Chapter 8 War and Peace

Chapter 8 War and Peace

"Why are you here?" This was the first thing I said when I saw Lin Xue.

When I said this, I regretted it, the 'girl' children are all cautious, people come all the way to see me, not only was I not overjoyed, but I also asked why are you here...... I remember the same thing happened in modern times, and as a result, my 'girlfriend' fought a cold war with me for three days and three nights, and it was terrible

Sure enough, Lin Xue's footsteps quickly slowed down, her eyes glared at me viciously, and the excitement on her face faded and turned into a pair of frost.

I secretly screamed bad, I didn't expect that although the times are different, but the faces of the 'women' are the same, that is to say, change will change

But fortunately, this is in a "public place", according to the rules of young men and women in China, the two of us should pay attention to the influence and pretend not to know each other, so Lin Xue did not show anything else except sulking in her stomach. And I had to pretend that nothing had happened and salute me aggrievedly. It's just that expression, a gritted tooth and angry look, eager to eat me alive. I couldn't help but shudder when I looked at it......

"Head Cui, you're here"

"We thought you wouldn't be able to come today."

"Yes, comrades, I waited for you all night, and I went to sleep until dawn, but I didn't expect you to come again"

……

Before I could react from Lin Xue's bitter hatred, the soldiers coaxed me around and talked about it. Li Pinghe, Liu Shunyi, Hu Biao, Li Guoqiang...... and my guards, Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue, all came. Everyone warmly shook hands and hugged their shoulders, and I happened to talk and chat with my comrades, avoiding Lin Xue's murderous gaze.

But after walking a few steps, I saw a few familiar and unfamiliar faces, and I couldn't help but be stunned. I say familiar because I'm sure I've seen them somewhere; I say that they are strange, because I think they are a little different from other fighters, and they don't have that kind of intimate comradeship.

This kind of affection on the battlefield is very strange, only after one or two battles together, even if they are originally enemies, they will become like brothers. Because of the feeling of living and dying together, people don't mind any estrangement, so they will naturally have deep feelings for each other.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't remember their names, so I couldn't help scratching my head and looked at Li Pinghe beside me suspiciously.

Li Pinghe laughed hehehehe: "You are still a noble person who forgets things, and you forget your old classmates so quickly?" I only remember Lin Xue alone."

"Hmm" I couldn't help but blush when I heard this, and soon remembered that they were students from the advanced step school, and they were also the ones in my dormitory. Although I have not been separated from them for a long time, I have not stayed long in the advanced infantry school, and in the past month or so I have fought fiercely on Shangganling, I have forgotten all of them.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but glance at Lin Xue in the crowd, her face looked better at this time, and she seemed to snicker. This 'girl' just likes to be careful, and she knows that I have forgotten everyone else and only remembers her, and now she is secretly happy again.

"538 Regiment 3rd Battalion 9th Company Company Jiang Changshun Report"

"Chen Gesheng, the platoon commander of the 1st platoon of the 9th company, reports"

"Report by Wang Changsheng, the platoon commander of the 2nd platoon of the 9th Company"

"Zhang Jianjun, the platoon commander of the 3rd platoon of the 9th company, reports"

When the soldiers saw that I could not name them, they hurried up to me and saluted me and gave their names.

As soon as they said this, I quickly remembered that Jiang Changshun was the city soldier who always opposed me when I was in the infantry school, but I didn't expect that he would now be a company commander under me. Jin Gesheng and Zhang Jianjun...... I remember that it was a country soldier in the infantry school, and that Wang Changsheng was the guy who picked up his books when he returned to the dormitory.

"Commander Cui will go and meet Master Pang first" When I was thinking about it, Li Pinghe reminded on the side: "Master Pang has been waiting for you last night, I just fell asleep not long ago, and I specially told the guards, you must wake him up when you come."

"Then don't wake up the teacher," I replied, "Let him rest a little longer, and I'll see him when he wakes up."

But it seemed that it was too late, because at this moment a messenger ran up to me, saluted me, and said, "The division commander asked you to go to the division headquarters immediately."

Li Pinghe smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Let's go, I'll go with you" said and walked towards the division headquarters with his shoulder.

The division headquarters is a slightly larger tunnel, and the maps, tables, and radio soldiers are no different from before, and if there is any difference, it is that the tables are no longer made of shell boxes, and the table is also tiled with two brand new newspapers, which makes people look a little clean.

Master Pang may have just gotten out of bed at this time, looking sleepy-eyed, with a cotton coat casually draped over his shoulders, and a lit cigarette on his mouth before he was ready. As soon as they saw me walk into the mouth of the tunnel, my face, which had not been 'fine', immediately glowed.

He greeted us while laughing: "Let me tell you a good news first, our 12th Army has successfully restored the 537.7 heights a few days ago, and resisted the repeated attacks of several regiments of the puppet army, firmly grasped the 537.7 heights in their hands, and stabilized the battle situation."

"Really" I couldn't help but be overjoyed when I heard this, although I knew that this would definitely be the end, but now that I heard it with my own ears, I was still sincerely happy.

"I said you kid" Master Pang smiled: "You went out for a trip, and you have made a lot of limelight."

Master Pang said with a smile, "I was still a little embarrassed to be praised by Master Pang like this."

"Eh, this time it's not a joke," Master Pang held my hand and said, "This time, even the commander of our corps has praised you by name." I still have the message, just waiting for you to come and see it."

As he spoke, Commander Pang took a telegram from the table and handed it to me, and I took it and looked at it, which read: "Cui Wei, commander of the 538th Regiment, fought bravely and commanded properly in the Battle of Shangganling, led the troops to smash the enemy's attacks many times, played the style of our volunteer soldiers, and made outstanding contributions to the Korean War.

To be honest, I don't know how many times I have had such praise in modern times, and it is really an ordinary compliment. But this time, holding this message in his hand felt heavy. Because I know that this seemingly ordinary praise was bought with the blood of the warriors and the lives of those heroes......

"It's been eight years," Master Pang sighed: "I've been following Commander Wang for eight years, and I've never seen him praise anyone like this?" You kid is the first one you gave our 180th division commander a face."

As soon as Master Pang said this, my heart was sour for no reason, and tears poured out uncontrollably. This moment. I think of the suffering on Shangganling, the lost comrades-in-arms on Shangganling, and the nightmares of life and death......

Master Pang wordlessly patted me on the shoulder, and then handed me a cup of hot tea.

After taking a few sips of tea to hide the embarrassment just now, and calming down a bit, I couldn't help but raise my head and ask, "Senior Commander Pang, I saw the cadets of the infantry school outside just now, why are they also in our army?" ”

"What the superiors mean is that let them come to refine and refine" Master Pang nodded and said: "The real battlefield is the best school, we must be prepared for long-term operations, they are the new force of our troops, and the capital of our army's long-term operations, plus our soldiers are also insufficient, so we will organize them into a company, and pull them to the battlefield to practice when necessary."

Listening to Commander Pang's words, I understood that the Shangganling Battle launched by the U.S. Army made the negotiations a piece of cake painted on the wall, so the top brass of the Volunteer Army would think that this war would continue indefinitely. Therefore, they were ready for long-term combat, and consciously let domestic recruits go to the front line to participate in battles, so that the war would hone them into veterans. This will prevent our troops from having a shortage of old soldiers and new recruits in future operations.

Coming from a modern age, of course, I know that this will not happen, because I know that in seven or eight months, the Korean War will be over with the cheers of the whole nation. But as us in the war, it makes sense to do this.

Therefore, it should not only be my troops now, but I think that all the new units that have entered the DPRK have 'inserted' some new recruits as training objects. It's just that...... Why is my unit Jiang Changshun them?

"You don't know" Master Pang's next words solved my doubts: "Those classmates of yours, I heard that you are the regiment commander in our army, and you want to squeeze into our army to be your soldier, I said that this kind of thing is not allowed, the superiors have the arrangements of the superiors, but I didn't expect that they did not hesitate to use their connections, and the result was ...... Hehe......"

Although Master Pang didn't continue, I also knew what he meant. The students in the advanced infantry school are hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and many of them are either the children of high-ranking cadres or the second generation of reds, and it is not too easy for them to use their connections to squeeze into my troops.

It's just that I'm the head of the regiment, and I can't help but cry out when I think of this, this is a big burden, if I don't bring them out of some achievements, then I will be criticized again. If you want to bring out some achievements, these guys are all from the background, for example, Lin Xue's father is still the principal of the step school, if their sons and daughters have any three longs and two shorts on this battlefield, then I, the head of the regiment, ......

"Come, look at this" When I was frowning, Master Pang handed me a newspaper, and unlike the "Seoul Morning Post" I had seen before, this time I was surprised to find that what I got was an all-English copy of the New York Times.

"Look at that copy, I'll look at this copy" Master Pang raised a stack of papers in his hand, which seemed to be the translation of the New York Times in my hand, and said with a smile: "I know you can understand American, so I won't show you the translation, what is the name of the article?" "Eisenhower's Campaign Speech", I don't know where the American words are weird, you look for yourself......"

I flipped through the newspapers, and soon found the headline, and as I looked down the headline, it was to the effect that Eisenhower had publicly promised his constituents that the first task facing the New Deal was to end the Korean War as quickly and decently as possible...... To accomplish this, it is necessary to go to North Korea in person, and if he succeeds in being elected president, he is willing to visit North Korea himself, so that he can know how best to serve the citizens of the United States — whether to go to war or to achieve peace

Eisenhower was coming to power soon, and I quickly realized it.

Eisenhower was very smart, and the Americans spent a lot of manpower, material resources, and the lives of many American GIs in Korea, a land that did not belong to them. The heavy burden of military spending and the huge casualties have made it more and more difficult for the American people to endure, especially since the US military is deeply trapped in North Korea and cannot extricate itself, and its own country is facing strong pressure from the Soviet Union. As a result, both civilians and the military strongly demanded an end to the Korean War.

It was at this time that Eisenhower proposed a "speedy and decent end to the Korean War," which made him easily defeat other candidates and be elected the 34th president of the United States.

"What do you think after reading the news?" Knowing that I had finished reading it, Master Pang asked.

After thinking about it, I replied, "The Americans want to end the war as soon as possible."

"That's right," Master Pang nodded and said: "But what is this Eisen, what Will, what he said is very intriguing, we just know that he has been elected president of the United States, but he has not yet taken office, so his words are worth studying."

I agree with Commander Pang's remarks, and the reason why Eisenhower was elected was because his words were in line with the wishes of the majority of the US military and civilians, so now it seems that as long as we analyze his words clearly, we can generally know the future strategic goals of the US military and even the entire United Nations army.

But in fact, there is no need to analyze it at all, because I know very well what will happen in the future, and it can even be detailed to the various stages.

Of course, I can't say that to Master Pang. Now that I have this opportunity, it's just the right time for me to take advantage of the topic.

So I pretended to ponder for a while, and then I said eloquently: "It is certain that the US military wants to end the war as soon as possible, but how to end it, I think they have made two preparations here." This can be seen from the words in the news, such as 'decent end', what is 'decent end'? That is, they don't want to end up like this with a losing battle, that would make them very shameful. Another example is the last sentence, 'War or peace'. It was clear that Eisenhower would personally come to Korea to inspect and then decide whether to expand the war or end it peacefully. ”

"That's right" Division Commander Pang nodded appreciatively: "The superior's opinion is completely the same as yours, so we have also decided to make preparations with both hands, and actively prepare for war on the one hand to resist the possible attack of the US army." On the other hand, it has also actively engaged with the US military and has not missed any opportunity for peace. ”

After taking a sip of water, Master Pang asked again: "Do you think the Yankees will choose war?" Or will I choose peace"

"War," I replied without thinking about it.

"Why?" Seeing that I was so sure, Master Pang couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"Because ......" thought about it and replied, "I've heard a little bit of Eisenhower, I know American, don't I?" Sometimes I chatted with American prisoners when I had nothing to do, and I heard them say that this guy was also a soldier, and the officer was not small, and as a soldier, he was undoubtedly more inclined to choose war. ”

Some of this is false, and I certainly didn't know it from American captives, but from decades of historical knowledge.

"Hmm," Master Pang nodded in agreement.

"Besides," I continued, "whether to fight or not to fight is not all decided by the Yankees alone, and the puppet army will also play a certain role in this." As for the puppet military president Syngman Rhee, he has always hoped to unify the whole of Korea with the help of United Nations troops, which can be seen from his efforts to sabotage the negotiations. With him pushing the 'waves' in front of Eisenhower and blowing the wind on the pillow, this Yankee can't fight even if he wants to."

"That's reasonable" Hearing this, Master Pang fell into deep thought, and it was obvious that the points I said just now were not thought of by the superiors.

Actually, I don't just know that, I even know that Eisenhower planned to use the atomic bomb in order to solve the Korean War by force as soon as possible. Of course, I also know that this atomic bomb was not used until the end of the war. This is because the US military considers that the result of this is likely to make the war bigger and bigger, and even involve the US mainland.

Since it has not been used, then there is no need for me to bring it up, causing unnecessary panic in our army.

"Reasonable, reasonable" After groaning for a while, Master Pang shook the cigarette butt in his hand, stood up and said: "Being analyzed by you like this, I also think that this war is still the balance of peace, and it is tilted towards the side of war. No, I will report these ideas to my superiors and let our troops actively prepare for war in order to deal with a possible attack by the enemy."

"Commander Cui" paused for a while, and then Commander Pang continued: "You go down and rest for a while, now the war is not tight, I will take your soldiers to repair the fortifications in peacetime, and train those recruits when I have time, and teach them how to fight."

"Yes," Li Pinghe and I saluted and exited the tunnel.

There was a coax, but I didn't expect Hu Biao, Li Guoqiang and others to hide outside the tunnel secretly. As soon as I walked out, I was unexpectedly lifted up by several of them. Then, with bursts of cheers, I was thrown into the air again and again.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly in the air, but I actually enjoyed this welcome from the soldiers......