Insufficient balance

  The guards at the POW camp discovered that something was amiss just before dawn. Normally, the prisoners who were responsible for cooking would get up early to boil water so that the other prisoners could have hot water to drink when they went out to work during the day. However, today, even though it was almost time to get up, there was no noise coming from the kitchen in the camp and no one had come to collect their knives at the gate. This made the guard who was responsible for looking after the knives suspicious, as he had been guarding the camp for a long time and had never seen anything like this before. As a result, two guards cautiously entered the camp with their guns at the ready.

  As a result, the two guards saw a situation that shocked them. In the two large sheds, at this time when people should be sleeping on the big kang, there was not a single prisoner of war!

  Before he could think twice, one of the guards swiftly pulled the trigger and sounded the alarm. The gunshot rang out, and the guard camp fell into chaos. Dozens of guards rushed to their designated positions at top speed.

  After the two guards finished their report, the platoon leader of the prisoner-of-war camp guard had not seen Ruan Yuanjia and Wu Hongying appear. He felt that there was a problem, so he ordered the two guards to go and see the situation of Ruan Yuanjia and Wu Hongying, and led his men into the prisoner-of-war camp to search around, at least they had to know how the prisoners escaped.

  Two guards first knocked on Ruan Yuanjia's door, but there was no response. They then ran to knock on Wu Hongying's door. Everyone knew about Ruan Yuanjia's feelings for Wu Hongying, and he often lingered in her room late at night. Through the window, the two guards saw that Wu Hongying's quilt seemed to have someone under it, and the blood all over the floor clearly indicated that something was wrong. At this point, the two guards didn't dare make a decision on their own and could only run back to report to the squad leader.

  As soon as the squad leader heard about the situation, he immediately ran back. After bursting open the door, everyone found Ruan Yuanjia and Wu Hongying tied up in a bundle. At this time, Ruan Yuanjia was already dead, while Wu Hongying was still unconscious. It can be imagined that Bao Yulin's elbow strike was very forceful at that time.

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  Here is the translation:

  Things became much simpler after that. Before the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrived, Wu Honglian was rescued and woke up. Through the toilet squatting position marks, the guards also discovered the secret of the fourth-level septic tank. Fortunately, there were old traces in the cave that proved this accident had a great relationship with the accidental discovery of the old tunnel by the prisoners of war, which could not explain any problems with the guards during their supervision. Of course, all the guards unified their tone and no one mentioned that Bao Yulin escaped ahead of time that day. As for Ruan Yuanjia's death and Wu Honglian being knocked unconscious, it was even easier to explain - this was an act of revenge by the prisoners of war before they left. Therefore, except for organizing forces to capture them, the entire Hanoi Prisoner of War Camp guards' formation was disrupted and re-assigned. Wu Honglian, after all, had experience in managing prisoner-of-war camps and was transferred to C-Prisoner of War Camp located in Lianshan. From then on, the Hanoi Prisoner of War Camp ceased to exist.

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  Bao Yulin hurried and slowed down, but still couldn't wait for his comrades. He had no choice but to continue north alone. Because he didn't know the way, Bao Yulin didn't dare stray too far from the main road, and he was worried about getting lost. Even though Nguyen Ngoc's pocket had some money, Bao Yulin didn't dare use it because he couldn't speak or understand Vietnamese.

  After all, Vietnam had just ended a war, and the ordinary Vietnamese people still had a good impression of the Vietnamese military. Along the way, Bao Yulin encountered several Vietnamese villagers. At first, he had no experience, and when he really couldn't avoid them, he could only muster up the courage to greet them. At this time, he couldn't run away, or else they would be even more suspicious. As a result, the villager greeted him, and Bao Yulin could only hum a vague response, barely passing by. However, later on, he thought that this wasn't a viable solution, and he would eventually be discovered. After thinking for half a day, he finally came up with two possible methods.

  Bao Yulin's first move was to tear open his shirt, use a cloth strip to wrap around his neck, making it look like he had a throat injury. When someone spoke to him later, he would point to his throat and pretend to be hoarse. This way, others would think he had injured his throat and couldn't speak. Of course, Bao Yulin still wanted to minimize contact with Vietnamese people. So usually when encountering Vietnamese on the road, if he really couldn't avoid them, he would casually turn a corner, find a quiet spot, lift up his pants, and let his "little bird" out for some fresh air. Others would take one look and know that he was urinating, so facing a stranger, neither party would dare say anything, and nothing would happen.

  Like this, Bao Yulin didn't know where he had walked to, but he calculated the distance, even if he walked 50 kilometers a day, in at most ten days, he should be able to reach the border. Fortunately, Vietnam's geographical environment and climate determined that there would always be something to eat here all year round, as long as his stomach was full, it didn't matter if he suffered a bit.

  Bao Yulin's calculation was correct, but unfortunately things went against his wishes. On the fourth day, Bao Yulin discovered from a distance that a group of Vietnamese soldiers were setting up a checkpoint on the highway between the two mountains to inspect passersby, and he quickly hid himself.

  Chewing on the still unripe banana, looking at the high mountains on both sides of the highway. Bao Yulin was in a dilemma, it seemed that crossing the mountain was the only way, but he didn't know how many more roads he had to walk to cross such a big mountain. Unfortunately, there was no other way, he had no choice.

  After a short rest, Bao Yulin started his mountain-climbing project. What Bao Yulin didn't know was that just as he was struggling to climb up the mountain, a tank and a canvas-covered GAZ-63 truck were smoothly passing through the roadblock. The Vietnamese soldiers saw that it was a tank and military trucks, and without even asking questions, they saluted and let them pass. In recent days, troop movements have been very frequent, with many tanks and military vehicles passing by, all heading to the front line.

  Bao Yulin didn't know that if he walked onto the main road, he might have been able to get on that military vehicle. Because inside the car and tank were Zhang Xihang and others from the Hanoi prisoner-of-war camp.

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  To avoid capture, after escaping from the POW camp, Zhang Xihang and his men first turned back south for several hours before heading west. Due to their large numbers, they needed the mountains of western Vietnam as cover.

  Li Yifei's suggestion and Zhang Xihang's decisive action helped the Chinese soldiers. When they learned that all the prisoners of war had escaped, the Vietnamese military began a large-scale search in the northern area of the prisoner-of-war camp, but nothing was found for two whole days. The Vietnamese thought it was strange, China was the only direction for these Chinese soldiers. In just one night, they couldn't have run too far, and such dense searches couldn't find them. The only explanation is that these Chinese soldiers hid in the mountains.

  After confirming this answer, the Vietnamese were not in a hurry. Years of mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare experience told the Vietnamese that as long as they entered the mountains, these Chinese would not be able to run fast. In the future, they will have plenty of time to surround and capture these Chinese soldiers, and it's okay if this takes half a month. Now they are more concerned about quickly mobilizing troops to fill in the military strongholds left behind by the Chinese army after withdrawing from Vietnam. In fact, the Vietnamese high-level officials were very dissatisfied, not because they were dissatisfied with China's withdrawal of troops, but because the Chinese army withdrew too quickly and suddenly. They thought that the Chinese would launch a direct attack, and the Vietnamese decision-making level had already made preparations for resistance and evacuation, deploying large forces in stages to the south. Who knew that the Chinese would say no to fighting and withdraw so quickly, leaving the Vietnamese side completely unprepared. For a time, the cadres in the north needed to be reconfigured, and military strongholds needed to be rapidly occupied. They also had to compete with the Chinese army for important military targets such as Old Mountain and Pha Ka Mountain. In comparison, a group of unarmed Chinese soldiers hiding in the mountains could wait until they were exhausted before being captured.

  No one had expected that Zhang Xihang and others would walk for more than a day without even having time to sleep, and then start heading east again. At this time, the Vietnamese army decided to slow down the search for prisoners of war.

  Li Yifei wasn't very clear about the specific location of his tank, but he knew that their unit was responsible for infiltrating to a location about 70 kilometers away from Hanoi, and they had also come through the complex mountains from Yunnan. Li Yifei was certain that his tank was on the edge of the mountainous area.

  Zhang Xihang and his men were extremely lucky. Not long after they descended the mountain, Li Yifei felt that the surrounding environment was somewhat familiar. After careful observation, he confirmed that their tank had indeed run along this path twice before.

  Everyone was overjoyed. Although Li Yifei's tank couldn't hold many people, having it was like having a weapon, and with a weapon, everything would be easier to handle.

  Li Yifei knew that his tank didn't have much oil left, but he had checked the map earlier and knew that after passing through the forest, there was a small gas station of the Vietnamese army not far away. As long as they could make it to the gas station, they would fill up the tank with oil, take several large barrels with them, and then hijack a truck on the highway, solving all their problems.

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  After a country or region is thrown into chaos, it's not easy to recover in a short period of time. This gave Li Yifei a great opportunity; although his tank wasn't hidden extremely well, who would dare to rush to the front line amidst such chaos?

  After running for several hours, they finally found Li Yifei's tank. It was hiding in the thorny bushes. The tank soldiers were overjoyed, and Lu Kai was so excited that he rushed forward on his horse, wanting to try out the feeling of sitting in the tank first. This scared Li Yifei badly. He quickly pulled Lu Kai back.

  Looking at Lu Kai's puzzled expression, Li Yifei smiled and explained to him. It turned out that at the time, Li Yifei and his men had considered that this tank might never be recovered, so they carefully laid out several booby traps. Anyone who didn't know would trigger the hand grenade inside as soon as they opened the tank's hatch. One hand grenade wasn't a big deal, but the problem was that their vehicle was also full of cannonballs! These tank soldiers had deliberately set it up to let whoever found this tank go down with them and their iron cavalry.

  When dismantling the thunderbolt, these prisoners of war all lay down and continued for two days and two nights. They didn't even know how many roads they had walked, everyone was exhausted.

  It's Li Yifei and the others who are not only careful to dismantle the tricky thunder they installed with great care, but also didn't think about dismantling it when they were installing it. You say they can't be careful? If they fell into their own trap, that would be ridiculous.

  Fortunately, nothing went wrong, and the next task was to grind off the "August 1st" military emblem on the tank. Although Vietnam's military emblem is similar to China's, it's still good to grind it off, after all, they are fighting with the idea of "secretly entering the granary" and "taking a risk".

  After they finished everything, the sky was almost dark. A group of Chinese soldiers drove tanks to a small gas station according to plan. Things were smoother than they expected. Not only did the gas station have oil, but there was also a Gaz car! They solved the problem of the 5 administrators at the gas station. They not only smoothly obtained the needed North Vietnamese military uniforms, but also several automatic rifles.

  Here is the translation:

  Next, a group of Chinese prisoners of war were busy for a while. First, they ate all the edible food and then loaded everything onto the car. They also pushed two large oil barrels on. Of course, they didn't forget to tie two more on the outside of the tank. Then they drove away with a big show. It wasn't until this time that they realized it was really uncomfortable for so many people to squeeze into one Gazik car. As for when the small gas station would explode, no one could say for sure. However, Lu Kai had guaranteed that he was much better at playing hand grenades than tank soldiers. Unless no one went there, it would definitely explode.

  Next thing is, Bao Yulin ran for several days, but this group of Chinese soldiers only took one morning to run ahead of him and quickly approached the border.

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  Bao Yulin was unlucky. A day later, Bao Yulin's comrades had already arrived near the Sino-Vietnamese border, but he was still struggling to cross mountains and ridges. Moreover, he still had to continue such struggles.

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