Chapter 38: Spread the net

The battle to encircle and annihilate the puppet army agents near the division headquarters soon ended. It was still early, and it was just midnight... I seemed to have some problems with this. "Midnight" should have been used to describe it, but the volunteer soldiers are always used to fighting at night and always use the night as daytime. Therefore, as long as it is still a while before dawn, they are usually described as "still early".

In order to seize the time, I hurriedly set out with the Cold Gun Army, the Seventh Company soldiers, a company and two military dogs from the Guard Battalion. I didn't even have time to celebrate the victory I just won, and the battlefield was not cleaned.

By the way, cleaning the battlefield is something that anyone is willing to do. This is not only about enjoying the joy of victory, but also about collecting the fruits of victory. At this time, you can change some new equipment from the enemy to supplement some ammunition, not only can you touch the pockets of the corpse, and often find cigarettes, chewing gum, lighters, etc.... If you are lucky, you can sometimes get some gold necklaces.

The volunteers have to hand over the seized items to this system, but most of them are limited to urgently needed items on the battlefield, namely guns, ammunition, food, etc. As for the jewelry and gadgets on the enemy, the superiors turned a blind eye to it and regarded it as a pitiful reward for the combat troops.

In fact, this matter cannot be controlled. For example, if a lighter or a pack of cigarettes is stuffed into our pockets, who can tell who is his own! Not to mention gold necklaces, etc., lighters and cigarettes can be seen as American products. This chain...is obviously our ancestors!

However, South Korea was not very wealthy at this time, so it was rare to see such valuable things when cleaning the battlefield.

However, the puppet army agents are different. Their treatment is obviously much better than that of ordinary soldiers. Moreover, many of the puppet army agents have served as soldiers under the Japanese. When they were fighting in China, they did not rob a large amount of wealth from the people.

So for them, the chance of having valuable things is much greater.

That's why I feel sorry for losing this opportunity to clean the battlefield. If it were nothing before, gold would be nothing on the battlefield where I would lose my life at any time. But I knew that I would return to China in a few months... I would not take anything back, how would I live after I returned to China!

But it seems that only modern people, I, have these capitalist ideas in my head. The soldiers all concentrate on carrying out their tasks without complaints. In their heads, maybe they can only defeat the enemy and complete the tasks. Unlike me, the leader...hehe...

"Captain Cui!" Fan Jinqing, who was following behind, chased after him and asked, "Where are we going?"

After Fan Jinqing asked this, the soldiers also turned their doubtful eyes to me.

"I don't know either!" I replied calmly.

"You don't know either?" Fan Jinqing asked in confusion.

The soldiers' progress paused for a moment, as if all the soldiers were surprised by my answer. There were only the two military dogs, who were still screaming and running around in the hands of the soldiers.

"Didn't you say you should go to the hidden location of the puppet army agents?" Fan Jinqing asked hesitantly: "I thought... I thought that prisoner had taken everything!"

I laughed, raised the plastic hose in my hand and shook it in front of Fan Jinqing, and said, "It doesn't matter whether he is trying or not!"

"Um!" Fan Jinqing is also a smart person. When he saw the hose in my hand, he showed a sudden enlightenment expression. After a while, he gritted his teeth and cursed: "These bastards are really cunning. No wonder I have searched so many times but can't find them. It turns out that they are still hiding in the water! They are hidden under our noses..."

"Shh!" I hurriedly made a sound ban, stopping Fan Jinqing from continuing.

In this regard, this operation is somewhat similar to my situation when dealing with the agent captain. Once the puppet army agents hiding in the water know that we have found their location, they can only fight to the death. With the well-trained puppet army agents and the darkness is now, it is almost impossible to fight fiercely with them in this situation or not, it is almost impossible to wipe out the puppet army agents.

This does not mean that the quality of the troops I have is not good. In fact, the quality of the 7th Company, the cold gun troops and even Fan Jinqing's guard companies in my hands is even better than that of the puppet army agents. The reason why there is no certainty on the battlefield is that even the best quality troops fight with a rookie unit may not be able to achieve zero casualties or complete annihilation, not to mention that the opponent is a well-trained puppet army agent.

So the best way now is to quietly find the hiding place of the puppet army agents, and then set up an ambush without the puppet army agents knowing it, so that they can be said to exchange for the greatest success at the smallest price!

But how can I find the location of the puppet army agent? At this time, I couldn't help but feel troubled.

Although we know that the puppet army agents are hiding in the small river beside us, the river is so long that we can't be sure where they are hiding.

If you really want to find it, it is simple. Ask a few soldiers to hold a few long bamboo poles and poke them all the way up. If you want it to be more effective, you can also sharpen the top of the bamboo pole... But doing this obviously forces the puppet military agents to jump over the wall and take risks, which is not what I want.

So I couldn't help but stop and turned my gaze to the river beside me. The water in the river was not in a hurry, and it shouldn't be deep. Because the ice and snow had just melted, there were a lot of floating ice floating on it.

It is hard for those puppet army agents, they must be very cold. However, it seems that if they can't even do this, they will not be worthy of the title of "agent".

Then I looked at the length of the plastic hose in my hand and looked more than one meter long.

So I waved to the two soldiers holding the military dogs and called them to me.

The two of them were soldiers of the People's Army. Because the Volunteer Army had no military dogs, it was not convenient to search for puppet military agents. After Fan Jinqing applied to his superiors, he transferred both ends from the People's Army.

These two soldiers from the People's Army naturally knew my identity in the Volunteer Army. When they saw me summoning, they hurriedly calmed the military dogs and stood up in front of me to salute.

"You are locals, are you?" I asked in Korean.

The two People's Army soldiers were stunned when they heard my skillful Korean language. After a strange look flashed in one of the thin-faced soldiers' eyes, they hurriedly replied respectfully: "I am a local, Comrade An is from Pyongyang!"

"Yeah!" I nodded and asked, "Do you know where this river is deep and shallow, and where the water flow is relatively gentle!"

"I know this!" said the thin warrior excitedly: "I used to play with bamboo rafts on this river, and I know every location in this river clearly!"

Is there something so coincidental? I couldn't help but feel funny in my heart. It seemed that the puppet army agent was about to be wiped out.

After hearing my question, Fan Jinqing didn't understand what I meant, and I didn't need to explain it. He immediately took out the map and spread it in front of us.

"This is the shallowest!" The thin warrior is indeed very familiar with this section of the river. As soon as the map unfolds, he pointed to one of the sections without thinking: "The water here is only one meter deep, and there are reefs everywhere. Be very careful when raising bamboo rafts. Remember that I once..."

"Wait..." The jump in the mind of this People's Army soldier really made me feel a little amused. I was careful that if I let him continue to say this, I was afraid that I would not finish it until dawn.

So he immediately interrupted and pointed to a small river on the map about five or six kilometers away from the division headquarters and said, "You just need to tell me about this situation, and there is no need to say anything else!"

The reason for demarcating this area was that I considered that the puppet military agents could launch an attack on our position shortly after it was dark. It made sense that they chose this time to attack. At this time, our army was relatively large invading people outside the tunnel, transporting food and supplying people and the soldiers from the logistics department. When there were many people, it was most suitable for them to scramble to launch infiltration tactics.

But this also made me know a message, that is, their hiding place is not too far from the division headquarters, and the time of marching and preparation time before the war is about five or six kilometers away.

Of course, this is just a guess, and whether the guess is right depends on luck.

"Yes!" The thin warrior responded, as if recalling the scene when he was raising bamboo rafts on this river. After a while, he pointed and said on the map: "Here, here, here, here, here, here, you can cross the river by walking. Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here is very deep, and it is a big sigh of relief that one person is more than one person high! There is also a wooden bridge here, which is often washed away by the flood during the rainy season, and the people in our village..."

"Tell me about these two deep locations! How deep is it? Is the water flow fast or slow?" I interrupted the People's Army soldier without hesitation, and I really couldn't stand him. I was thinking that if he was not a soldier, he would definitely be a good writer.

"Yes!" The thin warrior responded, pointing to two places on the map and said: "Both places are more than two meters deep. This place has a relatively rapid flow because the slope is steeper. This place has a relatively gentle flow, like..."

"Enough!" This time I stopped him in time and said, "Thank you for your help, you can go back and do your own work!"

"Yes!" The thin warrior seemed to be feeling unsatisfied, but due to my order, he saluted and retreated.

"It's here!" I pointed to the relatively smooth water flow and said to Fan Jinqing: "The length of the plastic hose is just enough for them to sit at the bottom of the water. The depth of more than two meters allows them to stand up occasionally to move their muscles and bones so that they will not be frozen at the bottom of the water!"

"Yes!" Fan Jinqing nodded in agreement: "If the water flows fast, it will cause them a lot of unnecessary trouble, so this place is the most suspicious, so I will arrange it immediately!"

"Wait!" After thinking about it, I said again, Fan Jinqing said, "What I want is to surround! The comrade of the People's Army just said that there is a wooden bridge here. Do you still remember?"

"Yes!" Fan Jin nodded.

"You take the guard battalion and the third row of the 7th Company and cross the wooden bridge to the other side of the river!" I pointed to the route on the map and said, "I took the first and second rows of the 7th Company and the second row on this side of the river. After the arrangement is made, I listen to my order to poke the hornet's nest!"

"Yes!" Fan Jinqing responded, without any objection to my order.

Although this would make him feel a little embarrassed because there were more troops sent to him. But he also knew very well that the 7th Company's troops were equipped with a squad of sharpshooters, and their combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of the guard company.

When I stood up, I couldn't help but glance at the thin soldier holding a military dog. It seemed that sometimes people are not necessarily a bad thing to be long-winded. For example, just now, it was because of his long-winded that I realized that there was a wooden bridge on this small river.

The river is deep and flowing slowly, not far away, only about four kilometers away from the division headquarters. We had already walked a long way, so we arrived at the target position more than ten minutes later.

When we came, we came with great fanfare, the sound of the soldiers' footsteps, the sound of the equipment on their bodies, and the barking of military dogs... It seemed like we were afraid that the people in the world would not know us.

Fan Jinqing was also puzzled about this. He originally suggested that we take a sneak peek, but I didn't think it was a good way.

Because I considered that there was no need for puppet military agents to hide in the water at any time. In fact, at such low temperatures, no one could hide in the water for a long time, even if they were agents.

If it were me, I would choose to hide at a hidden spot on the shore. When I find someone coming to search, I will erase the traces and hide in the water quickly.

This way, we can prevent the existing personnel from suffering and even being at risk of freezing to death, and secondly, we can keep their combat effectiveness so that they can complete the task!

Moreover, it seems that this is not difficult. A large area behind Wendengli is covered with plains. You can see a search force coming from a distance. The puppet military agents have enough time to prepare.

If they did this, then Fan Jinqing's plan would not be a good idea. The volunteers sneaked toward the target position, which would only happen two situations.

First, the puppet military agents did not notice us, so when we reached the target position, they had no time to hide in the water, so they had to fight to the death to start a gun battle.

Second, the puppet army agents discovered us, which was even worse. The puppet army agents would definitely wonder why the volunteers were sneaking in this direction? It was undoubtedly that the volunteers had discovered their hiding place. So only fools would hide in the water and wait for us to catch them. The most likely thing was that when we arrived, the target position was empty.

Neither of these situations was what I wanted. So, just like when I was in the duel with the agent captain, we had to pretend not to know the hiding position of the puppet army agents. We still made great efforts to launch our troops in a hurry to search and advance on the snow, allowing the puppet army agents to hide in the water obediently...

The only difference is that I was acting alone before, but this time, all the warriors were acting.

I have to admit that all the soldiers are good at acting, just like Hu Zudi and others in the Cold Gun Army, including Lin Xue, meticulously holding bayonets and poking them in the grass on the snow, as if they were looking for puppet military agents. This made me cry in my heart that I was usually deceived by these pure guys...

At the beginning, the two companies were four or five hundred people scattered, covering the north like a large spread net. I believe this scene was enough to attract the attention of the puppet military agents.

When this big net arrived at the designated location, the troops made adjustments according to the original plan. I led the two platoons of the 7th Company to unfold silently on the shore, occupying all the favorable terrain, and each pointed the muzzle at the center of the river! Fan Jinqing led the guard company and the 7th Company and the 7th Company to continue to search in a pretentious manner.

Of course, these two military dogs also include the two military dogs. The sounds of military dogs seemed to have become the main force to lure the puppet military agents hiding in the water at this time. Because I think it is impossible for them to hear our footsteps when hiding in the water, so they can only judge whether we are going far away from the barking of military dogs.

Fan Jinqing's troops moved faster toward the other side of the river, and two soldiers from the People's Army pretended to be holding the military dog ​​and strolled around for a while. The purpose of this was to tell the puppet military agents a message: "The enemy has not gone far, don't come out of the water for the time being!"

I don't expect that before Fan Jinqing and others arrived on the other side of the river, the puppet military agents could not resist the cold and came out of the water.

While Fan Jinqing had not arrived at the destination and made arrangements, I shamelessly snatched a night vision device and observed the river not far away.

From the surface, there is nothing to be seen. The calm water surface slowly flows, like a mirror reflecting the hazy moonlight cast by the waning moon in the air, making the entire river surface look like a layer of white mist floating, and it seems like a layer of gauze is covered with tulle.

The plastic hose used by the puppet military agents is specially made of white transparent ones. This thing cannot be seen even during the day, let alone this night.

So I could only lie on the shore and wait gradually, waiting for Fan Jinqing to enter the ambush position.

Finally, a group of figures on the other side of the river, who were hiding their waists and carefully snorting towards the shore appeared in my night vision.

Then after a while, Liu Yangxing's report came from the walkie-talkie: "All units have entered the position, everything is normal!"
Chapter completed!