Chapter 12 Post-war Summary

"Retreat!" At this time, I no longer cared about whether the puppet army would hear the shouts. While shouting at the soldiers, I raised my rifle to aim at the puppet soldiers behind me!

"Bang bang!" Two gunshots, and the two puppet soldiers behind him fell down.

The two of them were too impatient. In order to facilitate the faster shooting of the Volunteer Army, they actually took a kneeling position to shoot. There was no place to hide in this empty space, which made them as obvious as lice on the bald head. In addition, the distance between the enemy and me was only about twenty meters, which made me knock them to the ground immediately.

After the two shots, I didn't dare to stop for a long time, so I jumped up from the ground and ran towards the side.

"Bang bang..." A few sounds, almost the moment I jumped up, the gunshots of the puppet army scouts rang out, and several bullets whizzed past my back.

The remaining puppet army scouts were a little smarter, and seemed to know the saying "Save yourself and eliminate the enemy" I regarded as my motto. The facts proved that this sentence was also correct. The two puppet soldiers who were kneeling just now hoped to kill the enemy faster and more, but they were killed by me one step ahead. And the other puppet soldiers... I think there are at least a dozen people, all of whom were lying in the snow, wearing white disguises, so it was difficult for me to find out their location at a glance.

I believe that if I give me some time, even if I only have a little bit, I can use the rifle in my hand to find their positions and kill them one by one. But I don’t have time, and the main force of the puppet army will retreat into the forest. Once they retreat into the forest to find cover, they will soon aim their attention and guns at us again. At that time, the troops under my command will be trapped in the two sides of the puppet army.

So I had to retreat and bring the soldiers out of this dead land as soon as possible was our only chance. The soldiers also knew this very well, so they all rushed to the side with their waists desperately.

"Bang bang..." Several more bullets hit my feet, and the snow powder raised by the bullet flew into my liberation shoes, making me feel a little cold.

It seems that the puppet army scouts recognized me, maybe because of the "retreat" I called just now! So they recognized me as an "official officer". Maybe they thought I was a platoon leader and at most a company commander. Obviously, officers of this level could not attract too much firepower. I think if they knew that I was a regiment commander, I was afraid that everyone would aim more than a dozen guns at me! Fortunately, that's not the case...

I suddenly stopped my steps, turned around and knelt on the ground in a beautiful position, and quickly raised my rifle to "bang bang!" Just two shots, two screams came from the snow-white area.

While running, while I was staring at my feet, I also observed the direction of the puppet army scouts with part of my eyelight. The sparks from their muzzles exposed their positions.

I didn't stop for a moment. After firing these two shots, I rolled on the spot, and then jumped up again and walked all the way. As I thought, several more bullets hit the position where I was just now.

When fighting, the speed is the reaction of a person. Bullets cannot escape because no matter how fast a person reacts, they are not as fast as a bullet. But if the person who fires a bullet cannot keep up with his reaction, he will only have a chance to miss it.

Just like now, although I was right in front of them, or even under their guns, their bullets were never able to keep up with me. I sometimes walked away, sometimes suddenly lay down, sometimes rolled and avoided, so that the puppet army scouts could not accurately capture my route. The bullets shot either hit me in front of me or behind me, and sometimes I even raised my gun to fight back when I stopped, judged their position based on the sparks coming out of the muzzle, and then accurately knocked off a few puppet soldiers lying in the snow.

The puppet army scouts were obviously attracted by my "performance", or they felt that so many people were dealing with me, not only did they not kill me, but they were not only played with me like a monkey, but also several of them were knocked out one after another. So there were obviously more bullets flying towards me. This was exactly my purpose. The more bullets they shot at me, the safer the soldiers were.

At this time, a sudden scream came from the team, and my heart couldn't help but twitch. It was Lin Xue. Because she was the only female warrior among us. The sound of exclamation just now was obviously made by a woman...

Realizing this, I couldn't help but speed up and followed. At first glance, two soldiers were supporting Lin Xue, one left and one right.

Fortunately, maybe it was just a foot injury.

"One squad cover, all troops retreat!" When the team safely turned into the dead corner of the enemy's shooting, I gave orders to the soldiers.

"Yes!" With a response, more than a dozen soldiers immediately set up guns in the direction of the enemy.

I couldn't help but sit on the ground and took a few deep breaths. Although it didn't take long for that moment, I almost used up all my skills. But even so, it was still a kind of luck that I was not hit by the puppet army.

"Captain Cui! Go quickly!" Jiang Changshun saw me sitting on the ground, and couldn't help but walk up and said, "It's enough to have my command here, you'd better retreat first!"

"Don't worry!" I shook my head and said, "Did you forget? This is our territory and our highland! How can the puppet army do to us?"

Since the war has been fought, it should be said that after we successfully escaped from that dead land, there is actually not much danger. The puppet army originally came to our camp with the mentality of sneak attacks, but their actions were accidentally broken by us, and the strategic goals were obviously unable to be achieved smoothly. In addition, if the puppet army stayed here for a while, they might be surrounded by our army at any time. So I think the possibility that the puppet army would catch up is no longer high.

Sure enough, the soldiers nervously pointed their guns at the edge of the mountain, but no puppet army emerged. After a while, Jiang Changshun went out to observe for a while, then came back panting and reported: "Captain Cui, the enemy has retreated. He walked in a hurry and didn't even carry the body away!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, grabbed the rifle and stood up and said, "Let's go back too!"

"Captain Cui..." Jiang Changshun asked in confusion: "Don't you clean the battlefield? Just go back like that?"

"It's better to leave it to the comrades of other troops!" I smiled relaxedly and said, "The puppet army might have done tricks on the battlefield, such as pretending to be thunders? It may also be a fake retreat, just waiting for us to go out and come hard for us! You don't have enough experience, so let's leave it to other companies to deal with it!"

"Yes!" Jiang Chang responded and didn't dare to say anything else, his blushing like Guan Gong.

After telling a group of soldiers, I ran along the path for a while and followed the large army.

"Captain Cui!"

"Captain Cui!"

Whenever I pass by a warrior, they will scream in a low voice and then cast a respectful look at me, forcing me to nod while walking, which makes me a bit like a rooster pecking at me. I know that the reason why they performed like this was because my "performance" just now made them completely convinced me, the leader.

These soldiers can be said to be my former classmates. In some ways, I think some of them should still look down on me. After all, when I was in the school, I was not a good student with outstanding performance. In fact, I should also be said to be a bad student who is not disciplined and military rules. For example, if you are tied up and retreat, don’t listen carefully in class, and internal affairs... These are simply incomparable to them.

The respect they showed to me after they came to the army was just because I was a regiment commander. But in fact, they were quite dissatisfied. It was not until this battle that they saw my performance on the battlefield that they realized that the real battlefield and the training in the school were really different.

"Where are you hurt?" I ran to Lin Xue and asked with concern.

"No, it's okay..." Lin Xue turned around and saw that it was me, her face turned red. Then she quickly realized that there was something wrong with her answer and hurriedly replied: "Report to the commander, I was just sprained! It's nothing serious!"

"Um!" Seeing that there was indeed no blood under Lin Xue's feet, I felt completely relieved. At first I thought she was shot! Unexpectedly, it was just a sprain.

"It turned out to be just a sprain!" As soon as I relaxed, I couldn't help but joke again: "I thought I could send you back!"

"Why can I send me back?" Lin Xue couldn't help but ask in confusion after hearing this.

"Simple!" I replied seriously: "If your foot breaks, why are you here?"

With a coaxing sound, all the soldiers around him laughed into a ball. Lin Xue glared at me fiercely, but because she didn't want other soldiers to find anything, she was helpless to me. She was so angry that she gritted her teeth. Seeing her like that, she wanted to rush up and bite me immediately.

After a war, the soldiers of the volunteer army usually summarize their combat experience. As the Ninth Company, which had just entered the army from the Buxiao School, is of course no exception. When we come back from the battlefield, the first thing Jiang Changshun did was to gather the soldiers together to carry out criticism and self-criticism.

Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi were also attending the meeting. They both have always been very concerned about the training of the Ninth Company's troops. Liu Shunyi saw the potential of this troops, while Li Pinghe has been because everyone in this troops can be said to be his alumni. What's more, there is one person he cares about very much - Lin Xue.

Originally, he thought it was just a lurking battle to shoot cold guns, so the danger was not very high. But after listening to the soldiers' rough report on the situation, he knew that the battle situation was so dangerous, and the already white face turned blue. He kept circling around her from the moment Lin Xue came back, asking the health officer over and over again, and then he gave up until even Lin Xue was embarrassed to say something and stopped.

During this process, Lin Xue kept looking at me, as if she was afraid that I would be angry. But I didn't care about this, and I was holding a bowl of rice and ate it very much. It was not because I was hungry, but because I was frozen all night, I needed these hot foods to replenish my calories.

The reason I don’t care is not because I can let go, but because I know that Lin Xue has always regarded Li Pinghe as her brother, and the other is because... I don’t have a sense of crisis in my heart.

Yes, there is indeed no sense of crisis! How to say it? I feel that I am in a strong state of love for Lin Xue now. What kind of strong state is it? It can also be said to be a kind of confidence! Because I believe that Lin Xue likes me, just like my performance on the battlefield just now, not only does she feel good about herself, but also has been recognized by the soldiers.

Since you have gained the recognition of the soldiers, you will naturally gain Lin Xue’s recognition, right?

"Comrades!" Jiang Changshun stood up and said, "Let me first talk about the results of our battle. We reported from the 7th Company. We only sacrificed four people in this battle and killed forty-three puppet soldiers at the cost of five injuries, achieving a comprehensive victory in this battle!"

"good!"

"good!"

The soldiers applauded and applauded, and the soldiers who did not participate in this battle all gave us envious eyes.

"But..." Jiang Changshun then said with a wry smile: "A large part of our results this time were fought by Captain Cui! I didn't see clearly on the battlefield, but according to my opinion, Captain Cui has beaten at least twenty enemies by himself! Our platoon of soldiers has not beaten more than Captain Cui!"

Jiang Changshun's words attracted the soldiers to look at me with admiration.

"Let me make a review first!" Jiang Changshun continued: "Although we won the first battle this time and achieved a considerable victory, this battle also exposed many problems in our troops. I also had great flaws in command. When the enemy appeared in front of us, I had lost the calm that a commander should have. I think if we had not been to Captain Cui, we would not have achieved such results in this battle!"

"I'll talk about a few questions!" Platoon leader Zhang Jianjun stood up and said, "I could have killed a few more enemies, but when I killed the first enemy, I was panicked and my hands and feet were trembling disobediently. When I came to my senses and wanted to fight the second enemy, the regiment commander gave the order to retreat..."

"So too!"

"Platform Commander Zhang is right. The transformation is too fast, we can't keep up!"

The soldiers expressed their opinions one after another, talking about their shortcomings, and expressing their determination to correct them. I have held many combat summary meetings, but it is the first time I have encountered so many problems like today. Moreover, I have not discovered these problems when I was busy with wars when I was on the battlefield...

"Captain Cui! Let me say a few words!" I was thinking, but I didn't expect Jiang Changshun to suddenly point the finger at me.

"Yes! Captain Cui, you can say a few words!" Jiang Changshun said this, and the soldiers agreed, forcing me to stand up.

"Comrades!" I cleared my throat and nodded and said, "This is your first battle. I am very satisfied with your performance. Why are you satisfied? Do you know what happened when I fought the first battle? I was so scared that I didn't dare to fire a shot!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed into a ball.

"I, I don't believe it!" Zhang Jianjun grinned and looked at me with a suspicion, saying, "How is Captain Cui on the battlefield? The soldiers all saw it. Dozens of puppet soldiers chased the commander with guns, but they just couldn't beat him. Just the commander's kung fu, how could he be so scared that he didn't dare to fire a single shot?"

"That's it! We don't believe it either!" Other soldiers also expressed their doubts.

"I really didn't shoot..." I deliberately paused for a while before continuing, "I just used a shovel to capture a few prisoners..."

With a coaxing sound, the laughter soon spread in the tunnel again, and even Lin Xue was amused by me to giggle.

"Although this battle was good!" After a while of laughter, I continued, "But as the soldiers said, there are many problems exposed! This is the difference between real battlefields and training and exercises. Bullets, shells, blood, death threats, etc. on the real battlefields, all of which will cause you to feel strong psychological pressure. These pressures will make you breathless and make you perform abnormally.

I believe in your skills and your qualities! You will not be worse than any soldier in the 538th Regiment, but the pressure on the battlefield makes you unable to perform as well as you should. I believe that after this battle, most comrades will have a feeling that they feel that they are cowardly, they cannot shoot the gun correctly, and their movements are not smooth..."

Speaking of this, I deliberately paused and saw that the soldiers were indeed nodding frequently when they whispered to each other.

"So..." I continued: "It's not that you are not good enough, nor that you are not capable of killing enemies! It's because you lack practical experience and lack the psychological quality of fighting face to face with the enemy. So comrades, what you need to practice in the future is not shooting skills or how to command, but how to face the enemy and overcome these difficulties on the battlefield! I believe that after you overcome these difficulties, you will definitely become a qualified volunteer soldier, and your team will definitely become an excellent force!"
Chapter completed!