Being on the battlefield, many trivial things are still vivid in my memory. First let’s talk about eating. When it comes to eating, everyone probably knows about compressed biscuits. During combat training, the troops talked about compressed biscuits. Everyone knows that when you

Being on the battlefield, many trivial matters are still vivid in my memory. First let’s talk about eating.

When it comes to eating, everyone probably knows about compressed cookies. During combat training, the troops talked about compressed biscuits. Everyone knows that when you go to the front line to fight, you eat compressed biscuits. But what do these compressed biscuits look like? neither knows. So they are all thinking about its shape and taste, and of course they want to taste it.

After the Spring Festival, we received our first compressed biscuit. There are only two bags per person, about half a catty. Said it was lunch for participating in the regiment's attack the next day. (It is required not to eat in advance.) Holding the compressed biscuits, everyone was so greedy that they couldn't wait, so they quietly opened the package and tasted it.

ate a piece and didn't think it was very delicious. It is dry and requires water to swallow. The curiosity is also satisfied.

html On the evening of February 16, in addition to compressed biscuits (about one kilogram per person), we also received cleaning tablets for drinking water, canned fruits, canned pickles and canned pork. I was quite greedy and put two cans of pickles and two cans of pork in my satchel (the cans weigh about one kilogram). Even though you are carrying a lot of weight, you still have food to eat.

I set out to climb Gongmu Mountain that night, and gradually felt the burden of the weight. After walking two-thirds of the way, I was really tired and had to quietly throw the two cans on the side of the road (later I heard that many people had thrown them away).

In the first two days after the war broke out, I ate compressed biscuits and occasionally opened cans for supplements. There are two types of canned food: vegetables and meat. The vegetables are pickled and some are delicious and appetizing. Canned meat is mainly pork and beef. One night, my stomach growled with hunger, so several comrades in the class decided to open a can of meat. After I pried it open with a bayonet, I simply used my fingers instead of a spoon, took out a piece of meat and stuffed it into the can. After chewing like this in my mouth, I felt something was wrong. It turned out that what I took out was the grease on the top of the can, so I swallowed it without caring. The mouth is greasy and smells of lard...

Canned meat is very satisfying. Canned sauerkraut is appetizing, and paired with compressed biscuits, it's a bit unique. The sweet and sour mixed taste speeds up the secretion of body fluids, which is very useful when you're short of water.

Speaking of water, there are many stories. The weather in southern Xinjiang is sultry and hot. I sweat all over the day and lose a lot of water on my body. Thirst is often difficult to solve. Fortunately, it is mostly cloudy and foggy at night. I didn't dare to drink more water from the kettle. I only took a sip when I couldn't bear it. At night, when the rain falls, and when the raindrops fall one by one behind the brim of my hat, I will stick out my tongue and catch the cool "tap water"... my own nickname. It relieves thirst and saves water in the kettle.

This is because on the one hand we spend most of our time on the top of the mountain and there is no water source at all. Secondly, even going down the mountain to fetch water is very dangerous; and there are reports that the water in the gully may be poisoned...

A few days later, we moved forward. The sun was shining brightly all the way, and by the afternoon, I had used up the remaining water with compressed biscuits. Thirst gradually became a throat problem. After descending the mountain road, the field of vision broadened. The paddy fields in the distance became the motivation to "look at the plum blossoms to quench the thirst", and the marching speed was indeed much happier.

When the paddy fields were close at hand, the team's speed slowed down a lot. Everyone looked at the shallow water of the paddy field, their throats and brows twitching for a while. Thirst is the longing of the throat, and the trembling of the brows may be fear of whether the water in the paddy fields is poisonous? Fortunately, we soon saw soldiers from other troops walking over with kettles filled with water. Seeing our worries, they raised the kettles and said, "The water is not poisonous. We have tested it." We saw his calm smile. , we immediately came to the paddy field, used spades and picks to dig a ditch, and the water flowed down...

I held the kettle and followed the trickling water, and looked at the appearance of the paddy field. It should be a rice field with stubble of rice straw. The children were unevenly sized, standing or sideways, and were submerged in the water. There were many lumps of yellow rust-like oil stains floating on the water, and occasionally there were wisps of dark brown unknown objects... Looking at it, I felt sick... But my throat was on fire at the moment, so I couldn't care less.Fill the kettle and put two "disinfection tablets" (all distributed when setting off before the war). The water will be ready to drink in a while.

Not far from the watering place, about thirty meters away, suddenly a comrade said loudly: There are corpses in the paddy fields over there... I looked in the direction he pointed, and I saw people lying in the rice fields not far away. There were several human corpses, and across a field ridge, there were also the corpses of four or five buffaloes. There were bloody floating objects on the water in the field, flowing along the ditch at the edge of the field to the rice fields below, probably to where I had just fetched the water... I wanted to pour out the water in the kettle, but I couldn't bear to part with it. What should I do if I get thirsty for a while? In the end, the water was not thrown away, and it was used to quench the thirst when digging cat ear holes and building fortifications.

Eating and drinking water are the most important things on the battlefield, and they are also very difficult to do. Fortunately, there are compressed biscuits, and the drizzle continues...