Chapter 24: I Can't Die
Woo......
With a strange roar, a replica plane emerged from the clouds and flew over our heads. Yankees' Aircraft Bully -- The Zhinan Army has no air defense equipment, so it always likes low-altitude reconnaissance.
It even slowed down, circling around the sky and observing the marching ranks of volunteers on the highway like a circus.
......A burst of machine guns rang out, and the volunteers organized several 'strong' machine guns to 'shoot' at the low-altitude observation reconnaissance plane, only to be frightened that the reconnaissance plane suddenly raised its head and hid in the clouds.
I couldn't help but be a little surprised, because the volunteers explicitly forbade 'shooting' at planes in the sky
The reason for this is that the speed of the aircraft is very high, and the probability of an ordinary machine gun hitting it is very small, but it will attract a large-scale bombing by the enemy from the hiding place of the volunteers.
It soon occurred to me, however, that the purpose of this order was to prevent the enemy from burning the position of the volunteers, and that by this time the enemy had apparently discovered the ranks of the volunteers on the march, so it was not unreasonable to 'shoot' at the enemy.
It seems that there are not all people in the volunteer army who can only carry out death orders like Commander Zheng! At this time, I was thinking that if Master Zheng had been so flexible in carrying out orders, then the 160th Division might not have fallen into the enemy's circle at all.
At this time, another propaganda plane flew into the sky. While circling in the sky, he used a loudspeaker to cover the ground and shout again and again to the soldiers of the volunteer army: "Soldiers, count your subordinates and comrades!" How many of you are left? Surrender! We unite *** to treat the captives preferentially, think of your family, they are waiting for you ......"
At first, the soldiers saw that the enemy's plane would still be under their cover, but after the plane turned a few more times, they were not afraid, and they marched on their own as they pleased
At that time, Zhao Yongxin and I were lying on our stomachs in the trenches dug on the high ground, and Zhao Yongxin looked at this and could not help but say worriedly: "The soldiers are easily bombed by enemy planes when they walk like this, so why don't they fight in a certain place and hide themselves?" ”
"Time does not allow it!" I replied with some reluctance: "The enemy has already begun a large-scale counterattack, and if we do not retreat quickly, it is very likely that we will be surrounded by the enemy." Rather than being surrounded, it is better to march against the enemy's bombardment......"
After a while, the enemy's propaganda plane suddenly disappeared, and I secretly screamed in my heart that it was going to be bad. As soon as the thought came to mind, dozens of bombers appeared in the sky, and they scattered with a piercing roar. One by one, they swooped down along the highway and swept away the crowd. With a burst of gunfire, the highway immediately fell to the ground, and blood soon stained the road.
The volunteers jumped off the ditches of the highway or ran into the mountains and forests beside the road, but soon there was another roar, and enemy planes dropped bombs and gasoline bombs......
The sound of gunfire, explosions, and screams soon rang out, and in the blink of an eye the entire highway was filled with blood and fire, and everywhere there were volunteer soldiers who had been blown away, and everywhere there were raging flames. The soldiers who were killed by the bomb were fine, and the fighters who were ignited by the petrol bombs were 'mixed' and rolled wildly on the ground screaming, but the fire grew bigger and bigger, and they rolled into the ditch and did not extinguish them, and they rolled into the river and were burned alive......
"Back to the tunnel!" I gritted my teeth, turned around, and ran towards the pit at the foot of the mountain.
After drilling into the tunnel, I couldn't calm down for a long time. This scene was what I feared and the last thing I wanted to see, but it was still in front of my eyes. It was then that I realized how weak a person could be, and even though I had been trying to prevent it from happening, the results were not satisfactory. I felt like a praying mantis trying to get in the way of history.
I let out a long sigh, and now all I had to do was see if the explosive pack buried in the tunnel would work. Then it occurred to me that the flames on the road, if the flames poured into the tunnel, they would be one by one
"Zhao Yongxin!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but anxiously ask, "How did you bury your explosives."
Target? Will you let the enemy's incendiary bombs ignite? ”
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, don't worry!" Zhao Yongxin replied: "I can bury it deeply! Should not
Something will go wrong!
"Well, that's good!" When I heard this, I was relieved.
After more than 10 minutes, the whistling and explosions of the planes outside finally stopped, and I led the soldiers out of the tunnel and slowly climbed to the high ground.
The air was filled with the scorching smell of burning petrol bombs. The roads and ditches were littered with the corpses of volunteer soldiers, and all of them were mutilated. Organs and limbs were piled on top of each other, hanging from trees, scattered among bushes, and the whole area around the highlands became a bloody world. Occasionally, a few unsacrificed warriors sat in the pile of corpses with blank eyes
"These doggy Yankees!" Huzi gritted his teeth and scolded, but more fighting
But the scholar just watched all this silently, unable to say anything.
The sound of a motor came from the end of the road, and I couldn't help but be stunned, and secretly said that the Yankee tank commando was not slow, and it only took a while to come up.
"Get ready for battle!" I shouted at the soldiers.
"Yes!" The soldiers shouted in response, grabbed their guns, and ran to the trenches on the high ground, and I noticed that they seemed to move much faster, and that their hands were particularly strong, and all of them had a look of eagerness to fight the Yankees at once.
The sound of motors became louder and louder, and in a short time two jeeps with anti-aircraft machine guns turned onto the road, followed by two Sherangerman tanks, and two military cadres full of American GIs......
I soon realized that this was the vanguard of the US "tank commando," so I decided to let them go first, because after all, this group only had two tanks and 43 Yankees, and even if they were allowed to 'plug in,' it would have no effect. But seeing that the soldiers were all holding their rifles tightly or preparing anti-tank grenades, and their reddish eyes were 'shooting' at the convoy with hatred in them, Rong couldn't help but be shocked and ordered: "Comrades must calm down, these are just Yankee scouts and inspectors, let them go over and fight the large troops behind!"
"Yes!" The soldiers answered softly, and passed on my order one by one.
The American Yankees who were "...... He" on the military vehicle looked at the piles of corpses of the volunteer soldiers in front of them, and could not help but raise their guns and cheer loudly; some people whistled sharply at the piles of corpses, and some even raised their guns to aim at the volunteers who were struggling in the pile of corpses......
The cheers, the whistles, and the gunshots pierced my chest like sharp arrows, pierced my heart, made my prostrate twitch because of cripple, and made my muscles and flesh collapse with anger!
What made the soldiers even more unbearable was that after a while, the jeep that was driving on the road in the chieftain stopped on the side of the road and signaled the tank to drive first; at first, the soldiers were puzzled by this, but they soon understood that the corpses of the volunteers on the highway made the jeep drive very bumpy, and they let the tank drive in front. In order to flatten the road......
The angry flames burned in my chest, which made my index finger on the trigger tremble, and the crosshair was aimed at the fuel tank of a military vehicle, and my mind was full of shots of bursting the fuel tank and killing the group of Yankees in the flames, but in the end I gritted my teeth and endured it.
When the army was farther and farther away, I suddenly felt something salty in my mouth, and I realized that I didn't know when I had bitten my lip.
No one spoke, and no one asked. The soldiers all looked at the highway silently: "Looking at the road that was crushed by the tank tracks, the road where the lives and dignity of our people were trampled on, the mud with the tracks seemed to sting the soldiers' eyes, and many soldiers lowered their heads and could not bear to look at it again!"
However, Rong believes that we will definitely account for this dignity.
I don't know how long it took for the rumbling motor to sound again, this time much louder than just now, and it was supposed to be the US army's "tank commandos" coming, and sure enough, in a short time, more than 20 'G grams' appeared in the eyes of the soldiers. At a glance, this tank unit can indeed be called 'elite', because in addition to the few Shermans in front of this unit, which are used to open the road, behind them are the "Pershing" who are 'colorful'.
The "Pershing" tank was sent out by the United States at the end of World War II to deal with the German "Tiger" tank, so its attack and protection are very strong, and the thickness of its frontal armor has reached LS2 mm
Even its side armor is 96 mm. The anti-tank grenades in the hands of the volunteers posed no threat to it at all. It is no wonder that this "tank commando" in history was able to completely ignore the attacks of the volunteer armies on both sides and rushed forward with full horsepower all the way.
But now I'm afraid you won't have such good luck......
"Prepare to blast! All units are ready for battle!" Looking at the tank group that was getting closer and closer, an order was given to the fighters.
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Yes!" Zhao Yongxin responded to Ping-, and quickly conveyed my order.
But after a while, the old squad leader hurried up to me and reported:
Oh no, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! The rope holding the lead is broken!"
"What?" When I heard this, I couldn't help but be shocked: "What a fame!" The enemy tanks were all in front of me, only to find out that the rope was broken!"
"It should have been burned by the enemy's incendiary bombs!" The old squad leader said ashamedly: "It's good that the middle has burned off other places, but our comrades didn't notice it, and they just pulled the rope and felt that it was too light, and then they found out that ......."
"Tiger !'' I didn't have to blame the old squad leader for anything, so I turned around and ordered Huzi: "Bring all the anti-tank grenades, and be sure to stop the enemy's tanks for me!"
"Yes!" Huzi answered, pulled his own team, and ran down the mountain.
The enemy's tank commandos advanced at a fast pace, and in the blink of an eye they came to 218. On the road below the 3 heights, looking at the group of tanks lined up at the foot of the mountain, I couldn't help but secretly hate in my heart, at this time, we only need to pull the rope, we can easily trap this group of tanks here and blow it up, but now, ......
"......Boom" Several explosions were heard at the foot of the mountain, and the tank group suddenly stopped. I turned my head to look, and the tigers were fighting. The Sherman at the head had been blown up with an anti-tank grenade and was in a cloud of black smoke, blocking the path of the other tanks.
Fortunately, it was Sherman who was ahead, and I couldn't help but secretly rejoice that if it had been "Pershing" who had been ahead this time, the enemy would have known where he had gone. However, I was so happy that it seemed to be early in the morning, but after a while, the enemy transferred a "Pershing" tank from the rear, and this behemoth slowly moved forward with the blow-up Sherman tank, and at the same time 'fired' at the tiger with tank guns and machine guns, only to hit the tiger so that they could not raise their heads.
"Bang!" With a single shot, I killed a tank observer who had opened the hatch and wanted to pop out to see what was going on, but soon no other target could be found. Looking at the group of "Pershing" tanks with closed hatches at the foot of the mountain, I couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness in my heart, which was stunned that I couldn't start in front of this group of tanks. This kind of tank, even if it is a tank grenade or an outer 'medicine' bag, it must be bombed with its rear armor or lower armor; 8。 Now the ordinary grenades in the hands of the fighters do not work at all, so I can even borrow the order to go to war.
Look at the blown up Sherman, which has been pushed by the Pershing behind it, creaking and slowly driving towards the ditch ahead. The situation was urgent, and in a few minutes the Sherman was about to be pushed into the ditch. Then the group of tanks will be long, one by one, one by one
He***! Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, turned around and ordered Zhao Yongxin: "You come to command, give you a quarter of an hour!" No matter what method you use! You must rush to the pit and detonate it for me! ”
"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin also knew that the situation was serious, and immediately went to organize the soldiers to attack.
I turned around with my rifle in my hand and ran towards the bottom of the hill, and all I could do was try to buy them a little time.
"How's it going?" I slid almost all the way down the hill and came without a moment's notice
Came to Huzi's side.
Huzi buried his head in avoiding the bullets that were swept by a shuttle, spat out the muddy water in his mouth, and replied: "This Iron King's eight shells are too hard, I rushed up twice, threw three anti-tank grenades on him, and our grenades are almost running out......
"How many are left?"
"There are only seven or eight left!" Huzi was still a little unconvinced: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, let me go up again, this time I will definitely complete the task!"
"No!" Looking at the Pershing tank on the highway in front of me, I couldn't help but shake my head: "This kind of tank is only useful if you blow up the back of it, otherwise it will be a 'waste' to blame!" But the road is so narrow that it's almost impossible to get around it and climb to the back!"
Huzi was silent when I said this. On one side of the tank there is a mountain that cannot be bypassed, and on the other side there is a ditch below the road and there is no cover, and if you want to go around from there, you will undoubtedly 'expose' yourself in front of the machine guns and artillery of more than 20 tanks!
"Squeak, squeak, ......" was another cacophony noise, and seeing that the Sherman tank was about to be pushed down the ditch, I couldn't help but have an idea, asked Huzi for two anti-tank grenades, and when the tank's machine gun was 'firing' in the other direction, I suddenly got up and crossed the road, and then jumped into the ditch. Immediately after that, he crawled on the ground for a while, and with three strokes and two strokes, he got into the bottom of the bombed-out Sherman tank under the suspicious eyes of his comrades.
As soon as I got inside, I smelled the thick smell of blood, and then I realized that it was not dirt under me, but the corpses of the soldiers of the Volunteer Army who had been crushed by tanks! Knowing this made my stomach cramp and I almost threw up everything. And I soon regretted it, because the chassis of the Sherman tank was so low that it was difficult to even look up after getting in. Not to mention turning and rolling. I thought to myself, how will I escape when I throw the grenade later?
After a while of ideological struggle, I finally gave up my mind. Damn! If this tank had not been bombed, the Volunteer Army would have been very capable of several corps being divided and surrounded. As soon as I remembered the tragic scene of the Chinese Volunteers being bombed by the enemy just now, as well as the mass of 'flesh' and mud under me, I could not care about anything, so I 'pulled' out an anti-tank grenade and pulled the safety pin and threw it forward gently......
The Pershing tank was in the Sherman tank's office, so I easily threw the anti-tank grenade under the Pershing tank, and then I closed my eyes. I was only a little more than a meter away from the anti-tank grenade, and with the strength of the anti-tank grenade, I would not have had a chance of survival. However, I was glad to see that I was also killed by a Pershing tank, and I was even able to exchange my own lives for the lives of thousands of volunteer soldiers......
But after waiting for a long time, I didn't hear the explosion, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that the anti-tank grenade was still lying there in good shape, and it didn't mean to explode at all!
Good! It's a dud!
Seeing this, I can't help but hate secretly, I'm already determined to die once,
The second time, gritting his teeth, again threw an anti-tank grenade. This time I didn't close my eyes, my eyes were staring at it wide-open......
But, the fuck still didn't explode!
After thinking about it, I quickly understood that the anti-tank grenade is triggered, and its trigger device is not so sensitive, and it will only detonate when the metal head of the Yun hits the tank armor heavily. For this reason, some models of anti-tank grenades still have cloth tapes wrapped around the wooden handles, so that the metal heads are facing forward and the wooden handles are facing backwards, otherwise if the wooden handle hits first, it may not detonate.
So I threw more than a meter away so lightly. That's going to explode!' '! You can't die if you want to! And I have to make up my mind to die a third time!
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but cry out in a hurry, and then I 'pulled' an ordinary grenade from my waist and threw it over, looking at the grenade lying there quietly emitting white smoke, and there were two anti-tank grenades next to it that opened the safety pin, I thought to myself that I would die now!
But at that moment, there was a sudden light in front of me, and the Sherman tank above my head was being pushed into the ditch. I hurriedly rolled a few times and then tumbled into the ditch, and then I heard a loud bang from above
Rong who was lying in the ditch couldn't help but smile bitterly, One by one, he still can't die!