At dawn on the third day after Wei Ran joined Li Hexian's team, the rumbling sound of artillery came from outside Tengxian County. This faintly audible sound of firefights not only stimulated the tense nerves of the officers and soldiers guarding the city, but also made people who still stayed in the city
The residents spontaneously sent various kinds of clothing, cotton shoes, and even various food and drinks to keep out the cold.
Under the ten-meter-high city wall at Chengdongguan, the soldiers who had put on new cotton-padded clothes, trousers and cotton shoes took advantage of their rest time to lean against the thick city wall in groups of three or five, and some were wiping their hands.
Rifles, some held a stone, 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 lens at the Li brothers sitting together, and gently pressed the shutter.
Taking advantage of the cover of the constantly snoring war horse, Wei Ran put away his camera and walked to sit next to the Li brothers. Then he discovered that Li Hexian was holding a 20-ring pot-bellied box, gesturing and giving instructions.
Next to him, Li Sui'an explained the shooting essentials.
Seeing Wei Ran staring straight at the big box in his hand, Li Hexian asked casually, "What's wrong?"
"I'm looking at the words engraved on your gun," 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, my second brother, and I,
When we left Sichuan, my old man prepared such a big-bellied box for us, and this poem was written by him himself."
He held the pistol with both hands carefully and returned it to Li Hexian. After the latter took the gun, he reloaded the magazine in his hand on the gun, leaned against the cold city wall and murmured to himself, "The Japanese will not return until they are destroyed."
Sichuan...sigh...I don't know how long it will take before we can 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 old 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 topic by joking, and asked with a playful smile, "Don't you miss the sister of the Zhou family?"
"You little melon!"
Li Hexian took off the military cap on his face, touched the back of Li Sui'an's head gently but not harshly, and said with a nostalgic look, "I don't want to anymore, I can't go back for a moment, why bother to delay others?"
But speaking of Miss Zhou, I am even more greedy for the bowl of glutinous rice balls she handed me when she saw me off from Sichuan in Shaocheng Park, Xindu."
Li Sui'an pretended to shake his head and said, "How could it be wrong for Tangyuan to bring Miss Zhou to suffer this lovesickness?"
"It's my fault! I mixed your ears with wax!" Li Hexian raised his hand to hit him, but the former ran away with a rolling smile.
Seeing the Li brothers laughing and scolding, Wei Ran, who was sitting on the side, felt a lump in his throat. He couldn't help but have the urge to go out and join the battle outside the city.
While he was waiting anxiously, the sun above his head reached its highest point and began to set little by little in the west. After groups of soldiers who had been urgently transferred from the battlefield outside the city passed through the city gate, they immediately went to the city without even taking a moment to rest.
Running up the city wall.
Also mobilized for reinforcements were not only the defenders who had been withdrawn from outside the city, but also the police and security groups from Teng County. Although these people were not many, they were equally precious to Teng County, which was stretched thin in terms of military strength.
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 outside the city who were almost within arm's reach.
If they were placed on the European battlefield, the few thin-skinned and small armored vehicles and tanks, as well as the reconnaissance aircraft flying low overhead at this time, would probably not be able to withstand a round of coverage strikes.
But for the Tengxian defenders, who lacked heavy firepower and even less ammunition at this time, and even the anti-Japanese vanguards across China, their only choice if they wanted to defeat such an enemy was to fill the gap in firepower with human lives.
Seeing the Li brothers also climbing 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?"
Li Sui'an, who fled all the way from Peiping to Teng County, swallowed and said firmly, "I'm not 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 our ancestors. I'm afraid that the gun isn't accurate enough, the bullet isn't powerful enough, and I'm even more afraid that the large knife isn't sharp enough to chop off their bastard heads.
But the only thing is, I’m not afraid of death!”
Li Hexian patted Wei Ran and Li Sui'an hard on the shoulders, but said nothing and turned towards the other soldiers.
As night fell, the sound of artillery fire gradually ceased. 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, he already had a heavy hammer in his hand.
First aid kit and a kerosene gas lamp.
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 operations without waiting for the person in charge inside to speak."
The person in charge of the temporary 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 my 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.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When he put away the medicine box and lit the kerosene gas lamp, the nurse who looked to be 20 years old at most had already brought a basin of water, and another person who followed behind her
A nurse also brought a set of white coats.
After washing his hands carefully, he put on a white coat and a mask. Wei Ran put on rubber gloves on his hands and said, "Bring them in."
"Can I ask you..."
Wei Ran raised his head and glanced at the person in charge standing at the door. He lowered his head and continued to make pre-operative preparations 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?"
"Just one will do." As Wei Ran spoke, he had already taken out a stick of morphine from the medicine box and injected it into the wounded man's body.
"Xiao Chen, you stay and help." The person in charge gradually stopped when he saw the wounded man's wailing, 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's okay, will the injection work?" Wei Ran asked while suturing the wound.
"No...no way..." Nurse Chen's tone was already crying, "I only received two days of training."
"Can you bandage it?" Wei Ran asked again.
"Yes! I can!" the young nurse Chen replied 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 person's dark eyes, lowered his head again, and said while suturing the wound, "Hold back your tears. Next, I will teach you while suturing. You can learn as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you can't keep up. Just do more."
You’ll get it next time.”
"Thank you! 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 broken blood vessels and torn muscles, trying not to leave any ugly scars on the young wounded man as much as possible.
..He may 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. After checking 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 confused and saw the other party pointing at the kerosene gas lamp 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 bottle of morphine was sucked out of the iron injection by Nurse Chen with a needle.
Only half a vial was used, and only one-third of the penicillin packaged in ampoules was 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 also turned white.
"Clang!"
Wei Ran threw the blood-stained tweezers into the tray and signaled Nurse Chen, who had been working with him all night, to bandage the wound. After that, he bowed deeply to the wounded on the ground and the doctors and nurses who were still busy, and then looked at everyone.
In confusion, he 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 help. Without the support of those special medicines, he might not be as useful as the medicine box left behind and the kerosene gas lamp that stayed on all night, rather than helping in the drug store.
If there is nothing to do, why not go kill the Japanese!
