A Dream of Jinling Chapter 320 Solving the Cow (33)

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The firepower of the American artillery was so fierce that everyone in the military headquarters of the 24th Army was discolored. All of them were stunned, and their reactions tended to be conservative.

"Do the Americans have so many shells?" There was a lot of emotion in the voice of the army commander Zheng Minglun. In the more than 30 years of history of the Liberation Army, there is only one time, in the Battle of Foshan more than 30 years ago, the British lobster soldiers used to have a considerable advantage in artillery, even so, those artillery could only block the Liberation Army and did not make the Liberation Army feel afraid. Governor Wei Zedu knows very well what firepower hell is, and a lot of training in the Liberation Army is very targeted. Even so, the ferocity of the Yankees' artillery fire did shock the Liberation Army.

Qi Rui was also surprised by the fierceness of the Yankees' artillery fire, and he muttered a little: "The Americans are trying to fight back?" Or do you want to break through? ”

"Do they have any other way but to run?" Zheng Minglun replied immediately. The battle situation last night had been reported to the headquarters, and the Yankees' helpless expression in front of the barbed wire made Zheng Minglun completely convinced that the 24th Army could use the advantage of equipment to fight a good battle. Even if the Yankees carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the Liberation Army with unprecedented firepower, Zheng Minglun did not have any doubts. If he were an American commander, he would have had only one option. U.S. reinforcements really have no expected value at all, and if there are unrealistic illusions about U.S. reinforcements, the result is only a dead end.

"What if the Americans want to run off the water?" Qi Rui asked with some embarrassment. The Liberation Army has formed a land encirclement network, but limited to equipment, the Americans really have to run away from the water, and the Liberation Army really can't stop it. And he himself is not quite sure that the Yankees really only want to retreat from the water, in case the Yankees play to attack the west, the loss of the Liberation Army will be great.

"Tell the troops, hold their positions tightly. Can't let the Yankees run away! As a military commander, Zheng Minglun's orders were simple and clear. It is the chief of staff's job to make plans for complex systems, and this is not to say that the front-line commander of the unit has to be a rough and reckless man, but that the military commander has to shoulder the responsibility when it is time to make decisive decisions.

When the glow brightened in the sky, Li Shaokang, the commander of the Air Force, received a phone call, "Your Air Force will immediately conduct reconnaissance on Duluth to see where the United States is going." ”

The Air Force can only be on duty in good weather, and it has to be during the day, so Li Shaokang slept well all night. The air force had already gotten up before the Yankees shelled it, and although they did not have to accept the Yankees' shelling on the front line, the officers and men of the air force were quite surprised by the fierce course of the enemy's artillery fire, and after receiving the order to take off and reconnoitre, Li Shaokang immediately asked the planes to step up their preparations. Airplanes are far more complex than trucks, and if a truck breaks down or stops for repairs, if the plane fails, the pilot has to fall from a high altitude with the plane...... Fall.......

When Li Shaokang expressed the news that the plane could only take off after eight o'clock in the morning at the earliest, the unhappy voice of the army commander Zheng Minglun immediately came from the telephone receiver, "What? Take-off after 8 a.m.? No way! Prepare now and take off! I'm not telling you to fly all day long, just every few hours! But you give me a flight right now. ”

"Commander, we were building a position yesterday, and we really didn't have time to overhaul the aircraft." Li Shaokang has seen several plane accidents, and he has experienced some problems himself, so even if it will make the commander unhappy, Li Shaokang is not willing to take off before the maintenance is completed, he said tentatively: "Commander, can't we use hot air balloons?" ”

"The hot air balloon was left for the troops of São Paulo at the time of this departure." Zheng Minglun's tone sounded very unhappy, "Li Shaokang, you take off for five minutes first, and I only need you to reconnoiter for five minutes." After the reconnaissance is completed, don't say that you will repair to eight o'clock, even if you repair it to nine o'clock, it will be no problem! Hurry up and scout! ”

Li Shaokang was about to say something more, but Zheng Minglun on the other side had already hung up the phone. Li Shaokang sighed, many people have a serious understanding of mechanical equipment, they always feel that the order or failure time of mechanical equipment is a consumable. In fact, this is not the case, mechanical failure is a complex process. The life of those parts and the problem of failure are related to time, and now all the planes in Li Shaokang's flight team have exceeded the absolute safety period and entered the failure period. In such a failure period, if the maintenance cannot be carried out carefully, the difference between the failure of one minute and the previous hour is actually limited. But the army commander had an order, and Li Shaokang couldn't do anything. He could only ask the ground crew to find two planes in the best condition to take off for reconnaissance.

"Captain, let's fly." When Li Shaokang was about to pull on the canopy of the reconnaissance plane, the pilot next to the plane said, "You said a long time ago that we will conduct reconnaissance." ”

At any other time, Li Shaokang would not have had any interest in competing with other pilots for flying opportunities. But this flight made him feel uneasy, so Li Shaokang didn't want others to fly. So Li Shaokang smiled: "I'll go up and fly around, and when I come down, it's your turn to fly." You want to be lazy, hum, don't even think about it. ”

The pilots didn't see the captain's thoughts, and when they heard Li Shaokang tell the joke, they couldn't help laughing out loud.

The propellers turned, and the fuselage of the plane trembled slightly with the rotation of the propellers. This familiar feeling is exactly the same as when he took off before, which made Li Shaokang feel a lot more at ease. Even if the parts are broken, wait until the plane lands before they break. Li Shaokang prayed silently.

The tremors became even more intense, because the plane began to slide along the temporary runway, which was not very flat, and Li Shaokang sat in the back seat and was not responsible for operating the plane. He looked out the window, and the morning glow on the horizon became brighter, and it seemed that it was a sunny day. The surrounding qiē was still in a relatively dim light, and as the plane began to move on the runway, the surrounding qiē was also moving.

The take-off was quite smooth, and both planes took to the skies. When the vibration once again became a vibration caused by the mechanical movement of the plane itself, Li Shaokang breathed a sigh of relief. He manipulated the telescope from the plane looking downward, and from inside he saw the position by the lake. Li Shaokang suddenly remembered that his old friend Hu Xingzhi was stationed by the lake, and he didn't know what this guy was doing now.

Hu Xingzhi didn't know that his old brother was thinking about him in the sky, and he was roaring into the microphone at this time: "Wei Jianjun, what did you say? To withdraw troops from the front line to a place where artillery can be defended? You're on the run! You know what? ”

As soon as Hu Xingzhi was shouting and playing, he heard Wei Jianjun say in a suppressed tone in the receiver of the phone: "Regiment commander, the commander of our battalion was seriously injured, and many comrades were not killed or injured by American shells. Instead, he was injured by the rocks that had been blown up by the shells. The stones were blasted out of all sorts of edges and corners, and they flew in the air sharper than knives. Commander, I did not let the troops retreat, but let the troops stop in a place where they could defend themselves against artillery shelling, and as soon as the enemy was about to come up, our comrades who remained in the positions immediately notified the troops to come up. ”

"Aren't you going to retreat with this arrangement? Now that the commander has ordered that the enemy may want to flee, let us be ready to move forward at any time. What if you withdraw your troops and the enemy runs away? Although Hu Xingzhi's voice was loud, he was not really angry in his heart.

The luck of the third battalion was so bad that Hu Xingzhi himself felt that he didn't want to have a direct conversation with the third battalion. Up to now, the only one in the whole army to carry out the offensive was the third battalion, and it was the third battalion that was targeted by the enemy, and it was the third battalion that was the first to encounter the heavy fire of the Yankee artillery.

Hu Xingzhi himself was not attacked by US fire, but he was very close to see with his own eyes what kind of plough-like fire the American artillery used to destroy the positions of the third battalion. When the phone of the third battalion was connected, to be honest, Hu Xingzhi was a little surprised. The news of the serious injury of the commander of the third battalion did not shock Hu Xingzhi, in fact, the third battalion was really annihilated, and he was not too surprised.

"You only have to hold on to the position for more than an hour now, and you can't hold out for more than an hour!?" Hu Xingzhi was still loud but not really angry. He had already made a phone call with the 1st and 2nd Battalions, asking them to prepare to change guards with the 3rd Battalion. But the three battalions have been almost crippled, no, the three battalions have been crippled. The so-called change of guard probably has to be used by one battalion as two battalions. Hu Xingzhi tried his best to dispatch, but there was no way to ensure that the already stable front was foolproof. So he could only be ruthless and let the third battalion hold on a little longer.

"Regiment commander, if you can guarantee that the Americans will not shell us like this again for more than an hour, let alone more than an hour, it will be no problem to stay for another day. But can you guarantee it? If you can't guarantee it, and let us stay on the ground, it will send us to death! Wei Jianjun's voice was already extremely unhappy.

Hu Xingzhi could actually understand Wei Jianjun's feelings, before the shelling, the third battalion had already lost nearly half of its troops. The standard configuration of a battalion is three companies and one platoon, while the standard infantry battalion of the third battalion was reduced to two companies after the addition of two platoons. Now there is not one company left in these two companies, so Wei Jianjun's affection did not immediately make Hu Xingzhi angry, but only doubled Hu Xingzhi's guilt. But the increase in guilt made Hu Xingzhi very uneasy, and after a while, it increased Hu Xingzhi's anger. He couldn't help but shout into the phone: "Let you stay on the position, and you will stay on the position." ”

Just when Hu Xingzhi felt that the words blurted out were really a bit excessive, a big sneer came out of the microphone, "Hehe! Then Wei Jianjun, who was also a little depressed, finally said loudly without restraint: "Hu Xingzhi is the head of the regiment, you are naturally safe as the head of the regiment headquarters. You let us stay on the ground, why don't you stay on the ground with us? Anyone can be blind, and anyone can say it if they let others die. You don't have to take our lives seriously, we don't need to sell people like you for our own lives! ”

After so many brutal battles and heavy sacrifices, the third battalion had long been extremely dissatisfied with the regiment commander Hu Xingzhi. Now seeing that Hu Xingzhi still wants the third battalion to resist for no reason, Wei Jianjun finally broke out. recounted the grievances in his heart mercilessly, and before he could feel the comfort of spitting out the resentment in his chest, Wei Jianjun heard Hu Xingzhi on the phone already shouting in a sharp voice: "You said Shenma?!" ”

Wei Jianjun is not a fool, and he also knows that if he softens at this time, he may be able to redeem it. But as soon as this thought came out, the strong impulse in Wei Jianjun's chest made him shout into the microphone: "I said that you are a coward in nonsense!" You won't do anything but hide behind. Now I'm going to arrange for the transport of the wounded and the search for anti-artillery positions. If you have anything to say, come up to the battlefield and tell me in person. After happily shouting at the microphone in front of him, Wei Jianjun, who felt that he was open-minded, shouted loudly again, "If you still have something in your crotch, come in person!" Don't send anyone else! ”

After speaking, Wei Jianjun deducted the phone as soon as he finished speaking. Such an angry roar slightly touched the wound, but the slight pain of the wound made Wei Jianjun feel more comfortable. This kind of ** pain overwhelmed the mental pain in a certain way, making Wei Jianjun feel that he was still alive. And Fang Cai's roar really evacuated the strong indignation.

As for what will happen after he does this, Wei Jianjun has no intention of thinking about it at all. It's just a big deal, I've seen so many deaths, and I just escaped from death not long ago. Hu Xingzhi's threat was not even a hair for Wei Jianjun.

"Hurry up and send the wounded down!" Wei Jianjun said to the second company commander. Now there are only two cadres left in the third battalion, the commander of the second company and Wei Jianjun. The battalion commander and the instructor of the second company were seriously injured, and the battalion political commissar, the commander of the first company, and the instructor of the first company were all blown into several pieces, and the deceased could only be dealt with temporarily or even not at all. But if those wounded can be arranged quickly, they will probably be able to save a few more people.

Just then, the phone rang. The commander of the second company, who was about to receive the order, looked at the deputy battalion commander Wei Jianjun again, Wei Jianjun glanced at the phone, turned back to the commander of the second company and said, "You go now, don't delay!" ”

After the commander of the second company left, Wei Jianjun said to the only remaining correspondent in the battalion headquarters: "You answer the phone after I leave." If it weren't for the phone calls that let us leave the front line to launch an offensive against the enemy, you would have informed them that I was not at the command. As for the kind of phone call that wants to arrest me, you can sue them, and I will be on the front line. You want to capture me, you want to kill me, let you come to the front to find me. ”

After speaking, Wei Jianjun strode out of the battalion headquarters. casually, Wei Jianjun only felt a burst of relief in his chest. He has not encountered difficulties and unhappiness in his years in the army, but he has never encountered so many unhappiness as in the past few days. Finally able to make his own counterattack, Wei Jianjun suddenly felt that even if he died for this, there was nothing to fear.

Leaving the miserable battalion headquarters that was devastated by the American shells, in front of Wei Jianjun was the miserable position destroyed by the American shells. The uninjured fighters were trying to carry the wounded, trying to get them to a safer place earlier. Wei Jianjun crossed these teams and went straight to the front line, where it was key to find a place where they could defend against artillery. The Yankees have put down such a great effort to bombard, there will definitely be a backhand. Wei Jianjun didn't want his troops to suffer such an unwarranted disaster again.