Chapter 90: Separation

Time flies in the school school, and more than two months have passed in a blink of an eye.

I like unrestrainedness. At first, I was not used to the regular life in the school, but after two weeks of adjusting the biological clock, I quickly got used to it. In addition, I had a good meal and had plenty of sleep time in the school, which made me think I was in a resort. After all, this is much better than the life of being in danger on the battlefield.

What's more, Lin Xue has been with me all the way. It's a bit regrettable that love is not allowed in the school, so my relationship with Lin Xue has been going on underground, so Lin Xue didn't dare to explain it to Li Pinghe. Although she and I met almost every day, most of them were in class and during training. In addition, Li Pinghe basically always stayed with me after class, so there was very little chance of being alone. She just sat together and held hands secretly while watching movies...

Alas, how sad!

Can you imagine a hungry person who has been hungry for a long time, sitting on a bunch of delicious food but can’t put his mouth down? Can you imagine a hungry person who has been unable to taste a pool of sweet springs? This is what I feel!

Thinking about it now, that opportunity to "find some" was really a gift from God to us. But sometimes I think that it might be better if I didn't have Lin Xue's girlfriend, at least I wouldn't have to suffer such a visible but inactive way, right?

When I am bored, I can fight against Jiang Changshun’s cities, and occasionally get angry at them. Life is still relaxed and comfortable, which almost makes me feel a little overjoyed.

It’s funny to think about it. When I first arrived at the military academy, I wanted to return to the army and the battlefield because I was not used to the life here, but now I don’t want to return to the battlefield where artillery fire is flying.

But the so-called unsatisfactory things in life are often eighty or nine. Destiny is like to tease people. Just when I was still lingering in school life, and when I was still recalling the wonderful times of my student days in class, I suddenly learned that I was about to wave goodbye to all this!

This day is the rest time before supper.

As usual, Li Pinghe was lying on the table and sorting out class notes for the whole day. Jiang Changshun still insisted on training as usual. Chen Gesheng took out the letters sent from his home and read them over and over again, while Zhang Jianjun threw the daggers onto a wooden board again and again.

Everyone is doing their own things, and I am the only one who lies bored in bed and doesn’t know what to do. I want to find Lin Xue, but there is no possibility of meeting in this broad daylight, and sometimes I have to deliberately alienate myself to avoid suspicion! This problem is not a small matter in this era, and I will always be labeled as "involved relationships between men and women" or "unrighteous style"! It’s not like our era...

"Student Cui!" While I was thinking about it, Zhang Jianjun handed the dagger to me again and smiled apologized: "Can you throw it to me again?"

I felt helpless, and Zhang Jianjun asked me at least twice a day. Since I swung the flying knife that day, Zhang Jianjun, who loved playing daggers, has been trying to learn this trick from me. But even I don’t know how to swing the flying knife. Anyway, I just swung the knife and went out and went wherever I wanted to shoot! So I couldn’t teach him any tricks. In the end, I was so entangled that I had no choice but to show him a few times and let him learn as he did. Unexpectedly, this trouble came. Whenever Zhang Jianjun practiced and felt something was wrong, he would ask me to sweep twice for him to observe...

The kid in the countryside has a stubborn personality! It’s like this every day for more than a month, but it’s just a pain for me. Flipping the flying knife every day is like doing homework.

I didn't answer either. I took the flying knife and slid up my upper body. With a casual swing, the dagger was heavily nailed to the center of the wooden board that was already full of holes.

"Hey!" Zhang Jianjun touched his head in annoyance: "It's the same way to swing, why does that feel different!"

"I'm talking about classmate!" Jiang Changshun said intermittently while doing push-ups on the edge of the bed: "Now, when you go to the battle... the field is full of planes... cannons, why are you still throwing a flying knife? Practice more marksmanship!"

Jiang Changshun would speak to the countryside that he once looked down upon in this tone, but he was still much better than before. In fact, it was not just him. Although other urban soldiers were fighting with us on the surface, they were much more harmonious with each other. I think part of the reason was that they found that whether they were literary or military, they were far different from me, so they naturally put aside their contempt for the country soldiers.

"You can't say that!" Zhang Jianjun raised the dagger in his hand and said with some dissatisfaction: "Didn't you listen to what Classmate Cui said? We fight against American imperialism on the battlefield, and most of the time we fight night wars. Why do we fight night wars? It's because our planes and cannons are not as good as others, but we can't fight head-on. We compete with Americans at night! When we touch the whistle at night, this flying knife can come in handy!"

After Zhang Jianjun said this, Jiang Changshun stopped answering because what Zhang Jianjun said seemed to make sense. But what I know is that most of the flying knives are useless when touching the whistle. If one knife is flying out, unless the vocal cords are hit so that the enemy cannot make a sound, that scream is not much different from a shot. But I am too lazy to explain. Anyway, when they go to the battlefield, the Korean war will almost end! Even if they can go to North Korea, at most they will command production...

"Student Cui!" After practicing for a while, Zhang Jianjun stopped the movements in his hand and turned to ask me, "You and Li have made so many contributions on the battlefield. I must be a cadre! Tell me, what cadre is?"

"Tsk!" Jiang Changshun interrupted, "You don't know this yet! Why did Cui and Li come back to our military academy from the battlefield? That's for promotion! They may not be cadres in the past, but now they go out! At least they are company commanders, battalion commanders!"

"Wow!" Zhang Jianjun looked at me enviously and said, "As soon as I go out, I might be a battalion commander! There are not four or five hundred soldiers? It would be great if I could be a battalion commander when I go out!"

"You! Just be a parent!" Jiang Changshun joked.

With a coaxing sound, everyone in the past was amused by this.

Li Pinghe looked at me with a mysterious smile, and I knew what he meant in his eyes. When Zhang Jianjun and others were still envious of the battalion commander, they didn't know that I was already a regiment commander.

I don’t mean that I have been in trouble since I played with a flying knife. I have learned to be smart. Only by being a low-key person can you be quiet.

But what I didn't expect was that just when I closed my eyes and planned to take a nap, I heard a few familiar calls from the dormitory: "Captain, Captain Cui!"

Damn! It’s Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue!

I sat up from the bed as soon as I gulp. The other students in the dormitory might not have heard it clearly, so I didn't react. Only Li Pinghe frowned and looked at me, and couldn't figure out how Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue found this.

Since we entered the military academy to study, Xu Yongwei, Zhang Mingxue and a few telegraph soldiers have been arranged to stay in the guesthouse for a temporary stay. Their daily work is to use the radio station to keep in touch with the troops at any time. If there is no important situation, there is no need to report to me. Now they have come here, is it because they have important feelings?

Thinking that I didn't care about my identity or not, I immediately walked out of the dormitory and shouted to Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue: "Here!"

Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue were overjoyed when they saw me. They ran up and saluted me, "Report to the commander of the regiment, call from the division headquarters!"

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard this. When I received the telegram, I saw it saying: "The military situation has changed. Return to the army immediately!"

The military situation has changed? It’s only August, and there is more than a month before the Battle of Shangganling! Is the Battle of Shangganling ahead of schedule?

At this time, Li Pinghe also walked out of the dormitory, and I handed him the telegram. After he looked at it, he said to Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue: "You guys go back and prepare and drive the car to the door of the dormitory to wait for us!"

"Yes!" Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue responded, saluted, turned around and ran away.

When Li Pinghe and I turned around and walked into the dormitory, we found that everyone had stopped what we were doing and they all stared at us blankly.

"So, are you the leader and political commissar?" In the end, Jiang Changshun spoke first.

"I'm sorry, all the students!" I bowed to the students and said, "I am Cui Wei, the leader of the 538th Regiment of the 180th Division. He is Li Pinghe, the political commissar of the 538th Regiment. We'll come this time..."

"What? Are you the leader of the 538th Regiment?" Before I could finish speaking, a considerable storm broke out in the dormitory again.

"The leader of the 538th Regiment...isn't that the one who brought the 180th Division out of the enemy's encirclement?"

"It seems that what it is. The teacher told us about that battle example!"

"Is the commander named Cui Wei?"

"It seems that we didn't listen carefully!"

"Is it you?" Jiang Changshun asked me directly: "You are the one who brought the 180th Division out of the enemy's encirclement and defeated several ace troops of the United Nations Army?"

"It's me!" I nodded.

"Okay!" Jiang Changshun smiled bitterly and said awkwardly: "Captain Cui, I have no idea about Mount Tai..."

"Comrade Jiang Changshun!" I patted his shoulder and said, "It's all my own comrades, so there's no need to say these polite words, let alone I have something wrong. You have been acting very well these days! After fighting with me for so long and still not giving up, it means you have a strong backbone, but you have used the wrong place. If you use this backbone and spirit to deal with the enemy, that's great!"

"Yes!" Jiang Changshun stood up and saluted me uprightly.

"Students!" I said to the students again; "Everyone performed well in the military academy and was working hard to learn the ability to kill enemies. More importantly, I think the students have a strong sense of class struggle, such as the struggle between your city soldiers and the country soldiers!"

With a coaxing sound, the students all laughed embarrassedly.

"This attitude is very good!" I continued: "But this attitude should not be used on my comrades, but on the enemy. Isn't there a saying? Treat comrades as warm as spring, treat the enemy as cruel as severe winter, and all the soldiers in the city and the countryside are the same! Learn the skills together and go to the battlefield to defeat imperialism!"

"Down with imperialism!"

"Down with imperialism!"

...

The soldiers shouted loudly as I said, attracting students from other dormitories to watch, not knowing what was going on here.

"Dudu..." Two loudspeakers came from outside, making Li Pinghe and I realize that Xu Yongwei and others were already waiting for us outside.

"Captain Cui!" Zhang Jianjun walked up and shook hands with me, and said, "When I go to the battlefield, I will learn flying knives with you!"

"When I go to the battlefield, I will fight with you!" Jiang Changshun also came forward to shake hands and said, "It's just that I compete with you who beats more Americans!"

"When I go to the battlefield, I want to be in your army!"

...

The students all knew that they were about to part, so they all came up to shake hands with Li Pinghe and me. The unique greetings of these soldiers made me feel sad for no reason.

"Go away, classmates!" I took the luggage that the students had packed for me, waved at them and said, "I'm waiting for you on the battlefield!"

As he said that, he walked out of the door with great strides and was shocked to find Lin Xue standing at the door.

"Snow Sister!" Li Pinghe took a step forward excitedly: "We have received the order and we are about to set off!"

"Yeah!" Lin Xue nodded, staring at me from time to time, but asked Li Ping: "When will you come back?"

"I don't know!" Li Pinghe shook his head.

"I'll wait for you!" Lin Xue said, and the two lines of clear tears suddenly fell down like pearls with broken threads, saying, "Brother, you must come back!"

"Silly girl!" Li Pinghe touched Lin Xue's head happily.

I felt helpless when I looked at it. Actually, I knew very well that Lin Xue was actually saying these words to me, but because of the system of the school, I couldn’t use Li Pinghe to tell me these things. However, this seemed to make Li Pinghe’s misunderstanding even deeper...

"Student Cui, goodbye!" Lin Xue stretched out her hand and held it with me, but she was reluctant to let go for a long time. In the end, I added some force to her hand to make her react and quickly shrank her hand back. Only then did I realize that there was an extra note in my hand...

Alas! That's so tired!

In modern times, I have had several relationships, but never one is as tired as it is now. This is not a relationship, it is simply an underground party.

Li Pinghe and I threw our luggage into the car, waved at the students, and the jeep roared towards the school gate.

"Do you want to see my uncle..." I asked.

"No!" Li Pinghe shook his head: "Uncle is not here, he is going to recuperate!"

"Well, what's wrong with uncle?"

"It's nothing serious!" Li Pinghe replied: "When fighting, some old problems are left, and you'll be fine if you rest for a while!"

"Oh!" I felt relieved after hearing this, but I couldn't see the old soldier again before going to the battlefield. I still felt a little regretful.

It was evening at this time, and the afterglow of the sunset was shining in front of the school gate, making the whole world full of blood and red. This reminded me of the long-lost battlefield, the blood that I hadn't seen for a while, and the broken limbs that made my scalp numb.

Xu Yongwei jumped out of the car and brought back all our weapons. As soon as the driver Xiao Li stepped on the accelerator, the two jeeps drove towards the bloody world outside...

Beijing is not far from Andong. If you take a train in modern times, it only takes more than ten hours to take a train, and only one day or night to slow. It’s just that because the road conditions in our era are poor, it takes more time.

We were riding in a jeep, and two drivers in each car took turns driving. When we were sleepy, we leaned against the car window to sleep. When we were hungry, we took out the fried noodles from the dry food bag to satisfy our hunger. We rushed towards Dandong without stopping, and on the morning of the third day, we returned to Dandong, which we were familiar with.

As soon as the jeep entered Dandong, the lively scene in the city made Li Pinghe and I shocked.

There are slogans everywhere in and outside the city, "Defeat American imperialism" and "Oppose hegemony". The streets are full of flyers, like snowflakes. As soon as the jeep drives, they will bring them up. Occasionally, some will be sprinkled from the sky, and they will fall slowly in the sky. A large number of people gathered in the square, as if they were shouting something loudly with the people on the stage.

"What happened?" Li Pinghe, who had just woken up, couldn't help but rub his eyes and asked in confusion.

"I don't know!" I rolled down the window, and the slogans of the people came in quickly.

I reached out of the window and grabbed a flyer in, which read: "The United Nations forces blatantly violated the Geneva Convention and killed our prisoners!"

"Well!" It turned out to be for this.

Looking at this flyer, I understood. I think this is the reason why Commander Pang urgently recalled me! The killing of our prisoners by the United Nations forces means that the negotiations will soon fall into a deadlock. Once the negotiations fall into a deadlock, new actions will soon be made on the front line.

"It's so hateful!" Li Pinghe took the flyer and immediately raised his fist and gritted his teeth and said, "The American devils are so shameless. On the one hand, they clamored to abide by the Geneva Convention, but on the other hand, they openly massacred our prisoners of war, without any sincerity in negotiations!"

"That's it!" driver Xiao Li also said angrily: "They said one thing and did another, and the ugly face of imperialism was finally revealed. If you want me to say that there is nothing to talk to with them, and you will firmly drive them out of North Korean land!"
Chapter completed!