Chapter 54: Tired

When I returned to the 180th Division with the soldiers of the Cold Gun Army, I sat in the car arranged by Commander Chu for us, the sky was already dawn. As soon as I jumped out of the car, I took the soldiers to report to Commander Pang.

After coming to the division headquarters, he shouted out the report outside the tunnel and received permission, he took Wang Yuehan, Yang Zhenshan and Hu Zudi and walked in.

Commander Pang was discussing something with a dark-faced cadre on the map. When he saw me walking in, he was stunned. He looked at the soldiers behind me and asked in confusion: "Why are you back? Are you still carrying out the mission? They are..."

"Teacher Pang, these two are the captains of the Cold Gun Unit of the 77th Division and the two squad leaders!" I introduced to Commander Pang: "This is the captain Wang Yuehan, this is the squad leader Hu Zudi, and this is the squad leader of the squad leader of the squad leader of the squad leader of the squad leader of the squad leader of the squad leader of the squad leader Yang Zhenshan!"

"Hello, Chief!" The soldiers saluted Commander Pang at the same time.

"Well! It turns out that they are comrades from the 77th Division!" After hearing this, Commander Pang couldn't help but stand up and shook hands with them one by one, and said, "Welcome to you! Comrade Wang Yuehan, Comrade Hu Zudi, Comrade Yang Zhenshan, I have heard of the majesty of your cold gun troops for a long time, and I have long wanted to see you with my own eyes!"

Brother Hu Zu and Yang Zhenshan were not good at speaking. After being told by Commander Pang, he could only smile and touch his head and not know how to answer.

It’s okay for Wang Yuehan. He was a staff officer and had seen many such occasions. At this time, he stood up and said to Commander Pang: “Team Pang has been too rewarded. How can we compare our little credit with the 538th Regiment under your command? Speaking of the 538th Regiment, no one knows the current volunteer army!”

"It's almost the same. Everyone is a revolutionary comrade, so there's no need to distinguish between each other!" Commander Pang couldn't help laughing proudly when he heard this. It could be seen that Commander Pang was indeed very satisfied with the results achieved by the 538th Regiment. Wang Yuehan's flattery was considered a direct shot.

"By the way! Why are you back?" After a while of laughter, Commander Pang turned his eyes to me, with a few traces of inquiries in his eyes, and a few traces of blame: "Don't you still have a mission? Why do you come back so soon? Do you know that returning like this may attract the attention of the traitor..."

"Teacher Pang!" I replied with a smile: "Our mission has been almost completed. Didn't this be reported to you when I came back!"

"What? Is it done almost?" Hearing the words, Commander Pang was stunned and said with disbelief: "What is done almost? It's only a few days, right? You can't just kill a group of puppet army agents and think you've completed the mission! There are still many puppet army agents..."

"Teacher Commander, we have destroyed more than 200 puppet army agents and also removed their base!" I replied.

"What are you... what? What are you saying? More than 200 agents?" After Commander Pang reacted, he was so surprised that he could stuff a big apple in his mouth. He was stunned for a while and then continued, "Cui Wei, are you saying... the puppet army sent more than 200 puppet army agents to attack the arsenal, and then you took it all in a pot?"

Because the Cold Gun Army was actually commanded by Commander Chu, and it was last night when he took the puppet military base, Commander Pang was completely unaware of it. At this time, he couldn't help but feel confused when listening to my report.

"Not this!" I smiled and told Commander Pang about the battle that followed the puppet army agents to the base and sent ambushers to remove the puppet army agents' nest.

"Good boy! I didn't expect you to solve it in just a few easy times!" After listening to my skeleton, Commander Pang couldn't help laughing.

"This is called "there is no weak soldiers under the strong general!" The volunteer army cadre who had been next to Commander Pang said at this time: "I remember that when you, Lao Pang, led a unit to kill the Kuomintang without any power to fight back. Now your soldiers are still not inferior!"

I saw that this volunteer army cadre seemed to be very familiar with Captain Pang, but I didn't know him, so I couldn't help but look at Commander Pang with confusion.

"Oh! This is Cai Wenyuan, the political commissar of the 180th Division!" Commander Pang introduced: "When you came some time ago, Political Commissar Cai happened to have a meeting, so I didn't see you!"

"This is what the soldiers often call him Commander Cui!" Cai Wenyuan stretched out his calloused hand and shook it with me, saying, "Captain Cui, when I first came to this army, I found out that all our divisions, regardless of their official positions, were talking about a person in their spare time. That person was you! At that time, I was wondering what kind of person this Commander Cui was, do you have three heads and six arms, or did he have one more eye? Now, it looks no different from us! How can we make the Americans afraid of being like this, and the soldiers admire them like this!"

With a coaxing sound, everyone in the tunnel was amused by Political Commissar Cai's words, and even Commander Pang was no exception.

"This battle was beautiful!" After a while of laughter, Commander Pang patted my shoulder and said, "We have been harassed by the special agent unit of the puppet army these days, especially the soldiers of the logistics army have lost a lot of people and characteristics. This has forced us to send troops to escort cars, trains and other transportation characteristics, which has brought us a lot of burden and pressure. Now! If you take them in one go, you will finally give us a sigh of anger!"

"Yes!" Political Commissar Cai served a cup of tea to several of us and said excitedly: "During this period, the superiors were also very troubled by this matter. They originally wanted to start with the puppet army spies lurking inside us, but considering that the war was imminent, doing so would affect the morale of the army, so they had to put it aside for the time being. Unexpectedly, the puppet army agent asked Captain Cui to take the old nest in one breath. Now, no matter how powerful the traitors are, they cannot use their means!"

"By the way!" Commander Pang asked with a few disbelief as if he was remembering something: "You said those agents are wearing bulletproof vests, is that really the case?"

"Of course it's true!" Wang Yuehan continued, "We've brought a few more!"

As he said that, Wang Yuehan took out two pieces from the backpack behind him and handed one to Commander Pang and Political Commissar Cai.

I couldn't help but admire Wang Yuehan. When he was in the 77th Division, I knew that he was a cautious and careful staff officer, but I didn't expect that he was so careful that he had come to report. Before he came to report, he thought of bringing some spoils.

"That's the thing?" Commander Pang grabbed the bulletproof vest in his hand and shook it, and asked with a smile: "Can American really protect this thing against bullets?"

"How can it be!" Yang Zhenshan replied disdainfully: "If they can be bulletproof, then we can still kill them without leaving any armor? These things must be used by the Americans and the puppet soldiers to boost their courage!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers laughed again. But I was the only one who didn't, because I knew that this bulletproof vest was not invented by the Americans to foster courage. In the near future, it will play an unexpected role in many areas on the battlefield.

But these are not very meaningful now. Even modern body armor is difficult to popularize in ordinary troops. Not to mention that our country does not have the financial resources to equip every soldier with a body armor, even if it is equipped, it will affect the troops' charge due to its weight and size. In the battlefield of this era, especially our army will fight under the strong advantages of the US military's aircraft and artillery fire. If it is equipped with a body armor, the casualties may be greater than that without equipment.

So I changed the topic and said, "Teacher Commander and Political Commissar, although we destroyed the base of the puppet army agents this time, unfortunately we did not catch them all in one place, and a small number of the leaders escaped."

"This is indeed a problem!" Political Commissar Cai nodded, lit a cigarette for himself, and said, "That is why we must always be vigilant and not be proud of our existing achievements. We should continue to work hard and defeat the imperialist reactionaries in the bud in one breath, so as not to rekindle them again and cause irreparable losses to our troops!"

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard this. Originally, I just wanted to remind Commander Pang to know that the puppet army agents were not uprooted by us, and to make him more careful. But I didn't expect that Political Commissar Cai would say such a big truth, but let alone, this meaning is not much different from what I thought. But... I always feel that such a big truth should be said by some scholars. Political Commissar Cai knew at a glance that he was a person who worked and did farm work for many years. It really surprised me that this words from him were said.

"Teacher Commander, Political Commissar, this is the walkie-talkie that the soldiers handed over from the puppet military agents!" I took out two walkie-talkies from Wang Yuehan's backpack and handed them to Commander Pang and Political Commissar Cai.

No need to think, Wang Yuehan remembered to bring the bulletproof vests that were taken off the dead, so there was no reason not to bring this walkie-talkie.

"Walkjet radio?" Hearing the words, Commander Pang and Political Commissar Cai were stunned. It was obvious that they had never heard of this thing.

"It's just like a phone call!" I explained.

"Then, where is the phone line?" Political Commissar Cai asked in confusion with a walkie-talkie.

"Eat..." Hu Zudi and Yang Zhenshan couldn't help laughing.

"Political Commissar!" Yang Zhenshanguchi quickly answered and said, "This is a new thing that the Americans invented, without a telephone line!"

"Well? You can talk without a telephone line? And it's so small?" Hearing that Commander Pang and Political Commissar Cai couldn't help looking at each other.

"Yes!" I helped them turn on the switch of the intercom: "This is the earplug, put in the ear, this is the microphone, just clip it to the collar. Try talking..."

“Hey hey!”

"Hey, I can really hear it!"

...

Commander Pang and Political Commissar Cai tried it and found that it really worked. They couldn't help but look at the walkie-talkie in their hands and were amazed. Their surprised eyes were as if Columbus had discovered the New World.

"Is that so great?" After a while, Commander Pang's face changed as if he had thought of something, and looked at me in surprise: "With this thing, the commander of the Americans can command every soldier directly! And every soldier can report the situation like his superiors at any time, right? The coordination of the entire army..."

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but praise him secretly. Commander Pang deserves to be a war-born person. The first thing he thinks about is the role of this thing on the battlefield. But his current worry is obviously redundant.

"Don't worry, Commander Pang!" I explained: "I tried it with the soldiers. The dialogue was very clear within a range of 100 meters. It started to blur if it was 100 meters away, and it was impossible to hear clearly if it was 150 meters away!"

"Huh..." Hearing this, Commander Pang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, shook his head and smiled, "It turns out that this thing is a short distance, which really scared me. However, it's great to be able to talk within a range of 100 meters. At least the enemy's company commander and platoon leader can easily command their subordinates! But we, a battalion troops, can't even call back even if they are released!"

"Teacher Pang is right!" I followed the words of Commander Pang and said: "There are more than 60 walkie-talkies we seized this time. I want to use this batch of walkie-talkies to equip the cold gun troops so that our cold gun troops can coordinate. I don't know..."

"No problem!" Commander Pang agreed without waiting for me to speak: "You have paid these things! And the Cold Gun Army is indeed more needed than other troops and is more suitable for using these equipment. You can do whatever you want! But you have to promise me that these equipment will play their role and fight a few more American devils!"

"Yes!" I hurriedly stood up and saluted to Commander Pang and agreed.

Just kidding, if you don’t agree, you’re still a fool. What does it mean to hit a few more American devils? One more is to hit one more, and two more is to hit two more, let alone there is no comparison at all!

"But Captain Cui..." Just as Yang Zhenshan and others were excited, Commander Pang glanced at us a few times and said, "There is something I want to tell you. According to the orders of the superiors, our tactical counterattack has entered a state of combat readiness. The 77th Division is also when it needs to use people. We originally planned to use our cold gun troops to transfer the cold gun troops of the 77th Division back. Now you have completed the task well, and it is time for them to go back!"

"Teacher, this... they have not been here for a few days..." I was stunned when I heard this.

"We also have to consider the difficulties of others, right?" Commander Pang interrupted me: "The Cold Gun Army is the elite of the 77th Division and the backbone of the 77th Division. Although Commander Wang didn't say anything, can this battle be done without them? Ask Comrade Yang Zhenshan and Comrade Hu Zudi, can they be content with their own troops when the front line is fighting?"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but turn my gaze to the soldiers behind me.

Wang Yuehan nodded at me speechlessly, then stretched out his hand and said, "Captain Cui, there is no banquet that will last forever. It seems that it is time to part again!"

I nodded and tightly held Wang Yuehan's hand, followed by Yang Zhenshan and Hu Zudi...

Only then did I realize that I have always wanted them to be my soldiers and I have always wanted to take them to charge, not because of anything else, but because we have already had a tacit understanding and trust on the battlefield. This tacit understanding and trust can almost be described as "integrity". But unfortunately, I also know that they have their own troops, and they are the elite of that unit, and the 77th Division needs them even more.

So I could only explain to Wang Yuehan helplessly: "Bring each of the soldiers a walkie-talkie is necessary when going to the battlefield! Take good care of the soldiers!"

"Yes!" Wang Yuehan finally saluted me, then saluted Commander Pang and Political Commissar Cai, turned around and walked out of the tunnel.

Parting, suddenly came like this.

The last time, they gave it to me, and this time, I gave it to them.

But I didn't even walk out of the tunnel to say goodbye to the soldiers because I was worried that I wouldn't help but shed tears in front of them.

The roar of cars sounded, and I knew the soldiers were about to set off. There was an urge to snatch out of the tunnel and say goodbye to the soldiers, but in the end I resisted it.

At this time, the warriors suddenly shouted outside the tunnel:

"Goodbye! Captain Cui!"

"Captain Cui, we will be your soldier next time!"

...

I could no longer control my feet, lifted the black cloth at the entrance of the tunnel, ran out, took off my hat and waved at the warriors: "Goodbye! Fight a few more American devils!"

"goodbye!"

"goodbye!"

...

The soldiers also took off their hats and waved at me in the rear compartment.

I watched the car roaring and going further and further, until I turned a corner at the end of the road, and then I couldn't see anything.

I sighed, feeling helpless and strange.

Helplessly, fate always likes to joke with me. When I thought I might never see them again in the future, I suddenly arranged them in front of me. But a few days later, I suddenly arranged them away...

Strangely, in modern times, I always thought that I would not have such a deep relationship with anyone, at least not with men, but now I find that I am wrong. I will be reluctant to part with men and feel sad when I part with men. This sounds like a very strange thing. Now it really happens...

In modern times, I always thought that the saying "Wife is like clothes, brothers are like brothers and feet" is just an empty word shouted in the underworld, an empty word that no one can do.

But now, I think this sentence is correct. At least, it is correct on the battlefield. Because on the battlefield, those who can help you, save your life, and those who can share your life and death are only comrades and brothers!

"Go back!" At some point, Commander Pang was already standing beside me. He patted my shoulder and said, "Go back and have some food and have a good rest. The division headquarters will have a meeting at 9 o'clock in the evening!"

"Yes!" I saluted Commander Pang, then dragged my tired body towards the regiment headquarters.
Chapter completed!