Chapter 197: A City Without Tiles (2)

"You're really crazy," Tang Tengkai shouted behind his back, "I did violate the air traffic control regulations of military airports, even if I was given another punishment, it would be normal." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Mark, you shouldn't interfere with the ......"

"Know Boris? He wounded seven correctional battalion guards in front of Cherdenko, and then joined the storm team out of the ordinary, "Back at the entrance to the basement, I ordered the major who brought us in (if I didn't know it, I thought he was so anxious about the enemy attack), "Send me to the dormitory." By the way, what happened to the other people who came with me? Especially that girl, if she dies, even if I don't mind, Comrade Lomanov will not give up, and then you, Chairman Kim, will not be able to bear this responsibility. ”

"Yes...... I understand this......" He wiped the sweat from his head, stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture and said, "The injured and unwell comrades have been admitted to the hospital and are being cared for. Others have also been arranged in different dormitories. Come with me, after being notified by Danton, we have all arranged......"

The Major came to pick us up in a dilapidated American jeep that didn't even have a canopy. Considering that there are not even a few intact houses to be seen along the way (Sun Square and Sun Palace - I think it is more like the imitation of Tiananmen Square, and it turns out to be the work of a nondescript second-rate architect - it is now dilapidated. If it weren't for the "dignity of the country", the super colossus more than ten meters high would have become a raw material in the military factory, instead of lying in an underground warehouse that I don't know where), I wouldn't have thought much about it. There are many prefabricated houses at the airport, and more are wooden signs with pointing arrows drawn on them, and countless words are written crookedly with "air-raid shelters". The piles of broken bricks and tiles have not yet been cleared, and many ragged and yellow-skinned children can be seen rummaging through the bricks and tiles for garbage.

"Those are the children of the local residents," said the major, recalling the confusion in my eyes, putting away the whistle that hung on his lips and speaking a little more seriously, "and some are the children of the soldiers." Who knows? Anyway, most of the relatives of the fighters who accompanied President Kim to defend Pyongyang were in the encirclement. Damn the logistics department, the ration ratio for non-military personnel has dropped again. ”

"So these kids can only pick up trash?" In the jeep that rode away, I looked at the commonplace scenes below and asked lightly.

"There are recycling bins all over town. At the end of each bombardment, copper wires in power lines, iron and steel bars that have not rusted off, bullet shells and bricks all over the ground can be exchanged for food stamps or cloth stamps. The Major frowned as he spoke. Not for me, but for the constant crowd around and behind me.

Looking at the Major's eyes, I knew that we were unlucky to meet this group of children. Even more unfortunate is that the Jeep is not performing well. Seeing our jeep passing by, the children, who had been busy picking up garbage just now, all raised their heads at this moment, and chased after them excitedly like beastmen or slave laborers seeing normal humans.

Although people can't catch up with jeeps (I don't know how a group of yellow-faced and skinny people have so much physical strength), this kind of scene is ...... It's still scary.

"Why are they chasing us?" Tang Tengkai looked around in surprise, and I glanced at him: "How long have you been here, and you don't even know about this kind of thing?"

He was a year older than me, but he was nowhere near as good as I was in terms of his knowledge of harsh environments. In a city besieged for a long time, it is not the young and beautiful women (of any class) who are most miserable, but the children. The former can get some resources through unequal trading (no matter what is traded, life span or status, it is an unequal transaction), the latter is the most despicable group of people in the city.

"Unless they are grouped, they will always die first," I said with a slow sigh, "have you fought in the ruined metropolis that the world empire has destroyed or ruled?" There are only two endings for the children there, either starve to death or huddle together to survive. ”

"Don't think about the latter," the driver's head oozed big beads of sweat, but it didn't affect him to interject, "although the building is reduced to pieces, and everything that was once good is gone." But fortunately, the iron discipline still exists in the fortress. Compared with the situation when Pusan was besieged for a month, it was necessary to free up one-third of its troops to fight bandits and thieves on the 10th day, and on the 15th day, it was a miracle that the bandits in the city were asked to go to the front line to meet Yuri's troops. ”

Although I don't really like this guy's style (pampered and not a soldier's temperament, full of truth but no combat experience. I don't hate "villains", but guys who only flatter are often not credible), but his talkative is not obnoxious, and he says the truth.

Tang Tengkai shook his head and sighed: "Yes, the people of Pyongyang are indeed simple. Last time, I also saw a truck full of food without escort getting stuck in a crater, and the driver simply shouted, 'This is rations for the frontline soldiers,' and the swarming hungry people spontaneously pushed the vehicle out of the crater. ”

I'm noncommittal about this (I've told some Allied prisoners or "liberation fighters" about it, and they all laughed and sarcastically read out the little stories I had written in my elementary school political textbooks. In the Allied countries, even in the highly developed cities of Northern Europe, in the event of a famine, at least half of the rescue team must be armed security personnel), so the subject changed: "Can you explain what is going on?" They don't even have access to transport trucks, so what are they chasing jeeps for? Do we look sweet and tasty? ”

"You have a good sense of humor," said the Major, smiling as bitterly as he could, beads of sweat from nervousness on his head, "but it wouldn't be funny if you knew the truth." Generally speaking, in order to save gas, no one in Pyongyang travels in a jeep or a car that is not used for transportation work - except for ......"

"Senior leadership. In order to show their 'proximity to the people' and 'solidarity from top to bottom' or to promote the spirit of optimism, they often make acts of charity. I continued with a headache what he had to say. When I mentioned the word "senior leadership", I also emphasized it in particular. There is no doubt that the so-called "senior leader" is definitely not Tang Tengkai or this major, but me (is a major general also a senior leader?). )。

"That'...... Mark...... ...... are you going to do?" Tang Tengkai looked at me expectantly, as if he hoped that the person who would receive the handout was himself. The major in the front row was silent, expecting neither my help nor my ignorance. I've seen Prime Minister Lomanov, who has visited the disaster areas or impoverished areas at home and abroad, not as wealthy as the Middle Eastern princes of the past (now they are either in prison or in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, and the oil that brought them unlimited wealth goes into the pockets of the "new kings" of the Iraqis), but the amount of loans and support that he calls out is substantial. That scene...... No wonder the invitations sent to Lomanov by those underdeveloped countries are already scheduled for next year.

"Don't look at me," I glanced at Tang Tengkai with a wry smile, slowly opened the pockets on both sides, and said, "I'm penniless." Oh, except for this. ”

Eventually, I pulled out a five-ruble coin from my pocket with Lomanov's face and the logo of the coalition forces, but Pyongyang did not recognize the coin, only the ticket.

This little trick can't be hidden from Tang Tengkai. In desperation, I pulled out the insulated bag in my pocket. Inside are the last few compressed cookies.

"Hee-hee, let's just do a good deed." Tang Tengkai said, throwing the compressed biscuits behind him. I can only sigh about it. "Believe me, Comrade Tang Tengkai," I said, patting him on the shoulder, "the only obstacle that stands in your way to the strength of an elite fighter is that overflowing sympathy. ”

"Thank you for your advice, Comrade General," Tang Tengkai saluted me sarcastically, "but I refuse to correct it." The people's army must not harm the people. ”

The chasing crowd was delayed by the compressed biscuits, and we finally left the ruins. The major breathed a sigh of relief and said to me, "We're safe."

"Thank you. What is your name? ”

"Major Lu Ruihai, Major Captain of the 6th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the KPA Leader's Guard," he smiled, "was only a warrant officer when I was 22 years old when I transferred out of the storm team. ”