"Battalion commander! Let's have a bite to eat! "Just when I was still in front of the map and the staff officers were deducing the battle process step by step, for fear of missing something, the guards brought me a bowl to eat.

Maybe I was so focused that I didn't notice what the bowl was until I smelled a tempting aroma of noodles and looked into it in amazement...... It turned out to be dumplings.

"How can there be dumplings?" I asked.

You must know that this is the front line, and it is difficult for the soldiers here to eat even a bowl of hot rice, let alone dumplings.

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping replied on his behalf: "You forgot...... Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and tomorrow is the New Year! The higher-ups specially pulled out a batch of flour for the front-line troops, and the cooking squad made dumplings for the soldiers...... It's stuffed with canned vegetables and canned meat! ”

"Hmm!" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this: "It's the New Year? ”

"Yes! It's Chinese New Year! ”

The cadres around me responded calmly, but I suddenly became sad...... If today is Chinese New Year's Eve, then tomorrow is the first day of the new year, if all goes well...... Tomorrow will be the day we enter the Vietnamese defense line to fight.

If this was before...... At this time, we should be a family sitting in front of the TV eating a reunion dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala, but now we are waiting for the arrival of death on the battlefield at any time......

Zhao Jingping seemed to see through my thoughts, so he persuaded on the side: "Battalion commander, you see...... Why don't we postpone it for a few days and let the fighters have a good year? ”

I shook my head and said, "Don't miss the opportunity and never come again, let alone ...... Our vanguard has already entered the Vietnamese defense line, and if we give up like this, their lurking and reconnaissance will be in vain! ”

"yes!" The instructor nodded: "And it's not just us who are fighting on the front line, if everyone is like us...... If you don't fight during the New Year, isn't the front line chaotic? ”

"And......" I added, "the Yue devils also know something about our Chinese customs. They know that tomorrow is our Spring Festival and think that we will not do anything on this day...... You can catch him off guard! ”

"That's what I said, but ......" Zhao Jingping stopped talking.

Actually, I know what he's trying to say...... If there is a battle, there will inevitably be casualties, and it should be a joyful New Year on the day of the Spring Festival, but if you are injured or sacrificed on this day......

I gritted my teeth and squeezed out a few words: "Act according to the original jihua!" Let the fighters have a good meal of dumplings! ”

"Yes!" The cadres responded.

War is like that...... It does not stop us because we have a special situation or a special situation, and even the enemy will take advantage of it because we have a special situation or because our mentality is affected during the festival, which also makes us have no time to think about those relatives who are far away......

As I picked up the bowl of dumplings, I suddenly felt a wave of sadness...... Old man, are you still lying on the hospital bed struggling to support yourself? Are you still disappointed and angry with me as before? And my mother, who has always regarded me as a treasure in her palm...... Did you know that I am now fighting to the death against the enemy on the battlefield?

At this moment, I don't know why, all of a sudden, I collapsed...... Tears flowed uncontrollably, and in order to prevent the soldiers around me from discovering it, I buried almost my whole face in the bowl and devoured it...... The tears kept flowing into the bowl and I kept swallowing them back!

"Battalion commander, phone ......"

The correspondent's screams helped me get out of my embarrassment. I took advantage of the fact that the person next to me was not paying attention, and secretly wiped my tears and said, "It tastes good!" You also eat...... I'm going to answer the phone! ”

As if he was running away......

Actually, I didn't even know what the dumplings tasted like. For the first time, I knew what my tears tasted like. It's a little bitter, a little astringent, and a little bitter of missing......

"I'm Yang Xuefeng!" When I grabbed the microphone, I felt that my mood was much calmer, and sometimes people's emotions are really indescribable...... If you forcibly suppress it, it will be more uncomfortable, but the tears will be first-class, as if they are leaking out.

"Xiao Feng!" Zhang Fan's excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "It's finally through...... I've hit it so many times! It's finally through! ”

"Hmm! It's you ......" I couldn't help but be surprised when I heard Zhang Fan's voice, just like Zhang Fan said...... At this time, it is no more modern than modern, no matter how far away you can call in. From Beijing to Yunnan, it is the northern tip of China and the southern tip of China...... Not to mention how many times this has to be turned, if any telephone line on this front line is blown up, it will still not be able to get in.

"Xiao Feng! You...... You okay! Zhang Fan sounded very nervous, and then she seemed to want to finish all the words she had accumulated for several months with me in one breath, and asked in a crackling voice: "Have you fought recently?" It's Chinese New Year...... Let's have a good rest these two days! The soldiers also want to celebrate the New Year, right? My dad also asked me to say hello on his behalf......"

"I'm fine......"

That's all I have to say. The voice in the microphone became a murmur, and Zhang Fan's anxious voice could be heard vaguely: "Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng...... Hey, hey, hey......"

The "battalion commander......" correspondent explained: "It's the radio interference of the Yue devils!" ”

"Hmm!" I silently put down the phone, feeling a hint of warmth in my heart...... At least now I know that I'm not alone in this world.

So when I returned to the headquarters, it was as if I had enough power and I was refreshed again......

"Did the reconnaissance force send back any information?" I asked.

"Everything works!" Zhao Jingping replied.

Don't look at "everything is fine" is only four words, but it actually contains a lot of information...... The reconnaissance unit had already infiltrated the territory of the Vietnamese army last night, just as Scar said...... It takes a whole night to sneak to the destination, and then it is difficult to move during the day, so only tonight is the time for the reconnaissance team...... The words "everything is normal" actually means that they are ready, and at the same time, according to their on-the-spot reconnaissance and judgment...... Our jihua is indeed doable.

"Good!" I said, "Pass on my word...... Today's New Year, we are still fighting against the devil, so that our relatives and our parents and fellow villagers can celebrate the New Year more haode! Tomorrow we will go and teach the devil a lesson, and when we come back from the battle...... Let's have another good year! ”

"Yes!" The warriors responded with a bang, and the homesickness just now was swept away with my words, replaced by a rush of sweating.

The next day was fast approaching, and we had another dumpling meal in the evening...... This dumpling was not assigned to us by the superiors, although the flour allocated by the superiors was too much...... But there are also many soldiers fighting on the front line, so it's good to be able to eat a meal like this.

Let's make dumplings...... That's because Deputy Division Commander Wang knew early in the morning that we had an operation tonight, so he saved the flour of the Ninth Division's second-line and logistics troops and gave it to us.

To be honest, it makes me quite embarrassed...... Because they are also soldiers fighting on the front line, they are just temporarily retreating to the second line to rest, why should they save the good things and give them to us.

But Deputy Division Commander Wang repeatedly insisted......

"I said Camp Commander Yang, it's not interesting for you to refuse!" Deputy Division Commander Wang said: "As soon as the soldiers heard that the flour was reserved for the comrades who were fighting on the front line...... I didn't say a word, but I saved it all. You're good...... Don't want it yet! Can I tell you...... I'm not leaving it for you, but for the soldiers, they don't know if they can come back tomorrow, so what's wrong with having an extra meal of dumplings? Can I tell you...... You don't have the right to say no! Don't want it, you have to ask for it! ”

So I couldn't say anything more...... At the same time, I secretly thought in my heart that it should be a blessing that the Ninth Division was commanded by Deputy Division Commander Wang. Because what we are most afraid of as soldiers is often not a difficult enemy or a strong fortress, but a cadre who is not sympathetic to his subordinates!

After eating this dumpling, we took a short rest and waited for it to get dark and we were on our way...... Of course, we didn't dare to eat too much at this meal, firstly, because eating too much would affect our combat effectiveness, and secondly, we were worried that we would have stomach trouble...... Therefore, the soldiers all consciously put down the dishes and chopsticks when they were full, although the aroma of the dumplings was very attractive, but no one was willing to risk losing their lives because of the taste of the mouth.

We entered the lurking position at ten o'clock in the evening...... It is said to be a lurking position, but it is actually a patch of grass in front of the 1502 heights.

Perhaps because it grows well by the river, this grass grows well...... The thatch is two meters high, and when you walk in, you can't see the road ahead as if you have walked into a sea of grass.

This patch of grass is clearly a good place to hide armored vehicles...... All we need to do is put some camouflage nets on the armored vehicles, and then put some similar barthatch grass into the camouflage nets, and Zuihou stealthily stops in the grass...... You can't see what's in there.

The 1502 Heights stand in front of us like a giant...... However, this high ground is terrifying, but in fact it has little military value for the Vietnamese army, the main reason is that this elevation is too high...... At 1502 meters, at this altitude basically all the guns are useless, and only mortars can hit the bottom......

If anything, it would have been a very haode artillery observation post, but alas...... This high ground is foggy all year round, and there are only a few days of good sight throughout the year, and sometimes you can't even see halfway up the mountain from the main peak, let alone the terrain or the target at the foot of the mountain.

But none of this is what I need to care about, we are just waiting for ...... Wait for the reconnaissance unit to turn on and send us a signal! (To be continued......)