Chapter 47: Turn passive into activeness

Chapter 47: Turn passive into activeness

"Where is Captain Chu?" I asked after a while of greeting Hu Zi and Zhao Yongxin.

"I'm busy!" Hu Zi patted my shoulder heavily and said as if he was inviting an old friend: "Come on, I'll take you there. If Captain Chu sees you, he will definitely be very happy!"

Several people walked back with laughter and laughed, and soon arrived at a tunnel. Zhao Yongxin became childishly and made a gesture to us, then shouted loudly to the tunnel: "Report!"

"Come in!" When I heard Captain Chu's voice, I couldn't help but feel excited. I lifted up the black cloth and was about to get in, but Zhao Yongxin was pulled over. Then I snatched me in front of me with Hu Zi.

As soon as I entered the tunnel, the first thing I smelled was a strong smell of smoke. I saw Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye lit cigarettes, and he was at a loss on the map, and he didn't even look at us.

"This situation is really suffocating!" Chen Ye spat out a long breath of smoke: "We are veterans in fighting guerrillas, but I didn't expect that we still have a headache for the enemy's guerrilla warfare!"

"Yes!" Captain Chu also nodded: "It can be seen but can't touch it. He chased them and turned around and hid in the deep forest..."

"Captain Chu!" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but lean over and said, "It would be great if Captain Cui was there. I think he must have a solution!"

"Yes!" Captain Chu didn't look up, and said without thinking: "It seems that no matter what problem this kid encounters, his mind will turn around and he will definitely be able to find a way to solve it..."

"I heard that this kid is now the commander of the 180th Division, and I don't know if it's true!" Political Commissar Chen Ye nodded and said, "I sent someone to find him a few days ago, but I didn't find him. I heard that he went to some Five Saint Mountain to teach the experience of tunnel fortifications!"

"You ask him by yourself, won't you know if it's true?" Zhao Yongxin laughed, and Hu Zi kept laughing.

"What are you doing? They all look like eating ginseng fruit! Look at your happiness..." Captain Chu frowned, then raised his head. When he saw me standing in front of him, he was stunned, so surprised that he couldn't even speak.

"Captain, political commissar!" I hurriedly snatched up and saluted Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye in a straightforward manner.

"Hey!" It was the political commissar Chen Ye who reacted first. He couldn't help but walk up, held my hand affectionately and said, "It's really you, Captain Cui! What a rare guest, come on... sit down!"

I didn't dare to sit down like this. I walked to Captain Chu, saluted him again and said, "Captain, it's been a long time since I saw you!"

"Boy!" Captain Chu then reacted, punched me hard, and said, "The wings are so hard! I haven't come back to see us for so long!"

"Captain, this..." I couldn't help but answered awkwardly when I heard this, "I, I just knew you had entered the court!"

"I'm having fun with you!" Captain Chu then burst into laughter, hugged my shoulder enthusiastically and shook it heavily, looking left and right, as if looking at his own child, and said with relief: "I've grown up, I've really grown up! I'm more like a soldier than before!"

"Look at what you said!" Political Commissar Chen Ye laughed and said, "He was originally a soldier! Where did he come from more similar things! And now he is a regiment commander like you!"

"Yes, yes!" Captain Chu said proudly: "Captain Cui, you are at the same level as me now. Don't salute me when you see me in the future. I can't afford to accept it! Haha..."

"Captain!" I stood up in front of Captain Chu and said, "You will always be my commander, I will always be your soldier. It is appropriate to salute you!"

These words made Captain Chu very helpful. He patted my shoulder excitedly and nodded at me with a smile.

"Sit down..." Political Commissar Chen Ye called everyone down again and asked the guards to make a cup of tea for each of them. In an instant, a tea fragrance filled the tunnel.

"Captain, are you okay in the country?" I asked casually after taking a sip of tea.

"What's wrong with China?" Captain Chu laughed and said, "As soon as we go back, we are all provided by the villagers as heroes! We eat well every day, and even the clothes are washed. You don't see that we are all red and have a lot of weight!"

"What the regiment commander said!" Zhao Yongxin continued, "The villagers call us the 'cutest people'! There is nothing to do in normal times. Apart from training new recruits, they just give reports to other troops and impart experience! The big red flowers I received were all piled up!"

"Everything is good when you return to China!" Hu Zi smirked, "There is only one thing that is, there is no war!"

"Hey, I'm talking about Hu Zi!" Captain Chu couldn't help but curse when he heard this: "Does your head feel like a shell or what? He just thinks about fighting all day long! Don't you want to click anything else?"

"Captain, you are right!" Zhao Yongxin joked: "You don't know, our company commander Huzi is fighting! As soon as the villagers set off firecrackers, they thought they were starting the battle. They also grabbed guns and ran out of the camp in the middle of the night, and shouted at his soldiers, "Get up, the Japanese are all here, you are still sleeping, you are not dead!"

He coaxed and heard us all laughing out loud.

"You all say less!" After a while of laughter, Political Commissar Chen Ye criticized Zhao Yongxin and said, "Don't you know that Captain Cui has not returned to China? He kept saying how good our motherland is!"

"Um!" Hearing this, everyone looked at me one after another, and there seemed to be a little apology in their eyes.

Seeing this, I couldn't help laughing and pretended to be careless and said, "It's nothing! I'm still used to staying on this battlefield! Maybe I'm not used to returning to China!"

The real situation is that everyone will feel homesick and return to their ancestors, and I will have it. Even if I know that after returning to China, I can’t find my own home or my relatives, but after staying in a foreign country for so long, I would want to go back and take a look.

"Captain Cui!" Chen Ye patted my shoulder and said, "You don't have to worry, it's your army soon! After a while, you can go back and take a look!"

"Yes, boy!" Captain Chu laughed and said, "We just entered the court, you are going back. You can go back and have a good look!"

"Um!" Hearing this, I realized that I was going to return home soon.

Is it time to return to China? What can I do when I return to China? Train new recruits like Zhao Yongxin and others, give reports to other troops or impart experience?

I know that after the 180th Division returned to China this time, it would have to wait until a year later when the Korean War was about to end before entering North Korea again to fight several final battles. Could it be that I would also return to China like this and wait for the Korean War to end?

"Okay! Don't talk about this, don't talk about this!" Seeing me alone being stunned, Political Commissar Chen Ye changed the topic and said, "Captain Cui, although our troops have fought five battles in North Korea, after entering North Korea this time, I found that the situation of the battle would be very different from what we fought. Suddenly, it seemed that I couldn't adapt to it!"

"Yes!" Captain Chu nodded and said, "Although the food and ammunition are much more abundant now than before, there are no wars. In the past, they were interspersed, divided, and surrounded as soon as they came up, which was called a good fight! But now it seems that they are sleeping in the tunnel every day and have nothing to do, and they are also angry with American aircraft, cannons, and puppet military agents!"

"It's true!" I nodded and replied, "The situation on the front line is very delicate now. Both sides want to give each other a little bit of strength, but because both sides are sitting at the negotiating table, they dare not launch a large-scale war. Therefore, the situation on the front line is very different from when we entered North Korea. However, it is not without war. Now both sides are making trouble on a relatively stable front line. The US military sent the sniper troops to the battlefield, and our army launched the cold gun and cold artillery campaign. The casualties on the battlefield are indeed much less than the five battles, but their intensity and wide coverage are not much worse than the five battles!"

"Captain Cui said it well!" Chen Ye nodded in agreement: "During the time we entered the court, we sent troops to the position of your 180th Division in batches according to the orders of our superiors. Only then did we realize that in less than a year, the entire battlefield had undergone earth-shaking changes. Our previous tactics and tactics seemed to have suddenly disappeared. In the current battlefield, in addition to tunnels, we can fire cold guns. The soldiers of our troops will have to adapt to this kind of battlefield for a while!"

"Um!" I couldn't help but nod my head secretly as I heard that even the 40th Army, a unit that had fought five battles in North Korea, would face this situation, and other troops that had not entered North Korea might be even more so. Only then did I realize how correct the decision of the superiors to plan a tactical counterattack in the near future and let the newly entered North Korea learn some combat experience.

"But the most headache for us are the agents of the puppet army!" Captain Chu said, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry. He clenched his fists and smashed the table hard and said, "When we were in North Korea before, there weren't so many puppet army agents! Why do we seem to be everywhere and pervasive now? Because we were marching on heavy snow, many comrades have not adapted to being left behind. At first, I didn't take it seriously, and always thought they would follow slowly. Later, when I heard the reports of comrades from other troops, I realized that the fallen soldiers were eaten by the puppet army agents! More than 200 people were lost in the three days of the march. We didn't even see the shadow of an enemy. It's so fucking to hold our breath!"

"This is not just!" Chen Ye said with the interface: "Those puppet military agents also target telephone soldiers and correspondents. We sent out to lay telephone lines and send out to deliver letters. It would be good if half of them could come back alive!"

"Are they so serious?" I knew very well that the casualties of telephone soldiers and correspondents were not only related to the number of casualties and how many people died, but also whether our army's intelligence would flow into the hands of puppet military agents, but also to the morale of the newly entered North Korea troops.

"Is there a way to deal with it?" Captain Chu stopped talking to me and directly pushed this problem to me.

I couldn't help but frown: "Captain, I'm going to tell you, I'm just having a headache about this! Not only the 118th Division, but our 180th Division also has the same situation. The difference is that the casualties are not as big as yours!"

"Well!" Hearing this, Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye couldn't help but fall into deep thought again.

"The biggest difficulty is that I don't know where the enemy is going to attack!" After a while of silence, Chen Ye sighed and said, "The puppet military agents have great mobility at this point, but we are very passive, like a porcelain full of loopholes. They knocked on one piece here and they knocked on one piece there..."

"Passive?" When I heard this word, the first thing I thought of was to turn passive into activeness, so I stood up and said, "Maybe... I really have a way!"

"Oh, let's talk about it!" After hearing this, Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye couldn't help but lit up.

"Didn't the political commissar Chen Ye say that our biggest problem is not knowing where the enemy will attack us?" I replied, "What if we knew the enemy's attack location?"

"It's not easy to know where the enemy attacks!" Hu Zi couldn't help but answer, "Then let's give him an ambush, and they'll be beaten to find their teeth!"

"That's it!" Zhao Yongxin nodded and responded: "You know, we can beat them down if we just pull up an army. If we let them run away, we will use my head to push it!"

"Captain Cui, do you have a way to know?" Chen Ye couldn't help but ask in confusion: "The puppet army agents have done a good job of hiding. Even the intelligence personnel of the People's Army cannot find their hiding place. Is there a way to commander Cui?"

"Yes!" Captain Chu also looked at me in confusion: "North Korea is full of forests, and the terrain is very complex. Especially now it is winter, those puppet military agents will disappear if they just go anywhere! What can I do?"

"No!" I shook my head and said, "I can't find it either!"

"Then... what Captain Cui means?" Everyone couldn't help but look at me with even more confusion.

"I mean, we can create a target for those puppet army agents!" I explained: "For example, we can toss an arsenal or a grain transit station, and deliberately get rid of some of the food and ammunition transported on the road, such as leaking a box of bullets or leaking a piece of rice, exposing the location of our arsenal! Then..."

"Then the puppet army agents will come to hear the sound!" Chen Ye stood up excitedly and continued my words: "As long as we set up an ambush around, we can catch turtles in a jar!"

"It's a good idea!" Captain Chu also nodded in agreement: "In this way, we can turn passive into initiative and beat them hard!"

"Captain Chu, let's hand this task to our camp!" Zhao Yongxin stood up and asked for a fight without saying a word: "We have held our breath these days. If we don't beat them up this time, we will not be worthy of the 'cutest person' that the villagers shouted!"

"I'm afraid I have to consider this..." Seeing that Captain Chu was about to agree, I hurriedly spoke to stop him. It made Zhao Yongxin and Hu Zi confused.

"I'm talking about Captain Cui!" Hu Zi was impatient, and he quickly put his dissatisfaction on his face, and glared at me with a beard and said, "What do you mean? Do you don't believe us or what? Do you look down on us?"

"I, I don't mean that!" I explained a little embarrassedly: "Captain Chu, Political Commissar Chen, I mean the puppet army agents are very alert. If we set up an ambush as usual, it is very likely to make the fish alert and not take the bait. Therefore, I think this ambush should be done by soldiers with lurking experience, otherwise it may not only destroy the entire plan, but also alarm the snakes, making the puppet army more vigilant! Therefore, I think this mission should be handed over to the cold gun troops of the 180th Division. If there are too many people, it will be easier to expose the target!"

"Yeah!" After thinking for a while, Commander Chu nodded and said, "The reason why Commander Cui was considering it makes sense. The success of this mission will directly affect the morale of our army. Moreover, our troops do not have any experience in lurking. If we set up ambush like in the field in the past, most of them will not achieve their goal, so I agree with Commander Cui's point of view!"

"But the commander!" Hu Zi and Zhao Yongxin saw that the task that was about to be heard was flying, so they couldn't help but feel anxious. They stood up and wanted to defend themselves, but when Captain Chu glared fiercely, they had to sit back and sulk.

"I agree too!" Political Commissar Chen Ye thought for a while and nodded in agreement: "This is a battlefield. We should face our shortcomings. The cold gun troops are more suitable for this mission than us. However, I have a requirement: Can we send some comrades to carry out the mission with the cold gun troops? Doing so can let the soldiers feel angry, and secondly, we can also let our comrades learn about lurking operations, so that they can adapt to the new battlefield better and faster in the future!"

"Of course!" I have no reason to refuse the request of Political Commissar Chen Ye. Teaching experience to the newly entered North Korea was originally a policy formulated by superiors, not to mention that this unit is still my old unit.

"But!" Then I was a little worried, "Landing in the snow is not a joke. If you move a rut, you will get frostbite or even freeze to death. Therefore, these troops sent to fight with us are best selected soldiers with good physiques, and you must also have the determination to not expose your target even if you are frozen to death, otherwise it will affect the success or failure of the entire operation!"

"It's all right!" Captain Chu smiled and said, "I can see Hu Zi's physique, but his patience..."

"Report to the regiment commander!" Hu Zi could not sit still. He jumped up and replied: "I, Hu Zi, issued a military order and will never drag the troops back, otherwise you will take my head off!"

"Okay! You're the one!" Looking at me, Captain Chu agreed without any worries.

"Yes! Ensure the completion of the mission!" Hu Zi saluted us excitedly, and then asked in confusion: "Captain, is our ammunition depot really let the puppet army agents blow up?"
Chapter completed!