Chapter Seventy-Four: The Death Squad

Chapter Seventy-Four: The Death Squad

After a loud "......boom", the shells exploded in front of us with a whistling sound of smoke and smoke of gunsmoke, mud and flying corpses. The smoke was like a devouring monster, swallowing hundreds of puppet soldiers in the blink of an eye. After the smoke cleared, the monster was gone, and the hundreds of puppet soldiers were gone, leaving only pieces of corpses in front of the position. The old and new corpses were 'mixed', and they could not be separated from each other. The only thing that can be distinguished is the blood, some red, some black......

This round of shelling once again eliminated the two companies attacking by the puppet army, but the soldiers did not cheer or cheer, because they knew that with these enemies, there were also their comrades-in-arms, Yu Shuchang, a signal soldier who had been circling with the enemy.

“8251…… 8251......" The artillery observer was still unwillingly calling over and over again on the walkie-talkie, but the soldiers knew that it was impossible to hear Yu Shuchang's simple and optimistic words there, because the bunker he was in had been razed to the ground

"Get ready for battle," I shouted to the fighters. The aim is to deflect the grief of the warriors and allow them to turn their grief into strength as quickly as possible. Because I know that seeing the situation of the puppet army attacking like this, they will not and at the same time will not give us any respite, because the large forces of our army will come soon.

"Yes," the soldiers replied, wielding their shovels and digging into the position. Some of them shoveled out the mud in the trenches, some opened a small ditch in the trenches to release the stagnant water inside, and some were very helpless to scoop out the stagnant water one by one. The heavy rain in the past few days has brought great difficulties to the soldiers' civil engineering work, but all this does not frighten the volunteer soldiers, who are mostly from the countryside, and they should be doing farm work in the fields.

It's just that I'm the head of the regiment who has never been in the field since I was a child, although I am also a baby who grew up in the countryside, but my parents are determined to train me to be a scholar, so I have never been in the field since I was a child. At this time, I was very unaccustomed to the feeling of being covered in mud and my military uniform was soaked with sewage. In particular, the sewage was still tinged with a hint of red because it was mixed with the blood of the soldiers......

At this time, Liu Shunyi ran to my side and reported: "The casualties have been counted, and there are still more than 500 people left in our army, except for more than 200 people in the hilltop position, I have scattered the rest on the anticline plane and stood by."

"Hmm" I nodded, a pang of pain in my heart. Although I had been mentally prepared for a long time, I still couldn't stand it when I heard this casualty figure. 585.2 On the heights, there were originally two battalions of volunteers with more than 2,000 people, but now they ...... In less than a day, three-quarters of the casualties were lost

Liu Shunyi's decision is undoubtedly right, there are no tunnels and there are not enough anti-artillery 'holes' at present, and the best way to persist is undoubtedly to disperse the troops. Then use the "refueling tactic" to slowly add people to the hilltop position.

I looked at the sky, the sky was still 'cloudy' and 'cloudy' bright, the weather on a 'cloudy' day was like this, although the light was not good, but if it wanted it to completely darken, it was not so fast, although I also knew that in this case, even if it was dark, the puppet army would not give up the attack, but no matter what, after the sky was dark, it was always beneficial to us on the defensive.

"What about the casualties of the Cold Gun troops?" I asked casually, and my eyes couldn't help but glance at Li Pinghe beside me. Li Pinghe also involuntarily turned his head to look at Liu Shunyi. In fact, what I want to know in my heart is not only the situation of the cold gun unit, but also Lin Xue and Jin Qiulian in the cold gun unit.

"The casualties of the cold gun troops are not large," Liu Shunyi replied: "The tunnel they are in is only the mouth of the tunnel that has been blown up, and the soldiers have not noticed it at first...... All went to half their lives and almost suffocated to death. But except for three comrades who were injured by rocks and logs, the others were fine."

"Hmm" Listening to Liu Shunyi's words, Li Pinghe and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but after glancing at each other, we saw the worry in each other's eyes again: Among the three people who were injured, was there Lin Xue? Of course, I am worried about one more Jin Qiulian than Li Pinghe......

Liu Shunyi seemed to see our thoughts, and added a sentence later: "The wounded soldiers are all gay"

These words finally put our minds at ease, Li Pinghe immediately pretended not to care and turned around and continued to observe the situation on the battlefield, for a political worker, all soldiers should be treated equally on the battlefield, he can't let the soldiers see that he cares about a certain person in particular, even if Lin Xue is his sister

But I'm different, I think it's a matter of course to care about the people you should care about. So he patted Liu Shunyi on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, Deputy Regiment Commander Liu will continue to organize the fighters on the anticline."

"Yes" Liu Shunyi did not object, nodded and retreated.

The so-called people have their own strengths, I am good at commanding battles, Liu Shunyi is good at organizing personnel, and it is very appropriate for him to take care of my rear at this time.

"Political commissar" I raised my binoculars and looked in the direction of the puppet army, and said intentionally: "Most of the soldiers on the anticline were rescued by the soldiers from the tunnel, and it can be said that they have all died once, I am worried that their will to fight will be shaken, you go and do their ideological work."

Li Pinghe glanced at me with emotion, and after a long while, he patted me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear, "I'll go see Lin Xue."

I don't know why, but then I suddenly felt that all the threats from Li Pinghe were gone. Even if Li Pinghe said that he regarded Lin Xue as his sister before, I felt that he was not really at ease, and he still retained the feelings for Lin Xue in his heart, or it could be said that he still had a glimmer of hope. So there is also a faint threat in my heart, although I have not taken it to heart because of self-confidence, but there is still a little gap between me and Li Pinghe. But at this moment, I suddenly felt that even this little bit of threat was gone.

Before Li Pinghe could go down, the puppet army's shells quickly hit one by one. If you are only facing artillery fire on the enemy's side, then the anticline is undoubtedly the safest. But if it is surrounded by the enemy, there is naturally no difference between the forward and anticline, so the safest place in the event of enemy bombardment is actually the hilltop position. The reason is that the area of the hilltop position is small, and the hilltop position is also a critical point, and the shells will cross over our heads when they hit one point high, and fall on the positive slope one point lower. This is also the way of survival for the observers we arrange on the positions in peacetime operations.

So what we need to do is to lie down and hide in the trench as much as possible, the shells are really uncertain, although theoretically it is difficult for the shells to hit the hilltop position, but there will always be some part of the shells that happen to hit the hilltop position, kicking up patches of mud and dirty water, and sometimes taking the lives of several soldiers. But what I was worried about was not that, I was worried that the puppet army would repeat its old tricks and charge our positions with artillery fire again as it did last time......

This kind of tactic, inhumane is another thing, and whether it is cost-effective is another. In fact, everyone can figure out that if you don't charge at the enemy's position with the shells you have already made and only start the charge after the artillery fire has stopped, then there is a high probability that the enemy will be waiting for the enemy in pieces. Just like the battle just now, it seems that we only need to mobilize artillery into the walkie-talkie for a burst of bombardment, and the puppet army can only helplessly drop a large number of corpses and retreat.

On the other hand, if you take advantage of the artillery fire from your side to rush upward, although it is inevitable that there will be some accidental damage, it is very likely that the enemy will not be in a hurry to prepare. Even if the enemy was mentally prepared, the loud roar of the shells would make it impossible for the artillery observer to convey the correct coordinates and instructions to the artillery position via walkie-talkie

I cautiously popped out of the trench with a little bit of my head, and there was strong wind everywhere above my head, and I don't know if it was shrapnel or rubble, and sometimes I even suspected that a shell was flying over my head. But all of this doesn't matter, I know very well that if God wants you to die on this battlefield, no matter how well you hide it, you can't hide it.

In the mud flying everywhere, I tried to open my eyes and look down at the position, but all I saw was piles of gunpowder smoke that burst out in the form of radiation 'shooting', the corpses and weapons left on the position by the puppet army, and the impact of the shells again and again was carried into the air and cracked into several pieces, and then the stumps, weapon fragments, blood, water and earth and stones were mixed together in the air and then fell heavily. But their suffering has not stopped, and the successive shells repeat this action again and again, as if they are a machine that stirs the 'fat' material, and will never stop until the things that the battlefield has allowed are well mixed.

I watched for a while, and even took out my binoculars, but in the end I couldn't see through the layers of smoke. So I had no choice but to retract my head back into the trench. After thinking about it, he patted the warrior lying next to him vigorously and signaled him to prepare for battle

The soldiers of the 538th Regiment were all veterans, and they quickly understood what I meant, and passed on my orders one after another, and in a short time all kinds of guns and grenades were ready in unison amid the roar of shells. Those with rifles in their hands loaded their rifles with bayonets......

The sound of the cannon suddenly slowed down, in fact, by this time we could no longer hear the cannonball, but I could clearly feel it from the significantly reduced vibration of the ground. I think that the reason why the shells did not stop at the same time should be the result of the miscoordination of the puppet artillery, after all, they were a deserter in a hurry to open a gap from the encirclement, and I could no longer ask them to remain calm and uniform. So it was clear that the extra shells would definitely help us a little.

Sure enough, as I expected, when I raised my rifle and came out of the way. A few shells flew right in front of us, bringing a large area of puppet troops into the sky. I was stunned to find that the puppet army was only thirty meters away from us......

"Bang bang......" Without thinking, I pulled the trigger in my hand at the enemy, and several puppet soldiers who rushed ahead immediately fell under my bullets.

The soldiers also woke up from the bombardment, and they poked their heads out one after another, raising all kinds of weapons to 'shoot' bullets at the puppet army, and many soldiers threw grenades at the puppet army at the first time. With the sound of gunshots and grenade explosions, the puppet soldiers who rushed ahead were instantly beaten to the ground in rows, and the momentum of the forward charge was also obviously stagnant

After firing a magazine to change the ammunition 'medicine', I was surprised to find that there was a strange place in front of these puppet soldiers - none of them wore helmets, but tied a white 'colored' cloth belt

The term death squad quickly jumped into my head.

It was obvious that the puppet deserters were already in a hurry, and they also realized that it would undoubtedly be much more difficult to attack if they waited until it was dark. Therefore, they were anxious to end the battle before dark, so they selected some puppet soldiers from their own troops who did not want to live and formed a death squad to attack us......

In the three years I participated in the Korean War, it was the first time I saw the death squad of the puppet army. There are accidents, of course, but they are understandable. After all, the puppet army was a unit that grew up under the Japanese army, and although it was later trained by the US army, its tactics became more modern and humane, and at the same time, it was also more scientific. However, the training of the Japanese army and the long-term service as minions of the Japanese army still left a deep imprint on their souls.

In the past, because the puppet army needed to cooperate with the US military, there were always US military instructors who pointed fingers at their troops, so they hid these imprints deep in their hearts and did not 'show' them. This time, they had a conflict with the US military and were more inclined to fight us alone, just as Syngman Rhee said, they wanted to "go it alone", so all the "barbarism" that pressed on their hearts broke out.

Although they don't want to admit it, in fact, until modern times, Koreans still hate Japanese people, but the painful reality is that there are many elderly Koreans who can only speak Japanese, and many of their habits are similar to those of Japanese people. And these death squads in front of us, holding explosive "powder" bags and cluster grenades, and rushing towards us with an almost crazy howl, seem to be able to see the shadow of the Japanese army back then......

It's just that what they don't know is that the Japanese army is what the volunteers hate the most, and what they are most proud of is that they can kill a few Japanese devils. I can see the shadow of the Japanese army in the puppet army death squad, and of course those volunteer soldiers who have fought with the Japanese army to the death can also see it.

Therefore, if these puppet soldiers did not have this dress, it would be good to rush up in such a costume, it is easy for the volunteer soldiers to think of the crimes committed by the Japanese army in China, the heavy blood debt owed by the Japanese army, and the old folks who once fell under the bayonets of the Japanese devils......

The Japanese killed many civilians in China, and a considerable number of the volunteer soldiers had relatives and friends who died under the butcher's knives of the Japanese devils, and all of them hated the Japanese army to the core. In addition, now that he is fighting in North Korea to defend his homeland and country, he has long been full of homesickness in his heart. At this time, as soon as I saw the puppet army, a death squad that resembled the costume of the Japanese army, all the new and old hatreds led to an upsurge, and all the soldiers were red-eyed. The bullets were fired at the puppet army with incomparable accuracy, and the grenades flew towards the enemy group one by one as if they were crazy, only to hit the puppet army death squad screaming and making it difficult to move an inch.

I also unceremoniously 'shot' a bullet at the puppet army that rushed to our position, and I singled out those puppet soldiers who were holding explosive "drug" bags. Since they were carrying explosives, they would inevitably have to light the fuse in advance before rushing to our position, and this was the best time for me to shoot

The Japanese army's tactics were rigid, and the commander blindly emphasized that the "spirit" could overcome everything, regardless of the casualties of his subordinates. This behavior and thinking obviously affected the puppet army as well, because they are now doing the same thing as the Japanese army, causing groups of soldiers to fall one after another meaninglessly under our guns.

It is true that this kind of offensive can indeed cause considerable psychological pressure on the opponent, and if the opponent is a unit with a weak mind or not good quality, just seeing the posture of the death squad that only moves forward regardless of life and death will be frightened and the 'legs' will weaken and quickly collapse.

But there is a saying that "a breath can blow out a candle, but it can make a fire burn more vigorously", the puppet army death squad is a breath, but we are a fire, a pile of raging fire that will never be extinguished, what the puppet army did not expect is that their practice has 'aroused' the determination of the soldiers regardless of life and death

Isn't it a death squad? Then die

The warriors became more and more courageous, forgetting their own lives and deaths, and the enemy fought bloodily. The puppet army is ruthless, we are even more ruthless than them, the puppet army 'stands' up with bayonets, our soldiers are not afraid to 'stand up' with bayonets and rush down; the puppet army rushes up with explosives bags, and our soldiers also rush down with explosives bags and cluster grenades......

The essence of the troops and soldiers of the Volunteer Army is like this, in their full blood, all they are filled with 'selfless' love for the motherland and their families, and boundless hatred for the enemy, I have found the most perfect unity of love and hate in them

"Boom ......" With a loud bang, explosive packets and cluster grenades exploded one after another in front of the position with bloody light.

When the puppet army death squad rushed closer and closer like a 'tide', the volunteer soldiers rushed down without hesitation with explosive 'medicine' bags and grenades. They were so swift that the warriors who were close at hand did not have time to hold them back; They were so resolute that not a single person turned back when they rushed at the enemy; They were so brave that the puppet death squad was shocked by their courage and stopped

The puppet army death squads soon retreated under the counterattack of the volunteer soldiers, they did not lack the determination to die, but they were also unwilling to die in vain on the battlefield. Because they realized that in front of them was an undefeated army. At least, no one can defeat this army in courage......