Chapter 175: The River

After nearly two hours of hard waiting, explosions were finally heard from the direction ......of Sabah.

At first, we were not sure whether this was our artillery bombing the Vietnamese army's pesticide factory, after all, it was too normal to fire a few cannons on this battlefield.

However...... After a while, the regimental commander ran out of the command headquarters and excitedly shouted at us: "Success!" Just received a telegram from the higher authorities that our scouts had found the Vietnamese army's pesticide factory and successfully guided the artillery unit to raze the pesticide factory to the ground, and another reconnaissance unit of our army even intercepted and destroyed three cars full of pesticides on the road......"

"Good!" The warriors burst into cheers.

But it was just a cheer, and after a few seconds, everyone quickly fell silent again, and their eyes turned to me for orders. Because everybody knows that...... The critical phase has just begun.

I looked at my watch and waited quietly for a few minutes, then I ordered the walkie-talkie, "Start testing the poison!" ”

"Yes!" Wu Zhijun answered, and immediately commanded his soldiers to move.

The so-called test ...... As the name suggests, it is to use insects to test the water in the river for poison. Naturally, Wu Zhijun's platoon was responsible for this work......

Wu Zhijun was not very happy when he received this order, and he complained to me: "Platoon commander...... The combat experience of our squad is not as rich as that of the second and third squads, and I am not as good as the second and third squad leaders, so I admit to moving ammunition on the battlefield...... Why is it our turn to catch ants and insects now...... This! It's not that I disobey orders, how can you tell me to those soldiers under me. They all blamed me, the squad leader, for being incompetent, saying that the second squad leader and the third squad leader were leading the combat squad. Our class is the 'logistics class'! ”

"What a 'combat squad' or 'logistics squad'!" I replied angrily: "I said Comrade Wu Zhijun...... Do you know how important this task is? The task you are going to perform now. It is directly related to the lives of all the soldiers of our entire army, and even to the success of this entire campaign. Such an important task can't be asked for by others, and you still push back and push...... I can tell you, if you don't complete the task...... Come to me with your head raised! ”

"Yes!" When I said this, Wu Zhijun quickly realized the importance of this task, so he simply stood up and replied: "I promise to complete the task!" ”

In fact, this task is not simple at all, and the reason why this task was given to Wu Zhijun is because his squad is more involved in direct combat during the battle, so the casualties are not serious and the physical consumption is not very large...... And catching bugs requires patience. So it is true that there is no unit more suitable than them.

Two hours was enough time for Wu Zhijun's troops to catch hundreds of bugs.

The reason why we have to catch so many insects is because we are prepared, which is directly related to the life and death of our troops, and if there is trouble because there are not enough insects, it is not a wrong. Another reason is that even if the insects drink the poisonous river water, it will take a while for them to attack, so in order to accurately grasp the opportunity of that short time, it is necessary to conduct experiments with more insects in batches and sections.

Therefore, we divided the bugs into three ammunition boxes and placed them fifty meters apart from each other by the river, and in order to grasp the onset time of the bug's poison, we also conducted some experimental records early in the morning. For example, an ant dies in one minute. The time of death of the cricket is two and a half minutes......

It should be said that these experiments and the recording of these data are still very necessary, if there are no such statistics. If we don't know when the bugs die, then how can we know if the bugs didn't die because the river wasn't poisonous or because the time for the attack didn't come?

When I said this, I have to admire the reader, he made it all up, and it was well organized. Anyway, he's just a high school student...... And I, a college student, couldn't think of these details, which made me even more determined to hide my identity as a "college student" to the end.

So the drug test work soon began, and the soldiers of Wu Zhijun's platoon were responsible for scooping up the river water and feeding it to the insects, while the soldiers under the scholar were responsible for recording and counting them.

There is a saying that what kind of cadres there will be what kind of soldiers, which is really not bad at all, such as these three classes...... Because the squad leader is a scholar, his soldiers have been following for a long time, and they are naturally a little bookish.

Soon sets of data came out...... Of course, these numbers are not of concern to me, and the only thing I want to know is whether the water is poisonous or not.

Ten minutes passed, and the experiment did not change at all, and all the bugs that drank the river water died within a few minutes.

This couldn't help but make me secretly wipe a cold sweat for ten minutes...... This time was enough for the Vietnamese commander to know what was happening at the pesticide plant. Of course, if there are Vietnamese troops or walkie-talkies in the direction of the pesticide factory, this time may be shorter. However, this seems unlikely, because I believe in the capabilities of our scouts and artillery, who can destroy the target before the Vietnamese army can react.

Twenty minutes passed, and the reported situation was still poisonous without exception.

Now I couldn't stand still, and walked back and forth among the various groups of fighters...... But the results don't change because of my anxiety, I still look at dead bugs.

Thirty minutes......

My heart twitched for a while, this time was enough time for the Vietnamese commander to react according to the movements of our troops.

Judging from these confrontations between the enemy and us, the commander of the Vietnamese army is also a very clever person. So...... What would he think when he found out that the pesticide factory had been bombed?

As long as everyone knows that this must be our ghost, the purpose is to get a non-toxic water source, so how can they stop it next? The easiest way to do this is to change the course of the river.

As I expected, after a while, I heard the scholar look at the river with a frightened face and shout: "Platoon commander! ”

Following his gaze, he saw that the water flowing out of the canyon had gradually become turbid...... It is clear that this is an attempt by the Vietnamese army to change the course of the river.

However, there is a saying that "people go to higher places, and water flows to lower places", and the reason why this river flows in this location for many years is because it is the lowest place, so it ...... It's not so easy to change the course of the river. In other words, we still have a little time.

So I gritted my teeth and ordered the fighters, who had stopped their movements in a panic: "Keep testing!" ”

"Yes!" The warriors answered, and continued their work despite the changes in the water.

I quickly realized something again...... Maybe it's a good thing that the river is muddy. Because...... This just shows that the poison in the hands of the Vietnamese army is about to run out, otherwise they would not need to be in such a hurry.

Now, it seems that we are fighting another war with the Vietnamese devils, a war without gunpowder. The ...... of contention That is, can we take some non-poisonous river water before the Vietnamese army succeeds in diverting the river! The outcome of winning or losing can almost decide the fate of our army, and it can also be said that the fate of the Vietnamese army will be decided.

"Platoon commander!" At this time, Wu Zhijun shouted at me: "The time for the insects to die has been extended...... River water toxicity is decreasing! ”

"The second group has also been extended!"

"Three sets extended to three minutes ......"

"Test again!" I ordered, "Test a few more batches!" ”

This is really good news, the river water is liquid, and the pesticides are also liquids, so its toxicity will spread everywhere and even get on the aquatic weeds or the sandy soil on the riverbank, so the toxicity will not disappear suddenly, but it will take a little time and a process.

I didn't think of this problem before, but now I can only hope that the river water will wash away the poison before the Vietnamese army succeeds in changing the river.

"The time to die is still extended, it's four minutes now......"

Because we were experimenting with a batch of bugs almost every minute, we quickly got another set of data.

But that's not enough...... Because the next second I heard a bang coming from the other side of the canyon, followed by several explosions in succession......

I couldn't help but scream in my heart that it was not good: this was the Yue devil blowing up the river with explosives.

The river is not deep in the first place, and if the devils can blow up the stone walls or dirt on both sides...... Then these things are piled up in the river for an ancient time, and the result is not difficult to imagine: the river water will soon be blocked by gravel and mud, and then the devil will let the water flow wherever it wants.

"It's too late!" I shouted to the soldiers, "Listen to my orders, only scoop the water in the middle of the river, do you understand?" ”

"Got it!" Although the warriors did not understand the meaning of my words, they answered in unison.

I didn't dare to delay any longer, and commanded loudly: "Scoop water!" ”

As soon as they heard the order, the soldiers who had been prepared on both sides of the river for a long time did not care whether the river water was poisonous or not, let alone whether it was turbid, grabbed pots and pans and jumped into the middle of the river and scooped them...... Suddenly, the scene became lively, and thanks to the cooperation of the soldiers...... The coordination of our soldiers in fighting may be poor, but the low-difficulty coordination of scooping water can still be done.

So pots and pots of water filled the middle of the river and kept coming ashore...... After a while, all kinds of containers were also filled with seven or eighty percent.

However, the water level quickly dropped at this time, and it was not long before there was only a trickle at the bottom of the river.

Obviously, the river upstream has been successfully blocked by the Vietnamese army.

At this time, the warriors invariably turned their eyes to the containers filled with water...... Everyone has a question in their hearts: Can this water be drunk? (To be continued......)