"Let's go!"

Company commander Zhao Yifa first took out his old pocket watch from his pocket, looked down at the time, it was already seven o'clock and five o'clock in the evening, which was ten minutes later than the original planned departure time, he raised his head again to look, and found that the sharp knife company standing in front of him and all the volunteer soldiers of the third company had changed into the uniforms of South Korean soldiers.

When all the more than 100 volunteer soldiers of the Third Company of the Sharp Knife Company who were ready to attack heard the order of the company commander Zhao Yifa, they turned around in unison and ran in the direction of the south.

According to the previously agreed march route and plan, the platoon led by Sun Lei, as the front unit of the third company of the sharp knife company, walked in the forefront, and behind them, followed by the volunteer soldiers of the second and third companies.

The three platoons were separated by a distance of about 200 meters, mainly so that in case of an unexpected situation during the march, they could lie down or dodge in a platoon unit to distract the enemy.

In the past, the volunteer troops could not be lit by torches during the march, even in the dark of the night, and if their identities were revealed, they would be attacked by the United States and South Korea on the way to the march.

What is even worse is that since the volunteer troops entered the Korean Peninsula to fight, they have basically lost air supremacy; although US planes mostly appear during the day, they will occasionally carry out surprise attacks at night, and if they act on land to light with torches, then they will undoubtedly become a live target for US planes to bomb targets.

Of course, although this greatly reduces the risk of one's own exposure, it is not without drawbacks, and since the Volunteer Army entered the Korean War for more than a month, dozens of cases of the Volunteer Army units getting lost in the process of advancing have been issued.

However, this time it was very different, when all the volunteer soldiers of the sharp knife company Sanlan left about five kilometers south of Pyongyang City, the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju saw that the night was dark, and after rushing to the main road marked on the map to this place in Xiajieyuli, the two of them called over the herald and issued a notice.

The content of this notice was to ask the soldiers of each platoon to quickly light the torches prepared in advance, and in a short time, the dark night where they went was brightly lit, and the things on the road and around about one or twenty meters were clearly seen, and the speed of the march was also greatly accelerated.

Needless to say, the idea of lighting torches in the process of marching at night was also given by Sun Lei to company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju in advance, only the three of them, as well as the second platoon commander Liu Yiming and the third platoon commander Feng Pengju knew, but the other soldiers knew nothing about it.

Especially the volunteer soldiers in the front row of the march, seeing that Sun Lei, as the platoon commander, asked several soldiers in the platoon to light torches, which made them feel a little worried about this in their hearts, for fear that they would be exposed, so some people found Sun Lei for inquiry.

"Platoon commander, isn't the purpose of our journey at night to ensure safety, if we light the torch, then we will be exposed immediately?" Sun Shulin, a volunteer soldier in a row, trotted forward more than ten meters away, and when he walked side by side with Sun Lei, he asked worriedly.

As soon as Sun Shulin finished speaking, Wang Erkui, who followed up, followed up and continued to inquire to Sun Lei: "Yes, platoon commander, our first platoon is the lead, walking in front of the second and third platoons, if we are exposed to the enemy, our first platoon is the first to be exposed, then won't we become a live target for the enemy hiding in the shadows?" ”

Not only Sun Shulin and Wang Erkui were puzzled by this, but after the two of them finished asking, many soldiers in the first platoon also coaxed their platoon commander Sun Lei to inquire about this issue, and they all showed a worried look.

Faced with the questioning of a row of soldiers, Sun Lei first slowed down and glanced at them, and then patiently explained: "Comrades, don't worry, listen to me explain to you slowly."

"Of course, the purpose of our march at night is to be safe, but now each of us is wearing the uniforms of South Korean soldiers, which means that even if the enemy hiding in the shadows finds out about us, we will not rashly attack them.

"Besides, the purpose of let's light this torch is to let those enemies hiding in the shadows, as well as the US military planes that may be on missions in the air, see our presence, and they see that we are a small group of South Korean soldiers, then we are safe. Comrades, everyone put their hearts in their stomachs, and everything will be fine. ”

After listening to Sun Lei's explanation, the soldiers in the platoon who were still worried about this just now suddenly realized that the purpose of lighting the torches was to deliberately expose their existence to the US-South Korean coalition forces, and it was only at this time that they calmed down a little.

In addition to the soldiers in the first platoon, the other soldiers of the third company of the Sharp Knife Company were all relieved after hearing the explanations of the company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, as well as the second platoon commander Liu Yiming and the third platoon commander Feng Pengju.

From about 7:10 p.m. on the first night, the volunteer soldiers of the 3rd Company of the Sharp Knife Company left Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, which had just been recaptured, until about 6 o'clock the next morning, they lit torches for almost the night in the dark of night, and were not surrounded and intercepted by the enemy.

Although it is not very fast to walk more than 50 kilometers in one night, you must know that this is in an icy and snowy environment, even if you are walking on a major road, the road is covered by the heavy snow that fell a few days ago, and the road is not slippery, so you have to rest in place from time to time during the march.

In terms of the actual situation at that time, the speed of this march was not slow.

Originally, the night road was very smooth, but at about six o'clock the next morning, when the soldiers of the three companies of the Sharp Knife Company were resting on the main road without a village or a store, they suddenly heard the roar of airplanes from the south.

At this time, Sun Lei judged from the different sounds that there were at least five planes flying from the south, and the US-ROK coalition forces were all retreating to the south, so he could judge that nine out of ten of these planes were US troops.

At this time, the sky had gradually brightened, and more than ten minutes ago, the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju had asked the soldiers of the whole company to extinguish the torches, after all, they would come in handy when they were on the road the next night.

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