"This is the African desert?" Xu Wenli jumped out of the multi-functional infantry fighting vehicle she was riding, looked up at the crystal clear sky, took a deep breath of cool air without the smell of gasoline, and couldn't help but stimulate the literary and youthful atmosphere of the newspaper editor, and directly chanted, "The sky is so vast, and the night is so quiet, like the domestic prairie, but the desert is more rugged, and there is a taste of primitive wilderness." ”

"It's just the docile side of the African desert." Liu Qing, who had been escorting them here, was still staring at the bonfire beside him, and said leisurely, "In the daytime, you will see the other side of her." Perhaps, when a storm comes, you will immediately experience another side of her. You'll hate her for it, or maybe you'll like her later. ”

"Didn't we train in the desert of our country, could it be worse?" Xu Wenli held up the seagull license plate camera hanging on her chest, circled the lens to the light strip composed of a long series of bonfires and car lights around her, and said disapprovingly.

In order to cope with the fighting in Africa, the troops sent by Huaxia to Africa were trained in the desert and tropical areas. There are many training bases in the Taklamakan Desert in China and the Arabian Desert in the Middle East. Even Xu Wenli, a female reporter who was going to the front line to cover the news, had to adapt to the desert base for a week.

But just a week of adaptation time in a well-stocked base is not enough to comprehend the horrors of the desert. Moreover, the situation in the deserts of Africa is slightly different.

There is no need to wait until daylight for Xu Wenli to realize this.

"Ahh A terrible scream in the middle of the night woke everyone in the camp directly.

"What's the matter?" Mei Houwang carried the Wuqi submachine gun and rushed to the tent where Xu Wenli lived, and when he saw Xu Wenli running out of his clothes, he shouted in a deep voice.

"Bugs, lots of bugs!" Xu Wenli said with a crying voice while covering the light on her body.

Mei Houwang jumped open the corner of the tent opening with the muzzle of the gun, and after glancing at it, he breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Liu Qing, who rushed to hear the news: "It's just some bed bugs and cockroaches, not scorpions and snakes, it's nothing!" Maybe they smell fresh meat. Hey! ”

As he spoke. He smiled and glanced at Xu Wenli, who was hugging his chest.

Liu Qing pushed the safety of the Bai Langning high-power pistol in his hand, glanced at Xu Wenli, who was still in tears, and said solemnly: "This is the beginning." The African desert is not so simple, if you don't adapt, I'll send someone to send you back! ”

He had a headache in his heart for the delicate college student reporter who came along. If it is those well-trained female soldiers, it is better to say that such a small flower and bone who has still walked out of the campus cannot withstand the wind and frost of the battlefield at all.

"No!" Xu Wenli categorically refused directly. Straightened his chest, "I will definitely complete my task of collecting wind." ”

"What is this bug? I can't bathe in the desert, and after a few days I'll be crawling all over my body. You little girl, okay? Don't push it up! Mei Houwang smiled beside him, "This is the battlefield, not the little girl's child's house!" Women and children are going to go away! ”

"I, I'm not afraid!" Xu Wenli, who hesitated for a moment, shook her head vigorously. As if to throw something out, "women can hold up for half a day." We women can go to war just as well! ”

"Yes!" Jiang Baoyu, who was wearing a medical soldier badge, walked over, rolled his eyes to Liu Qing, and then stared at Mei Hou and said, "What, you look down on women?" ”

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!" Mei Houwang helplessly looked at Liu Qing, who seemed to be blind to him, and begged Jiang Baoyu with his hands. "That's not what I meant. I mean, we're in this damn desert, and we don't have access to water. Right. Inconvenience. It's inconvenient for women and children to be at the front, it's better to be at the rear base! ”

"Even if you know each other, I won't introduce you to my daughter-in-law!" Jiang Baoyu, who had been in the African desert for more than a month, naturally knew that what he said was the truth, so he just glanced at him, pulled Xu Wenli and left, telling her some situations in the desert as he walked.

"Is it really that bad?" Hearing this, Xu Wenli couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice.

"In the desert, our worst enemy is not the Allied soldiers, but the environment here!" Jiang Baoyu sighed leisurely.

Xu Wenli may still have a trace of luck in her heart, but a few days later, she completely believed it.

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"It's like another world!" In the notebook that Xu Wenli carried with her, she was recording new materials every day, and after recording and sorting out some of them, she sent them back to the University Student Federation.

The government has been encouraging citizens to go out and restore the adventurous spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties, especially for students.

In the activities of college students to gather for style, the women's circles, whose status has been constantly improving, have also won several places.

Xu Wenli took the initiative to ask for the farthest Africa. But there is no romance of the Sahara Desert here, only a skinny reality.

"It's only May, and the days here are already hotter than in summer. Every grain of sand splashes down like the scorching sun that has been hanging above us with the residual heat of the flames, and it is easy to cook the eggs buried inside.

We can also fry eggs and pancakes directly on the hood of the vehicle. There is no need to light a flame, the scorching sun has already baked every piece of metal around us.

The heat is always with us, as if it can ignite the air around us at any moment. Even the air we inhale in our throats and lungs is scorching, without a hint of cool breeze.

As soon as we feel the wind, we are especially careful.

Desert winds are often accompanied by sandstorms.

If you don't take refuge in a tent that is nailed at this time, it means danger.

One of the chiefs who guarded us surnamed Mei looked like Sun Wukong, who was played by the six-year-old boy in the movie "Sun Wukong Three Fights White Bone Spirits" a year ago. He claimed that he had never gotten lost, and it was said that he once dared to break into the Japanese position with his eyes closed, but he almost lost his life in a storm.

He was swept away by the storm and disappeared for 13 hours just by going to a medical van a hundred meters away to look for his girlfriend when a big storm came. In the end, it was found in a pile of sand a kilometer away, almost buried in the sand.

When the sandstorm hit, it was faster than the speed of the express train, carrying a thick layer of sand, as if it was going to bury us all at once. All the oxygen seemed to be sucked away by the wind, and the green-headed flies that seemed to be able to adapt to all the harsh environments were still flying wildly.

Having never been here, it is impossible to imagine how disgusting these green-headed flies are.

Thousands of them always appear in front of your eyes, and sometimes they can block out the dazzling sunlight in the sky. Those hard, green-headed flies are very big, and they are not afraid of people at all, as if they are the masters here. They also unceremoniously burrow into your tent, even your lunch box and drinking glasses.

Even when I was drinking, I had to cover the glass with my hand, leaving a gap for me to suck in. As soon as the gap is a little bigger, the flies will swarm into the cups, wasting the precious fresh water.

If you are not in the desert, you will not be able to appreciate the preciousness of water.

There are some springs in the desert, but they are not enough for the consumption of large armies, and sometimes they need to be transported from great distances.

Even where there is a sea, fresh water needs to be transported from outside.

There was a time when the convoy carrying water had a problem and we couldn't find anything to quench our thirst, and I was driven crazy by the constant thirst.

At that time, my mind was full of ice water in winter and sour plum soup in summer, but it was useless except for a little more saliva that kept moistening my smoking throat.

Fortunately, we were close to the sea, and finally we distilled the seawater, which was hot and salty, and the more we drank, the more thirsty we became, and we could only moisten our chapped lips, which allowed us to survive for the time being.

It was not until the superiors received our radio signal and a transport plane airdropped water to us that the water crisis was resolved.

Water in the desert is too precious for anyone to waste. As a result, bathing became the biggest problem.

The male soldiers rarely bathed, saving precious water to take care of us.

Fleas and bed bugs keep appearing around us and even on our bodies, but there is no way around it.

In the desolate desert, everything needs to be brought in from outside. There is always a war on the front line, and the transportation of ammunition supplies has strained the transport lines. It's good to be able to sustain drinking fresh water and food. There is simply no extra water to bathe. If you weren't worried about illness, you might not even have bathwater.

For a whole month, I only took 3 showers, 2 times I just wiped with a damp cloth, and only the sudden rain at the end of May made everyone take a shower happily.

But in the desert, rain is like a legend, and sometimes when it comes, it is only a fleeting moment, and it is quickly sucked dry by the arid sand and the scorching sun overhead, leaving only a touch of green that sprouts at the opportunity.

Many lives have miraculously survived for generations in the desert, so great.

Our great human beings are only one of the beings that can survive in the desert, but we also bring war.

White-skinned, yellow-skinned, and dark-skinned are all tormented in desert wars. What are they for? Greed or survival?

......" (To be continued.) )