march to victory

The most inconvenient thing about marching on the plain is the fear of the enemy's discovery, especially if the team is not good enough. When the enemy is cavalry, if the enemy finds out, the team may be wiped out at any time. Therefore, without Zhang Qingshan's reminder, let alone reconnaissance, just Everyone in the middle of the team is always vigilant, avoiding or desperately fighting the enemy at any time.

The scouts who explore the road are in groups of two, three groups at a time, and they are fan-shaped to explore the road at a distance of two to three miles in front of the team.The latter is finished by two soldiers.The rest walk in the middle, but they have to observe the situation on both sides at any time. At the same time, they are also responsible for collecting dried cow dung (for use as firewood) and digging wild vegetables along the way...

To be honest, thanks to those two horses, otherwise, the difficulty of the team's march would definitely be several times higher.Because the supplies are distributed to individuals, and the scouts don't have to carry heavy loads, their supplies are placed on the two horses. In this way, although they can no longer ride horses, the burden on the team is reduced, and everyone's morale and speed are greatly improved. Even, everyone He also joked a few words from time to time, which was fundamentally different from the previous silent march.Even Lao Tian, ​​who had been lying on a stretcher and dragged away by a horse, not only had a smile on his face, but occasionally interrupted to tell a joke.

But the general environment is like this, even if everyone relaxes a lot, it is still difficult to cut off the blow brought by the general environment.

From morning to dusk, everyone's luck was really good. Although they didn't meet their own people, they didn't see their enemies either.However, at dusk, something happened that was not a shock, but definitely had an impact on morale.

Everyone is a soldier, and there is no ordinary people's desire to hear everything about soldiers, but the assault company is too famous, and as the commander of the assault company, Zhang Qingshan's reputation and various versions of the story are also very famous. famous.However, soldiers yearn for those stories of resourcefulness and victory. Therefore, at everyone's request, Zhang Qingshan told two stories: one is about flying across the great river, and the other is about outwitting Wujiabao.

But just as he told the story of outwitting Wujiabao, he saw the scouts on the top of the mountain directly in front of him waving to them.

I quickly looked through the binoculars, and sure enough, a scout waved at them with his right hand: In such an environment, no matter what, you can't directly shout to convey orders, you can only use simple gestures instead of sign language.According to the previously established gestures, waving the right hand means that there is a situation ahead and tells everyone to hurry over; waving the left hand means telling everyone to avoid and wait for their further confirmation; waving both hands means to let everyone immediately find favorable terrain and prepare for battle—assault Lian was originally a special soldier, so it was too simple to formulate such a simple gesture to represent sign language.Of course, if it is complicated, others will not be able to learn it all in a while, so it is better to be as simple as possible.

"Comrades, there is a situation ahead, everyone, speed up." After speaking, he limped forward with a cane.Fortunately, he was the captain, and when the two soldiers saw his situation, they took the initiative to support and pull him, helping him to speed up. In the end, he put his hands on the shoulders of the two of them, and jumped on one leg. They ran half-lifted.

When I came to the top of the mountain, I saw three corpses sitting back to back on the top of the mountain at first glance. Although the three of them had large bloodstains on their bodies, they were all dressed neatly. Obviously, the three had tidied up their military appearances before they died.

Zhang Qingshan walked over with a cane, glanced at Sun Zhiping: "How is it?"

Sun Zhiping sighed, shook his head, and said nothing.

Zhang Qingshan wanted to squat down and observe carefully, but because his left calf was injured, he had to half-kneel to observe: the three of them closed their eyes, one of them committed suicide by swallowing a gun, and the other two looked calm and serene. Obviously, they were not suicide.So, here comes the most important question: Why did the three of them die here?what happened?

As the supreme commander of the whole team, although Zhang Qingshan had various doubts in his mind, they just passed by in a flash. Immediately afterwards, he followed the principle that everything was considered for all soldiers.

"Okay, don't surround yourself here, this is the top of the mountain, it's too easy to expose, everyone move quickly." He said, pointing to the ridge on the right: "Old Sun, take a soldier and me to stay here to see. Zhou, take everyone along the mountain ridge to find a place to stay."

After everyone left, Zhang Qingshan and Sun Zhiping took two soldiers, squatted down, and observed carefully, but they still found nothing. They only guessed that the three people sacrificed from one day to two nights to two days ago.

"Captain, what should I do?"

Zhang Qingshan knew what Sun Zhiping meant when he asked: Do we need to bury the bodies of these three soldiers?

"Forget it, let them do this." In normal times, whoever dares to ask such stupid words, Zhang Qingshan would definitely not mind whipping him.But now, he can only sigh again and shake his head slowly: Although the three of them seem to have died peacefully, don't forget the current environment everyone is in. Who can guarantee that the enemy will not appear at any time?Who can guarantee that the enemy will not find out when the bodies of these three comrades are buried?And once discovered, then, in all likelihood, everyone will have to be buried with them.The main purpose is to ensure that the comrades-in-arms are alive-although these may sound harsh and a bit inhuman, but the reality is the reality, and we must recognize it clearly.In other words, it is necessary to distinguish between priorities and priorities.

Sun Zhiping froze for a moment, his eyes dimmed, and he nodded slightly.

But when the four of them turned around to chase everyone, the soldier at the back suddenly pointed down the hillside and said in surprise, "Look, there seems to be blood there."

The three hurriedly looked along where his finger was, and indeed, there was a small dark red bloodstain more than ten meters away.

Zhang Qingshan raised his brows: Why did I forget, I can follow the blood to find the answer.

With the support of a soldier, Zhang Qingshan and the other two quickly ran to the bloodstain, only to find that beside this small bloodstain, there were still scattered drops of blood, extending into the distance.Afterwards, without being reminded by others, everyone followed the traces of the bloodstains and walked all the way.

After walking a hundred meters, I saw a soldier rushing down from the top of the mountain.

"Captain, go and have a look, a lot of people died at the corner of the mountain ahead."

Following the blood trail all the way, at the corner of the mountain, a shocking scene appeared.

This is a canyon between two mountains. In the canyon, there are about [-] to [-] corpses. Judging from their clothes, Red Army soldiers accounted for more than half, and the remaining half was divided into two groups: one was the Kuomintang military uniform, and the other was the Kuomintang uniform. There is a common people's casual clothes.

From the perspective of soldiers on the battlefield, judging from the corpses that entered the canyon, the Red Army soldiers obviously wanted to hide in this canyon, but were ambushed. Therefore, not far from the entrance of the canyon, there were almost all corpses of Red Army soldiers.Then, as we walked further into the canyon, the bodies of ambushers began to appear on the mountains at both ends of the canyon. Obviously, this was the result of the Red Army's counterattack.In the second half of the canyon, the number of corpses of both the enemy and us began to increase, and almost all of them were on the flat ground in the canyon. The result of killing the enemy with a grenade.Judging from the above, it is definitely the enemy who saw the Red Army rushing out of the canyon and tried their best to stop it. They wanted to swallow the Red Army in one bite, so they concentrated their forces to fight the Red Army in close combat. That's enough, there's no need to rush down the mountain to fight hand-to-hand.

However, judging from the cleaned battlefield situation, no matter how much the ambushers paid, they were clearly the victors.The reason for this result is simple: after the Long March, the Red Army gradually formed an unwritten rule: unless the deceased volunteered to keep the five-pointed red star, otherwise, the survivors would take off the five-pointed red star on the deceased's military cap. To express the desire and determination to take the five-pointed red star out of the grass for the deceased.On the military cap of the dead Red Army soldier in front of him, the five-pointed red star still exists with blood.

Combined with the situation here, and thinking about the remains of the three Red Army soldiers on the top of the mountain a few hundred meters away, Zhang Qingshan made a rough guess in his mind: the three soldiers ran there after the battle started, or they were killed after the battle ended. The enemy left in a hurry and did not have time to clean up the battlefield, allowing the three to leave alive.Then, because the other two soldiers were seriously injured, after the two soldiers ran there, they really couldn't hold on, so they would rather die there, and the soldier couldn't stand what was in front of him, so in despair, he simply swallowed a gun and committed suicide .There is another situation that is less likely but possible: after the three of them ran here, the enemy chased them up. In order not to be prisoners, the three of them simply did so.But the enemy respected the bravery of the three of them, and left without moving their bodies... No matter what the situation is, one thing is certain: this place is not safe, and the enemy may return to the same way to 'clean the battlefield' at any time.That is, they must leave as soon as possible.

Some people cried again, some were stunned, some frowned... But this is the reality, cold and helpless.

"Clean the battlefield, collect food, water and weapons, leave immediately after 10 minutes, this is an order."

Hearing Zhang Qingshan's words, some people opened their mouths to ask something, but when they saw Zhang Qingshan shouted in a stern voice: "The survivor is the greatest! There is no time to care about other things. Act quickly!"

Everyone acted quickly.

But only 5 minutes later, Zhou Ping came to report: "Captain, you can't collect any more, otherwise, the marching speed will be delayed."

Seeing Zhang Qingshan looking over in confusion, Lao Zhou explained in a low voice: "We didn't collect anything from the remains of our own comrades, but we found some good things like cigarettes and canned food on the bodies of the enemy. Comrades just want to The next road is hard to walk, and I try to collect as much as possible, but I didn’t think about it, if the load is too heavy, everyone can’t carry it at all, not to mention, there are so many wounded in our team..."

"It's because I didn't think about it clearly." After Zhang Qingshan directly apologized, he pondered for a while, and shouted to everyone: "Listen, everyone, don't just focus on collecting and forget whether you can carry the collected things on your back. Appropriate amount, otherwise, carrying too much is too heavy, if you can’t walk, it’s better to carry less... eat as much as possible, one weapon is enough, and you can carry more bullets..."

Afterwards, Zhang Qingshan checked one by one, but was surprised to find that, as Lao Tian said, everyone recited as much as possible.One of the fighters was wounded in his left arm, his face was pale, he had lost a lot of blood, and his vitality was low, but he actually carried no less than sixty catties on his back, and Zhang Qingshan unloaded the weight for him while laughing in anger.

Even so, when everyone left, they looked back at every step, reluctant to part.

But they don't know that this situation is still good, and in the future, they will be more and more exposed to such sacrifice scenes.And the enemy is not an idiot, sooner or later he will find out that the Red Army is short of food and ammunition, and make corresponding adjustments...