Battle of Songhu (8)
The dilapidated houses on the old street were on the verge of collapse. Zhang Mo looked at the house that was about to collapse and pulled Li Qin out of the house. They moved to another house. The two of them had just left the house when they heard a loud sound. The house collapsed with a bang.
"Stop looking! Hurry up and run!" Zhang Mo said as he pulled Li Qin.
Boom!
A cannonball exploded near Zhang Mo. A shrapnel directly cut across his cheek, leaving a finger-long wound on his face. Blood flowed down his cheek. At this critical moment, he couldn't care less about the pain on his face. He quickly pulled Li Qin and hid in a relatively good house to avoid the cannonball.
"Company commander! Your face!" Li Qin looked at Zhang Mo, whose face was bleeding profusely. If it wasn't for her, she wouldn't have been injured by the artillery shell. If it had been a little more slanted, her head would have been removed.
"I'm fine!" Zhang Mo reached out to grab the shrapnel on his face and pulled it with all his might. Blood flowed down his face like a fountain. Li Qin was stunned at the scene in front of her. She had never seen a man like this. He was warm and safe, and at the same time, he was not lacking in dominance.
"Did you bring any bandages? Say something?" Zhang Mo looked at the dazed Li Qin and asked.
"What? Oh! I brought it!" After Li Qin came back to her senses, she quickly took out a roll of bandages from her pocket and bandaged Zhang Mo.
"Are you trying to suffocate me by surrounding me like this?”Li Qin was directly tied up by Zhang Mo, even her nostrils were tied up.
"I'm sorry, Company Commander!" Li Qin awkwardly stopped bandaging.
"Hey!" Zhang Mo shook his head and took off the gauze. He folded it and covered his face with his hand to press on the wound. After the bombardment ended, he asked Ma Cuiping to bandage it.
"I'm sorry!" Li Qin lowered her head and apologized sadly.
Bang!
Zhang Mo took a small wooden stick and knocked it on Li Qin's helmet. He looked at this girl helplessly. He couldn't say too much.
"Is there any use in saying so many apologies? Remember, you are now in the army and obey orders! Did you hear me clearly? Even if you don't want to live, you have to consider your comrades. I still have to lead my brothers to fight! If they died from this cannon blast, they could only say that they were unlucky, but what about these guys? Which family didn't have young and old? Most of them were from Sichuan! Instead of staying at home, he came to Shanghai to resist the Japanese! Do you think this is a vacation? "It was the righteousness of the country that prompted them to walk out of Sichuan and resolutely embark on the road of resisting Japan." Zhang Mo knocked on Li Qin's steel helmet.
"I'll listen to orders in the future!" Li Qin lowered her head and replied softly.
"Louder! My soldiers are not like you!" Zhang Mo looked at the intermittent artillery fire outside and turned his head to look at Li Qin. The artillery fire should stop soon.
"I will obey orders!" Li Qin stood up straight and shouted.
“OJBK! Follow Class President Ma Cuiping in the future! Live with her! Was a girl really planning to live with these rough people?”Zhang Mo flipped out the window and glanced at Li Qin.
"Check the casualties of each squad! Treat the wounded!" Zhang Mo quickly crossed the street and shouted.
"Class One, one dead, one injured!”
"Two people from Class Two are injured!"
"No one from Class Three is injured!"
……
"Hold the attack! Defend your positions!" Zhang Mo looked at the Japanese reinforcements in the distance and shouted. Everyone found a favorable terrain to defend, because the Japanese army had already come out to prepare to counterattack.
"Didn't I ask you to follow Class Monitor Ma Cuiping?”Zhang Mo looked at the pitiful Li Qin and asked in confusion.
"I just want to follow you!" Li Qin pulled on Zhang Mo's sleeve with a rifle and looked at him pitifully.
"Bang!"
He slapped Li Qin's helmet, causing it to cover her eyes. When she lifted the hat, she could see clearly again. Zhang Mo was setting up firepower, so he didn't have time to pay attention to her.
"Pa!"
Li Qin, who had been following Zhang Mo, suddenly suffered a heavy blow on her butt. Zhang Mo slapped Li Qin's perky butt. It was very elastic, but the slap was too strong, and it hurt a little, let alone Li Qin.
" Wow!..."
Li Qin's rifle fell to the ground and she cried in pain. The other soldiers looked at Li Qin suspiciously, not knowing what was going on.
"I'm sorry! He used too much strength! I can only do this to someone as disobedient as you!”Zhang Mo picked up Li Qin's rifle and pulled her, who was crying as big as beans, under the eaves.
"You stinky hooligan!" Li Qin, whose butt was burning hot, looked at Zhang Mo and said aggrievedly.
"Who promised to be obedient just now? I'm already being polite by hitting you! If it were these kids, I wouldn't just beat them up!”Zhang Mo looked at Li Qin and said with a headache.
"I just want to follow you! I don't even know them!" Li Qin sobbed sadly as if she was very sad.
"We are at war! It's not shopping!" Zhang Mo unbuttoned his shirt and said with a sigh of relief.
“……”
Li Qin didn't say anything and just sobbed. Zhang Mo had no choice but to let her follow.
"Follow behind me and keep your body low! Be careful of stray bullets and shrapnel!" Zhang Mo shook his head helplessly. After setting up the firepower, he went to find Ma Cuiping to bandage his wound.
Ma Cuiping was busy bandaging the wounded. She was so tired that she was sweating profusely. She didn't even know that Zhang Mo had come. It wasn't until the soldier called out to the company commander that Ma Cuiping raised her head and saw Zhang Mo.
"Captain, what happened to your face?" Ma Cuiping asked worriedly as she looked at the gauze that was stained red with blood.
"I'm fine! He was hit by a flying stone!”Zhang Mo told Ma Cuiping not to worry. When he removed the gauze, he found that the flesh on his cheek had already rolled out. It looked very serious.
"How did you get hit by a stone! Such a deep wound! He needed to suture! But I don't know how to suture! We need to go to the hospital immediately!" Ma Cuiping asked Zhang Mo to go to the hospital for suturing.
"How can I have the time? Just find some alcohol to disinfect it for me!”Zhang Mo indicated for Ma Cuiping to bandage him up, but Ma Cuiping sternly refused.
"If you don't suture this wound, it will fester in less than two days in this weather. At that time, you will collapse and lose your combat strength! At that time, the delay would not be just a matter of hours!”Ma Cuiping knew the seriousness of the problem. At the same time, she knew that Zhang Mo was the soul of this company. If something happened to Zhang Mo, the entire company would collapse.
"Wu San, take over my command! I'm going to the hospital to perform some sutures! It would not take more than two hours! Make sure our brothers don't come out for the next two hours! Wait for me to come back and we'll formulate an attack strategy!”Zhang Mo gathered the three platoon leaders and handed over the task. He was ready to go to the hospital to suture his wound. The weather in August was just as Ma Cuiping had said, and it would fester in less than two days.
Zhang Mo brought Li Qin to the field hospital. The hospital was full of wounded people. Many of them were placed outside, and the beds inside were already overcrowded.
"There are so many injured people. The higher-ups don't know how to evacuate them and set up more hospitals! If a Japanese plane dropped a bomb on him! How many people will die!" Zhang Mo said with a frown after arriving at the hospital.
"Company commander! Company Commander!" Suddenly, a voice called out to Zhang Mo. Zhang Mo followed the voice and found a soldier from Third Company among the wounded soldiers outside. A bullet had pierced through his chest and pierced through his lung. He was coughing non-stop. To put it bluntly, he was waiting for death outside.
"Give me a shot of morphine! It'll be better!" Zhang Mo's eyes were red as he bit his lips and quietly exchanged for a syringe of morphine in his pocket. There was a thin and short needle in the leather bag. He stabbed it into his arm and squeezed it hard. All the morphine in the leather bag disappeared into his body.
His pale face and cracked lips let out a long sigh of relief. Li Qin wanted to feed him some water, but Zhang Mo stopped her. His lungs were broken, and pouring water now might end his life prematurely.
"Dip a cotton ball in water and moisten his lips!”Zhang Mo took out a cotton ball and handed it to Li Qin. Because his face was injured, it was inconvenient to operate, so he handed it to Li Qin.
"Company commander, do you have a cigarette?" Zhang Mo asked with a smile on his pale face.
"Yes! Yes!" Zhang Mo wasn't a fool. He could tell that this Sichuan soldier had reached the last step, so he wanted to satisfy his last meal.
"Tsk tsk tsk!"
Zhang Mo had a cigarette in his mouth, but he didn't manage to spit it out even after he had tried it several times. At this time, Zhang Mo's heart was already in a mess. Li Qin, who had put down the cotton ball and water bottle, took Zhang Mo's lighter. With a sizzling sound, a flame appeared. She lit the cigarette at the corner of her mouth, took a puff, and handed it to the soldier.
"Phew!"
As the morphine had already started to take effect, the soldier took a deep puff of the cigarette and blew out a long puff. He did not cough, and his eyes were lifeless as he watched the cigarette fall to the ground and die.
"Brother! Have a safe journey!" After closing the soldier's eyes, he covered him with a blanket and watched as the police lifted his body like a dead dog and threw his body onto the truck to be mixed with the bodies of other dead soldiers. Zhang Mo was very angry, but he couldn't care about these things. He really couldn't care. People were dying every day. If they were to dig up graves, who knew how many would be dug up every day, then what was the point of fighting? If he wanted to end all this, he could only find problems with the Japanese!
"Please, Doctor! Help our Company Commander stitch up his wound!”Li Qin begged in the doctor's office.
"How dare you! The hospital is currently in urgent need of medicine, and several attending doctors are performing surgery. Please wait patiently!”a nurse on duty explained.
At this moment, a doctor wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked out of the office. Li Qin begged the doctor to suture Zhang Mo's wound. When he heard that it was just a captain, the doctor with gold-rimmed glasses had a disdainful expression and refused to suture Zhang Mo's wound.
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