Chapter 7 Return to the team

"Hello comrade!" The soldiers of the 38th Army came forward and greeted him.

"Hello," I nodded, but they didn't seem to be wary of us. Isn't that? More than a dozen soldiers surrounded us in a flash, as if they were afraid that we would run away.

"Who is Comrade Cui Wei!" The leader was a thin, dark-faced soldier. His expression was serious and without any emotion when he spoke. At a glance, he knew that he was a veteran who killed countless people on the battlefield.

Although he did not hold the gun like other soldiers, his right hand was always pressed on the box cannon around his waist, and seemed to take it out and point it at us at any time.

"Comrade!" Lin Xiaoxu was a little unhappy when he looked at the soldiers of the 38th Army. He stood up and said, "It's all my own people, there's no need to do this! We were ambushed by the puppet army spies and almost died. Besides..."

Lin Xiaoxu pointed at me and said, "This is Chief Cui, who commanded our army to defeat several enemy ace troops in Shangganling. What is your attitude?"

"I just heard your introduction..." The thin veteran was unmoved and continued to stare at us with a vigilant look and said, "You just said that you were the Commander Cui of the 538th Regiment of the 180th Division. Why did you say that he was Chief Cui again now?"

"Oh! That's it!" I stood up and explained: "I was originally the commander of the 538th Regiment of the 180th Division. Later, because of the front line, I was temporarily transferred to the 135th Regiment of the 45th Division as chief of staff. Recently, the 180th Division entered North Korea to participate in the war, so I returned to the team. I didn't want to be ambushed by puppet military spies on the road... Isn't this what it is!"

I pointed to the messy corpses around me helplessly.

Listening to my explanation, the veteran's eyes eased a little, but he still said to us: "Sorry comrades! The puppet military spies are very frequent now, so we have to act carefully. You should go with me! You should go on your way when you have confirmed your identity!"

"You..." Lin Xiaoxu was about to rush forward but was stopped by me.

"I'll follow you!" I smiled at the thin warrior: "Our car has been blown up, and there is another comrade who is injured and needs treatment. Even if you don't let us go, we will follow you too!"

"Yeah!" The thin warrior nodded, and his vigilance was less, but he still had no good expression on me.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but sigh that the spy of the puppet army was really a disaster. Not only would it cause us one kind of losses, but it also caused a lot of trouble to identify it within the volunteer army.

Just as I was thinking about it, Wang Xinhe, who was lying on the ground, laughed: "Chief Cui, you are not a enemy or not!"

"Enemy?" I was stunned when I heard this, and I couldn't figure out where my enemies would be with the soldiers of the 38th Army.

"That's not?" Wang Xin smiled and said, "They suffered a loss in front of the puppet army. Not only did they not win the battle, but they also made the puppet army fight a white horse division. But a few days later, the white horse division was almost wiped out in Shangganling. Do you think this person can bear the face? Can you still get it if you report the title of Cui Wei?"

When Wang Xinhe said this, the thin veteran turned red with a dark face. His whole face looked like Guan Gong in the moonlight, and the expressions of other soldiers became a little unnatural.

Wang Xin was not right and continued to sarcastically said, "Besides, the 38th Army is still an ace army. I don't know if the puppet army set up an ambush in their defense zone. I almost let the puppet army capture our famous chief of staff. As a result, the chief of staff showed his power and made the puppet army suffer. Do you think they can be convinced!"

"What are you talking about?"

I know what Wang Xinhe said is that no matter what unit this volunteer army is, the most important thing is honor. What's more, the 38th Army is still a trump unit called the Long Live Army, but I indirectly made the 38th Army lose face, and it would be strange if they would give me a good face.

But I actually know in my heart that these cannot be compared with the law. Shangganling is our army with geographical advantages waiting for the enemy to attack, while Baima Mountain is the enemy with geographical advantages waiting for the 38th Army to attack. The difference between the two is more than a thousand miles. Although the 38th Army did not fight very well in Baima Mountain, I believe that if they defend Shangganling, they would fight as well as us, or even better than us.

So he quickly interrupted Wang Xinhe's words: "The comrades of the 38th Army are doing their business, so they will not be as petty as you. Besides, we are all revolutionary comrades, and they will be prosperous and humiliated. How can we divide each other? Don't talk nonsense!"

Listening to my words, the veteran's face calmed down a little. Wang Xinhe also closed his mouth tactfully, but he couldn't help but laugh like his signature "Hehehe...". The laughter was as ugly as it was. It only made the 30th Army soldiers all embarrassed, but no one spoke up to refute.

This is the case with the Volunteer Army troops. If the war is not fought well, it is an obvious fact. They never make excuses for themselves to refuse. Even if others criticize or ridicule, they will force themselves to hold back. If they are not convinced, they will hold their breath and snatch back the enemy's face next time they fight.

This is what is often said in the Volunteer Army, which means that face is not what is said, but is exchanged for the soldiers' lives, blood, and hard work. This seems to have become a tradition of the Volunteer Army, and the superiors also think that this will help improve the morale of the soldiers, make the soldiers more united and attack the enemy more powerfully, so they also support this tradition. Thinking about it, our 180th Division was not like this at the beginning.

Therefore, although the soldiers of the 38th Army were angry, they said nothing, swallowed them in one breath, and bit their teeth into their mouths...

"Let's go!" After a long time of stunnedness, the soldier in the lead waved his hand and spit out the word with a blue face.

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, picking up weapons, carrying stretchers, and even lifting the bodies of the puppet military agents.

But... they were robbed by Wang Xinhe for such a flash, and they were so angry that they had no place to get angry. They would inevitably make some big moves when cleaning the battlefield. Some pulled down the enemy's rifles, and some made up a shot for the puppet army. The most amazing thing was the two soldiers carrying Wang Xinhe ran and jumped on purpose...

Wang Xinhe was also a tough guy. He was so painful that he was glaring at the stretcher that he didn't say anything. It was not until Lin Xiaoxu and I politely took the stretcher over, which made him feel relieved.

"Forgive others if you have to!" I said to Wang Xinhe in a low voice.

"Hehe..." Wang Xinhe laughed again: "I was born with this smelly mouth and offend people everywhere! Otherwise... now at least like the Chief of Staff, there should be a regiment commander!"

"Oh!" I couldn't help but sigh. I really couldn't do anything about this Wang Xinhe. However, he seemed to be unable to offend people in the army in the future...

After running for a while, I felt a little strange.

Could it be that they just ran with their bodies on their backs? No one could stand it if they ran like this unless their base was very close to us. But this was not right. If it were close, they should have arrived long ago.

I was wondering, the team turned two turns on the road and several military vehicles appeared in front of us. At this time, I suddenly realized that they were driving, but in order to expose their targets before they could get off the car and walk towards us. From this point of view, we can see that they have a lot of combat experience.

The soldiers threw the puppet army's bodies into the rear compartment of the last car, and we were also "taken" into another car. The soldiers moved very quickly and had a tacit understanding. They finished their work in a short while. Then with the sound of "Long...", the car started and slowly drove towards the darkness.

The atmosphere in the carriage was very strange. Wang Xinhe was lying in the middle of the carriage. Lin Xiaoxu and I sat on the left and right to take care of each other, and the others were all soldiers of the 38th Army.

I felt nothing in my heart, but the soldiers of the 38th Army seemed to dare not look in front of my eyes. I could feel that they often looked at me, but of course when they turned to them, they hurriedly moved their eyes elsewhere like children who did something wrong. The soldier in charge simply closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep...

I seem to understand their psychology at this time. They want to hear me talk about Shangganling again, or they want to take a closer look at me as a hero, but they can't get over it in terms of face!

The warriors of this era are so cute, and what they think in their hearts will be reflected in their actions immediately.

After being silent for a long time, the soldier in charge opened his eyes, sighed and handed me a cigarette: "Cui...Chief Cui! I am Xu Chengfeng, the commander of the 7th Company of the 339th Regiment!"

I couldn't help but smile, took the cigarette and said, "I am the puppet military spy Lee Seung-man..."

The soldiers were stunned when they heard what I said, and then they laughed into a ball with a coaxing sound, and the atmosphere immediately eased a lot.

"This joke cannot be made randomly!" Xu Chengfeng said with a smile: "Aren't you afraid that we will seriously treat you as a spy?"

I raised the cigarette in my hand: "If you really treat me as a spy, you won't give me this!"

Then I asked in confusion: "Why did I suddenly believe that we are not spies?"

"I'm not a fool!" Xu Chengfeng smiled bitterly, stared at Wang Xinhe and said, "If you are spies, how dare you scold us like this comrade!"

"Hehehe..." Wang Xinhe laughed again: "I'll just scold you if you say that!"

"Your criticism is right!" Xu Chengfeng nodded: "Our 38th Army is not a coward, the war is not good! We will not deny it. One day, we will take this account back from the enemy!"

"That's right, I must get it back!"

"We must fight back the face of our 38th Army!"

Hearing Xu Chengfeng said this, the soldiers also waved their fists and swore, making me nodding.

"Good! This is the style of a revolutionary soldier!" I patted Xu Chengfeng on the shoulder.

"Chief of Staff, I want to thank you! We want to thank you!" Xu Chengfeng stretched out his hand and shook with me.

"Thank me? What do you thank me?" I asked in confusion.

"Baima Mountain..." After pausing, Xu Chengfeng said heavily: "We sacrificed many comrades in Baima Mountain. You have let us go and avenge our comrades..."

I nodded, trying to find something to comfort him, but I didn't know what to say!

At this time, the car squeaked and stopped, and the soldiers jumped out of the car one by one.

"Captain Cui! I'll send you here!" Xu Chengfeng shook my hand again, pointed at Lin Xiaoxu and Wang Xinhe and said, "These two comrades are staying here to recuperate. I'll arrange a car to take you back to the army. I hope we have the chance to see you again!"

"Goodbye if you're destined to be goodbye!" Because I was anxious to return to the army, I stopped refusing.

"Cui, Captain Cui!" Lin Xiaoxu squeezed up when he heard this, scratched his head and said hesitantly: "I will discuss something with you..."

"Tell me!" I nodded.

"Look... can I transfer me to your army!" Lin Xiaoxu said with a red face: "I want to be your soldier. I want to go to the front line to fight, my parents said..."

"Comrade Lin Xiaoxu!" I patted his shoulder and said, "It's better to go back to take care of your father and mother while you are alive!"

As he said that, he ignored the soldiers' eyes and turned around and climbed into the car.

"Goodbye! Goodbye!" The soldiers kept waving goodbye to me behind the car, and I waved at them, until their figures gradually disappeared into the darkness.

I often see this scene in modern times on TV and movies. At that time, I only thought it was very rustic and childish. Now I know what kind of comrade-in-arms feelings it contains. Although Xu Chengfeng and I can be said to have known each other for less than an hour, they hit it off at first sight. At this time, we felt reluctant to part with melancholy...

Pyongyang is not far from Vindunri, but in fact, Pyongyang is not far from North Korea's front line. Pyongyang is like a god-red center in North Korea. No matter where it is, if you want to get a little further, you have to go back to Pyongyang first.

In fact, the terrain of Pyongyang is not dangerous, and it is even connected to the Pingkang Plain. The mechanized forces of the US military can easily move along the Pingkang Plain to the bottom of Pyongyang. But even so, it still becomes the capital of North Korea. The reason is that it is the transportation center of the entire North Korea. Once it is lost, it can almost be said to have controlled most of North Korea.

Xiyangli is near Pyongyang, which makes me less time to turn back to Pyongyang, so I didn’t spend much time to reach my destination and came to Wendengli before dawn the next day.

Wendengli, this is another place that keeps my memory.

I still remember that when we were still in the Forty Army, the enemy used the plains of Wendengli to launch a tank slash here. It was here that we learned to use anti-tank grenades for the first time, and then we learned to use it now and used our flesh and blood to resist the steel monsters of the US military.

I really don't know whether it is better to describe this memory as beautiful or to call it a nightmare. It is called a beautiful because we have won. We used weapons that are so simple that we can't be more simple, and with our own courage and body, we defeated the most advanced equipment of the US military. It is called a nightmare because we left too many comrades here...

At this time, the Wendengli I saw was different from before and different from me.

Before I came, I knew that Wendengli was the front line and the troops of the pseudo-3rd Division were stationed in front of our army. So I was thinking that Wendengli should be a scorched earth like Shangganling, with gunfire everywhere.

But unexpectedly, it was very quiet here. Although there were occasionally one or two gunshots, it was almost negligible for me who came back from Shangganling. Sometimes I wondered if someone was practicing marksmanship, or if someone was hunting...

I jumped out of the car and waved goodbye to the driver. I tightened the rifle on my back and walked towards the direction that Commander Pang told me.

As I walked, I thought to myself, how could the battlefield here be so quiet, so quiet that people almost couldn't believe that this was the front line. Isn't this? There were not many craters and bushes everywhere, which shows that the war here was not fierce.

After thinking about it, I soon understood. In the past few months, there has been only one big battle on the entire front. The enemy and us have almost devoted all our energy and strength to Shangganling. The soldiers from other places, whether they are the joint troops or the Sino-Korea joint troops, almost all stopped fighting and stared at the small places of Shangganling, which are several square kilometers. So it is not surprising that there is such a situation now.

But this state won't last long, because I know that a bigger battle, the Summer Counterattack, will begin in the near future!

"Who?" I was thinking, a scream suddenly came from the front, which made me wake up.

"It's me!" I replied excitedly: "I am Cui Wei!"

"Cui...Captain Cui?" When he heard the name, the sentry hiding in the dark was obviously stunned, and then he soon ran out of the grass and came to me.

"It's really Captain Cui..." The two of them saw clearly that it was me, and they couldn't help but shouted excitedly to the back: "Comrades, Captain Cui is back, Captain Cui is back..."

"Captain Cui is back!"

"Captain Cui is back..."

The sounds were getting more and more. In a short while, under the vague dawn, soldiers excitedly came out of the tunnel and headed straight for me.

The front person ran the fastest, and the figure was a little familiar, and it seemed to be a woman. As she got closer and closer, I finally recognized who she was.
Chapter completed!