Anti-US and Aid Korea's Sharp Knife Company

Chapter 27 Frozen to death
"Soldier, you pass my order to the three platoon leaders of our third company, and tell them that it's time for a temporary rest of 10 minutes, and ask them to quickly gather all the soldiers in the platoon. It's about to go into battle."

Zhao Yifa, the commander of the third company of the Volunteer Army, looked down at the pocket watch in his hand. The time displayed was 55:[-] in the evening. He said loudly to the orderly standing in front of him in an orderly tone.

The orderly of the third company with sleepy eyes open, just waited for Zhao Yifa, the commander of the third company standing in front of him, to speak. He replied: "Reporting to the company commander, I will convey your order to the three platoon leaders of our third company."

After answering, even the orderly in a thick military uniform, he knew that he was shivering in the severe cold environment of minus 2 degrees, but it took less than [-] minutes for the company commander Zhao Yi to issue the order despite the severe cold. The time was passed to the three platoon leaders of the third company.

And the three platoon leaders of the third company took less than a minute to convey the order of the company commander Zhao Yifa to all the soldiers in their platoon.

After a total of 75 officers and soldiers from the third company have assembled on the high ground on the south side, the next step is to report the number according to the usual practice.

"Report the count!" Company Commander Zhao Yifa directed at the assembled team standing two steps away from him, and gave orders loudly and loudly.

Following the order of company commander Zhao Yifa, the assembled soldiers of the third company began to count from left to right and from front to back: "One, two, three, four, five... 72."

After the soldiers of the third company standing opposite him finished counting, the company commander Zhao Yifa felt that the number was wrong, because they fought a battle of Liangshuidong this morning. There are a total of 75 people on the front line to carry out this combat mission interspersed behind enemy lines.

But this time the count was 72 people, plus Zhao Yifa, the company commander, and Wang Wenju, the instructor, there were only fourteen people in total.

At first, company commander Zhao Yifa thought that it might be due to the early hours of the night and the severe cold weather, someone might have under-reported, so he asked the soldiers of the third company to report again.

The number reported this time was still 72. Immediately, the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju both had an ominous premonition in their hearts, that is, they lost one person in the third company.

What made company commander Zhao Yifa even more troublesome was that within ten seconds after the second counting was over, gunshots came unexpectedly from the direction of Wenjing, five kilometers to the north of their highland.

"Bang bang bang..."

"Da da da……"

"Boom boom boom..."

All of a sudden, it can be said that the guns fired, the sky shook, the killing sound shook the sky, and there were screams. After all kinds of sounds came, they all beat the nerves of each of them in Sanlian.

For their third company at this time, it could be said that there was a leak in the house and it was raining all night. After a hard trek, under such bad weather, they completed the task of interspersing to fight at the destination an hour earlier.

And just as they were about to prepare for the critical moment of the ambush after reporting their numbers for the third company, they lost one person inexplicably in the third company, which naturally caught the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju by surprise.

Whether it is for the company commander Zhao Yifa or the instructor Wang Wenju, it is really a dilemma whether to quickly arrange an ambush mission or quickly find the missing three-company soldier.

What worried them even more was that they only counted once when they set off from Liangshui Cave, and they took a short break for 10 minutes in the middle but did not count. If you leave the team halfway, the troubles caused by this will be great, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

However, in order to delay the ambush mission assigned by the regiment headquarters, after a brief discussion between the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju, the pair of old partners still had differences at first. The most important thing is to adhere to the principle of party spirit first.

In the end, in less than 2 minutes, considering the urgency of the military situation, the two of them still reached an agreement, that is, to assign combat missions to three platoons first.

After the three platoons have arrived at their respective positions, the platoon leader will personally check who is missing in his own platoon and make the next assessment.

As the saying goes, the time is tight and the task is heavy. Zhao Yifa, the commander of the third company, assigned the combat tasks. He was mainly responsible for guarding the southern highlands.

The second platoon with a few casualties was in charge of the left flank of the southern highland, and the third company with heavy casualties was in charge of the right flank of the southern highland, mainly assisting the first platoon in operations.

Youdao is the speed of soldiers. The company commander Zhao Yifa just announced the content of the combat mission and disbanded the assembled team. The soldiers of the three platoons arrived at their positions on the southern high ground in less than 2 minutes. Within the range, ready to fight at any time.

According to the instructions of company commander Zhao Yifa, the three platoon leaders were about to conduct a careful investigation of the soldiers in their platoon, but they heard the surprised voice of the new recruit Sun Lei from the position of the first platoon and the first squad: "Comrades Come and see if the person sitting on a marching backpack 100 meters away from them is Li Dequan, a comrade in arms from our first squad."

So, the soldiers lying near Sun Lei looked in the direction of Sun Lei's finger, and as expected, there was indeed a soldier wearing the same military uniform as them, sitting on a marching back, 100 meters away from them. The capsule was motionless.

Until this time, Niu Tiezhu, the leader of the first row of the third company, hurriedly counted everyone in their first class, except for Li Dequan, a soldier in their first class, and everyone else was there.

After learning about this situation, Niu Tiezhu issued an order: "Sun Lei, I order you to go over and wake up Li Dequan, a soldier in our first squad, and bring him back to the team."

Sun Lei, who got up from the ground, said "yes" and rushed over.

Sun Lei, who squatted down, stretched out the index finger of his left hand and placed it in front of the nostril of Li Dequan who was sitting on the marching backpack, and found that there was not even a trace of breath.

Not only that, when Sun Lei and his hot hands touched Li Dequan, who had his eyes closed tightly, he suddenly found that Li Dequan's body was cold, and there was no warmth in his whole body.

In this regard, Sun Lei secretly concluded that his comrade-in-arms, Li Dequan, was frozen to death alive.

(End of this chapter)