At dawn, a puppet soldier sat up in the grass. He stretched, yawned, glanced at the sky in the east, and then pointed his toes forward.
"Ergou! Wake up, it's dawn!" said the puppet soldier.
His toes were kicking another soldier who was sleeping beneath him.
"I haven't slept enough!" The companion named Ergou who was woken up by him snorted.
"Want to sleep enough? Wait until you have a wife in the future and you can sleep as much as you want!" said the puppet soldier.
Only after he said this did Ergou sit up.
The two of them were secret sentries of Zhang Xuecheng's puppet army.
This is no longer the era of cold weapons, and there must always be a considerable distance between the enemy and us.
In order to prevent the Northeast Army in Jinzhou City from launching a surprise attack, the puppet army naturally set up sentries.
As sentinels, they should have chosen a high point with a wide view, but last night in the middle of the night, they both felt that the wind on the small mound was a bit strong, so they slipped from the mound into the wormwood bushes below.
"I'm hungry. Let's go back and eat." Ergou rubbed his slightly cold knees and said.
No one wanted to come out on guard duty. It was already autumn, the grass and trees were beginning to turn yellow, and it was still quite cold in the second half of the night.
Especially in the Northeast, due to its high latitude, the temperature difference is relatively large. Now the highest temperature during the day is over 20 degrees, but at night it drops to over 10 degrees.
People from Northeast China are not like people in the South who are calm when the temperature is over 10 degrees. They feel unbearable when the temperature is around 10 degrees, even though they both wear cotton coats.
"Let's eat!" said the sentry who woke up first. "After we finish eating, we have to go to the nearby village to get some quilts. We'll be freezing if we keep doing this!"
"整" is a universal verb in Northeastern dialect. It can be used in anything related to behavior.
Man A said to Man B, "Let's have some wine tonight," which means let's drink some wine.
Man A said to his wife, "All he does every day is gossip about his wife and never tidy up the house!" The word "zhen" means to clean up.
Man A said to his wife, "Let's have a son!" How does this mean giving birth to a child?
Man A said to Man B, "You are such a troublemaker. You are always making trouble!" Making trouble is what people in the south call "stirring up trouble."
There are many more uses like this.
At this time, what the first sentry meant by "bring a whole quilt" was actually to go to the nearby village to either rob or buy a quilt.
Ergou naturally answered "OK".
Just as the two of them were about to get up, gunshots suddenly rang out!
The "bang" sound of the gunshot was so close to them that the two sentries were so scared that they lay down in the weeds.
Those who could serve as sentinels were all veterans, especially Ergou and the other two, who immediately began to determine the source of the gunshots.
But they didn't need to judge, because at this time, rows of mixed gunshots rang out, not only the "bang" and "bang" sounds of rifles, but also the "tu tu tu" sound of machine gun fire.
Bullets came from the southeast like raindrops, flew over their heads and poured towards the northwest!
The two sentries of the puppet army were lying in the weeds and looking towards the southeast. At this time, they saw that there were many heads on the hill which should have belonged to them last night. Those people were shooting at their puppet army’s base!
The two of them were only fifty meters away from the hill, so they could see clearly that the people on the hill were all Northeast Army!
"What should we do?" Ergou asked his companion.
"What the hell are we going to do? We're lucky to be alive! Just hide here and don't let anyone beat us to death!" his companion replied.
There is no doubt that the Northeast Army in Jinzhou City sneaked out of the city overnight and started shooting at the puppet army's camp.
The two of them were very lucky. If they had not run to the wormwood in the middle of the night because they felt it was too cold on the hill, they might have discovered that the Northeast Army was approaching and fired warning shots, but their lives would have been in danger.
Fortunately, the wormwood was still very dense. The two sentries didn't know whether the Northeast Army not far away had seen them. They lay down in the grass and didn't move.
The two of them were so wise to lie down. As soon as they lowered their heads, the gunfire became louder!
The Northeast Army launched an attack on their camp, so how could they not fight back?
So first the alert rifles started firing, and then the machine guns also started firing from the southeast to the northwest.
As a result, the two of them were already in the battlefield where the two sides were fighting.
Although no one could see flying bullets during the day, countless bullets from both sides were flying over the heads of the two puppet army sentries.
It would be fine to talk about the Northeast Army's shooting, after all, the Northeast Army was close to them, and they were shooting at a distance. Even if there was an error, it would not hit a few dozen meters away. Although the bullets were dense, they eventually flew over their heads.
But the bullets fired from their base were of varying strengths.
The two of them were acting as sentries, so of course they knew that the campsite was more than 200 meters away from the small hill.
That is to say, his companions were shooting at the hill from more than 200 meters away.
At this distance, unless an ordinary soldier is a sharpshooter who never misses a shot, it would be strange if the bullet didn't fly away or go too high.
As a result, the wormwood above the heads of the two sentries was broken by the bullets, and the grass leaves fell on their bodies. What's more, the bullets were really flying close to the back of their heads!
At this point, the two sentries wished they could become the dog that guards your house!
Why? When a guard dog's paws itch, they dig a hole in front of themselves and hide in it. It's cool there. The two of them also wanted to dig a hole to hide in!
Just as the two sentries were worried about their lives, they heard a long "hissing" sound coming from the other end of their station.
When they heard the sound, they both put their faces to the ground because it was their mortars that went off!
Yesterday, their puppet army attacked Jinzhou City, but failed to take it after a whole day of fighting. The conclusion was that their firepower was not strong enough, so the Japanese sent them a few more mortars.
They were veterans, and of course they knew that the mortar needed to be test-fired. They just hoped that the shell wouldn't hit their heads.
As the two men were thinking about it, they heard two "boom" and "boom" sounds in front of them. The two mortar shells exploded.
Fortunately, the two mortar shells only hit between the two of them and the hill. Although they were close, they were not in danger.
As the two mortar shells exploded, the gunfire from the Northeast Army immediately became sparse.
It seems that the Northeast Army is only here to harass them and has no intention of attacking. If they really attack, the two of them will have no choice but to surrender.
Ergou was about to stick his head out to take a look, but then he realized that it was wrong to lie there and just stayed still.
The gunfire from the Northeast Army has stopped, but theirs hasn't stopped. Don't get killed by your own people!
"The Northeast Army has finally withdrawn!" said the other sentry at this time.
"Do you think withdrawing is a good thing?" Ergou asked back.
"What's wrong?" The sentry didn't understand what Ergou meant.
"All the detectives must have been killed, but we two are still alive. Zhu Baopi will definitely ask us why we didn't call the police? Aren't we just waiting to be punished?" Ergou said angrily.
Zhu Baopi is the nickname of their company commander.
What Ergou said absolutely makes sense.
They both knew that their men would definitely be planning to set off for Jinzhou City at dawn and were currently gathering.
Now that they have been beaten up like this, there must be a lot of casualties.
As sentinels, the two of them failed to fulfill their duties, and it would be strange if they didn't get beaten when they returned.
Even if they don't get beaten, won't they die quickly if they are asked to charge together?
"That's true. What should we do?" The sentry was at a loss.
"There is a forest on the left. Let's climb into the forest and figure out what to say before going back." Ergou didn't have any good ideas either, so he came up with a plan to delay.
"Okay." The sentry said.
After the two men had agreed, they began to climb to the left. If they were too late, their men would come up and they would be in trouble!
But just as they were climbing, although there was a mortar on their side that continued to fire at the hill, there was also a gunshot on the hill, and that shot hit Ergou's thigh!
Ergou let out a cry and rolled over instinctively, but when he looked back at his wound, he didn't dare to move. After all, the two of them were discovered by the Northeast Army on the hill.
But there was only one shot fired on the hill, followed by a mortar shell explosion, and then there was no more gunfire.
As a result, the sentry secretly glanced at Ergou's legs, but his heart was filled with joy.
This time, the two of them didn't have to climb into the woods, as they had a reason to explain to the company commander Zhu Paopi.
It is true that we are sentinels, but Ergou is injured. We have made a contribution by being injured, so you can't say that we, the sentinels, have failed in our duty!
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