In the howling cold wind, Wei Ran carried a medical bag and skis on his body, holding his ski poles with both hands, and struggled to follow Regina in a hurry.
This was only half an hour after the two of them left the gravel field. Not only was the cold wind much stronger at this time, but the two of them were still climbing a mountain in the northeast that was not higher than before, but much steeper.
Few hills.
According to what Regina drew ten minutes ago, the last airdrop box is in this direction, or even probably on the other side of the mountain.
He knew that this girl had been blinded by hatred, but the only thing Wei Ran could do at this moment was to follow her silently, waiting patiently for her to get tired, so that he might be able to listen to some comfort.
Climbing hard all the way through knee-deep snow, when the two finally climbed to the highest point, even though Regina was already panting from exhaustion, she still raised the telescope that belonged to Yuri and lay on her back.
Observing the situation on the other side on the snow.
Unfortunately, the snowflakes carried by the raging wind blocked a large area of sight. The only thing she and Wei Ran could see was the steep mountain wall on the other side of the mountain, which was almost straight up and down.
“Take a rest first”
Wei Ran shouted into the other person's ear, "Let's wait until the wind calms down before we look for him. You are a hunter and you should know that you can only hunt your prey if you calm down."
Hearing this, Regina hammered the snow in front of her and finally nodded. She was indeed an excellent hunter, and because of this, she actually knew better than Wei Ran that she should calm down at this time.
Seeing that he had persuaded the girl, Wei Ran bent over and searched for it. He chose the largest looking pine tree, got into the gap under the tree, cleared the snow inside a little, and then called Lei.
Jika got in.
Taking off his backpack and the rifle on his shoulder, Wei Ran took the ax and saw handed to him, ducked out and picked another tree, and got enough pine branches and forks to send in.
With the cooperation of the two, the air leakage gaps around the tree nest were gradually blocked. Even the ground surface was covered with thick pine branches.
Blocking the entrance with the last bundle of pine needles, Wei Ran took out a square box of flashlight from his pocket, opened it and hung it on the tree trunk, and then took off the lunch box with the gasoline stove from his waist.
Seeing that Regina was holding the semi-automatic sniper rifle that briefly belonged to Yuri without saying a word, Wei Ran silently took out the warm hearth from his arms and handed it to her. Regina was stunned and reached out to hold it.
The stove was given to Wei Ran again.
Seeing this, he did not force the other party. After putting the stove in his arms, he silently lit the Gem brand gasoline stove that he had also used in the besieged Leningrad. After waiting for the flame to stabilize, he still put it on.
It was left to sizzle and burn in the empty lunch box.
Immediately afterwards, he used the lid of the lunch box to dig out a large spoonful of snow from the outside and placed it on the gasoline stove.
Waiting patiently for the snow in the lid to turn into water and then boil, Wei Ran reached out and grabbed a bunch of pine needles and threw them in, boiled them for a while, and handed them to Regina again.
Fortunately, this time the girl finally took it and held it with her gloved hands, but let the big tears slide across her cheeks and turned into trace amounts of salt in the dense water vapor.
Knowing that anything he said at this time was useless, Wei Ran pulled the medical bag over and took out a skinned reindeer leg. Then he took out the paratrooper knife and slashed the frozen deer skin with the sharp blade.
Carefully pick off two pieces of meat the size of a cigarette box.
He placed the tray of the lunch box on the gasoline stove and used the tip of a knife to pick up some butter and throw it on top. When the aroma of butter steamed up from the nest, he calmly put the two pieces of venison on it.
Along with a "bah" sound, Regina seemed to have come back to her senses, and gestured with her hands, "You should still take them with you."
"Wouldn't it be useful now?"
Wei Ran seemed to have also lost the ability to open his mouth to speak. He poked the paratrooper knife on the tree trunk and gestured in sign language.
"I'll do it"
After finishing her gesture, Regina opened her sack and took out two forks, a delicate knife with an antler handle, and several small tin cans filled with various seasonings.
Seeing that the girl had something to do to divert her attention, Wei Ran also breathed a sigh of relief. He used the cover of his backpack to put away his paratrooper knife, then took out the delicate little wine bottle, unscrewed the lid and took a small sip, and then
He handed it to the other party.
Taking the wine bottle, Regina also took a sip, and poured some on the two pieces of venison.
When the surrounding space became filled with the aroma of wine, the other party took a second sip of wine, and then returned the jug to Wei Ran.
After taking a sip of wine, Wei Ran put away the wine bottle, leaned on the medical bag and stared at the top of his head. In this not-so-warm shelter, for a while, apart from the sound of wind coming in from outside, there was only
The only sounds left were the clinking of knives and forks against the tray, and the hissing of the gasoline stove.
After an unknown amount of time, Regina patted Wei Ran on the shoulder, and then handed over a piece of fried venison that was poked with a fork.
Taking the venison, Wei Ran could still see some coarse salt and chopped rosemary sprinkled on it.
He opened his mouth and took a bite of the perfectly fried venison, but Wei Ran found that the other party stretched out his hand towards him.
Seeing this, Wei Ran smiled, took out the wine bottle and handed it to the other party, "It's all yours."
Regina took the jug and bit it open, but she only poured at most one-third into the lid of the lunch box containing pine branch water, and then returned the jug to Wei Ran again.
I ate my lunch, dinner, or breakfast in silence. The lunch box that acted as a radiator also made the temperature in the shelter somewhat warmer.
Under the light of the oil stove and the relatively soft light of the flashlight, Regina untied the animal skin from the semi-automatic rifle, and then found a firearm obviously obtained from the Germans from her bag.
Clean the box and a small bottle of gun oil, carefully disassemble the rifle, and clean it part by part.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Ran, who was watching on the sidelines, raised his eyebrows. This girl's seemingly ordinary behavior has exceeded the quality of quite a few Soviet Red Army soldiers.
Waiting patiently for the girl to finish maintaining the semi-automatic rifle, just when Wei Ran thought it was over, she took out the box gun she had briefly seen before from her arms.
Compared with Yuri's box gun, this box gun is exactly the same in terms of model, outer gun box and included accessories.
But the difference is that although the carving on the magazine side of the gun case is also a skull, the cross on the skull is not two bones, but two sharp swords.
It just changed from a big stick to a sharp sword, but this symbol represents the First Women's Death Battalion, which is more brutal than Kornilov's First Commando Detachment.
What's even more special is that under this logo, the words "Black Death Hussars" are engraved in Russian.
This unit is from the same origin as Kornilov's First Assault Unit. The only difference is that, as the name suggests, this unit is a death squad composed entirely of women. The location where this unit was established is
It was "Petrograd" that only existed for ten years.
"Can I see this gun?" Wei Ran waited until the other party had wiped the box gun clean, and then asked tentatively.
Hearing this, Regina simply shook her head, put the gun into the gun case and put it in her arms, and then gestured, "Sorry, that's a relic left by my mother to me. I don't want others to touch it."
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"Feel sorry"
Wei Ran waved his hand apologetically to express understanding, then pointed to the square box flashlight, "Did I turn it off?"
When the girl nodded, Wei Ran reached out and took off the flashlight, turned it off and put it into his pocket.
At the same time, Regina also filled the lunch box lid with snow and placed it on the small stove.
"You should sleep for a while first," Wei Ran said, taking out the Soviet cloak under the cover of his backpack and handing it over, "I'll guard it."
Regina waved her hand and rejected the cloak, then put on a thick hood and leaned against the tree trunk with her gun in her arms.
Across the lunch box that was releasing heat, Wei Ran listened intently to what was going on outside, and at the same time secretly guessed at the family background of the siblings.
He has a father who may have come from Kornilov's 1st Commando Detachment, and a mother who may have come from the 1st Women's Death Battalion. They live in a small town in the Pole, but they also fight against the French...
Sure enough, humans are really contradictory creatures...
Wei Ran secretly sighed in his heart, no matter how much it would sound normal for such a family to raise children who were resistant to the existence of the Soviet Union, it happened to raise such a pair of siblings.
In his silent lamentation, as time passed by, the gasoline stove gradually went out due to exhaustion of fuel, and the wind outside the shelter gradually weakened a lot.
After pulling out the pine branches blocking the entrance and exit, the night sky outside was once again filled with the gorgeous aurora, and there were far fewer snowflakes flying in the air, which also made the visibility a little higher.
Before he could get out, Regina woke up. Seeing that the wind had stopped, she immediately got out with her gun in hand, and eagerly looked down the mountain with her binoculars.
Soon, she excitedly waved her hand towards Wei Ran, and then pointed in the direction down the mountain.
Wei Ran crawled close to the other party, raised his telescope to observe, and found that there was a long and narrow valley under the cliff. On their side of the valley, there was an almost straight up and down cliff. The other side was quite gentle.
.And in the lower reaches of this valley, there is an ice waterfall with an unknown size, but it may not be easy to climb down.
Obviously, this is a necessary place for flood discharge in summer and avalanche in winter. But in this valley, there is a white parachute flying in the wind, but the thing under the parachute has been buried by the snow.
Already.
After patting Wei Ran on the shoulder, Regina gestured very quickly, "I want to go down and take a look."
"How do you plan to get down?" Wei Ran asked.
Hearing this, Regina looked around with her telescope, then raised her finger to point to the northeast - that was also the direction in which the valley climbed up.
Wei Ran looked up at the sky, then nodded, bent down and got into the shelter made of pine branches, relit the square box flashlight and hung it on the tree to start packing.
It was only then that Regina suddenly remembered that Wei Ran seemed to have never rested at all.
After gently patting Wei Ran on the shoulder, Regina gestured apologetically, "Do you want to sleep for a while first?"
"No, I'm not sleepy yet."
Wei Ran thought for a while, then sat down where he was just now, took out the cigarette case, shook it and said, "Let me smoke a cigarette, how about you take care of it?"
Of course, Regina had no objection, and quickly filled up the burned-out gasoline stove with fuel. She melted the snow with a lunch box, and while waiting, she collected the two people's belongings one by one.
While the snow water was boiling, Wei Ran also lit a cigarette against the tree trunk and smoked greedily.
After the cigarette burned out and the pine branch water in the lunch box had boiled, Regina placed the lunch box on the snow to cool down a little, then took out a wooden cup and poured more than half of the cup into it and handed it to Wei Ran.
I gave the boss a mouthful from his lunch box.
After simply replenishing some water, the two took the few supplies and their own weapons and walked toward the northeast along the mountain.
After walking along the ridge for about two to three hundred meters, the two finally found a slope that was slightly steep, but they could at least slip down. However, it was easy to go down this slope, and it would be difficult to climb up again.
It's not an easy thing anymore.
Without any hesitation at all, let alone any mental preparation, Regina stepped on her skis. Without even saying hello, she held the snowball fight with both hands and rushed down. She shook her head helplessly, and Wei Ran, who was a little slower, also rushed forward.
Go down.
After the acceleration of this steep slope and the help provided by the slope of the valley itself, it only took a minute or two for the two of them to return to the umbrella flower.
Regina was also far more cautious than Wei Ran imagined. The girl took off a ski, carefully scraped off the snow under the parachute layer by layer, and dug out the buried airdrop box bit by bit.
As expected, the airdrop box had been opened by someone, and apart from the snow, there was not even a single extra piece of paper left in the box.
Regina was not discouraged, so she drew her knife and cut off the parachute that was mostly buried in the snow and stuffed it into her sack.
Next, the girl lay down and took a few steps back, continuing to scrape off the snow layer by layer with her skis.
Soon, she found some footprints under the snow, and then two sled tracks.
At the same time, Wei Ran had already reached the edge of the ice waterfall on his skis. Just by looking at the strange-shaped ice, he was sure that there was no choice in chasing the three enemies dropped from the air.
Climb down this icefall, otherwise even if there is no rope left, there should be some marks on the solid ice.
He was even more able to judge that the three enemies must have buried excess supplies nearby, and it was certainly impossible for them to climb northeast along the valley.
As for the south, even if there is no snow on the steep mountain wall, even if you find a monkey and give it a stick, you may not be able to climb it, let alone a human.
In other words, the only possible way for those three people to go is to climb over the northern hillside and leave here.
Compared to his speculation, Regina quickly made a consistent judgment based on her experience in tracking prey.
The two looked at each other and reached the foot of the mountain with their ski poles. Without any discussion, Regina walked in front without hesitation.
Following the girl, they climbed all the way up. When they reached the top of the mountain, they unexpectedly discovered a small hunter's cabin among a few pine trees. The two looked at each other and lay down in unison.
Everyone raised their telescopes.
However, there was no light on in the hunter's cabin, no smoke coming from the chimney, but the doors and windows were closed.
Holding down Regina who was about to get up, Wei Ran whispered into her ear, "Cover me, I'll go over and take a look."
After saying that, he placed the semi-automatic rifle in his hand next to Regina, crawled over slowly and on his knees.
As the distance got closer, he became more and more certain that there was no guest in this hunter's cabin, because the small glass window was already covered with frost.
Even so, he did not relax his vigilance. Instead, he checked around the hunter's cabin first, then took out his Nagant revolver, smashed the frozen glass, and took a look inside with a flashlight.
However, when the flashlight beam illuminated everything in the hut, he couldn't help but frown. There were two corpses in the hut!
Move the flashlight's beam to shine on the wooden door, and then shine near the window.
Then, he carefully opened the window and climbed in, but he didn't dare to step on the table and jumped in with a particularly difficult posture.
Carefully walking behind the door, after some observation, he took off his gloves and grabbed an F1 lemon grenade equipped by the Soviet Union. Then he took out a paratrooper's knife and cut a thin rope.
After removing the danger from the door, he checked the room again, then waved the flashlight towards Regina in the distance, then squatted down and pointed the beam at the two corpses.
One of the two corpses is an old man with a gray beard, and the other is a child who may not be as old as Yuri.
These were probably the two grandsons. Their clothes were similar to those of Regina's siblings. They were all dressed in standard hunter attire. At most, they were just not as well-dressed as their siblings.
As for the cause of death of the grandfather and grandson, the older one was shot in the middle of the eyebrow, and the younger one was shot in the chest. In addition, there was a dragoon rifle leaning against the old man's side.
He had just finished checking the two frozen corpses when Regina walked in and was startled when she saw the two corpses shrouded in the beam of the flashlight.
After looking at each other with this girl, she returned the gun to Wei Ran, turned around and walked out, put on her skis and continued to look for traces left by the enemy, preparing to move forward.
He reached out and tried to close the eyes of the two corpses to no avail. All Wei Ran could do was to help them close the door again, get on the skis and catch up with the girl whose chest was filled with hatred.
Gradually, the hunter's cabin was left behind in the night by the two of them. Gradually, the direction of their tracking also turned from due north to due west.
Where they turned was a frozen lake. Under a pine tree on the edge of the lake, the two also found a pile of already cold ashes, conspicuous sleigh marks, and a pile of frozen ice.
Bean reindeer dung.
Most importantly, they also found a small piece of unburned parachute rope and the iron remains of three German cans in the ashes.
"They must have snatched a sleigh from the hunter. We have to hurry up to catch up."
Regina made some gestures in sign language, and then she chased after him on her skis in a hurry.
He raised his head and looked at the rays of rays of light that had already lit up on the horizon. Wei Ran knew that the rays of rays of light, which were not as thick as a needle, were a sign that it was dawn, and such a state of dawn could only last for an hour or two at most.
That's all.
As for the sky... it is indeed brighter, but not much brighter. If we really want to make an analogy, it is probably equivalent to the sky at five o'clock in the morning at normal latitudes, but the sun has not yet risen.
Yawning involuntarily, Wei Ran took out his camera and took a few photos of Regina's back. Then he stretched out his ski pole and followed Regina, following the two conspicuous sled tracks.
In the center of the lake, it turned and chased westward from here.
However, before the two of them could leave the frozen lake, an explosion occurred less than 10 meters directly in front of Regina! Caught off guard, she also fell into the blasted lake.
Icy lake!
broken!
Wei Ran felt a chill in his heart and quickly stopped and kicked off his skis. He first lay down and looked around, then ran over as fast as he could.
At this time, Regina seemed to have fainted. She was almost relying on her robe and the remaining air in her backpack to keep her from sinking, but her face was buried in the water.
Without thinking too much, Wei Ran only had time to put away his weapon and throw away his backpack before jumping in. He endured the cold and biting lake water pouring into his body. Before his body lost consciousness, he grabbed the rifle on Regica's shoulder.
, dragging her body with the rifle's strap, she swam to the edge of the ice as quickly as possible, and pushed her up with all her strength.
Not daring to wait too long, Wei Ran climbed onto the ice with difficulty before his clothes froze. He pushed Regina's body to roll on the snow, absorbing the water and leaving the broken ice.
After hurriedly looking around again, he took off the clothes and shoes that were about to become armor as quickly as possible, and then took off Regina's soaked clothes with the help of a paratrooper's knife.
After taking a look at the wounds on the girl's thighs and forehead that were opened by unknown objects, Wei Ran grabbed a handful of snow and covered them, then picked up the medical bag he had just discarded and carried Regina on his shoulders.
I ran to the lake with bare feet.
Almost at the same time that his feet lost all feeling, he finally arrived at the edge of a thick pine tree, pulled out the low-hanging branches weighed down by the snow, and got in.
Shivering, he took out the sleigh from the metal book. Wei Ran pulled off the deerskin blanket from it, wrapped the unconscious Regina and placed it on the thick polar bear skin. Then, he took out the Soviet army
He wiped the water stains from his body with his cloak, and put on his German marching boots and thick deerskin robe.
Breathing a sigh of relief on his red hands, Wei Ran then took out the airdrop box containing the cast iron stove. With his frozen hands, he struggled to open the lid of the box containing coal, and then struggled to open the lid of the box containing kerosene.
The German kettle poured some kerosene into the stove filled with firewood.
He poked the kettle into the snow, reached out from the stove and pulled out a piece of firewood drizzled with kerosene, lit it with a flickering lighter and threw it in.
As the flames started to rise in the furnace, he couldn't wait to put his hands up to warm up the fire. When the fire in the furnace became stronger and his hands became warmer, he added some coking coals to the furnace.
Immediately afterwards, he erected the chimney as quickly as possible and fixed it against the tree trunk. Then he had time to unload the tent bundles and build it around the tree trunk.
After his body had warmed up a little, and his hands had regained their flexibility, Wei Ran immediately opened the medical bag and began to treat the wounds on Regina's legs and head.
It was while he was treating the wounds that he unexpectedly discovered that this particularly petite girl had scars from horrific scratches and bites in many places on her body!
In addition to these old injuries, the sudden explosion just now also caused a wound about ten centimeters long and large bruises on her thigh.
Fortunately, her leg was not broken, and the wound on her forehead did not damage the bones, but the cracked goggles lens almost scratched her eye.
However, due to the explosion at such a close range, the girl probably suffered from the sequelae of a concussion at least.
But if it were a time and space where I didn't exist...
When he thought of this, he couldn't help but shudder, and carefully bandaged the girl's wound.
Wei Ran himself did not stay in the warm tent for long. Instead, he quickly got out and picked up the clothes, shoes and even skis that the two of them had just taken off that had frozen into armor one by one.
Using the staff and the wooden poles on the sleigh, he set it up by the stove and baked it together. At the same time, he also picked up Regina's box cannon and placed it next to her.
It was only then that he had time to check his injuries. Fortunately, except for his hands and feet which were red from the cold and a wooden thorn as thick as a cigarette stuck in the soles of his feet, there were no other injuries.
Sitting on the box next to the stove, Wei Ran put his hand on the stove, but Wei Ran became increasingly uneasy. The explosion just now was obviously a trap set by the three Germans who escaped.
But the question is, will they catch up?
Thinking of this, he became more and more uneasy, and then simply covered the furnace with a cover to prevent the fire from being exposed. Then he picked up his rifle, lay on the ground and carefully opened the tent door.
However, what frightened him was that just across the exploding lake, there was a sleigh pulled by two reindeer parked on the other side of the lake for such a short time!
"boom!"
Just when he took out the telescope, the crisp sound of gunfire also came from the opposite side. Before the sound of gunfire reached his ears, there was already an extra bullet hole in the tent cloth that had not even had time to be tightened, and then another bullet hole appeared in the tent.
A crater as big as the palm of your hand was struck on the trunk of the pine tree in the center!
