Chapter 33: The Story

86_86324 After taking the medicine, he fell asleep again. Uncle Wang drove in the city for a while, and almost got lost in a strange city. After about ten minutes, the pickup truck finally turned out of the city.

I was still thinking about the guy I had just met at the clinic, but I didn't mention it to them. Maybe there are more people alive in a city than we think, because there are some people who can live quietly, even if they are alone. But if it were me, I wouldn't be able to live alone.

I took out the five-and-six-type magazine, took out the bullets inside, and counted them, and there were more than a dozen rounds. It seems that even if you don't go to war, this bullet will not be enough. In the future, you have to save a little bit, this bullet is one less shot, and after the shot, it will be difficult to find.

Zhou Zhihong saw me fiddling with bullets, and his face was full of curiosity.

"Can you show me?" Zhou Zhihong said.

"Okay." I said and handed him a bullet.

Zhou Zhihong took the bullet in his hand and looked at it, looking at his expression, it should be the first time he has seen it.

"You say, how did this thing come out, and it can kill people." Zhou Zhihong looked at the bullet and said, "Could it be that there is a big spring in the gun?" ”

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this, and then sat up straight, ready to show off what I knew about firearms.

"There are springs, but bullets don't bounce off them." I said, and then pointed to the gun, "This gun has a needle in it, technically speaking, it's called a firing pin, and after you load it, the firing pin gets stuck behind the bullet and is ready to fire." When you pull the trigger, the mechanism that holds the firing pin is released, and the firing pin quickly hits the back of the bullet. When the primer behind the bullet is hit, the gunpowder inside is detonated, then the pressure is generated, and finally the gunpowder is fired. ”

Zhou Zhihong listened while pinching the bullet and imitating what I said.

"You say there's gunpowder here?" Zhou Zhihong looked at me and said, pointing at the bullet shell with his finger.

"Yes, otherwise there would be such a powerful spring to shoot the bullet out." I say.

"No wonder the sound of this gun is like a firecracker, it turns out that the working principle is the same." He said as he nodded.

"Can you give me this one, this thing is weird and beautiful." He asked me.

"Okay." With that, I pressed the remaining bullets back into the magazine.

Uncle Wang drove intently, ignoring our conversation. I don't know what kind of topic can get his attention during the day.

Zhou Zhihong picked up the bullet and poked it around himself, saying to himself: "If this thing hits the body, it will hurt so much." ”

I watched his actions and thought it was a little funny.

"Uncle Wang may know, you can ask him." I say.

"How does he know?" He looked at Uncle Wang, then turned to me and asked me.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, he used to be a soldier and fought in war."

"Wow," Zhou Zhihong immediately exclaimed, he looked at Uncle Wang with a different look, "Really? ”

"Seriously." I replied. I was happy in my heart, and I could finally ask Zhou Zhihong to help me ask Uncle Wang.

"Uncle Wang, have you ever been hit by a bullet?" Sure enough, Zhou Zhihong immediately asked Uncle Wang.

"Nope." Uncle Wang shook his head and said.

"Then where did you fight, was it the War of Resistance Against Japan or the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?"

But as soon as he finished asking, Zhou Zhihong felt that something was wrong, so he added: "No, the veterans I saw on TV are much older than you." ”

"It's Vietnam, I haven't seen it in the history books." I say.

"When?" Zhou Zhihong asked.

Uncle Wang cleared his throat and said, "Seventy-nine years." ”

Zhou Zhihong straightened his body, his face was full of interest, and he said excitedly: "I really don't know this, Uncle Wang, you see it's okay to sit in the car, or you can tell me, how did you all fight?" ”

"It's the same as what you see on TV, but it's all done with real guns." Uncle Wang said.

"You mean, it's just two teams of people with guns, and you call me and I hit them?" Zhou Zhihong said, "Isn't this the same as in the game? ”

"Almost." Uncle Wang replied.

"But if we want to capture the next target," Uncle Wang continued, "it is usually the artillery that bombards for a while, and then our infantry goes up, and we pick those who are not killed, and just shoot." ”

"At that time, our artillery brother was so good that he couldn't do it," Uncle Wang gestured as he spoke, "When the cannon was fired, the clouds in the sky were shaking." ”

"How awesome?" Zhou Zhihong asked.

"How awesome?" Uncle Wang asked rhetorically, "Let me tell you this, in the battle of Lang Son, the artillery alone fired 300,000 shells. ”

"Three hundred thousand?" Zhou Zhihong and I were surprised in unison.

"Well, but it's from the army, and I don't know if it's true. We all joked that if the artillery had been there for a few more days, the Vietnamese would not have to plow for years. Uncle Wang remembered the interesting things in his memories and said to us with some joy.

"Why do you want to fight so much?" I asked, and the image of a thousand guns firing in my head made people feel both enthusiastic and a little scary.

"Hit the momentum, in fact, at that time, Langshan was almost captured, we were ready to withdraw the army, what I heard was that there were too many shells transported to the front line, and I was too lazy to transport them back, so I hit them all." Uncle Wang replied.

"In that case," Zhou Zhihong pondered, "wouldn't it be easy for the PLA to start a war, and besides, it sounds a little fun, you see, the artillery ploughs the ground, the infantry ploughs, and finally bears the fruits of victory." ”

Uncle Wang smiled bitterly and waved his hand, and said: "It's not as easy as I said, don't look at the artillery brother is so good, sometimes they fight too quickly and accidentally injure a lot of their own people." ”

Uncle Wang uncharacteristically opened the conversation box and continued: "And those Vietnamese, all of them are brains and elves, and they can fight very well. ”

"I remember one time, the people in our position were asleep, and that night it was our turn to be a sentry. In the middle of the night, the squad leader heard a noise and fired a flare, damn it, a company of Vietnamese soldiers was touching our position. We immediately shot and woke up the others, and then we got on fire. It didn't take long for the battle to die, and a few people died on our side, and many of those Vietnamese soldiers died. There was a Vietnamese soldier on the opposite side, and when he saw that he couldn't beat us and couldn't run, he entered our position in the dark, took out a knife and knocked down one of our comrades-in-arms, and stabbed him several times in the heart. ”

"How can we watch it, our squad leader, rush up and kick the Vietnamese soldier to the ground, and then we disarmed him and knocked him unconscious."

Uncle Wang touched his mouth and said, "Actually, that's all good, although the artillery is good, but when the counterattack just started, we killed a lot of people." At that time, the car that came down from the front line, if there was a light in it, it meant that there were wounded inside. If there is no light in it, it is full of dead people. ”

"It's miserable." Zhou Zhihong said, "Then you are on the front line, fighting and killing all day long?" ”

"No, we're going to have fun too." Uncle Wang said with a smile.

"What's the fun?" Zhou Zhihong asked.

"Playing mahjong and smoking, there weren't many of them, but at that time, I thought I could just wear away the time." Uncle Wang said with a smile.

"Mahjong? The army is still equipped with mahjong? I interjected.

"Of course it wasn't sent by the army, we all played secretly." Uncle Wang replied to me, "No mahjong? If you don't have mahjong, you can do it yourself, there is a lot of bamboo in Vietnam, so we will cut it down, cut it into pieces, and then draw it ourselves, a deck of mahjong cards, and it will take a lot of time. ”

"The warriors are ingenious." I said with a smile.

"There's no way around it, we have to write a suicide note before we go out on a mission, and we can't come back after we go out, so if we don't have some fun when we are idle, how can we say it." Uncle Wang said, "Speaking of suicide notes, I later calculated, I wrote a total of four or five suicide notes, and one suicide note was sent home because I didn't return to the team on time." ”

After saying that, Uncle Wang laughed by himself, and Zhou Zhihong and I were embarrassed to laugh, after all, it was not a funny thing.

But at this pace, Uncle Wang is about to tell about his entry into Vietnam. Next time, be sure to take the opportunity to ask about that mysterious mission.

After speaking, we all shut up and stopped talking, and were brought back to that period of history by Uncle Wang's words.

The stability of the republic is all stained with blood by Uncle Wang and others. Although there is no such concept in the current world, the lives that passed away on the border a few decades ago have brought me a peaceful and stable life for more than 20 years. Thanks to them.

The pickup truck had already moved some distance away from the toll booth, and the road was bumpy again.

At noon, Duan Ke woke up. I asked her if she was feeling better, and she said that her head didn't hurt anymore, and she only coughed occasionally. Seeing that her face had returned to its normal color, I secretly thanked the female doctor in my heart.

When it was time for dinner again, the four of us sat on the cargo box of the pickup truck, and relied on the food in Zhou Zhihong's bag to solve a lunch. There is not much left in his bag, and it seems that we will have to find our next meal on our own