Chapter 119 Killing the Captive

Hidden the cars one by one, and recorded in detail the locations of the food, bullets, shells, and guns, and used soil to block the hole. Record these so that if you want to replenish ammunition or food, you will not be able to find what you want after digging several holes.

It was already dawn at this time, but fortunately, all the attention of the US military aircraft was focused on the front line and did not send planes to this place for reconnaissance. Otherwise, they would definitely be suspicious when they saw one military vehicle after another driving into the cave.

Then the soldiers carefully wiped the wheel marks and footprints in the valley, and carried a full set of American equipment, boxes of bullets and bags of food to the village. Although the things they brought were much heavier this time, the soldiers seemed to be faster than when they didn't bring anything before. In fact, it was not only the soldiers, but even I felt this way.

I had nothing on my body before, and I walked lightly, and I felt so frivolous! To be honest, I was really afraid of meeting the enemy at that time. Even if I met a company of the puppet army, I had to think carefully about whether the bullets would be enough to knock them down one by one, or whether they could be enough to rush to fight the bayonet in front of them. So a few days ago, even when I was walking on the mountain road, I felt a little embarrassed and vulgar...

Now, there are more than 30 magazines in the bullet bag, more than 200 bullets, five grenades hanging on the waist, the dry food bag is filled with compressed biscuits and bread, and a large bag of rice on my back, which makes me feel at ease. And if it is not enough, I can go back to Lie Nu Mountain to get it. I have the confidence in my heart, just thinking that no matter how many enemies come up, I dare to do it!

To be honest, if you have seen many scenes in the war, you will not be afraid of death or enemies. What you are most afraid of is that you have no bullets and no food. You feel that if this life is gone because there are no bullets and no food, it is not worth it!

While thinking about it, I returned to the village in more than twenty minutes. At this time, the few villagers in the village were busy in the fields, carrying manure and digging the ground. The air was filled with a strong rural atmosphere. Most of the villagers were elderly, women and children. At first, they were shocked when they saw a team carrying guns coming from a distance, but when they realized it was us, they felt relieved and smiled at us. Several children ran to us, whispering to the soldiers, while shouting in Korean dialect that the soldiers could not understand: "They brought a lot of meters!"

“What are those?”

"It's canned, delicious. My brother has brought it to me!"

...

For the first time, I found myself in love with this atmosphere of stinking feces and chaotic children, and I can even say that I am a little yearning for...

"Company Commander, you are back!" With a shout, Chen Liang and other soldiers came out of the village, helping the soldiers carry ammunition and food.

"Hey! You're still ahead of us!" I was a little surprised when I saw Chen Liang, but I thought that we had been struggling in Lie Nu Mountain for so long, and it was nothing strange that Chen Liang arrived in the village first.

"We'll only be here for a while!" Chen Liang replied: "At first, I saw that you hadn't come back yet, and I thought something had happened to me and wanted to pick you up. Later, I saw a few comrades escorting a large number of prisoners back, so I feel relieved!"

"What can happen?" Ren Fengyou said, "We are back in the puppet army's car, it's so satisfying! This is the first time I'm riding a car. That thing is indeed a good thing. It's a blink of an eye. It's just a blink of an eye that it's here. It's enough to sit for a while..."

"That's not simple?" I joked, "Go to the prisoner and find a driver, and drive one out casually? But before leaving, remember to unload the things in the car. I don't want those babies to accompany you to let the American plane explode into the sky!"

The soldiers only burst into laughter when they heard this, and Ren Fengyou also giggled and touched his head.

"Company Commander, we've made a lot of money this time!" Chen Liang patted a box of bullets on his shoulder and said, "I heard that there are more than 60 cars! There are so many?"

"Then there is still a falsehood!" Ren Fengyou, who was responsible for the classification and statistics, answered again: "There are 63 vehicles in total, five of them are howitzers and shells, seventeen of them are food, and the rest are all bullets, machine guns, etc. Haven't you seen that we have several more machine guns and eighty-two-air mortars (82 mm caliber mortars)? If these things weren't full and heavy ammunition, each of us would have to carry one.

"Our people have no casualties, aren't we?" I asked casually.

"No casualties!"

"No casualties!"

The platoon leaders must have counted the number of people, so they quickly answered, but only Guo Zhongtian was silent for a moment, and then slowly replied: "Report to the company commander, Comrade Zhang Xuefu of my platoon died. He was responsible for guarding the puppet army vehicles. At that time, we were only staring at the puppet army in the car. A puppet army emerged from behind. It was assumed that he got out of the car and relieved before we arrived. At this time, he happened to rush back. In order not to alarm the puppet army in the car, Comrade Zhang Xuefu used his only hand to cover the enemy's mouth, and let the enemy stab him for more than a dozen times without saying a word. Before his sacrifice, he even stuffed his entire hand into the enemy's throat..."

"He's a good comrade!" I couldn't help but sigh. I remember that Zhang Xuefu was a wounded soldier. His left hand was blown off by shells during the battle. He was not suitable for being a vehicle for the puppet army, but when it was dark and the battle was tense, who would have noticed that he had only one hand!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel scared. The whole battle last night could have been surprisingly smooth, but I didn't expect that there was such a danger hidden behind this success! If this volunteer soldier named Zhang Xuefu had not given up his life and covered the enemy's mouth last night, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

At that time, I thought Zhang Xuefu was holding a military spear in his hand. If he had two hands, he could cover the enemy's mouth with one hand and send the military spear into the enemy's chest with the other hand, but he did not. So he resolutely threw away the military spear in his hand and covered the enemy's mouth. In fact, he knew very well in his heart that the moment he chose to throw away the military spear, it meant that he had lost his life...

The reason why the volunteers are called the cutest people is because there are countless soldiers like Zhang Xuefu who sacrificed their lives for the motherland and the people at any time!

"Notify all units to hold a meeting!" I ordered before I could sit firmly after entering the village.

"Yes!" Chen Liang responded and turned around and went to summon people.

More than a dozen squad leaders and platoon leaders soon gathered in my hut. The soldiers all had the joy of victory on their faces, and their eyes were full of confidence and admiration when they looked at me.

I know that they all come from different troops, and do not know me or the soldiers around me. Although such a unit does not lack courage, it lacks cohesion. At the same time, they also have a skeptical attitude towards my "leader". However, after cooperation in this battle and achieving unprecedented victory, the soldiers not only increased their understanding among their comrades, but also enhanced their confidence in the ability of me, the "leader". For us, this is also another gain of this battle!

"Comrades!" I nodded and said, "This battle, with the joint efforts of our entire company soldiers, captured more than 100 puppet troops at the expense of one person, seized more than 60 cars and a large number of equipment. It can be said that our battle was very successful and achieved great victory!"

"Good fight!"

"Have a good fight!"

...

Some of the soldiers clenched their fists, and some clapped their hands.

"But..." I continued: "In this battle, we also lost an excellent soldier, Comrade Zhang Xuefu."

Before I finished speaking, the soldiers fell silent again. Most of the soldiers fought and killed on the battlefield for several years. They were used to killing enemies and sacrifice, but they still couldn't get used to the departure of their comrades.

"At the same time..." I paused and continued, "After this battle, I think the puppet army will not give up. They have lost such a large amount of supplies and will definitely send troops to search..."

"It's just right here! What are we afraid of when we have guns and bullets?"

"That's right, fight with them and avenge Comrade Zhang Xuefu!"

...

"I'm not worried about this!" Looking at the soldiers' impulsive look, I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It doesn't matter if we fight with the enemy, but what about the supplies hidden in the cave? We fight with the enemy like this, who will hand them over to the hands of the large army? What's more, if we fight with the puppet army like this, we will still implicate our fellow villagers who have taken care of for so long!"

"That's right!" Chen Liang also continued, "It doesn't matter if we fight the enemy, but what about the fellow villagers? Think about how the Japanese and the Kuomintang deal with the villagers who helped us in the past!"

"Hey! Company Commander, please give orders!" Ren Feng said impatiently: "We are all rough people, we only know that we don't think so much when fighting. The left one is not after another is not... You might as well tell us what we want to do? We all listen to you!"

"That's right, the company commander will give the order!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "According to my opinion, we have to withdraw from the village and cover it up in the mountains. Our team is too big in this village, so let's go to the second half of tonight! We have to complete a task in the first half of the night. Before leaving, we must pay attention to taking away everything, such as bullets, bandages, especially canned food, bread, etc., and we must not leave it, nor can we distribute it to fellow villagers. Just give the fellow villagers some rice! Be careful not to give too much, so as not to the enemy to find suspicious, but will harm them, and the rice bags cannot be left!"

"Yes!" The comrades responded one after another.

"There is another question!" I finally decided to say this question: "It's about the more than 100 puppet troops we captured. I have considered that if we want to transfer, we can't take these prisoners away. If one or two run away, all our people and things will be exposed! We can't let them go. These prisoners know where we hide the cars, and we also know that the fellow villagers here have helped us. If they are released..."

After I said this, the soldiers understood what I meant, and they all fell silent and stopped talking.

"But the discipline of our army..." After a long time, a soldier asked in a low voice.

"Discipline is discipline!" I gritted my teeth and replied, "There are special circumstances besides discipline, right? The current situation is that if the prisoners are not killed to silence them, our 60-track supplies will be exposed, and the villagers who have taken care of us may be killed by reactionaries, and even our whereabouts may be exposed!"

"I agree with the company commander's point of view!" Chen Liang said first: "Comrades, think about it, that batch of ammunition and food is a considerable wealth for our army! How many comrades starved to death because they had no food, how many comrades died of guns from the enemy because they had no bullets. They all fought wars, and they all encountered many such situations! So I think that with those supplies, our army can sacrifice less comrades. If we release those prisoners and those bullets fall back into the hands of the enemy, they will become weapons to kill our comrades! Then have we become the murderers who killed those comrades?"

The soldiers felt reasonable after hearing Chen Liang's words, and they all nodded whisperingly. Only when I saw them, I couldn't help but secretly admire Chen Liang's eloquence. Why didn't I think about elevating these supplies to the level of casualties of the volunteers? Once these supplies are hooked with the casualties of the volunteers, the soldiers' ideological work will be much easier!

"Deputy Company Commander Chen is right!" Thinking of this, I added another word to Chai, and said, "So in this situation, it is not just how to treat prisoners. We should regard him as a war, a war where either the enemy dies or the death of me. The kindness to the enemy is also the cruelty to ourselves. In the future, the superiors will ask about this matter, and I will bear all the responsibility alone!"

"No!" Ren Fengyou quickly stood up and said, "We have one of them too!"

"Yes, I agree with the company commander's approach. If you have difficulties, you will share the blessings!"

"The superior needs to be punished, let's bear it together!"

...

So the matter was settled and I handed it over to Chen Liang to deal with it. I believe he would handle it very well, but I felt sorry for the prisoners. Actually, I didn’t want to kill them, but what was helpless was that they knew a lot of things they shouldn’t know. Moreover, we were also behind enemy lines. For the safety of the troops, I had to do some ruthless things. I’m afraid this is the legendary “people are in the world and have no choice but to do it”!

Chen Liang took a platoon of soldiers out, and after more than half an hour, he returned with the soldiers with blood. Needless to say, they knew what they had done. Shooting might alarm the enemies passing by nearby, so they could only use military spears, which made many soldiers look unbearable. I can understand them. They can kill the enemies on the battlefield without frowning, but now they are dealing with unarmed prisoners...

After resting for an afternoon, I pulled the troops out in the evening. The soldiers only brought a gun, a small number of bullets and a shovel, and the rest of the equipment was thrown in the village and left a few soldiers to watch, because this time we were going to carry very heavy shells.

When I came to Lie Nu Mountain, I opened the cave where the hidden shells were hidden, carried out boxes of shells from it, and walked towards the Shachangli under the guidance of the uncle.

The distance was not very far. Dalei came to this open area with a length and width of several hundred meters in an hour. According to the old man, this open area is only large between Shachangli and Chizhongli, so I boldly guessed that the artillery camp position that will cause significant losses to the volunteer army in the future will be located here.

It is said that because of the fire cover of this armored artillery battalion, more than 60,000 people of the two volunteers were unable to break through the line of defense on the front line. They were all squeezed into a narrow area and could not enter, and there was no order to retreat. The American planes had no air defense capabilities and were densely arranged in the Volunteer Army, causing heavy casualties to the Volunteer Army. In the end, only one reconnaissance company and one battalion were able to break through.

Of course, this situation will not happen again. I quickly ordered the soldiers to divide the shells into piles and buried them in this open field. Then, two explosive packs are attached to each pile of shells, and then a long lead is pulled. Of course, the leads are also buried in the soil...

Although many soldiers were full of doubts about my approach and asked a few times, I didn't explain much. I only fought Tai Chi with them a few times. The soldiers only thought it was a secret, so I didn't ask more questions afterwards.

After doing this, the soldiers returned to the village to sort out their equipment and say goodbye to the villagers. Although it was already late at night, the people in the village came to see us off. They also handed us some food from time to time. They kept asking the soldiers to be careful and come back to see them. Although the soldiers didn't understand what they were saying, they still nodded gratefully.

The old man took out a medal and handed it to me. Just when I was puzzled, Chen Liang told me that this medal was a relic of his son, and the old man kept risking his life to preserve it. He hoped that the medal could always follow us. When we completely defeated the puppet army, we would hang the medal on the highest house in Seoul.

I silently received this medal, but I didn't know what to say, because I knew that I would never be able to help the uncle achieve this wish, but I was afraid that the person who would wait for the uncle in the future would be destined to be disappointed!

After walking out of the village entrance, the soldiers kept turning back and waved goodbye to the villagers who came to see each other. They walked out of this section very slowly and seemed to be very fast. Finally, under the reluctance of the soldiers, the villagers finally disappeared into the cold and dark night...
Chapter completed!