Chapter 51: The Embarrassed Cripple
The magpie and I went around the top of the mountain halfway up the mountain to the other side, and we crouched behind a rock to observe the situation.
"There are few trees in this area, we don't know their number and search range, once they are found, here, the two of us are targets." The magpie looked at the mountains in front of him with a little concern.
"And what do you mean?" I guessed the magpie's intentions, but I couldn't be sure.
"Wait! We can only wait, wait for them to leave the area. The magpie said with a serious face.
I was a little anxious: "Can we still wait?" I don't want to stay in this bird place for a second, what if there are still pursuers behind me? ”
"Unless they do know what we're all doing, it's impossible, and I don't want to stay." The magpie said, "Why don't you observe as you go?" ”
I agree, at least it's better than standing still.
But we have to give an early warning, the two of us can't form a combat unit, the magpie accepts some indoor combat concepts, and she can only deal with mountain combat by instinct.
I had a brief discussion with Magpie, and I proposed to cover each other on the way to our special forces, and we both had corresponding search directions.
This method is useful for tactical squads of five to eight, but how do you use two?
There is no way, we can only improvise, and move forward according to the left and right search and change the search direction, so that even if we encounter the enemy head-on, we will not be reimbursed in the first place.
After we were decided, we picked up our guns and began to move forward vigilantly, the magpie was in charge of the front and the left, and I was in charge of the rear and the right front, and we advanced like this for half an hour, and the trees around us gradually became scarce, and I can't name the trees on these mountains, which I have never seen in the country anyway.
They are all like stunted growth, and the thickest trees are only the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, and some mountains are sparsely growing these trees, but some mountains are not bare at all.
Just like some of the mountains in front of us, all of them are bare, and there are some weeds growing and nothing else, and I don't know if it's geological and climatic reasons, and I don't bother to think about these things.
What caught my eye was the valley between the two mountains in front of me, which was more of a valley than a canyon, with a wide crack as if the whole mountain had been split in the middle with a knife.
The magpie hesitated, turned his head and said to me, "Let's go, let's go down!" Walk the valley! ”
I can only nod, I don't have anything to say, the magpie is absolutely enough to be my commander in front of me, as long as I don't go to death, I'm still happy to listen to her, I'm such a person, once I can trust a person, I will trust him unconditionally.
I also have to admit that there are some issues where the Magpie's approach is really effective.
Walking along the valley, at least the first time will not be discovered, but there is a drawback, once we meet the enemy, we are low and high, strategically out of the upper hand, not a wise choice, but there are two of us, first to avoid the enemy's reconnaissance is the best policy.
We cautiously walked down the slope of the hill under our feet, and then we had to carefully cross an unsheltered area, and I immediately became a little worried, there was no cover, and anyone who was not blind could see us two sneaky guys at the first time.
I can only pray that the enemies are somewhere else and that we don't find us, and I really don't want to experience the feeling of being chased by a mad dog again.
The magpie looked around for a moment and quickly ran through the uncovered area, then turned around and picked up my gun to cover me, and I limped towards her with my gun in my hand, my heart pounding nervously.
Knowing that we are still in the midst of an enemy search, can I not be nervous?
"Hurry up, lame!"
I felt depressed after hearing this, but I could only try to speed up my pace.
After passing through the unsheltered area, I saw that there was no movement around me, so I was relieved a little.
I asked the magpie, "What did you just call me?" ”
The magpie turned around in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I can't help it." ”
Under the cover of the surrounding rocks, it took us more than ten minutes to reach the front of the canyon, and we all took a look, and this place was much larger than what we saw on the mountain.
It was a wide canyon, and the mountains on both sides were so steep that you had to use tools to get there, and I looked up at this height, and immediately dispelled the reverie of the enemy firing at us from a high place, which was almost impossible.
We looked into the valley, and there was a long winding passage that led somewhere.
On the contrary, the ground was very flat, and there was not much gravel, so there was still some mud and sand outside of me.
I slowly crouched down and touched the mud and sand with my hands, and I assumed that there used to be a river running through this area, but I don't know why it dried up.
When the magpie saw me studying the sediment, he asked, "Detective, what did you find?" ”
When I told the magpie what I thought, she laughed dryly: "I found something useless, and I thought you saw the footprints of the enemy." ”
"What are you kidding, there is a chance that there will be footprints on this kind of stone floor?"
"Let's go."
The magpie didn't answer, turned around and walked towards the canyon, there should be no danger now, I walked to the side and bent down to pick up a wooden stick and tried the feel, it was not bad, I limped behind the magpie with the wooden stick.
The wound on my calf has not improved even though it has been two or three days, I don't know why, I even suspect that they have applied poison to the bullet, of course I am thinking nonsense, but my wound is still not good, should it bleed or bleed every day, which makes me very distressed, if it continues like this, it will definitely fall to the root of the disease, maybe it will really become a cripple in the mouth of the magpie.
I'm still very worried about this, if I become a cripple, I won't be able to stay in the army, and if I become a cripple, my life will be almost over, I can't marry a daughter-in-law, and I'm ridiculed everywhere, I don't want to be crippled.
The sun in the sky was fading to the west, and the light in the canyon was much dimmer than it had been before we entered.
It was very inconvenient for me to walk, and when the magpie saw me like this, he could only beckon me to stop and rest for a while before walking.
I was sitting on a stone on the side, and the magpie came over and asked, "Do you have any medical equipment in your bag?" I'll show you. ”
I took my backpack off: "You're still going to do this?" ”
"Less nonsense, take it out, I'll check it for you."
I looked at both sides of the canyon, and after confirming that it was safe, I took out the medical kit, these things were captured by the enemy, their individual equipment is still relatively comprehensive, and they should have everything, but I didn't expect it to be cheaper.
The magpie carefully rolled up my trouser leg and slowly untied the bandage.
I saw that the bandage was almost bright red, and the wound on the back of the calf had been stitched up by the doctor when it was in that village, but now I saw that it looked like a few needles and threads had broken open.
The magpie took out the suture tool from the medical bag and said to me: "It's still open, this kind of secondary suture is very painful, you can bear with it." ”
I nodded, "It's okay, come on." ”
The magpie first gave my wound a simple alcohol disinfectant, and I was instantly shaken, gritted my teeth and looked away.
The magpie began to stitch up, and the second suture was really painful, and when Ercheng did the second suturing of my thigh, I almost fainted in pain.
I could even clearly feel the stitches running through my flesh.
By the time she was finished, I was already covered in sweat, and my whole body was like collapse.
I asked, "I don't think the wound was big, how many stitches did you have?" ”
The magpie glared at it and said, "It's all sewn." ”
I gritted my teeth speechlessly and didn't speak, and said in my heart that this girl is so dead-eyed, just made a few needles and threads, and you actually sewed them all.
The magpie gave me a blank look and threw the medical package over: "What about the special forces, just like you?" ”
I didn't answer her, it really hurts, I'm not a superman, I haven't seen a few people who can be at ease with physical pain, Guan Gong scraping bones to heal injuries doesn't count, that's a novel, although I'm also a novel, but it just can't be counted.
The magpie saw that I didn't look like I was pretending, so he said, "Okay, okay, you can wait a while before you go." ”
As he spoke, he picked up his gun and looked around.
I sat back against the rock wall behind me, there were so many injuries on my body, the one that affected my movement the most at the moment was the wound on my leg, and it was also the one I was most worried about.
The swelling of my left eyelid had subsided yesterday, and I didn't care much about the other miscellaneous wounds as long as they didn't affect my movements.
The magpie was one of us, and she had a small cut on her forehead when the car rolled over, and it had long since healed.
This is what we all know, once the wound is infected, it will be very serious, because sometimes the environment of the operation site is very bad, there is not such a good treatment condition, the wound infection is serious, and the root of the disease will be dropped, and if the wound is not debrided in time for a long time, it can only be amputated, and even life-threatening.
The captured enemy medical kit didn't contain antibiotics, which made me a little distressed, so I could only ask him to help me see it when I saw Ercheng.
"Uncle Xiao, have you rested?"
I turned my head to look at her, "How many names have you changed for me in a day?" ”
The magpie smiled: "Let's go quickly, before it gets dark, see if you can get out." ”
I nodded, packed up my gear, took the stick in my hand, propped up the ground and limped along.
"Hey! You'd better call me Xiaochen in the future, don't give me those messy names. ”
"Hmm~ Okay, cripple."
“.....”
It seemed to get dark quickly, and the light here was already very low in less than half an hour, and the canyon in front of me seemed to have no end, damn it, how long is this canyon?
The magpie also realized that it seemed that we would not be able to go out today, and the air in the mountains had plummeted so much at night that we could not continue walking, and even if we wanted to, there was no lighting equipment.
So I found a near-perfect shelter on one side of the canyon, a natural shelter from the wind and rain on the rock face.
I was overjoyed, and it was great that the captured enemy did not have a tent in his backpack.
There was a sleeping bag, and I took it out and spread it on the floor.
The magpie stood behind me and looked at my sleeping bag and asked, "Just one?" ”
I reacted and nodded a little embarrassedly: "It seems... Yes. ”
We barely slept well last night, and it stands to reason that we shouldn't have to stand guard here, but we don't have any other choice for a sleeping bag.
I stood up and held the gun in my hand: "You sleep, I'll go stand guard and change it in the middle of the night." ”
"Forget it, let's go together."
Well? I turned my head to look at the magpie in disbelief.
Seeing this, she hurriedly explained, "I mean, stand guard together. ”