Insufficient balance

  After all, the Chinese army had just withdrawn, and the border areas of the two countries were extremely tense at this time. Every day, there would be occasional shots and artillery fire, and some key areas were directly confronted, fighting with great pleasure. Not to mention that the mountains and fields were full of landmines everywhere, and no one could say clearly who had buried them in what place. Anyway, all these places were uniformly marked with death symbols, and no one dared to enter without permission. Of course, this also included Zhang Xihang and his party.

  Zhang Xihang and his men had transportation and maps, and soon arrived at a place near the border north of Gaoping. Fortunately, during this period, the Vietnamese side frequently moved troops and was in disarray, which gave these Chinese soldiers an opportunity to take advantage of.

  According to the plan, they hid the tanks and jeeps in a hidden place (it was impossible to drive the tanks and cars hard, not to mention that the Vietnamese would take these vehicles as targets, even the Chinese side would directly kill them without mercy). Of course, it's still the old way, China's tanks can't fall into the hands of the Vietnamese.

  After everything was set up, everyone found a hidden place by the river to hide. Prepare to drift downstream at night and sneak back into China! It's just a small river tens of meters wide, but if you don't make some preparations, it's almost impossible to swim across the water surface. Both China and Vietnam have set up searchlights on both sides of the riverbank in this area. However, generally only China's searchlights are turned on, while Vietnam borrows light. It's not that Vietnam doesn't want to turn them on, but as soon as they do, the artillery on this side starts firing over there. Besides, their power supply also has problems. In general, after the Chinese side turns off the searchlights, the Vietnamese will use illuminating shells to monitor the river surface. The whole river is illuminated, and I don't know how many automatic weapons and artillery are aimed at the surface. Everyone is worried that the other side's personnel will sneak across the border to cause trouble.

  During the break, Zhang Xihang and his comrades prepared a large number of diving equipment. Of course, diving suits were out of the question, but some simple things could be managed.

  They quietly cut some small bamboo sticks and opened the bamboo joints. Fortunately, they still had automatic rifles from the gas station. Opening the bamboo joints without a gun barrel wouldn't work. Although the smell of gun oil was a bit strong, there was no other way at this time, and nobody had time to consider these things.

  After nightfall, Zhang Xihang and Li Yifei were the first to enter the water. They had to sneak back first, find the Chinese troops, and reflect on the situation here, so that the troops could coordinate with our actions. At least, don't mistakenly kill your own comrades in the river.

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  Two people's movements were very small, and they drifted downstream. Soon, Zhang Xihang and Li Yifei approached the opposite bank. The Chinese searchlights illuminated this section of the river surface, and by looking at the position of the searchlights, Zhang Xihang and Li Yifei approached the riverbank, raised their hands high and stood up. They were taking a great risk. First, they had to let the Chinese troops discover them, know that they had no hostile intentions and were unarmed, so as not to be misunderstood. Secondly, they also had to put behind them the Vietnamese snipers on the opposite bank, who knew how many guns were watching this side.

  Zhang Xihang and Li Yifei had already discussed it beforehand, the two stood up at the same time, only needing to stand for two seconds was enough, believing that these two seconds were enough to make both parties discover them. What followed was naturally jumping open and falling down, leaving only waiting for people to come and respond to them.

  Chinese border defense soldiers who were always on the lookout for situations on the river immediately discovered the situation on the riverbank. They quickly raised and aimed their searchlights at the opposite bank in accordance with regulations. During this time, some comrades who had fallen behind tried to swim over, but unfortunately, they were shot dead by Vietnamese bullets from the opposite bank while still in the river. Fortunately, the direction of the river's flow was towards China, otherwise, not even the bodies of the martyrs could be retrieved. With this experience, the head of the border defense army quickly ordered that as soon as someone was found swimming over from the opposite bank, they would immediately organize cover. If necessary, suppressive artillery fire could be directed at the opposite bank. The shifting light of the searchlights was one of the cover projects. Vietnam's main deployment during this period was snipers. Suddenly shining a light on the searchlight made it difficult to see things clearly for a while, let alone open fire.

  The Vietnamese sniper could only blindly fire at the place where Zhang Xihang and Li Yifei landed, but was soon suppressed by the border defense army's artillery.

  In less than half an hour, Zhang Xihang and Li Yifei were escorted to the front-line command post of the border defense army, where their identities were quickly confirmed. When the head of the border defense army learned that there were more than 40 soldiers who had escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp on the other side, the situation was immediately reflected in the military region. The commander-in-chief personally ordered: Five minutes after firing two red signal flares (this was what Zhang Xihang and others had agreed upon, with the purpose of confusing the Vietnamese), the artillery regiment would carry out covering fire on the other side, while dispatching speedboats downstream to enter our territory and prepare to receive our victorious returning combatants.

  Lu Kai and others crossed the river much more smoothly. The Vietnamese did not understand why the Chinese side would suddenly concentrate such strong firepower to cover them with fire. Just as they were busy making phone calls to report the alarm, the shelling had ended, and Lu Kai and others had also landed safely. Unfortunately, two comrades still failed to return alive to their motherland. One was because of poor physical fitness, coupled with poor swimming skills, drowned, and his body was found downstream a few days later. The other was shot dead by a Vietnamese sniper. In the instant when the Vietnamese army fired flares, he floated up and took a breath.

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  With the triumphant return of Zhang Xihang and others, the number of lecturers for the Counterattack against Vietnam in various places increased rapidly. More than 40 people were quickly divided into groups and joined the lecture teams in various places. Li Yifei even had a bandage on his arm (he was injured by shrapnel from the Vietnamese army after crossing the river) and began to participate in the activities of the lecture team. The stories of these people fighting wits and courage with the enemy during their time as prisoners of war in Vietnam quickly became well-known to everyone.

  Everyone's speech is reviewed by the military district political department. Although there are still many doubts about Bao Yulin's affairs and actions, a few points can be confirmed: if he had escaped before everyone else, according to the time, he should have returned by now. Even if he did return, it would be necessary to first deal with the "anti-war declaration" matter and investigate his undisciplined behavior that disregarded everyone's safety. If his actions drew attention from the Vietnamese guards, this operation could very well fail. If he had acted in unison with everyone else, wouldn't he have returned by now? In short, it is not the time to pursue these matters now; for propaganda purposes, Bao Yulin has become a negative example in the speech of the propaganda team, an object of struggle for the heroes.

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  When his comrades put on their new uniforms and traveled around the country to tell stories of their heroic deeds, Bao Yulin was imprisoned again. In fact, this is not surprising. After a period of deployment by the Vietnamese side, the situation in various places has basically stabilized, and troop movements have been completed. The key is that he spent several days hiding in the mountains to avoid roadblock checks, and Nguyen Ngoc's ill-fitting uniform had several large holes torn in it. Another point that Bao Yulin did not notice was that he was too young, so young that he didn't match Nguyen Ngoc's rank of lieutenant colonel.

  A few days later, when Bao Yulin encountered another enthusiastic Vietnamese peasant who insisted on taking him home for dinner on a rural road after descending the mountain, even his trick of pointing to his throat and mumbling didn't work. The peasant didn't want to listen to what he had to say and dragged him into the house to start killing chickens. Bao Yulin was extremely nervous. Although he pretended that his throat was injured and couldn't speak, he should still be able to understand, right? Faced with this situation, Bao Yulin could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, shaking his head and pointing to his throat whenever someone spoke to him, leaving everything else to guesswork. However, one thing was certain - his hand remained on the gun holster at all times, ready to draw it out in the shortest time possible.

  What made Bao Yulin feel a little more at ease was that the peasant who took him home, except for chatting with another peasant enthusiastically on the road, basically didn't speak after returning home and was busy under his sight all the time. Another point is that Bao Yulin hadn't had a good meal for a long time. He still felt successful about pretending to be mute, he made up his mind, anyway Ruan Yuanjia's pocket had money, after finishing the chicken, put down the money and leave directly.

  From killing the chicken to cooking a good meal, it took some time, which almost made Bao Yulin feel like he had been living for years. After all, he was very hungry and ate quickly, in no time at all, he finished half of the chicken and two large bowls of rice. The only thing that surprised him during this period was that the people from the farmer's house never came back. But he didn't care about that much, although he didn't know how to calculate the value of Vietnamese dong, he believed that taking out all the money in his pocket would definitely be enough to compensate for the old man's chicken. Anyway, he would return home in two days, and keeping this money wouldn't do him any good.

  When Bao Yulin insisted on leaving, the peasants didn't say anything and sent him to the gate before closing it immediately. Bao Yulin was still puzzled by how quickly the peasant had closed the door. But when he looked up to see more than a dozen gun barrels pointing at him, everything became clear. It turned out that his weakness had been discovered long ago, and bringing him home for dinner was just a way to calm him down while others went to inform the army. The killing of the chicken was just a way to buy time.

  Facing so many guns, Bao Yulin knew that resistance was futile and could only be disarmed obediently. A toothless tiger is not to be feared, just as a group of farmers surrounded him, wanting to chop Bao Yulin into pieces, an unexpected voice stopped them.

  "Bao Yulin, didn't expect this, did you? We meet again!" Wu Hongyuan pushed through the crowd and stood in front of Bao Yulin.

  "How could it be you?" Bao Yulin couldn't understand, he had been walking for so many days, how could he run into Wu Hongxian again? And yet, he appeared so suddenly.

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  On the way to take Bao Yulin to the prisoner-of-war camp, Wu Hongying explained everything to him. Only then did Bao Yulin realize that he was now very close to the C prisoner-of-war camp in Zhen Shan. After being laid off from the Hanoi prisoner-of-war camp, Wu Hongying was transferred here. The local farmers were already familiar with the facial features and tall stature of Chinese prisoners of war from the north, so Bao Yulin's tricks were immediately recognized by others.

  "Bao Yulin, you didn't think so, did you? After running for so many days, you still fell into my hands!" Wu Hongying was very pleased with herself at this moment.

  "What's the big deal? I'm sure those comrades of mine have already escaped, otherwise you wouldn't be transferred here." said Bao Yulin with a sneer.

  "Run? You think they can run away? I'll tell you, since you ran away, we've strengthened the guard at the POW camp. That night, we discovered what you were doing in the toilet. Do you think they can still run away?" Wu Hongyuan said with a slightly hoarse voice.

  "Haha, you really don't have a talent for acting! That night? Do you think this outfit I'm wearing came from nowhere? If it weren't for me, Ruan Yuanjia would have succeeded!" Bao Yulin couldn't help but laugh when he thought of what he had done back then.

  "YOU?! It was you all along?!" Wu Hongyan had never figured out who was behind it, but now that Bao Yulin mentioned it, and looking at the military uniform he was wearing, everything suddenly made sense. Remembering the embarrassing scene back then, Wu Hongyan wished she could immediately shoot Bao Yulin dead. But she couldn't, and didn't know how to refute what Bao Yulin said.

  In the prisoner's car, apart from Bao Yulin and Wu Hongying, it seems that no one else can speak Chinese. Just now, only Bao Yulin and Wu Hongying were talking, but as soon as they stopped, it became much quieter.

  On the way back to the POW camp, Wu Hongying looked very worried. Just as they were about to arrive at the camp, Wu Hongying suddenly stood up and quickly tore off the lieutenant colonel insignia from Bao Yulian's shoulder. She told Bao Yulian in a rapid tone: "If anyone asks you where this uniform came from, just say it was stolen on the road to avoid inspection. Otherwise, if the truth about killing Ruan Yuanjia comes out, you won't be able to become a POW!" Wu Hongying had thought about this for a long time, as the POW camp was actually divided into different units, and she didn't want her comrades to know about her embarrassing situation.

  Bao Yulin nodded, although he didn't know what Wu Hongying was thinking. Everyone knew that if the Vietnamese side found out they had blood debts on their hands, they wouldn't let them off easily. Bao Yulin also hoped that his fellow prisoners of war from Hanoi could return home smoothly, so they could clear their names.

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