Chapter 11: Accidents

Chapter 11: Accidents

The wind stopped, and so did the snow.

The temperature was very low, the whole world was silent under the cover of snow, it seemed that everything was frozen by this sudden harsh winter, even the few flickering searchlights on the puppet army position stopped turning, and a few pillars of light were like the eyes of monsters, staring blankly at the sky and at the position......

I had been mentally prepared for the cold on the battlefield for a long time, because I had learned the power of ice and snow before that, but I still couldn't help shivering in the biting cold around me.

I couldn't help but turn my gaze to the warriors lurking around, who didn't seem to be out of the ordinary at first, but it wasn't long before I heard a few faint sounds of teeth clattering and 'pumping' cold air. I couldn't help but smile secretly, the temperature in North Korea is not comparable to that in China, and the cold here can reach dozens of degrees below zero, and it is common for people to freeze to death.

It is said that in the early days of the Korean War, the U.S. military was accustomed to using bidet toilets in China, so they used to use stools or other things to cushion them when skimming, but when they were done, they found that their buttocks were frozen on them and they could not be freed......

Although this was a few years ago when the U.S. military was inexperienced, it is enough to show how cold North Korea is. Although the soldiers of the Ninth Company are from Beijing, where the winter is also very cold, it is still a small comparison with North Korea.

Obviously, they were not prepared for this, or they didn't expect the North Korean winter night to be so cold, so everyone was shivering. Although I couldn't see them shivering on this moonlit night, I could clearly see the grass and trees shaking around them.

Shivering in the cold temperatures is something that everyone does, including me. If he doesn't shiver, it either means that there is a nerve problem, or that he is about to freeze to death. They are wrong not to get used to lurking in the bushes, not to use the bushes as cover......

If I were a puppet sniper, that alone would be able to locate them and kill them one by one. At that time, there was no need to say anything about cold shooting, but I was afraid that if an enemy did not fight him, he would lose a lot of people.

However, the soldiers are also soldiers who have been trained in the infantry school for several years, and although they are frozen in the snow and can't stand it, they still grit their teeth and endure. And some of the warriors soon discovered the problem lurking in the bushes, so they changed their positions one by one.

I looked at Lin Xue not far away, and she happened to look at me as well, and the contact between the two made me feel a little warm. I saw Lin Xue smiling at me with difficulty, as if to reassure me.

I only nodded at her, on the battlefield, although many times it is necessary to talk about cooperation and tacit understanding, there are still many things that need to be relied on by yourself, and my comrades-in-arms can't help. For example, the current lurking ......

The cold constantly tests our will, and it makes time very long. I took out my pocket watch several times to look at the time, only to find that time had only gone a little bit. I wanted to put my pocket watch in front of me to pass the time, but after thinking about it, I ended up putting it back in my arms, because I was worried that the low temperature outside would freeze the hands of the pocket watch.

It was not easy to get through the time of the routine patrol of the puppet army that Jiang Changshun said, and I couldn't help but pick up my gun and aim it at the high ground opposite.

No movement, still no movement......

Time passed minute by minute, but the patrol force of the puppet army never appeared.

At this time, Jiang Changshun couldn't hold it back, he slowly crawled to my side, and said in a low voice: "Commander Cui, maybe the weather is too cold tonight, and the puppet army patrol is lazy."

I nodded slightly, but I thought it was unlikely. First of all, the puppet army is a native who has lived in North Korea for a long time, and they should be more accustomed to the winter temperature here than we are. Secondly, after more than two years of training on the battlefield, the puppet army will no longer be as loose as it was in the early days of the Korean War. Although there is some slackness because the war is not tight during this time, it is not that routine patrols will be negligent.

"Wait a minute," I whispered to Jiang Changshun.

"Yes" Jiang Chang complied, didn't say anything more, and slowly climbed to the side and continued to lurk in the snow.

Half an hour had passed, and the enemy patrol still did not appear, and there was not even a single footprint on the white snow. I even had some doubts about whether there was a living person on the high ground opposite.

An hour passed, and there was still no trace of the enemy. Everything was so quiet, terrifyingly quiet, and unusually quiet.

What the hell is the enemy doing? I couldn't help but think in my mind, is it really like what Jiang Changshun said, the puppet army didn't patrol because it was too cold tonight and because they were lazy?

At this time, only more than 50 meters away from our position, there was a faint sound of dead branches breaking. So I understood, it turned out that the enemy had an operation tonight.

Because there is action, because they have troops moving towards us, they don't need to send any more patrols at all. By this time, their vanguard had come under our noses, and we had been focusing our attention on the enemy's position, and because of the perspective of our lurking position, we did not even notice that there was an enemy under our noses......

I hurriedly climbed two steps forward, cautiously poked my rifle forward, and peered through the scope into the woods below.

At this glance, I secretly said that the terrain of that forest would not be much lower than ours, and if the enemy hid in it to 'engage' us, the trees as thick as big 'legs' would undoubtedly be the best cover for the enemy. And we, one by one, were 'exposed' in the snow, and we didn't even have the most rudimentary bunker.

Retreat now? I'm afraid it's too late.

At a distance of more than 50 meters, the fighters only need to stand up...... It can even be said that in this moonlight, if the enemy observes carefully, we will not be able to escape the eyes of the enemy even if we crawl on the ground. If we do this, we will only fall under the guns of the enemy one by one

So shoot for warning? That doesn't seem appropriate, either.

Our lurking place is half an hour's distance from the main force in the anticline tunnel, and even if the main force can set off as soon as they hear the gunfire, we are afraid that by the time they arrive, we will already be eaten by the enemy.

Besides, we told Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi before we set off that we had come out to lurk and shoot cold shots, so a few gunshots could not attract their attention at all......

I looked around, and the soldiers were unaware of the crisis in front of them, still desperately fighting the cold, their eyes still focused on the opposite side of the position. Looking at the surrounding moonlight, under the reflection of the snow, this open space becomes extremely conspicuous.

The enemy was in the dark, and I was in the light, and suddenly we seemed to be in a dead place. We originally came out to be hunters, but we didn't expect to become prey unknowingly

I couldn't help but blame myself for wanting to bring the soldiers up to practice, but now I put them in such danger.

It's useless to regret it, I know this very well, so I immediately retreated cautiously, and gestured to Jiang Changshun, who was not far away, telling him that there was an enemy below, and asked him not to act rashly

Although Jiang Changshun had not learned it, he could guess the meaning of it, and after understanding it, his face couldn't help but change. Looking at the terrain again, a hint of panic flashed in his eyes.

After all, I have never been on the battlefield, and seeing his expression, I feel a little bottomless in my heart. In the past, when I commanded a unit to fight, whether it was a company or a battalion, I was very well aware of the quality and ability of the troops in my hands. At the same time, the soldiers are also very aware of my abilities and combat habits, so they can fight with ease, and those troops are as easy to use as my hands and feet.

But now, although Jiang Changshun's Ninth Company may be much higher in quality than ordinary troops, I don't know much about them, and they don't know me either. This makes it impossible for me to predict what they will and will not do...... For example, I don't know if telling the other warriors about the presence of an enemy in the woods will cause panic among the warriors and expose us all. This has brought great difficulties to my command and brought a lot of variables to the battlefield

The situation was so critical that I could already faintly hear the "creaking" of puppet boots on the snow in the woods. So I thought that if the soldiers didn't know that there was an enemy in the woods, they would probably be shocked the moment they saw the enemy, and then the biggest possibility would be to either shout the command or '' and shoot......

And that's the last thing I want to see. If this is the case, we can preemptively kill a few puppet soldiers who came out of the woods, but the puppet army will soon retreat into the woods, and then it will be time for us to pay the casualties.

What should I do? At this time, I couldn't help but be a little anxious, I couldn't withdraw and couldn't leave, and I couldn't just stay like this?

That's right, just stay at it

It dawned on me that our biggest advantage now is that the enemy doesn't know that there are people in the snow, and if we keep lurking here until they all come out of the woods...... No, we shouldn't wait for them to come out of the woods before shooting, the enemy's number of people coming to 'touch' the battalion this time should not be small, we can't wipe them all out in one go, if we let them run back to some people, even if it is only a small half, it will still be difficult for our platoon to get out of danger.

So, we have only one way to go, and that is to wait until they come in front of us or even among us, and then launch a surprise attack

Attack it unprepared, and then take advantage of the fact that the puppet army was panicked by us and did not know the situation and retreated to the woods, so we also took the opportunity to retreat

After thinking of the battle plan, I immediately gestured to Jiang Changshun. Worried that he wouldn't be able to read my gestures, I had to write a few words on the snow: "Don't shoot." It means that the soldiers were ordered not to move or shoot.

Jiang Changshun was certainly not a stupid person, and after nodding knowingly, he quickly conveyed my order with the gesture of the step school. This makes me sigh at the importance of the unity of gestures.

I was thinking about it when a few puppet soldiers with guns suddenly appeared in the woods. Their appearance obviously surprised some of the soldiers who had not yet received the order in a hurry, and they all turned their eyes to me, including Lin Xue. I raised my hand and motioned for them not to shoot, which calmed them down.

I couldn't help but secretly scream a fluke, if someone shoots at this time, then casualties may be inevitable, but fortunately, these students who graduated from the foot school also know that they can't act without permission.

The puppet army was very cautious in their movements, they came out four or five people first, and after observing the top of the mountain for a while, they didn't find anything unusual before waving behind them.

I couldn't help but laugh at this, they made the same mistake as we just did. Just now we were only looking at the enemy's position, and we did not find the enemy under our noses; But now, they are only concerned about observing whether there is a situation in the direction of the top of the mountain, and they do not take the snow under their feet seriously......

In fact, because it hasn't snowed for a while, there are still many traces of soldiers crawling on the snow, and they didn't find this, which is doomed to the next casualties.

After a while, more and more puppet soldiers appeared in the woods, and there was a company of cats, all of whom were slowly 'touching' towards the top of the mountain with their guns on their waists. Like us, they were all dressed in white cloths, and at first glance they looked like us

Now I can't help but feel a little difficult again, the people on both sides look about the same, and they wear similar clothes, how can we distinguish the enemy from me when we fight? But when I think about it, I don't think there's any need to worry, the enemy is numerous, and all of them are standing, so when the time comes, just put down all the standing ones

"Squeak squeak......" The footsteps of the enemy are getting closer and clearer.

The distance of fifty meters was not very long, and in a short time the enemy's vanguard had already arrived in front of us, which made me hold my breath, lower my head, and dare not make a sound.

At this time, what I was most worried about was that if any soldier could not hold his breath and pulled the trigger at the enemy and 'exposed' the target, it would undoubtedly put us in danger. But the fighters deserve to come out of the infantry school, and all of them can hold their breath, at least for now.

Another worry is that the puppet army that is walking in front of the reconnaissance may step on which soldiers. Although they can't see us, if they step on a big living person, they will definitely feel different, and we will have no way to hide it anymore. One of the puppet soldiers had his boots dangling right in front of my eyes, and if he was a few centimeters off, he would have stepped on my head, but luckily, this did not happen......

The few puppet army scouts who walked in front were let go by us, and then there was the large army of the puppet army. As soon as they came out of the forest, they deployed their troops, and more than 100 people lined up in two rows to form a straggler formation and 'touched' the hilltop position. Like the vanguard, they did not notice any traces in the snow. In fact, even if they noticed it, they wouldn't suspect anything, because they had every reason to believe that the traces were made by the scouts who had just walked by.

So they were relieved to 'touch' the top of the mountain, and some even picked up their speed and began to trot.

"Hit"

When the enemy came almost face to face with me, I shouted loudly, raised my rifle and fired eight bullets out of the chamber with a "......bang-bang-bang" at the puppet army in front of me.

I didn't have to aim at such a close distance, and every shot would cause a scream, and one of the puppet soldiers would fall to the ground unprepared. I was so close to them that I could hear a "thump" when they fell to the ground......

Almost at the same time, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers also rang out, and in an instant there was a burst of gunfire in front of the clearing, and one by one the puppet soldiers who were 'scratching' their heads fell in a pool of blood before they could understand what was going on.

The screams continued, although the puppet army was several times larger than ours, and the weapons and equipment were better than ours, and strictly speaking, we were still in their encirclement, but this sudden situation made them completely unaware of what was going on. My first instinct was to fall into an ambush, so as I had predicted, I left dozens of corpses behind and turned around and ran into the woods......

As soon as the "withdraw" puppet army retreated, I gave Jiang Changshun an order to retreat.

"What?" Jiang Changshun couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't raise the rifle in his hand to shoot at the retreating enemy, and then turned around and asked, "Commander Cui, now is the time to destroy the enemy, how can you ......?"

"You *** give me an order" I raised my rifle and 'shot' at the enemy who was receding like a 'tide', and at the same time lowered my voice and ordered Jiang Changshun: "Immediately order the troops to retreat to the tunnel according to the retreat route"

I can't shout orders to the soldiers, because the enemy is too close to us at this time, and they are all puppet soldiers, and it is very likely that they will be puppet soldiers who can understand Chinese, and if I do this, the puppet army will know that we are retreating and catch up, and the consequences will be equally disastrous.

"Yes" Jiang Changshun reluctantly glanced at the fleeing puppet army, turned around and conveyed the order.

I know that Jiang Changshun is reluctant to do anything, and the puppet army at this time completely shows their backs in front of us, and it is the time to 'shoot' them in large quantities. But what he didn't know was that once those puppet soldiers fled into the forest, it would be time for the situation to reverse.

The soldiers began to retreat one after another, but at this time I suddenly felt that something was wrong in my heart, and before I could figure out what it was, there were suddenly several gunshots of "bang bang ......" behind me, and the two soldiers who were just about to retreat fell to the ground with a muffled snort.

It was the vanguard of the puppet army, and I quickly realized it.

We let them go just now, so now they're behind us. If we don't get rid of them as soon as possible, they will most likely hold us back and put us in a two-sided situation with the troops in the forest.