At the end of April, Trans-Baikal, like most places in Siberia, has already entered the spring of the year, and in two months it will be the most beautiful spring of the year in Siberia, but now although it is spring, the hazy weather here is significantly different from other regions, and the originally clear sky may suddenly snow and rain, accompanied by a northerly wind blowing from the north, which can make people feel a little cold in the morning or at night. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, now you can't feel the cold of Siberia, although you can still feel the chill of "inverted spring cold" in the early morning, but those golden sunshine can still make people feel the warmth of spring, and still make people yearn for this beautiful spring.

In the early morning, Transbaikal is shrouded in a veil-like mist, the air is filled with the fragrance of Siberian plants and fertile soil, and the mirror-like river looks as peaceful and beautiful as a fairyland against the background of the mist and tender trees.

This spring is as beautiful as ever, originally this time, it should be the time for people to go green, it should be the time for people to eat barbecue with the oven and the countryside and forest, and enjoy the spring light.

But now this beautiful spring is shrouded in a haze that has been clouded over the land for the past few months.

The dreamlike spring light does not make people forget the haze of war, let alone the immediate threat, which has been a shadow of death for the past two and a half months.

"Maybe I can run away and escape to the forest and be a hunter. In that case. No one can find me! ”

Ivan with a rifle in his arms snuggled up in a civil engineering work. It was so fantasizing in his mind, but the faint smell of gun oil from the Mosinagan rifle in his arms made him realize that it was just a fantasy.

Perhaps because of fear, the bombs dropped by airships and the bullets fired by snipers are fears that Russian soldiers have never experienced before, and fear can make people make unexpected choices.

Deserters are one of them!

Under the bombardment of the Chinese, the shooting of snipers. Many people are becoming more and more afraid, and the fear of war and the yearning for life have led them to flee. A lot of people fled the front lines.

While many people fled, many deserters were also captured, and right before their eyes, those deserters were executed en masse. Thinking of the bright red blood flowing from the bodies of the executed deserters, Ivan dismissed the thought. Between being blown to pieces or being shot in the head by a sniper and being summarily executed by the officers, Ivan chose the former.

After all, the former may be weaker than the latter.

"Ivan, Ivan."

Suddenly, a hoarse voice interrupted Ivan's thoughts.

"What's the matter! Alexy! ”

Ivan turned his head and saw that it was Alexy, a veteran of the Turkish War as well as the war against Japan. This is the second time she has responded to a call-up, perhaps for him. The reason why he came to Siberia after dying in the Turkish War was to pursue a better life, but who would have thought that in just a dozen years, he would participate in two wars.

But looking at his indifferent expression, he didn't seem to feel any fear in the front line. As he said, death is inevitable and everything is in accordance with God's will.

"Ivan, look what half a bottle of vodka I made!"

Alexy said as he took out half a bottle of vodka from his bosom. He had a strong smell of wine in his mouth as he spoke.

"Hmm!"

After the bottle was beaten, he smelled the rich aroma of wine in his nose, which made Ivan swallow several mouthfuls of saliva.

"Alexy! You are truly great! ”

Several soldiers who were awakened by the smell of wine and rubbed their eyes all opened their sleepy eyes and stared at the wine bottle in Alexy's hand, there was nothing more happier than being able to drink a sip of vodka on the front line.

After all, it is only on the battlefield that those once insignificant things can make people feel happy.

"A small glass for everyone, don't look at me like that, this bottle of vodka took me the middle of the night to get from the belly of a Tatar woman! You must know that the woman smells of sheep! ”

Alexy said in an obscene tone amid the cheers of the soldiers, while carefully holding the bottle and pouring a small glass for each person.

"Ahh

After taking a sip of vodka, Ivan closed his eyes and felt her flow down his throat. When the volt is added to the mouth, it seems to melt in the mouth and then transform into a flame of clear heat...... It's so comfortable!

It's as comfortable as ...... Ivan felt as if he had returned to his family on the farm in Siberia, to his family, where he could sip vodka, ride horses, hunt with his children, and fish instead of what he is now...... Fear for your life.

It's all this damn war!

What does the war have to do with me, a peasant? I'm just a farmer, so even if I win this war, what's the point for me?

Thinking of this, Ivan looked at Alexy beside him. He fought in three wars, but what did he gain except to be fought for two fingers?

Nothing!

"Hmmm! You know? There are a lot of the same spirits as vodka on the Chinese side. When I was in Binhai before, I used a bullet to exchange wine from the Chinese, and the wine tasted very strong! ”

Thinking of the past years, Alexy even sighed a little. At that time he and the Chinese were like friends, but now, the Chinese are killing them, killing them all.

"It wouldn't be bad if we could keep confronting each other like this, as long as we don't show our heads and we hide in cover when the airship comes, we don't need to worry about anything else!"

Looking at Alexy who was a little drunk, listening to what he said. The thought of running away once again moved in Ivandi's mind, after all, this so-called not worrying is really like what she said. Just leave everything to God. Leave it to God to decide everyone's fate.

But unlike others. Ivan wants to control his own destiny, just like ten years ago, he just got married and brought his wife to Siberia, in the desolate steppe of Siberia, except for a field, now he has a grange of tens of acres, and his son no longer needs to work for the old man.

But now the war. But it disrupted his beautiful life. Only by leaving here can he continue this wonderful life!

I must get out of here!

Ivan thought silently in his heart. There is nothing more important to him than to be alive

Ivan's forward observation post was a hillside located on the side of a hill in the front line of the confrontation between the two armies. Used to monitor the movements of the Chinese, they are in a civil fortification covered with thick leaves, giving them a good camouflage.

There were more than a dozen observation posts like this, far from the trench lines, with only six or seven soldiers in each post, and then equipped with a flare gun and an old-fashioned monocular. It's just that these observation posts have not played a role until now.

"Ivan, if I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely let you taste Chinese spirits...... It tastes no worse than vodka at all! ”

Alexey looked at Ivan, who was contemplating the mug in both hands.

"If we were all alive......"

Ivan said this, and then looked in the direction of the Chinese with some discouragement. He knows that unless these Chinese all withdraw to China. Unless the war ends, he can only stay away from it by becoming a deserter.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, as soon as you cast your eyes in the direction of the Chinese, Ivan's whole person was stunned.

"Up...... O Emperor! Oh, my God! Alexy, you, look what's there! ”

Ivan shouted in terror, apparently discovering something that terrified him.

"Oh my God! Chinese...... It's time to attack! ”

Although still a little drunk, Alexy couldn't help but scream in horror when he saw what appeared in his sight through the binoculars, that although he had never seen that weapon, looking at his short appearance and his thick cannon barrel made Alexy understand what it was.

It was the legendary siege artillery.

I heard that the Chinese just used it and tore one fortress after another!

"X, Eleven, Twelfth, Twelve、...... Sixteen! ”

That's sixteen!

From the telescope, Alexy could even see the Chinese soldiers, who were loading shells weighing hundreds of kilograms with a bomberbox.

Sixteen powerful siege guns!

It made Alexy have a bad feeling in his mind.

"Alexy...... Are we going to send a signal? ”

Ivan, who had taken the telescope from Alexy, asked.

Looking at Alexi, whose face turned pale, it was difficult for Ivan to associate the person in front of him with the previous Alexy who never knew what fear was and always had a smile on his face.

“…… Ivan...... I want to ask you if you want to live! ”

Alexy, who had never felt fear, truly felt fear, and he realized that his life and that of others around him were not in the hands of God, but in the hands of his decisions. At this time, his face no longer saw the smile of the past, but looked very serious.

"Of course, of course we want to live!"

Nodding vigorously, Ivan had already guessed what Alek wanted to do?

"Friends! Believe me, this is what I've experienced, the third war! This war? No, at least in this battle, we have no hope of winning at all, and now, the Chinese are definitely preparing for the offensive, and their heavy artillery can tear apart the fortress, and it can also tear all of us! ”

Looking at the people around him, Ah Lexi swallowed his saliva and said in an extremely serious tone.

"Now I have only one suggestion, before the Chinese attack, let's get out of here quickly!" I dare say that in two weeks at most our troops will retreat, perhaps a rout......"

Perhaps because he had been through too many wars, Alexy always had his own instincts for danger, and he himself realized that the danger he had never seen before was in front of her eyes, and he instinctively wanted to avoid it.

"Is it true?"

Vladimir looked at Ah Lexi, a little nervously! He was advising everyone to run away, this is to be a deserter, just a few days ago, but a group of deserters had just been executed.

"Of course, you have to trust me! Trust my instincts! ”

Alixie swore to everyone.

"It's my instincts that have kept me alive."

Ah, Lexi's words made Ivan's whole heart move! Unlike the other young men, nothing more than the words of the old men to deceive the peasants was nothing more important to him than to live!

"Of course I believe you, you've been through three wars!"

When Ivan said this, he was also reminding his comrades-in-arms that Aleksi had fought so many battles and lived for so long, and he must have his experience.

"If you hadn't had that intuition, you might have died on the battlefield."

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the people around him nodded one after another, and there was no longer a trace of suspicion, but Vladimir still said with some concern.

"But, but if we get out of here, we'll all be deserters......"

That's where the most worrying thing is, deserters, if caught, will be executed.

"In case you get caught......"

"Yes, we're deserters!"

Just when the others were saying this, Ah Lexi pointed ahead, pointed in the direction of the Chinese and said solemnly,

"Friends! Believe me, in an hour at most, no one will have time to go and ask where we went. When the time comes, they ......"

Glancing in the direction of the Chinese, Ah Lexi continued.

"Only the Chinese are left in their eyes! Perhaps, in the eyes of the old man, we have died here, after all, this is the front line,"

Alexy had good reason to convince himself to escape, and of course, the most good reason was probably that he believed and believed that he could live.

"But if we leave......"

Looking in the opposite direction, Ivan said worriedly.

"How do you get out of here? In front of us is Chinese, behind us...... No one is going to put the ...... we pass through there."

"Don't forget, there are other ways to go!"

Alexy said confidently.

"Trust me, they won't find out we're leaving, and you'll be grateful to me when we get to Chita!"

Raising the bottle in his hand, Alexy said with a smile.

"I could go there for one night, and I could take you out of there, my friends! What is there to hesitate about now? ”

In the early hours of the morning, barely noticed, Alexy, Ivan and his comrades left the observation post one after another, in front of the Chinese about to attack...... (To be continued.) )