Chapter 10: 9 Company

Chapter 10: 9 Company

After discussing with Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe for several hours, they could not come up with a satisfactory plan, so they just put aside the plan of attacking the enemy's 902.8, 973 and 883.7 heights for the time being, as Li Pinghe said. After all, on this battlefield, not every battle plan can be figured out with just a frown, and the day to leave the battle is still early, so we have every time to think about this issue slowly.

"Commander Cui" Liu Shunyi "stood up" at me and said: "Since you have returned, then I will 'hand' the command to you tonight."

"What are you doing in such a hurry?" I couldn't help but quip: "I still want to be idle for a few more days, you acting head of the regiment have done a good job, managing the 538 regiment in an orderly manner." I see that the soldiers only want you to be the commander of the regiment."

"Commander Cui, what are you talking about......" Liu Shunyi replied with a wry smile: "You don't look at you and you're coming back, the soldiers are so excited, and they spontaneously gave you such a beautiful regimental headquarters, stay for a while, Captain Cui will go to my regimental headquarters to have a look, and you will know what it means to be a fan."

With a coax, the three of them couldn't help but look at each other and laugh.

"The distribution of our army is on this map" After laughing for a while, Liu Shunyi pointed to the map and said: "The distribution of the 180th Division is that our 538th Regiment is stationed on the 649.8 Heights and 510 Heights, the 539th Regiment is stationed on the 890.2 Heights on the right flank, and the 540th Regiment is stationed on the second line as a reserve. On the left flank of our division is the 179th Division, and on the right flank is the 181st Division. Our division is located in the middle of the army's defense line, and the total length of the defense line is nearly eight kilometers, making it the longest division of the army's defense line."

"Good steel is used on blades," I smiled and nodded.

Judging from this arrangement, the 180th Division is now clearly regarded as the main force of the 60th Army. Thinking about the 180th Division in history, which was once idle because of the fiasco of the five battles, but now it can become the sharp knife of the first army in an important position, and I can't help but sigh that the world is impermanent.

"Our regiment is ......," Liu Shunyi then pointed to the map and said: "The first and third battalions are stationed on the 649.8 height, and the second battalion is stationed on the 510 high ground on the right flank."

649.8、510…… I feel a headache when I hear such a small elevation, the position of the puppet army is more than 800 or 900 at every turn, and the high ground of our army is more than 600 or 500...... The difference is three or four hundred meters, and such a height difference can make the puppet army very comfortable and condescendingly carry our heads and blow up.

"The reason why the third battalion was arranged to be stationed with the first battalion to guard the 649.8 heights together," Liu Shunyi then explained: "It is because considering that a large part of the soldiers of the third battalion are new recruits, for example, the 9th company of the 3rd battalion is composed of all the cadets who have just graduated from the infantry school, although they have a lot of theoretical knowledge, but they do not have much practical combat experience. And they are different from ordinary soldiers, the country has 'spent' a lot of effort into their training, so I think they are worth protecting and cultivating. ”

"Hmm" I nodded, admiring Liu Shunyi's careful arrangement.

"How are they doing?" I asked casually.

When I asked, Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe couldn't help but glance at each other and laughed.

"Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers," Li Pinghe replied: "I didn't know the cruelty of the battlefield when I first came up, and I have been asking for assignments for several days."

"Well, why don't you let them go up and try it," I laughed.

"With their mentality, are they suitable for war?" Liu Shunyi explained: "They are pretending to be a family when they fight, I want them to see more, calm down and send them up." Otherwise, there is a high probability that there will be a lot of casualties as soon as you go up."

"Then let them try," I replied, "Doesn't that mean that the battlefield is a university hall?" If you go to the battlefield and don't let them go to war, then what else do you want to learn? ”

Liu Shunyi's worries are reasonable, but the so-called long-term illness still requires fierce 'medicine' doctors, and if they are not allowed to go to the battlefield to see and see, of course, there will be no progress for them

"What does Commander Cui mean......" Liu Shunyi asked uncertainly, "Is it to let them go to the battlefield to practice?" ”

"I want to practice," I nodded: "I'll practice tonight, and I'll lead the team." The subject of the training is ...... Lurking in front of the battle to shoot cold shots"

"Commander Cui, this is not very good" Li Pinghe hurriedly stopped: "You also know that there is a big difference between the enemy and us, and it is okay to let the students go up to practice, you are a regiment leader......"

"There's nothing wrong with that," I replied, "It's because I'm a regimental commander that I want them to see if I can do it as a regimental commander, and if they can do it as an ordinary soldier."

As soon as I said this, Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi had nothing to say, and they also knew very well that I had always been the one who personally went into battle and charged into battle, so they didn't stop it much.

Actually, it's not that I'm leading by example, but I've been in the hospital for so long, and I've been practicing alone in the snow with imaginary enemies as the goal, and now I can't help but feel itchy and want to go up and try my skills.

"Pass the order down" I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time, and ordered: "At twelve o'clock, the 9th Company will go to the position on time to lurk and shoot cold guns, give them two hours to prepare, and let the company commander give me a battle plan"

"Yes" Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe responded, saluted me and then conveyed the order.

When the two of them were gone, I took off the rifle hanging on the wall, grabbed a cloth and wiped it off. Although the only ones who came to the battlefield tonight were some infantry school students, the enemy was real, so I still didn't dare to take it lightly.

"Commander Cui" was only ten minutes later, and I saw Jiang Changshun hurriedly running in front of me, saluting me and saying, "Commander Cui, really, really let us go to the battlefield?" ”

"Of course it's true, the order is still fake? Are you pretending to be a family member when you are fighting? I couldn't help but be angry.

"No, it's not ......" Jiang Changshun was still 'very' bold when he was in step school, and he would go against me at that time, but at this time, he was half a cut shorter no matter how he looked at it. At this time, I was robbed of white, and I 'touched' my head a little unnaturally and said, "I mean, I mean...... I want to be sure."

"Are you sure?" I wrenched the rifle in my wrench and said, "Make a plan right away and get the fighters ready."

"The plan is there"

"So fast?" I couldn't help but look at Jiang Changshun suspiciously.

"It's not so fast," Jiang Changshun explained: "It's that we want to go to the battlefield these days, and we want to go crazy, so we have thought about it ten times or eight times in our heads."

"Well, let's talk about it......," I let Jiang Changshun in front of the map on the desktop.

Jiang Changshun was not polite, walked straight to the map and said: "I have observed the terrain, and the 649.8 heights I am stationed on are the closest in a straight line to the 883.7 heights where the enemy is stationed, more than 300 meters, but in the face of the enemy's 883.7 heights, it is a jungle. Although it is convenient to hide in the jungle, it will obscure the sight of the troops to a certain extent, and the target is too big, and the danger is too high......"

"Hmm" I nodded, Jiang Changshun still had a point in thinking about it. Sniping in the jungle, unless you climb a tree, it is difficult to see the opposite target in the dark. But if you climb up the tree, the retreat will be too slow, and the enemy will first suspect the woods when they hear the gunshots, and they will be finished with a cannon smashing it clean.

With my approval, Jiang Changshun seemed to become more bold, and said excitedly: "So I think we can set our goal on the 902.8 high ground on the side." ”

Jiang Changshun pointed to the map and said: "The flank of this 649.8 high ground is diagonally 'inserted' into the enemy's 902.8 high ground flank, although the straight line distance here is farther, there are more than 400 meters, but the visibility is good, and it is flat and full of snow, which is convenient for our department to hide, and it is difficult for the enemy to find our position once the attack starts."

"How many men are you going to send?" I asked.

"A platoon," Jiang Changshun replied, "I have reconnoitred and made a big deal every night、... At that time, there would be a group of puppet troops on the 902.8 heights to the front line for routine patrols. Our cold guns are targeting them tonight."

"Where's the retreat route?"

"Retreat route...... Jiang Changshun obviously didn't think of this, hesitated for a while, drew a line on the top of the mountain and said: "Just withdraw the anticline from the top of the mountain......

"The enemy's communications equipment is advanced, and the artillery will open fire within 10 minutes of the start of the battle," I asked, "If you retreat from this line, are you sure that you will be able to withdraw within 10 minutes?" ”

"This ......" Jiang Changshun replied a little nervously: "I haven't calculated, but sacrifice is inevitable......

"It is not wrong to fight a war with sacrifices," I replied in an accentuated tone, "but it is a crime to cause unnecessary casualties among soldiers due to command errors."

"Yes," Jiang Changshun 'stood up' and responded.

"Do you know what's wrong?"

"I don't know" Jiang Changshun replied with a straight look: "Please instruct Commander Cui"

I nodded and said, "Since we are lurking on the side of the high ground, the shortest route back to the anticline is not from the top of the mountain, but from the mountainside......"

As he spoke, he drew an arc on the mountainside with his fingers, Jiang Changshun quickly understood, and replied with a ashamed face: "The lesson of Regiment Commander Cui is that I almost killed my own subordinates with my own hands."

"Maybe you're among those who died," I patted him on the shoulder and said, "You have to remember that you can't make mistakes on the battlefield, because if you make a mistake once, maybe you won't have a second chance to go down and prepare."

"Yes" Jiang Changshun saluted, and then retreated convincingly.

In fact, it's already very good to be like Jiang Changshun, it seems that the knowledge that Jiang Changshun learned in the infantry school was not learned in vain, but I don't know how they performed on the real battlefield?

I pulled the bolt hard, pressed a row of bullets into the rifle, and thought to myself: it's a mule or a horse, just pull it out and walk it.

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At 10:30, I walked into the tunnel where the Ninth Company was located, and Jiang Changshun and the soldiers were already waiting for me in the tunnel. Perhaps they had learned it from other warriors, who were also dressed in white cloth with black faces, and their rifles were disguised, which at first glance looked like that.

To my displeasure, they all had excited expressions on their faces. That's exactly what I'm worried about, if it's a veteran, they don't have a 'wave' on their faces, and they can't see any expression. But for new recruits, especially those who are eager to make meritorious contributions, they will have such expressions on their faces.

There seems nothing wrong with having such an expression, but what is wrong is that it shows their mentality, which is an impatient mentality, a mentality that is not suitable for latent combat.

In fact, I can't say what mentality is suitable for stealth warfare, perhaps, I can compare latent warfare to fishing. Throw down the bait and wait quietly on the shore, there may not be a fish hooked, maybe the fish will secretly eat the bait without knowing, and it may not be just a small fish that is not small enough to stuff your teeth...... Therefore, you shouldn't have too much hope for lurking and shooting cold guns, but these soldiers in front of you are obviously not like this.

I walked over step by step, and the students in the queue stood in front of me one by one, as if they were being inspected by me. To be honest, it gave me a sense of vanity. At this time, although I was only a regimental commander, I felt like a general.

Then I was surprised to find that Lin Xue was also in the team. Because she also had mud on her face, I looked at her for a while before I recognized her. She winked mischievously at me......

I looked at Jiang Changshun suspiciously, Jiang Changshun didn't understand what I meant at first, and only after seeing Lin Xue did he suddenly realize: "Oh, Comrade Lin is the deputy company commander, and she insisted on going up with our troops, so ......"

"The deputy company commander insisted on going up together" I glared at Lin Xue fiercely with some anger, but there was nothing I could do about her in front of so many soldiers.

"Let's go" As soon as I gave the order, the soldiers took a step and walked towards the outside of the tunnel.

Because they were trained when they were in the infantry school, their pace was very uniform, even higher than that of the volunteer soldiers

Outside the tunnel, the moonlight sprinkled on the camouflage of the soldiers, blending with the snow on the ground, became our excellent camouflage 'color'.

The soldiers walked towards their designated positions one by one, which reminded me of the "finding points" I practiced in foot school, and now it seems that this skill can come in handy.

As soon as I thought of "finding something", I remembered that I was paired with Lin Xue to carry out a mission, so I couldn't help but search for Lin Xue's figure in the crowd.

It wasn't hard to find her, and I was familiar with her steps and movements, so even though the light wasn't very good right now, and she was in a group of warriors of similar rank and camouflage, I was able to find her easily.

Her movements are also familiar, and she is obviously trained in this area. In fact, all the fighters in front of me have done pretty well so far. Along the way, reconnaissance, stealth, and even two mines were cleared very smoothly......

The US military can lay mines by aircraft, so it is not at all surprising that mines will appear on the positions of our troops.

It was completely unexpected that the fighters would perform so well. But it's not surprising to think about it, some of them, such as the "second generation of reds" like Jiang Changshun, I suspect that they have already received relevant military training when they were sensible since they were children, and even some people may have grown up with the army, so it is reasonable that they will have such qualities.

At this time, I seemed to understand Liu Shunyi's psychology of protecting this army. If such a unit is well trained, it will certainly play a great role in the army over time.

The troops smoothly entered the designated position, and the soldiers entered the position in turn silently, and I took a look at the surrounding environment, and sure enough, as Jiang Changshun said, it was a terrain suitable for sniping. The distance of more than 400 meters from the 902.8 high ground where the enemy was stationed on the opposite side was just within the range of the soldiers' 'shooting' in this moonlight.

It seems that this Jiang Changshun is not simple, the time, the place, and the enemy's situation are all 'touched' clearly.

The fighters each gestured to find a suitable sniper position, and I also found a relatively flat position in the snow to lie down.

At this time, there were a few sounds of "Xi Xi Suo" beside me, and when I looked back, it turned out that Lin Xue was crawling towards me with a gun. I couldn't help but frown and glared at her fiercely. She couldn't help but be stunned, and soon realized that she had made a mistake. Xiu's face was red, and he didn't dare to say more, so he pouted and climbed to a position more than ten meters away from me.

Perhaps the war was not tight during this time, and the puppet army was used to living a comfortable life, so there was no tense atmosphere on the battlefield in the past. The light of several searchlights swayed weakly above our heads, and I believe that most of the puppet soldiers who 'operated' the searchlights did not observe the target. Because there are several rays of light that 'shine' into the sky, and they don't know it.

I raised my rifle and looked through the sniper scope at the enemy's position. Woods, bunkers, barbed wire, 'cross' trenches, ditches, shelters...... One by one, they appeared in front of me, and even I vaguely found the entrances to several tunnels.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, these guys will not only learn the combat methods of the Yankees, but also the combat methods of our volunteers. If they had done the same as us, digging a lot of tunnels in the anticline, it would have been much more difficult for us to dig down these heights. Maybe there will also be a situation in Shangganling, we occupy the surface position, but we can't take down the puppet army hiding in the tunnel. They can also cooperate with the surface troops, and attack us who occupy the surface positions in a coordinated manner.

However, this worry may be unnecessary, because on this battlefield, except for the volunteers who dare to fight in the tunnels at the risk of being sealed in the tunnels, no army dares to do this, especially the United Nations forces with modern and advanced equipment.