War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 96 Siege Fire ([-]-in-[-] update)

"Father Yinuo, when are we going to the opposite forest?" In the warm tent, Wei Ran changed the subject and asked.

"It will be dawn soon. They won't come out at this time. We can just rest for a while. We will go there after dark." After the old hunter Yinuo finished speaking, he reached out and handed his sniper rifle to Wei Ran, " You go and help Mika for a while, if someone from the Soviet Union comes out, just shoot directly."

Wei Ran nodded, took the opponent's sniper rifle and got out of the tent.When he was about to rush to Mika's side, he found that this young man who was several years younger than himself was secretly wiping tears, and even the windshield was wet and frozen to ice.

Seeing Wei Ran coming over on his skis, Mika grabbed a ball of snow and applied it to his face in a panic, and put on a big smile again, "You can sleep for a while, I'm not sleepy yet."

Wei Ran sighed, stretched out his ski pole to pull him up, and then patted him on the shoulder, "Go back and warm up, Father Ino is looking for you."

"Then be careful yourself." Mika took out a long leather strip shaped like glasses from his arms and compared it on the eye socket, and then handed it to Wei Ran, "Be sure to wear it after dawn, otherwise your eyes will be very blurry." uncomfortable."

He took a look at the soft leather that was shaped like glasses, and saw that there was a small gap the length of a matchstick at the position of the eyes, and there was a button made of birch at both ends.Wei Ran immediately understood the function of this thing, it was earth glasses to avoid snow blindness.

"Thank you"

Wei Ran carried it into his arms, then lay down on the wolf fur blanket that was still warm, and quietly stared at the frozen lake outside the forest with his binoculars.

With the passage of time, the dark night was finally illuminated by the sun, and the snow-covered ice surface reflected the glare of the sun. Wei Ran quickly took out the leather glasses that Mika gave him and put them on.

Not to mention, this thing not only does not affect the line of sight, but can even resist the cold wind blowing in front of him. If he knew it would have this effect, he would have worn it long ago.

The daylight of less than five hours passed quietly. During this period, except for some hot fried venison and coffee brought by the old hunter Ino, there was no Soviet soldier outside the forest at all.

As the night fell again, Wei Ran seized the time to go back to the warm tent and sleep for a while. When he woke up again, Mika had already placed a can full of bear oil on the edge of the stove and heated it slowly. When the solidified white oil melted and released a fishy smell, Wei Ran followed the example of the two of them, dipped his hand into it, and carefully applied it on his face and hands.

After making preparations, the old hunter Ino said, "Victor, you stay here and continue to snipe and kill the signal soldiers that the other party may send out. Remember not to reveal our position. Mika, take a submachine gun and let's go Walk around in the opposite forest."

"Mika, take this"

Wei Ran took out the Nagant revolver given to him by the old hunter Ino last night from the dry food bag at his waist and handed it to the other party together with the bullets, "I don't need it, you keep it for self-defense."

"Thank you!" Mika happily took the pistol and looked at it. "I have a pistol too!"

"I hope you don't need it." Wei Ran sent out a different kind of blessing. The gun he brought over was already full of bullets. He really didn't need this gun, so he might as well give it to Mika.

"Okay, it's time for us to go." The old hunter Yinuo had already opened the tent and got out before he could finish his sentence.

Watching the two leave, Wei Ran added enough firewood to the stove first, then put the submachine gun on his shoulder, picked up the Mosin Nagant rifle in the corner, and then returned to the observation point on skis and continued to observe Looking at the frozen lake outside the forest.

After a long time, a crisp gunshot came from a very far away, followed by intensive gunfire.But this brief firefight, like last night, did not last long before it came to an abrupt end.But less than half an hour later, the gunfire rang out again.But it sounded like it was from a completely different direction from the direction the gunshots came from last time.

Is this playing sparrow tactics?
Wei Ran secretly smiled, although it is likely that there are only Ino and Mika on the Finnish side, but with the two of them making such a fuss, I am afraid that the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side will not be able to sleep soundly tonight.

But aside from the teasing, Wei Ran was secretly worried. Tomorrow will be the 27th, and Finland will launch a general attack on the 163rd Infantry Division. It is not known whether they can take advantage of the chaos and shoot that division commander.On the other hand, there is still no clue where to get a camera to complete the shooting task.

During the long and patient wait, the sporadic gunfire didn't stop almost all night.But when the two came back more than ten hours later, Wei Ran discovered that Father Ino was tied to a ski and returned by Mikala.

"What's going on?" Wei Ran rushed up on his skis to help pull the rope, and asked while moving towards the tent.

"We met a Soviet sniper." Mika, whose brows were covered with frost, said tremblingly, "Papa Ino was shot."

"Go back to the tent first!" Wei Ran said, he pushed his ski pole hard, and slid towards the tent with all his might.

The two worked together to send the old hunter into the tent, and Wei Ran also saw clearly the wound on the side of the other's calf that was continuously bleeding out.

Fortunately, the bullet that caused this wound only scratched a nearly ten centimeter long blood trough from the edge, but the bright red muscles were opened like a child's lips, and blood continued to flow out slowly.Fortunately, although the bone could almost be seen at the edge of the wound, the bullet didn't seem to stay in the wound, nor did it hurt the major blood vessels. Otherwise, the old man might have lost blood and died on the way.

"We have to find a way to send him back to the camp." Wei Ran frowned and said, "Such a long wound must be stitched to stop the bleeding."

"Can't go back!"

The old hunter Ino said resolutely, "In less than an hour, it will be completely bright. At this time, it is easy to be followed by the Soviets when we go back. It may bring danger to the camp. Once the Soviets find our The camp, where the old men and the girls can't get away, and maybe the whole Civil Guard will suffer."

Seeing that the old hunter had one hand on the pistol at his waist, Wei Ran sighed and asked, "Mika, do we have a medical kit?"

"Yes! I remember I took one at the time!" Mika hurriedly rummaged through the package in the corner of the tent, and then took out an aluminum alloy lunch box.

I took the lunch box and opened it to take a look. There were sutures and needles inside, but there was no anesthetic at all, and even only three small tablets of anti-inflammatory drugs.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran said to the old hunter, "Father Yinuo, I can try to sew up the wound for you, but we don't have anesthesia at all, and my skills are not very good. I only practiced with wild boars a few times before."

Wei Ran is telling the truth. During the few days he was studying at the Hongqi Forest Farm, he and Ji Ma practiced injections with each other. On the last day, he also used the wild boars he killed in the forest to practice wound suturing for a long time. It was far from satisfying Teacher Dalia. After all, that was what the two of them had to focus on in the second week.

"Come on, I believe in you, it doesn't matter even if you can't keep this leg." After finishing speaking, Father Ino simply bit his mittens,

"Let me prepare first"

Before Wei Ran finished his sentence, he got up and got out of the tent, and found a Soviet sack from the snow-covered sleigh. In this sack, besides the full jug of kerosene he brought from the camp, there was also Pack some dry food such as bacon and bread.

While the two were in the tent, Wei Ran took out the kerosene lamp from the leather notebook and put it in his backpack, and then got into the tent with it.

This kerosene gas lamp was obtained last time back in the Cold War era. At that time, the East German female spy Hannah relied on these two gas lamps that could emit ice blue light to help Dr. Hans to suture the wound. Now it is just available.

Lighting the gas lamp in front of the two of them, Wei Ran got out of the tent and took a look, until he confirmed that the light would not leak out, then he went in again, completely covering the entrance of the tent.

"Mika, hold Papa Ino down for me, don't let him move around."

Wei Ran waited for the old hunter and Mika to nod to him respectively, and then observed carefully with the help of the bright ice-blue light of the kerosene lamp, until he was sure that the wound really did not hurt the large blood vessels, and then secretly heaved a sigh of relief , took out the rubber gloves in the medical box, put them on, and completed the debridement and disinfection step by step according to the basic medical knowledge taught by Teacher Dalia.

Amidst the old hunter Yinuo's constant trembling and grunting, Wei Ran stitched up the wound shaped like a child's mouth with difficulty stitch by stitch, and then carefully bandaged the wound.

When he finished his last work, the old hunter Yinuo, who had beads of sweat on his forehead, also panted heavily, and showed a difficult smile to Wei Ran.

"Take the anti-inflammatory medicine." Wei Ran said as he took off his blood-stained gloves and threw them aside, then extinguished the kerosene lamp.

"Why do you still carry this kind of burden?" the old hunter Ino asked after taking the anti-inflammatory medicine with Mika's help, looking curiously at the still warm gas lamp beside his legs.

"This is the last bit of property I brought from Vipuri." Wei Ran explained perfunctorily, then changed the subject and asked, "What happened just now? Did you find the teacher?"

"no"

Mika sighed, "We only damaged four dining cars and a few signal soldiers who were about to leave from other directions in the forest. We couldn't find their headquarters at all, and were almost left behind by the opponent's snipers."

"Then what shall we do next?" Wei Ran stuffed the almost cooled kerosene lamp into his backpack, and secretly put it into the cowhide notebook while the two were not paying attention.

"The task of killing the teacher must be completed." The old hunter Yinuo said after a moment of silence, "But this task may only depend on the two of you."

In the tent that still smelled of blood and kerosene, the old hunter Yinuo sat up with difficulty without waiting for the two of them to say anything, "Okay, I'll go to watch outside, you two take a nap at dawn, and wait until it gets dark." Afterwards, we will figure out how to find that teacher.”

"Father, let me go, you need to rest now." Mika quickly held down the old hunter who was about to get up.

"I'm not that weak yet." Ino pushed Mika away, grabbed the sniper rifle beside him and said, "Mika, you and Victor must rest well now, it's up to you whether we can snipe and kill that commander." There are two."

"Don't go out either." Wei Ran stopped Yinuo, "I took a nap last night while you were not here, so I'll go watch."

Eno looked at the dark circles on Wei Ran's face, and was about to open his mouth to say something, but there was a deafening cannonball outside the forest—the Finnish siege of the 163rd Infantry Division had begun!

The three looked at each other, and the old hunter Ino was the first to react, "Mika! The sleigh! Victor, tear down the tent!"

Upon hearing this, Mika immediately ran out of the tent, and as the loud whistle sounded, the two strong reindeer who were foraging nearby ran back immediately, each opened their mouths wide, and let Mika sprinkle two pieces of salt in advance. The dry and hard bread was stuffed into their mouths respectively.

At the same time, Wei Ran quickly untied the drawstring of the deerskin tent, and the old hunter Yinuo even pulled out the pine needles, pulled out the Finnish hunting knife on his waist, and dug up a large snow cover Live the charcoal fire in the stove.

After Mika outside put the reins on the two reindeer, Wei Ran also took off the white camouflage cloth outside the tent and stuffed it into a burlap bag. Then, together with Mika, he quickly folded the deerskin tent. Use as a pad on a sleigh.

Taking advantage of this time, the old hunter Ino not only finished putting out the fire, but even piled up the wolf fur blankets that the three of them used to rest, and was pouring boiling water into the kettles of the three of them.

Loading the wolf fur blanket and the extinguished stove into the sleigh cart, the old hunter Ino sat at the front of the sleigh cart with the support of two young men, grabbed the reins with both hands, and shouted in a low voice, "I Come to steer the sleigh, you two, watch out for the enemies running out of the forest, and you must not let them escape!"

Wei Ran and Mika, who worked together to lift the last bit of belongings onto the sleigh, agreed in no particular order. Before getting into the sleigh, before they had time to wrap themselves in a wolfskin blanket, the old hunter Yinuo shook the reins vigorously, driving Follow the reindeer to run in the dense forest.

At the same time, a truck suddenly ran out of the forest on the other side of the lake.The truck drove onto the ice in a panic, slipped and drove in the direction of true north.

Seeing this, the old hunter Ino immediately yelled at the reindeer to stop, and even Mika, who was sitting next to Wei Ran, couldn't help but smile gloatingly.

Before Wei Ran could ask, the truck that ran less than 200 meters on the ice sank and got stuck on the ice, and then two soldiers in Soviet uniforms jumped out of the cab in a panic, Rolling and crawling, he jumped onto the ice and ran towards the shore.

It wasn't until they left the broken ice that the old hunter unhurriedly took off the rifle on his shoulder, took aim and pulled the trigger!

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