Chapter 15: The Trap

The bearded man is the regiment leader, and the regimental commander is the bearded man!

Seeing the bearded man coming over happily, I was stunned, and the soldiers were also stunned...... "Platoon Commander Cui......" Company Commander Li secretly stabbed me, and said anxiously: "Salute!" ”

"Hmm!" At this time, I suddenly came to my senses, and 'straightened' up to salute the bearded man: "Hello regiment leader!" ”

"Good ......," the bearded man patted me on the shoulder, and then punched me in the chest" and said, "What a fight! Played boldly and wisely! To be honest, before you started fighting, I was also having a headache about how to win this 386 Heights! I didn't expect to be solved by you in three or two clicks, it's really terrifying! ”

"Report to the head of the ......", I said a little overwhelmed: "I, I'm all 'door'...... And...... I'm still making mistakes! "What a mistake? The bearded man looked at me suspiciously.

"I'm ......, the person who hit you is still ......" I couldn't help but be stunned when I said this. Seriously, I can't really say what mistakes I made other than beating people, it's just that I'm not big or small in front of a big beard! But it doesn't seem to be a crime.

"Hi" what a mistake that counts! The bearded man waved his hand generously: "That's what he deserves" On the battlefield, he didn't ask if he took a gun to stop people, and treated you as deserters...... Well played! Well played! What if you don't give him a little bit of a delay and delay the fighter? I'm going to punish him!" "Commander......" I couldn't bear to hear it: "Still, forget it!" He's the duty too! The bearded man laughed and said, "This is my business, you can fight your battle!" The lad "has a future!" Do a good job!" He nodded approvingly at me and headed back to the group with the guards. Only then did I realize that a group of PLA soldiers were passing in a line through the canyon we had just rushed up, and then proceeded as fast as they could, while reconnoitring, heading towards the winding mountain road to the south.

"Platoon Commander Cui!" , Li Lian Commander looked at me with envy on his face and said, "You are in this battle!" can be famous, "Even the head of the regiment appreciates you so much!" I smiled noncommittally, knowing that I was a regiment commander when I resisted US aggression and aided Korea, "and I am also the commander of the ace army, so now being appreciated by a regiment commander may be a great thing in the eyes of others, but for me, it is not a big deal!"

"Why don't we follow the troops?" Watching the bearded man walk forward with the troops, I couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"We still have to clean up the battlefield, don't we?" , Company Commander Li pointed to the corpses all over the mountain, and said: "There are also those devils in the tunnel, no matter what you say, you have to solve it, otherwise they will cause us trouble behind our backs!" ”

"Oh!" I couldn't help but nod when I heard this.

It's not that I don't know this, it's just that I was originally the head of my nephew's regiment, and as a main regiment, I was always used to fighting tough battles at the front."

Looking at the tunnels built by the Vietnamese army, I shook my head and didn't bother with it. As for me, who has rich experience in tunnel warfare, I know at a glance that the Vietnamese army is not prepared to fight tunnel battles at all. At best, these tunnels are high-level anti-artillery 'holes'.

However, it is true that they do not need to carry out any tunnel battles with us, and fighting tunnel battles is a tactic used in desperation when their own equipment is obviously inferior to that of the other party, otherwise no one wants to hold themselves in that big ass place to fight. For example, the disparity between the equipment of our army and the equipment of the United Nations Army during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the Vietnamese side during the US-Vietnam War. But now, "the equipment of the Vietnamese army is obviously stronger than ours, so they are also turning a blind eye to the construction of the tunnel!"

Fortunately, otherwise, it would have taken a lot of time for us to take down the Vietnamese army in this tunnel.

Now it's easy" Look at the fighters, just find an angle and throw a few grenades into the tunnel, and shout a few more "Nokumatsuki!" Then several Vietnamese soldiers in tattered uniforms came out and surrendered. Then, regardless of whether there was anyone in the tunnel, "threw an explosive 'drug' bag into it, blew up all the 'holes' that could hide people, and left."

The task of the other fighters "is to look for Vietnamese soldiers who may pretend to be dead in the pile of dead people, and the way to find them is to test them with bayonets one by one."

Of course, I believe that most of the people who do this work are veterans, because those recruits are afraid to look at them with their backs, including those soldiers in our company.

No way! In the past month or so, I have been able to teach them combat skills and the way to survive, but I can't make them adapt to the cruelty of the battlefield and get them used to the sea of corpses and blood.

"Platoon Commander Cui!" , the hometown handed me a cigarette" and Yang Songjian gathered together, said: "Have a good start, work together!" "Let's work together! The three of them clasped their hands tightly together.

I know what this means, in fact, from the beginning of this battle, I think both the hometown and Yang Songjian have a little entanglement in their hearts, that is, whether to listen to me or the company commander on the battlefield. This is not to blame them, after all, the army has the rules of the army, and if there is a conflict between my order and the order of Company Commander Li, they still don't know how to choose. But now, I know they don't even have this little tangled in their hearts. This is undoubtedly the result of my training on the battlefield and the fact that I won this battle.

"Boom!" At this time, a grenade exploded more than a hundred meters away. The two warriors who cleaned up the battlefield were blown up in an instant. The fighters took their guns one after another. Pointed in the direction from which the explosion came, but there was nothing but blood and shredded 'flesh'.

The test with a bayonet also came out of a bit of an accident, and when the soldiers pretended to be dead in the stabbing of the Vietnamese soldiers, the Vietnamese soldiers still had time to pull and ignite the grenades. It also reminded the fighters to be vigilant at all times, but it was another bloody experience.

"With a gun! ...... with bullets" I shouted at the soldiers: "Dead or alive, all hit the head!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers answered, and soon the battlefield rang out with gunfire one after another.

The stretcher team and the containment team soon came up and "carried the wounded and sacrificed soldiers down on stretchers." To my surprise, "many of the stretcher teams and containment teams were also carrying half-and-half on their backs. I later learned that many of them were actually militiamen. Luckily, I didn't ask at the time. Otherwise, "I, a former militiaman, will be 'exposed' in front of my hometown."

This is how we cleaned the battlefield, and it took us more than an hour. After counting the numbers, we followed the signs left by the main force.

Not to mention, sometimes we're glad we're more than an hour behind. Because the road was full of soldiers who were injured by landmines and bamboo sticks, blood, bullet craters, and stumps and broken arms...... Everything is shocking. But as follow-up troops, we don't need to worry about that. What I'm worried about is, "Since there are mines from the Vietnamese army all the way, will we still have a sudden 'sex' this time?"

"It's not as difficult to walk as I imagined" and "It's not as far as I imagined, after all, we are interspersed, and the goal is to surround Tongdeng." Dong Deng was only five kilometers away from our starting point, and although it was a little farther to take this path, there was a large force in front of us, so that after an hour and a half we were almost able to catch up with the large army.

Seeing from a distance that the main force was in front, the soldiers all stepped up and hurried forward. At this moment, there was a sudden whistling of cannonballs, and we all fell to the ground. But the shells were not directed at us, but at the main forces in front of us......

So we saw a very tragic scene: "The main force in front disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by smoke bursting in the shape of radiation, and in the smoke some soldiers were faintly seen being thrown into the air. And that's not even counting the fact that "we are in a mountainous area, and there are bamboos, trees, and the like that are several meters high" that the shells explode in the air when they touch these trees, so that the lethality of their fragments increases tenfold......

The main forces are finished! Company Commander Li and I glanced at each other, "We all know that after this bombing, half of the main force can come back alive, and it's good."

The Vietnamese army had long expected that we would be 'interspersed' from this position, and they had already set up the Zhu Yuan of artillery fire waiting for us to come up. If it weren't for the fact that our battalion was lagging behind because it had to clean up the battlefield, I am afraid that we would suffer the same fate this time.

"Not good! The regiment commander was also there...... "Company Commander Li got up from the ground and was about to rush forward, but I pressed him to the ground.

"You're crazy!" I yelled at him, "What's the use of you rushing up? Can you save the regimental commander? ”

"Then we're going to watch the regiment commander and them being bombed?" , Company Commander Li obviously lost his cool.

"So what else?" I gritted my teeth and replied, "Rush up and die with them?" Who's going to save them? As soon as I said this, Company Commander Li no longer had a voice" just slammed his fist on the ground.

After thinking about it, I said to Company Commander Li: "I suspect that the Vietnamese devils still have an ambush in front of them, and they will charge our army after the shelling is over." Let my nose soldier go up! ”

Hearing this, Company Commander Li suddenly turned his head to look at me, first nodded, and then asked, "Do you want to ask the battalion commander!" He's just behind him! "There's no hurry! I shook my head: "This round of enemy artillery bombardment may only be a few minutes, and the battalion will come ...... after the instructions", "No problem! Company Commander Li immediately nodded and said, "You can bring the troops up!" Battalion commander, I'll explain! ”

"Hmm!" I didn't dare to delay, waved my hand at the soldiers, and pulled the 5th company and rushed forward.

Although the soldiers didn't know what I was going to do, maybe they had a combat experience and were a little bolder, and they all followed me without hesitation to the place where the shells were bombarded.

The explosions were getting louder and louder, and even a few shells had already landed on our side, but I continued to rush forward with the fighters until I felt the danger before raising my hand to signal the fighters to stop.

I gestured to them, "Three rows to the right!" The first and second rows follow me to the left! Watch out for mines! ”

The warriors nodded, and immediately divided into two teams and went into the forest on the left and right sides of the path.

In fact, at this time, "beware of mines" can be said to be nonsense, because we must reach our destination before the end of the enemy bombardment, otherwise the fate left to the fighters of the main force is only to be killed or captured.

To reach our destination in such a short time, "we simply didn't have time to keep an eye out for mines along the way. However, perhaps the Vietnamese army thought that they had taken control of the area with artillery fire, so they did not draw any more snakes and put mines on them, "so that we were able to smoothly bypass the artillery blockade area and lurk in the bamboo forests on both sides of the road."

I have to admit that the terrain chosen by the Vietnamese army is very good! The main force of our army had just turned a corner along the path and entered a relatively open field. There would be no place to hide the artillery fire, and the mud in the fields would slow down the time for the fighters to disperse and retreat. Many of the fighters fell under enemy fire because they could not run away quickly in the fields.

After a few minutes, "the cannonade finally stopped." What unfolds in front of us is a hell on earth: blood, corpses and mutilated human organs everywhere, some fighters are hung on trees, some soldiers are lying in sewage, and some soldiers have their heads cut off by shrapnel, and blood is suddenly gushing out from the broken neck, while still holding a submachine gun in his hand and pointing ahead, what makes people feel even more cruel and terrifying is that a soldier who looks like he has no injuries "is holding a big tree on the side of the road, shouting nonsense in his mouth: "Mom......, woo wow......" He was clearly too scared to control himself.

However, fortunately, some of the warriors crawled out of the pile of dead people, slowly gathered together and retreated.

"No one is allowed to go down to rescue the wounded!" I 'pulled' out the walkie-talkie and whispered, "Pay attention to concealment, calm down!" Listen to my orders and fire again! "Yes! ”

After a long time, the answers of several people from my hometown came from the walkie-talkie, accompanied by the sound of some teeth clucking.

More and more fighters rose from the ground, and a considerable number of them were stunned by the shells, after all, in the valley between the two mountains, "it is still difficult to completely blow up a unit with shells." Even if the Vietnamese military adjusted the Zhu Yuan first, "the mountains or trees would block some of the shells."

Therefore, if the Vietnamese army is ruthless enough, if they want to expand the results of the battle, I believe that they will have a follow-up after Yi'an.

But when I raised my binoculars and looked in the other direction, I found nothing, neither half of the Vietnamese army, nor any hidden traces of the Vietnamese army. Could it be that the Vietnamese army really didn't follow up after a burst of shelling?

Just as I doubted my judgment, I suddenly heard a strange noise from me: "In a col not far from my vision", and suddenly there was an additional pit entrance. One by one, the Vietnamese soldiers wearing straw hats and carrying AK47s came out of the mouth of the pit like a long snake, and ...... this scene frightened me and hurriedly shrank my head, and at the same time scolded in my heart: "Mother! These guys are hiding right under our noses. I think there are more tunnels like this in the vicinity. It's really a good way, using the tunnel can prevent artillery, and can shorten the distance of the attack, if it weren't for my hand, our regiment can be said to be more auspicious this trip.

"Attention units!" I whispered an order into the walkie-talkie: "Look for the Vietnamese army's radio and walkie-talkie, and never let go of one."

"Yes!" The reason for looking for radios and walkie-talkies was that they were worried that the Vietnamese army would call for artillery bombardment again. The strength of our company is not much, but in any case, it cannot withstand another bombardment: "I dare not pin my hope on the Vietnamese artillery without shells."

One by one, the Vietnamese troops came out of the tunnels, densely packed with the strength of two companies. Two companies against one of our regiments? Isn't that too arrogant? But thinking about it, it quickly became clear that this was not because they were arrogant, but because they were under-armed.

In this counterattack against Vietnam, our army used 10 armies with a total of 270,000 troops against 9 combat divisions of the Vietnamese army with a total of 100,000 troops. The Vietnamese army not only had many important towns to defend, but also had 200,000 troops deep in Cambodia and could not retreat. What is even more embarrassing for the Vietnamese army is that Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is not far from the Sino-Vietnamese border. This made the Vietnamese army have to defend everywhere, and as long as there is a gap, our army is very likely to 'push' its capital.

Perhaps it was our army that saw this, "so as soon as the battle began, it divided into more than a dozen routes and marched at the same time, forcing the Vietnamese army to defend a front more than 1,000 kilometers long with very limited troops, so there was this scene I saw." The strength of two companies wants to eat one regiment of our army............ Even if they had artillery bombardment in advance, even if their combat quality was higher than that of our army, it was a bit of a snake swallowing an elephant.

I have to admit that if the Vietnamese army had more troops, it would be very likely that our company would not be able to stop their attack, and the main force of our regiment that had been bombarded would still have suffered heavy losses. But now the situation is completely different!

The Vietnamese soldiers passed in front of us with their guns in hand, and we could even make out the cockades on their straw hat-shaped helmets. But I didn't give the order to shoot, because I knew very well that they could still call for artillery assistance once they had a chance to retract into the tunnel. Just like when we were in Shangganling, we who were hiding in the tunnels could also call in artillery fire to bombard the enemy overhead.

Therefore, in order to avoid this scene, the first is to destroy their radio stations and walkie-talkies to "cut off their contact with other troops." The second is to besiege them in this area to the death, so that the Vietnamese artillery will be bogged down.

A burst of gunfire rang out, and I knew that the vanguard of the Vietnamese army had already engaged in fire with our army, and it was time to close the net!