Chapter 43: The Speed of Life and Death (I)
When the hands of the watch finally jumped to four o'clock in the morning, just when this normal person had fallen into a deep sleep, felt the most dull, and the mind was the most numb, with Xie Jinyuan's order, the three machine gunners pulled the trigger of the Czech light machine gun in their hands together. These three machine gunners are all real veterans who have been tested in battle, and in the rhythmic burst fire of Czech light machine guns, the three soldiers are set up in different corners, and every night they will swagger at the four rows of warehouses to shine a non-stop searchlight, almost at the same time by the light machine gun bullets, and the front of the four lines of warehouses instantly turned into darkness.
In the face of this absolutely unexpected situation, the army was caught off guard, and it was really a mess.
Listening to the chaotic gunfire on the battlefield of the Yue Army, Xie Jinyuan's face showed a smile of victory. And Battalion Commander Yang Ruifu stood behind Xie Jinyuan, looking at this outstanding soldier in front of him with absolute qualifications who could allow him to study and emulate for a lifetime.
It was only at this time that Battalion Commander Yang Ruifu really understood why the three searchlights were obviously within the range of the Sixing Warehouse, but Xie Jinyuan allowed the army to set up the three searchlights and shine on the Sixing Warehouse every day, pointing at the brawny power there, but did not order them to be destroyed.
Although Xie Jinyuan was only in his thirties, and although he was only a lieutenant colonel and deputy regiment commander, he had already integrated China's broad and profound philosophy into the way of war. Xie Jinyuan clearly knows that "habit" has an impact on a person, and he has even begun to use "habit" as a weapon.
Xie Jinyuan just didn't destroy the three searchlights, he wanted those soldiers to slowly get used to the help of searchlights, and get used to seeing the Sixing warehouse clearly as long as they wanted. Once this habit slowly takes shape and is suddenly broken, even a well-trained soldier will inevitably have a short period of chaos. Their engineers, after setting up three searchlights, sat back and relaxed, and even though their soldiers had always been known for their rigor and seriousness, they lacked experience in emergency repairs at night, and this would artificially increase their mobile reaction time.
The order not to attack the three searchlights was just a small detail that seemed inconsequential in the defensive battle of the Four Elements Warehouse, but it was such a small detail that once again verified Xie Jinyuan's theory of war...... There is no fluke in success, and even if it is lucky, it will only favor those who have been prepared for it long ago and can reach out and grab him.
Xie Jinyuan stood in front of the gate of the Sixing Warehouse, with a calm and calm smile on his face, looking at every soldier who hurried past the gate with affectionate eyes. He stretched out his hand and patted the shoulders of these soldiers gently, as if to convey his strength and will to everyone's hearts through the contact of this body.
Letting his regiment commander stay behind to cover the retreat of the troops was the greatest shame for any soldier in the Sixing warehouse who fought side by side with Xie Jinyuan. But no one spoke, they just desperately clenched the weapons in their hands, closed their mouths, carried heavy ammunition on their backs, followed behind the platoon commander and company commander with the speed of a rapid march, and quickly sprinted in the direction of the British concession along the retreat route that Xie Jinyuan had set for them.
Although the army fell into a temporary chaos, although they did not know the target at all, only knew how to strafe aimlessly, dozens of light and heavy machine guns and hundreds of rifles fired together, and stray bullets dragged out dark red bullet marks in the air one after another, and people were still being shot and fell. He was quickly picked up by his comrades-in-arms and continued to run wildly.
Fifteen minutes later, the soldiers, who were expected to break out of the four rows of warehouses, had already taken advantage of the short confusion of the army and entered the British concession through the new garbage bridge. Looking at the scattered firepower on the opposite side, concentrated little by little, and feeling the increasingly heavy firepower suppression, Xie Jinyuan turned his head and shouted to Yang Ruifu Battalion Commander and Lei Zhen: "Fu Jian, you immediately lead the machine gun platoon to retreat!" And Lei Zhen, you also follow them immediately! ”
Seeing that Xie Jinyuan picked up a light machine gun, and even brought over a box of machine gun bullets, Yang Ruifu was really anxious, "What about you, regiment commander?" ”
Xie Jinyuan categorically ordered: "You go first, I will cover you." I followed! ”
Lei Zhen shook his head vigorously, "No! ”
Yang Ruifu nodded vigorously, "Okay!" ”
Facing Lei Zhen's angry gaze, Yang Ruifu suddenly pulled out the bayonet on his body and stabbed it hard at his thigh, the bayonet sank deep into his thigh, and the blood instantly soaked Yang Ruifu's military pants, and he squatted directly to the ground in pain.
Facing this scene, looking at Yang Ruifu, whose face was pale in pain and his body was trembling slightly, whether it was Xie Jinyuan or Lei Zhen, their eyes widened.
"Commander," Yang Ruifu gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "I have an injury to my thigh, you have to carry me across the bridge, if you don't save me, I will die!" ”
Xie Jinyuan was really stunned.
"I know what you're thinking, Captain, you've already made up your mind to die before you entered the Four Elements Warehouse. Commander, you are the kind of person who will never repent easily once you have made up your mind. But have you thought about it, even if the brothers have already crossed the bridge and entered a safe position, if everyone knows that the regiment commander you are still in the warehouse and have not come out, no one can stop them. Everyone will run back again, in that case, won't the blood shed by the brothers in order to break out of the Sixing warehouse be shed in vain! ”
Yang Ruifu straightened his neck and shouted loudly: "Commander, I have been following you for so long, don't try to lie to me." Anyway, I've already injured my thigh, and I can't run anymore, and Lei Zhen, this kid, has broken two ribs, and he can't carry me. We're going to walk together, we're going to die together! I don't care what others think, I want my Yang Ruifu to leave his boss and run for his life alone, no way! ”
Looking at Yang Ruifu's thigh that was inserted into half a bayonet, looking at the pool of blood that quickly gathered under his feet, and facing Yang Ruifu's eyes, Xie Jinyuan really wanted to cry at this time. How can he Xie Jinyuan not only have a graceful wife, a pair of lovely daughters, but also a good brother like Yang Ruifu? Yang Ruifu's knife stabbed deeply into his thigh, why didn't he put his life in Xie Jinyuan's hands?
In the face of such a brother and such a subordinate, what else does Xie Jinyuan have to say? He tore off his military uniform and quickly tied it to the wound on Yang Ruifu's thigh, and after barely stopping the blood that kept flowing out, Xie Jinyuan carried Yang Ruifu onto his shoulder.
He glanced back at the Sixing Warehouse again, the battlefield for which he led more than 400 men and sisters to fight fiercely for four days and five nights, but finally had to retreat and abandon it; Seeing that this is empty, there is no soldier anymore, and in a few hours or even dozens of minutes, it will be occupied by the enemy, representing the battlefield where the Shanghai Conservation War finally ended, and it is here that the corpses of his nine brothers are still placed! In the end, he still didn't fulfill his promise to his brothers who had already died in battle.
Xie Jinyuan bit his lip, and Yang Ruifu, who was lying on Xie Jinyuan's body, said in a low voice: "Commander, we will come back." Sooner or later, we will return to this city that belongs to us as victors! ”
Xie Jinyuan nodded vigorously, and he suddenly let out a hoarse roar: "Let's go!" ”
After saying that, Xie Jinyuan rushed to the direction of the British concession without looking back, and at this time, an orange flame more than two feet long suddenly tore through the dark night, and a forty-millimeter caliber cannonball slammed into it with a thunderous attitude, and Xie Jinyuan, who was carrying Yang Ruifu, had not made any military dodge moves, and the cannonball fell beside them.
"Boom!"
A cloud of black gunpowder smoke rose in the dark night, and in this darkness, blood soaked Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu's military uniforms in an instant, and that kind of blazing feeling made Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu just want to cry bitterly. When the shells were about to fall on them, it was Li Fushui, the platoon commander of the machine gun platoon, who pounced on them in time. At such a close distance, Xie Jinyuan could clearly see that a piece of artillery shrapnel was deeply embedded in the left eye socket of Zhang Fushui, who was only twenty-three years old and had been the deputy head of the security regiment, and later joined the army.
Zhang Fushui only felt a hot pain in his left eye, he reached out and touched it, and when his hand touched the piece of shrapnel embedded in the eye socket, he clearly knew that his left eye was blind. And the one hanging outside his eye socket, still shaking, every time he shakes, there will be a pain in the heart, needless to say that he has already come out of the eyeballs.
Xie Jinyuan roared loudly: "Come on, even if it is lifted, you have to carry Zhang Fushui out for me!" ”
The soldiers of the four machine-gun platoons ran over together, some grabbed Zhang Fushui's hand, some grabbed his foot, and were trying to hold Zhang Fushui up, the platoon commander whose left eye fell out of his socket, suddenly twisted his body desperately. He twisted his body to prevent the four soldiers from lifting him up, and shouted loudly: "Tell me, is my left eyeball broken, is it broken, and it will never get better anymore?!" ”
The four soldiers looked at each other, their platoon commander's eyes were almost cut in half from the middle by the shrapnel, but they were still connected to the outside of the eye sockets, watching the platoon commander constantly twist his body, and even the eyes that were cut in half kept shaking, such a scene even for the soldiers who had experienced the most brutal war felt a chill in their hearts.
"It's broken, even if I put it back, my eye won't be better, why is it a one-eyed dragon, right?" Zhang Fushui took a deep breath, and he shouted loudly: "Squad leader, you still have scissors on you, right, come and help me cut off the eyeballs outside the eye sockets, damn it...... It hurts me to death......"
Yang Ruifu's eyes widened, and he shouted loudly: "Zhang Fushui, are you fucking crazy? Hurry up and let them carry you to a safe place and take you to the doctor. Regardless of whether your eyeballs are still salvage or not, it is up to the doctor to decide whether to have surgery to cut them off or not! Even if you want to cut it, you have to do it by the doctor! ”
"How am I going to shoot with this thing?" Zhang Fushui stretched out his hand and pointed to the position where the cannon was fired at them just now, and shouted wildly: "There is a tank there, and the one who blinded me was the cannon on this tank, and he said that he had already reacted, and they were about to attack us!" I, the commander of the machine gun platoon, don't stay in command, who will cover the retreat of you and the regiment commander?! What the fuck are you doing in a daze, squad leader, cut it for me! ”
At this moment, orange flames more than two feet long burst out again in the darkness more than 200 meters away, and the soldiers of the machine gun platoon also set up light machine guns and began to fire at the tank.
"Stupid, stupid, you're all fucking pigs! Can a normal bullet impress the steel plate of a tank? ”
Zhang Fushui was trembling all over his body in pain, and as soon as he spoke, the two halves of his eyes hanging in his sockets kept shaking, but he still scolded his subordinates in a trembling voice: "Don't we have steel core bullets, those bullets are few, they are treasures, but they can give birth to cubs if they are kept?" Now don't you want to wait until you enter the eighteenth layer of hell and see the judge Yama King and then come to them again?! Squad leader, you still have a fart poison, and the shrapnel that got into my eye said that I didn't help eliminate the poison, right? ”
Yang Ruifu turned his head sideways, Xie Jinyuan closed his eyes in pain, they really didn't want to see this subordinate whose eyes were blinded by shrapnel in order to save them, just used a pair of scissors on the battlefield to do such a simple and cruel operation. The battle has been fought to this point, and they don't even have the most basic anesthetics.
"Don't shake your hands, you must be ruthless, otherwise, Lao Tzu will fucking hurt even more!"
After saying these words, Zhang Fushui stuffed a roll of rags into his mouth, his eyes widened, and he watched as the squad leader stretched out in front of him with a pair of scissors used to cut off the uniforms of wounded soldiers in the first aid on the battlefield. The first squad leader reached out and grabbed the two halves of Zhang Fushui's eyes hanging outside his eye sockets, at this time, the first squad leader, a veteran, even if he was used to seeing life and death, even if he knew that at this time, he must maintain the most basic calm, but his hands were shaking non-stop.
At this time, Lei Zhen suddenly stretched out his steady and dry hands, suddenly stretched out in front of the squad leader, and said in a low voice: "I'll come." ”
The first squad leader was really at amnesty at this time, and when he handed the scissors to Lei Zhen, he found that he didn't know when, cold sweat had soaked his military uniform.
Lei Zhen looked at the scissors in his hand, this is just the most common pair, and when doing manual work, he will prepare a pair of scissors. Stretched out his fingers to test the sharpness of the scissors, Lei Zhen looked at Zhang Fushui, who was lying on the ground, his whole body was trembling with pain, but he tried his best not to let himself faint, and said in a low voice: "I like you, in your body, there is a ruthlessness like a wolf!" Find a way to relax yourself, and if you pass out in pain, I'll wake you up again.
Zhang Fushui, who clenched the cloth roll with his teeth tightly, tried his best to make his body tense like a bow full of bowstrings, his remaining eyes suddenly lit up, and under impossible circumstances, Zhang Fushui's body actually showed signs of relaxation.
Lei Zhen pointed to the two helpless soldiers and said, "Hold his hand and try not to let him move." ”
In front of everyone, Lei Zhen let his son stretch out his tongue and lick the blade on the scissors, which was regarded as using saliva to eliminate the poison, and he didn't even blink his eyes, just like cutting a piece of excess thread on his clothes, and in the sound of "clicking", he cut off the two halves and two beads hanging upside down in Zhang Fushui's eye sockets.
Zhang Fushui's body suddenly straightened, and the strength was so great that the two soldiers who held his hands were slammed to the side, and then his body was weak and he lay straight on the ground.
After doing this operation, which was not an operation, and returning the blood-stained scissors to the squad leader, Lei Zhen suddenly reached out and slapped Zhang Fushui twice, and in the face of this absolutely unexpected scene, everyone's eyes widened. The squad leader subconsciously raised the scissors in his hand, aimed them at Lei Zhen, and shouted angrily: "What are you going to do?" ”
"Smack! Syllable! ”
Lei Zhen slapped Zhang Fushui twice more in the face, blood splashed out of Zhang Fushui's left eye socket that had just cut off his eyeballs, and in the face of this inhuman scene, even Xie Jinyuan couldn't help but shout in a low voice: "Stop!" ”
Seeing that Zhang Fushui was not awake yet, Lei Zhen actually reached out and pinched the outside of Zhang Fushui's eye socket, a small piece of something that had not been cut clean, and then pulled it slightly.
"It hurts me!"
Zhang Fushui suddenly let out a painful roar, his eyes were wide open, and the left eye socket without eyeballs was even more terrifying and weird, under the absolute pain stimulation, Zhang Fushui subconsciously threw a punch, and the thunder shock squatting beside him hit the ground and turned over a few times.
If gaze can kill people, Lei Zhen has now been torn apart alive by dozens of gazes! Lei Zhen ignored these angry gazes, he tore off a piece of gauze from his body that was finally not soaked in blood, pasted it directly to Zhang Fushui's left eye socket, and then found a legging and wrapped it directly around Zhang Fushui's head, making a wound bandage for Zhang Fushui that stunned everyone and made all surgeons go crazy.
Battalion Commander Yang Furui couldn't help but shout angrily: "Lei Zhen, what you have in front of you is a human life, if you do this, it will make his wounds infected!" ”
"Infected?"
Lei Zhen thought for a while, and already understood the meaning of this word, he said in a flat voice without any fluctuations: "Only those who live are qualified to be infected by wounds. ”
(To be continued)