In the bumpy battlefield taxi, Zack and Toothless Angus were crowded on the door seat, whispering the whole time.
The other soldiers in the carriage were also talking and laughing. In contrast, Li Youfu, who was sitting next to Wei Ran, was wiping the cameras around his neck with a suede cloth the size of a towel.
fuselage.
"Can you give me a piece?" Wei Ran, who was speechless, pointed to the piece of suede in the other person's hand.
Hearing this, Li Youfu bent down and pulled out an M7 bayonet from the side of his trouser leg, and motioned to Wei Ran to help open the suede and split it in two from the middle.
Taking one of the suede pieces, Wei Ran wiped the two cameras hanging around his neck and asked, "Troye, you don't seem afraid."
"I have followed Mr. Zach to the front lines many times this year."
After Li Youfu finished speaking, he stopped what he was doing, took out a pack of Marlboros, tore them open, popped one out and handed it to Wei Ran, and then lit one himself, "But it's just that I'm not scared anymore, I'm still nervous.
, my hands would shake, and there were times when I couldn’t even hold the camera steady, and the photos I took were all blurry.”
"What about before this?"
Wei Ran asked in a puff of smoke, "I mean, what were you doing in the restaurant before it became harder to come back?"
“Back is a very accurate word.”
Li Youfu smiled and said, "Before I was hired by Mr. Zach, I was responsible for carrying, washing vegetables, and killing fish and chickens in a restaurant in Chinatown."
Just a handyman?
While Wei Ran accurately defined Li Youfu's last job, he heard him continue, "Every day before dawn, we have to go with him to purchase ingredients, then load and unload the truck, and then wash and slaughter immediately after returning."
“Sounds like a lot of hard work.”
“It’s really hard work”
Li Youfu smiled and said, "But the people in that restaurant are very nice, so my mother and I can fill our stomachs and have a place to live. Originally, I only had to work for another year and then I could start learning cooking.
The owner of the restaurant promised me.”
"and you..."
"As I said before, Mr. Zak offered me a reward that I couldn't refuse." Li Youfu replied matter-of-factly.
"I know, what I want to say is, how did you meet Zach?" Wei Ran asked casually.
"It was the owner of the restaurant who recommended me to Mr. Zach."
Li Youfu started wiping the camera again, "Mr. Zak often goes to that restaurant to eat. Of course, these are what Mr. Zak told me later."
"It can be seen that you are already qualified for the job of photographer."
"Thank you. I appreciate the compliment"
Li Youfu obviously did not take Wei Ran's praise seriously, but said seriously but self-deprecatingly, "Mr. Zach has very high requirements for photos, but no matter what, at least the photos I took can be sold for 5 US dollars each.
My mother is very proud of this, of course, provided she doesn’t know what kind of photos I took.”
Are you secretly making a welfare machine without telling your parents? A camera machine?
Wei Ran was secretly thinking about it with great joy, but he followed the topic and asked a question that could last for a long time, "Troyer, what are your plans after the war is over?"
"Not ready yet"
Li Youfu looked at the half-frame camera in his hand, and said naturally but with a trace of distress and hesitation, "But I will definitely not work in a restaurant. I may become a photographer, but Zach
My husband said that I don’t have enough aesthetics and may not have any talent as a photographer.”
"Your photos can already be sold for 5 dollars each," Wei Ran reminded in a joking tone.
"Come on," Li Youfu shook his head in confusion, "We all know what kind of photo it is, so how do we count..."
"Although you do not have the talent to be a photographer, it does not affect your ability to become a photographer."
It was Zach who was sitting across from him who said this, "Troyer, you don't just have to be a photographer to be a photographer. Or rather, you don't have to have talent to be a photographer.
Photos of girls without clothes are photos, just like photos taken with a half-frame camera are photos.”
"It just depends on whether you want to press the shutter or not," Wei Ran added subconsciously.
"Victor is right."
Zach snapped his fingers, "Whether you can become a photographer depends on whether you want to press the shutter."
"So I can become a photographer in the future?" Troyer asked excitedly.
"sure"
The person who answered this question was a white soldier in the carriage who held six photos in his hand, "Troyer, let me say, there is nothing wrong with these photos. What we need now is this kind of photo that can soothe the soul.
The pictures of the eyes and dick are not the pictures of the exhibitionist president’s dick in various angles in the newspapers.”
"If Troyer can take a picture of that rude red-necked dick with dwarfism in the future, he will definitely become a celebrity."
Another black man in the carriage followed suit and said, "I'm afraid Mr. Johnson's dick is not as big as mine when it's time to rest."
Not surprisingly, as soon as these words came out, the sweltering compartment immediately burst into laughter. The original topic about the photographer also turned collectively. Everyone happily discussed the beloved Mr. President and the old man who took out his clothes for fun from time to time.
two.
"Having said all that, who knows how long it will take for us to arrive?" Zach took the cigarette that Wei Ran separated from him, lit it, took a deep puff and asked loudly.
"It's not far away. There is a crashed helicopter in front of us. When we saw it, we were only half an hour's drive away from the camp."
The soldier driving the armored vehicle loudly replied, "Whitey, let good guy Zach get some air!"
"Zach, come to me."
The black soldier who was responsible for operating the machine gun on the roof of the car was about to retract his body into the car as he spoke. Even Zach had already bent down and stood up, preparing to change positions with the other man.
"boom!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this moment, there was a violent explosion outside the car. Before everyone could react, the black soldier who was about to give up his position to Zach also
Chu sneaked into the cabin - his temple had been hit by a bullet!
"boom!"
A second explosion followed, and the armored vehicle stopped. Fortunately, the explosion did not come from their vehicle.
"Machine gunner! I need machine gun suppression!"
While the driver opened the tail hatch, he pushed the lever behind the seat, causing the seat to drop sharply. He also retracted his upper body that had been leaning out of the hatch.
Before the tail hatch was fully opened, Toothless Angus was the first one to rush out with a fire extinguisher in hand, followed closely by Zach, Wei Ran and Li Youfu, who also protected the fire extinguishers hanging around their necks with their hands.
The camera ran away.
At the same time, the machine gun on the roof also started roaring. Wei Ran, who ran out of the hatch, also saw at a glance the M113 armored vehicle at the end of the team that was suspected to have been attacked by an RPG and caught fire near the cab, as well as several people struggling to climb out of it.
The soldiers, and of course Angus, who was using a fire extinguisher to help put out the fire.
"Hidden! Hidden!"
Wei Ran screamed at Zach, who had already raised his camera, and forced him and Li Youfu, who was protecting the camera with his hands, to hide on the side of the armored vehicle and lay down on the roadside.
Only then did he have time to look at the surrounding environment, which was an arc-shaped muddy road that divided paddy fields and lakes.
The water in the paddy field on the left has been drained and the rice has been harvested, leaving only piles of straw piles like grave bags.
In the middle of these straw piles, there is the wreckage of a Choctaw helicopter stuck head-down in the paddy field. It has been burned and only the mottled frame is left.
The lake on the right side of this road is not very big, but it is thirty or forty meters wide and a hundred or ten meters long.
After the round of head-and-tail cuts just now, the convoy was almost trapped on the winding muddy road between the paddy fields and the lake, unable to move forward or retreat, and could only withstand the intensive firepower coming from the opposite side of the lake!
While he was observing, more and more soldiers got out of the armored vehicles and began to fight back with machine guns and other firepower. Zach, who was lying on the ground, also raised the camera again, without caring about life and death, and pressed the shutter repeatedly.
Not only him, but also Li Youfu, while helping Zach change the film on the camera after taking pictures, he would raise his half-frame camera from time to time and take a photo of the soldiers around him.
Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't bother to worry about their safety anymore. He also picked up the Minolta camera hanging around his neck, first pointed the lens at the wreckage of the helicopter in the paddy field and pressed the shutter.
At this moment, Angus had also thrown away the used fire extinguisher, picked up a surviving wounded soldier from the burning armored vehicle at the end of the team, placed him on the untouched side, and hurriedly bandaged him.
After that, he got into the burning armored vehicle at the end of the team again.
Before he could come out, a white soldier rushed over and helped him take out the second wounded person. By the way, he and Angus also froze his figure in the second photo taken by Wei Ran.
inside.
Looking at the two people who rushed in again, Wei Ran couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He had just recognized that the last time these two people cooperated so well and allowed him to take a group photo, it was the labor dancer.
Just as he was sighing secretly, the two men were hit by the bullets and fell to the side of the road together with the wounded they were carrying.
After looking at the camera in his hand, Wei Ran finally ran over after a brief hesitation, grabbed one by one with one hand, and dragged them into the shooting blind spot provided by the armored vehicle.
After a quick check, Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh secretly. The white man who was working with Angus was shot in the upper back of his back. Not only was he hit in the spine, but he may have also injured his lungs.
Obviously he won't survive.
In contrast, Angus was extraordinarily lucky. The shot just now hit the medical bag he was carrying, and after passing through the medical bag, the M79 grenade launcher gun he was carrying was even more thrilling.
Tuo stopped him.
But correspondingly, he was hit hard on the butt by the butt of a gun.
"Did I get shot in the butt?" Angus asked slightly panicked.
"No, fine, but spanked."
Wei Ran said, and playfully slapped the other party's snow-white buttocks, which still had the mark of the gun butt, "Get up, stop showing off your white buttocks."
"Victor you bastard!"
Angus was so shaken by the slap that he didn't even care about his pants that were torn open by Wei Ran, and turned to look at the white soldier with foamy blood gushing out from the corner of his mouth.
"He can't survive"
As he spoke, Wei Ran wiped the blood from the corner of the soldier's mouth, then raised his camera and took the last photo of him while saying, "He was shot in the spine, give him one..."
"I know"
Angus knelt beside the soldier, opened the first-aid kit and took out a morphine to inject it on the soldier, then held him in his arms, forced a smile with difficulty and comforted him, "Bercy, don't worry, I know you
Whatever you say, I will take good care of them, your brother Ryan and sister Rachel, as well as your parents and your dog Mag, I will take good care of them."
Hearing this, the soldier who had been spiked with morphine also grinned with a blood-stained smile. He reached into his arms with difficulty and took out six cards that he had just bought from Zach not long ago.
The blood-stained photo was handed to Angus.
However, before Angus could take the photos, he gave up his strength, and those sexy photos fell into the pool of blood beneath him like a group of beautiful butterflies.
Wiping the corners of his eyes, Angus reached out and pulled out the soldier cards from the opponent's neck, pulled one off and stuffed it into his pocket, and then stuffed the other one into Percy's mouth.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Gently put down the body of his companion, he took off the medical bag, and also tore off the grenade launcher with bullets in the butt and threw it aside.
The two wounded men who were carried out with Percy dragged them over and started first aid on the spot.
After a while, the battle came to an end amidst increasingly fierce counterfire.
When the enemy troops on the other side of the lake had died down, the M113 at the head of the platoon, which had been blown up by a mine, also dragged out the bodies and wounded inside and was pushed into the dry paddy fields on the roadside.
Even the M113 at the end of the team, which was burning more and more fiercely, had to put out the fire with difficulty, and the driver's body, which was almost cooked inside, was taken out.
After some inventory, the sneak attack just now destroyed two armored vehicles guarding the area, killed six soldiers including Bai Xi, and injured several others. The losses were heavy.
But compared to these, Wei Ran smelled a special fragrance that was indescribable but made him tense up while the convoy was busy collecting corpses and treating the wounded.
Subconsciously looking at the trucks in the middle of the convoy, he couldn't help but frown.
At least the nearest truck, the tarpaulin at the rear of the truck has been lifted up, revealing a dark green iron bucket with colorful horizontal stripes inside - it contains rainbow herbicide!
At this time, several soldiers were turning some of the iron barrels with bullet holes in their direction, trying to temporarily block the bullet holes with freshly cut wooden sticks.
After looking at Angus, who was still treating the wounded, and Zach and Li Youfu, who were already riding in an armored vehicle and preparing to follow the soldiers to capture the prisoners, Wei Ran ran to the back of the truck and raised his neck.
The hanging Minolta camera pressed the shutter towards the two soldiers who were busy.
"Victor, get in the car quickly, let's go around to the other side of the lake and have a look!" Zach shouted towards Wei Ran.
"immediately!"
While Wei Ran responded, he put the truck with its tail curtain raised and the convoy in front of it into the frame and pressed the shutter again, then ran towards the armored vehicle he just rode in and got into it.
Under the cover of the remaining soldiers waiting on the spot and the few remaining armored vehicles, the vehicle in which the guard was riding and the soldiers once again filled it walked around the edge of the lake to the opposite side.
Soon, they saw two people lying in a pool of blood behind a big tree.
Among the two men, there was a man who looked to be in his forties. He was wearing a green shirt, black shorts and tire slippers, and a Type 56 ammunition bag with ten pockets hung on his chest.
But his legs had been broken by machine gun bullets, and even his stomach had been shot.
Not far from him, there was an SKS semi-automatic rifle made in the Soviet Union. The receiver of this rifle had also been damaged by bullets.
Next to this corpse, there was a girl who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old, leaning on a tree trunk.
She was dressed similarly, and her legs were also broken, but she was still alive. At this time, she stared at the invaders who got off the car with a pair of big, beautiful, but hatred-filled eyes.
He raised his camera from a distance and took a photo of the girl. Wei Ran glanced at the other person's hand hanging by his side and cautiously stopped. At the same time, he pulled Zach and Li Youfu who were trying to get closer and hid in the car.
side.
"Troye, can you help me be a translator?" a squad leader who led the team asked as he drew his pistol.
"What do you need me to ask?" Li Youfu leaned out most of his body and asked after Zach nodded to him.
"Ask her where her accomplices are."
While the squad leader was speaking, he had already raised his pistol and aimed it at the girl under the tree. At the same time, the other soldiers and even the heavy machine gun on the vehicle were also aimed at the jungle not far away.
Hearing this, Li Youfu put on his clothes and said something in a more difficult language that Wei Ran could not understand again. The girl with a pair of beautiful eyes also gritted her teeth and said something. Then, she was suddenly pulled out from behind.
A thin rope, and a wisp of smoke emerged from the gap between her lower back and the tree trunk!
"hidden!"
The squad leader shouted, and while quickly dodging, the other soldiers subconsciously pulled the triggers towards the girl!
A little earlier than that, when the girl's arms started to move, Wei Ran pulled Li Youfu back, but he didn't expect to press the gourd and the ladle floated up. Zach actually stretched out his upper body at the same time,
In the rising smoke, at the moment when those bullets hit the girl's thin body and splashed a cloud of blood mist, he used his Leica camera to press the shutter towards the girl.
"boom!"
Half a second before the wooden-handled grenade exploded, Wei Ran almost pulled Zach back.
When the gunfire calmed down and Wei Ran and others poked their heads out again, the girl had been blown into two pieces. However, the body next to her was not affected. Only the green ammunition bag was covered with blood.
Dyeed black.
"madman"
The squad leader cursed and muttered, stuffing his pistol back into his holster, and directed the rest of the soldiers to search the surroundings, and finally found a tunnel entrance hidden in the bushes.
The tunnel entrance is square in shape, probably less than half a meter long and wide. When you open it, you can still vaguely see dripping fresh blood.
"Bring the oil drum over here!"
After all, the squad leader did not take any risks. He just asked his subordinates to get the oil drum from the rear of the armored vehicle, opened the lid and poured the diesel inside into the entrance of the tunnel. Then he filled it with some rotten vegetation from the surrounding area and poured it over
The remaining half a barrel of diesel fuel.
While they were busy setting fire over there, Wei Ran, Zach and Li Youfu walked to the side of the corpse.
"Troyer, what did that girl say just now?" Zach asked after taking a photo of each of the two mutilated corpses.
"No, it's nothing." Li Youfu, who seemed to be distracted just now, responded absently.
"Don't touch that body." Wei Ran stopped Zach who was about to take off the ammunition bag from the body.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Have you not finished shooting yet?" Zach stopped what he was doing and asked.
"You should ask yourself if you have lived enough."
Wei Ran put down the camera he was holding and cautiously reminded, "There's a good chance a grenade was stuffed under this corpse."
Before he finished speaking, he had already reached under the body, and after some careful groping, he finally took out a large F1 lemon with the safety pin removed.
Throwing the grenade into the lake from a distance, Wei Ran continued to feel under the body, and then took out a Chinese wooden-handled grenade that tied the firing wire and the ammunition bag together.
When he carefully cut off the firing wire, took off the ammunition bag that Zach was interested in and handed it over, Zach, who was already scared into a cold sweat, waved his hand, "Forget it, it belongs to you. I originally
I don’t want it that much.”
Your uncle...
Wei Ran twitched his lips and opened the ammunition bags one by one, only to find that in addition to a few bridge clips holding bullets, there was also an American first aid kit, a Chinese gun oil can, and
A cylindrical iron box that he had seen in later life that seemed to contain ointment.
"What is this?" Wei Ran took out the tin box and asked Li Youfu.
Li Youfu, who seemed to be still distracted, stopped staring at the girl's body, took the box in Wei Ran's hand, took a look at it, and replied dryly, "Ointment, for repelling mosquitoes."
"You can keep it for later use."
Wei Ran did not take the ointment handed back by the other party. He looked at the emptied ammunition pouch in his hand. After some hesitation, he temporarily folded it and pinned it to his belt - this thing was suitable for holding film.
He even guessed that Zack probably wanted to get this trophy for the same reason just now.
The few American soldiers who didn't dare to go in and take risks were allowed to toss in the tunnel to no avail. Finally, everyone drove back to the muddy dirt road across the lake in armored vehicles and joined the convoy waiting for them.
Almost immediately, two Huey helicopters flew over from directly in front.
While one of them was hovering in the air and on alert, the other one landed on a dry paddy field, quickly picked up several soldiers who had just been injured, and after taking off, flew to Da Nang under the cover of the other one.
