Chapter 17 poured cold water

For the war in front of them, the soldiers are all in a state of overoptimism, where can they understand my good intentions, and where will they know that in the near future, the volunteers will face no ammunition and no food, and even to the point of eating tree bark and eating weeds and dying of poisoning, so they naturally can't understand my approach, and even Instructor Zhao is puzzled. But fortunately, as soon as the gunshots rang out, I listened to the company commander, and they couldn't do anything about me if I insisted on doing so, so it seems that being a company commander is not without benefits.

Soon, the soldiers wrapped their guns and ammunition in their uniforms stripped from the corpses of the enemy, and buried them in improvised wooden boxes made of wooden blocks. Then carefully mark the surrounding trees and mark the location on the map. I don't want to bury a bunch of gear and not even find myself.

After a rough count just now, we have collected about a thousand rifles and 60,000 or 70,000 rounds of ammunition at the end of the day, plus supplies such as bread, canned food, compressed biscuits, etc., which is enough to equip a regiment! But I know that this is far from enough, because in this battlefield where hundreds of thousands of people are often confronted by several armies, especially for the volunteer soldiers with weak firepower, the strength of a regiment is very weak, and if it continues to be collected at this rate, it will take more than ten days to collect the equipment and food of a division, and by then the enemy has already begun to counterattack.

I watched the sun slowly rising in the sky through the gap in the leaves, and my head thought over and over again how to collect as much equipment and supplies as possible in the shortest possible time, so that the volunteers would not fight so hard, so that the volunteers would die less, and I fell asleep in the sun in a daze.

I was suddenly awakened by a few explosions in my sleep, and when I got up, I saw several enemy planes hovering nearby, and as soon as I saw the cars and tanks that the puppet army had abandoned when they fled, they dived down and dropped bombs. It didn't take long for a few smoky cars and tanks to fly away.

"it!" Huzi scolded fiercely in the direction in which the enemy plane flew away: "The Yankees' plane is arrogant!" ”

"No way, who told us not to build it?" The old squad leader smiled and said, "We can't fly to the sky to fight!" ”

"There are times when this plane lands, doesn't it?" Huzi replied unconvinced: "If we can't fight in the sky, let's fight on the ground, maybe we can really make a few planes enjoyable!" ”

"Dream your dreams!" Listening to Huzi's words, the soldiers all laughed disapprovingly, and even those recruits followed suit, making Huzi alone embarrassed.

"Comrades!" At this time, Instructor Zhao spoke, and he clenched his fists and said in a low voice: "Although it is not realistic to shoot down the Yankees' plane, the spirit of Comrade Huzi is very commendable. It is said that the US army is powerful in war, and it is true that aircraft and artillery are powerful, but in the end, we saw that it was like that! Didn't let our troops rush away like ducks? In this battle, we may be able to drive the Yankees into the sea in one go, and then see how arrogant their planes are! ”

"That's right! Down with the reactionaries! ”

"That's right! Drive the Yankees out to sea! ”

"Down with the Yankees, let's go home for the New Year!"

……

The soldiers all clenched their fists in excitement when they heard this, let alone those recruits who heard that they could go home so soon, and their faces that were originally full of exhaustion and pain were now full of smiles.

"Comrades!" I interrupted on the side and said, "It's not too early, everyone hurry up and rest, eat some dry food and get ready to go on the road!" ”

"Yes!" The warriors answered, and dispersed as if they had been poured cold water.

I could see the dissatisfaction in their eyes, as if they were saying that I, the company commander, was so unkind as soon as I became an officer, and how I couldn't talk to them as soon as I became a company commander.

Only then did I realize that the biggest enemy facing the Volunteers was not the advanced aircraft and artillery of the US army, nor the fragile logistical supply, but from their own excessive optimism.

Speaking of the Korean War, it is really funny, first the US military was overly optimistic and overly underestimated the enemy and was severely beaten by the volunteers a few times, and then the volunteers were overly optimistic and underestimated the enemy and suffered heavy losses......

I smiled wordlessly, thinking to myself, if I hadn't come from that future society, if I hadn't known this history, would I have had the same optimism as them?

Seeing that it was getting dark, I ate a few bites of fried noodles and nibbled on a few Yankee compressed biscuits before setting off with my troops.

Along the way, we were still collecting weapons and food along the way as we did last night, but because we were bombed by American planes during the day, we didn't find much. At first, the soldiers would look inside the smoky cars and tanks, but after a few disappointments, they lost hope.

In the end, the only things that could be picked up were a few shapeless broken guns abandoned on the road, or the 38 big covers that were thrown away by the volunteer soldiers, and even if they rummaged through the corpses of the enemy, they couldn't find a single ammunition or food.

"What's going on?" Instructor Zhao said with some confusion: "How can the difference between last night and tonight be so big?" ”

"It's supposed that our troops are fighting the Yankees!" I said noncommittally, "If you go faster, maybe you'll be able to catch up with the big army tonight." ”

"This ...... What does this have to do with whether our troops have interacted with the Yankees? Hearing this, Instructor Zhao was even more strange, it didn't matter to him, and the other soldiers also looked confused when they heard this.

"Why is it okay?" I replied lightly: "If our troops have a fight with the Yankees, there will not be enough bullets, and if there are not enough bullets, they will use the enemy's guns to search for bullets on the enemy's body, so we can't pick up guns and can't find bullets, right?" ”

"Huh? This ......" My words made the soldiers stunned for a moment, and when they thought about it, they felt reasonable, and immediately several soldiers touched their heads and shouted: "Why can't I think of it?" ”

"Comrades! Speed up the march! I simply ordered: "Anyway, we can't pick up anything, let's speed up and try to catch up with the big army before dawn, and fight the American devils together!" ”

"Yes!"

Even though there was only one response, no matter how I listened, I felt that there were two voices. There is a stark contrast between the energetic and loud answers of the veterans and the frightened and helpless responses of the recruits. It's really a heaven and an earth!