The car drove northeast, and along the way we stopped to buy a few things, mostly winter clothes.

Xu Xuan said that the winter in the Northeast is particularly cold, and if the protective measures are not done well, there is a risk that your ears may freeze when you are outdoors.

I said is it that serious?

Xu Xuan said: "I'm not fooling you, people's lives are better now." There are more measures to keep warm, and these things don't happen often, but I know a veteran who told me about some things in the Northeast. Do you want to hear it? ”

I was curious and asked, "Is it related to the case we are going to come up with?" ”

Xu Xuan said that it had something to do with it, and then told me the story of a veteran in detail.

This happened 40 years ago, a young man named Li Dongnan in a village in Shanxi Province participated in the conscription at the age of 18 and was assigned to the northeast.

In the winter of that year, the cold weather in the northeast made him a little unbearable, once the unit was going to the forest area of Changbai Mountain to do training, before the departure of their squad leader told him that if he felt cold in the forest, his ears were frozen and painful, and he must not rub his ears, otherwise the frozen ears may be rubbed down.

Hearing his squad leader say this, Li Dongnan still didn't believe it, he thought to himself, no matter how cold it was this day, could he really freeze his ears?

He is also a northerner, and he has always felt that the words of freezing his ears are scary to say by his elders.

And yet into the woods. When their troops had passed through twenty-three ditches, there was a young man from the south who covered his ears because of frostbite from his pierced ears. I rubbed half of my ears off.сОМ

And he was completely unconscious, and it wasn't until someone alerted him that he realized that half of his ear had fallen off, and then he began to howl, of course not because it hurt. It's because he's afraid, after all, he's losing his ears.

When I heard this, I subconsciously touched my ears and checked some of the hats and ear caps we bought.

Xu Xuan looked at me and said with a smile: "In the first year of junior high school, we are all cultivators, it is naturally impossible to freeze our ears, as long as we don't stupidly let the cold invade our bodies, that kind of thing won't happen." ”

Then Seo Hyun told the story.

The story begins with a comrade-in-arms of Li Dongnan who froze his ears, because the soldier was frozen off his ears, so he could not continue to participate in camping exercises, and after simple medical treatment, he was sent to the military hospital.

Because it was in a forest area, it was more difficult to send people out, so this task was handed over to Li Dongnan's class, and all the people in their class saluted and said, "Guarantee to complete the task." ”

At that time, the conditions of the troops were difficult, and they were given only a horse and a snow rake made by the soldiers themselves.

Snow rakes are used to haul things. Several of them and the wounded walked out on foot, and the wounded injured their ears and did not affect their walking.

The horses help them carry things, which can reduce a lot of their burden, so they are reluctant to ride, which can also make the horses feel better in the snow.

Because the ground was full of snow, the traces left by the troops were obvious, so they could easily find their way back without worrying about taking a bad road.

But after walking along the road they had come from for less than half an hour, the situation suddenly changed, and it became dark all of a sudden, and there was a heavy snowfall, which seemed to be a blizzard.

If such snow falls for a while, the traces of the large army will probably be completely covered, and the most important thing is that after dark, it is easy for them to get lost and find no way out when they shuttle through this snowy dense forest.

At that time, if they get lost, it is possible that they will die in this forest.

Thinking of this, those few fighters are mutually beneficial? Let's work hard to get out of the forest area as soon as possible.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, mixed with a bitter cold wind, which literally slashed at a person's face like a knife, making him scream in pain.

Soon the trail of their large army was completely covered in snow, and it was getting dark, and they lost their sense of direction completely.

Except for the squad leader, the rest of this group of soldiers were all recruits of the year, so two of them were so anxious that they both cried.

The squad leader comforted them and said, "Don't worry, we have a lot of dry food and water, and we will set up a tent at night and huddle a few people together, and then make a fire, so that we will not freeze to death." ”

At that time, there were not only wolves but also many tigers in the forests of the northeast, and all the warriors asked what to do if they came across those things, but their zipper guns were all without bullets.

The squad leader said, isn't there still fire, wolves, tigers are afraid of fire, as long as there is fire, those things will not come close.

Besides, they are the people's army, how can they be defeated by a few beasts?

It was difficult to walk at night, and the snow was heavy, so they stopped and found a suitable place to pitch their tents.

The trained troops had to march in the woods for ** days, and it would only take them a little more than a day to return to the war zone hospital, and then they would be able to stay in a warm house, so they felt that they had picked up a cheap errand.

It's just that none of them expected that there would be a heavy snowfall on their way back, not to mention that they had lost contact with the main army, and they didn't even have a sense of direction, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind was blowing more and more, and there was no intention of stopping at all.

Several people caught fire and huddled together in tents to keep warm.

In a moment they heard the sudden neighing of the horses tied to the trees, and then there was no movement.

The squad leader called Li Dongnan to go out to see the situation, but they found that the reins of the horses on the trees were still there, but the horses were gone.

And there were no footprints of horses or wild beasts in the vicinity.

At that time, they were completely confused, even if it was windy and snowy, it was impossible to bury all the clues in ten seconds, unless there were ghosts.

Li Dongnan swallowed his saliva in fright, and the squad leader was bold and said to Li Dongnan: "Dongnan, don't be afraid, calm down, nothing can defeat us." ”

As he spoke, the squad leader led Li Dongnan back to the tent, and at the same time asked everyone to put bayonets on their guns.

The fighters asked the squad leader what was happening outside, and the squad leader shook his head and said, "I don't know, I may have encountered a beast." ”

They make the fire more vigorous, keep the light around them, and people are not easy to be afraid in the environment of light, and their courage will be multiplied in the dark.

They leaned on each other and didn't notice anything unusual around them.

Then one of the warriors said, "Did the horse break the reins and run away?" ”

The squad leader said, "We are a well-trained war horse, if there is nothing to scare it, can it run?" And even if it runs, it takes more than ten seconds to leave the horseshoe print, but when I went to see it with the southeast, there was no print, you say, did it run by itself? ”

Then one of the more playful warriors said, "Have you looked at the tree, maybe it has climbed the tree?" ”

The squad leader glared at him angrily and said, "Your horse can climb trees?" ”

Saying this, the soldiers all laughed "haha", and the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed in an instant.

However, the squad leader still subconsciously used a flashlight to shine on the tree where the horse was tied just now.

The squad leader couldn't help but exclaim "ah", and the soldiers also followed the light, and it turned out that the horse was really sent on the tree.

The horse's eyes were wide, its legs were resting motionless on the branches, and its mouth was open and it was still neighing.

No wounds could be seen in the distance, but the horse was in a tree, motionless, and most likely dead.

Seeing this, the playful warrior who was joking couldn't make any more jokes, Li Dongnan asked the squad leader: "Squad leader, what's the matter, why is the horse still on the tree!" ”

The squad leader shook his head and said, "Soldiers, I'm afraid we're in big trouble." ”

"Whew!"

I only heard the wind howling, and I didn't hear anyone answer the squad leader's words.

Speaking of which, it was also when the story was exciting, Xu Xuan suddenly stopped talking, I thought he was going to breathe a sigh of relief, but after more than ten seconds, I still didn't hear it continue.

I couldn't help but urge him to speak quickly.

Seo Hyun didn't tell me the story right away, but asked me, "First year of junior high school, before this story is told, I want you to guess what you think the strange things in the story will be weird." ”

Seo Hyun asked me to guess, could it be that I have encountered something similar?