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The captain who led the team is called He Hong, who is also an officer who has been to Vietnam and is now the commander of the third company.

Since the departure from the team, He Hong has been looking at me with a very strange look in his eyes. Before leaving, Chen Zijun muttered to him for a long time, probably talking about me.

About five kilometers out of the camp, we entered the hilly terrain, from which the road became difficult to walk and also began to enter the danger zone.

The road under our feet was rarely walked except by patrolling soldiers and border residents, and the thirty-centimeter-wide road was overgrown with weeds.

I was at the front of the line, right behind the captain. The guide and the soldiers in front of me were nervously watching the grass on both sides of the road, but I was paying attention to the road.

If I were a Vietnamese agent, it would be easier and safer to lay mines on the road than to ambush them!

After walking a few hundred meters, the first stone monument appeared, which is the boundary monument on the Sino-Vietnamese border.

"Be careful, don't enter Vietnam!" Captain He Hong reminded.

The soldiers turned around and passed on his words one by one.

Towards noon, a light rain suddenly began to fall in the sky. Everyone took out the raincoats in their backpacks and continued on the slippery road with wooden sticks.

It wasn't time to rest, the team had just slowed down slightly. Everyone took out the can, pried it open with a dagger, and ate it indiscriminately in the rain.

"Attention! There is a case! The guide said suddenly.

"Click"

The fighters threw down the uneaten cans, took out their weapons and loaded them.

"Don't be nervous, it doesn't have to be an enemy." He Hong indifferently signaled the soldiers not to be impulsive, took out the binoculars and wiped the lens, and began to observe the situation.

Four civilians with large bags and small bags appeared in front of them, and they cautiously came to the border, anxiously waiting for something, and looked at the Vietnamese side from time to time.

"Old Wu, do you feel that they are enemies?" He Hong asked.

Lao Wu is the guide who leads the way, a local militiaman, familiar with the situation on the border, and has several years of experience in patrolling the border.

"I don't know those people, but I'm not sure if they're Vietnamese." Lao Wu said with a frown.

"Then take a look", He Hong was ready to wait and see.

After more than ten minutes, there was movement on the Vietnamese side!

A middle-aged man came to the border with a middle-aged woman and two girls, and judging by their age and looks, it looked like a family.

Several men who had been waiting for a long time were overjoyed and greeted them with their things.

"What are they doing here? Passing on intelligence? He Honghu said suspiciously.

I roughly saw what was going on on one side, and said, "It's not about passing information, those bags are filled with food, and the people on both sides are relatives." ”

"How do you know?" He Hong asked with some disbelief.

I didn't care, and pointed to the people on both sides and said, "You see a few men on our side, their appearance is basically similar, so it is very likely that they are brothers or cousins." ”

He Hong picked up the binoculars and looked at it, nodding in agreement with me.

Pointing to the middle-aged woman in Vietnam, I continued: "Look at this woman again, her appearance is similar to the four men here, and her expression is also very close, so it should be a very close relationship." ”

"And what do you think they're doing?" He Hong asked.

"What else can I do, help my relatives. Right, Old Wu? I turned to Lao Wu and said.

The brother is right, most of these people in the border area are intermarried with the Vietnamese side and have a close relationship. In recent years, the fields in Vietnam are wild and there is not enough labor, so famine is very common. ”

He Hong lowered his head and thought for a while and asked, "Then what should we do, do we want to stop it?" ”

"No, it can't be stopped. The war is also fought by the people, Vietnam is reckless, the difference in life on both sides of the border will only be powerful to us, and the common people will judge with their own eyes who is righteous! "I spoke my mind.

"That's right! The time, the place, the people. Before we even fought, we won first! He Hong's eyes lit up and said.

Looking at his optimistic appearance, I couldn't help but "pour cold water" on him and said: "We can't be blindly optimistic, there are many Vietnamese people who are very hostile to us." Also pay attention to the Vietnamese playing the family card, using their relatives on our side to obtain information and a foothold! ”

We've been talking for so long, and the few people on the border have begun to say goodbye and are ready to leave. We didn't bother them, and after they left, we continued on our patrol.

I don't count how far we walked, but in the evening we arrived at the reserved resting spot.

The resting place is an abandoned house, which, according to Lao Wu, was originally a land temple.

He Hong set up the sentry post and began to arrange for dinner. Since it had only rained, it was difficult to find dry firewood, so it was not until after eight o'clock in the evening that the pot was barely cooked.

Some of the hard-dried rice soldiers ate so well that they even picked up the rice grains stuck to the lunch box and ate them one by one.

There will be no hybrid rice, and many people in China have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing.

After eating, the first soldiers began to rest in their raincoats, and they would wake up in the middle of the night to take over the sentry.

The second half of the night is the most tired and the time when people are most prone to accidents. I discussed with He Hong, and I would be in charge of the sentry in the second half of the night.

………………

The long combat experience made me sleep very lightly, and He Hong wanted to wake me up, but before he could get closer, he found that I had opened my eyes.

I woke up the soldiers who had taken over and walked to the sentry together.

Under our strict defense, there was no hostility all night, and it was spent peacefully.

When I came back in the morning, everyone had already woken up, and He Hong was holding a map to check the place names with Lao Wu. From the map, we only had to walk fifteen kilometers today and then we could go back to the Land Temple and return to the camp after a night's rest.

Fifteen kilometers is a short time on the map, but in fact it is very difficult for us to walk.

There are places along this road where there is no road at all, so we can only rely on ourselves to move forward as we open the way.

It wasn't until noon that we finished the remaining fifteen kilometers and started to return.

The mood when they returned was completely different from when they came, and the soldiers were exceptionally relaxed, and it was inevitable that their vigilance would be reduced.

About two kilometers away from the Land Temple, I abruptly stopped the whole procession.

"Stop!"

He Hong came to me puzzled and said, "What's wrong?" ”

While observing the places where people might be hiding, I pointed to the road, where the dirt had been turned up!

I pulled out my dagger and lay on the ground, ignoring the muddy water on the ground. Little by little, he probed with a dagger until he poked a hard object.

An infantry mine! (To be continued.) )