Episode 61 Traveling Alone (1) Going Deep into the Enemy Territory
In the territory of country Y, in the early morning, a group of soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the Y army, marching in a neat step, marching in the rugged mountain road, these people are about forty or fifty people, and the one who walks in the forefront is a tall and mighty young man, he is Guo Kaiqing.
Next to Guo Kaiqing was a tall and thin officer, judging from his clothes and the attire he was wearing, he was the commander of this army, his name was Zhang Wenzhi.
The soldiers on the march, all of them with their heads held high, could not be ignored, these people were all lightly armed, and there was no one in the team who spoke.
At noon, four Y Army soldiers came running from a distance, and the one at the forefront was the man named 'Seventh Brother', and it seemed that he had gone to conduct reconnaissance.
"Big brother, second brother, there is a supply warehouse in front, are we end, or are we not good?" The seventh brother can speak Y Mandarin, but after he walked to Guo Kaiqing and Zhang Wenzhi, he still spoke 'Chinese-Mandarin-dialect'. ’
"How many people are on the defensive?" Zhang Wenzhi spoke first, and he didn't forget to open the kettle and hand it to Brother Qi.
Seventh Brother took a big sip of water and said, "There is almost a platoon, but I can tell that they are divided into two shifts, and one of the squads should be resting. ”
Guo Kaiqing opened the military map, found the nearby location, and measured it with a red and blue pencil pinned to his ear, "This is too close to the enemy's large army station, I'm afraid that we will get rid of this place, and we won't be able to get out of it immediately. ”
"Second brother, but we're already out of food? What if you don't do it? Seventh Brother's anxious mood revealed that since they entered the territory of Country Y, they had no backup supplies.
"The old way, go borrow grain first, and then fight," Zhang Wenzhi gave an order with certainty, and Guo Kaiqing and Seventh Brother also nodded.
As a deputy platoon leader in this team, this short young man. is a local overseas Chinese, he is very good at communicating with the people of country Y, and he is also very familiar with the military establishment of army Y.
Gold bars, this is the trophy of a battle, it is easy to do things with this, under the leadership of this deputy platoon commander, a squad of soldiers entered the 'Y country supply warehouse' in front. It didn't take long to change back to some military cans and rice cigarettes, plus some compressed biscuits.
The establishment of the regular army of country Y has always been clear and separable, but the establishment of the miscellaneous army, or the establishment of local guerrillas, during the war, how many people can distinguish it clearly, the deputy platoon commander opened a can of "rice egg powder" and put some water in the empty canned food box. After heating it on the firewood, I drank it in a big gulp, looking at the factory date of the 'egg powder', which was many years ago. This is a good thing, even if it is past the expiration date, but it can still strengthen the nutrition of the soldiers, it is better to have it than not to have it.
Had lunch in the mountains. The team continued to move forward, and their next target was "Jinjiang Village", and they knew about this village. I got it from the deputy platoon commander, and his family still has some distant relatives in this village, so he chose this place.
The dilapidated village houses were even more dilapidated than those during the rural turmoil in City A, and almost every household was a straw house or adobe house.
"Big Daddy!" The deputy platoon commander shouted a word in Chinese at an old man who had just walked out of the house.
"Why are you here, you are," Obviously, this old man is also an overseas Chinese.
"We're passing through here, planning to stay overnight and leave in the early hours of the morning."
"Then sit in the house."
"This is the eldest brother, this is the second brother, and this is my seventh brother," the deputy platoon commander introduced the three main commanders of the unit to the old man.
"Please, the conditions are not good, let's deal with it," from the old man's tone, everyone felt that the old man didn't seem to welcome them.
"Where's Auntie?"
"No, it was gone a few years ago," said the old man, who was the only one in the house, and when he entered the house, he only sat in a chair and smoked a cigarette without a filter, and did not say a word to the others.
The deputy platoon commander walked out of the back room and waved his hand at several squad leaders, "Boil water for cooking immediately, and arrange people in the house." ”
"Yes."
Boiling water and cooking is quite quick, these soldiers are all veterans, but the people on the room are exempted from being 'observers', the squad leader arranged two climbing masters, climbed to the big tree outside the gate of the compound, and was regarded as a 'dark whistle'.
The old man didn't say anything after that, Guo Kaiqing and Zhang Wenzhi felt very embarrassed, and they both walked out of the house.
"Do you say that this old man is sick, I asked him a few words just now, and he didn't say a word," Guo Kaiqing is an anxious man, and he originally wanted to say a few words to the old man in the back room, but the old man's silent actions were extinguished.
"Old people are like this, sometimes my dad is like this, maybe only when we are both old, can we experience the loneliness of not having a wife," Zhang Wenzhi seemed to be very thoughtful, he and Guo Kaiqing walked to the back of the courtyard, and carefully inspected the environment here.
Just as the white rice was out of the pot, a soldier ran in the courtyard, panting and said, "Oh no, no, the army of country Y is about to pass through the village." ”
"Ready to go!" Guo Kaiqing shouted loudly, and almost all the fighters gathered together.
"What should I do with this meal?" Said the soldier in charge of cooking on the fire.
"Hurry up and pack it in a lunch box, remember to brush the pot when you leave," Brother Qi is an old man who has been in the situation for a long time.
Brother Qi's order triggered a class of iron lunch boxes, which were thrown straight into the cauldron, and one viciously pressed them, turning them over to a box full of rice, and then covered the lid and put it in their respective satchels.
It took less than ten minutes from loading the rice to restoring the qiē to its original state, and then the troops, under the cover of night, rushed quickly and came to the high hills nearby.
Guo Kaiqing and Zhang Wenzhi, who were lying on the high post, watched the endless flow of the Y army a few hundred meters away.
"One company, two companies, three companies," Guo Kaiqing was like counting sheep, although he could not see the number of the enemy clearly, he could still calculate their strength according to the distance between their various troops.
"Tanks! Beware of concealment! "The tanks of the Y Army were outside the main road to Guò, and the nearest distance was less than a hundred meters from the hill where they were lying on their stomachs.
The crowd held their breath, and no one dared to look up again, but pressed their faces against the dirt and listened to the sound of 'boom'.
The tanks of the Y army finally passed, but then something bad happened again, and I saw a squad or so of the devils of country Y, all of whom had climbed up the hills and were walking towards the top.
"Second brother, what should I do? To fight or not to fight? "The deputy platoon commander was in charge of the vigilance, and he saw the enemy approaching step by step.
Guo Kaiqing made a horizontal gesture to him, but fortunately, it was not too far away, and the deputy platoon commander ordered everyone to jump into the bushes.
Fortunately, the devils of country Y did not continue to walk towards the hill, and when they were about to walk to the bushes, they retreated, Guo Kaiqing judged that these people must be afraid that the bushes would scratch their clothes, and they didn't want to continue the search forward.
"Mi military jeeps", almost all of them have been transformed, Y country soldiers are next to the steering wheel, have set up machine guns, because all are open-topped, the people in the car, the sound of talking, in the quiet night, can still be heard intermittently.
"Sleep, you can sleep," Zhang Wenzhi lay flat and looked at the sky, the moon today is very round, as if it is overhead, it may be because country Y is closer to the moon, as if he can catch the moon with his hand.
There is no order, the soldiers are still perched in the bushes, almost everyone is mute, because the survival of these people is not easy, there have been times, someone because of the extra word, let the sniper of country Y snipe, come here, often be dumb is the safest, they would rather lie in this deep ditch with bushes all day long, than expose their bodies and wait for the enemy's sniping. (To be continued......)