Chapter 162: Faith

Chapter 162: Faith

"Go home for us! Go home for us..."

Xu Yongjian's shouts kept echoing in my ears, making me burst into tears. I really wanted to look back at them, and I wanted to go back and snatch them out and run away together, and even want to go back and die with them... However, I used my last bit of reason to resist this impulse. Because I knew that if I went back, other soldiers would go back with me, which was definitely not the result I wanted to see, nor was it the result I wanted to see.

So I had to wave the bayonet and keep rushing forward with tears in my eyes. The Vietnamese army quickly understood that our purpose was to break through, so they blocked it one by one. But the soldiers were ready to rush to the end, so no matter who came up, how many enemies stood in front of me, they waved the bayonet and rushed forward...

Blood kept splashing in front of us, and screams kept ringing in our ears. The quality of the Vietnamese army was extremely high. They did not retreat from our sudden offensive. However, they lost because they did not expect that we would not move. They attacked the forest with all their strength. In addition, our army's condescending geographical advantage, so we quickly broke through their defense line.

With a "bang!", I beat two Vietnamese troops with a buttstock without any pause. After I knocked down two Vietnamese troops one after another by the fire head of the incendiary bomb, the red and gloomy forest appeared in front of me. I had no room for consideration, so I could only plunge into it.

The soldiers also followed in rows behind them. Although there were too many uncertain factors in the forest, such as whether there were still Vietnamese troops inside that were not killed by our shells, whether the Vietnamese troops laid landmines, bamboo sticks or other traps inside... However, at this time we didn't have to worry about it, because we only had this way of living, and we had no choice. We could still survive when we went in, and there was only a dead end if we didn't go in!

"Dadada..." The gunshots rang out quickly, and there were indeed surviving Vietnamese troops inside. However, as I expected, the bombing of artillery shells was so inaccurate. Just like when the US military turned over our position several times on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, soldiers would still survive. The Vietnamese troops in the forest could not have been blown up to us without any left.

But this doesn't matter, because at this time the Vietnamese army in the forest could no longer pose a threat to us. Their troops were not large at all, and they were bombarded by our army and could not stop us from breaking through.

"Don't look back! Kill all those in front!" I shouted at the soldiers while raising my gun and killed the two Vietnamese soldiers in front of me who were shooting at our army.

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and rushed forward as I ordered, holding submachine guns and shooting.

"Mortar! Mortarist..." I screamed a few times at the surroundings. The light in the forest was very dark, so I could not find the position of the mortar shooter.

"Come!" The two soldiers quickly ran to me. This is the difference between a well-trained unit and a recruit. If it were a recruit unit in this situation, it would be very touching to call me, but I was afraid it would be like an ant on a hot pan.

"Are there any incendiary bombs?" I asked loudly.

"And!" replied the mortarist: "But it's too dark and I can't see clearly, I don't know which one it is!"

"Take them all out!" I stopped without saying a word, grabbed the mortar shells handed over by the soldiers and knocked their tail on the trunk next to them, and threw them at the Vietnamese army that had caught up from behind.

The explosion of "Boom!" was not a fuel bomb.

The two mortar shooters seemed to understand my intentions, and immediately grabbed the mortar shells and threw them back one by one...

"Boom..."

Then suddenly a huge fireball ignited behind us, and in an instant, several Vietnamese soldiers screamed and waved around with flames all over their bodies. Finally, one of them was a burning bomb. The flames that exploded from the burning bomb were connected with the flames in other directions, temporarily blocking the Vietnamese soldiers following us.

"Let's go!" Seeing that the purpose had been achieved, I shouted and chased the main force that was rushing forward with two mortars.

I don’t know how long I ran, the gunshots and explosions gradually left us, and the soldiers slowed down, and finally it seemed as if they had made an appointment with each other. Everyone stopped and some sat on the ground, while some were holding the branches and gasping.

I couldn't stand it anymore. After several days of fighting and running for a while, my physical strength was seriously overdrawn at this time. The soldiers were all humans, and they were not iron-clad, so of course they would be tired.

I looked for a protruding stone and sat down weakly. I was angry and ordered: "Count the number of people!"

The hometown man and Li Zhifu immediately stood up and gathered their subordinates together. After a while, they came up to report: "22 people in the fifth company, 31 people in the sixth company, and 5 members of the shooting team..."

"Where is the fourth company?" I asked casually.

"Report to the battalion commander!" A soldier stood in front of me and replied in a slightly choked voice: "25 people in the Fourth Company!"

"Well!" Seeing that Xu Yongjian who was standing in front of me was no longer the familiar Xu Yongjian, I realized that the Fourth Company had become a company without a company commander because of Xu Yongjian's stay.

"You should be the acting company commander!" I nodded to the soldier standing in front of me and said, "Until Company Commander Xu comes back!"

"Yes!" The soldier stood upright, but tears couldn't help but burst out from his eyes.

The soldiers also fell silent, stood up and turned backwards, saluting in a straight manner in the direction of Xu Yongjian and other soldiers.

After putting down the military salute, I ordered the soldiers: "Everyone has it, keep moving forward..."

The soldiers also knew that this was the time for life and death, and we finally rushed out of the enemy's encirclement. If they still caught up with them now, it would be too unfair, so they followed me.

"Captain Cui!" Ruan Wenqin came up and said with emotion: "I didn't expect it to really rush out, it's hard to imagine..."

"Your troops are not losing much, right?" I asked.

"There are only three people left!" Ruan Wenqin looked beside him and smiled bitterly: "But it doesn't matter. We should have died long ago, and it's already luck that we can still live until now!"

"I think..." I turned around and said to Ruan Wenqin: "At this time, you should have a greater chance of survival when you act separately from us!"

This is a fact. Ruan Wenqin and his group were originally from guerrillas, and the Vietnamese army was tracking us, so if Ruan Wenqin and his men left at this time, they could easily avoid the Vietnamese army based on their familiarity with the jungle.

Ruan Wenqin smiled and shook her head and replied, "Don't say anything like this in the future, otherwise she won't treat us as brothers!"

I stopped talking after hearing this. I knew that the reason why Nguyen Wenqin chose to follow us was completely worried that we could not survive because we were not familiar with the jungle of Vietnam. In fact, Nguyen Wenqin's idea was correct. We had no time to prepare for this breakout. At the same time, we also ran fast to reduce the load, so we didn't have much dry food and ammunition with us. If we encountered the Vietnamese army because of the unfamiliar terrain, or were hungry for several days and nights and could not walk out of this forest, then we would still be a dead end.

But it is different with the help of Ruan Wenqin and his group. They have rich experience in jungle combat, which can help us a lot.

Later facts also proved that my idea was correct. Ruan Wenqin and others have been fighting guerrillas in the jungle for many years, so they naturally have a set of ways to survive, such as how to eliminate the traces behind them, and they even use bamboo sticks, stones, grenades, explosives, etc. to make traps and thunders behind us, so that there will be a few explosions from time to time...

This not only slows down the speed of the Vietnamese army following us to a great extent, but also uses another method to tell us the current location of the Vietnamese army and its distance to us.

Ruan Wenqin and others also have a good solution to the insufficient supply of our army. Just as Ruan Wenqin said, they can survive in the jungle without any food. At first I was very suspicious of this, but after a while, I found that they could indeed do this.

Because for Ruan Wenqin and others, the jungle is their home, and there are endless food everywhere. Their skills really opened my eyes to the soldiers and I. When I was thirsty, I would just use a small bamboo tube to penetrate the trunk of the plant and I could get water to drink it. When I was hungry, I would catch small animals and pick wild fruits. Snakes in the grass, mice in the cave, and plant tuber that could not be named were all their food. But the more troublesome thing is that the strength of the few people cannot fully satisfy our team of more than 80 people, so everyone often has to go hungry.

What makes me feel a little regretful is that in order to avoid the search by the Vietnamese army, we usually can only rush to travel at night, and scatter in the jungle cave during the day, so that some soldiers will accidentally get separated. So our number is getting smaller and smaller. It turns out that there are still 83 people, and after a few days, there are only 65 people left.
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