Chapter 124: 308th Division

I didn't update last night because of a power outage. What's quite tragic is that I used my mobile phone to send messages in three groups on my mobile phone to send messages to someone to inform me, but no one helped me, and I was sweating...

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Chapter 124: 308th Division

In this battle, our battalion suffered more than 170 casualties, which was almost half of the total number of our battalion. Especially the fifth company stationed at the municipal government, the total number of people fighting in the entire company was 124. After the war, only 45 people still had combat effectiveness. The casualties rate was as high as 64%. Moreover, no soldiers who survived were without injuries...

Such heavy casualties made all the soldiers of the fifth company forget the joy of victory, so that on the marching road that was retreating to the second line, almost no one spoke, and they all buried their heads in walking. The entire army's marching became deserted, and except for the sound of gunfire from time to time behind, only the footsteps of the soldiers were left.

I know what the soldiers are thinking, they are thinking about the few soldiers in front of them, they are thinking about their fellow villagers and friends, and they are thinking about how to tell their families when they return to China...

My heart was also heavy. This was the worst casualties since the fifth company participated in the war. When I heard this casualty number, I couldn't help but sigh: Since I stepped out of the country and fired the first shot, I tried my best to make the troops in my hands go back alive, but as I was worried before, the result was exactly the opposite of what I hoped.

At this time, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty about the soldiers of the fifth company again. I really don't know whether my training and command of them saved them or harmed them!

The soldiers were all thinking about their own worries, and unknowingly crossed the Qiqiong River Bridge in the admiring eyes of friendly soldiers on both sides of the street. Without the soldiers' preparations, a burst of "slap" firecrackers suddenly sounded in front of us, which scared us who were thinking. Some soldiers even fell down on the ground like conditioned reflexes and raised their rifles to aim...

I looked closely and saw a large number of soldiers coming to the other side of the bridge. Most of them were female soldiers, each of whom were holding big red flowers in his hands. They walked up to us and said enthusiastically, "Comrade! I'm so lucky!" and put the big red flowers on our chests. Then they handed water and helped carry their luggage, and were very busy.

The soldiers were all passionate men. It was rare to see a few women in the army (except for the Sixth Company, two sanitary officers Liu Yun and Ariel Yichen were there). So many female soldiers came up all of a sudden, and they were so close... Don’t have a big red flower on our chests. That one was both hot and embarrassed, and they all had red faces and laughed.

Of course, I, a talented person who has seen the world from modern times, is not as stupid as them! When the female soldier was not wearing a big red flower on my chest, I asked her number... As a result, it was the female soldier who blushed, not me.

Unfortunately, I didn't notice that Liu Yun was behind me at that time. Later I realized that she was worried that my wound would crack, so I wanted to check my injury as soon as I came back. When I saw my second-generation ancestor's appearance, I couldn't help but glared at me fiercely and cursed: "Rogue!"

Alas! What kind of world is this? It’s just a question, right? I don’t have any bad intentions, so I’ll be called a “rogue”. And it’s said that there are still hooligans nowadays, and in serious cases, they will be arrested and jailed or even shot... So I had to secretly warn myself to pay attention, otherwise if I, a great hero, was labeled as “unregular in life and undecent style”, it wouldn’t make people laugh!

"Battlefield Commander Cui!" Then Commander Wang squeezed up from the crowd and held my hand and said, "Thank you! This battle was so beautiful. Not only did it successfully occupy the municipal government, it also cut off the retreat route of the Vietnamese army. It only used infantry to blow up 34 tanks of the Vietnamese army. When Captain Zhao reported to me, I couldn't believe it..."

"What?" I was stunned when I heard this. There were so many thirty-four tanks we exploded. I really haven't counted them seriously, but I thought it was possible that there were at least 2, thirty-four tanks that the Japanese invaders squeezed into a pile. I guess the number of thirty-four was counted carefully by Captain Zhao, who was in charge of the defense.

"Come on..." As he said that, Commander Wang took my hand and said, "The Commander is in a hurry to see you! He specially told me to take you to the military headquarters as soon as I see you..."

"Report to the commander!" At this time, Liu Yun snatched it up. She saluted Commander Wang and said, "I have to check the wound for Commander Cui first!"

"Um..." Commander Wang couldn't help but be stunned and replied with a smile: "Okay... no problem! I'll just wait..."

Then he looked at me with a strange smile, and then looked at Liu Yun with a deep meaning.

After finding a stone to sit down, Liu Yun untied his first aid kit and quickly untied the bandage for me. The other places were fine, but the wound that had already scarred on his left arm started to bleed again because he used too much force... But I didn't feel any pain at all in the battle. As soon as I sat down, I let Liu Yun wipe the pill of the digestive medicine, it hurt so much that I sucked the cold air in my mouth. However, Liu Yun still said two words in my ear - "I deserve it", and it's not just to make me cry, it's not to laugh or...

He hurriedly treated the wound, told the company commanders of each company to board Commander Wang's jeep, and with the roar of the car motor, the car drove straight towards the military headquarters.

Although I am a road blind, I still argued from the familiar buildings on the road that the military headquarters was still in its position last night. I think this may be because our army has won a decisive victory on the battlefield of Lang Son, and there are no troubles in moving around.

Just like last night, I handed over the gun from the guard and followed Commander Wang in. As soon as I opened the door, I heard a familiar laugh from inside - it was Liu Shunyi...

I hurriedly followed Commander Wang in three steps and two steps, shouting "report" straight, and saw that it was Liu Shunyi, who was sitting at the low table with Commander Chu, making tea!

"Oh! Say Cao Cao and Cao Cao are here!" As soon as the commander of Army Commander Chu waved to me enthusiastically, signaled me to sit down at the table, and then said to Liu Shunyi: "I said Lao Liu! As the saying goes, there are no weak soldiers under the powerful generals. Today I have seen this! What a soldier under your command... He exploded 34 Vietnamese tanks with just an infantry company. It's really awesome!"

Liu Shunyi was filled with joy when he was praised, but he still replied modestly: "Hey! That's just a little bit of luck. Isn't it because the Japanese tanks in Vietnam were crowded into a pile? If this starts fighting on the open ground... the infantry of a company is not the material for those tanks!"

"Luck?" Commander Chu shook his head and looked at me and smiled: "It should be an opportunity! But there are too few opportunities on the battlefield, and most of them are fleeting. I used to have an old subordinate, so he could always seize this opportunity..."

"I know who you are talking about!" Liu Shunyi put away his smile and nodded heavily, then grabbed the teacup in front of him without saying a word and drank it all.

"You think it's very similar to him, too!" asked Chief Chu.

Liu Shunyi nodded silently, poured tea on his own and drank a few more cups of tea.

I couldn't help feeling helpless as I looked at it. One was the old commander I once respected the most, and the other was the old comrades who had died with my comrades. They have now become commanders and are sitting in front of me, but I can't say anything, so I can only sit in a daze...

"Have he fought so many tanks?" Commander Chu asked again.

Liu Shunyi nodded and said a few simple words: "Tanks are slashed into the battle, Wendengli!"

"Oh!" Commander Chu nodded as if he had remembered something, and then smiled bitterly: "I'm old and I can't even remember this! It was really not easy back then. There were rocket launchers and recoilless cannons... there weren't any of them, and there were even more tanks. There were only a few anti-tank grenades that the Soviet cultivators didn't have to throw them to us, but he just used the broken grenade to blow the enemy's tank troops back!"

Listening to it, I couldn't help but think of the scene where the defense lines of the Americans in Wendenli were blocked by the soldiers with their bodies and blood...

"It's not just!" Liu Shunyi unknowingly used tea instead of wine, and cried a cup with Commander Chu, saying, "He dug up what... The 'Golan Trench' exploded more than a dozen tanks of the Americans, and then blew up the mountain during the five battles and buried the Americans' 'tank commando'... If it weren't for his actions, our troops would not know how much casualties would have been suffered during the five battles!"

"Yes!" Commander Chu also nodded and said, "At that time, our army had serious shortage of supplies and ammunition, and he had no ability to stop the US military's 'tank commando'. If they were allowed to cut off the retreat route in the rear of our army, the consequences would be unimaginable! Unexpectedly, he still had this move, and just used a few explosive packs to bury this 'tank commando' in one breath..."

"Who would have thought it would be!" Liu Shunyi laughed: "The battle he fought on the battlefield is not a life-threatening death, but he can always use his strange tricks to get rid of danger. In a word, it is a pleasure to follow him to fight!"

"Happy! Come...did it!"

"Comrade Cui Wei! Let's have a drink too..." Liu Shunyi and Chief Chu raised the teacup at me, so I didn't dare to slouch the teacup and then sipped it all.

The tea is brewed very lightly. I remember this is Liu Shunyi's habit of making tea. He always likes the faint fragrance of tea in the tea. But for some reason, I still think the tea is so bitter that it is so bitter that I can't speak.

Then Liu Shunyi and Commander Chu said everything about you and I, just talking about the past on the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. Most of what they said was related to me, as if they helped me recall the entire battlefield experience. There were several times when I couldn't help but want to talk to the previous one, but in the end I ended up holding on.

Are Liu Shunyi and Commander Chu suspicious about something that wants to lure me out? I think no, the reason is very simple, because even if they are the ever-winning generals on the battlefield, I am afraid they can't imagine or understand this kind of "rebirth" concept! So I believe that they just thought of Cui Wei before because of me, so they talked out of control. So I, the "party" I, became an outsider...

"Captain Cui!" After a long time, Liu Shunyi asked me as if he had remembered something: "Those two girls are okay!"

"Report to the commander!" I quickly stood up and replied, "They are very good, by the way! Do you want them to come and see you..."

"What girl?" Commander Chu couldn't help but ask.

"Oh!" Liu Shunyi explained: "One is my daughter, and the other is the daughter of an old comrade-in-arms!"

"What? Your daughter is also in...Captain Cui's army?" Commander Chu was stunned when he heard this, and then pointed at Liu Shunyi with some dissatisfaction and said, "I said, Lao Liu! My daughter is only a few kilometers away from you, and this is your fault! I will arrange it immediately..."

"Hey! No need!" Liu Shunyi hurriedly stopped him, "They are fighting in my army, and there are so many people close to me! If you have to see each other every time, what else can you fight!"

"You, you..." Seeing that Liu Shunyi insisted on refusing, Commander Chu shook his head helplessly and had to give up. Then he thought about it and said to me: "Comrade Cui Wei! You fought very well in this battle. It can be said that you defeated the Vietnamese tank and artillery units in Lang Son in one fell swoop! Without these, the Vietnamese troops in Lang Son would not be fierce, so you and your troops rest with confidence, and leave the remaining battle to other troops!"

"Yes!" I replied.

Although it is a pity for me and my troops, I also know that my troops were greatly injured because of this battle. What's more, what Chief Chu said is right. After the municipal government's battle, the remnants of the Vietnamese army that lost the armored troops and artillery troops, and they really had no strength to resist our army. Our army seemed to have to only launch a large-scale attack under the cover of tanks.

"That's right!" Liu Shunyi nodded and said to me: "Your troops have suffered heavy casualties, so don't go to the battlefield again! Although the 308th Division of the Vietnam Army is strong, it is not much fierce without tanks..."

"What? The 308th Division? The remnant of the Vietnamese Army we are going to deal with is the 308th Division?" I was stunned when I heard the number of the Vietnamese Army.

I will know the number of the 308th Division, not because of how powerful this division is, nor because of how advanced the division has, but because this division used chemical weapons on our army on the battlefield of counterattack, causing our army to suffer heavy casualties, so our army was unwilling to mention this battle after the war. I will know this because it was a reporter in modern times, so I was always particularly interested in such sensitive things. However, because the information obtained was not comprehensive, I did not expect that the 308th Division was in Lang Son when using chemical weapons, and now...

"Yes, it's the 308th Division!" Liu Shunyi looked at me with some confusion and asked, "Is there any problem?"

"Report to the commander..." I originally wanted to directly say that 308 could use chemical weapons, but when I thought about it, I felt something was wrong. What should I say directly if Liu Shunyi and Commander Chu ask about the source of the information? Will I still say that I saw relevant information in modern times?

So hesitated for a while and replied: "No problem, it's just..."

"Just what? Tell me quickly if you have something to say!" Commander Chu has always spoken quickly, and at this time he couldn't help but start urging him.

"That's right!" After thinking about it, I replied: "When the war started... the superiors gave us gas masks. I think... this means that the superiors are also worried that the Vietnamese army would use poison gas, right?"

Liu Shunyi and Commander Chu looked at each other, and their faces soon became solemn.

"What do you mean..." Chief Chu asked: "Will the Vietnamese army use poison gas?"

I nodded and said, "The Vietnamese army has been besieged by our army, and the artillery and tank units have been basically eliminated by our army. As the two commanders said, even if the 308th Division is strong, it will not be much fierce without tanks! Therefore, the 308th Division can be said to have no other way out except surrender, so it is inevitable..."

"It is inevitable that you will be anxious to use poison gas?" Liu Shunyi's face became increasingly ugly.

"Comrade Cui Wei's analysis makes sense!" Commander Chu also agreed: "The Yue Japanese have never been a good man and a trustworthy woman. As the capital defense division, of course, it is impossible for the 308th Division to surrender easily. If they have poisonous gas in their hands, it is difficult to guarantee that they will be crazy and bet!"

"How are the troops' gas masks ready? Are they all released?" Liu Shunyi asked anxiously.

"There are hairs..." I replied awkwardly: "But I don't know where I have been thrown..."

This is actually no wonder the soldiers. In this battlefield where bullets are raining, everyone is only concerned about their own lives. Who cares about the useless gas mask? I don’t even know when it fell off, and I haven’t used it yet!

"Old Liu!" Chu Junchang stood up: "I think we should postpone the attack and put the soldiers' gas masks first."

"Agree!" Liu Shunyi nodded and said, "Report the situation to his superiors immediately and transport gas masks from the rear, striving to make every soldier have one!"

"Comrade Cui Wei!" Then Commander Chu held my hand and said, "Fortunately, with your reminder, we two old men forgot about this matter. If this is true, then the losses of our troops will be huge!"

"Go down and have a good rest!" Liu Shunyi patted my shoulder and said, "There is no need to worry about the battlefield!"

"Yes!" I replied, knowing that it was time to leave.
Chapter completed!