Deputy company commander Lu Zeran didn't believe it at all. He also climbed up the tree, and he climbed higher. He finally saw the eagle's beak. The position and distance were exactly what Wang Ke said.
Jumping down from the tree, deputy company commander Lu Zeran was very excited. "Commander platoon commander, standing in this pitch pine bush, I can't even tell the direction. I didn't expect that you all seem to have clairvoyance and ears. It seems that your training is effective and rewarding."
Next, following the intersecting route found by Wang Ke and the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun, they quickly advanced several kilometers from the mountainside. And these few kilometers, the speed is obviously much faster.
Along the way, Gu Maolin used Wang Ke's military dagger to carve marching marks on the trees.
"What do you mean?" Niu Suozhu asked.
"This is the fastest road. You can see it next time you come." Gu Maolin replied seriously.
Finally I saw the tallest tree. "Commander the platoon leader, does this tree have the coordinates?" Hu Zhijun, the old platoon leader, pointed at the tree and asked.
"You can have this." After Wang Ke answered, he immediately turned back to Niu Suozhu and said, "Pour out the coordinates."
"Yes!" Niu Suozhu climbed up the tree without saying a word, sat on the trunk, fixed the tripod, and measured the angle between the coordinates of the two known points. Then he jumped off the tree, directly drew an extension line based on this angle, and determined the coordinate point of the tree on the ridge on the map, which took less than two minutes.
"Is this the end? Is it accurate?" Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran was surprised. This measurement method cannot be found in textbooks.
"There is only one angle. Look, deputy company commander, the intersection of these two extension lines is our standing point." Wang Ke pointed to the map in his hand. This is also a new surveying and mapping method he has recently explored. He also gave it a name called "Reduction of Results Method".
The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun was the first to react and praised: "Yes, commanding the platoon leader requires using your brain to fight. Your method is worthy of being promoted to the whole company and the whole regiment."
"Less than a kilometer down from this tree is where our company assembled last time. Over there is the place where the cooking team cooks." Gu Maolin seemed to have discovered a new world. His eyes had already seen through the dense oil. Mao Song saw the foot of the mountain.
But now the deputy company commander Lu Zeran, after going through this journey, he believes that even if the reconnaissance team has not seen the outside world, their eyes are very bright, and everyone can see clearly through this pine forest. world.
At this time Niu Suozhu came over. He walked all the way to Wang Ke's side, stretched out his clothes, and said in a low voice: "Platoon leader, over there..."
Wang Ke turned around and looked at Niu Suozhu, "What's going on?"
Niu Suozhu hesitated, "Platoon leader, how about we continue to move forward?"
Wang Ke narrowed his eyes. He looked at Niu Suozhu suspiciously and asked, "What did you see on the tree?"
"I didn't see anything, I just saw a puff of air rising to the south."
Smoke and clouds filling the air? Where did the smoke and steam come from on the top of the mountain? Either water or volcanoes. The former is possible here, but the latter is absolutely impossible.
"Gu Maolin."
"arrive!"
"You and Niu Suozhu continue to scout forward. Let's take a rest here. Remember this tree and don't get lost."
"Yes!" Gu Maolin and Niu Suozhu continued to move forward, and the remaining five people sat under the tree. Everyone took out water and drank a few sips. The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun and the deputy company commander Lu Zeran were studying a map.
Wang Ke was leaning against the tree, seemingly closing his eyes to rest.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the figures of Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin immediately appeared in front of him. We are heading towards the place where the mist rises on the hillside.
Wang Ke found that his illusion was becoming clearer and clearer now, and the two people were moving slowly in his picture frame. The speed of the two of them was too slow, and he stretched his thoughts forward in a "whoosh". Suddenly there was a bright light, the trees were gone, there was a large piece of exposed rock, and then, at the end of the yellowed rock, a lake appeared in front of him.
There is really a lake on the top of the mountain. What is going on?
This lake is not big, only about ten acres of land. It is like a natural bathing pool, with steam rising. The place was deathly silent, not even a bird.
"Not good!" Wang Ke jumped up. In the phantom, the lake was like a cemetery.
"Liang Xiaolong."
"Arrived!" Following Wang Ke's cry, Sweet Potato Liang Xiaolong also jumped up like a spring.
"Deputy company commander, don't move here while we chase Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin back."
"what happened?"
"Don't move." Without any time to explain, Wang Ke rushed out like an arrow.
Fortunately, Wang Ke activated the navigation system urgently during this rush, and the sweet potato Liang Xiaolong was small, so the two of them hurriedly hurried, but they were still a step too late. After chasing for nearly a kilometer, I finally saw Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin standing on the edge of the forest, pointing at the lake.
"Come back quickly!" Wang Ke shouted anxiously.
Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin obviously heard the screams of Wang Ke and Digua Liang Xiaolong. They slowly turned around, with a strange smile on their faces, and then slowly sat down.
"Liang Xiaolong, how long can you hold your breath? Can one minute be enough?" Wang Ke asked Liang Xiaolong as he was so anxious that he could not speak coherently.
"Yes, Platoon Commander."
"The lake is poisonous. You and I hold our breath and rush over to carry them back."
At this glance, they were at least 150 meters away from him.
"One, two, three, start." Wang Ke couldn't care anymore, he immediately held his breath and started sprinting. He rushed forward, reached out and picked up the larger ox lock post, carried it on his back and ran back.
Sweet potato Liang Xiaolong was also fast enough, then he turned around, picked up Gu Maolin on his back and ran back.
Running with bare hands is fast enough, but running with a person on your back is not that easy. While running, Wang Ke finally couldn't bear it any longer and gasped for air. He felt a sour, rotten egg smell rushing straight to his forehead.
Finally running back to where they were, Wang Ke and Sweet Potato Liang Xiaolong bent over and coughed violently.
"Quickly, enter the forest." Wang Ke and Digua Liang Xiaolong held Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin, and the four of them quickly turned back and walked several hundred meters into the forest.
There is obviously more oxygen here. Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin, who gradually woke up, began to feel a little confused.
"Platoon leader, what's going on? Why are you two here?"
"Old problem, if the platoon leader hadn't brought me here, you both would have died here today."
"What's going on?" Niu Suozhu was still puzzled.
"This is a poisonous lake. Don't you smell something?" Wang Ke gasped, feeling frightened just thinking about it.
"Poison lake? The lake is poisonous?"
"You two are still veterans, why are you so careless?" Wang Ke's face became serious, and he continued: "Didn't you find that this lake is weird? If we hadn't rushed here in a hurry, you two would have been really in danger today. .”
"How's it going? Gu Maolin, you're such a perennial problem. I noticed that the stones around here are rusty red, and there's a smell of rotten eggs in the air. You still said it's okay, and you even dragged me to take a bath in the lake!" When Niu Suozhu heard this, he immediately became furious.
"Niu Suozhu, you are covered in white hair, so don't call others monsters. Haven't you noticed that there is not a bird around the lake? Isn't there a fish in the lake? Isn't there a barren of grass for hundreds of meters around the lake? The scouts want to see Observe the six paths, listen to all directions, have all this knowledge been returned to me?"
In front of Wang Ke, Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin were deflated this time. They lowered their heads and listened quietly to Wang Ke's scolding.
I'm scared when I think about it. If the acting platoon commanders Wang Ke and Liang Xiaolong hadn't chased me, and they hadn't carried me out on their backs, maybe it would have been easier to sit down, but it would have been difficult to stand up again.
The four people finally returned to the tree. As soon as he saw the four people, deputy company commander Lu Zeran stood up immediately. He asked eagerly: "What happened to the platoon leader?"
Gu Maolin was a big talker and immediately started speaking vividly. This statement immediately attracted great attention from deputy company commander Lu Zeran and veteran platoon leader Hu Zhijun.
"Is there a poisonous lake in the first two kilometers?"
"Yes!" Niu Suozhu nodded. He was still suffering from heart palpitations and shortness of breath and had not completely recovered.
"What poison? Is it water poison or gas poison?"
"Both, this lake should be formed by an extinct volcano. If you guessed correctly, there should be liquid sulfur at the bottom of the lake." Wang Ke added coldly.
"That's good!" Deputy company commander Lu Zeran shouted loudly, and he and the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun looked at each other.
Wang Ke immediately realized that this is a rare and natural place for chemical defense training. But I don’t know if a gas mask can protect against this type of gas?
While Wang Ke was thinking, the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun came over quietly, poked Wang Ke, and asked in a low voice: "How did you just find out that the lake is poisonous?"
Wang Ke was dumbfounded by this question. Everyone had forgotten about this incident, because Wang Ke leaned under the tree, jumped up, took the sweet potatoes, and Liang Xiaolong ran away. Without foresight, how could this happen?
"I, I'm subconsciously..." The voice was so low that only Wang Ke and the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun could hear it.
"Isn't it hard to say? If it's hard to say, don't say it. Wait until you think about it before you talk." The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun whispered again, and then walked towards the deputy company commander Lu Zeran.
"Let's go take a look." Hu Zhijun, the old platoon leader, was also looking forward to this unexpected discovery. However, even if this dangerous training content is inspected, it still needs the approval of the regiment.
The group of people packed up their gear and carefully followed the path they had just taken, heading south. As expected, they smelled a faint smell of rotten eggs before they had walked one kilometer.
"Platoon commander, deputy company commander, the smell of rotten eggs should be the smell of sulfur." Wang Ke explained.
Finally reaching the edge of the forest, Wang Ke stood still, pointed to the place where Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin fell just now and said: "The place we are standing now is the final limit, and there will be poisoning over there. It is north wind now, if it is south wind , we still need to retreat three hundred meters."
At this statement, everyone was stunned.
This lakeside is full of gravel, and some exposed rocks are brown, like ferocious beasts.
"Command the platoon commander, if the artillery positions are deployed in this area, is there a way to reveal the coordinates?"
"No problem." Before Wang Ke could answer, Niu Suozhu immediately answered instead.
"Command Platoon Commander, what is the chemical composition of sulfur?"
"It's mainly sulfide. There should be hydrogen sulfide in the air now. If the concentration of this gas is too high, it can directly paralyze central nervous cells and cause death." Wang Ke vaguely remembered that in middle school, he seemed to have learned this about several major poisons in the world. Lakes are all like this.
Since no one came with gas masks, no one dared to move forward. Return to the original route, pass the tree, turn west and go down the mountain, and then complete today's road survey task.
As for what veteran platoon leader Hu Zhijun should do, he still needs to ask the division's chemical defense department for instructions.
