Chapter 18: The Battle of the Kowloon River (2)

At noon, the trenches, the medicines, the mines were all ready, waiting for the arrival of the enemy. The surroundings were terrifyingly quiet, and nothing could be heard except for the sound of the wind and the running water of the Longxing River. Since we defeated the artillery regiment of the puppet 6th Division, we have not seen any movement of the enemy for several hours, not even a single reconnaissance plane, and we do not know what the enemy is up to.

I leaned over the edge of the trench, grabbed a handful of fried noodles from my bag of dry food, carefully poured them into my mouth and chewed them. Not to mention, this tastes really good, but it's a little less, although it's three days' supply, but it's almost all eaten up to now. If it weren't for the fact that I was trying to replenish some physical strength for the war now, I would really be reluctant to eat.

After swallowing the dry fried noodles, I grabbed a few handfuls of snow and stuffed it into my mouth, and the cold when the snow melted was so cold that my tongue lost consciousness. In fact, from the perspective of latitude, North Korea is still in the temperate zone, and the temperature is so low only because of the high altitude. The average annual temperature is only 1-2 degrees Celsius, and it is only the end of October to be cold like this, so when it comes to the coldest December and January, can the thin cotton clothes on this body still keep out the cold? No wonder there is a saying: if a volunteer soldier dies on the battlefield, three will freeze to death on the battlefield.

"There is a situation!"

"Airplanes, airplanes...... Hide! ”

Following the gaze of his comrades-in-arms to the sky, a huge group of planes flew in this direction in a neat formation like geese, and there were as many as twenty planes in a rough count.

I secretly screamed in my heart, I knew that the waters around North Korea were full of shoals, and the US aircraft carrier could only stop a few dozen nautical miles away. The fact that these planes are flying from the aircraft carriers from afar, and that they are of such a large scale, shows that the enemy is well aware of our position and has made careful and detailed plans to win the battle.

"What else are you looking at? Hide! Seeing that I was still stunned outside the trench, the old squad leader dragged him into a single air-raid shelter, and then hid himself.

"Woo......" With a strange scream, the group of planes, which seemed to be far away just now, flew over us in a short time. Bombs fell from the sky with a piercing whistle, and at the same time the enemy artillery also opened fire, and with a series of concussions, the various heights were immediately plunged into a sea of fire. Suddenly, the strange screams of planes, explosions, broken trees, and machine-gun fire rang out. I hid in a narrow bomb shelter, only to feel the shaking and shaking, and the sand above my head kept falling, making me feel that I was in danger of being buried alive at any moment.

What is the enemy's plan? If the enemy has long known where we are, why are we still being given a respite? Why do we still have time to build fortifications? Don't they pay attention to these fortifications and these arrangements?

I frowned and thought, according to the Yankees' practice, what they like to do most is the coordinated operation of the sea, land and air, and there is only a river here and no sea, that is, land and air coordination? Does that mean the enemy's ground forces......

Yes! The reason why the enemy waited until this time to attack was because the Pseudo-Sixth Division had withdrawn here, and if I expected it to be correct, the enemy's reinforcements must have arrived. At the same time as the aircraft and artillery bombarded, the puppet sixth division and reinforcements on the ground attacked from the south and north at the same time, and the volunteers were in danger this time!

Thinking of this, I immediately realized that the key to this battle was the inconspicuous stone bridge, and if that stone bridge was occupied and held by the enemy, then there would be nothing that could resist so many enemies attacking at the same time.

At this time, I deeply regretted why I advised the company commander to blow up the bridge later, if the bridge was blown up as soon as the enemy plane appeared, or if the enemy had not yet appeared, then the battle would not have so many more variables. At this time, not only did the puppet Sixth Division have a way out, but the volunteer soldiers would soon face more than ten times the enemy's north-south attack.

With deep guilt, I poked my head out to look at the stone bridge, and several volunteer soldiers who had been arranged near the stone bridge to blow up the bridge had already fallen in a pool of blood, and the blood stabbed my eyes and my guilty heart. Four or five Mustang fighters circled over the stone bridge, and as soon as they found that volunteers were rushing towards the stone bridge, they immediately dived and strafed or dropped bombs...... And at this moment, a few tanks turned out of the bend a few miles to the north, followed by a group of infantry......

When it was over, I ignored the continuous explosions in the vicinity and collapsed in the trench. Once these tanks and these infantry occupy the stone bridge, there will be nothing to stop the puppet army from attacking the north and south of the volunteers, let alone blocking the escape of the puppet sixth division, I am afraid that the 354th regiment will be gone.

"The second and third classes go together!" In the sound of the bombing, Zhang Shuguo shouted in his already hoarse voice: "At all costs, I must blow up the stone bridge!" ”

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! ”

More than 20 soldiers from two squads, without saying a word, jumped out of the trench with zha medicine bags and grenades and ran towards the stone bridge under the high ground.

With a "boom", the two warriors were thrown high, and they were divided into several parts in the sky, and when they fell to the ground, there was no longer a shadow of a human being, leaving only stumps and broken arms and a bright red blood.

The rest of the warriors did not lose their momentum at all, and at this time in their eyes there was only a stone bridge, and there was no life. Because they knew very well that the moment they jumped out of the trenches, there was no chance of survival. All they had to do was trade their lives for a blown up stone bridge.

Only in this way can there be hope of blocking the reinforcements of the puppet army south of the Longxing River; Only in this way can the puppet Sixth Division be besieged north of the Longxing River; Only in this way will the 354th Regiment not be wiped out!

"For the Motherland, for the people! Rush ah......"

"Rush, ......"

The cries of more than a dozen people, even in the earth-shattering bombardment, were so clear and loud, and the puppet army on the other side of the stone bridge was also stunned by the momentum of the volunteers, and they all looked at this group of desperate warriors, their eyes full of admiration and fear.

"Da ......" a Mustang fighter swooped down, six machine guns on the wings fired at the same time, and 12.7 mm bullets shot a string of snowflakes several meters high on the snow, this snowflake was like a man-eating monster, and instantly devoured five volunteer soldiers.

The remaining more than 10 volunteer soldiers did not flinch at all for the sacrifice of their comrades, they sometimes lay down, sometimes walked quickly, flexibly dodged several bombardments and strafing by enemy planes and rushed to the foot of the mountain, as long as they ran through a section of open space one mile away, they could throw the ZHA medicine bag or grenade in their hands to detonate the ZHA medicine placed on the stone bridge.

I couldn't help but clench my fists and look nervously at all this in front of me, if the stone bridge could be successfully blown up, then these twenty or so soldiers would not die in vain.

But at this moment, suddenly a Mustang fighter plane swooped down and dropped two bombs, and with a bang, the area in front of the stone bridge became a sea of fire for half a mile!

Napalm, killer of unarmored infantry! This information flashed through my mind, and I understood that the bombing of the bridge had ended in failure.