1649 Ask for an Explanation
"Pooh!"
A Marillo soldier spat out bloody spit. He just looked out and a bullet hit a brick less than a foot away from him!
He was almost shot in the head!
However, he was lucky enough to survive, but the price was that the broken bricks cut his cheeks and lips. This is really a blessing among misfortunes!
Although the coldest period has passed, the temperature is still very low now. It is not only cold, but also very dry.
The dry cold made people's skin tighten. After a short period of time, his wounds began to evacuate, and the color of the fresh flesh and blood inside also turned darker.
Just like the stalls selling livestock on the roadside of the vegetable market, the cut surfaces are bloody and dark in color.
The tight skin pulled the wound to both sides, and this almost imperceptible force gradually caused pain to the soldier. He tried to lick his lips, and then gave up.
He could feel his tongue licking a slit and a small strip of cracked, dry and hard flesh.
Just lick it, licking the blood on your tongue.
The pain and anxiety made him more agitated, and he shifted his position.
The confrontation during this period made him realize that once his position is exposed, it will be very dangerous!
Not only are the federal sniper marksmanship very accurate, they also have some heavy weapons. Maybe something has already targeted the building where he is at this time!
For the Federals, if one cannonball can destroy an enemy, then this is obviously a good deal!
But it's hard for the Marillo people to understand.
Not long after he walked away, a tank in the distance had already adjusted its coordinates and fired a shell into the building with a thud.
The room next door completely collapsed, and Mariro's soldiers looked even more gloomy.
He waited for a while, about ten minutes, before finding a sheltered position and raising his head.
A group of soldiers who were still in the distance just now have come closer. Some violent emotions flashed in his eyes. He pulled the bolt of the gun, stood up quickly, fired, and then crawled and changed his position...
He crawled quickly on the ground while recalling the movie.
A Federal film about a sniper in World War I.
He couldn't remember most of the plot. He was not very young when he watched this movie. At that time, he only thought snipers were handsome and wanted to be a sniper in the future.
Although he didn’t remember the plot clearly, he firmly remembered one sentence
"A mature sniper never checks his prey..."
He didn't know whether he hit or not, but he wouldn't check, which would only increase the risk of exposing himself.
Outside in the street, a Union soldier had slumped to the ground.
Two soldiers each grabbed his arm and dragged him to a wooden shed on the side of the road.
Each of them was talking loudly.
Someone was asking if a sniper had been spotted.
Someone is asking if they need to call support.
Someone is asking about the injuries of the person who was hit...
The injured person looked at his thigh in horror!
Blood quickly stained most of his pants. At this time, his teammates had already found a bunker and began to observe the surrounding environment.
The squad leader ran over and used a knife to cut the trousers completely open along the muzzle of the trousers, exposing the gun hole inside.
The blood formed a spurt on the wound like a small fountain.
It wasn't actually sprayed out, and it didn't look serious, but in fact everyone felt heavy.
The squad leader looked gloomy but extremely calm. He immediately shook his shoulders and took off the tactical backpack on his back, and then took out the medical bag.
"Bear it!", he said to his pale-faced team member who was about to lose consciousness, then he squeezed a large ball of gauze tightly, and together with a...he didn't know what it was, a gelatinous substance, he pressed hard Stuffed into the soldier's wound.
He did not remove the bullet. There was no doubt that the bullet seriously injured the soldier's aorta. If he had to remove the bullet, it would most likely speed up the blood loss. He did not have that much time to try to save the soldier. .
Judging from the content in the war manual, there is only less than one and a half minutes of rescue time after an artery is injured.
Once it exceeds one and a half minutes, it is unknown whether it can be saved.
If it were delayed for a while, there would basically be no need for rescue.
And the easiest way to treat such a wound is to prevent blood from leaving the body in the first place.
As long as it's still in the body, even if part of it escapes into the muscles, it doesn't matter!
At least people won't die immediately, and they still have a chance to survive if they are sent to the rear.
The Federation has made plans for all eventualities.
This situation is indicated in these plans.
Of course, it is also said above that if it is a penetrating artery injury, you can give up treatment and directly ask the other party if they have any last words.
The moment something like rubber wrapped around the gauze was stuffed into the wound, the already confused soldier sat up suddenly!
His entire expression was distorted in pain, and his face also turned a little rosy, but only a little, and his eyes were wide open.
He screamed for several seconds before fainting again.
The team leader looked at the wound that had stopped bleeding and breathed a sigh of relief.
"You take him back and we move on..."
The soldier was unconscious... no, it should be said to be shock, hemorrhagic shock.
The rate of blood loss from the arteries in the legs is very scary. He was able to hold on until he was shot from the outside, which is actually pretty good!
The two soldiers did not shirk their responsibility and immediately agreed. They immediately contacted the support vehicle in the rear.
There are specialized armored vehicles that do this.
They just need to wait here, wait for the armored vehicle to arrive, they put the wounded on the vehicle, and then leave with the armored vehicle.
Generally speaking, ordinary wars are unlikely to have such a convenient situation. This is purely because the Federation now has an overall advantage, coupled with the huge gap in strength.
The federal military has the ability to mobilize these armored vehicles not to attack, but to rescue injured soldiers!
Three people were left behind, and the squad leader led the others to move forward. Now they were much more cautious than before.
More than an hour later, they had advanced a hundred meters.
After losing three team members, they were obviously much slower in clearing the buildings on both sides of the road.
Just when the team leader was finishing his rest and preparing to continue advancing, news came from the rear, requiring all troops to withdraw from the war zone immediately!
And this is the request of the commander-in-chief. If someone does not retreat immediately, he must bear serious consequences and be tried by a military court!
Such harsh words illustrate the commander's attitude when he issued this order. The team leader did not dare to delay. Although he did not understand and had some regrets, he still led everyone to retreat.
On the way back, a soldier asked incomprehensibly, "If we completely withdraw from the war zone, does it mean that all our efforts in the past few days have been in vain?"
In the battle within the city, advancing every meter was very difficult, and the city had also been bombed.
There are places to hide people and things everywhere.
Those collapsed houses are the best natural bunkers. In those dark little black holes made of bricks, planks and other building materials, a gun and a person are often hidden!
You don’t know if there is something empty behind a certain board or stone slab, or if there is something there, you have to search it yourself!
Not only is it troublesome, it’s also dangerous!
But now, it was all in vain because of some orders from the Commander-in-Chief.
The team leader was silent for a while, and then comforted, "Maybe there will be new changes. For us, the only thing we can do is to execute the order."
We have launched attacks and clearing operations towards the city center, but have not reached the outskirts of the city center for so many days.
But with the retreat, all the teams were withdrawn within an hour!
Standing at the edge of the city, the team leader sighed, shook his head slightly, and led the remaining team members towards the field hospital.
They don't care so much now why they are evacuating, they only care about how their comrades are doing.
Ten minutes later, they found the twenty-one-year-old young man.
His body had been covered with a national flag and placed together with hundreds of other similar corpses.
The squad leader suppressed his surging emotions and clutched his nameplate tightly. He got to the edge of the nameplate and cut his palm without noticing!
Sacrificed in vain!
The unlucky guy died on the way back from the front line. He suffered a cardiac arrest due to excessive blood loss, and then he never jumped up again.
An atmosphere of sadness pervades here, and all the corpses here will be sent back to the country by transport plane at night.
They will become a thing of the past amidst the national anthem, the sound of guns, and people's condolences.
People don't understand this kind of grief, because to people, it's just a part of a number. Maybe the camera or newspapers won't let people see the shy look when he smiles.
But to the team he once existed in, he was their comrade-in-arms and even a relative!
The squad leader swallowed, his eyes a little red, he turned around and pursed his lips, "I'm going to see the commander and ask him why he wants us to withdraw..."
In fact, what he wanted to say more was, if he knew that we would withdraw sooner or later, why did he still need us to fight in?
In vain, so many people have been sacrificed?
The other team members did not stop him, and even had the same idea as him. They strode towards the headquarters together, and on the way they also found some other people in a similar situation to them.
Everyone said nothing, just lowered their heads and walked towards the headquarters.
If the command's explanation doesn't satisfy them, they don't mind going to a military court!
This is not just for a certain person, but for the benefit of all soldiers!
They are soldiers fighting for this country. They are definitely not the victims of political compromises and cannot be!
The Lieutenant General seemed to realize what they were doing, and did not let anyone stop them. Seeing them gathering more and more, he was not very afraid, but felt a sense of relief...