"Dad Ino, when are we going to the forest opposite?" In the warm tent, Wei Ran asked, changing the subject.
"It will be dawn soon. They will not come out at this time. We can just rest for a while. We will go there again after dark." After the old hunter Ino finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to shoot his sniper The rifle was handed to Wei Ran, "You go and help Mika for a while. If someone comes out from the Soviet Union, just shoot."
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 him, was secretly wiping tears. Even the windshield was wet with tears and frozen into ice.
Seeing Wei Ran coming over on his skis, Mika hurriedly grabbed a ball of snow and put it on his face. He put on a big smile again and said, "You can sleep for a while, I'm not sleepy yet."< /p>
Wei Ran sighed, stretched out his ski poles to pull the other person up, and then patted his shoulder, "Go back and warm yourself up, Daddy 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 to his eye sockets, then handed it to Wei Ran, "Be sure to remember to put it on after dawn, otherwise your eyes will be very uncomfortable. Uncomfortable."
I took the piece of soft leather that was shaped like glasses and looked at it. I saw that there was a small gap the length of a matchstick at the position of the eyes, and there were buttons made of birch at both ends. Wei Ran immediately understood the purpose of this thing. They were earthen glasses to avoid snow blindness.
"Thank you"
Wei Ran put it in his arms, then lay down on the still warm wolf skin blanket, holding the telescope and staring quietly at the ice outside the forest. of lake.
As time passed by, the dim night was finally illuminated by the sun, and the snow-covered ice surface reflected the dazzling sunlight. Wei Ran quickly took out the gift Mika gave him. Put on leather glasses.
Not to mention, not only does this thing not affect his vision, it can even withstand the cold wind blowing in the face. If he had known that it had this effect, he would have put it on long ago.
Less than five hours of daylight passed quietly. During this period, except for the old hunter Ino who brought some hot fried venison and coffee, there was not a single Soviet soldier outside the forest at all.
As night fell again, Wei Ran took 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 The edge of the stove was slowly heated, and when the solidified white grease inside melted and released a trace of fishy smell, Wei Ran imitated the two of them, reached out and dipped his hand in it, and applied it carefully on his face and hands.
After making preparations, the old hunter Ino said, "Victor, you stay here and continue to snipe the communications troops that the other party may send. Remember not to expose our position. Mika, take Get a submachine gun and let’s go to the forest opposite.”
“Mika, take this”
Wei Ran.From the ration bag on his waist, he took out the Nagant revolver that the old hunter Ino gave him last night and handed it to the other party along with the matching bullets. "I won't use 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 a different kind of blessing and brought it over himself. His sidearm is already loaded with bullets. He really has no use for this gun, so he might as well give it to Mika.
"Okay, it's time for us to set off." The old hunter Ino had already lifted up the tent and got out before he finished speaking.
Watching the two people leave, Wei Ran first added enough firewood to the stove, then slung the submachine gun on his shoulder, then picked up the Mosin-Nagant rifle placed in the corner, and then stepped on his skis Return to the observation point and continue to observe the frozen lake outside the forest.
After a long time, a clear gunshot came from a very far distance, followed by intensive gunfire. But this brief exchange of fire, just like last night, did not last long and ended abruptly. But less than half an hour later, gunfire rang out again. But it sounded completely different from the direction the gunfire came from last time.
Is this a sparrow tactic?
Wei Ran secretly smiled, even though there were probably only Ino and Mika on the Finnish side, but with the two of them struggling like this, I'm afraid the Soviet Red Army opposite would not be able to sleep well tonight. .
But while he was joking, Wei Ran was also secretly worried. Tomorrow is the 27th, and Finland will launch a general attack on the 163rd Infantry Division. Can they take advantage of the chaos to attack the division commander? One shot is still unknown. On the other hand, I still have no idea where to get a camera to complete the shooting task.
During the long and patient wait, the scattered gunshots continued almost all night long. But when the two came back more than ten hours later, Wei Ran found that Ino's father was tied to the skis and brought back by Mikala.
"What's going on?" Wei Ran quickly rushed up on his skis to help pull the rope and asked while moving towards the tent.
"We encountered a Soviet sniper." Mika, whose eyebrows were already frosted, said tremblingly, "Daddy Ino was shot."
"Go back first Tent!" Wei Ran said, pushing his ski pole hard and sliding towards the tent.
The two of them 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 bleeding continuously.
Fortunately, the bullet that caused this wound only scratched the edge and opened a blood groove nearly ten centimeters long. However, the bright red muscles opened like a child's lips and continued to flow out slowly. With blood. Fortunately, although the bones could almost be seen at the edge of the wound, the bullet did not seem to stay in the wound, nor did it damage the major blood vessels. Otherwise, the old man might have died of blood loss 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,Need to be sutured to stop the bleeding. "
"Can't go back! "
Old hunter Ino said resolutely, "It will be completely bright in less than an hour. At this time, it is easy for the Soviets to follow us when we go back. Maybe it will bring trouble to the camp. Danger. Once the Soviets find our camp, the old men and girls there will not be able to escape, and maybe the entire Civil Guard will suffer. "
Seeing that the old hunter's hand was already on the pistol at his waist, Wei Ran sighed and asked, "Mika, do we have a medical kit?" ”
“Yes! I remember taking one! Hearing this, Mika quickly rummaged through the package in the corner of the tent, and then took out an aluminum alloy lunch box.
He took the lunch box and opened it and looked at it. There were sutures and needles inside. But there was no anesthetic at all, and even only three small tablets of anti-inflammatories.
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran said to the old hunter, "Dad Ino, I can try to suture your wound, but. We had no anesthesia at all, and my technique was not that good, having only practiced with wild boar a few times before. "
Wei Ran is telling the truth. During the days when he was studying at the Hongqi Forest Farm, apart from practicing injections with Jima, they also practiced stitching wounds for half a day on a wild boar they caught in the forest on the last day. But neither he nor Ji Ma was able to satisfy Teacher Dalia. After all, that was what they both had to focus on in the second week.
Daddy Ino might as well just do it. He bit his mittens, "Come on, I believe you, it doesn't matter even if you can't save this leg. ”
“Let me prepare first”
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already stood up and got out of the tent, and found a Soviet sack bag from the snow-covered sleigh. In addition to the full kettle of kerosene that he had brought from the camp, this sack also contained some dry food such as bacon and bread.
While the two people were in the tent. , Wei Ran took out the kerosene gas lamp from the cowhide book and put it into his backpack, and then carried it into the tent.
This kerosene gas lamp was obtained by the East German when he returned to the Cold War era last time. The female spy Hannah relied on two gas lamps that could emit ice blue light to help Dr. Hans suture the wound. Now it was just in use.
The gas lamp was lit in front of the two of them. Wei Ran got out of the tent and took a look until he was sure that the light would not leak out, then he got back in and covered the tent entrance tightly.
"Mika, help me hold down Ino. Dad, don't let him move. "
Wei Ran waited for the old hunter and Mika to nod to him respectively, and then used the bright ice-blue light of the kerosene lamp to observe carefully until he was sure that the wound was really not serious. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, took out the rubber gloves from the medical box, put them on, and completed the debridement and disinfection step by step based on the basic medical knowledge taught by Teacher Dalia before.
In the old hunter Ino's constantWhile trembling and groaning, Wei Ran stitched the gaping wound that looked like a child's mouth back together with great difficulty, and then bandaged the wound carefully.
When he finished the last work, the old hunter Ino, who had beads of sweat on his forehead, was breathing heavily and showed a difficult smile to Wei Ran.
"Take the anti-inflammatory medicine," Wei Ran said, taking off his blood-stained gloves and throwing them aside, then extinguished the kerosene lamp.
"Why are you still carrying this burden?" The old hunter Ino took the anti-inflammatory medicine with Mika's help and asked curiously as he looked at the gas lamp next to his leg that was still emitting residual heat.
"This is the last bit of belongings I brought from Vipuri," Wei Ran explained perfunctorily, then changed the subject and asked, "What happened just now? Did you find the division commander?"
"No"
Mika sighed, "We only destroyed four dining trucks and a few signal soldiers who were preparing to leave from other directions in the forest, and we didn't find them at all. Command, but was almost left behind by the opponent's snipers."
"Then what should we do next?" Wei Ran stuffed the almost cooled kerosene gas lamp into his backpack and secretly took advantage of the two of them. I accidentally put it into a leather notebook.
"The mission of sniping and killing the division commander must be completed," the old hunter Ino said after a moment of silence, "but I'm afraid this mission can only rely on the two of you."
The remaining blood and In the tent that smelled of kerosene, the old hunter Ino didn't wait for the two of them to say anything before he sat up with difficulty, "Okay, I'll go watch outside. You two can take advantage of the daylight to get some sleep. We'll think about it after dark." Find a way to find the teacher."
"Dad, 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 next to him and said, "Mika, you and Victor must rest well now, can we snipe? It's up to you two to get rid of that division commander."
"Don't go out either." Wei Ran stopped Ino, "I slept secretly while you were away last night. I'll go and watch. ”
Ino looked at the dark circles on Wei Ran’s face and was about to open his mouth to say something when suddenly deafening artillery fire came from outside the forest - Finland’s siege of the 163rd Infantry Division began. !
The three of them looked at each other, and the old hunter Ino was the first to react, "Mika! Sled cart! Victor, tear down the tent!"
Hearing this, Mika immediately After running out of the tent, as the loud whistle sounded, the two sturdy reindeer who were foraging nearby immediately ran back, each with their big mouths open, allowing Mika to separate the two pieces of dry and hard bread that had been sprinkled with salt in advance. Stuff them into their mouths.
At the same time, Wei Ran also quickly untied the drawstring of the deerskin tent, and the old hunter Ino even pulled away the pine needles, pulled out the Finnish hunting knife at his waist and dug A large piece of snow covered the charcoal fire in the stove.
etc.Outside, Mika put the reins on the two reindeer. Wei Ran also took off the white camouflage boots outside the tent, balled it up and stuffed it into a sack. Then, together with Mika, he quickly folded the deerskin tent and spread it on the tent. Used as a mat on the sleigh.
Taking advantage of this period of time, the old hunter Ino not only finished putting out the fire, but even the wolfskin blankets that the three of them used to rest on were piled together and were now being put into the water bottles of the three of them. Fill with boiling water.
After loading the wolfskin blanket and the extinguished stove into the sleigh, the old hunter Ino walked at the front of the sleigh with the support of two young people, grabbing the reins directly with both hands, and at the same time He shouted in a low voice, "I'll control the sleigh. You two, pay attention to the enemies running out of the forest. Don't let them escape!"
Work together to help the guards of the sleigh with the last bits of your belongings. Ran and Mika responded indiscriminately. Before they could wrap themselves in a wolf-skin blanket before they got into the sleigh, the old hunter Ino shook the reins vigorously and drove the reindeer to run through 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, skidding and heading due north.
When the old hunter Ino saw this, he immediately shouted to the reindeer to stop. Even Mika, who was sitting next to Wei Ran, couldn't help but smile with gloating.
Before Wei Ran could ask, the truck that had run less than 200 meters on the ice sank and got stuck on the ice, followed by two soldiers in Soviet military uniforms. He jumped out of the cab in a panic, jumped onto the ice and ran towards the shore.
Until they left the broken ice, the old hunter slowly took off the rifle on his shoulder, took a brief aim and then pulled the trigger!