karp finished speaking, he and Ruslan's deputy captain and the ammunition soldier Agni each picked up a wounded Russian prisoner in no particular order.

"Come with me!"

It was the young man named Alyosha who spoke. This young man turned on the flashlight, ran in front of Wei Ran and Fei Shenke, and led everyone straight to a sewer fork in the distance.As for his father Malikov, he took his good friend Lamin from Rezri's shoulders.

Not burdened, Rezli also took the grenade launcher that Sergi handed over, got up and went through the blast door that had just been opened, and re-entered the power room amidst the steaming smoke.

Not long after, Wei Ran, who had already walked in the front with Feshanke and others, heard behind him the characteristic booming sound of grenade launchers firing continuously, as well as dense explosions.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Wei Ran focused his attention on the front, always paying attention to any enemies who came to rescue him.

"Suppression at 12 o'clock!"

Feshenke and Wei Ran yelled softly almost at the same time. While pulling the trigger, they shot short bursts with the silent sniper rifles in their hands, and leaned against the walls on both sides to shoot at the machine gunner Serge and the second echelon behind him. Agni, the ammunition soldier, stepped out of range.

"Bang!"

Serge, who had been running with his machine gun before, fell to the ground in an instant, and the ammunition soldier Agni, who was side by side with him, also lay beside him. The cover of the chain box is pulled out, and the steel chain head is drawn out to be ready.

"Da da da da da! Da da da da da!"

A group of five shots, each group has a long burst of luminous bullets and its regular and dense resounding through the passage, and the front is instantly covered by the barrage in exchange for a series of screams that suddenly sounded and then stopped abruptly.

"Forward" Just as Feschenk gave the signal, Rezli also ran over from behind.

"How's the situation?" Captain Karp asked first.

"Confirmed to be blown up"

While running, Rezley explained while reloading the grenade launcher in his hand, "I set up the bomb, and after about 5 minutes, the oil storage tank in the power room will explode and leak, and then it will be ignited .Leva can definitely see the smoke coming out of here in the chimney effect."

After finishing speaking, Rezley turned the handle, and with a "click", the grenade launcher was restored to a ready-to-fire state.

"go this way"

Malikov's son, the young man named Alyosha, waved to everyone and walked towards an inconspicuous sewer branch.

"Behind Blow Up"

Before Captain Culp finished speaking, Rezley stayed decisively, took out the electric drill and drilled a half-meter-deep blast hole in the red brick walls on both sides, and then arranged the plastic explosives with the help of the ammunition soldier Agni .

"Detonation in 2 minutes"

After catching up, Lezli and Agni gave a reminder, and everyone also subconsciously accelerated their speed again.

Then, before the explosion came from behind, Wei Ran and Fei Shenke, who were running in the front, encountered a group of Chechen soldiers with less than 10 people who dared to carry rocket launchers in such a confined space. !

"Tattoo!"

Two gunshots were fired in no particular order, and the Chechen soldier with the flashlight and the man with the bazooka were shot in the face successively.

Before the two of them fell to the ground, Wei Ran and Fei Shenke each activated the speed of the silent sniper rifles in their hands and fired dense barrages one after another.

Almost silently, Alyosha dealt with this group of enemies that he met head-on. Alyosha led them to detour again, and got into an extremely narrow underground passage that seemed to be only for heating pipes to pass through.

"Alyosha, where are we going?" Feschenk, who was walking in the front, asked in a low voice as he stooped forward.

"Going forward from here is my middle school."

Alyosha, who was almost at the end of the queue, explained, "Not only is there an independent underground air-raid shelter, but there is also a sewer that leads all the way to Lenin Park. As long as we rush to Lenin Park, we will definitely be able to escape."

"Is that air-raid shelter unguarded?" asked Ruslan, who was carrying the wounded on his back.

"The air-raid shelter Alyosha mentioned was built by the school itself during the Khrushchev era"

Lamin, who was lying on Malikov's back, helped to add, "It's actually just a relatively deep, large double-storey basement. Because it can't meet the air defense requirements, it's not included in the city's underground system."

"Not only that?" Wei Ran asked pointedly.

"It's also where we refine our unique products"

Malikov explained nonchalantly, "There is no better place than there, isn't it? Especially after that lunatic Dudayev does not allow Russian children to go to school for education."

At this point in the conversation, there was a dull explosion behind him.This group of people also fell silent one after another, and the height of the dark and narrow underground passage was also gradually reduced. In the end, they even had to get down on their knees, take off their backpacks and push forward, in order to pass some corners where a lot of space was occupied by pipes.

Fortunately, although it was difficult to move forward, they finally did not encounter any enemies before they could stand up again-except for a few extremely concealed booby traps.

Taking a break at the bottom of a thermal well, everyone ignored the metal manhole cover that was constantly trampled and crushed and made various movements. Under the guidance of Alyosha, they changed the hole and continued to move forward, and made a left circle. After going around to the right, it drilled into a channel with floating asbestos fibers again.

Without any reminder, everyone covered their mouths with masks and put on an additional American-style goggles that had been seized a long time ago.

"We continue along this passage for about 10 minutes, and there is an underground sewage channel, which may be guarded."

Alyosha reminded before setting off, "Just walk along that underground sewage channel for at most 1 minute, and you can see the thermal passage leading to the school."

"Let's go" Captain Karp issued an order.

Hearing this, Wei Ran and Fessenke immediately got into the passageway scattered with a lot of asbestos, and walked forward for more than ten minutes with their waists bent. There was also an inspection hatch blocked by barbed wire right in front of them.

However, Wei Ran and Feschenk saw through the barbed wire that there was not only a tank with its turret turned upside down in the sewer outside, but also a large number of scorched corpses piled up around it. Some of these corpses wearing Russian military camouflage even Flames were still burning, and some had their heads and limbs chopped off.

And at the top of the head, there is a skylight with a diameter of four or five meters to see the sky outside. It seems that the corpses and the tank all fell or were thrown from above.

"Let's go" Feshenke greeted in a low voice, and was the first to push open the barbed wire inspection hatch and jumped down.

When everyone followed, Alyosha was startled by the corpses, but soon, the young man pointed to a hole and said, "That's right there, from there you can lead to the school."

After patting the asbestos stained on their bodies, Wei Ran and Fei Shenke were still the first to set off, and the rest followed suit one after another, passing through the stacked charred corpses and the upturned tanks.

However, before Wei Ran and Feishanke could work together to open the barbed wire at the entrance of the cave, there were loud shouts from outside the skylight beside them.

Seeing this, everyone immediately got down on the ground around the tank, lying with the charred corpses, and the girl named Ganna was quickly stuffed into the tank turret and wall by the two captains and Malikov. in the shadows.

Soon, two Chechen soldiers were holding AKs and holding flashlights. They were the first to jump from the ground onto the overturned tank, and then stepped on the corpses and walked down while shouting.

But the next scene made Wei Ran's hairs stand on end!

Under the beam of the flashlight, one after another Afghans with turbans under their helmets, wearing various camouflage patterns, holding AKs and machetes in their hands jumped down yelling, some of these lunatics kicked those charred Some of the corpses even brandished knives to look at the still intact heads.

What's more, they will find a corpse and pinch its mouth open, and then invite several people to come over and pee into the mouth of that corpse.

Seeing more and more bastards insulting the corpse, a lunatic with a machete in his hand also walked up to Wei Ran, compared the machete in his hand to his neck, and then looked excited. Raised the machete!

Just a second before Wei Ran was about to shoot, a middle-aged man with a big beard and an AKS74U in his hand jumped down.The lunatic who was going to look at Wei Ran's head also put away his machete in an instant, turned around and stood at Wei Ran's feet.

He and Feshanke, who was also about to shoot beside him, looked at each other silently, and Wei Ran lightly put his hand on the trigger guard.

Soon, the bearded man raised the AK submachine gun in his hand and pulled the trigger above his head. Amidst a burst of rattling gunshots, the golden shells jingled on the chassis of the tank that was turned upside down under his feet. Clanking along the chassis all the way, it hit Wei Ran's helmet.

Before all the bullet casings fell to the ground and stopped beating, those lunatic-like people around cheered too, holding up AKs and pulling the triggers above their heads!
Soon, the bearded man waved his hand, and the people around him also threw something into their mouths. While chewing, they followed the Chechen soldiers who led the way, and got into the sewer in several groups.

On the contrary, the bearded man, after all the soldiers under him set off, spit, turned and returned to the surface.

When the blasted sewer was quiet again, Wei Ran and Fei Shenke glanced at each other, and immediately opened the barbed wire blocking the way as quickly as possible, ducked in and disappeared into the darkness completely!

I wish the big-breasted brother Meng a smooth year of the rabbit and all the best.