The wine station is not a big place and has experienced winters, but if you ask when is the coldest time in the wine station, it is now, this summer afternoon.
It was noisy just now, but now it was so quiet that only the chirping of insects could be heard. There was not a breath of wind. The soldiers inside the room were standing at the window, and the soldiers outside were standing stupidly in the sun. Sweat slowly slid down their young, dark cheeks, but they didn't feel hot at all.
All sights were focused on the center of the open space at the wine station. Under a lush tree, two people stood facing each other. One was tall and strong like an iron tower, and unruly; the other was not wearing a military uniform but was still tall, firm, and cold.
It is destined to be water and fire, especially when Fire's dream is shattered, Fire is too lazy to even say polite words, he will burn with the disappointment, making his flame even more fierce.
It was bound to be a fight between Shui and fire, especially when Shui saw the telescope hanging on the chest of the iron tower. He didn't want to waste any more time. His cold air was spreading and condensing the water into ice.
The soldiers of the Second Company can understand the feelings of the company commander. The company commander's dignity is the dignity of the entire Second Company. There is no need for any reason and there will not be any hesitation. Face cannot be eaten. As long as the company commander gives the order, they dare to walk into fire.
The soldiers of the Ninth Company still couldn't believe what they saw. It was indeed the company commander. The company commander was not dead. The spreading cold proved everything.
Some things were very strange. Hu Yi was not a person who liked to argue about anything, nor was he a stingy person. Whether it was a telescope or a map bag, he would usually just take it. He might even accept the Zhongzheng compass given by the friendly army. But as soon as Gao Yidao came to the matter, Hu Yi's IQ would drop and he would become conscienceless and uncultured.
"Nice telescope. Any spoils?"
"Of course it's good. A comrade-in-arms left it to me when he died. This is a memorial."
"Can you lend it to me to have a look?"
"I'm sorry. The dead are the most important. No one can touch this thing!"
This conversation caused some soldiers from the nearby 9th Company to turn their heads and look at the soldiers from the nearby 2nd Company with contempt in their eyes: Shame on you!
The soldier from the second company remained calm with an expressionless face and answered with his eyes: You'd better look in the mirror before you speak!
The tension in the atmosphere thus rose to a new level. A gunpowder smell began to spread, and the situation quickly expanded within the scope of this small wine station. A crisis was imminent.
Suddenly, there was a flurry of footsteps. Qin You, the instructor of the 9th Company, arrived at the scene breathlessly. Seeing Hu Yi under the tree, he was excited. He also noticed Gao Yidao standing opposite him and frowned. He then looked around the scene carefully and immediately found something wrong. With his many years of experience in mass work, he immediately judged the meaning of this atmosphere. It was like two villages short of water fighting for a well! In Qin You's eyes, the two company commanders under the tree were like two wild children about to start a fight next to a garbage dump.
"You two are the ones who are being burned! What are you doing?" Qin You was anxious. As an instructor, he was really anxious because the 29th Company had an old grudge. They even dared to overturn the table and start a fight in the regiment. What's more, the emperor is far away now!
But Hu Yigao continued to stare at him, not distracted at all, as if they had agreed that whoever turned his head first would lose. In fact, they both felt the dangerous aura of the other party. They both knew that the other party was bold enough to be shameless. If they turned their heads, they might get hit by a black punch. This happened in front of the entire 29th Company. In a blink of an eye, it might be a hatred that lasts forever!
Some warmongers are already gearing up in secret, like Xiao Hongying, whose eyes are starting to gleam with a sneaky gleam, and they are trying to make subtle gestures in certain directions.
Some soldiers outside the affiliation were very confused. For example, Chen Chong and his ilk were conflicted in their minds. They wanted to stand on the side of the 9th Company, but they had no hatred towards the 2nd Company. They were also comrades in the 2nd Company. No matter how they thought about it, they couldn't bring themselves to do it. They really couldn't understand how the 2nd and 9th Companies could overcome such a huge psychological barrier. What a gap. Isn't it too ruthless
There were also spectators waiting to watch the excitement, just one of them, Tang Dagou. Normally, there was not much entertainment, but now that the big show was about to begin, Tang Dagou was extremely happy and was looking around, determined to find a viewing seat in advance that would not be affected by the violence. His only regret was that there were no melon seeds or tea!
The wine station had become a powder keg. Qin You's interference did not receive any response from the two protagonists. This was a critical moment. There was no time to pave the way for the two mentally retarded company commanders. He simply walked a few steps to the big tree and shouted angrily, "Then let's fight! Fight! Fight now! Can I not stop you? Can I just make one request? Can a shitty instructor like me be worth a request? Huh?"
"… "
Under the big tree, the two eyes that had been colliding with each other finally moved away and looked sideways at Qin You next to them.
"A literary fight is also a fight, right?"
Gao Yidao suddenly smiled sinisterly: "Literary duel? Lao Qin, I thought you were a man! Now do you expect me, Gao Yidao, to guess the Three Character Classic with you? Do you have any shame in the Ninth Company? If you want to call me uneducated, just say it! Do you dare to say it? Hmm?"
Suddenly, a small voice came from outside the field: "You are an uneducated bastard! I have taken more literacy classes than you have walked!" Xiao Hongying jumped two feet high and waved her fist wildly at Gao Yidao.
Luo Fugui, who was standing next to her, muttered subconsciously: "You don't look like a cultured person if you go against your conscience."
"Shut up!" Xiao Hongying turned around and yelled at Xiong angrily.
"Shut up!" Qin You turned around and angrily pointed at Xiao Hongying. The braided girl was silent for a while, so Qin You continued to face Gao Yidao: "You two are company commanders, right? Your soldiers are all here, right? Given the current situation, what will it be like if we fight? They say commanders are good at calculating, so you two calculate for me and see who will win in the end?"
"… "
"Don't just stand there. Come on, tell me. You two are experts. We don't need a referee, do we?" Qin You took out a wrinkled cigarette, took two steps to squat under a tree, lit up the cigarette, and added loudly to the people around him: "No one is allowed to move! We are where we are now! The wine station is a chessboard!"
Bickering? There was total silence around them. Can bickering lead to any result? They were all stupid.
The two protagonists also sobered up a little. Gao Yidao immediately raised his hand and pointed at Chen Chong: "Tell me, which side are you on!"
The focus of attention immediately turned to Chen Chong. The audience from the 9th Company was expecting, and the audience from the 2nd Company was threatening. Chen Chong and a platoon of soldiers under his command immediately felt dizzy and could not stand steadily.
"I… "
Seeing Chen Chong's hesitation, Xiao Hongying glared at him: "You idiot! Do you want to be an ungrateful person?"
"I have to be considered as a subordinate of the Ninth Company," Chen Chong said firmly.
"Boy, I see you still don't understand the situation?" Gao Yidao's face darkened: "This is the Second Company fighting the Ninth Company! Since you said you are from the Ninth Company, well, now come here and punch me in the face, and I will consider you as from the Ninth Company!"
Chen Chong was stunned, his head was buzzing. He could not hear clearly the people from the Ninth Company encouraging him: "He told you to fight, why don't you fight? Fight!" He could not hear clearly the people from the Second Company continuing to threaten him: "Go and fight them, and see? Do you fight?" He felt like he was standing on the top of a high mountain, with an abyss ahead and behind, and the wind was even stronger.
"Enough!" Hu Yi shouted, and the scene immediately returned to silence: "The Ninth Company does not need to implicate innocent people!"
Gao Yidao laughed sarcastically: "I have 130 soldiers and you have 50. Since you don't want that useless reinforcement, then what gives you the right to fight me?"
"I'm not interested in fighting with you. If you want to fight, then fight for real. Use knives and guns!"
"Then you'll die even faster! It's such a small place, if I shout Charge, you guys in the Ninth Company will all be killed!"
"I have the advantage of terrain. I control all the sentry posts on all sides, and the majority of the troops are in the housing area in the southwest. Does your Second Company know how to walk through walls? Can you consider our firepower?"
Gao Yidao looked around and found that after the troops entered the wine station, most of the Ninth Company returned to the dormitory area in the southwest. Most of the wooden houses were scattered there. Most of the Second Company was temporarily stationed in the central open space. The Ninth Company indeed had the advantage of location.
Gao Yidao could imagine the scene of the soldiers of the Second Company charging towards the dormitory area of the wine station with bayonets in hand. Those windows, doorways, and every corner would become firing points. In fact, the distance from the open space to those scattered wooden houses was not far. The key was that the Ninth Company had a lot of Mauser pistols with quick reaction and high firing rate. If they fired nearby, they would cause great damage to the unprotected Second Company.
"If you hide, you will be wiped out. The Second Company not only has bayonets, but also grenades. I won't even blink an eye if you exchange two platoons for one of yours!"
"You won't calculate the firepower of the sentry post for me?"
"At least that bunker can't help you. As for the remaining fixed outposts, can't I send out a platoon to contain them separately? You lose! The wine station is mine!"
"Are you too early to be happy? If it was a fight inside the wine station, the key point would be the stone building next to it!"
Looking back, the three-story small artillery tower was dazzling in the sun, with loopholes on all four sides and a lookout tower on the top floor with battlements.
Gao Yidao was stunned for a moment, then grinned: "This stone building doesn't count!"
"Why not?"
"Because it's empty now!"
So Hu Yi emphasized: "There will be several people rushing in. You can see who is closest to it. You underestimated my strength."
Glancing around, the people closest to the stone building were the dozen or so people Hu Yi had just brought back, including Wang Xiaosan, Tian Sanqi, Wu Shitou, Xiao Hongying, Luo Fugui, etc. They were all standing not far from the stone building.
There was a burst of whispering all around. Not only was this stone building the biggest trouble, but the remaining few people were also capable people. If they got in, it was hard to say what the battle situation would be like!
Gao Yidao frowned and looked at the rotten garlics near the stone building one by one. Suddenly he said, "Quick legs, it's time for you to show off!"
Everyone's vision turned quickly and they saw Xiao Jia standing behind Xiao Hongying and the others. He was as if he was under a spell and his face was covered with sweat.
"Speak!" Gao Yidao urged.
Xiaojia was so scared that he trembled: "I... this... I pulled the grenade!"
"Good job!" The soldiers of the Second Company suddenly became excited.
The audience of the Ninth Company couldn't stand it. What the hell was this? He was playing with self-harm and pulling grenades, destroying the last few hopes of the Ninth Company? Xiao Hongying was so angry that she waved her hand and led Wu Shitou to attack Xiao Jia on the spot. This kind of bastard should be beaten to death on the spot.
"Let him go!" Hu Yi calmly stopped the commotion, ignoring Gao Yidao's smugness, staring at the fallen Xiao Jia and asked, "Do you have any grenades on you?"
The scene immediately became quiet again. Xiaojia was confused again. He looked at himself. He had just returned from outside with Hu Yi, Xiao Hongying and others. He was still wearing civilian clothes and only had a Mauser pistol in his pocket. He had no grenades.
Hehe... Hehehe... Hahahahaha... A little kid who was just furious suddenly laughed towards the sky with the back of his head almost falling off, accompanied by sighs from the soldiers of the Second Company.
Xiaojia was so anxious that his face turned black. It was time to show his collective honor and test him. He thought he could sacrifice himself to become the hero of the Second Company, but the reality was too cruel and he didn't fulfill his wish. Looking at that arrogant and wicked girl, Xiaojia shouted: "I have a gun in my hand! I have always stood at the back! I will shoot you in the back! I will kill you all! I can do it!"
This roar choked the laughing wicked guy, who started coughing and gasping, and almost fell down.
"Can he kill them all?" Hu Yi suddenly asked Gao Yidao.
Gao Yidao didn't rush to answer. He was not afraid of being shameless in front of Hu Yi, but once the issue involved fighting, he had no desire to be shameless.
"He can't do it." No one expected that the person who said this was Tian Sanqi. The people from the 9th Company were stunned, and the people from the 2nd Company were also stunned. Tian Sanqi had no expression and no special tone: "Because I am also behind, he has always been by my side."
This time no one cheered, and no one despised. Xiao Jia, lying on the ground, stared blankly at Tian Sanqi, unable to speak. Tian Sanqi's position just now was indeed next to him. More importantly, he did not think he was Tian Sanqi's opponent, no matter what the word "opponent" meant.
"Even if I miss those rotten garlics, you've lost!" Gao Yidao didn't want to discuss the details of the stone building anymore. He raised his black eyebrows and said, "I have four platoons! This is not all the troops here. There is another platoon on the beach to the east. How long do you expect this stone building to last?"
Hu Yi couldn't help but look towards the east bank. Gao Yidao really had some good habits. He was silent for a few seconds before answering, "You lost. The stone building will not become an isolated point."
"Haha, is that interesting? Can't you afford to lose?"
"That's pointless, because there are still more than fifty guns on the south bank!"
"What?"
"Nothing. You were completely wrong. When you were counting on sacrificing two platoons to capture the dormitory area, you didn't even consider the fire cover from the south bank. That dormitory area is not that easy to fall. It will only become a hole of life!"
"You mean... those women?" Gao Yidao could hear his own heart cracking.
"I don't expect them to be very accurate."
"What kind of fighting power can they have? As soon as the battle starts, I can send a platoon on the beach to rush across the river and destroy them!"
"You think you can rush through?"
"Why can't I get through? You are being shameless to me!" Veins appeared on Gao Yidao's face.
"It seems like you are the one who can't afford to lose?" Hu Yi looked calm and began to be understanding.
"I'm going to prove it to you!"
"What can you prove?"
"Let me show you the speed of the Second Company's charge!" Gao Yidao's neck turned red. He turned around and shouted to the east bank: "First Platoon, attack Jiuzhan Village, now!"
The order was shouted out once by a soldier of the Second Company. The platoon leader of the Second Company stationed on the east bank came to his senses and waved his hand to his soldiers without hesitation: "Follow me to attack Jiuzhan Village on the other side!"
More than thirty soldiers raised their bayonets and became a gust of wind. The sharp sword lights were as orderly as waves, and they rushed along the shore to the cable bridge head on the south bank. At this time, a military bugle suddenly sounded in the wine station. The sound was very strange, and the soldiers of the second company had never heard it before. They didn't care about it.
Just a few tens of seconds later, the assault platoon had rushed to the bridgehead. The platoon leader was already striding on the cable bridge board with the vanguard, but they saw several female soldiers busy at the bridgehead on the other side. There was a dazzling flash, which was several axes being swung high.
Unfortunately, this cable bridge is connected by ropes instead of chains, and the quality is really poor. I only saw several axes rising and falling at the same time...
At that moment, the minds of the soldiers of the second company who were already running on the bridge went blank. They subconsciously tried to grab the ropes of the bridge, and felt the water under their feet getting closer and closer...
"Despicable!" This was the assault platoon leader's last angry cry.
"We could have used grenades!" a woman at the south bank bridge answered mercilessly, holding an axe.
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