Chapter 200: The Frightened Bird

Chapter 200: The Frightened Bird

As time passed, the more devils still took the trouble to charge our position one after another, regardless of casualties. At first, I couldn't understand why they did this, and I thought that this kind of charge of the Vietnamese army was meaningless like the soldiers, but Liu Shunyi's phone call made me vaguely understand one thing, that is, the Vietnamese army actually had their reasons for doing this.

This truth is actually not difficult to guess, just like Liu Shunyi said, "as long as our artillery is weak, the Vietnamese army will launch an attack on us......", in other words, the Vietnamese army is doing its best to consume our shells! It's just a bit unimaginable to use the lives of their own fighters to consume the enemy's shells, and these cannon fodder are all high-quality troops.

But that's exactly what happened, the Vietnamese army piled up the wall of fire that we had made with artillery fire in batches, forcing us to keep 'firing' shells at that hilly area, sometimes with rocket artillery and sometimes at shells, and in the end the land was turned over several times, and the mud was still everywhere but the artillery fire burned dry, the sky was full of gunpowder smoke and dust, the ground was full of corpse fragments and various organs, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and all kinds of stench......

So I began to worry a little about our army's artillery shells, but these are artillery matters, I am inconvenient to ask, plus Liu Shunyi also said before that our army has prepared three base shells, isn't it? What is the idea of three base shells, one base is enough ammunition for artillery units to fight one battle, then three bases are enough for artillery to fight three battles, and there should be no problem with such a large ammunition 'medicine' reserve!

However, the problem I feared eventually appeared, and this was at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, and the shells in the sky bombarded the position for more than seven hours, not to mention how those Vietnamese troops in the hills and valleys felt, even we were dizzy and nauseous and wanted to vomit.

However, from another point of view, we still hope that these shells will continue to bombard, preferably until all the Vietnamese troops are exhausted or when all the troops mobilized by our army are ready.

But the sound of the cannons suddenly stopped, perhaps because we were a little used to the sound of the cannonballs, so when the cannonade stopped, it felt a little abnormal, it felt like something was missing. At that moment, all the fighters were stunned, including me. However, the soldiers were worthy of being soldiers of the special reconnaissance brigade, and they quickly reacted and drilled out of the anti-artillery 'holes' one by one and set up weapons on the trenches. A few of the signal soldiers didn't need my orders at all, grabbed the microphone and shouted, "Hey...... What's the situation? Why stop? ”

After a while, the communications corpsman looked at me in horror and reported: "Battalion commander, comrade artillery said that the shells have run out!" ”

"What? At this time, it is said that the shells are running out? Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask a little bitterly: "Immediately ask when the shells will be replenished?" ”

After another shout, the signal soldier's answer disappointed me a little: "Comrade artillery said that this is not necessarily, maybe not so fast!" ”

"Not so fast?!" When I heard this, my heart couldn't help but sink, and what I thought of was the eight regiments of the Vietnamese army...... So far, even if they have been blown up by us, there will be five regiments!

"Get ready for battle!" I didn't have time to think about it, so I grabbed my rifle and ran out of the dugout.

"Get ready for battle!"

"Get ready for battle!"

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Although we had radio, we had been listening to the explosion of shells for too long, and the soldiers were not so good at hearing, so the soldiers very consciously passed on my orders one by one through gestures and shouts.

"Correspondent!" I yelled at the communications soldier next to me, "Pick me up at 150 and 169 at once!" ”

"Yes!" The communications soldier answered and immediately rang the phone.

As soon as the signal soldier answered the phone, I didn't care who the other party was, grabbed the microphone and shouted, "Hey! I'm 142 Heights, and the devils are coming up soon, do you need our support? ”

"No, you don't!" Without thinking about it, the other party replied: "Comrade, please rest assured, we can deal with it!" If the devils want to pass from our high ground, they can only step on our corpses......"

I don't want to listen to so much nonsense from him, the reason why I am so anxious is because I don't want the 142 Heights to be attacked by the Vietnamese army from several sides like last time, and secondly, because I don't want the PLA soldiers to pay too many casualties, and the other thing is that ...... I have more than two dozen snipers on my hands, and if they were all concentrated on one high ground, it would obviously be a 'wave' fee.

Therefore, although the other party's answer is no, it seems that our army and troops all have this 'problem', that is, no one will admit defeat, so it would be strange if they would say that they needed it. But whether they needed it or not, I shouted to them on the microphone, "So be it! I'll send five or six men over to help you defend, and you take it!" ”

There was silence on the other end of the line, and after a long while, a voice replied, "Okay! ”

However, the voice of the other highland was more tough, and it was not only tough, but also began to talk to me in an official tone: "I said what is the matter with you comrade? It's not that the army can say that the quality is good! Let's not talk about what role these five or six people can play, and the soldiers also have to cooperate with each other, right? Seeing that the devils are about to attack, ...... can you do this at this time."

At this time, I was still in the mood to listen to him say this, so I shouted into the microphone: "If you don't want it, you have to ask for it, if you don't work, you can ask Political Commissar Li!" ”

Then he hung up the phone with a "bang" without waiting for him to reply, and then ordered into the radio: "Li Shui 'wave', immediately arrange six members of the 'shooting' attack team to go to the 150 heights and 169 heights to assist the friendly defense, these 'shooting' team members should pay attention, you must report the situation of the friendly forces to me in real time!" ”

"Yes!" Li Shui responded and immediately assigned my order.

Another advantage of sending a few members of the 'shooting' team to the friendly units to assist in the defense is that it can strengthen our ties with each other, knowing that everyone in our unit has a miniature radio station in their helmets, which can completely communicate like a face-to-face speech, so that we can avoid the situation like last night when we find out that the friendly positions have been occupied by the enemy until the high ground on both sides is fired.

After arranging this, I had time to set up a rifle on the trench and look in the direction of the Vietnamese army through the scope.

There is still a thick fog in front of the position, dust, gunpowder smoke and drizzle are woven together, as if forming a natural smoke barrier in front of us, even if it is now noon with better light, but the visibility is still very moderate, we can only vaguely see the outline of Daliang Mountain and Qingning Mountain in the distance, and the part of the smoke between the two mountains is thicker - that is Gushuikou, which is facing our 142 highland Gushuikou.

I think that perhaps it is precisely because our 142 heights are facing the exit of the Vietnamese army that the Vietnamese army must get it first and then quickly! But then again, even if this 142 Heights is not so important, and last night this entire front was not lost on our Heights, so who else can the Yue devils attack besides us?

I held my rifle and watched for a long time, but I didn't see any movement from the Vietnamese army, so I couldn't help but put down my gun and raised a telescope with higher magnification. While observing, I thought to myself, what happened to the more devils? When they were there, they rushed forward desperately, but they didn't move!

Then it quickly occurred to me that the Yue devils were only frightened by the sudden cessation of the 'shooting' by our artillery, and they would be thinking: "What's wrong with the squadron?" Isn't it because there are too few people in the encirclement for them to blow up, and now another trap is laid for us to drill into it again......

This is the reality of the battlefield! We really ran out of shells, but they didn't know it, and the heavy casualties they had suffered before made them like frightened birds and never dared to act rashly......

Frightened? That's right!

Thinking of this, I quickly thought of a way to scare the devils, just like the ancients could scare the injured birds in the sky to death by just pulling the empty strings, maybe we can also scare the devils half to death! Although it doesn't help, it can be delayed for a while.

So I immediately ordered over the radio: "All of them, all mortars, recoilless, bazookas...... Anyway, all the cannons that can be fired will be brought to me, and those who don't have cannons will be given a few grenades! ”

"Yes!" The warriors didn't know what I wanted to do, but they carried out my orders without any doubt.

After thinking about it, I decided that this was not enough, so I immediately called a few adjacent high grounds. The process was not as smooth as I imagined, like just sending a few soldiers to assist the friendly forces in the battle, it is good to say, it is still good for the friendly side, but they do not carry out such inexplicable orders, and some simply answer: "Comrade! We only listen to orders from our superiors, and now is a critical juncture in the operation, please don't make such jokes......"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly: Are you kidding? Who's kidding you!

The non-cooperation of the friendly troops forced me to 'spend' a little time to contact Political Commissar Li and Regiment Commander Wu, and only after Political Commissar Li and Regiment Commander Wu agreed that the command of the front-line troops was 'handed over' to me.

However, at this time, those friendly troops began to start a 'whining' again:

"What's the use of preparing a recoilless gun? What is a bazooka used for? ”

"You don't know that their range is only a few hundred meters! Whether or not you can reach the bottom of the mountain is a question! ”

"Why are you preparing grenades so early? Who shall we bomb? ”

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I'm so angry in my heart! This ordinary army will have this 'problem', and there will be a lot of 'complaints' in their words. But then again, I can't blame them too much, because they don't know anything about me, so it's normal for them to question my orders.

But I didn't have time to grind with them, so I yelled at them into the microphone: "Give me less nonsense, the mortars are all aimed at Gushuikou, and the rest are all ready to 'shoot', no matter where you fight after hearing the order, just up!" ”

"Isn't this a 'waste' of 'medicine'?" The whining words soon came out again, and I was so angry that I slammed the microphone back.

But fortunately, the Vietnamese army did not dare to act rashly, so they did not rush up by this time, which also gave us sufficient time to prepare, otherwise I was afraid that I would not even have time to contact them.

Finally, a few minutes later, I saw in the telescope that the smoke in the valley mouth was rolling abnormally, and the smoke that had been gathering in the canyon could not be dissipated, but at this time, it suddenly turned around like boiling water, which made me realize that the Vietnamese army was about to appear.

Sure enough, after a while, I heard the sound of a "rumbling" motor, and then several tanks appeared in the aperture of my telescope one after another. If you look closely, there seems to be something moving behind those tanks, and if you think about it, you quickly know that it is the infantry following behind the tanks.

I didn't expect this devil to be more and more cautious, I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this, when our artillery was bombarding fiercely, they rushed forward so heroically, and now we don't have to blow them up, but they are timid.

But this also seems to be a wish, as the so-called eat a trench and grow wise, so many of their troops just now were unable to advance and retreat by us in the hills and valleys, and then let our artillery blow up again and again and basically be blown up, can they still be careless at this time? The reason why they will send troops to charge us into the artillery fire after that is just 'forced' us to keep going!

But the more careful they are, the more likely it is that my frightened bird's strategy will succeed!

So I held the binoculars and quietly observed, watching them pass through the Gushuikou one by one, and then the teams covered each other as if they were facing a great enemy, scattering their troops to find cover, until the Vietnamese army was busy tossing and turning for more than ten minutes, and I looked at the Vietnamese army passing through the Gushuikou, not to mention that there were two battalions...... This time, the Vietnamese army was clever in learning, and they obviously planned to attack our positions in batches, so as not to have a situation in which a large army was in the valley again, so they came over two battalions and no longer increased their troops, but divided into several parts and rushed towards our army's position......

Of course, the strength of the two battalions is not enough to attack our five heights, they are actually just some pawns who make tentative 'sexual' attacks, and if they find that there is nothing else unusual, other Vietnamese troops will continue to replenish them.

This is also the cleverness of the Vietnamese army, but I think, they didn't expect me to play with them to "make a move......

Seeing those Vietnamese troops rushing towards our position under the cover of a dozen tanks, I shouted over the radio: "Go!" ”。