At dawn on the third day after Wei Ran joined Li Hexian's team, the rumble of cannons came from outside Teng County. This faintly audible sound of firefights not only stimulated the tense nerves of the officers and soldiers defending the city, but also allowed the residents who remained in the city to spontaneously send all kinds of cold-proof clothing, cotton shoes, and even various food and drinks.
Under the ten-meter-high city wall at Chengdong Pass, the soldiers who had put on new cotton-padded clothes, trousers and cotton shoes took advantage of their rest, leaning against the thick city wall in groups of three or five. Some were wiping the rifles in their hands, and some were holding a stone and silently polishing the rust on the large knives.
And all of this was secretly photographed by Wei Ran, who avoided the Li brothers, with a double-lens reflex camera from different angles.
When there was only the last piece of film left in the camera, Wei Ran took the risk to hide behind a war horse, pointed the camera at the Li brothers sitting together, and gently pressed the shutter.
Using the cover of the constantly snoring war horse, Wei Ran put away his camera, walked to sit next to the Li brothers, and then discovered that Li Hexian was holding a 20-ring potbelly. Box, while gesticulating, he explained the shooting essentials to Li Sui'an beside him.
Seeing Wei Ran staring straight at the big box in his hand, Li Hexian asked casually, "What's wrong?"
"I'm looking at the engraving on your gun. "The word" Wei Ran said truthfully.
Li Hexian smiled, unloaded the magazine of the pistol, and handed it to Wei Ran generously. At the same time, he explained, "My old man is a small salt merchant in our local area. My eldest brother, I Second brother, and I, my old man prepared such a big-bellied box for us when we left Sichuan. This poem was also written by him himself."
Treasure and value it. He held the pistol in both hands and handed it back to Li Hexian. After the latter took the gun, he reloaded the magazine in his hand on the gun and murmured to himself against the cold city wall, "The Japanese will never return to Sichuan... Sigh. ..I don’t know how long it will take to drive this little devil out completely.”
“Third brother, are you homesick?” Li Sui’an asked in a low voice.
Li Hexian nodded calmly, put the worn military cap on his face, and said dullly, "Can you not think about it? I don't know if the old man and the mother are still in good health."
Seeing that his cousin was feeling homesick, Li Sui'an deliberately changed the subject jokingly, and asked with a playful smile, "Don't you miss the sister of the Zhou family?"
"You melon!"
< p>Li Hexian took off the military cap on his face, touched the back of Li Sui'an's head lightly or hard, and said with a nostalgic look on his face, "I don't want to anymore, I can't go back for a moment, so why waste the time?" But speaking of Miss Zhou, I am even more eager for the bowl of glutinous rice balls she handed me when she sent me out of Sichuan in Xindu Shaocheng Park."Li Sui'an said with a pretentious shake. , "What's wrong with glutinous rice balls, bringing Miss Zhou to suffer this lovesickness?"
"It's from me! Mix it with your earwax!" Li Hexian raised his hand to hit, but the former rolled and crawled with a smile. Ran to the side.
Looking at the Li brothers laughing and scolding, Wei Ran, who was sitting on the side, felt his throat was blocked. I couldn't help but have the urge to go out and join the battle outside the city.
As he waited anxiously, the sun above his head began to set a little bit after it reached its highest point. After groups of soldiers who had been urgently mobilized from the battlefield outside the city passed through the city gate, a company He immediately ran up the city wall without taking any time to rest.
Not only the defenders who were withdrawn from outside the city were also mobilized for reinforcements, but also the police and security groups of Teng County. Although these people were not many, they were very powerful for Teng County, which was stretched thin. Just as incredibly precious.
At the same time, Wei Ran, who climbed up the city wall, also held up the telescope he took out of his cowhide book and saw clearly the little Japs who were almost within arm's reach outside the city.
If they were placed on the European battlefield, those few thin-skinned and small armored vehicles and tanks, as well as the reconnaissance aircraft flying low overhead at this time, might not be able to survive a round of coverage strikes. .
But for the defenders of Tengxian County, who lacked heavy firepower and ammunition at this time, and even the anti-Japanese vanguards in the entire land of China, if they want to defeat such an enemy, their only choice may be to take human lives. to fill the firepower gap.
Seeing the Li brothers climb up the city wall, Wei Ran immediately put away the telescope in his hand, then stood up and went up to them.
"The one opposite is the little devil." Li Hexian pointed in the direction outside the city in a calm tone, turned around and asked, "Are you afraid?"
Escaped from Peiping all the way to Teng County Li Sui'an swallowed and said firmly, "Don't be afraid! I'm not afraid!"
"What about you?" Li Hexian turned to look at Wei Ran.
"Afraid"
Wei Ran said calmly, "I'm afraid that I won't kill enough, and I'm sorry to my ancestors. I'm afraid that the gun won't be accurate enough, and the bullet won't be powerful enough. I'm even more afraid that the large blade is not sharp enough to cut off their bastard heads, but I am not afraid of death!"
Li Hexian patted Wei Ran and Li Sui'an hard on the shoulders, but said nothing. , turned around and walked towards the other warriors.
As night fell, the sound of artillery fire gradually stopped. A stretcher team organized by the people voluntarily carried many wounded people back from outside the city and sent them to a Chinese medicine shop next to the city gate. .
When Wei Ran, who was digging a trench, saw this, he dropped the pickaxe in his hand and followed him. On the way, he took advantage of the cover of night and got into an empty house. When he came out again, There was already a heavy first aid kit and a kerosene gas lamp in his hand.
Following the stretcher team into the Chinese medicine shop, Wei Ran took the initiative and said, "I am also a doctor and can perform simple surgeries." The person in charge of the hospital glanced suspiciously at Wei Ran, who was wearing a coarse cotton coat and with a weapon hanging on his body. After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "What do we need to do?"
"A basin of water for me to wash up. Hands, if you have a white coat and a mask, give me a set. I also need a spacious room.”
"Nurse Chen!" The tall and thin person in charge immediately called a young nurse, conveyed Wei Ran's request, and then personally led him into the innermost room.
When he put away the medicine box and lit the kerosene lamp, the nurse, who looked to be 20 years old at most, had already brought a basin of water, and another nurse following behind her also brought it Got a white coat.
After carefully washing his hands, he put on a white coat and put on a mask. Wei Ran put on rubber gloves on his hands and said, "Bring them in."
"Can I ask if you are ..."
Wei Ran raised his head and glanced at the person in charge standing at the door. He lowered his head and continued to prepare for the operation while answering decisively, "Chinese."
The other party sighed and waved his hand to bring in a young soldier who was wailing after being shot in the thigh. "Do you need an assistant?"
"One will do," Wei Ran said. At the same time, a tube of morphine was taken out of the medicine box and injected into the wounded man's body.
"Xiao Chen, you stay to help." The person in charge saw that the wounded man's wailing gradually stopped, and finally took a step back.
With the help of Nurse Chen, who was younger than Suisui, Wei Ran calmed down and started the operation in an orderly manner. At the same time, he kept asking, "Can you sew blood vessels?"
The somewhat flustered Nurse Chen shook her head. When she realized that Wei Ran's attention was entirely on the wound, she immediately responded, "No."
"What about suturing the muscle and epithelial tissue?" Wei Ran asked, while he had already clamped the split blood vessel and prepared to suture it.
"No" Nurse Chen replied disappointedly.
"It doesn't matter. Can you take injections?" Wei Ran asked while suturing the wound.
"Nor...I won't..." Nurse Chen's tone was already crying, "I only received two days of training."
"Bandaging session "?" Wei Ran asked again.
"Yes! I can!" The young nurse Chen answered while holding back tears. This is the only job she is qualified for.
"Just know how to bandage it."
Wei Ran raised his head and glanced at the other party's dark eyes, lowered his head again, and said while suturing the wound, "Hold back your tears, and then I will I’ll teach you as much as you can while sewing. It doesn’t matter if you can’t keep up. You’ll get better after doing it a few times.”
“Thank you!” Nurse Chen said hurriedly.
Next, Wei Ran explained the operation at a very fast speed, and at the same time, he meticulously and meticulously sutured the ruptured blood vessels and torn muscles, leaving as little damage to the young injured as possible. Ugly scars, even if...he might not be able to survive this siege at all.
Finally, the dressing work was handed over to Nurse Chen, and Wei Ran injected the wounded with a shot of penicillin, which was extremely precious in this era.
As the first wounded person was carried out, the tall and thin person in charge also ran over and checked.After looking at the condition of the wounded, he immediately opened the door and said, "Can you come outside for surgery?"
"Go outside?" Wei Ran raised his head without knowing why, and saw the other person pointing at the hanging hanging above his head. He immediately understood what the other party meant, raised his hands in front of his chest, and walked out of the room.
The person in charge quickly helped carry out the small tea table with the first aid kit, and then called a nurse to help move the kerosene gas lamp to the spacious lobby outside.
Under this bright icy blue light, the treatment of other wounded people was also accelerated, and the second wounded person was also delivered to the temporary operating table in charge of Wei Ran.
In the gradually deepening night, all kinds of medicines in the first aid kit were quickly consumed by the increasingly stingy Wei Ran. Under his instructions, a whole tube of morphine was taken out by Nurse Chen with a syringe. Only half of the penicillin packaged in the ampoule should be used at a time.
But even so, as the medicines in the medicine box gradually decreased, the process of treating the wounded became more and more difficult.
Finally, when the last bit of morphine and the last bit of penicillin in the syringe were pushed into the body of the last wounded person, the sky outside the door turned white.
"Clang!"
Wei Ran threw the blood-stained tweezers into the tray, signaled Nurse Chen, who had been busy with him all night, to bandage the wound, and then looked at the wounded and injured people on the floor. The doctors and nurses who were still busy bowed deeply, and then, amidst everyone's confusion, they staggered out of the Chinese medicine shop alone, ran faster and faster along the stone road, and finally disappeared into a small alley. .
When Wei Ran, whose eyes were bloodshot, emerged from the other end of the alley, he had already taken off his blood-stained white coat and thick mask, and strode toward the position at Chengdong Pass.
What he did last night was the limit of what he could do. Without the support of those special medicines, he might not be as useful as the medicine box he left behind and the kerosene gas lamp that lit up all night. Rather than being unable to help in the drug store, he might as well go kill the Japanese!