Chapter 50 Landmines

The next night, as soon as the sky became dark, we crawled towards the plains under Xu Feng's leadership.

This is the first time to take action. Captain Chu did not arrange many people, and he also wanted to send some people to reconnaissance. However, for some reason, this glorious mission was honored to fall on our camp.

Although it was a battalion, the number of people was only more than one hundred. Because the task of building fortifications with low eyelids in the enemy was of great importance. If the puppet army discovered it, all the previous efforts would be wasted, so they only brought veterans, and the recruits were left in the forest for primary military training. Because Zhao Yongxin's injuries had not healed yet, he was kept in the forest to watch the recruits.

More than a hundred people slowly climbed out of the forest, with the company commander in front of the army and the instructor behind the army. This is also the PLA's combat habit. The combat cadres are in front of the army, so the soldiers have a clear mind, and the political cadres are behind, staring at all the soldiers to see if anyone is wandering...

I secretly complained in my heart that I either want to be a big person or not. Now I am just a company commander who is not big or small!

More than a hundred people slowly climbed up the plain, wearing white cloth from the golden autumn lotus, maybe it was borrowed from the common people! North Koreans like to wear white clothes the most, so it is not difficult for me to get white cloth, but I have been wondering if the white cloth I was wearing was the skirt of a certain woman...

The bright moonlight shines the plain in front of you as white as it is shrouded under fluorescent lights. Occasionally, you will see several bombed cars. I think this place was once filled with blood and war. The snowflakes with the height of goose feathers floated in the air with the cold wind, as if they were petals sprinkled from the sky by gods, and they wanted to cover up all the death and pain here.

The white cloth covered with a thin layer of snow soon covered us with a thin layer of snow, which formed a natural disguise for us. If our comrades were not crawling around us, we wouldn't be able to see any difference from the environment around us.

It made me tremble involuntarily, and a burst of chill came from under me. It was not a pleasant thing to lie on the snow in such cold weather. So, I couldn't feel my feet after just a while.

I looked up at the big plain in front of me. It was a few hundred meters long. If I wanted to build a tunnel cave, I had to do it by the Linjin River, otherwise it would still not have any effect. But now I was so cold that I was so cold that I stopped and took a few deep breaths, wondering if I could climb to the riverside...

Alas! Let's climb... dozens of soldiers behind you are watching!

I lifted my elbow helplessly and stretched it forward, but at this time, a different touch suddenly came from the elbow, and it seemed to be a little elastic. I don’t know where the perseverance came from, so I forced myself to stop the elbow that was about to press down in mid-air.

"Mine!" A terrible word jumped into my mind, and I stood there as if I was electrocuted.

"Stop!" After a while, I whispered around, regardless of the danger of being discovered by the enemy, "If there are mines, stop them!"

Damn, these puppet troops not only set up landmines on the south bank, but also on the north bank. And it’s not good to bury where you are, but you have to bury one on my way forward. You have a grudge against me, right? This landmine was pressed by my elbow, just under my head, as soon as I exploded, my head would...

"There are mines! Stop!"

"There are mines! Stop!"

...

As a veteran who has experienced many battles, the soldiers did not panic, but just whispered this message one by one. I am very glad that I did not bring the new recruits.

"Company Commander!"

"Captain Cui!"

...

The old squad leader and others kept calling from me. I turned my head and looked at me. They were all staring at me with their eyes, and Jin Qiulian crawled forward desperately.

"Don't move! Stop her!" I hurriedly gave the order, and for nothing else, I found a landmine, which was likely to indicate that the minefield was set up by the enemy in front of her. She climbed up so recklessly. If she touched a landmine, no one of us, more than a hundred people, would have thought of going back intact.

The comrades also knew how powerful this was. The old squad leader and Hu Zi stopped Jin Qiulian without saying a word.

Not long after, the soldiers retreated one by one along the same route, and even Jin Qiulian was pulled down. I think this was the order given by Xu Feng. There was no doubt that this was a correct choice. There was a minefield ahead, so this mission was destined to return without success. If the soldiers did not withdraw, once the mine under my elbow exploded, the soldiers would soon face the enemy's strafing and bombing!

But, what should I do?

Time passed by minute by minute, and I pressed one elbow on the ground and the other elbow on the mine to endure it. I didn't dare to move a little because I was afraid that pressing down or relaxing up would make me disappear from this world.

A terrible sense of loneliness arose, and cold sweat kept popping out of my forehead. I felt like an abandoned lamb, waiting for the arrival of death in the cold wind...

"Where?" Just as I was about to fall into despair, Xu Feng's voice came from beside me. I couldn't help but be stunned, and tears almost fell down. I realized that they did not abandon me, and it was the battalion commander who stayed to live and die with me. The reason why he appeared for so long was because he had to wait for his comrades to retreat to a safe place.

"Where is it?" Seeing that I didn't respond, Xu Feng asked again.

"Here, in...the left hand!" I didn't even dare to move my head, just like pressing a sleeping child, for fear that it would open if it was unhappy.

Xu Feng slowly crawled over and gently pulled open the snow covered with his hand. A flat black guy was exposed. Seeing it, I felt more nervous and my body trembled.

"Don't move!" Xu Feng whispered, pulling out the bayonet and pulling something underneath. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay!"

"Okay?" I asked disbelief, worried that I had heard it wrong.

"You go back first, I will reconnaissance and reconnaissance!" After saying that, he crawled forward carefully as if nothing had happened, and stabbed him carefully with a bayonet while crawling.

But I turned over and lay on the ground, and couldn't move for a long time.

"Company Commander!"

"The company commander is back!"

...

When I crawled back with fear in my heart, the soldiers had already been waiting for me in the forest. When I saw me coming back, they all breathed a sigh of relief and walked up. What surprised me was that Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye were also waiting there.

"How is the situation?" As soon as I saw me, Captain Chu, asked impatiently.

"Report to the regiment commander!" I replied: "The situation is not clear yet, Battalion Commander Xu is reconnaissance."
Chapter completed!