The brick cellar was dull. I thought the soldiers would have many complaints, but what surprised me was that when they heard the orders I conveyed, they didn't say a word, but just expressed their dissatisfaction with the expression on their faces.
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I actually know why they have such a behavior. Of course they have opinions about this order, but at the same time they also know... I, the platoon leader, are also a person who accepts the order, and I am powerless, and they know that this order cannot be changed.
, and I can't blame me.
However, the more they do, the more uncomfortable I feel. Sometimes I would rather they curse and feel more comfortable in my heart.
After a long time, the bayonet broke the silence and said, "I'm used to it. Who can we fight? If we don't send us, who else can we send?"
"That's it!" Xu Guochun joked: "It's all our platoon leader... He has led us to win so many battles. It's said that this person is afraid of being famous and being strong. Now he can't even think about the battlefield!"
The soldiers were amused by Xu Guochun's words and the atmosphere immediately eased a lot.
"Thank you for your support, comrades!" Seeing that these soldiers under me accepted the new mission so quickly, I didn't know what to do.
"Oh! Thank you!" Li Zuolong waved his hand and said in an indifferent tone: "It's all my brothers, there's nothing to thank you. We also know that this is no wonder the platoon leader!"
"That's it!" Xiao Shitou also nodded: "After so many days, there was no platoon leader leading us to victory in any battle. If there was no platoon leader... we don't know if we could survive until now!"
"It's just you and I, the crow's mouth!" bayonet cursed: "I said Xiao Shitou... Why are you so dead in your mouth these two days? You didn't wash it clean yesterday!"
"Xiao Shitou washed his crotch yesterday, but his mouth was not washed!" Xu Guochun interrupted.
With a coaxing sound, the soldiers laughed again.
This joke is actually not funny, but I saw another spirit of the warriors, that is, to make fun of suffering... This may be what the old man often said: "If it cannot be changed, it is better to blame others than to blame others."
Accept with a smile.”
Yes, in fact, those who are in the army need this spirit. Because there are too many things on the battlefield that we cannot change and accept, is it useful to complain? Is it useful to sigh for your own bad luck? The final result is still the same, we must meet it
There are enemies to these missions.
Perhaps, some people will be passive and lazy because of some resentment in their hearts, but there is only one result in doing so, that is, they will be eliminated on this battlefield.
So, from this perspective, the reason why the soldiers accept new tasks calmly is not entirely because of me, but also because they have grown up and matured in battle.
The military situation was urgent. In the afternoon of the same day, our troops crossed the border and moved south again after replenishing some food and ammunition.
As we were moving south, the People's Liberation Army continued to retreat above. At first, they saw that we were all wearing brand new military uniforms and thought they were recruits who had just come in from home to participate in the war, so they all smiled at us:
"What are you doing? You only know how to get up after the battle is over?"
"It's just the right time for you to come up! You even save yourself the opportunity to be a deserter!"
...
Later, when I found out that we were the main force on the counterattack battlefield and were the 118th Regiment, which had outstanding military achievements, then there was no sound, and everyone had awe and admiration in their eyes.
What they respected was our performance on the battlefield, and what they admired was that we had just stepped down from the battlefield, but we were able to go to the battlefield again with such a spirit.
In fact, we know our own pain, for example, Wang Kechang... I saw him hiding in the corner and wiping his tears secretly. He is the youngest soldier under my command, and he also wants to go home the most and needs to go home the most.
A soldier...
Let me tell you why... I only found out later.
Wang Kechang's parents died early, and when they were home, they were only uncles and aunts and an elderly grandfather... but he was taken on the evil path by a thief since he was a child, and later he was even locked up in the juvenile custody office... People in this era are
People who hate and despise thieves are sometimes even more hated than robbers. It is hard to explain why. Maybe robbers have a bit of the taste of Liangshan heroes, ordinary people cannot despise them!
In short, Wang Kechang is a shame in the eyes of his family, and it is a stain, because Wang Kechang also made their whole family look down upon by the village. They all pointed behind their backs and said that their family was a thief and had a juvenile offender...
So it is reasonable for Wang Kechang to think so now that he will go back... He is not only meeting his family, but also anxious to win the breath of breath for his family and wash away the previous shame for his family!
However, even so, this guy still pretends to be indifferent on the surface. It is hard for me to imagine that he is now, who was crying on the battlefield more than half a month ago: "I want to go home, I want to spend less time."
The new recruit who is not guilty of making meritorious service…”
"Stop moving forward!"
We had just walked for more than ten minutes and were stopped by the company commander. The soldiers watched the other soldiers in the regiment continue to advance, and stopped one of our company and left the troops. They couldn't help but ask strangely:
"Company Commander, are we here to our destination?"
"We're here to garrison? Then the relationship is better!"
...
"Beautiful!" Captain Luo responded angrily: "We have a new mission!"
"What? There is a new mission?" Scar replied dissatisfiedly: "The missions are coming one after another, which will make us all exhausted!"
"Line-row leader!" Captain Luo smiled mysteriously and said, "You can choose not to do this mission!"
Company Commander Luo's words aroused the curiosity of the soldiers, and they all came forward and asked, "Company Commander, tell me... what mission is it?"
"Yes! It sounds like a good thing... It's rare that it's our turn to join us!"
"No!" Company Commander Luo blunt his mouth towards the boundary marker not far away and said, "This Vietnamese agent is so rampant... Not only does he sneak attack our troops and destroy the road investment, but he also secretly moves the boundary marker north... So
The superior ordered us to carry the boundary mark back and let us take the boundary mark to the position!"
The soldiers were stunned when they heard this. After a while, they realized it and then quickly cheered... They all rushed to carry out this task. The scar, who had complained a few times before, was bitter.
He looked at the soldiers under his hands and said nothing.
"Let's do it!" Company Commander Luo gave the final order: "Our company is the second platoon, and we have the most achievements. Let the second platoon take action first... The second platoon cannot lift the other units to relay!"
"Okay!" The soldiers under my command cheered, and without waiting for me to order to pull out the engineer's shovel and run up to dig it. I just smiled bitterly. Isn't it just to carry a boundary marker? It's not the same for anyone to carry it.
Have to be so excited?
But the soldiers didn't think so. Seeing their enthusiasm for doing this job, it can be said that even a few cows couldn't help it, so they dug out the boundary marker buried underground in a few seconds.
The scholars were flexible and soon borrowed a wooden stick from the retreating engineers. The soldiers took action together and tied up the boundary marker and carried it away.
This world mark is one meter long, thirty centimeters wide, ten centimeters thick, and weighs at least fifty kilograms. It would be fine if this was on a flat road, but it would be difficult to carry it on a mountain road in Vietnam, but the warriors
They carried the way but no one called them tired. They were unwilling to take turns unwillingly until someone protested next to them.
What they even envied even more were the soldiers who retreated along the road... They didn't know what we were carrying, but they also thought that the group of people snatched it like something. When they looked at it carefully, they were boundary markers and their eyes were straightened. Some soldiers were very nervous.
He even shouted next to him: "Comrade, do you need help?"
"Come on, you!" Scar was so angry that he cursed at the soldiers: "We are not going to be the turn of our own people!"
At first I still found it difficult to understand the soldiers' psychology, but later I realized that the soldiers were carrying more than just an inconspicuous stone... You should know that the distance between the boundary markers on the Sino-Vietnam border is as few as hundreds of meters, and more
Just a few kilometers, which means that every step we take on the stone means that the motherland may have an area of hundreds of square meters. This kind of honor cannot be encountered at any time.
So even though this world mark severely delayed the speed of our army's marching, and in the end he even took it to climb up the 581 high ground... but our platoon was so tired that no one complained.
So this world mark settled in our highland like a magic needle, but it did not set the sea, but the highland and boundary we were stationed in.
While the soldiers were busy burying boundary markers, I observed the 581 highlands as I was used to... Just like most highlands in Vietnam, there are continuous mountains everywhere around the 581 highlands, and the highlands are connected by one,
Even the 581 Highland is divided into several hills of varying sizes.
The one that can distinguish between the north and the south is a stream in the jungle at the foot of the mountain. The stone bridge on the stream is the only important road for heavy equipment between China and Vietnam. At this time, cars and teams of People's Liberation Army soldiers were coming from
Retreat that direction.
So it is conceivable why the superiors asked us to station in this highland.
Later I learned that the one who confronted us diagonally opposite us was actually Laoshan, which was passed down by word of mouth in China. The north of the highland was Malipo County and Qingshui County to the south. Back then, a large number of foreign aid materials from our army were from this highway.
It is transported to the country like flowing water. Now the 581 Highland is like a sharp blade standing on the left side of this valley, blocking this important traffic road in the waist. (To be continued.