Chapter Seventy-Five: Closing the Siege

Chapter Seventy-Five: Closing the Siege

The puppet army death squads launched suicidal charges against our positions one after another, but each charge was cleanly beaten down by the soldiers. The so-called "one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion", this sentence is very reasonable, especially between the puppet army death squad and our army death squad fight each other, courage is even more important, so after the puppet army death squad was beaten down by the soldiers for the first time, I knew that it was impossible for the puppet army to occupy our high ground with the tactics of death squads.

Sure enough, after the first defeat, the charge of the puppet army death squad became weaker and weaker each time, and the pressure on us was smaller and smaller, coupled with this tactic of holding each other's explosives' bags and cluster grenades to charge, the volunteers on the hilltop position obviously had a lot of geographical advantages, so until the sky 'dark' when the puppet army death squad did not make any progress, and finally had to reluctantly give up the charge for a little rest.

The puppet army did not want to make us feel better when they were resting, and they always hit our positions with pieces of shells as soon as the troops withdrew. It is understandable that they are in the encirclement by us, these shells cannot be taken away anyway, and knocking out as many of these shells as possible can not only reduce their burden, but also prevent the shells from being captured by the volunteers, and can also cause certain casualties to us stationed on the 585.2 heights, no matter how bad it is, we can not get a good rest, it can be said that we can count in one fell swoop......

Although I understand the fact that the opposing sides on the battlefield will always do everything they can to torture the opponent and make the opponent uncomfortable, I still can't help but curse the puppet army in my heart: Why can't these guys let us rest for a few minutes? After a long day of fighting, my whole body was surrounded by fatigue, especially the whole body soaked in sticky dirty water and mud, which made me very uncomfortable.

Being soaked in water for too long made me feel a little edema all over my body, the most obvious being my feet, which squeezed so that the shoes were bulging and swollen, and when I stepped on them, I felt like I wanted to stretch them open. At the same time, the hands also have layers of white 'color' folds, especially the right index finger of the trigger, due to the reason of soaking in the hand for a long time and pulling the trigger too often, the skin 'flesh' has been unconsciously worn off, faintly 'exposed' a section of white bones inside.

Man is a very strange animal, and we don't even notice this when we fight the puppet army, and at that time we only want to pull the trigger and 'shoot' the bullet as fast as possible, and do everything we can to keep the puppet army out of our firepower. And once the puppet army retreated and gave us a little respite, as soon as the whole body relaxed, all the hunger, thirst, fatigue and pain were like a plague that infected the whole army. The soldiers in the trenches collapsed almost at the same time as the puppet army withdrew, and although their stomachs were growling with hunger and there were fried noodles in the dry food belt, no one wanted to move

Although I am also a veteran, I have experienced many difficult battles in previous battles, such as marching without sleep for several days and nights, such as enduring the continuous bombardment of the US army for several days in the tunnel, and for example, in Shangganling, relying on the tunnel to maneuver with the enemy......

But I don't think anything was as hard as it is now, for two reasons, first of all, it was very uncomfortable to be immersed in dirty water, and more importantly, I knew that the war was going to end soon. Everyone says that the darkness before dawn is the hardest to bear, and I know that now.

There was a voice in my heart that kept telling me that if I held on a little longer, the battle would be over if I held on a little longer, but another voice would hide in the corner and cry...... I really feel like crying, I really want to cry out loud in the roar of the cannon, shouting loudly: I can't hold it anymore, just give me a break

But I knew I couldn't do that, because I'm a regimental commander and I have hundreds of people under me. I think they should be on the verge of collapse at this point, just like me, their eyes are glued to me and they think of me as an example, and if I do, the confidence and courage of the fighters will most likely collapse completely in this instant......

In the darkness, several soldiers ran up one after another along the 'Jiao' trench and braved the artillery fire, they should have been arranged by Liu Shunyi to rescue the wounded and replace the overtired soldiers, but because it was dark and they were wrapped in mud, they didn't recognize each other. In a trance, I could only feel that the figures and movements of these warriors were very familiar, but I had no strength or extra 'essence' to shout, and just watched them walk in front of me

"Head Cui is Head Cui, Head Cui is here ......"

Suddenly, a soldier spotted me, and a shout made the fighters turn around me one after another, and then I realized that they were looking for me, and then I looked at it again, only to realize that it was Li Pinghe, Lin Xue, and Jin Qiulian.

Jin Qiulian didn't care what others thought, and at the same time, regardless of whether I would object, she took my hand and pulled me on her back with a reflexive pull, and the cat lowered her body and ran down the position.

She is such a 'sexual' personality, bold and slightly savage, and she will do whatever comes to her mind. I believe that Lin Xue thought the same thing the moment she saw me, but her 'sexual' personality made her hesitate, so she let Jin Qiulian take the lead.

Maybe it's because Jin Qiulian has been a hygienist for a long time, and she is familiar with carrying the wounded on her back to the position, but after a while, she carried me into an anti-artillery 'hole'. I noticed that the anti-artillery 'hole' was newly dug and could accommodate a dozen people, and it was supported by rows of logs. The dim light of the kerosene lamp illuminated the five or six soldiers in the tunnel, all as weak as I was, and some of them were wounded, and at a glance they knew that they had just been carried back from the battlefield. Several hygienists were nervously cleaning and bandaging their wounds......

I think that this anti-artillery 'hole' is where the fighters on standby on the anti-slope have reinforced the tunnel to accommodate the wounded, and it seems that they were not idle when we were fighting the puppet army death squads.

It's just that...... It quickly occurred to me that this anti-artillery 'hole' is now a very valuable place. The artillery shells of the puppet army were 'indiscriminately' blown up outside, but the soldiers who built this anti-artillery 'hole' would rather be bombed outside, and they would also give up this anti-artillery 'hole', which can be said to be an inch of life, to us who have just come down from the front line

People often 'reveal' their true 'nature' only when they are living and dying. In real life, there are too many people who usually call brothers and sisters, but they do not hesitate to stab their brothers in the back when they are at the moment of life and death. But at this time, what I felt was the courtesy of the volunteer soldiers.

What kind of courtesy is this, and how many people can do this kind of courtesy that would rather put themselves in danger and give others more chances to survive? Even brothers may not be able to do it, but the volunteer soldiers have done it, and not just one or two

I straightened up and wanted to sit up, but Jin Qiulian pressed me and asked unpleasantly, "What do you want to do?" ”

"I'm not hurt," I replied with reluctance, "give up the place to my wounded comrade."

"I said I wasn't hurt, look at how tired you are......" Jin Qiulian said that her voice was a little choked up at the end, and she turned her face away and checked my body by herself.

"Regiment Commander" Li Pinghe and Lin Xue lifted the black cloth of the anti-artillery 'hole' and followed in. Li Pinghe eagerly turned his gaze to Jin Qiulian and asked, "How is the situation?" Didn't get hurt."

Jin Qiulian shook her head, and while handing the kettle to my mouth neatly, she replied: "Like other comrades, I am hungry and tired."

Then I raised the index finger of my right hand, raised my head towards Li Pinghe, and said, "And this ......."

Li Pinghe looked at my index finger that had 'exposed' the white bones and couldn't help but 'sob' a cool breath, and involuntarily turned his gaze to Lin Xue, who had been following him without speaking.

Like others, Lin Xue also had stains all over her dirty face, but I still saw in her eyes the concern for me, as well as fear, panic and powerlessness.

This can't be blamed on her, as a new recruit who has just entered the battlefield, she has to go through such a difficult scene before she has fought many battles, I think anyone will be afraid. What's more, she is still a 'woman', and she is also a high-ranking cadre's son.

I smiled at her with a pretended lightheartedness, trying to get her not to worry about me. But this smile didn't matter, Lin Xue looked at me and felt sour for no reason, and two lines of tears fell like pearls with broken threads.

Jin Qiulian, who was bandaging my wounds, obviously stopped moving, looked at me with strange eyes, and then looked at Lin Xue. Lin Xue also seemed to feel something, wiped her eyes and looked at us with tears in her eyes, with some unnaturalness in her eyes. Li Pinghe pushed his glasses and shook his head helplessly, the atmosphere in the anti-artillery 'hole' was embarrassing for a while, and I didn't know what to say

"Uh-huh" Li Pinghe broke the silence with a cough and said to Lin Xue: "Sister Xue, go and make some fried noodles for the head of the regiment."

"Hmm......" Lin Xue responded, lowered her head and took a tooth cup from the corner to pour water, but it seemed that her mind was completely lost in the movements in her hands, so that the fried noodles spilled a lot.

"Okay" After Jin Qiulian bandaged my fingers, she looked at other places and saw that there was no big problem, so she secretly squeezed my ass hard, only hurting my teeth but not daring to scream, I could only protest with my eyes. Unexpectedly, Jin Qiulian raised her head with a "hum", and a victory smile appeared on her face, as if she was demonstrating to me.

I never expected to pierce this piece of paper in this situation. But to be honest, at this time, I don't care much about them knowing each other, in this battlefield of life and death, I even have the heart to die, where would I care about these emotional problems, so even if they both ignore me at this time, I will laugh it.

Only when we can't even be sure whether we can live in this kind of precarious situation, will we really understand that life is the most important thing, so at this time, I really can't imagine how anyone would rather give up their lives because of the failure of love, such behavior is too luxurious for us, we have gone through a lot of hardships, tried our best to save our 'life', defend the lives of millions of people in the motherland, but they easily gave up their lives for a simple reason

"Leader" Lin Xue handed the prepared fried noodles to me, and lowered her head after secretly glancing at me.

I was about to reach out to pick it up, but Jin Qiulian snatched it, and said with concern while generously scooping a spoonful into my mouth: "Your finger hurts, I'll feed you, eat slowly......"

"Or ...... I'll do it myself" Looking at Lin Xue, whose face was flushed and seemed to have been wronged, I couldn't bear to glare at Jin Qiulian, and then grabbed the tooth cup and devoured it.

Half a cup of fried noodles in my stomach, I felt the strength in my body also recover little by little. It's just that I have a bad habit of wanting to sleep when I'm full, and I haven't had a good rest for more than a day, so I've been fighting the enemy with a tight nerve. At this time, he was full of food and drink, and the fatal tiredness hit his brows like an unstoppable army, and his eyelids were so heavy that they seemed to be sticky, and he fell asleep in a blur before he even had time to put down the tooth cup......

"Commander, Regiment Commander...... "I heard someone calling me in a daze, and I woke up suddenly, and I reached out and grabbed the rifle next to me to go out.

"Commander, commander" A few people next to me hurriedly stopped me: "Now is not the time to go out and work hard, I want you to think of a way to make a decision"

"What? What to figure out? Looking at Liu Shunyi, Li Pinghe, Li Guoqiang and a few other people beside me, it took me a long time to react, and I hurriedly asked: "What's the situation?" Is it the enemy who has hit it? ”

"Not yet," Liu Shunyi reported, "but the observers found that the enemy had gathered from our flank to the anticline, perhaps trying to steal from the rear in an attempt to take our position in one fell swoop from three sides."

I shook my head to wake myself up completely, looked at the map that Liu Shunyi had spread out in front of me and asked, "How long have I been asleep?" ”

"Ten minutes ......" Li Pinghe replied with some apologies: "Because there is an emergency, so I ......"

"Hmm" I nodded and interrupted Li Pinghe's words and asked, "Where are the puppet army troops assembled?"

"Here, and here...... There are two companies in each place, and the strength is still increasing," Liu Shunyi said, pointing to several locations on the map: "The puppet army's actions are very secretive, they do not fire flares or turn on searchlights, and secretly deploy troops while shelling our positions. If I hadn't arranged for a few sharpshooters equipped with night vision devices to observe everywhere in advance, I wouldn't have been able to detect their movements."

"Hmm," I couldn't help frowning as I looked at the locations Liu Shunyi marked on the map. Before, I only thought that the puppet army was not good at night fighting, but I didn't expect that the puppet army had to fight in this situation, and they seemed to have found the advantages of night fighting. That is, it is possible to easily bypass the fire blockade of our troops on the flank path and come to our anticline by taking advantage of the darkness of the night.

585.2 There is a small road on the left flank of the heights, and on the right flank is the road from Hwacheon to Jinseong, and if it is during the day, these two roads are blocked by our fire. In particular, on the path, which only allowed two or three men to pass side by side, it seemed that our troops only needed to set up two machine guns on the hilltop position to block the enemy north of the path.

But...... When it gets dark, it's a different story. We didn't have the ability to block the roads with non-stop artillery fire like the U.S. military, and there weren't as many flares to keep the roads bright. So the problem arose, we could not block these two roads at night, so that the puppet army could easily go around our anticline and even escape from the Hwacheon junction

Of course, I believe that the puppet army will not choose to flee in this situation, and the 585.2 heights still have our hands, if the army wants to escape, it will be a long line that does not end in front and back, and we will not be able to stand it if we shoot a few shells at the foot of the mountain and sweep the machine guns for a while

Their purpose is obvious, that is, as Liu Shunyi said, to send a commando team around us in an attempt to pull out our nail through several sieges

The strategy of the puppet army is obviously very correct, and the anti-slope has always been the weak point of our army's defense. On this side, due to the low terrain and rainwater backflow, it is difficult to build decent fortifications, and even the trenches can only dig a small trench. What is more important is that our artillery position is in the north, and with the principle of anti-slope operation, it is difficult for our artillery to deal an effective blow to the puppet army attacking from the anti-slope......

"Where are the comrades of the Twentieth Corps?" I asked in a muffled voice, and now that's my primary concern.

"Here" Liu Shunyi pointed to the map and said: "It is still eight kilometers away from us, and it is raining again, plus the puppet army is blocking along the road, so the advance speed is very slow"

"How many more comrades do we have to fight?" I asked again.

Liu Shunyi lowered his head and said heavily: "The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and there were only more than 300 people left, but the fighters had a strong will to fight."

This is the fact that a force of more than 2,000 people of the Volunteer Army has not collapsed and has not collapsed, and it is still able to hold its ground, which is almost unimaginable for the United Nations Army. Because by the standards of the US military, if more than half of a unit is killed or wounded, it can be said to have lost its combat effectiveness. By this standard, our unit would have been disbanded a long time ago, but we are still here and not a single one of us has mentioned a "breakthrough......

But it is clear that our current situation is not optimistic, besieging our puppet army, with almost a battalion on each side. It can be said that they are capable of taking our positions on every side, can we withstand their siege? Or should you break through with the warriors desperately? I couldn't help but fall into deep thought