Chapter 31: Friends and Foes

It would be a clear lie to say that the establishment of this truce in the evening had no effect on the fighting between us and the enemy.

In fact, the fight makes us all know each other a little bit about each other.

The process of fighting is actually the process of understanding the enemy, we need to know the enemy's strengths and weaknesses, and then try to avoid the enemy's strengths to attack their weaknesses. Only in this way can we win the war and save our lives.

We are like that, and so are our enemies. So I can say without exaggeration...... The one who knows us best is actually the more devil. In the same way, we are the ones who know the devil best.

This may sound ironic, but it is an uncontroversial fact.

It is also because of this understanding that there is an inexplicable sympathy between us and the Yue devils. For example, we all admire the spirit of the Vietnamese army that is not afraid of death or hardship, and we also admire their military quality, but what about the Vietnamese army...... It is to admire our strategy.

As Ruan Zhengmiao later said to me, their commanders all found it strange...... In fact, as soon as I heard Nguyen Thanh Miao talk about their commander, I understood that the Vietnamese army opposite us was by no means as small as the only company told us by our superiors. Later, I learned that it was actually a battalion, but this battalion was ambushed by us again and again when attacking the 581 heights, so there were only more than 100 people left with heavy casualties.

From this point of view, we can sometimes get a little bit of information from this kind of exchange with the Vietnamese army.

According to Ruan Zhengmiao, they were actually beaten by us...... I feel that there is no place to use it. In particular, their commanders were scolded by the division commanders...... It is said that it is better than us in terms of equipment, quality, familiarity with the terrain and even troops. How could it be so embarrassed by the Chinese army. But as soon as the division commander heard that they were facing the heroic second company of the Chinese army, he had nothing to say.

You must know that we have even made them suffer a big loss twice in Dai Nai Mountain and Yakou. And at that time, the 316A Division was a regiment and a battalion of wheel warfare at every turn. None of them were able to knock down...... Can they still blame an unfilled battalion for not moving?

Ruan Zhengmiao also tried to ask me: "How can you make such a well-defended tunnel?" And every time we feel like there's a way to break through that defense...... You set a trap for us as if you knew in advance how we were going to attack, and you made us lose a lot of money again and again. Our commanders wonder if there are any of your agents inside......"

All right! People in this day and age refer to spies as spies.

I knew that Ruan Zhengmiao was testing my tone and wondered if there were Chinese spies in them...... If I want to hurt him, I'll give him a positive answer, and then let them get busy catching spies inside.

But I didn't want to, so I gave him a no.

This answer is true, and the reason why we have been able to set traps again and again and wait for the Vietnamese army to come up...... It's all because I can think what the enemy thinks, not because of intelligence.

In fact...... If Ruan Zhengmiao is shrewd enough. He should have known that from the beginning we didn't even know that they were from the 316A division. The superiors didn't even give us this information, will they give other more detailed information?

So, out of respect for Ruan Zhengmiao, the enemy, I gave him a true answer.

But...... As his enemy, I avoided his gaze and pretended to be a little panicked, and said a few times: "No, no...... How can there be spies? ”

After saying that, he let out a few embarrassed laughs, and then he ......

Alas! I found myself to be so evil...... Soon after, I heard that Ruan Zhengmiao had carried out a "rectification" of the interior and shot three people.

The words are a bit wrong, and sometimes it is difficult to explain the things in this world. It is precisely because our Vietnamese army is an enemy that we have enough understanding and respect for each other. So during the bathing time, we didn't get in touch for long, and we soon became friends.

Say it's a friend...... Actually, it doesn't count, because we can't stick a knife or help each other like our friends in Heping Shijie. For example, will we give them information or food for free because of contact with the Yue devils? It's absolutely impossible, that's because I think my life is long.

So this kind of relationship is really complicated, and we can't say what kind of relationship it is. If I had to provide a note on this relationship, it would perhaps be a trivial matter......

That day, as usual, I took the fighters to take a bath...... Since we and the Vietnamese army acquiesced to this situation, the life of the soldiers has become a little fun, and the "rotten crotch" has generally improved because the soldiers often take a bath. More important ...... The situation with the Yue Devil seems to have eased somewhat-the frequency of the Yue Devil's groping is obviously much less.

To know...... This tactic is not a successful tactic, it is all about risking one's own life to inflict a little loss on the enemy, and each other's superiors do not have a hard demand for this. In other words, it is more about hatred for the enemy......

weishenme hate? Then there are many reasons for this, such as what comrades-in-arms died, what fellow villagers died, and their troops lost face...... Therefore, they often disregard their own lives to find holes in order to fight for a breath, but in fact, they do not play much role in the overall strategy.

The hole is for you to touch, let's get another one. It is indeed heart-wrenching to sacrifice a few soldiers, but the position is still in our hands...... It is really impossible to let the rear replenish a few soldiers to come up, except for a few dead on both sides of the enemy, nothing else has changed.

If you want to say that it has an effect, this hole will indeed play a deterrent role, that is, it will make the enemy stationed in the position afraid, and will make them dare not station here...... But this is just wishful thinking, if we are touched a few holes and sacrifice a few people, we will automatically withdraw from the battlefield, then this battle will not have to be fought!

Therefore, the job of touching the hole is more for a breath and a breath of breath in the heart, rather than a task assigned by the superiors.

Since it's just for one breath...... Well, let's communicate with each other during the bath period, and sometimes do some small business, this gas will slowly disappear, and the hole will gradually decrease, so the bath will be more and more diligent, and there will be more and more people who have the courage to take a bath, and now they have to wash in batches because they are worried that there are too many people in the bath and no one is stationed in the position.

As usual, when the soldiers went to the river, the first thing they did was not to go down to the river to bathe, but to take cigarettes and cans to look for the gadgets made of bullet casings brought by the Vietnamese army......

So this place is like a vegetable market, and after it is over, it is time to take a bath...... Although at this time, there was still a clear distinction between friend and foe, and both sides consciously stood on one side, using the river as the middle line without interfering with each other, but there was talk and laughter...... A considerable number of Yue devils can speak Chinese, so it is not very difficult to communicate.

At this time, we suddenly found that a few Yue devils threw something over, and then fell to the ground with a tacit understanding......

Hand grenade!

This is our first reaction, the conditioned reflex formed in the battle makes us fall down in the river without any consideration, and at the same time scold these devils in our hearts for breaking the rules and making sneak attacks......

But after waiting for a while, the grenade did not explode, and I came out of the water to see it...... The more devils leaned forward and leaned back with laughter, and a few people let out a "da-da......" gunshot from their mouths and fired at us with their hands......

Then we knew we had been tricked.

Jokes like this should be said to happen more often between friends that require a certain amount of trust and understanding...... But we're real enemies, and we're enemies who want to kill each other, so sometimes we really don't know how to treat them as enemies or friends.

It may be understood that we are enemies from a national point of view, and more friends from a personal point of view.

So I have to say...... It is true that we do not want this battle to continue like this, but the reality is often cruel.

When we returned to the tunnel that night, we clearly felt that the atmosphere was different from usual, and we vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Sure enough, after a while, Company Commander Luo gathered several of our platoon commanders together, and the first sentence was: "From tomorrow, the shower will be canceled!" ”

"What?"

……

The company commander's words quickly aroused doubts among the soldiers, and my first reaction was that the instructor reported the incident. But I soon realized that I was wrong with the instructor.

"According to the news from the superiors......" Company Commander Luo ignored our objections and continued: "It is very likely that the Vietnamese devils will launch a joint attack on the border where we are stationed in the near future to compress the border line of our army...... Therefore, the higher authorities ordered us to actively prepare for war and be mentally prepared to give the enemy a head-on attack! ”

I couldn't help but sigh when I heard this, the time to come has finally come.

I have long known that the Viet devils will not rest on their laurels, and the reason why they did not launch a large-scale attack on us before was entirely because our army had destroyed a large number of roads, railways, and bridges during its retreat, and now that it had entered the rainy season, the rain had caused great logistical difficulties for them, so that the Vietnamese army could not organize a decent offensive.

However, after all this preparation, I think they have accumulated some ammunition and food, and they can't wait to attack the border where I am stationed.

In other words, this is the end of this "honeymoon period" between us and the Vietnamese army. (To be continued......)