Volume 2 The Second Battle Chapter 4 Shoulder Bag
"Company commander, company commander!" More than half an hour after the troops set out, Xiao Shandong suddenly rushed up from behind and shouted, "Company commander, that female translator... Comrade Jin Qiulian, she...she ran away?"
"What? A deserter?" asked Captain Zhang in confusion.
Everyone who heard this was stunned, including me. He wouldn't be a deserter after only being here for one day. Could it be that this careless guy had lost himself this time?
"No, that's not it!" Xiao Shandong said breathlessly, "Comrade Jin Qiulian... forgot to bring her bag. She said it contained medicine that the troops urgently needed, so she came back to look for it."
"Nonsense!" Captain Zhang pounded his fist fiercely and said, "Why didn't you stop her? Don't you know that there are enemies behind you? If something happens, the People's Army will just send an interpreter and we will destroy it. Isn't it embarrassing?"
"Why didn't we stop her?" Xiao Shandong replied aggrievedly, "If she wasn't a girl, we would have carried her back."
"How long have you been running?"
"Just running, five or six minutes!"
"Platoon Leader Cui!"
"Here!" I stood in front of Captain Zhang reflexively.
"Take a few people with you." Company Commander Zhang ordered, "Hurry up and bring back Comrade Jin Qiulian."
"Yes!" This time I accepted the order without hesitation. I thought to myself, how far can a girl run if she can only run for five or six minutes? I don't want to give up such a great opportunity to be a hero and save the damsel in distress to anyone else.
"Hu Zi, Fang Zi, follow me!" I turned around and left with the two fast runners.
The three of us ran back panting for a while, and when we were almost at the place where we had rested, there was still no one around.
"Hey! This girl runs really fast!" Hu Zi seemed unwilling to accept that he would lose to a woman, and he sped up in a stubborn manner, which made it difficult for me and Fangzi who were following behind him to catch up.
"Woo..." A burst of motor sound and noise suddenly sounded at the foot of the mountain, and the three of them stopped at the same time.
"Platoon leader." Hu Zi turned around and asked me, "Are we still rushing? The enemy is here."
"Hurry up, of course!" I gritted my teeth and said, "The enemy is taking the road, and we are taking the mountain road, so we won't run into each other. Just be careful and you'll be fine."
"Yeah!" The two nodded, bent over, slowed down and continued to move forward. Enemy cars and tanks passed by one after another at the foot of the mountain. The sounds of motors, tracks and voices clearly penetrated into our ears through the gaps between branches and leaves.
As I ran forward, I secretly thanked myself for being lucky. Fortunately, these sounds were used to cover up our footsteps, otherwise the sound of running would have exposed us. But what I didn't expect was that these sounds could not only cover up the sound of our footsteps, but also the enemy's.
I jogged along with Huzi, Fangzi and I. All our attention was focused on the groups of puppet soldiers passing by the foot of the mountain. When we turned a corner in the road, five South Korean scouts suddenly appeared in front of us. Both sides were caught off guard and were stunned on the spot.
"Don't move!" The volunteers were the first to react and quickly raised their rifles.
"Pei yo li zhui yo! (Don't move)"
What surprised me was that the reaction of the South Korean soldiers in front of me was not slow. If it were the South Korean soldiers we encountered in the past, as soon as we pointed our guns at them, they would either surrender or run away like crazy. However, this group of soldiers raised their guns almost at the same time as the volunteer soldiers.
"What should I do?" I muttered to myself. In such a narrow space and at such a close distance, both sides were pointing guns at each other. No matter how powerful I was, I wouldn't have the slightest room to maneuver. What's more important was that there was a large army of theirs at the foot of the mountain.
At this time, a puppet soldier standing in the rear picked up a military walkie-talkie that looked like the earliest mobile phone. It was obvious that he was going to notify their main force - they were doomed!
With a "bang" sound of a gunshot, the puppet soldier had no time to speak into the walkie-talkie before he was hit by a bullet from nowhere and rolled down the mountain with his machine.
While everyone was stunned, two more shots were fired, and two more puppet soldiers fell in front of them. Hu Zi and Fang Zi reacted quickly, one using the butt of a gun and the other using a bayonet, and they quickly took care of the remaining two enemies.
The reason they used rifle butts and bayonets was that they did not want to expose their targets, but it was too late. The gunshots just now had alerted the South Korean troops at the foot of the mountain, and several companies of puppet soldiers rushed up the mountain shouting.
"Hurry up, what are you standing there for?" Hu Zi pulled me and ran back without saying anything. After running a few steps, a fully camouflaged straw man suddenly jumped out from the roadside, scaring everyone so much that they raised their guns at the same time...
"Why are you here?" A relaxed smile appeared on the straw man's dark face.
"Ah? Comrade Jin Qiulian." Only then did we recognize that the straw man in front of us was the female translator we had been looking for.
"I came here to find you." I said angrily, "Do you want to die? Why are you running back for a bag?"
"Why don't you leave?" Hu Zi said anxiously, "If you are too late, the puppet army will come up."
"Wait." I suddenly felt something was wrong, so I stopped everyone and pointed behind me, saying, "Everyone come back and run this way!"
"Why are you running over there? Our troops are at..." Fangzi asked .
"Stop talking nonsense, this is an order!" After saying this, I did not allow anyone to question me and ran towards the depths of the enemy without looking back.
Facts proved that my choice was correct. The enemies thought we would escape in the direction of their own troops, so most of them blocked us in front, while there were very few enemies chasing us from the back. We just hid in the grass and avoided two groups of enemies who were chasing us in a hurry, and successfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement.
"You're amazing, kid! If we had rushed forward just now, we would have been surrounded by the enemy now." Hu Zi looked back at the forest behind him. Only a few sporadic gunshots were heard from there, but no one knew what they were fighting about.
Jin Qiulian, who was covered in grass, said: "Platoon Leader Cui's decision was not only unexpected for us, but also for the enemy!"
"What are you talking about!" I couldn't help but retort, "Is it necessary to run back for a bag? Is that bag more valuable than your life? More valuable than the lives of the four of us? You almost sacrificed us all, don't you know that?"
"Platoon Leader Cui!" Jin Qiulian touched the bag on her waist with dissatisfaction and said, "To me, this bag is more valuable than my life, because the antibiotics in it may save the lives of ten wounded soldiers!"
"Why do you keep losing it? Tie it up ! You made a mistake, don't you know?"
I don't know where I got so angry, I just felt depressed. Maybe it was because I failed to save the beauty and was saved by the beauty instead. Or maybe it was because... I didn't want her to take her life so lightly.
Hey! What am I thinking about?
