Chapter 49: The Battle of Tongdeng (19)

Chapter 49: The Battle of Tongdeng (19)

With the sound of explosions one after another, the 'shooting' holes outside the fort were cleaned one by one by the soldiers.

We have new reinforcements, and then we teach them how to blast, so it's not that hard to do. The new soldiers had suffered heavy casualties during the attack on the Ghost Tun Fort, so of course they would not be polite to the Vietnamese army. Some use blasting canisters, some use explosive packs, and of course some use cluster grenades, and the explosion outside makes us in the battery feel their anger.

However, the unsatisfactory point is that if two or more explosions are made on the same side at the same time, the shock "wave" of the explosive explosion will push away the explosive that has been detonated late, and the accuracy will be lost. Therefore, only one explosion at a time on the same side, the so-called anxious can't eat hot tofu, and the soldiers have to endure the 'sex' to take their time.

The warriors were still full of interest at first, and they wanted to play with a childlike heart like Junko. But after more than two hours, it quickly became boring, and gradually turned into a task. In the end, it was not until the sky was hazy that all the 'shooting' holes on the second floor of the fort were cleared.

I don't know who came up with the idea, the soldiers were worried that the 'shooting' holes that were blown up would be opened by the Vietnamese army, so they picked up a load of mud from the foot of the mountain, and the soldiers who knew how to muddy water divided by two blocked those 'shooting' holes.

"Call Comrade He Guoan up" Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, and the Guitun Fort could no longer be powerful, I breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the communication soldiers: "And report to Regiment Commander Zhao that you can transport explosives"

"Yes," the messenger replied, and immediately passed my order through the walkie-talkie.

Pingdingshan was not high, and after a while, He Guoan came up with the soldiers who were transporting explosives. He saw me at a glance, couldn't help but hold my hand enthusiastically, the frowns on his face bloomed like 'flowers', and said: "Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, you have fought this battle so beautifully, I thought that you would have to fight for at least a few days and nights, and sacrifice many people, but I didn't expect that this burst of gunfire last night would be resolved." When Comrade Xiao He told me that he had already been defeated, I didn't believe it, the Japanese fought for 45 days, and thousands of people died, but they couldn't beat it, so you used it all night......"

"That's thanks to comrade's information," I said, laughing.

"No, no, no......" The old man He Guoan hurriedly shook his head and said: "Before I came up, I had already asked clearly, and after this battle, Commander Zhao told me that you pretended to be a devil last night to 'rescue' into the fort, and you came to a clever plan to sing on the stage, even if you don't have my information, you can use this method to beat me, my old man doesn't dare to rob this credit......"

"Comrade He is too modest" Hearing He Guoan say this, I immediately had respect for this old man who was not arrogant, and said: "If it weren't for Comrade He's intelligence, we might have to die a lot more brothers, and I thank you on behalf of the soldiers."

"Eh, what are you talking ......about," He Guoan stopped me and said: "You are our country's troops, and you are fighting for our people, I look at you children, just like your own sons, who else can you help if you don't help you?" Besides, thank you, old man, for being anxious with you."

Saying that, He Guoan laughed hesitantly, and from time to time he looked at the fort with the iron 'door' wide open, and said to himself proudly: "Iron pimple, iron pimple, I built you with my own blood and sweat, but now I destroyed you with my own hands...... Don't blame me, who told you to protect the enemy......"

Listening to the words of the old man He An, I couldn't help but feel that things are impermanent.

suddenly thought of the purpose of inviting He Lao to come up, and couldn't help but ask He Guoan: "Comrade, this fort seems to have been transformed by the Yue devils, and some places are different from the drawings you drew."

"Oh...... Is it? He Guoan frowned and replied: "There is this possibility, when I built the fort, it was decades ago."

"Hmm," I nodded.

That's exactly what I thought, but that's not really what I'm asking.

"Can you remember any other exits from this fort?" I asked.

Coming from the Korean battlefield, I know one thing very well, that is, no matter what tunnel, there will be no shortage of exits. Some of the exits have not even been dug 'holes', and there is nothing to be seen from the outside, so if all the exits are sealed, it will take another hour or two to dig through this emergency exit. I don't want to be just about to wipe out all the Yue devils, and they suddenly rush out of somewhere while we are unprepared......

"Exit...... He Guoan walked around the fort thoughtfully, sometimes following the soldiers who carried the explosives into the fort to take a look, and sometimes he sat on the stone and took out a cigarette stick and smoked it "horn and horn", as if he was remembering something.

Looking at his appearance, we didn't dare to disturb him, so we let him think quietly alone.

After a long time, He Guoan knocked on the cigarette stick, stood up and said, "This exit is gone, but ...... I remember there was a vent. ”

"Vents?" Listening to me, I'm a little confused, it's not what I want. But Ho's next words quickly alerted me.

"But this vent is said to be a vent, but it is built as big as a chimney," He Guoan continued: "At that time, I was also wondering, why the vent was built so big, but now that I think about it, it is likely to be an exit ......."

"Hmm" Listening to He Guoan's words, I couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "Then Comrade He, do you remember where this vent is?" ”

"I don't remember it too clearly" He Guoan shook his head and said: "When people get old, this head is a little useless, not to mention that this mountain is not much the same as before, there are bomb craters everywhere, I can't recognize it, but if I walk more, I may be able to remember something."

"Okay, I'll walk around with Comrade He," he said, and the two of them circled around the fort as if they were walking. In front, the fighters carrying the explosives came in and out like ants.

The old man He Guoan didn't speak, he looked here and there behind the fort, carefully recalled the location of the fort back then, and sometimes measured and measured his footsteps, just looking for this crater and a ruin on the ground.

After walking for a while, he finally stood in a position, stepped on the splintered cement fragments under his feet, and said with some hesitation: "Maybe it's here"

At this time, I looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't help but be taken aback: this is the anticline of Pingdingshan, and there are two small protruding heights not far ahead, which can not only block the sight of our troops at the top of the mountaintops, but also form a 'crossfire' to block the pursuit of our troops. If the exit of the Vietnamese army is here and they plan to break out, it is very likely that they will be allowed to escape......

"Call the sappers right away," I ordered over the walkie-talkie, "and the anti-chemical warfare troops, and a few more 'strong' machine guns."

"Yes" The other end of the walkie-talkie answered, and soon more than two dozen people ran over.

"This is the position," I pointed to where He Lao was standing, and said, "In the surrounding few miles, all of them have made it clear to me that the machine gunners are looking for favorable terrain and blockading this area from all angles, and the anti-chemical warfare troops are ready."

"Yes," the warriors replied, and they dispersed to prepare for battle.

The sappers carefully removed the cement blocks that had been splashed on it, which had been blown up by the artillery fire of our troops from the Guitun Fort. The small ones are the powders, and the big ones are the size of the basin.

So I thought, maybe it was these cement blocks that made it impossible for those Vietnamese soldiers to escape from this passage, after all, if they wanted to escape, last night was the best time to escape. When they were building this exit, they must not have imagined that the cement blocks of the fort would just be pressed down tightly, and this would also kill them

It took more than 20 minutes to clean up the cement blocks, and then remove the grass roots, and sure enough, a cement cover the size of a desktop was revealed.

He Guoan shouted excitedly: "Found it, the ventilation hole has been found"

Looking at such a large exit, the fighters immediately became nervous, and the machine gunners quickly aimed their guns in the direction of the cement cover, and the anti-chemical warfare soldiers also knelt down and aimed their flamethrowers at the 'hole' opening. The sappers all looked at me......

I nodded, and they immediately moved the cement slab away with all their might. When I looked at it, it was a black 'hole' with no light. There was a faint noise of buzzing and coughing inside, presumably because the Vietnamese troops inside were trapped and dying

I lay down at the mouth of the 'hole' and shouted inside: "Zhongdui is magnanimous and blocks", and there is no answer in the 'hole'.

I shouted again: "Nokong Songpage" still hasn't moved.

"Comrade, I surrender, I surrender......" At this time, a hand suddenly stretched out in the darkness, and crawled out of the 'hole' with difficulty. And to my surprise, the Vietnamese soldier actually spoke Chinese.

The 'hole' suddenly became 'chaotic', as if it had been pierced by a hornet's nest, presumably those Vietnamese soldiers knew that there was still a glimmer of life here, so they all rushed here.

At this time, my face couldn't help but change, and I was not ready to let so many of them surrender. The preparations I made were all preparations for blocking the Vietnamese troops in the tunnels. If there were really thousands of Vietnamese troops here, and in fact there was really a lot of noise, then the 20 or so of us really couldn't control so many prisoners. In the end, the most likely scenario is ...... All the captives took advantage of the 'chaos' to escape.

Just as I hesitated, the first Vietnamese soldier had already come out, when suddenly there was a loud gunfire, and the Vietnamese soldiers in the passage let out a scream, and many bullets and blood spurted out of the passage......

Obviously, some Vietnamese soldiers did not want others to surrender until they died, so they killed these "traitors".

Seeing this, I took the opportunity to give an order.

They shoot, so you can't blame me for not giving them a way out.

With a "Teng" sound, a flame went from the flamethrower to the 'hole'**, and suddenly there were screams in the 'hole'.

"Dynamite pack"

At my command, a fast-moving soldier pulled the explosive bag in his hand and waited for a while, then threw it into the hole. With a bang, a cloud of blood and rubble spurted out of the passage, flew into the sky like a fountain, and then fell and splashed on our bodies and faces. Every soldier around him was red little by little, as if he had a hemp diagnosis.

Then the whole world fell silent......

Hearing the sound of our direction, the people from my hometown, Li Shui' Bo and others also rushed to me from the hilltop position with guns in their hands, and asked nervously: "Company commander, what's the situation?" ”

"It's nothing," I pointed to the Vietnamese prisoner next to me, who was trembling with fear, and replied easily, "It was to capture a prisoner and blow up one of the enemy's exits."

As he spoke, he walked to the top of the mountain without looking back. Only the two dozen or so frightened warriors were left staring wide-eyed. Because only they know, just a moment ago, we decided the life and death of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers......

Boxes of TNT explosives were brought in, along with barrels of gasoline, and in a short time the battery was full.

Commander Zhao and Political Commissar Wang also came up, and as soon as they saw me, they greeted me happily.

Head Zhao said with a smile: "This time you fought really hard, you beat hard, and I said it was also painful that my superiors called and asked, 'Have you completed the task?' Did the battery come down? I replied with confidence, 'It's been beaten down, it's being blasted', and according to the situation, there are at least a thousand well-trained Yue devils in it."

"Look at you," Commissar Wang pointed at Commander Zhao and laughed at me: "He doesn't know how many times he said this today, and my ears are calloused."

"Isn't that right?" Captain Zhao said meaningfully: "Didn't you listen to what your superiors said? 'Huh? There are so many enemies? How did you fight? "Look, they didn't know that there were so many Yue devils hiding in this small Guitun Fort, and they were urging us to attack and attack......"

Looking at Captain Zhao's appearance, I couldn't help but laugh knowingly. The victory in this battle was not only a victory for us against the Vietnamese army, but also a victory in the "struggle" between us and our superiors. If this is to fight according to the orders of the superiors, then I don't know how many people will have to be sacrificed and how much time it will take to build this fortress

At this time, a communications soldier came to us at a trot and reported: "All the explosives have been installed, a total of two tons of gasoline and twelve tons of explosives, and no more than this fort can be fitted with ......."

"Oh" Hearing this, Commander Zhao couldn't help but point to the fort and quipped: "This Yue devil's fort is still 'quite 'good' to be loaded, our explosives 'powder' is almost not enough."

There was a coax, and the soldiers beside him all let out a proud laugh.

"Immediately order the sappers to get ready and wait for my order to blast" This was the last order we left on the Pingdingshan, after which the whole army withdrew from the Pingdingshan.

Of course, we have no interest in accompanying those more devils on the mountain, but we don't know how they feel when they are sealed under the mountain.

Coming from the battlefield in Korea, I know very well that this feeling of being sealed in a dark tunnel and waiting to die can make people crazy, break down, despair, and even commit suicide...... From this point of view, we may still be able to free them

At the entrance of the 'gate' of the regiment headquarters, I looked at the fort on Pingding Mountain that made countless heroes shed their last drop of blood. However, we all know that this is only the surface of it, and below it, at a depth of more than ten meters underground, there is still restless blood flowing. That dictates that we have to blow it up.

"Company Commander Cui" Commander Zhao handed the walkie-talkie microphone in front of me and said, "It's up to you to give this order."

"Commander......" I postponed: "This is not in accordance with the rules, you should order it"

"Eh, that's as it should be"

Captain Zhao's tone was undoubted, so I had to take the microphone, sighed deeply, gritted my teeth and said two words: "Detonate"

With a loud bang, a huge mushroom cloud rose from Pingdingshan, and red and black flames tumbled and rose in the clouds of smoke. It was like a hurricane blowing in the air, blowing the trees in the jungle and our hats flying all over the sky......

Later, I heard that the comrades of the 638th and 639th regiments, which were 10 kilometers away, could feel the vibration and sound of the blasting.

After a long while, the explosion finally died down and the wind stopped. Everything around seemed to have changed to its original state, except for the flat-topped mountain, which seemed to have been cut by a knife, and the whole mountain was a few meters shorter. It really deserves the name "Pingdingshan".

Look at the ghost fort again, it has been blown into several pieces and scattered in all directions, and his original position has become a big pit. It is conceivable that the people below will be shocked to death even if they are not killed or crushed to death......

The cheers soon rang out, and the soldiers jumped one by one with their weapons raised, some throwing their hats into the sky, some shooting guns into the sky, and some rushing towards the blown up Guitun Fort, as if trying to see it blown up.

Tan, Tanlong, Nameless Heights, Railway Station, and this Ghost Tun Fort...... It was a tough battle, but we had the last laugh.

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I would like to use this chapter to pay tribute to all the officers and men of the 163rd Division. From the 17th to the 22nd, the 163rd Division spent a total of five days laying the triangular defense of Tanmou, Tanlong, and Guitun Forts, and captured Tongdeng. Among them, the battle at the Guitun Fort was the most tragic, and in the end, two tons of gasoline and 12 tons of explosives were used to bury nearly 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers alive. In the battle of the fort, only one Vietnamese prisoner was left.