An Xujin pressed his entire body against the wounded man's body and covered his face with his hands: "Don't look at it, it will be fine in a moment."
Over there, Da Xiangzi had already pinched the bloody shrapnel with tweezers and was gently pulling it outward. The wounded man was shaking all over in pain. Although his mouth was stuffed with a towel, he could still hear the rough yell coming from his throat.
An Xujin clearly felt the wounded man's frantic heartbeat and even heard the sound of blood flowing rapidly.
"Be patient, be patient!" An Xujin was still comforting.
After taking out the shrapnel, Da Xiangzi quickly sprinkled some anti-inflammatory powder. An Xujin handed over the hemostatic bandage. Da Xiangzi quickly folded it and bandaged the wounded person.
"It would be nice if the hospital was nearby and the doctor could suture his wounds." Da Xiangzi sighed.
"You don't?"
Daxiangzi shook his head: "I haven't been taught, so I only know this."
"An Xujin, go get those bandages, they're not enough." Yan Xiwang, a health worker at the regiment headquarters not far away, shouted.
It was dark in the basement, and An Xujin only adapted to the light after walking down the steps.
A little girl named Xiaoliuzi who had lost her parents and was "picked" in Laohuozi City was sitting in the corner, leaning against the high stack of ammunition boxes and playing with the small wooden gun.
He saw An Xujin, shouting with two thin arms, a smile on his face, and saying something "babble" in his mouth.
An Xujin walked over and knelt down, stroking Xiaoliuzi's weak and sparse hair. The faint warmth and the unique fresh smell of children made him feel much calmer. In the dimness, Xiaoliuzi held An Xujin in his arms.
His dirty hands were shaking gently, not knowing what he wanted to do.
An Xujin laughed at him and made faces with him, and Xiaoliuzi smiled happily, even though the cannons were still rumbling outside and dust would be shaken off the roof from time to time.
On the roof of the bank, Wei Yuanxin leaned against the parapet and observed the movement in the distance with an artillery mirror. The Japanese army was increasing its troops in the city again.
He has occupied some buildings on the outskirts. From a distance, they can be seen in almost every street and alley. Along with the sound of explosions, judging from the location, the explosion points are all the counterattacks he planted.
Where there were infantry mines. He hoped that there would be enough artillery fire to blow up the places where the Japanese troops were stationed.
But he couldn't do it. He didn't even think about it. The signal soldier of the artillery camp told him clearly that there were only two and a half shells and the supplies had not been sent in time. He had to use them sparingly. This reminded him involuntarily of what he had done in Russia.
In those days, there were too many artillery shells to use. The artillery observer could call for artillery fire without restraint and dump the excess shells on the Russian positions at will. But now, he had to calculate countless different things in his mind.
The more shells that can be fired there, the more practical value they will have.
The only thing that comforted him was that the heavy rain kept falling, and the fog enveloped the earth, submerging the small town.
"The Japanese army is still confused now. They haven't figured out our route yet." Shen Jiaqiang arrived at some point.
Both of them squatted down. Wei Yuanxin licked the rainwater from the corner of his mouth and swallowed it. His dry throat felt better. He said to Shen Jiaqiang: "It has been almost a morning and there are no heavy artillery yet. It proves that these downstairs are just
Their vanguard and their main force are still quite far away from here. They may not have expected that we would suddenly turn around and go back a few kilometers to set up defenses. Now it is raining heavily again. It is estimated that their entire division has been dragged behind and cannot come up, so we are now
You can also take advantage of it a lot.”
"God still feels sorry for us."
"Just one word, procrastinate! Procrastinate as long as you can. Anyway, we are not in a hurry, they are in a hurry."
Shen Jiaqiang became happy: "I drew another company from the north of the city. We did a good guerrilla fight just now. I want to use the factory's main position as the base and continue to fight with them from the outside."
"Good idea!" Wei Yuanxin nodded: "This is called elastic defense."
"After all, he graduated from a military academy, and he can always come up with some words that I don't understand." Shen Jiaqiang slapped Wei Yuanxin on the head: "But I have to thank you!"
Wei Yuanxin chuckled: "Invite me to a drink when you go back. I remember you still have a few bottles of good sorghum wine!"
"You kid also knows this!" Shen Jiaqiang laughed out loud.
"I saw it when I was packing my things before entering Northeast China. You haven't drank since you've been here for so long, so I guess the wine is still there."
"The host asked me to drink less. I used to get into trouble a lot because of drinking."
"If you go back alive, drink all those bottles."
"They must all be drunk. Let's have a good drunken time." Shen Jiaqiang looked up at the gloomy sky and nodded.
Suddenly there was another turbulence in the air, and with this roar, the Japanese artillery shells hit again.
"Here we go again. Their artillery position is outside the city and we can't see it. Damn it." Wei Yuanxin straightened up and looked down. The artillery shell did not fall on the bank position, but hit a corner of the main position.
The shots were extremely accurate, and two bunkers and a bunker were destroyed in just a few rounds.
"Is it so accurate?" Shen Jiaqiang also picked up the telescope and looked around.
"I can't see that bastard, it's all blocked." Wei Yuanxin was also searching eagerly in the artillery mirror.
Shen Jiaqiang ran back to the stairs in a few steps and shouted down: "Notify the First Battalion and ask them to send someone to find the Japanese artillery observer for me and kill him."
As soon as Deng Chunlai came out of the trench, he fell down and had a large mouthful of dirty water poured into his mouth. He didn't care about this, quickly got up and ran forward across the open space, squatted at the foot of the wall, and spit out the dirty water in his mouth.
While holding the flat end of the gun at the gap, he observed the movement.
There were gunshots in the distance, and Japanese artillery shells flew overhead from time to time and flew towards the position. There was no Japanese army anywhere in his sight, so he waved back.
Liangzi and Sheng Yuanxin rushed out of the trench one after the other, and they also ran to the corner and squatted down, with three guns aimed at three different directions on guard.
"He just came back and came out again." Liangzi spat and cursed.
"It's not comfortable in the trenches either," Deng Chunlai replied.
The three people alternately took cover and jumped over the wall, shuttling between ruins and houses. At the entrance of a small street, the three people stopped again and looked around back to back.
"Is this what the Japanese are doing? They haven't done anything to us all morning." Liangzi carefully looked down the side street.
"It's just getting there, it's early." Deng Chunlai observed the movements behind the three people.
"The chief said that they were composed of one brigade and one squadron. They were slightly more numerous than us, but they had tanks. In a short time, we had killed four of them. I always felt that we could hold on."
"I'll lend you some good words." Deng Chunlai sneered.
Wei Yuanxin saw that there was no movement on the small street. He got up and ran to the corner of the opposite house and squatted down, trying to observe from a different angle. There were undulating houses and pavilions everywhere, and windows and holes abounded. If you want to stay in such a large place,
Finding a person was not easy. He frowned and looked carefully at every place where he thought he could hide someone, but he still didn't see anything.
"What did you see?" Deng Chunlai asked.
"Where can this offal be hidden?" Wei Yuanxin said to himself.
"If you were him, where would you hide?" Deng Chunlai asked Wei Yuanxin.
This sentence suddenly reminded Wei Yuanxin, and his thoughts began to change. He looked back at the position not far away, and then slowly turned back, his eyes drawing an arc above his head.
"I will hide there." He thought in his mind, and his eyes had moved back to the front of the position, and finally locked their eyes on a three-story building, which was the best place to observe all the movements of the position.
Wei Yuanxin pointed to the small building, and the two people immediately understood. Deng Chunlai was the first to stand up and walk along the building on the street. The two people behind him covered him. After Deng Chunlai walked a certain distance,
Liangzi and Wei Yuanxin got up again and came over. The three of them walked around the small building from one side, lowering their bodies as much as possible to hide themselves among the ruins.
After reaching the low wall on the side of the downstairs, Liangzi leaned over and took a quick look, then lowered his body and said: "Two sentries at the door, thirty steps directly in front, and a grenade on each side!"
The three men pulled out the grenades, pulled the fuse at the same time, estimated the distance, and threw them out.
After the explosion, they jumped out of the broken wall from three directions. In the smoke, one Japanese soldier had fallen to the ground and the other was retreating into the building. Liangzi, who was holding a submachine gun, aimed at him and shot him, knocking him down in the door.
At the entrance of the stairs, Deng Chunlai and Wei Yuanxin, who were behind, had rushed to both sides of the door and squatted down.
Deng Chunlai was afraid that there were still Japanese soldiers inside, so he threw a grenade inside. As the smoke filled the air, Wei Yuanxin was the first to enter the building.
This small building has only one door and no other exits. The observer should be hiding in a room on the third floor. The three men rushed forward with guns blazing and took turns walking up the stairs. The building was very narrow, so Liang Zi went to the third floor.
Shoot at the stairs of the building in case grenades are thrown down.
On the third floor, there were corridors leading to both sides of the stairs. It was very dark in the corridor, and the doors of every room were open. I didn't know where the guy was hiding. All three people squatted down and listened quietly to what was going on around them.
, there is tension in the air.
Wei Yuanxin tried his best to suppress his heavy breathing, but his heart was beating wildly, and the sound of "dong dong" could be heard clearly.
He poked his head and looked towards the other side of the corridor. The bright light from outside illuminated the floor of the corridor to form several white squares. He waved his hand to Liangzi, who nodded and began to stretch out his feet towards
Moving forward, the moment his feet touched the gravel under his feet, he made a "crunching" sound.
Suddenly there was a crisp sound of metal shrapnel releasing, and then a grenade flew out from a room in the corridor on one side.
It hit the wall and rebounded towards Liangzi's feet with the force of the impact! (To be continued