After running for another ten minutes, everyone in the reconnaissance team, except Wang Ke, was sweating profusely, and Hu Xinrui was even out of breath. Except for his clothes, his comrades carried all the equipment for him, and he almost ran naked.
Looking from a distance, the Shilian River is indeed gurgling, and the deepest point on the river is no more than the calf.
Wang Ke stood by the river and thought for a moment, then took out the military map and looked at it. He gave the order: "Let's go upstream along the river."
"Squad leader, Highland 520 is closer to the downstream." Veteran Luo Shaohuan reminded.
"Yes, everyone will think about it this way, so if you go downstream along the river, you won't eat too much. Haven't you discovered what's in the river?"
"There are small fishes." Song Ruimin shouted in surprise.
"Yes, there are small fish. The small fish will swim upstream. I judge that there must be a puddle and reeds ahead." Wang Ke said.
"Follow the squad leader, we will have meat and wine. Hurry, let's retreat before the team behind us comes up!" Luo Shaohuan quickly added, and everyone quickly ran upstream along the river. After running more than a hundred meters, they turned to Went to the foot of the mountain.
After a while, large groups of troops arrived one after another. Looking at Highland 520, almost all the classes chose to go downstream. Only Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, came to the river. He was not in a hurry, but walked to the river and took a shower first. Face, he looked at the river, lost in thought.
The reconnaissance squad was in front of him, walking downstream. Even if there was food, they couldn't grab so much. Moreover, according to Wang Ke's character, survival was the first priority. He has a lot of clever ideas, and his talent for survival in the field has been seen at the divisional farm. He will definitely not go downstream. Looking upstream of the Huangzhong River, there are a few vaguely identifiable footprints on the riverside.
"Let's go upstream." Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, said to the comrades in the class.
"Old squad leader, everyone is going downstream, and the downstream is closer to Highland 520." Xiao Gao, the newly appointed squad leader on the phone, reminded Huang Zhonghe.
"I judge that the reconnaissance squad leader and the others went upstream." After Huang Zhonghe finished speaking, he waved his hand and the wireless squad also walked upstream along the river.
Behind him, Xiao Gao, the telephone squad leader, was very hesitant, but when he saw the large troops moving downstream, he also hesitated. In the end, the telephone squad leader still ran downstream.
Besides, Wang Ke led the whole class upstream for seven or eight hundred meters in one breath, and the terrain finally opened up. A piece of Gobi gravel. At the foot of the mountain, I finally saw the river turning a corner at the mountain col, with large reeds growing in it, as far as the eye could see. You can hear many "guwaguwa" sounds in the distance.
The river passes through a narrow mouth at the head of the bay, speeds up its flow, and then runs into the distance.
"Comrades, we have something to eat today." Wang Ke shouted excitedly.
Recruit Song Ruimin also raised his gun high happily, "We have something to eat. So many frogs."
"It's not a frog, it's a bullfrog." Wang Ke told him, saying that he saw a broken basket thrown by the river from a distance, "Luo Shaohuan, go and pick up that broken basket."
Several people plunged into the nearby woods. Wang Ke turned around and said to several comrades in the class. "Rest where you are, Hu Yanlou, go and fill up all the water bottles."
Hu Xinrui took off the helmet on his head, put it on the ground, and sat up with his butt raised. "I'm so tired." Before he could finish his words, he simply stretched out his limbs and fell to the ground.
After resting for a while, when he saw Hu Yanlou filling all six water bottles and carrying them back, Wang Ke said, "Are you hungry? If so, we are ready to take action now."
At this time, I saw the wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe coming over with several soldiers from the wireless squad from a distance.
"Old squad leader, we are over here!" Wang Ke shouted loudly.
Huang Zhonghe also waved his hands excitedly, knowing that he would have food today.
When they arrived, Wang Ke said: "I knew, old squad leader, you would think the same as us. I judge that our two squads will go this way today and be fools for once." That time at the teacher's farm Through experience, Wang Ke and most of the comrades in the platoon have some experience. Especially in this situation, reverse thinking is really important.
"Reconnaissance squad leader, how do you think we will allocate tasks?" Huang Zhonghe said with a smile, and he was not polite. The seven of them will be tied to the reconnaissance squad today.
"Okay, I will arrange it. The old squad leader will give you a task. Go pick some willow sticks, repair this broken basket, and use thicker willow trunks to weave a bed one meter wide and two meters long." The reason why Wang Ke shouted Huang Zhonghe is the old squad leader because as soon as he joined the army, Huang Zhonghe was the squad leader at that time.
"No problem." After saying that, Huang Zhonghe took another soldier to break off the willow branches.
"Two of the five remaining comrades in your wireless class will move some stones to block the river, leaving a two-meter gap in the middle." Wang Ke pointed at the narrow mouth at the head of the small river bend. The current is running fast. "The remaining three will go to work with me later."
"Hu Yanlou, you and Hu Xinrui are responsible for boiling water and filling all thirteen kettles. We will also cook later."
When Hu Yanlou heard this, he looked at Wang Ke in confusion. What to use to boil water? Where are the matches? What to cook?
"Well, let Luo Shaohuan do it, you idiot!" Wang Ke smiled and said to Luo Shaohuan, "You know what to do, right?"
Luo Shaohuan nodded and went to work with Hu Xinrui.
Wang Ke, with Hu Yanlou, Song Ruimin, Niu Suozhu and three comrades from the telephone class, pointed to the endless reeds and said: "Take off our equipment and follow me to catch bullfrogs. Everyone must catch at least one." Three." Then he shouted to the two soldiers who were moving the stones: "After you two have finished moving the stones, you can go pick some reed roots and asparagus back. Be sure to pick the tender ones!"
Looking at Luo Shaohuan here, he was the direct descendant of Wang Ke at the divisional farm. He and Hu Xinrui quickly cut down tree trunks to set up a grill in a sheltered place, untied and removed the laces from five or six helmets, and Wash them by the river, fill them with water and hang them on the grill. Then they find a lot of dry sticks from the mountains, which are some dead branches from some trees. Then they find a lot of dry tree velvet, bark, and grass stems to prepare. Start a fire.
After doing this, he took his gun, and I don't know how he did it. He removed the bullet and fired at a pile of dry tree velvet. A ball of fire spurted out from the muzzle of the gun, which immediately ignited the dry tree. Velvet. It was really fast and hard. Luo Shaohuan lay on the ground, blew with his mouth and fanned with his hands, and soon started the fire.
This series of actions left Hu Xinrui dumbfounded. Quickly picking up the branch and passing it over, the two began to boil water.
When the water was boiling for more than a dozen pots, Wang Ke and the others came back first and caught more than seventy bullfrogs in total. Hu Yanlou took off his pants to catch the bullfrogs that were thrown to death. There were only more than seventy bullfrogs. It weighed more than a hundred pounds, and the two trouser legs were stretched out big and round. He carried the two trouser legs back on his shoulders.
Because no one disturbs the bullfrogs in this mountain, they all grow fat and big. Some of them weigh two kilograms, even if their internal organs are removed. "Come on, Luo Shaohuan, I'll send you two more people. After the boiling water is full, the four of you will first use tree branches to skewer the bullfrogs. Be sure not to burn them. Bake them all, including the skin."
Then two soldiers from the wireless squad who went to pick fresh asparagus and asparagus came back. They also took off a pair of pants and carried it back. Wang Ke smiled happily. Now that there are people in the command platoon, the farm spirit is back. "You guys should go over and help cook the asparagus and asparagus soup. How can you just eat dry ones?"
After all this was assigned, he walked to the wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe. They were still weaving wicker baffles, and the broken basket for picking up dung had been repaired. Although Huang Zhonghe didn't know what the use was of making this up? But he still followed Wang Ke's instructions seriously and worked hard to do these things well. During the long-term contact, the comrades have formed a bond of mutual trust and dependence on each other. The command platoon is a united group and has escaped from the farm. When it comes to earthquake relief, the third-class collective merit is not for nothing.
"Old squad leader, I want to discuss something with you. In the next few days, this place will probably be our campsite."
Huang Zhonghe heard Wang Ke's words, looked around and nodded. "Yes, what do you think about it?"
"We need to try to call the phone team over. The water and grass here are rich and there is plenty of food. My idea is that our entire platoon should be organized. You need to teach everyone to weave some reed mats and prepare more chopped firewood. Build tree shacks. , preserve the fire, and establish a duty and sentry system, these four are the most important."
"Okay, I agree with your idea. I wonder if you have considered it, reconnaissance squad leader?" Huang Zhonghe looked serious.
"What?"
"Seven days is neither long nor short. After the most difficult food is solved, there is one thing that is indispensable. Otherwise, we will have weakness in our limbs, nausea and edema."
"Did you mean salt?"
"Yes, without salt, there will be a lack of sodium, and the consequences will be serious. If it doesn't work, I will take out my compressed dry food, which contains some salt."
"No, I'll solve the salt problem! Let me think about it." Wang Ke thought for a while and shouted to veteran Luo Shaohuan: "Lao Luo, do you have any empty kettles that haven't been filled yet?"
"There are two more, the others have been filled."
"Okay, come here first." Wang Ke waved to Luo Shaohuan, then he turned to Huang Zhonghe and said: "Old squad leader, you have to give an order to all comrades to collect all our urine from now on. We Let’s start making salt.”
"Okay! Are they all put in those two kettles? I just have one right now."
Wang Ke nodded and said to Luo Shaohuan who ran over, "Give the old squad leader an empty kettle. He wants to pee."
Luo Shaohuan was stunned. He wouldn't pee into the kettle, would he? Unexpectedly, Huang Zhonghe took the kettle, unbuttoned his pants, pointed it at the mouth of the kettle and started peeing.
"Squad leader, old squad leader, this is..." Luo Shaohuan asked.
Upon hearing this, the old squad leader shouted to the people over there: "Everyone who needs to pee, come here. From now on, all of us are not allowed to waste urine. We pee all into this kettle. We need to collect the urine." "
Huang Zhonghe, the old squad leader, had absolute authority in the command platoon. As soon as everyone heard this, five or six soldiers came over immediately, and soon the two military water bottles were full of urine.
Wang Ke said to Hu Yanlou: "When I ran over just now, you were sweating a lot, so I took off your clothes."
"Platoon leader, I've already taken off my pants and pretended to be a bullfrog. If I take off my shirt again, am I still a soldier?"
"Bring a helmet." Wang Ke took the helmet handed over by Luo Shaohuan, poured a pot of urine into the helmet, and a burst of anger came out. Then he picked up Hu Yanlou's shirt and pressed it into the helmet.
