The number of charges of the Puppet Ninth Division can be said to be less than that of other troops, and it can also be said that it is more than that of other troops. Because we can't tell whether their offensive like this should be counted as one or many times.

Count it once? Within half an hour, they clearly launched more than a dozen large and small charges against our positions.

How many times? But they never retreated from their positions at all!

The U.S. army and other puppet armies retreated to the foot of the mountain to rest, while the puppet Ninth Division rested at gunpoint.

But no matter how many or too few of them charged, in short, the puppet army division brought unprecedented pressure to our position. These pressures have even far exceeded those of the US Seventh Division, the ace unit of the US army, which is well-equipped!

“？？！ (Korean: Kill!) The puppet army shouted and rushed up a dozen or twenty more people, but they were quickly knocked to the ground by the fighters' grenades and machine guns.

Their charge looked pointless, because such a small number of people simply did not have enough bullets for the volunteer fighters. But this is not the case, because the fire from the machine guns of the volunteer army quickly hit the firing points of our army, and the puppet army mortars lurking in the smoke and dust soon fired shells at our positions.

The shells kicked up a cloud of smoke and dust around us, and after the smoke passed, several machine gunners of the volunteer soldiers had fallen in pools of blood.

Yes! The enemies of the Pseudo-Ninth Division used this method to fight with me, and the number of people they rushed up each time was not large, only a dozen. But if we don't drive them down immediately, they will be followed by a dozen or more people. And they seem to have done so only to find the point of our fire, so that the mortarmen behind them can inflict a few casualties on us......

I have to admit that I can't believe that this unit in front of me is the puppet Ninth Division that I once 'fought' against! I remember that in the first battle, the 354th Regiment and I, under the leadership of Commander Chu, successfully prevented the puppet Ninth Division from escaping south in the Battle of the Jiulong River with the strength of one regiment, and also captured a large amount of their equipment.

It is said that this force was made up of police officers who were under the rule of the Japanese army. What is a police officer? The police were irregular troops, and they were police forces under the rule of the Japanese army. I still vividly remember the embarrassment when they hurriedly dropped their equipment and fled into the forest at our gunpoint, but I didn't expect that in just two years, they had completely changed.

Perhaps, this is the tempering of an army by war!

There was a roar from the left flank, and I knew that it was Li Feng throwing the newly invented weapon "Wooden Mine" on the enemy again. Because the left flank is relatively narrow, if the puppet army wants to attack upward, it will inevitably line up in a dense formation, and this is when the "wooden mines" come into play. So with the "Wooden Mine", I was not worried about the safety of the left. It's a positive ......

Rows of puppet troops fell, replaced by rows of shells and smashed up, and the volunteer soldiers also died one after another, and then came up in batches. The battlefield kept repeating such a life-and-death struggle, and although the puppet army never managed to move forward on the front, they still clung to us and refused to let go at all.

But the puppet army can fight, how can we volunteer soldiers be easy to fight?

Dozens of mortar guns of the puppet army bombarded our army's forward positions indiscriminately, blowing up the entire position to shrapnel and craters everywhere. In this case, the volunteer soldiers knew what it meant to go to war. They all had eyes, and they could see clearly, and the soldiers who walked up to the battlefield alive turned into a lifeless corpse in the blink of an eye, or were carried down with blood on their hands and feet.

But they were not afraid, and one by one they rushed to the front line from the tunnels.

I can understand the growth of the puppet Ninth Division, two years of war is enough for a defeated army to grow into a force that can fight well, but most of these volunteer soldiers are new recruits, they are still children in their teens, and they have only stayed on the battlefield for more than three months! But even so, they are still not inferior to the pseudo-Ninth Division in front of them, which can be called 'elite'!

I slammed the rifle in my hand so loudly that I knocked me to the ground almost as soon as the puppet soldiers who charged up were knocked to the ground by almost no one after they 'emerged' a little bit from the smoke and dust. Of course, while 'shooting', I was constantly changing my position so that I would not be targeted by enemy mortars.

However, I soon discovered that there were so few positions that could be changed in a single position, and some positions were even a few square meters in total. So I simply walked between the positions, and sometimes even climbed to the No. 3 main peak position for a walk.

Just when our army and the puppet army were stalemate with each other, there was a sudden roar of planes in the sky.

During this time, I have heard this sound a lot, but because of the smoke and dust on Shangganling, it is difficult for enemy planes to find targets on the high ground, and now the puppet army is charging towards our army's position, so I didn't pay attention to it. I just thought it was a little strange, but this time the U.S. plane seemed to be flying very low, and the sound seemed to be right above our heads, and even I could feel the air currents as it flew by......

When a second plane flew overhead a few seconds later, I sensed something was wrong!

If it is just an airplane and such an adventure, it may also be explained that the US military pilots are playing cool, and it seems that the US military pilots like to do this. It was, it is, and it will be. In modern times, we have heard American pilots flying fighter jets through a moving cable car in order to show off their skills. As a result, the cable was broken and 20 passengers in the cable car were killed. This is the cable car tragedy that shocked the world in 98......

But now it's two planes, which has to make me a little suspicious.

There are mountains everywhere near Shangganling, and it is also full of smoke, and it is a great risk to dare to fly at low altitude under such circumstances. This can say at least two things: first, this group of pilots is particularly skilled; The second is that they definitely have special tasks.

What kind of task will it be?

I put away my gun and hid behind a rock, thinking about what the US planes might do against us, but I was soon killed one by one.

The puppet army is too close to us, and it is impossible for the US military to carry out air strikes on us if it cannot determine the target.

It is possible that the puppet army will ask for this. Not long ago, such an incident happened, it was the "White Horse Division" in front of them, when they were stationed at White Horse Mountain, they saw that the position was about to be captured by the 38th Army, and the puppet army sent a telegram to ask the US artillery to bombard the position. However, the U.S. military did not do this, and they chose to bomb a place 20 meters away from the position of the puppet army, killing and injuring a large number of follow-up troops of our army. (U.S. artillery has only recently bombed a position 60 meters away from friendly positions)

But even if those puppet soldiers disregarded their own lives and ordered the US military to bomb the 597.9 heights, the US pilots would not dare to do so. The reason is simple: the practice of defeating the enemy at the expense of the lives of its own allies will make the US military lose its status in the United Nations and be reprimanded by other countries. The US military, which has always flaunted the banner of humanitarianism, cannot afford this risk and responsibility!

So the question arises, why did the US military pilots do this? Is it just a coincidence?

I had a sense of foreboding, and I knew they had a reason for doing so, but I couldn't think of what that reason was. The more I didn't think about it, the more I felt fear. This fear made me want to order the fighters to abandon their surface positions and retreat into the tunnels, but I knew that it was impossible and not right!

No matter what the two planes hovering over us are going to do, if I order the whole army to withdraw into the tunnel, the puppet army can easily occupy our position, and the US planes will not have to carry out the next steps as originally planned.

Once this can be solved, we may also be able to quickly launch *** to retake the surface position, but what about the second and third time? In the future, as long as the US military sends two planes to make two circles over our heads, we will have to withdraw to the tunnel?

So, no matter what 'shady' tricks they are going to carry out, no matter what danger the warriors are in, I will wait until they start to carry out them!

But...... It's better to give the fighters a wake-up call and get them ready!

So I immediately ran down the main peak position, and in a few minutes, I found the company commander Guo Sandan among the soldiers lying on the ground, and ordered: "Pass the order down, and all the soldiers are ready to withdraw to the tunnel!" ”

"What?" Hearing this order, Guo Sandan couldn't help but turn his head to look at me in shock: "Chief of Staff!" We can withstand it, we are not afraid of casualties, even if we are all gone, we can't lose our positions to the enemy like this! ”

"Obey orders!" I didn't explain, I just went up in one sentence. Actually, I couldn't explain it at this time, because even I didn't know what the enemy was going to do, it was just an instinct, a premonition.

"Alas!" Guo Sandan smashed his fist on the scorched earth, smashing a deep pit in front of him.

He was obviously very dissatisfied with my order, so he didn't even respond to "yes", turned around and angrily asked the correspondent to pass on the order!

Without further ado, I raised my rifle and aimed at the enemy, who was still charging at our troops in front of the position. However, this time he did not shoot, but remained motionless and observed that there was anything unusual about them.

Sure enough, I soon noticed that the puppet army's offensive was a little different, and the time interval between their charges seemed to be extended, as if they were waiting for something......

My brow furrowed, I was most worried about having anomalies, because I couldn't think of why they were anomalous, and I couldn't guess their purpose! In such a situation, it is easy to think of the phrase "if you don't make a hit, you will be a blockbuster"!

Suddenly, a smoke bomb with red 'colored' smoke rolled over the smoke and fell in front of our position, followed by two or three. Those smoke bombs were only a dozen meters away from our position, and they rushed towards the sky with a red 'color' as thick as blood......

No, this is not a smoke bomb, but a signal flare, a signal flare that directs targets for US fighters.

I looked around the position and was surprised to find that our position had been surrounded by those red 'color' flares. The enemy successively threw dozens of such flares at the front of our positions, including position No. 8 on the left flank and position No. 4 on the right flank. When you look at it, it is like a red 'color' brush that clearly depicts the outline of our army's position!

I know what they want to do!

I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly stood up and shouted, "All of them!" Retreat into the pit immediately! ”

Although the soldiers were still a little unsure, because I had already prepared them to retreat, I didn't think much about it now, put away my weapons and spread my 'legs' and ran in the direction of the mouth of the tunnel. I didn't dare to be slow, grabbed my rifle and followed the crowd and ran to the nearest pit entrance.

Although the soldiers are new recruits, they have been in and out of the tunnel for some time, and although the speed of lining up to enter the tunnel mouth is not as natural as the veterans of the Eighth Company, it will not be much slower. In addition, there were not many people stationed on the position, but they had all been drilled into the tunnel in just over a minute.

As soon as I got into the tunnel, it went dark, and before I could get used to the light in the tunnel, a red light suddenly lit up all around. At first, I thought it was someone in the tunnel who lit the kerosene lamp, but when there was a scorching wave of heat pouring out of the mouth of the tunnel, I realized that it was not a kerosene lamp, but an incendiary bomb dropped by an enemy plane outside the tunnel......

Realizing this, I hurriedly lunged forward, and my force was so great that several fighters in front of me fell to the ground one after another without being prepared. At this moment, I heard a whirring, and a flame rushed in from outside the tunnel like a red 'colored' fire dragon. The flames roasted my skin and flesh outside my cotton coat ached, my hair jumped with schadenfreude, and at the same time, my chest was stuffy and my head was dizzy, and the pungent smell of gasoline poured into my lungs......

After a long time, when I was dragged into the pit by two warriors and took a few big breaths of "fresh air", my sanity slowly cleared up. The U.S. incendiary bombs were so terrible that I had already gotten into the tunnel, and I was almost suffocated to death by it, so if it was outside...... I can't even imagine what happened next.

"Chief of Staff, are you alright?" Li Baocheng asked with concern.

But no one answered him, because at this time, I was only panting and coughing, and I could not say a word anymore. The other taxis were similar to me, coughing in the tunnel.

After a while, Guo Sandan relieved himself, panted and said intermittently: "Staff, chief of staff...... I make reparations to you...... Make amends! ”

"Reparations, what a crime......" I replied with a gasp of breath.

"Disrespectful to you......" Guo Sandan said ashamedly: "I was angry with your order just now, I blamed you...... This, if it weren't for you, let's ...... It's all over and can't come back! ”

"Cut ......," I was speechless, just panting and shaking my head.

"I said Company Commander Guo, you have the ability!" Although I didn't care, Li Baocheng didn't want to let him go like this, he grabbed Guo Sandan's collar, glared at Guo Sandan with a pair of eyes and said unceremoniously: "I am angry with the order of the chief of staff, don't you know that our ** soldiers just want to resolutely obey the order?" Don't you know what punishment you will receive for disobeying military orders on the battlefield? ”

"No, don't blame him!" Listening to me, I hurriedly took a few deep breaths, calmed down some of the discomfort coming from my lungs, and stopped: "Comrades, don't make noise first, the puppet army will soon attack the position with incendiary bombs, and immediately organize personnel to extinguish the fire and seize the surface position!" ”

"Yes!" Li Baocheng responded, threw Guo Sandan in his hand to the ground, waved into the tunnel, and immediately took more than a dozen soldiers to pick up shovels and run out of the tunnel.

"Company Commander Guo!" After Li Baocheng and his party left, I said to Guo Sandan: "Company Commander Li is like this, he is resolute and fast-talking, don't take his words to heart!" ”

"No, Chief of Staff!" Guo Sandan said with a self-examination full of shame: "Company Commander Li was right in his criticism, although I still carried out the order in the end, I still deserted in my heart, and I almost made a big mistake. Chief of Staff, punish me! ”

Listening to me, I couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook my head, this era of soldiers is like this, if the same thing happens in modern times, Li Baocheng and Guo Sandan, two people who are both company commanders, it would be strange if they didn't break the bloodstream. But now they are willing to scold and suffer, just like they are holding the same heart and saying the same thing!

"Okay!" Looking at the sincerity on Guo Sandan's face, I couldn't help but say helplessly: "According to me, the puppet army must have been prepared for a long time, plus we have to extinguish the fire from the mouth of the tunnel, the personnel are not easy to deploy, and the speed will be much slower." It is quite possible that the puppet army will occupy the surface positions before us. You will not be punished for your crimes, you will be allowed to make meritorious service for your crimes, organize your personnel to prepare for battle, and take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to defeat them in one go! ”

"Yes!" Guo Sandan responded excitedly, as if he could make up for the guilt in his heart by taking this task, swept away the shame on his face, and saluted me by "standing up": "Promise to complete the task and resolutely drive the enemy down from our position!" ”

As he spoke, he turned around and named himself in his company. In a short time, dozens of soldiers were arranged to the mouth of three tunnels near the top of the mountain, armed with submachine guns and bayonets, ready to rush out of the tunnels to fight the enemy just waiting for orders.

I also loaded my rifle with a bayonet and a bullet for the M1911 on my waist, thinking in my heart that this group of puppet troops is not simple, and they would even think of this method to seize the surface position of our army. Compared with the strong attack of the US Seventh Division or the pseudo-second division, this is a precedent in any way. Although I pulled the soldiers back in time to avoid casualties, I still got to a passive position.

And......

Then I thought of a more serious question: what if the puppet army threw another batch of flares to scare us back into the tunnel, but the enemy planes did not bomb, and the puppet army took the opportunity to occupy the surface position?