march to victory

"Brother, look quickly, what's over there? Why do I feel like a person?"

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the four of them searched around while walking, hoping to find a dry place as a place to rest.

Zhou Baoyu insisted on searching with binoculars, so Zhang Qingshan had to give him his only pair of binoculars.But Zhou Baoyu looked at it for about a minute, then suddenly pointed to the front right, excited in anticipation, and handed the telescope to Zhang Qingshan while asking.

The vast water grassland is boundless, and it is definitely the ecstasy of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land" when you finally meet a Red Army soldier.

Zhang Qingshan snatched the binoculars and looked in the direction Zhou Baoyu was pointing at: about 500 to [-] meters ahead on the right, there was a small soil slope two or three meters high, and there was a raised point on the soil slope, which made people Surprisingly, the color of this protruding point is gray-green, which is incompatible with the surrounding colors, but because it is covered by weeds about a foot high, it is not easy to find without looking carefully.If you look closely, someone should be lying there.

"There is really someone, probably a lost comrade, everyone go and have a look." Zhang Qingshan couldn't help the ecstasy in his heart, shouted and was about to run over there, but Tashi grabbed him: "Wait!" one time."

"what happened?"

"This is a water and grass field. No matter what happens, don't be reckless. If you rush towards you like this, you will inevitably fall into the swamp. It's better to see your feet clearly and walk over step by step. At the same time..." Zha After hesitating for a moment, Xi said seriously, "You have to be mentally prepared."

The previous words made Zhang Qingshan and the three feel grateful for Tashi's reminder, and at the same time blamed themselves for his recklessness, but his last sentence made the three of them feel a little thump, and their mood dropped rapidly.

The three of them are not stupid, so they naturally understand the meaning of Tashi's words: Tashi has always been in the Lausanne tribe. Will invite the tribe to be a guest, such as Zhang Qingshan and the others.However, the Red Army soldier lying on the small soil slope in front was not found, which shows that he probably did not belong to the Red Second Front Army—the point is that although the colors of the uniforms of the Red Second Front Army are also somewhat different, none of them belong to the Red Army. gray-green.

On the other hand, even though he belonged to the Second Red Army, he was already lying there motionless, which meant that he was in danger.That's why Tashi prepared the three of them to see the corpses of their comrades-in-arms. After the tragedy of the corpses of comrades-in-arms, I prepared in my heart.That's why Tashi hesitated for a while, but he still couldn't speak directly.

Zhang Qingshan's excited expression gradually became solemn. He looked at the two people on the right and saw that the ecstasy in their eyes gradually disappeared. The first comrade I didn't expect was a corpse in all likelihood.This is a bit depressing like "meeting an old friend in a foreign land, but he is a debt collector".

But no matter what, even if the other party is really a corpse, it is also the corpse of his own comrades, and he must go to see the situation, because there is always an emergency!

It was still Tashi who took the lead, and the pace of several people was slightly faster than before, but they all followed Tashi - because the shock of Tashi's words made the three of them less impulsive.

The closer you get to the small slope, the more you can see that there is indeed a person lying there, the more anxious the three of them are, but Tashi who is walking in the front is always taking his time, Zhang Qingshan and the three are not too anxious The impulse can only be restrained.But when he was still 50 meters away from the small slope, Zhou Baoyu couldn't bear it any longer. He put his hands around his mouth in the shape of a trumpet, and shouted at the small slope: "That comrade, are you okay?" ?”

The three of them stared intently, hoping that the man would have an echo, and even if he moved a little, it would be a great encouragement to the anticipation in the hearts of the three, but the man seemed to have not heard it. , without any indication, the hearts of the three of them began to drop again, and their pace became a little anxious.

Tashi, who was walking in the front, just looked up at the lying person, and then stared at the aquatic plants under his feet wholeheartedly, neither saying anything nor turning his head, because he could already judge the result, but Still can't bear to speak out.

"That comrade, we are also in the Red Army, we belong to the Second Red Army, where are you from... Please answer me!"

Zhou Baoyu's shouts wandered away, but except for the wind blowing, except for a few staring eyes, there was no result.

Helplessness in anxiety is a great torment!

When he was seven or eight meters away from the small slope, Zhou Baoyu finally couldn't bear it anymore.Throwing away the reins in his hand, he ignored Shang Tashi's reminder and rushed towards the small slope.

Tashi wanted to stop it, but it was obvious that Zhou Baoyu was in a hurry, and the other two didn't make a sound, but just watched anxiously, so he had no choice but to swallow the words that came to his lips, but his pace But he stepped up and made preparations to save at any time—in fact, from his heart, he was only ten meters away, and he didn't think there would be any great danger. After all, as far as he knew, in the aquatic grass field The closer the place is to the dry place, the less likely there will be swamps in the surrounding area.Besides, even if there is danger, after he is ready to rescue him, he should be able to rescue him in time.

Zhang Qingshan kept staring at Zhou Baoyu, seeing that he rushed to the small slope safely, he was greatly relieved.However, he was surprised to find that Zhou Baoyu ran to the top of the small slope in a hurry, and after only glancing at the comrade, his face suddenly turned pale, he covered his mouth, turned around and ran down the slope, and ran for almost two hours. He squatted on the ground and kept vomiting...

What does it mean?

Zhang Qingshan glanced at Zhou Ping on the right, and saw that there was also puzzlement in his eyes, but it was more heavy, which surprised Zhang Qingshan.Then subconsciously glanced at Tashi on the left, only to see that Tashi was frowning deeply, looking at Xiaotupo solemnly, Zhang Qingshan suddenly understood: it is definitely a corpse, and it is probably a corpse in the process of rotting , It was too horrible to look at, so that Zhou Baoyu, who had seen life and death, had such a big reaction.

After a few jumps, Zhang Qingshan came to the small slope, ignored Zhou Baoyu, and rushed to the top of the slope. At first glance, Zhang Qingshan finally knew why Zhou Baoyu vomited: To be precise, this is a slope, from Zhang Baoyu From the direction Qingshan came from, I just saw one person lying there, but looking from here, I saw four corpses lying on their stomachs or lying on their sides.Each corpse was wearing a patched military uniform. One could tell at a glance that they belonged to the same company, or at least the same unit. They had already turned into skeletons. When they saw it suddenly, it was indeed a bit scary... Zhang Qingshan had no adverse reactions. , but looked at it carefully with a deep frown, because he faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell the reason.

"These people must have gone astray, and there must be no one here, otherwise, these corpses should have been buried long ago." I don't know when Tashi came to me, but I heard it clearly in my ear. His deep words: "We have encountered such corpses before, but they would all be buried..."

After saying a word, Tashi pondered for a while, and said: "You have to be prepared in your heart, because such scenes will appear more and more as you go in."

Zhang Qingshan nodded, but did not answer.In fact, he didn't know what to say, and he didn't even mean to point out that Tashi was a little wrong: these people may have gone astray, but the greater possibility is that they left the team voluntarily—since the Long March, those In order not to implicate other comrades, are the seriously wounded committing suicide on their own initiative?Zhang Qingshan firmly believes that everyone is the Red Army, and such a spirit of self-sacrifice definitely exists in other troops.

I don't know whether Zhou Ping heard Zhang Qingshan's heartfelt or what Zhang Qingshan thought the same. He took two steps forward, squatted in front of the corpse and looked at it for a while, then drew out his bayonet and pointed at the corpse's clothes with the bayonet. .

"Don't touch!"

It was too late for Tashi's words.

It was normal for the bayonet to pick up a little piece of clothing, but with a little force, the piece of clothing picked up broke into several pieces, and it was obvious that it had been weathered.

Zhou Ping frowned, and looked up at Tashi and Zhang Qingshan, because he could easily analyze from the weathered fragments of clothes: These four people should be from the Red Army team that passed through the Lausanne tribe more than a year ago. warrior.At that time, there were thousands of people in that team, but all four of them ended up like this, which shows how serious the danger ahead is. The key point is that it is only a day and a half away from the Lausanne tribe, and there are dead people. It is conceivable , such a scene is absolutely indispensable in the front.

Seeing that Zhang Qingshan didn't make a sound, Zhou Ping simply used a bayonet to pick off the corpse's jacket bit by bit.

suddenly!

Zhou Ping stopped picking out clothes, looked carefully at the ribs, looked up at Zhang Qingshan, and said solemnly: "Before this comrade died, he was definitely a seriously injured person."

Zhang Qingshan hurried forward and squatted beside him to observe: Sure enough, there is a small gap on the side of this rib, and the gap is smooth and smooth, and it can be seen that it was smashed by a bullet or something instantly to have such an effect .

Zhang Qingshan also drew out the big knife on his back and walked towards the next corpse.

Sure enough, these four corpses should have been sacrificed at the same time, and they were more or less injured... Zhang Qingshan had this picture in his mind: four comrades who were seriously injured, because they didn't want to hurt other comrades in arms, they were injured. Feeling that he could not get out of the water and grassland alive, they agreed to bid farewell to his comrades in tears one night late at night, came here secretly, and gradually passed away during the conversation... Because, Zhang Qingshan heard a lot about such things.

For Zhang Qingshan and the others, this somewhat calmed down a little disappointment: Although the seriously injured comrade committed suicide, although it is sad and indignant, it is understandable, and I believe that I can do it myself.But the most important thing is that none of these four people is healthy, which can also reflect from the side that the previous speculation about the degree of danger ahead is not so high.

Just when Zhang Qingshan was frowning deeply, Zhou Ping came to his side, opened his right hand, and showed Zhang Qingshan what was in his hand while saying in a deep voice: "Old Zhang, look at this."

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