Chapter 14 Episode Fourteen

Overcast clouds merged and finally covered the west slanting moon. Fog sneaked into the remnant night silently. There is no clear boundary between night and dawn. Somehow, the sky is brightened, and the veil-like fog can be seen to be gray and white. This is the time when man is most sleepy, and it is also the quietest time between day and night. The position is silent like bullets in the chamber. Jiang Man squinted in the hidden department in the middle of the night. According to Tong Chuan's order, she had to leave in a while.The guide hadn't arrived yet, so she went outside the hiding place to cool off, take a walk, and wake up.

She stands, silent... There was no wind, but there was a crackling sound in the bamboo forest. She was startled, and her heart jumped, and then, the sensitivity in the morning, the delicacy of women, and the nervousness on the battlefield were all used to capture the sound. It seems to be—someone's foot stepped on the horizontally folded tree? Something invisible seems to be approaching the position.This is judged entirely by an inexplicable feeling.Jiang Man felt a heavy object pressing on her heart, and it was about to touch her heart. Suddenly, there was another short sound of gun stocks clinking.

Jiang Man almost screamed "Someone", but was too panicked to scream. The sentinel panicked at first, and shot a shuttle. This is wrong, you should report the enemy's situation, prepare quickly, and wait for work at leisure. Da da da da!Fog returned a round of bullets. That's not right, you should hide all your voices and continue to covertly approach the position. In an instant, the soldiers in the trenches took their positions.The opponent exposed the sneak attack attempt, and simply and decisively rushed to the position and rushed towards the position.This is a special agent platoon of the Vietnamese Army.They want to be caught off guard.So when they rushed out of the fog barrier.When I saw the position, the light and heavy firearms on the position sounded together!

The enemy was suppressed under a slope about 30 meters in front of the position. It was literally muzzle to muzzle. Jiang Man felt the blood rushing to his head, and his heart constricted for a while and then quickly swelled up amidst the beating.War, war, this is war!After a long and arduous defense, unexpectedly, a flurry of panic bullets detonated the firearms of both the enemy and us.She thought for a moment that there would be sacrifices on the battlefield and needed rescue, so she turned and ran to the hiding place. She was so flustered that she missed her footsteps and fell down, hitting her face on the leg of a soldier who was shooting.

"Asshole, don't panic!" The man only glanced at it, cursed, and then concentrated on shooting at the enemy. She has no right or time to tell.She knew to be calm and not to panic, but she panicked, but not afraid.She got up, and while stumbling along the trench, she saw Tong Chuan shouting on the walkie-talkie, and saw that the sky was getting brighter.The enemy's sneak attack failed, and the soldiers behind rushed up.The Vietnamese army, which was five times larger than mine, started a strong attack.Our artillery fire supported the position a few minutes later.The artillery shells of the Vietnamese army also shot deep into me. Jiang Man couldn't tell what caliber of the firearm was roaring, and couldn't tell the difference between the howling sound of the long-range bullets and the bombing sound of the close-range bullets. He only saw the tracer bullets fired by the anti-aircraft machine guns. , Weaving a net like a meteor firework, where the tracer bullets are shot, shells will explode in a short time, fan-shaped earth and rocks will rise, and jagged shrapnel will fall not far away.

She ran back to the hiding place, grabbed the medicine box upside down, all kinds of small bottles, small cotton swabs, small ointments rolled all over the floor, some pain relievers, some beriberi, eye drops... It didn't work, it didn't work.You idiot, idiot, where's the first aid kit?There are only two first aid kits!In fact, the doctors in the camp had first-aid kits, the health workers had first-aid kits, and every soldier carried a first-aid kit, but she just couldn't remember.At this moment, the cannonballs shattered the memory of the person.Will life end in an instant, and is there her Tong Chuan and Lin Xiaolin on the battlefield?She doesn't seem to remember.She was a little flustered, and also felt excited and frenzied like never before.She tore an army satchel from the wall, stuffed some bandages and two first-aid kits, and ran to the trench in an instant, into the smoke.Red, the longest visible wave in the air, she can see where there is bright red blood at a glance, and where the soldiers bleed is her position.

The Vietnamese army was suppressed and came up again. Thunder-like roars; piercing whistling sounds; continuous automatic rifle fire, the wild bamboos that almost cut off the branches and leaves trembled in the rain of bullets; the rocks were cracked, and the sky was full of earth and rocks. Not a single leaf in the subtropical rainforest here is clean Now, not a single leaf is green anymore, there are wounds and blood everywhere.Bloodstains and wounds. Jiang Man was running back and forth on the battlefield, and her presence on the "field of life and death" had become absolutely necessary.Stop the bleeding, bandage; bandage, stop the bleeding, her military uniform was covered with a thick layer of blood.Because of the wounded on his back, crawling and crawling, the skirts and elbows of his clothes have been frayed, and the military cap has been lost for a long time.War is cruel, so cruel that there is no space for sighing.She was sometimes pushed back by the wounded who refused to go down.Sometimes her shoulders hurt from being beaten by the number on her back, but she still persisted in carrying out rescue and transportation.There were two seriously wounded people who made things difficult for her.Bandage this, push her this:

"Do him first..." Bandage that one, push her that one: "Do him first..." "Hurry up! Don't move!" "You bandage him first!..." any idea?Who can tell the priorities?There has to be a sequence.Jiang Man had no choice but to bandage the soldier with a severe head injury first, but looked at the pair of soldiers with a chest injury next to him, unable to support his eyelids and bleeding lips.She said in her heart that she must be quick, but her hands couldn't move quickly. The soldier with the chest injury wanted to smile at her, but couldn't, and was talking intermittently:

"Don't panic, head nurse...the bleeding has to stop. You don't know...me?" ah? ! "Daheng Lee"?I really don't recognize it. "I know you. Don't talk..." The "10,000-yuan household" closed his eyes and kept talking, "I'm going to your hospital again... I haven't done any meritorious service, so I don't want to go, and I... want to go." By the time she bandaged Li Daheng, he was completely unconscious.With tears in her eyes, she wrapped up the bandages on Xiao Li like a bunch of flowers.The hygienist ran over and carried away one, and she carried Xiao Li on her back.

Xiao Li was all over her body. She hunched over and crawled backwards on hands and feet.She kept turning her head, but she couldn't feel the heat from Xiao Li's mouth, and all she saw was a hand hanging down.She was afraid that that hand would always hang down, she didn't dare to look at it anymore, she couldn't help but look at it... She dragged Xiao Li to the back and put him under a ridge, trying to get a little warm breath in her mouth. That Xiao Li opened his eyes a little, his mouth moved, and he bent up with one hand, touching the pocket cover of his coat... His hands are always in his pockets...

His eyes are not closed... Jiang Man's heart was trembling—Xiao Li was still looking at the moon last night, with those staring eyes, was it a pity that he hadn't seen enough of the moon?Jiang Man closed Xiao Li's eyes, trying to put down his hand that was on his pocket, but he couldn't put it down.What's there to worry about?Jiang Man took out a chocolate candy and a piece of paper from Xiao Li's pocket.Two lines of words were written on the paper: "Hi girl, nurse, I would like to salute you on the battlefield..." This is a soldier with words in his heart!Jiang Man wiped Xiao Li's face with a handkerchief, dragged a branch, and covered the body of the martyr who had not made any achievements... She stood silently, heartbroken. Yes, soldiers may always leave this world with regrets and open their eyes in an instant. They may not have time to love, to ask for understanding and understanding from others.It's too late to wait until the 15th day of August when there is a real moon, so... everything is over. The battlefield was suddenly silent. Our side reorganized the defensive firepower in the silence; the Vietnamese army stepped up to collect the remnants in the silence to prepare for the attack. The battlefield is extremely hot. The red-brown mountain is like a red-hot anvil. The stones on the mountain are white, like burnt coal gangue. The gun barrel is hot, and the smoke is circling. The air is saturated with the smell of sulfur and blood. All the trees on the mountain have turned into scorched twigs. In the smoke screen, Tong Chuan readjusted the defensive firepower, divided the remaining people into four groups of three, and used the traditional "refueling" tactics to deal with the enemy who was about to attack.He turned back to Jiang Man and said: "Can you shoot?" "I hit the target." "You go down." "Why? Why are you always looking for me?" Tong Chuanli ignored him, and only called Xiao Lin who was slightly injured in his left arm: "Xiao Lin; the three seriously wounded must be sent down. We only have twelve people to fight. I can't give you more people. You, Jiang Man, still There are four migrant workers from the ambulance team, hurry up and send them down. Be careful on the road." Speaking of this, he only glanced at Jiang Man. Tong Chuan's facial features were blurred by the smoke, how bright those eyes looked!Brown pupils, like a piece of transparent amber in the autumn sun, sunk in the deep-set eye sockets.When she was printed in those pupils, it was so clear, bright and contagious that no one could disobey his orders. The enemy is firing zero shots.After a fierce battle, the rumbling sound of Zero Cannon seemed monotonous and lacked shock. Tong Chuan said "wait a minute", then jumped onto the edge of the trench to pick up a submachine gun and bullet belt left by the martyrs.At this moment, not far in front of him, there was a short, thunderous cannon blast, and earth, rocks, broken branches and leaves, shrapnel from the shell itself, shell casings on the position, and broken iron all splashed up.Tong Chuan was bending over to the ground, when he suddenly felt his eyes heat up, subconsciously touched with his left hand, touched the sticky crystals, his heart was shocked-eyeballs!Quickly and futilely, he stuffed the eyeballs back into their empty sockets. Ah, eyes, eyes!my eyes! He stood against the background of smoke and flames, still holding the gun and ammunition bag he had just picked up in his right hand, and still holding his eyeballs in his left hand.At this moment, not only could he see nothing, but he could also hear nothing.Cannon shots, gunshots, it doesn't matter.It wasn't just his eyes that hurt him, but also his severed nerve!What hurts is the tangible nerve and the invisible consciousness!It's over, from this moment on, the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple in the world are all eclipsed; the sun and the moon, day and night, all lose their meaning! Jiang Man was completely stunned and forgot to dodge the gun. Suddenly, she jumped up madly, and jumped onto the edge of the trench as high as a person!This is the only time in her thirty years of life that she has jumped to such a height!She faced the gunfire and hugged her Tong Chuan.This was also her only decisive and desperate hug. She cried out "Tong Chuan! Tong Chuan!" Tears blurred her eyes. Tong Chuan pushed Jiang Man away. He didn't want anyone to help him, and he refused to admit that he had become blind.He groped with his feet and jumped down the ditch.What a shock this jump caused!He felt as if a sharp-edged shrapnel pierced through his eyes, cutting, spinning, and gouging. The whole brain was drilling like a dentist's turbo drill, making a harsh creaking sound. He yelled "ah". He passed out and didn't know anything. Jiang Man immediately bandaged Tong Chuan.The head nurse almost collapsed, her hands trembling like grass in the wind.She used to be skilled at bandaging any war wounds, but when bandaging Tong Chuan, she lost all her abilities, and could hardly even lift the bandages.After a while, Tong Chuan's head moved, and he felt something hot streaming down his face, was it tears?It's tears!It was Jiang Man who was crying. "It's all right—I'm still alive." "Don't move, don't move if you tell you not to move!" The voice was right next to Tong Chuan's ear, but it seemed very far away, very far away.It was as far away as in the north, the small train station in the northern forest... Oh, under the "shooting" of the ice water, his cotton coat was soaked, and his back was freezing, freezing.It doesn't matter, in a blink of an eye, the fire in the wooden house is burning again, a chill, a scorching heat, white and red blend and devour each other... He was unconscious again. When he woke up, Tong Chuan was already lying on a stretcher.Xiao Lin and Jiang Man carried the stretcher into the trench, lifted him up gently, and were about to lift him up, but he rolled off the stretcher and stood up while supporting the trench. Jiang Man: "What are you doing!" Kobayashi: "Deputy Battalion Commander, go down," The two came to help him again, but he pushed them away roughly: "You guys go away... I know, there are only three stretchers." Xiao Lin said with tears in his eyes, "If I want another person, I will carry you on the back too." "No. Twelve people, no more reductions. Lift me down, and I'll tear off the bandages on the way!" He spoke very calmly.He is a man of connotation.He walks the talk. "Hurry up, don't be verbose. 'Passing the three hundred death line,' you have to go around. Remember, go around." He fumbled for the submachine gun and bullet pouch he bought with his eyes, and fumbled for Jiang Man's shoulder.He opened the belt of the bullet bag and said, "Jiang Man, put it on." Jiang Man stretched out his arms and head, and his hair brushed Tong Chuan's face.Kobayashi helped his sister to fix the bullet bag.Tong Chuan put the automatic rifle on Jiang Man's back again - he had to do all of these himself to be at ease.His hand touched Jiang Man's shoulder, which was slippery and beautiful, but it was a pity that the submachine gun easily slipped off. By the way, I have to count the clips, one, two... how come one is empty? "Take all the magazines with you, don't be afraid of being heavy." "Give me a grenade." it is good.Add a clip, grenade pouch, helmet, don't forget anything.He tried his best to imagine Jiang Man's appearance when he was fully armed, it must be very cool. He heard that Jiang Man was still groping for something. He heard Xiao Lin choked up and called out, "Sister..." "Don't dawdle, run quickly when you cross the '300-meter death line'." He ordered, and he stretched out his hand to flick Jiang Man's magazine again.The metallic sound of his fingers scratching through the canvas reassured him.But on the left, why is there a clip missing on the left, round iron: "It's not a magazine, what is it?" Xiao Lin said with a choked voice, "It's a grenade! My sister unscrewed the grenade." He felt Jiang Man's hands were cold, and heard her seem to smile: "Keep it for myself..." Tong Chuan's heart sank suddenly!Jiang Man, Jiang Man, how can you think there?But how could she not let her think about it?Possible, all unexpected encounters are possible.The situation of the enemy and the enemy in the mountains and jungles is complicated, and there may be some captured ones.At that time, Jiang Man only needs to pull the string of the grenade attached to the heart, and it will be over with a loud noise, which is very simple.Yeah, soldiers sometimes don't have the option to survive.A momentary feat of heroic sacrifice must have been the preparation of the will long ago and the worst estimate.But Tong Chuan hadn't had time to think that Jiang Man would die, which was more terrible than his own sacrifice.Although Tong Chuan could no longer see Jiang Man, he could feel her presence.It's been eight years, when all the barriers between them have been eliminated, and they only need to continue their love after leaving the battlefield, how can one imagine that a pile of loess will bury Jiang Man? He grabbed Jiang Man's shoulder and shook: "You have to live, you can't!" This is a naive child's words, which should not come from the mouth of a battalion commander. Jiang Man: "Yes, no - don't worry. No." In fact, she had already planted "dynamite" in the front of her heart! But she was hoping, longing.She spread the index finger and middle finger of her right hand apart, forming a "V" - oh, Victory!Victory, the "semaphore" popular among soldiers in the world since World War II, victory, victory.Unfortunately, Tong Chuan couldn't see it. She opened Tong Chuan's palm, and put the "V" character "written" by her two fingers on Tong Chuan's palm. Victory!Tong Chuan opened and closed his lips slightly, and also stretched out two fingers. "V!" "V!" The two "V"s are overlapped and overprinted into a bold, strong "V".All information, all emotions, and all languages ​​flow from one heart to another through the touch of fingertips, circulating and rushing. At the same time, they "look" at each other. She really looked at him—her head covered with bandages; He saw her with his mind—in armor. "Jiang Man, let's go." "I'm leaving." gone!she left.He walked resolutely and resolutely, as if he broke the emotional line between them the moment he turned around.She walked quickly, but suddenly, after turning into another traffic trench, she stopped and climbed up the edge of the trench.Xiao Lin hastily grabbed her.She straightened her body as much as she could, and shouted loudly: "Tong Chuan! Tong Chuan——!" The gunfire rang out again, and the flames of war swallowed her voice and her figure... The mountain road going backwards is difficult. The battle didn't just start on the high ground where Tong Chuan was.Jiang Man's party of eight, carrying three seriously wounded ships, had no choice but to walk around the battlefield.It is conceivable how the mountain road with a width of 1.5 meters was opened during the offensive.At that time, there were impenetrable wild bamboos, miscellaneous trees, and kudzu vines everywhere, and there were minefields everywhere.The soldiers lined up in threes, relying on a wire-shaped "mine detector" to pierce and probe little by little to eliminate the mines.A writer said that there is a road only when there are many people walking, no, no, here it is: there are many soldiers who sacrificed, there is a road, a road of blood! The low-lying place below is the "300-meter death line".A dirt road made of straw sacks runs through the swamp.The swamp is unobstructed, with a puddle in the east and a quagmire in the west. Occasionally, hard ground rises from the quagmire, like a dysentery head.A few half-dead trees struggled out of the swamp, their branches raised to the sky with difficulty, like people who were about to die calling for help.It is said that the enemy's anti-aircraft machine gun position has been destroyed, but if there are enemies in front, back, left, and right, it will bring danger.With his left arm hanging around his neck, Xiao Lin threw the crutch with his right hand and asked: "Sister, do you know how to shoot?" "meeting." "That's good. You lead the way. After I break, run quickly." Xiaolin was worried about letting Jiangman break through the "death line" earlier, and estimated that there would be no danger ahead, but the danger was behind, in the war zone. Jiang Man said: "Tong Chuan said that when you cross the death line, you have to go around." "Aren't you too slow? I'm going to die in a hurry." Jiang Man glanced at the sweaty migrant workers, then at the bloody bandages and bleeding lips of the three seriously wounded on the stretcher. Kobayashi: "There's nothing wrong with the swamp! Let's go..." "Hush——" Jiang Man put his finger on his lips, and tilted his ears to hear that she first saw a helmet hat flashing in the sparse forest with feminine sensitivity.About five tops.If it wasn't for the cover of bushes, the five Vietnamese soldiers would have seen them.Not seeing is just a temporary fluke.The enemy is coming here, probably a broken soldier, a little flustered.The enemy and ourselves are at both ends of a "U"-shaped road, both ends extending to the swamp. It was impossible to carry a stretcher across the swamp. It is not enough to fight against the Vietnamese army. The wounded need to be protected, and they have almost no combat effectiveness. They can't go in, they can't go back. Jiang Man said tremblingly: "Xiao Lin, I have to go around! Go quickly." Then, she suddenly rushed to the bushes, ran down the slope, and ran to the unsheltered swamp.After running for a few steps, I don't know if it was a fall or on purpose—she rolled down the mountain road with a gun in her arms, like a piece of lifeless wood. But after all, she attracted the attention of the Vietnamese army, and the enemy opened fire on the rolling Jiangman. Xiao Lin cried. He knew that Jiang Man was using his life to attract the enemy's manpower. In an instant, Jiang Man had reached the end of the "U"-shaped road and the side of the swamp.The enemy also slanted down from the other end of the "U"-shaped road and rushed towards Jiangman. Xiao Lin cried and told the migrant workers, "Hurry up!" One migrant worker's legs were shaking, and his hands were trembling and he couldn't lift himself up.Xiao Lin kicked him hard: "Damn it, go away...!" Jiang Man first threw a grenade, and then leaned against a tree to shoot at the enemy. After fighting for a while, she seemed to wake up in ignorance, and ran up the road made of straw bags on the swamp, trying to lure the enemy as far away as possible. The enemy was firing guns into the sky and shooting behind Jiang Man's heels—it seemed that they wanted to capture prisoners.Jiang Man did his best to run this long-distance race on the death line.She ran a hundred and fifty meters, she seemed uneasy, and looked back to see if the enemy had caught up?Catch up!The enemy lined up and stepped into the swamp for about fifty meters. She continued to shoot, but after a few explosions, the gun went silent! She finished a magazine in a daze. Enemy bullets flew over her left and right.She felt nervous and wanted to remove the magazine and replace it with a new one.shit!Won't!The Vietnamese army howled "Nuosong Kongye" and shot at her left, right, right and under her feet.She held the gun helplessly and was stunned for a moment. She suddenly jumped over the swamp! The mud sank past her knees, and her heart sank for a moment, then rose again.She holds the gun in one hand, throws the helmet with the other, and her hair is blowing out.She waded through the mud and ran to the depths of the swamp. The enemy also froze. Was she going to die in the swamp?Yes, she had to wait to die. She knew that the enemy's guns were not polite.She looked back and saw that the stretcher team had disappeared, and she murmured tremblingly from the bottom of her heart: "Hit——kill me..." While turning around, she looked a little desperate and her face was dead. Same paleness.The sticky mud was splashed by her, and she swung her submachine gun upside down to hit the mud.The grass in the mud was picked up, and the water in the mud was squeezed out, forming an arc around her, expanding her outline and blurring her outline. Jiang Man fell into the mud. When she got up, she was completely a clay figurine! Death is just an instant on the death line.But Jiang Man jumped forward facing death.She is both crazy and calm.She estimated that Xiao Lin and the stretcher team had already escaped.She didn't slam the grenade that unscrewed Gail on her chest, she still had hope of life! She looked back again—she looked at the mountains, at the jungle.For a split second, she looked up at the sky - among the layers of clouds, there was a corner of the blue sky... The Vietnamese army did not jump into the swamp.The frightened bird didn't dare to delay too long, and a very old Vietnamese soldier raised his gun.The gun went off. The clouds are spinning, the swamp is spinning, the road made of straw bags is spinning, the blue is spinning, the black and brown is spinning, and the gray is spinning... Is that the end?What did I do just now? !she muttered to herself.At this moment, she saw the fire in the board room of the forest train station; she saw Lin Dalin's family walking on the cobbled river beach; she saw Tong Chuan and her fingers overlapped to form a "V"...she She had no choice but to leave Tong Chuan, who was blind, because she could no longer serve him with all her heart and soul.She even opened the corners of her mouth and smiled: "The quality is originally clean, and the clean will come and go, the highest principle of death in Chinese tradition."Support her jumping into the swamp.She chose the swamp for her grave, yes, her grave.How lucky is it that the dead body does not fall into the hands of the enemy?She felt bleeding from her shoulder blades... She saw a half-dead tree trembling in front of her, and her last wish was: to rush over and grab the tree, muttering a strange sentence in her heart, seeing a green leaf, I Can live; green leaves... I can!green…… Xiao Huang put Tong Chuan in the hiding place, Tong Chuan fell into a coma for a while, then groped out again.He was carrying half a box of grenades and stumbled.The grenade box kept knocking against the wall of the trench, and every time he knocked, his head would hit the corner of the trench or the grenade box. Every shock was transmitted from his blind eye socket to every nerve, causing pain. Endure the pain.He had to stick to the trench wall, judge and find his position by the sound of shooting, the smell of his comrades, and the feeling of his feet touching the ground. This was the sixth attack of the Vietnamese army. The "refueling tactics" are about to use up all the "oil", and there is only one squad leader commanding three comrades who can fight.The reinforcement company has not yet arrived, perhaps because they are all supporting their positions, or perhaps because the reinforcements are blocked.More than half of the corpses of a reinforced battalion of the enemy have suffered heavy casualties, and the attack is desperate.In any case, this piece of land is still under our feet, and the position has not been lost, so I always feel a little at ease in my heart.Tong Chuan moved the grenade to a soldier with a wounded right arm, and twisted the grenade cover.He mechanically and constantly twisted the grenade cover, and that was all he could and should do.On the battlefield filled with gunpowder and rain of bullets, two disabled soldiers formed an unsound but threatening combat force, persevered, and fought!They can't change the throwing position, they are set in a bunker, and the possibility of sacrifice exists at any time.This point, they all know, have already made preparations.For this war, they have actually paid their lives piecemeal. The cruel battlefield has become a sea of ​​flames and smoke...