Chapter 15: The Spirit of the Army
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I don't know if it's because it's time for the U.S. military to have lunch and take a nap. Or did they lose confidence in the shelling, and in the hours that followed, the Americans did not attack again and did not shell our positions.
It is said that the U.S. military also carries a blanket with them when fighting, and the blanket must be spread out before lying down. I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I believe it's true. Because the snow is so cold, it's not easy to get down. Of course, this is nothing at all for the volunteers, but for those little flowers that can almost be said to have been cultivated from a greenhouse, it feels completely different.
Yankee! What they have is the romance of Hawaii, the bustle of New York, the luxury of Hollywood, and the temptation of casinos. If we really talk about this hardship, the rain and mud that the US troops suffered on the island during the Pacific War are nothing at all. Because they don't need to choose at least the warmest day of the day to poop, or you'll be in danger of not being able to pull it out.
As a U.S. military doctor said, all liquid injections are frozen into ice, and if you want to melt them before injecting them, you'll find that those injections freeze again as soon as they're inhaled into the syringe. For those wounded soldiers, it's actually better to ignore them, because when you cut their clothes and deal with their wounds, you will soon find that they have frozen to death.
But I didn't understand why lice could survive in such a cold environment, I lay in the bunker and basked in the sun, but the itching on my body made me upset for a while, I couldn't help but scratch at my body, and after a while I finally couldn't stand it anymore. Take off your cotton clothes and shake it...... The big and small lice fell to the ground, and the sight made my scalp tingle and goosebumps all over my body.
At this time, a correspondent suddenly jumped up from the back mountain with a cat's waist, jumped into the bunker and asked, "Comrade, where is Battalion Commander Xu?" ”
"Here!" Xu Feng heard the voice and beckoned to the correspondent.
"Report to the battalion commander!" The correspondent quickly ran to Xu Feng and said, "The regiment commander ordered that our army must hold its position for three days. ”
"Yes!" Xu Feng responded: "Comrade, please tell the regiment commander that our battalion will fight to the end!" ”
Three days! I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when I heard this time, this time is not too long in normal times, but it is not short in this battlefield full of blood and sacrifice every moment. The previous battles had lasted only seven or eight days each time, but this time we had to be here to resist the three-day attack of the American army, armed to the teeth.
However, this is also the three days that we must defend, because this is the shortest time for the large force to be transferred from the vicinity of the 38th parallel to the designated position, and if we cannot hold it, the US troops will drive straight from here and disrupt the entire battle plan.
Looking at the soldiers around him, they all had expressions of indifference when they heard this. Maybe they are not afraid of sacrifice, or maybe the two battles just now have played out their confidence, in short, they still do what they have to do.
Huzi rubbed the gun with a big grin, Xiao Shandong was bored like a monkey catching lice on his body, Instructor Zhao sat on a stone and wrote something on the notebook intently, and what was even more exaggerated was Zhao Yongxin, lying on a pile of hay with a bamboo stick in his mouth, cocking Erlang's legs and humming a Beijing accent leisurely......
This scene gave me the illusion that the soldiers were like in their own yards, and it was time to rest after half a day's work, and everyone gathered together comfortably in the sun.
"Rumble ......"
At this time, the faint sound from the sky made everyone stop their movements, and everyone raised their heads to look at the sky, but the dazzling sunlight made everyone see nothing.
"Enemy planes! Hide! Xu Feng shouted. Then he quickly added: "Comrades, fast into the tunnel!" ”
Now I finally know why those American troops are so slow to attack.
The soldiers entered the tunnel one after another, and after a while, they heard a series of explosions and vibrations from above, and the two soldiers quickly sealed the mouth of the tunnel with sandbags that had been prepared for a long time, so as not to let the flames of the incendiary bombs drain the air in the tunnel. Suddenly, it was pitch black in the tunnel, and only a little light could still be seen through the vents.
The sound of explosions and the strange whistling of planes came from above, all of which seemed to be no different from the previous enemy bombardment, but we all know that the target of this bombardment was mainly anticline.
I couldn't help but think of the Mustang that dropped the bomb into the tunnel, and if it could drop the bomb into the cave, it would seem that there would be no dead end for them.
Just as we were thinking about the sudden burst of scorching heat from above, we realized that the enemy had used incendiary bombs, and the two fast-moving warriors grabbed two handfuls of dirt and stuffed the ventilation holes, and the last shred of light was completely swallowed up by the darkness.
The dull breathing and the hot air made me can't help but speed up the rate of breathing.
The temperature inside the tunnel rises sharply, and touching the top of the tunnel is as hot as the bottom of a red-hot pot, and the flames burning outside turn the tunnel into a veritable furnace.
I took off my cotton jacket, wiped the beads of sweat from my forehead, and fanned myself with my hands, hoping that it would cool myself a little, but it didn't seem to work at all. This time, I finally realized what the so-called two heavens of ice and fire were.
The explosion stopped. The two warriors guarding the entrance of the cave quickly pushed away the sandbags, and a wave of heat hit us and we couldn't help but breathe, and the first thing that caught our eyes was a field of red flames, up and down, and they were beating whirring when the cold wind blew, as if to show off its vitality to us. The snow that had covered the mountain had long since been dried away, revealing the red-burned rocks and dirt underneath, and it would not be an exaggeration to call it a flaming mountain.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers closest to the entrance of the cave couldn't help but be stunned, and they all turned to look at me.
"Rush!" Huzi shouted inside: "Do you want us all to be blocked in the pit or what?" ”
Hearing this, the soldiers gritted their teeth and were about to rush out, but I grabbed them.
"Stand back!" As I spoke, I pulled out a grenade, pulled the string and threw it out, then fell down as fast as I could.
I only heard a bang, and the earth walls on both sides of the tunnel mouth were shaken down by the broken soil, and after a while, a small area without fire was covered at the mouth of the tunnel.
"Comrades, put out the fire first!" With that, I put the rifle in my hand back, grabbed the sapper's shovel, and rushed out.
After rushing out, I realized that the unbearable pit just now was a paradise compared to the outside. The scorching flames curled up my hair and eyebrows, and black smoke with the pungent smell of gasoline poured into my mouth and nose, making me dizzy and dry, and the bean-sized beads of sweat had just slid down my forehead to the ground and turned into steam with a sizzling sound......
But I didn't care about that much anymore, and I knew that on the other side of the mountain, a large group of American troops was attacking the top of the hill while our troops were blocked in the tunnel by gasoline bombs. We were racing against them for time, and once they had taken the hill and set up their machine guns, we hadn't come out of the pit yet, or we were stuck in this small "no-fire zone......
The warriors were clearly aware of the danger they were facing, and they all rushed out of the tunnels to extinguish the fire, and they lined up in a row with a tacit understanding, waving their shovels and throwing the earth out at the same time, and in an instant the earth and stones rushed towards the fire like waves. Those originally arrogant flames quickly lowered their haughty heads.
The warriors of the other tunnels also rushed out with shovels, and in a short time they cut a dirt path on the flaming mountain. But then I realized that the fortifications we had built were long gone, and the stones that would have provided us with cover had either been blown to pieces or burned like a fireball.
If the volunteers defend in this place, not to mention the small area of activity, the ground is so hot that people can't lie down at all, and then once the U.S. troops occupy the high ground on the top of the mountain, they will condescendingly shoot at us......
"Put out the fire on the mountain!" Thinking that I shouted at the soldiers, the anticline full of fire had lost its defensive meaning, and now the only way out was to seize the top of the mountain with the American troops.
As soon as I reminded them, the soldiers reacted quickly, and immediately dozens of soldiers swung sapper shovels in the direction of the top of the mountain to extinguish the fire.
Sixty meters!
The warriors extinguished the fire quickly, the sand dried by the fire was crunchy like biscuits, and the warriors easily shoveled them up in rows, and the fire slowly retreated to the top of the hill with the soldiers' footsteps.
But I know very well that no matter how fast the soldiers put out the fire, they can't move faster than the pace of the American army.
Fifty meters!
The sound of the wind blowing and the fire and the sonorous sound of the warriors shoveling the earth and stones were everywhere. At this moment, there were several strange noises from the other side of the mountain, which made me realize that the enemy was coming, so I dropped the sapper's shovel and reached out to touch the rifle behind me.
"Keep putting out the fire! The second and third companies are ready for battle! ”
"Yes!" The warriors answered, and immediately many of them dropped their sapper shovels and raised their weapons.
Forty meters!
The footsteps of the enemy were getting louder and louder, and I glanced at the soldiers standing around and couldn't help frowning, the ground was very hot, and I had to change my legs back and forth from time to time while standing. The fighters could not lie down and take cover, so they all stood with their guns raised. At this time, if the enemy placed one or two machine guns on the top of the hill and fired condescendingly......
"All of them!" Thinking about it, I ordered again: "Don't save bullets!" ”
Thirty meters!
When the helmet of the first American soldier was revealed, I pulled the trigger, and I didn't know whether I hit the helmet or the head when I heard the bang, and after a while, the enemy's position did not move.
They won't be intimidated like that, will they! I couldn't help but be surprised when I saw this, although the US military's will to fight is not strong, but it will not reach the point where it can suppress them with one shot! Unless that shot hit MacArthur...... Of course I don't believe I'm so lucky!
Looking at the soldiers who put out the fire and pushed the line of fire up a few meters, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the fire is extinguished, we will have the opportunity to rush up and fight with those Yankees.
At this time, an accident happened, and rows of grenades suddenly threw out of the US position. Although those oval grenades are not thrown far, they are better than spherical and rolling, and the American army just throws them over the ridge and rolls down the slope in our direction!
"Get down!" As soon as I came to shout urgently, a series of explosions sounded in ......front of the position, and before the soldiers of the company who were fighting the fire on the top of the hill could react, the grenades exploded, and in an instant, the screams became one!
Several fighters were tossed by the blast wave of the grenade, and then fell heavily in front of us, already in a blur of flesh and blood. Others, however, were ignited by the flames of the grenades, and soon became fire men, screaming and crashing across the battlefield, and a few even broke into the fire...... At least half of the more than 50 fighters in a company fell in this blow alone, and I could only see the roots of my teeth biting.
But to my great surprise, the surviving warriors only lay down for a while, and after a while they got up and marched forward with their sapper shovels.
Almost at the same time as the grenade exploded, the American troops on the top of the hill appeared in rows, raising all kinds of weapons in their hands and shooting at the volunteers. Suddenly, bullets rained down on the soldiers, and many of them fell in pools of blood in an instant. But the soldiers still bravely raised their guns to fight back, but fortunately, the fire also spread to the top of the mountain, and the strength of the US army could not be deployed in a large area, otherwise the soldiers would only be passively beaten.
Some of the fighters who were fighting the fire in front spotted the enemy and threw their grenades at them, but the Americans had the advantage of being so condescending that the grenades were easily kicked back with only a light kick, which made the soldiers scramble.
I raised my rifle and fired a few shots to knock out one of the enemy machine gunners, but I was quickly overwhelmed by the enemy's bullets. At this time, I didn't care about the hot ground, and I threw myself on the ground and raised my gun to shoot.
"Bang bang bang ......" With a burst of gunfire, several American soldiers armed with submachine guns fell in response, and the M3 submachine gun had an extremely high rate of fire, and as soon as these gunners fell, the firepower of the American troops immediately became much smaller.
The weapons in the hands of the volunteers are all American-style equipment, and I have also explained that they do not need to save bullets, and the marksmanship of the volunteers is not comparable to those of the American army, so for a while the volunteers once again had the upper hand.
But these American troops seem to see the hope of victory, or they don't want to give up the opportunity for us to be trapped in the fire, and they also know that this flame will always be extinguished, and it will not be so easy to deal with us at that time. So they showed unprecedented bravery, falling in front of a row and rushing up after them.
This seems to be the difference between a recruit and a veteran, who will run for their lives if they are at a disadvantage, but will rush to victory when they see victory. Just like these American troops in front of them. They are now in a state of euphoria.
And the veterans will deal with it as hard as ever, regardless of their disadvantage or advantage, just like the volunteer soldiers who are still resisting stubbornly......
"Boom!" With a bang, a shell landed not far behind me, and the rifle in the hand of a soldier lying next to me stopped firing, and I thought he was dead, but to my surprise, after a while I heard a crisp sound of gunfire coming from beside me. I took advantage of the interval between changing magazines to glance to the side, only to realize that his legs had been blown off......
......With a series of gunshots, a soldier who ran in front of me was shot and fell to the ground, with a few more bullet holes in his right leg, perhaps from being hit in the artery, blood spurting out, my heart sank, if he had not been bandaged, he would soon die of blood loss. But what I didn't expect was that the soldier used the simplest method, he took out a few bullets and shoved them into the hole of the gun in his leg, and then picked up the submachine gun in his hand again......
Although there are still some recruits in the volunteer army, I admit that I have no idea which ones are new recruits and which ones are veterans. Because these recruits are as heroic as the veterans, and have the same tacit understanding as the veterans!
I think this is the soul of the army, every army has its own soul, and this soul cannot be taken away and defeated at the same time. No matter who you are, if you join this army, you will soon be infected by this military spirit, you will soon be assimilated by this military spirit, and you will soon become a part of this army!
"Comrades, for the sake of communism! For the new China! At this time, a soldier jumped up in front, and I recognized him as Huang Chuanyu, the commander of the first company in charge of extinguishing the fire in front. In front of that was a raging fire more than twenty meters away......
Huang Chuanyu rushed forward like that, let the flames climb up his cotton pants, ignited the cotton clothes, and then extended up to his shoulders, and soon he became a fire man, but this fire man still rushed towards the mountain with extremely firm steps. The U.S. soldiers all opened their mouths wide and watched as the burning man pounced on them, holding a gun in his hand and not knowing how to shoot......
Immediately after a roar, the burning man disappeared from the admiring eyes of the volunteers, and at the same time, dozens of American troops on the top of the mountain disappeared.
"Kill!"
"Avenge Commander Huanglian!"
Immediately after that, two more warriors rushed forward in flames......
The American troops finally retreated, and they were not repelled by us, but by the spirit of those martyrs.
When the flames of the fuel bombs were extinguished, we climbed to the top of the hill to find a few relics of the three martyrs, but there was nothing but a few charred organs.
After asking about the surviving fighters of the company, we learned that the other two martyrs who rushed up with them were recruits, and we didn't even know their names.