Chapter Seventy-Seven: Goodbye in the Next Life

Chapter Seventy-Seven: Goodbye in the Next Life

Deep darkness, endless emptiness.

My soldiers and I knew that the puppet army at the foot of the mountain was 'approaching' the hilltop position with weapons in rows, but we couldn't see anything. What we could see was still the bursts of artillery fire in front of the position, and occasionally a long bolt of lightning pierced the entire night sky, and the puppet army that was rushing towards us like a 'tide' suddenly broke into our sight, like a ghost in the darkness flashed in our minds.

The puppet army was more numerous than I thought, and the puppet army that rushed up alone had almost a battalion, not to mention the covering troops and reserves left at the foot of the mountain.

It also made me realize that the large forces of our army were about to arrive soon. Because only at this time will the puppet army be anxious, and will desperately let so many people launch a group charge at the same time. The reality on the battlefield has proven that in the era of hot weapons, there will not be much difference between the effect of launching a charge in a dense formation and a scattered formation. Therefore, there is only one situation that will make the commander choose to charge in a dense formation, and that is to take the position in one fell swoop by virtue of the superiority of numbers once he has rushed into the enemy's position. Obviously, the puppet army that is currently charging at us has the same purpose.

The sound of the cannon gradually weakened, became less and less, and finally stopped. This is undoubtedly telling me that the troops of the puppet army are approaching the hilltop position. It took me a while for my ears to "buzz" in the cold night. Then I heard the "whirring" wind and the "ticking" sound of the rain. I couldn't help but take off my hat and raise my head with my eyes closed, letting the rain from the sky wash the stains off my face. The cold rain hit my face like countless little girl's fingers gently flicking on my face. The oncoming mountain breeze whistled by, combing my hair like a mother's kindness.

What a beautiful night, if only a little time, I would have wished I could stand naked in the rain and let it get wet, even if I would fall under the guns of the enemy in the next second......

But I knew that all of this was a luxury for me. I don't have that much time, and I don't have control over my life. My life is not only mine, I am also responsible for the victory of this battle, and I am also responsible for the lives of these more than 300 fighters under my command

This may be the sadness of being a commander

The puppet army is getting closer and closer, and I can already hear the "click" of military boots stepping on the muddy water, and occasionally a few puppet soldiers slip and fall. They didn't shoot and didn't fire flares. For the puppet army, of course, they hope that the darker the better, and if they can ride the darkness all the way to 'touch' our army's position, it will be ideal. So they're not going to do that kind of stupid thing that puts themselves in a bad situation.

It's just that we won't make it so easy for the puppet army......

"One Hundred Meters"

Hu Zudi's cold voice came from the walkie-talkie.

Hu Zudi, who was equipped with night vision devices, constantly reported to me the location of the puppet army through night vision devices. As a commander, I must know the enemy's situation, and only then can I give the order to attack at the right time, and the sharpshooter equipped with night vision devices is undoubtedly my best eyes and ears.

"Eighty meters"

Hu Zudi's voice changed from cold to cruel. I know why, at this time, only those equipped with night vision devices in the whole army can see the puppet army and clearly know the number of puppet troops. Seeing so many enemies in front of them, they naturally became murderous with guns in their hands.

But I still didn't give the order to attack, so Hu Zudi and the others could only wait quietly.

"Sixty Meters"

Hu Zudi's voice was already a little impatient. I believe that he was not impatient because of himself, but that he knew very well that the enemy was several times more numerous than us, and that it was easy for the enemy to break through our defenses and enter 'hand-to-hand' combat in an instant by allowing the enemy to 'force' so close when the number of people was so disparity.

And it is clear that the 'hand-to-hand' combat at this time is by no means our plan and is not what we would have liked

"Forty Meters"

Hu Zudi continued to report. The reason why Hu Zudi was the only one to report was because the soldiers of the other cold gun troops were arranged by me in the eastern position, and those anti-artillery 'holes' on the eastern position were the key to our survival, and at the same time, I also needed the sharpshooters of the cold gun unit to block and clear out all the enemies who attacked from the east and might survive the artillery fire. Otherwise, our hiding place is likely to be detected by the enemy and threatened.

Just when the enemy was only thirty meters away from our battle line, I opened my eyes suddenly, and with one hand, I pulled out two grenades in my hand and threw them into the darkness in front of the position.

Almost at the same time, the fighters, who had long been unable to hold back, also threw grenades that had been prepared one after another.

"Boom ......" With the sound of an explosion, the puppet army let out a scream in the flames of the explosion.

The gunfire soon rang out, but all the puppet soldiers were shooting aimlessly, but none of the volunteers fired back, and still threw grenades down one after another.

This is a tactic that I agreed with my fighters before the battle. According to the usual way of playing, it is generally a flare into the air, and when the fighters see the target clearly, they will shoot and 'shoot'. Of course, this style of play is understandable, and only when we see the target clearly can we shoot, otherwise, even if we are familiar with the terrain, we will not be able to hit the target accurately in this darkness.

But there is also a problem with this kind of fighting, that is, the flare is equivalent to sending a signal to the puppet army, which is almost telling the enemy that we are going to shoot, so that they can quickly find cover. The puppet army also came from the war, and naturally they are not fools, so when we saw the target shooting, they were all lying on the ground. What's more, at such a close distance, the flares will illuminate ourselves while illuminating the puppet army, which is undoubtedly unwise for us, who are much weaker than the puppet army.

So, I ordered the fighters to shoot neither flares nor guns, and only wait for the puppet army to enter the range of the grenade and throw the grenade......

The advantage of this is twofold: one is that the sparks from the muzzle of the guns will 'reveal' our position, while the grenades will not. Because of this, the puppet army, who was unfamiliar with the terrain and was attacking us in the dark, had no idea where we were, and could not even determine the distance from us. So much so that we bombed it for a while and could not distinguish the position of our army's defensive line.

The other is that the bullet strafing 'fire' is very low, while the grenade blows up the whole area. There are many puppet soldiers, and if we throw a few grenades down, the shnel will fly 'randomly' on the inclined plane, and no matter how you say it, it will also kill several puppet soldiers. On the contrary, because they could not determine the position of our defensive line, they did not dare to throw oval grenades that were easy to roll back, so they had to raise all kinds of weapons in their hands to 'mess' and sweep through.

The puppet army that attacked us did not expect us to fight like this, and we were caught off guard by a large area of grenades. Even if a few big ones were able to break through the barrage occasionally, Hu Zudi and his assistants would quickly solve them in front of our position.

After being blown up by us for a while, the commander of the puppet army finally realized that if he continued to fight like this, his troops would most likely fall under the enemy's grenades. So only a few sounds of "sudden ......" were heard, and a few flares quickly rose into the air.

"Hit" I yelled, raised the rifle in my hand and pulled the trigger at the puppet army.

After throwing out the grenades in their hands, the soldiers '' all kinds of weapons in their hands and hit the puppet army fiercely.

In the end, I expected the puppet army to shoot flares, so I had already given an order: as soon as the flares were in the air, it was time to shoot. So the fighters once again seized the opportunity, and those who did not have grenades in their hands immediately grabbed their weapons and pulled the trigger at the enemy, and those who had grenades threw them as fast as they could......

On the other hand, the puppet army, they did not expect that a few flares would suddenly come up from their rear, and they did not rush to hide without defense, and they were almost unobstructed under the fire of the volunteer soldiers.

Soon the gunfire rang out, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns...... They all sprayed bullets in patches at the puppet army in front of them.

Before this battle, I had won a lot of turntable machine guns for the 538th regiment. So far, although many rotary machine guns have been blown up by enemy shells along with their owners, a considerable number of rotary machine guns have been transferred to other fighters due to casualties among machine gunners. Therefore, most of the equipment in the hands of the more than 300 people stationed at the top of the hill now are turntable machine guns and 'Bo'*sha, and those who hold rifles are only sharpshooters like me, who are used to using them.

In the case of such a large density of machine guns and submachine guns, although the number of our army is small, the firepower is not small, and the bullets in the patches are almost denser than the rain in the sky, and the "uproar and ......" goes down like a big hand that destroys the withering and decaying, and fiercely presses down the team of the puppet army. And on the way the puppet army was pressed down, there were patches of corpses and shocking blood

"Bang bang......" I mechanically pulled the trigger and knocked down the two machine gunners who tried to set up their machine guns in front of the position.

For me now, choosing an enemy worthy of my attack, and taking their 'lives' before they threaten us in a hurry, has become a kind of conditional counter-shooting. In other words, even if I don't think about anything right now, I don't even think about it, and just one person standing here will instinctively 'shoot' at dangerous targets one after another.

Just like me now, I keep pulling the trigger in my hand, and even quickly change the magazine after the bullet is fired, while my head is thinking about other things.

As I expected, the puppet army continued to shell our positions, and those shells produced a lot of gunpowder smoke on the positions, and the rain screen made it difficult for the light of the flares to penetrate in. As soon as the flares were lifted into the air, the earth, which should have been pale, was as bright or bright as a lamp with insufficient wattage, and even if it was a puppet army close at hand, we could only vaguely see their figures.

This is exactly what I want, because only in this way can the situation I have set for "friendly casualties" among the puppet armies on both the north and south sides be possible.

"Report the situation," I shouted into the intercom, and the sound of gunfire and explosions forced me to shout with all my might.

"To the east, the enemy was suppressed by our fire and could not move at a distance of five hundred meters"

"To the north, the puppet army is charging, but the offensive is not strong"

I quickly got the information I was looking for from the intercom.

It was our plan to keep the enemy out of a certain range in the east, because only in this way would our army of more than 300 men have room for it. The puppet army in the north is not strong, but it is somewhat unexpected to me.

The offensive is not strong, which means that my strategy will most likely not achieve the desired effect. What I want is for the puppet armies on both sides to attack like crazy, so that their two troops can collide fiercely, but now......

Then I quickly figured out that the reason why the puppet army's offensive in the north was not strong was entirely because they had known for a long time that we might mobilize artillery fire in the north, so the north was not their main attack direction at all.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help frowning, and ordered into the walkie-talkie: "Transfer some of the soldiers stationed in the north, and carefully put a few enemies in the north."

"Yes," Li Guoqiang on the other end of the walkie-talkie did not hesitate to carry out my order.

In fact, at this time, the puppet army in the south is being caught off guard by us, and I don't need to transfer a group of soldiers from the north to defend at all. My purpose is to give the puppet army in the north the illusion that the puppet army in the south is attacking too fiercely, and I have to 'draw' the manpower from the north...... If this does not fool them, then Li Guoqiang is very careful to let a few puppet troops rush to our position, I think it is enough to let them see the hope of victory. If these puppet armies don't rush up desperately, then I can only sigh to myself, God will not bless me

"Bang bang ......" With a burst of gunshots, I heard Li Guoqiang mobilizing his manpower on the walkie-talkie, and directing the soldiers to deliberately put a few people up

It is easy to kill an enemy in this way, but it is very difficult to release a few enemies, and it is even a very risky task. This is not? Even Li Guoqiang's Seventh Company was a little 'chaotic'.

"Fifty meters at two o'clock, the three puppet soldiers let them up"

"Attention sharpshooters, if you want to drop a bomb, you will resolutely shoot it out"

"Zhang Xiong prepares, as soon as the enemy rushes to the position, he will be dealt with immediately"

……

It can be seen that Li Guoqiang's side did not go very smoothly, so that he failed after two attempts, and it was not until the third time that two very lucky puppet troops finally rushed to our army's position, but as soon as they rushed to the position, the luck was declared over.

Who is Zhang Xiong? He has always been known for his quick movements, but he is afraid that when the general stabs him 'inserts' into the throats of the two puppet soldiers, the two puppet soldiers have not yet seen who is in front of them

"The puppet army was fooled" and then Li Guoqiang quickly reported: "They organized two companies to launch a fierce attack on our army's position"

I secretly screamed in my heart that yes, this is exactly what I wanted.

The gunfire became more and more intense, and both sides poured tons ......and tons of bullets on each other as if they were crazy. As the flares fired by the puppet army became fewer and fewer, the surroundings fell into darkness again, only the bursts of fire from the muzzles of the guns on both sides and the lines of fire of bullets cutting through the darkness, like a man-eating devil waving his chain, 'wildly' dancing in the air to take one life after another.

It makes sense that the puppet army no longer fires flares, and in night battles, flares are generally only more beneficial to the defenders. Because the flares will expose the charging troops to enemy fire without reservation. Before, they fired flares, just so that they could see the position of our army's defensive positions. After this was established, lighting has become a matter of disadvantage to the enemy.

The puppet army pressed at us in pieces of darkness, and I felt that the time was ripe, so I gestured to the messenger who had been guarding beside me, and the messenger immediately broadcast the walkie-talkie and issued an order to the artillery unit.

At the same time, I gave an order on the walkie-talkie: "All of them, pass on the order, and as soon as the cannon sounds, withdraw to the anti-artillery 'hole' on the east side and wait for the order."

"Yes," the fighters replied over the intercom.

When the last time came, I ran a few steps backwards and found Li Guoqiang, who was directing the battle, and the two hugged each other tightly without saying anything.

"See you in the next life," Li Guoqiang said lightly.

"See you in the next life" I replied in a choked voice, eager to complete the task for him, but I knew it was impossible. Not to mention that Li Guoqiang himself did not agree, even the soldiers would not agree......

"Woo......" There was a sudden whistling sound of cannonballs in the sky, and Li Guoqiang pushed me violently and shouted: "Hurry up"

Saying that, he ignored me anymore and mobilized the soldiers to command the next battle.

I paused, took one last look at the veteran who had been with me for several years, and as soon as I turned around, I ran with the soldiers towards the anti-shell 'hole' to the east.

As soon as we hid in the anti-artillery 'hole', shells poured up in patches. In the darkness, the whole world boiled, and the 585.2 heights were churning and shaking in the fire as if they were boiling in a cauldron, and there was the whistling of shells and shrapnel everywhere, and the sound of explosions everywhere

Tightly huddled in the anti-artillery 'hole', I only thought in my heart that if nothing else, the puppet army that was suppressed in the east should be almost blown up. The puppet army in the north will be tracked and 'shot' by artillery fire, and they will catch up with the hilltop position like a duck, and then they will not be able to charge towards the hilltop position, plus Li Guoqiang's provocation......