Chapter 134: Withdrawal

Chapter 134: Withdrawal

"Vietnam compatriots... Chinese border defense forces have been forced to fight back on their own defense since February 17, and now they have achieved their expected goals. The Chinese government announced that from March 5, 1979, all Chinese border defense forces will be withdrawn from China! The Chinese government reiterated: We do not want a single inch of Vietnam's land, and we will never allow others to invade our territory. All we want is a border of peace and tranquility..."

The next day I was woken up by the shouts of the loudspeaker outside the house. I had just sat up from the bed and wanted to hear what it was, and a shocking cheer came from outside the house: "It's a victory! It's a victory..."

"Battery Commander! Battalion Commander..."

Then several soldiers broke into the door. They didn't care about calling for a report at all. As soon as they broke in, they shouted to me excitedly: "Battery Commander! We won! We can go home..."

"We can go back!"

"We are still alive! We can go back alive!"

...

The soldiers were so excited that they were a little overwhelmed, and some even cried with joy!

"Well! Are you going to withdraw your troops?" I asked.

Although I had known that once we were defeated, we would be the day to withdraw our troops, but when this day came, I still felt a little surprised.

"That's right!" the soldiers rushed to answer: "The radio outside has been notified, and we will withdraw our troops today! It's great that we can finally leave this ghost place!"

Looking at the warriors, I couldn't help but feel deeply moved: Yes! Who would like to fight? Who would like to endure so much pain and survival pressure in this foreign country? Although it was only seventeen days, these seventeen days were a hellish test for the warriors.

Blood, corpses and death are always with us, and even I can't stand it, let alone these soldiers who have never been on the battlefield!

Now it’s finally time to withdraw. This is indeed a good thing, and it’s a great thing! Infected by the soldiers, my fatigue quickly disappeared without a trace. I sat up from the bed and tightened my buckles, and walked out of the barracks with the soldiers...

There is a jubilant world outside, and the radio continues to broadcast "...The Chinese government solemnly stated: If the above situation occurs, China will reserve the right to continue to fight back..."

But no one paid attention to what was said on the radio. Whether it was a soldier or a migrant worker, they all danced, sang or danced. Some threw their hats high into the air, some smiled and hugged them when they saw people, and some squatted on the ground and cried... There were all kinds of strange expressions.

"Battery Commander! When will you retreat?"

"Yes! When will you retreat? I can't wait!"

...

When I saw me coming out, the soldiers gathered up to ask questions, which made me frown. In some ways, I think the order to withdraw troops was not suitable for being announced on the radio so early. The superiors did not consider the mentality of these new recruits. It is not an exaggeration to compare Vietnam to them as hell. They usually rely on a kind of will and perseverance to support them. Now that they know that they are going to withdraw their troops and go home, the mentality of returning home is tantamount to the rapid collapse of the entire defense line.

This will directly lead to no more intentions in carrying out tasks, and will also cause some soldiers to protect themselves. Many people will think in their hearts that they are going home. If they die at this time, wouldn’t it be unfair? So this directly made the soldiers feel afraid of war.

If these are, it may not be a big problem for veterans, because veterans are very clear that on the battlefield, the closer they are to victory, the more careful they should be, the more vigilant they can go home, and just grit your teeth and persevere for a while, you can get out of your body. However, the recruits are completely unable to achieve this kind of self-discipline.

Facts have also proved that what I was right. In history, our army's retreat was because of the premature notification of the full withdrawal and the lack of psychological quality of our army, so many unnecessary casualties and losses were found during the retreat.

"I don't know yet!" Thinking of this, I replied coldly: "I have to wait for the orders of my superiors!"

"Battery Commander! Why don't we send a telegram to ask our superiors!"

"Yes! Maybe the superiors forgot to issue the order to retreat!"

...

The soldiers did not notice that my expression was different, but they were persistent and complacent, without any attitude of subordinates towards their superiors.

Several soldiers even shouted at the communication soldier who was more than ten meters away: "Communication soldier, hurry up! The battalion commander wants to send a report..."

"What's the point!" I shouted angrily with a stern face. The soldiers around me were scared, but the other soldiers were still caring for themselves because they didn't hear it. Wuming in my heart got angry, and pulled out the pistol from my waist and shot it in the sky.

The scene suddenly became quiet, and the soldiers in the audience looked at me with puzzled eyes. From their eyes, I could tell that they had no idea what was wrong with me, and they didn't know what they did wrong!

"I tell you!" I pointed to the land under my feet and shouted at the soldiers: "As long as we step on the land of Vietnam, the war will not end, and it is not time for you to sing and dance! One day you really go on our own territory, and even if you dance for three days and three nights, I won't care about you!"

I glanced around the soldiers with a fierce look and ordered: "Everyone has it! I will immediately set up a warning and a sentry for me, and all the other soldiers will go back and rest, stay alert or not? "

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, not daring to scatter and return to their barracks at all.

"Report!" Not long after I returned to the battalion headquarters, reports from my hometown people, Xu Yongjian and Li Zhifu and several company commanders came from outside the door.

"Come in!" I thought to myself that they were coming just right, and I was about to have a meeting with them.

"battalion commander!"

"battalion commander!"

...

The three company commanders walked in and stood in front of me. The hometown people spoke first. He asked in confusion: "Battery Commander, are there any more tasks?"

"No!"

"Then..." Xu Yongjian continued with some confusion: "What else do you have to let us..."

"I was about to tell you about this!" I sat on the bed, put the rifle in my reach, and said, "You think the Vietnamese Japanese will lose their temper if they let us chase each other through this relentless pursuit, right? I think the battle to withdraw is over now, right! I tell you, it's still early..."

"Battery Commander!" Li Zhifu said with some disbelief: "What do you mean... those Vietnamese Japanese dare to catch up?"

"Why don't you dare?" I said angrily: "You don't think about it. How can they not chase after it? If they don't chase it, isn't that telling the whole world that they are afraid of us? If they chase it, they can also tell the Vietnamese that they can tell the people of the whole world that they have defeated us and that we are beaten and ran away by them!"

"They dare..." Li Zhifu blushed and cursed with a thick neck when he heard me say this: "Aren't they afraid that we will fight back?"

"What's there to be afraid of?" I replied, "If it were you...will you be willing to chase after me? Even if you really don't dare to chase me from a large army, you'll want it as if you were to show me! It's okay to follow us and eat some people who fall behind!"

I said this and the three company commanders were speechless. What I said was not a big truth. For a country, it was to strive for the greatest benefit as much as possible, so it was impossible for the Vietnamese army to not pursue it. The reason was very simple. It would not only bring back some face in the international community, but also make a big fuss within the Chinese people. It was to regain lost territory and inspire people. It could even follow us far behind and hold some back troops to catch a few prisoners to promote their results...

This does sound shameless, but I think any country will do this without hesitation in this situation.

"So..." I continued: "We should pay more attention during this period of retreat. Especially after announcing a full withdrawal, many soldiers will cause chaos because they are home. These hundreds of thousands of troops will retreat at will... The consequences of this chaos are not something we can imagine!"

After hearing my words, the three company commanders couldn't help but look at each other, as if they realized the seriousness of this problem at this time.

"Report to the battalion commander!" At this time, a correspondent held the microphone and signaled to me: "It's Commander Wang..."

"Yeah!" I nodded, and walked towards the correspondent and told the company commanders: "You guys do your job well as the soldiers. We have persisted in such a hard battle. We must not make trouble at this last moment! Think about it, you can go back to see your family, but you are injured or sacrificed at this time. That's not worth it!"

As he said that, he waved his hand and signaled several company commanders to leave. The three company commanders knew that I was in a hurry to answer the phone, so they didn't say much, saluted me and went out.

"Report!" I took the microphone and identified.

"Captain Cui! You've heard the news of the withdrawal of the troops!" Commander Wang laughed on the other side of the microphone and said, "It's not easy! We finally won the victory of this war! This is inseparable from your contribution! Commander Chu has spoken and will report you immediately after he goes back!"

"Thank you, the commander!" I didn't refuse. In fact, these merits, fame, etc. are not very important to me. If I were to fight for these things, I would not know how much I could get as early as the time of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

"I want to notify you if there is something!" Then Commander Wang turned to the topic and said: "We received a notice from our superiors that in order to avoid chaos, each unit must retreat in batches. So you'd better go back to your own troops as soon as possible, so you won't be able to keep up if the large unit retreats!"

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard this. Commander Wang's worries make sense. If this is the case, we really have to find our own troops as soon as possible.

"Thank you again for your troops' contributions!" After pausing, Commander Wang continued, "Your troops are near Bawai Mountain in northeastern Shandong. I am not very clear about the specific location. I made several calls but no one could explain it clearly... You should hurry up! Do you want me to arrange a car for you..."

The fact that we can't find the troops is still quite common in our army in this era. This is mainly due to the problem of coordination between the troops. In addition, our army is not familiar with the terrain, and the map is still the map when the United Nations League and the United States was fought against the United States more than ten years ago. Therefore, many times the troops themselves do not know where they are, let alone superiors.

"No, the car is too big!" After thinking about it, I rejected Commander Wang's kindness, then put down the microphone and hurriedly shouted to the guards beside him: "Notify the troops to gather urgently!"

"Yes!" The guard responded, turned around and ran out the door and blew the whistle.

When I put my equipment and walked out, the troops were already standing in neat formations outside. I only shouted at them: "Target Bawai Mountain, march quickly!" and ran south.

"Bawaishan?" I heard the soldiers talking in a low voice, and all their faces were full of doubts.

I knew what they were thinking, and they thought we were going to retreat, but they didn't expect to walk towards Bawai Mountain. But I didn't have time to explain to them. At this time, I hoped to find my own troops earlier, even if I saw the annoying chief of staff.

It should be said that Bawai Mountain is not far from us, only a distance of seven or eight kilometers. If you walk fast, you will arrive in less than an hour. But it just didn't go as expected. The wounded, migrant workers, troops, cars, tanks retreated from the front line, but we were going in the opposite direction with them.

This is good if it was normal, but at this time it was a big retreat... It was said to be a retreat, but it was really like an escape. Just like the TV and the biggest defeat described in the movie was not an exaggeration. The kettle, marching, gas masks and other things were thrown all over the floor, and some people even threw bullets to reduce the weight. The whole road was filled with chaos, which forced me to pull the troops into a row and move forward slowly in the crowd... At this time, I was glad that I had rejected Commander Wang's car.

This is not a rush to march! It is even slower than a turtle, and some soldiers who don’t know us from time to time shouted at us: “What are you doing! Everyone retreats and you go south…”

At this time, the soldiers always yelled at their ungrateful comrades who were ungrateful and shouted: "Why are you yelling? You are still sleeping in your womb when you are fighting!"

I have never encountered any scenes of my soldiers. Dozens of people dared to pick a regiment of the Vietnamese army, but they were afraid of their comrades scolding. Those soldiers were tactful. When they saw that we were covered in bloody military uniforms everywhere, they knew that we were not easy to mess with. Some of them even were so fierce that they would give in to the way themselves.

Later I also realized that I had made a name, so I shouted to the intercom: "Company Commander Chen! Go ahead..."

"Yes!" Without thinking too much, the people from my hometown lined up all the way to grab the front of the army. When they turned around and thought, they felt strange, so they asked in confusion: "Battery Commander! Why did you let me walk in front?"

I smiled and replied, "What our comrades are afraid of is the fierce soldiers! You look just right..."

The people in my hometown were speechless when they heard this, and only received bursts of sneering from the soldiers.

Not to mention, the scar on the face of the hometown people can really play a role. After the hometown people understood what I mean, they deliberately carried a few soldiers covered in blood stains all the way, shouting "Get out of the way! Go out of the way..." and the speed was indeed much faster.

Finally, we walked out of the crowded city with great difficulty. Just when we thought we could breathe a sigh of relief and stride towards our target, we found that several soldiers in front of us were whistling at us, waving the signal flag...

"What are they doing?" I asked the correspondent beside me who knew the flag language.

"They mean..." the correspondent looked carefully for a while and said, "They meant that this road was blocked, let's take a detour..."

"What? Detour?" I turned around and asked the guide beside me, "How far is the detour?"

"Da Lum...it will take more than five or six kilometers!" The guide's answer made me angry and anxious.

"Damn it! Why did they block the road?" Li Zhifu couldn't help but cursed: "I went up to them to judge and let us go no matter what I said!"

As he said that, he rolled up his sleeves and rushed up angrily. After a while, he came back in a dusty state: "Battalion Commander, they are from the engineers. In order to prevent the Japanese from catching up, they are burying landmines! I said we will go there first... They said that hundreds of landmines had been buried long ago. Could it be that they would dig them one by one?"

"These bastards!" The people from the hometown couldn't help but curse: "Why do you bury mines so early? Then can't we all pass by?"

"It can't be blamed on others!" Li Zhifu said: "They are also executing orders, and it is said that the engineers will stay and blast many places! Those bank buildings, municipal government buildings, factories, Qiqionghe Bridge, railway steel bridges...even the telephone poles must be blown up one by one, and you can't do it earlier!"

"The telephone poles are going to explode?" Some soldiers became curious.

"That's not?" Li Zhifu nodded and said, "I heard from Comrade Engineers that we can take away everything we can, and blow up all the things we can't take away, and even Mao didn't leave a single one for the Vietnamese devils! Comrade Engineers also said... The results we infantry comrades exchanged for their lives cannot be returned to the Vietnamese devils so easily. All they have to do is to clean up everything!"

"Hey! I didn't expect that the comrades in the engineering unit still had such great ability!"

"Comrade Engineer did a good job! Don't leave a hair for the Vietnamese Japanese!"

The soldiers followed and discussed.

"Let's take a detour!" I ordered with a weak command.
Chapter completed!