Sun Lei, a special forces soldier who had just retired less than a week after retiring in 2017, woke up like this and traveled without warning to the late autumn season of 1950, 67 years ago, when the Korean War broke out.

However, at this time, the northeast region of our country has already entered a cold winter, and the entire Korean Peninsula across the Yalu River is also icy and snowy, with biting cold winds and snow.

Since tonight's military operation was top secret, their third company, as the sharp knife company of the whole regiment, was the first unit to cross the Yalu River bridge and secretly enter the DPRK to fight.

On this road, all the officers and men of the Third Company were in the dark night, without torches and flashlights.

After walking through the ice and snow for about three hours, we arrived at the Yalu River Bridge at one o'clock in the morning, and quickly passed through the mountainous area of northern Korea.

According to the order issued by the regiment headquarters, the third company was required to rush to the area around Yunshan at 12 o'clock in 22 October at the latest, and then wait for the next combat mission and instructions.

At dawn on the second day, the soldiers of the Third Company marched all the way on foot on the icy and snowy ground without resting for even a second.

Therefore, the soldiers at this time can be described as sleepy, tired and hungry, and they were all high-spirited before, but now they have become listless, like frosted eggplants, wilting.

After discovering this situation, the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Li Wenju took out the combat map they carried with them and studied it by the light of the rising sun.

In the end, the two of them decided to find a place to rest in place for the time being, and then let the cooking squad cook a pot of hot millet porridge to warm up the bodies of the officers and soldiers of the whole company.

At this time, Zhao Yifa took out his dilapidated telescope to observe the terrain everywhere, and saw an abandoned house on the side of the road not far ahead, so he quickly sent two veterans to investigate to see if there were still people living in it.

Soon, the two veterans reported that the abandoned house not far ahead, not only did there not even a shadow of a person in it, but there was nothing in the house, it was empty.

After listening to the report, the company commander Zhao Yifa immediately made a decision, and the soldiers of the whole company ran forward, resting in the abandoned empty house not far ahead, making up for all the sleep they had last night, and then marching towards the area around Yunshan.

Regarding the decision made by the company commander Zhao Yifa, Sun Lei, as a rookie, just shook his head, and he wanted to stop this, but after stopping for a while, he still swallowed the words that came to his mouth back into his stomach.

Because he knew in his heart that he had not arrived at the drill ground in the camp in time to assemble before the troops were drawn out last night, and he also threatened to report Zhao Yifa's situation to his superiors, which probably left an extremely bad impression on Zhao Yifa's heart.

If at this time, he, a recruit who had only joined the Third Company for two months, objected to the decision made by Zhao Yifa, who was the company commander, in front of the officers and soldiers of the whole company.

When the time comes, it is estimated that the company commander Zhao Yifa will not only not adopt his opinions and suggestions, but his already bad impression may be even worse.

Moreover, other officers and soldiers in the company would mistakenly think that he was in the limelight and deliberately confronted the wise and decisive company commander Zhao Yi, and was finally rejected and opposed by the officers and men of the whole company.

After thinking about it for a while, it wasn't until Sun Lei followed all the officers and soldiers of the third company and stationed in this abandoned and dilapidated house on the side of the road.

"Comrades, we have traveled all the way in the dark at night, so let's rest in these dilapidated houses first, and then let's light a fire here and warm up.

"In addition, I have ordered the comrades of the cooking class to bury a pot outside the house to cook, cook a large pot of millet porridge, let's have a good meal, and then sleep for a few hours, and then we will continue to move forward according to the original plan."

Zhao Yifa, the company commander who walked into these dilapidated houses, rushed to the group of soldiers who were squatting on the ground and huddled up, he fought hard, put on a radiant look, and said.

Sure enough, not long after the company commander Zhao Yifa finished saying this, two soldiers from the cooking squad held a large pile of dry branches that they had picked up from the forest not far outside, and in a moment's effort, they lit a fire in these dilapidated houses.

Just now, the temperature inside these dilapidated houses was not much different from the temperature of minus ten degrees outside, and the soldiers squatting on the ground were still shivering, and not long after this fire was lit, the whole house immediately warmed up.

At this time, Sun Lei, who was huddled in a corner, felt that it was too dangerous for them to do so, and it was very likely that they would be exposed at any time because of the green smoke coming out of the fire.

You must know that at that time, a small group of US and South Korean ground troops had already arrived on the banks of the Yalu River, and it can be said that they crossed the Yalu River at night and entered the Korean Peninsula, advancing more than 100 miles into the hinterland.

It is fortunate that they did not encounter American or South Korean troops along the way, and they will be able to continue their secret advance towards the Unsan area without the enemy's knowledge.

But it was already early in the morning, and even if it was daylight, the green smoke rising from the fire was likely to be discovered by the American or South Korean ground forces marching nearby, and an encounter was inevitable.

In addition, the entire sky is controlled by US planes, and the US military will certainly send planes to conduct reconnaissance during the day, and once they lock down these dilapidated houses, which were originally empty and uninhabited, the smoke that suddenly comes out of a fire inside will certainly attract their attention.

When the US planes arrived and observed, they found that it was not their US soldiers or their friendly South Korean soldiers in the broken houses, but a small group of soldiers wearing military uniforms similar to those of the Korean People's Army.

What makes Sun Lei feel even worse is that the soldiers of the cooking squad are cooking on a fire outside the house, which increases the chance of more exposure, whether it is the ground troops of the US army or the South Korean army, or the US planes flying in the air, as long as they look closely, they can see whether they are friends or enemies.

Although his eyes were red and swollen, Sun Lei was not sleepy, and before the smiling Zhao Yifa left the room, he felt that he couldn't sit idly by, so he immediately stood up and decided to report his worries to the company commander Zhao Yifa.

But as soon as he stood up, he didn't have time to speak, and suddenly he was squatted aside, staring at his every move, and Niu Tiezhu, the squad leader who stood up before, stretched out two big hands on his shoulders and pressed them hard.

"Sun Lei, you rookie egg, I have been paying attention to you kid for a long time just now, seeing that since you came in, you have been looking around, looking sneaky, you kid shouldn't be unable to endure the hardships of marching and fighting, and you want to slip away.

"Don't blame me, the squad leader, for not reminding you kid, our third company is the sharp knife company of the whole regiment, and we have to shoot the soldiers who escape from the battle. You kid let me stay where I was, and don't even think about going anywhere. ”

Niu Tiezhu, the leader of the first platoon of the third company, pressed down Sun Lei, who was just about to stand up, and he threatened and intimidated him deceptively.