Chapter 20: Bullets

Chapter 20: Bullets

When I climbed to the top of the mountain again, it was time for the sun to set. It still seems unwilling to become people's memory today, and at the last moment, it will also be extraordinarily red from the treetops, dyeing the white clouds into blood, and the green mountains into blood...... However, it seems that this green mountain is also blood-colored. In the blood, it gradually fell backwards, and finally disappeared at the 'junction' of the mountains and the sky. And the mountains were dimmed, and the clouds were dimmed, and the trees were dimmed...... The only thing that didn't dim was the confident smiling faces of the fighters.

The fighters have reason to be confident, and they have reason to laugh. Our company has now undoubtedly become the star company of the 639th Regiment. There are several reasons for this, but the most important one is, of course, several victories in succession. Almost from the beginning of the battle, the high ground that other troops could not defeat seemed to be easily solved in the hands of our company.

For example, the 386 heights, such as the raid troops that counter-encircled the Vietnamese army, and the 339 heights that have just been beaten...... With these battles, it is difficult for our company to keep others from knowing

After the hilltop position on Heights 339 was defeated by our five companies, the rest of the battle seemed to be easy. The Vietnamese army, which relied on the tunnel fortifications on the anti-slope side, soon fell into our encirclement. There was about one company of Vietnamese troops hiding in the tunnels, and although they were quite numerous and of high quality, the firepower on the upper and lower sides of our army could not be drilled out of the tunnels to deploy troops.

Soon, some Vietnamese troops came out of the tunnel and surrendered. But I have to admit that the number of those who surrendered was very small, but it was only a dozen or so people who had crept out of a few tunnels. Some of them were knocked to the ground by bullets 'fired' from the tunnel when they had just come out of the tunnel to surrender.

In dealing with such a stubborn Vietnamese army, of course, we will not be merciful. Moreover, the purpose of the Vietnamese army digging these tunnels seems to be to prevent artillery, and the tunnels do not cover each other like we did during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, so it is very simple to deal with them. Flamethrowers, bazookas, cluster grenades, explosive packs, blasters...... In short, anything that can be fried can be used. After the mouth of the tunnel was blown up, it was marked and guarded by a few soldiers, so as to prevent the Vietnamese army from opening the mouth of the tunnel and escaping to make trouble.

When I think of the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, we were hiding in the tunnel and letting the United ** toss outside, and now we are tossing the devils outside the tunnel, and my heart is so happy, it seems like avenging an arrow

After getting the sniper rifle, I didn't go to the front line to fight, but just stayed in the second line to command.

It's not that I'm timid, it's not that I'm afraid, it's that I'm not familiar with the 'sexual' ability of the new sniper rifle. For example, how many rounds are in the magazine, whether they are bursts or singles, and how many meters of 'fire' range...... If I didn't even know these things, I wouldn't have had the courage to carry them into battle. After all, the battlefield is no better than ordinary places, and if you are not careful, you will lose your life. So I believe that whoever shoots whatever gun he catches on the battlefield is either not responsible for his own life or is making a movie.

So, after the whole battle was over, I had time to take a good look at the sniper rifle, which I could say risked my life to get.

The magnification is only four times, which is not very big, but I like it. Because the magnification of the M1C I used to use was also quadruple, I was used to such a scope.

The magazine is ten rounds, I held it in my hand and was worried, the weight was not very heavy, only nine pounds, almost as heavy as the M1 rifle, which made me feel very comfortable.

I think the reason why this weight is so light is due to the hollowed-out butt. This stock design can reduce the weight of the whole gun, and it naturally forms a straight grip, and the center of mass of the butt shoulder is also closer to the axis of the barrel, which can better control the muzzle jump......

I grabbed it in my hand and tried it, but I felt that this thing could not be called a gun, but should be called a work of art. That's when I understood what it meant to be in love and ecstatic......

"Hey, what kind of gun? looks so weird" While I was playing, Junko came up, looked at the rifle in my hand with envy, and said, "I said platoon commander, can you let me take a look?" ”

"Go...... It's getting dark, give me a whistle to lay mines," I refused without hesitation.

"Platoon commander, it's all laid out, just show me" Junko still refuses to give up.

"I said Shunzi" Al Ziri sarcastically said on the side: "This is your mistake, didn't you see that just now our platoon commander didn't even want his life for this, and now you are still robbing our platoon commander"

"So, I'm just going to see, aren't I?" Junko muttered with some dissatisfaction: "Can't you look at it?" It's like asking for his life......"

There was a coax, and the soldiers couldn't help but laugh when they heard it. Not to mention, if you come to grab this gun from me at this time, it will really kill me.

"This is a Soviet-made SVD sniper rifle" Li Shui' Bo casually threw a military spur and a few magazines to my side: "Platoon Commander Cui, you forgot to take the military spur and magazine"

"Hmm" I couldn't help but feel 'excited' and glanced at Li Shui'bo', in fact, it wasn't that I forgot, but I didn't rush to get it at that time. After attacking the position on the top of the mountain, he was directing the battle, and he never took it, but he didn't expect Li Shui 'Bo' to be 'quite careful'.

"There is only one magazine left, there are bullets, and the rest are empty," Li Shui' Bo explained, sitting next to me, "I turned over him several times, and there were no extra bullets."

I glanced at Li Shui's 'wave' and heard the off-string sound in his words. Hurriedly took off the magazine and looked down, and the bullet was really not the same size as the bullet in our rifle. The caliber is the same, but the bullets of the sniper rifle are longer, and the bullet of the Type 56 rifle is a little shorter.

There's no reason, it's all Soviet-style weapons, isn't it? In my impression, Soviet-style weapons, whether they are machine guns or rifles, all bullets are the same, aren't they? But that seems to have been decades ago, and who knows what the bullet will look like now

Thinking of this, I can't help but be a little discouraged, if there is a gun that does not bullet, then it is not the same as nothing? Did I only go to the battlefield with a dozen bullets?

"SVD is a sniper bullet that uses a special 'door'" Li Shui 'Bo' took out a bullet in the magazine, pinched it in his hand and looked at it stunned, and said thoughtfully: "This kind of bullet has a high degree of 'precision' and great power, and the warhead is a copper metal coated steel core hollow-tip warhead, and in order to achieve the maximum striking effect at the end of the trajectory, lead is installed at the bottom of the warhead, and even at a distance of one thousand meters, it has lethality......"

"Wait, how do you know so much about this gun?" I asked, confused.

"Because ......" Li Shui 'Bo' hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and continued: "Because my brother was ...... when he was alive It was a sniper, a sniper of the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army, who died on the battlefield of the war with the Americans."

"Oh," I quickly understood as Li Shui's explanation of 'wave'.

At this time, I can better understand the pain of Li Shui 'Bo' and his hatred for the Vietnamese. For Li Shui'bo's family, during the 'war' between the United States and Vietnam, they paid for Vietnam for free, and even sacrificed the lives of family members for them, but what did they get in exchange for this? It is still a relentless persecution and expulsion.

Although there are many such things, Vietnam is a soldier for all, which means that every family deported from Vietnam has more or less happened to this kind of thing. It became very common as soon as things became common, but I knew in my heart that if this kind of thing really happened to me, I might not be able to accept it, and I might not hate the Vietnamese like Li Shui 'Bo'

"Platoon Commander Cui" Then Li Shui 'Bo' asked with a little shame: "I want to know...... How did you find that sniper?"

I knew why Li Shui' Bo had that expression on his face, and it was obvious that he was also trying to find the sniper, maybe he wanted to compare with me. But it turned out that he didn't even know how I knew the location of the Vietnamese snipers until now.

"I'm not discovering, it's ......analyzing," I pointed to the walkie-talkie on Li Shui'bo's left shoulder and said, "Did you hear the people from my hometown report that they were also sharpshooters?" ”

Although I am the commander of the second platoon, I still serve as the company commander's horn more often, and the real second platoon commander is Li Shui'bo. In order to facilitate command and contact, he was also equipped with a walkie-talkie.

"I heard it" Li Shui 'Bo' nodded, then quickly understood, looked at me in surprise and said, "What does Platoon Commander Cui mean...... Able to control both sides at the same time, so his position is ......"

"You've finally figured it out," I chuckled and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't let go of every piece of information on the battlefield, any piece of information that seems trivial or useless may make you win on the battlefield, understand?" ”

"Understood," Li Shui nodded convincingly.

In fact, he can't be blamed for this, the tense battlefield is full of bullets, shells, and deaths, and it is even possible that he can be targeted by enemy snipers...... Under such circumstances, it is indeed a bit difficult for him, a new recruit, to be able to grasp such an ordinary piece of information and analyze it.

But there are no excuses on the battlefield, and if you lose, you will win, because bullets don't matter how many reasons and reasons you have, so I didn't tell Li Shui 'Bo' these "excuses."

I know what Li Shui' wants to do, he really wants to be a sniper like his brother, and he does have the potential to do this, but I don't know if the battlefield will allow him to develop to that day.

But that's not my concern right now, my biggest headache right now is the embarrassing situation of having an advanced sniper rifle and running out of bullets.

I sighed, casually pressed another bullet out of the magazine, put it in my hand, and couldn't help but sigh.

This feeling is very familiar, as if it was during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea: "This kind of bullet ...... It's kind of like Mosin Nagant's bullet."

"It seems that I heard my brother talk about ......" Li Shui 'Bo' nodded, and looked at me suspiciously, as if wondering how I could know about Mosin Nagant's old-fashioned rifle bullets: "The specifications of this bullet are exactly the same as those of Mosin Nagant rifles, but Mosin Nagant's bullets are not so ......"

"Well, it's really Mosin Nagant's bullet," I couldn't help but jump up from the ground when I heard this.

I seem to have figured out a truth, there were only two kinds of bullets in Soviet-style weapons, that is, rifle bullets and pistol bullets. In addition to pistol and submachine guns, which use pistol cartridges, other weapons such as rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns use rifle cartridges. This is to meet the requirements of the battlefield to facilitate the replenishment of ammunition 'medicine'.

So why did the USSR develop another bullet? Apparently because of the appearance of AK47. It was also during the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea that the Soviet Union replaced Mosin Nagant with AK47. Such a change...... In order to better and more conveniently replenish ammunition on the battlefield, all the guns developed later used AK47 bullets, such as the 56 and a half in my hand, and the Type 56 light machine gun......

I grabbed a lot of bullets on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, but I didn't expect to worry about this bullet now, if I can return to the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea with this gun, it would be **

Wait for rifles, submachine guns, light machine guns, and other weapons The bullets are unified with the AK47, but what about heavy machine guns? It should not be changed, the so-called look at the gun first to see the bullet, that means the amount of 'charge' of the bullet, the shape of the bullet (pointed bullet, round bullet), etc., to a large extent determines its power and 'shooting' range. If the bullets of the heavy machine gun are also replaced by bullets of this power and 'range' that are significantly smaller, then what is the heavy machine gun called?

"Junko" thought of this, and I waved behind me with a glimmer of hope.

"To"

"Go to the machine gun company and 'get' some...... Heavy machine gun bullets to come"

"What is the platoon commander doing with that thing?" Junko was a little puzzled.

"If you are told to 'get', you will go and 'get' and ask so much, why are you doing so much?" I'm getting a little impatient.

"Yes" Junko didn't dare to ask more, turned around and ran down the mountain.

"Move, hurry up, run forward," I urged behind me anxiously.

Junko sped up and turned around and pretended to be dissatisfied and shouted, "Platoon commander, you have to make people take a breath when you hang yourself."

With a coax, the warriors all amused Junko.

I tore open a compressed biscuit and put it in my mouth and chewed it, I felt that the taste was not bad, 'very' fragrant, but it was hard. Much better than chow mein. But this is also in Vietnam, and if it were on the battlefield of North Korea, this thing as hard as a stone would have to break a few of my teeth

Before he could bite the bottom half of the piece, Junko came back panting with a heavy machine gun magazine: "Platoon commander, our company's face is really big." I didn't want to start this machine gun company, I reported the name of our company, and I didn't say anything, and I immediately gave a box to sink......"

I ignored Junko's words, threw away the compressed biscuits in my hand, opened the magazine box and compared it with the sniper bullet in my hand, and I couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief. That's right, the bullets are exactly the same

Later, I learned that the bullets of this era were actually roughly divided into three types, one was a pistol bullet, one was a rifle bullet, and the other, that is, the sub-gun of the original Mosin Nagant rifle, which is now called a machine gun bullet, and the sniper rifle in my hand is a machine gun bullet.

With a gun and bullets, I can't care about eating the biscuits in my heart, so I will first remove the bullets from the chain and fill the magazine. Although these bullets are not as good as the special bullets of sniper rifles, they are better than none. So the five magazines were quickly filled, and the Type 56 bullets were of course gone, and the bullet pouch was quickly filled with dismantled machine gun shells, and it took more than 300 rounds to stop

At the same time, I thought to myself, I have to fight with those guys in the machine gun company in the future, or who will I go to if the bullets run out?

"Li Zhifu, you come out for me" At this time, with an angry roar, Captain Zhang, who was wearing a bandage on his head, appeared in front of us.

When he came up, he angrily pointed at us and asked, "Where are your company commanders?" Where's the company commander? ”

"Yo Ho isn't dead yet?" I heard some of the fighters next to me whispering.

"To" Company Commander Li hurriedly ran to Commander Zhang.

"I said Company Commander Li, what the hell are you doing? Call you for reinforcements, why don't you reinforce them? Yes? As soon as he saw Company Commander Li coming up, Regiment Commander Zhang scolded: "Comrade, let me tell you, is your personal heroism a drop to show off in front of the troops for your company to win the battle, ah?" He put our three battalions in danger and did not save them, and acted without obeying orders......"

I couldn't listen to this anymore, and I stood up from the trench with a "sudden". Junko and Alziri hurried up to pull me, but I broke free with a hard struggle.

"Commander" I walked up to Commander Zhang and said: "I am the one who changed the order without authorization, and you will come at me if you are angry."

"I know it has something to do with you" Regiment Commander Zhang replied angrily: "What kind of company commander there is, what kind of soldier company commander does not obey orders, how can you make a soldier obedient?"

Listening to this, I couldn't help but feel amused, it seems that this is not what kind of company commander has what kind of soldiers, but what kind of soldiers there should be, what kind of company commander, because I disobeyed the order first, and Company Commander Li just followed me

I didn't want to say much to Commander Zhang, so I raised my eyebrows and met Commander Zhang's gaze and said, "Commander Zhang, you have to be clear about one thing, if we go to reinforcements according to your orders, I'm afraid that you won't be able to stand here alive and talk now."

Head Zhang obviously didn't expect me to give him such a face, and after being stunned for a moment, he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, I will report the situation truthfully to my superiors, you just wait for the punishment."

As he spoke, he turned around and left without looking back, ignoring Company Commander Li's call.

"What are you doing here?" Company Commander Li looked at me reproachfully and said, "I know the third battalion commander, let him vent his anger, there will be nothing to do, now you can take a look ......"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, only then did I know that being a soldier in this era is not only enough to have the ability to kill the enemy, but also to be able to be a person, be able to observe the 'color', and be able to ......