According to the contents of the telegram received by the head of the front-line unit received by the director of the field hospital, Sun Lei led a total of 56 soldiers to the south this time, and the meeting point with the large army was Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, which had just been recaptured yesterday.

In order to prevent getting lost at night, Sun Lei not only brought a compass this time, but also a combat map.

Of course, among the volunteer troops who are going south on multiple routes, even if they have the above two things, there are also some troops who have lost their way, although Sun Lei's march route tonight has been marked on the map, but he is still a little bottomless in his heart.

According to the instructions, they had to walk about 150 kilometers south from the field hospital in the rear this time, and only gave them 56 men 48 hours.

In other words, they had to cover 75 kilometers in 24 hours a day. Otherwise, they would not have been able to arrive in Pyongyang on time to join the large contingent of volunteers fighting on the front line.

Because they were traveling at night, not only was the road covered with a lot of snow, but the temperature also dropped to about minus 30 degrees Celsius.

Even among the 56 volunteer soldiers, the vast majority of them have experienced the baptism of fierce battles, but the rest time in the field hospital is half a month or less than a week.

Suddenly, if they were to march in such a harsh environment, many people would be a little difficult to adapt.

The route of the march and the place where they would meet with the large units of the Volunteer Army fighting on the front line belonged to the category of military secrets, and neither the director of the field hospital nor Sun Lei made it public, nor did the other 55 volunteer soldiers who traveled with Sun Lei know about it. They only knew that Sun Lei would lead them to join up with the front-line combat troops who had advanced one or two hundred kilometers to the south.

After walking over the mountains and mountains for about two hours, suddenly a volunteer soldier who walked in front squatted on the ground covered with thick snow, panting and said, "I...... I can't walk anymore, I need to ...... Need a break, really...... It's so tiring. ”

Just now, a volunteer soldier was panting and squatting on the snow, and less than ten seconds later, another volunteer soldier also followed the "plop" and lay face down on the snow.

And, panting like a cow, he said, "I...... I'm tired too, this ...... The road was covered with a thick layer of snow, and it was ...... It's just too hard to walk. No, I ...... I'm going to have to lie on my stomach on the snow and get some rest. ”

After discovering this situation, Sun Lei, who was tired and sweating profusely, first stopped, glanced at the other volunteer soldiers who followed him, and found that many people were also so tired that they were standing on the snow and out of breath.

So, at this time, Sun Lei ordered loudly: "Okay, I see that the big guys are tired enough, okay, let's rest in place for half an hour, and then we will continue to hurry." ”

With Sun Lei's order, he immediately heard the sound of "plop plop" non-stop, and among the other fighters who stopped, more than a dozen people fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

According to the instructions of the head of the front-line troops in the telegram, Sun Lei, as the person who led the team this time, must ensure the personal safety of the 55 volunteer soldiers accompanying him, and send them to the front line unscathed to the place where the main army will meet.

For fear that after two hours of rushing to the snow-covered mountain road, some volunteer soldiers would have some physical problems, Sun Lei naturally didn't care about his own rest, and hurriedly asked everyone about their physical condition.

Fortunately, the answers that Sun Lei heard were all in good physical condition, and he also patted other people's arms and legs with his hands, and after finding that there was no problem, he calmed down.

Of course, not everyone had to sit down and rest, Sun Lei took the other five relatively strong volunteer soldiers to guard the surroundings to prevent being attacked by the enemy.

Although the troops of the Chinese People's Volunteers have advanced nearly 300 kilometers from the north of the Korean Peninsula to the south, it cannot be ruled out that there are still remnants of the US military and the ROK puppet army in some places, and they now have only 56 people, and it is still very important to do a good job of vigilance and defense.

Soon, half an hour passed, and Sun Lei hurriedly called up the volunteer soldiers who were resting on the snow, reorganized the team and continued to march south.

Suddenly, at this time, several volunteer soldiers were shivering from the cold, which attracted Sun Lei's great attention, and after some inquiry, he learned that because they had just marched all the way to the mountain road for two hours, almost everyone was sweating and sweating profusely.

But after a sudden pause for half an hour, the sweat that flowed just now immediately made them feel cold again, knowing that they were sitting in place for half an hour in the cold weather of about minus 30 degrees.

At first, a few people were shivering from the cold, but in the few minutes that Sun Lei was thinking hard about the solution, more than a dozen people suddenly appeared and began to freeze so that their lips turned purple.

If this situation develops, within half an hour, it is estimated that most of the 56 of them will be frozen to death. For Sun Lei at this time, how to help the accompanying volunteer soldiers resist the cold has become a top priority at the moment.

After some hard thinking and meditation, Sun Lei finally thought of a good way that the veteran Deng Sanshui had taught him to be in the harsh environment between the ice and snow, and not to be frostbitten without making a fire.

As soon as he thought of a way, Sun Lei bent down and made a snow ball from the ground with both hands, then turned around and said with a smile to the volunteer soldiers standing in front of him: "Come, comrades, like I just did, everyone get a snow ball from the ground and put it in their hands, let's use the snow ball to be warmed by both hands, and the body will not feel cold." ”

After listening to what Sun Lei said, the fifty-five people standing in front of him all stared at each other with big eyes, with an unbelievable expression on their cheeks, and they didn't seem to fully believe in the method of heating proposed by Sun Lei.

No, someone immediately questioned Sun Lei, and Wang Erkui, a soldier of the Volunteer Army, was puzzled and said: "I said, Comrade Sun Lei, you have been thinking about it for so long just now, why did you come up with this method." This crumpled the snow into a ball and put it in our hands, it just makes our hands colder, how can it get hotter, I don't believe it? ”

"Yes, Comrade Sun Lei, our views are the same as those of Comrade Wang Erkui, and we don't believe it." Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen volunteer soldiers followed closely and questioned Sun Lei one after another.