Chapter 36
I leaned on the trunk of the sniper rifle and found a stone nearby to sit down. Only then did I realize that there was an extra cut on my thigh.
This is sometimes the case on the battlefield. I can’t feel the pain because of my mental tension. I don’t even feel any pain when I get hurt. I don’t feel a sensation of pain until I rest.
"You are injured!" Chen Yiyi appeared beside me at the right time, and without saying a word, she took out the bandage for me and bandaged it skillfully.
"Just...thank you!" I was surprised to find that I, who was so stingy in modern times, actually stuttered.
"What do you thank?" Chen Yiyi raised her eyebrows, obviously she was asking knowingly.
"Thank you for saving me!"
"You save me once, and I will clear my mind!" Chen Yiyi replied without thinking.
I was speechless and felt a little unwilling to be clear about each other, but what she said seemed to be true.
"By the way!" I thought about it and asked again, "How come you, a big girl, can you shoot a gun?"
"Is it strange?" Chen Yiyi answered me while busy, "I came to Vietnam at the age of nine. Who can't shoot a gun when I grew up in Vietnam?"
"Oh!" I think it's true that the whole Vietnamese people are not war-free. After decades of decades, it's not surprising that civilians can shoot guns, not to mention that they can shoot bazooka mortars.
"Squad Leader..." At this time, Xiao Shitou shouted to me from a distance: "Come and have soup..."
"Drink soup?" I couldn't help but feel strange when I heard this. The food in our army is apart from canned food and compressed biscuits, so where can there be soup?
But looking at the bayonet and a few people surrounding a steaming pot... it really doesn't seem like a lie.
So they took Chen Yiyi and the others to look up and couldn't help but say "Wow". These guys picked a lot of mushrooms from somewhere, and were cooking a pot of fragrant soup at this time.
I haven't eaten hot food for a long time and can't stand the temptation. I immediately grabbed the canned box handed over by the bayonet and put it in, but I found that none of the other soldiers moved.
"What's wrong?" I was a little surprised. These guys don't look like such honest people! Will I eat first if I have such kindness?
"That... squad leader..." After a long time, Xiao Shitou stammered: "We... don't know if this bacteria are poisonous..."
"Damn it!" I became angry when I heard this: "It's true that you asked me to test the poison!"
"Squad Leader, what are you talking about?" The scholar snatched up and said with great sincerity: "How dare we let the squad leader come to test the drug? Isn't that? Everyone said that squad leader, you are lucky and lucky... It's the most suitable thing to let you take this first bite!"
"It sounds nice!" I cursed angrily: "Isn't that just the same as trying poison?"
The soldiers under me were silent after being scolded by me.
And I was also embarrassed, is it to eat or not?
Take it, if something goes wrong, it will be difficult to deal with. There are very few medicines on this battlefield. After being poisoned, I am afraid I will die long ago...
If you don’t eat it, it’s really a bit of drooling, and it’s all boiled into soup. Isn’t it a pity that it’s poured like this?
At this time, I saw Chen Yiyi blinking at me and nodding slightly, so I felt confident. Chen Yiyi has been living in this Vietnamese jungle for a long time. Besides, Vietnam has a shortage of food, and eating mushrooms is not common, so it is not easy to argue whether it is poisonous.
So I pretended to clear my throat, put two mouthfuls in a bamboo spoon into the can box, and after blowing, I couldn't wait to drink it in one breath.
"How about it?"
"How is it?"
...
Seeing the soldiers looking at me nervously, I suddenly had the idea of teasing them, so I suddenly covered my stomach and screamed "Ouch Ouch"... After a while, I lay on the ground and my eyes turned pale.
This made my soldiers so anxious that they helped me and covered my stomach in a hurry. Some people immediately blamed me: "I just said that this soup cannot be drunk. Now it's broken, and it poisoned the squad leader!"
I don’t know if my acting skills are too good or why, but I even deceived Chen Yiyi with this move... Then I saw her reaching out to reach into my mouth as if she wanted me to spit out the soup.
Good guy... I can't hide it anymore.
I had to end the play, pointing at the soup and pretending to be weak and said, "This soup, this soup..."
"Squad leader, stop talking!" Xiao Shitou said in annoyance: "We know this soup is poisonous!"
"This soup..." I shouted when they didn't pay attention: "How fresh..."
While shouting, he quickly ran to the pot and took care of himself. In two strokes, he filled the can box with a full can, which made the soldiers under his command stunned. Then he didn't know who shouted and ran to the pot and snatched it... But unfortunately, the pot was not big, and I just put a full can and I almost went to half a pot. The rest was too much monk and too little to get much.
"Come on..." I walked to Chen Yiyi proudly and said, "For the sake of saving my life, I will give you half a can of it..."
Chen Yiyi looked at me, then looked at the other soldiers who were so upset that they stamped their feet. She couldn't help but cry, either laugh or not.
Looking at the soldiers who don’t snatch them up for a little mushroom soup, I couldn’t help but smile. In the past, I only thought that the so-called friends could drink and pick up girls together, and it would be good to help fight if you have something to do. Now I know that there is a kind of friendship in this world that can truly share the joys and sorrows without distinguishing each other.
The sun slowly set behind the mountain, and the slanted light shone among the trees, and the leaves became bronze. The sunlight under the trees spread out on the roofs of the old street like a golden tablecloth, and the whole old street seemed to be about to burn. The yellow-green fields in the distance were gradually submerged in a vague loneliness.
To be honest, if all distracting thoughts are removed, the dusk in Vietnam is actually very beautiful. But it is really not beautiful in my heart.
Because dusk means we will soon face countless mosquitoes, which means we will soon face the harassment of the Vietnamese army...
However, we don’t seem to have to worry about the harassment of the Vietnamese army tonight. The reason is very simple. The underground Great Wall of the old street has been basically removed by our army. Even if there are still some remnants, the tunnel entrances are under the close surveillance of our army. No matter how much we make trouble, we can’t make any big waves.
"Second Commander, come here..." Just as I was still having a headache about how to deal with mosquitoes at night, I heard the company commander's scream.
"Yes!" I responded, grabbed the sniper rifle and walked towards the company commander.
For some reason, I suddenly felt that the company commander looked at me with a strange look...
"Second Commander!" The company commander glanced at Chen Yiyi not far away and asked in a low voice: "Can you tell me about Comrade Chen Yiyi's situation in detail?"
"Oh!" I understood as the company commander said. Someone must be suspicious of Chen Yiyi's identity.
But this is not surprising. There are too many Vietnamese people who can speak Chinese, right? Any one can say that I am from China wherever I am... Although China has a strict household registration system at this time, this household registration system cannot count on the Chinese in Vietnam. Besides, this is also a battlefield. Who has the time to check the original household registration place? After all, the battle is over after you check it over there!
"Report to the company commander!" I dared not hide anything, and explained clearly the process of meeting Chen Yiyi in the tunnel. I particularly emphasized two points. One is that if it were not for Chen Yiyi, we would probably not be able to complete the task of blowing up the Vietnamese ammunition depot, and the other is that Chen Yiyi successfully blocked the Vietnamese army's breakthrough plan of internal and external cooperation.
As long as someone who is sensible, it is impossible for Chen Yiyi to take the underground Great Wall below the old street as a price.
Of course, Commander Li understood this, and nodded after pondering for a moment and said, "Well, Comrade Chen Yiyi is trustworthy, so we can use it with confidence!"
"Huh?" I was stunned when I heard this and said, "Company Commander... aren't we... not taking female soldiers?"
Although I have not been in this era for a long time, I know that the troops at this time generally do not accept female soldiers. Then, there are occasionally several female soldiers in art troupes or field hospitals. However, those who have connections and backers are not simple people, and they are usually not sent to the front-line battlefield.
But now...
"I said to Comrade Yang Xuefeng!" The company commander said meaningfully: "You have to learn to be flexible in life. Why don't you accept female soldiers? Can women stand half of the sky know?"
"Oh!" I replied in a daze, thinking that the company commander didn't think he was a mud-legged person, and he had another trick to fight. After saying so much, he didn't say the same thing.
Later I learned that the reason why my superiors accepted Chen Yiyi, a female soldier, was because she could speak Vietnamese, and the second was that she was familiar with the Vietnamese terrain and the troops. Then... She had shown good combat power before, and her superiors believed that she was fully capable of protecting herself.
From this point of view, I misunderstood just now. Not long ago, I thought someone suspected Chen Yiyi. Now it seems that this may just be a necessary political review before entering the army.
After a while, Chen Yiyi was also called up, and of course she asked if she was willing to join the People's Liberation Army... No need to think about it, Chen Yiyi agreed without thinking, but she attached a condition, that is, she wanted to be assigned to the class I was in...
"You boy!" Before leaving, the company commander secretly pulled me aside and said in a low voice: "Don't you be allowed to mess with a man and a woman for me? Be honest!"
I'm so unfair. In modern times, no one cares about how many I messed up. Now I haven't started yet... I've been warned!
Chapter completed!