On the sleigh speeding on the ice, Wei Ran and Mika hid under warm wolf skin blankets, each holding telescopes to observe the sled cars around them that met their goals.
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 sporadic deserters made the battlefield even more confusing.
There were constant gunshots all around.
But it was extremely quiet on the ice near the south bank of Lake Vuokki, which is six or seven kilometers away from the battlefield. This is already considered the rear of the Finnish troops. Not only were there few patrols, but even the local Citizen Guard went there spontaneously.
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 were escaping in front to be exposed.
As the two sides chased each other, snowflakes began to float in the sky, and the distance between the two became closer and closer. Finally, a faint red shadow appeared in Mika's telescope.
"In front! Just ahead and to the left! I see it!" Mika shouted excitedly.
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately turned his telescope and looked in the direction Mika was pointing. In his field of vision blurred by the falling snowflakes, a severely overloaded sleigh was running hard in the middle of the lake. But it was getting more and more obvious.
From the slow speed, you 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 vigorously shook the reins 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 is not only clear to the reindeer pulling the sleigh, but also to the back burner sitting on the sleigh.
Therefore, 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 in less than 20 minutes, they were far behind.
Parking the sleigh 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, waiting patiently for the enemy's arrival.
In less than ten minutes, the particularly conspicuous big red sleigh broke into Weiran and Mika's telescope field of view.
"Hunt 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 weapon that originally belonged to Mika.
An SVT38 semi-automatic rifle pulled the trigger repeatedly.
After the crisp gunfire, a cloud of blood mist immediately burst out from the shoulder blades of the exhausted reindeer, and then fell hard to the ice, and slid out in circles under the impact of the sleigh.
Despite the long distance, the two unlucky guys were also thrown out of the sled.
"Who is that division commander?" 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.
"Dad Ino!" Wei Ran quickly turned around, and then saw the blood coming out of the old hunter Ino's shoulder blades staining his white camouflage clothes red.
"Leave me alone, kill them first!" Father Ino gasped and hid his whole body behind the stone.
"boom!"
Mika decisively fired a bullet, then lay down, beckoning Wei Ran to follow him and leave the highest point of the island, hiding behind a rock on the edge.
"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'll hit the driver."
"Hit 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."
Mika gritted his teeth after hearing this, loaded the bullet again and got ready.
"3!2!1!" Before the old hunter finished speaking, Ino stretched out his arms and raised the telescope over the hidden stone!
"boom!"
The clear sound of gunfire came from a distance, and the telescope that Ino had just stretched out from the stone was immediately pierced, and the exploded lens created fine wounds on his face.
"boom!"
Mika followed closely and pulled the trigger, firing a bullet at the figure behind the reindeer carcass a few hundred meters away before he could shrink back.
"It's hit! It seems like it's hit!" Wei Ran just cheered, but there was another gunshot from the other side, and then a bullet flew past Mika's cheek, leaving a long wound!
"Are you okay?" Wei Ran quickly pulled back 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 and said, if it wasn't 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 sled truck not far away, gritted his teeth and said, "Mika, I'll find a way to make the sled truck rush over to attract firepower, and you can take care of the last one."
Mika, who was covering his cheeks, shook his head wildly and tightly held onto Wei Ran's belt without letting go.
"Even if your injury can hold on for a while, Father Ino can't hold on for long." Wei Ran opened the opponent's fingers, "Don't worry, the risk is with those two reindeer, and I won't follow you."
Without waiting for Mika to 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 in the past few days, he had learned how to drive even if he watched.
With a flick of the reins, these two strong reindeer kicked off and started running.
Wei Ran, who was lying on the sleigh, quickly put the wolf-skin blanket over his head and whipped the two reindeer on the buttocks before they entered the enemy's sight.
Under the stimulation of severe pain, the two big guys let out a scream each, and ran away with their hooves desperately.
Pulling the reins to control the direction, Wei Ran, a novice on the road, waited until he was sure that the sleigh was pointing in the general direction. He immediately poured the remaining kerosene on the wolfskin blanket under him and ignited it. Then a lazy donkey rolled and fell.
Sleigh ride.
The steaming flames grew stronger and stronger as the sleigh accelerated, and the thick smoke and firelight also urged the two reindeer to rush towards the target they had chosen for them at a faster speed.
Amidst the crisp sound of gunfire, a bullet with huge power grazed Wei Ran's back and buttocks and hit the ice, while also exposing 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 didn't stop and ran towards the island, rolling and crawling.
At the same time, Mika finally seized the opportunity. Almost as soon as his own sleigh left the sight of the scope, he aimed at the target several hundred meters away and decisively pulled the trigger!
