I was ecstatic and went over at once, plucking the leaves and filling my mouth with them. I was so excited that I forgot what it tasted like in my mouth, but when I chewed and swallowed it for a while, I suddenly felt like my head was starting to explode, and I only had one thought at the time, I might have been deceived, maybe it was a poisonous weed, and I was going to be poisoned. Then, my consciousness became more and more blurred, my legs became weaker and weaker, and at some point, I fainted.

When I woke up, I felt a faint pain on my face, touched it with my hand, and found that there were blood marks on my face, it should have been scratched by some animal, but fortunately it was a skin injury, and it was very uncomfortable to lie on the wet ground, so I struggled to stand up. It should already be dark, and in the dense woods, the darkness is even more invisible.

But I suddenly had a very strange feeling, which is difficult to describe as if I suddenly opened the "eye of the sky", that is, I suddenly felt that the things around me no longer need to be seen with my eyes, I can distinguish them, and that kind of thing is very different from what I see with my eyes, as if it is more penetrating and detailed. For example, I even sensed monkeys not far away. And I can even feel the approximate number and distance of the monkeys, why is that?

It's the smell that sues me! My sense of smell has really become more sensitive! It was an amazing feeling, and the world was presented to me in a different way. And suddenly feel that vision is not as important as you think, and a sensitive sense of smell sometimes makes people's understanding of the world more keen, more accurate, and more penetrating.

As I walked in the dark, I could smell the roads I had just walked. Smells filled the air, and I just had to smell them carefully to get a rough idea of whether there was water in my surroundings, whether there were animals, and how far away they were from me.

With such a keen sense of smell, it was like a radar in my head. There was a rush of ecstasy in my heart, but the smell I wanted to smell the most was not the smell of flowers, grass or anything like that, but the smell of corpses!

Because, marching in this primeval forest, the corpse is the only signpost, and the troops behind are all following the rotting and smelly corpses left by the troops in front to adjust the direction of march. Therefore, if I could smell the smell of corpses, it meant that I was very close to the route of the troops, and what frightened me was that with my keen sense of smell at that time, Cheng Dù could not smell the smell of corpses at all, I knew that I was really far away from the troops.

I tried to find the right direction, and suddenly, a familiar smell wafted over, and my heart jumped wildly, yes, it was the smell of people, not only the smell of the human body, but also the smell of mosquito repellent water. In this tropical rainforest, the environment is extremely harsh, the mosquitoes here are many times larger than the usual, all kinds of clothes can ask for people, not only mosquitoes, but also blood-sucking locusts, without applying mosquito water, you will be bitten by mosquitoes, locusts, and even infected with the terrible malaria.

Based on the intensity of the smell, I judged that they were about a kilometer or two away from my location. Finally found someone! I was very excited, all the tiredness and fatigue were swept away, and I walked quickly in the direction where the smell came from.

Although I couldn't see anything in the dark forest, the various smells emanating from the front made me clearly distinguish whether the obstacles in front of me were rocks, trees, or mounds of dirt. Because the smell of these emitted is different, and the distance between me and these objects can be accurately determined by the strength of the smell, so, although I can't see it, I actually travel very smoothly, and there are not too many stumbles, if I don't have such a sensitive sense of smell, it is impossible to travel along the lì in this dark dense forest.

As the smell of people became stronger and stronger, I knew that I was getting closer to them, and I became more and more excited, like a lost child who suddenly found home. I'll be back in the army and see my brothers soon. Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind, and I was thrilled, what if these people were Japanese soldiers?

yes, what if the people I came to find by the smell were Japanese? Isn't that just sending people to the door to find death?

And if it is a soldier of our army, it should be on the marching route of our army, and on our marching route, there are so many people dead, how can there be no smell of corpses? I'm glad I didn't rush through.

When I sensed that I was about a few tens of meters away from those people, I was sure that those people must be Japanese! Because Japan has a unique sake flavor and rice dumpling flavor. After fighting the Japanese for so long, of course, there were also captured trophies of the Japanese army, among which is sake, which I know how they are made, anyway, it tastes very different from our Chinese wine.

These must have been Japanese scouts, responsible for reconnoitring the location and direction of the Chinese troops. And this kind of scout, the threat to a unit is very huge, because once you grasp your specific location and direction of travel, it will be very passive, especially our troops, at that time in the harsh natural environment of the Savage Mountain, suffered great attrition, not to mention the war, almost walking is difficult, a large part of the soldiers, has completely lost the combat capability. If the troops were discovered by these Japanese scouts again, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At that time, I made up my mind to kill these Japanese scouts, and I did not leave them behind, but I knew that the military quality of the Japanese army was objectively very high. When I was studying at the Army Academy, an American expert who specialized in the study of the Japanese army once told us that the Japanese army's military qualities were very good, not to mention other aspects, but only marksmanship. The instructor also told us a real example.

It was a small squad of the Chinese army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, which set up an ambush in the ancient city of Laiwu, preparing to annihilate the Japanese army. As soon as the Japanese army entered the encirclement, the battalion commander Hu Nianjun immediately blew a whistle and more than 200 guns opened fire together. The powerful firepower pinned the Japanese troops to the ground and could not raise their heads.

During the entire battle, the Japanese had only a chance to return fire.

In this battle, we had an absolute advantage in numbers, firepower, and terrain, and completely annihilated the Japanese army. The Japanese fired only one shot. Supposedly we should have won big. But it was the only shot of the Japanese devil that hit the battalion commander Hu Nianyun!

Why is the Japanese army's marksmanship so accurate? There's a reason for that.

Some Japanese writers named Gomikawa Junpei, he used to be a soldier of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the Japanese army unit that invaded and occupied the northeast of our country during the September 18 Incident disclosed in his book "Fictitious Righteousness": The Japanese army has extremely high requirements in shooting training in peacetime: When shooting at a target at 300 meters (shaped like a human head and shoulders crawling on the ground, completely imitating the actual battlefield scene), not only does it require all five bullets to hit the target, but also requires at least three rounds to be concentrated in an area the size of a fist.

This is not the training of specialized snipers, but only the shooting training of ordinary soldiers, which is rigorous to this extent. However, after reaching this level, it is not yet qualified, and there are more difficult ones to follow.

I still clearly remember that the American instructor at that time specifically told us: "In actual combat, the situation is complicated, and it is impossible to give you enough time to raise your gun, aim, and pull the trigger like on a shooting range, and the reality is ever-changing, and sometimes you must be able to complete all the actions from pulling out the gun, raising the gun, to shooting within a second, and if you can't do it, you will probably pay the price of your life."

Therefore, if you want your marksmanship to really be used in actual combat, it is far from enough to just hit a stationary target, you must train in various changing situations, react quickly, and accurately determine and hit the target in motion and change. On the battlefield, it is not the same thing to really shoot a living person and to shoot a target in a shooting competition.

The Japanese army simulated this kind of actual combat scenario in their shooting training, and their shooting training was generally divided into three stages:

It is required to hit a target that suddenly appears 300 meters away within 4 seconds;

After reaching the standard, shorten the time to two seconds to complete this series of actions;

After this is done, put on a gas mask and run fast for 30 meters before shooting, which is more difficult, because the vigorous breathing and heartbeat, as well as the state of the muscles, will seriously affect the accuracy of shooting.

Jun Gomikawa was stuck at this level, and he couldn't get through, so the squad leader and some veterans often told him: "If you can't hit, you're not allowed to eat!" "The Japanese army, which has undergone such rigorous training, almost everyone has reached the level of a sniper.

I know that these Japanese scouts I met were trained in this way, and they were much better than ordinary Japanese soldiers, because only the elite of the soldiers could be scouts.

I really want to pick up the Thomson submachine gun in my hand, shoot the birds indiscriminately, sweep it, and wipe out all these dog-free little Japan, then it will be happy, but I control my impulse, because this kind of hot-headed recklessness is the most taboo on the battlefield, I took a few deep breaths, tried to calm my crazy heart, made my somewhat hot mind, and calmed down as much as possible.

I knew that the first thing I had to do was to determine the number and location of these Japanese soldiers.

In the dark of night, it is more beneficial to me, because I can roughly judge their location without relying on vision, but the exact number of people, it is difficult to determine, not to say that at night, even in the daytime, in the dense forest where you can't see each other from a distance of several meters, the role of vision becomes very limited.

I thought of a dog twitching my nose slightly, and I took a few breaths, trying to discern where the smell of the Japanese soldiers came from.

I didn't believe it at the time, and I thought that it was wrong to judge the position of the sense of smell because of the wind direction and other relationships, so I changed the direction of the smell several times in a row, and finally determined that yes, they were indeed on the tree.