Chapter 10 Racing
After training during the day and resting for a while, the troops embarked on the road of marching that night.
Before leaving, the 60th Army soldiers who came to see him off were heard, and a few Koreans. Those who shook hands and said goodbye, those who brought tea and water, and those who brought eggs and dry food were very lively. Fortunately, here is the rear of the front line, with the protection of Volunteer air defense artillery and MiG fighter jets. The US aircraft did not dare to come and bomb, otherwise our regiment would suffer losses before it even went out.
"I'll send it to you not far away!" Commander Pang finally shook my hand and said, "I'll tell you good news first. The headquarters has promised to be responsible for your ammunition, and you will be directly commanded by the headquarters!"
"What?" I was stunned when I heard this. According to common sense, it should be the commander of the Corps Command, the army command division, and the division commanded the regiment, but now the command directly commanded my regiment...
"What's there to make a fuss about?" Seeing this, Commander Pang couldn't help but smile: "The headquarters is responsible for your ammunition supply. If it is not commanded by the headquarters, how can we cooperate? Besides, Commander Wang Jinshan also said that he was not at ease to hand you over to other people to command. He must hear your situation in real time!"
"Um! That's right!" I couldn't help but remember what Wang Jinshan said to me again when he was leaving, "You must do it well for me, otherwise I will fight you to death!"
"And this..." Commander Pang's eyes were filled with regret and whispered to the jeep parked on the roadside: "It's yours!"
"Teacher Pang, I can't ask for this, I..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Commander Pang interrupted me: "You need it more than me, and the driver should take it with you too! Use it well, don't treat it badly!"
"Yes!" I responded and had to nod my head to agree.
"Let's go!" Commander Pang pushed me into the car, closed the car door for me, then patted the driver on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Wang, you must protect the safety of Commander Cui!"
"Yes!" The driver, known as Xiao Wang, looked at Commander Pang reluctantly and started the jeep.
The troops started and the cars started. There were soldiers waving goodbye to us everywhere. Their eyes were full of encouragement, confidence, and passion... I know that at this time, we were carrying not only the food and weapons they pieced together, but also the hope of all of them.
When the jeep drove into the corner with the team, I turned back and finally glanced at Commander Pang, but saw Commander Pang standing in his original position like a piece of wood, without waving or speaking, just watching us leave silently. The whole person seemed to suddenly become powerless and smileless, as if our departure also took away his target and his sustenance...
The jeep drove slowly with the team for a while, and then I realized that there was actually not a good thing for the Volunteer Army team. The Volunteer Army owned a small number of cars. For example, in a regiment, there are only two cars in total used to transport ammunition and food.
It would be better if there were too many cars. Yi Guzhi installed all over 3,000 people in the entire regiment to march, but there were only two. This situation determines that the convoy could not leave the large army that was walking, because once these two cars left the large army, they would be easily attacked by the enemy team. In this ghost place in North Korea, there were guerrillas of the People's Army in South Korea, and in North Korea there were also puppet troops.
So the car had to follow the big army slowly, but the roar of the car and the occasional headlights of the car could easily reveal the whereabouts of our army, providing conditions for the bombing of enemy planes. This made the two cars in our army become veritable "baby ribs", including the jeep that Commander Pang just gave me... they were all tasteless and it was a pity to abandon it!
Fortunately, we are now marching within our own defense line. At this time, our anti-aircraft guns and MiG fighter jets have already had certain power to the US military. They can no longer bomb without restraint as before, otherwise I would throw away these cars without saying a word.
And more importantly, watching the soldiers march on the ground while I was sitting in the jeep and following slowly, I felt an indescribable awkward feeling in my heart. Isn’t this? I felt uncomfortable all over when I hadn’t sat for a while.
"Stop!" When I saw a few radio soldiers carrying radio stations, I couldn't help it anymore.
The jeep stopped with a squeak, and I jumped out of the car and walked among the soldiers and felt relieved. Then I waved to the radio soldiers behind me, and they ran to me all the way.
"You guys, get in the car!"
"Captain, this..."
"If you ask you to sit down, you can sit down! Why are there so much nonsense?" I said, but I was laughing in my heart. The tone of Teacher Pang asked me not to talk nonsense was that I could learn it.
"Yes!" The radio soldiers did not dare to disobey my orders, so they took off the radio station on their bodies and put it in the car, and then climbed up.
"Captain Cui! Why don't you take the bus?" Seeing me get off the bus and walk, Li Yongxi, who had been following in front of the bus, immediately leaned against me.
"Oh! I can't sit on this foreign thing!" I responded casually: "I feel sore all over after sitting for a while! It's better to walk with you!"
"It turns out that the commander is the same as me!" Zhang Mingxue smiled beside him: "It's not comfortable as soon as I get on that thing. Once I took a mission to protect a leader. I jumped up and down in the back of the car. After a while, I vomited so much that I was so confused. Not to mention protecting the leader, the leader is almost the same for protecting me..."
With a coaxing sound, Li Yongxi and others couldn't help laughing.
As we were talking, we gradually found that the other soldiers beside us were all rushing on the road silently, without saying anything or laughing. From time to time, several soldiers cast surprised eyes at us. I and Zhang Mingxue and others also felt it, and felt a little embarrassed. I couldn't help but think in my heart that the selected soldiers are different! Usually, even if I don't give a ban on the order, they only have footsteps when they march. Compared to their performance, Zhang Mingxue and others, including me, are much worse.
So I made a ban on the sound of Zhang Mingxue and others, and everyone knew it and closed their mouths and rushed silently. In an instant, there were only crackling footsteps and the roar of cars left in the night. It only made me, who usually talk, so I, in order to be a good example in front of the soldiers, I insisted on not saying anything. I thought to myself that if the quality of this unit is too good, it doesn't seem to be a good thing, at least no one will chat on the way of the march...
I couldn't stand the boring march for three days, and the endurance of my team under me was amazing. They could marching quickly without rest all night. This made me shout in my heart that I couldn't stand it, but I was a leader of the group. Out of face, I couldn't order a rest, so I had to grit my teeth and endure it. I was like this, not to mention Zhang Minghua and the others. Xu Yongwei, who had a relatively poor physique, fainted halfway through the road. Fortunately, there was a jeep given to me by Commander Pang, otherwise I might have to leave him at the homes of ordinary people.
Before dawn on the third day, we arrived at our destination, Jinhua, the defense zone of the 15th Division of the Fifteenth Division of the 5th Army of the Second Army of the People's Army.
We marched so fast that when we arrived at the People's Army's defense zone, they were not ready at all. The People's Army sentry guarding Luka stopped us on the road because they did not receive any news about the coming of the Volunteer Army. It was not until more than half an hour later that a jeep came to greet the People's Army officers. This made me sigh again about the efficiency of the People's Army officers!
The officers jumped out of the jeep and greeted him with a smile. One of them, who was supposed to be a translator, held hands at us from afar and said to us in a standard Chinese language: "Oh! There are no mistakes to welcome us! There are no mistakes to welcome us! We thought you will arrive tomorrow as soon as possible! Please forgive me if you are rude!"
When he saw that we had only two cars, he couldn't help but exclaim, and his face soon filled with incredible expressions and said, "Did you come here?"
Liu Shunyi and I were about to come up and talk, but they passed us by us as transparent people. Then they walked to the jeep with affection, bowed to Xu Yongwei, who was sitting in the car because of lack of physical strength, and said, "Oh! Captain Cui, why don't you say it first when you come? We just received the telegram the day before yesterday and knew you were coming, and I thought you were not that fast! What an honor! Please give me a gift..."
"Captain Cui..." Xu Yongwei shouted at me at a loss, shocking that the jaws of the People's Army officers were about to fall off. Even the People's Army soldiers watching this scene were looking sideways, unable to believe what they saw was true.
"Oh! That...Captain Cui..." When the People's Army officers confirmed that they had indeed recognized the wrong person, they couldn't help but walk in front of me in embarrassment.
"Hello!" I smiled softly, reached out to hold them a hand, and introduced to them: "I am Cui Wei, the commander of the 538th Regiment of the 180th Division of the 60th Army. This is Liu Shunyi, the deputy commander!"
"Hello!" the translator replied: "Our division commander is busy and cannot come in person, so let us representatives come to greet you. My name is Li Xianhao. This is Major Jin Mingguo and Major An Jinxue. We will fight with you in the future and assist you in your work."
Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a sense of displeasure in my heart, because I knew that the major of the Soviet army was at most a battalion commander. On such an occasion, the People's Army actually sent only two battalion commanders to greet us, and it was clear that they wanted to insert these two battalion commanders into our troops as soon as they came up. This only means that they did not take our regiment seriously at all, and they even thought that we had some special purpose here. These two people were more surveillance than assisting!
Although I was not a "official" in the past, I was not respected wherever I went in the army. At this time, I could not resist this kind of bird's breath, and my face would explode as soon as it changed.
At this time, Liu Shunyi, beside him, patted my shoulder and stopped my impulse. He turned around and pretended to be smiling and said to Li Xianhao and others: "Okay! Your comrades in the People's Army are really understanding. We are worried that the terrain is not familiar with each other and cannot complete the task well! You will send someone to help us solve this problem immediately. It is really thoughtful and thoughtful!"
"Where is it!" Li Xianhao laughed and bowed.
Looking at his appearance, I couldn't help but curse in my heart. This guy actually learned the modest oral words of us Chinese. But although they said this, they did not mean anything humble in their actions. Isn't this? The Sino-Korean Joint Command has regulations that the ranks of the Volunteer Army and the People's Army are also applicable to the other troops. Now, my regiment commander is at least a lieutenant colonel or a colonel, but they have not saluted me until now!
"Then Captain Cui!" Li Xianhao said to us with a slight smile: "Do you see, are we going to the resident now? Or..."
"Go to the station!" I responded angrily. Anyway, I don't need your welcome. I saw the faces of you officials at the dinner table, but I was afraid that I would not be able to eat.
"That's good, that's good!" Li Xianhao didn't say much, and jumped into the jeep and led the way with the two majors.
I couldn't help but snorted coldly, and I felt even more angry. After all, we were also a regiment commander and a deputy regiment commander, all of whom were at the lieutenant-colonel level or above. We were all walking on the ground, but a few of them at major level dared to openly drive in front of us and let us eat dust behind us...
"Don't be irritated if you are a little worried, you will be in trouble!" Liu Shunyi whispered beside him: "The purpose of our coming here is to complete the tasks assigned to us by our superiors, and at the same time make us clear the reputation of our 60th Army. If you have a quarrel with them now, maybe you won't even have this only chance! That's so sorry to Commander Pang and the others!"
"Yes!" I nodded, thinking that this team was all the hard work of the 60th Army. Commander Pang and others had great hope for us. If they went home because of a quarrel with the People's Army, they would have let their expectations down. So they had to suppress their anger and said to Liu Shunyi: "It's still Deputy Commander Liu who is considerate, I almost ruined the big thing!"
But we can't stand it after following the jeep, but some people can't help it. After a while, with a "squeak!", Xiao Wang parked the jeep beside us and shouted: "Captain, get in the car! Give them some colors to see how they are arrogant!"
I couldn't help but be overjoyed when I heard this. I was so angry that I had nowhere to be heard! So I climbed into the car without saying a word.
Before Deputy Commander Liu could stop him urgently, Xiao Wang stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward like an arrow, chasing Li Xianhao and others in front.
Li Xianhao's driver also found the car that was catching up with us, and seemed to be willing to compete with us, and immediately accelerated the speed. The two cars chased each other on the road and quickly threw the cry of the soldiers behind and Deputy Commander Liu far behind. I was not worried that they would get lost. If such a team did not even have the ability to track, it seemed that it would not be worth my way to take them to the battlefield.
The jeep's engine rumbled, rushing forward like a crazy beast. It was still at night. Although it was light in the east, the visibility was still very low. I could hardly see where the road ahead was. Sometimes, even though I saw a rock in front, I saw Xiao Wang suddenly twitch the steering wheel and another road appeared.
The wind was rumbling in my ears, and the poor road conditions made the jeep rush up and down frantically, swaying left and right. On several occasions, if I hadn't been holding the handrail tightly, I almost got out of the car.
The driver of the jeep in front was not lazy, and he was not vague about turning left and right on the highway. But to be honest, they did take advantage of a lot of advantages. Not only did they say that the terrain was familiar, but the dust raised increased the difficulty for us. They didn't seem to be worried about being caught by us, because this section of the road was very narrow and it was not enough for two jeeps to pass side by side. If you want to surpass them, there would be almost the ending of the car being destroyed and the people being killed.
This made me think of the car chase in modern police and gangster films, so I thought, if the enemy in front was really simple, I just took out my sniper rifle and "bang!" and it would be solved with two sounds. But now, I could only listen to the laughter of Li Xianhao and others in the cold wind blowing towards me...
Just as he was worried, Xiao Wang stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, the jeep suddenly accelerated, and when he was about to hit the butt of the car in front, he suddenly turned the steering wheel. I felt a moment of dizziness, and almost thought that he had lost control and overturned! But at this time, strange things happened. The jeep was actually hanging in the air like a performing acrobatics. Then with a "huh", we almost passed by Li Xianhao and the others' cars on our heads...
With a sudden brake, Li Xianhao and the others stopped the car and looked at us in a daze. Xiao Wang still deliberately showed off a beautiful 180-degree turn on this narrow road, and smiled proudly in front of Li Xianhao and the others.
Chapter completed!