Chapter 26 Borrowing Grain
Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. Salute to all the heroes who died on the battlefields of Korea!
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Under Wheeler's wonderful acting skills, the American army began to retreat, and along the way, Wheeler kept using walkie-talkies to report to the American army: "The enemy is still advancing, still advancing!" As a result, the U.S. troops retreated for 30 kilometers, and when it was almost dawn, the other party's impatient roar finally came from the walkie-talkie: "What happened?" It's dawning, why haven't I seen the shadow of the squadron? Did they crawl? ”
Wheeler saw that he couldn't play anymore, so he had to shout into the walkie-talkie: "I'm sorry sir, they put a gun at me......"
"Hey!" I grabbed the walkie-talkie and said, "Thank you very much to your subordinates for sending us here, we are about to reach the Han River." As a token of my appreciation, I thought it would be appropriate to inform you that dozens of your men are tied to cars on the side of the road, and they won't freeze to death if you're in a hurry......"
“Fuck!” Before I could finish speaking, there was a furious expletive sound on the other end of the walkie-talkie, followed by a noise, and I thought the walkie-talkie on the other end must have suffered!
"Mr. Wheeler, you may go!" I chuckled and said to Wheeler, still embarrassed.
"I ...... Can I go? "Wheeler was a little at a loss.
"Yes, you're free!" I nodded.
"But...... Where can I go? Major Emory will definitely kill me when I go back! A terror flashed in Wheeler's eyes.
"Hmm!" I spread my hands: "If you are willing to follow us to taste the taste of going without food for several days in a row, or sleeping and only curled up in the thin quilt and shivering, then I have no objection!" ”
"Forget it!" Wheeler immediately raised his hand in surrender: "I'd better go back and let him kill me!" ”
Wheeler didn't forget to shake my hand before leaving, and that's when I realized that Wheeler was cute and handsome, and if he was still alive after this fight. I think he's going to be a star.
However, it is said that handsome people are usually unhappy, and from this point of view, I have always been a very happy person.
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After marching for more than an hour, the troops successfully crossed the Han River, and then we realized that the original Volunteer Army had built a new defensive line along the Han River, just waiting for the American army to launch a new round of offensive.
This made me realize that the fourth campaign had successfully entered the sports defense phase.
Movement defense is a helpless move to defend and retreat while defending after the supply line of the Volunteer Army is blocked by the United **, but this is not only a retreat, but also a space in exchange for time.
The Third Corps and the 19th Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers, a total of six corps, plus 50,000 recruits and 7,000 veteran soldiers, will soon enter the DPRK, and the newly established Chinese Air Force, antiaircraft artillery divisions, antiaircraft artillery divisions, anti-aircraft artillery divisions, rocket artillery regiments, and dozens of divisions of equipment purchased from the Soviet Union will all enter northern Korea during this period.
However, it will take at least more than a month for this force of more than 300,000 people to cross the Yalu River in batches under the blockade of the US military and enter the predetermined combat site and deploy its troops.
This is the most arduous month for the first batch of volunteers to enter the DPRK, because we can now say that we have run out of ammunition and food, but we still have to hold off the enemy for more than a month under such difficult conditions.
"Rest in place!"
As soon as the soldiers heard this order, they sat down on the ground one after another, and they were almost tired and lay down, and the physical fitness of the volunteers was not so bad, mainly because the soldiers couldn't stand it because they were hungry.
"Why are you resting in place?" At this time, someone whispered a question: "Isn't it all dawn?" If you want to rest, you should find a forest to rest! ”
"Well, it's time for another task...... "The old squad leader found a stone and sat down, and took out the black cigarette stick from his waist and lit it.
"We're all in the defensive line, what other tasks can we have?" Huzi may have panicked with hunger, walked to the side of the road, grabbed a few handfuls of snow and stuffed it into his mouth: "It's good to have a mission, what I'm most afraid of is starving, and I will be hungry for two more days, so it's better to pull a few reactionaries on my back before starving to death!" ”
As soon as I saw that it was really impossible to go on like this, I was afraid that the batch of grain from the government would not be used again, so I stood up and walked up to the regiment commander and asked, "Regiment commander." Where are we here? Can I go to the council? ”
"We're going to the council! Our troops are guarding there! Hearing this, Head Chu couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Why are you in such a hurry to discuss the government?" ”
"Hmm!" As soon as I heard that the troops were going to discuss the government, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and I just wanted to tell me that there might be food in the tunnel, but after thinking about it, it had been dozens of days, and I couldn't tell which unit had already dug up and eaten the grain when it was to build the railway.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but snort and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I forgot to bring something......"
Head Chu must also be hungry and uncomfortable, so he covered his stomach and frowned and didn't ask much.
The troops rested for a while and went on the road again, but because everyone was hungry and had to lie down in the snow from time to time to avoid enemy planes along the way, the march of the troops was slow.
When passing through a village, the head of Chu stopped the team and asked me to take a few people to the village to find something to eat, and the first thing I thought of when I received this task was Zhao Yongxin, so I didn't think about it and asked him to bring two people to follow.
"Battalion commander...... "As soon as Huzi heard that we were looking for food, he quickly followed behind his buttocks: "How can I be missing to find food?" Anyway, I also have some strength, I can carry it! ”
"I'm talking about Huzi!" Zhao Yongxin quipped: "If I don't bring you, I'm afraid that I will let you swallow it all before I find something to eat!" ”
Huzi made a big red face as if he was told the central matter, and the soldiers only laughed.
"I said battalion commander!" When he was about to enter the village, Zhao Yongxin said frankly: "Actually, I don't have any secrets, and when I see my fellow villagers, I will help them repair the doors and windows first." Chopping wood or something, and then it's much easier to ask for something, if you don't believe it, you'll look at me for a while......"
"Hmm!" I secretly said in my heart that this is the case, I am afraid that this method is not new in the eyes of the volunteers who often collect food from the people, and only I, who came from modern times, have just known.
After a while, the four of them walked into the village, and like other places, the village was also empty, and most of the people had moved with the American troops. But to our surprise, before we could knock on the door, a North Korean woman greeted us and asked in Korean, "Are you volunteers?" ”
I didn't answer, I just wanted to see how Zhao Yongxin would solve this problem. Zhao Yongxin did not admit defeat either, and explained to the woman in a few words of Korean that he would not have much to gain: "Comrade, volunteers, volunteers!" ”
"Welcome!" The woman nodded in understanding and motioned for us to follow her. Zhao Yongxin gave me a triumphant smile, and that look seemed to say to me: "Look, I can borrow food without you speaking Korean!" ”
I smiled bitterly and didn't care, and secretly said that it wasn't your luck, as soon as you came, you met an enthusiastic fellow, but except for those overseas Chinese I met in Seoul, there are really not many such enthusiastic fellows.
"Please come ......in, please come in," the North Korean woman politely ushered us all the way into a dark, wood-paneled room, and soon a middle-aged man who appeared to be her husband greeted us warmly and beckoned us to sit down on the warm kang.
"Let's go get some food." So saying, they took care of themselves and lit a fire in the stove.
"The North Korean folks are really enthusiastic!" Huzi couldn't help but speak, and the warriors also nodded, and one of the warriors' eyes was a little moist, and they all seemed to feel like they were home. I couldn't help but feel a warmth in my heart, and I really tasted what it was like to send charcoal in the snow.
But the conversation that followed quickly left my smile stiff on my face.
"Here are four more!" I only heard the husband smile proudly: "Li Suxue, today we can catch up with Captain Park's group!" ”
"Be careful!" The North Korean woman smiled and scolded: "They are not easy to mess with, they found out and see how you can rush!" ”
"Afraid of what?" The husband smirked, "They don't understand." Even if I yelled at the bastards Red Army in front of them, they didn't know what I was scolding! ”
"Hey, An Shixin." The North Korean woman named Li Suxue looked a little impatient, frowned and said, "Have you forgotten Captain Park's order?" Do you want me to report to him before you shut up? ”
"Good ......" An Shixin smiled and closed his mouth, adding firewood to the pot by himself.
It turned out that they were spies, and I was so surprised by their conversation that I couldn't close my mouth, but I still pretended to be casual and played with Huzi and them. But in his heart, he was thinking: Do you want to draw a gun and kill them now? Listening to their tone, it seems that there are still comrades, if they are killed like this, it is not a clue! Do you want to tell them about this? What if these two agents speak Chinese?
Thinking of this, I waited like this, pretending to be so hungry that I couldn't stand it, but in fact I had quietly unbuttoned the snap of the pistol.
After a while, several bowls of steaming gruel were served, and the soldiers all eagerly picked up their chopsticks, but before everyone could react, everyone in the room was stunned, because my pistol had been put on An Shixin's head.
"Zhao Yongxin, arrest that female spy for me!"
"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin responded quickly, and immediately grabbed a rifle to stop the female spy who was about to escape.
"What's going on?" Huzi asked suspiciously.
"They're spies!" I answered.
"Agent?" Huzi still didn't believe it: "How can such a good fellow be a spy?" Battalion commander, are you mistaken? ”
This tiger is really simple, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and I didn't explain more, I put a gun on An Shixin's head and asked in Korean: "An Shixin, how many of you are there?" Where's Second Lieutenant Park? ”
As soon as An Shixin heard that I could speak Korean, he knew that his identity was exposed, and his face couldn't help but change, and he suddenly grabbed a bowl of porridge and poured it into his mouth. I tried to stop it, but it was too late. Then I heard him laugh a few times, but after a while, he fell to the ground holding his stomach and couldn't get up.
The woman didn't pay attention to us and reached out to her waist to pull out the gun, but Zhao Yongxin was one step faster, and she was knocked away with a bang. In just this moment, this originally warm hut was full of blood and horror again.
"What...... How so? "After being stunned for a long time, Huzi still didn't believe this fact, in fact, I couldn't believe that it was true, but the facts were in front of me.
It is no wonder that in modern materials, the veterans of the volunteer army who have returned to China say that they must not be left behind, and they all say that North Korea is full of spies, and they look no different from ordinary people, but they are looking for those soldiers who have fallen behind and left alone. It seems that these two spies are also treating us as stragglers.
"Let's find out if there's any food!" I sighed helplessly. Not to mention that now these two spies are dead and there are no clues, even if there are clues, we don't have time to investigate, this is busy fighting! How can I have the time to play this set of detective tricks with them, so I have to let those spies hide in the shadows and run rampant!
"Battalion commander!" At this time, Zhao Yongxin's shout caught our attention, and we ran over to see that it was a kiln, and as soon as the lid was lifted, the stench went straight out, and when we looked in through the light, it was full of corpses of volunteer soldiers, at least twenty or thirty.
"Holy shit!" Huzi couldn't help but scold.
"Buried it!" I gritted my teeth, thinking that it was no wonder that there were so many missing people in the Volunteer Army, and these soldiers must be part of the missing people.
After spending a while to bury the cellar, he found a small half-bag of rice in the house, in order to test whether the grain was poisonous, Zhao Yongxin also worked hard to find a family of people to do an experiment with their chickens, and then he was relieved to carry the grain back.
At noon that day, the soldiers were finally fed up, and at the same time, the soldiers of the whole regiment knew that the struggle against the reactionaries was not only on the battlefield.
Hungry and fed, he finally arrived at the parliamentary government on the third day and found the large army. We thought that there would be some supplies after returning to the main army, but we soon found that the soldiers of the large army were starving worse than us, and many of them had not eaten a grain of rice for several days, and all the wild vegetables and weeds around the parliamentary government had been dug up to the ground.
Think about it, if we find a small bag of rice and cook it into a pot of gruel, we can barely fill the stomachs of hundreds of people in our regiment, but this is an army! A small bag of rice is almost enough for one person to divide into one grain......
So without saying a word, I called Huzi and a few soldiers and walked in the direction of the tunnel.
I have a problem, that is, I can't tell the difference between the north and the south, and I always get lost in the city where I have worked for more than a year in modern times, and I have to pretend to be arrogant and get into a taxi very painfully, and sometimes I have to endure the strange look of my brother: "Dude! You're not going in this direction......"
But this time I was still very confident in myself, because I would have found the tunnel as long as I walked along the railway, but I soon thought of a very serious problem - the railway also has two directions, and I should not be so weak that I would choose one or the other!
Just when I was becoming less and less confident in my choice, I was very glad to find myself standing in front of the bombed-out tunnel.
It seems that the North Korean people are more enthusiastic about destroying railways than they are at building them. Because I found that not only did no one open this tunnel, but even the broken railroad tracks did not know who had pried them away piece by piece. In this age of steel warfare, I think these rails will happily find themselves flying into the sky as bullets.
Luckily, otherwise my treasure would have been looted.
Remembering that the car at the end of the tunnel had been destroyed by a bomb. I led the tiger to the other end of the tunnel, and I didn't want to use the last of my strength, but I dug up some food that had been blown to pieces, charred, and full of gunpowder.
"Dig! Dig in from here! "I made a circle at the mouth of the tunnel.
"What are you digging for?" Huzi and the soldiers were weak to move, and complained: "We still have to spare some strength to dig fortifications and fight devils!" ”
"Yes, battalion commander! What are you digging for? The other soldiers couldn't help asking: "Look at this loose land, dig a tunnel and stomp your feet, and it will all collapse......
"Why is there so much nonsense, tell you to dig it!" I sat next to me and lit a cigarette, wondering if I should tell them how many truckloads of food there was down there, if they knew about it, they would definitely burst out of their potential and speed up, but I heard that a person's life is usually in danger after bursting out of extraordinary potential, so I gave up on this plan.
At this time, only listen to "Khooth!" Huzi looked at the shovel in his hand and was stunned, and it took him a while to react, and after a few shovels, a car head was exposed.
"Cars, it's cars......" the fighters exclaimed almost simultaneously.
"Battalion commander!" Huzi was still a little confused, and knocked the front of the car with a shovel: "What you asked us to dig is a car?" Can this car still be driven? What's the use of driving even if it can be driven? ”
"Huzi!" I couldn't help but reply angrily: "It's not the car that matters, it's the things that are on the car......"
Before I finished speaking, the other soldiers cheered and waved their shovels and dug into it desperately, but only Huzi still asked in a daze, "What's on the car?" What's that? Not...... Is it eaten? Food! ”
Before the words fell, I saw that Huzi pushed away the soldiers who were blocking the face, and waved the sapper shovel to dig straight forward, and the speed was fast, and after a while, there was a small hole, just like a rat that could make a hole, and the whole person got into it.! ~!
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