"Reporting, Battalion Commander Xu..." The dark-faced man, with sharp eyes, spotted Xu Feng as soon as he reached the position. Xu Feng was talking to Regiment Commander Chu, Political Commissar Chen Ye, and several others, including some in People's Army uniforms, on a map on an ammunition box.
The dark-faced man saluted him directly and said, "Reporting, Battalion Commander, Company Commander Cui has arrived."
"Reporting!" I saluted as well.
"What's going on? Why are you only arriving now?" Xu Feng turned around, saw it was me, and couldn't help but scold me.
"Save your criticisms for later." Commander Chu, ever the impatient one, pulled me aside to the map and said, "The situation is like this: we're roughly at this location—Pugok-ri. There's about a battalion of enemy troops ahead,
