Chapter 4 Ambush
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Xiyangli is not big, and all the houses are only dozens of buildings. Commander Li and dozens of soldiers took action separately, and the results were achieved in a short while.
When he came back, he was holding a few extended flashlights in his hand. He said furiously as he walked: "His grandma! Someone installed flashlights on the roof, and the edges were stuffed with cloth strips, so that no light could be penetrated out. The brightness was just right, and if you don't look at it seriously, you can't tell anything! The enemy did something under our noses, but we didn't even know it!"
"The Chief of Staff is still great!" Director Zhang took a flashlight and looked around, and smiled bitterly: "If it were us, we would never have thought that the enemy would use this method to indicate the position of the plane!"
"How is it? Where did you find it?" What I care most about is this. Since the source has been found, you can naturally follow the clues.
"It was found in the livestock room!" Captain Li shook his head with a wry smile: "Two layers, the upper layer is piled with grass and the lower layer is raised with livestock. There are dozens of people going there every day. It is not that easy to find out who did it!"
"We must seize the time to investigate!" said Dean Zhang: "Let these spies lurking inside our army be released, and no one can be let go!"
"Yes!" Captain Li stepped forward and responded.
"The investigation is best done in secret!" I said: "If too many people know, it will inevitably cause panic and everyone is suspicious, and this is not conducive to our work!"
I have been to the Political Review Office, of course I know what kind of impact will the army have on the big investigation!
"But..." After hearing what I said, Corps Li couldn't help but feel embarrassed: "There are too many people who have been to the cattle house. If the masses are not mobilized, it may be difficult!"
"It's true that there are difficulties, and it also takes time!" I nodded and said, "So I think we should focus on being on guard against the enemy and doing things again!"
"The Chief of Staff is right!" Captain Li agreed: "Now these enemy tricks have been exposed by us. As long as we closely monitor the roof, the enemy spies dare not use the same trick again. If you want to specify the location of the US military aircraft, there are only a few methods: either ignite the fire or turn on the lights. Instead of making a big fuss to investigate, it is better to wait for them to reveal the fox tail again! See what other tricks they can do!"
"I agree too!" Dean Zhang nodded and said, "Where we can do it in two ways, while we can go out with a little noise to let the spies know that we are investigating and make them anxious. If they are anxious, they will reveal their flaws, and then we will be able to see them!"
"I understand!" Captain Li saluted me and Dean Zhang excitedly, turned around and went to make arrangements.
"Chief of Staff! Fortunately, you are here!" After Captain Li left, Director Zhang held my hand and said, "I didn't expect that the Chief of Staff could fight on the battlefield and his ability to catch spies is not bad! We have been in the dark for so long and don't know what tricks the enemy is doing. As soon as you come, you will see through the enemy's conspiracy. Find the source of the problem, and the next thing will be much easier! Thanks to the Chief of Staff, otherwise we would not know what kind of losses we would suffer! I believe that under our united power, no matter where the enemy spies are hidden, we will find them, severely attack the reactionaries' arrogance, and crush their conspiracy..."
"Director Zhang is polite!" I couldn't help but talk as I heard Dean Zhang's big words. I thought that people in this era are really good at speaking, and they say anything small, as if they are taking political classes. Although they are all those clichés, they really sound like they are doing something like that!
Seeing that Dean Zhang wanted to continue talking, I hurriedly said, "That... Dean Zhang, it's almost time for me to change the dressing. I was worried that the nurse would not be able to find me later, so I might even sue me as a spy! I think it would be better to go back first!"
Dean Zhang was amused by my words and patted me on the shoulder and treated it as a farewell.
A few days passed quickly, and Commander Li's investigation of enemy spies was in full swing in secret. On the other hand, he stepped up patrols in all aspects, so that the enemy spy had no chance to take advantage of. However, it was precisely because of this that Commander Li and his team had no progress in their work, and the situation was stalemate.
The weather gradually became colder. I sat up from the pit early that morning and looked out the window. I suddenly found that the world outside was covered with snow. It was a vast white area, and the heavy snow like goose feathers shaking like a fairy sprinkling petals from the sky.
With a "peng...", Jin Qiulian pushed open the door and came in quickly. As soon as she opened the door, she rubbed her hands, jumping around on the ground like a frightened rabbit, screaming: "It's so cold, this ghost weather!"
After jumping for a while, she took off the cotton coat from the package and threw it on me and said, "Hey, wear more clothes! It's snowing!"
Seeing that I hadn't gotten up yet, I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Why can't I get up? This cotton coat is not good-looking, right? I have been queuing for a long time to get you! It turns out that your set is already broken, one hole and another, and when you walk out, people think you are a beggar, so don't be idle!"
"It's not that bad!" I scratched my head and laughed: "I'm not used to wearing clothes in front of women, and... I have the habit of sleeping naked!"
Jin Qiulian's face turned red suddenly, she glared at me viciously, and said, "I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!" Then she grabbed the door in shame and ran away, only to make me laugh in the room.
After getting out of the warm quilt, I took the set of cotton coat left by Jin Qiulian and tried it, but I found that the size was just right. I thought that this girl not only knows how to fight, but also has a very delicate mind. She must have observed the size of her clothes in normal times.
I put on my shoes and walked on the ground. Apart from the injuries on my feet and the pain were faintly painful, there was nothing serious.
"Report!" A report came from outside the door, and a correspondent stood at the door.
"Chief of Staff!" The correspondent saluted me and said, "Captain Li asked me to tell you, saying that he already knows who the enemy spy is!"
"Well, who is it?" I was stunned when I heard this and asked quickly, "Are you holding it?"
"I didn't catch it! They were two health workers under President Zhang!" The correspondent replied: "I didn't suspect them at first, but they had sneaked away last night! I guess they were guilty and didn't dare to stay in our army anymore!"
"Oh!" I couldn't help but frown as I heard the correspondent's words.
According to my thinking, things will never be so simple. Since the enemy agents have the ability to lurk in our army, their psychological quality should not be so bad, so that we can run away in panic. And what should we say about the escape? Another meaning of escape is to disappear. It is very likely that the two of them have been killed. The murderer is the real spy, and they are lurking in our team. The purpose of their doing this is just to make us relax our vigilance.
Thinking of this, I immediately put on my military cap and said, "Take me to see Captain Li!"
"Yes!" The correspondent responded and walked ahead to lead the way for me.
The cold wind blew towards me, and snow powder like sand hit my face, which was painful. I raised the collar of my cotton coat and shrank my head inside. Looking at the thick snow on the ground, I couldn't help but sigh that this enemy agent was not simple. At this time, killing people to silence me, as long as I throw the body anywhere, it would be really difficult to find out.
When I found Captain Li, he was holding up the phone and saying something. After listening to a few words, I seemed to be reporting the situation to my superiors and asking the surrounding troops to cooperate in pursuing enemy spies.
I couldn't help but smile bitterly. It's not easy to chase two people from this wilderness. What's more, they are likely to have died long ago.
"Chief of Staff!" Captain Li hung up the phone and immediately walked up to say, "The fox's tail has finally been revealed. I am organizing personnel to chase him."
"It's not necessarily them!" I said in a low voice: "The real spy may still be in our army!"
When he heard this, Captain Li was shocked, opened his mouth wide and looked at me, his face changed, and then he quickly understood, nodded and said, "It makes sense! The enemy is so cunning! This is a wonderful step!"
"You just said... have already organized personnel to chase me?" I asked, "What's going on?"
"It's the footprints left on the snow!" Corps Li replied: "Travel in two directions, we ordered a platoon of troops to chase them at two ends!"
"Some footprints left?" I couldn't help but feel a little surprised. As an agent, of course I wouldn't be so stupid that I didn't even know how to cover up the footprints. That means, these footprints were deliberately left by the enemy...
What is the purpose of leaving footprints?
"Transfer the tiger away from the mountain!" I quickly thought of this word. Corps Li didn't have many soldiers, and now he had to divide a platoon of troops to hunt them down... I think this might be the purpose of the agents!
"Transfer the tiger away from the mountain?" Hearing my words, Captain Li's expression changed a little longer: "So, the enemy is not able to explode from the sky, and now he is coming from the ground?"
"It should be so!" I nodded.
"I'll call the troops back right away!" As he said that, Corps Li grabbed the microphone and was about to give orders.
"No!" I stopped me and said, "We should send another one to the place!"
"What?" Hearing that Captain Li couldn't help but look at me in surprise: "Send another one to sew?"
It was dark very early in the winter night in North Korea. This day may be because of the particularly cold weather. The nurses and soldiers who had been busy all day returned to the house early to keep warm.
The sunset slowly fell from the hills, and the wind and snow were roaring outside the house with even more reckless roars. The night was still as quiet as usual and as cold as before. The only difference was that the moonlight tonight was particularly bright, and under the reflection of the white snow on the ground, the whole world was like a white veil covered with a layer of books.
Suddenly, a few faint white shadows appeared in this white veil. They carefully moved towards the village with the cover of terrain and trees. At first, there were only a few, and then more and more. They surrounded us in three directions, with thirty or forty people in each direction.
This is reasonable! The reason why the enemy used the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain was because their troops were insufficient and they were not sure that they could eat our medical station in one bite, so they wanted to take our troops as much as possible. But what they didn't expect was that it was because of his actions that exposed their time of action!
I was watching all this with a rifle on the roof, and nodded to Captain Li beside me. Captain Li waved his hand and the soldiers entered the battle position.
In fact, not only our house, but also several soldiers guarding the other houses.
The enemy got closer and closer, they were very cautious and slowly drifted towards us like ghosts. The white clothes all over their bodies made it difficult for them to be discovered on this snowy night, but if we had prepared for it, the result would naturally be different.
With a "Teng!", when the enemy spies broke into the village and were about to break into the door, several flares suddenly rose in the sky, and the enemy was clearly exposed to us. They were all shocked by the sudden light, and they looked around with their guns but could not find any target at all.
Then Corps Li shouted "Fight!" The gunshots quickly rang out, and the white bodies of those enemies wearing white camouflage clothes burst out of blood and fell to the ground one by one.
Then another row of grenades were thrown out of the window. With the sound of explosions, the enemies were thrown into the sky with screams and then fell heavily.
They were obviously also trained strictly, and under this situation, they could still organize fire resistance. They divided into several teams and slowly retreated out of the village while firing at us.
But we, who had already set up an ambush, wouldn't let them escape like this? A harsh cry of a small trumpet crossed the night sky, and a shout of killing suddenly sounded outside the village. Volunteer soldiers suddenly jumped out of the snow, holding submachine guns, rushed up from all directions at the fastest speed...
Those were the two platoons we sent out to hunt down spies. In fact, they just made a move outside and secretly came back and lurked in the forest when it was dark.
The battle ended quickly. Although the enemy still resisted stubbornly until the last moment, in this case, there was still no power to turn the world back.
When I walked out of the house, I found that I didn't even shoot a bullet because I felt there was no target worthy of my shooting. Sometimes I felt that a person's head was far more important than shooting. Just like this tonight, if I didn't find out in advance that they were going to attack tonight, with their combat effectiveness, I was afraid that no matter how good my shooting skills were, I would inevitably lose my life in my sleep.
"Report to the company commander!" After roughly cleaning the battlefield, a soldier stood up in front of Captain Li and reported: "There are a total of 122 enemies, and none of them live!"
"No one live?" Captain Li couldn't help but ask.
"Yes!" the soldier nodded and said, "They should be spies of the puppet army. They have poison hidden in their teeth. Those who were caught by us immediately took poison and committed suicide!"
"Good guy!" Captain Li said with some gratitude: "If it hadn't been prepared in advance, the result of this battle tonight would have changed!"
"Have you found out the agent lurking in our team?" I asked.
"Checked!" The soldier responded: "I didn't expect that there were two nurses, one from Hunan and the other from Sichuan. We couldn't figure out that they would be spies! Following the command of the Chief of Staff, each ward sent a soldier to pretend to be a wounded and secretly observed. Suddenly, the two nurses secretly pulled out two guns from the pit..."
"Where are people now?" asked Corps Li.
"He is dead too! One was beaten to death on the spot, and the other was taken poison when he was pressed to the ground!"
Commander Li couldn't help but curse, "How come all of these North Korean women are like tigresses, and they are so fierce when fighting!"
"That's, that's..." Hearing the words of Captain Li, I couldn't help but turn my eyes to the Golden Qiulian who had just walked out of the room.
"Hey, why don't you say anything in advance if you want to beat the enemy?" Jin Qiulian looked sleepy and opened her mouth while blaming her, "I was scared to death and almost couldn't get up!"
"I was scared to death?" I couldn't help but laugh, "You haven't fought a war before, and you're still scared by this scene?"
"I haven't touched a gun for several years!" Jin Qiulian said with some nostalgia: "Even if you have a gun, it's not necessary. Now I'm afraid I even forgot how to shoot a gun!"
"Do you still want to go to the battlefield?" I couldn't help but joke: "I'll take you there tomorrow. I think the front line needs sharpshooters like you!"
"No problem!" Unexpectedly, Jin Qiulian responded in one go, and her face suddenly said excitedly as if it was blooming in flowers: "It was you who said it! Don't be lazy! I will go to the unit wherever you go!"
"What?" I originally thought she would still be afraid, so I dared to joke with her, but I didn't expect that it was the situation now.
"Good fight! Good fight!" President Zhang walked up to us in his clothes, looked at the corpses of the enemy on the ground and said, "This time, the puppet army agents can be said to have lost the rice without stealing chickens! Thanks to the Chief of Staff's strategy, we can capture the enemy in one fell swoop! From this point of view, I still have to hope that Chief of Staff, your injury will not heal so quickly!"
"I hope the Chief of Staff's injury will not heal so quickly?" Commander Li couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Why?"
"With the Chief of Staff, our hospital does not have to worry about being attacked by enemy spies!" Director Zhang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!