Chapter 68: Red Flags

Chapter 68: Red Flags

I waved my hand to the rear, and Hu Biao immediately deployed his troops in accordance with the battle plan that had been formulated, the first company in the lead deployed its troops according to the attack formation, the second company prepared for the attack as the second echelon, and the third company lurked in the second line as a reserve.

On a rainy night, the soldiers were ready for battle, the guns were loaded with chambers and bayonets, and the mortar crews of the heavy machine gunners who assisted quickly set up their guns in good positions, and the boxes of bullets and shells were moved to the heavy machine guns and mortars, waiting for my orders.

I raised my binoculars and looked towards 522.1 Heights, and the light of searchlights and flares made the enemy's layout and movements very clearly exposed. The most conspicuous are the two pontoon bridges on the Bukhan River, where two teams of puppet army captains are running back and forth, one to the south and the other to the north. Obviously, as the scouts said, to the north were the reinforcements of the Puppet Seventh Division, and to the south were the exhausted routs of the puppet army. It's just that what they don't know is that under the two pontoon bridges, rows of explosives 'charge' bags have been tied up by the volunteer soldiers......

Looking closer, there were two companies of puppet troops busy building fortifications at the foot of the hill, and judging from the distribution and orientation of these fortifications, it was clear that they were intended to defend against threats from our direction. It was only at this time that the construction of the fortifications began, and it was too late. And because the 539th Regiment attacked fiercely on the other side, those puppet troops who were overwhelmed did not have time to pay too much attention to this side, so the defense of the puppet army in this direction looked very loose.

I put away my binoculars and said to the herald behind me, "Pass the order down and detonate it."

"Yes," the herald responded, and immediately dialed the phone to convey the order. Then, after a while, the herald whispered to me, "Commander, it's been detonated."

"Hmm," I nodded.

I know that the reason why the two pontoon bridges have not exploded yet is because the volunteer soldiers who were responsible for detonating the 'medicine' package need time to evacuate, and now we need to wait for the time when the fuses burn out.

The guns were still ringing, the cannons were still ringing, everything seemed to have changed, the captives were still busy in the wind and rain, what they didn't know was that there were already a bunch of black 'holes' and 'holes' in the shadows aimed at them, and the puppet troops on the pontoon bridge were still running back and forth as before, what they didn't notice was that the palm of the god of death had slowly stretched out from the river to them......

Then I only listened to the explosion of "boom ......", with a piece of firelight, the two pontoon bridges were blown into pieces in an instant, and the puppet army that was still running on the pontoon bridge to transport ammunition 'medicine' was torn to pieces in an instant, and the wreckage of the pontoon bridge was thrown into the sky fiercely, and then fell into the river one after another, 'stirring' up a stream of water 'flowers'. The burning wooden blocks flew and floated in the river with the waves, illuminating the blood and severed limbs of the river. The Bukhan River turned into a river of blood in just the blink of an eye......

All the puppet soldiers were stunned by this sudden scene, and they subconsciously fell to the ground, and they all looked back at this scene on the Bukhan River in disbelief. The machine gunners and searchlights arranged along the shore also focused on the two pontoon bridges that had been blown to pieces. What they couldn't understand was how the volunteers could have unknowingly blown up the pontoon bridge so completely when they were so tightly defended......

I don't know who fired a flare at the river, and suddenly a Bukhan River covered with corpses and blood appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Obviously, the volunteer soldiers were also stunned by the scene in front of them, so much so that they forgot that this was the best time to charge.

"Comrades, rush" I was the first to react, waved the rifle in my hand, and shouted and pulled the trigger at the puppet soldiers in front of me.

The sound of gunfire and shouts quickly sobered up the soldiers, and with a wave of the red banner, the Red Banner Bearer led the soldiers of the first company to rush towards the puppet army near the pontoon bridge.

The dense gunfire soon rang out, and the unsuspecting puppet army could not resist the impact of the volunteer soldiers at all, plus the puppet army was in the light of flares, searchlights and firelight, which was undoubtedly the best target for the volunteer soldiers.

However, the puppet army was also worthy of being a unit that grew up in the war, and soon realized that the defense line at the foot of the mountain in the open place could not be defended, so it quickly organized troops to cover the retreat of the groups towards the relatively dark 522.1 heights.

"Action" I gave the order to the walkie-talkie, and the troops of the Seventh Company immediately formed a formation, and under the leadership of the night vision device of the cold gun unit, they covered up and killed those puppet deserters.

There was not much time for this operation, and the imminent desertion of the puppet army left us with only an hour before and after. In other words, we must take down this 522.1 high ground with one charge, otherwise, it is very likely that the puppet army will build a complete defense line and we will not be able to complete the task in this limited time.

There is only one unit that can take down the 522.1 heights with a single charge, and that is the Seventh Company equipped with night vision devices

"Bang bang ......" The soldiers of the seventh company, under my leadership, walked unhurriedly behind the retreating puppet army. At the forefront were five fighters armed with night vision devices, and their carbines occasionally fired a few 'shots', killing a few of the people who were left behind the group or the puppet soldiers who wanted to turn back to defend. And we don't care about the other puppet soldiers who only care about fleeing, even if they completely show their backs in front of us, we just let them escape.

This is the strategic policy we set from the beginning, and to put it simply, it is actually to use the deserters of the puppet army to cover our raiding force and clear the obstacles along the way.

In fact, the puppet army has already built a lot of fortifications on both sides of the mountain road, although these fortifications are also very simple, but they are just some trenches, machine gun positions and the like, and the puppet army has no way to build more fortifications in such a short time, but even such a simple fortification still has to 'take' a certain amount of time to deal with. Because the puppet army often only needs to set up one or two 'strong' machine guns at random, and they can stop us on the narrow mountain road for more than ten minutes.

Now it's easy, it seems like we just need to follow those pseudo-army deserters all the way, and then a kind of clearing the machine gunners on both sides.

The difficulty for the puppet machine gunners on both sides of the mountain road is that they can't tell whether the large group of people coming along the mountain road is friend or foe. This may not be accurate enough, it should be said that they can distinguish between friend and foe, but what makes them very helpless is that their comrades are always at the front, and when they find the enemy, the volunteer soldiers equipped with night vision devices have already discovered them first, and the bullet is 'accurately' into their heads.

For those puppet soldiers who fled all the way, their pain is that they know that they are being used by us but they are helpless, and the enemy's guns are pointed at behind their backs, who still has the courage not to run back and resist? Don't think about it, everyone who has the intention of resisting is lying on the road

If they are soldiers of the puppet army White Tiger Regiment, I think they are likely to sacrifice themselves regardless of the overall situation. Just as when the White Tiger Regiment attacked our army's 585.2 heights, there were death squads rushing to our army's positions with grenades and explosives, it should be said that some of the combat styles of the White Tiger Regiment were very similar to the Japanese army in World War II.

It's a pity that the puppet army in front of us is not the White Tiger Regiment, they are the 539th Regiment who chased all the way from Jincheng River to here. Several defeats in one night have already made them lose their sharpness and courage, so they can only speed up to break free from our control as soon as possible. But what they don't know is that speeding up is exactly what we want them to do.

So there was a very dramatic scene on the 522.1 heights, a group of volunteer soldiers drove the puppet army to the mountains like a duck, and the firepower points set by the puppet army along the road were all because they were worried that they would accidentally injure their own people and none of them could play their due role, so they had to be easily knocked out by us one after another.

In this way, our army marched all the way to the top of the 522.1 heights amid the sound of gunfire and the screams of the puppet army, which was more appropriate than a war and a massacre. The speed of its attack was so fast that it was even faster than the one I had come up in disguise as a puppet army a few hours earlier, and it didn't take long to see the rows of wooden houses that were originally the headquarters of the puppet army's White Tiger Regiment. The two blown up jeeps in front of the 'gate' were even smoking......

This can't help but remind me of a sentence said by the ancients, which is called "go up to the army to plot, then attack the 'handover', then attack the army, and attack the city". It is also true that with a good and correct strategy, what seems very difficult can be very simple to actually 'operate'.

"Did the second company follow?" I casually asked over the intercom.

As the second echelon, the second company is our reinforcements, and now it looks like it is about to attack the hilltop position, and the puppet army above is not the best that our seventh company can deal with.

"Keep up, just behind" Yang Zhenshan's voice came from the walkie-talkie, he was in charge of the rear of the palace in this operation.

"Let them speed up, and they will get to the top of the mountain"

"Yes"

……

"Da Da Da ......"

At this moment, the position on the top of the hill suddenly remembered the sound of gunfire, and the puppet army that had been running in front of us to "lead the way" fell in a pool of blood in pieces, and then there was a roar, and one shell after another exploded in the puppet army group, and a few shells fell around us, and the mud and shrunnel that were kicked off were 'chaotic' flying above our heads......

Fortunately, when the soldiers heard the gunshot, they fell to the ground as soon as possible, otherwise there would have been casualties.

"He's **" Hu Zudi looked up at the puppet army that was beaten and screamed, and couldn't help but scold fiercely: "These dog-day puppet soldiers are really ruthless, and they beat their own people so hard."

"Cut" Wang Xinhe said: "If they don't fight so hard, then we will wait for us to follow the tail of the puppet army to kill......"

A burst of cannon fire from the "boom ......" drowned out all the sounds.

I hurriedly shouted into the walkie-talkie: "All units are deployed in battle formation, and the cold-gun troops are ready to take cover, and call the commander of the second company to come up."

"Yes"

The soldiers answered, and immediately spread out on both sides of the mountain road, each looking for cover and sniper positions.

I raised my sniper rifle and looked at the hilltop position for a while, and I could tell from the light of the fire coming from the muzzles of the enemy's guns that the enemy's defenses were very tightly arranged. Light and heavy weapons form a 'crossed' firepower network according to different 'firing' ranges, which can cover almost every inch of the open land more than 200 meters wide in front of them.

At this time, the gunfire on the other side of the 522.1 high ground was also very dense, and it can be imagined that the puppet army on the top of the hill was in a state of being attacked by the volunteers on both sides. Being able to build such a tight line of defense in an orderly manner under such circumstances is by no means something that ordinary troops can do.

The word "White Tiger Regiment" quickly flashed into my mind. Although the regimental headquarters of the White Tiger Regiment was destroyed by us and the ammunition 'medicine' depot was also blown up, it was originally the main force of the White Tiger Regiment stationed here, with as many as two battalions. Even if the regiment commander, chief of staff and other senior officers died under our hands, there were still a large number of battalion commanders and company commanders, and it was still possible to organize a defensive line to resist.

Originally, their ammunition 'medicine' depot was blown up, and this tiger was equivalent to being knocked out of its minions, but the puppet army that withdrew from the direction of Jincheng River on the front line provided them with ammunition 'medicine'......

It's no wonder they can be so ruthless to their comrades. In fact, there was no need for them to kill all the puppet soldiers in front of us just now, they could have used mortars to separate us to save the lives of some puppet soldiers. But they didn't do it, apparently they were worried that the puppet army had infiltrated the enemy, so they simply cleared it all.

Back then, the Japanese army's combat style was to ignore the lives of soldiers in order to achieve their goals, and they were sometimes even able to persevere by eating the corpses of their comrades when they were short of food. Now I also seem to see the shadow of the Japanese army in the White Tiger Regiment.

"Regiment Commander" I was thinking about when a volunteer soldier wearing a straw hat and covered in mud and water crawled up to me and reported: "I am Li Guoshen, the commander of the second company."

"Hmm," I took out my pocket watch and looked at it, pointing to the hilltop position that was constantly spitting flames at us, "You have half an hour to knock down the hilltop position, do you have any confidence?" ”

"Yes" Li Guo replied without thinking about it: "I promise to complete the task"

"Move fast," I confessed, "the sharpshooters of the Cold Gun Unit will provide you with cover, as long as you rush to the enemy position, it will be victory, understand?" ”

"Understood" Li Guoshen didn't say much, turned around and went back to the army to organize an attack.

It's not that I'm biased in favor of the Seventh Company, and let other troops go on when there is a task to attack the fortifications. The fact is that it is rare for any country to use special forces to carry out the task of attacking fortifications, because for a tough task, there is not much difference between letting special forces carry out it or ordinary troops to carry out it. Then for the commander of a force, taking into account the interests of the entire force, of course, there will be an intention to protect the special forces and let them play a more meaningful role.

For example, now, as long as the second company can rush to the enemy's position, even if the whole army is wiped out just after rushing up, our seventh company can also follow up and give full play to the advantages of the seventh company's advanced equipment, tacit cooperation, and strong individual combat ability to quickly occupy the hilltop position.

The offensive was quickly organized, and the battle was almost always in a pattern, and the preparation of fire was followed by a charge by soldiers under the cover of machine guns. The charge of the volunteer soldiers was no exception, but now we have no artillery support for the time being, so we can only concentrate a dozen 'mortars' to bombard the hilltop position.

The soldiers of the "killing" company roared, and rushed towards the 522.1 heights in a scattered formation led by a red flag.

The soldiers of the 538th Regiment are all veterans with combat experience, and they know how to protect themselves very well, and they do not use their own flesh and blood to hit the enemy's guns in a dense formation like in movies or television. There are many examples in reality that prove that such tactics will not work.

I saw that the charging soldiers sometimes fell down and sometimes rolled, and sometimes took advantage of the enemy's machine gun bullet point to shift, jumped up and quickly approached the hilltop position a few steps. At a glance, the inclined plane in front of me, which is more than 200 meters wide, seems to be the figures of volunteer soldiers flying and running, but when the muzzle of the gun is really aimed at a certain soldier, there is a feeling that there is nowhere to start.

Among them, the most conspicuous is the soldier holding the red flag, because the volunteers go abroad to fight does not represent China, so the red flag used by the volunteer troops does not have a "five-star" on it, in fact, it is a piece of red cloth.

This red cloth was very conspicuous in the wind and rain, and I don't know why the red flag bearer didn't roll up the flag so that it could be charged, and let it be waved in the wind and rain.

After a while, I understood that the purpose of the Red Flag Bearer was to attract the enemy's fire so that his comrades could better charge. The puppet army may have thought that if they could defeat the Red Banner Bearers, they would be able to hit the morale of our assault troops to a great extent, right? The two 'Ting' machine guns swept towards the Red Bannerman's hideout.

However, it also gave me the opportunity to snipe the enemy machine gunner, and I gently pulled the trigger, only to hear the "bang......" twice, and the machine gun immediately became dumb

The red flag bearer was also clever, taking advantage of the machine-gun sound to burst out of the crater and rush straight to the hilltop position, the fiery red red flag whistling in the wind, attracting all the enemy's light and dark fire at once. The soldiers of the whole company also took advantage of the situation to storm the position on the top of the mountain.

Suddenly, I saw the red flag bearer somersault to the ground, and the red flag also fell, and the soldiers' charge was once again suppressed by the fire of the puppet army.

Looking through the sniper scope at the red flag bearer, in the light of the flares, I saw that his entire foot had been broken, and Bai Sensen's bones were even visible.

"I'm afraid this charge won't work," I sighed.

But at this moment, I was surprised to find that the red flag stood up again, not only standing up, but also moving forward rapidly...... When Dingqing saw it, it turned out that the red flag bearer used the flagpole as a crutch, and used the flagpole to support his body and rushed towards the top of the mountain......

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In the Battle of Jincheng to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the commando leader Zhang Shixiu dragged his broken legs and 'inserted' a bullet-riddled red flag on the main peak, leaving a 20-meter-long bloody road behind...... The red flag was punched with 216 bullet holes