The platoon commander was lying on the sofa and muttering something, and I listened carefully: Xiaochen, I am destined to be unsuitable for development in the army, and I will die.

I didn't speak, I just stretched out my hand and patted him, in fact, I didn't know what to say, because I knew that this was his own choice, even if I regretted it, I could only regret it, and I couldn't make any changes.

In fact, I still don't know why he left the army, and he has kept silent, so I didn't continue to ask.

Drowsiness hit, and I sat on the floor and fell asleep in a daze.

When I woke up, the room was already empty, the platoon commander was gone, and that feeling of loneliness came to my heart, and I couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, why did you leave without saying a word? Say hello to me and I'll take you to breakfast.

I took out my mobile phone and made a call to the leader to ask for a day off, and then I sat on the sofa in a daze, when I saw a note on the coffee table, don't think about it, it was left for me by the platoon leader.

I picked up the note, it was the platoon commander's familiar words that could not be more familiar: Xiaochen, I am really happy to see you, in fact, I don't want you to see me now, see that you are sleeping soundly, I didn't disturb you, let's meet again.

I read these short words back and forth many times, mechanically many times.

The phone rang, I didn't see whose it was, I connected, and the voice on the other side was very calm: "Let's break up"

I was stunned for a few seconds and said, "Okay." ”

In fact, we often make trouble like this, but every time I give in, this time I didn't, I said happily: Okay.

This sentence seemed to catch her off guard, and as soon as she wanted to say something, I hung up the phone and turned it off.

I went to the bathroom and washed my face, looked at myself in the mirror, watched the splash of the faucet, and my mind began to drift.

"Cheer up! It's 5:40, we have to pick up the pace, the enemy won't give us time to breathe, we're on our own. ”

After finishing speaking, Yang Yuan beckoned Ercheng and began to rummage through the corpses of the enemy soldiers for food and medicine.

As expected, the kettles were almost always empty among the items carried by the enemy troops.

When everything was over, we walked in the mountains again, and we did not lack food, but we lacked water.

I now finally understand the hardships of the Red Army's Long March, lack of food and water, and even no medicine, they are dozens or even more worse than our current situation, and our ancestors can carry it, how can we say that we can't persevere?

The temperature in the mountains began to warm up slowly, and the water in our bodies began to lose rapidly, and by noon I was already feeling a little prostration, so I took out the kettle and drank a little, and then I was heavily dressed.

The magpie was already starting to get confused, and I handed the kettle over: "Here." ”

She looked at me, took the kettle and looked up and drank a little: "Thank you"

I didn't have the strength to say thank you anymore, so I could only take the kettle and walk with my legs under mechanical control, and everyone's mood was almost at a low point, because we had no strength left, and all we had left was our minds: go forward, go forward, go forward.

I had wounds all over my body, big and small, and they weren't much like me after last night's fight, so we couldn't go up at all.

"Buzz Buzz~~"

It was the sound of a helicopter, it seemed to be far away, and it seemed to be right overhead, Yang Yuan immediately turned his head and shouted: "Get down!" Don't move! ”

Our nerves tensed up instantly, and we began to find cover on the spot and lay on the ground, I was lying on the edge of a rock, and the magpie followed and lay next to me.

I quietly raised my head and looked in the direction where the sound came, it was a small reconnaissance plane, he started to search from the way we came, it had to be very high, only a vague shadow could be seen, but after a while, the shadow slowly became clear, it was flying in our direction.

"Don't move! It's an enemy reconnaissance aircraft! After Yang Yuan finished shouting this voice, we immediately stood motionless like a stone.

Although we all knew that the reconnaissance plane could not hear us, we subconsciously began to be careful about our breathing.

There was only the wind whistling in the mountains, and the magpie next to him looked at the small stones on the ground in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Hey, lie down with me, I'm not afraid of being discovered."

The magpie said, "You are hard, your life is big, and it is safer to be next to you." ”

My life? Now that I think about it, I do have a big life, and my experience has been that someone else may have died three times, but I survived, which is not only a big life, but also luck.

"Buzz~~"

The roar of the helicopter is getting closer and closer, and the sound of the propeller is particularly loud, you should have heard the roar of the helicopter propeller, especially when the helicopter is in the sky, the frequency of the sound is simply drilling into people's ears.

We also have training to evade the enemy's aerial search, but there is not much training, because modern helicopters use thermal imaging or infrared to reconnoiter the ground, ordinary hiding basically will not work, unless the co-pilot of the helicopter is napping or chatting with the pilot and distracted, otherwise our open-air evasion is undoubtedly to death.

But the reason why Yang Yuan let us lie on the ground is because the mountain stones here have been almost blown apart by the scorching sun in the sky, and infrared and thermal imaging can hardly play a big role, so the co-pilot can only rely on the instrument and the naked eye to cooperate with each other to investigate and compare.

We can't move, because if we do, even if we twist our heads, it will look very abrupt on the calm instrument.

Our position will be immediately revealed.

"Buzz~~" The helicopter skimmed over our heads, without making any stops, until the sound slowly faded away, Yang Yuan raised his head to observe, and then he waved his hand: "Don't go, rest on the spot!" ”

I turned over and lay on the ground, and the magpie immediately got up and moved his hands and feet.

Xiao Wu and Ercheng also sat up.

"Ercheng, check the injury for everyone, the weather is hot, and if it is inflamed and infected, it will be troublesome."

"Yes!"

Ercheng took off his backpack and began to rummage through medical equipment, and then re-medicated our wounds one by one, and also changed the bandages for me, I saw that the wound on my thigh had begun to flow pus, which was very scary, Ercheng said that the muscles inside were almost long, and it was not a big problem for me to remind him to change my dressing on time.

Then we started to eat, Yang Yuan and they brought the most compressed food, but we had little water left, so we could only eat a little to maintain our strength and dare not eat more, otherwise we would be very thirsty.

"No, we have to find a way to get water, and we can't go on like this." Ercheng ate a few bites of compressed biscuits and couldn't eat them anymore.

"Yes, team leader, we still have a long way to go."

Yang Yuan took a sip of the little water left in the kettle, and then threw the kettle to Ercheng, each of them only drank a small sip, and then screwed the lid and returned it to Yang Yuan, all of us only had half a pot on my body and a little bit on Yang Yuan's body, we still have a long way to go, and water is absolutely indispensable.

Yang Yuan raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky, scolded in a low voice, and then took out the map and spread it on the ground.

Seeing this, we surrounded him, and this guy was going to have ideas again.

Pointing to a place not far from us, he said, "There is a small village here, you should be able to get there in the evening, if you can't do it, ask the villagers to borrow some water." ”

The magpie looked at the map: "There are still twenty kilometers, can you get there in the afternoon?" We had only walked fifteen kilometers in the morning, and the physical exertion in the afternoon was sure to get worse. ”

Yang Yuan nodded: "You're right, but we don't have a choice, we can't go anymore when it's dark, so we must get this place to replenish water this evening, otherwise we won't be able to resist tonight." ”

Yang Yuan said that there is no way, even if we don't want to cause trouble to the local people, but we have no choice.

"If there is no objection, we will start the deployment in advance, and who will go to the task of fetching water when the time comes?"

We raised our hands almost at the same time.

Yang Yuan looked at me: "Don't make a mess, you are a wanted criminal in their country, where are you going, Ercheng!" Little Five! You two go! ”

"Yes!"

"Okay, then the route remains the same, let's keep going!"

"Hmm!"

We immediately set off, and the low morale of the morning was gone, and everyone cheered up as if they were full of strength.

Later, I began to understand more and more the deeper meaning of the idiom that Wangmei quenches thirst.

Water, something that everyone cites every day, may not receive too much attention in ordinary life, but where will there be a shortage of water in this society now?

When you're thirsty, you can buy a bottle in the store, and the water closet is full of drinks of various brands and flavors, and you don't even know which one to choose.

The uninterrupted daily water supply of water companies across the country ensures our current quality of life.

Walking to the vegetable sink and twisting it gently, water will flow out, and there will be no shortage of water, and even some extravagant waste.

Even if there is a sign on every place that says save water, how many people can do it? I still don't waste water, and I even feel an indescribable emotion every time I see it.

My girlfriend takes a shower for almost an hour every time, and I still can't figure out why she uses so much water, or if every girl takes a shower like this?

When I said it, she just smiled contemptuously: "You still have this awareness, and now there is no shortage of water." ”

I smiled awkwardly, yes, there is no shortage of water now, our country will not lack water resources at all, and even if there is a shortage, it will be hundreds or even thousands of years later, what the hell am I doing with this.

So I said, "When I was on a mission... ”

She was impatient: "Okay, okay, I bought a dress, you can see if it looks good." ”

I shut up in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.