Start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 10 How should we live?

Watching the two leave.

Xu Qing wasn't angry either, the soldiers were more straightforward, and he also understood that these lectures were all for his own good.

I have no right to refuse.

He glanced around, no one was paying attention to him.Immediately, he took off his military uniform, following the example of the soldiers around him, and only put on a gray and white vest on his upper body.

As soon as the clothes were taken off, the already thin figure looked even thinner, revealing the sun-tanned and shiny arms, shoulders and torso.

Although very thin, but also considered healthy.

The original body of 'Wu Wanli' has been in and out of the water all year round, and his skills are very flexible and vigorous. The old parents at home even left him with delicious fish.Even in this situation where most people don't have enough food and clothing, they still grow some muscles.

"Lei Gong, where do you move to?"

"Come with me."

He lifted up these miscellaneous ordnance items on the ground, followed Lei Gong into the compartment of the carriage, and put them away one by one following his guidance.

"Okay...give me the gun. Just put the rest here."

Lei Gong took the last handful of [-] caps from him, and nodded slightly: "Son, you did a good job, you are quite flexible in your hands and feet."

"Come, come to me."

He took Xu Qing into the compartment of the carriage.

There is a small camp bed here, with a neat stack of quilts on it, and various military equipment and parts are piled up in other empty spaces. There is also a row of long barrel-like weapons in the corner, which looks like a rocket launcher.

"You haven't touched a gun, have you?"

Seeing Xu Qing staring there, Lei Gong laughed. "Why, haven't you seen this before?"

Xu Qing shook her head: "No."

Lei Gong pointed to the gun mount: "This one is called Bazooka."

"It was issued to Chiang by the Americans, and we paid it in the south last year. The entire Seventh Company was divided into two gun platoons. Don't look at its small size, this thing is very powerful! It works well and can be fired with one shot. Go down, and the enemies of a class will be gone."

Xu Qing immediately understood that this is the bazooka of this era.

"Our country has just been established, and most of what we use now is the 'Wan Guo Brand': rifles, submachine guns, cannons, made by little devils, Americans, and Soviet brothers. But these don't matter, as long as they can fight A dead enemy is a good guy, let's use it!" Lei Gong introduced with a smile.

Then, he patted the side of the bed again: "Sit down and talk?"

Xu Qing nodded: "OK."

He wiped his sweat and sat down beside him.

Lei Gong looked up and down, only to realize that he is not that big, and he is small and thin, so he couldn't help asking:

"How old are you now?"

"...not too big."

Xu Qing thought for a while, his current soul was only in his early twenties, and 'Wu Wanli' was only sixteen or seventeen years old. He estimated Lei Gong's snow-white hair on both sides, and thought for a while:

"I guess it's about the same age as your son?"

Lei Gong was stunned for a moment, his expression slightly paused.

But then back to normal.He said slowly: "It's good. He looks about ten years old, so that's not too old. If my son hadn't died, he would probably be as old as you..."

Xu Qing was stunned when he heard this.

Feeling very sorry: "Sorry, I didn't know you..."

Lei Gong smiled: "It's okay! It's been so many years, I'm an old guy, I don't care anymore. Look at the Seventh Company - half of the soldiers have been under my command, and there are hundreds of them, but There are almost hundreds of people who have died in battle over the years, how can you not look away..."

Xu Qing was a little dumbfounded.

He looked at the old man in front of him who was chatting and laughing happily, but had a weather-beaten face, and he felt that what Wu Qianli said was right.

This is definitely a man to admire.

"Hey, right? If you want to calculate it this way, what number should you have..."

As Lei Gong was talking, he suddenly slapped his head, feeling a little confused.

He turned his head and opened the curtain, and shouted to the aisle of the carriage: "Yu Congrong, where is Yu Congrong! Is he dead or not?"

Xu Qing saw from the gap that a soldier with thick eyebrows and big eyes was lying on the bed and eating melon seeds while chatting with others. Hearing this, he showed his head:

"Who is cursing me? I'm not dead! I won't be able to die if the sky falls!"

Lei Gong: "I don't care if you die or not."

Yu Congrong looked at him and rolled his eyes: "It's you - you are so busy, Father Lei. What's the matter, do you want me to do something?"

"You have a good memory." Lei Gong pointed at Xu Qing: "This kid, how many times is he in the Seventh Company?"

"he?"

Yu Congrong froze for a moment, then sat up.

"Little brother of the company commander—that little Wanli? I think about it, he should be... 670 Seventh. Yes, 670th Seventh."

"76 is Liu Yonggui, didn't he die in Huaihai? That's the number, this is our company, ah no, our Ninth Corps is the only recruit this year!"

"Alright, alright!"

Lei Gong glared at him, "It's just your mouth that breaks. This kid will also be your comrade in arms in the future, so save some morals!"

"Okay." Yu Congrong smiled: "If you don't talk about it, don't talk about it, Dad Lei, you can say whatever you want~"

Lei Gong put down the curtain and turned his head: "I didn't run away. That's it: 670 Seventh... Hey, I'm getting old, and my memory is not very good. However, you still have to remember that you are the Seventh Company, the seventh soldier of the 670th. "

"This, everyone must engrave it in the bottom of their hearts. Say something unlucky, even if you die on the battlefield, this is considered a root, and others can know that you have existed. Otherwise, you will be dead Can't find anyone to collect the body..."

"670 seven..."

Xu Qing nodded and read a few words silently.

A string of cold numbers almost represents a person's identity, life...and everything.

He could feel the heavy weight on these numbers.

Seeing his appearance, Lei Gong seemed to have listened.Nodding his head, he said again:

"Speaking of which, why do you want to join the army?"

"Defend the family and the country."

Xu Qing thought about it.

"In addition, I also want to avenge my elder brother Baili and kill the enemy; I want my second brother to look up to me; also, I have been mediocre and have not done anything good, and I have not contributed to society. Now I have the opportunity to change my life. How to live..."

"Fine, fine, that's enough. Just knowing how to defend the country is already great—"

He paused: "Have you seen dead people?"

"I have seen."

Xu Qing thought of her parents who died in a car accident in the real world, and then added: "... died right in front of my eyes."

Lei Gong "hmm" for a moment, then asked again: "Have you ever fought? The desperate one."

Xu Qing nodded: "Should have called..."

With his identity as 'Wu Wanli', he fought in the countryside all day long, and only then did he conquer a group of wild children and become the king of children, so he has fought.

"That's it!"

Lei Gong laughed and slapped his hands, "Your brother asked me to teach you how to survive on the battlefield. I actually have no other way. I don't know how I survived?"

"Over the years of the Seventh Company, how many soldiers have walked out of my hands and been carried back. I have also thought about it for a long time. How can the soldiers save their lives? Have you ever thought about it, you leave everything in the house, I just want to follow your brother to fight, have you thought about this problem?"

Xu Qing nodded, but then shook his head again.

"I'm the same, I thought about it, but I didn't think about it, because you can't guarantee that you can survive 100%. The battlefield changes rapidly, and no amount of preparation can defeat a single bullet. Whether you die or not is life, since it is life , why not fight for it?"

"I was able to fight for such a long time—there are so many fighters from the Seventh Company who survived the flames of war, all thanks to such a desperate effort."

"Child, you are still young... I also had times when you were your age, and I never killed an enemy or fired a single bullet. Hehe, do you sometimes feel that such things are far away from you? When you go to the battlefield, you will have to fight a fierce enemy with a bayonet, so what should you do?"

"I'll teach you a method, and I only have this method..."

Lei Gong raised his eyes, and the white hair on his head seemed to stand up:
"Think about the relatives who died in front of you because of your cowardice and your sympathy for the enemy. Don't worry about it. There is no right or wrong on the battlefield, only life and death. As long as you are an enemy, you can't show mercy!"

"Take the gun, point it at him, and snap—"

"You survived!"

(End of this chapter)