At the repeated insistence of the wounded soldiers, I had no choice but to accede to their request. In fact, even I felt that they were able to exert the combat effectiveness of ordinary fighters, or even surpass them. Because in their eyes I see a kind of strength, a kind of fearlessness, and I think that's what matters most to a fighter.

I have the greatest official position among them. So naturally I became their superior, and I was also the initiator of this operation. So they're willing to follow my commands.

That night, I sent them all out to gather the stragglers. Their task does not seem to be heavy, all they have to do is to take shelter beside the various mountain roads and contact them when they see the volunteer soldiers who have fallen behind.

For the time being, I do not dare to send soldiers to search for volunteer fighters in other villages, because I know that there is a high probability that South Korean agents are hiding in those villages. Not to mention that the soldiers went to the villages to search for the danger of their lives, if some Chinese speaking spies pretended to be fellow villagers and tricked our situation and base area from the soldiers' mouths, then we would soon face the danger of total annihilation. After all, many of the South Korean soldiers had served in the Kuomintang army, so it was not difficult to find someone who could speak Chinese.

Before leaving, I also 'handed over' to them, and the treatment of those volunteer soldiers who had fallen behind should be called on a voluntary basis. That is, those who are willing to stay stay, and those who want to go to the large army will also go with them.

But I think most of the warriors would still be willing to stay, because it would have been a matter of life and death to find a large army through enemy lines. Second, most of the soldiers of the volunteer army have a fighting style of going wherever they are needed. They only went to the enemy line when they had no goal and didn't know where they were needed, hoping to return to their troops to continue fighting, but now I gave them a goal and a need. Then they will respond to my call like the wounded soldiers.

Sure enough, before dawn the next morning, the warriors returned with more than a hundred warriors, and the next night more than seventy, and the third night more than thirty, after which there was basically no one to be found. Think about it too. After so many days, if there are still fighters in the rear, most of them will not be able to come back.

Combined with the original wounded soldiers, excluding the soldiers who were really unable to fight, I had a team of one hundred and seventy-four men in my hands, that is, a reinforced company. The company commander was naturally me. The platoon commander was Ren Fengyou and two other volunteer soldiers Gao Chengshan and Guo Zhongtian, who were also platoon commanders in the original unit. Not only because they have experience in leading troops, but also because they are originally platoon commanders, other soldiers will not have objections to this arrangement.

I do not dare to appoint or dismiss instructors at will, because they have always been assigned by their superiors to guide the political direction of the troops, and if I appoint and dismiss them 'privately'. In the future, it may be detained.

Chen Liang served as the deputy company commander. This decision is still a little difficult to do, because Chen Liang was originally just an ordinary soldier, and this time he was promoted to deputy company commander, which can also be said to be a company promotion to the third level. Several soldiers also told me whether they should let the soldiers choose one, and even Chen Liang himself did not believe that he could be the deputy company commander. But I prefer that my deputy is a smart person who can stand alone, rather than a mouthpiece who can only fight and only carry out orders, so I have persevered again and again.

In the past few days, under the careful care of the old man, the frostbite on my feet has improved greatly, although it is still a little swollen, but I can walk on the ground.

What bothers me is that because the swollen feet have not completely disappeared, even if the uncle turns out the largest cotton shoes, he can't put them on, so he still can't go out.

That's when I realized how painful it was to be stuck at home all day, facing the four walls all day long, watching the soldiers run around and do nothing

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When the soldiers went out on a mission, I asked them to draw a few maps along the way, which I wanted to use to familiarize themselves with the terrain. But when I saw the maps, I realized I was wrong

The level of education of the volunteer soldiers is generally not high, and they don't know how to draw maps with a scale, so there is no way to put these strange maps together, and some of them can't even tell the difference between the south, east, west, and northwest. Why don't you "I'll take you to see it?" ”

"Alas!" I looked up from the messy mass of maps on my desk and sighed in frustration, and that's when I realized how important a standard map was to me! Even though I have a lot of modern sources, and I can even say that I am a prophet, but without a detailed map, everything becomes so confusing.

"Company commander, company commander..." At this time, Chen Liang trotted in all the way, and placed a thick piece of paper folded into small pieces in front of me mysteriously: "Look what this is?" ”

"Hey, Map!" I opened it and couldn't help but be overjoyed to see that it turned out to be a standard military map: "Good boy! Where did you get it? ”

"Hey, it's in the hands of our own warriors! We don't know yet," Chen Liang smiled bitterly: "A few soldiers joined our army the night before, and I didn't ask much. I had nothing to say hello to them today. Unexpectedly, one of them was the regiment commander's guard. I'm carrying this map! ”

"Hmm! It turns out that we have heard the rumors since we were only human beings, and I can't help it. "I've been dazzled by the chaos of looking at a lot of ghost-like maps for the past two days, and now I don't know what it means to be empty.

Looking at the map in front of me, my thoughts became clearer, and the materials I had read in modern times slowly recalled little by little, and gathered more and more in my mind.

Well, here is the offensive position of the 19th Corps of the Volunteer Army, here is the offensive position of the 3rd Corps of the Volunteers, and here is the "We should still be here now, near Yizheng Fǔ, the two villages of Chizhongli and Shachangli are too small to be marked on the map.

In fact, on the whole, the fifth campaign and the fourth campaign are very similar, and they are also the great strides of the volunteer army. Then the logistics and supplies could not keep up, and ten days later, the volunteers were once again faced with no food and ammunition. Li Qiwei once again led the army to counterattack, but this time he did not advance smoothly like the fourth battle, but boldly used armored troops to penetrate and 'intersperse', and airborne troops were airdropped to the rear of our army to cut off our army's retreat, causing our army to suffer the heaviest losses since the beginning of the war.

What should I do now?

The urgency of the delay is to 'get' a batch of supplies. More than 200 of us gathered in this village, and almost all the food stored by the people in the village was eaten, and we would all be hungry in a few days. At that time, there will be no enough food, and there will be guns and no bullets, and no matter how many people there are, it will be useless.

Where are the enemy's supply lines?

I followed the map to the rear of the enemy to find, at this time the joint *** on the front line and the volunteer army is still fighting, this ***, food must be transported to the front in large quantities, we want to get him a batch to come that is not a difficult thing, but,

Then it quickly occurred to me that the enemy might be defenseless in the rear now, but if we get him a batch of supplies. They will soon be on guard, and may even 'draw' troops to encircle and suppress, and then it will be more difficult to 'get' supplies. Therefore, either we will not 'get' it, but if we want to 'get it', we will 'get' a batch of large ones, so that while supplementing ourselves, we can also prepare for the fifth campaign of the Volunteer Army in the future.

That's right! Thinking of this, I first made a plan to 'get' a large number of supplies, so it was natural to move my eyes to the rear of the puppet army's defense line. Most of the Yankees' supplies were airdropped, and it was difficult and not much to get them on the ground. Only a fool would touch that fleshless and hard to gnaw bone.

Finally, I stopped my eyes on a place called Wumaling! Legend has it that this was the only way for the puppet army to resupply in the rear. For the sake of this place, the puppet army in history also quarreled with the US military!

"Chen Liang!" Seeing this, I didn't want to, so I shouted at Chen Liang, who was waiting on the side: "Convene a meeting of all units!" ”

"Yes!" Chen Liang answered, and the cabinet was quickly stuffed all the way

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"Comrades!" Seeing that everyone had arrived, I raised my eyes from the map and said: "Although we come from different troops and different places, we all have a common goal and a common ideal, that is, to strive for the realization of ***ism." Dedicated to our motherland! I believe that with our joint efforts, we will be able to defeat US imperialism and reactionaries and trample them under our feet."

"The company commander is right! All reactionaries are paper tigers! ”

"Resolutely fight imperialism!"

The fighters clenched their fists and shouted in a low voice, and there was a determined light in their eyes, which made me realize that I still have a talent for inciting people.

"Company commander!" Ren Feng asked a little impatiently, "Is there a task?" Give the order".

"Say it! Company commander Gao Chengshan continued: "Although there are not many of us, none of us are of the same species, even if we are asked to bomb planes and tanks, we will not frown!" ”

"The mission is there!" I nodded: "But it's not to bomb planes or tanks, it's to dig up." 'Hole'. ”

"Dig a 'hole' in the mountain?" When the soldiers heard this, they didn't know what kind of 'medicine' I was selling in my gourd, and they all looked at me suspiciously.

"Well, where are you going to dig it?" That's when I realized that I wasn't ready: "It's here, the mountain at the entrance of our village, can the mountain car drive in?" ”

"Probably not!" Chen Liang shook his head, his face was also full of puzzlement: "The mountain at the entrance of the village is connected to a small road, and it is difficult for two people to walk side by side, let alone a car!" ”

"So, which mountain is connected to the road?" I summoned Chen Liang to my side, pointed to the road that passed through Wumaling, and said, "Come and see if there is a mountain near us that can be connected to this road, it's best not to be next to the highway, the car can drive!" ”

"Hmm!" Chen Liang couldn't help but be silent, although he often went out these days, most of them went out at night, and he was not very familiar with the terrain in this area, so this question also stumped him for a while, and the situation of the other soldiers was similar, all of them were silent and did not speak.

"Ask the uncle!" It occurred to me that Uncle was hunting. That's not even knowing the terrain of the area.

"That's right!" Chen Liang nodded, and soon went to another room to pull the uncle out, muttered for a while, and then pointed to the place where the hundred places were said and said! , the uncle said that there is such an old "soap far away" in Zhongfuzhejiang, and he also said that he could take us there

Chen Liang stopped talking. Eyes unconsciously glanced at my feet.

I also glanced at my swollen feet, which had not yet disappeared, and I couldn't help but feel helpless. Although my feet don't hurt much anymore, I still don't have any shoes to wear.

At this time, the uncle seemed to see through our thoughts, and took out a cotton coat from the box, 'pulled' out the scissors and cut it into half with a click, and then under the suspicious eyes of the soldiers, he wrapped the two halves of the cotton clothes on my feet, and then tied them with ropes! Hey, a pair of king-sized shoes is done! I was so happy that I walked up and down the room excitedly, but it looked like the kind of shoes worn by clowns in the circus, and the soldiers snickered.

When the sun net goes down in the evening. The soldiers set off under the leadership of the uncle, and after being locked in the house for a few days, today I finally breathed the fresh air outside again, and I couldn't help but feel comfortable. However, because the foot injury was not completely healed, and the pair of oversized cotton shoes were not very convenient to walk on the snow, they always fell behind the troops. Luckily, it's only a few miles away. After walking for half an hour, it will be there, otherwise with these soldiers on the first march, I, as a company commander, will fall behind, and it will not be a big problem.

When I got to this mountain, I took a look. Sure enough, it's a good place. This mountain is more than 100 meters away from the road, and there is a mountain in between; Even if we dig here, the enemy passing by the highway won't find anything. What's more, there is also a canyon about three meters wide at the foot of the mountain that curves into the road. Cars can easily drive here from the road, which is really suitable

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"Uncle said, this mountain is called Lie 'Woman' Mountain!" Chen Liang explained on the side: "It is said that when the uncle was young, a village girl came to the mountain to 'medicine' so that the Japanese devil found out, and the devil saw that the village girl had a bit of a posture and moved his hands and feet, but he didn't expect the village girl to fall down the cliff with a devil in his arms and fall to his death!" Since then, the people in the village have called this mountain the mountain of Lie' 'Female'. ”

"*** Little Japan!" The fighters all came from Little Japan. When it comes to Little Japan, there is no one who does not hate it, and when I hear this story this time, I grit my teeth even more.

"Let's do it! Comrades! Seeing that the terrain was fine, I quickly ordered: "Take the squad as a unit, and each squad should dig one on the side wall of this mountain." The height and width of the big 'hole' are as standard as being able to drive into a car, and the depth is good. Just three cars in depth! Given you two nights, can you complete the task? ”

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" The soldier answered, '' the sapper shovel and dug it.

"What are we digging for?". While digging, some comrades couldn't help but whisper: "Let's say it's an air-raid 'hole'!" It's too big, and there's no wood to hold it on, so when the Yankee's cannon goes off, doesn't it collapse all at once? ”

"According to me, it should be the one who hides the car."

"Where did we get the car to hide?".

"Well, I don't know. Just do the work, you so much nonsense! ”

Listening to the discussions of the soldiers, I didn't explain much, not that I pretended to be mysterious, but that military secrets could not be 'exposed' as much as possible, and it was not that I did not believe these volunteer soldiers under my command, but just in case, which is also the consistent principle of the volunteer army's operations.

"Company commander!" At this time, Chen Liang came up and asked suspiciously: "These are?"

I didn't speak, I took out the map in my cotton coat and spread it on the ground, pointed to the location of Wumaling on the map, and said to Chen Liang: "You take a squad of soldiers to this place with a little food to reconnoitre, and send two soldiers back in two days to report the situation, I want to know the deployment of the enemy's troops in this vicinity, as well as the number of passing cars." If the situation is favorable to our army, then I will join you with the company later. Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" Chen Liang answered, as if he knew something, a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes, and without saying a word, he turned around and ordered a squad of soldiers and set off.

After Chen Liang left, I also '' a sapper shovel and worked with the soldiers. The habit of the soldiers of the Volunteer Army, that is, the treatment of officers and soldiers is the same, and it is not because I can enjoy special treatment because I am a company commander or battalion commander, nor because I am injured that I do not have to work, so the soldiers have long been surprised.

It's just that the uncle looked at me with a strange look, and after so many days of getting along, he already knew that I was. "Official". At this time, seeing that I was working with a shovel like everyone else, I only saw that he was stunned.

And no wonder he was weird. It is said that not only the puppet army, but even the people's army, as long as there is a bean on the collar, it is all standing aside and not working, I think the uncle has long been used to that kind of special treatment.

Speaking of the civil engineering work of the volunteers, it was really a lot, almost every place they went to either dig trenches or dig air defense 'holes', so the soldiers also did a good job this time, and by the next night, more than 20 such mountain 'holes' were completed. The soldiers then used dry skills and leaves to open the 'hole', and spread some snow on it, and soon the 'hole' mouth was tightly hidden. If someone hadn't come up and kicked a few times, they wouldn't have noticed.

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