Chapter 32 Chapter Twelve

When Heifengjian dropped the first shell, Cheng Ming was still sitting in the company headquarters' shelter.He heard the sound of an explosion right away, and had the feeling that he was just longing for the enemy's shells to fly here, to let the whole company know that he is not a coward, and the enemy's shells will arrive! Without the slightest hesitation, he got out of the bunker exit, judging from the rising smoke that the shells probably landed in the third row of the campsite; At this time, he only had the feeling of the enemy in his heart, and he had long forgotten the idea of ​​showing his bravery in front of Quan Lian!

At this time, several shells fell back and forth, left and right, into the ravine and the woods on both sides.Cheng Ming heard the howling sound of a shell falling to the ground, his face turned pale unconsciously, and he crawled to the ground early, buried his head deep behind a rock, trembling all over, waiting for the shell to explode on the ground.For a split second his consciousness of life was left with only this cannonball; the cannonball fell down a slope far away from him and exploded, and he heard a dull sound. ——The stagnant consciousness is flowing again: he should quickly remind Quan Lian to hide!

Running into the woods ahead, Cheng Ming's legs were still trembling; but the loud whistle in his mouth emboldened him, making him think that he was doing something important, and without him reminding Quan Lian, I don't know how many people will be killed by the shells!He really saw a person in the campsite in the third row who heard the sound of the shell explosion but did not hide in the cat's ear hole. The leader of the third row, Shang Guanfeng, was a student officer who bumped into him last night, but now he seemed to be petrified. He didn't know what he was doing; he cursed at him twice, and rushed towards the second row of campsites; but the forest was already empty, and he only saw a shell exploded in the front row of campsites. There was a black and red firework, and a masson pine immediately burst into flames; a section of tree roots exposed outside the ground made him stagger, he fell down, got up, fear swelled in his mind, he decided not to go It's a row, go back to the cover department of the company headquarters!

Now he is no longer running in the woods; the fall just now sent him down the slope, and when he got up again he found himself outside the woods; running outside the woods certainly didn't have as many obstacles as in the woods, and the speed was much faster , but he couldn't help worrying that the shells would fall right in front of him, so that there would be no tree trunks around him for shelter. Thinking of this, he changed his route and went back into the woods—not going deep, but only in the woods. Run where the trunks are sparse at the edge of the forest.Running, his footsteps and the urgent and chaotic thoughts in his head froze at the same time——

Two meters away, on a piece of green grass that was illuminated by the sun, a very dazzling thing appeared.At first, what he saw clearly was only a pair of military trouser legs that were the same color as the grass, and then he realized that it was a complete human leg that had been cut from the hip! It was a living human leg, as if the life was still in it—he didn't see the bloody end, but only the undamaged leg in the large infantry stab-resistant shoe; There was still a piece of red mud on the bottom of the shoe, and from the middle of the mud, a grass stem with a small pink-white wild flower stood straight up, and three or five fresh wild flower petals were still blowing in the breeze. Shake softly and charmingly!

No smoking craters, burning bushes and grass, no other human remains, just this whole human leg and the verdant April grass!Cheng Ming's head buzzed, and the blood all over his body burned like gasoline meeting flames!He looked at the human leg for two seconds, then hurriedly walked around it.It was only a few steps away from the company headquarters, but his legs were too weak to walk! He finally walked into the shelter, and seeing the instructor Liang Pengfei huddled in a corner, he immediately became angry! "Instructor, the shells have killed our people, and you are still staying here safely!... I went to see it just now, it is in the woods on the other side of the third row! You should go and have a look, think Think about how to deal with it!"

Cheng Ming hit Liang Pengfei's vitals.Before the war, the party branch of the company held a meeting and divided the responsibilities of the two of them: Cheng Ming was mainly in charge of the battle command, and Liang Pengfei was in charge of the wounded and martyrs.Now that something like this happened, of course Liang Pengfei couldn't continue hiding in the shelter! "Didn't you just go there? Why don't you deal with it!" Liang Pengfei still rebuked him; a shell fell close and exploded, and with the help of the skylight pouring in from the entrance and exit, everyone in the shelter saw his appearance. A look of panic to the point of hysteria.

Liang Pengfei waited until the second batch of enemy shells fell and no explosion could be heard outside, then he got out of the shelter and ran towards the third row of camps.The first batch of shells fell into Heifengjian, and he thought it was our artillery that fired in the wrong direction.The enemy's artillery hadn't counterattacked all morning, so it seemed inconceivable that the artillery fired suddenly at this moment; when he realized that the inconceivable thing had happened, he realized that he was back in the woods on the slope; The lights are similar, but the direction of flow is quite different.Liang Pengfei thought for a moment, he had just secretly made up his mind to live, and the real test was coming!Just like Cheng Ming ran out of the shelter without hesitation when he heard the sound of the cannon, he just thought of this and ignored everything, and ran back to the shelter without hesitation!

But now he had to come out; Cheng Ming had just walked through the entire company's campsite, and it was the time when the enemy's artillery fire was at its heaviest, so he was more or less surprised that this man was still so brave. Another death happened, and it would be dereliction of duty if he didn't come out again.Liang Pengfei understood every rule about political work before the war, and one of the rules was: Casualties should be dealt with immediately and kept as secret as possible, so as not to affect the fighting mood of all commanders and fighters! He had just walked a dozen steps forward, when the third batch of shells whimpered and flew over like the wind; he wanted to turn back to the company's shelter, but his legs gave way and he fell to the ground under his feet; It seemed that it took several seconds before the shells exploded in the ravine and in the woods, causing his eardrums, which had been tortured since dawn, to tear again and again; suddenly he found himself lying on the ground The terrain of this piece of ground is very high, and the surrounding tree trunks that can be used as shelters are also very sparse. He hurriedly climbed up again, and rushed to a densely wooded depression at the bottom of the slope, and found himself at the edge of the forest; Braving the artillery fire, he hurriedly ran north from the direction of the battalion headquarters command post.It's Deputy Head Liu!Liang Pengfei hesitated for a moment, but instead of lying down, he hid behind a big tree tremblingly, but he didn't dodge completely - he hid behind the big tree to prevent the artillery, and he didn't dodge completely to let the deputy commander see Own!

Liu Zongkui ran with one foot high and one foot low, his face was flushed, his eyes seemed to be ignited with flames, he looked into the woods on both sides of the valley, trying to find something that worried him.A shell made a long "chirp" sound and landed on the slope below him. He hurriedly fell on the ground and rolled on his side, and landed in a crater that was still emitting green smoke.Looking up into the woods above, I found a person standing behind the tree! "Who is that?!" He roared, and quickly saw who the other party was, "What?...It's you?! What are you doing standing there?!" Liu Zongkui shouted at Liang Pengfei sternly and almost furiously, The panic from the shell just now remained on his face—it disappeared immediately, leaving only the tense, stern, and impulsive expression characteristic of a commander in a critical state.

Liang Pengfei didn't answer him right away, because another shell exploded in the forest above him; after the severe dizziness passed, he opened his mouth tremblingly: "Report to the deputy head of the regiment, I'll come out to check the concealment of the troops!... There are still three rows of dead people, I will deal with it!" Liu Zongkui was a little surprised!He didn't realize that Jiulian, the instructor who gave him a bad impression last night, was a brave person!But it should be the company commander's job to come out and check the concealment of the troops! ...Thinking of this, a sentence blurted out from Liu Zongkui's mouth: "Where's your company commander?!" "The company commander is staying in the shelter!" Liang Pengfei replied, pointing his head toward the depths of the woods behind him.Deputy Commander Liu's words concealed dissatisfaction with Cheng Ming and appreciation for himself. He realized it, so he thought: I was right to come out this time. Deputy Commander Liu can prove that I did not hide when the enemy bombarded me. ! "You go back and hide too!" Liu Zongkui realized that Liang Pengfei had discovered the secret in his heart, snorted angrily, and shouted viciously.Although Jiulian's instructor performed well today, he still couldn't make himself like this person, "It's not too late to deal with the dead man later, don't lose yourself!" Liu Zongkui stumbled forward and ran forward; another shell screamed and fell, Liang Pengfei couldn't hold on, and suddenly fell to the ground.The explosion point of the shell was far away from him, but he still choked on the dust he raised when he fell down.Fear quickly expanded in my heart.He suddenly thought: It was very risky for him to stand and talk to deputy head Liu just now, especially if it went against his determination to live on just now! He did not go back to the company headquarters.He was already far away from the company's shelter, and he was afraid that a shell would happen to fall on the way back.The shells were still exploding from left to right, and he instinctively felt that lying here was safer than walking around! After the third batch of shells fell, Heifengjian temporarily regained its calm.Liang Pengfei felt a little relieved, stood up and walked towards the third row.After walking a few steps, he also stopped at the place where Cheng Ming stopped suddenly! ——He also saw the complete human leg still wearing green army trousers! But what he saw was not the scene that Cheng Ming saw twenty minutes ago: because a shell fell nearby not long ago, it ignited the grass in the ground, the flames spread, and the green grass around the human leg was shining It has been burned to one piece and one piece to another, and has lost its original vitality.The small pink flower stuck to the sole of the martyr's shoe also disappeared. It withered rapidly under the artillery fire and was shaken to the grass.So what Liang Pengfei saw was not a human leg in a lively scene, but a human leg lying in a lifeless scene.Although the latter scene shocked Liang Pengfei very much, he felt that it was not a living leg after all, but an ugly dead thing! Liang Pengfei spent an important moment in his life in front of this picture with a feeling of terror, pity and disgust; he tried his best to get rid of the feeling of terror and nausea, but reason and thought are not omnipotent after all, the more he The more he tried to suppress them, the more strongly did these two feelings control him; the more he tried to convince himself that it was not a human leg, but part of a martyr's body, the more he could not help thinking that it was only a human leg. , a human leg that has nothing to do with a martyr! With this horrible and disgusting feeling, he ran through the camps in the third row and the second row, and called the assistant instructor and a stretcher team of migrant workers in the first row (they camped in the same row), and found the other side of the martyr's body. After a few parts, it was confirmed that the victim was not a member of the third row, but the deputy of the sixth squad of the second row.Liang Pengfei asked the migrant workers to wrap up the body and carry it to a place where no one was around. He asked the second platoon leader Cen Hao and the company commander to take a look. It was a formal farewell to the martyr, and without delay, he asked the migrant workers to take the martyr Carried away!Liang Pengfei didn't let the second platoon leader leave, he told Cen Hao: The news of the death of the deputy of the sixth squad must not be known to anyone in the whole company! On the way back to the shelter of the company headquarters from a row of campsites, Liang Pengfei and Cheng Ming were attacked by another batch of enemy shells together.After lying down, Liang Pengfei realized that they were lying on the place where the human leg was lying down just now!The horror and nausea that had never been forgotten surged up clearly again, causing Liang Pengfei's throat to twitch, and he was about to spit out something.For the first time, the following thought came to his mind: he would never come back to the shelter alive again!Although he has made up his mind to live, the war ignores all this!Your survival and death are beyond your control!