Chapter 144: March

Chapter 144: March

The battle ended in a few minutes. Our army simply solved more than 100 Vietnamese troops lurking in the jungle, and of course some were escaped. It was only a fantasy to destroy all of them in the jungle of night. But at least I can be sure that the remaining Vietnamese troops no longer have the ability to organize another ambush, and this is exactly what I want.

"Go aside! I'm looking for the regiment commander..." While the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, a blood-covered cadre rudely left the guard and broke in.

"Second Battalion Commander?" Commander Wu's face changed and he asked with some knowledge of his own question: "What's the matter with me in such a hurry?"

"Captain!" The second battalion commander said with fierce eyes: "I ask you, do you know there is an ambush ahead and you are not telling us to let us get into the ambush circle!"

"You are talking to your superiors in this tone?" Captain Wu did not dare to admit it, but he was not a kind man and a man, and knew how to avoid it at this time.

"I'll ask you, right?" The second battalion commander was unwilling to give up just like this. He raised his bloody hands and put them in front of Commander Wu and said, "Look! Look... This is the blood of the soldiers, this is the fate of the soldiers! Do you think you deserve them? How do you ask me to explain to the soldiers? How do you ask me to face my soldiers..."

"I asked Captain Wu not to tell you!" I walked up and said coldly: "If you want to settle the accounts and avenge your subordinates, just settle the accounts on my head!"

"So it was you, I knew it was you..." The second battalion commander's face turned pale, and then he waved his hand without saying a word.

But he would not be my opponent. I easily blocked it with my hands, then grabbed his fist and twisted it, and then pushed him to the ground.

"I tell you!" Before he could react, I turned him over and grabbed his collar, stared at his eyes fiercely and said, "Our entire army is more than 2,000 people who are surrounded by the enemy at any time and stay here forever. You are still in a dilemma for how you face your subordinates, and you are still making trouble for the little losses of your troops! You can't face your own subordinates now? Can you face it in the prison camp of the Vietnamese army? At that time, you can't face your own people across the country!"

The second battalion commander was obviously frightened by my move, and stood there half open his mouth and didn't react for a long time.

"What's the point?" At this time, Deputy Commander Liang squeezed out the crowd and snatched up and said, "Second Battalion Commander, what's going on? Where did your ideological awareness go? Do you know how urgent the situation is now, and it's only at this time that it's causing trouble for the troops and dragging the troops back! How can you not sacrifice or get hurt when fighting? If every cadre is like you, and if you get a higher position when you have some casualties, then what else can we fight? All of them are disbanded and go home to farm!"

Deputy Commander Liang was stunned by what he said. He thought that this was indeed a helpless act at an extraordinary moment, so he didn't say anything and lowered his head.

"Battlefield Commander Cui!" After the second battalion commander left, Deputy Commander Liang shook my hand and handed over a telegram: "It's a embarrassment for you! Your decision is correct. This is the telegram we just received. We came to accept that our hukou bridge troops were ambushed by the Vietnamese army and suffered heavy casualties. Our superiors asked us to immediately turn into the mountain road to retreat!"

"If I had just turned into the mountain road and retreated now, I would have come in a hurry!" Captain Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly and said with conscientiousness to me: "I originally didn't agree with your approach, but now I can't admit defeat!"

"I'll talk about these later!" I replied: "Our current situation is still very dangerous. If other Vietnamese troops set up ambush in front of us, it is very likely that we will entangle us and cannot escape. The only way now is to speed up the marching speed and jump out of the encirclement before the Vietnamese troops arrive!"

"Agree!" Battalion Commander Wu nodded.

Deputy Commander Liang also nodded, turned around and ordered to the correspondent: "Pass the order and speed up the marching. You must arrive at Tongdeng tomorrow!"

"Yes!" The correspondent responded and quickly passed the order.

A series of footsteps quickly rang out at the foot of the mountain, and even in order to speed up the marching speed, we allowed the soldiers to rush onto the road with flashlights. Although this would undoubtedly reveal our goal, we don’t care about so much now. Anyway, our team of more than 2,000 people dare not hide what the Vietnamese army said, so instead of evading, it is better to compete with the Vietnamese army openly.

Another reason why we dare to do this is to know that the Vietnamese army does not have much air force. In fact, it cannot be said that they do not have it. It is said that they have more than 300 fighter jets of various types, but most of them are in the direction of Cambodia, with only about 100 in the direction of our country. However, our army already has thousands of aircraft and fighter jets of various types, so the air force forces of both sides are completely asymmetric.

The Vietnamese army was also very smart. They knew that the air force could not fight with our army, so they did not dispatch the air force. Our army only held some alert and reconnaissance tasks due to many factors such as the poor combat capability and the psychological conditioning of not bullying small countries with big countries.

It is precisely for this reason that our team of more than 2,000 people lined up on the mountain road with flashlights and could march as usual. If it were during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, I was afraid that a large number of planes would be bombed in less than half an hour.

As I thought before, most of the jungles in this area were searched by our army when they were pulling nets to clear them. There were not many armed forces remaining in these areas, and the regular Vietnamese army was behind us. So we rarely were attacked and harassed by the enemy along the way. Occasionally, there were people shooting at us in the dark jungle, and sometimes a rocket would fly out, and we also suffered several casualties. But I think most of them were Vietnamese people or guerrillas, which can be judged from their firepower.

When we encounter this situation, we are not interested in fighting. We just use machine guns to sweep wildly in the direction of the gunfire, and sometimes fire a few rockets or recoilless cannons into the jungle... and then the troops advance as usual.

For those warriors in the machine gun company, they may like this combat method the most. For no reason, every time they fire a few shells and a few machine gun magazines, they will also bear less weight.

Before we knew it, the sky was getting brighter and the soldiers had already been running all night and were already crowded with people and horses complaining.

I also felt tired, but I could still hold on because it was much worse than the journey that I had not slept for three days and three nights during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. But I could hold on but couldn't hold on. After all, most of them were recruits who had not received much training, so I had to choose a location to stop the soldiers from moving forward and resting.

After ordering me, I lay down around the mountain road. All the soldiers, including me and some of my soldiers, collapsed on the road like deflated balls. They could not bear it when they were rushing to walk all night. Some of them fell asleep in the grass next to them as soon as they sat down.

"Captain Captain Cui!" Deputy Commander Liang found a place next to me and said with a tired face: "Do you see if the soldiers are allowed to rest for a while, many people can't walk!"

"I think so too!" Commander Wu continued, "The army is so tired, I am afraid that I don't have much combat power. If I encounter a Vietnamese fight, I am afraid that the soldiers will not even have the strength to resist. And I think... the large army has advanced safely all night, which proves that it is safer to march at night. We might as well find a place to hide and rest during the day and wait until it gets dark before moving forward..."

"Captain Wu!" I interrupted Wu Songhe and said, "The jungle in Vietnam is indeed high and dense, but we are a team of more than 2,000 people. Moreover, this is Vietnam. It can be said that the eyes and agents of the Vietnamese army are everywhere. I don't believe that a large team like us can hide from the Vietnamese army during the day!"

Captain Wu sighed and nodded: "You are right! You'd better arrive at Tong Deng as soon as possible!"

"Did the guide say how long it will take to arrive in Tongdeng?" Deputy Commander Liang asked.

"If it goes well, there will be three or four hours left!" Captain Wu replied.

"Is the radio still unable to contact the superior?" Deputy Commander Liang asked again.

Commander Wu shook his head helplessly: "Maybe the Vietnamese army interfered with us in signal, and after receiving a telegram last night, he could no longer contact us!"

"Then we have to rely on ourselves!" Deputy Commander Liang took out a compressed biscuit from his bag with a sad face, tore it open the packaging and chewed it in his mouth slowly, and then said to me in a vague way: "Captain Cui, I'm really sorry for you. I originally wanted to borrow you to improve the quality of the 608th Regiment, but I didn't expect that I would drag you into this situation!"

"Why do you say this?" I smiled relaxedly, grabbed the kettle and poured water into my mouth.

What Deputy Commander Liang didn't know was that I actually stayed voluntarily, and this had nothing to do with his and Commander Wu's attempt to stay.

"Deputy Commander Liang!" After putting down the kettle, I continued, "Actually, you should think so. This escape is the best opportunity for soldiers to improve their quality. Isn't it said that the battlefield is the best school? Just treat the present as a practical exercise!"

"Okay!" After hearing this, Deputy Commander Liang couldn't help laughing: "I'm still a deputy commander who has been a soldier for so many years than you. His mentality and judgment on the battlefield are not as good as you. Now I'm really convinced by you!"
Chapter completed!