Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen

The sun has risen, and the grassland is more gorgeous. A fat and clumsy sheep walked past chewing grass.Wu Liuyi approached quietly, then pounced, but the sheep ran away in panic.Wu Liuyi was chasing a gerbil running away in another direction, he flew out with a piece of dirt, and finally knocked the guy out of his wits. After a night of running, several exhausted people slept in a sunken grass, and Gan Xiaoning was still licking his lips in his sleep.Wu Liuyi came over and sat quietly beside them.Cheng Cai was the one who slept most vigilantly. He opened his eyes and looked at Wu Liuyi's back. He saw Wu Liuyi's masseter muscles were chewing, and asked involuntarily, "What are you eating?"

Wu Liuyi said breakfast. "Breakfast?" Gan Xiaoning's eyes suddenly opened in a daze. Wu Liuyi said that you can eat it too. Gan Xiaoning's mind suddenly became clear, and when he opened his eyes, he jumped up: "My God! This guy is eating mice!" Wu Liuyi put a few gerbils by his feet. A mouse is a mouse, and it is always uncomfortable to watch.Wu Liuyi said, "It's not a mouse, it's a gerbil, also called a prairie rat." They were all frightened, watching Wu Liuyi chewing there dumbfounded, trying to resist the feeling of wanting to vomit.Gan Xiaoning couldn't believe his eyes: "Are you a cat? I mean, is this delicious?"

It's not delicious, Wu Liuyi's face is even distorted, but he is still chewing: "You are very lucky, you can eat when you wake up, I am chewing while remembering how they looked when they were alive." Finally, Wu Liuyi Liu Yi frowned and said, "I can't eat any more, I'm going to throw up if I eat another one, these are all yours." Enduring the numbness of his scalp, Xu Sanduo picked it up with a bayonet, but dared not move.Wu Liuyi cut another piece and threw it into his mouth.Gan Xiaoning was still shaking his head desperately: "Is it worth eating this? It's not the eight-year war of resistance against US aggression and aid Korea to fight back in self-defense... We are surrounded by our own people."

Wu Liuyi narrowed his eyes, looked at the rising sun and said, "I don't know if it's worth it, but I know that if I don't eat, no one can survive today." Cheng Cai had almost the same expression as Gan Xiaoning: "You really want to win that much?" Wu Liuyi looked at him: "If you don't want to win, what are you doing here? This is not an exercise, this is elimination. Remember, if you want three, we have seven. If you don't eat, you are outside the three, and I am among the three." Inside." Xu Sanduo finally got the courage to cut off a piece of meat and looked at it.Wu Liuyi looked at him encouragingly.Xu Sanduo also looked at him, and the eyes of the two seemed to be competing. "You still want me to say, take a bite for Dad?" Wu Liuyi smiled teasingly.Xu Sanduo finally threw the meat into his mouth, closed his eyes, straightened his neck, and swallowed.

"You have to chew to get used to the taste in your mouth," Wu Liuyi said. "I'll start chewing after this one bite," Xu Sanduo put another piece into his mouth, and he said, "I'll go to fight gerbils next time, so that you don't feel sick when you think about it." Seeing Xu Sanduo ate it, the grown-ups also picked it up The knife, started to eat, only Gan Xiaoning was still hesitating. As soon as one soldier put the first bite of meat in his mouth, he couldn't help covering his mouth and ran away to vomit. Wu Liuyi chewed hard: "You can't make it to the end, but we can."

Several high-speed motor vehicles were driving fast on the grassland, and the armored reconnaissance battalion in Gaocheng started their work again. Twenty-four hours have passed since the elimination. Xu Sanduo and his group rushed across an unobstructed flat ground at a speed almost no less than that of a vehicle, and plunged into a ditch.A car drove past tens of meters away from them, and several people lowered their bodies tightly.Xu Sanduo lay beside Gan Xiaoning. Gan Xiaoning was sweating profusely, staring at a grasshopper on the blade of grass in a daze, and said to himself, what if you were born fried?Bring your own salt and pepper and pop it into my mouth.

Xu Sanduo warned in a low voice: "Be careful, don't make trouble." Gan Xiaoning sighed and said, "I'm hungry! Stars are flying around my eyes." Xu Sanduo hesitated for a moment and said, "Wait a minute, I have something to eat here." This sentence made the surrounding ears prick up involuntarily.Gan Xiaoning smiled proudly: "My good monitor, I knew you didn't eat your breakfast ration." Wu Liuyi said: "Yes, you took his share and his opportunity." Gan Xiaoning said: "Who will eat his? What's the use of a breakfast ration? I have a big appetite, and I made a bet with Bai Tiejun that time, I would kill nine of the big meat buns. Alas, Lao Bai has been honorably discharged from the army, and now he must be eating spicy food." .”

Wu Liuyi got a little angry, and Gan Xiaoning babbled: "What are we planning? It's almost the 21st century and I'm still starving here, thinking about a bun." Everyone was a little bit emotional, but also a little sad. They lay motionless in the soil nest for two full minutes.Because of hunger and fatigue, two minutes, and then ran for three hours. Several people finally found a small ditch, got down on the ground, drank water regardless of whether it was clear or muddy, and filled their own water bottles.Xu Sanduo pushed Gan Xiaoning and winked, but Gan Xiaoning didn't come over.

Gan Xiaoning shook his head: "No, I really don't want to." Xu Sanduo: "You can't eat that thing, there's no shame in it, and I can't eat it either." "Squad leader, it's your ability to keep you, but it's my incompetence to eat it," Gan Xiaoning suddenly dodges and pushes Xu Sanduo away, only then did the gunshots come.It was a secret sentry set up by Qi Huan and several old A's here, and Xu Sanduo escaped his shot by luck. Wu Liuyi turned over on the spot, and the machine gun swept like a torrential rain.Chengcai's sniper rifle searched nervously, and occasionally shot, hitting the opponent so hard that he dared not show his head.Xu Sanduo shouted: "Retreat! The reconnaissance battalion is nearby!"

Gan Xiaoning took cover behind him with a gun in his hand, and a group of people rushed up the river ditch and fled into the depression.The motor vehicle that had just passed by had already heard the sound, Gan Xiaoning stood in the driveway and fired, causing the machine gunner to smoke, and the co-pilot took his place.Xu Sanduo stared dumbfounded at Gan Xiaoning's undisguised shooting at the high-speed motor vehicle, and was finally aimed at by Qi Huan who rushed out from the diagonal stab. Xu Sanduo: "Xiao Ning! Run!" It was too late, Qi Huan aimed at Gan Xiaoning and pulled the trigger.Wu Liuyi kicked Xu Sanduo, and several of them ran away.Qi Huan, old A and the motor vehicle slowly surrounded Gan Xiaoning. Gan Xiaoning stood there coughing in the white smoke. Seeing them having fun, he smiled helplessly, bitterly, and rascally: "Is there anything to eat?" ?”

Xu Sanduo and the others were finally able to hide in the crevices of the rocks after running through many ditches and ridges.Everyone was sweating and panting, but they kept aiming their guns at the way they came to be vigilant. "Gan Xiaoning is lost!" Xu Sanduo said to Wu Liuyi. Wu Liuyi was a little annoyed: "I know!" Xu Sanduo felt heartbroken, he didn't understand why?Gan Xiaoning could run away. Wu Liuyi said, "He did it on purpose!" Xu Sanduo still didn't understand.Chengcai's tone on the side was very calm: "He can't afford to be hungry! He doesn't want to go hungry! He's giving up! He doesn't even know how people live!" Xu Sanduo glared at him: "I don't believe it! Xiao Ning is not this kind of person!" Several people were a little distraught and yelled desperately.Finally seeing no one on the way, Wu Liuyi put down his machine gun, panted and said, "He can't afford to be hungry, he can't eat rats, he's weak-willed, that's right. But he also knows he can't stand it anymore, no Give up, don't give up, we won't give up on him, and he doesn't want to hold us back, that's all." Chengcai is still calm and disdainful just now.Xu Sanduo glanced at him again, closed the bolt, and said in extreme frustration, "He's stupid. It's a great thing for us to rush to the end together." Wu Liuyi: "He's afraid that he won't be able to resist eating your ration. He knows it's what you saved for the final sprint." Cheng Cai was a little dumbfounded, as far as he was concerned, he never thought about these things. Chengcai: "How can there be so many! Let me tell you, giving up is a subconscious thing, can you think about it?" Wu Liuyi: "Being good or bad is something that you subconsciously change your mind about." Xu Sanduo: "He really wants to go to the end with us, remember this." Chengcai stopped talking.The silent and dejected squad moved on. On the other side of the grassland, Gan Xiaoning was sitting in the car without looking up, eating the few field rations given to him unceremoniously, so hungry that he almost ate the packaging bags.He ate and ate, and shouted to them: "Water." A soldier with smoky hair on his head handed him the water bottle, and praised: "Brother, you are really accurate, how did you practice?" ?” Gan Xiaoning said, "Is there any more bread?" Qi Huan gave him another piece of bread, and put a sausage in it: "Eat slowly, there is a roast lamb in the camp." Gan Xiaoning tore off half of the bread in one bite: "I'm really looking forward to it. I don't hate you guys anymore .” Qi Huan picked up the intercom with a wry smile: "Hunter No. 5, there are six people fleeing towards you." While eating, Gan Xiaoning was still looking forward to it: "If you are really an enemy, I will knock you out and destroy the communication equipment." Qi Huan put down the communicator and looked at him angrily and funny. Gan Xiaoning was absent-mindedly looking at the direction in which the comrades who were getting further and further away from behind the car were fleeing, and at this moment he finally felt a little compassionate. As dusk fell, the remaining six people were still trekking hard on the grassland.The formation has changed, now there are two carrying one, and the remaining three are guarding the front and back.The soldier being held was the soldier who ate and vomited out in the morning, and the people holding him were Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi.The soldier nearly collapsed, his legs dragged feebly across the blades of grass.There is still an endless wilderness on all sides, and several people seem to be surrounded by the wilderness. A soldier looked at the compass and asked, "Have you gone more than half?" Chengcai looked at the distant horizon and said, "If the direction is right, it's about the same." Xu Sanduo had been taking care of the unconscious soldier, he glanced at Wu Liuyi, Wu Liuyi nodded helplessly, and the two finally put the soldier down. Xu Sanduo said worriedly: "This can't go on like this." Wu Liuyi took a closer look: "He's already dying. If he drags on, he'll become severely dehydrated, and he won't be able to save him." The soldier struggled on the ground, shaking his head vigorously. Xu Sanduo suddenly took off his field backpack and fumbled for something in it.Cheng Cai grabbed Xu Sanduo's hand: "You can't save him with that little food, you'd better keep it for yourself." Xu Sanduo still couldn't bear it: "We can't make the decision for him?" "You know that he can't hold on anymore!" Chengcai yelled angrily, "Xu Sanduo, even you put me out of the circle now! Well, you are kind, selfless, affectionate and righteous, but you don't make decisions! He He must abstain, and he will abstain if he is sober! But you don’t have the courage to make a necessary decision!” Several people looked at him, their eyes were not disgusted, on the contrary, what Chengcai said hit their point, they were too hard on the outside, but too soft on the inside. "You don't dare, are you sorry? I'll come! Anyway, in your eyes, I'm not a good person! I'm selfish, I only think about myself. Okay, I can take it, I'll do it! You don't need to be ashamed , I will help myself solve the problem." Chengcai looked at the soldier and said quietly: "Help him solve the problem, and help you solve the problem too!" Wu Liuyi pulled Xu Sanduo, turned around and walked away.The soldier patted Chengcai on the shoulder and followed silently.Cheng Cai took out the flare gun on his body, looked at the few people who had gone away, and looked at the vast twilight on the grassland.Then he pulled the trigger, and a yellow flare roared into the sky.Cheng Cai glanced at the soldier again, put the flare gun beside him, turned around and ran away. The signal flare radiated light in the sky and fell slowly. Soon, a car drove over, and the people in the car quickly found the soldier on the ground.The field life-saving equipment is carried with you, and the ambulance personnel started to rescue on the spot.The soldier was carried into the car by the medics on a stretcher. There were only five soldiers left, and they crouched in the grass, watching the vehicle going away.Wu Liu said to Cheng Cai who was lying beside him, "Did you use your own flare gun?" Cheng Cai nodded: "I don't need it." "So sure?" Chengcai: "If there are three people, I am one of the three. If there is only one, it must be me." Wu Liuyi: "Chengcai, when Qilian was here, you and Sanduo were the two people I disliked the most. Now that Qilian is gone, you two are the two people I remember the most. What you want is very practical, it's not a sin .You don't have to feel guilty, you're only with us because it's useful." Cheng Cai was stunned for a while, then slapped haha. Wu Liuyi: "Especially at this time, it shouldn't be like this." Chengcai hesitated for a while: "I will try, thank you for reminding me." They watched the ambulance until it was out of sight. The surrounding terrain is the rolling low hills on the prairie, and several people are trying to find a direction on the compass.However, there were no stars at all, and it was a lost night at all. "I think it should be four o'clock." Xu Sanduo said.He is firm. The other soldier was also firm. He felt that seven o'clock was the right direction. Chengcai immediately became anxious: "Look carefully, this place is almost tens of kilometers away, and there is no time to turn back if you make a mistake." The soldier retorted: "There is no reference at all! Who doesn't speak according to their intuition?" As a result of the differences of opinion, the already pitifully small team was divided into two teams. Xu Sanduo, Wu Liuyi, and Chengcai watched the other two soldiers disappear into the darkness of the grassland in an instant. Chengcai took one last look at Xu Sanduo, then at the two figures who were no longer visible in the darkness, and said, "Xu Sanduo, you are wrong, you must be wrong." Xu Sanduo didn't speak.Cheng Cai didn't wait for him to speak, he turned around and chased after the two of them. Wu Liuyi raised his machine gun and said to Xu Sanduo, "Let's go too." Xu Sanduo followed Wu Liuyi until he saw that Chengcai's figure was gone. The two of them trudged on the grass with one foot deep and the other shallow, and the surroundings seemed extremely silent.Wu Liuyi suddenly asked: "Xu Sanduo, do you know which direction I think it is? Seven o'clock—same as them." Xu Sanduo snorted, "But you didn't say that." "Having said that, you must still walk in the direction of four o'clock, alone, right?" Wu Liuyi smiled wryly. "I will... Liuyi, what if I'm wrong?" "It's either a failure or a success. We've come to this point, and there's not much difference between success and failure." Xu Sanduo shook his head: "You think I'm alone in Qilian, and I shouldn't be left alone here anymore." Wu Liuyi smiled, a little embarrassed, and said: "Haha, am I that unrealistic? Two legs grow on my body, I like to go wherever I like, okay? And your sense of direction is always there. Best of all." "After so many things, I just want to tell you two words, sorry and thank you." Xu Sanduo said. Wu Liuyi started laughing: "Boring." Xu Sanduo said: "Now more than ever, I hope that we can be successful, and we can still be together if we succeed. Let's not compete with each other anymore, okay? We can be friends." Wu Liuyi squinted at him for a while, and then spat out the blade of grass he was chewing: "It's really blunt, you said it earlier, if it's not a friend, what else is it? So stop moaning, and I'll just turn around Seven o'clock direction..." He suddenly rushed over and knocked Xu Sanduo down. A small group of night patrol motor vehicles drove by, and the two of them fell into the grass. At this time, someone came stealthily behind.Xu Sanduo's gun also quickly hit his helmet.It turned out to be a talent!He whispered: "It's me! I..." Xu Sanduo covered his mouth with his hand, until the car in front quickly moved away. Wu Liuyi looked around vigilantly: "Why are you back?" Chengcai smiled embarrassingly: "Thinking about it, it's better for us to be together, three soldiers from the Seventh Company, and three fellow villagers." Xu Sanduo stretched out his hand and pulled him up. Among the three of them, he seemed to be in high spirits before he became a talent, a bit like trying to cheer himself up, Xu Sanduo was in the middle and scanned the surrounding darkness, and Wu Liuyi stopped after. Walking silently, Chengcai remembered something and couldn't help but speak. He said, "Now we can say, the three of us are sure! The three of us will get into the ghost car of old A together! We will enter the A brigade together." ..." After Chengcai came back, he talked a lot. I understand that he came back out of trust, and he said so much because of distrust.He had to convince himself to continue trusting us.Cheng Cai has always only believed in himself, but now his balance is tilting, it is a pity that he picked a time when he shouldn't speak. Before he finished speaking, Wu Liuyi interrupted him: "Hey, if you are such a vigilant ahead, let me replace you?" But Chengcai's mouth was still full of excitement, he said no more, the three of us should find a place to rest, I will watch you rest, you can rest assured!With enough energy, tomorrow will be the last sprint... Wu Liuyi didn't say a word, and rushed to him with a machine gun in his hand. After letting Chengcai die, he began to guard the front. Chengcai suppressed his excitement a little: "The more I go on this road, the more confident I become. I think you are right. Four o'clock is right. In fact, I was a little muttered at the beginning, seven o'clock direction..." Suddenly, Xu Sanduo pointed to the front and said, "That mountain is so familiar." Chengcai said: "I also feel familiar. The mountains on the grassland are like steamed buns. Do you know why? Xu Sanduo, because..." But Xu Sanduo thought, turning around the bend in the mountain, there should be a road... Chengcai also suddenly felt that something was wrong, he stepped forward and took a few steps to see, it really was a road. He stopped. When Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi caught up, seeing Cheng Cai's strange expression, they immediately understood.Xu Sanduo smiled happily, and they had already reached the station of Class Five of Red Sanlian. A red flag and a sentry box stood at the intersection.The three of them bent their backs and groped towards the huts where the fifth squad was stationed. Back here again, the endless horizon is endlessly sneaking around, and the grasshoppers whizzing past are called stray bullets by Li Meng, and they always look at the gerbil with big cheeks and say that it really looks like Xu Sanduo.The company commander said, young and frivolous, happy times. When walking on the small road paved by Xu Sanduo, Cheng Cai couldn't help saying, "Xu Sanduo, your path." Xu Sanduo: "It's not mine." In the darkness, Chengcai's eyes were full of light. He said: "In the past six months, when I saw this road, I thought that if you could get out by it, so could I." Wu Liuyi, who was walking in front, suddenly made a gesture back, and the three quickly fell to the ground. A soldier came out of the house, sprayed water from his mouth, turned and went back. As the just-retired squad leader of Class 5, Chengcai of course knows that the outside is pine and the inside is pine, and all the shifts are close to loose boards. With their skills, no one knows this week. The best thing is that this is also called the military camp, the reconnaissance camp and the old A digging three feet will not come to toss the friendly camp. Chengcai looked at the two of them and said, "Listen to me, I promise you can have a good sleep under the ceiling." Xu Sanduo looked at Wu Liuyi, and Wu Liuyi nodded in agreement. There was light in the dormitory of Class 5, and the soldiers inside were still watching TV and joking.When a soldier got up to close the window, Xu Sanduo, who was adjourned, jumped into the kitchen.Looking at this room that hasn't changed much in the past few years, Xu Sanduo's eyes were a little dazed.Wu Liuyi and Chengcai, who were exhausted, came in afterward. They hid on the pile of rice and bread, and then lay down.Once you can rest, your body will fall apart. Wu Liuyi took advantage of the opportunity to remind Xu Sanduo: "You should also hurry up and rest?" Xu Sanduo looked at the lights in the room and replied softly: "Let me take a look first." "He came here after he came out of the recruit company." Cheng Cai's mouth was a little careless and a little disdainful. Wu Liuyi asked Chengcai again: "How did you get here?" Naturally, it is embarrassing to become a talent: "It's a springboard for being transferred to a non-commissioned officer. Anyway, it's an embarrassing thing... But the will is bright, we are back together again, aren't we, huh?" He sniffed subconsciously as he spoke, as if smelling What, he sat up straight away. Wu Liuyi smiled: "Sit down, I'm just asking casually." Chengcai shook his head nervously, and said, "No, no, comrade scouts, haven't you found anything?" Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi looked at the concealed door inexplicably, looked at the room, and shook their heads. Shake your head. Chengcai stood up straight, walked to the vegetables piled by the wall, and patted the dried leg of lamb hanging on the hook: "All of these are very good, but I believe there are better ones!" He finally found Aiming at his goal, he hummed a little song and lifted the lid of the stove.The contents of the pot made him so excited that he could sing in his voice. He said: "Dear Wu Ban, you didn't let me down for the first time! Comrades, the cutest thing in the world! I wouldn't bring it to any girl." In exchange! A whole ten steamed buns! I have scolded these boys several times for their habit of making meals for several days a day, and now I realize that this is really a very good habit!" Chengcai grabbed a steamed bun from the pot, and he didn't seem to want to eat but to kiss. He glanced at Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi, and changed his mind to bring out the whole pot of steamed buns: "Old soldier, eat the first one, thank you today Prepare breakfast for us." Wu Liuyi's throat twitched, but he seemed a little dazed.Chengcai said: "Ten! It's enough to eat, why are you being polite? Xu Sanduo!" Xu Sanduo looked at the steamed bun with a bewildered expression, obviously resisting the temptation: "You shouldn't eat it." Cheng Cai's eyes widened: "Shouldn't you eat it?" Xu Sanduo abided by the principle: "Assuming that the enemy is in an uninhabited wilderness, there will be no one...so you can't eat it, and eating this is considered cheating." Chengcai looked at the mantou and then at them: "You two are sick... who would know?" Wu Liuyi signaled him to put it back quickly, Chengcai would not listen! "Put it back, Chengcai." Xu Sanduo pushed him, "Would you rather eat rat meat?" Wu Liuyi went on to say, "That would only be nauseating for an hour or two. If you eat this, you will be nauseated for the rest of your life." Cheng Cai was so angry that he had to put all the steamed buns back: "Okay, I'm not afraid of nausea, I'll eat it! I'll carry it if I can't finish it! I'll carry you when you're hungry! Eat or not!" Wu Liuyi looked at him indifferently, with a bit of contempt and a sneer, as if he no longer communicated.Chengcai lost his temper and stared at him as he held a steamed bun in his hand.However, to be honest, he couldn't bite down for a while. Xu Sanduo shook his head at Chengcai: "You eat this." Xu Sanduo said and took out his bag of untouched breakfast rations.Chengcai stared at Xu Sanduo fiercely, trying to see even a little bit of sarcasm, but Xu Sanduo didn't, Xu Sanduo was still as calm as before. "They're all fucking sick!" Cheng Cai finally threw the steamed bun back, slammed the lid on the pot, and sat back with his head in his arms.Xu Sanduo sat beside him, touched him lightly, and wanted to give him the field ration. Chengcai said: "I didn't cry! I just don't know why I'm on the same team as you guys! It's not that I can't afford to be hungry, I'm still eating those things, and after a few years, I still feel nauseated when I think about them! I don't know what I'm trying to figure out! This is not a steamed bun, this is an opportunity! If you can bear it down later, you will have a chance to be among the top three!" He looked at the field ration in front of him, and in a moment of anger, he snatched it over and stuffed it Back to Xu Sanduo's backpack. "In this case, quickly lie down and rest." Wu Liuyi covered his face with a steel helmet and began to sleep. Chengcai didn't forget to vent after lying down: "The people in Qilian hate you the most!...Wu Liuyi, why are you so fucking cruel!" A day later, if the words spoken can be taken back, Cheng will pick up the words with ashes and swallow them with stones. In the dormitory of Class 5, there was a sudden burst of laughter.Looking out of the window, several soldiers were watching a popular TV series.Besides, everything is quiet. The wind blows through the grass blades, and the grassland is really a comfortable and comfortable place. The three people in the kitchen, or the three fellow villagers and the three comrades in arms, continued to lie on the rice bags like three parallel lines, as if they were lying in a formation.The anger of becoming a talent has gone down, and they were blown in by the wind while listening to the sound of TV and laughter.Wu Liuyi's stomach groaned clearly and audibly, followed by Chengcai's wry smile: "A few days ago I sat with them and watched TV." As if in response, Xu Sanduo's stomach groaned twice.Wu Liuyi laughed, and Xu Sanduo laughed too.Chengcai smiled wryly and covered his face with a helmet, as if it could hide all temptations from the outside: "Being a good soldier...is really not easy, sometimes I really want to go home." Xu Sanduo and the others listened, but they didn't Say it again. In the early morning, a sheep strolled up the hill, looking at the huts and the star-shaped road in the distance of the fifth class in a contented manner. The first soldier of the fifth squad to get up in the morning, yawned and walked to the kitchen.However, Xu Sanduo and the others had already left, there was no trace of anyone staying in this room, and the ten steamed buns in the pot were also safe and sound. Xu Sanduo and the others were walking on the hillside, picking some edible plants while walking. They have to eat something.Xu Sanduo handed a handful of wild bracken to Cheng Cai in front of him, Cheng Cai took it without looking back, and stretched out his other hand, in the palm of which were several sour and astringent wild fruits.Xu Sanduo took it and chewed it. Cheng Cai, who was in the lead, just walked up to the top of the mountain, and immediately fell down.The two people behind thought that something had happened, so they quickly lay down and turned over, holding their guns and preparing to shoot.Chengcai turned over and laughed silently. In the end, he was afraid of laughing out loud, so he had to cover his mouth with his hands, so that the two behind him could not understand. Chengcai was still smiling, and he said: "Xu Sanduo, you boy is really lucky, no, no, it's the three of us who are lucky..." Wu Liuyi and Xu Sanduo crawled over to have a look. Not far in front, there was a sea of ​​clear water coming out of the blue sky. Beside Haipaozi was a well-defined position, at least one platoon of soldiers was guarding and patrolling. Chengcai said: "In the southeast direction, there is a sea foam next to the small hill, and there is a live oak grove across the mountain. A car is waiting for us beside the live oak grove. I have repeated this sentence four or five hundred times, and the more I say it, the more I felt that I was walking in the wrong direction, but I didn’t expect you to go the right way without thinking about anything, why are you so stunned? Xu Sanduo, this is the position we want to survey and map!” The faces of the three of them suddenly glowed. The scope on Chengcai's sniper rifle swept across the position, the grassland, and the hills in the blink of an eye. He adjusted it to the maximum magnification and inspected the position minute by bit.While watching, he told Xu Sanduo the situation behind him: "A total of thirty-five people...five old A...Damn it, old A is really cool, the gun is different from ours, there is a 95 sniper rifle, Grab it and use it...four machine gun posts...two thermal imager posts...no motor vehicles, great...can't find the command post...the center is a depression...no, definitely not..." Xu Sanduo's nervous drawing hands stopped, and the center of the position on the map was still blank. "What's the matter?" Xu Sanduo asked. Chengcai turned around and said: "Their position was chosen poorly. The center is a depression. If you don't sneak in, you can't see the command post. Each of the thirty-five people has a reinforced platoon, and a platoon definitely has more than the heavy weapons on the surface." "Then sneak in." Wu Liuyi was straightforward. Chengcai pouted: "Let's see how to dive... unless you dig a tunnel." Wu Liuyi looked through the scope, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned. The position was built with Haibaozi on its back, so it was easy to focus the firepower and vision on the front: "There is no place to talk, and a frontal attack has to be done quickly. above troops." Chengcai smiled wryly: "The scouts are the ones who built the camp." The two lay down on their backs and sighed, Xu Sanduo took the gun and observed there, but no one robbed him: "Can you swim through the sea foam?" Wu Liuyi shook his head: "Do you know the water temperature in Haibaozi this season?" Xu Sanduo: "It's about zero degrees at noon." Wu Liuyi said: "It's not yet dawn, and I've been hungry for two days, and my body temperature has been seriously lost." Chengcai is also not confident: "I will die in the water." Xu Sanduo insisted: "Then I'll try it, fill in the gaps and we can go to the finish line." Wu Liuyi said: "If you can't handle it alone, I will go too. Chengcai, you are here to protect us." Chengcai was in a hurry and said, "I'll sneak in! You cover!" Wu Liuyi patted his talent: "When you are not impulsive, you can use your advantages to distance yourself. In case of a mistake, we need your gun." Chengcai lowered his eyelids and stopped insisting. Both Haipaozi and the position had been immersed in the deep darkness before dawn.Cheng Cai wrapped the unfinished map with waterproof material and handed it to Xu Sanduo.Xu Sanduo tore off the ration package and put it in front of the two. Chengcai refused, he knew they needed heat more. Wu Liuyi carefully divided the pitifully small ration evenly: "Eat it, Xu Sanduo." Xu Sanduo said, "You eat too." "I ate my portion by myself, and if I eat this again, I will eat one and a half portions. Xu Sanduo, I have eaten three times more than you in the past few days." Wu Liuyi looked at the piece of food in his hand jokingly. Half a serving of food, just the volume of his palm, was almost enough to be swallowed in one gulp, and he really swallowed it in one gulp, chewing everything together. Three times, that is to say, he ate 200 grams more of what can be called food than me, within two days. Xu Sanduo picked up a piece of beef jerky and took a bite, the first bite of something that could be called food in a few days, his whole stomach was going to burn. Xu Sanduo closed his eyes, silently feeling the heat flow into his body. Cheng Cai was chewing a wild vegetable, watching the flickering figures and flashlights on the ground with his sniper rifle. The moment before dawn was as dark as night, Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi, who were disguised, slowly climbed down the hillside.Their movements are even and steady, almost completely silent.Two pairs of bright eyes stared at the sea foam in the eyes from the smeared face. Cheng Cai watched the two comrades plunge into the darkness through the sniper scope.They crawled silently into the water and let the water cover their bodies until only their mouths, noses and eyes were exposed above the water.Try not to stir up ripples, and swim to the rear of the position. "If you can't stand it, just squeak." Wu Liuyi reminded with the smallest voice. Xu Sanduo said, "It's fine." The voices of both of them trembled, and the water around them also shook slightly. Wu Liuyi added: "Don't grit your teeth, the more you grit your teeth, the more trembling you will be." Xu Sanduo said: "Understood, don't bite." Wu Liuyi said: "Think about things, you must think about things, and don't relax." Xu Sanduo asked, "What do you think?" "Think...Think of a little fire in water...Fire never goes out." Xu Sanduo smiled deliriously: "In the water, how can there be fire in the water?" Wu Liuyi said: "We're on fire, it's so hot, Sanduo." This seemingly small sea bubble is really long and unbearable for them.The two of them endured like this, letting the temperature of the water cool down their bodies little by little: "There is fire, June 1, I feel hot all over." "That's good, that's good." "It's so comfortable, I should let Chengcai try it too." Wu Liuyi looked at Xu Sanduo worriedly, and found that he was a little dazed, so he could only stretch out one hand and firmly grasp his strap.He already felt that Xu Sanduo's body was falling into the deep water, and Xu Sanduo's eyes were about to close. "Don't sleep, don't sleep! Xu Sanduo!" Xu Sanduo was confused: "I'm really sleepy... Have you blown out the lights?" "It's Qiqihao! Xu Sanduo, the whole company is waiting for you! The squad leader is being scolded again, all because you are not up to date!!" Xu Sanduo was so startled that his body bounced, and he opened his eyes suddenly. Wu Liuyi finally breathed a sigh of relief: "You are awake." Xu Sanduo stopped talking, and suddenly buried his head in the water slowly.Maybe it was him crying quietly. Wu Liuyi finally stepped on the bottom of the water, and he dragged Xu Sanduo up to the mud near the shore, which almost exhausted his last strength, and finally the two of them rolled into the mud together. He started rubbing the joints of Xu Sanduo's legs and feet, shaking like a sieve himself. Chengcai looked at the two people by the water from the sniper scope. They were only a few meters away from the position, hugging and rubbing each other to give each other the pitiful warmth to survive. Cheng Cai wiped his eyes, and then put them back on the sniper mirror. The two men finally squirmed towards the position. Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi landed lightly on the edge of the trench and rolled into the corner of the trench.They moved so fast that the few secret sentries who were ambushing behind the trench did not see them. After drilling through several vertical and horizontal trenches, the semi-buried command center that they had been looking for finally appeared in front of their eyes.Xu Sanduo took out the unfinished map, opened the waterproof material, Wu Liuyi was vigilant, and began to draw. After finally drawing the map, he folded it and put it in his arms. When he turned around, he bumped into an old A who turned from the trench.It was too close, Wu Liuyi and Old A almost jumped at the same time, bumped into each other, and fell to the ground. All covered. Old A turned out the white card: "I'm dead." But at the same moment, the alarm sounded, and the beams of searchlights and flashlights swept towards this side one after another. No gun fired!But the smoke can be seen from a mile away! Wu Liuyi didn't have the time to say more, picked up the machine gun and looked around.The old A who had already hung up greeted with a smile: "You two can go." Xu Sanduo replied politely: "Goodbye." Wu Liuyi was so angry that he delayed Xu Sanduo to leave: "What are you talking about?" Several machine gunners on the periphery were turning their machine guns over. Xu Sanduo emerged from the trench and fired a burst of fire, all of them smoked.Wu Liuyi blocked the soldiers rushing out of the command post with a machine gun.At this time, two old As saw Wu Liuyi, and shot in this direction. Wu Liuyi rolled on the ground again and again before dodging.After Xu Sanduo found out, he swiped violently and pushed the two down. "These guys are more troublesome than a platoon!" Wu Liuyi muttered. The two old A's couldn't look up under the roar of Wu Liuyi's machine gun. Xu Sanduo withdrew to the periphery of the position and turned around to cover.That was a tactic that was practiced at ordinary times, Wu Liuyi turned around and retreated.They withdrew to the highest point of this position, and jumped down a section of earth slope, which was the low-lying area of ​​Haipaozi, so there was finally a screen to protect them. Something was flung out from behind the ditch, Xu Sanduo looked at it inexplicably. The thing exploded in the air with a bang, like a flash on the flat ground, blasting out a strong incandescent light. Xu Sanduo immediately covered his eyes, as if he had been temporarily shaken blind. Fortunately, Wu Liuyi didn't look back, he ran to Xu Sanduo and dragged Xu Sanduo up. "It's a flash bomb! Damn it, old man, use this vile thing! Jump down." Xu Sanduo closed his eyes and jumped down. Wu Liuyi turned around and fought back, but stepped on a whole piece of loose soil under his feet. He fell off a steep slope and hit a protruding rock with his leg.Xu Sanduo stood at the bottom of the slope blankly, but he still couldn't see.Wu Liuyi shouted loudly: "Xu Sanduo, run! Straight ahead." "Where are you? I can't see!" "Run, just run forward!" Xu Sanduo was still looking for him, shouting, "Where are you on June 1st?!" The soldiers in the command post had already rushed out, and those old A's obviously no longer regarded these two as their opponents. Ming Lao A raised his gun and aimed at Xu Sanduo who was standing under the slope purely to end the battle.However, with the sound of a gunshot, smoke started to rise from his helmet.The second old A was chased by bullets and jumped into the trench, which was a sniper attack from Chengcai. Old A immediately reacted and shouted: "Sniper! Eleven o'clock hillside!" Gun flames also began to erupt on the hillside behind, "The six o'clock direction is the main force! Intensive shooting!" The old A shot down a contestant who was rushing down the hillside, but there were a few more soldiers rushing down the hillside. It seemed that he had been waiting for a long time. Xu Sanduo's eyes were finally able to see a little, he jumped down the ditch, and helped Wu Liuyi up on the ground. The gunshots on the other side of the position became louder and louder. Wu Liuyi stood up leaning on the gun. He couldn't touch the ground with one foot, so he walked forcefully leaning on the gun. Xu Sanduo grabbed him and carried him on his back, but he elbowed him away. Xu Sanduo had no choice but to run away with the limping Wu Liuyi. The darkness at dawn finally passed, and the sky began to brighten almost instantly. The few soldiers who followed had already rushed into the trench taking advantage of the chaos, and a positional battle was in full swing.The soldiers who can reach here are probably all here, and this is their last fight. Chengcai rushed down from the hillside happily, dragging a few bags, and supported Xu Sanduo and Wu Liuyi. "Have you got the map yet?" Xu Sanduo nodded: "I got it." Chengcai also found something wrong: "What's wrong with June 1st?" "It's a sprain, it's not a big deal." Wu Liuyi said. "Let's go now! Don't let those cheap pickers take everything!" Xu Sanduo carried his bag and wanted to carry Wu Liuyi's, but Wu Liuyi snatched it. "I'll do it myself," he said. Chengcai was already overjoyed. He said, "It's all right this time! The next step is a forced march! There will be no more open posts and secret posts! Let's bite the bullet and get there!" "It's a small thing." Wu Liuyi said it was a small thing. He was pulled down more than ten meters by those two people before he could run a hundred meters. Xu Sanduo and Chengcai rushed to help him, Wu Liuyi broke away and trotted a few steps by himself. "It's not just a sprained foot, is it?" Xu Sanduo asked with concern. "I've always been a champion in armed cross-country!" Wu Liuyi gritted his teeth and rushed in front of the three of them. Chengcai: "You're fine! As I said earlier, the three of us! The three of us got into that ghost car together! The three of you are dead and old! The relationship is forever!" He and Xu Sanduo ran away after Wu Liuyi. Those guys who are called taking advantage by Chengcai are making the final struggle on the ground. While they are firing, they are also nervously drawing the map that should be drawn.