Chapter 13: Performance

Chapter 13: Performance

It is not difficult for the Ninth Company to receive adequate combat training, we only need to consciously arrange some less dangerous tasks for the three platoons of the Ninth Company to perform in turn, such as routine patrols, lurking and shooting cold guns, etc., and occasionally arrange a few experienced veterans to take them to the enemy's position for a walk.

We usually call this kind of task 'touching' battalion, just like the enemy sent a company to our position to take advantage of it, and the purpose of this was not to capture the enemy's high ground, but to take people to sneak into the enemy's position to find some opportunities to destroy the enemy.

In doing so, it is possible to familiarize yourself with the terrain of the enemy's position; Second, it may be possible to take the enemy by surprise and achieve the goal of demoralizing the enemy. Occasionally, you can capture one or two captives and ask for some information.

This is a dangerous task compared to other tasks. However, the degree of danger can also be controlled, for example, when veterans take the soldiers of the ninth company to carry out this kind of mission, they usually take a platoon to 'touch' up, kill a few sentries at the front of the position, or capture one or two prisoners and come back. In this way, the fighters can experience the tension and threat of the battlefield, so that they can learn and temper without falling into too much danger.

Of course, in a mission like this deep into the enemy camp, the fighters would not let me participate in it under any circumstances. So I had to stay in the tunnel, occasionally directing the soldiers to improve the tunnel, or go to the Ninth Company to continue the old ...... Life is also happy.

In fact, there are times when I want to have more contact with Lin Xue. Most of them are men on the battlefield, and at this time, a 'woman' finally came out, and it was a 'woman' who was so beautiful, no matter who it was, they would move closer to her intentionally or unintentionally.

This is also the reason why the soldiers of the Ninth Company are particularly affected, and the soldiers of other units will always find this and that excuse to go to the tunnels of the Ninth Company to rub in, in fact, I know that there are few of them who are not coming for Lin Xue. But I don't think so, it's human nature, isn't it?

Lin Xue's 'sexual' personality is also easy-going, and she can get along with anyone. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Lin Xue grew up in the army since she was a child, so the tunnels of the Ninth Company soon became a bright spot in all the tunnels on the 649.8 heights, and every day was full of laughter.

It's just that what gives me a bit of a headache is that it's my authentic boyfriend...... Lin Xue sometimes deliberately ignored me because she wanted to avoid suspicion, and even hid to the side. Even if I am reasonable and talking, most of the time I use the attitude of my subordinates and chiefs, which often makes me feel bored

"Commander Cui" caught up with me again on this day and ran to the tunnel of the Ninth Company to chat with the soldiers, and a correspondent ran up to me and saluted: "Senior Commander Pang asked you to go to the division headquarters."

"Coming soon," I pulled out my pocket watch and looked at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the evening. couldn't help frowning, this time is still in a hurry to let me go to the division headquarters, there must be something wrong.

Thinking of this, I immediately stood up, said hello to the soldiers, put on my military cap, and walked out into the darkness outside the tunnel.

"Head Cui" hadn't walked a few steps, but he didn't expect Lin Xue to catch up from behind. I can't help but be a little suspicious in my heart, why doesn't this girl shy away from suspicion today?

"It was Company Commander Jiang who asked me to come" Looking at my suspicious expression, Lin Xue waved the flashlight in his hand and said: "Company Commander Jiang saw that you didn't bring a guard or a flashlight, so let me send you there."

"This Jiang Changshun" I can't help but be angry and funny at Jiang Changshun's arrangement.

"What?" Lin Xue asked strangely.

"Well, nothing," I shook my head.

In fact, Jiang Changshun's arrangement is already obvious, how can there be a guard who arranges Lin Xue alone, this is not clear to give Lin Xue and me a chance to be alone This Jiang Changshun really deserves to be a "city soldier", Lin Xue is so careful that he can see the clues.

"Captain Cui, will you blame me?" After walking in the dark for a while, Lin Xue unconsciously held my hand.

"What do you blame?"

"I'm cold to you" Lin Xue lowered her head and said with some embarrassment: "I, I'm afraid that others will make fun of me when they see it...... So ......"

I couldn't help but feel a little funny and said, "Of course I don't blame you, but ......"

"But what?" Seeing that I was 'wanting' and stopped, Lin Xue shook my hand a little anxiously: "Don't be so stingy, people just feel a little embarrassed......"

"That's not what I meant," I explained with a smile, "I remember there was an idiom called ''desire' and 'Gai Mizhang', do you know the meaning of this idiom? ”

"Of course I know" Lin Xue proudly raised her hair and put on a look of not looking down on her: "The meaning of this is that I originally wanted to deceive people, but it turned out to be more obvious 'exposed', just like ...... It's like, 'There are no silver three hundred taels here.'"

"Yo, you still have a little knowledge," I joked and hooked Lin Xue's little nose.

After receiving my praise, Lin Xue's smile soon increased, and her steps became much brisker, jumping on the snow like a child.

This is not to blame her, people in this era will understand the meaning of such an idiom that we seem to think is very ordinary, and can already be regarded as an intellectual.

After a while, she suddenly seemed to remember something, and suddenly stopped me: "Hey, you haven't said anything yet?" ”

"What?" I'm pretending to be confused.

"'Desire' Gai Mizhang, why do you say this idiom so well?" Lin Xue's big eyes sparkled in the moonlight, and the hair under the military hat danced back and forth on her beautiful face with the whirring mountain wind, and her face looked very pale in the cold temperature, giving people the illusion of being weak and unable to help the wind.

Men are born with a protective mentality, which may be an instinct passed down from primitive society. At this moment, I suddenly felt the urge to protect her from being hurt, so I couldn't help but reach out and comb her hair, and took her in my arms.

Lin Xue was stunned for a while, and seemed to enjoy my hug and was 'obsessed' in it and couldn't extricate herself. But soon he jumped away as if he was burned, looked around in a panic, and whispered: "It will be seen that you have eaten the gall of the leopard......"

"Afraid of what?" I laughed and said, "Who can see this black and black?" Come on, come on...... Hug it again."

"Don't ......" Lin Xue hurriedly dodged and glared at me fiercely with a flushed face: "I will ignore you if you come again"

"Okay, don't hug ...... Then kiss it" said that he was about to go up, and Lin Xue was so frightened that he ran away.

The two men chased after each other on the path for a while, and only stopped when they approached the division headquarters. I really wish that the road to the division headquarters could be farther, because in this battlefield full of blood and gunsmoke, only then can I truly forget the danger, forget the death, completely let go of the guard in my heart and become the real me

"I'll wait for you outside," Lin Xue panted and straightened my collar.

"Don't wait" I 'rubbed' her cold hands, and said distressedly: "I talked to Master Pang, I don't know when the conversation will be over, it's cold outside, you better go back early"

"But I don't care how long I want to wait," Lin Xue still insisted.

"Okay then" I smiled, "It's okay if you wait, but Company Commander Jiang, they know that you haven't gone back for so long, maybe they will wonder what we are doing, if I don't come out tomorrow, maybe they will think ......"

"You ......" Lin Xue's face turned red all of a sudden, and she raised her little fist and smashed me hard, only to make me laugh.

"Tell you" Before leaving, I turned back to Lin Xue and said, "The 'desire' I said is what you are doing now. Think about it, why did Company Commander Jiang send you alone to send me?"

As he spoke, he waved his hand, leaving Lin Xue, who was stunned, and turned around and walked towards the pit where the division headquarters was located.

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"Bringing the soldiers into battle again?" Master Pang said as he handed me a glass of hot water.

"It's just been a long rest, and I'm so bored" I respectfully took the boiling water with both hands and smiled embarrassedly.

What Commander Pang said was that some time ago, I was lurking in the position with the soldiers of the Ninth Company, and I accidentally ran into the puppet army. I haven't been to the division headquarters during this time, so Master Pang has never had a chance to mention it to me.

"You, you......" Master Pang smiled and tapped his finger in the air a few times: "It's really worthy of being a soldier under Commander Wang, and he still looks like Commander Wang when he fights."

"What? Commander Wang? When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "He, did he also go to the battlefield himself?" ”

I know that the commander Wang mentioned by Division Commander Pang is the corps commander Wang Jinshan, who is known as the king madman, but it is difficult for me to imagine that as a corps commander, he also went to the battlefield himself.

"Isn't that right?" Master Pang smiled bitterly and said, "Why do you say that every time there is a battle, the guards around Commander Wang must have at least one platoon?"

"Only a platoon?" I couldn't help but ask: "Commander Wang went to the battlefield, how could that platoon be enough?" ”

"Ball" Commander Pang said bitterly: "Where is that platoon to accompany Commander Wang to the battlefield, their task is to pull hard, not to let Commander Wang have the opportunity to rush to the battlefield"

I see, I can't help but smile wryly when I hear it. In the units of this volunteer army, although cadres at and above the battalion level do not need to charge forward on the battlefield, because many cadres have been promoted from the grassroots level, the habit of taking the lead in charging and going to the battlefield in person when they were grassroots cadres in the past has also been brought with them. Therefore, it is very common for cadres at and above the battalion level to go to the battlefield to fight. This is not? Wang Jinshan became the commander of the corps, and he still maintained this habit

It seems that in this era, I am not the only one who has gone to the battlefield as a regiment commander. The more I think about it, the more proud I become, even the commander of the corps is like this, so won't I have more reasons to go to the battlefield in the future?

"I've read the report of that battle," Commander Pang said to me while drawing on the map with a pencil that had been cut to only half of it: "The battle is good, we have killed more than 40 enemy people, and our side has only suffered nine casualties, and what is even more rare is that this is the first battle of the Ninth Company on the battlefield, and it has a good start. In time, they may be able to play a pivotal role on the Korean battlefield."

"Yes," I nodded, thinking to myself, I was afraid that this army would no longer have a chance to play a role. By the time they passed the cultivation period, they were afraid that the Korean War would almost end.

I took a sip of water and waited quietly for Master Pang to continue. I know that Master Pang still called me here at this time, and it will never be because of the small battle that the Ninth Company fought. One platoon of our army against one company of the enemy, the total number of people did not exceed two hundred. Such a small action is almost negligible for the entire volunteer army.

"Look at ......" Sure enough, after a while, Master Pang pointed to me on the map. I hurriedly leaned out to look at the position that Master Pang was pointing at.

"Here, here, and this ......" Commander Pang pointed to several high ground in Wendenli with a pencil, one of which was the 649.8 high ground where we are located: "During this time, the enemy's activities in our forward positions have been very frequent. Especially in the Wendenli area where our army is stationed, almost every day there are puppet troops who carry out tentative 'sexual' attacks on us, and all of them are at night."

"Oh" Hearing what Commander Pang said, I couldn't help but look at the annotations made by Commander Pang on the map again, and sure enough, there were marks of enemy activities on the entire front, among which there were many highlands near Wendenli where we were stationed.

"Judging from this information," Commander Pang looked at the map and frowned, "We have reason to believe that the enemy will have all the moves in the near future."

There's no reason why I can't help but fall into deep thought, if I follow this information, I will have this kind of worry. But historical knowledge tells me that the Battle of Jincheng will not be fought for at least a few months. So what are these movements of the enemy for?

Then I quickly figured it out, nodded and said, "I don't think the enemy will make any big moves, they are just testing the stability of our army's frontal defense."

"Just a temptation?" Hearing this, Master Pang couldn't help but raise his head and look at me suspiciously, and asked, "What basis do you have?" ”

"Actually...... It can't be said to be a temptation," I explained, "I guessed too, we had seen Eisenhower's campaign speeches before, didn't we?" The reason why he was able to defeat other candidates and become president of the United States without any suspense was because he promised to end the Korean War as soon as possible and with dignity, and claimed that he would personally visit North Korea Now that he has been elected president, it is time for him to fulfill his promise. I think Eisenhower should be staring at us right now."

"Hmm" As soon as I said this, Master Pang understood, he nodded and said: "It makes sense, we all thought that the enemy was preparing for a big battle, but we didn't think that it was for Eisenhower to observe the situation."

"That's right," I nodded, "Eisenhower had not participated in the Korean War before, and as a soldier, of course he knew that only by accurately understanding the war situation could he make correct judgments, which was also the purpose of his coming to North Korea." And in order to accurately understand the battle situation, the front-line enemy must make some moves, so I think this is the reason why the enemy has been active a lot in recent times."

"Not bad," Master Pang nodded and said, "Just like Eisenhower himself said, 'Only in this way can I know how to serve the people best-whether to go to war or achieve peace', this guy is not slow to move, the front foot is elected president, and the back foot will be in North Korea."

After a pause, Master Pang asked again: "What did you just say, you can't say that it's completely a temptation?" ”

"The president of the United States is about to take office?" I replied with a smile: "He personally came to North Korea to inspect the war situation, and those dogs and legs under his command naturally wanted to give the new president a little greeting gift to create a festive atmosphere." In particular, Van Vliet, commander of the Eighth Army, was known as an 'expert in mountain warfare' when he was in China, but in the mountains of Korea, he was always beaten by us in embarrassment, from 'Sad Ridge', 'Bloodstained Ridge', 'Autumn Offensive' to the recent 'Showdown Operation' (that is, the Battle of Shangganling), which was not beaten by us to the bone. According to me, he is like a gambler who is in a hurry to lose, and wants to win a battle to leave a good impression on the new president."

Master Pang couldn't help but laugh when he heard my analysis: "With you, stinky boy, I can't see that you not only know how to fight, but also analyze the enemy's psychology clearly.

Alas, how can I analyze the psychology of the enemy, in fact, this thing is really like what Master Pang said, I really saw it, but I saw it on modern materials. Van Vliet, the "often defeated general", wanted to behave well at this time, so he launched a small assault battle.

The result can be imagined, because of this, he drew the most embarrassing stroke in his military career, and it was also the last stroke. Because not long after this small skirmishe, he left his post and returned home because of this defeat.

This can only be said to be a small 'episode' on the Korean battlefield, because its scale is not large, it cannot be said to be a battle, so it is not recorded in many historical books, and I remember this paragraph because I saw the reason for Van Vliet's resignation.

"So......" Commander Pang turned his gaze back to the map and said, "The enemy has the most frequent temptations in the Wendenli area, does it mean that they will choose this place as the attack location?" ”

"Very likely," I nodded and said, "Especially the high ground where our division is stationed, although the terrain of our high ground is complex and difficult to attack, it is like a tentacle that 'approaches' the enemy's position, and it is attacked from many sides. What's more, the enemy's high ground on the opposite side is much higher than the high ground of our army, and they can condescendingly provide fire assistance to the attacking troops. Since Van Vliet wanted to show himself in front of the new president, he naturally chose the place where it was easy to get his hands on to make sure that nothing went wrong."

Division Commander Pang laughed and said: "Well, since the commander of the Eighth Army thinks so highly of us, of course we can't be rude, and we must 'perform' with him well."