blood of vietnam war

Chapter 170 Five River Water

"Boom..." After nearly two hours of hard waiting, explosions finally came from the direction of Sabah.

At the beginning, we were not sure whether our artillery was bombing the Vietnam Army’s pesticide factory. After all, it was quite normal to fire a few shots on this battlefield.

However... not long after, I saw the head of the regiment running out of the headquarters and shouting at us excitedly: "Successful! I just received a telegram from the superior. Our scouts have found the Vietnam Army Pesticide Factory and succeeded. The guided artillery unit razed the pesticide factory to the ground, and another scout of our army even intercepted and destroyed three vehicles full of pesticides on the road..."

"Good!" The soldiers burst into cheers.

But it was just a burst of cheers. After a few seconds, everyone quickly quieted down and looked at me waiting for the order.Because everyone knows...the critical phase has just begun.

I looked at my watch and waited quietly for a few minutes, then I ordered into the intercom: "Start the drug test!"

"Yes!" Wu Zhijun replied, and immediately ordered his soldiers to move their hands.

The so-called poison test... As the name suggests, it is to use insects to test whether the water in the river is poisonous.Naturally, Wu Zhijun's platoon was in charge of this job...

Wu Zhijun was not very happy when he received this order. He complained to me: "Platoon leader...our squad's combat experience is not as rich as that of the second and third squads, and I am not as good at fighting as the second and third squad leaders. So I accepted it when I moved ammunition on the battlefield... Why is it our turn to catch ants and bugs now... This! I am not disobedient to orders, how do you want me to tell the soldiers under me. They all blamed me for being incompetent as a squad leader, saying that the second and third squad leaders lead the combat squad, and our first squad is the 'logistics squad'!"

"What 'combat squad' and 'logistics squad'!" I replied angrily: "I said Comrade Wu Zhijun... do you know how important this task is, the task you are going to perform now is directly related to our entire The lives of all the soldiers in an army are even related to the success of the entire battle. Such an important task is impossible for others to ask for, and you still push back...I can tell you, if you don't complete the task... Just raise your head and come see me!"

"Yes!" Wu Zhijun quickly realized the importance of this task after I said it this way, so he stood up and replied straightforwardly: "I promise to complete the task!"

In fact, this task is not easy at all. The reason why this task was given to Wu Zhijun is because his squad is more involved in direct combat during the battle, so the casualties are not serious, and the physical exertion is not too great... and things like catching bugs are not easy. Patience is required, so there really isn't a better unit than them.

Two hours was enough time for Wu Zhijun's troops to catch hundreds of bugs.

The reason for catching so many bugs is that it is because of precautions. This is directly related to the life and death of our troops. If troubles arise because there are not enough bugs at that time, it will not be wronged.Another reason is that even if the bugs drink the poisonous river water, it will take a while to attack, so in order to accurately grasp the opportunity that the time is not long, it is necessary to conduct experiments with more bugs in batches and sections .

Therefore, we divided those bugs into three ammunition boxes and placed them by the river at a distance of 50 meters from each other. In order to grasp the onset time of the bug's toxicity, we also carried out some experimental records early in the morning.For example: the death time of ants is 1 minute, and the death time of crickets is two and a half minutes...

It should be said that these experiments and recording these data are still very necessary. If there is no such statistics, if we don’t know the death time of various insects, how can we know whether the insects are not dead because the river water is not poisonous or the attack time has not yet arrived?

When it comes to these things, I have to admire the scholar, he did all of this, and he organized it in an orderly manner.Speaking of which, he is still just a high school student... and I, a college student, have not been able to think of these details, which made me even more determined to hide my identity as a "college student" to the end.

So the drug testing began soon. The soldiers in Wu Zhijun's platoon were responsible for feeding the worms with water scooped up from the river, while the soldiers under the scholars were responsible for recording and counting.

There is a saying that what kind of cadres will have what kind of soldiers, this is really true at all, for example, the third squad... because the squad leader is a scholar, the soldiers under him will naturally lose their strength after following them for a long time. Feeling a bit bookish, this person who is holding a pen and paper while watching the time and recording is still doing a decent job. .

Soon a set of data came out... Of course, these figures are not what I care about. The only thing I want to know is whether the river water is poisonous.

Ten minutes passed, and the experiment did not change a bit. The bugs who drank the river water all died within a few minutes without exception.

This can't help but make me wipe a cold sweat secretly, 10 minutes... This time is enough for the commander of the Vietnamese army to know what happened to the pesticide factory.Of course, if there are Vietnamese troops or walkie-talkies in the direction of the pesticide factory, this time may be shorter.But this seems unlikely, because I believe in the capabilities of our army's scouts and artillery, they can completely destroy the target before the Vietnamese army can react.

10 minutes have passed, and the reports are still poisonous without exception.

Now I couldn't stand anymore, and walked back and forth among the groups of fighters... But the result didn't change because of my anxiety, I still saw dead bugs.

Three 10 minutes...

My heart twitched violently, and this time was enough for the commander of the Vietnamese army to react according to our army's actions.

Judging from these confrontations between the enemy and ourselves, the commander of the Vietnamese army is also a very intelligent person.So... what would he think after knowing that the pesticide factory was bombed?

As long as everyone knows that this must be our ghost, the purpose is to obtain non-toxic water, then how can they stop it?The easiest way is to change the course of the river.

Sure enough, as I expected, after a while, I heard the scholar looking at the river with horror and shouting: "Platoon leader!"

Following his gaze, he saw that the water flowing out of the canyon had gradually become cloudy... It was obvious that the Vietnamese army was trying to change the river course.

However, there is a saying that "people go to high places, and water flows to low places". The reason why the river flows in this place all the year round is because this is the lowest place, so... it is not so easy to change the river course. Easy.In other words, we still have a little time.

So I gritted my teeth and ordered to the soldiers who stopped their movements in panic: "Continue to test!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and continued their work regardless of the changes in the water.

Then I quickly realized something... Maybe it's a good thing that the river is muddy.Because... this also just means that the poison in the hands of the Vietnamese army is about to run out, otherwise they wouldn't need to be in such a hurry.

Now, we seem to be fighting another war with the Yue devils, a war without gunpowder.The fight... is whether we can get some non-toxic river water before the Vietnamese army successfully diverts the river!The result of winning or losing can almost determine the fate of our army, and it can also be said to determine the fate of the Vietnamese army.

"Platoon leader!" Wu Zhijun yelled at me at this time: "The death time of the bugs has been extended... the toxicity of the river water is decreasing!"

"The second group has also been extended!"

"Three sets extended to 3 minutes..."

"Test again!" I ordered: "Test a few more batches!"

This is indeed good news. River water is liquid, and pesticides are also liquid, so the toxicity will spread everywhere and even get on the water plants or sandy soil on the river bank, so the toxicity will not disappear suddenly, but it will take a little time and a process.

I didn't think of this problem before, and now I can only hope that the river water can wash away the poison before the Vietnamese army successfully changes the river course.

"The death time is still extending, now it is 4 minutes..."

Because we experimented with a batch of bugs almost every minute, we quickly got another set of data.

But this was not enough... because in the next second I heard a loud bang from the other side of the canyon, followed by several consecutive bangs...

I couldn't help screaming badly in my heart: this is the Yue devil who is using explosives to blow up the river.

The river is not deep in the first place, if the Yue Guizi can blow down the stone walls or soil on both sides... then these things will be piled up in the river, and the result is not difficult to imagine: the river will be broken soon The rocks and mud are sealed, and the more devils will let the water flow wherever they want.

"It's too late!" I yelled at the soldiers: "Everyone obeys my order, only to scoop up the water in the middle of the river, do you understand?"

"Understood!" Although the soldiers did not understand the deep meaning of my words, they still replied in unison.

I didn't dare to delay any more, and ordered loudly: "Bail water!"

As soon as they heard the order, the soldiers who had been prepared on both sides of the river didn't care whether the river was poisonous or turbid, grabbed the pots and pans and jumped into the middle of the river to scoop them up... The scene became lively all of a sudden. It is also thanks to the coordination between the soldiers... The coordination of our soldiers in battle may be a bit poor, but the low-difficulty coordination of scooping water is still possible.

So pots and pots of water were filled in the middle of the river and passed to the bank continuously... After a while, all kinds of containers were also filled with [-]% to [-]%.

However, the water level dropped quickly at this time, and it didn't take long before there was only a trickle at the bottom of the river.

Obviously, the upstream river has been successfully blocked by the Vietnamese army.

At this time, the soldiers all turned their attention to the containers filled with water... Everyone had a question in their hearts: Is this water drinkable? (To be continued.)