Ihor, who had been attacked by a canine for the second time, subconsciously covered his neck with his hand. However, it was not until his hand felt the scalding heat that he finally remembered that the glove on this hand just now,
It had already been stuffed into the snow with the stick of dynamite and blown to pieces.
At the same time, he also felt as if something fell out of the sled dog's mouth and fell on his chest.
All this was said very quickly, but it happened in an instant. And his body, much faster than his brain, took out a horseshoe knife from his belt and stabbed it into the animal again and again while roaring.
Malamute chest!
When Ihor pushed away the motionless dog, although Ihor noticed that something seemed to be missing in his right hand, under the stimulation of adrenaline, he did not notice much pain at all and instead picked up the
He picked up the crutch that Mesut helped him make overnight, rounded it up in his roar, and hit the other sled dog hard on the lower back!
This time it was hit hard, and the sled dog immediately let out a howl, and at the same time let go of the reindeer's neck. Immediately afterwards, it was stepped on the chest and chest with the hooves of the other two frightened reindeer.
On the belly.
After struggling to stop the reindeer, Ihor noticed that two and a half fingers on his right hand had been bitten off! When it noticed the injury, the late severe pain also reached its head.
"ah--!"
Ihor clutched his wrist and let out a scream. After looking around, he pressed the injured hand into the snow. At the same time, he took off the belt around his waist and strangled his wrist hard to barely stop the bleeding.
Before the hypothermia could completely numb the wound, Ihor stood up with difficulty on crutches, stepped on the knee-deep snow, and limped towards the soaked man who was lying in the snow on the shore, shivering.
The young man sternly tried to aim at him with the snow-covered SKS semi-automatic rifle, and tried to pull the trigger with his fingers that were frozen with the trigger guard and gloves.
"Panin?"
When Ihor spoke, he had already sat down next to the other person, and used his only intact hand to help the other person turn off the safety of the rifle.
"Sure enough, it is you."
Panin said tremblingly. His whole body was already soaked. Although he had just used the snow to absorb the excess cold river water, he could not absorb the low temperature together. On the contrary, parts like the collar and cuffs were already wet because of the
The ice is starting to become stiff.
"Yes, it was me, but I didn't expect it to be you. I thought it would be Mesut and Victor."
Ihor looked at his mutilated right hand, then at the reindeer whose throat had been bitten through and could not even stand. Then he untied the enamel jar hanging from his waist and scooped up a bowl.
Water slowly poured on the bolt of the SKS semi-automatic rifle.
"Where is he?" Panin asked tremblingly.
"He?" Ihor shook his head, "He left me and ran away."
"you."
When Panin said this, his body began to convulse uncontrollably, but a tear still dropped from the corner of his eye, but even so, he still trembled and asked, "Are you preparing to escape?
"
"Of course" Ihor nodded candidly, without any intention of hiding anything.
"I shouldn't be friends with you." Panin's breathing became faster. "I shouldn't trust you."
"How can we be friends"
Ihor took out a box of Soviet cigarettes from his arms, took out one and lit it for himself, took a deep breath, and slowly blew the thick smoke onto Panin's face, "Sorry, Panin, I can't let you
Survive. But I will send you back to the labor camp. You will become a hero, and of course, I will become a hero."
"what are you up to?"
Young Panin asked tremblingly, but there was no fear in his tone - even though he had just grown up.
"No, no, no, I won't do anything, I will wait patiently for you to freeze to death."
Ihor stood up with difficulty on crutches. He first took off the SKS semi-automatic rifle and threw it far away. Then he threw the bodies of the two sled dogs into the exploding ice hole, and then solved the problem bit by bit.
He picked up the reindeer that had been bitten to death, and pushed it into the ice cave not far away with great effort. But he didn't care what Panin would do when he tried to take off his clothes.
After all this was done, Ihor pulled out a roll of gauze and shiveringly wrapped it around the black and blue wound that had been frozen.
While he waited patiently, Panin, who was soaked all over, finally lost consciousness due to the low temperature. The clothes he only took off half of the time froze into hard armor.
Until the young guard was completely out of breath, Ihor looked at the mutilated palm and sighed regretfully. He realized that he could no longer run away. If he wanted to live, the only option was really left.
He must return to the labor camp, and he must return to the labor camp as soon as possible!
After muttering a curse, Ihor dragged Panin's body bit by bit onto the sled with difficulty, picked up the semi-automatic rifle with a frozen receiver, and shook the reins to urge the two remaining reindeer.
He ran towards the labor camp.
Wei Ran and Mesut were naturally unaware of everything that happened here. At this time, they had been running along the sled tracks left by themselves on the frozen river in the direction of their previous camp for more than half an hour.
As a result, there was already more than 10 kilometers between them and Ihor, who had just murdered Panin, so it was naturally impossible to hear the explosion.
However, Mesut did not return to the place where he camped. Instead, after seeing the sled tracks leading from the camp to the river on the north bank, Mesut immediately turned and went into the dense forest on the south bank.
After entering the forest, Mesut's speed slowed down significantly, and even Wei Ran suspected that he was deliberately killing time just to let Ihor help attract potential raiders.
They slowly and leisurely walked southward in this forest until daylight broke out. Then the two sledge trucks turned to the west, and when the sky darkened, they once again arrived at the river where they bid farewell to Ihor.
The two of them didn't know that walking less than two kilometers north along this river would be the first scene where Ihor killed Panin!
After successfully crossing the frozen river, Mesut turned around and explained to Wei Ran, "The direct distance to the Yenisei River due west is about 60 kilometers, but this is only a straight line distance, and now we have no spare reindeer.
, so if we want to get to the east bank of the Yenisey River, it may take us a whole day."
After a pause, Mesut said seriously, "Victor, if something happens to you, I will abandon you. If something happens to me, you can abandon me and run away. Under this premise, we can help each other escape."
here."
"I have no objection"
Wei Ran said calmly, and at the same time secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was much better for the other party to be so frank and honest than to keep the bad things inside.
Hearing this, Mesut did not say anything further, and the snow-covered coniferous forest fell into silence again.
Pulled by the hard-working reindeer unhurriedly, the two sleighs stopped and went, extending the sleigh tracks on the ground.
Late at night one day later, the two sleighs finally arrived on the east bank of the Yenisei River smoothly.
There was no pause at all and no communication. The four reindeer, who had just rested an hour ago, pulled a sleigh in pairs, less than 10 meters away from each other, and rushed through the dense forest with all their strength.
The Yenisey River is two kilometers wide with sled tracks and ruts.
Amid the jolts of the sleigh, they were getting closer and closer to the west bank of the Yenisey River. Just when they were about to reach the shore, a sledge pulled by a draft horse rushed over from the south.
Almost subconsciously, Mesut picked up the Winchester lever-action rifle, and Wei Ran pulled out a mine explosive from his boot and got ready.
To their surprise, the horse-drawn sledge, with a kerosene lamp hung on each shaft, did not stop at all. Even when the driver on the sledge passed behind the two of them, a series of loud noises were heard.
snore.
The two looked at each other, shook their reins vigorously, and rushed to the west bank of the river as fast as possible regardless of the violent jolts of the sleigh.
After deliberately running along the intricate sled tracks for less than five minutes, Mesut shook the reins and shouted to the reindeer to go northeast and rush into the dense forest without sled tracks.
At this time, even Wei Ran couldn't help but look back behind him. After a week of escape, they finally arrived at the bank of the Yenisei River, but the German prisoner of war in front of him, Mesut, was about to start a journey.
A more difficult escape journey!
“There are still 10 days until the end of November.”
Wei Ran murmured to himself, and he became more and more curious about how far Mesut could run in the next month or so.
In his wild thoughts, the Yenisei River behind him was completely blocked, and on the snow under the sleigh, there was gradually only a shared sled mark left by their two vehicles.
Compared with the east coast, in addition to the same coniferous forest, the west coast also has many more forest clearings without trees. Although Wei Ran from later generations has never been here before, he also knows that in the summer, these clearings will
It will become an endless swamp that breeds giant mosquitoes.
Fortunately, it is still winter, so this man-eating swamp has become a highway that appears from time to time in the forest for the two sleighs.
Even if you look for a high-definition satellite map of later generations, you can easily see that from the position of Wei Ran and the two men to the west for a distance of 600 to 700 kilometers, the terrain is basically like this. Not only that, there will also be
It became the largest oil and gas field mining area in the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet era.
Of course, in this era just five or six years after the end of World War II, there are no oil and gas fields in this desolate land. Even because of the relatively few trees and dense swamps in summer, the forest that is only 30 kilometers wide on the west bank of the river crosses the river.
After the area, for several hundred kilometers to the west at the same latitude, there are almost no forest farms or mines.
Until this time, both Weihan and Mesut had relaxed to some extent. At the very least, they most likely did not have to worry about running into labor camps and other gathering areas set up by the Soviet Union.
"You already knew that this place was sparsely populated, so you decided to escape like this?"
When the two camped for a second rest after crossing the Yenisei River, Wei Ran finally asked Mesut in the same tent his doubts.
At least for now, it was much easier to walk here than he thought. Apart from other things, the large tracts of frozen swamps lacked the cover of trees, and even the snow was blown away by the cold wind.
Not only does this allow the sleigh to run faster, but there are also far fewer wolves. The largest four-legged predator is just a fox.
Obviously, Mesut was definitely lucky. He definitely knew the situation here and chose to start his escape from here.
"Before being transferred to that labor camp"
Mesut handed Weiran a cup of hot water and explained, "We were all locked up near Panin and Sergey's gathering area at that time. Do you still remember it?"
"Yes," Wei Ran replied smoothly, and at the same time deliberately made a random guess, "You wouldn't have been here at that time, right?"
"I've never been here"
Mesut took a sip of hot water and explained without reservation, "But Sergei has been here. He is an excellent hunter and grew up here. Although he has never been to Moscow, he knows every part of it."
land.
He told me a lot about this land, especially his hunting experience here. These stories finally made me decide to choose this escape route." At this point, Mesut sighed, "I don't know.
How is Hall?”
"He will definitely survive, but it's hard to say for you."
Wei Ran murmured to himself, but at the same time he couldn't help but secretly think about the danger that could take away Mesut's life.
