Chapter 146: Position 10
Although the fire on the enemy's positions No. 1 and No. 7 has always been a thorn in my heart, I have never thought of a way to deal with them on this battlefield. Fighting and fighting are insufficient, and if they don't fight, they are suppressed everywhere, and this battle is really a bit of a nest. What's more, the two armies, the puppet 2nd Division and the Ethiopian battalion, one on the left flank and the other on the front, attacked our positions almost non-stop, and the situation on the battlefield was so tense that I didn't have time to think about it at all. There were even a few times when they opened a white-knuckle battle with the puppet army, but fortunately, the soldiers in the tunnel came to reinforce in time, which forced the puppet army down.
We also don't know how many enemy attacks we repulsed, how many batches of fighters on the positions we have changed, and how many enemies we have killed. We only know that we constantly pull the trigger, throw grenades and throw explosive packets, and drive the enemy down from us again and again.
In just half a day's effort, the corpses of the puppet army were all over the No. 8 position and the enemy's No. 1 and No. 7 positions.
Every time the puppet army launched a charge, dozens of corpses were left in front of the position. As we charged, the corpses overlapped one by one, paving a bright red path of blood in front of us. Position 8 has also become a veritable mountain of corpses.
"Chief of Staff, this puppet army is really not afraid of death, it's all like this, and it's still rushing up!" As the enemy retreated, a black-faced warrior handed me a cigarette.
I took the cigarette and looked at it, but I didn't expect it to be the little soldier who threw grenades to the position during the first battle, and couldn't help but be stunned, secretly saying that this guy is really fateful, and the volunteer soldiers on the position don't know how many batches have been changed, but I didn't expect him to be here. Looking at the military uniform on his body, almost none of them are intact, there are 'holes' and strips of cloth everywhere, all of them are burned inside and out, and the skin is also burned, and they are 'mixed' with the charred clothes, and it is impossible to distinguish which ones are clothes and which ones are 'meat'.
"Hurt?" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask, "Can you hold on?" ”
"No problem!" The little soldier grinned with a swarthy face and said, "This little injury is nothing!" But I was depressed in my heart, when I was not a soldier, I listened to the comrades of the volunteer army who returned to China say that this puppet army was the most unbeatable, all of them ran faster than rabbits in a dozen, and they all drilled into the deep mountains and old forests, and they couldn't catch up. How can I ...... now?"
I didn't answer, but said with a smile, "Are you still scared now?" ”
"I'm not afraid to fight! Just want to kill a few more enemies! The little soldier raised his rifle in his hand, and the confidence was completely different from the first time I saw him.
"So now...... Will you still throw grenades and blasters all the time? I asked again.
"How can it!" The little soldier laughed and said, "Now it's all thrown on the enemy!" ”
"Isn't that it?" I took a 'puff' of cigarette, exhaled a long breath and said: "It's only been more than half a day, you have learned how to fight devils, and you are less experienced than the veteran, but the puppet army has been studying for two years!" ”
"Hmm! That's what happened...... "Listening to my words, the little warrior suddenly 'touched' and 'touched' his head.
"Boom ......" enemy mortars began to bombard again. Without saying a word, I grabbed my rifle and ran with the fighters to the forward position.
Running to the front of the position, the puppet army once again densely surrounded it. I suddenly felt a sense of disgust in my heart, the puppet army had attacked back and forth at least dozens of times this day, they were not afraid of death, they were not afraid of casualties, I was tired of fighting! But what can be done? This is a fighter, it's not like I can't fight if I don't want to!
"Get ready for battle!" At my command, the fighters prepared grenades and blasters. He also dug a small pit under him with a sapper shovel and buried most of his body in the earth.
After the bitter lesson of being attacked by the enemy with incendiary bombs for the first time, the soldiers would be careful not to lean forward every time they entered the position, and covered each other with a layer of earth for the fighters next to them. Although this does not completely solve the problem of incendiary bombs, it can give the fighters enough time to escape.
Moreover, the fighters quickly understood. If the puppet army wants to fight incendiary bombs, there will inevitably be some people in the charging puppet army who are afraid to step forward. This is also understandable, as soon as the incendiary bomb explodes on this position, the viscous liquid with fire will fly around, and the killing range will 'wave' to dozens of meters away, and no one wants to be stuck by that thing. So this back and forth, the soldiers can easily tell from the performance of the charging puppet army whether they want to hit incendiary bombs.
The puppet army saw that the incendiary bombs could no longer have a great effect, and the incendiary bombs would burn for a long time, and they could not step on the flames to attack upwards, so they were not interested.
This time, for example, I looked at the speed at which they charged forward, and I concluded that they couldn't fire incendiary grenades.
But I soon found out I was wrong......
"Boom ......" With a few loud bangs, several bright red mushroom balls rose up behind us, and a hot 'wave' also surged towards us.
When I looked back, I saw that the road between our position and the mouth of the tunnel had been sealed off by the flames of incendiary bombs. I quickly understood the purpose of the puppet army, their intentions were the same as our artillery bombardment of the 537.7 heights, the purpose was to block the other side's reinforcements.
The puppet army fought with us for more than ten days on the surface position of the 597.9 heights, and of course they also knew the terrain and the mouth of the tunnel well, and it was not difficult to do this!
"Yikes!" I was just thinking about it, when the puppet army shouted and rushed towards our position by stepping on the corpses of their comrades. This time, they charged so fast that they rushed to a place only twenty meters away from our position in a short time, so that the puppet troops in charge of covering the No. 1 and No. 7 positions did not have time to shoot and open fire, because it was easy to cause accidental injuries at such a short distance......
"Hit!" As soon as I gave the order, the fighters lit their grenades and threw their blasters. Then, at the moment when the grenade came out of his hand, he quickly raised all kinds of guns and pulled the trigger at the enemy with a "bang......thump".
One by one, the enemy screamed and fell under our guns, spreading a layer of "new soil" on the pile of corpses in front of the position. Then there was another roar, and the explosives dropped by the soldiers exploded one after another, throwing all the dead and those who were not dead on the ground into the sky. Blood, shrapnel, scorched earth, 'mixed' and all kinds of organs flew around. It's like a giant blender, turning the living into dead, and then breaking the dead into pieces and mixing all sorts of things!
Maybe all this in front of us would be scared and disgusted if it appeared in front of our eyes on another occasion...... But now no one will pay attention to this, because everyone knows that this is a battlefield, this is a matter of life and death, and if we are scared and disgusted, then the next person to become gravel and mud under our feet will be ourselves.
So, it's not a terrible thing for us to have emotions like sadness, fear and nausea, and it's even worse that we don't even have time to express them!
Before the explosion stopped, the soldiers threw a volley of grenades around the position again with tacit understanding, and then raised their guns to shoot at the enemy in a 'chaotic' manner...... This kind of battle has been fought a lot, and the soldiers have also understood that only in this way can the grenade be thrown at the same time, and the bullet can be used in conjunction with the bullet, in order to save the most money, and can also give full play to the maximum power of these ***.
Suddenly, a shell hit the position, and the three fighters were immediately thrown aside, and a gap appeared in the battle line. Fortunately, the fighters had already experienced this situation several times, and immediately sent two fighters from the other two directions to fill the gap.
I couldn't help but wonder about this shell, because when it exploded, the earth was flying in the direction of the enemy, which means that the shell was coming from the rear. But in our rear is the tenth position of our army......
Suspiciously, I looked back and couldn't help but be startled, about a platoon of puppet troops had secretly bypassed the No. 8 position we were stationed at and attacked from the side of the No. 10 position behind us. Because we had been throwing grenades around the position, we didn't even notice.
If you take a closer look at the No. 10 position, it is still quiet, except for the smoke of the shell explosion and the burning flames, there are only tree roots, corpses and bare mountain bags, and there is no figure in sight!
Could it be that all the fighters on position 10 have been sacrificed?
Position No. 10 is equivalent to the back of position No. 8 and position No. 9, and if position No. 10 is lost like this, then the fighters on position No. 8 and position No. 9 will be tantamount to shining their backs in front of the enemy. Just like just now, their recoilless guns and machine guns can hit our positions directly......
Minutes and seconds passed, and there was still no movement on the 10th position. The enemy is getting closer to the top of the mountain, and they may still be worried that there are people on the mountain, and they are all holding their guns and climbing up cautiously, so the speed is not fast.
At this time, I couldn't hold my breath anymore, patted the little soldier lying beside me, pointed to the No. 10 position behind me and ordered: "Follow me!" ”
As he spoke, he grabbed a few grenades from the *** box next to him and stuffed them into the grenade pouch on his waist, held an anti-tank grenade in his hand, and rushed to the tenth position with a rifle.
The little soldier was also clever, snatched a few grenades without saying a word, and followed me with a blaster.
At this time, I had already made up my mind, if I could get to position 10 before the enemy, it would be best, and two people would hold on to position 10. If you can't get there in time, you will desperately take it back.
Two people against the enemy in a platoon? And it's hand-to-hand combat......
If I had thought about this idea at any other time, or after I had thought about it calmly, I would have thought I was crazy! But at that time, I just let it go, anyway, if the No. 10 position can't be held, all the fighters, including me, won't survive, so it's better to fight!
I ran all the way to Position 10, and the soft soil made me a foot deep and a foot shallow, and in the end I couldn't even care if I lost my shoes. When I saw that the No. 10 position was in front of me, suddenly a row of machine gun bullets whizzed towards me, and I hurriedly lay on the ground, and a few shots hit the dirt next to me.
Apparently, the enemy had discovered me and hoped to block my path with machine guns.
Time was of the essence, and although I had made up my mind to take back Position 10 no matter what, I knew very well that if the enemy had occupied Position 10 first, and then a condescending burst of strafing, the chances of us succeeding in retaking it would be very slim. On the other hand, if we can capture position 10 first, we have a much better chance of holding it.
But at this time, it was pressed by the enemy's machine guns......
I grabbed my rifle and tried to kill the heavy, but when I thought about it, I felt that something was wrong, and the enemy was holding me down with the machine gunner on one side and running up the position on the other. When I finish off the enemy machine gunners, then the enemy will take the position first?
Thinking that I immediately rolled into one of the craters next to me, stopped for a while, and then suddenly rushed to another crater, and by the time I threw myself into the fourth crater, I had already rushed to the top of the hill. When I looked up, I saw that the enemy had also come up, and the distance was only seven or eight meters away, so close that even the frightened eyes of the puppet army could see it!
I didn't think much about it, I pulled out the safety pin of the anti-tank grenade in my hand and threw it at the puppet army that rushed up!
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the anti-tank grenade was triggered, and it exploded as soon as it hit a person or hit the ground, so the group of puppet soldiers didn't rush to dodge at all, and they were blown up like a tree branch and 'shot'. But the enemy didn't come to dodge, and neither did I, I only felt my head buzz, and my eyes went black and I fainted.
I opened my eyes, and the anxious face of the little soldier appeared in front of me.
"Chief of Staff! You're finally awake! Seeing that I was still alive, the little soldier couldn't help but say excitedly: "Chief of Staff, ...... The enemy is coming up again! ”
"If the enemy comes up, go and fight! What else are you doing here? ”
"Yes!" The little soldier answered, and immediately grabbed the grenade and threw it down the position.
I only felt cold sweat on my body, Venus in my eyes, as if the heavens and the earth were spinning, and then I was almost out of breath when I was choked by the smoke of gunpowder, and my whole body was shaking with pain as if I had been pricked by needles, and I really wanted to lie down and sleep for a while.
But I knew that it was not time to rest, the reinforcements in the tunnel were pressed by incendiary bombs, and the enemy was attacking us in waves, and once I fell asleep, I probably wouldn't be able to get up again.
So I turned over, took out two grenades from my waist, gritted my teeth and endured the pain to crawl to the little soldier to look down, and a dozen puppet soldiers were trying to storm position 10 under the cover of machine guns. I bit the grenade string into my mouth, and threw it down one left and one right, only to hear two loud bangs, and four or five of them were blown down at once, and the rest of the puppet army reluctantly retreated.
"Chief of Staff! Position 9 ......"
Following the gaze of the little soldier, he saw that only one wounded soldier and Li Baocheng were left guarding the No. 9 position, which was already in danger, and it was about to be impossible to hold it.
"Hurry up and get reinforcements!" Seeing this, I immediately ordered: "Here I am guarding!" ”
"Yes!" The little soldier responded, pulled out his 'legs' and ran towards the No. 9 position, and after running to grab the grenade in the *** box, it was a 'messy' fight in table tennis!
When I turned around, I suddenly saw another group of puppet troops rushing up under the position, and then looked at the No. 8 position, there were only two soldiers left, and I couldn't help but secretly complain, this is not a way......
But thinking about it, the movements of his hands did not dare to be slow, and he 'touched' the sacrificed soldier beside him for a while, and collected seven or eight grenades and put them aside to prepare. When he saw the enemy coming up, he grabbed the grenade and threw it down. The puppet army also learned to be obedient now, and they also knew that there were not many defenders on the position, so they divided into two parts, one team attacked from the front, and the other team outflanked from the side. I tried to get up and go in the other direction to stop the enemy, but as soon as I stood up, I was dizzy. When he was helpless, a familiar figure ran over again, and without saying a word, he grabbed the grenade on the ground and threw it again.
I fixed my eyes, who else was it not the little warrior? He didn't know when he ran back again, just to fill the vacancy in position 10!
In this way, the little soldier ran from one position to another, one moment to this position, the other to that position, and was very busy, and again and again at critical moments to defeat the enemy's offensive.
I don't know how long it took, but the soldiers in the tunnel finally extinguished the flames and replenished it, and the enemy retreated unwillingly.
"Chief of Staff, are you alright?" After the enemy retreated, the little soldier sat down beside me in a sweaty and panting, and asked intermittently, "Accept, accept...... Is it hurt? I'll take a look at ......"
"Nope!" I smiled and shook my head, sat up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Little comrade, good fight!" Do you know how many enemy charges you have repulsed? ”
"Huh? This one...... Patronized to fight, I don't remember to count! The little warrior grinned.
A volunteer observation post ran over and interjected: "I know, although I can't get to the other side of the wall of fire, I can see clearly, he alone repelled twelve enemy charges!" ”
I couldn't help but praise in my heart, if this is to be said, who would believe that it was a recruit who went to the battlefield for the first time to do it?