Chapter 276: For Victory
Since it was not known the specific route to the helicopter crash or the specific place of detention of the captured helicopter pilots, almost all of them were on a forced march for nearly twenty hours after the trainees set off, and they had to guard against the attacks and harassment of the old birds during the rare time of rest.
Marching in the jungle and mountains is not like in other places, long-term high-intensity marching and continuous combat, some team members have worn out their feet, some team members have broken their skin by tree branches, some team members have not been able to get any supplies and energy replenishment due to physical exhaustion, and they have to constantly fight against nature, their bodies began to show various symptoms, but they are still persevering.
Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime. This extreme training made everyone feel the energy of life. "If you are a man, you have to be cruel to yourself, and you don't know how strong you are if you don't force yourself." We instructors usually use these words to stimulate them, and they do the same, when their comrades are about to fall behind, they use their hands to push, shoulder rests, backpack ropes, stretchers to lift each other; When a comrade-in-arms was injured, they bandaged each other with medicine and encouraged each other; When only the last bottle of water remains, they pass on like the scene in the movie "Bloody Battle of Xiangjiang...... There is only one belief in their hearts, they can't let a comrade-in-arms fall behind, they can't let a person be eliminated, one heart, one game of chess, don't abandon or give up, they have a brotherhood that is not like brotherhood! It is the encouragement of comrades-in-arms, the persistence of oneself, and the support of faith.
A long time ago, I stepped on the Luding Bridge, walking through the mountains and valleys, one side of the sheep intestine trail winds up and down, the left side of the road is the towering peaks, the right side is the turbulent Dadu River, if you are not careful, there is a danger of falling.
On May 27, 1935, the Red 4th Regiment, led by the regiment commander Wang Kaixiang and political commissar Yang Chengwu, set out from Anshun Field on the west bank of the Dadu River to attack Luding Bridge. In general, a 160-kilometer march in 3 days is not difficult. Navigating a cliff that could only be passed by one person, and constantly guarding against enemy ambushes, the Red Army only covered more than 40 kilometers on the first day.
The next day, the Military Commission sent another urgent telegram to seize the Luding Bridge on the 29th. The Red Army commanders and fighters, who had no time to rest, hurriedly chewed raw rice, drank cold water, and rushed day and night, and rushed to Luding Bridge in the early morning of the 29th. At the head of the Luding Bridge, the surging river is still the same.
On the third day, 600 meters away from the bridge, the Red Army flew to capture the Luding Bridge Monument Park Avenue on both sides, standing 22 granite pillars, representing 22 bridge warriors. The monument stele is an abstract geometric shape of the iron cable, which is scattered, and the front platform closely connected with the stele is closely connected to the bronze statue of two Red Army soldiers who climb on the iron cable to help the advance - one raises a gun to shoot, and the other waves his arm to throw bombs. Looking up, the solemn and majestic statue seems to reproduce the glorious battle of the earth-shattering ghosts and gods. When the army arrived at the west bank of the Luding Bridge, most of the wooden planks on the bridge deck had been emptied, and the enemy had built fortifications at the east bridgehead, and used heavy machine guns and mortars to continuously fire at the west bridgehead. At the critical juncture, the Red 4th Regiment selected 22 warriors including Liao Dazhu from the Second Company to form a bridge-grabbing assault team. Twenty-two warriors braved the enemy's dense fire and charged the opposite bank. Wang Youcai, the commander of the third company, led the whole company to follow the assault team closely, and in addition to carrying weapons, they each carried a piece of wood and charged while laying bridges. The 22 warriors of the commando team climbed forward in a hail of bullets, and the speed was getting faster and faster. Approaching the bridgehead, the enemy in the fortifications on the opposite bank was frightened by the fearlessness of the Red Army warriors and turned around and fled for their lives. After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the Luding Bridge was successfully captured, opening a bloody road for the Red Army to get out of danger.
In fact, the spirit of the revolutionary ancestors has never dissipated to this day, and it continues to be carried on from generation to generation of revolutionary soldiers, just like this group of trainees.
In the early morning of the second day after their departure, almost all of the training teams had already found the place where the helicopter crashed marked on their maps. After some search and observation, any veteran with a little experience has been able to find some man-made traces around the area where the helicopter crashed, and along this trace, it is easy to find a temporary camp that is not very hidden.
However, the background of this assessment is a battle, and the old birds have already been eyeing these trainees from the beginning of the helicopter crash, as long as they find the temporary camp where the captured helicopter pilots are being held, and start to attack, when they rescue the captured helicopter pilots, these old birds lurking around will attack.
In fact, when the trainees arrive here, the so-called 48-hour return to the starting point has become a task that is difficult for many trainees to complete.
According to our plan, when the small team of these trainees arrived at the temporary camp where the captured helicopter pilots were held, more than half of the time should have passed, during this period, their physical strength was greatly exerted, but the last half of the time was the real test for them.
On the big screen in the monitoring room, at least half of the trained teams had already followed the trail to the temporary camp where the helicopter pilots were being held, and there was a certain degree of exchange of fire. However, soon, because the two training teams did not make sufficient combat preparations in advance, the combat plan was not very perfect, and the physical exertion of the team members was very large, they had just rushed into the tent where the helicopter pilot was being held, and they were already surrounded by old birds.
After a while of firepower from both sides, all the two trained teams died. This is likely to mean that a large part of the trainees in these two training teams will be eliminated from the "devil's camp". After only a few long sighs in the monitoring room, our eyes were once again focused on one of the small screens on the big screen.
Unlike the other training teams, they did not choose to attack the makeshift camp where the helicopter pilots were held, but simply chose to bypass the camp and move quickly in the other direction of the camp.
Their behavior like this, even we, the teachers, were blinded at once, what kind of routine is this? The mission goal of this assessment is to rescue the imprisoned helicopter pilots, but their movement is by no means like a rescue preparation, on the contrary, it is more like an orderly retreat.
"Hey, what the hell do you think these rookies are doing?" Lao Pang stood in front of the big screen, holding one hand and touching his chin with the other, thinking and asking at us.
"The actions of these team members are very interesting, maybe they found the monitors, and they are afraid that we will report the situation and deliberately disturb our vision." The leader of the command group nodded, pointing to several locations on the screen. However, as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately denied what he had just said: "No, it's not like this, they still want to attack!" ”
"Hahaha, indeed, this team has a lot of ideas, let's continue to watch it together." At this time, the chief instructor finally opened his mouth, smiled and said, it seems that the scheming chief instructor still has more insights than us old birds who have just grown a little feathers.
I saw that this training team roughly moved a large "C" around the temporary camp where the helicopter pilots were held, and then gradually shrunk this "C", but every time it shrunk, one of the trainees stopped moving.
There were only 9 members left in this training team before entering the jungle, although it was after a battle all the way, but it still maintained the combat effectiveness of 8 team members, but among the eight team members, one team member injured his foot in the early jungle shuttle, and his action was not very neat.
Finally, the offensive of this trained squad was about to begin. In the center of the "C" line, a trainee threw a grenade at the tent in the makeshift camp where the helicopter driver was held, but instead of opening the safety and throwing it out, he put it in his hand for a few seconds before throwing it out. When the grenade's time-lapse fuse is burned, "Bang! With a bang, it exploded directly in the air above the camp!
"! I'm afraid this kid is not crazy, if the fuse of this grenade grows a little longer, then the helicopter pilot will be buried together! In the monitoring room, a team member immediately shouted loudly when he saw this.
However, it didn't take long for us to see the trainee's true intentions.
The grenade exploded in the air, and the three old birds in the tent rushed out at once, and soon, the canopy of several trees around the camp and some small bushes began to move.
At this moment, the trainee who had just thrown a grenade threw several more smoke grenades at the camp, and for a moment, the entire camp became invisible to the naked eye. It was at this time that three trainees rushed into the camp from the front, middle and back of the "C" shape, and after a while, they saw two trainees carrying stretchers, and one trainee rushed out of the smoke in the back, without firing a shot.
"Attention hunters, the rookie at Camp 4 has rescued the pilot, pursue it immediately!" We were very happy to see such tactics, but we still reported them.
After receiving the notification, the old birds lurking around the camp immediately moved, and several old birds rushed out at once and began to attack the camp.
"Bang bang bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang! "Bang bang bang! Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang! "Bang bang bang! Bang bang! Bang bang! "Bang bang bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang! ”......
After the old birds launched an attack and pursuit, several firepower points broke out on the entire "C" word at once, and yellow smoke rose from the helmets of several old birds.
However, although the first wave of the pursuing old birds was wiped out, the pursuers still chased after each other. Relying only on the remaining eight trainees, two of whom had to carry the "wounded" helicopter pilots, their combat effectiveness and mobility were greatly reduced, and the best way was to leave the team members to block the attack and cover the evacuation.
Sure enough, at this moment, a trainee suddenly rushed out of the bushes and began to shoot wildly at the old birds who came to pursue, shouting something to the trainees behind him while impacting.
The team member didn't run very well, it was obvious that the injured team member was the one who was injured, and he ran towards the fog in the camp with a backpack.
"Bang!" Even the screen shook, and it was obvious that there was a large, violent explosion, and after a burst of explosion, the smoke cleared, and the old birds who came to pursue around were all declared dead.
I looked at the scene on the screen, and my heart couldn't help but tremble, this is really a sacrifice for victory, because, even in such an assessment, sacrifice can really mean elimination.
And the facts have proved that such sacrifices have indeed laid the foundation for the victory of this team.