Chapter 3: Do you dare to kill?

  Xiaoxue's cry of surprise caused the other two girls to take a step back in fear. The Viet Minh propaganda claimed that the Chinese would attack and share their wives, telling people on the border to retreat inland, destroying their homes and clearing the area.

  Chang Lin knew that these girls would not believe themselves, and he wouldn't believe them either. Seeing the terrified looks on the three people's faces, he said calmly: "Yes, I am Chinese, and I have come to teach you ungrateful people a lesson!"

  In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia with the support of the Soviet Union and quickly occupied all of Cambodia. At the same time, a large-scale anti-Chinese movement took place domestically; Vietnam made sovereignty claims over land and sea borders with China, announcing that it would incorporate islands such as the Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands into its territory.

  In order to defend its sovereignty and punish the aggressors, the Chinese government launched a "self-defensive counterattack war" into Vietnam. During Vietnam's thirty-year resistance against the US and France, China provided them with approximately $2 billion in aid, while its own people were starving, and continuously supplied large amounts of materials to Vietnam.

  Chang Lin was extremely enraged when he thought of these things. He had once served as a transportation soldier here, rushing about for a year, and never thought that the next time he came in would be to take lives! The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, his face stern with killing intent: "Your country has a new ruler, starting to suppress the normal life of overseas Chinese, causing large numbers of Vietnamese Chinese to return to China. And your troops on the Sino-Vietnamese border are provoking armed conflicts, sending armed personnel across the border to harass, injuring border civilians, toppling boundary markers, nibbling away at the border... shouldn't we send in troops?"

  The female soldiers of Vietnam that Truong encountered were brave and good at fighting, because in their hearts they only had the country, without any personal desires. In the war against America, they disguised themselves as village girls and mixed into the villagers to launch surprise attacks and throw grenades at American troops.

  As the self-defense counterattack began, these terrible women took advantage of being all yellow races and inflicted heavy casualties on our army. They performed better than male soldiers, don't think they are women, if you slightly neglect, it is possible to die under their eyes!

  Ajiao clearly understood Lin's current mood, and said to the three girls: "He is my lifesaver, I won't let anyone harm him! If he wants to kill Yueguo people, I will follow him to shoot. You guys leave, I don't want to see any of you die in front of me."

  Xiaoxue fell to her knees and cried, saying: "The Chinese convoy used to pass through our village frequently, I know you didn't do anything wrong to our country. But the current government has changed, destroyed our homes, and wants to take us away to be sex slaves for soldiers. I don't want such a country, Ah Juan, wherever you go, I'll follow you!"

  "Do you dare to kill? Dare to shoot at your own compatriots?" Chang Lin asked bluntly, picking up his rifle and saying: "Following us will be dangerous, facing death every day. Listen, the distant cannons are firing, if you want to survive, you must pick up a gun and fight!"

  "I dare, I'll kill!" Xiaoxue said resolutely, raising her head and saying decisively: "If you can save Ah Juan, you will also take action to save us. Following you, even if we die on the battlefield, we won't regret it!"

  "You think it's that simple!" Looking at the girl's attitude, Chang Lin scolded: "This is war, a life-and-death struggle! Killing people requires the use of weapons, do you know how? Once you step onto the battlefield, the enemy will take your life with just one shot!"

  "We all hunt." Xiaoxue hastily replied when she heard Changlin's questioning, "Living in the sparsely populated mountainous area, hunting is also a survival skill."

  Ajiao pulled up Xiaoxue and said to Changlin: "It's the country that forced them to have a home but can't return, take them in, we won't be a burden, we'll become your helper."

  Chang Lin hesitated, his own troops were nowhere to be found now, and these girls indeed had no way out. But he was bound to return to his motherland, what would happen to these people in the future?

  "One step at a time, you can't move now and we've lost our home. A-Ling, I can teach them how to shoot so they won't be a burden on you. You rest first, I'll take them to find a suitable place and then come back for you."

  Ajiao slyly looked at Changlin, and without waiting for the other party to express her opinion, she picked up a rifle and threw it to Xiaoxue. She also picked up the rifle, loaded the bullets, waved her hand and led the four girls away.

  Looking at the back shadow disappearing into the forest, Changlin decided to sneak away. He packed useful things together and carried them on his bare shoulders, holding a rifle standing up. Trying to walk two steps, he walked in the opposite direction of the girls.

  Since the troops were going to attack, they would definitely go to find the enemy and launch an attack in the southeast. The reconnaissance squad leader with a plan pushed the pistol bullets into the chamber, limping and hobbling towards the determined direction.

  The mountain was high and the forest was dense, he had walked for less than an hour when he became so tired that he couldn't move anymore. Seeing a small village below the mountain, he was overjoyed and wanted to head down. However, a group of armed soldiers suddenly appeared, leaving him stunned.

  "PLA!" Chang Lin was overjoyed, finally seeing troops from his own country.

  However, a group of PLA soldiers entered the village, wielding their weapons and driving out more than a dozen households. Chang Lin's face was suddenly covered in cold sweat, almost falling for the enemy's trick!

  There is a road leading to Meng Lei Town at the foot of the mountain, Chang Lin is waiting for the enemy to leave and quickly crosses the road, so as to get rid of the five troublesome women and enter another mountain range.

  Just as he was waiting, a gunshot suddenly rang out from the middle of the mountain. Five girls were seen dividing into two groups, with two rifles firing down the mountain. The Viet Minh discovered the target on the mountain and dropped off the escorted villagers, shouting and rushing over.

  "Bastard, why provoke these people!" Chang Lin muttered in a low voice, he now had to open fire, otherwise the five girls might be killed by professional soldiers!

  "Bang!"

  The sniper rifle was really good, more than 400 meters away, he shot and killed the person at the front of the opponent with one shot. The Vietnamese army saw that there were still ambushes on the mountain, and they shouted and counterattacked.

  "Fire away, I'll wait till you've finished your bullets!" Chang Lin plucked a blade of grass with his hand and put it in his mouth, slowly chewing on it. When the opponent stopped firing and exposed his head, a bullet whizzed out of the barrel.

  "Good marksmanship!" Ah Juan cheered from a distance and said to the five girls, "You stay here, I'll go pick up the guns for you!"

  Ajiao, who was petite and slender, suddenly flipped over and escaped from her hiding place, using the trees as cover to sprint downwards. Chang Linji's voice burst out in anger, anxiously shouting: "Come back, you'll get yourself killed!"

  War made women brave. The girl living in the vast forest, her figure agile on the steep mountain body, rushed down like a flat ground. Chang Lin had to hold his breath and watch through the scope, he wanted to use accurate shooting to cover the little girl.

  Unexpectedly, Ah Jiao jumped while continuously firing from the gun barrel. Chang Lin saw clearly that the girl's shots hit their targets one after another, and the enemies attracted by her were all shot down!

  His fiery temper and refusal to give up made Chang Lin move forward, but he was hindered by his leg injury, which greatly affected his speed and movement. He walked over a hundred meters before having to bend down again, using his shooting skills to provide cover for the girl.

  The enemy was hiding in the dead angle of the mountain below the front of the forest, and with a flicker of his eyes, he had an idea. He took out hand grenades from the package on his back and threw them down one after another. A burst of explosions came, and the eerie cries of ghosts and wolves rose up from below.

  Bang, bang.

  Chang Lin immediately shot down the person who had escaped from the dead angle with one gun, and the other gun was fired by A Juan. After shooting, she also gave Chang Lin a thumbs up. She excitedly shouted: "They're done for, sisters come down to collect the spoils of war!"

  Watching the four figures sprinting, Chang Lin didn't dare to move. He knew that if there was even one living enemy, these girls would be done for! He took out his binoculars and scanned around, fearing that the sound of gunfire would alert other enemies, in case reinforcements arrived, he would fire a warning shot to remind this group of battlefield rookies.

  "He's still alive!" Ah Ying cried out, startling Chang Lin. The Vietnamese soldier who hadn't died was struggling with Ah Ying for the gun, while Xiao Xue rushed over and stabbed him in the chest with her bayonet!

  "Damn it!" Chang Lin was almost scared out of his wits by this group of girls, if they were to gang up on him, he would probably be at a disadvantage.

  The villagers who were originally unwilling to leave their hometown fled towards the town along the main road after hearing the gunfire. This place has become a battlefield, how dare they stay? When Ajiao and her companions gathered all the spoils of war together, each holding a gun in cheers.

  "A-Ling, do you want to get rid of us? Let me tell you, if it's like this, I'll shoot you and then kill myself!" Ah-Juan rushed over, whispering a warning to Chang-Lin: "You've seen it for yourself, they can be warriors, fighting to the death for their own happiness!"

  Chang Lin stared silently at the girl, suddenly bursting into loud laughter. Only to see Ah Juan's cloth strip in front of her chest fall off, two steamed bun-like flesh balls still jumping up and down. The awakened girl rushed up to cover his eyes, her face red with anger, shouting: "Close your dog eyes, dare to look at me again, I'll dig out your eyeballs!"

  "Hahaha." Chang Lin laughed so hard that his eyes were filled with tears, and he pried open the girl's hand, pointing at the Vietnamese soldiers below and said: "Go strip their clothes off, you need to change into new ones, I also have to hide my little brother."

  "Poof!" Ajiao couldn't help but glance at Changlin's crotch, the big man was wearing pants that seemed to be open-fly pants, without underwear, and that embarrassing thing was dangling outside.

  No needle and thread, no clothes to change into, Chang Lin was at his wit's end. But now that the Viet Minh soldiers had been killed, they could strip their uniforms off the corpses and put them on. Ah Juan went down for a good half day before running back up, all the captured clothes having been torn apart by her into strips of cloth.

  "You——" Chang Lin was furious, he needed clothes, but the other person had torn them apart.

  "Are you really stupid or just pretending? This is Yue Guo, wearing your military uniform will get you chased by the army." A Juan said with a smirk, holding up a piece of cloth and smiling: "I'll make you a skirt, come on, tie it around your waist and it'll hide your brother."

  The two of them looked at each other's bodies, and Ajiao helped Chang Lin take off his pants without covering himself. She wrapped the gray fabric around his waist, tore off a strip to use as a belt, and tied it securely.

  Two people sat down, Chang Lin said with a worried expression: "There's nothing to eat, no clean water source, our lives are still unsettled."

  "They've already gone into the village to search, even if they can't find anything to eat, they'll at least find a pot. We'll pass through the road under the mountain, and on the other side is a rubber forest. I know there's an orchard inside, so we won't go hungry."

  "Salted food, it won't work without salt!" Chang Lin was exhausted all over, he knew this was caused by the lack of food and salt.

  "Needles and threads are also needed, our clothes can no longer be worn, this is what we must solve!" Ajiao helped Qianglin up: "Let's go to the village first, fill our stomachs and then plan where to go next."