Chapter 117 Map

After repeated insistence by the wounded soldiers, I had to agree to their request. In fact, even I myself felt that they could exert the combat power of ordinary soldiers, or even more than ordinary soldiers. Because in their eyes, I saw a kind of strength and a kind of fearlessness. I think these are the most important things for a soldier.

I have the greatest official position among them, so I naturally became their superior, and I was also the initiator of this operation, so they were also willing to obey my command.

That night, I sent them all out to summon the soldiers who were left behind. Their mission did not seem to be heavy. All they had to do was cover up by the various mountain roads. When I saw the fallen soldiers passing by, I contacted them.

I am not afraid to send soldiers to search for volunteer soldiers in other villages for the time being, because I know that there are very likely South Korean spies hidden in those villages. The soldiers go to the villages to search for life and are in danger. If some Chinese spies pretend to be fellow villagers to draw our situation and base from the soldiers' mouths, we will soon face the danger of being wiped out by the entire army. After all, many people in the South Korean army have served in the Kuomintang army, so it is not difficult to find some Chinese-speaking people.

Before leaving, I told them that they should gather the volunteer soldiers who were left behind based on the principle of voluntary action. That is, those who are willing to stay stay and those who are going to find the large army will also go with them.

But I think most soldiers will still be willing to stay. First, because it is a life-and-death situation to cross the enemy's defense line and find the large army. Second, most of the volunteer soldiers are in the style of fighting wherever they need it. They will break through the enemy's defense line when they have no goals and don't know where they need them. They hope to return to their troops to continue fighting, but now I have given them a goal and a need. Then they will actively respond to my call like those wounded soldiers.

Sure enough, before dawn the next morning, the soldiers brought more than 100 soldiers back, and the next night, and there were more than 70 soldiers, and the third night, there were still more than 30 soldiers, and then they basically couldn't find anyone. Thinking about it, if there were still soldiers falling behind after so many days, they would probably not be able to come back.

In addition to the original wounded soldiers, I ruled out some soldiers who were really unable to fight, and I had a team of 174 people on my hands, which was to form a reinforced company. Of course, I was the company commander, and Ren Fengyou, and two other volunteer soldiers who were also platoon leaders in the former army, Gao Chengshan and Guo Zhongtian. Not only because they had the experience of leading troops, but also because they were originally platoon leaders, there would be no objection to other soldiers in this arrangement.

I dare not appoint and remove the instructor casually. This is always assigned by my superiors to guide the political direction of the troops. If I appointed and removed myself privately, I would not be labeled as a counter-revolutionary person.

Chen Liang was the deputy company commander, and this decision was still a bit difficult, because Chen Liang was just an ordinary soldier, and this time he was promoted to deputy company commander, which could be said to be promoted to third level in a row. Several soldiers also told me whether they should ask the soldiers to choose one, and even Chen Liang himself did not believe that he could be the deputy company commander. But I hope that my deputy was a smart person who could stand alone, rather than a sound tube that could only fight and execute orders, so I persisted again and again.

Over the past few days, under the careful care of the old man, the frostbite on my feet improved greatly. Although it was still a little swollen, I could already walk down the ground. What bothered me was that because the swelling of my feet had not yet completely disappeared, even if the old man found the largest cotton shoes, he could not wear them, so he still couldn't go out.

Only then did I realize how painful it was to be stuck at home all day long. I faced all the walls all day long, watching the soldiers running around and outside, but I couldn't do anything.

When the soldiers went out to perform missions, I asked them to draw a few maps. I wanted to use these maps to familiarize myself with the lower terrain, but when I saw these maps, I realized that I was wrong...

Volunteer soldiers generally have low educational levels and do not know how to draw maps with scales, so there is no way to put together these strange maps, some of which can't even tell the difference between the east, south, west and north. When I asked about the direction, the soldier who drew the map touched his head stupidly, thought for a long time before answering: "Company Commander, why don't I take you to see?"

"Oh!" I looked up from a bunch of messy maps on the desktop and sighed in frustration. Only then did I realize how important a standard map is to me! Even if I have a lot of modern information, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a prophet, but without a detailed map, everything becomes so confusing...

"Company Commander, Company Commander..." At this time, Chen Liang trotted in and placed a thick piece of paper in a mysterious way in front of me: "Look at what this is?"

"Hey, map!" I opened it and couldn't help but be overjoyed. It turned out to be a standard military map: "Good boy! Where did you get it?"

"Hey, it's in the hands of our own soldiers! We don't know..." Chen Liang smiled bitterly: "A few soldiers joined our army the night before, and I didn't ask much. Today I was idle and greeted them a few times. Unexpectedly, one of them was the guard of the regiment commander, who was carrying this map!"

"Um! So we have it on our own hands?" I couldn't help but feel a little angry when I heard this, which made me dizzy at the pile of ghostly maps these two days. Now I know what it means to have a treasure mountain without knowing it.

Looking at the map in front of me, my thoughts became clearer. The information I read in modern times gradually recalled it bit by bit, and became more and more in my mind.

Well, this is the offensive position of the Volunteer Army's 19th Corps, this is the offensive position of the Volunteer Army's 3rd Corps, this is the Ninth Corps... We should still be here now. Near the government, the two villages of Chichongri and Shachangli are too small and are not marked on the map.

In fact, overall, the fifth battle is very similar to the fourth battle. It is also the Volunteer Army's rapid advancement, and then the logistics supply cannot keep up. Ten days later, the Volunteer Army faced a situation of no food or bullets again. Li Qiwei led the army to counterattack again. However, this time he did not advance as smoothly as the Fourth Battle, but boldly used armored troops to intersperse, and the airborne troops dropped to the rear of our army to cut off our retreat, causing our army to suffer the most heavy losses since the history of the war.

What should I do now?

The urgent thing to delay is to get a batch of supplies. More than 200 people gathered in this village and almost finished all the food stored by the people in the village. In a few days, they would all go hungry. They would not be full of food at that time, and they would have guns and bullets. No matter how many people there were, it would be useless.

Where is the enemy's supply line?

I followed the map to search for the enemy's rear. At this time, the United Nations army was fighting with the volunteers on the front line. This ammunition and food must be transported forward in large quantities. It would not be difficult for us to get them in batches, but...

Then I quickly thought that the enemy may not be prepared for the rear now, but if we do a batch of supplies, they will soon be wary of it, and may also draw troops to encircle and suppress it. At that time, it will be more difficult to get supplies. So either don’t do it, or if you do it, just make a batch of large ones. In this way, while replenishing ourselves, we can also prepare for the fifth battle of the Volunteer Army in the future.

That's right! Thinking of this, I first decided to make a large number of supplies, so I naturally turned my attention to the rear of the puppet army's defense line. Most of the Americans' supplies were airdropped. It was not only difficult to get their supplies on the ground, but also not much. Only fools would touch the bone that was not meatless and hard to chew.

Finally, I kept my eyes on a place called Wumaling! Legend has it that this is the only way for the puppet army to replenish supplies in the rear. For this place, the puppet army in history even had a big fight with the US army!

"Chen Liang!" I didn't think about it when I saw this, and shouted at Chen Liang who was waiting aside: "Call the units to have a meeting!"

"Yes!" Chen Liang responded and soon jogged out.

Although there are not many people in a company, there are quite a few cadres who need to hold a meeting. The platoon leaders, squad leaders, and the deputy company commander also have more than a dozen people, so they filled the hut in a short while.

"Comrades!" Seeing that everyone was here, I raised my eyes from the map and said, "Although we come from different troops and different places, we all have a common goal and common ideal, that is, to strive for the realization of communism and sacrifice ourselves for our motherland! I believe that with our joint efforts, we will definitely be able to defeat the American imperialists and reactionaries and trample them under our feet..."

"The company commander is right! All reactionaries are paper tigers!"

"Resolutely defeat imperialism!"

...

The soldiers clenched their fists and shouted in a low voice, with a firm light revealing in their eyes, which made me realize that I still have the talent to inspire people.

"Company Commander!" Ren Feng asked impatiently: "Is there a mission? Give an order!"

"Tell me! Company Commander!" Gao Chengshan continued: "Although we don't have many people, they are all cowards. Even if we ask us to blow up planes and tanks, we don't frown!"

"There is a mission!" I nodded: "But it's not about bombing the plane or bombing the tank, but about digging caves."

"Dig a cave?" When the soldiers heard this, they didn't know what medicine I was selling in the gourd, and they all looked at me in confusion.

"Where are you digging?" Only then did I realize that I was not ready: "Just... the mountain at the entrance of our village, can the car be driven in that mountain?"

"It shouldn't be!" Chen Liang shook his head, his face also full of confusion: "The mountain at the entrance of the village is connected to a small road, and it is difficult for two people to walk side by side, let alone cars!"

"Then... which mountain is connected to the highway?" I summoned Chen Liang to my side, pointed to the road passing by Wumaling and said, "Come and see which mountain is connected to this highway nearby. It is best not to be next to the highway. If the car can drive it, it will be fine!"

"Yeah!" Chen Liang couldn't help but remain silent. Although he often went out these days, he mostly went out at night and was not very familiar with the terrain of this area, so this problem also stumped him for a while. The situation of other soldiers was similar, and they all remained silent and did not speak.

"Ask uncle!" I suddenly realized that uncle was hunting, so he knew the terrain of this area well.

"Yes!" Chen Liang nodded, and soon went to another room to pull the old man out, said in a gurgling manner, then pointed to a place on the map and said, "The old man said there is such a mountain nearby, only a few miles away. He also said he could take us there..."

As he said that, Chen Liang stopped and said nothing, he glanced at my feet unconsciously.

I also looked at my feet that had not completely swelled, and I couldn't help feeling helpless. Although my feet didn't hurt much, I still had no shoes to wear...

At this time, the old man seemed to have seen through our thoughts. He turned out a cotton coat from the box, pulled out scissors and cut it into two halves. Then, under the confused eyes of the soldiers, he wrapped the two halves of cotton coats on my feet, and then tied them with a rope! Hey, a pair of extra-large shoes were made! I was so happy that I walked around the room excitedly, but it looked like the shoes worn by clowns in a circus, which made the soldiers laugh.

When the sun set in the evening, the soldiers set off under the guidance of the old man. After being locked in the house for a few days, I finally breathed the fresh air outside again today and felt relieved. However, because my foot injury had not healed yet, and it was not very convenient for those extra-large cotton shoes to walk on the snow, so I always fell behind the troops. Fortunately, it was only a few miles away, and it took me half an hour to walk. Otherwise, if I was the company commander, I would be left behind for the first time with these soldiers.

When we arrived at this mountain, it was indeed a good place. The mountain was more than 100 meters away from the highway, and there was a mountain in the middle. Even if we dig here, the enemies passing by the highway would not find anything. More importantly, there is a canyon about three meters wide at the foot of the mountain that extends to the highway, and cars can easily drive here from the highway, which is really perfect.

"Uncle said, this mountain is called Lie Nu Mountain!" Chen Liang explained on the side: "It is said that when the old man was young, a village girl collected herbs on the mountain and was discovered by the Japanese devils. Seeing that the village girl was a bit beautiful, the devil stepped forward and touched her. However, the village girl was holding a Japanese man and fell down from the cliff and fell to death! From then on, everyone in the village called this mountain Lie Nu Mountain."

"Dog Japanese!" All the soldiers came to fight against Japanese. No one of them hated them when they mentioned them. This time, they were even more hated when they heard this story.

"Do it! Comrades!" Seeing that the terrain is fine, I quickly ordered: "By class as a unit, each class dug a big hole in the side wall of this mountain. The height and width are standard for being able to drive into a car. As for the depth, just the depth of three cars! Can you get two nights to complete the task?"

"Make sure to complete the task!" The soldier responded, and picked up the engineer's shovel and dug it.

"What are we digging?" Some comrades couldn't help but whisper while digging: "If it's an air-raid shelter! It's too big and there's no wood to support it. When the American cannon fired, it would collapse at once?"

"According to me, it should be the one who hides the car!"

"Where did we hide the car?"

"Then... I don't know either. Just work, you, there's so much nonsense!"

I didn't explain much when I listened to the soldiers' comments. It was not that I pretended to be mysterious, but that I tried not to disclose military secrets if I could be disclosed, nor that I did not believe in these volunteer soldiers under my command. But just in case, this is also the consistent principle of the volunteer army's combat.

"Company Commander!" Chen Liang came up and asked in confusion: "These are..."

I didn't say anything, took out the map from the cotton coat and spread it on the ground, pointing to the location of Wumaling on the map and said to Chen Liang: "You bring a squad of soldiers to this place to reconnaissance. In two days, two soldiers will come back to report the situation. I need to know the deployment of the enemy's troops nearby and the number of passing cars. If the situation is beneficial to our army, then I will take the company to join you later. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Chen Liang responded, as if he knew something. A look of excitement flashed in his eyes. Without saying a word, he turned around and ordered a squad of soldiers and set off.

After Chen Liang left, I also picked up a shovel of engineers and started working with the soldiers. The habit of volunteer soldiers is that the treatment of officers and soldiers is the same. It is not that I can enjoy special treatment because I am a company commander or battalion commander, nor that I can avoid working because I am injured, so the soldiers are no longer surprised.

But the old man looked at me with a strange look. After so many days of getting along, he had long known that I was an "official". Seeing that I was working with shovels like others, he was stunned.

No wonder he was surprised. It is said that it is not just a puppet army, but even the People's Army, as long as there is a bean on the collar, they are standing aside and not working. I think the old man has long been used to the special treatment.

Speaking of the civil engineering work of the volunteer army, they have done a lot. Almost every time they go to a place, they either have to dig trenches or dig air raid shelters, so the soldiers are doing it very well this time. By the next night, more than 20 such caves were completed. The soldiers sealed the hole with dead branches and leaves, and spread some snow on it, and quickly hid the hole tightly. If someone hadn't walked up and kicked it a few times, they wouldn't have discovered it.
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