The roar of the motor disappeared into the air, and the sound of cannons finally stopped. Only a few gunshots seemed to be unwilling to be lonely and sporadically around the battlefield. The battlefield was full of bombed US tanks, and the burning flames filled the entire valley with a choking smell of oil smoke.

The bombed tanks also include the tanks seized by the volunteers.

The Americans would never leave their tanks to the Volunteer Army, and the Volunteer Army would not drive tanks, so they could only watch those tanks be blown up by the planes that flew in afterwards. There were two Pershing heavy tanks among them! It really hurt me. However, the Volunteer Army soldiers seemed to have become accustomed to this. This was not the first time the enemy's tanks were seized, but the ending was the same every time.

I had known that I should have brought some people who could drive tanks up. I thought to myself, but even if someone could drive tanks, it seemed useless. The Volunteer Army and the People's Army now have tanks, but these tanks basically dare not come out to move without air supremacy. Although tanks can be said to be the king of land warfare, aircraft are the killers of tanks. For aircraft, those slow-moving tanks on the ground are like turtles waiting to be blown up.

Therefore, most of the tanks of the Volunteer Army and the People's Army only serve to provide long-range artillery fire. In other words, they use tanks as movable cannons. The advantage is that they don't need horses, mules, etc. to pull them in front, and they also help the artillery troops transport some ammunition; the disadvantage is that the range is the same as that of a 82 gun...

"Report!" At this time, Hu Zi and Zhao Yongxin, two company commanders, ran to me and reported: "Report to Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, the battle has ended. Except for three of the enemy's seventeen tanks, the rest were all blown up by our army!"

"Where is the casualties?" This is the question I am most concerned about.

"Thirty-five casualties!"

"Forty-seven casualties in the second row!"

When I heard the report from Zhao Yongxin and Hu Zi, I couldn't help but frown. However, the casualties of our two companies were nearly 100, so you can imagine how big the casualties of the entire regiment were.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui..." At this time, Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but say in embarrassment: "Our company's anti-tank grenades are almost used up. If this enemy comes up again, then it will..."

"If you come up again, use explosive packs and blow up the explosion tube!" Hu Zi answered disapprovingly, "My company's anti-tank grenades have also been used up. What are you afraid of? Didn't you never fight like this? Last time, we didn't have an anti-tank grenade from any British tank battalion, and we didn't even have an anti-tank grenade, but we'd blow them up so much!"

I couldn't help but smile bitterly. Hu Zi said it was relaxed. Last time, it was at night. He held the explosive pack and the explosion tube to blow up the tank in broad daylight... One company could blow up one, and two were good.

So this anti-tank grenade is still very necessary. The problem is that the volunteer soldiers are not familiar with it. But now I don’t take this seriously.

"Don't worry!" I looked at the wreckage of tanks on the open ground, then looked at the sky gradually getting darker, and said, "The Americans won't attack anymore, they will retreat soon!"

"What? Are they going to retreat?" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but wonder: "They still have more than a dozen tanks, right? Only a hundred people died, at least more than a thousand people! Why would they retreat like this?"

"Their mission is to rescue Gloucester Battalion, not to fight us!" I tried to support my hands on the ground, making my butt feel comfortable sitting numb, and said with a breath of breath: "The most important thing to rescue Gloucester Battalion is speed, but after the crushing defeat in the battle just now, they have lost the opportunity. Look at the bombed tanks, there are those things that block the way. It is impossible for the Americans to quickly capture us. If they don't retreat, when our large army goes up and penetrates their butts, let alone save people, their lives will be difficult to save!"

"Um!" Zhao Yongxin suddenly realized and said, "So, the Americans should retreat before dark..."

"Then, what are we waiting for?" Hu Zi couldn't help but hurriedly: "Prepare to chase them! Chase them and fuck him hard!"

"What are you going to chase after?" I couldn't help but say bitterly: "We don't even have anti-tank grenades, why are we chasing?"

"That's it!" Zhao Yongxin nodded in agreement and said, "Didn't you see that the big tank can fire while driving it? Not to mention that our legs cannot catch up with the enemy's car tank. Let's follow behind, it just exploded happily all the way!"

"Then, then...then you can't just let them run away like that!" Hu Zi was still a little unwilling.

"Forget it!" I persuaded: "Our mission is to block the enemy's reinforcements. If we go after the enemy, what if another enemy penetrates and rescues the British? That's a mistake!"

"Um! Yes! Yes!" Hu Zi nodded and stopped talking.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. I don't know who made Hu Zi the company commander, but I just knew how to chase the enemy and kill the enemy. Fortunately, I was just a company commander. If this was a regiment commander and division commander, the entire army would be destroyed by him.

I have been busy fighting all the time, so I have time to check my injuries. I slowly stretched out my hand to unbutton the cotton coat and found that the jacket inside was already covered with blood. I knew in my heart that this was just some skin trauma. I thought it was because something was going to scratch the skin when I rushed towards the enemy tank! If it was shot by bullets or shrapnel, it would be strange if the blood didn't dye the whole piece of clothing red.

Although I was not panicked, I was so scared that Zhao Yongxin and Hu Zi were both panicked.

"Sanitary! Sanitary!" Hu Zi pulled his loud voice and shouted back: "Fuck me, hurry up and run forward!"

Zhao Yongxin took action to help me untied my jacket. When the sanitary officer ran over to untied it, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It was indeed a little bit of skin as I thought, but my body had already been hit with green and purple.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, nothing serious!" The health officer breathed a sigh of relief after checking for a while: "It just hits you. I'll give you some injury medicine. It will be cured in two or three days!"

As he said that, he skillfully unloaded a first aid kit from his back and pulled out some cotton and potions from it...

Looking at the first aid kit with the word "ten" printed on it, I was stunned. I quickly stopped the medicine the sanitary officer was about to apply to me: "Comrade, I have never seen these first aid kits before!"

"Report to Captain Cui!" The young soldier couldn't help but be stunned and quickly replied: "These are all supported by the people of the motherland, and we brought them with us when we entered the court this time."

"Well! Do you know which factory produces these cotton cotton and these first aid kits?" I continued to ask.

"Do you care where he produces it?" Hu Zi said impatiently: "It doesn't hurt or itch if you apply some potion..."

Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but look at me in confusion, not knowing what I asked about this.

I ignored them and looked at the little warrior seriously.

"This... I don't know much!" The little soldier touched his head blankly: "It seems that it is from some factory in Wuhan..."

"Wuhan Fuhua Cotton Factory?" I couldn't help but shake my whole body and my fists couldn't help but clenched tightly.

"Yes... It's this name, how do you know Deputy Commander Cui?" The young soldier nodded with joy. Then he was frightened when he saw me in that look. He asked nervously: "Deputy Commander Cui, I, I didn't make any mistakes!"

"No!" I shook my head: "But you'll make a mistake if you use these first aid kits again! Never use these first aid kits for the injured, do you understand?"

"Yes!" Although the little soldier couldn't understand what was going on, he still stood up.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yongxin seemed to see something wrong, and couldn't help but look at me in confusion.

"Hurry up, help me to meet Captain Chu!"

"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin and Hu Zi responded, and helped me walk towards the regiment headquarters from left to right.

The reason why I know the Wuhan Fuhua Cotton Factory is that in history, after Li Yinting, the factory director of the Volunteer Army first aid kit, actually replaced it with waste cotton after receiving 10,000 kilograms of cotton from the country. Most of these waste cotton were picked up from garbage dumps, and some were even used by hospitals. In this way, the 120,000 first aid kits that were not disinfected and with pyogenes, tetanus, and gangrene were sent to the front line, which directly led to non-combat casualties of a large number of volunteer soldiers.

"Report to the regiment commander!" After walking for a while, asking several soldiers, he finally found the regiment headquarters.

Commander Chu was stunned when he saw us, and cursed: "What's the point? Your deputy battalion commander and company commander have all run to the rear. Should we fight this battle?"

I was stunned when I heard this. Then I realized that I had asked two company commanders to escort me. It was a bit of a mistake. But I didn’t care about that much at this time. I endured the pain and saluted and said, “Report to Commander Chu, something happened, the first aid kit we used was poisonous!”

"What?" Captain Chu was stunned when he heard this. Chen Ye, who was originally focused on looking at the map, couldn't help but raise his head. Zhao Yongxin and Hu Zi listened to this and looked at me like a monster.

"Tell me clearly!" Captain Chu frowned and asked with a serious expression: "What's going on? How did you know that the first aid kit is poisonous?"

"This..." I was asked by Captain Chu. I was only thinking about reporting the poisonous first aid kit to my superiors, but I didn't think of how to explain it.

"Is it the enemy's poison?" Chen Ye couldn't help but ask in confusion: "It's not easy to poison our first aid kit without knowing it! Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, have you made a mistake?"

"That's not!" I stood up and replied: "It's capitalists. In order to make money, they replaced the good cotton with broken and dirty cotton. The cotton we use now has bacteria! If this wound is infected, it will be seriously injured. If the serious injury is seriously injured, it will be sacrificed!"

"Is this really the case?" Captain Chu couldn't help but gasp as he heard this.

"These dog-good capitalists!" Hu Zi seemed to believe it immediately, and immediately gritted his teeth and cursed: "We are fighting the enemy here, and they are stabbing the knife in the back!"

"Captain, political commissar..." Zhao Yongxin frowned and said, "If all the first aid kits of the entire army were withdrawn, it would not be a trivial matter! All our soldiers would be out of medicine!"

"That's right!" Political Commissar Chen Ye nodded and said, "But if the first aid kit is really poisonous, it's not a trivial matter. There are many wounded people in a few days of war. If this matter is true, we must not let the soldiers continue to be persecuted by capitalists! We must raise this problem to the height of class struggle, and we must not let the tricks of those crazy capitalists succeed! We must resolutely fight with these capitalists that hinder the development of New China to the end!"

After pausing, Political Commissar Chen Ye continued to ask: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, the information you provide is very important, but how did you get this information?"

"This..." I couldn't help but scratch my head awkwardly, thinking for a while, and then opened my mouth and said nonsense: "I used to be a worker in the Wuhan Fuhua Cotton Factory. Once, I accidentally heard several capitalists talking about replacing cotton with rotten cotton, and said that if the rotten cotton is bleached, it won't be seen. Even if the wounded are infected, most people would not think that it is the reason for the cotton. I didn't care about it at the beginning, but this time I saw the cotton of the first aid kit and asked casually. I didn't expect that the first aid kit was really produced by the Wuhan Fuhua Cotton Factory..."

"Well! It seems that they have been doing this for a day or two!" Chen Ye couldn't help but nodded as he heard this: "Old Chu, this is a big event. New China has just been established, and there are still some counter-revolutionary forces in the country. Now seeing our large army going abroad to fight, these counter-revolutionary forces are ready to move. We must treat this matter carefully!"

"Um!" I was shocked when I heard this. My original intention was to ask the volunteers not to increase unnecessary casualties because of the rotten cotton, but I didn't expect that all this could rise to this level.

"I agree!" Captain Chu nodded seriously: "You must report this matter carefully to your superiors in detail, but how can we determine if there is any problem with the first aid kit?"

Everyone was stunned when Captain Chu said this. Although there was any problem with this first aid kit that could be sent back to China for testing, the volunteers did not know how many more people would die during this period.

"This is how!" After thinking for a while, Chen Ye raised his head and said, "Let's call the Ministry of Health to ask about the situation of the wounded and sick!"

"Good solution!" Captain Chu nodded and agreed: "If there is really a problem with this first aid kit, the treatment situation of the injured and the patient will definitely be different!"

So Captain Chu quickly answered the phone number from the Ministry of Health without saying a word.

"Hey, the Ministry of Health?"

"Well! I am Chu Chuanyu, the commander of the 353rd Regiment of the 118th Division of the 40th Army!"

"That's right, I'll ask about the situation of the wounded and sick!"

"Oh...um...um!"

Looking at Captain Chu's face as he listened to the phone, his face became more and more ugly, and my heart was also full of ups and downs. What if there was no problem with the first aid kit? Then will my problem be raised to a political level and be called a counter-revolutionary or something? It is me who will be under review at that time. Please, my identity cannot afford political review, and I don't even know who I am...

But from another perspective, I hope this first aid kit is not a problem. Because it is the life of the volunteers after all, they did not die on the battlefield, but on the cotton of the capitalists...

"Okay, thank you for your answer, goodbye!"

At this time, Captain Chu put down the phone with a pale face, and everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to him.

"How is it?" Political Commissar Chen Ye asked anxiously.

"The problem that Deputy Battalion Commander Cui's reaction should exist!" Commander Chu punched the table hard: "When I did not mention the problem with the first aid kit, the Ministry of Health said that the wounds of the injured soldiers were seriously infected recently. It is suspected that it was a problem of the soldiers' own hygiene. The soldiers should pay attention to hygiene, and also told us to ask the health workers to pay attention to cleaning the wound before bandaging the wound!"

"These capitalists who eat people and don't spit bones!" Chen Ye threw the cigarette butt in his hand fiercely, and his chest was fluctuating violently, as if he was very angry.

"Damn bastard!" Hu Zi was almost crying, and squatted on him and cursed fiercely: "If I touch this bastard, I will tear him apart..."

"Captain!" Zhao Yongxin asked in confusion: "I know this is a problem with first aid kits, why don't you tell the Ministry of Health? This makes the injured soldiers..."

"This is not a trivial matter." Chen Yewei replied: "This is the business of the entire volunteer army. We must report to our superiors and let them make a decision."

"You go back to your post first!" Commander Chu then ordered: "Go back and tell the health officer not to use first aid kits to treat the wounded for the time being, and wait for the orders from his superiors!"

"In addition..." Political Commissar Chen Ye explained again: "Don't talk about this to other comrades for the time being, so as not to cause riots and slam the morale of the soldiers!"

"Yes!" The three of us responded and turned around and walked out of the air-raid shelter.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" On the way back to the position, Zhao Yongxin said with emotion: "I can't understand why those capitalists can make more money by making so much money? But just to make more money, they have sacrificed so many good soldiers! These are all living lives!"

"Bah!" Hu Zi couldn't help but curse: "Captain Zhao, you're so strange. When I was a long-term worker for the landlord, I accidentally spilled a bowl of wine, and almost killed him! Those landlords, capitalists, wouldn't they regard us as humans, and wouldn't they take our lives seriously! Their conscience has long been eaten by dogs!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. In fact, it was not just the businessmen who were unconscienced in this era, but there were no more modern things than fake medicines, fake wine, fake plastic surgery, poisonous milk powder, poisonous milk... one after another. In modern times, I was in the journalist industry for a short time, but I couldn't count these things I came into contact with.
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