Chapter VI Anti-tank grenades
"Don't move!"
Soon, a large number of volunteer soldiers ran up and seized the guns of the wounded British soldiers, which also made me realize that they had the right choice not to shoot at me just now, otherwise I was afraid that they would face a big *** now.
"The first and second companies stayed behind and quickly built fortifications! Three and four companies withdrew from their positions! "I shouted to the fighters, and the experience of 'engagement' with the American army many times told me. The time when the enemy positions have just been captured is often the most dangerous time for the volunteers. This is because the US military often takes advantage of the fact that the volunteers have just captured the positions and have not had time to build fortifications, so they wantonly and indiscriminately bomb the positions they have just lost, and this can often achieve very good results, and even sometimes the killed and wounded volunteer soldiers can completely make up for the losses caused by their defeats.
"Yes!" Although many of the soldiers are supplementary soldiers, most of the backbone are veterans who have fought four battles, so they don't understand the truth. As soon as they heard my order, those who should withdraw pulled their troops and turned away, and those who should stay behind jumped into the trenches and dug with sapper shovels, and the swiftness and execution of the actions simply made the eyes of the wounded soldiers of the Gloucester Battalion, who were the British Royal Ace Army, also flashed with surprise.
"What's your name?" I was digging my own air-raid 'hole' on the side. Intentionally or unintentionally, he asked the British military doctor beside him: "You all have shovels!" ”
"Yes, sir!" The medic seemed to have not rested for a while, his eyes were bloodshot, and his beard was full of exhaustion, when he heard my question, he tried to cheer up and replied: "My name is Fieldberry, sir!" ”
"Good!" I nodded, "Mr. Berry, is there a way for you to walk down the hill in ten minutes and find a safe place to hide?" ”
Berry looked back at the twenty or so wounded soldiers behind him who had broken their hands and feet, and some were even unconscious, and then shook his head in embarrassment: "I'm afraid this will be very difficult to do, sir!" ”
"So," I stopped for a moment, turned to him, and said, "You'd better order the wounded soldiers to dig a 'hole' and hide like we did, and I don't think your shells will explode just because you're British!"
When Berry heard this, he seemed to understand something, and his face turned white, and then, like madness, he ran to the wounded soldiers and shouted, "Pick up your shovels." If you don't want to be blown to pieces, dig like the Chinese. 'Hole' hide! ”
When it was over, he didn't forget to say to me with emotion: "Thank you very much for the reminder, sir!" ”
I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly, even if I reminded them, what could I do? At the speed at which those wounded soldiers dig 'holes', they are afraid that when the shells come, they can only hide half of their bodies, it is said that today is the "Patron Saint Day" of the British, but I hope that their Patronus will appear, and do not let American planes drop incendiary bombs, otherwise,
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui" At this time, a communications soldier ran up and shouted at me: "Battalion Commander Xu told you to go down and report the situation to the regiment headquarters!" ”
Come on! I answered, and then dug twice in the basically formed air-raid 'hole', turned to Berry and said, "Hey, this 'hole' is for you!" ”
"Thank you very much, sir, you are such a nice man!" Berry gave me an agitated look, then quickly turned around and ordered, "Henry, help bring John over!" ”
I didn't care about the wounded British soldiers, so I followed the messenger down the hill, and only halfway to the waist came a strange roar, and then the shells exploded in front of and behind me, stirring up patches of dirt.
Soon, enemy planes joined the bombardment, and the whole hill suddenly became as lively as boiling water.
It is said that veterans are not afraid of artillery because veterans with combat experience can judge the landing point of bombs based on the whistling of shells, but unfortunately I have not learned this trick until now. Because I didn't believe in this set all the time, I always thought that the sky was full of strange whistling and explosions, and my ears were about to be deaf and listen to a fart!
But now looking at the correspondent running in front, I can't help but believe it, because every time he lies down or lies down, there are always a few shells around him after a while, and I can't help but sigh in my heart, this is not easy to be a communicator, which of them is not running around in the rain of bullets to convey orders, if they don't practice such a skill, I am afraid that they will be "eliminated" long ago.
It didn't take long for the correspondent to run and stop, and he got into an air-raid 'hole', patted the thick layer of muddy water on his body, 'rubbed' and 'rubbed' his buzzing ears, and walked to the depths of the air-raid 'hole'.
"Whoa" is coming! "As soon as I walked into the air-raid 'hole', I heard the laughter of Captain Chu, and then I realized that Xu Feng was already standing next to the 'hole', and there was another person I didn't know, who seemed to be a ***, and was 'very' familiar with Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye.
"Report!" I hurriedly stood beside Xu Feng, saluted, and said, "Our battalion has successfully captured a good high ground and successfully completed the task!" ”
"Well played!" Commander Chu nodded and smiled: "Battalion Commander Xu has already explained the situation just now, your method is very good!" We were still worried about you just now, but I didn't expect you to capture it! ”
"Yes! Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! Chen Ye said with a sigh: "This is Regiment Commander Li of the Kou Division, and when he came to talk about it, we learned that the origin of this Gloucester battalion was not the whole of the four divisions, and the division had suffered nearly 1,000 casualties in a day, and it had not yet captured the two heights in front of it!" We were still worried just now, will the heart be too big, find Xu Feng and ask. I knew that all the original obituaries were fake... It's down! ”
"Report to the commissar". I hurriedly 'stood up' and said: "Our battalion has nearly 300 casualties, the number of enemy casualties has not yet been counted, and there are more than 100 people, but in the end, they still let more than 40 escape!" ”
"Hmm!" Chen Ye couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "This Gloucester battalion is really a hard bone!" However, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, they have a geographical advantage, and it is already very good to be able to fight like this! ”
"It's a pity that you didn't use your method a second time!" The person known as Regiment Leader Zhang smiled and said, "Why don't we give it a try!" ”
Head Chu laughed and said, "How about Lao Zhang, do you want us to help you again?" ”
"Lao Chu, what do you mean by that?" Regiment Commander Zhang replied with a look of refusal to admit defeat: "Do you look down on our army or what?" Think our four divisions won't be able to defeat it? .
"I didn't mean that!" Commander Chu also seemed to understand that he had said the wrong thing at this time, and said with some embarrassment: "But this Gloucester battalion is really difficult to deal with."
"Definite" Head Zhang smiled: "You have already put on a good show, the rest depends on our master!" ”
"Or so!" At this time, Political Commissar Chen Ye pushed his glasses and said, "Let's capture Castle Hill." The Gloucester battalion is actually caught in the encirclement of our army, and I think that the United *** will definitely send troops to the rescue. ”
"That's right!" Commander Chu also nodded in agreement: "During the third battle, a battalion of the British rifle regiment was given dumplings by us for covering the Yankees, if the Gloucester battalion let us wrap it again this time." Then the Yankees will not be able to 'hand' in front of his allies! ”
"Hmm!" Regiment Commander Zhang also nodded: "The possibility of joint *** sending troops to rescue is very 'sexual', the Gloucester battalion is a very effective force, whether it is in morality or interests, they are reluctant to throw it away!" ”
"So!" Political Commissar Chen Ye raised his hand holding a cigarette, drew a circle on the map and said: "Let's have a division of labor, our regiment will stay near here to block the enemy's reinforcements, you can rest assured that the dumplings of the Gloucester battalion, what do you think, Commander Zhang?" ”
"Good! No problem! Regiment Commander Zhang nodded: "I'll go back and report the situation to the division commander, and then further study the combat plan." ”
said that he left with the guards in a hurry, only to see Chen Ye shaking his head with a wry smile: "Lao Chu, I said that you are a anxious 'sex', this Lao Zhang's 'sex' is only afraid that he is more anxious than you, and he will not rush back after the enemy has bombarded him!" ”
Commander Chu cut off disappreciatively: "How many of those who are fighting this war are not anxious for 'sex', and those who are slow 'sex' will not be lazy if they can survive for three days on the battlefield!" ”
"Hey! You" Captain Chu said this, but Political Commissar Chen Ye didn't agree, crossed his waist and pointed at Captain Chu with an angry look and said: "I said Lao Chu, are you trying to curse me or what?" ”
"Hey, I'm here" Head Chu scratched his head innocently: "What's wrong with me today?" How to say the wrong thing! ”
That only made the guards laugh, and even Xu Feng, who was standing next to me, couldn't help laughing.
In my heart, I secretly admired the analysis of Chen Ye and Commander Chu just now, they were right, United *** would indeed send reinforcements to rescue the Gloucester Battalion, but what Political Commissar Chen Ye and Regiment Commander Chu didn't expect was that the United *** attached much more importance to the Gloucester Battalion than the two imagined. Even after hearing that the Gloucester battalion had been surrounded, Li Qiwei, commander-in-chief of the "United Army," immediately flew from the Japanese headquarters to Korea by special plane, and then immediately convened a meeting of the commanders, army commanders, and division commanders of the group army to personally study and formulate a rescue plan. In the end, without affecting the overall situation of the war, three infantry battalions, including the 10th Philippine Battalion, a tank battalion and a field artillery battalion were dispatched to the rescue. Not to mention its advanced equipment, the total strength is close to the three regiments of the Volunteer Army, while we only have one regiment to block it."
I really wanted to tell Political Commissar Chen Ye and Head Chu this, but when they asked me where I knew this, how would I answer?
I couldn't help but cry out secretly in my heart, but when I think about it, I'm relieved, isn't there still a comrade in the calcium army! If there are so many enemies that we can't resist, they can't sit idly by! This mortar army is an iron army that can fight hard battles, and in just over a month in the fifth battle, it was stunned to lose four people to only four people left in the end.
Thinking of this, I was also calm, but to be honest, after fighting the Gloucester battalion, I understood that the number of enemies was not the biggest problem.
I don't know why, but now that I know that I can not fight the Gloucester battalion, I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief in my heart. There is no doubt that Camp Gloucester is a very tough opponent, if I were a master of the rivers and lakes, I might be ecstatic to find such an opponent, and maybe I would try my best to compete with him, but I am not, I am just a very ordinary soldier, although I don't care about death, but I don't want to die so much, so I only have joy in my heart now.
And the Gloucester battalion was destined to run out of ammunition and food under the siege of the Wang army, and only a handful of people could escape back in the end.
Dongdou "Li Highway,::It is a road to the British position. North Korea is mountainous but there is a highway to Seoul, and on both sides of the highway is a plain belt ranging from a few hundred meters to dozens of meters wide, this highway is the north-south Dongdoucheon-ri Highway, this plain belt, is the world-famous Yizheng Fǔ corridor.
The reason why it is famous all over the world is because at the beginning of the Korean War, the US military advisers in charge of training the South Korean army always thought that a mountainous area like North Korea was not suitable for tank warfare, and even the South Korean army was not equipped with anti-tank weapons. However, as soon as the Korean War began, North Korea, with dozens of Soviet-supported Bi tanks as the pioneers, fought as if there was no one in the corridor of the parliamentary government, and fought all the way to Seoul. This result not only surprised the US military and the South Korean army, but also surprised the Soviet Union and the KPA.
Now, it is we, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, who are guarding this corridor of discussion and government.
I think this is also the reason why the rescue force sent by the US military has a tank battalion and a combat artillery battalion, tanks, field artillery, three infantry battalions, plus the support of aircraft in the sky, the lineup of this rescue force is not insignificant. I could almost see the U.S. tanks lined up in a neat formation, covering the infantry in groups to break through our defenses and easily rescue Gloucester.
But we are not the South Korean army of the past, and the US military is not the KPA of the past.
I lay down in the trench, watched a few soldiers bury the last few mines on the road, and then looked at the road in front of me, which was only about 30 meters wide, and I couldn't help but feel a little confident.
I was still hating the muddy roads during the attack on the Gloucester camp just now, but the wind and water turned, and now the muddy roads have become our advantage, and the muddy roads may have no effect on the tanks, but they can easily repel the infantry that follows behind.
The tanks of this era were all gasoline engines, and it was not very difficult to blow them up once they were out of infantry, even though it was during the day. Because by this time the Volunteer Army was already armed with Soviet anti-tank grenades and a small number of rocket launchers.
Because our battalion was at the forefront of the defense, our superiors assigned us more than fifty anti-tank grenades and two bazookas. In order to be fresh, Huzi also went to 'get' two anti-tank grenades and played with them in his hands.
"This thing can blow up tanks too?" Huzi looked at this thing and was a little puzzled: "I look at it, it's no different from a grenade, isn't it?" It's a little bigger and heavier than our grenades! ”
"Huzi, don't underestimate this thing!" I took a grenade and took it in my hand, and it weighed two pounds, and it looked like it should be a Soviet anti-tank grenade.
Because the Soviet Union was equipped with a large number of anti-tank guns and rocket launchers, it threw this kind of anti-tank grenade to be thrown at close range to our volunteers, and since then, this kind of anti-tank grenade has become the most commonly used anti-tank weapon in the volunteer army, and is even used to blow up pillboxes and enemy infantry.
"I don't believe this thing can compare to our explosive 'medicine' bag!" Huzi still didn't believe it: "Some of the five-kilogram explosives 'charge' package can't blow up a tank, that's it."
"Huzi, which of the Soviet grenades you said worked compared to ours?"
"Needless to say!" Huzi replied without thinking about it: "Our grenades are two halves when they are exploded, and even if they are thrown in the enemy's pile, they can't kill two, and the Soviet grenades are one *** when they are exploded." ”
"That's it!" I smiled and raised the anti-tank grenade in my hand and replied, "How can our explosives be compared to others!" This thing has more than a pound of that explosive in it! It's much more useful than our five-kilogram explosives bag. ”
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui," Zhao Yongxin also came up at this time, only to see him ask suspiciously: "It's not that I don't believe in this thing to bomb the tank, let's go get what this is called, when the anti-tank grenade, the boss only said 'pull out' this safety pin and throw it the tank, I just pondered it!" How long does it take for this thing to blow up? Let's throw it on the tank, then it's all rolled down and what are you going to blow up? ”
Sweat! When I heard this, I realized that although our troops had changed their outfits, they didn't know anything about the equipment on hand, but when I think about it, we have just fought the fourth battle in 40 years, and we will fight the fifth battle immediately after, so we don't have time to understand these Soviet-style equipment at all.
So I hurriedly summoned a few company commanders to the front and said: "Comrades, you all go and 'confess' to the soldiers later, this anti-tank grenade in our hands is triggered, that is to say, this 'pump' is thrown into the tank after the safety pin is opened, and it will explode as soon as it touches the tank, so ah, everyone can throw it wherever they want to blow it up." But you have to be careful to throw it from a distance of 20 meters, otherwise you will blow yourself up, understand? ”
"Understood!" The husband answered excitedly.
"Hey, there's this good thing!" Huzi couldn't help but look at the grenades in the hands of others again, and only hated that he didn't ask for a few more just now.
"Company Commander Zhao!" Huzi laughed a few times and then picked up Zhao Yongxin's idea: "I thought this thing was not easy to use just now, so I didn't get more." We don't even have enough miles, see if we can."
"Tiger Company Commander!" Zhao Yongxin smiled: "Who told you to exchange this thing for an explosive 'medicine' bag just now?" Why don't we change a few more? ”
Huzi's hatred! With a face, the intestines were all repentant, and the soldiers could only laugh snickering.