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Chapter 188 That's Our Headquarters
"Are we really going to do this?"

In the valley of the frontline headquarters, heavy snow was flying, and some light was still reflected in the dark night. Two lonely "snowman" figures were walking forward quietly.

If the angle of view is zoomed in, one can see two familiar faces of Xu Qing and Lei Gong under the snow-covered figure.

"It's not a question of whether to do it or not, but the situation outside is getting more and more severe day by day. We must do something. You may not feel that deeply. In many documents, I can speculate on the number of people who died in battle every day. They is rising sharply..."

"On paper, they are just numbers, but in reality they are living beings." Xu Qing turned around and said calmly.

Even so, Lei Gong was still cautious and tried to persuade him: "Have you thought about it? Going down this road, is it an honor or a mistake, but maybe?"

"We have no choice." Xu Qing said.

Lei Gong sighed slightly in his heart, in fact, he had never had such an idea. They are all hunters and veterans on the battlefield. How can they tolerate others dying for themselves, but they live here?

He didn't say anything else, and followed firmly.

The closer you get, the valley is hidden among the vegetation is a wooden house, it stands near the cave, and there is a cellar buried in the ground, Xu Qing has long observed from the words and deeds, this is the weapon storage place they moved before.

Most of the equipment has been transported to the front-line battlefield, but there is still a small amount of old equipment left here, ready to be replaced at any time.

"Just here?"

"At this."

"Nobody guarding?"

"It is estimated that they are all on the front line."

The two looked around, but there was no one there, so they went forward to push the cabin open, but found that the door was not opened, and it seemed to be locked inside.

Lei Gong looked back at him, ready to crash in, Xu Qing was just about to nod, when suddenly his ears moved: "Wait a minute."

Suddenly, as soon as his voice fell, there was the sound of snow slopes falling from the nearby mountain. The two of them looked back and saw two rows of people standing up on the mountain path between the mountains.

They were standing in formation, groups of soldiers standing with guns, looking at him squarely in the early morning under the light of the sparse moon and stars.

Xu Qing didn't move because he didn't have a gun. Although all the soldiers pointed their guns at him, they didn't show any hostility. His eyes were still good in the dark night. A familiar figure on the hillside.

Helpless in his heart, he took a deep breath, stepped forward and saluted loudly: "Commissar Li!"

rustling.

The figure in a coat was none other than Li Shuren, Political Commissar Li, whom he had been dealing with for a long time these days.

Political Commissar Li and his guards walked down the slope, and the soldiers turned their guns upwards, stood with their guns, and looked over.

Lei Gong was a little ashamed that he was discovered by the head chief here, but he is a veteran, his face changed a little and then quickly returned to normal, as if nothing happened.

Xu Qing kept saluting expressionlessly.

"Why?" Political Commissar Li asked.

His face was extremely serious, and his brows were deeply wrinkled.

Although Political Commissar Li had always treated him very well before, as a soldier, he couldn't do whatever he wanted just because the chief had a good attitude. Xu Qing knew this truth well.

Political Commissar Li didn't speak, just stared at him. If it was an ordinary person, under such a stressful situation, he would probably be stared at until he bowed his head in shame.

But Xu Qing has his own reasons and his own persistence. He admits that he may have violated discipline, but he is worthy of his heart and the teaching and entrustment of the troops.

"Soldiers shouldn't yearn for war, but they never run away from war. We... just want to do what we should do." Xu Qing was silent for a while, raised his head and said.

"Okay!" Political Commissar Li looked at him, suddenly smiled, and swung the key from his waist, "Open it for him."

"Chief, this is..." Xiao Li, the guard next to him, took the key and said in surprise.

Political Commissar Li interrupted him: "He Wu Wanli is a man, a real soldier, a real good soldier, and I can't let him down. We Chinese are not afraid of death when we serve as soldiers. If we are afraid of death, we don't serve as soldiers. If there are such people in the army That's right. Open it!"

"Yes!"

Xiao Li had no choice but to answer according to his words.

The soldiers guarding the door looked at each other, not all of them knew Xu Qing, some were not very willing.

Although Xiao Li was young, he hesitated for a moment, and said one more thing: "The American equipment you use is all obtained from the Americans by a few of them who escaped death."

The soldiers silently stepped aside in shame.

Political Commissar Li stepped forward, seeing Xu Qing's slightly stunned expression, he laughed and said, "You really think it's useless for you to report so many times? People's hearts are made of flesh, not to mention requests like yours." ? A heart of stone will soften."

Xu Qing already understood that although his report may not be effective, the attitude and decision of the chiefs towards the Seventh Company's application to fight has changed, which is probably already a fact.

He relaxed slightly, and laughed happily in his heart. Just as he was about to say something, Political Commissar Li sighed again and said, "Did you hear what happened just now?"

"I heard it." He immediately withdrew his smile and said seriously, "There is a lot of movement."

"Yeah, it's very big. How big is it? We just figured out that the U.S. military is launching a general counteroffensive. Just now, hundreds of U.S. planes were dispatched at night, causing a massive bombing in Gutuli. The situation is very serious." severe……"

Political Commissar Li said seriously, "Actually, we don't even have the ability to protect you here now. The frontline combatants have died batch after batch. Letting you here is the most dangerous."

Is the situation so serious?
Xu Qing's heart trembled, and Lei Gong also raised his head when he heard this, his eyes were horrified.

"Is it because we blew up the bridge?" Xu Qing asked with a twitch in his heart.

"It has nothing to do with your mission, don't think about it!" Political Commissar Li shook his head, smiling, "Even if you talk about breaking the sky, your Seventh Company has done a great job. War is changing rapidly. No one knows what a horseshoe is. , the role of a bullet in it, not to mention the tens or hundreds of bombs of the US military?"

Xu Qing paid attention to the gun in his hand and the clothes he had changed into an ordinary soldier: "Are you also going to the front to lead a team to fight?"

Political Commissar Li sighed, filled with endless grief: "There is no one left, they are all dead..."

Xu Qing and Lei Gong were shocked.

"We lost in the Huangcaoling position. We were fighting evenly, and we were even chasing after the victory. In the bombing just now, a large number of people who could fight...were all killed."

Political Commissar Li looked at the sky and said, "Gaolong, Huangcaoling and several important highlands are all occupied by the enemy. We have completely lost contact with more than 20 teams... It is life or death. In this case, there is no other way. There is no other way, we can only fight to the end.”

At this time, the guard Xiao Li ran over and said, "Chief, the cellar door is open!"

Xu Qing put down his thoughts of continuing to ask, and saluted again: "I understand, our Seventh Company won't waste a bullet with these weapons, we will go to the front line now! Thank you, Chief!"

"Let you go to die, thank you? You don't have to thank me, if you really want to thank you, thank Lao Hu..."

"Chief of Staff Hu?"

Political Commissar Li said: "Don't look at him who doesn't show affection at ordinary times, but he is so cold when he fights. You have seen Mr. Huang of our 58th Division. When we were still in the New Fourth Army, he said, Comrade Hu, you are alive and well." It's just a 'tiger', a tiger that dares to bite the Japanese!"

"Besides, letting you go to battle is the first action he rejected the headquarters' order and withstood the huge pressure. I hope you don't blame him, don't blame us..."

Xu Qing didn't speak. He looked at the wooden house far away on the other side of the valley, where the headquarters was located.

The faint lights in the headquarters were still on, and the wind and snow covered his vision, but he seemed to see a thin figure looking at him silently, his eyes were as deep as the moon in the sky.

.........

The moon in the sky shines brightly in the mountains and forests. As we look forward, the ground is covered with thick layers of snow. There is no road on the road, and four figures stand quietly under the moonlight.

The soldiers of the engineering battalion who almost became prisoners of the jeep's equipment drove away, preparing to send the troops by another road. The soldiers invited them to go with them, but both Pinghe and Yu Congrong declined in unanimous agreement. , bluntly said that they still have secret missions.

"Did you really kill him?" Ping He suddenly asked, looking at the direction in which the rut was going.

"Kill what?" Song Weiguo turned his head in bewilderment before he could react.

Yu Congrong didn't speak, but seeing Zhong Dingyi looking at him peacefully, he said helplessly: "Why are you looking at me? Why do you care so much about them?"

"Platoon leader, stop pretending, we know you didn't kill them!" Zhong Dingyi said with a grin.

"Captives?" Song Weiguo finally came to his senses, and said belatedly, "Isn't there a bunch of them tied to the car?"

"Ask me if you know." Yu Congrong pouted.

Ping He stared at him and said, "I want to see if you are the Yu Congrong from before."

"I don't know what it means." Yu Congrong snapped.

"Can you still speak idioms?"

"Enough, that's enough! I didn't beat them to death, you guys are satisfied now!"

Yu Congrong snorted and said:
"I'm a soldier, not a butcher or an executioner. I really don't know the three disciplines and eight points of attention. I just surrendered when I saw that they couldn't beat them. After being released, I took a gun and shot at us like a bastard. !"

"What did you do later?" Zhong Dingyi asked curiously.

"What are you doing? I fired a gun into the open space, scaring those foreign devils to piss their pants, kowtowed and begged for mercy all over the floor, you said, what's the difference between me killing them? If I see them online, I will definitely not forgive them!"

"Well, this is the Yu Congrong I know. He has blood, but he hasn't lost his humanity." Ping He didn't comment, but his tone had softened.

"Cut~ I want you to admit it." Yu Congrong rolled his eyes at him.

Despite the constant bickering, the relationship between the two has slowly returned to normal from the previous freezing point.

Although the few people talked in a low voice, they did not slow down. With their newly changed equipment on their backs, they stepped on the snow and headed towards the front of Huangcaoling. Yu Congrong saw those battlefields and quickly attracted their attention.

That is the destination of their trip.

After the big explosion in the early morning, the planes flew very violently in the sky. They didn't dare to drive. They took some equipment and American sleds and ran all the way to the front line soon.

Song Weiguo panted slightly, "How did you communicate with those Americans?"

"You don't understand this, how much English do I know? But I can sing, you see - when we meet the enemy, we call it 'Hello', and 'surrender' means 'surrender',' Hanjas Apu' (Hands up) means 'raise your hand', 'Falomi' (Follow me) means 'follow me', 'Well-treat you' means 'preferential treatment for prisoners', 'Put down your arms' (Put down your arms'), 'Come out' is 'Come out and surrender'!"

Although Yu Congrong's ostentatious Tao is not in tune, it is also easy to understand.

Even Ping He turned around, "Where did you learn it?"

"Old Li taught me!"

"Which old Li?" Song Weiguo asked.

"Li Changgui, the engineer under Commander Tan, didn't he fight in the morning?" Zhong Dingyi turned his head and suddenly realized.

"Yes, it's him."

As Yu Congrong was speaking, he suddenly lost interest and fell silent.

Song Weiguo, Zhong Dingyi and the others looked at each other, and then remembered that the relationship between the two seemed to be quite good, and they were getting along these few days.

In the silent discussion, they walked forward. Suddenly, it was early morning, the sky turned white, and the night completely left. The warm sun shone on the North Korean land, and also stopped all the voices of the four people.

As the sky brightened, the surrounding hills became clearly visible.

Starting from the mountains here, the road to and from here is full of traces of bombing, and then near the edge of the main vein of Huangcaoling, the mountains in all directions are already scorched and black with scorched earth.

Several people were horrified. How many bombs did the Americans drop on the Fengling Line in the early morning bombing?

When they got here, they could hear the faint sound of firefighting in the distance, which was very faint, but it still existed. There were shell bomb craters everywhere between the mountains, and there was rising heat everywhere, which was the trace left by the battle last night.

Looking at all this, he had already expected it and got used to it. Ping He took a deep breath and said, "Go, speed up."

But suddenly, before they could leave the woods, they noticed a burst of dense bangs coming from the northwest sky.

"It's coming again!" The faces of the four changed, and they instinctively fell down.

The next moment, hundreds of fighter planes flew over the sky, like robbers crossing the border, they rushed away without even looking at the ground.

"Have they changed their sex?" Everyone wondered.

"No, it's impossible!" Ping He said with a serious face, "We are not butchers, but they are real butchers."

His voice just fell.

Immediately hearing the way they came, there was a big explosion in the southwest direction!

Boom boom boom!
The flames reflected the sky. Seen from the sky, it was a spark lit up on the earth, but looking up from the ground, it was a scene of hell in the daytime, because it rose high enough, where was it? can be seen.

If it was also night, the movement there would be no less than the big bombing in Gutuli in the early morning, but even in the daytime, they looked up and witnessed the fiery red light illuminating half of the sky.

"Southwest, where is that?" Yu Congrong stood up suddenly, suddenly remembered something, and asked anxiously.

When Ping He heard his words, his face changed suddenly, and he immediately thought of it.

Yu Congrong shouted: "Quickly tell me, where is it?"

"It's the headquarters." Faced with his shaking, Ping He felt a little weak, his voice trembled slightly in the morning wind for the first time.

Brush brush!
As soon as the words fell, Song Weiguo and Zhong Ding turned their heads to look at them together, opened their eyes wide, and their faces immediately turned pale, as if they were earthy.

(End of this chapter)