Chapter 20 20. Animals in War

Ren Zhoujian, who joined the army in 1987, became a legend in his hometown Xindian Township, Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province. At night in mid-June, Ren Zhoujian, a sentinel at the forward position, heard a noise and hurriedly clung to the boulder to observe it carefully.The sky is dim, and the shadows of stones, trees, and grass can be seen through the air, but the ground is dark and nothing can be seen.The voice slowly approached, and the possibility of a surprise attack by Vietnamese army agents could already be ruled out.It must be a mouse, he thought, the small sound came to his feet, he raised his foot and stomped hard, the sole of his foot felt like a human arm, and it was very heavy.He lost his center of gravity and fell, the gun fell out, his whole body was hugged all of a sudden, and a cold arm was caught around his neck.He couldn't move his arms, but he could feel his cold and smooth body with his hands. He didn't look like a human. He turned his face to the panting ear and saw a python's head shaking. Green eyes stared at him. Sticky smell came out of the python's mouth. gas.He couldn't move, and the python didn't try to strangle him. The python's head sniffed his face, and then put it on his right shoulder. It was very cold that night. Ren Zhou Jianxiang was dreaming, and stayed up in a daze until dawn. His comrades came to pick him up. , found this situation, hurriedly lit a few cigarettes and sprayed it on the python's head. The python was afraid of the smoke, so he let go and Ren Zhoujian crawled away. The "Baoji Daily" on October 8, 1987 published this feat of local warriors.The end of the story did not come out.Ren Jianjian couldn't sleep well or eat for several nights. Later, he developed a high fever of 40.5 degrees and fell into a coma three times.At that time, he really thought he was caught by the Vietnamese army agents.

Liu Yuxiang, the king of demining of the engineer company of the B2 regiment, opened up a path for the scouts to the grass in front of the enemy's position, and he himself was lurking in place.Suddenly there was a hissing sound from his side, and when he realized, a cobra had arrived beside him.In the snake's eyes, he was a clump of grass, and the snake burrowed from his armpit to the belly, and settled in it.Xiao Yang next to him drew out his dagger, and Liu Yuxiang signaled him not to move with his eyes.The enemy sentinel was ten meters ahead, watching from the trench with two eyes exposed under the helmet.For more than ten minutes in a row, the enemy sentry did not move, and Liu Yuxiang hung around his waist, unable to hold on.The platoon leader finally found out about Liu Yuxiang's situation. He blew lightly on the radio. Our artillery, who had already marked the enemy's position, fired shells. The enemy sentries hurriedly drilled holes to hide from the artillery. The cobra who helped the enemy got the fate.

A natural cave has been monitored by my scouts for a long time, and it is unclear whether there are enemies in it.One afternoon, suddenly three Vietnamese soldiers jumped out naked and yelled into the cave, as if they were frightened.After a while, the enemy used wooden sticks and entered the hole one by one, and the scouts solved the mystery. The Vietnamese soldiers who came to sneak attack were very cunning. They only wore a pair of underpants and crawled with bare limbs. When they encountered landmines, they could feel it on their skin. At the same time, their movements were very light.Qilian thought of a way to put some compressed dry food in front of the sentry post at night, and the rats in and out of the cave would keep eating it.Sometimes snakes, foxes, and pangolins waited for them to make a false alarm, but they never failed to report. The soldiers called the rats living sirens.

The sharpshooter Wang Xiaolong of the B1 regiment received the notice and immediately put on a gas mask.After the bomb exploded, there was often a suffocating smell, and sometimes the enemy even used tear gas.Leaders at all levels are very vigilant about this, and would rather take a falsehood as the truth a hundred times than take it as the truth once.Wang Xiaolong saw through the lens that the mice were moving as usual, so he grabbed one. His eyes were very flexible, and there was no abnormality, so he took off the gas mask. The platoon leader asked: "Who approved your dismissal?"

He said, "Rat." Later, this became a practical experience. The mouse on fire can run without turning, which is one of the discoveries of the soldiers at the No. 102 post. This discovery led to the birth of "new weapons".They hung a canned food box on the rat, poured kerosene on the tail, pointed the tip of the rat at the entrance of the Vietnamese army's cave, and lit the fire. The rat jumped and jumped and ran straight away. Turning around and running, the Vietnamese army in the other hole thought that the Chinese army was attacking, and shot and threw grenades desperately. A mouse disturbed the enemy's restlessness in the middle of the night. The Vietnamese army never found out what new weapons the Chinese army was using.