Chapter 38: Casting the Net

Chapter 38: Casting the Net

The battle to encircle and annihilate the puppet army agents near the division headquarters ended quickly, and it was still early at this time, just midnight...... "Midnight" should have been described by the word "not early", but the volunteer soldiers are always used to fighting at night and always use the night as day, so as long as there is still a period of time before dawn, they usually use "still early" to describe it.

In order to hurry up, I hurriedly set off with the cold gun unit, the soldiers of the seventh company, a company of the guard battalion, and two military dogs. There was no time to celebrate even the victory that had just been achieved, and even the battlefield was not cleaned.

It is said that the work of cleaning the battlefield is something that anyone is willing to do, and it is not only the time to enjoy the joy of victory, but also the time to reap the fruits of victory. At this time, you can change some new equipment from the enemy, not to mention some ammunition, but also 'touch' and 'touch' the pockets of the corpse, and often 'touch' some cigarettes, chewing gum, lighters, and the like...... If you're lucky, you can sometimes get some gold necklaces or something.

The Volunteer Army has a system of 'handing over' what is captured, but most of them are limited to the urgently needed items on the battlefield, that is, guns, ammunition, 'medicine' and food. As for the jewelry and those gadgets on the enemy's body, the superiors turned a blind eye to it, and regarded it as a pitiful reward for the combat troops.

Actually, there is no way to manage this. For example, a lighter, a pack of cigarettes, we put it in our pocket and say that it is our own, who can tell clearly about gold necklaces and the like, not to mention lighters and cigarettes, and you can also see that they are American, this chain...... It's obviously our ancestor

However, at this time, South Korea was not very wealthy, so it was rare to see such valuable things when cleaning up the battlefield.

However, the puppet army agents are different, their treatment is obviously much better than that of ordinary soldiers, and many of the puppet army agents have served as soldiers under Little Japan, and when they fought in China, they did not rob a large amount of wealth from the hands of the people.

So in them, the probability of having valuable gadgets is much greater.

That's why I've always felt sorry for the loss of this opportunity to clean up the battlefield, if there was nothing before, gold is nothing on the battlefield where I can throw away my life at any time, but I know that I will have to return to China in a few months...... If you don't bring something back, how will you live this day when you return home?

However, it seems that only me, a modern person, has these capitalist ideas in my head, and the fighters before and after all of them are concentrating on their tasks without complaining. In their heads, there may only be how to defeat the enemy and how to complete the mission. It's not like me, the regimental leader...... Hey......

"Captain Cui" Fan Jinqing, who was following behind, chased after him and asked, "Where are we going?" ”

As soon as Fan Jinqing asked, the soldiers also turned their suspicious eyes to me.

"I don't know," I replied calmly.

"You don't know?" Fan Jinqing asked puzzled.

There was a noticeable pause in the pace of the warriors, and it seemed that all the warriors were surprised by my answer. Only the two military dogs were the exception, which were still screaming and 'messing' in the hands of the soldiers.

"Didn't you say that you were going to the hiding place of the puppet army agents?" Fan Jinqing hesitated and asked, "I thought it would ...... I thought the captive had recruited everything."

I laughed, raised the plastic hose in my hand and shook it in front of Fan Jinqing, and said, "It doesn't matter if he recruits or not."

"Hmm" Fan Jinqing is also a smart person, as soon as he saw the hose in my hand, his eyes 'revealed' a sudden realization, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "These bastards are really cunning, no wonder I can't find them after looking for them so many times, it turns out that they are still hiding in the water and hiding under our noses......"

"Shh I hurriedly made a silent gesture to stop Fan Jinqing from continuing.

This operation, in a way, is somewhat similar to the situation I had with the Secret Service Captain, once the puppet agents hiding in the water know that we have discovered their location, then they will have to fight to the bottom of the net. With the well-trained agents of the puppet army, and the fact that it is also dark now, if you fight them 'fiercely' in this situation, it is almost impossible to do so without paying some price or to completely annihilate the puppet army agents.

This is not to say that the quality of the troops in my hands is not good, in fact, the quality of the Seventh Company, the Cold Gun Unit, and even Fan Jinqing's guard company in my hands is better than that of the puppet army agents. The reason why it cannot be completely annihilated is that there is nothing certain on the battlefield, and even if the quality of the troops is good and a rookie unit fights, it may not be able to achieve zero casualties or total annihilation, not to mention that the opponent is a well-trained puppet army agent.

So the best way now is to quietly find the puppet army agents hiding outside, and then set up an ambush without the puppet army agents knowing, so that it can be said that the minimum cost in exchange for the greatest success

But how do you find the location of the puppet army agent? At this time, I couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Although we knew that the puppet army agents were hiding in the creek around us, the creek was so long that we couldn't be sure where they were hiding.

If you really want to find out, it's as simple as asking a few warriors to poke a few long bamboo poles all the way up, and if you want a better effect, you can also sharpen the top of the bamboo poles...... But this is obviously 'forced' the puppet army agent to jump over the wall and take risks, which is also not what I want.

So I couldn't help but stop my steps and set my eyes on the river beside me. The water in the creek doesn't flow quickly, and it shouldn't be deep, because the snow has just melted, so there are a lot of ice floes floating on it.

It's hard to be sorry for those puppet agents, these must be cold. But it seems that if they can't even do this, they don't deserve the title of "agent".

Then I looked at the length of the plastic hose in my hand, and it looked more than a meter long.

So I beckoned to the two warriors who were leading the dogs and called them to me.

The two of them were soldiers of the People's Army, because the volunteer army did not have military dogs, it was inconvenient to search for puppet army agents, and after Fan Jinqing applied to his superiors, he was transferred from the People's Army.

These two KPA soldiers naturally knew my status in the volunteer army, and when they saw my call, they hurriedly quieted down the military dogs, and both of them 'stood up' in front of me and saluted.

"You're locals," I asked in Korean.

The two KPA soldiers were stunned when they heard my fluent Korean. After a hint of strangeness flashed in the eyes of one of the thin-faced soldiers, he hurriedly replied respectfully: "I am a local, and Comrade An is from Pyongyang."

"Hmm" I nodded and asked, "Do you know where the river is deep and shallow, and where the water is gentle?"

"I know this," said the skinny warrior excitedly, "I used to play on this river with bamboo rafts, and I know every position in this river very well."

And such a coincidence? I couldn't help but laugh in my heart, it seems that it is also appropriate that the puppet army agents are about to be wiped out.

After hearing my question, Fan Jinqing didn't understand what I meant, and he didn't need me to 'explain', so he immediately took out the map and spread it in front of us.

"This is the shallowest here" The thin warrior was really familiar with this section of the river, and as soon as the map was unfolded, he pointed to one of the passages without thinking: "The water here is only one meter deep, and there are reefs everywhere, you should be especially careful here when holding bamboo rafts, I remember I once ......"

"Wait, wait......" This People's Army soldier's leap in thinking really made me cry and laugh a little, and I was careful that if I let him continue to talk like this, I was afraid that I would not finish talking until dawn.

So he immediately interrupted him, pointed to a small river about five or six kilometers away from the division headquarters on the map, and said: "You just need to tell me about this section, and there is no need to say anything else."

The reason why this area was demarcated was because I took into account that the puppet army agents would be able to attack our positions soon after it was dark. At this time, there were relatively many people in our army operating outside the tunnels, and there were also many civilians and soldiers in the logistics department transporting food and supplies.

But this also made me know that their hiding place was not too far from the division headquarters, and the time of the march plus the time of pre-war preparations, the distance of five or six kilometers was about the same.

Of course, this is just speculation, and whether you guess right or not depends on luck.

"Yes," the thin soldier replied, as if recalling the scene when he was holding a bamboo raft on the river, and after a while, he pointed to the map and said: "Here, here, and here are relatively shallow, and people can cross the river by walking." Here, it's all very deep, it's more than a man high, and there's a wooden bridge here, which is often washed away by floods during the rainy season, and the people in our village ......"

"Tell me how deep these two places are, and whether the current is fast or slow?" I unceremoniously interrupted the KPA soldier, and I really couldn't stand him. I was thinking that if he hadn't been a soldier, he would have been a good writer.

"Yes," the thin warrior replied, pointing to two spots on the map, "both of which are more than two meters deep, and this one is steep because the slope is steep. The water flow here is relatively gentle, like ......"

"That's enough" this time I stopped him in time and said, "Thanks for your assistance, you can go back to your own work"

"Yes" The skinny warrior seemed to be unsatisfied, but at my command, he saluted and retreated.

"This is it," I pointed to the place where the water flow was relatively gentle, and said to Fan Jinqing: "The length of the plastic hose is just enough for them to sit at the bottom of the water, and the depth of more than two meters also allows them to occasionally stand up and move their muscles and bones, so that they will not be frozen at the bottom of the water."

"Hmm" Fan Jinqing nodded in agreement: "If the water is fast, it will cause them a lot of unnecessary trouble, so this place is the most suspicious, I will arrange it immediately"

"Wait," I thought about it and Fan Jinqing said: "What I want is to surround the comrade of the People's Army just now, I said that there is a wooden bridge here, remember?" ”

"Hmm," Fan Jinqing nodded.

"You take the guard battalion and the seventh company and three platoons, cross the wooden bridge to the other side of the river," I pointed to the route on the map and said: "I took the first and second platoons of the seventh company on this side of the river, and after the arrangement was completed, I listened to my order to poke the hornet's nest"

"Yes" Fan Jinqing responded, without any objection to my order.

Although this will make him a little embarrassed, because there are more troops sent to him. But he also knew very well that each platoon of the troops of the Seventh Company had a squad of sharpshooters, and its combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of the guard company.

As I stood up, I couldn't help but glance at the skinny soldier with the military dog on his back, and it seemed that sometimes it wasn't necessarily a bad thing to be wordy, for example, just now, it was because of his wordiness that I realized that there was a wooden bridge over this small river.

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The position where the river was deep and the water was slow was not far away, only about four kilometers away from the division headquarters, and we had already walked some way, so we came to the target position in ten minutes.

When we came, we came with great fanfare, the footsteps of the soldiers, the clattering of the equipment, and the barking of the military dogs...... It's like I'm afraid the world won't know about us.

Fan Jinqing was also suspicious of this, and he originally suggested that we sneak up on it, but I didn't think it was a good way.

Because I think about it, there is no need for a puppet army agent to hide in the water at all times. In fact, in such low temperatures, there is no way for anyone to hide in the water for a long time, even if they are agents.

If it were me, I would choose a certain hiding spot on the shore that I usually hide, and when I found someone searching for me, I would erase the traces and quickly hide in the water.

This will prevent their personnel from suffering alive or even the risk of freezing to death, and will allow them to maintain their combat effectiveness in order to complete the mission

And it doesn't seem to be difficult to do so, a large area behind Wendenli is plain, and you can see a search force coming from afar, and the puppet army agents have enough time to prepare.

If they did, then Fan Jinqing's plan would not be a good idea. The volunteers secretly 'touched' and 'touched' towards the target position, and only two things could happen.

One is that the puppet army agents didn't notice us, so when we arrived at the target location, they didn't have time to hide in the water, so they had to fight a fish to the bottom and start a shootout.

The second is that the puppet army agents found us, which is even worse. The puppet army agents will definitely think, why did the volunteer army secretly 'touch' and 'touch' in this direction? It was undoubtedly the Volunteer Army that had discovered their hiding place. So only fools will hide in the water and wait for us to catch them, most likely, by the time we arrive, the target location will be empty.

Neither of these situations is what I want. So, just like when I faced off against the Secret Service Captain, we had to pretend we didn't know where the puppet agents were hiding. Still with great fanfare and furious deployment, the troops searched and advanced in the snow, so that those puppet army agents obediently hid in the water......

The only difference is that I was acting alone before, but this time it was all the fighters acting.

I have to admit that the soldiers are all very good at acting, just like Hu Zudi and others in the cold gun unit, including Lin Xue, all of them meticulously held bayonets and poked and poked in the grass on the snow, as if they were looking for a puppet army agent. This makes me cry out in my heart, I am usually deceived by these innocent-faced guys......

At the beginning, two companies of four or five hundred men were scattered, like a large net spread out all the way to the north. I'm sure this is enough to get the attention of the puppet agents.

When this large net arrived at the designated position, the troops made adjustments according to the original plan, and I took the troops of the seventh company and two platoons to spread out silently on the shore, occupying all the favorable terrain, and all of them aimed their guns at the middle of the river, while Fan Jinqing took the guard company and the third platoon of the seventh company to continue the pretentious search.

Of course, that also includes those two military dogs. The voice that looks like a military dog seems to have become the main force to 'lure' those pseudo-army agents who are hiding in the water at this time. Because I think it is impossible for them to hear our footsteps when they are hiding in the water, so they can only tell from the barking of the dogs that we have gone far.

Fan Jinqing's troops moved faster towards the other side of the river, while two KPA soldiers wandered around for a while with their dogs in a pretended manner. The purpose of this is to tell the puppet army agents a message: "The enemy has not gone far yet, do not come out of the water for the time being"

I don't want Fan Jinqing and the others to get ready on the other side of the river, and those puppet army agents can't stand the cold and come out of the water one by one.

Taking advantage of the time when Fan Jinqing had not yet arrived at the destination to make arrangements, I once again shamelessly grabbed a night vision device to observe the river not far away.

On the surface, there is nothing to be seen at all, the calm water surface flows slowly, like a mirror, 'shooting' the hazy moonlight cast by the waning moon in the sky, making the whole river surface like a layer of white fog floating, and it seems to be 'covered' with a thin veil.

The plastic hose used by the puppet army agents is made of white 'colored' and transparent, and this thing is not visible in the water even during the day, let alone at night.

So I just lay on the shore and waited gradually, waiting for Fan Jinqing to enter the ambush position.

Finally, on the other side of the river, a group of cats cautiously dived towards the shore appeared in my night vision goggles.

Then, not long after, Liu Yangxing's report came from the walkie-talkie: "All units have entered the position, everything is normal"

It's time to reel in the nets, and the little fish hiding in the water should come out and surrender obediently