Chapter 35: Cherish
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Chapter 35 Cherish
It was not an easy task to drag the corpses of the soldiers into the pit one by one with a heavy heart, because many of the soldiers were already frozen in the trenches, and I had to break the ice under them with sapper shovels before I could move them. And I didn't dare to make too much noise, because the groups of American troops and puppet troops that passed by from time to time at the foot of the mountain made me realize that I was already in the rear of the enemy.
After that, the mouth of the pit is sealed. After doing this, I didn't know that it had been half a day, and a wave of fatigue hit me, only to realize that I hadn't slept for two days and one night, and I felt tired and hungry when I relaxed. I searched the cold snow for a while, looking for something to eat, and finally found two pieces of chocolate on the corpse of an American soldier. I want to make a fire and roast it, but I can't find a fire, and I'm afraid that the enemy will find out. I had no choice but to endure the chill and put the chocolate in my mouth, and it took a while for a hint of sweetness to come from the tip of my tongue.
At the foot of the mountain, there were puppet troops and American troops everywhere, and I didn't dare to go down the mountain, so I had to find a tunnel that looked relatively strong and nested in it, and fell asleep in a daze with a gun. But what I don't know is that it's dangerous to sleep like this in such cold weather, and many people can't get up after sleeping like this.
But to be honest, with my mentality at the time, I didn't care about these things, I was always in a state of exhaustion after coming to this world, not to mention hungry, and I would die at any time when I was fighting and killing all day long, and sometimes I would rather sleep and never get up again, so that at least I could leave this world unconsciously!
Of course, it would be better if you could sleep in that warm and secure era.
But things don't always go the way people want them to, and it's no different this time! I don't know if God wants to deliberately torture me or what, my hard days are destined to end here,
I opened my eyes in a daze, but I couldn't move, my mouth made a trembling and faint voice, and I called out indistinctly: "Who is it? Why are you tying me up? ”
"Comrade, your own people!" A voice sounded beside me: "We are out of the army to save you!" ”
These words made me let my guard down, and then I soon fell into a 'daze' and 'daze' slumber again.
When I woke up again. It was already dark, and I could only feel the swaying around me, and I couldn't move if I wanted to. I didn't understand what was going on for a long time. It took a long time to open my eyes and realize that I was tied to a stretcher. Two volunteer soldiers were trotting me forward and backward.
"Hmm!" I tried to speak, but only let out a hoarse moan, like a cooing sound in the throat of a dying beast. I could barely believe it was my own voice.
"Comrade, are you awake?" The fighters behind me noticed my sound and quickly put the stretcher down.
"Water, water, I only felt a dry mouth, and the warrior listened carefully for a while, and after understanding what I meant, he quickly ran to the side of the road and grabbed a few handfuls of snow, and then divided it into small pieces and fed it to my mouth.
The cold snow melted into a fountain that moistened my throat and cleared my mind. Only then did I settle down and look at the two soldiers who saved me. Both warriors were not very old, only seventeen or eighteen years old, but they both had a maturity on their faces that was not seen in modern peers. One had a darker face, stubby and powerful fingers, and his movements revealed the simplicity of a farmer, while the other looked more clever, but his cheeks were thin and his face was yellow, probably due to malnutrition, and he did not seem to have suffered from hunger.
"Comrade, why are you tying me up?" I asked weakly.
"Hmm! Don't be surprised! "The two warriors embarrassedly 'touched' their heads, and the black-faced warriors said apologetically while untying the rope for me: "It's all because I have to go down the mountain and walk the mountain road, and if I don't tie you, I will always fall down, so,"
"Oh!" I quickly understood what the blackface warriors said this, and I certainly didn't blame them for that. It was only when they loosened the tie that I realized that there was not much difference between being tied up and not being tied, because I only felt a headache and a feeling of weakness, and even a sharp pain would come from the place where the chest was hit when I took a breath. And I couldn't seem to feel my feet, and I struggled a few times and couldn't sit up.
"Where's my gun?" I soon realized that my sniper rifle was not with me, and I couldn't help but panic. Then he quickly turned his attention to the two warriors in front of him, the yellow-faced warrior calmly put on a nonchalant appearance, and the black-faced warrior was embarrassed and didn't know where to put it, like a child who had stolen something.
"Comrade," I thought to myself, the black-faced soldier must have hidden my gun, but to my surprise, I guessed wrong.
"Take it out," the black-faced warrior secretly kicked the yellow-faced warrior, and the yellow-faced warrior reluctantly took the gun from his back, and I saw that it was my sniper rifle, and I couldn't help but secretly relax.
"Comrade!" The yellow-faced warrior's eyes swept reluctantly over the gun, and he said hesitantly, "Your injuries are not healed!" Still. Let me keep it for you first."
"No need, comrade!" I smiled bitterly, and said in my heart that with your eyes when you looked at the gun and the acting skills that deceived me just now, if this gun is 'handed over' to you for two days, it won't be for you to keep it. But they saved my life, and they didn't refuse too bluntly, so they hesitated for a moment and said in a hoarse voice: "You know, comrade. If this gun is gone, it will be a big mistake, so I should be honest with my heart! ”
The two soldiers were right when they heard it, they were all in the army, and of course they knew that it was a big deal for the soldier to lose his gun, so he put the sniper rifle next to me without saying anything.
"Comrade! What kind of gun is that? The two fighters asked casually as they lifted me up
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"Sniper rifles."
"Hmm, sniper rifles!" The yellow-faced warrior looked at me enviously, "Where did you get it?" I've fought a lot of enemies! ”
"A hundred!" I replied casually.
"A hundred, brag!" Both fighters laughed in disbelief, and I didn't explain much, for some reason, I felt tired of even saying a few more words now.
"Comrade! Where are we here? After walking for a while, I couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"We don't know!"
"You don't know either?" The black-faced soldier's answer couldn't help but surprise me: "What about your troops?" ”
"We're looking for miles, too!" The yellow-faced soldier smiled bitterly: "We were separated from the troops, and it was not far away, but the rain last night made it impossible for us to hurry, no, I don't know where the troops ran for a long time."
"Comrade, you are really fateful". The black-faced warrior said, "If we hadn't wanted to go up to that high ground to find something to eat, we wouldn't have found you, maybe you."
After listening to their words, I realized that I was not out of danger yet, and just now I had been thinking that I had crossed the 38th parallel! Now it seems that he is still behind enemy lines, but he just happened to be rescued by two soldiers who had fallen behind.
Carried on a stretcher by two warriors, he staggered along, except for two times hiding in the woods to avoid enemy troops, and there was no danger along the way. After the 'exchange' talks, I learned that these two soldiers were soldiers of the old regiment of the 4th Army Division. The black-faced one is called Ren Fengyou, who has been doing crop work in the field since he was a child; The yellow-faced man is called Chen Liang, who has been running around with his mother before joining the army, begging for a living.
Don't look at the two of them are not very old, but both of them have been in the army for three years, and they have both fought the Kuomintang, and that Ren Fengyou is still a platoon commander. When they learned that I was a deputy battalion commander, they quickly showed a respectful and obedient attitude in their behavior, and it seemed that it was quite good to be a small leader.
Looking at the two little ones in front of me who can be called my savior, watching them show a maturity that is completely inappropriate for their age. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: modern seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys are still childish students! Most of them are not yet independent. And the two volunteer soldiers in front of them have been rolling in the rain of bullets for many years.
I think there are still many fighters like them, because at that time the PLA had no age limit on those who joined the army! In addition, the protection of minors has not been introduced, so there are more small soldiers like them in the Red Army.
The three of them walked as they talked. After more than half an hour, I vaguely saw a small village at the foot of the mountain in front of me, like other villages in North Korea, this village was also dark at night, and there was not a trace of light, nor could I hear any sound of 'chickens' and dogs barking. Those 'chickens', dogs, and so on, I don't know which whole army has robbed them all.
"Battalion Commander Cui Bei!" Chen Liang, who was walking in front, saw the village and couldn't help but stop: "Do you want to go to that village to take refuge, seeing that your injuries are not light, we may be able to ask the villagers to get some herbs and 'medicines'!" ”
"Yes, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Ren Fengyou answered: "I heard that the herbal 'medicine' of the Korean villagers is curable, and many soldiers in my army were cured by them." ”
"Hmmm! But be careful" Because of the experience of encountering enemy agents in the village last time, I didn't want to enter the village this time. But at the thought that if I kept carrying them like this, it would be basically impossible to get back to the troops through the enemy's lines, I nodded and agreed.
Because I was afraid that there would be enemies in the village. The two soldiers, Ren and Chen, carefully carried me into the village, and then gently knocked on the wooden 'door' of a mud room. But it is conceivable that even if there are people in this house, no one dares to open the 'door' in the dark of night in this chaotic year, and people still think we are robbers!
But there are always some curious people on these who hear a knock on the door, and the people in the next room may want to see who is outside. A creak opened the door a small crack, but as soon as he saw the two soldiers with guns outside, he slammed the door shut again.
"Fellow!" Because of the experience of encountering spies last time, I didn't dare to explain my identity casually, so I only whispered to the house: "Fellow! We're here to find something to eat. Not a bandit! ”
After a long time, there was no response in the house, and it took a long time to hear a muttering sound, and I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard it, it turned out to be that I didn't know Japanese. And what surprised me even more. After a while, Chen Liang actually came to the 'door' and 'communicated' with the fellow in Japanese, and the 'door' that came and went soon opened, and it was a North Korean old man fifty miles away.
"Chen Liang!" I was lying on a stretcher, and when I saw that they were about to carry me into the room, I couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter, you are Japanese?"
"Look at what you say!" Chen Liang couldn't help but say aggrievedly: "Deputy battalion commander Cui, I am an authentic Chinese, my father died under the bayonet of the Japanese, causing me to beg for food with my mother for seven years, how can I be Japanese?" ”
"Then," I asked, confused, "then how can you speak Japanese?"
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! You don't know that! Chen Liang said with a wry smile: "When I was seven years old, the Japanese came in, not only killed my father, but also arrested me to class. said that there was food in class, and I went to the old lady who was sick in the 'bed', isn't it? After a long time, I learned to speak Japanese, and I couldn't forget it."
"Hmm!" As soon as I heard Chen Liang say this, I understood that all this was the sequelae of the full implementation of the Japanese language after the Japanese invasion of China. This is true in China, and even more so in Korea, which has been under Japanese rule for 50 years. It is said that in modern times, there are many old Koreans who can only speak Japanese but not Korean, and this is the case with this Korean countryman.
Thinking of this, I also put my mind at ease, if the puppet army in South Korea wants to choose agents, I don't think I will choose the old man in front of me who doesn't even know Korean. And when we entered the house, I saw that the old man was still cautiously holding a shotgun in his hand, which reassured me even more, if it was an agent, he would not have caught our attention with a gun.
Chen Liang and the old man muttered for a while, and they didn't know what to say. I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart, I've always been someone else's turner, and now I finally need someone else to do it
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Soon the old man lit a kerosene lamp and shone it at me, first cutting open my chest to see the injury, and then turning over my "trouser legs" to look at it. Actually, that's not a "trouser leg." "It's the U.S. military's sleeping bag tied to a rope.
Then, without saying a word, the old man rushed out of the room and came in with a basin of snow, and quickly cut my trousers and shoes with scissors, and grabbed the snow and rubbed it on my feet without caring about the smell of my feet. Soon Chen Liang and Ren Fengyou also came up to help, rubbing along my feet all the way up.
While rubbing Chen Liang, he explained: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, this uncle said that the injury on your body is not in the way, but the serious thing is your frostbite, he said that if you come an hour late, I am afraid that these 'legs' will not be saved!" ”
"Ahh I couldn't help but be shocked when I heard this, I said why I couldn't feel my feet anymore, at first I always thought it was frozen and didn't take it to heart, but I didn't expect it to be so serious.
The three of them grabbed the snow one by one, as if they were helping me take a bath, until my feet were red, and then they found a cotton shirt and cotton pants for me to change into. I finally felt a little bit of my feet, and I was a little relieved.
"Chen Liang!" I couldn't help but look at the North Korean uncle with excitement, and 'handed over' Chen Liang and said, "Thank you for this uncle." Thanks to him! ”
"Yes!" Chen Liang muttered to the uncle again after answering, and when he was done, he turned to me and said, "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui." Uncle said that you can't go out for at least three days, and you have to move your feet more, otherwise your feet will be wasted. Tomorrow he will go up the mountain to pick some herbs for you to dress, and said that we can stay in his house, and this village has also received more than a dozen wounded soldiers! It's all from our troops! ”
"Hmm! Three days? How's that going to work? Hearing this, I couldn't help but shake my head and said, "How are we going to drive the dog troops in three days,"
Ren and Chen couldn't help but look at each other when I said this, let alone three days, according to the current situation, as long as they are one day behind, once the front line is stabilized, the enemy's defense line is not so airtight that even a fly can't fly through. At that time, we were afraid that we would be trapped in the rear of the enemy all the time.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Ren Fengyou asked in a low voice: "Or", we are still carrying you to catch up with the troops like just now! ”
"No!" Chen Liang quickly denied this statement: "Uncle said just now, Camp Commander Cui's 'legs' can't be frozen anymore, this is not a joke!" ”
"That"
"Let's wait until tomorrow to see how it goes!" I couldn't help but sigh helplessly. But I was thinking in my heart, if my 'legs' were wasted like this, wouldn't I have to fight? But when I think about it, I may have to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair in the future, and I will fight with the enemy on the battlefield!
Just for a while. The uncle brought each of us a bowl of gruel. A bowl of kimchi, what surprised us was that there were a few 'meat' that couldn't tell what kind of animal it was, and we knew that the uncle was one when we asked. Hunting, that's the winning 'meat' he keeps for the winter. After a while, the three of them put all the food into their stomachs, thanked the uncle for a while, and then lay down in the pit to rest.
Ren and Chen, the two soldiers, may have carried me all the way to exhaustion, and as soon as I climbed up to the top of the pit, I fell asleep, but I involuntarily sat up and 'touched' my feet.
I've never worried about my feet crippled because they've been on me since I was a kid and I've never worried about losing them. As the saying goes, some things are only cherished when they are about to be lost. So I'm worried now, if I can't move my feet anymore, what will await me tomorrow?