Front-line veterans say: "Those who come down from the battlefield are not lucky, only survivors"

This survival comes at a price, and the price is the blood and lives of comrades-in-arms

There was a sentry soldier in the Li Zi battalion who participated in the siege of Dongzhi County, and the commander of the sentry was Li Yunyu, Li Guolou promoted his relatives unusually, and was criticized by everyone, but he let Li Yunzhu lead the team to attack again and again, giving him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and also made Li Yunzhuo have outstanding military achievements, making people speechless

The team is mainly composed of Changfu, who has just been promoted, and the four captains Xu Yuguang, Deng Tong, Gu Xin, and Hu Yinshan lead the team

In the spring of that year, Gu Xin was not yet 22 years old, and he had just been promoted to captain, looking at the tense and orderly training of other teams, he always felt that his team was really awkward, just because he defected and returned to the army to spy on him, especially the team was full of such goods, those three dazzling "surrender factions" Qiao Ren, He Zhuzi, and Wu Lai always looked for other teams to compete

Qiao Ren is Dong Zhi, originally a native of Dong Zhi, hated Hui people from the bottom of his heart, and had a chance to rush to kill him, so he was a little difficult to control, He Zhu was a little thin, and he looked weak, but his muscles and bones were very good, and he was good at climbing mountains, Wu Lai was a dirt bun, anyway, he had never even been to the county seat before, he was standing guard in the fortress of the Hui army, carrying a shotgun, standing guard, and he had little contact with fresh things, and he was strange to see everything, and he was very simple in managing people, but he was still old and foreign

Before the war, the intensity of training became greater and greater, and the soldiers who practiced bomb throwing were crazy, as if they threw their arms, and threw wooden grenades, which were the foundation of their lives on the battlefield, and no one dared to be lazy, and the soldiers practiced so much that their arms were so swollen that they could not lift them up the next day, and the intensity of the live firing practice was particularly large, and the bullets were fired much more than before after about half a month of practice

Only then did these soldiers stand out from the crowd and join the Li Zi Battalion and join the battle in Dongzhi County

On the night before the war, Gu Xin sat by the tent and smoked silently, Wu Lai stared blankly at the stars in the night sky, he said that his mother could see him leaning on the willow tree, Qiao Ren was holding the book by the faint moonlight, and still watching silently

"Don't embarrass me, Commander Li looked at us, this time after the meritorious service, the other troops will agree, believe me, I will let you get out of the battlefield alive" Gu Xin extinguished the cigarette butt, threw out a cruel word, turned around and went into the tent to sleep, a tent was crowded with more than a dozen people sleeping in clothes, and the soldiers couldn't sleep

In the end, the battle of Dongzhi County began, in the early morning, more than 100 soldiers of the Li Zi Battalion were scattered and hidden, and in the woods on the east side of Dong Zhi County, the comrades-in-arms were curled up in twos and threes, in twos and threes, in the cold trenches, in addition to the soldiers of the Li Zi Battalion, there were also several other brothers, sentinels, and the Qing army soldiers were silently waiting for the order to attack

At 4 o'clock, Wu Lai groped his way to Gu Xin's side, leaned on the improvised trench and sat down, silent for a long time, Wu Lai finally spoke: "Captain, I wanted to tell you something, some time ago, a few brothers from the four teams came to see me, I wanted to invite them to drink, but I didn't have any money, so I stole some broken silver from you, don't you mind" and then stuffed Gu Xin with a handful of broken silver, and ran away

Gu Xin wanted to stop him, but Wu Lai disappeared into the mist

After 5 o'clock, there was the rumbling of artillery in the distance, and the sound was a bit like thunder in the sky, and it seemed that the artillery unit had already engaged the enemy

At 5:03, under the command of the sentry commander Li Yunzhuo, he stepped out of the improvised trench and began to search and advance, Gu Xin held high the battle flag and walked the whole team, followed by Qiao Ren, and then He Zhuzi behind

At the beginning of the battle, the position of the Li Zi battalion was quite forward, but after seven turns and eight turns, the Li Zi battalion turned to the back of the large army, watching the friendly and neighboring troops rush all the way into the city, especially when they saw the banner of the elder brother and the elder brother, the soldiers felt very uncomfortable

People are afraid of death, but when soldiers go to the battlefield, they can't get a fight, and the taste of fighting is worse than death, some time ago, Gu Xin and others have been wandering around the mountains to search and suppress the Hui guerrillas, and the remnants of the Hui army guerrillas often raid and disturb the rear transport troops of the Qing army, and the task of Li Ziying's battalion is to find them and eliminate them

On the morning of March 1, the Qing army transport team was shot sporadically four times, it was the Hui army guerrillas, the accuracy was amazingly poor, the Qing army escorted the long man, there were no casualties, the superiors reported that there might be remnants of the Hui army nearby, and ordered Gu Xin to lead the team to the reconnaissance brigade Fang Zhiyong, the captain of the reconnaissance team, and reported that a small group of Hui troops had been found on the nearby hills, and it seemed that the enemy had not yet discovered that the Qing army had surrounded them, and the shooting just now may be a coincidence

The Guxin team quickly crossed the reconnaissance team and touched the enemy situation, there was a section of open grass around this high ground about forty or fifty meters, and there were obvious traces of trampling, there was a dark fort on the high ground, about 5 meters away, and there was a ring trench on the hillside, and it was estimated that the Hui army had at least two teams

Li Yunzhuo led the follow-up personnel to approach the nameless highland one after another, and the sentry officer Li Yunzhuo ordered that it must be taken down before dark, and several captains and captains began to approach the sentry officer Li Yunzhuo and listen to his assignments

Li Yunzhuo ordered: Send the first and second teams to disperse from the front to receive the enemy, the third team and the supervisor, they feinted from both sides, the third team was responsible for fire support, and the fourth team, the first team, and the second team followed behind

The mission of the Guxin team is to forcibly seize the trench through the open area under the ring trench, and then rely on the trench to cooperate with the second team to take out the bunker and seize the entire nameless heights

The first time to participate in the battle, the soldiers were very excited, and they didn't expect that they would die in the battle, Qiao Ren was extremely excited, looked around, very dishonest, Gu Xin and Wu Lai had to press Qiao Ren to the ground, half an hour later, gunshots suddenly rang out on both sides of the high ground, and in a few seconds, the gunshots became a very dense sound, Wang Gao jumped up when he heard it, and was about to rush, but Gu Xin grabbed him and dragged him back and pressed the ground again

Gu Xin shouted angrily: "Listen to my orders"

Wang Gao's chest rose and fell, and a sense of resentment was nowhere to vent, so he grabbed a handful of grass and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it like a cow

After a while, there were figures in the highland trenches, and the Hui army couldn't bear it, and began to divide troops to the two wings, and Gu Xin turned around and ordered: "Turn on the safety, and open the grenade."

"Rush" Gu Xin and his comrades rushed to the high ground, Gu Xin ran in front of him with a gun, and those few seconds were the few seconds he felt slow in his life, and his mind was blank, thinking: "I am the captain, I have to take the lead in rushing, and I have to die first······"

Very Wang Gao surpassed Gu Xin and rushed to the front, and in the blink of an eye, he left the team behind, that is, a few seconds after a team launched a charge, the enemy's guns also rang out, and the bullets flew by their ears in a whistling voice, and it was not known which shot would kill them

Wang Gao threw a grenade, and before the smoke of gunpowder was gone, a team had already rushed through the open field, Wang Gao had already approached the trench, just as his right foot had just stepped on the edge of the trench, and one of them fell down and fell heavily into a pit under the trench

The second team also began to pass through the open ground, and the Qing soldiers threw rows of grenades into the trenches, suppressing the enemy's musket fire with non-stop explosions, at this time, Wang Gao suddenly jumped up from the dirt pit, like a wounded leopard, jumped up the trench along his smoke, grabbed the barrel of the enemy's hot gun, and desperately raised it to recapture the gun, and at the same time shouted without looking back: "Captain, go up."

The Hui army also clung to the gun and fought back and forth with him, Wang Gao held the hot barrel with his left hand, and smashed the head of the Hui army with the rifle butt with his right hand

Gu Xin jumped into the trench and found that at this time, another Hui military gun was pointed at Wang Gaoben, and immediately gave him a shot, and the bullet got into it from under his right armpit, and the distance between the first killing was less than 5 meters

But the moment the guy fell to the ground, he also pulled the trigger, Wang Gao shook a few times in the rain, and then fell headlong on the edge of the trench, Xu Daya of the second team used Wang Gao to open the opening, and also rushed up, a Hui army cat waist, just about to drill into the trench wall when he was stabbed in the shoulder with a bayonet, and then a small soldier of the second team went up is a rifle butt, and the Hui army suddenly collapsed on the ground

Sentinel Li Yunchu led the third and fourth teams to occupy both ends of the trench, he ran over and ordered the first team to quickly prepare to blast the bunker, and took advantage of this opportunity Gu Xin hurriedly pulled Wu to find Wang Gao

Wang Gao was lying on his side with a rifle in his arms, curled up in the dirt pit under the trench, moaning softly, the placket of his shirt was soaked with blood, and he was shot in the body, I hurriedly unbuttoned his shirt, the wound under the collarbone, and the blood continued to gush with his breathing, and black blood clots condensed around the bullet hole

"The stinky boy can't die," Gu Xin poured a whole bottle of Zhuge into the wound and covered it with a bag of cotton

Wu Lai bit his lip tightly, his face was pale, there was no blood, he trembled, his hands tore it a few times before he tore open the first aid kit, and Gu Xin asked Wu Lai to hold up Wang Gao's upper body and carefully bandage him

"Wu Lai, take care of it, get some water for Wang Gao," Gu Xin asked Wu Lai to press Wang Gao's wound and not be allowed to leave

Then Gu Xin turned around with a gun and turned into the trench, at this time there was a brief silence on the mountain, the silence was so breathless, the Qing soldiers were ready to charge, the return army seemed to be waiting for the Qing army, the two demomen of the second team jumped out of the trench under the cover of full sentry fire, the enemy relied on the bunker to aim and shoot, and the two demomen were shot one after another and fell to the grass

He Zhuzi wrapped eight grenades around his waist, tied three explosives packs together with leggings, and jumped out of the trench for the second time with the explosives packs in his arms, and all kinds of firearms roared fiercer than before, licking the entrance to the bunker and the shooting hole with his tongue of fire

Gu Xin's gun was also fired at the bunker shooting hole, and at the same time, there was a violent explosion on the high ground, followed by a grenade explosion, followed by another big explosion, the enemy's fire came to an abrupt end, Gu Xin and his comrades rushed up against the scorching heat, He Zhuzi broke his legs, groped in the smoke of gunpowder, and laughed like crazy in his mouth

Later, the Li battalion attacked the devastated heights, trenches and ruined fortifications, and found a total of 53 corpses of Hui soldiers and some disgusting corpses

Li Yunzhu also lost 15 of his subordinates, standing silently on the high ground and weeping

Gu Xin took a few soldiers to see Wang Gao, he sat up at some point, originally cheerful and optimistic, his face was so haggard that it was difficult to recognize

"It's good to be alive, we'll carry you down the mountain," Gu Xin led the warriors to cut down trees and make improvised stretchers

Wang Gao wanted to say righteous and awe-inspiring words, but looking at the sentry officer Li Yunzhuo's solemn face, he would only cry silently, he was still alive, and the other 15 comrades-in-arms were buried in this land

On March 1st, the battle made Li Ziying, these hairy boys who had just entered the battlefield, began to mature and become alert, and there were still people who were afraid of death, but there were still hatreds and hatred to get along day and night, and comrades-in-arms left you in the blink of an eye, especially those soldiers who died in the battle, they had to endure great suffering

In the next two days, the Li Zi battalion participated in several small battles, basically searching, suppressing, digging holes, etc., and the Li Zi battalion killed 39 enemies and captured 15 enemies at the cost of slightly wounding four people

In the past few days, everyone's mood is very high, the shadow of the battle has long faded, the loess high slope in the jungle bullets flying, every step may be hit by a cold gun, the battlefield is too emotional, thoughts are often dangerous, as the captain Gu Xin often communicates with a team of comrades in his own way, patting the shoulder and shaking hands, the soldiers can get strength from him

Now Li Yunyu waved the revolver in his hand against the morning glow, and Gu Xin held high the Li character banner and rushed at the Li character battalion, and more than 160 soldiers in front of the Li battalion entered the county town of Dongzhi, and they wanted to write a chapter of victory on this battle flag