War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1755: Reunion at the Alley

"boom!"

After an explosion that happened very close to him, broken bricks, broken glass and even wall paint were blown towards him by the shock wave.

Before that, Wei Ran and Yu Yanlin also reacted very quickly and squatted down, protecting their heads with their arms, while also using their bodies to protect the children behind them.

"Walk"

Wei Ran greeted him and crouched down to go into the next room.

Unlike the delivery of medicines just now, this time each of them had a child on their backs, especially the little baby that Wei Ran put in the backpack. The loud crying almost never stopped along the way, which undoubtedly increased the "difficulty of the game".

"If we continue like this, something bad will happen sooner or later."

Wei Ran ran to the window and took a look, then pulled Yu Yanlin to squat under the windowsill and whispered, "We have to think of a safer way."

"Brother Wei, what do you say?" Yu Yanlin squatted down, pointed the submachine gun in his hand in the direction of the door and said nervously.

"You have to carry this child too."

Wei Ran said as he took off his backpack and handed it to the other person, "I'll explore the way ahead. Once I'm sure it's safe, you can follow me. If anything happens to me, you should hurry up."

"Let me explore the way!" Yu Yanlin said hurriedly without waiting for Wei Ran to finish.

"Our mission is to get these two children out, not to risk our lives."

Wei Ran whispered, "So don't fight. You are the last line of defense for these two children."

Yu Yanlin opened his mouth, finally nodded, and hung the backpack containing the baby on his chest.

"Don't shoot easily"

Wei Ran whispered a reminder, "The muzzle of the gun is too close to this little guy's ear."

Upon hearing this, Yu Yanlin immediately pulled out the Astra 400 pistol he had seen from his waist and loaded it with bullets.

Without much delay, Wei Ran crouched over to the door, poked his head out to take a quick look and locked it, then walked into the messy and dilapidated room with his gun in hand and quickly glanced around, then walked towards the damaged wall leading to the next room.

Continuing to look, Wei Ran took a step back and gestured to Yu Yanlin behind him. The latter immediately ran over with a submachine gun in one hand and a pistol in the other, and hid in the broken corner of the wall.

When he was ready, Wei Ran kicked a corpse lying on the ground, then walked towards the half-open door of the room, carefully pushed a gap with the muzzle of the gun, and leaned in to take a quick look.

Outside the broken door was an alley that was not very spacious. There were many corpses lying in the alley, as well as a large amount of broken bricks and tiles and bullet shells of various types scattered around.

After looking around, and then carefully looking at the top of his head and the outer wall of the building across the alley, Wei Ran entered the alley and closed the broken door behind him. Then he walked carefully to the other end of the alley along the wall.

"boom!"

Just at this moment, a crisp gunshot was heard from the second floor of a building at the end of the alley just in front of Wei Ran. He was about to raise his gun to fire back subconsciously, but he heard a scream behind him.

Subconsciously turning his head, he immediately noticed that behind him, on the second floor of another building opposite the alley, a figure had dodged and hid next to the window. The one who did not dodge was covering his shoulder with one hand, and with the hand on his injured side, he was trying to catch a submachine gun that was about to slide out of the window.

"Ta-ta! Ta-ta!"

Wei Ran immediately raised his gun and fired two bursts of shots, hitting the enemy. At the same time, he quickly walked back and hid beside the door he had just come out of.

With confidence, turning his back to the person who had just saved his life, Wei Ran quickly searched the other windows on both sides of that window.

"boom!"

Behind him, the man who saved him fired again, and then he heard a loud whistle faintly coming from behind him.

Turning around and looking in the direction of the enemy, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, bent down, pulled out two grenades from a corpse and shook them in the direction of the enemy.

The latter immediately understood and fired a shot at a window on the second floor of the building at the other end of the alley, causing a conspicuous cloud of smoke and dust to explode on the window frame. After estimating the distance, Wei Ran swung his arm and threw a grenade first towards the window where he had just killed the enemy. Then he swung his arm and threw the second grenade across the street into the marked window on the second floor.

"Boom! Boom!"

Almost at the same time as the two grenades exploded, Wei Ran continued to run to the other end of the alley, trying to find a safe route to move forward.

He hurriedly walked to the end of the alley, and fortunately, he finally saw an iron door that could lead to the building. He tried to pull it, but the door was locked from the inside.

After looking around, he bent down and took out a grenade from a corpse, pulled out the pull ring and stuck it in the door handle, then turned around and ran back.

"boom!"

When the grenade exploded, he immediately stopped, bent down again, pulled a grenade from a corpse and put it in his pocket, then raised his submachine gun and carefully moved forward again.

"pat"

Before he could reach the door again, a grenade was thrown out from the door.

Seeing this, Wei Ran, who had been prepared, immediately lay down and picked up the body of a national soldier to block in front of him.

"Da da da!"

Almost at the same time, the sound of submachine gun firing was heard from behind!

"boom!"

Just as the grenade exploded, Wei Ran took the time to look behind him. There were no enemies on the other side of the alley. In other words, it was Yu Yanlin in the room who was firing!

Reaching out and pulling a grenade from the waist of the corpse that was serving as a cover and putting it next to him, Wei Ran pointed the submachine gun in his hand through the crotch of the corpse and aimed it straight ahead, but he did not get up. Instead, he lay down more like a corpse should.

Almost at the same time, two National Army soldiers holding submachine guns came out from the blown-open iron gate, but Wei Ran did not rush to open fire.

Soon, two more enemies with rifles came out and looked at both sides vigilantly.

“Da da da da—!”

Wei Ran, who was lying against the wall, pulled the trigger of his submachine gun and easily knocked down the enemies.

Letting go of the submachine gun that had run out of bullets, Wei Ran climbed up while pulling out the pull ring of the grenade in his hand. He released the pressure plate and took a few quick steps before throwing it into the iron gate that had been blown open.

Before the grenade exploded, a box gun adjusted to continuous fire mode appeared in his hand.

"boom!"

As the grenade exploded, Wei Ran had already half-crouched down, pushed the box gun into the door, and pulled the trigger.

"Da da da--!"

He emptied the magazine directly in the intensive shooting. While Wei Ran put away his gun, he took out a grenade from his pocket with his other hand. He then pulled out the pull ring and waited for less than two seconds before throwing it in again.

"boom!"

After the new round of explosions, he just glanced at the figure running down from the opposite side of the alley with a rifle, and immediately rushed into the blown-open iron gate holding an ornate 1911 pistol.

After a quick look around, I found that this was the back door of a shop facing the street. The inside of the shop was already in a mess. Barricades had been built facing the street, and there was even a Lewis machine gun.

At this time, behind the machine gun, there was still a living enemy trying to cover the bleeding wound on his chest with his hands.

"boom!"

Wei Ran hastily fired a shot at the other party, then turned around and ran back to the alley, shouting, "Yanlin! Come here!"

At this time, Yu Yanlin was already walking backwards towards this side, carrying a backpack containing the baby in one hand and holding a gun in the other.

"I'll cover you, go in quickly!"

As Wei Ran spoke, he bent down, lifted up a corpse, pulled a grenade from his body, pulled the pull ring and threw it over, then picked up the submachine gun that had just been thrown down.

Before the grenade exploded, two more grenades were thrown out from the door. Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately pushed Yu Yanlin to the ground, and used his body to protect the baby in the bag. At the same time, Yu Yanlin subconsciously turned over and shielded the little boy he was carrying behind him.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After three consecutive explosions, all kinds of broken bricks and flesh were pushed by the shock wave and hit Wei Ran's back, making him grimace in pain.

"Da da da!"

At this moment, the man who had just cooperated with Wei Ran had already crossed the street and ran to the entrance of the alley, holding a submachine gun and shouting, "Victor! Louis! Is that you? Quick! Come here quickly!"

"Aaron?! Why are you here?" Yu Yanlin asked in surprise as he got up.

"Explain later!" Aaron said as he pulled the trigger and fired a long string of bullets behind them.

Seeing this, Wei Ran and Yu Yanlin immediately got up, followed the wall and took the two children into the street shop that the former had just cleared out.

Putting the backpack containing the baby in the corner, Wei Ran picked up the Lewis machine gun and ran back to the alley, then waved to Aaron.

The latter had just run out of bullets in his submachine gun, and immediately went around Wei Ran and got into the exploded iron door.

"Tu tu tu tu tu—"

Wei Ran deliberately waited for the pursuers from the other side of the alley to stick their heads out before pulling the trigger at them.

Compared with the submachine gun, the firepower of the Lewis machine gun was undoubtedly much more fierce. For a moment, the brick wall near the door was hit by the bullets, and brick chips flew everywhere. The pursuers behind them had to shrink back.

He deliberately pulled the machine gun back, leaving only a little of the muzzle exposed. When Wei Ran stood up, Aaron had already handed him several grenades from behind.

"Why are you here?" Wei Ran asked as he took the ammunition.

"I just got back last night. Before I met you, I was hiding in that building all day and was responsible for guarding this alley." Aaron answered while he and Yu Yanlin were searching through corpses and collecting ammunition.

“Aren’t you a photographer?”

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already replaced the last magazine filled with bullets for his submachine gun.

“I am first and foremost an internationalist fighter”

Ya Li replied as a matter of course, "Don't talk about me, why are you here? And with two children?"

"We are postmen," Wei Ran and Yu Yanlin answered in unison.

"Well, I can't find any fault with it." Aaron handed two boxes of bullets to Wei Ran, "Do you need my help?"

"Don't you have to guard here anymore?"

Before Wei Ran took the bullet, he threw a grenade outside, and as expected, he was met with a burst of "get down" and curses in Spanish.

"I'm not the only one there, but you obviously need more help."

Aaron said as he took the backpack containing the baby and put it on his back.

"boom!"

Just as the grenade thrown by Wei Ran exploded, belated gunshots were finally heard from the second floor of the building where Aaron had been hiding.

In this not-so-good cooperation, Wei Ran handed the submachine gun in his hand to Aaron, "Use this gun, you can throw away your Spanish submachine gun, this one is more useful."

Hearing this, Aaron decisively gave up his submachine gun, took the submachine gun and spare magazine handed to him by Wei Ran and began to load bullets into it.

Wei Ran said as he loaded bullets into his box gun magazine, "Our mission is to get these two kids out of the battlefield. I'll go in front and you guys follow me."

"no problem"

Before Aaron finished speaking, two more internationalist fighters wearing red scarves ran over under the cover of their companions upstairs.

"I leave this to you," Aaron said immediately in French, "Victor, they are my companions."

"Don't worry, photographer. Remember to help mail our letter."

One of them, who looked to be about 50 years old, was already lying on the ground holding the Lewis machine gun while speaking, while the other ran into the room and began to remove sandbags from the barricades and move them to the alley to build a shelter.

"You are lucky, they are the postmen."

Aaron patted his chest and said, "Anyway, don't worry, your letter will be delivered."

“And our leading star”

The younger warrior said, "You promised to help us pin it on that flag you mentioned."

"I promise"

Aaron promised earnestly, "We should leave now. I hope we can meet again after the battle is over."

"I will definitely do that"

The old soldier said confidently, "We will meet as winners."

"That's right!"

Aaron said this and looked at Wei Ran, who immediately broke the box gun loaded with bullets across his waist and continued running along the corridor of the building towards the direction where Uncle Clement's family was sitting.

“I met a lot of gay people in Mount Angel”

Aaron, who was walking in the middle, said amid the fierce gunfire, "There are quite a few of them."

"Da da--"

At this moment, Wei Ran fired a shot, hitting an enemy rushing out from the next room. Then, without even releasing the trigger, he turned the gun and stabbed into the room. Before the short 20 rounds of bullets were all used up, he knocked down two other enemies in the room and an enemy who was jumping in from the window.

"Crack!"

Wei Ran kicked the nearest enemy in the temple, then walked into the room while changing the magazine and saying, "You continue talking. It won't affect me."

Aaron was about to open his mouth when Wei Ran raised his leg again and kicked to death an enemy who was shot in the stomach.

"gollum"

Aaron swallowed hard before continuing, "A considerable number of them were killed in the battle. I promised them that their three-pointed star would be placed on the flag you mentioned."

“You’ll see the flag.”

Yu Yanlin, who was walking last, made a promise first, "The three-pointed stars of the comrades you know can also be hung on it."

"Thank you"

Before Aaron finished his words, he raised the submachine gun given to him by Wei Ran, pulled the trigger and fired a series of shots out the window.

"let's go"

After changing the magazine and picking up some Mauser pistol bullets, Wei Ran led the two of them back to the corridor and continued towards their destination past the room.

"I don't know if Clement is still alive," Yu Yanlin couldn't help but say in his native language.

“He must be alive.”

Wei Ran said this with certainty, but at the same time he couldn't help but glance at the shadows of Aaron and Yu Yanlin reflected on the wall.

What he wasn't sure about was whether the two of them would survive, whether the two children would survive.