But on the battlefield of flesh and blood, human life seems so fragile and unpredictable. One second a whole person, but in the next, it can be blown to pieces by a shell. This is an unusually huge impact on people's psychological endurance. Untrained people who go straight into this brutal war scene are often on the verge of mental collapse.

Human beings have a kind of nature: they tend to have "superstitions" about things that they are not able to grasp but are closely related to themselves. On the battlefield, even the most important life for human beings is in a state of extreme uncertainty, and in this case, "battlefield superstitions" emerge in an endless stream. In the final analysis, these so-called "battlefield superstitions" mean that soldiers are extremely insecure about their lives and hope to improve their survival rate with the help of these mysterious-sounding "superstitions".

For example, a "superstitious" that is very popular on the battlefield is "changing clothes".

What does that mean? That is, when changing clothes, you can't change all the clothes, but one by one, change a pair of socks today, and a top tomorrow. Because only the soldiers who died in battle were put on new or clean clothes. Therefore, "living" officers and men are very taboo about this one-time practice of changing their entire clothes. According to the memories of Mr. Zhou Mingdao, who served as a major general's interpreter in the New First Army, there was a platoon commander who had his clothes and pants wet all over his body because of heavy rain.

However, the company commander attached great importance to this "superstition," so in order to prevent this "curse" of "changing clothes" from being fulfilled on this platoon commander, he handed over the combat mission that originally belonged to this platoon commander to another platoon commander. In fact, the company commander's good intentions are well understood by everyone.

But because the battle was fierce, the platoon commander also participated in the battle the next day, but in that battle, the other platoon commanders were fine, and only the platoon commander who "changed clothes" was killed.

Afterwards, the company commander shook his head again and again, lamenting: "He shouldn't have changed all his clothes at once."

According to the so-called modern scientific theory, we will of course feel that there is no necessary connection between changing clothes and dying in battle. However, the subtle and wonderful correlation of many things in the world may not be fully explained by modern science. Just like Chen Yinke said that Chinese medicine is "unreasonable, but verifiable", that is, according to modern Western science, sometimes there is no way to explain Chinese medicine, but according to these "unreasonable" theories of Chinese medicine, it can indeed cure many diseases.

I met a blind doctor who was good at treating all kinds of incurable diseases. Diseases that cannot be cured in many large hospitals can be cured by him.

What's even more amazing is that most of the medicines used by this blind doctor are common foods in our daily life, such as mung beans, red beans, raisins, etc.

The most amazing thing is that no matter what kind of disease you have, the "medicines" used are probably these kinds, and the only thing that has changed is that the number of mung beans, red beans, etc. is different. For example, for Zhang San's illness, he used 21 mung beans and 21 raisins, but for Li Si's illness, he gave 20 mung beans and 20 raisins. Besides, he doesn't care about the size of the mung bean grains, etc., he only cares about the number of grains.

From the point of view of modern science, this does not make sense at all, but according to the study of numbers in Chinese culture, it is a very profound science.

To cite this example, I just want to show that although the correlation between many things is rather absurd according to the scientific theory at the present stage, we cannot completely dismiss this phenomenon.

If we really want to go to the battlefield, this superstition of "changing clothes", I think most of us will be scrupulous.

In the Japanese army, various "battlefield superstitions" are also popular. For example, Japanese soldiers used to carry a kind of amulet called "Thousand People Sew", which was to take a piece of cloth and ask a thousand women passing by to sew a stitch each. It is said that if you carry this "thousand people slit" on your body, you can avoid bullets. ”

When my cousin heard Wang Zhengkui mention the word "blind doctor", his eyes couldn't help but light up. Hurriedly asked tentatively: "Then this 'blind doctor' is also a strange person, and he has this kind of ability."

Wang Zhengkui suddenly sighed with emotion and muttered: "Yes, in fact, he is indeed a strange person, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be alive now, I would have died decades ago." ”

The cousin lost no time in hurriedly asking: "Then what kind of 'strange' method is this 'strange person'?" ”

Wang Zhengkui seemed to be immersed in memories, and his eyes lit up: "I think he is more powerful than the legendary Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen, I have never met anyone in my life, from the emperor and general, down to the peddler and pawn, and even Mr. Jiang Zhongzheng, I have seen it many times, but I don't think anyone can be called a 'strange person', except for this blind man." ”

My cousin found that Wang Zhengkui didn't seem to be too taboo to talk about this blind man at all, so he mustered up the courage to ask directly: "In our county chronicles, there are several books about the strange things about the blind man, and the blind man recorded in these books seems to be the same person, but the time span is more than 300 years, so this is very strange in itself, and the deeds of the blind man you came into contact with are recorded in detail in the book."

After hearing this, Wang Zhengkui opened his eyes and asked in surprise: "Really?" How could anyone know so clearly? I've never told anyone about it, tell me what is written about the blind man."

The cousin then redressed the blind man as Lang Zhong, how he designed to kill Sakata, and the Japanese mountaineers who washed Wang Zhengkui's village in blood, but he also killed them all with stratagems.

Wang Zhengkui was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he couldn't stop admiring. After his cousin finished speaking for a long time, he came to his senses, sighed and said: "I have never heard of this paragraph, I didn't expect that these were also done by him, the ancient book says 'ten thousand enemies', he may have this ability." ”

The cousin saw that Wang Zhengkui did not have the slightest anxiety about talking about blind people, so he dispelled his previous concerns. He cautiously asked Wang Zhengkui: "You are now the only person who has had close contact with the blind man, and you have never seen him since the blind man came down the mountain to assassinate Sakata?" ”

Wang Zhengkui didn't rush to answer, but just lifted the trouser leg of his left leg, revealing a palm-sized and strange scar on his leg and stomach, which was like a beehive, that is, on the flesh skin, there were secret numb holes. My cousin couldn't imagine what kind of injury would cause such a scar.

Then, Wang Zhengkui did not directly answer his cousin's question, but recounted his experience in the Savage Mountain during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: "Savage Mountain is called "Hukang River Valley" in Burmese, which means "the place where the devil lives".

The army that entered the Savage Mountain was 40,000 men, but when it came out, it was only 8,000 men. That is, only 1 out of 5 people will come out.

That place was scarier than hell.

One of my lieutenants fell ill and fell behind, rested under a big tree for the night, and the next day was a pile of bones that had been eaten by ants. Even the ants are so ferocious in the Savage Valley.

Leeches, mosquitoes, all kinds of poisonous insects, malaria, dengue fever, scarlet fever, diarrhea, are a huge threat to human life, and there is no food to eat, it was the rainy season, the raindrops are as big as small eggs, and they can be on the ground in a few minutes or two feet, how to sleep? Some of the swamps on the ground are waist-deep, and every step comes at a great cost.

There was a division commander, wounded and lying on a stretcher, and withdrew with the troops into Savage Mountain. Due to the harsh self-heating environment, the wound worsened, and finally he was unable to get out of Savage Mountain. This division commander had a driver who had followed him for many years, and this time the division commander did not take Wang Peiqing with him when he came out to fight, but left him at home to take care of his family. One night, the driver in the rear seemed to be half-asleep and half-awake, and had a strange dream: he dreamed that the division commander was wearing a neat military uniform, walked into a temple on the mountain, then pushed open the temple door, looked at it for a while, and then solemnly closed the door.

Soon after waiting for Wang's driver, he received a telegram that the division commander had been killed. Later, according to the staff officer who was next to the division commander at the time, it was confirmed that the division commander died in a temple on a mountain.

Another army commander contracted dengue fever and spent two days and nights in a coma on a stretcher. More than two dozen young soldiers paid with their precious lives to carry him. One of them also had the commander of his guard battalion.

I read one such story in the book: more than 20 years later, a group of Kachin guerrillas from Burma entered the Savage Mountains to fight guerrillas. When they entered a cave that was covered by vines, they were stunned: it was full of bones! This is when Du Yuming crossed the Savage Mountain, a certain group of soldiers came to this cave to take shelter from the rain or rest, because the caves of the Savage Mountain generally have miasma, and these soldiers were too tired and weak, so that they died collectively in this cave. Those are our brothers.

I remember that there was a company commander named Wang Fang, and he had a good relationship with one of his orderlies, and the orderly's foot was injured and he couldn't walk, so Wang Bofang was reluctant to leave him, so he carried it all the way. But when they came to the bottom of a steep hill, everyone had to pull a rope to climb up. Uncle Wang was faced with an extremely difficult choice:

It is no longer possible to continue to carry this wounded soldier on his back, he can only leave this wounded soldier behind, this is the end of his life, but look at this young wounded soldier, his eyes are full of desire to live, and he will soon be able to get out of the Savage Mountain.

What to do?

The chief in the back saw that Wang Fang and the others were hesitant, so they hurriedly came over to take a look. When the chief understood the situation, he immediately made a decision and quietly gave an order in Wang Bofang's ear.

Wang Fang had no choice but to quietly pull the last bullet of the submachine gun according to the commander's order with tears in his eyes, and while the young wounded soldier was not paying attention, he was shot at him.