While everyone was waiting, Gioia led a strong draft horse and limped back from the depths of the forest. Behind the horse's butt, he also dragged a clean Net sledge.
"Do you need me to do anything else?" Gioia asked with expectation after handing the reins to Reveli.
"There is indeed something I need your help with."
Refrie took the cloak handed by a girl and put it on him, "I will leave the two of them to your care. In addition, , the Germans have been discovered in the mine, and they may come after them. You have to hide them."
"Leave these to me, I will take good care of them. "Yes." Gioia touched the Bobosha submachine gun on his shoulder, "Are you going to leave now?"
"Yes" the sniper Danila said in the affirmative. .
"Wait for me"
After Gioia finished speaking, he limped into the shack. Soon after, he came out again carrying a canvas bag, "Take Just keep these, the dried meat I made myself. In addition, if you need my help, you can come here to find me at any time, or you can go to another shack. I will take them to hide there before the fog clears. Fuli, you must know the location."
"I know where it is."
Postman Revri took the canvas bag and took out a piece of dried meat the size of his index finger and stuffed it into his mouth. Just as Li was about to say something, a vague explosion came from outside the forest.
"It seems that the Germans have already passed by the mine, it's time for us to set off."
Revli finally patted his good friend Gioia on the shoulder, and said nothing more after all. What, he invited everyone to sit on the horse-drawn sledge, and in an instant he disappeared into the forest shrouded in mist and night.
"Gioia, do you have any extra weapons?" A girl asked at the door of the shack, "If you have extra, please give us some."
"Also There is a rifle and a shotgun." Gioia thought for a while and said, "But we have other things we can use." "What?" The other girl couldn't help but ask curiously. .
"Come with me"
The limping Gioia took the two girls around the shack half a circle, and then untied the rope from a pine tree. rope.
With a soft "clang" sound, two sacks that could easily hold an adult fell from another pine tree not far away.
Although these two sacks are not small, the contents inside do not seem to be much. Under the curious gaze of two girls from the same village, Gioia unbuttoned and poured out all the contents. What was inside turned out to be animal traps the size of a washbasin!
"You must know how to use it, right?" Qiao Ya looked at the two girls and asked.
"It works!" One of them nodded affirmatively, "I used to have something like this at home."
"I also had this kind of animal trap at home., but not this big. "The other girl followed.
"You two go to the shack and change a set of clothes." Joya suddenly suggested, "There are clean clothes in the wooden box under the bed.
As if fearing that the two girls would misunderstand, Gioia then explained, "The Germans stationed in the village have wolves and dogs. Those beasts may follow the smell and catch up with us." We have to find a way to kill those wolf dogs. "
The two girls looked at each other and immediately turned around and ran towards the shack. Soon after, they changed into Gioia's clothes and each came back with their original clothes.
p>Gioya did not dare to waste time, so he pulled out a knife from his waist, cut the two people's clothes into strips of cloth, and then led the two girls to start setting up animal traps using these strips of cloth as bait.
When the animal traps in the two sacks were all arranged, Gioia immediately led them to a creek in the forest, indicating that they would take a bath here and then move forward, while he returned In the shack, he packed up some important things, as well as the German uniforms left behind by Revry, and limped to the upper reaches of the creek to meet the two girls.
At the same time. , on the horse-drawn sledge advancing slowly in the forest, after repeated communication with Danila, Revry finally determined the specific location of the artillery position that the other party saw, and then shouted to the strong draft horse to adjust slightly. Direction.
While on the road, Revry asked the artillery observer Andre again to determine the observation conditions required by the other party.
With this careful postman. Under the leadership, the people sitting on the sledge wrapped their cloaks tightly and waited patiently to reach their destination. At the same time, they were secretly vigilant for fear of a group of Germans coming out from some direction.
"Who. Want a sip of vodka? "Wei Ran asked softly while taking off the water bottle from his waist.
"Did you bring vodka? Nurse Lano looked at Wei Ran in surprise, "Where did you get the vodka?" "
"Don't worry about where you got it. Which of you wants a drink? "Wei Ran simply unscrewed the lid of the kettle.
"Give me a sip"
Andre, the artillery observer, took the kettle first, raised his neck and took a big sip. Then he asked in a low voice in surprise, "You didn't add any water? "
"My vodka is never watered down." Weiran did not pick up the kettle and turned to Danila, who had not communicated much with her along the way, and asked, "Would you like a sip? "
Danila, who was holding the sniper rifle, took the water bottle and took a big sip as well. Then she took out a piece of dried meat from the canvas bag among the people and threw it into her mouth. She sighed with satisfaction, " This is the most authentic vodka I've had in half a year. ”
“Refrie, do you want to try it? "Wei Ran and other nurse Lano also took a sip, and then turned to the postman who was steering the horse at the front and asked.
"Of course, of course I want to take a sip. "Revli turned around and took the wine bottle, took a sip, and then returned the wine bottle to Wei.Burn.
After soothing the tense nerves of these people with a sip of vodka, Wei Ran asked in a low voice, "Danila, where are you from? I mean you and Nurse Lano, where are you from?" ?”
“Tyumen”
Danila leaned against the frame of the sledge and said, “We all come from the countryside of Tyumen, which is a good place, at least not like here. There are German planes flying overhead, dropping some iron lumps that will explode."
"It's really a good place," artillery observer Andre said with envy.
"What about you? Where are you from?" Nurse Lano turned to Andre and asked.
"Moscow"
Andre picked up the water bottle between the three of them and took a swig of vodka. He said with some nostalgia, "You won't believe it, I am Moscow." A student in the Department of Mathematics at the university, if there had been no war, I would have just graduated at this time."
"Did you participate in the military parade last year?"
Nurse Lano asked abruptly, While speaking, he also put away the kettle that the former had just put down and hung it on his waist. He also took off his own kettle and threw it to Wei Ran.
As a Slavic woman, she knows these men very well. If no one stops them and they don’t get to their destination, this bottle of vodka will be sniffed on their sleeves. Drink everything.
"Participated"
Andre tightened his cloak and whispered, "I participated in a blizzard. We walked through the Red Square and passed Lenin Tomb, and then he was sent directly to the battlefield. I also heard Comrade Stalin’s speech.”
“You are so lucky.” Reveli, who was in charge of driving, had an undisguised tone. Envy, he had only heard of that military parade through the radio and could not imagine what the scene was like.
"Good luck indeed"
Andre sighed, "I didn't expect that I would survive and have the opportunity to become an artillery observer."
Wei Ran, Daniela, and Nurse Llano also sighed. Obviously, the good luck in Revry's mouth and the good luck in Andre's mouth were not talking about the same thing.
In the silence of everyone, the horse-drawn sledge kept adjusting its direction in the thick fog, and finally stopped at about two o'clock in the night.
"This is it"
Refry covered the lit oil lamp with his cloak, and pointed at a large angular rock next to him with only a trace of light exposed and asked. , "Danila, can you see if this stone is where you said it is?"
Daniella looked around the stone, and after finding a mark that seemed to be a bullet, she immediately whispered He responded, "It's right here!"
"Then you can't be wrong."
Revely raised his finger and pointed in the direction and said, "Since you found the right place here, go in that direction." You can leave the forest and enter the forest farm by walking up to one kilometer. That must be the artillery you mentioned.position. "
"Andre? "Danila looked at the artillery observer beside her.
"The fog is a bit heavy"
Andre whispered, "Such a thick fog, let alone one kilometer, 10 Nothing could be seen beyond meters, so if they wanted to call in artillery to accurately destroy their position, they could only wait until the fog cleared during the day. "
"In this case, come with me to find Pavel first. I hope he is still alive. ”
Danila muttered something worriedly, and signaled Revry to extinguish the oil lamp and lead the horse to wait where he was, while he led Wei Ran and others in the direction of the artillery position in the dense forest. It deviated about 45 degrees in the direction, and walked over with one foot deeper and one foot shallower.
In less than 20 minutes, a building with only four stone walls appeared in the thick fog directly in front.
Daniela took out the flashlight and flicked it twice. After waiting for a while, there was no response, and then quickly walked over. Under the light of the flashlight, everyone looked. We arrived at a figure lying in the corner of the ruins.
In addition to a cloak, this man was also covered with thick fallen leaves. He faced the wall and carved out a small hole. The shooting hole, and the muzzle of the SVT40 semi-automatic rifle protruded from the shooting hole, facing the direction of the German artillery position outside.
Danila was stunned and quickly pulled. He opened the fallen leaves that he had covered with himself and tried to wake up the middle-aged warrior who was still lying in his position.
However, when his hand touched the other person's body, he found that he had already fallen asleep. It became stiff and cold. Even the bandaged wound on the shoulder blade of his back had already turned a lifeless dark red.
But from beginning to end, this warrior still had a look of determination. He held the gun in his hand in the standard posture of a sniper, with his dew-covered index finger never leaving the trigger guard, and in his left hand, he still held a palm-sized one tightly. A small book.
Daniela gently took the book out of the other party's hand, and then discovered that it contained the observation records left by the other party during his absence.
On the last page of the book, the veteran named Pavel left a last word for him, "This gun was awarded to me by the division commander. Leave it to you. It's a pity that I only killed 23 people with it." German. Finally, leave my body here and do as I teach you.
Putting the book into his arms, Danila stood up straight and saluted. After a long time, he turned to Wei Ran and said, "Comrade reporter... wait until daybreak and come over and give it to him." Can I take a photo? He... his name is Pavel, he's a sniper, he's from Minsk. ”