Chapter 40: Chaos (Part I)
After several futile back-and-forths, even the last judge in the town kept his mouth shut, dragging a group of armed rebels who were not even qualified to serve as militia into a state of mental and physical fatigue.
Shi Shaoying started at nine o'clock in the evening and confronted them until two o'clock in the morning, and the two sides tossed back and forth for five hours before Shi Shaoying finally stopped his actions and found a position with a good field of fire, even if he encountered outflanking, it was easy to take advantage of the favorable terrain to retreat safely, although his body had entered a state of high fatigue, but Shi Shaoying still insisted on spending ten minutes to lay out several simple but effective defensive lines with bullet shells and thin fish wires, no matter who tried to approach him, once he encountered those thin lines hanging bullet casings, Shi Shaoying will immediately regain consciousness.
Before the operation, Shi Shaoying had prepared food and water in advance at this rest point. Digging out the kettle buried in the sand, he drank most of the fresh water in it with a tilt of his neck, and as the fresh water rushed into his throat, most of the heat on his body disappeared immediately. Tear open the packaging bag of individual rations, pour 50 milliliters of water into one of the plastic bags with a heating layer, and soon encounter the quicklime in the heating bag with the chemical reaction, releasing high heat, and hot vapor also comes out of the plastic bag.
A few minutes later, Shi Shaoying ate a steaming assorted fried rice with a small packet of spicy sauce and a so-so hot soup.
The price of this Chinese-made self-heating ration for individual soldiers in the market is only a dozen yuan, but Shi Shaoying spent a full 100 dollars on the black market in Mogadishu to buy two copies. This shows the extreme level of military shortages in Somalia.
But the money was well spent!
First of all, this stuff is very tasty when you're hungry, at least several times better than compressed biscuits! Eating such food will make people think of the life in the normal world outside, and in the case of high physical consumption and great need for calorie supplementation, you can eat this kind of delicious food, especially drinking steaming soup, whether it is mentally or in **, you can get quite satisfaction.
After eating his own dinner, collecting the used bags together, and digging a pit to bury them, Shi Shaoying took advantage of the moonlight to look at the wound on his left arm, which was the scratch left by him when he hit a stone with sharp edges and corners when he made a military dodge action in order to avoid the opponent's machine gun fire.
The scratch was more than half a foot long, and the deepest part of the cut was even a centimeter deep into the flesh.
Individual rations can still be bought on the black market in Mogadishu, but no matter what price Shi Shaoying pays for the medicine used to treat external injuries, the businessman in front of him keeps shaking his head, so that Shi Shaoying can only return empty-handed. Fortunately, Shi Shaoying can still buy salt.
Although it was very painful to wash the wound with salt water, the expression on Shi Shaoying's face was very flat, and enduring the pain was originally one of the compulsory lessons for soldiers like them. After washing the sand and other materials stained in the wound, after making sure that it had been successfully disinfected, Shi Shaoying grabbed a handful of white sugar, applied them to the wound, and then wrapped the wound tightly with a strip of cloth, even if it was treated.
White sugar is high in calories, and applying it to the wound can make the wound heal several times faster than usual, of course, this non-natural healing taste is not pleasant. The white sugar that Shi Shaoying chose was made in China and exported to Somalia, and the reason why he chose this kind of white sugar was not because he had a patriotic complex.
News such as gutter oil is not uncommon in China, but the cat in white sugar is greasy, but I am afraid that the vast majority of people will not know.
In China, the real sugar content of some brands of cotton white sugar is only about 75 percent, far lower than the 95 percent general standard set by the state. Twenty percent of this difference is made up of fructose and glucose. In order to pursue high profits, those unscrupulous manufacturers mix inferior glucose with low cost and price, which does not meet medical standards at all, into white sugar, and then adjust the sweetness by adding excess fructose, which is not counted, in order to prevent glucose from being easy to harden after encountering humid air, these merchants who play with chemicals can be called masters, and the merchants who regard human life as nothing have mixed anticoagulants into white sugar.
Although these things are very bad to eat in the mouth, they can be called "healing medicine" when applied to wounds!
Don't talk about glucose, this is originally the foundation of the foundation during the infusion, when necessary, find a coconut, treat the liquid in it as glucose, and directly enter the blood vessels. As for those anticoagulants, although they will stop platelet clotting and slow down wound healing, it can treat phlebitis and prevent blood clots from forming in the veins.
Obviously it is just a condiment that will be used in the kitchens of thousands of families, but it can be decomposed into so many functions and play so many tricks, looking at this has been officially banned by the China Health and Food Administration, so it is basically extinct in Chinese supermarkets, but it was changed by those unscrupulous businessmen through underground channels, smuggled across the ocean into Somali white sugar, Shi Shaoying really didn't know whether he should cry or laugh.
Dear friends, if you buy a packet of white sugar, and it only condenses into a hard lump when it is slightly damp, just raise your middle finger with Shi Shaoying and greet the manufacturer who produces white sugar...... If I rub your mother's, I will die if I mix more anticoagulants with sugar? Counterfeit and shoddy!
After bandaging the wound, Shi Shaoying took out a medicine bottle from his backpack.
With only two public hospitals in Mogadishu, plus dozens of private clinics, coverage in a city of 700,000 can only be described as pitifully low, and medicines are of course even more difficult to obtain. The reason why Shi Shaoying was able to buy this bottle of medicine on the black market in Mogadishu was even more enough to make people squirt countless rice to the point of almost egg pain.
The scientific name of this bottle of medicine is called "deoxyoxyoxytetracycline hydrochloride", also known as doxycycline hydrochloride, and its antibacterial spectrum is very close to tetracycline used in a large area in China, but it has special effects on pneumococcus, gram-negative bacteria, Vibrio cholerae, and hemolytic streptococcus.
Well, to put it simply, this thing is a good thing to cure gonorrhea!
In third world countries where AIDS is rampant and gonorrhea is more entrenched, there can be no penicillin or aspirin in the clinic, but there must be no drugs for the treatment of STDs, otherwise, it will be difficult to get along with Uncle Dollar!
Not to mention anything else, this $300 bottle of "deoxyoxyoxytetracycline hydrochloride", in terms of price, went to my grandmother's house.
But this money, Shi Shaoying still has to pay, this injustice, how can he grit his teeth!
It's not that Shi Shaoying has gonorrhea and has to eat this game to do it, but that deoxyoxyoxytetracycline hydrochloride is a semi-synthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic.
Don't believe the moving legend that the protagonists in the TV series, who are wounded by a gunshot wound, can be dressed up, or stitched up, or even burned with gunpowder, if one is not careful, a blood poisoning or something, without taking antibiotics, they will end up 100% alive and dead. Even if it wasn't so unlucky, even if it was just an inflammation of the wound, it was enough to turn Tarzan into a soft-footed shrimp.
Shi Shaoying, who was wrapped in a thin woolen blanket all over his body, and was full of food and drink, only felt that sleepiness was gradually coming, and he didn't know when, so he fell asleep. Eating and sleeping and being able to live a happy life like a pig on the battlefield is itself a trait that can only be possessed by professional soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles.
Here it is really necessary to quote a passage that Shi Shaoying once said when he was a company commander on the border line and gave a tactical education class to his brothers: "The so-called harassment war is to make the enemy eat and sleep poorly, and we can still eat and sleep sweetly." ”
At four o'clock in the morning, Shi Shaoying woke up.
Although it is only 200 kilometers away from the equator, the cold wind in the early morning is so cold that it is piercing the bone marrow. The temperature difference between day and night is very large, a phenomenon unique to desert terrain.
Shi Shaoying got up and neatly folded the thin woolen blanket that was easily overlooked by ordinary people, but which was vital to restoring his strength on such a night, and put it back in his backpack.
After tidying up everything around him and making sure that there was nothing missing, even the laces of his leather boots were untied, and after tying them again, Shi Shaoying stretched his arms and started the seventh set of broadcast gymnastics that the middle school students would gather in the playground at ten o'clock every morning.
Shi Shaoying was doing radio gymnastics with meticulous movements, and at the same time sang a song in his mouth that people born in the late seventies and early eighties are absolutely familiar with: "We have a group of ducklings in our village, I drive them to the pond every morning, and the ducklings quack at me, goodbye duckling, I'm going to school, goodbye, duckling, I'm going to school...... Quack quack quack ......"
If Shaida, who died in the hands of Shi Shaoying, really didn't blink his eyes, and now a wisp of "ghost" was still following Shi Shaoying, he would definitely rub his eyes desperately in disbelief, thinking that something was wrong with his eyes. Because the man who was ruthless and ruthless in his killing decision, and tortured him and his four apprentices to death with cruel methods no less than those of terrorists, after doing the seventh set of radio gymnastics, he was still unsatisfied, he half-squatted down, put his hands on his waist sideways, put his hands on his waist one side to the left and one right, posed in the shape of a pair of "wings", and then walked around the ground like a duck.
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