Chapter 15: Seized Clothing
So, at Xia Yuan's request, they originally only seized five telephones, twelve Garand rifles, five Thomson submachine guns and eight Browning pistols, and some of the bullets were turned into woolen underwear, sweaters and pants, hated cold clothing, rainproof mountaineering clothing, military boots, wool socks and other equipment 36 sets, plus a rangefinder.
It's just that he didn't find food from these American devils, and Xia Yuan didn't fight with American devils once or twice, when these American troops went to the battlefield, they basically didn't bring food, and they all set off after they were full of food and drink in the rear.
Wang Xiaoliang was still thinking back to the first time he saw the American devil, and he said to Liu Tiezhu on the side: "This American devil looks like this bear, he looks really ugly, but he is quite tall, but he has no combat effectiveness, and he runs away as soon as he fights, just like the previous veterans said."
Liu Tiezhu hugged a lot of clothes and said, "No, everyone has fought with American devils several times, and this is the first time we have fought with American devils, wait, there will be more opportunities to fight in the future."
On the high ground, the soldiers of the first and third platoons were waiting anxiously, and from a distance, I saw the soldiers of the first and second rows coming down from the opposite high ground, each soldier carrying the captured booty, and when the soldiers approached, Instructor Shao said, "Huh! They also stripped the enemy of their clothes."
Company Commander Lei frowned slightly: "How can it be done, how can you pick up the enemy's clothes in a war, if this spreads, it will damage the face of our 180th Division, let others know, and they all know that our 180th Division's 538th Regiment and 1st Battalion and 1st Company like to pick up the enemy's clothes."
"Old Lei, don't worry, let's go over and have a look."
Instructor Shao comforted him, leaving a few soldiers on guard while they came down the mountain.
"Report to the company commander, successfully completed the mission of destroying the enemy!"
Xia Yuan and Ma Da stood up and said.
"That's a good job, where did you get these clothes?"
Company Commander Lei pointed to the clothes that the soldiers were carrying.
"Report to the company commander, I asked the soldiers to pick it up."
Xia Yuan knew in his heart that picking up the enemy's clothes was a very inhumane act, but at present, the logistics and supply of the Volunteer Army were difficult, if he didn't prepare some in advance, when the 180th Division was in a desperate situation and lacked all kinds of materials, let alone a hundred pieces of clothing, even the thirty-six pieces of clothing he captured would become very important materials.
Company Commander Lei said: "Xia Yuan, you are also an old comrade from the Eighth Route Army, our military discipline or something, you should know better than anyone else, this stripped the enemy's clothes, not even the socks, if this reaches the ears of the division commander, where will the face of our company go."
Xia Yuan said: "Report to the company commander, the clothes of the US army are much better than ours, anti-freezing and rain-proof, their boots are leather, our shoes may be soaked when they step on water, but their shoes will not. And their wool warm clothing is a very good warm suit, which can be worn by some wounded warriors."
After a pause, he said again: "Company commander, this American devil is full of treasures, which can save the lives of soldiers at critical moments, and these clothes are rare materials."
Ma Da also explained to Xia Yuan, saying, "Company commander, if you touch these clothes, they will feel like the poncho, they are leather."
Instructor Shao stepped forward and touched it, and then touched the woolen underwear that a soldier was holding in his arms, and said in surprise: "Lao Lei, come and touch it, Comrade Xia Yuan said yes, the material of these clothes is very good, better than the cotton clothes we wear."
Lei Lianchang's expression softened slightly, and he stepped forward and touched it, just as Xia Yuan said, he said, "The clothes these American devils wear are really good."
He turned his gaze and saw the two rifles in Xia Yuan's arms, and asked, "What kind of rifle is this?"
Seeing that Company Commander Lei didn't mean to blame himself, Xia Yuan grinned and introduced with a smile: "Company Commander, this gun is good, it has high accuracy, long range, and it can also biubiubiu burst fire, you see it has a magazine, it can press eight bullets at a time, you don't need to pull the bolt in the middle, just pull the trigger directly."
Company Commander Lei was surprised again, "And this kind of gun,
I'll see."
He took the Garand rifle in Xia Yuan's arms and groped in his hand.
Xia Yuan handed another handful of Garand to Chen Lie, "Old Chen, go on."
Company Commander Lei raised his head and said, "Did you kid have this idea for a long time?"
Xia Yuan grinned: "Didn't you listen to what the veteran said, let's think to ourselves, when we get to the battlefield and kill the American devils, we can't let them go, they fought North Korea, how many of us killed us, how many of our materials were consumed, and those materials were all saved by our people, for us to fight the American devils, what about picking up some clothes."
He pointed to the rifle in Lao Chen's arms again, and said: "Lao Chen's marksmanship is good, he must not be used to using a submachine gun, the rifle with the bolt is not only difficult to replenish the bullet, but also the efficiency is slow, this kind of gun does not need to pull the bolt, you can pull the trigger by aiming, and you can pull the trigger eight times in a row, and you don't need to pull the bolt, this is their bullet belt, the magazine inside is loaded with bullets, and if there is no bullet, its magazine will pop out by itself, and these magazines loaded with bullets can be stuffed in, and they can continue to fight."
Company Commander Lei pulled the trigger, snapped the empty gun, the magazine clicked open, and the empty magazine stretched out, and with a whoop, Company Commander Lei said with a smile: "Okay, platoon leader, I finally started to use my brain, it seems that Lao Yang has been following you for a long time, and he has been edified well."
Lao Yang, who was holding a bunch of clothes, said with a smile, "Company commander, these are all things that Lao Xia pondered by himself, and I didn't mix them up."
"Alright, instructor, you take them and send all these supplies to the quartermaster's office."
Company Commander Lei said again, "If you encounter foreign devils in the future, be careful when you pick up your clothes."
"Yes!"
Xia Yuan responded, looking at the company commander with some hesitation, and Company Commander Lei said, "What else is the matter?"
Xia Yuan said, "Report to Company Commander Lei, I also want to change the gun."
Company Commander Lei glanced at Xia Yuan, and then saw Wang Xiaoliang next to Xia Yuan with two Thomson submachine guns hanging on his body, and asked, "You kid, this was captured from the American devil again?"
Xia Yuan nodded and said, "Company commander, this gun is very powerful, with a large bullet capacity, a long range, a fast rate of fire, and a small failure."
Company Commander Lei waved his hand: "This seized material is due to the credit, if you want to change it, I will go and apply to my superiors." However, if you change the gun, you should pay attention to the use of bullets, after all, the bullets we are equipped with and supplied by logistics are all newly equipped submachine guns, and if you change to a submachine gun from a foreign devil, you will have to make bullets yourself."
Xia Yuan shook his head, pointed to the Garand rifle in Company Commander Lei's hand, and said, "Company Commander, I want to change this rifle."
Company Commander Lei was stunned for a moment, "I thought you were going to change to an American devil's submachine gun, why did you think of using a rifle?" Didn't you like submachine guns before? Besides, you use a rifle for a platoon leader with a sharp knife, what a waste it is."
Xia Yuan grinned: "Company commander, you don't know, we can use this rifle very well."
Company Commander Lei thought for a moment and said, "You can use any gun, and when you go back to the Quartermaster Department, let the instructor tell you about the problem of changing weapons, but this ugly thing has to be said in front, if you don't show anything after changing guns, I will remove you from your position as the platoon commander of the sharp knife platoon!"
Xia Yuan said solemnly, "Yes! Company commander, don't worry! If you don't behave well, you don't need to tell me to fuck off!"
Company Commander Lei asked again, "Does Lao Chen want to change his gun?"
Chen Lie said, "If you want to change, this gun is very good."
Company Commander Lei said to Instructor Shao, "Okay, instructor, when you go and take them to hand in the military supplies, apply for it."
Instructor Shao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll talk about it later when I go."
Walking on the way to the quartermaster compound, Xia Yuan took out two boxes of camel cigarettes from the American devil from his pocket and said, "I just found it from the American devil, instructor, for you."
"Wow, and smoke."
Instructor Shao took one and put it in front of his nose and sniffed: "It's really good, the American devil is really rich, and the cigarettes he smokes are all good cigarettes, and they smell good."
Xia Yuan threw the other box to Liu Tiezhu, motioned for everyone to divide it, and said, "Instructor, this cigarette box is printed with camels, the incense produced by the Americans themselves
Smoke."
"Okay, it's not as good as our big front door."
Ma Da smoked a cigarette of an American devil, spit smoke in his mouth, and said.
Instructor Shao laughed and said, "That's the front door that you have been smoking for so long, and then change to other cigarettes, you will definitely not be able to smoke well, just wait until you get used to smoking, but this kind of smoke is very rare, you are used to smoking, and it is really not good if you don't smoke."
After a pause, he said, "When we have the opportunity to send this cigarette to the second company commander, we have to eat meat, and we have to let them drink some soup, so that they can also taste the taste of this American cigarette."
After a little delay in the quartermaster's office, all the captured materials were handed in, and the soldiers returned to their own defense area, the battle just now was very beautiful, and the enemy of a platoon had almost no ability to resist, so they were eaten by their two platoons, and they were not even injured, and the small battle just now had a huge impact.
The first battle of the first battalion and one company was very beautiful, and it immediately ignited the morale of the soldiers of the 180th Division, and they all hoped that their superiors would quickly issue combat missions so that they could fight the American devils.
It's a pity that this wish will not be realized in the short term.
They have been on the front line for almost half a month, and they have carried out a combat mission, but they were robbed by a battalion and a company, many soldiers are more depressed, and there is no task recently, most of the soldiers are staying in the tunnel to wipe their guns, and life is also very monotonous, it seems that it can be seen that the mood of the soldiers is not too high recently, and the superiors organized a performance of the next company of the art team in order to take care of the emotions of the soldiers.
In the first stage of the fifth campaign, the 180th Division stayed in the rear as a reserve, and it didn't even have a chance to play, so it really didn't have any sense of existence, and in the second stage, it was finally able to play, but it never thought that this time it was directly surrounded by the enemy and was almost annihilated, and its fate was always so bumpy.
There are not many things that can bring a little fun to the boring life on the battlefield, the performance of the art team is one of the few, the soldiers who saw the wonderful performance of the art team in the field hospital last time remembered the performance, and today I heard the news that the art team came down to perform, many soldiers have recovered their spirits, and their faces are full of smiles.
Before the art team arrived, the soldiers gathered in the station of the first company and waited, several simple sheds built with straw and wood were the living stations of their first company, the cooking squad lit a fire here to cook, and the soldiers of the first company organized training here, the space of the tunnel was too small, it could only be used to hide soldiers, not for training and activities, and the commander of the company Lei deliberately found a convenient location to hide.
"After seeing Comrade Kobayashi's performance last time, many fighters have never forgotten it, and they all hope to see Comrade Kobayashi perform again."
"Company Commander Lei, I also like the comrades of the first company, as the sharp knife of the first battalion, the comrades of the first company are very powerful."
In the mountains and forests, Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao led the comrades of the art team to the station of their first company, and the person who spoke was a female comrade with a sweet voice, named Lin Qingxue, a member of the art troupe of the 60th Army of the Third Corps.
"Hey, it's here."
While speaking, they came to the station of the first company, and the soldiers of the first company hurriedly stepped forward to meet them.
Chen Lie carried the gun on his back and said, "Old Ma, look, I didn't lie to you."
Lao Ma raised his head and looked at the crowd, a group of young people with various musical instruments and a youthful appearance followed behind Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao, and there was a white-looking and beautiful female comrade in the crowd who attracted the attention of many comrades, Lao Ma nodded and said, "It's more beautiful than Comrade Xiao Li."
"Xia Yuan, Ma Shunyao, Chen Lie, you all come here."
Company Commander Lei shouted in the distance.
The three of them walked over, Lin Qingxue's eyes swept over the three of them, stayed on Ma Shunyao and Xia Yuan for a few points, and finally landed on Ma Shunyao. I heard Sister Li say, Company Commander Lei, I also want to apologize to Platoon Commander Ma this time
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Company Commander Lei asked confusedly, "Apologize?"
Lin Qingxue explained, "The last time Sister Li interviewed ........"
Ma Da quickly interrupted and said, "Don't get in the way, it's all a small matter, I accept Comrade Xiao Li's apology."
Xia Yuan and Chen Lie grinned, it is estimated that only the two of them know what happened, at that time, Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao were not in the company, they must not know what happened, Lin Qingxue was also clever, seeing Ma Da interrupted, he smiled and stopped talking, turned his head to look at Xia Yuan, and Xia Yuan was also a little uncomfortable looking at Xia Yuan with a pair of smart eyes.
Lin Qingxue said with a smile: "Last time I heard that the first company was operating, the Xia platoon commander and the horse platoon commander led people to annihilate a company of the enemy, and also captured a lot of weapons and equipment."
(End of chapter)