In 1959, what's wrong with me pedaling a tricycle?

Two days later, Wang Xingguo helped Wang Xingmin register, and Wang Xingmin went straight to class.

Junior high schools now offer both full-time and dual-system options. Wang Xingning is not eligible to attend a full-time junior high school; she herself requests not to attend one, but Wang Xingmin is not.

Because his younger brother is very smart and has always had excellent grades, Wang Xingguo wanted him to take the entrance exam for a vocational school. Now that the family's financial situation has improved, even if he had to repeat a year of high school, it would be better than just finding a job.

On the 5th, Wang Xingguo went back to his unit to await his assignment.

Two missions were launched in a row, and it was now October.

On the 20th, the counterattack in self-defense began!

On the 21st, Wang Xingguo, who was resting at home, was urgently assigned a task to escort a batch of military supplies, including quilts, dry food, and emergency supplies, to Daheyan, and then to Yecheng by truck.

On the 22nd, the military train departed and, after seven days and eight nights, arrived at Daheyan Railway Station.

Without stopping, Wang Xingguo led a platoon of soldiers to load the supplies onto the trucks. They escorted the supplies to Yecheng on November 3rd. After the handover was completed, the exhausted group lay down to rest at the camp.

In the early hours of that night, gunfire suddenly rang out in the camp. A group of stragglers from the elephant army took advantage of the darkness to launch a surprise attack on the outer warehouse of the outpost!

A portion of the main force of the supply depot was sent to the front lines, leaving a small number of personnel to guard it.

"All non-combat personnel, take up arms and defend the warehouse!"

"Comrades transporting supplies, wake up! The enemy is attacking!"

A Type 56 assault rifle was handed to Wang Xingguo.

Wang Xingguo never expected to encounter such a battle on the frontier thousands of miles away. Gunshots and shouts mingled around the warehouse, and he felt his blood boiling. He began to attach magazines and grenades to his body.

Not only was Wang Xingguo unafraid, but the soldiers and clerks who accompanied him also showed no fear whatsoever; a faint light shone in their bloodshot, weary eyes.

This is not danger at all, it is clearly a rare achievement in battle!

In fact, this group of enemy soldiers was not many, only about a hundred people. They were chased all over the place by our main force. Later, the fleeing soldiers were so hungry that they searched for people everywhere to put together this group.

When Wang Xingguo's convoy arrived, they discovered it. Hunger emboldened them, and they decided to take advantage of the darkness to plunder some supplies.

Little did they know that even if the supply depot was short-staffed, there were still guards on duty. Before they even got close to the outer perimeter of the warehouse, several of them were killed by our soldiers on guard duty.

Wang Xingguo said to the crowd, "Brothers, seize the opportunity and crush these bastards!"

Before Wang Xingguo could finish speaking, some people charged forward...

The routed soldiers fled again...

Because it was night, Wang Xingguo did fire a magazine at the fleeing people, but he really didn't know if he had killed any enemies.

After running and chasing for several minutes, Wang Xingguo could no longer run.

He hadn't adapted to the high altitude yet. One of the things this enemy group was good at was escaping. Because they had adapted to the high-altitude environment, they could run incredibly fast!

As dawn broke, the station commander, facing a severe shortage of manpower, assigned some logistics personnel, including Wang Xingguo, to join the search team in looking for the fleeing soldiers.

Although Wang Xingguo was a lieutenant colonel at the regimental level, he lacked military knowledge. Therefore, although he was nominally the commander, the main work was actually handled by a company commander named Wu Dajiang.

On the swaying vehicle, Wang Xingguo couldn't help but ask, "Old Wu, what were those defeated soldiers thinking? They were driven into a panic by our main force and dared to attack our supply depot."

Wu Dajiang grinned and said, "Commander, you don't know the situation here. There's not much to eat, not even any game to hunt. They're probably from the first wave of enemy troops. After so many days, they must have run out of rations, which is why they're so bold as to come to our camp."

Wang Xingguo yawned and said, "Oh, I see. I'll take a rest. These bastards made me only get a few hours of sleep. Wake me up immediately if anything happens."

"Alright, sir, you can rest now. I will keep a close eye on the surroundings."

A few hours later, Wang Xingguo was shaken awake by Wu Dajiang, because they had indeed caught up with the group of defeated soldiers who were now only forty-odd men!

Wang Xingguo initially thought that setting off a few hours late would mean they wouldn't be able to catch up, but he forgot that these routed soldiers had been starving for days and had only fled desperately during the battle out of fear of being killed...

"Surrender...don't shoot..."

After twenty men were killed, the rest threw down their guns, knelt down, and raised their hands. One of them, who looked like an officer, kept speaking broken Mandarin as he surrendered.

Our army's discipline is that we will not fight if someone surrenders, so Wang Xingguo could only follow along with a regretful expression and tie the man up.

This time he confirmed that he had killed an enemy soldier. Although the result was not great, at least he was a soldier who had killed the enemy.

Wu Dajiang started talking to the other side and learned that the officer who shouted for surrender was a major named Damir, who was bargaining with Wu Dajiang, demanding preferential treatment, food, and drink...

Wu Dajiang said with a smile, "Major Damir, you will have food and drink, but not now. We will make arrangements for you after we have interrogated you thoroughly."

"Wu... I'm a major... I demand preferential treatment, give me food now..."

"We will definitely give you preferential treatment. After we finish inspecting this area, it will take about two days before we will give you preferential treatment."

Damir stood there dumbfounded; he'd starve to death in two days...

He gritted his teeth and said, "Wu, I'll exchange a piece of information for preferential treatment. I'll get the preferential treatment right away."

Wu Dajiang looked at Wang Xingguo, and only after Wang Xingguo nodded did he reply, "That depends on what information you have. If the information is valuable, I will definitely give you preferential treatment immediately."

Damir whispered, "I know where the sacrificial statues and offerings are hidden in the military camp..."

Wu Dajiang frowned. Who the hell wants this thing?

But Wang Xingguo's eyes lit up. He grabbed Damir's shirt and hurriedly asked, "Where's the thing? Take us back to get it, and I'll grant you special privileges. You'll not only have plenty of food every day, but also canned food!"

Damir licked his dry lips, shook his head, and said, "I can't take you. If they find out... my country will die, I'll give you the painting... you'll find out... I know nothing..."

This guy can understand their language, but he's not very good at speaking it.

However, Wang Xingguo guessed what he meant, and he nodded with a smile, saying, "Okay, you don't know anything. We found it by accident."

After saying that, Wang Xingguo gave him water from his own water bottle and some compressed dry rations to eat.

After Damir finished eating and drinking, he obediently took Wang Xingguo's paper and pen and drew a simple map for them, with a circle on it to indicate the location where the item was hidden.