Volume 3 The Third Battle Chapter VI Instructor
Half an hour passed.
My feet felt numb and sore, as if there were thousands of ants crawling and biting them . I couldn't help but move my toes in my shoes, since no one could see me anyway.
An hour passed.
I couldn't help shivering as the cold came over me, and the sound of my teeth chattering filled my ears. Fortunately, my feet were no longer numb because I could no longer feel them.
An hour and a half passed.
My teeth stopped chattering and my body stopped shivering. I just felt like I was immersed in an ice cellar. This reminded me of the freezing feeling when I jumped into the icy river with two bags of explosives when I blew up the bridge.
The soldiers looked at me nervously, then at Xu Feng's air-raid shelter, as if they hoped that he would come out quickly to cancel the order, but the black cloth hanging on the entrance of the air-raid shelter never moved.
Jin Qiulian was so anxious that she almost cried. She ran to the cave entrance and wanted to talk, but she was worried that the punishment would be heavier as the old squad leader said. Then she ran to my side and secretly shook my cold hand...
Finally, I couldn't hold on any longer and fell to my knees with a thud. At this time, everyone no longer cared about any orders and rushed over to support me, some rubbed my hands and some rubbed my feet, and they carried me into the air-raid shelter.
"Wait!" At this time Xu Feng walked out.
"Battalion Commander!" Jin Qiulian couldn't hold it in any longer. She glared at Xu Feng and said, "He's almost dying. You can't freeze him to death no matter what!"
"You guys." Xu Feng did not answer, but ordered the old squad leader and the others: "Carry your company commander to my air-raid shelter, hurry up!"
I was frozen but still conscious, and was carried into Xu Feng's air-raid shelter. After lifting two layers of black cloth, I found that there was a fire in the air-raid shelter. It was bright and warm. What was even more unexpected was that Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye were also in the air-raid shelter.
"Captain! Political Commissar!" Everyone stood up straight when they saw this.
"Yeah!" Captain Chu brought a bowl of hot water and poured it into my mouth without saying a word. Xu Feng and Chen Ye also helped. Everyone was a little confused.
"Regiment... Commander! Political Commissar!" It took me a long time to catch my breath.
"Comrade!" Chen Ye said unhappily, "Why don't you have any sense of organization and discipline? You are usually quite smart, but why are you so dumb right now? You fought well and tenaciously, but for a company like this that has made great contributions and almost wiped out all its soldiers, can the superiors only give you new recruits who have never fought in a war ?"
"And...there's more?" I was stunned when I heard that.
"Captain Xu's beach company, I'll transfer twenty of them to you." Regimental Commander Chu raised his head towards Xu Feng and said, "That's the hard work of Captain Xu. I'll give you almost one-third of it. It was Captain Xu who took the initiative to propose it."
"Ah? This..." I couldn't believe my ears. I looked at Xu Feng with gratitude and surprise, but his face was still cold, without any change.
"I say, Captain Cui!" Chen Ye continued meaningfully, "Even if there are no veterans from the Beach Company to fill in for you, you can't complain. Obeying the arrangements of your superiors is the most important thing. Otherwise, if everyone is as greedy as you, how can we carry out revolutionary work? How can we develop our revolutionary cause? After this, you must learn a lesson!"
"Yes, yes..." I nodded hurriedly, but in my heart I was thinking about the twenty veterans of the Beachhead Company. I have seen the combat capabilities of the Beachhead Company, and their marksmanship and ferocity are really impeccable. Although the number of people is still a little small, but with them, I feel a little more confident.
Seeing that I was fine, Captain Chu ordered, "All other comrades go back! Captain Cui stay."
"Yes!" Everyone saluted and quickly retreated. Only then did I realize that there was a handsome volunteer soldier in his thirties standing in the air-raid shelter.
"Come on... let me introduce him to you!" Chen Ye helped me sit up and pointed at the volunteer soldier and said, "His name is Zhao Changshun, and he is the instructor sent by the superiors to your company."
"Hello, comrade!" He extended his hands to me enthusiastically.
It turned out to be the instructor. I couldn't help but look at this soldier again. He had a fair face and slender fingers, and he didn't look like a farmer. There was a pen on the pocket of his cotton-padded jacket. Except for some maturity revealed in his face and movements, it was hard for me to associate this instructor in front of me with those rough men in the company.
"Hello, hello!" I also stretched out my frozen hands tremblingly, and acted more enthusiastic than him, holding his hands tightly. Alas! There was nothing I could do, my cold hands were in urgent need of warmth. I only reluctantly let go of the instructor in front of me when he was so cold that he gasped and looked embarrassed.
The instructor! He looks like a party member, right? I thought to myself.
The relationship between the company commander and the instructor is like that between the regiment commander and the political commissar. There is a saying that goes "before the gun goes off, listen to the instructor; once the gun goes off, listen to the company commander." Although they are equal, I personally think the instructor has more power. The party leads the gun, and our company commander is the gun for fighting, while the instructor is the party representative, who is here to guide our ideological work and point out the direction for us to move forward.
"Captain Cui!" Instructor Zhao said excitedly, "I heard about your company's heroic deeds before I even got here. Look..."
As he spoke, he handed over a newspaper with the word "Volunteer Army" written on it.
It turned out to be the Volunteer Army newspaper. I was stunned when I saw it. This newspaper was the first battlefield newspaper issued by my country abroad. Because this kind of newspaper was an internal newspaper issued by the Volunteer Army in North Korea, most of them were damaged during the Korean War. Therefore, in modern times, this kind of newspaper has become a very precious collection. I didn't expect that I would take out a copy at this time...
"Here!" Seeing me staring at the newspaper in a daze, Instructor Zhao thought I was illiterate, so he pointed it out to me and read in a low voice: "One of our Volunteer Army units bravely blocked the U.S. military."
"Captain Cui!" Instructor Zhao paused and continued, "I am honored to be the instructor of a heroic company like yours. I hope that we can work together in the future to do a good job for the entire company, let our company never admit defeat, strive for the goal of being the first in the rank, and let every soldier dedicate their light and heat to our revolutionary cause..."
"Ah?" I stared at the instructor in front of me in amazement, knowing that I had finally found someone to hold a meeting with.
