Chapter 39 Gold Mining
There is a Chinese saying that illness comes like a mountain falling, and illness goes like a thread pulling out.
Wang Yang is also an anomaly. Thinking about the past few days and nights, he had almost been together in Chenghuang Hall for six hours, and then forcibly marched, fought fiercely, and then forced his crossing of the Han River to exhaust his last bit of energy. With his situation and the wind and cold entering his body, he would definitely not get up without ten days and half a month.
But with the heart-wrenching wait of everyone, maybe Zhao Xiaoyan was taking good care of her, or maybe Wang Yang's strong body trained in the mountains when he was a child allowed him to overcome this difficulty, Wang Yang recovered quite quickly. Although he was slightly uncomfortable, the kid moved outside the cave and immediately became lively. Gao Xiaodong looked at the perverted eyes and turned straight, which was really meaningful.
However, the other soldiers were not as lucky as Wang Yang. Wang Yang drank the hot soup with Zhao Xiaoyan's company, ate a little canned beef, and greeted the other surviving soldiers before he learned about their current situation.
The soldier Dong Jianguo, who was injured in the Han River, eventually died. Although he was only hit in the thigh under the attack of an enemy plane, if he had appropriate medical equipment for surgery, at most he would be amputated, he would definitely be able to save his life. But he was on the battlefield and under the siege of the enemy. He had blood flowing and no suitable medicine. A large amount of blood loss and wound infection caused him to lose his life the next day.
There are also two soldiers who were injured at the beginning and were injured in their legs. Before crossing the river, Platoon Commander Zhang was carrying them. Although they had changed the medicine several times, it was a pity that they did not have antibiotics. In this harsh mountain forest, his legs were still infected and he was still confused. If he could not find the large army for appropriate medical treatment as soon as possible, the situation would be really not optimistic.
However, apart from the two news that made people feel sad, Wang Yang finally found that they were not lucky enough to carry them home.
At least the injuries of another injured soldier and Gao Xiaodong did not worsen, and there were even signs of improvement. Although the two men in the future would have a certain combat power, they would at least not become a burden for the team to break through.
At the same time, because Wang Yang's way in the dense forest subconsciously left the enemy's key defense area, although they broke through at a dangerous moment when the enemy broke into the 180th Division and entered the encirclement and suppression, the direction they were walking had already left the defense range that was originally responsible for by the 60th Army, so the enemy searched here not so closely.
During the three days and three nights of Wang Yang's dizziness, his comrades carried Wang Yang over two hills. Although they saw an enemy's search team on the road, they hid it in time and did not let the enemy notice it.
Finally, the cave was discovered, and the entire team was exhausted. Gao Xiaodong was very alert. He suddenly thought that the enemy was searching for the lost volunteer army. So why not just wait a few days before breaking through?
You should know that compared with other volunteer soldiers who broke through, Wang Yang and others have an extremely powerful advantage, which is food.
People are iron, words are steel, and they are not panic when they have food. This sounds easy to understand, but who knows how many soldiers of the Chinese Volunteer Army were in the Korean battlefield because of insufficient logistics supply, they were not dead in the enemy's guns, but fell in a foreign land because of hunger. How many 180th Division broke through soldiers, desperately chasing the large army with empty stomachs. They were not afraid of the enemy, but were afraid of falling down because of hunger before they could be eliminated?
Wang Yang and the others were really lucky. Because they had attacked an enemy camp, they obtained a large amount of food and ammunition supplies. Although they threw a lot of them while crossing the Han River, the food was still left. During the three-day rest, it really solved the urgent problem for the volunteer soldiers who had fought for many days. They not only took care of their injured comrades and recovered their physical strength, but also avoided the peak period of search and encirclement by the enemy. Compared with other officers and soldiers of the 180th Division, Wang Yang and the others had fewer people, but instead became an elite soldier who was raising their strength.
"We must set out tonight, and there is no need to stay there!"
After Wang Yang had a delicious canned beef, Gao Xiaodong seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief. Seeing that there was another new force, he finally made a decision that he wanted to make a long time ago. He quickly gathered the remaining volunteer soldiers together.
At this time, Gao Xiaodong was still hanging his right arm with a bandage. Although his face was serious, he was still in good spirits. He should have had no major injuries. He took out the map he had always carried with him and placed it on the ground and said to everyone:
"After these three days of rest, we have avoided the enemy's brigade and recovered our physical strength, but our food has been consumed almost enough. We must set out to find our large army as soon as possible."
"Based on what we know about the reconnaissance in the past few days!"
Although the team has been resting for the past three days, it has not done anything. Gao Xiaodong said on the map with one finger: "I met a fellow North Korean villager here. According to the information he provided, we should be in the middle of Guowang Peak to Changyan."
"Then we should not be very far from the military command post. It should be about 40 kilometers from our location to Shicangli! We can arrive in a night of rushing march!"
A volunteer soldier followed the route Gao Xiaodong pointed out, and a look of excitement surged from his face and asked Gao Xiaodong:
"Staff General Gao, do you mean we will be able to join the large army soon?"
Wu Feng and Hanjiang disappeared, and the sacrifice of Zhang Platoon Commander Dong Jianguo made the team now only eleven, Wang Yang and Gao Xiaodong. After three days of getting along, everyone gradually became familiar with each other. Wang Yang knew that this person was named Wang Xiankui, and he was a cultural instructor of the 180th Division. At that time, because of his high cultural quality, the cultural instructors were protected as the key training cadres of the army. Their work was just to teach soldiers who did not know how to educate culture and read and sing. During the war, most of them were assigned to stretcher teams to serve as less dangerous logistics work.
However, it is relatively dangerous or not on the battlefield. The battle goes smoothly and is safe even on the front line. However, once the battle fails, even if you are in the rear, it may become a front line. Wang Xiankui’s current experience is exactly what happened to him. He can sit safely with everyone, probably due to Gao Xiao and Wang Yang’s rescue regardless of life or death. Otherwise, his greatest possibility is that he has entered the enemy’s prisoner-of-war concentration camp.
"It's pretty good, but I don't think it's a good idea to go to Shicang!"
Seeing Wang Xiankui's excited expression on his face, he must have been frightened by the enemy's siege these days. Of course he would be excited to see the hope of going back. Wang Yang didn't want to pour cold water on him, but he couldn't help frowning after looking at the map. He felt that it was not a good idea to go to Shi Cang.
"Oh! Wang Yang, what do you think?"
Maybe Gao Xiaodong had already made a decision in his heart, but he didn't expect that Wang Yang, who didn't usually have much opinion, would also interject, which made him interested in listening.
"I'm just talking about my personal opinions. Judging from the situation of our retreat on the south bank of the Han River, the more we go to the direction of our division's retreat, the more enemies there will be. Everyone in Shicang knows that it is the rear of our military headquarters. Even if our division is defeated by the enemy, the direction of retreat must be there!"
Wang Yang shook his head and saw that everyone else looked at him with confusion. He couldn't tell any big truth. He had the intuition to see danger on the battlefield, but undoubtedly this intuition had saved everyone several times on the way to break through. Therefore, Wang Yang was not artificial. He looked at the map and said without hesitation:
"So I'm sure that if we break through the siege near Shicangli, we might encounter many small troops who are breaking through like us. Of course, there will definitely be a large number of enemies to block and surround. For our existing forces, this is undoubtedly not a good route to break through and siege."
Although Wang Yang did not provide any factual basis, what he said was very likely. Cultural instructor Wang Xiankui opened his mouth and wanted to refute it, but in the end he felt that Wang Yang's words still make sense. When he came to his mouth, he sighed and took it back. Gao Xiaodong's eyes showed the smell of research, and then asked Wang Yang with interest:
"Then do you think it's better to break through in that direction?"
Chapter completed!