"Comrades, please be quiet. Well, let's ask Staff Officer Hu to lay out the training content for the artillery battery to deploy combat formations after the interlude." Company Commander Bearded Tian straightened his military cap, clapped his hands, and said to everyone .
The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun took a step forward and said: "After our interleaved mission is completed this morning, the second part of the training content is to develop combat formations and build artillery positions under chemical defense conditions."
After Hu Zhijun finished speaking, his expression was serious. "Three hundred meters ahead, passing through this pine forest, is a poisonous lake. This poisonous lake is really poisonous, and once poisoned, your life may be in danger. The wind is blowing from the north today, and we are now upwind. I will arrange the artillery now For the base gun coordinates of the position, please record that the ordinate is ***** and the abscissa is *****."
The benchmark artillery mentioned by Hu Zhijun is actually the coordinates of the first artillery squadron. However, every gun squad must know that the distance between each gun is 20 meters, and it takes at least 120 meters to line up the guns. The installation and shooting elements need to be corrected.
"Comrades, there is still a very difficult condition for deploying battle formations and constructing artillery positions this time, which is to do it under actual combat conditions and in a poisoned air area. We have changed the training location downwind, but we still have to do it under actual combat conditions. It's poisonous. Now please command the platoon leader to tell you the specific protection and self-rescue measures."
After the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun finished speaking, he glanced at Wang Ke. It was obvious that he intended to let Wang Ke show his face in front of the entire company.
Wang Ke was completely unprepared, but when he heard the command from the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun, he stood up decisively. He saw the bearded company commander Tian and deputy company commander Lu Zeran looking at him with a smile, and his heart warmed. .
Wang Ke took a step forward, raised his right hand in salute, slowly turned half a circle to his comrades, and then said: "Comrades, our command platoon is one step ahead. This poisonous lake is still very powerful, and everyone can't see it yet." Come, not a single inch of grass grows there, and have you found any birds along the way? Due to the influence of this poisonous lake, except for trees, all living creatures within a radius of one kilometer have become extinct."
When Wang Ke said this, he noticed the nervousness of some soldiers.
"Our gas masks are very safe, but the gas masks that have been modified by us are hard to say. Now please check again. The inspection method is..."
Having said this, Wang Ke noticed that some soldiers could not wait to pull out their gas masks from their chemical protection bags and look at them from left to right.
"Just looking at a gas mask is not enough. After you put it on, block the air inlet of the left air inlet valve and inhale hard. If you can't inhale, it's good. If you can't inhale, it means your gas mask is leaking. gas."
As soon as Wang Ke said this, almost all the soldiers in the company, except for the command platoon, began to put on gas masks, and everyone tried them on, including the company leader.
After this try, someone quickly raised their hands. "Report", "report", "report" echoed.
"Stop reporting it. When things come to pass, your gas mask leaks. I can't do anything about it, but I have to go. There is only one way." Wang Ke smiled mischievously. He picked up his gas mask and said to everyone: "I have also modified this one. You can open a first aid kit, take out the cotton gauze inside and stack it in several more layers, and then take out the towels we brought. When peeing, be sure to pee thoroughly. Then put cotton gauze inside the vent valve of the gas mask, and use a urine-soaked towel to wrap the vent from the outside."
"Ah!" Some soldiers obviously started to curl their lips. This is so disgusting.
"People may think it is dirty, but in fact urine is not dirty. It is water secreted by our blood, but it is mixed with ammonia and some impurities. But for life and for victory in the battle, we must do this."
After Wang Ke finished speaking, he noticed some changes in the faces of some soldiers, "You didn't even bring a towel, right? If you don't have one, ask other comrades to borrow it. If you can't borrow one, then take off your clothes."
At this time, Wang Ke found some commotion in each artillery squad, and he added another blow.
"It doesn't matter if you don't have enough urine or you peed when you just came here. We still have a lot of urine for you in the command platoon." After saying that, Wang Ke couldn't help but laugh. This is better than last year. During field survival training, it would be much better to actually extract salt from urine.
"Commander platoon leader, you didn't mean to punish us, did you?" The fifth squad leader raised his hand to indicate that he had just tested his own gas mask for problems.
"Absolutely not, squad leader five. There is one more thing that I would like to tell everyone by the way. It is very difficult to listen to and convey commands when wearing a gas mask. Our experience is that, take off the gas mask and use urine-soaked Cover your mouth and nose with a towel and listen carefully."
"Hahaha" the soldiers burst into laughter.
"Okay! The commanding platoon leader has finished speaking, and everyone starts to prepare. Let me make it clear first, no one can joke. Commanding platoon leader Niu Suozhu and Gu Maolin were poisoned here and almost lost their lives here." Deputy company commander Lu Zeran made another stab.
"Start preparing!" Company Commander Bearded Tian ordered.
What's very funny is that although deputy company commander Lu Zeran's gas mask was not broken, he still took out a towel, peed, and then stuck it on his own vent. He told Wang Ke that this was called "double insurance."
Everything is ready. The company was divided into three waves and set off southward under the leadership of the command platoon.
Three hundred meters later, we arrived at the edge of the forest on the top of the mountain, and everyone suddenly saw the light.
The lake on the top of the mountain was like a boiling pot. Although there was steam rising, the surface of the lake looked like a ferocious beast, with its bloody mouth open and silently looking at the group of soldiers who suddenly appeared in front of them.
Six artillery squads will be lined up on the gravel ground on the west side through the upwind mouth.
Company Commander Bearded Tian habitually took out his whistle from his pocket, thought for a moment and then put it back. It's impossible to blow while wearing a gas mask. He took a red command flag from the clerk's hand, took out a stopwatch, looked at the six eager gun squads, and waved it downward vigorously.
The soldiers of the six artillery squads had already worked up their energy. They all carried the gun base chassis, gun mount, scope and ammunition box on their backs, and ran forward quickly.
The base number of ammunition for a mortar company is eighty rounds, and it is impossible for the six gun squads in the entire company to carry a whole base number. But this kind of gun weighs more than 200 kilograms in combat and has a maximum range of 5,520 meters.
The fourth and fifth gunners carried training ammunition, two rounds per box, each weighing sixteen kilograms, and together with the box, it was nearly forty kilograms.
The chassis, barrel and mount weighed nearly 200 kilograms. Since they were copied from the PM43 120mm mortar made in the Soviet Union, the six people in the class carried 275 kilograms of weapons separately, not counting the guns on their bodies. and other equipment. It is understandably difficult to run while wearing a gas mask.
When they arrived at the deployed artillery position, the squad leader first established the coordinates of the standing point, and then directed the whole squad to immediately dig out the chassis base with a pickaxe, place the mortar chassis, open the gun bracket, connect the base and barrel, and calibrate the coordinates. , install the artillery to shoot at Zhu Yuan, and this is considered a complete deployment.
But you must know that this was done under chemical protection conditions and wearing a gas mask. You need to take a big breath when you exert your strength. Under the gas masks, everyone opened their mouths and breathed desperately.
But I couldn't breathe at all. The amount of air coming in from the gas mask is very limited. If you can't keep up with it in one breath, a person will go into shock. Before it started, there were already fallen soldiers in each squad.
Some people were anxious and pulled off their gas masks. The health workers and a few people from the company headquarters held on as hard as they could. Taking off the gas masks in the poisonous lake was seeking death, but being unable to breathe was also suffocating to death. The situation was very critical for a while.
Wang Ke, wearing a wet towel, shuttled back and forth in the artillery position. The shooting points under his command had been handed over to the reconnaissance squad leader Song Ruimin. He cooperated with the health worker Yu Deben and several soldiers from the company headquarters, as well as all the personnel in the driver's squad. Now The fallen warriors need to be dragged or carried back one by one, and run all the way back to the starting point, which is the forest.
People's adaptability is very poor under chemical protection conditions. This is also a very strenuous job. Just after carrying two of them, Wang Ke suddenly found that the towel wet from his vent had fallen off. I don’t care much anymore. Moreover, the urine on the towel has already dried, so it has no effect at all.
It was important to save people, but fortunately there was cotton gauze inside. He carried several back and forth in quick succession. When he reached the fifth one, Wang Ke finally felt the world spinning and he fell headlong.
We were still planning to train for twenty minutes, "Retreat!" Company Commander Bearded Tian decisively gave the order, and the red command flag immediately waved crazily. Those who could walk should pick up their equipment and walk back. Those who couldn't walk, they didn't even have the equipment. take.
I was full of confidence when I went in, but I was extremely embarrassed when I came out.
Of the six squads that came out, two didn't even carry the bases back, and several shells fired by the instructors were left on the position. Now it seems that all the plans are insufficient. The key is that the gas mask is defeated. It is okay at ordinary times, but when it comes to war and sports, it immediately fails.
Returning to the starting point, there were already more than a dozen people in the entire company suffering from shock. The first thing the hygienist Yu Deben did was take off their gas masks. As soon as they came into contact with the air, they all woke up soon after a little massage.
But Wang Ke still had his eyes closed. He traveled the most and inhaled a lot of poison gas. After the towel is thrown away, the piece of urine-soaked gauze is basically useless.
Yu Deben untied his clothes and performed artificial respiration on Wang Ke, but it had no effect.
Yu Deben was a little anxious, and the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun squatting next to him was even more anxious. Soldiers from the command platoon have gathered around, and everyone is anxious.
"what to do?"
"Feeding saliva?" The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun took off his water bottle, held up Wang Ke's head, and prepared to feed him water. As he held it up, he suddenly noticed that Wang Ke's right chest beat violently several times.
"The heart is beating." Scout squad leader Song Ruimin shouted.
"Nonsense, your heart is on the right side?"
But the right chest kept beating. The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun reached out and took out the contents of his jacket pocket. It was a small cloth bag. When he poured it out, it turned out to be a mahjong and a red stone. .
"Huh?" Gu Maolin knew the person next to him. It was a snake stone, but the snake stone was white and transparent. Why did it turn red now?
The red stone is still trembling slightly, as if it is alive.
"What is this?" Hu Zhijun, the old platoon leader, felt strange looking at this ruby-like stone. He raised his hand and wanted to throw it away.
"Counsel Hu, don't move." Gu Maolin grabbed it. He took the snake stone in his hand, looked at it intently, and then made an extremely bold move. He opened Wang Ke's mouth and stuffed the stone into it. Entered Wang Ke's mouth.
The people nearby were stunned. But something strange happened, Wang Ke woke up leisurely.
Wang Ke spit out the stone in his mouth and looked at the people around him. "What are you all doing here? Is everyone okay?"
"Just wake up. This poisonous lake is too powerful." Deputy company commander Lu Zeran came over. He reorganized some people, wore intact gas masks, and retrieved the equipment scattered on the artillery position. .
And here, including Wang Ke, all the people who woke up moved inward along the top of the mountain again. This time, the training at the artillery position ended in failure.
On the way down the mountain, Gu Maolin quietly said to Wang Ke: "I made an unexpected discovery. Snake stone can detoxify."
In fact, needless to say, Wang Ke has discovered that the transparent snake stone has now changed color, and he has indeed recovered, which is incredible in itself. How does it work? It doesn't make sense to fight poison with poison, and it doesn't seem to make sense that life and death are in conflict with each other.
"Who else knows about this?"
"I guess the old platoon leader knows."
