Smith's feeling is not wrong, in front of the 1st Marine Division, there are really tens of thousands of [***] people, quietly lurking in the ice and snow, waiting for them to throw themselves into the net! These [***] people, the military uniforms on their bodies are thin, and some of them have not even received the cotton hats necessary for survival, although for this sniper battle, the superiors have prepared additional supplies for them, but their food is still pitiful. In addition to seven servings of fried noodles, each of them had two more corn corns that had been frozen enough to kill people, and a few black and mushy baked potatoes.

Knowing that the 1st Marine Division has not yet taken the bait and the battle has not yet started, these [***] people, when eating, are very calm. Each of them received a little quicklime, which was a good thing, and as long as they boiled the water, it produced a considerable amount of heat, so that they could barely boil the ice cubes they found into hot water, mix them with the fried noodles in their cloth bags, and stir them into a bowl of hot batter. No one used the snow powder that could be caught by bending down, because they were clearly told that if they couldn't find a suitable source of water and had to use the heat to melt to get the water, they would have to use ice. Because the same volume of ice melts far more water than snow melts. On top of that, many people have a misconception in their consciousness that actually ...... Ice melts more easily than snow!

This kind of hot batter made from fried noodles is really delicious, and more importantly, it is such a bowl of hot batter, which re-injects the necessary heat into their bodies to survive, so that they can quietly lurk in the ice and snow, waiting for the enemy to come.

These Chinese soldiers did not camp directly in the ice meadows, they gave full play to the civil engineering work that Chinese soldiers are best at, using snow powder and ice cubes to build snow caves that can barely accommodate a person to lie into. As long as you sleep in it, you can pile up the snow powder and plug the hole to create an enclosed environment similar to an Esmoorish igloo.

Some people also have candles on their bodies, because in a closed and small environment like a snow pit, the heat generated by a candle is enough for them to fight against the polar cold outside if it can be used reasonably!

"Remember, cold weather is a powerful force of nature, and it is no less dangerous and lethal than an enemy with tanks and bombers! In cold areas, cold winds can take away a lot of body heat, which is the result of moving air blowing on exposed human skin. To put it simply, in an environment of minus 9 degrees Celsius, the wind speed of 15 knots per hour blows on people's faces, bringing cold, which is equivalent to a windless environment of minus 23 degrees Celsius! Therefore, no matter what method you use, you must protect your body and never let your skin be directly exposed to the air! ”

"If you want to survive the extreme cold, there are four basic principles of warmth that you must follow! First, clothing should be worn loosely and layered. Clothing and footwear that are too tight can restrict blood circulation, making frostbite more likely to occur, while reducing the amount of air between clothing and clothing, thus reducing its effectiveness in insulation. Wearing a few thinner pieces of clothing is more effective than just wearing one piece of clothing of the same thickness, because an immobile layer of air forms between the clothes and the clothes, which insulate the heat. At the same time, it is also easy to take off and wear, take off one piece immediately when it is hot to prevent excessive sweating, and add one piece immediately when it is cold to increase the temperature. ”

"Second, avoid excessive body heat. If the heat is too high, you will sweat, and the clothes will absorb sweat, which will affect your body temperature in two ways: humidity reduces the thermal insulation of the clothes; The cooling effect caused by the evaporation of sweat causes the body temperature to drop. Adjust the thickness of your clothes so that you don't sweat. You can partially open the coat or jacket, or take off the inner layer of clothing, or take off the gloves, or take off the hat of the coat or reduce the wrap on the head, etc. When the heat is too high, the head and hands are the most effective parts of heat dissipation. ”

"Three, keep your clothes dry. In cold climates, your inner clothes will get wet due to sweating, and if the outer clothes are not waterproof, the snow and frost that sticks to them will also get wet if they are melted by body temperature. If you have one, wear waterproof clothing outside, which will stop most of the snow and frost from melting. Before entering a hot shelter, brush off the snow and frost from your body. No matter what precautions you take, there will always be times when your clothes get wet. At this point, drying out your clothes can become a major problem. Place damp gloves and socks on top of the wrap as you travel. In freezing temperatures, sometimes the wind and sun blow dry and dry the clothes. Or you can put gloves and socks close to your body, don't fold them, your body temperature will dry them out. In the camp, wet clothes can be hung on top of the tent with a drying rope or a makeshift shelf. You can also make a fire so that you can dry every piece of clothing. Dry leather garments slowly and not in a hurry. If there's no other way to dry your boots, place them between the outer layer and the lining of your sleeping bag, and your body temperature will help dry them. ”

"Fourth, keep your clothes clean. This is important from a hygiene and comfort point of view, and in winter, it is just as important from a warmth point of view. Dusty and greasy clothing can greatly reduce its thermal insulation. If the air layer between the garments is squeezed or filled, the body heat will be more easily dissipated. ”

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Every company commander, platoon commander and even squad leader remembered these words word for word, although many people still could not fully understand the meaning of these words, but each of them firmly remembered how to give first aid when someone was frostbitten. They all knew that in this environment, there would be trench foot disease and foot osmosis, and they all knew that in the extremely cold environment, it was necessary to control the amount of water that each soldier drank. If they drink too much water, they have to get up at night to relieve their hands, which will waste a lot of body calories, but if they drink too little, the soldiers are likely to die in a short time if they become dehydrated. They also learned what light burns are, and that in this world, there is a disease that can make the eyes unable to see anything clearly for a long time, called "snow blindness".

Every junior officer is meticulously doing everything they have learned, will do, and can do, they feed ginger and pepper water to those frozen soldiers, and in order to save those frozen soldiers, they took off their clothes in the snow pit, hugged their soldiers, and used their own body temperature to save the lives of those brothers.

They had done everything they could, but when a difficult night passed, and the sun finally poured the sunshine and a little warmth onto the earth, those squad leaders, platoon leaders, and company commanders shouted one by one through the snow caves, and when they shouted one by one, there was always no response in some snow pits.

Looking at the brothers who were lying in the snow caves, who had closed their young eyes forever, holding these soldiers who had been together for I don't know how many years they had been with and who were already more like brothers than their own brothers, those grassroots commanders were gently sniffing, their lips were constantly moving.

In their eyes, the death of a soldier on the battlefield is as natural and beautiful as a cocoon finally transforming into a butterfly. As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your feet wet, and if you march in a hurry in a strange land, it is very likely that some unexpected situations will occur, and they can also accept some normal non-combat attrition. But...... Who can accept that more than 700 soldiers suffered severe frostbite in just one day of rapid march on November 24? Who wants to know how many people have closed their eyes forever in the two days and two nights from the 24th to the 26th, and how many people have become cripples even if they don't die for a lifetime?!

A company commander's eyes widened, and finally he couldn't help but cry bitterly. The snow cave in front of him, lying quietly inside, no matter how he shouted or screamed, the soldier who could no longer open his eyes was his deputy company commander. The deputy company commander did not block the entrance to the cave with snow, he even deliberately widened the entrance to the cave in the direction where the cold wind was blowing. The thin marching blanket that was given to him was not draped over his body, but folded squarely by him and pressed under his head as a pillow.

He froze to death, deliberately froze to death. Right in his hand, he also left a suicide note.

"On the 24th, when I was on a rapid march, I tried to pick up a soldier who had tripped up, but my right hand was scratched, which caused frostbite, and by yesterday I was completely unconscious. I don't know how many times I tried, I found that I could no longer pull the trigger and shoot, my hand was useless! I have traveled all my life from south to north, I don't know how many times I crawled out of the pile of dead people, saying that my bomber did not kill me, Chiang Kai-shek's artillery did not kill me, I have long stopped taking my life as a thing, my right hand is useless, it doesn't matter, I can still cheer up my brothers, and I can also use my left hand to help everyone load bullets and wipe guns. But it was only last night that I realized that my feet were frostbitten and that my ankles were swollen like turnips, and I couldn't even stand up. I have become a complete waste, the deputy commander of a charging company, I can only hide in the rear, I can't even shoot a gun, I can't even walk, I will only be your oil bottle on the battlefield, even if I am sent back, what is the point of living?

Therefore, I chose death, so at least, I died on the battlefield, and I am still a righteous martyr! Company commander, this time I made such a decision without your approval, so please let me choose my own path in the end! Captain...... I'm sorry! If there is a next life, we will still be brothers!! ”

The letter, that's it.

Before the battle began, I don't know how many heroes who did not die in the eight-year War of Resistance and the three-year War of Liberation fell into a permanent slumber in this foreign land.

It is in the vast universe, in this foot of the blue planet called the earth, in this ice and snow world called the Gaima Plain. It was in the light of the morning sun that I don't know how many [***] people, with tears of sadness on their faces, raised their heads. Facing the biting cold wind from Siberia, through the northeast of China, to this ice and snow plain, they cast their eyes fiercely to the far south. I don't know how many people are thinking about the same word in their hearts: war!

War!

If there is no big war, no fierce battle, no bloody battle, no mad war, even their division commander, even their commander-in-chief, it is impossible to suppress the murderous aura of sorrow and anger rising in the hearts of these soldiers!

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