Although the commander of the first battalion could not see the road below the mountain with his glasses, he judged from the sound that it was a large army passing. The position of the other place was behind the mountain to the west, and he wanted to cut off the retreat of the US and South Korean troops retreating south, and he must capture the top of the mountain, and the troops would block the enemy retreating south on the mountain. The commander of the first battalion quickly deployed his troops into an attack formation and launched an attack without any heavy weapons or artillery cover. Suddenly, on the fortifications of the US and South Korean positions, more than 30 machine guns and mortar guns stretched out from the bunkers to frantically block the attacking volunteer troops, although the volunteer soldiers were not afraid of sacrifice and went forward to follow-up, and soon the troops were pressed by the powerful fire of the United States and South Korea in the front line of the enemy position. The two sides were in a stalemate for almost an hour, the attacking troops did not advance half a step, and more and more fighters were killed. The commander of the first battalion knew that if there was such a stalemate, without heavy weapons to cover it, the troops would soon be wiped out, so he had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw from the battle, leaving a piece of the remains of volunteer soldiers on the forward position, counting the number of 12 killed and 34 wounded. Just when he was at a loss, the bearded regimental commander arrived. He brought a machine gun battery, four heavy machine guns, four mortars, three six-zero guns, three grenadier canisters. He asked about the situation and was about to organize a new attack, when Hu Yubu called from the walkie-talkie, and the bearded elephant Hu Yu reported the situation at the front and the number of casualties, and Hu Yu told him to suspend the attack and immediately ordered the artillery to attack. According to the calculation, the cannon could be shot at the forward position, and Hu Yu ordered it to be erected on the spot and prepare to attack. After receiving the order, the commander of the artillery regiment sent two groups of observation posts while arranging the erection of artillery. Because it is a tiger across the mountain, there is no observation post to hit the target. It was already afternoon when the two groups of observation posts arrived at the forward position, and they did not bother to eat, so they chose two commanding heights and immediately began to set up their machines. The U.S. and South Korean troops seem to have made preparations for a long time, and on the side of the commanding heights chosen by the volunteers, they ambushed the blockers, and before the volunteer soldier machine was completely erected, the guns suddenly rang out at the same time in two places, and the volunteer soldiers fell down and died in response. Two more groups were sent to choose a new observation position, but they still did not escape the enemy blockers. After sacrificing four groups of battlefield soil in a row, the mood of the artillery regiment soldiers fell to the lowest point at once. In desperation, a few artillery shots were test-fired, and the front-line soldiers tried to indicate the direction, but the vast majority of the volunteer soldiers were poor peasants, had never gone to school at all, and could not even write their own names, and even the commander of a battalion, although he had grown from a soldier to a commander, could command a team of several hundred people, but he did not even know what a meter was. When the test-fired shells fell, the fighters just shouted, and then forward, then back, to the left, to the right, and for an hour of test firing did not drop a single shell on the enemy's position. When he was worried, the chief of staff came to Hu Yu with a walkie-talkie.

"Commander, Shiji ordered to withdraw from the battle." Hu Yu couldn't believe his ears, the troops marched in the rain for a day and a night, the vanguard troops paid so much sacrifice, and the large troops had to withdraw from the battle before they were put into battle, Hu Yu glared and asked the chief of staff: "Did you hear clearly?" Wrong order Lao Tzu shot you! "The chief of staff knew his temper, and as he handed him the microphone, he smiled and said, "I heard it very clearly, it was Shiji's order." Hu Yu answered the microphone and muttered: "That dog day's misinformation of military orders? ”

"I gave the order." The voice of the commander of dissatisfaction came from the microphone.

"I 、、、、、、" Hu Yu heard the commander's voice, stuck out his tongue, and his face turned red.

When Hu Yu was 14 years old, his hometown continued to suffer from drought for two consecutive years, and by the spring of the third year, every household in the village really had nothing to eat. Only the people of Hu Yu's family are not swollen, and the people in the village think that his family has food to eat, and when it is time to eat, there are always people who come to his house to peek. In fact, it is not that his family has grain, but that Hu Yu has a sister who married away from home, and when she returned to her parents' house to visit relatives, she brought back a cloth bag of jujubes, and when Hu Yu's mother cooked wild vegetables, she always grabbed a handful of jujubes and put them in the pot.

Hu Yu, who was only 14 years old at the time, still seemed to understand life, and he didn't want to eat the wild vegetable rice made by his mother, especially the rice that was not sweet or salty and the wild vegetables were a little bitter with jujube and salt; I don't feel hungry, I don't dare to sit because I eat diarrhea, and my butt hurts. On this day, he was playing with a few children on the grass pile at the head of the village, and when he saw the army on the road outside the village, the adults ran home in fright, and several of their children ran over to see the soldiers. At this time, it was almost noon, and the other children had gone home to eat, and only Hu Yu was there to watch. At this time, the soldier suddenly stopped, and then began to bury the pot to cook, and his mouth watered as he watched the white rice enter the pot. Hu Yuji hadn't eaten white rice for several months, and when it was time to start the meal, watching the soldiers eating the rice in their mouths, he suddenly felt very hungry, and his heart was twisted and uncomfortable.

"I'm hungry!" One who looked to be about the same age as his father, and everyone called the old squad leader, carried a bowl of rice for him. His hungry eyes were green, and he was a little scared when he wanted to take the bowl.

"Eat, it's okay." A warrior who didn't look much older than Hu Yu coaxed. Hu Yu picked up the bowl and devoured it with three mouthfuls of five mouthfuls The old squad leader gave him another bowl, he felt a little embarrassed, the old squad leader saw his thoughts, and knew that this half of the eldest son could eat Lao Tzu's Yanyu. Said: "Eat, I also have a child as old as you, I don't know if I can eat, alas!" The old squad leader said like to himself, and like to himself.

"Come to our army as a soldier, right?" The little warrior who was a little older than Hu Yu teased him.

"What do you do every day as a soldier?"

"We are the Red Army!"

"What did the Red Army do?"

"Fight the bad guys." This little soldier has only been a soldier for a few days, and he can't figure out a lot of things

"Who's the bad guy?"

"Reactionary."

"Who are the reactionaries?"

The little warrior blushed: "I don't know, ask the instructor here."

The little soldier couldn't understand the deep truth, and Hu Yu didn't understand it, so he knew a little bit that being a soldier could have white rice to eat. After that, he did not return to his home, and followed the troops; He also walked when the troops walked, and he also rested when the troops rested, and there was no shortage of him for a bowl of rice anyway, and the soldiers were also happy to have a child to tease him. On the second day, the old squad leader saw that he was still with the troops, worried that he would not be able to find his home, persuaded him to go home, and said that he would not leave, so the old squad leader had to report to the company commander. The company commander came over to look at the little boy and asked him why he was following the troops, and he said that he wanted to be a soldier, and the company commander took a spear from a soldier and told him to wait until he was taller than the gun before he came to be a soldier, but he didn't speak, he just didn't leave. The company commander couldn't help it, and he was worried that the child would get lost alone, so he asked the old squad leader to take care of him and help with chores in the kitchen. In this way, he followed the troops, until one day, the head of the unit passed by here, and saw a child, wearing the clothes of the old white surname, running around in the kitchen, he felt very strange, stopped and asked what was going on, and the company commander reported the whole process of the matter. The chief called Hu Yu to the front, asked a few questions, and then took him to the headquarters and dressed him in a military uniform, and then he became a real warrior. After arriving at the headquarters, he just started to do a little chores, and when he was a little older, he became a guard for the chief; The chief also took care of his life like his father, teaching him to read and write in his free time. It wasn't until he was eighteen years old that he was called to join the company, and he was directly the company commander. For many years, Hu Yu has always respected the chief as a father, and when he said such a thing unintentionally today, he really wanted to slap his mouth.

"What am I? Pull the troops down now! ”

The commander threw down the phone hard.

Hu Yu wanted to explain how difficult the mountain road was and how much sacrifice the troops in front had made, but the commander threw down the phone and did not listen at all. When he was helpless, the chief of staff asked, "What to do?" ”

"Execute the order!" Hu Yutou didn't reply.

As the saying goes: it's easy to go up the mountain, but hard to get down. Not to mention that it had just rained, and the mountain roads were slippery, especially the heavy cattle, artillery. While the fighters were cautious, two horses loaded with heavy machine guns rolled down the hill.

At this time, Zhi Si informed Hu Yu and Li Boru to leave for a meeting at the headquarters immediately. Hu Yu had no choice but to ask the chief of staff to organize the troops to go down the mountain, and take his entourage and Li Boru down the mountain first to the headquarters for a meeting.

The jeep bumped all the way on the muddy road, and Hu Yu was nervous. He did not know why the troops had marched for a day and a night, had just engaged the enemy and suffered so many sacrifices, and immediately retreated, whether it was the delay in the arrival of the troops at the attack site and the delay in the whole campaign, or whether the headquarters had changed its plan for the campaign. If it was the late arrival of the troops that affected the entire campaign, he knew the temper of the commander. But the weather at that time was raining heavily, and the mountain roads were slippery; He gave himself a myriad of reasons, but he still felt uneasy.

"Do you think we influenced the whole campaign?" Hu Yu asked the political commissar sitting beside him.

"It should be." Because of the cold weather, he didn't eat anything for a day and a night, Li Boru's stomach hurt and sweated, his two hands were against his appetite, and his face was like yellow paper.

"But it's raining so heavily, and the mountain roads are slippery, so the commander should also check it."

"Don't forget, a soldier only has obedience, and there are no conditions to talk about. It's a shame that you've been a veteran for so many years. Li Boru said.

"So, I can't conjure one without a guide, can I?" Hu Yuqiang argued.

"That's not a reason at all, who told us to lose the guide ourselves." Li Boru gave him a blank look.

"Damn beard!" Hu Yu scolded.

"You are the commander and the chief, how can you complain about your comrades?"

Hu Yuqi's eyes widened, and he was afraid of something. If the headquarters changes its plan for the campaign and asks him to withdraw, it will be easy to do; If he didn't arrive at the attack site at the appointed time and delayed the fighters, he would have lost his face as the main force. But what the political commissar said was reasonable, in fact, he also understood in his heart that soldiers, no matter if you have thousands of reasons to delay the fighter plane, it is the biggest ignorance.

In the late autumn and early winter season, yesterday a day and a night of strong wind and rain, frost has appeared, and the white mangs cover the whole land. In the morning, it was time for the smoke to rise, because the villages on both sides of the war road had been forcibly relocated, and the empty fields were completely deserted. In the distance, on a dead tree, a flock of sparrows squeaked up and down.

The headquarters was built on the cave inside, which was divided into inner and outer rooms, with documents in the innermost part and confidential rooms outside, and a row of houses built outside the cave as conference rooms. Outside the house built a large open space for parking or the head of the walk. It was surrounded by a pine forest, and in the middle of the forest there were bomb shelters and houses where the chief stayed. When Hu Yu's jeep arrived, there were only a few cars on the apron. Although the chief and the political commissar had serious faces, they shook hands with the commanders one by one, as usual, and talked and laughed.

Seeing the smile on the commander's face from the car window, the stone that Hu Yu was carrying in his heart fell to the ground. It doesn't seem like he delayed the fighter, it's a change in the headquarters' battle plan, otherwise how could the commander laugh. Hu Yu almost laughed out loud, and now he had to brag about it, and when the meeting was resting, he would tell them how well trained his troops were, how to march forcibly in the storm, and how to walk the mountain roads in the dark without a guide; Let them know that knowing Lao Hu's main force is not for nothing.