Chapter 57: Splashing cold water

The soldiers were all in an overly optimistic state of war. They could not understand my good intentions, and they would know that soon after, the volunteer army would face no ammunition or food, and even to the point where they died of poisoning by eating tree bark and weeds. So they naturally could not understand my approach, and even Instructor Zhao was puzzled. Fortunately, they heard the company commander as soon as the gunshot sounded, and they could not do anything to me. It seems that it is not a good idea to be a company commander.

So soon, the soldiers wrapped the guns and ammunition and food with military uniforms peeled from the enemy's corpses, put them in a simple wooden box made of wooden blocks and buried them underground. Then they carefully marked the surrounding trees and marked the location on the map. I didn't want to bury a lot of equipment that I couldn't even find myself.

I just took a brief count and collected about a thousand rifles and sixty or seventy thousand bullets this day, plus supplies such as bread, canned food, compressed biscuits, enough to equip a regiment! But I know this is far from enough, because in this battlefield where several armies often face hundreds of thousands of people, especially for the volunteer soldiers with weak firepower, the power of a regiment is very weak. If you continue to collect at this speed, it will take more than ten days to collect the equipment and food of a division, and then the enemy had already begun to counterattack.

I lay down with dead branches covered with a cloak. I looked at the sun slowly rising in the sky through the gap between the leaves, and thought over and over again how to collect as much equipment and supplies as possible in the shortest time so that the volunteers would not fight so hard that fewer people would die, and fell asleep in the sun in a daze.

I was suddenly awakened by a few explosions in my sleep. When I got up, I saw several enemy planes hovering over the nearby sky. Whenever I saw the cars and tanks that were left behind when the puppet troops fled, I dived and dropped bombs. Not long after, several cars with black smoke were left, and the tanks were long.

"Damn it!" Hu Zi cursed fiercely in the direction of the enemy plane flying away: "The American plane is arrogant!"

"There's no way, who told us not to build it?" the old squad leader said with a smile: "We can't fly into the sky and go masturbate!"

"This plane also lands when it lands, right?" Hu Zi responded dissatisfiedly: "It's not possible to hit the sky, so we'll hit the ground. Maybe it's really satisfying for us to hit a few planes!"

"Go to have your dream!" The soldiers laughed disapprovingly as Hu Zi said. Even the new recruits made a fuss, making Hu Zi feel embarrassed alone.

"Comrades!" At this time, Instructor Zhao spoke, and he clenched his fists and said with a slight silence: "Although it is not realistic to shoot the American plane, Comrade Huzi's spirit is worthy of praise. It is said that the American army is powerful in wars, and the aircraft and cannons are powerful, but in the end we saw that it was just that! Didn't our troops drive away like ducks? In this battle, we might be able to drive the Americans into the sea in one go, and see how arrogant their planes are!"

"Yes! Defeat the reactionaries!"

"Yes! Drag the Americans into the sea!"

"Down with the Americans, let's go home for the New Year!"

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The soldiers were all excited when they heard this, and the recruits were all clenched their fists. Not to mention that they could go home so soon. Their faces, which were originally full of fatigue and pain, were filled with smiles.

"Comrades!" I interrupted: "It's getting late, so everyone hurry up and take a break, eat some dry food and prepare to go on the road!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, and spread out boringly as if they were poured with cold water.

I could see the dissatisfaction in their eyes, as if they were talking about why I, the company commander, became so inhumane as soon as I became Shangguan, and why I couldn't tell them as much as I became the company commander.

It was then that I realized that the biggest enemy the volunteers faced was not the advanced aircraft cannons of the US military, nor the fragile logistics supplies, but the excessive optimism of their own.

Speaking of the Korean War, it was really funny. First, the US military was overly optimistic and underestimated the enemy several times and beaten the volunteers a few times. Then, the volunteers suffered heavy losses due to overestimation and underestimation of the enemy...

I smiled bitterly silently and thought to myself, if I didn’t come from that future society, if I didn’t know this history, would I have the same optimism as them?

Seeing that the sky was getting darker, I ate a few bites of fried noodles and ate a few pieces of American compressed biscuits, and then set off with the troops again.

Along the way, we were still collecting weapons and food along the way like last night, but because we were bombed by American planes during the day, we didn't find much. At first, the soldiers would go to the cars and tanks that were emitting black smoke, but after being disappointed a few times, they no longer had hope.

In the end, the only things I could find were a few unformed broken guns that were abandoned on the road, or the 38th cover that was thrown away by volunteer soldiers. Even if I searched through the enemy's corpses, I couldn't find any ammunition or any food.

"What's wrong?" Instructor Zhao said with some confusion: "How could the difference between last night and tonight be so big?"

"It should be our troops who are fighting with the Americans!" I said without comment: "If you go faster, you may be able to catch up with the large army tonight."

"This... has anything to do with whether our army has had sex with the Americans?" Instructor Zhao was even more surprised when he heard this. It was him. The other soldiers seemed to be confused when they heard this.

"Why is that okay?" I replied easily: "If our troops have a bullet with the Americans, there will be not enough bullets. If there is not enough bullets, they will use the enemy's gun to search the enemy's bullets, so we can't pick up guns and can't search the bullets, right?"

"Ah? This..." My words made the soldiers stunned for a moment. Thinking about it, I felt it made sense. Immediately, several soldiers touched their heads and called out: "Why can't I think of it?"

"Comrades! Speed ​​up the marching!" I simply ordered: "Anyway, I can't pick up anything. Let's speed up and try to catch up with the large army before dawn and fight the American devils together!"

"yes!"
Chapter completed!