Chapter 43 Airplanes
The distance was getting farther and farther away, and the reporters were running fast. They are like frightened rabbits, trying to get out of our sight. As for the officer, I think he could have run a little faster. After all, he was a soldier, and he wore military boots on his feet, and if he really wanted to run, the speed he could not match that of reporters in leather shoes. But he was clever enough to slow down and hide himself in the crowd.
I could see the officer's head in the scope, and the hat was so conspicuous in the crowd, but there was no way I could hit the officer without injuring him. Look at the feet again, it's even more 'messy' and can't tell who's whom,,
I glanced at Li Pinghe, who was also aiming beside me, with the corner of my eye, he was also frowning and at a loss, who would have thought that the anti-sniper ability of this US officer in the middle would be so strong, I knew that I would kill him first!
Reckless shooting? If we lose the game and accidentally injure a journalist, and the US military uses it as an excuse to attack us at the negotiating table, then we have made a big mistake. But just let them escape from my sight?
No! Never!
I focused my attention again on the fleeing crowd, closed my eyes for a few seconds and then opened them suddenly, and just as they were about to run out of my 'shot' range, I finally found an opportunity to pull the trigger.
"Bang". A gunshot rang out, and a bullet came out of its chamber, and it spun in the air at high speed with a whistling sound and flew towards the group of reporters, "But to the surprise of all the soldiers watching from the side, including Li Pinghe, the target of my bullet was not the officer, but the camera with a tripod on the back of one of the reporters!" Listening only to the sound of the "horn", the camera was carried forward by the inertia of the bullet and flew forward for several meters and then fell down heavily, and several reporters tripped over the camera's tripod and fell to the ground before they could react, but the officer jumped very neatly to avoid it. So at this time, this officer was completely *** under our guns",
Soldier! The speed of the response was certainly not comparable to that of a journalist. Of course, in addition to me, it occurred to me that I was also a journalist.
But sometimes a quick reaction isn't necessarily a good thing, and this example is a testament to that!
At this time, the officer also realized that he had been fooled, and immediately fell to the ground. But it was too late, and before I could pull the trigger, a gunshot rang out from beside me, and Li Pinghe 'shot' the bullet one step ahead of me, only to see the officer's 'chest' 'thrust' 'thrust' forward, his limbs stretched out in pain, and then collapsed on the ground like a deflated ball.
The reporters dared to stop any longer, and one by one they got up from the ground in a panic and escaped from our sight with trembling feet and trembling guns. Only the bodies of three American officers and a few pools of bright red blood remained on the position.
"Good! Well played".
"Well played!"
Only then did the soldiers cheer.
"You've won!" I put away my rifle and patted Li Pinghe on the shoulder.
Being able to hit a target of about 700 meters without a scope, although it is not the head, it is already remarkable, this guy's marksmanship is really not covered!
"No, you won!" Li Pinghe's face turned pale: "Although I hit two and you hit one, but."
"If you win, you won, what are you humble?" I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "What? Are you afraid that I won't admit it? ”
Li Pinghe didn't answer, but shook his head with a wry smile
After a long time, he looked at me with an incredible look in his eyes, as if he still couldn't believe that what had just happened was true: "How did you do it, in such a short period of time, I couldn't do anything without your shot, I could only watch the officer escape!" ”
"There's really you Captain Cui!" Li Guoqiang took back the binoculars at this time, stared at me stunned and said: "To be fair, according to the rules, this game was won by Political Commissar Li, but of course it was Captain Cui who was marksmanship!" I was surprised when I looked at the first shot, the regiment commander, you actually calculated exactly where the Yankees would lie down, and also calculated where the Yankees would lie down and wait in that position! That's not all, before you take the second shot, I wonder if you can't do anything about it! Who would have thought that the regiment commander would shoot the photographic shackle "What a god!"
"That's the gap!" Li Pinghe smiled bitterly: "Commander Cui, now I know why my marksmanship is not worse than yours, but there is such a big difference on the battlefield." I'm using a gun, but you're shooting a gun with your head! ”
"All have it" have boasted me up to heaven. I smiled noncommittally: "Isn't it just to hit a few people?" There are so many more halls of fame. Go back to the tunnel, the enemy may be able to retaliate again! ”
"Yes". Li Guoqiang answered, and he was busy summoning the soldiers back into the tunnel. Of course, with the experience of being attacked by the enemy last time, he did not forget to arrange a few people on the position to observe the enemy's movements before leaving. But then again, after the last crushing defeat, the enemy does not seem to have the courage to launch a similar "sneak attack" again.
So for the whole night, the enemy did not charge us.
Although the equipment of the British army is worse than that of the American army, the tanks, artillery and other equipment in their hands are still stronger than those of the volunteer army.
But the hateful thing is that these British soldiers don't know if they learned from the Yankees or how to drop it, and they have been going on our positions on and off all night, so noisy that the soldiers can't sleep at all.
Originally, I also wanted our artillery to "quarrel" with them like this, but this idea was quickly abandoned: "Our shells are all exchanged for human lives, and the joint *** cannonballs can't be finished, didn't that Van Vliet also give their soldiers the order of "no upper limit for bullets and shells"? They can use shells as artillery battles, but our volunteers can't afford to 'waste'!
Lying on the small 'bed' of the regiment headquarters, at first he would be disturbed by the sound of artillery on the position, but then he was really sleepy and fell asleep in a daze amid the sound of artillery. Maybe I got used to the sound of the cannon, but in the early hours of the morning, when those Commonwealth guys didn't ***, it woke me up.
Falling asleep to the sound of cannons is not a pleasant thing, and when you wake up, you find yourself in a cold sweat, and your head is splitting, which is more tiring and uncomfortable than not sleeping.
I got up from the bed, and by the beating light of the kerosene lamp, I poured some water out of the kettle and wiped a few handfuls of wet wool towels on my face, and then I felt more comfortable.
I felt that the 'chest' mouth was a little stuffy, so I turned a corner along the pit and came to the mouth of the pit road, and in the bright or dark light, I vaguely saw Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei sitting at the mouth of the pit 'fiddling' something, and then saw me walk out. Immediately stood up and straightened his waist.
"Why haven't you been embarrassed?" I couldn't help but feel a little strange when I saw this, I remember that the two of them stood guard before going to bed, and they are still the two of them until now.
"Commander, we can't sleep!" Zhang Mingxue said helplessly: "Those *** nets are like that***, who can sleep!" We didn't call for a change of guard at all! ”
"How can this work? If you don't rest all night, how will you fight tomorrow
"Commander, don't rush us to rest first!" Xu Yongwei was anxious at this time: "Commander, I won't tell you, we both talked all night!" are all talking about the Yankees you fought today, you, how did you practice this marksmanship? Can you teach us? ”
"What?" As soon as I heard Xu Yongwei's words, I couldn't help but be stunned, not to mention that they didn't know, even I couldn't figure out how I practiced my marksmanship!
"I'm talking about you two comrades!" At this time, I had to be confused: "Aren't all the marksmanship of our troops out of battle?" Isn't it the same to practice marksmanship, hanging bricks and kettles on the barrel of a gun? Sit and talk like you two do! Then the marksmanship will be better? It's important to practice hands-on, not sit here and say, understand? ”
"Yes!"
"Go back and rest! It's almost dawn."
"Yes!" Zhang and Xu answered, and soon walked out of the tunnel.
Watching them lift the black cloth and walk out, I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly, it seems that the game with Li Pinghe during the day also made me famous in the army. If in the past, the soldiers in the battle did not see my marksmanship because of 'chaos' and 'chaos', then now. They just really knew that the rifle in the hands of their regiment commander was not vegetarian.
It's okay to say that it can also increase my prestige in the regiment! It's just that some people asked me how I practiced this marksmanship, and I didn't know what to say.
Early the next morning, the fierce cannon fire of the Commonwealth rang out again. This time it was no longer intermittent, but the continuous bombardment lasted for more than half an hour, and it was clear that another charge was launched against our position. So when the artillery stopped, I ran to the position with my soldiers.
As expected, the enemy attacked again, but what surprised me was that this time it was the puppet army that came to attack, and it was also the puppet capital division that had fought with us several times! Just the other day, we were fighting to the death with them on the machine-gun positions on the Eastern Front! I didn't expect to meet again so soon.
That's right, it's a pseudo-capital division. I raised my binoculars and looked at them, and they were already rushing forward with the artillery bombardment of our positions, and by this time they were only about 500 meters away from our positions, and at this distance I could clearly see the skull mark on their right shoulder.
It seems that dangerous wars are left to the puppet army to fight, and this fine tradition has also been transferred from the US army to the first division of the British Commonwealth.
"Prepare for battle!" I shouted, and the soldiers fell to the ground and raised their guns. There was no way, this high ground was bombarded by enemy artillery fire and volunteer artillery fire in turns, and basically no trenches could be found at this time. But I'm not worried about not being able to hold my position, because at this time we have artillery to back it up! I was thinking to myself, let's shoot a few shots on this high ground and then withdraw to the tunnel, and then repeat what we did yesterday against the Royal Scots, and see what else you can do! But I soon knew that I was wrong, because then I heard the roar of enemy planes in the air, and in a few moments more than a dozen "Mustang" fighters came out of the clouds".
***! The enemy is prepared! Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, how could I forget all the enemy's planes: Ping, it's not that I forgot, but that the scattered people deliberately used the sound of artillery to cover the planes, so that the planes would enter the battlefield in advance and hide in the clouds. So by the time we found out, the enemy planes were already over our heads.
At this time, it is impossible to enter the tunnel, because if the soldiers are still allowed to withdraw to the tunnel, then the enemy planes only need to drop a few incendiary bombs at the mouth of our tunnel, and even if we can enter the tunnel, I am afraid that half of us will not be alive.
Don't go into the tunnel? Not entering the tunnel means that we will have to support the bombing and strafing of more than a dozen US planes on this uncovered high ground, and I have seen the technology of US pilots, who can drop a bomb into a tunnel, not to mention being completely under their fire like we are now. What's more, there is a strong pseudo-dynamic attack on the front,,
How to prepare?
All of a sudden, I realized that we were in a desperate situation. This is a big deal that those guys in the British Commonwealth came up with in one night's battle plan! Artillery, infantry and air force worked together, and it was a good plan. It's ridiculous that I thought they were going to do nothing about me last night, and now I'm in this passive beating situation just for a moment.
"Woo," at this moment, the planes in the sky were already whistling, and they were flying towards us like demons. This was followed by a dense burst of machine-gun fire and explosions, rows of machine-gun bullets kicked up clouds of dust and blood on the position, and bombs roared and lifted the fighters into the air. The position was suddenly filled with a bloody storm, with the sound of machine guns, explosions, screams, and the whistling of airplanes all over the battlefield like a sudden hurricane.
What to do?
To be honest, I had no idea at this time, no matter how brave the soldiers of the current regiment were, even if they could fight, they would not be able to beat the planes in the sky! We can still pile up tanks on the ground with human lives, and we can also blow them up with explosives 'medicine' bags, but the planes in the sky"
I hurriedly got up to check on his injuries, but I was stunned to find that the lower half of his body had lost his whereabouts!
With a bang, an incendiary bomb exploded on our position, and the flames immediately reflected the entire red. On the inclined plane, at the moment when the fire ignited, more than a dozen soldiers were 'waved' by the gasoline bomb and instantly became burning men. The smell of gasoline and burnt gas soon filled the battlefield.
What to do?
By this time, the plane had already completed a round of bombing, making a circle around the periphery of the high ground. As you can imagine. When they come back, it will soon be a new round***. This will continue until they run out of bullets, drop bombs, or run out of fuel."
That's right! Oil!
I quickly judged that the location of Maleang Hill was almost in the middle of the east and west coasts. These planes have to fly here from the aircraft carrier, and they will have to hide in the clouds for a while, and their fuel must be almost exhausted by this time. Plus they're going to fly back", so, what I need is time, time,
But how do you keep these planes from firing and dropping bombs? It's a crazy idea, and it seems impossible to do! But when I saw the puppet capital divisions that were frantically rushing towards our positions, I couldn't help but have an idea!
This time, it was our own enemy who could save us.
Thinking about it, I didn't dare to slack off, and took advantage of the gap when the enemy plane had not yet flown back, and gave a loud order: "Blow the trumpet, trumpet!" Comrades on bayonets, let's fight with those ***".
"Fight!"
"Kill".
The trumpets and shouts of killing soon sounded!
One by one, the fighters loaded their bayonets and jumped up from the high ground and rushed along the slope of the high ground towards the puppet capital division. I also pulled out my waist "I followed the flow of people and rushed fiercely at the enemy in front of me. While rushing, I was secretly thinking in my heart, Capital Division, Capital Division! You must not run away, if you run, the Yankees' plane will follow us all the way and 'shoot', then our pea group will be completely finished.
If our army is now facing the British army. I think they're definitely going to retreat. And not only will they retreat, but they will also organize firepower and air power to wipe us out in one fell swoop while retreating. But we were not facing the British army, but the puppet capital division that was scraped and trained by the Japanese army.
Rigid and rigid tactics and fierce attacks have always been the characteristics of the Japanese army's operations, and the puppet capital division seems to have inherited this. So instead of showing the slightest sign of retreat, they loaded their bayonets at the orders of their commanders, and rushed at us with a roar,
God help me! Seeing this, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and I couldn't wait to rush up and hug the commander of the puppet leader division and kiss it. Of course, the so-called love and hate must be clear, and after a kiss, he still has to be resolved.
The two armies were not far away, and at this time they were charging each other again, so before those planes could reach us, they were already fighting together.
Looking at the group of planes that whizzed overhead without firing a single bullet, my hanging heart finally fell. I think that at this time, those US military pilots must have been scolding on the plane." Let's go!