The cold wind struggled to squeeze in from outside the gunsmoke, and a mist slowly rose on the position, moving, spreading along the slope below the position, and burrowed into the cliff like a gray-white 'colored' poisonous snake without a head, 'exposing' the bloody Jiaoshi on the slope, and a corpse that had not had time to clean up......

It was an ordinary morning on Shangganling, and I can't remember how many days I hadn't seen the stars or the moon. Of course, you don't have the luxury of seeing the sun. Thick smoke and dust shrouded the sky above Shangganling all the time, making the two highlands of Shangganling like a demon domain isolated from the world, and they could not feel the sun, moon and stars in the world.

So I didn't come to the camp for a stroll or watch the sunrise. The only reason why I was not awakened by enemy fire as usual was that I wanted to test the power of the newly invented "Wooden Mine".

After seeing my demonstration last night, the soldiers quickly understood what was the use of the wooden lumps that I was trying to increase the casualties of the soldiers, to use artillery, to double the number of transport troops.

So the fighters also excitedly followed me. The two companies transported a total of more than 100 pieces of wood, which seemed to be a lot, but because the "wooden mines" were very simple to make and the tools in the tunnel were complete, it only took half an hour to toss them all.

To my surprise, the fighters came up with more means of installing explosives on the basis of my explosives. Some opened a dozen grenad-sized holes in the wood, and stuffed a dozen grenades into them in one go; Some of them dug two pits in the sections on both sides of the wood, stuffed two explosive packets on the left and the other on the right, and some even put two grenades under the explosives packets......

I know the intention of the pad soldiers to pad grenades under the dynamite pack, the explosion time of the grenade is shorter than the dynamite pack, as soon as the grenade explodes, the dynamite pack will be shaken and fly everywhere, which is an absolute nightmare for the enemy who charges our army position in a dense formation!

However, the main reason why I want to use this kind of "wooden mine" is to solve the threat of the enemy's No. 1 and No. 7 positions to our army's No. 8 position. To solve their threat, it is necessary to reach the position one step ahead of the enemy and prepare, so before dawn, I led the soldiers to carry a dozen "wooden mines" and secretly 'touched' and climbed to position No. 8.

took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, it was already half past seven, and the world outside Shangganling must have brightened, but here, it was still hazy and gray.

I raised my binoculars and looked in the direction of the enemy, there was smoke and corpses everywhere, and I couldn't see anything. So he had to order the warriors to hide and prepare for the opportunity.

Time passed back little by little, and the surrounding scenery gradually became clearer, and the roar of enemy planes could be faintly heard in the gray 'mist' and 'mist' sky.

I know, it was a routine reconnaissance of the U.S. military before the war. Although the enemy could not see any target in Shangganling from the plane because of the smoke, he could pay attention to the movement of our army in the direction of Wusheng Mountain, and 'shoot' at its artillery unit to prevent our army from sending reinforcements to Shangganling.

From this, I also knew that the enemy was about to attack, so I beckoned to the rear, and soon several fighters pushed up with two "wooden mines". One section is against position 1 and one section is against position 7.

A cold wind blew, and the smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, revealing the trenches made of sandbags on the enemy's two positions, and the figures of more than a dozen puppet soldiers carrying recoilless guns and mortars loomed, and the thick barrels of several 'high-firing' machine guns also stood proudly on the trenches. They seem to be putting the finishing touches on their weapons, waiting to provide strong cover for their troops at the moment of attack.

But they didn't expect that just when they wanted to bombard our positions with these weapons for a while, as usual, they had become our target!

"Chief of Staff! Do it! Li Feng looked at the time, anxiously crawled to my side and whispered: "The enemy is about to attack, and if you don't do it, the enemy will start fighting!" ”

I understand what Li Feng meant, according to the custom, the enemy will fire a burst of mortars or recoilless guns at our positions before the attack, in order to destroy the fortifications we built last night. This is a point that the volunteer soldiers have always hated, and it is also the purpose of my invention of the "wooden mine". At this moment, it seems that we can easily stop the enemy from destroying our fortifications by simply pushing those two "wooden mines" down. But suddenly I didn't want to do it again, because I thought about how the enemy would react if I pushed the "Wooden Mine" down like this.

The machine guns and artillery they had prepared on positions 1 and 7 would of course be blown up by us, and the fortifications we had built last night would be saved. But the left flank is the enemy's main direction of attack, and if the two main positions in the direction of the main attack are blown up by our troops, will they continue to attack our troops?

My answer is no!

They're more likely to delay their attack until they're ready, or have figured out how to deal with our "Woody".

If this is the case, then the losses caused by this secret weapon to the enemy are too small, but only ten individuals, with a few 'strong' machine guns and a few 'guns'.

Thinking of this, I waved my hand at the warriors and ordered, "All stand back, look for cover!" ”

"Yes!" Li Feng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this order, but he also knew that he should unconditionally obey my order on the battlefield, so he answered the call and immediately ordered the soldiers to roll the "wooden mine" to the rear to cover it.

I put away my binoculars and rifle and slowly climbed behind the big bluestone. This is the safest place in the position, no recoil, no mortar, not even incendiary bombs, the fighters are very considerate to leave this position to me. Although I was a little reluctant to do so, I also understood that as a commander, my survival might directly affect the morale of the whole army, so I silently accepted it.

The battlefield is also realistic.

In modern peaceful life, the reality is power, money, and status. And on the battlefield, reality is ability, command ability and combat effectiveness!

This is not to say that my life is more important than the lives of my soldiers, but it should be said that everything on the battlefield is aimed at defeating the enemy better and faster, and everything that is beneficial to this goal is worth protecting.

"......Boom" With the whistling of shells and explosions, the enemy, as usual, began the bombardment before the charge. Of course, these bombardments were done by mortars, recoilless guns, or tank guns, and the positions of the enemy and us were too close together to make the long-range artillery of the US army only play the role of blocking our reinforcements.

The enemy's mortars were mainly used to kill and wound the fighters on our positions, but the visibility on Shangganling was not very high, and they could not see where we were lying at all. So it's not much of a threat to us.

However, the recoilless gun, which is called the pre-formation artillery by the volunteers, really has two hands to destroy the fortifications at the front of our army's position, and only listen to the "boom" of a "chaos" sound, but in a few minutes, the soldiers 'spent' a few hours to build the fortifications with sacks, and the fortifications came to naught......

But I don't worry about this, because I know that once the enemy loses the cover of positions No. 1 and No. 7, then even if our army has no fortifications, even if the attacking troops are replaced by the "elite" troops of the puppet army, the "White Horse Division", they will not get much benefit!

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, a dense burst of gunfire rang out. As soon as I waved my hand, the fighters entered the position unconsciously, and the "Wooden Mine" was also pushed up by the fighters.

Holding his rifle and poking his head out, he saw that three platoons of puppet troops were rushing towards us in three directions, crossing the No. 1 and No. 7 positions.

"Hit!" As soon as I gave the order, the fighters pulled the trigger and 'fired' rows of bullets at the enemy. Unlike usual, this time I didn't wait for the enemy to get closer.

The No. 1 and No. 7 positions are at least more than 200 meters away from us, and although such a distance is within the range of all kinds of firearms, it is difficult to see the target clearly in the hazy light and gunsmoke......

It was exactly what I needed!

"Woody!"

With a shout from me, the soldiers quickly understood what I meant, and without saying a word, they pushed down the two "wooden mines" with a single pull on the fuse.

"Put it again!" Without waiting for the two "wooden mines" to explode, the soldiers pushed down four more "wooden mines" under my command.

Several "wooden mines" jumped happily on the inclined plane, ran over the soft scorched earth, crushed over piles of corpses, rolled faster and faster, jumped higher and higher, and finally almost flew towards the enemy's positions No. 1 and No. 7.

At this time, the puppet soldiers lying on the ground were still looking at the wood rolling down from the mountain with a look of confusion. I know what they're wondering about, they must be thinking now, is it possible that there are no more red 'color' elements on the top of the mountain? Even wood has become their weapon?

But they will soon understand that the truth is not as they imagined......

The first two "Wooden Mines" quickly rolled into the puppet army camp, and I have to admit that because of the lack of experience in the first use, the explosives took too long to detonate, and the Wooden Mines were also coincidentally not blocked by the enemy's trenches. So these two sections of "wooden mines" rolled past our target positions No. 1 and No. 7, and still rolled towards the smoke and dust on their own......

But it soon became clear that this was an unexpected surprise.

With a few loud bangs, a miserable scream of the puppet army came from the smoke below. Knowing that we couldn't see, the puppet army prepared a lot of reserve troops in the rear, only waiting for the first charge to be knocked down by us, and then launching a second charge. However, what they did not expect, and what we did not expect, was that the puppet army of the first echelon had not yet started a war with us, and the puppet army of the second echelon had already suffered heavy casualties in our "wooden mines".

If I remember correctly, the first two "wooden mines" were designed to blow up the enemy's two positions, so each of them was flanked by a 10-pound bag of explosives. These four explosives 'medicine' are packed, but those puppet soldiers have suffered!

This was followed by several loud bangs of "boom ......", and the two "wooden mines" that rolled down in the second round were loaded with blasting canisters. One section of the road was blocked by a trench built by the enemy with sandbags in front of Position 1. In order to increase the power of the "wooden mines", the fighters often installed three or four blasting canisters for the "wooden mines" at the same time. I only heard a roar, gunsmoke and fire, and the entire No. 1 position became a big pit, and the machine guns, recoilless guns, and puppet troops lying around the position seemed to be swept by a broom in a moment, and there was no longer a shadow of it.

As soon as the puppet army saw this situation, they panicked, and they didn't understand what kind of new weapons the volunteers were using, and they were the puppet army's 'elite' troops, the "White Horse Division", who was also dizzy by these blows, and they dared to continue to attack the position. One by one, they grabbed their rifles, got up from the ground and ran backwards.

But at this time, the third round of "Wooden Thunder" was already on the way, no matter how fast they escaped, how could they be faster than the rolling speed of "Wooden Thunder"? Under the compassionate gaze of me and the soldiers, the two "wooden mines" flew into the enemy group, and then there was a "chaos" sound of "boom......", and a cloud of dust was blown up in front of the position!

This is the "Wooden Mine" with a grenade, I quickly realized this, it exploded with a particularly loud and dispersed sound, and it was admittedly the best weapon for killing and wounding enemy infantry in a large area.

However, this kind of "wooden mine" is more troublesome to "operate" and is also somewhat dangerous, because before pushing it down, it is necessary to pull out all the firing strings of the dozen or so grenades mounted on the "wooden mine." If you pull it too slowly, you are likely to injure your own people. There are a few that if they are not unplugged, they will not explode and 'waste' fees***.

Fortunately, the warriors also had a way, they tied these strings to a rope beforehand, and before pushing down, they only had to step on the wood with their feet and grab the rope and pull it hard...... All the strings are not missing, and one is not falling off!

Because the delayed detonation time of the grenade cannot be exactly the same, there are some slight differences. So when the first grenade explodes, it will blow up the wood, and the shock 'wave' will carry the other grenades everywhere and even into the sky...... The lethality and coverage area generated by the explosion are naturally not the same.

Sure enough, when the smoke in front of the position gradually dissipated, the corpses of the puppet soldiers were everywhere around the enemy's positions 1 and 7, and many of them were obviously not dead, but were rolling and struggling on the ground in pain......

"Good! Well played! Seeing this, the soldiers couldn't help but cheer loudly.

"What a white horse master!" Li Feng smiled: "It's not like we'll smash a few wooden lumps!" ”

There was a coax, and the soldiers all burst out laughing.

But the casualties of the puppet army did not stop because they stopped the charge, and their offensive in the front continued.

Originally, the frontal charge of the puppet army only played the role of assist, but no one could have imagined that the flank troops who served as the main attack would blow us up in just ten minutes. In addition, the slope of the front is long, and the puppet army is charging frantically all the way, and is rushing to a position close to the position of our army.

Go on the offensive? The main attacking forces have retreated, and their offensive is meaningless. Coupled with the fact that they have lost the cooperation of their comrades on the flanks, the casualties will definitely not be small if they attack unilaterally.

Do you want to retreat here? They had just thwarted the offensive of the 38th Army, the ace unit of the Volunteer Army, at White Horse Mountain, and they had the reputation of "White Horse Division". And it will also make those Yankees who come to oversee the war look down on!

Just as they were hesitating, the volunteer soldiers took the lead in the fight!

With Guo Sandan's order, the four companies under his command immediately opened fire. Bullets and grenades rained down on the puppet army's heads.

Listening to the 'fierce' gunfire coming from the No. 9 and No. 10 positions, I 'handed over' Li Feng, grabbed my rifle and ran towards the No. 9 position.

When he poked his head out and looked at it, he was stunned to find that the puppet army in front was still charging at our position with bayonets under the cover of tank guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

The reason why an 'elite' unit can be called an 'elite' unit is that it can display endurance and combat effectiveness beyond ordinary troops at extraordinary times. In this case, most of the general puppet army troops will collapse because they lose the cooperation of friendly forces. Even I think that even the American Seventh Division will be no exception. But the Puppet Ninth Division was not an ordinary unit, so they did not retreat.

Bullets fly 'randomly', grenades roar!

The puppet army on the front was beaten down by us again and again, and rushed up again and again. They are very smart and brave, and every time they are beaten by us, they do not withdraw from their positions to rest like the American army, or attack with another unit. Although the offensive methods of the US army can also be said to be uninterrupted, in the interval between them resting or changing troops to attack, our army has time to rest, and at the same time can also replenish *** and personnel.

But this puppet army in front of them is not like this, when they are beaten down by us, they just withdraw from the distance that our grenades can throw, and when the rear personnel are replenished, they will attack our positions again. This leaves our fighters with no opportunity to rest at all.

I also thought about using "Wooden Mines" to kill and injure the enemy attacking frontally, but the frontal area was too wide, and the puppet army was relatively concentrated only when it was close to the top of the mountain, and the "Wooden Mines" obviously could not play a great role in this direction.

Then the gunfire was heard again from the positions No. 4 and No. 8 of our army, which made me realize that the puppet troops on both flanks had attacked again. At this time, there was a dramatic 'sexual' change on the battlefield, that is, the frontal puppet army that was originally responsible for the task of assisting has now become the main attack, and the flank troops that were originally responsible for the main attack wounded have become auxiliary ......