Chapter 21: The Battle of the Kowloon River (5)

"Old squad leader." I crawled out of the bomb shelter, pulled the clothes on my body, and asked suspiciously, "The clothes are a little wide, where did you get them?" ”

"It's not!" The old squad leader hesitated for a moment, and said with a sad face: "It was taken off the sacrificial comrades, and it was ...... for a while I can't find a suitable one, so you will order it, Platoon Commander Cui! And these, I've brought your guns with you......"

I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and the first thing that came to my mind was whether it was a little disrespectful to the deceased to strip off the clothes of the sacrificed comrades. But when I think about it, the battlefield is a cruel place in the first place, and you have to try your best to protect yourself and kill the enemy. Therefore, at this time when the volunteers are short of food and clothing, it is normal to take off the clothes of those dead comrades-in-arms and take their food, or guns and ammunition.

Thinking of this, I tightened the discipline button, straightened my hat, took the box gun in the old squad leader's hand and hung it on my waist, grabbed the big eight grains and ran to the battle line.

"Platoon commander!"

"Platoon Commander Cui!"

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Along the way, where I passed, the soldiers turned sideways and cast admiring glances at me, which made me feel a little fluttery.

"What?" I had just turned a corner, but I was startled by the battlefield in front of me. The snow, which was as white as a freshly painted wall, was now unrecognizable. Craters, corpses, blood, and bomb-tossed dirt make the battlefield a mess. What's even more unacceptable is the corpse at the foot of the mountain. Because of the slope of the high ground, many corpses slid to the foot of the mountain under the action of gravity, and then randomly superimposed together in a strange posture, including those of the puppet army and the volunteer army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the number of corpses is piled up. I've fought a few battles now, but this is the first time I've seen so many corpses.

"Why is it like this?" I turned my head and asked the old squad leader anxiously, "Didn't the stone bridge blow up?" ”

"How can it be continuous? Can the dozens of kilograms of ZHA medicine continue to ring? The old squad leader smiled and said: "But this Yankee's plane is also good, we blew up the stone bridge, and he immediately dropped a few pontoon bridges with the plane, isn't it?" ...... there"

Looking at the gesture of the old squad leader, I saw several pontoon bridges faintly in the upper reaches of the Longxing River, which were crowded with people, and I thought that the reinforcements from Jiangnan were still increasing troops here.

"Then our stone bridge was blown up for nothing?" I can't help but feel a little annoyed.

"How can it?" The old squad leader shook his head and said: "The pontoon bridge can't bear strength, and tanks and cars can't pass, isn't it?" The bullets have to be transported box by box! Otherwise, our group would have been gone a long time ago. ”

Listening to what the old squad leader said, I looked at it and saw that it was really like this, and many puppet soldiers on the pontoon bridge were carrying ammunition boxes on their shoulders and were constantly transporting bullets to this side.

"It took a lot of effort to build those puppet pontoon bridges!" The old squad leader continued: "Commander Chu transferred a company to specialize in repairing the pontoon bridge, and after tossing for a long time, the puppet army became smart after losing hundreds of people. ”

"What is the situation with the enemy? How many people are there? ”

"I don't know about this, I have to ask the company commander."

"Where's the company commander?"

"Right ahead." The old squad leader pointed to the edge of the trench: "Turn two corners forward." ”

"Company Commander......" ran around the trench for a while, and soon recognized Company Commander Zhang's tall and thin figure.

"Platoon Commander Cui." Company Commander Zhang was a little surprised to see me: "Woke up?" Why don't you take a break for a while? ”

"I'm fine, and I'm cold! How many enemies are coming? ”

"Cold? I was almost frozen in the river and caught a cold! Company Commander Zhang replied with a smile: "The three regiments of the puppet Sixth Division retreated from the north, and Regiment Commander Chu is facing them in the north, and the enemy's three regiments are fleeing for their lives, and the strength of feeding is used, and Regiment Commander Chu is also nervous when he looks at it." Let's ...... There is a division, more than 30 Iron King Eight (tanks), thanks to Platoon Commander Cui, you blew up the stone bridge, or those Iron King Bayi came over, and they couldn't stand anything. ”

In the early days, the volunteer soldiers who entered the DPRK had almost no anti-tank equipment, and the best anti-tank weapons were only bazookas, but on average there was only one regiment, so the tank fighting could only be done by relying on zha kits, cluster grenades and blasting canisters, but this was almost impossible when the enemy was followed by a large number of infantry. If you really let those 30 or so tanks cross the bridge to attack the position of the volunteers, it will be a big trouble, as Company Commander Zhang said.

After a pause, Company Commander Zhang continued: "It's okay now, the enemy's heavy weapons can't get through, and we can still deal with it with the combat effectiveness of those puppet troops." No, they were beaten down several times. As soon as it gets dark, they will ask for more blessings for themselves! ”

"Oh!" I looked up at the sky, and it was going to be dark in just over an hour!

In the Korean War, whether it was the puppet army or the US army, what they were most afraid of was fighting at night with the volunteers, because as long as it was dark, their superiority in firepower would not be reflected at all, on the contrary, it would be much easier for our volunteer soldiers to fight them in close quarters. Isn't there a saying circulating on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea - the night belongs to the volunteers.

Now, with volunteer reinforcements ready to arrive at any moment, darkness almost marked victory in the battle. Because then we can spend the whole night quietly waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Company Commander Zhang looked at the sky, also breathed a sigh of relief, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed me one, I saw that it was a "coffee brand" with a filter made in the United States.

"It's a smoke, company commander! Where did you get it? I stared at the pack of cigarettes in the company commander's hand with envy on my face.

"Envy!" Company Commander Zhang raised his hand proudly, pointed to the mountains of corpses piled up at the foot of the mountain, and said with a smile: "Those puppet soldiers have a lot on them, touch them yourself!" ”

"This ...... It's still free! I smirked awkwardly.

Just kidding, for a pack of cigarettes, I jumped out of the trench and ran to the bottom of the hill to touch the pockets of the corpses...... My addiction wasn't that big.

Lit a match and lit them for both of them, Company Commander Zhang took a deep breath, spit out a cloud of smoke and said: "It's really yours, Platoon Commander Cui, I didn't expect you to blow up the bridge from the water!" I don't know yet! When you blew up the bridge, the whole company stared at you! ”

"Isn't it! All watched? "I'm a little embarrassed.

"That's it!" A soldier beside him answered: "The soldiers of the whole company have forgotten to fight, and they all applaud you!" ”。

"Isn't it?" Company Commander Zhang said with a smile: "I blew up the bridge right under the nose of the enemy, in a word - happy!" Cheng, you have made another meritorious contribution and bought precious time for our troops, which is the key to this victory! Let's wait until it gets dark. ”

"That's not right, company commander!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but be stunned: "Let's wait for dark, what are the puppet soldiers waiting for?" ”

"What?" Company Commander Zhang looked at me puzzled.

"I think they're waiting for a plane." When I think of the bombing I just experienced, I can't help but feel a little uneasy