Chapter 136 Letter
The authentic Vietnamese war finally ended with a loud bang...
What was detonated was the cannon shells in the tunnel.
Regarding this plan, the superior and Company Commander Luo also had a discussion. The focus of the discussion was whether this tunnel would be blown up or not.
It seems like a pity to blow it up, because this is an excellent artillery position... As long as there is a cannon here, the Japanese even know that we are inside, so they will be unable to do anything. In this tunnel, unless the cannon hits the muzzle directly, it will be difficult to cause harm to the people inside.
More importantly, these muzzles faced from north to south, condescendingly facing Sabah, an important town in northern Vietnam... We later learned that this Sabah was also the last target of the superiors' plan.
This seems to be feasible, but the problem is that there are bullets but no cannons... The five howitzers there are, without exception, burned into a pile of scrap iron by incendiary bombs... The ventilation hole is facing the muzzle, right? The combustion agent is shot in from the ventilation hole, and the first thing that suffers is these five cannons.
For this reason, the superiors also considered re-transporting five cannons... However, in total, the workload was not very large to split the five cannons and transport them to the high ground. After all, our army is full of people. But it is necessary to transport it into a square tunnel opening with a not-so-large opening area... and it can only be transported in one piece at a time. This is not a week.
Don't blow up... Our troops are attacking, and if this tunnel cannot be used as an artillery position, it will be useless. If you stay there, you can only use it for the Vietnamese Japanese to use it again.
So after thinking about it for a while, I finally decided to blow it up, and it was all over!
The ones who went in to install the bomb were several soldiers under Company Commander Wu. The reason was that when the soldiers of our company heard about the miserable scenes inside, they were not willing to go in... Company Commander Wu volunteered to take on this task at this time. Perhaps he wanted to see the miserable scenes of the Vietnamese army so that he could balance his mentality with his subordinates. After all, his troops had sacrificed so many people under this group of Vietnamese army.
However, the mission was not as easy as he thought. He originally thought it was just to find the location of the shells and load a few bombs... Isn't that a success?
So a group of only two soldiers were sent in... As a result, two were sent and they ran back with vomiting, and two more were sent and turned around... In the end, there was nothing we could do. Corps Wu personally brought a few people in, and finally completed the mission.
On the way back to the camp, the soldiers were in a relaxed and happy mood.
It should be said that the most enjoyable time for the troops carrying out missions outside was the time they returned to the camp. Because this means that we have completed another day of mission and that we are still alive.
However, only Chen Yiyi walked by the team in a depressed mood, her face so pale that it made people feel terrible.
Thinking of Chen Yiyi's abnormal behavior when she entered the tunnel, I walked to her and asked, "What's wrong? I feel uncomfortable?"
"Nothing!" Chen Yiyi's answer seemed a little absent-minded, as if she didn't want to continue the topic.
This made me feel a little embarrassed. After all, I am a platoon leader, and I don’t care about the eyes of the soldiers around me... In fact, the soldiers have long known about Chen Yiyi’s affairs and me. It has been made public on Mount Daina, right? Moreover, this kind of incident spreads very quickly in the army, and even the new "veterans" know what Chen Yiyi is like.
So, I felt a little uncomfortable when I sat on the bench on Chen Yiyi, so I asked more: "Why did you vomit in the authentic tunnel?"
Unexpectedly, Chen Yiyi was stunned when she asked this. Then she ignored so many soldiers around her and lay down in my arms and hugged me tightly... At first, I was shocked, but soon I discovered the problem: Although Chen Yiyi didn't make a sound, her shoulders kept twitching, and in just a moment the tears had soaked my chest clothes.
"What's wrong?" I asked while looking at the soldiers around me.
Chen Yiyi didn't say anything, just shook her head, and still gritted her teeth and cried in my arms.
Company Commander Luo seemed to have seen the situation here, so he shouted: "Everyone has it! March urgently!"
Of course, I also know that Company Commander Luo is helping me, and this "everyone has it" naturally does not include me and Chen Yiyi.
When the soldiers walked away from me, I gently patted Chen Yiyi on the back and whispered: "If you want to cry, just cry!"
Chen Yiyi then let go of her voice and cried in my arms... She was so angry that she felt like she was collapsed.
Only then did I feel that I still have too little understanding of Chen Yiyi, because I really can't imagine how a person as strong as Chen Yiyi could be so fragile. Now she... can almost be said to be a helpless child, a completely unguarded woman.
After a long time, Chen Yiyi calmed down. She struggled in my arms nostalgia, then raised her head and tidied her hair, and said, "I'm much better, go and rush to the army! Don't let the comrades laugh at me!"
"Yeah!" I nodded and walked forward with her hand.
"Didn't you ask... why do I vomit in the tunnel?" Chen Yiyi seemed to be recalling a past that was unbearable to look back on. It took a while before she mustered up the courage to say to me: "I remember that I was only ten years old that year... We were having supper, and a group of people rushed into my house and tied my parents without saying anything, dragged them outside and poured them on gasoline... and lit a fire in front of me..."
"Stop talking! I understand..." I held her hand tightly, and I felt sweaty in her palms.
"It's much better now!" Chen Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on her face when she looked at me: "When I thought of these things, I could only cry alone. Now with you... I'm not so scared! I used to dream of being burned to death every night, but when I saw the fire, I was afraid... Now I dare to stay in front of the fire for a few days!"
Only then did I understand why Chen Yiyi had been showing timidity in this operation. I suddenly had an idea, which was to hope that one day I could take Chen Yiyi off the battlefield and let her live in a safe place in the country and never suffer any harm.
Because I think Chen Yiyi, as a woman, has suffered too much and too much pain.
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When we returned to the camp, we were welcomed by other troops.
This seems unexpected, but it is also expected.
It was unexpected, because in the past, every time we returned from the mission and brought back a lot of spoils, we would make other troops jealous, and some troops would even say a few words: "What's so great about it, but it's not that we're lucky." However, today they were standing on the high ground waiting for us to come back, and then applauded "wow" with a "wow".
It is expected that it is because the victory we achieved this time is not just ourselves.
Isn't it? The regiment command of the Vietnamese Special Agents... Everyone knows what this thing means after being destroyed. This means that the Vietnamese agents in our area have lost command, lost organization, and even lost contact with the Vietnamese troops outside the occupied area... Not to mention that these Vietnamese agents have been beaten by our searches. Even if there are still remnants, after losing the regiment command, they will become as unscrupulous as a pile of sand.
This is good news for all troops, right? So I will still be stingy with such a little applause and a little praise?
So we were applauding the People's Liberation Army along the way, and from time to time, people shouted at us: "Beat beautiful!", "The Second Company is a good example!"
We naturally straightened our chests and felt a sense of inexplicable satisfaction in our hearts. Especially Wang Kechang, whose face was blooming, and when we walked, we were shaking, just like Bao Qingtian, who was singing an opera...
"Comrades!" The battalion commander was waiting for us in the camp. When he saw us coming back, he shouted to us loudly: "You are fighting well! You defeated the Vietnamese Japanese regiment command in just one day! This battle brought out the prestige of our People's Liberation Army and the prestige of our first battalion. You are all good!"
"Okay!" The soldiers couldn't help but cheer.
"Because of the victory of this battle..." the battalion commander continued to shout: "The division headquarters sent us a congratulatory message and signed a two-day vacation!"
"Okay!" As soon as the soldiers shouted louder, who wouldn't like holidays? Especially holidays on the battlefield, this is not a treatment that ordinary people can get!
"The second platoon leader! The second platoon leader..." After the disbandment, the correspondent Xiao Liu found me. At first I thought it was the company commander again and asked for a meeting, but he did not expect that he handed me a letter: "Give it! Your letter..."
"My letter?" I was stunned when I heard this. In this time and space, I had no friends or relatives (I don't know my existence). How could I have my letter?
At first I thought it was the correspondent who made a mistake, but when I took the envelope, I saw a few words "Yang Xuefeng received it."
It was indeed my letter. I tore open the seal in confusion, and the letter paper I pulled out was stunned: The letter was written by Xiaofan, and there was also a black and white photo of her attached.
This photo may have been taken by Xiaofan a few years ago, and it turned yellow. In the photo, she was wearing two small braids and sitting on the stone in a slanted shirt, smiling slightly.
From this point of view, I also know that Xiaofan’s identity is extraordinary... There will be photos in this era... You should know that cameras are still rare things!
If this was before, I might be very happy to receive this letter.
This represents her intention, right? Who is unhappy if a woman likes?
Chapter completed!