Chapter 160: The Forest

"Kill!" With my order, Li Zhifu's fifth company soon joined the war group of his hometown.

As soon as Li Zhifu's troops joined the battle, the Vietnamese army soon showed a rout, and they could no longer care about any task of blocking and delaying, so they gave up the high ground and ran backwards. Of course, Li Zhifu and the people in his hometown will not let them go, and they will stick to them all the way.

"Camp Commander Xu!" I nodded to Xu Fan, who was standing not far away, and signaled that they could start to retreat, at this time the Vietnamese army had been firmly controlled by our army, although it would take time to completely annihilate, but it was no longer possible to prevent Xu Fan and other soldiers of the 608th Regiment from retreating.

Xu Fan nodded heavily, stepped forward and shook my hand heavily, and said, "Camp Commander Cui, I'm waiting for you at the border, you must come back alive!" ”

"Don't worry!" I pretended to be light-hearted and smiled.

"Retreat!" Xu Fan gritted his teeth and waved his hand at the soldiers of the Stillation Regiment, and the army stretched back along the railway like a long snake.

However, I noticed that the soldiers were very slow, and from time to time some people would look back at us, and many of them would reluctantly wave goodbye to us, and even some of them would secretly wipe their tears as they walked."

For the soldiers of the Stillation Regiment, our unit is not only their comrades-in-arms on the common front, but also to a certain extent can be said to be the master who brought them to the battlefield, so although we have not been 'accomplished' for a long time, the relationship between the two units is very deep. They obviously also know that we are staying for the benefit of the whole force and for their survival.

"It's all off!" I shouted at the soldiers: "Occupy the heights and build fortifications!" ”

"Yes!" In response, the soldiers leaned their rifles on their backs, picked up the boxes of ammunition and 'medicine' left by the Anhui regiment, and crawled to the high ground next to the railway.

This is the high ground that the Vietnamese army has just withdrawn, and there are still a few corpses of Yue devils on it. It should be said that it is not a suitable high ground for defense, it is a forest on its right, and it is easy for the Vietnamese army to stealth and shoot cold shots at us, and there is a large grass in front of it, which is obviously beneficial to the Vietnamese army's attack. The reason why I chose this high ground to garrison is because his right side is next to the railway, and if the Vietnamese army wants to pursue Xu Fan's troops, they must first pull out our nail.

Our strength is very limited, and there are only more than 100 people in the whole army, and if we still scatter and defend a few hills to form a defensive line, it will be easily broken by the Vietnamese army. Therefore, I can only choose such a hill as the blocking position of our army.

But in fact, there is another reason that I want to leave myself a back road, a road that may break through.

After a while, the hometown and Li Zhifu also returned with their troops, and the soldiers began to build trenches on the high ground without saying a word.

The Vietnamese army may have guessed our intentions from our movements, and immediately sped up their speed and divided into several sides to cover us. I think that for the Vietnamese army, there is such a good opportunity for meritorious service in front of them, they will not be satisfied with only annihilating our battalion (in fact, one battalion, at best, my soldiers are only enough for one company, their next thing to do is to finish us out as quickly as possible, or find a way to cross our defense line and continue to pursue our army's large army"

It depends on whether they have the ability to do it!

"Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen!" I found Nguyen Van Thien in the crowd who was building a trench with the soldiers, and I glanced at him and raised my head towards the forest on the right and said, "If you change your mind, maybe it's too late to leave now!" ”

I know that Nguyen Van Thien is good at guerrilla warfare, so I believe that if they hide in the forest at this time, they will have a lot of chances to get out alive.

"Camp Commander Cui!" Ruan Wenqin stopped what he was doing and smiled lightly: "For a while, we didn't know what we were fighting for? We don't have it anymore: the people? We don't have any more! This makes us feel like robbers, like fugitives, hiding from the Viet Cong everywhere and without a foothold. Now that we finally know what we're fighting for, are you going to stop us? ”

"What are you fighting for?" I asked.

"For friends! For the brothers! Nguyen Van Qin replied.

I know Nguyen Van Thien is telling the truth, because there is a good chance that we will all die here, so there is no need for him to lie to me.

At this time, with the whistling sound of several shells, several shells exploded near our position, which is to tell us that the Vietnamese army has begun to attack us.

Some people may say that the Vietnamese army always has to fire a few shells before charging is stupid, isn't this a reminder to us? In fact, this is not the case, and the Vietnamese army knows very well that in such a situation it is almost impossible to sneak attack, "so there is no need for them to hide their intention to charge." These shells were actually pointing out the direction and giving the order to attack the troops scattered from all angles and directions.

So the gunfire soon rang out, and the black shadows of the Vietnamese army were jumping towards us everywhere, "Some of them were 'shooting' at us with submachine guns as they advanced."

Although I had expected this kind of encirclement, I was a little surprised that the Vietnamese army was able to complete the encirclement of us in such a short time.

"Hit!" When the enemy was still far away, I gave the order to fight. When the soldiers of the 608th Regiment left, they left us with enough ammunition, so I don't need the soldiers to save ammunition, what I need is that they can use these ammunition to support us for as much time as possible.

The sound of the guns immediately rang out, and the light of the bullets was so happy that you came and went in the dark night. The quality of the individual soldiers of the Vietnamese army is indeed very strong, they know how to use the terrain and environment to cover very well, and they are much more numerous than us, which makes us under great pressure in all fronts.

However, in today's highly developed individual weapons, it does not mean that a large number of people and good quality can lead to an advantage. The weakness of the Vietnamese army lies in the fact that they are also 'interspersed' from the mountain roads, so there are no heavy weapons such as tanks and howitzers, at best they are only rockets, mortars, etc., and there are still very few shells, so they have nothing to do with us, and they let us fight several times in a row.

When two forces of equal strength fight, there are usually few commendable skills or stratagems, because there will be no flaws in the defense and attack of the two sides of the 'warring' war, so both sides can only attack and defend or we defend and attack. The so-called great ingenuity is just like this!

The Vietnamese army launched five attacks in succession, but they did not get a bargain, some of them attacked to test our firepower, and some of them attacked to concentrate their forces in an attempt to break through our defense line. But their 'flowers' to recruit our army can be said to be a two-please. Whenever the Vietnamese army was testing the firepower, the soldiers would systematically hide part of the firepower, just as the Vietnamese army had done against us, and then suddenly open fire when the Vietnamese army launched a charge. Sometimes they will deliberately make way of a gap, and when the Vietnamese army concentrates their forces to charge the gap, they will throw out a row of grenades to shoot them back."

More than half an hour passed, and the Vietnamese army received nothing but a corpse in front of our position. And our army was also unable to move because it was besieged by the Vietnamese army, because I knew that the reason why we were able to hold out until now in the face of several times the Vietnamese army was completely because of the terrain and the dark night.

"it!" After repelling the charge of the Vietnamese army again, Li Zhifu couldn't help scolding: "How can this more devil seem to fight more and more, how can he not finish fighting!" ”

"It's supposed to be more and more fighting!" The hometown people 'touched' the colorful head, and said with a smile: "The devils are rushing here from all directions!" Can we finish the fight? ”

"That's it," let's leave it at that, ""

Li Zhifu didn't say anything more than halfway through his words, but I also knew what he wanted to say, if it went on like this, we would either surrender or hold out until the end with the Vietnamese army, but I didn't think so.

I looked at the multi-function watch on my wrist, it had been forty minutes since Xu Fan and their retreat, and the Vietnamese army was not in a hurry to pursue at this time, so I ordered to several company commanders beside me: "The mission has been completed, prepare to break through!" ”

"Breakout?" The warriors all looked at me suspiciously.

"Battalion commander!" The hometown asked: "There are enemies everywhere, and we have suffered so many casualties, how can we break through?" ”

"Camp Commander Cui!" Ruan Van Qin looked at the surrounding terrain and asked, "In which direction do you plan to break through?" ”

"Forest!" I looked at the endless forest on the right and said, "Now there is only one way to live, as long as we break through the defense line of the Vietnamese army and enter the forest, there is hope for life!" ”

"That's a good word! The native replied: "But the Viet Cong will also think of this, they are afraid that they have already laid heavy troops in the forest and are waiting for us!" ”

"Do you remember the incident when our army let the Vietnamese army shell in the bamboo forest and suffered heavy losses?" I asked.

"Remember! A cannonball will explode in mid-air when it hits a bamboo forest, and the resulting shrapnel and bamboo fragments will multiply the power of the cannonball! The hometown nodded, and then quickly reacted and said, "The battalion commander means, "With a cannon!" ”

"Yes!" I replied, "Concentrate all the mortars and bombard the forest, and then fight your way out!" Whether we can rush out alive or not depends only on our creation! ”