When Ugard and I returned to the position with the troop and trophies, we were surprised to find that the officers under Lieutenant Colonel Harpy were driving the soldiers of the Kwantung Army who had been seized of their weapons onto the truck.

I was dumbfounded at the time, knowing that our battalion had always been in a state of dissatisfaction, and I planned to use these Japanese soldiers to form the Ninth Company. But as soon as this battle was over, Lieutenant Colonel Harpy couldn't wait to take people away, this wasn't crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

I ran up to Lieutenant Colonel Harpy, pointed to the soldiers who were getting on the bus at the bottom of the hillside, and asked angrily, "Comrade Regiment Commander, why do you want to take them all away?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Harpy replied with an indifferent expression: "Now that their combat mission here has been completed, it is time to send them to the next battlefield." With that, he turned around and walked down the hill along the traffic trench.

I understand what the lieutenant colonel meant, these Japanese soldiers are a group of cannon fodder, since they are not consumed here, they should be consumed in another place, anyway, they are a group of cannon fodder that no one sympathizes with.

Watching the lieutenant colonel and several fighters drift away, they came to a jeep and pulled the door to get into the car. At this moment, a thought suddenly popped into my mind: since Hojo Tanio is a captain in the Kwantung Army, then he must have a lot of experience in leading troops, and let him train my troops, maybe he can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops in a short period of time. Thinking of this, I couldn't hold back any longer, and ran down the slope quickly, shouting as I ran: "Comrade regiment commander, please wait, please wait." "I may not be able to ask for too many people, but as long as there are two people, he probably won't refuse.

I ran to the lieutenant colonel's car, pulled the window, and said to Lieutenant Colonel Harpy inside, "Commander...... Homosexuals...... Comrade, please...... Could you please ...... Wait a minute. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Harpy, who was sitting in the car, said with some impatience: "Major Oshanina, what else do you have to do?" I have already told you, these people are to be sent to other battlefields, and they cannot be left to you. ”

I gasped, stretched out two fingers, and said, "Two, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I'll just need two." ”

Harpy pondered for a while before he asked slowly, "Which two?" ”

"It's Hojo Tanio and Kim Junzo who led the charge just now." These two people have left a deep impression on me just now, and instead of letting them be cannon fodder, it is better to stay here and train the troops for me.

"Someone," the lieutenant colonel shouted, poking his head out of the window on the other side. At the shout, a second lieutenant quickly ran up to him and stood in front of him and saluted. He instructed, "You go and bring Hojo Tanio and Kim Junzo over and give them to the Major." ”

The lieutenant said yes and turned to leave. Go underneath the trucks and shout the names of Hojo Tanio and Kim Junzo loudly. Because the troops were severely attrition during the battle, the survivors were only able to fill six trucks, and the two were quickly found by the second lieutenant.

Seeing that the second lieutenant had brought the two of them over, Lieutenant Colonel Harpy only said to me, "These two men will be handed over to you for disposal." Then he patted the driver in the front seat with his hand and said, "Let's drive." ”

The second lieutenant saluted me and said, "Comrade Major, I will hand over these two men to you." ”

"Thank you!" I smiled and thanked him.

He nodded, turned and walked over to the bridge of a truck, opened the passenger door, and got in.

Seeing Lieutenant Colonel Harpy's car leave, the trucks also started up and drove away one after another.

Lieutenant Ugad came up behind me at some point and asked me in a low voice: "Comrade Major, what to do with these two people?" ”

I pointed at Kim Jun-ju and said to him, "The Japanese will follow me back to the village, and the Koreans will leave it to you and let him help you train your soldiers." Also, you took the soldiers to clean up the battlefield in a hurry. There are also those Japanese who died on the battlefield, although they were our enemies in the past, but now they died to defend our motherland, so they must be buried well. ”

After giving orders to Lieutenant Ugad, I returned to the village with the guard squad of Master Yemelyanov and Hojo Tanio.

In order for Hojo Tani to be a good instructor, I also specially gave him the rank of sergeant, and asked Sergeant Yemelyanov to cooperate with him in the training of soldiers.

After Hojo Tanio became this instructor, he immediately put his Kwantung Army captain in full swing, which soldier's tactical movements were not standard, and he went up with a burst of punches and kicks. Because I had given orders to the soldiers below me in advance, telling them to resolutely obey Instructor Hojo, and not to compromise his orders. So after these fighters were beaten during training, none of them really came to me or Captain Diomi to complain.

Hojo Tanio's training, which thundered every morning, was to have the soldiers run around the village twice in full gear. The first time I saw him running happily with a large group of people, I was still muttering in my heart, this Kwantung Army captain used to practice marathons, or why almost every soldier was as tired as a dog after running, but he was still relaxed.

He had fought with the Soviet army and had a certain understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of Soviet tactics. For example, when the Soviet army attacked, the commander asked the soldiers in a straggler formation to straighten their waists and rush forward with their heads held high. In his opinion, this style of play is purely to turn the fighter into a target for the enemy. So the first thing he taught his warriors was to crawl forward when attacking. This tactic is the first time for Soviet soldiers.

The next thing to teach is the stabbing technique. Don't look at the Soviet army, they are all tall and big, but they fight bayonets, and they are really not the opponents of the little devils. Hojo Tanio himself said that in Zhang Gufeng's hand-to-hand combat, he single-handedly stabbed 28 Soviet soldiers to death. At that time, the warrior was not convinced, and wanted to compete with him on the spot, but seven or eight people went together, and they were still not his opponents. After this contest, everyone was convinced.

With Hojo Tanio helping me train my soldiers, I had more time to spend in the command post of the Seventh Company, studying the defense with Captain Diomi and Instructor Thorin.

"Comrade Major," said Captain Diomily, who was sitting across from me, as we were studying the combat mission we were preparing to carry out in the near future, "the Germans have been attacking fiercely these days, and they have already encircled the 131st Regiment. If we don't help, they could be wiped out. ”

"What's the help? Comrade Captain. I looked up at him, then pointed to the battle map on the table, and said, "You're not ignorant of the way, this damn lake separates us from the 131st Regiment. You can't let all of our warriors swim through without ships, can you? I still say the same thing, we can't help the 131st Regiment at all until we have heavy weapons and reinforcements. ”

"In this case, we should still do something for them, right?!" Diomi still didn't give up, trying to change my decision.

"That's easy!" I said slowly: "From tomorrow, the seventh company, the eighth company, and the guard squad will take turns patrolling the lake, and once they find that the soldiers of the 131st Regiment have broken through from the lake, they will have to find a way to help them." ”

"Comrade Major, something has happened! Comrade Major. The door to the command post of the 7th Company was violently pushed open, and Sergeant Yemelyanov, panting, ran in and reported: "Comrade Major, something big has happened. ”

"It can't be that Hojo Tanio is angry again, right?" I looked at the map in front of me and asked without looking up.

"Yes," replied the sergeant, "today Instructor Hojo said that he would train the fighters to train their courage. ……”

"Courage training?!" Before the sergeant could finish speaking, I interrupted him and hurriedly asked, "Wouldn't he have found a few German prisoners from somewhere, tied them to a stake, and let the soldiers practice bayonets?" "This kind of cruel and inhumane training method can only be found in the Wakoli, so when Tuas talked about training courage, I first thought of this.

The sergeant waved his hands and said, "Comrade Major, this is not the case. He had a few fighters hide behind a mound of dirt and then have a machine gun fire on them, saying that they would feel what it was really like to be on the battlefield. Just a few rounds were fired, a soldier jumped out from behind the mound and ran backwards, only to be wounded by a stray bullet. ”

"Seriously?" Diomi asked with concern.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a bruise on the arm. But the soldiers didn't comply, saying that the Hojo instructor was going to trap them, and scolded him for being a devil instructor, so he immediately rushed up and beat the instructor violently. Now the Hojo instructor has been sent to the health team, but the soldiers still do not give up, and they are gathered outside and refuse to disperse. ”

"Nonsense! It's nonsense" I stood up and said to Captain Diomi and Instructor Thorin, "I'll take a look." ”

"Wait a minute, Comrade Major!" The instructor, who had not spoken, stood up and said, "This matter should be handled by Captain Diomi, after all, he is their company commander." He winked at me as he spoke.

I guess he had something to say to me privately, so he didn't insist on dealing with it himself, but said to Diomi: "Comrade Captain, I'll leave this matter to you." ”

Without saying a word, Diaomi got up and grabbed the cotton military cap on the table and put it on, and then said to Yemelyanov, who was standing aside: "Comrade Tuas, let's go." ”

After Diomi and Tuas left, I asked Thorin curiously, "Comrade instructor, do you have anything to say?" ”

"Comrade Major," said the instructor with a mysterious smile, "didn't you notice that the captain's eyes lit up as soon as he heard about the sanitary team?" ”

"Oh, really?" Hearing him say this, my gossip soul suddenly burned and asked, "Do you mean that the captain has fallen in love with a certain hygienist of the health team?" ”

"Of course, Comrade Major." The instructor said with a mysterious expression: "Actually, the day I came, the captain had a situation. After you dealt with the bathing turmoil, why didn't he ask the name of the other hygienist, but only the sergeant? ”

Listening to the instructor's reminder, I remembered that the captain seemed to have really only asked Nina's name at that time, and suddenly it dawned on me, "Could it be that the captain likes Sergeant Nina?" ”

"Yes. I've been pursuing it for more than a month. ”

"Where have you got?" Life in the army was boring, and when I heard these gossip news, I immediately became interested and couldn't help but follow the question to the end.

"It is said that his address to Nina has changed from 'you' to 'you'."

(Author's note: In Russia, the opposite sex is used to address each other as "you", and after a period of dating, if a woman feels that the relationship between the two is close enough, she will offer that we call each other "you".) This transformation of the title can only be proposed by women, not men. ）