Given that all the bridges over the Datong River had been blown up, our jeeps had to park near the pier and wait for the slow ferry. There are a lot of ordinary people on the dock www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion, just look at those dirty clothes, at least their past life is okay.

But the ordinary residents are a minority after all, and more are soldiers who gather together in twos and threes, and are frighteningly silent. The residents offered to make way for the soldiers to make sure they were the first to board the ship.

"But if we let our troops board the ship first," Tang Tengkai said anxiously looking out the window, "what about the common people?" Isn't it in vain to delay their time? If they are in a hurry......"

"Urgency has to wait," Lu Ruihai's tone did not allow a trace of doubt, "In a country where Songun is political, bullets are more suitable for survival than candy. ”

A dilapidated ferry boat slowly approached. The soldiers gathered together in twos and threes put away their tired and eager to rest mentality just now, and the civilians standing on both sides were even more restless. Listening to their emotions, most of them haven't squeezed a ferry for more than a dozen hours. There were also a few young children who suddenly burst into tears, to the noisy and stuffy environment (you heard it right, although the unusual climate has made Pyongyang still snow-capped, and the frozen river has been forcibly broken). But the crowds gave the docks a sweltering summer heat) adding a touch of eerie and irritating atmosphere.

"That's not going to work," Mr. Tang said suddenly, "and there are civilian ferries coming and going, but now they have actually become military ferries." ”

"What are you going to do?" I looked up at Tang Tengkai. Lu Ruihai pressed the whistle a few times (anyway, this is also called a whistle?) It's worse than a duck calling), the dozens of soldiers in front of them got out of the way, and a few were in awe when they saw the Union flag next to the jeep (if there was only a national flag, it represented only the army of one country; But it is not the same with the flag of the coalition forces, which represents the "incomparably great center of the socialist world" in Warsaw). Tang Tengkai was still frowning, and at this moment the jeep had already boarded the ferry, and the soldiers behind him were swarming in without humility.

Thank you comrade captain of the ferry. The ferry was already on before Tang Tengkai might have asked the fighters to wait with us for a ferry. In the dreary cabin, the noise drowned out all the noise, but it didn't drown out their buzz about our identity.

"I'm more curious," Tang Tengkai complained with some dissatisfaction on the second-floor platform, "why don't you let those soldiers make room for the common people?" They will be delayed for dozens of minutes at most, and those ordinary people have already been delayed for more than ten hours! ”

"So what are you going to do? Will they watch us stay on the boat while they get off the boat with a high degree of altruism and let the people come up? ”

"Of course we're going to take the lead in getting off the boat!" Tang Tengkai said, "Anyway, wait for the next ferry......

"That...... Major Tang," Lu Ruihai's tone carried a hint of embarrassment, "You may not know much. The dock is small in size and uses mostly sailboats. Miss this ferry and the next one...... I don't know when......"

"Change the wharf," Tang Tengkai said righteously, "there are ten wharves in the Datong River." ”

"Forget it, Major Lu, don't persuade you," I said out to stop Lu Ruihai from further patient explanation, "Comrade Tang Tengkai has had the excellent quality of treating the immediate interests of the people above everything else since he was a child. ”

"But didn't Comrade Tang Tengkai come out of the storm group?" Lu Ruihai turned around suspiciously and asked, "Could it be that Comrade Major General ...... Now the warriors of the Storm Squad have the virtue of compassion? ”

"That's different, I left the Storm Team six years ago," Tang Tengkai patted his chest proudly (if I had been a different person, I would have held a grudge against him if I were proud to have left the Storm Team in front of me), "I would have been reinstated as a human being a long time ago." ”

The identity of the person...... Lu Ruihai tried his best to hide his surprise and black lines, and his breathing became short. He looked up at me, as if it was unbelievable that I wasn't mad. But this doubt quickly dispelled, as the whistle sounded on the shore.

"How far do you get to your destination?" When the crane at the dock put our broken jeep down, I asked Lu Ruihai. The latter glanced ahead and replied, "There is still an hour to go to your dormitory." But...... Major Tang is not the same as you. ”

"Yes, General Mark is going to live in a mansion," Tauntenkai complained boredly, "stop at the traffic light ahead, and I'll go back to my dormitory and wait for a new punishment." Mark, don't ...... at it"

"Don't worry," I said, "you don't have to go back, come with me." If my dorm is not bunk beds for several people, I'll give you a little space. ”

Urban and suburban areas are just different. Although there are also yellow-faced and thin-skinned civilians digging through the rubble, although there are many prefabricated houses, high-rise buildings are full of anti-aircraft guns and sentry guns, there are patrolling soldiers standing on the rooftops, and tanks patrolling around on the road as if they don't need money, but the snow has long been swept aside. There are still living people in the high-rise buildings and other buildings that have not been destroyed (these remnants of reinforced concrete buildings have not yet been requisitioned by the army, but some basic service facilities). Military facilities have long been hiding in bomb shelters scattered beneath the city of Pyongyang, as can be seen by the fact that there are dozens of times more life signals underground than above). What's more, the traffic light in front of me, which was blown up, is still working normally at the moment!

"By the way," I asked curiously when I saw the wooden manhole cover under my feet, "how many times can this wooden manhole cover withstand the driving of vehicles?" ”

"That can't be helped," Lu Ruihai pouted a little unnaturally (this guy has become my guide), "the metal manhole covers have long been sold to the recycling station, and we can't get that many concrete manhole covers - of course, it's useless to get them, any child can smash the cement open with a few hammers and dig out the steel bars inside - as long as pedestrians carefully go around the wooden manhole covers, the tracked vehicle will not worry about getting stuck." As for wheeled vehicles...... Ask for more blessings. When the word "self-seeking blessings" was mentioned, Lu Ruihai pursed his lips again.

The small talk ended after five minutes. The jeep was parked outside a school. It is said that it is a school, but in fact, it has long been devoid of the characteristics of a school. There is only one ...... Feel it. It feels like it used to be a school.

"Bring me to this...... Well, what is the stronghold doing? I asked, frowning. Lu Ruihai did not answer, and only handed a document to the guard.

The jeep drove into the school, circled the house with only three floors left, and finally reached a corner in the middle of nowhere. The corner was clean and there was nothing but jagged weeds.

In the corner stood two guards. Lu Ruihai took out his documents, the two saluted, squatted down and turned over the cement slab on the ground. Under the cement slab was a blast-proof door, and he inserted the key into it, and the door slowly opened.

"Please follow me, Comrade Major General." Lu Ruihai bowed to me and made a gesture of please, and I could feel the tightness in the hearts of the guards standing guard. This is a place where only general-level officials can live, who is this major general, and what qualifications do you have to live in?

It seems that the nutrition is too good...... There is nothing to do all day long, only speculation about people who seemed to be powerful in the past. But where are there no such people? I sighed and stepped into the underpass.

"By the way, Mark, what did Comrade Lu call you just now? Be...... Major General?" In the spacious, but not brightly lit underground corridor, Tang Tengkai hurried after me, and the sound of orderly footsteps was disrupted.

"That's right. What's wrong? I asked.

"You...... Didn't turn it out, did it? ”

"If you have something to say, don't babble."

"Okay. That one...... As far as I know," I said, swallowing a mouthful of saliva and looking up as far as he could (his deliberately bent down and then raised his head was comical), "there is only one position in the Storm Squad that can be held with the rank of general. And...... I remember only three people did it......"

"Ah yes, you're right," I replied as I walked forward, turning my head back at Tang Tengkai and tilting my neck at Tang Tengkai without a hint of emotion, "Re-introduce yourself." Since the establishment of Marshal Kukov, successively by General Nadia and Cherdenko I, rebuilt in the era of Cherdenko III, after five successive commanders, I, Makyebka, officially took over the post of official commander of the storm team on February 19 of this year. Don't be surprised, a single brick in the coalition army can hit a large number of major generals. But the major general of the storm team is about equal to a marshal. ”