Chapter 20: 'Decoy' bait

Chapter 20: 'Decoy' bait

Perhaps the first two attacks were beaten too badly by our army, especially the second time, which can be said to be full of corpses and miserable. In particular, when the US military has such a large superiority in strength, geography, and equipment, they still fight like this in front of reporters, which not only makes Van Vliet lose face, but I think even an ordinary American soldier will think that this is a very humiliating thing.

Therefore, in the next attack, they no longer dared to be careless, and sent two or three teams of scouts in advance, with the cooperation of reconnaissance planes and fighters, to reconnoiter back and forth several times before sending the assault troops again.

Later, I learned that what made the US army even more faceless was that Van Vliet thought that with the advantage of terrain and powerful firepower, it was like searching for something to seize the 649.8 heights of our army, so he had to get carried away and print a "fine" cardboard binding, three 'colors' and 'fine' printing" "Offensive Road Map" and "Operational Process Timetable" in advance, and distributed these two "fine" preparations to every spectator at the beginning of the war.

The "Offensive Roadmap" was indeed as Van Vliet had envisioned, because he could have commanded the U.S. forces to do it, but unfortunately I was unable to do it according to the "Timeline of the Operational Process" that he had written. And it seems that the result is exactly the opposite of what is written in that table - it is not the volunteers who are defeated, but themselves.

From this point of view, in this "acting battle" of Van Vliet, I am indeed a very incompetent and uncooperative actor.

This time, the U.S. military had only carried out a short 10-minute bombing before the charge. I think the reason for such a short bombing time is that they know that the artillery fire does not pose much of a threat to us, and they also know that our troops have not built fortifications on the hilltop positions, so the artillery bombardment seems to have no point anymore, just a few shells thrown at random to make a strong noise.

As soon as the cannon stopped, the soldiers came out of the tunnel one by one and entered the anticline position under the command of Hu Biao. It's not the first time Hu Biao has fought an anti-slope battle, so he knows very well how to allocate his troops, and I don't need to worry about this at all.

At this time, I had already entered the sniper position with Hu Zudi's cold gun unit one step ahead of them.

The positive slope and hilltop position of the 649.8 heights are the places abandoned by our troops, which, of course, cannot be the positions where the sniper platoon is lurking. Otherwise, even if we can temporarily deceive the eyes of the US military with our superb camouflage, as soon as we shoot, we will 'reveal' our position and eventually let the US military surround us.

Every sniper, if he dies on the battlefield, wants to die at the hands of the enemy sniper. Because it represents a kind of dignity, a kind of value, and at the same time, it is also a way to die without regrets. If you die under the siege of a group of ordinary soldiers, it will inevitably have a feeling of being bullied by dogs in Pingyang.

As a sharpshooter of the Volunteer Army, I naturally will not let this 'elite' sharpener in Hu Zudi's hands be sent to death like cannon fodder. So, instead of placing them in the front, I placed them in the rear, in the rear of the warriors, more than 400 meters from the hilltop position

More than 400 meters, this is the limit of what the fighters can hit the target in the daytime when the light is good. Of course, the sniper platoon under Hu Zudi also has a difference in their personal level, for example, I know that as a platoon commander, Hu Zudi can easily hit the target at a distance of 500 meters.

And I, because of the limitation of the 'firing' range of the M1 rifle in my hand, is at most 700 meters to the 'firing' range, and this is still in the case of a scope, so I don't understand how Zhang Taofang, Zhang Lao, who is known as a sniper god on the Korean battlefield, hit a target 800 meters away with a Mosin Nagant without a scope

By the way, Zhang Lao should still be a small soldier who has just entered the volunteer army, if I remember correctly, he has only been in the army for three or four months now. It is said that he missed the target when he participated in the training as a recruit, but within a few months, he relied on his tenacious will to play a legend on Shangganling, a legend that killed 214 enemies with 442 bullets. Among them were several snipers sent by the U.S. military to deal with him, and they themselves were unscathed.

The place where he sniped was the 537.7 high ground in Shangganling, where I had fought, which was very close to the enemy's position and had no danger to defend. When would I like to go back to my hometown and meet this old man I have always admired.

Lying on the ground in disguise and unable to move, my head began to 'mess around'. I'll admit, it's a bad habit I've just discovered. Because in modern times, I have never experienced lying on the ground and not being able to move, so I have never found myself with this 'problem'.

However, this seems to be normal, there is a saying called "one eliminates the other", if the body can't move, then the brain will naturally move more. So I regretted it, my high school teacher always criticized me for not using my brain, and I never thought of a good solution. If I had known that I could use my brain more if I didn't move, I would have been training and studying at the same time. If that's the case, then I don't think the result of the college entrance examination will definitely be that after a year of tutoring, I will only be admitted to a little-known university

A U.S. Mustang fighter plane roared over my head, and the dust it brought up made me can't help but close my eyes, and the cold and scorched earth air was so close that the plane drilled straight into my mouth and nose, making me have a feeling of suffocating 'desire' cough. I hurriedly buried my head and face in my erected collar and coughed softly.

Hu Zudi used to be suspicious of us lurking in this position, because he felt that we lurking here didn't seem to have any effect. Like I said, the US snipers are all lurking on the opposite 902.8 heights, and we can't see a single grass of 902.8 here, let alone against the US snipers.

But what he doesn't know is that we can't see the enemy, and the enemy can't see us. If our army had been defending the anti-slope position and not attacking the top of the hill, then the snipers arranged by the enemy on the 902.8 heights would not have played a role at all. I don't think those U.S. snipers had the patience to lurk on the 902.8 heights and continue to wait for us, but Van Vliet wouldn't have that patience.

VanVleet is not a sniper, and now he can only be regarded as a gambler who loses. Gamblers who lose in a hurry usually lose more and lose more money, and the worse they will lose

So I took Hu Zudi's Cold War troops and sneaked into the position before the enemy attacked. Of course, it was obvious that the number of people should not be too large under the bombardment of enemy planes, so this time only one squad was dispatched, and there were only fourteen people including me. It wasn't very difficult to do this on the anti-slope, we just had to ask the observation post to make sure there were any U.S. scouts watching us at the top of the hill.

After careful consideration, I chose a position about 400 meters away from the hilltop position to lurk. Not only because this distance is within the acceptable range of the soldiers, but also because the US fighter jets will not notice this place, and they always pour bombs and machine gun bullets on the fighters led by Hu Biao.

Therefore, another pain for us is that we have to watch the fighters in front of us sacrifice and be wounded under the bombing and strafing of enemy planes, without the slightest movement. Even when the enemy rushed to the top of the hill in groups, set up machine guns in front of the front and fired frantically at our troops, and threw grenades down one by one, we would have pretended not to see it

We could have 'shot' them one by one, but we couldn't. Because we are not waiting for them, and our goal is not them

As a result, we can only watch as the two sides of the 'warring' war are fighting in full swing before our eyes.

In terms of terrain and equipment, the Volunteer Army is at a disadvantage. After all, the enemy is condescending, and has a lot of advanced modern equipment. But the current terrain is much better than the situation on the hilltop position being attacked by the enemy from both sides above and below. In addition, the anti-slope tactics of the fighters are becoming more mature, and the fighters who defend the ridge line are cooperating from far and near, advancing and retreating, and they are also inseparable from the US army.

What is hateful are the enemy planes that hover over our heads like flies, and after spotting our machine-gun fire points or dense crowds, they swoop down with a roar, either firing a few long bullets or dropping a few bombs

Obviously, this kind of air supremacy possessed by the enemy will not only bring casualties to our army, but also cause a strong psychological pressure on the soldiers. Because it gives the fighters the feeling that as long as they shoot machine guns and mortars, the bullets or shells of enemy planes will soon fall.

Several machine gunners broke away from the battlefield, set up their machine guns, and fired rows of bullets at the planes whizzing overhead. Just like in the movie, the deputy 'shooter' stands tall with a machine gun tripod on his shoulder, and the 'shooter' aims behind his back to 'shoot'...... Doing so may pose a threat to enemy forces, as Mustang and Corsair fighters are not yet very fast. But unfortunately, doing so would undoubtedly expose himself to the enemy's guns, and the enemy on the hilltop position soon organized fire to 'shoot' at these fighters. In a few moments, these valiant warriors collapsed in pools of blood.

We can still only watch, compared to Hu Zudi and them, I have to bear more pain and pressure, because these soldiers in front of me are all my subordinates, all of them are the 'elite' of my 538 regiment, and the sacrifice of each soldier is like cutting a piece of 'meat' on me......

Obviously, the fighters in the sky who bombed and strafed our positions almost non-stop were the blood of Van Vliet, a gambler, for this battle.

In previous battles, there was no combat effectiveness in air-ground cooperation, but there have never been so many, and it has not been so durable. The location of Wenden-ri is in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, and it will take some time for fighters to fly here from aircraft carriers. With limited fuel supplies, they were able to maintain a continuous bombing campaign because Van Vliet divided the planes into batches and used them in turns, as if they were fighting a wheel battle with fighter jets.

However, fortunately, the volunteer soldiers were used to fighting in this situation of completely losing air supremacy, so they were not intimidated by the enemy's position.

As a matter of fact, the tactics of the Chinese People's Volunteers have always been developed to avoid the advanced modern equipment of the US military since the beginning of the DPRK, just like the "refueling tactics" used in the Shangganling Campaign, as well as the "strangulation tactics" used to get together with the enemy as much as possible, all of which were developed under the US military's aircraft and artillery.

Now the defense method of the 538th Regiment is no exception, and it is also the "refueling tactic" on Shangganling, that is, there are not many troops on the anticline position, but one is sacrificed to replenish one from the tunnel. Although this is somewhat cruel to the soldiers on the battlefield, it can effectively prevent the enemy's planes and artillery from killing and injuring our troops in a large area.

In addition, the soldiers of the 538th Regiment are the 'elite' of the whole army, so not only did they not take half a step back, but they became more and more courageous. One fighter fell, and soon another soldier came up from the tunnel, and I hardly saw a single soldier retreating back into the tunnel because of his wounds, even if they had their 'legs' broken by bombs, their 'chests' by bullets, their eyes wounded by shrapnel, or their padded jackets set on fire by incendiary grenades, they kept 'shooting' at the enemy on the hilltop positions until the last moment of the fight. The enemy was always held back from the hilltop position, unable to move forward

Until...... A group of American GIs with rifles entered the position

Finally waiting for them

Their uniforms are the same as those of other American GIs, and their faces are not painted, so at first glance they look no different from ordinary American GIs. But I just can recognize them, and not just because of the rifles in their hands. The fact is that at a distance of more than four hundred meters, even I could not tell in the scope whether they were holding an M1C or an ordinary M1 rifle.

It was a strange feeling, and I could tell from their movements that they weren't ordinary GIs. The so-called "appearance is born from the heart" refers to what kind of mentality a person usually maintains, and over time, it will be reflected in the person's appearance. But I think that a person's ordinary state of mind can be more reflected in his behavior.

Just like the snipers of the US military who have entered the position, they have strengthened their mentality and patience after a long period of training, so that they will show more maturity and calmness in their actions unconsciously.

They will analyze the impact point of the enemy's machine gun as they advance, and then stop when it is time to stop, and run when it is time to run; They would trot over the waist while observing the enemy's position with a pair of sharp eyes, so as to identify the gunners who threatened them at the first time; They will consciously or unconsciously hide among other comrades, either to avoid bullets or to avoid revealing their targets......

It also made it easy for me to find them. There were ten of them, and I slowly turned my gaze to Hu Zudi, who was lying not far away. He nodded to me slightly, indicating that he was ready

He gestured to me and told him to pass on the order, to find their targets, and to shoot at the sound of my gun. Hu Zudi nodded, and quickly passed down my orders one by one with his characteristic gestures.

I pressed my gaze towards the scope, not daring to make much movement. Because I can't guarantee that the master is among them. If so, I think the first thing he did when he came up would have been to find my place. At the same time, I am the same, because our existence is the biggest threat to each other's lives.

But I searched back and forth in the U.S. military camp twice, but I never found anyone who made me feel special.

"Bang Bang ......"

The snipers who had infiltrated the positions of the US troops opened fire, and the bullets were 'precisely' fired at our soldiers, which immediately exerted a strong pressure on our troops.

A volunteer machine gunner was 'operating' the Guolunov heavy machine gun and 'shooting' at the US camp, when suddenly a bullet flew over, and his head fell on the machine gun as soon as he tilted his head, and the blood quickly stained the handle of the gun and the wheel under the machine gun.

The Goryunov heavy machine gun is equipped with a huge shield, which makes it difficult for the enemy to hit the 'shooter' hidden behind, and this gun is undoubtedly the masterpiece of American snipers.

A volunteer soldier guarding the ridge line lit a grenade and was about to throw it at the enemy camp, but a bullet hit him on the wrist accurately. The smoke-emitting grenade fell to the ground, and the soldier threw himself on the grenade and pressed it tightly.

With a "......boom", the soldier was thrown aside by the shock 'wave' of the grenade, and hit the stone hard, and there was no chance of survival.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Hu Zudi lying beside me move, and turned his head to cast a puzzled look at me.

I know why he did this, but in fact, the American snipers were all under our guns, and he was wondering why I didn't give the order to shoot, and let the snipers kill our soldiers like this.

What he doesn't know is that although we seem to have the initiative on the surface, we are actually passive. Because I can be sure that the master of the American army is hiding in a place I don't know and is watching us.

What put us on the back foot was that I didn't find the opponent in time

Once we shoot, we will completely expose our position under his gun. However...... If we don't shoot, it means watching our comrades die one by one under the guns of American snipers.

To put it bluntly, those U.S. snipers are the 'decoy' bait, the 'decoy' bait that the master used to 'trap' and kill me