CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXVIII

When I appeared in the third sniper position, I found that the hidden units of the Vietnamese army had collapsed. There were more than a dozen of them, grabbing all kinds of weapons and rushing towards the jungle more than 300 meters above them. Where would I easily let them go, I raised the sniper rifle in my hand and "bang......" with a few clicks to shoot all the bullets in the magazine in one go, and five Vietnamese soldiers fell to the ground screaming.

But I have to admit that they were really fast, and by the time I switched to another magazine and raised my gun, they had already disappeared into the jungle one by one.

"Comrade" put away his rifle, and I beckoned to the two observers who were still holding binoculars and watching, and said, "The devil is going to fight soon, let's go down and avoid it first."

"Yes," the two observers replied, and naturally walked behind me to the bottom of the mountain, occasionally glancing at me with an incredulous expression.

As I expected, we were halfway up the mountain, and behind the mountain came the sound of mortar bombardment. The shelling by the Vietnamese army was inevitable, and its purpose was to up with a glimmer of luck, and the other was to ...... It's to ease the fear in their hearts.

I believe that the hand I just 'revealed' had shocked the Vietnamese army to a considerable extent, and even the Vietnamese army who was hiding in the jungle and saw this scene would be afraid. There is no doubt that this fear will come to the aid of the Vietnamese army to a certain extent, and after a burst of shelling, they can at least alleviate the fear in their hearts in a self-comforting way: maybe the terrible sniper has been killed by the shell......

Before a few of us could run back to the air-raid shelter, a group of soldiers came up to meet us desperately, and asked me as they ran: "Comrade, which part are you?" But I got a bad breath for us."

"Yes, comrade, how many have you knocked out? We can't see clearly without binoculars......"

"Do you need to ask? There are more than a dozen of them."

"Not to mention knocking out a few, I'm angry when I look at the more devils who are running away, these days we've been holding back a lot of bird gas, and now I feel happy"

……

"He's our company commander," the soldier of the 5th Company, who knew me, proudly helped me answer.

Running to the foot of the mountain, I smiled and waved at them to thank them, and I got into the air raid 'hole' of Battalion Commander Wu with a cat's waist.

"Yours, how many have you knocked out?" Battalion Commander Ding couldn't wait to ask.

"Nine" I took off my military hat and patted the dust, and said nonchalantly: "It's a pity that these devils are running too fast, otherwise none of them want to leave"

I'm bragging, if those Vietnamese soldiers don't escape, it will be difficult for me to find one or two more, and I may even lose my 'life'. However, I have heard that if someone wants to treat their inferiority complex, the best way is to use the other extreme mentality to imply themselves, that is, to make themselves arrogant and narcissistic. So I thought that the best way to 'boost' the morale of the troops now was to make them think that I was really easy to fight.

"I didn't see it" Camp Commander Wu's face was really less negative and more happy, he nodded approvingly at me, and said with some hesitation: "It turns out that Company Commander Cui is still a sharpshooter, but ...... You can't fight a war with one or two sharpshooters......"

"This ...... I believe that Company Commander Cui will have a way" Battalion Commander Ding seemed to have confidence in me, interrupted Battalion Commander Wu's words and said: "Battalion Commander Wu, you don't know, if it weren't for Company Commander Cui, I and the hundred people under me would not be able to get here, and the devils can indeed fight, but compared with Company Commander Cui's troops, it's still a little worse, isn't it?" The two platoons of the Yue devils let them be wiped out"

"Hmm" Hearing this, Battalion Commander Wu couldn't help but look at me in surprise, as if he didn't believe that a company commander would have this ability.

Battalion Commander Ding's words are somewhat exaggerated, but I don't want to break it, at this time I can blow as much as I can, at this time it is always good to have a little more courage and confidence.

"Battalion Commander Wu, tell me about the enemy's situation" I pointed to the map and said: "What is the enemy's troop deployment, and are there any other units of our army in our vicinity?"

"I don't know the enemy's troop deployment at all" Battalion Commander Wu shook his head: "The only thing we know is the number of the Vietnamese prisoners and the strength of the two regiments. And we've long lost contact with our superiors, so we can't know if there are any other troops nearby."

"Lost contact with your superiors?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, it would be forgivable to say that I didn't know the enemy's troop deployment, after all, it was indeed very difficult to find out the enemy's situation in the jungle. However, the current communication equipment can be said to be quite advanced, and as a tank unit, they have lost contact with their superiors......

Looking at my doubts, Battalion Commander Wu explained helplessly: "Company Commander Cui, you don't know, our tank ...... All command vehicles have two antennas, and the more devils understand at a glance, bazookas, anti-tank guns...... Everything just needs to be greeted by the two antennas. I let the soldiers be dragged out of the abandoned tanks, what instructors, company commanders, these cadres can only have two or three left in a battalion, and all of them are dead escapes, not to mention the radios......"

Listening to Battalion Commander Wu's words, I couldn't help sweating, there would be such a thing, the command vehicle was equipped with two antennas, and it was not clear to tell the Vietnamese army to fire at me? It's no wonder that they, as a tank battalion, can't even find a working radio or walkie-talkie.

"Do you want to use our walkie-talkie?" I asked.

"Originally, I wanted to contact my superiors," Battalion Commander Wu replied, "but now it is clear that the Vietnamese army wants to use us to attract more reinforcements, or is it ...... Don't do it."

There was silence in the air-raid 'shelter', because everyone knew that not being in contact would mean that we would have to face the two regiments of the Vietnamese army alone. Now the Vietnamese army wants to use us as 'decoy' bait, but once they find out that we can't attract any reinforcements, then ......

What to do?

I couldn't help but feel a headache when I looked at the map, our strength was too different from that of the Vietnamese army, and the quality could be said to be not at the same level. Plus there are no reinforcements...... In fact, it is useless to have reinforcements, the Vietnamese army is waiting for our reinforcements, the more reinforcements come, the happier they are, if they can't control the situation, they may send more troops to this jungle. Then this jungle will drag our army here to the death, unable to advance for half a minute.

My eyes kept searching the map, hoping to find a way out, but in fact, I also knew very well in my heart that the way out we could find would definitely be prepared for the Vietnamese army who were familiar with geography.

So, one thing is for sure, all roads are dead ends.

No, there is a saying that there will be no road, isn't there an endless road? There must be a way to live, but I haven't seen it yet

Where is this way of life? Do we need to grow wings to fly out? Of course not, we have tanks instead of airplanes......

Tankamphibious tanks

"Can we ...... Walk by water" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but hesitate to ask: "We have more than 20 Type 63 tanks, aren't we?" Each tank carries ten people, so aren't we all going out......"

Hearing this, Camp Commander Ding and Camp Commander Wu couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately took the map to look at it, and both said, "Yes, how could we not have thought of it?"

"There are twenty-five Type 63 tanks in total," Battalion Commander Wu said excitedly: "This guy has a relatively large space, and it is not a problem to stuff two more people into the tank compartment, and a few more infantry outside." And in order to cooperate with the infantry in combat, we also have two Type 77 amphibious armored transport vehicles, each of which can carry at least 20 infantrymen, and it is not a problem to carry more than 200 people."

"The problem is ......" Battalion Commander Ding looked at the map for a while, and said with some concern: "The problem is that the more devils will let us out so easily?" It's good that the devil can't think that we will walk up the river, and even we can't think of it, but ......"

Speaking of this, Battalion Commander Ding turned his head and asked Battalion Commander Wu: "How fast is your Type 63 tank on the water?" ”

"This ......" Camp Commander Wu also seemed to understand the crux of the problem, and replied a little helplessly: "The fastest...... Eleven kilometers per hour"

Hearing this, everyone's hearts couldn't help but cool again, only eleven kilometers away...... And it's the fastest, please, our civilian bicycles will reach a speed of 15 to 20 kilometers per hour

"That's the problem" Battalion Commander Ding sighed, pointed to the meandering Nagang River on the map and said: "If we go up the river, even if it will surprise the Vietnamese army at first, they will have time to set up an ambush in front after discovering us." Up to 11 kilometers per hour...... They even had enough time to set up mines to block the river, almost all sections of the Nagang River were facing mountains on both sides, and as long as the Vietnamese army ambushed us at any location, we would only end up with the annihilation of the whole army."

It is undeniable that what Battalion Commander Ding said was right The maximum speed of the Type 63 tank in the water is only 11 kilometers per hour, and this is the biggest weakness of this breakthrough plan. However, this can't be blamed on the Type 63 tank, which was designed to cooperate with the troops, not for us to use as a boat

"Can we ......" After a long while, Camp Commander Ding hesitated and asked, "Can we sneak away at night?" ”

"No" Battalion Commander Wu quickly rejected this idea: "When the tank is launched, it is very noisy, and unless we push the tank into the river, it will be difficult for the enemy to find out."

Pushing the tank away, of course, is a joke. Even if you push it into the river, you have to start it, right? Although the sound will be a little quieter, the engines of dozens of tanks are screaming at the same time, and even elephants will be woken up.

There was another burst of silence in the anti-artillery 'hole', as if he hoped that he would be killed by a 'stick' of ruthless reality as soon as he showed a little hint.

But I felt that hope was not dying, but growing stronger and stronger in my mind

"Just go by water," I said categorically, "and go as fast as you want, and be ready to leave tonight."

"Do you have a solution?" Camp Commander Ding and Camp Commander Wu couldn't help but look at me suspiciously.

I didn't speak, but pointed to a reservoir on the map that was a kilometer away from the upper reaches of the Nagang River, so Camp Commander Ding and Camp Commander Wu quickly understood.

"Blow up the reservoir" Ding and Wu shouted in unison, and then they all laughed happily.

"You kid is a genius" Battalion Commander Ding punched me hard and said, "I knew you could figure it out"

"It's a good way" Camp Commander Wu also looked at me and shook his head and smiled: "I really don't know how your head came up with it, it was obviously a dead end, but it made you live."

"It's not just a living mile," Battalion Commander Ding said with a smile: "If this reservoir is blown up like this, those more devils who are ambushing around us...... Haha......"

There is no need to say anything more, since the Vietnamese army wants to block every road we have, then their ambush position will not be too high, and if the water from the reservoir rushes down like this, it will be good if half of these two regiments can survive.

"It's just ......" I had another concern, and turned to ask Camp Commander Wu, "Do we have a way to blow up the reservoir?" Now we can't move an inch......"

"You don't have to worry about this" Camp Commander Wu said with a smile: "There is no way during the day, but there is a way at night"

"What's the solution?" Battalion Commander Ding still asked with some anxiety.

"The Type 63 tank is driven in the water," Battalion Commander Wu replied, "If we want to drive in the water, we must guard against the enemy from laying mines in the water, and our method is to send divers down the river to reconnoiter the ......."

"Oh" I quickly understood: "You have wetsuits"

"That's right," Battalion Commander Wu nodded and replied, "And there are a few divers who reconnoiter and clear mines is their task, but this time it ......"

The next words of Battalion Commander Wu do not say that we also understand that their task is to be responsible for blowing up the dam, even if they can successfully complete the task, there is no way to come back alive.

"Will they accept this task?" I asked a very practical question.

If this was during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, there would have been no need to ask at all, and the soldiers would definitely have agreed, but now the times are different.

"I'll do ideological work later" After being silent for a while, Camp Commander Wu replied: "If they don't accept it, everyone will have to die here, and I think they will figure it out."

"Hmm," I nodded. This is indeed a very simple truth, but although everyone understands this truth, it is very difficult to do it.

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As the sun sets, the sky and temperature fade with the passing time.

The soldiers were ordered to prepare for battle after their last meal, and to throw away everything except radios, weapons, and bullets, including food, marching blankets, and sapper shovels. The purpose of this is to reduce the weight of the tank as much as possible so that it can run faster.

But they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know where they were going, including the platoon commanders I had. Although we don't believe that there will be spies in the team, this plan is related to whether we can successfully break through and whether our nearly 300 people can survive, so we dare not be careless.

But there was one exception to this, who knew in advance about our full plan, and that was the divers in the tank battalion

Battalion Commander Wu took me with him to do their ideological work. In the words of Battalion Commander Wu, it is the work of instructors and instructors who usually do ideological work. He can only drive tanks to fight, and this is really a duck to the shelves to do ideological work. He said that I had a good brain and that I would definitely be able to do this job, so he took me with him.

There were seven divers in total, and we were hiding in two holes when we found them. Battalion Commander Wu gathered them together and took them to a 'hole' that served as a battalion headquarters' anti-artillery, and ordered the guards to stand guard outside the 'hole'.

Seeing Camp Commander Wu look so mysterious, the divers also felt that things were a little different.

One of the leading divers asked, "Battalion commander, is there going to be a war?" Do you want us to scout? ”

"This ...... No, it's a task......" Battalion Commander Wu rubbed his hands, as if he didn't know how to speak, so he asked for help and gave me a look.

"The plan is like this," I pointed to the map and explained my intentions straightforwardly: "We are going to blow up the Ban Weng Reservoir in the upper reaches of the Nagang River, so that we can use the Type 63 amphibious tank to break through while the enemy is 'chaotic' Your mission is to carry explosives along the Nagang River to the Ban Weng Reservoir and blow it up, what's the problem?" ”

Battalion Commander Wu obviously didn't expect that I would say this suicide mission in such direct and relaxed words, and he was stunned for a while.

"I have a problem," one diver asked, standing up, "how do we get back after we finish our mission?" ”

I gritted my teeth and replied coldly, "You can't come back"

There was a deathly silence in the air-raid 'shelter', and even the nervous breathing of the divers could be heard.

"You can not accept the mission," I said, breaking the silence, "but you also know the consequences, all of them will die here together. You won't get any benefit from accepting the mission, but you can save nearly three hundred comrades-in-arms, and it is also possible to drown thousands of Yue devils to do it or not, give me a word"

There was another silence, and Camp Commander Wu looked at me even more stunned, and his mouth opened wide and couldn't close for a long time. Judging by his expression, it seemed that he regretted letting me come.

"I'll do it" a diver stood up: "For my comrades"

"I'll do it too" Another diver stood up: "In order to kill the devils"

"And I'll do it too"

"I fought too"

……

Seven divers, not a single one fell.

I looked at Camp Commander Wu, who breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and then looked at me with admiration.

What he didn't know was that it was definitely not a good thing to make the soldiers fight for their lives. Because life is gone, what honor, money, status...... It's all dung.

The only thing that can make them willingly do it is the friendship of their comrades-in-arms and the hatred of their enemies