"Come on, press it!" Tan Shuangxi asked the soldiers to do the pressing action, and he freed up his hands. He had no time to untie Guo Dapeng's clothes, nor could he turn him over. Tan Shuangxi could only use his hands to remove his clothes.
He moved up to touch the wound. Tan Shuangxi started to touch up from the waist. He originally thought that the bullet hole in the back might also be on the right back, but before his hands could touch it, the middle finger of his left hand sank into the body.
, the wet and slippery feeling startled Tan Shuangxi, he quickly pulled out his hand and shouted: "The wound is here!"
Another bullet hole was in the right lower back. The wound was much larger. The lead came out sideways and opened an inch-long hole. This was because the lead hit the ribs in the body and changed the direction of flight. The soldier next to him handed over another bullet.
A first-aid kit came up, and Tan Shuangxi unfolded it to bandage him. Before it was bandaged, the hygienist who came over touched Guo Dapeng's neck and said, "Don't bother, the man is already dead!" His tone and voice were all different.
Seems helpless.
Tan Shuangxi raised his head and looked at Guo Dapeng's face. He had already stopped breathing, his lips were slightly open, and his eyes were wide open, but there was no focus... From the terrifying sound of cannons in the bushes, it reached him.
It only takes a few dozen seconds to stop breathing "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
He originally thought that he would be very angry and full of murderous intentions, but he was not. The dark night, the cold mountain wind, the sound of gunfire in his ears, the roar of fighting, the wailing of the dying... all filled his heart for a while.
It was the feeling of powerlessness and fear that gripped his heart, causing him to lose the strength to stand up for a while.
"...To be honest, I was really scared at the time! Very scared! My legs kept shaking and my heart was falling. It felt like a hand was grabbing my heart hard!" Tan Shuangxi's hand holding the wine glass also felt like it.
Trembling, "I'm not afraid of your jokes. I can be considered a veteran. I have seen dozens of battles and experienced big scenes, but I have never been so scared that I couldn't move like that day..."
"Then what?" Zhang Laicai asked.
"It took me a while before I felt like I was 'alive' again. At that moment, I just felt so angry that I wanted to kill all the bandits who were ambushing me! But there were no enemies in front of me, only the abandoned corpses and two muskets.
.They must have lit the cannon and ran away. The forest is so dense and the grass is so tall that if you take a few steps inside, you won’t know where the east, west, north, and south are." Tan Shuangxi wiped his eyes, "Lao Zhang, do you know? Back in Chengmai
The battle was so fierce that I was not afraid at all when moving corpses, transporting the wounded, and repairing fortifications on the embankment. But this time, every time we marched to the edge of the woods, I felt extremely panicked, thinking that there would be a sound at the next moment.
Cannon fire."
"Didn't you send a vanguard?" The infantry drill requires that when marching, there must be vanguards in front and on both sides of the brigade. They must search and march when encountering complex terrain such as woods. This is the most basic combat requirement.
"Do you know why Guo Dapeng didn't even get a top three in the end? Because he was a top soldier, but he found it difficult to walk in the woods in the dark..." At this point, Tan Shuangxi took a deep breath, raised his neck and took another sip.
"It's no wonder that it only took half a year from the time he joined the army to the time he died."
"The new recruits die quickly, and the survivors are the veterans." Zhang Laicai drank so much that his eyes were red, "Look at our platoon, more than half of them are new faces."
"When all the sick and wounded are back, we will be overstaffed."
"Otherwise, how can we say that we need to reorganize?" Zhang Laicai said, "Probably we need to expand again. I heard that we are going to fight a big war with the imperial court! We will go directly to the capital to sit in the Dragon Court!"
"It's a matter of time to sit in the Dragon Court sooner or later. Does the emperor also take turns to sit there? There are hundreds of elders."
"It's about the same as now."
"How many years can a person live? I don't know how many elders will feel unhappy." After drinking, Tan Shuangxi became bolder and expressed the questions he had originally hidden in his heart.
"What are you talking about?!" Zhang Laicai woke up instantly and looked around timidly, "What kind of place is this!"
Tan Shuangxi also felt that he had made a mistake, so he quickly continued drinking. The two of them made a tacit understanding and did not mention the matter again. They talked about tomorrow's events.
"It's for Hu Weide's family tomorrow." Tan Shuangxi sighed as he said, "He and his wife are very loving, and they are newly married. I'm afraid he will cry till he is black tomorrow."
"I heard that he is the son-in-law?"
"Yes, he is a happy man, a farmer. My father-in-law is a local. He is also a small rich man."
"Since he is a son-in-law, he must not have any brothers in the family. How can he become a soldier?"
"Originally, there was no need to be a soldier," Tan Shuangxi sighed. "There is a policy that a naturalized citizen with a Class B diploma can be promoted to an officer candidate as long as he volunteers for one year, so he came to be a volunteer. If he was not killed in battle,
At least he is a second lieutenant when he comes back this time, alas!"
"What a pity!" Zhang Laicai also sighed.
"He was also confused. With this Class B diploma, he couldn't do anything good. He was qualified enough to take the civil service examination, the military academy and the factory, but he came to be a volunteer! He lost his life out of confusion. He probably didn't even leave any cubs behind.
"
Don't look at the two people sighing, in fact, Tan Shuangxi and Zhang Laicai don't like Hu Weide very much. Zhang Laicai doesn't like him just because he is a Fu Lao, and most locals don't like outsiders. Tan Shuangxi doesn't like him because Hu Weide likes to go everywhere.
Showing off that he has a wife, he showed off so hard that the whole company knew: the pauper actually stepped in and married the daughter of a small landowner in Botang Village. This shows how annoying this guy is. What's even more annoying is that he often shows off.
The romantic affairs that do not know and falsehood, it was not until a few years when a few mother -in -law had been single for many years.
But the order was here, and since the deceased was the most important, Tan Shuangxi and Zhang Laicai still had to fulfill their responsibilities to Hu Weide.
Early the next morning, they set off from Fushan and went to several other places along the way to deliver death notices. It was almost noon before heading to Botang. Unfortunately, Botang Village was not near the railway station, and there was no public village in the countryside.
To get the carriage, the two of them had no choice but to use their iron feet trained in the army, and walked along the country road hearing the news. It was already afternoon when they arrived.
The two walked all the way, and there was no market on the road, so they had to rely on dry food on grass to satisfy their hunger. When they reached Botang, they were tired and hungry. When they went to the village office and inquired, they found out that Botang is a big village with sixteen cards. Hu Weide's house
In Shiyijia, there is still about five miles away from the village office.
"I'm going to find someone to lead you. You're all on business, so it's not easy." The village chief said and asked, "Looking at you, you probably haven't eaten yet, right?"
"There really isn't." Tan Shuangxi couldn't bear to be polite anymore, "There is no restaurant here. Let's have a meal first and then go there."
"How can there be a hotel in the countryside? Besides, you are on a business trip, so why should you spend money?" The village chief said and called a young man, "Go and tell your mother that a comrade is coming to the village on a business trip.
The meal is here!" After saying this, he called out again: "You two comrades, sit down and have a rest first, and you'll have your meal soon!" After saying that, he brought a big teapot and poured herbal tea for the two of them.
Normally, they would have to use discipline as an excuse to excuse themselves. Now they were so hungry that they couldn't care less. They sat down and waited to eat.
While waiting, Zhang Laicai inquired about the situation at Hu Weide's family. After all, they knew very little about this comrade. Except for his wife, whom he always showed off, he had not heard anything about the specific situation at home.
"His family," the village chief said, "his father-in-law's surname is Fang, and the Fang family is a common surname in the village. His father-in-law was originally a landowner. He had dozens of acres of land, and he also hired several long-term workers. He has become very prosperous in recent years.
, is a model household of Tiandihui.”
"So my family is very rich..."
"It's natural to be rich, but he's very stingy." The village chief smiled, "Hu Weide was originally a long-term worker in his family. He was a good-looking man and could write and calculate. He charmed the girl from the Fang family in just a few seconds.
If you live here, you won't marry unless he is. Originally, Father Fang looked down upon him. Firstly, he felt that Fu Lao had no roots. Secondly, Xiao Hu was quite frivolous on weekdays and was afraid of being unreliable. However, his daughter wanted to get married. Even though he was allowed to marry.
My wife treated him very badly."
"Do you have any children?"
"No." The village chief said and sighed, "He went to join the army just three months after getting married. Father Fang scolded him, saying that he was seeking his own death... No, alas! Poor!
This girl from the Fang family became a widow at a young age."
Tan Shuangxi knew in his heart that most likely, his father-in-law had nothing nice to say on weekdays, so Hu Weide signed up to join the army out of anger, hoping to earn a future and come back feeling proud.
Unexpectedly, people disappeared like this.
There is no need to guess too much, the girl from the Fang family will find a new husband in a year or two at most. In the end, Hu Weide can only lie in obscurity and be forgotten in the military cemetery in Chaozhou.
Thinking of this, Tan Shuangxi panicked. He couldn't help but sigh roughly. He suddenly thought of something again and asked, "Does this little Hu have any other relatives?"
"He is a Fu Lao who came to Hainan. He doesn't have any relatives here." The village chief shook his head, "I heard him say that his family used to have brothers and sisters, but they couldn't survive anymore and the whole family sold them all and each took their own money.
I had to make a living by myself, and then I arrived in Hainan. It has been more than ten years, and I guess there is no one at home."
"Since you are from Fujian, where exactly are you from?" Tan Shuangxi asked again, unwilling to give up.
"I don't know, who cares?" The village chief smiled, "You can ask the girl from the Fang family then. She probably knows."
While they were talking, a half-year-old child came over carrying a big bamboo basket and said, "Boss, let's eat!"
"Eat, eat." The village chief said, opening the bamboo basket and taking out two large bowls of fragrant rice noodles. The white rice noodles were covered with shrimp meat and vegetables, which looked very appetizing.