"Blood debt must be repaid with blood" eventually became a slogan. The superiors also discussed how to pursue the Vietnamese army's special forces to seek revenge. However, the Vietnamese army's special forces broke into pieces and hid in the mountains. The superiors considered it again and again.
They believed that our army was not familiar with the terrain and was not good at jungle warfare, so searching for well-trained special agents in the jungle was tantamount to using our own shortcomings to attack the other's strengths, so in the end we had to give up.
When we returned to the camp, it was already evening.
The soldiers squatted in front of the tent and said nothing. Some were dejected, some were silently cleaning their guns, and some were leaning on their backpacks in a daze like dead people...
I know what's going on with the soldiers. In fact, I feel quite relieved.
In fact, I also know that the superior's decision is correct. In war, we are talking about strategic goals and interests. We cannot always let the soldiers die in vain just to vent their anger, but I feel a little unwilling to do so.
Isn't that right? Our current total strength in Lao Cai and nearby areas is nearly one division, but a reinforced company of Vietnamese troops came in and took down the artillery battalion at our heart. What's even more annoying is that we have nothing.
There are so many people and so many guns but there is nothing you can do to them...
Of course, our troops can be said to have achieved some small victories, but these small victories are still far from this big defeat, so this directly affects the morale of the soldiers.
More importantly... for our side, most of the soldiers who died were from our company. The company commander of the first platoon was forced to go up, right? As a result, only the more than thirty people in this platoon came back alive.
Seven, it is said that the platoon leader was seriously injured...many of them were new recruits who had just been added, and they were sacrificed before their buttocks were even warmed up.
This will undoubtedly give the recruits a big blow, isn't it? Every recruit has a bit of fear and war weariness in their eyes.
I think this is another function of the Vietnamese army's "special operations" - to affect the enemy's morale.
Of course, there are exceptions to this, and Chen Yiyi is one of them. While the other soldiers were talking to each other, she was rummaging through my backpack as if nothing was wrong...
"What for?" I asked.
"Looking for something to eat!" Chen Yiyi took out two compressed biscuits from my backpack and waved them in front of me: "These two are mine!"
"Where's yours?" I was a little surprised. Didn't the old monitor just give out five yuan yesterday?
"It's finished!" Chen Yiyi replied casually.
"Have you eaten all five yuan?" I looked at Chen Yiyi curiously. She didn't have a figure that was good at eating.
"What's so weird about that!" Chen Yiyi's face turned red, and she found a place to grab a biscuit in one hand and a kettle in the other to devour it.
Later I learned that the Yue Japanese were too poor to have enough to eat, and because we were trapped in the tunnels with insufficient food, Chen Yiyi also went hungry for a long time... Once this person who has been hungry for a long time has enough food,
It would be strange if you don’t eat a lot!
"Monitor..." At this time, Xiao Shitou came out of nowhere and came to me slowly and said: "Monitor, there is something... I don't know whether I should tell you..."
"If you fart, hurry up!" I was a little impatient, and today's incident made me feel uncomfortable.
"That... squad leader!" Xiao Shitou said with some embarrassment: "I have a fellow... who works as a guard next to the battalion commander. I just heard him say... he said that the platoon leader was seriously injured, and the superior originally wanted to
I asked you to be the platoon leader, but... the company commander refused to let you go, saying that you were too stubborn and did not obey the orders of your superiors and made your own decisions!"
"What?!" I didn't react at all, but several of my soldiers refused to agree. The scholar suddenly stood up and asked, "Little Shitou, is everything you said true? Did you hear that right?"
"It's absolutely true!" Xiao Shitou raised his hand and said: "My fellow villager Liang Shangxing told me personally. He also said... He is not worthy of our squad leader. Everyone in the army knows that the squad leader has made meritorious service!"
"Fuck you!" I cursed fiercely. Although I didn't care about the platoon leader or squad leader, this was a life-threatening job for me, but I still felt angry when someone stabbed me in the back.
Bayonet thrust the submachine gun back: "Squad leader, we can't just tolerate this tone. Let's go... let's go with you to discuss matters with the company commander!"
"Yes! Let's ask the company commander for comment!"
"If it doesn't work, we'll find the battalion commander! Our whole class and platoon can all testify!"
…
"Hey..." At this time, Scar emerged from nowhere and said: "I said bayonet, is this your first time as a soldier or something? You said you are a veteran... We were just following the Japanese.
It’s so hot, you’re going to ask the company commander for comment now?”
"There are also scholars! Aren't you the most educated? You have your books in your crotch? Are you looking for the battalion commander? If everyone is like you, why are you fighting?"
"And you little pebble!" Finally, Scar pointed at Wang Shilei and cursed: "You haven't done much business yet, and you spread gossip all day long. Are you trying to outsmart the Japanese and spy or something like that? If the army is not in chaos, you won't feel comfortable.
?”
"I..." Xiao Shitou's face was filled with grievances.
"Platoon commander, it's none of their business!" I stood up and said, "If there is any problem, I and the company commander will solve it!"
"Forget it!" Scar patted me on the shoulder: "Comrades all know what you are capable of, so it's normal for the company commander to be unconvinced... Isn't that right? Your soldiers only listen to you and don't take the company commander as their own.
What's going on! How can you lead the troops when you let someone be the company commander? You made the right decision in the war, but the army also has its own rules. If everyone makes their own decisions without going through their superiors like you, then the army still doesn't know
What kind of chaos is going to happen!”
"I'm not trying to fight for this platoon leader!" I was still angry: "To be honest, I don't want to be the squad leader. Whoever wants to go wants to go! But we soldiers also risk our lives. Why should he?"
In a few words, all the credit is his, and all the mistakes are ours..."
"Shh!" At this time, Scar gave me a wink to tell me not to say anything.
Then I noticed that the company commander returned to the camp in high spirits. I knew without thinking that he must have been praised by his superiors.
The soldiers under my command were furious when they saw his triumphant look, but they didn't dare to say anything with Scar in their arms, but there was one person who did not believe in evil. This person was Li Zuolong, who had been silent all this time.
When he saw the company commander coming over, he deliberately opened the bayonet of the rifle in his hand, stood on the big horse's golden knife, and shouted without naming: "I don't know why some people become cadres. They just know how to do things secretly if they have no ability."
Villain..."
"Sit down!" Scar cursed angrily.
Li Zuolong looked at me and saw that I also looked angry, so he sat down with an unconvinced look on his face.
However, the company commander was irritated. He rushed up and asked angrily: "What did you just say? Are you saying that anyone who has no ability knows how to be a villain? If you have the ability, you can name it?"
"It's you I'm talking about!" At this time, a soldier covered in blood stood up, but surprisingly, it was not my soldiers who stood up this time, but a row of soldiers.
"Yes! It's you I'm talking about!" Another soldier stood up again, also covered in blood. He opened the bayonet with a snap: "I say Captain Li, under your command today, our platoon sacrificed a total of twenty people.
Seven people, our platoon leader also died just now..."
"Damn it!" the company commander scolded him before he could finish his words: "How can there be immortality in a war? You have to hate the enemy! What's the point of coming after me!"
The company commander's words angered the few remaining soldiers in the platoon. They stood up one after another and said:
"If it weren't for your blind command, would our platoon have suffered such heavy losses?"
"Yes! The second squad leader fought very well. He killed all the Japanese Japs without sacrificing a few people!"
"But there are still people who say that the second squad leader disobeys orders!"
"If we really obeyed your orders, would one of us be alive now?"
…
The last sentence made everyone in the company stand up one by one.
"What do you want to do?" Although the company commander's eyes showed timidity, he still refused to relax: "You want to rebel, right? Sit down all of you...this is an order!"
But the angry soldiers would not listen to his orders. They all stood and stared at the company commander angrily.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the company commander turned around and wanted to leave...but was stopped by several soldiers.
I don’t know who shouted: “Hit his mother!”
Then the scene suddenly got out of control. The soldiers shouted and surrounded me in groups, all vying for a punch or a kick. I couldn't react for a long time!
How did this situation develop? It seems that the soldiers had a lot of dissatisfaction with the company commander in their hearts. This dissatisfaction accumulated in their hearts over time and became a time bomb. My incident was a fuse that detonated them.
The fuse of the time bomb in my heart...
The scene was chaotic for a while, until a shot was heard that made all the soldiers stop.
"Stop it!" It was Scar who fired the gun. He raised his pistol and yelled fiercely at the soldiers who took action: "Do you still have the organization and discipline? Beat the company commander... you are capable! You know yourself
What are you doing? If anyone strikes again, I will kill him with one shot!"
No one doubted Scar's words because everyone knew he meant what he said.
What's more, this matter is neither small nor big.
To put it in a small way, it was a fight, but in a big way... it was a mutiny and rebellion! Scar had every reason to shoot.
"What's going on?" At this time, the battalion commander hurried over with a group of soldiers. He shouted at us with an extremely ugly face: "Speak! Why is no one talking?"
No one really dared to say anything, because everyone knew... this is a big problem!