Chapter 45: The Speed of Life and Death (Part II)

Xie Jinyuan picked up the submachine gun that Ma Lan left on the Suzhou Bridge, he looked back at the Tibetan Provincial Road, in the darkness, I don't know how many well-trained troops broke through the blockade of the machine gun platoon and the soldiers of the special service company, spread their legs and chased here. Xie Jinyuan said: "Lei Zhen, you carry Yang Ruifu on your back and go first, and I will cover you." ”

"No way!" Yang Ruifu's eyes widened and shouted, "You are the head of the regiment, if you want to go, you will go." ”

Xie Jinyuan shouted: "This is an order!" ”

"If I really take this order, even if I am not scolded to death by everyone in my life, I will be drowned in saliva!" Yang Ruifu's neck straightened, and he shouted: "It's a death horizontally and vertically, head of the regiment, you just shoot me to death, let me be a martyr, and leave some burial expenses and pensions for my family!" ”

Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu suddenly pointed at each other together and shouted at Lei Zhen: "Carry him!" ”

Before Lei Zhen could answer, there were several loud roars on the surface of the Suzhou Creek, and in the tumbling smoke and firelight, a patrol boat moored on the Suzhou Creek, with heavy machine guns constantly strafing the new garbage, sighed and groaned and leaned diagonally, just look at its unnatural angle, as long as you see its bombed and shattered ship's side, everyone knows that it is destined to sink into the Suzhou Creek.

The soldiers on the second patrol boat, faced with this absolutely unexpected situation, they had not yet figured out what was going on, when suddenly a shadow suddenly bounced up from the surface of the water and quickly slipped back into the water.

Standing on the deck of the ship, the soldier in charge of the heavy machine gun shouted, "Lights, turn them down, he threw something on the deck." ”

When the searchlight finally locked on the few things on the deck that were tumbling and still emitting white smoke, the two soldiers who were riding the heavy machine gun and the searchlight were completely dumbfounded. They took a deep breath and let out a desperate cry at the same time: "Grenade ......"

"Boom! Rumble!! ”

Two German-made high-explosive grenades exploded on the deck of the second patrol boat at the same time, and the wooden patrol boat was thrown into the flowing river together with the blood and screams of the two soldiers.

The new garbage bridge and the banks of Suzhou Creek have finally fallen into precious darkness again.

Lei Zhen's eyes widened, that woman named Ma Lan really used a grenade to blow up two patrol boats of the army! Looking at the British Concession dozens of meters away, looking at the Chinese [***] people who were still hit by light and heavy machine gun bullets, and there was no way to raise their heads, let alone rush over, listening to the sound of hurried footsteps getting closer and closer, and the faint roar of the officer, Lei Zhen suddenly tore the Boy Scout uniform on his body, which was already full of holes and more like a beggar's uniform than a begging uniform, and tied it to the position of his broken ribs.

Lei Zhen strode in front of Yang Ruifu and Xie Jinyuan, and under the careful gaze of the two of them, Lei Zhen reached out and grabbed Yang Ruifu directly.

Yang Ruifu subconsciously struggled, and he shouted loudly: "Lei Zhen, your fucking head is burned out?" Let go of me and go back to the regimental leader! His head is worth more than mine, and his life is more important than mine! ”

As Yang Ruifu struggled, as Yang Ruifu twisted his body hard, the two ribs that had been broken by that damn martial artist's kick also twisted together, grinding and piercing and stabbing in Lei Zhen's chest. That kind of sharp pain to the limit, that kind of terrible torture that is definitely not something that a normal person can endure, made Lei Zhen really want to jump and jump, and made him really want to directly throw Yang Ruifu, a damn bastard, to the ground, and then cry and scream!

Spit out a tooth that was bitten off by him alive and mixed with blood and saliva, Lei Zhen raised his elbow and was stabbed with a bayonet in front of Yang Ruifu, and now the blood kept oozing out of the wound was a hard elbow hit. Yang Ruifu's whole body trembled in pain, and in front of him, in the chaos of Venus, the thick darkness rushed into Yang Ruifu's brain in an instant. Just before he fell into a coma, Yang Ruifu vaguely heard Lei Zhen in his ear, and shouted: "Hold my neck tightly, if it's a man, don't let go if you are hit by a bullet!" ”

The irresistible darkness finally completely overwhelmed Yang Ruifu, but he was like a person who was about to drown in the water, with Lei Zhen's strong drink, he subconsciously hugged Lei Zhen's neck, and his two legs were even more instinctively clamped tightly around Lei Zhen's waist, and the strength was so great that he almost strangled Lei Zhen to death.

Lei Zhen bent down and grabbed Xie Jinyuan's arms with both hands, Xie Jinyuan only felt that his body was light, and he was picked up by Lei Zhen and fell straight onto Lei Zhen's shoulders.

"Kara......"

In Lei Zhen's chest, a terrible sound like a broken wooden stick suddenly sounded, and Lei Zhen didn't say a word, and fell straight to his knees. Even if he knelt down, Lei Zhen did not leave the two wounded on his body, and his knees slammed into the hard bridge deck, making a muffled "thud".

Xie Jinyuan, who was carried by Lei Zhen, widened his eyes, "Lei Zhen, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lei Zhen reached out and stroked his chest, and said in a low voice: "It's okay, the rib is broken again!" ”

Xie Jinyuan honestly lay on Lei Zhen's shoulder, he didn't dare to move at all, he felt Lei Zhen's whole body trembling uncontrollably, and felt the rapid gushing out of Lei Zhen's body, which soon made his whole body like a hot sweat fished out of water, he knew that Lei Zhen must be in great pain now! The weight of the two adults he and Yang Ruifu was all pressed on Lei Zhen's body, Xie Jinyuan couldn't imagine that Lei Zhen was so tormented by him that he was so tormented that God knows how many ribs he had broken, and how many ribs had cracked, and what kind of torture he was suffering in his chest that could be broken under heavy pressure!

Xie Jinyuan said in a low voice: "Let me go, otherwise none of us will be able to escape!" ”

Lei Zhen didn't answer, and he didn't put Xie Jinyuan on the ground. I don't know why, he doesn't want Xie Jinyuan to die, even if there is no Ma Lan's entrustment, he will definitely not put Xie Jinyuan down! And Yang Ruifu behind him, Lei Zhen clearly knew that if he didn't bring this man who stabbed the bayonet into his thigh without hesitation for Xie Jinyuan, Xie Jinyuan would definitely not let him rush across the new garbage bridge on his back!

"Yes, I really can't compare to you. But ......"

Thinking back to everything that the woman named Ma Lan showed in just one minute, and recalling the absolute shock she left for herself, Lei Zhen looked up to the sky and took a long breath, and he suddenly squeezed out a howl like a wounded wolf from his scarred chest: "Get up!" ”

Carrying two adults on his back, he straightened his chest with three broken ribs, and under the impossibility of it, Lei Zhen really stood up!

Suddenly, a bloody arrow shot out of Lei Zhen's chest, and in the face of such a heavy pressure on his shoulders, a rib that was broken in half with sharp corners had pierced Lei Zhen's chest, piercing the strip of cloth he tied to his chest, revealing red and white bones.

In the frenzied roar, Lei Zhen was like a loose horse, with heavy steps to the limit, and galloped towards the British Concession dozens of meters away. With each foot he stomped on the hard deck of the new garbage bridge, blood would spurt out from the rib puncture wound, pouring into the cold and dark night sky with absolute heat. Every time he stepped on the ground, the heavy pressure of more than 450 pounds of three people would make his knees that hit the bridge deck directly when he knelt down, and the broken bones in his chest were like a few sharp bayonets, constantly torturing him with thousands of knives in his body.

At this time, even breathing is painful, even the heartbeat is fatal at this time, and at this time, running with two people on his back is purely looking for death!

Lei Zhen's son, whose waist was pierced by a 38-type bullet but was not mortally wounded, followed closely behind Lei Zhen all the way, and it could clearly see the shocking bloodstains on the bridge they ran over. It squeezed out one small animal-like wail after another in its throat, and it begged Lei Zhen to stop, and it begged Lei Zhen to immediately let go of the two people on his body, and find a safe and hidden place with it, to use time to slowly recuperate his body, only in this way that its father, its only friend and partner, would have a glimmer of life.

But Lei Zhen didn't pay attention to it, he just spread his legs, tried his whole body, and ran forward. Suddenly feeling out of breath, Lei Zhen raised his right fist without hesitation and smashed it into his chest, in the terrible sound of "click, click", a mouthful of blood suddenly choked out of his mouth, and squirted out of his throat, it was his wild howl: "Ma Lan, you show me, I'm not garbage!" ”

As if in response to the thunderous howl, in the Suzhou River, which had fallen into calm, suddenly there was a dull roar. A high-explosive grenade with a waterproof function exploded under the surface of the Suzhou Creek at an unknown depth, about three feet in a radius of the river, like a torrent called by God, raised more than two feet high, and after experiencing the absolute balance of kinetic energy and potential energy in a fraction of a second, it was poured back into the Suzhou Creek, which was meandering and flowing for hundreds of years.

It was in the rolling water that Ma Lan's body slowly floated up from the Suzhou Creek. After throwing four grenades from his body, Malan sank to the bottom of the river again, stepping into the mud that had been deposited at the bottom of the Suzhou Creek for an unknown amount of time, and could no longer pull out his feet. Faced with this situation that verified the "good swimmer drowning", in the face of the mud that trapped her legs, but the deeper she would sink if she struggled, Ma Lan did not hesitate to take out the last grenade on her body, and before she twisted the safety cover and the river water had not soaked into the explosives of the bomb body, she did not hesitate to pull the grenade, and then leaned forward and stuffed the grenade into the silt at the bottom of the river.

Without any cover or protection, before the German-made high-explosive grenade exploded at the bottom of the river, the only thing Malan could do was to crouch at the bottom of the river to minimize the possible attack area of his body, and hold his head with his own hands.

As for whether this grenade exploded, could it push her out of this sludge and the shrapnel flying around in the water, would it shoot directly into her body and kill her, would it leave a lifelong scar on her face, would her body not be able to withstand such a close rapid, and fell into a coma and drowned in the water...... None of this is important to Ma Lan, the important thing is that she wants to live, instead of struggling in vain in the mud and finally drowning at the bottom of the Suzhou River, she might as well take advantage of the fact that she can still hold her breath, and try to calm the muscles of her whole body, so that her spirit and body are in the state that can best resist the impact, and fight to the death!

"Five, Four, Three, Two......"

Silently counting the seconds of the grenade detonating in his heart, Malan just kept saying to himself in his heart: "In an hour, I will definitely open my eyes; In an hour, I will definitely open my eyes; In an hour, I'll be sure to open my eyes......"

I only felt an unstoppable force, and slammed into my body, a large, large black sludge, mixed with stones, rotten iron pieces and a lot of all kinds of things that God knows how long it had been buried in it, and smashed it over my head and face. Those who have not been bombarded by a grenade at close range under the water will not understand how terrible the impact force of the current is in an instant. No matter what kind of preparation Malan had made, no matter what kind of special training she had received, in the face of this terrible impact that exceeded the limits of human physiology, she only felt a faintness in front of her eyes, no matter how desperately she tried to keep herself awake, but she was still engulfed in darkness.

At the same time as the grenade exploded, Lei Zhen finally gave up on his knees and fell to the ground fiercely. The absolute pain in his chest made him fall into a faint of absolute darkness in an instant.

Lei Zhen really didn't know that after he fainted, Yang Ruifu also woke up. Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu tied Lei Zhen's legs with two cloth belts, and then the two of them used crawling movements to drag Lei Zhen, who was completely unconscious and uncertain about life and death, and drilled through the blockade line formed by machine gun bullets little by little, and with the most embarrassing and undignified movements, in full view of everyone, they climbed into the British Concession little by little, and joined their own troops.

(To be continued)