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Chapter 30 The North Korean Girl Jin Xuhua

In her sleep, Xu Qing didn't sleep very peacefully.In a daze, he seemed to hear the roar of US military planes, but when he woke up several times, he found that he was dreaming.

When it was dawn, he got up helplessly and rubbed his cold feet with his hands, but there were already two heavy dark circles on his eyes.

When Yu Congrong saw him, he couldn't help it immediately: "You were dreaming last night, how many U.S. troops were beaten!"

Lei Gong stood aside and laughed.Pinghe, Zhang Xiaoshan and other soldiers from the Seventh Company also laughed when they saw it, and they all found it quite amusing.

Xu Qing looked back, only to realize that among the more than 100 people, he was the only one with dark circles under his eyes!

Even the person on duty last night slept soundly after a brief change of shift.

No reason!

These veterans don't make sense.

Qianli also came over and asked softly, "You're not used to it yet, can you persevere?"

"...No problem." Xu Qing nodded decisively.

I also rested on the train before last night, and I am not mentally sleepy.You can't hold back at this time.

"Okay, I can't hold on to it."

Qianli nodded, turned around, and ordered, "Everyone is ready to go!"

"Yes!"

Taking advantage of the dawn and being able to see the road clearly, the soldiers quickly packed up and set out on the road.

Qilian has done countless interspersed missions, eating and sleeping in the open are common things, and there is nothing complicated about it.The weather was actually very cold last night, many people were shivering from the cold, and they didn't sleep as well as Xu Qing imagined.But no one complained, and immediately continued on the road cleanly.

It took another day to walk, more than 20 kilometers on foot, without any breath, and the destination "Volunteer Army Headquarters Command Post" they were going to was still far away.

Xu Qing was able to hold on at first, but when he walked slowly, his body couldn't take it anymore.Lei Gong, Qianli and others saw it, and when they were about to let him rest for a while, they didn't expect him to come back alive.

Although it was strange, I didn't think much about it.

I just think he has good willpower.

But in reality, Xu Qing had no choice but to add all the 20 points of experience accumulated in the past two days to the [Physical] attribute.The physique was barely raised to 1.2, the physical endurance increased a little, and the mental state seemed to recover a wave of blood, so that he could continue to keep up with the team.

During this day, from time to time, they could hear a plane whizzing by in the sky above their heads, and the naked eye could see that it was full of ammunition, flying towards the northwest, which was the direction they had come from.

Whenever the sound of the plane engine sounded in the sky, everyone lay down in the mountains and forests, hiding, motionless.

But after flying away, everyone looked serious and ugly.They don't know what's going on, but it's definitely not good to know that this is the case.

Recalling the bombing traces that can be seen everywhere along the way, Mei Sheng said:

"We have not seen many marching traces of the US military along the way. They should not have hit here yet. But the Air Force planes are constantly dropping bombs. What do you think the Americans want to do?"

Qianli said: "Our participation in the war has already made the Americans very vigilant. I am afraid that this is to cut off our retreat. The division headquarters expected this and let us enter North Korea to fight in advance-don't be surprised, this is not what I analyzed , I was told by Battalion Commander Tan.”

Everyone listened and nodded.

In fact, Xu Qing vaguely remembered it too.Whether it is history or movies, it seems that the Allied Commander-in-Chief MacArthur has never given up bombing the Yalu River, the border between China and North Korea, roads, bridges, highways and other places in order to prevent our troops from entering North Korea.As long as there are people, U.S. military aircraft have appeared.

He didn't know the details, but he was quite impressed with the Yalu River Broken Bridge.

Qilian continued on the road. They didn't take the main road, but only took the winding and difficult mountain roads in the mountains. These were small trails made by humans and beasts, and some places could not even be called roads.

But even on such a rugged and difficult road, they still saw many North Korean civilians retreating in the direction they came, most of them were on foot, and some were driving ox carts, dragging their families with them.

All these local people saw them and looked at them curiously.They can't hide, because there is indeed no place to hide around, and there is only one road in the mountains.

There are North Korean people who can understand Chinese and ask where they are from. They have a mission, and they don’t answer, and they don’t answer.The other side simply didn't bother, even if there was no sign, many North Korean people guessed that Qilian was a Chinese army.

Because all the North Korean troops are retreating, only they are moving forward.

After crossing the mountains, it was already night, and they had arrived at the previous homes of the common people they met during the day:

This is a village in the area of ​​Donglin Mountain.Although it is some distance away from the Yalu River, it is close to the station and there are railway tracks laid. Because of the guidance of Syngman Rhee's puppet army, it was directly targeted by coalition planes, and the village was affected—just a shell fell here, and it was It was in ruins.

"This is too cruel, they are the same nation..."

Xu Qing couldn't bear the whole Qilian standing on the collapsed ruins. There were still many corpses left in the ruins. They were wearing traditional Korean high-collared uniforms, which made people feel even more heartbroken in the freezing air of the Korean night. chills.

The group that survived during the day fled to the northeast of our country.

"No way. You have to understand, this is war." Qianli shook his head and said: "...This is war."

The village has been bombed like this, and there is a high probability that no plane will come again.Here, the group found a house that didn't collapse as a resting place for tonight.

Everyone couldn't live and cook, so Xu Qing took out the fried noodles in the ration bag and ate them with water.

To be honest, after eating for two days in a row, eating too much of this powdery and bran-like food made him a little dry and hard to swallow.But I didn't care about it, it was like living without food.

After eating, he moved quickly. Tonight was the middle of the night when the artillery platoon was on duty, so he, Zhang Xiaoshan, and three other fighters got together.

Sitting there for a while, there was no movement around, Xu Qing asked Zhang Xiaoshan in a low voice: "Where is your home in Beijing?"

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaoshan said with a smile: "Our family is not in Beijing, but we moved here after the liberation last year. It turns out that our hometown is in the Beidaihe area, which is so beautiful!"

"How beautiful?" Xu Qing has never been to Beijing.

"It's also close to the sea like this one, but it's not cold, but Changchun all the year round. Can you imagine... the blue sea and the golden beach when I open the door of my house? Have you ever rowed a boat? My father took me with me when I was young. Cruise on the Beidaihe River, where there are sandy beaches, red birch forests, flocks of seagulls, and endless waves—the first time I picked up seawater and put it in my mouth, I realized that the water is salty!"

Xu Qing was stunned: "...my house is the same. Opening the door is a big lake, with fishing boats, water birds, mountains, beautiful maple forests, beautiful evenings, endless boats with black awnings, and... the lake is always fishing to support the family. old parents."

Xu Qing couldn't tell what it was like. In the real world, his parents died in a car accident early on. He never enjoyed the warmth of his parents' affection since he was very young, but Wu Wanli's biological parents couldn't hide their love for him. .

Unknowingly, he seems to regard it as his second home.Qilian seems to be next.

"Yeah, so we're destined for each other?"

Looking at his expression, Zhang Xiaoshan thought he was homesick, and said with a slight smile, "When I return from this battle, I will take you to go boating in Beidaihe, and then you can invite me to your house, okay?"

"Okay... who's there?"

Xu Qing was about to reply when suddenly he saw someone approaching behind a half-collapsed house not far away.

"Who?"

Zhang Xiaoshan and several other soldiers on duty heard his voice, and immediately reacted and raised their guns.

Other people who were resting in the house also woke up when they heard the movement.

"..."

A voice came from over there, the voice was clear and timid.

Xu Qing was taken aback: "The voice of the child?"

He and Zhang Xiaoshan looked at each other, and then he shouted over there: "Can you speak Chinese, come out and speak?"

Over there: "A little bit..."

Now they heard it clearly, it was a girl's voice, the Chinese was not very standard, with a slightly awkward accent.But I can understand.

"what happened?"

Wu Qianli was the first to run out with a gun, and Yu Congrong rushed out under cover in a hurry: "Where is the enemy!"

Xu Qing said: "...Wait! Don't shoot yet."

They also saw clearly, a little girl walked out from behind the house, she looked like a teenager, with long sideburns and braids in a mess.

She was dressed in native Korean clothing, a long skirt with long pleats at the waist, loose and flowing, brightly colored, but not fancy.The clothes were dirty, she stood with that little face looking at this side.

Qianli breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone slowly lowered their guns.But he didn't relax his vigilance, and asked while holding a gun: "Girl, what's the matter with you?"

"This is my house..." She hesitated and replied.

The soldiers were taken aback.Look at her, then at the house.

Qianli was also stunned.He whispered to Yu Congrong, "Take a platoon of brothers and see if there is any movement around."

After Yu Congrong left, he asked the girl, "It's not that I don't believe you. Didn't all the people here leave? Do you have anything to prove?"

"There's a cellar inside, and there's my things in it."

Qianli glanced at Xu Qing: "Go and have a look...be careful."

"it is good."

Returning to the house with their guns in hand, the soldiers were all awake and lying around the room with their guns.He searched in the crowd, and he was familiar with Pinghe:
"Give me a hand?"

The two carefully opened the cellar.I saw a bed and scattered daily necessities underneath, as well as a North Korean schoolbag with several textbooks in it.

He flipped through the pages, didn't take anything, just handed the textbook to Mei Sheng from below.He is the only one on the team who knows a little Korean.

Back outside, Mei Sheng asked: "Girl, may I ask, what's your name?"

She is not afraid either: "My name is Jin Xuhua."

Both Xu Qing and Mei Sheng nodded slightly, and said, "There should be nothing wrong."

He waited for a while, and Yu Congrong also came back with the soldiers, without saying a word.Just shook his head slightly.

Qianli ordered everyone to put down their rifles, and sincerely apologized: "It turns out that you are a fellow from North Korea. I am really sorry. We will evacuate your house immediately..."

What he is afraid of is that there will be a local beauty in disguise to pass on information.

Unexpectedly, the girl didn't care, but asked curiously, "Are you soldiers from China?"

No one answered.

But Xu Qing should have guessed it from the girl's appearance.She looked at the hundred or so lonely people wearing thin cotton clothes, and asked curiously:

"Do you have a plane?"

"No."

At the founding ceremony last year, there were only [-] planes.How could they have.

"Are there any tanks?"

"No."

"Has a cannon?"

"……No."

"Then how do you fight?"

She shook her head, her small face was full of doubts: "I heard that we used to have hundreds of tanks, and they were beaten like this, but how do you beat the Americans?"

(End of this chapter)