Chapter 44: The Speed of Life and Death (Part II)
Zhang Fushui snatched the light machine gun from a soldier's hand, replaced it with a steel-core bullet specially designed to attack light armored vehicles and combat targets with steel plate armor, and mounted the light machine gun on a pile of ruins.
The Czech light machine gun in his hand kept shaking during the strafing, and Zhang Fushui's body also kept trembling. Seeing that the Type 97 light tank, which was still arrogant and rampage in the face of light machine gun bullets, suddenly crashed headfirst into the ruins of a pile of houses, and after sinking inside, there was no more movement, Zhang Fushui's face raised a smile that was even uglier than crying.
Turning around and seeing that Xie Jinyuan and Yang Furui were still there, Zhang Fushui suddenly let out a wild shout: "Regiment commander, the enemy is about to rush up, it is inconvenient for you to carry the battalion commander on your back, you go first!" Also, if I die, my dad will help me pay you back! ”
In the distance, on the position of the army, the roar of the officer and the sound of rifle fire were faintly heard. Several rifle bullets hit the ruins in front of Zhang Fushui, blowing up rubble and flying all over the place.
Zhang Fushui grabbed the light machine gun and hid behind the pile of ruins, he took a deep breath and hissed: "Regiment leader, if you don't say it, I know that you have been secretly sending money to my family all these years." Now that we are constantly fighting, we can only receive half of our military salary, but things are getting more and more expensive every year, and the fiat currency that is issued to us is becoming less and less valuable. You're dragging your family again, and you're definitely not much better off than me. My father asked someone to write to me, and the first thing he told me was that Zhi'en wanted to report that if I died for the sake of the regiment leader, he would laugh even if he was sad! ”
Zhang Fushui re-replaced the magazine for the light machine gun, he tied a few grenades to his body, and he shouted loudly: "You are the best commander I have ever seen in my life, and I have always regarded you as my own big brother in my heart!" I am a lieutenant platoon commander, and according to the regulations, I can have a burial fee of 20 fiat coins and a pension of 20 fiat coins when I die, and our division may be able to issue an additional pension of 30 fiat coins, so that we can add up to 70 fiat coins, and I can barely exchange for nearly 50 silver yuan. My dad will pay back the money he owes you, and the rest will be enough for him to start a small business and raise my younger siblings Chengren! ”
"On the battlefield I lost two fingers, my leg was lame, and now I am blind in one eye, I am only twenty-three years old, and when it rains, my waist hurts so much, I am already a waste. Even if we win the war in the future, and I go home from the army, what can I do as a wasted person, and who family is willing to marry a girl to me? My life is over, head of the regiment, please go, let me cover you, repay the love that our Zhang family owes you, let me use this life to repay my father's nurturing grace! ”
At the end of the shout, tears had been flowing out of Zhang Fushui's right eye, and the blood had penetrated the strip of cloth that Lei Zhen had tied him up, and slowly seeped out along his face. A tear stain, a blood stain, hung on Zhang Fushui's face at the same time, and when it flowed to his chin, these two marks finally mixed together, and it was no longer possible to distinguish which ones were tears and which ones were blood.
It was only by this time that all the soldiers of the machine gun platoon knew why their platoon commander, even if his eye was blinded by shrapnel, even if he had undergone an absolutely alternative "operation", still insisted on waking up and still fighting again.
Xie Jinyuan quietly looked at the right man in front of him, his eyes flashed with despair and sadness, and he raised a kind of pride, a twenty-three-year-old boy. He knew that Zhang Fushui was telling the truth, Zhang Fushui had already fought like this with the enemy on the battlefield, even if he lived, he would eventually be forced to leave the army, and at that time, all he could receive was a mere two months' salary, and his physical condition made him no longer able to engage in any heavy physical work.
If this is really the case, Zhang Fushui is really not as good as the glorious ...... Die!
"Brother, thank you! Brothers...... My big brother...... I'm sorry for you! ”
Xie Jinyuan turned his head violently, and he ran wildly with Yang Ruifu on his back.
If there were no uninvited people who came to China, if there were no soldiers who were bent on making China "civilized" and establishing a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, Zhang Fushui would have been a heroic man, who opened a small shop and met visitors from all over the world, and he should have married a beautiful and gentle wife and had a warm home of his own, right?
Lei Zhen, who was closely behind him, could clearly see through the bleak full moon above his head that a crystal water mark flew out where Xie Jinyuan flew over.
"Da Da Da ......"
The roar of several Czech light machine guns fiercely tore through the dark sky, and a grain of machine gun bullets drew a dark red streamer in the air, and shot fiercely at the pursuing soldiers. This was also mixed with Zhang Fushui's loud roar: "As long as I, Zhang Fushui, still have a breath and a bullet, I won't let you pass through here and chase and kill my regimental leader!" ”
At this time, Xie Jinyuan really didn't pay attention, and in order to cover, the entire machine gun platoon was left in the rear. Now he is the only one who is carrying the battalion commander Yang Ruifu on his back and running wildly with Lei Zhen. Seeing that he was about to step on the new garbage bridge, he could already see the subordinates standing in the British concession on the other side of the Suzhou Creek, who had already begun to line up for roll call, suddenly a bright pillar of light cut through the dark void and shone fiercely on Xie Jinyuan's body.
"It's not good, the engineers of this army have already repaired the searchlight!"
As soon as this thought rose from the bottom of Xie Jinyuan's heart, he felt his body tremble violently, and a hot pain came from his right leg, causing him to fall to the ground involuntarily. Xie Jinyuan quickly lowered his head, and when he saw clearly that there was already an extra bullet hole in his right leg that had been pierced by a Type 38 rifle bullet. Xie Jinyuan couldn't help but scream in his heart: "Oops! ”
Standing on the other side of the river, the [***] people were all stunned, I don't know who made a shout, everyone rushed to the other side of the Suzhou Bridge, at this time, there were two pillars of light, fiercely thrown over, the sound of light and heavy machine gun fire, and then on the other side of the river on the army position sounded, rushed to the front of more than 20 [***] people, all brushed down at one end of the new garbage bridge.
In order to speed up the operation, the squadron [***], which was forced to abandon mortars and heavy machine guns, had no way to raise its head in the open area by the Suzhou Creek, which was by no means suitable for positional operations, in the face of such a dense fire suppression, let alone counterattack. Xie Jinyuan's eyes widened, and he hissed: "Retreat, retreat immediately, look for cover!" ”
Suddenly, Xie Jinyuan was stunned. The woman with a little girl in her left hand and a little boy in her right hand, standing quietly behind the [***] person, facing the bullets pouring over like a storm, and not knowing the woman who lay down to dodge, the woman who stared at him deeply, just a look contained a thousand words, wasn't it his wife Ling Weicheng?
"Ling Cheng ......" Xie Jinyuan, who was calm and calm, Xie Jinyuan, who laughed about life and death, and Xie Jinyuan, who could sacrifice his life for the country and the people, at this time, even his voice was trembling, and he hissed: "Lie down, lie down, Weicheng quickly lie down!" ”
Even Yang Ruifu, who was sitting on the bridge deck and panting, was roaring loudly: "Hurry up and hold her, that woman is your sister-in-law and the wife of the head of the regiment!" ”
Before he could finish his sentence, the searchlight that had been repaired by the soldiers passed over the new garbage bridge again, and heavy machine gun bullets hit the new garbage bridge fiercely. Xie Jinyuan, who was injured in his right leg, threw himself on the new garbage bridge with the most embarrassing movements, he knew that at this time, he must not die, as long as he was shot again, his wife who was standing on the opposite bank would definitely rush over desperately.
At this time, Lei Zhen was also stunned.
Because in the chaos, a splash of blood and death, his gaze seemed to be attracted in the dark, and he couldn't help but meet a pair of shining eyes. The girl who stood there stupidly, looking at herself stupidly, and was crying stupidly, wasn't Yang Huimin who it was?!
In an instant, Lei Zhen only felt that his heart was stabbed by something sharp.
"Thunder Quake!"
Xie Jinyuan looked at Lei Zhen and shouted: "I heard them say, you are a sharpshooter, don't you have a gun in your hand, knock out my searchlight for me!" ”
Lei Zhen looked at the three searchlights, and the beams of light projected continued to intersect on the new garbage bridge, guiding the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, pouring bullets like a storm, and he couldn't help but shake his head. The distance between here and the three searchlights has exceeded 400 meters, such a long distance, using a rifle without any auxiliary equipment to snipe, Lei Zhen is really not sure, and once he shoots, he will not be able to hit the target, but will reveal his position and encounter a more accurate attack from the enemy.
At this time, Lei Zhen suddenly heard an angry roar: "What are you doing in a daze, shoot!" ”
A figure is like a bolt of lightning, and like a cheetah that has discovered its prey and launched a deadly surprise attack, rushing over like a whirlwind. Seeing a bullet fired from a heavy machine gun, cutting a bullet mark on the ground that was recognizable to the naked eye, like an invisible Thor's sword, quickly stretched to the front, she actually accelerated the speed of the sprint again under the impossible circumstances, and pounced forward fiercely after gaining enough acceleration.
Before her body hit the ground, her body had shrunk into a ball with the smallest area, and she quickly rolled forward more than ten meters against the ground, and then with both hands, the whole person immediately changed from a military rolling action to a prostrate forward action.
Watching her crawl forward at an astonishing speed, even the thunderstorms that survived in the mountains and were used to their hands and feet to avoid danger couldn't help but be moved. With just one glance, Lei Zhen could be sure that when faced with machine-gun fire, her movements were more concealed, safer, and faster!
Seeing Lei Zhen subconsciously facing the person who suddenly rushed over, he raised the rifle in his hand, leaned his body against Xie Jinyuan, who was behind the stone bridge of the new garbage bridge, and said in a low voice: "Put the gun down, it's your own person." ”
In an impossible situation, this person who suddenly appeared successfully broke through the blockade composed of light and heavy machine guns and rushed to Lei Zhen and Xie Jinyuan's side. It was only at this time that Lei Zhen was surprised to find that this figure, who was never shorter than ordinary men in height and more flexible and agile in his movements, made him vigilant, turned out to be a woman, and a woman who looked beautiful.
But Lei Zhen will never have the slightest contempt for her just because she is a woman. He had seen this woman a few days ago, and at that time, there was a strong murderous aura on this woman that could hardly be dissolved. Now just a few days later, Lei Zhen found that the murderous aura on her body had surged tenfold!
A person who can have such a murderous aura must be a war machine that has killed countless people on the battlefield and has already learned to ignore life!
Xie Jinyuan obviously knew this woman as well, he nodded slightly to this woman, and said in a low voice: "Ma Lan, I didn't expect that we would meet again here." ”
"I've been staying in Shanghai and enjoying your performance in the Sixing Warehouse, it's really wonderful! We may be the last two troops to withdraw from Shanghai, and Zhang Baiting, the chief of staff of your 88th Division, has found me through his superiors, and he thinks that you are likely to lead your troops to break through in the near future, and ask me to help you when necessary. I'm so happy to take on this assignment and when I'm working with you, I feel like ...... Waltz in the Dance! ”
Ma Lan said something that Lei Zhen didn't understand at all, and put down the submachine gun with a maximum effective range of only two hundred meters in his hand, Lei Zhen only felt that his hands were numb, and before he could react, the rifle in his hand was snatched by Ma Lan's splitter. Lei Zhen couldn't help but widen his eyes, he had never encountered such a situation in his life.
"Bang!"
Malan raised the rifle in his hand and without hesitation, pulled the trigger of the rifle at the searchlight four hundred meters away. The searchlight four hundred meters away was still patrolling around, probably the bullet hit its vicinity, and the pillar of light quickly swept towards the position where Ma Zhuanglan was shooting.
Lei Zhen pursed her lips, this woman looks menacing, and she is also very beautiful when she shoots, but isn't it the same as not shooting?
At this time, Ma Lan had already rolled several times in a row on the new garbage bridge, and in such continuous rolls, a bullet casing, still billowing with light smoke, kept turning with a slight sound of rubbing against the hard ground. Lei Zhen really couldn't imagine how this woman held the rifle and shrunk into a ball, rolling on the ground like that, pulling up the bolt.
"Bang!"
Malan half-knelt on the new garbage bridge and pulled the trigger a second time. This time she still didn't shoot, but she managed to attract the beam of light of the searchlight to a distance of more than ten meters, and the bullets fired from the heavy machine gun fell like a storm on the spot where she fired the bullet the second time.
At this time, Ma Lan fired two shots in a row, but he didn't hit the target, but in this case, Lei Zhen was surprised to see that Ma Lan actually smiled. The corners of her mouth were slightly hooked upward, and in her eyes were all confident and full of one-hit smiles.
"Bang!"
When the third gunshot rang out from the third position of the new garbage bridge, a searchlight 400 meters away was extinguished. Malan half-knelt in the same position, she quickly pulled the bolt of the rifle in her hand, the bullet casing that bounced out of the chamber, and happily turned her heel in the air, Malan had already used a smooth and terrifying movement, quickly turned the muzzle, and when the crosshair, the target and her right eye had not yet formed a three-point line, she did not hesitate to pull the trigger.
"Bang!"
"Bang!
Under Lei Zhen's stunned gaze, the second and third searchlights four hundred meters away were easily broken by Ma Lan one by one in a matter of seconds, and the new garbage bridge finally fell into darkness again.
Lei Zhen looked at the woman named Ma Lan in front of him blankly, shooting has always been his proudest strength, but it is not until now that Lei Zhen understands what it means to have a sky outside the sky and someone outside the world. Secretly imagining that if he met such an enemy on the battlefield, a drop of cold sweat slowly flowed down Lei Zhen's forehead, because he couldn't help but admit that no matter what method he used, he was by no means this woman's opponent!
If Lei Zhen is a lonely and warlike wolf, then Ma Lan is the most thorough war machine that has no defects and has been built up with money, equipment, advanced and systematic training, and almost astronomical combat experience!
Lei Zhen looked blankly at the rifle in Ma Lan's hand that emptied all the bullets, a person like Ma Lan is definitely the kind of professional soldier who pursues optimal efficiency and strives for perfection. In her movements and techniques, there is a strange rhythm and self-confidence that has been honed thousands of times. But Lei Zhen really didn't understand why she had to shoot two shots first, causing the enemy's light and heavy machine guns to keep firing.
"I don't really understand the point of this long-range sniping either." Xie Jinyuan, who was leaning on the new garbage bridge, saw Lei Zhen's doubts, and he said indifferently: "But when I was in class at the Whampoa Military Academy, I once heard the instructor say that the trajectory of the bullet in the air is not straight. Although we can't see it with our eyes, the bullet is like a child's slingshot, and the stones that shoot out have a curve. If the bullet is going to hit the target too far, this arc must be taken into account, but also the wind speed, air temperature, etc. I think the two bullets fired by Ma Lan at the beginning should be to correct the target and judge these data in his mind. ”
Ma Lan nodded with a smile, but her smile was completely frozen in an instant, and she only had time to shout "Be careful", and a series of machine gun bullets hit those who could finally get up from the Suzhou River.
Two patrol boats have already driven under the new garbage bridge. Although the searchlights on the patrol boats had a limited range, although the light was far less than those of the fixed military searchlights, they were enough to direct the light and heavy machine guns in the positions and dump the bullets on the [***] people in front of the new garbage bridge. The most terrible thing is that the heavy machine guns erected on the patrol boats, at a distance of only a few tens of meters, can already penetrate the sides of the new garbage bridge, and the stone slabs are not very thick.
Yao Yao listened to the gunfire getting closer and closer behind him, and knew without asking that the small army that stayed in the rear for Xie Jinyuan to resist the Yueben army had hastily prepared for battle in a position with almost no trenches and bunkers, and had been completely wiped out in the face of several times or even dozens of times the well-trained Yueben army's attack.
A faint sadness rose in Ma Lan's eyes, but it quickly disappeared, and in the small army that blocked the pursuing soldiers for Xie Jinyuan, there were also subordinates she sent to fight.
If that small unit is really wiped out, the spy company she leads, except for her, the company commander and the platoon commander who was blinded by the explosion and could no longer walk on the battlefield, would also be wiped out!
"You garbage with a gun in your hand and you don't dare to try it, listen to me!"
Ma Lan quickly untied the bullet armor on her body that was full of bullet holes, and her father personally put his gloves on her body, and draped it on Xie Jinyuan's body. Then he handed over all the bullets on his body, along with the pistol, to Xie Jinyuan's hands, leaving only five high-explosive grenades made in Germany.
"I don't care what method you use, even if you use your head to top, you must bring Xie Jinyuan to the British Concession alive. When they got there, they said that in order not to cause international disputes, the soldiers would inevitably give up the attack if they pulled Britain, a strong enemy that they could not provoke now, into the battlefield! As for the patrol boat in the river, I'll find a way to deal with it, as soon as the machine guns on the patrol boat stop strafing, you will put Xie Jinyuan on my back and run to the opposite shore with all my might! Don't tell me, you are such a trash, you are so tall that you can't even do such a job as carrying people! ”
After saying these words, without waiting for Lei Zhen to answer, Ma Lan pulled out the K98-style bayonet on her body, bit it in her mouth, and then glanced at Xie Jinyuan deeply, and after a slight nod, she suddenly jumped, climbed over the guardrail of the new garbage bridge, and jumped into the Suzhou River.
Ma Lan's body, like a fish, barely made a splash before burrowing into the Suzhou River. Lei Zhen looked straight again, he was an out-and-out landlubber, and Ma Lan's surname was much better than Yang Huimin. At least Yang Huimin didn't dare to bite a bayonet in his mouth, and with five grenades on his back, he jumped directly into Suzhou Creek from the new garbage bridge.
(To be continued)