In the sleigh speeding on the ice, Wei Ran and Mick hid in the warm wolf skin blanket, each holding a telescope to observe the surrounding sled cars that met the target.
It was already daytime on December 28th, and the Battle of Suomusalmi was about to begin. The 163rd and 44th Infantry Divisions of the Soviet Union, which were in decline, had begun to show signs of defeat. The appearance of deserters caused constant gunfire around the battlefield.
But it was extremely quiet on the ice near the south bank of Lake Vuokki, six or seven kilometers away from the battlefield. This was already considered the rear of the Finnish troops. Not only were there few patrols, but even the local The Civil Guards all spontaneously went to the front line.
This undoubtedly made the work of the three Weiran people looking for the sleigh a lot easier, but it also made it harder for the Soviet Red Army soldiers who escaped in front to be exposed.
While the two sides were chasing each other, snowflakes began to fall in the sky, and the distance between the two was getting closer and closer. Finally, a faint red shadow appeared in Mika's telescope.
"In front! Just in front, a little to the left! I see it!" Mika shouted excitedly.
Hearing this, Weiran immediately turned his telescope and looked in the direction Mika pointed. In his vision blurred by the falling snowflakes, a severely overloaded sleigh was running hard in the middle of the lake. . But looking at the slower and slower speed, we know that the reindeer may not be able to hold on for much longer.
"Let's go ahead and wait for them!"
After the old hunter Ino finished speaking, he shook the reins vigorously and threw them on the buttocks of the two reindeer, urging them to speed up.
The difference between two reindeer pulling three people and one reindeer pulling six people was not only clear to the reindeer pulling the sleigh, but also to Wei Ran who was sitting on the sleigh. .
So in less than half an hour, the sleigh the three of them were riding in was parallel to the enemy one kilometer away on the left, and then in less than 20 minutes, they were far away. Far behind.
The sleigh parked on the east side of an island less than thirty meters wide in the middle of the lake. Wei Ran and Mika each ran to the highest point of the island with weapons in hand and waited patiently. The arrival of the enemy.
In less than ten minutes, the particularly conspicuous big red sleigh broke into Weiran and Mika's telescope field of view.
"Hit the reindeer first"
Before Wei Ran, who was holding the telescope, finished speaking, Mika, who was lying next to him, decisively pulled the trigger! At the same time, the old hunter Ino, who was hiding behind a rock on the edge of the island, also raised the SVT38 semi-automatic rifle that originally belonged to Mika and tapped the trigger repeatedly.
After the crisp gunfire, a cloud of blood mist immediately burst out from the shoulder blade of the exhausted reindeer, and then fell hard to the ice and was hit by the sleigh. , spinning in circles all the way and sliding a long distance, and by the way, the two unlucky guys were thrown out of the sleigh.
"Who is that teacher?" MiKa asked, holding the reloaded sniper rifle.
Wei Ran frowned but did not respond in a hurry. These people were all wearing ordinary people's clothes, and everyone also had weapons. It was impossible to tell who was who for a while!
"Hit the one who was thrown out first!" the old hunter Ino shouted as a reminder. While speaking, he pulled the trigger and hit an unlucky guy who was about to get up.
"Bang!" Mika followed closely and accurately hit the second enemy who was thrown away.
But at the same time, a gunshot was heard from the opposite side, and the old hunter Ino, who was unable to move, immediately screamed and fell to the ground.
"Daddy Ino!" Wei Ran quickly turned around, and then saw the blood coming out of the old hunter Ino's shoulder blades staining the white camouflage clothes red.
"Leave me alone, kill them first!" Father Ino gasped and shouted at the two reindeer to lie down, then climbed hard to the edge of the reindeer and hid himself.
"Bang!"
Mika fired a bullet decisively, then lay down, beckoning Wei Ran to follow him and leave the highest point of the island, hiding on a rock on the edge. later.
"Not counting the owner of the sleigh, there should be two more alive." Mika frowned and said, "I'm worried that if I choose the wrong target, I will hit the driver."
"Shoot the sniper on the opposite side first"
The old hunter Ino gasped and suppressed the pain and said, "He is hiding behind the reindeer carcass."
Hearing this, Mika gritted his teeth, loaded the gun again and got ready.
"3! 2! 1!" Before the old hunter Ino finished speaking, he straightened his arms and raised the telescope over the hiding stone!
"Bang!"
The clear sound of gunfire came from a distance. The telescope that Ino had just stretched out the stone was immediately pierced, and the exploded lens scratched his face. There were tiny wounds.
"Bang!"
Mika followed closely and pulled the trigger, firing a shot at the figure behind the reindeer carcass a few hundred meters away before he could retract. Shoot bullets.
"Hit! It seems to have hit!" Wei Ran just cheered, but there was another gunshot from the other side, and then a bullet flew past Mika's cheek, scratching There was a long wound!
"Are you okay?" Wei Ran quickly retracted and asked nervously.
Mika shook his head and tried to lick his cheek with his tongue. Then he discovered that the tip of his tongue could stick out from the wound, and even one of his back molars had fallen out.
"I'm going to get the medical kit!"
Wei Ran blamed himself. If it hadn't been for his voice just now, I'm afraid Mika wouldn't have been careless. But before he could stand up, he was grabbed by Mika.
"There is another one," Mika said vaguely, "get rid of him first!"
Wei Ran looked at the sleigh not far away, gritted his teeth and said, " Mika, I'll try to get the sleigh to rush over and attractFirepower, you take out the last one. "
Mika, who was covering his cheeks, shook his head crazily, clutching Wei Ran's belt tightly and not letting go.
"Even if your injury can last a little longer, Daddy Ino I can't hold on for long. Wei Ran opened the opponent's fingers and said, "Don't worry, the risk is with those two reindeer, and I won't follow them." ”
Before Mika could say anything else, Wei Ran had already run to the other side of the island and got into the driving seat of the sleigh. Following these two people these past few days, he had learned a lot about what was going on. After driving, they shook the reins hard, and the two strong reindeer started running.
Wei Ran, who was lying on the sleigh, quickly put the wolf skin blanket on his head. Before they entered the enemy's sight, he whipped the two reindeer's butts hard.
Under the stimulation of severe pain, the two big guys each let out a scream and played. He kicked his hooves and ran away
Holding the reins to control the direction, Wei Ran, a novice on the road, immediately poured the remaining kerosene on himself until he was sure that the sleigh was pointed in the general direction. The wolf-skin blanket underneath was ignited, and then a lazy donkey rolled and fell off the sled.
The steaming flames grew stronger as the sleigh accelerated, and at the same time, the thick smoke and flames emitted. As the two reindeer rushed towards the target chosen by Wei Ran in a faster direction
Amidst the crisp sound of gunfire, a bullet carrying a huge Willy grazed Wei Ran's back and butt. The tip crashed into the ice, which also exposed his own position.
Wei Ran, who had been rolling since he jumped off, didn't care about that, even though his butt hurt as if he had been whipped. He stopped, rolled and crawled towards the island.
At the same time, Mika finally seized the opportunity, almost before his own sleigh was out of sight. At the same time, he aimed at the target several hundred meters away and decisively pulled the trigger!