Chapter 1293 Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions
In the primeval forest that blocked the sky and the sun, the three people and one horse did not dare to stop and waste the escape opportunity that Father Dofero gave them with his life. They endured exhaustion and hunger and continued to move deeper into the forest.
On horseback, Wei Ran pressed the aching wound on his shoulder and touched his hot forehead. His heart felt like it was sinking to the end of his large intestine. He had a fever, most likely due to an infection in the wound.
But the anti-inflammatory drugs in the first aid boxes found in the wreckage of the plane and on the bodies of the two pilots had long been consumed by him and his father.
Looking at Fras and David who were walking on both sides of the army horse, Wei Ran silently took off the kettle from his waist and poured the last mouthful of clean boiled water into his mouth.
While escaping, he couldn't help but think about the return mission. He remembered clearly that the return mission given in the metal book was "Assist in destroying at least five tanks and armored vehicles and escape from the enemy encirclement.
All guerrillas take individual photos and no less than two group photos.”
Naturally, the photo taking task has been completed, and the focus has become the previous half-sentence task.
He didn't know whether the metal book was deliberately playing word games with him or was an "omission", which resulted in two interpretations of the first half of the task requirement.
First, assist "them" in destroying at least five tanks and armored vehicles, and assist "them" in escaping from the enemy encirclement.
Second, assist "them" in destroying at least five tanks and armored vehicles, and then escape from the encirclement.
This seemingly minor ambiguity has become a test for Wei Ran in the current situation: should he escape the encirclement with Flas and David or even alone, or should he sacrifice himself? "
Help them escape from the encirclement.
While he was secretly busy doing reading comprehension, the military horse he was riding snored anxiously and kicked his hooves, refusing to move forward.
"careful"
Wei Ran reminded him, leaned over and picked up the submachine gun hanging on the horse's back, and pressed it with one leg to open the safety. One step faster than him, Flas and David also picked up the submachine guns they originally carried.
Look around cautiously.
Less than half a minute later, a hundred meters ahead, a brown bear with shiny fur emerged from under a lying dead tree with two cubs about the size of a dog.
Compared to the two cubs who stood up on their hind legs and looked at Wei Ran and the others curiously, the female bear had already let out a threatening roar, then shook her thick fur and rushed towards them.
!
"Ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta!"
Flas and David immediately fired, while Wei Ran, who could only use one hand, was busy grasping the reins and tightening the horse's belly to comfort the military horse.
"Ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta!"
After another round of shooting, the brown bear's legs and feet finally weakened, rolled into a ball with a howl, and finally fell into the grass no more than 20 meters away from the three of them. The two cubs in the distance were also tumbling upside down.
The little short-legged boy ran over and stopped next to the female bear's body before the two Frass fired. He groaned and cupped the bloody nose of the female bear.
"Even the worst hunter will not kill the female bear before winter comes." David sighed self-reproaching. "I'm afraid it will be difficult for those two little guys to survive the coming winter."
"Stop discussing such meaningless things."
As he spoke, Flass had already put on his submachine gun again with an expressionless expression, "Let's go quickly. The shots we just fired may have alerted the enemies who may be behind us."
Sighing secretly, David also put away his rifle. He glanced at the compass he found on the pilot's body before, and then prepared to go around the brown bear's body.
However, just as they took steps, there was a faint gunshot behind them!
Subconsciously turning around, the three of them saw the conspicuous red flare rising into the sky due west! What made them even more desperate was that the flare was too close!
"Go east!"
Wei Ran immediately said, "Keep going deeper into the forest. The further we go, the harder it will be for them to catch us!"
Upon hearing this, Fras and David immediately changed direction and walked deeper into the forest.
On horseback, Wei Ran took one last look at the red flare that had not yet fallen. He gritted his teeth and threw the map bag hanging on the horse, the canvas pocket bag of political commissar Vinia and the two lunch boxes and water bottles at Flas.
At the foot of the horse, he also knocked hard on the ribs of the army horse and controlled it to run out.
"Victor! What are you going to do!" Fras, who had already run out, realized something was wrong and shouted anxiously while chasing him.
"The task is given to you, you must escape!"
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out his harmonica and threw it away from a distance, "I'll give this to you too. I'll go back to save dad!"
After saying that, he ignored the shouts of Fras and David, stuck tightly to the horse's back, and controlled the horse to run in the southeast direction, which was almost in the opposite direction.
He waited until the two people behind him were completely covered by the forest, and waited until he estimated that the distance between them was almost one kilometer, then he stopped, stood up straight in the stirrups, and pulled out the gun from his waist.
The flare gun was loaded with a red flare, aimed straight at the sky above and pulled the trigger!
"boom!"
After the gunfire, the red signal flare jumped into the sky with its tail smoke, but Wei Ran put the pistol away from his waist, shook the reins and shouted to the army horse to continue moving toward the southeast.
After about half an hour, he stopped again, raised his flare gun and fired a blue flare, then turned his horse's head and ran out due east, completely ignoring the rising stars behind him from time to time.
signal flare.
They walked like this for a long time with the enemy hanging behind them. As the sky darkened, Wei Ran also controlled his horse and stopped by a creek.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! While the horse was drinking water, he also walked to a willow tree, broke off a few branches, peeled off the bark with his teeth and chewed it slowly, hoping
The salicylic acid contained in the bark can help relieve the pain of wounds and reduce high fever.
Sucking the bitterness in the bark, he did not stop. Instead, he lit a bonfire as quickly as possible, heated up the leftover broth he had eaten before, and then boiled two pots of water and filled the metal book.
British kettle and German kettle on his waist, and then added some firewood.
When the fire started to burn, he pressed a thick armful of green pine branches that were deliberately wetted, then pulled out the flare gun again and fired a green flare.
Without any delay at all, he immediately led the horse, and with the sound of a signal flare rising from the direction behind him, he stepped down the stream, once again opened a distance of about two to three hundred meters, and hid in a place.
Next to a thick pine tree, an anti-tank gun with only four high-speed armor-piercing rounds left was slowly set up.
Sure enough, he didn't have to wait long at all. He noticed in the sight of the scope that there were more flashing flashlight lights in the forest. Among these lights, the two brightest beams were undoubtedly two cars, which were particularly good in this environment.
Headlights for half-track motorcycles.
He continued to wait quietly for a moment. When the two half-track motorcycles stopped not far from the smoking bonfire, he immediately used two fingers of his left hand to click in the direction of the headlights.
A heavy trigger!
"boom!"
Amidst the dull gunfire, the bright car lights suddenly went out, and panicked shouts and panicked counterattacks came from the direction of the bonfire.
"The second-line troops might be puppet troops."
Weiran secretly mocked and pulled the trigger again towards another half-track motorcycle that forgot to turn off its lights.
"boom!"
After the second high-speed armor-piercing round was fired, the lights of the half-track motorcycle also went out. After his kind reminder, the other lights in the forest also went out one after another.
At the same time, Wei Ran had already put away his anti-tank gun and left the hiding spot. While continuing to chew the willow bark, he quickly ran to the chained military horse in the distance. After a little effort, he turned over and climbed up, dragging him with him.
The reins steered it slowly around to the enemy's flank due south, selected a position again, and fired a round of bullets from the machine gun that fired from time to time.
At this time, the forest was completely quiet. No one dared to turn on the lights, no one dared to fire, and no one even dared to make any sound.
Once again putting away the anti-tank gun with only the last bullet left, Wei Ran once again rode his horse to distance himself due east, and fired another flare in a provocative manner.
At this point, apart from the submachine gun and the Nagant revolver provided by the metal book, he only had one 20 mm caliber high-speed armor-piercing bullet and two signal flares left on him.
In the gradually rising night, Wei Ran, who was dizzy, swallowed the chewed willow bark in his mouth, pulled the reins and asked the horse to turn around and walk slowly due south, while he struggled on the horse's back.
He opened the lunch box with one hand and swallowed the still warm broth into his stomach.
After emptying his lunch box and filling more than half a bottle of water, Wei Ran, who felt better, turned his horse's head again towards the east. After walking for about a kilometer or two, he turned back to the north and circled silently.
Went back.
Soon, he was guided back by the steaming smoke column of the previously lit bonfire.
He tied the horse and set up the anti-tank gun again with only one bullet left. Wei Ran could clearly see through the sight on the gun and the light released by the bonfire. Except for two vehicles on the spot, they were scrapped by the anti-tank gun.
, besides the half-track motorcycle that was being repaired, there were several soldiers in German uniforms sitting by the campfire, warming themselves up, and two bandaged wounded people were lying on their backs.
After some observation, Wei Ran put away his anti-tank gun, and using the cover of shrubs and grass, he slowly crawled closer, closing the distance between the two sides to less than a hundred meters, and waited patiently.
Thanks to the light provided by the campfire, he could clearly see that in addition to the six "able-bodied people" surrounding the campfire, there were also two "maintenance workers" squatting next to the two half-track motorcycles. If
Including the two wounded, the number of people was exactly a full German squad.
I just don’t know if there are any other ambushes around...
Wei Ran muttered secretly, and slowly stuffed another piece of willow bark into his mouth, chewing it while waiting patiently.
As time passed, the four "maintenance workers" finally removed the front wheels of the two half-track motorcycles that had been damaged by the anti-tank guns of the guardsmen and successfully started them, driving
They circled the campfire.
Seeing this, the six "able-bodied people" who were warming up by the fire immediately cheered, exchanged a few words with each other in German that Weiran could not understand at the moment, and then worked together to help the two wounded people to the back seat of the half-track motorcycle.
On the chair.
"I'm really troubling you..."
Wei Ran muttered something to himself, raised his submachine gun, and pulled the trigger towards the enemies gathered together.
"Da da da da..."
After this round of strafing, which directly emptied the magazine, the enemies surrounding the half-track motorcycle fell to the ground like wheat.
Wei Ran slowly put on a new magazine and stood up with the submachine gun in one hand. After walking over quickly, he first shot those who were still alive, and then started a quick search.
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As the saying goes, surprises always appear when you are unprepared. Although these corpses could not provide many medical supplies, perhaps because they had indeed received the task of searching for a parachuting pilot, they ended up on the back of one of the half-track motorcycles.
A medical bag with a red cross was found on the back seat.
After opening the medical bag and rummaging around, Wei Ran nodded with satisfaction, then picked up a Mauser rifle, several submachine guns and matching magazines, and used the backpack of one of the corpses to gather all the grenades he could find.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Without wasting too much time, he laboriously carried two of the corpses onto the two half-track motorcycles, and helped them put them on their respective trouser legs.
He hid two grenades, then helped turn on the flashlight on his chest, put it into gear, and let the two half-track motorcycles drive off on their own, one going south and the other east.
Grenades were also placed under the bodies of the other corpses. Wei Ran did not dare to delay any longer. He used his left hand to carry all the things he was going to take away and quickly ran back to the position where the horse was tied up in the distance. After struggling to get on his horse, he continued again.
He turned around and ran due east.
This time, he walked for more than two hours until the moon reached the zenith. Then he found a corner with leeward direction and stopped, using the light of a flashlight to open the gauze wrapped around his arm.
After looking at the red and swollen wound, Wei Ran opened the medical bag, first found a bottle of iodophor and applied it to the wound, then he randomly rewrapped it with clean new gauze.
"Which medicine should I take?"
Wei Ran looked at the large and small medicine bottles in the medical bag and felt worried. He had just recognized the iodophor and was able to re-wrap the wound with gauze. It was thanks to the metal book.
After being deprived of his medical skills and German language, not only was he unable to make judgments based on his previous experience, he was also unable to understand the instructions on the label of the medicine bottle.
After trying hard to recall his previous experience to no avail, he finally had no choice but to hang the precious medical bag and other captured items back on the horse, extinguish the oil lamp, wrap himself tightly in his cloak and the newly captured blanket,
Secretly pondering the next plan.
Obviously, it is simply unrealistic to chase Fras and David now. With my current physical condition, even if I could reunite with them, it would be nothing more than a drag.
"Just think of it as helping them escape from the enemy's encirclement!"
Wei Ran murmured to himself, then lit a cigarette, covered the scarlet cigarette butt with a 20mm bullet shell left before, and took a few puffs.
Nicotine temporarily relieved his fatigue, but he didn't dare to rest at all.
He knew clearly that if he wanted Fras and David to escape safely, he had to attract enough attention tonight.
Taking out the compass and looking at the direction, Wei Ran used a thin rope and one of the captured submachine guns to make a trap. Then he got on his horse and fired a conspicuous blue flare overhead.
Looking up at the signal bomb flying to the highest point in the night sky, he gently knocked on the horse's belly and continued to move due east.
At the same time, in the dense forest about three or four kilometers away, Fras and David looked at the flare that suddenly rose in the direction behind them. After looking at each other, they each held a wooden stick and chewed on it.
Chu Ya took another step forward.
The same people who noticed the signal flare were the Germans who entered the forest, but this time, they learned a lot better and did not catch up rashly.
Wei Ran didn't know the enemy's plan. He was still walking eastward. However, the lack of sleep and the increasingly severe high fever made him more uncomfortable. He even began to stagger, and it seemed that he would fall off the horse at any time.
It looks like it fell down.
I don’t know how much time passed, or how far I walked, but just when Wei Ran almost fell asleep on the horse, the roar of the plane was heard again above his head.
This low sound immediately perked up Wei Ran, who pulled out the signal gun from his waist and aimed it at his head.
"I don't know if we can call for an airdrop..."
While he was muttering to himself, when the plane flew overhead in the night sky, with the sound of "Bang!", the last green flare flew straight up with a long tail flame.
the night sky.
Putting away the signal gun again, Wei Ran stood up and dismounted, took out the anti-tank gun with only one bullet left, put the heavy gun body on the branch of a pine tree with difficulty, aimed at the night sky and waited patiently.
He had no confidence that he could shoot down a plane with the only bullet left, but it was obvious that the plane patrolling the forest in the night, looking for guerrilla camps for bombing and harassment, noticed the conspicuous flare.
, and immediately circled around and lowered its height.
"Rifles can shoot down airplanes, so can anti-tank guns..."
Wei Ran muttered secretly and put his eyes behind the scope.
Using the scope and the starry sky as the background, he recognized at a glance that the aircraft with the unique hollow outline was a FW189 reconnaissance aircraft.
Seeing that the plane finally pointed its nose at him after circling for a while, he immediately aimed at the nose of the plane and pulled the trigger!
"boom!"
After this shot, if he hadn't put away the anti-tank gun in time, he would have been stabbed into the soil by the recoil and the weight of the anti-tank gun itself. Even if he put away the anti-tank gun,
Still couldn't help but fall over.
But he also clearly saw that a ball of sparks flashed in the middle of the cockpit of the hovering plane in the night sky, and then the plane began to make evasive maneuvers in a panic and pulled up after a moment.
"I knew it wasn't that easy."
Wei Ran muttered helplessly, not daring to continue waiting to watch the excitement, he got on his horse and left the place as quickly as possible.
In less than ten seconds, the plane came back in a circle, immediately dropped two bombs, and started strafing with machine guns.
While the plane was bombarding the area where the signal flare had just been raised and strafing wildly to wash the ground, Wei Ran was already lying on his horse and completely distanced himself from the danger zone, and continued heading east under the cover of the trees and night.
Running.
He believed that after what he had just done, half of the enemies in the forest would be attracted to him.
And his current trouble is how to find a way to escape from the encirclement before his own situation can no longer hold on.
Nowadays, the high-speed armor-piercing bullets of anti-tank guns are gone, and the signal flares have been exhausted. The captured Mauser rifles and submachine guns are really of little use anymore.
But even so, before he decided to go north to chase the two Flass, he tied the rifle to a tree, bent a flexible branch and tied it to the trigger, and added additional
The elastic branch was tied to the trunk with a rope.
Finally, two cigarettes were tied to the tight rope and lit. This was the final step in the delayed fire shooting. Wei Ran finally rode his horse and began to move toward the northeast.
At some point, he either felt sleepy or fainted due to high fever. He finally lay down on the horse and let the military horse lead him aimlessly.
At some point, the already tired army horse stopped and stood under a wild crabapple tree, raising its neck to eat the fruits that were not that big. At the same time, because of this movement of raising its head,
Wei Ran, who was almost hugging the horse's neck, slipped and fell to one side. He hit the branch of the crabapple tree with some difficulty, and then his foot was pinned by the stirrup.
Under the severe pain, Wei Ran also woke up in a daze, and his several attempts to stand up on one leg and untie the stirrup made the horse shake impatiently.
Fortunately, it was through its shaking that Wei Ran, who was completely weak, finally broke free from the stirrup.
Touching the wound on his shoulder that was already bleeding, Wei Ran tried to stand up twice to no avail. He simply moved to the bottom of the crabapple tree little by little, sat down against the trunk, and reached out to pick up a ripe crabapple.
I took a bite of the fruit.
The sweet and sour taste also lifted his spirits somewhat, but the army horse was not attracted. It was still raising its head and nibbling on the fresh fruits hanging on the branches.
"I don't know if I have escaped..."
Wei Ran muttered vaguely, fumbled for the cigarette case, took out the last cigarette and held it in his mouth. After trying several times, he lit the lighter.
"You must escape, otherwise my work will be in vain." Wei Ran continued to talk in his native language, and everything in front of him became increasingly blurry.
However, just at this moment, he heard the excited barking of dogs, and then saw several figures walking out of the forest in the distance.
"Plop!"
Before Wei Ran even took out his revolver to fight back, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness. He leaned sideways and fell onto the soft golden leaves.
