Chen Zhanqi wore a dirty QGF03 aramid helmet on his head, and this protective gear that had not been cleaned for an unknown amount of time was covered in dirt and snowflake dandruff. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He has gradually become accustomed to the days when there is no shampoo, and it is good to wash it with water a few more times, but now even the clothes are not cleaned with special laundry detergent, and the military uniform after each slurry wash can always scrape off the hard shell-like grease after drying, because it is winter, as long as it can keep warm, the soldiers will not care more, but when they think of the summer of the next year, if the supplies are still so scarce......

He quickly settled down, as a grassroots soldier, he shouldn't think too much.

The corpses on the head of the city have been cleaned up, in fact, there are not many of them originally piled here, and more victims have fallen to the city as early as when they fought with the insect swarm, Chen Zhanqi still clearly remembers the previous scene, the platoon commander tearfully distributed grenades to the front-line troops who were clinging to the outer wall battlements, and he also received one. If it weren't for the fact that it was his turn to face the gap opened by the thunder beast, the battle would have been over, and he would have been a stump flying from the sparks that erupted at the foot of the city wall.

In front of him was a fire support point, in fact, it was a Type 77 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on the wall in a zigzag shape, and the 60-round open ammunition supply box on it had been removed after the Thunderbeast was confirmed dead, on the grounds that the overheated barrel would detonate the bullets on the chain, causing unnecessary casualties and losses.

This must be the decision of a civilian who has never been on the battlefield to pat his head, Chen Zhanqi has never heard this kind of statement, but he only has a dispensable attitude towards this, after all, the army that has lined up in the city can relieve their siege not long ago, and pulling the trigger for the same kind is far from slaughtering insects without a trace of psychological burden.

Chen Zhanqi looked at the "recruit" standing beside him, a young man with pimples and still unmotivated. Although he himself is only 22 years old, he is already an out-and-out veteran compared to the vast majority of the soldiers in the city who did not participate in this tragic siege and defense of the city.

The young man's name is Gegen, a typical Mongolian name, and his appearance is also a typical Mongolian man. Speaking of which, the number of ethnic minorities in the Jinling Military Region may be even sparser than the number of foreigners in Jinling City, and they are more concentrated in the northerly military region.

Not only the appearance, Gegen's clothes look much cleaner than Chen Zhanqi's, the combat clothes that have not been baptized by gunpowder are less sweat stains and all kinds of strange colors of insect blood and pus, and even the green cloth on the helmet is not damaged to the ear like the veterans who have just withdrawn from the city, and it looks like a ghost soldier who entered the village in the Anti-Japanese War.

This is also an important reason for the change of guards, those soldiers who have experienced the battle not only need to rest, but the smell on their bodies is even worse. After the war, health and epidemic prevention have always been a key topic, and no one is worried that they have been stained with itchy insect plasma, not to mention that the corroded and mottled wall tiles on the city have long proved the toxicity of these insect body fluids. As soon as the battle was over, everyone was eager to immediately take off their clothes and jump into the Yangtze River to roll around a few times.

However, it is not realistic to withdraw all the soldiers at once, and some precautions on the damaged wall still need to be told by them to the newly replaced troops.

Although the vast majority of the "recruits" are reluctant to approach these "veterans" who exude a strong sour smell from top to bottom.

Gegen and Chen Zhanqi are an exception, maybe the smell on Chen Zhanqi is not as strong as others, right? The two stood one after the other, looking much more normal than the soldiers who were separated by at least one battlement.

"Sergeant Chen, hey, Sergeant Chen!"

Gegen didn't know exactly what to call the person standing in front of him, and calling him by name seemed to be disrespectful to the warriors who had participated in the battle, but the other party's rank was not enough to call him a commander, so he had to resort to this ambiguous name.

"What's wrong?" Chen Zhanqi didn't hear what the other party was calling for, he just turned his gaze to the ground on the other side of the moat, and in the gradually darkening sky, the flashes that burst out from time to time were extremely dazzling.

Are there any insects that have burrowed into the ground and not been cleaned up? Chen Zhanqi couldn't help but feel a tingling in the back of his head, but then he realized that what he was stepping on was not ordinary ground, but a strip of stone bricks laid on the concrete layer, which made him feel a little relieved.

It was advertised that the bottom of these walls was no deeper into the ground than the part that was exposed to the ground, and the notices plastered all over the streets and alleys of Jinling even compared the walls with icebergs. Everyone will be skeptical about this, the vastness of the project is indeed far beyond everyone's imagination, but how deep it has been dug is not even known to the people and the military involved.

How to set the parameters of this epic project into a mystery is a mystery in itself.

But neither the ballistic missile explosion nor the tyrannical destruction of the Thunder Beast before its death could reach the bottom of the city wall, maybe it was really as deep as the propaganda said?

Chen Zhanqi poked his head out and looked at the city that was as straight as a cliff.

"Smack!" A hand slammed into his shoulder, so frightened that he almost didn't scream.

"Sergeant Chen, did you hear me?"

Chen Zhanqi remembered that after he asked what was wrong, it seemed that Gegen had been chattering non-stop.

Without waiting for him to answer, Gegen curiously leaned half of his body out of the battlement.

Under the corner of the wall, which was mixed with countless insect corpses that had not been cleaned up in time, the pulpy minced flesh splattered on the jagged wall like overturned paint, as thick as a pie coated with countless layers of ketchup.

Gegen's face trembled violently, after all, he was also the one who had been on the wall for a long time, unlike the soldiers who had just come up after him trembled and had to be pulled to have the strength to get out of this blood-soaked battlement.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Chen Zhanqi looking at him with slightly strange eyes, Gegen immediately forgot all about the tragic situation he had just seen, he leaned over and whispered.

"Sergeant Chen, do you think this atmosphere is very strange?"

There is a cold wind blowing in the towering city all the time, and the sound of Gegen's mosquito humming naturally can't reach Chen Zhanqi's ears, but from the other party's sneaky appearance, Chen Zhanqi roughly guessed what it had to do with it, he pulled the other party's arm and pulled it down, and motioned for the other party to sit on the ammunition box together.

The high-level of the army was like the world evaporated in an instant, and even a single order was not updated at the moment of the "siege of the city", and the soldiers at the head of the city finally couldn't help but talk about it after an hour and a half of silence, for the veterans who had experienced life and death struggles, even the slightly higher officers did not want to have too many contradictions, so the limelight opened, and the originally heavily guarded city head suddenly seemed to have a tea party.

The Air Force's drones are still on guard high above the peacekeepers, and the soldiers' eyes are clearly not comparable to the high-resolution wide-angle cameras, so there is little guilt for "dereliction of duty".

Sitting on the hard ammo box was a bit frozen, but it was much better than tears blowing in the cold wind. Chen Zhanqi took out two mint leaves and motioned to the other party if he wanted one, Gegen hurriedly shrank and shook his head, he just wanted to drink some hot tea to warm up at this time, even the prairie in his hometown was not dry and cold to this extent, and he didn't want to experience the refreshing taste of chewing a mint leaf in the harsh winter.

However, in the environment of shortage of tobacco and alcohol, this is also the truest portrayal of the life of grassroots soldiers, after all, a mouthful of cold air is so cold that it is heart-rending, and what follows is the feeling of putting all the internal organs on the fire to roast. The ice is hot in the depths, and if you want to keep warm on a cold and windy day, the soldiers really use any method.

Chen Zhanqi stuffed it into his mouth, he only heard a "grunt" sound from Gegen's throat, and then he didn't know anything.

Ice, almost freezing to death, at this moment even the ability to breathe was completely frozen, as if lying naked in the snow and swallowing a piece of ice, Chen Zhanqi only felt a suffocating illusion surging into his numb brain, his eyes were white and misty, the whole world seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and what was even stranger was that in the next moment, he couldn't tell whether he was swallowing ice or a red-hot soldering iron.

Gegen looked at the "veteran" with battle marks on his clothes with a surprised gaze, and the other party's behavior reminded him of some bad addicts, but he was even more surprised by what followed.

He saw that in a short time, people's complexions could change from trembling pale to sweating red! This unimaginable performance is no less than the effect of a bottle of spirit.

Here, Chen Zhanqi had already opened his closed eyes, and the whole person was leaning against the wall in an extremely comfortable posture, as if he couldn't feel the coldness of the bones coming from it at all.

"It's not like a mint leaf can do it." Gegen said solemnly, the person who was frozen like a dog one second was hot and sweating the next moment, this thing had already made him suspicious enough. Gegen glanced at the officers who were talking to each other in the distance, and he was considering whether he needed to report it immediately.

"Hey! What are you kid thinking! Chen Zhanqi patted the other party dissatisfied, and then handed the remaining piece to the other party.

"Here, sniff."

The other party was stunned for a moment, and then sprang up like a rabbit, and ran desperately towards the position where the officers were standing.

Chen Zhanqi, who understood that the other party had misunderstood him, couldn't help but slap his head fiercely, "Why can't you speak like this!" ”

After a while, there was a laugh in the distance, and I saw Gegen walking back slowly with his head pulled.

"Give it to me!"

Without saying a word, the young Mongolian boy snatched the leaf from Chen Zhanqi's hand and sniffed it under his nose.

"Ahh

Gegen, who sneezed loudly, only felt dizzy for a while, but then he was extremely conscious, but before he could react, the leaves had already been snatched back into Chen Zhanqi's hands.

"It's something you put in your mouth, don't get dirty!"

Chen Zhanqi carefully put the mint leaves into a paper bag wrapped in layers of yellowed plastic wrap, and then put it on the inside of the military uniform.

"95 degrees, aren't you afraid of poisoning!" Gegen, who was stunned, asked loudly, he even left the topic he wanted to talk about at the beginning, and only this thing in his eyes that could kill people, but was regarded as a treasure by Chen Zhanqi.

Chen Zhanqi casually pointed to the back of his head, which was where Gegen had just been looking on his stomach.

"Those who are not afraid of poisoning are below, and those who are afraid of poisoning are also below, is there a difference?"

The veteran's indifferent tone sent chills through Gegen's heart, and he was suddenly a little afraid of this kind of war that destroyed the hope of human life little by little.

"Hey, don't think about it so much, isn't it just a little alcohol!" Chen Zhanqi patted the empty ammunition box beside him and motioned for the other party to sit down.

"That's not alcohol! That's ethanol! Medical alcohol is not edible! ”

Ignoring Gegen's almost flushed face, Chen Zhanqi himself didn't know how to explain to this young man who looked tendony, to be honest, he didn't really understand the difference between medical alcohol and alcohol, but this thing was strong and could keep warm, which was enough, if there were any chronic toxins......

In this world where it is possible to be cut off by insects at the next moment, as long as you don't eat it and die, people will always try their luck, and besides, the chronic poison that can delay death is already merciful enough.

Gegen's warning could not convince a soldier who watched his comrades-in-arms being dragged down the city wall by insects today with indifference to life, and he could only sit next to Chen Zhanqi helplessly and continue the original topic.

"No other army has been so calm in the face of a siege as we are." After hearing Gegen's question, Chen Zhanqi grunted.

"Because it's not a siege at all!" Gegen's temper flared up again, and he retorted hatefully, "No matter what, the other party has always helped us win the worm, and now what is it like to hang the other party outside the city like this?" ”

"Do you still want them in?" Chen Zhanqi rolled his eyes.

"They can roam the wilderness without the protection of the walls, and they may have scavenged a lot of good things from various cities, and it would be good to trade them with us." Gegen looked at the mercury-white painted tsunami tank and said with some distraction.

"What do you get in exchange? Besides, if they were really strong enough to raid the cities, why not occupy one of them and settle down? Chen Zhanqi feels that young people just don't think enough about it.

"Wait!" Gegen was about to speak, but was interrupted by Chen Zhanqi, who sat up straight suddenly.

"You say," looking at the other party's blank eyes, Chen Zhanqi asked word by word, "Why don't they occupy a city and settle down?" ”

"I didn't say that!" Now Gegen was even more confused, "I just said that they can move in the wilderness, but I didn't say that they live in the wilderness!" Maybe they've taken over a city? ”

"Impossible!" Chen Zhanqi vetoed categorically, "If the city is occupied, the Air Force will definitely be the first to know, and we who are short of materials will already find a way to catch up with them." ”

"That's right! Do you remember the fires that erupted in the north at night? Chen Zhanqi slapped his thigh excitedly, "Over there, the direction they came from!" ”

"It seems like it's been a while...... Gegan is a little unsure, "it's rumored that a wild colony has been overrun by a swarm. ”

"! How can a settlement be so far away that half of the sky can be reflected red?! It was clearly the red light of artillery fire! Exactly the same as last night when our artillery fired! ”

The more Chen Zhanqi spoke, the more excited he became, and he grabbed Gegen's shoulders and shook them violently.

"Why don't they take a city?!"

"I ...... I do not know! ”

Gegen struggled to break free, but the other party shook his head as if he was in a daze, and it seemed that the effects of the high concentration of alcohol had begun to appear, and he had to stay away from this drunk before the other party went crazy and threw himself off the wall.

Chen Zhanqi only felt a rush of blood rushing to his brain, he felt that he seemed to have discovered an amazing truth, and the stamina of ethanol intensified his emotional excitement.

Finally, just before the upright Mongolian man was about to be spit out by him, he finally shuddered and uttered the prophecy that appeared in his heart like inspiration.

"They're going to occupy Jinling! There is no benefit at all in occupying other abandoned cities! What they want is here! ”

Chen Zhanqi suddenly let go of Gegen, who had fallen into a stupor, and didn't care to explain in detail to this guy who obviously couldn't keep up with his IQ, he just wanted to run to his boss who was in charge of the front-line command and communication as soon as possible, so that more people could understand the seriousness of the situation.

As soon as he stepped on his front foot, a crackling sound like fried beans suddenly sounded.

The city, which was originally as bustling as a vegetable market, suddenly fell silent, and everyone turned their heads in the same direction.

Chen Zhanqi's heart was smashed and he chuckled, and he twisted his neck to look at it mechanically.

That's the direction of the front-line command!

If the rumors that filled the veterans were true, then the top brass of the military region who had been hastily withdrawn from the city more than an hour ago should be inside at this moment!

Chen Zhanqi only felt that his eyes were dark.

Jinling, it's over! (To be continued.) )