Chapter 22: The Battle of the Kowloon River (6)

"Rumbling ......" As I expected, it didn't take long for a roar like thunder to be heard in the sky, and more than a dozen Mustang fighters protected several big guys, and appeared in the sight of the volunteers through the clouds.

"Bomber, B-29!" I couldn't help but be taken aback by the huge figures of nearly ten B-29s in the sky.

The B-29 bomber was recognized as the best performing bomber in World War II, and the Americans called it the Super Fort. It was with this bomber that the United States launched the famous Great Tokyo Air Raid, which killed and wounded millions of Japanese at very small cost, not counting the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki......

It seems that the enemy is determined to win this time, and the previous bombing was only to occupy the stone bridge, in order not to let the stone bridge be blown up by us. But now, it is clear that their goal is to occupy the high ground we are defending.

"Concealed ......"

The so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and the volunteers don't know how powerful the B-29 is, and at first glance they are only about 20 planes like last time, so they don't take it to heart, and they all return to their single air-raid shelters in a hurry.

But I know that for the B-29, which has a bomb load of nine tons, such a rudimentary monolithic bomb shelter is not enough. They went in at this time, but they didn't know how many more people would be able to get out. But what's the solution? I reluctantly ran back into my bomb shelter, and there was no better place to hide than here.

Listening to the louder and louder "rumbling" sound in the sky, the scene of the napalm burning suddenly flashed in my mind, so I untied the marching quilt as fast as I could, hurried out of the cave and shoveled a few pieces of snow in the quilt, and used the quilt to block the entrance of the cave when I hid in.

As soon as I hid in the sky, there was a terrible howling, and in modern war movies, I have not seen a group of bombers carpet bombing the ground, but I didn't expect that this trip would also experience it myself, and it was the one who was bombed.

"Boom ......"

The mountains shook, the dirt above their heads kept falling, and the wooden sticks supporting the bomb shelter creaked and creaked. The last bombardment could still feel the pause, but this time, the shock was like an earthquake, one after another. Then another wave of heat hit, and a few flames penetrated through the cracks in the quilt, and I realized that it was an enemy petrol bomb. At this time, I suddenly felt that I had difficulty breathing, and then I remembered another powerful part of napalm, that is, the oxygen in the air was consumed in an instant, and the enemy was suffocated to death. So I hurriedly blocked all the gaps in the cave with dirt and quilts to preserve as much air as possible.

After a long time, I couldn't hold back in the cave, and I didn't wait for the sound of bombing and artillery to stop before I pushed away the quilt. A pungent burnt smell hits the face, mixed with a disgusting smell of barbecue. But I didn't care about it at all, and rushed out of the cave gasping for air. It was only then that I realized how important it was to have air that I didn't usually take to heart.

When I took my breath and looked around, I realized that the whole world had changed.

The fire was blazing, and all the nearby trees were on fire, and as soon as the north wind blew, the flames of the branches jumped and rattled, and the whole high ground looked like a huge torch. The snow on the hillside was long gone, and there were wet patches everywhere. What was supposed to be a high hill has now become a depression, and what was originally a large crater has now flattened a hill. The fortifications built by the volunteers were also unrecognizable, and only a small ditch looming could be vaguely discerned that it had once been a trench.

"Company Commander ......"

"Old squad leader......"

"Tiger ......"

Amid the sound of the cannons, I called out the names of my comrades one after another, but no one answered me, and there was a deathly silence all around. I hurried to a nearby bomb shelter and dug through the dirt in front of the hole with my hands like crazy. The soil was very wet and loose, and it was dug up in a short time, and I was overjoyed, and I reached out and dragged the people inside, but what appeared in front of me was a charred corpse that had been burned black, and I was so frightened that I sat on the ground and was speechless for a long time.

I was frightened, and the suffering, tiredness, and threat of death that I had suffered for the past two days appeared before my eyes one after another, and I couldn't help but tremble all over; I want to get out of here, no matter what way I do, whether it's running away, deliberately getting hurt, or pretending to be dead, as long as I can get out of this hellish place, even if the enemy comes up and kills me, it's a relief; I want to go home, to that peaceful time when there was no smoke, no blood, no killing......

"What's wrong, Platoon Commander Cui? Hung the lottery? At some point, Company Commander Zhang was already standing next to him.

"Lian...... Captain! I came back to my senses after a good day: "You...... You're not dead yet, are you? ”

"! Can I still stand here and talk to you when I'm dead? Company Commander Zhang said angrily.

"Huzi, Platoon Leader Zhao, Old Squad Leader, Xiaoshan Shandong...... You, you're all alive? ”

"I'm talking about Comrade Cui." Zhao Yongxin quipped: "Aren't you stupid when you blew up the bridge, why are you confused now?" Don't let that Yankee's plane blow up its head! ”

"Zhao Yongxin!" Company Commander Zhang put down his face and said, "What kind of enemy is messy, don't talk nonsense!" ”

"Yes!"

"Company commander!" At this time, Xiao Shandong shouted: "The enemy is coming!" ”

"Prepare for battle!" Without saying a word, Company Commander Zhang took out his box gun and entered the battle line, and the other soldiers also followed with their guns, and I was the only one who sat there alone, not knowing what to do.

Forty or so, there are only forty people left. There were only about 40 people who entered the battle line, although it was only two days, but I know them, as long as they still have a breath, they will never give up the battle, so more than 100 people who did not enter the battle line are either sacrificed or are too injured to move. That's more than a hundred lives, more than a hundred comrades-in-arms, and they're gone in the blink of an eye, how can they act as if nothing happened?

"Hit!"

The gunfire rang out again, but I didn't react to all this, neither fearing nor hiding, but walking towards the position in a trance.

"Get down!" A figure threw me to the ground, and almost at the same time, a grenade exploded not far away, a loud explosion that buzzed my ears.

After a long time, the warrior who knocked me down still didn't move, and as if I realized something, I turned around and sat up, only to realize that the warrior's back had been blown to a bloody blur.

"Why?" Looking at my comrades-in-arms who fell in a pool of blood, looking at my hands stained with blood, I wanted to cry without tears.

"Company commander, no bullets!"

"Grenades."

"The grenades are gone!"

"Upper bayonet ......"

The ammunition of the volunteers was not much, not to mention that there had been a battle before this, and now it was time to run out of ammunition and food, but the enemy was still pouring into the high ground. About two companies with a total of several hundred puppet soldiers surrounded this highland regiment with only about 40 volunteer soldiers.

"Comrades, for the sake of New China, for Chairman Mao!" Holding a blaster, a soldier suddenly jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the enemy. With a loud bang, more than 20 puppet soldiers were blown up into the sky, and the blaster explosion caused the entire puppet army team to fall to the ground.

"Comrades." Company Commander Zhang raised the box gun in his hand and shouted loudly: "Avenge Comrade Shi Baoshan, kill!" ”

"Kill ......" more than 40 volunteer soldiers rushed towards more than 200 puppet soldiers with their bright bayonets, their eyes burst with hatred for the invaders, their roars showed a sense of no return, and their bayonets mercilessly pierced into the enemy's chest......

The puppet army was stupid by this scene, and they all couldn't help but retreat, and then there was an unbelievable scene on the 121 heights, more than 40 volunteers ran after the puppet army of two companies with bayonets alone, and behind those puppet troops, there was nearly a regiment of troops in the formation.

Years later, an American adviser who had personally experienced the war wrote in his memoirs: "We thought it was just a stubborn Korean People's Army, but when they launched a countercharge with only a few dozen men left, I knew we were wrong." I had never met such a team, and it was not their rudimentary rifles or their wooden-handled grenades that struck us before, but the roar of their mouths and the courage in their eyes. At that time, I gave them a military salute in a dignified manner! They are a truly respectable group of enemies. ”

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In this chapter, I would like to pay tribute to Shi Baoshan, the first hero who died with the enemy in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In the battle of Namsan Mountain, Comrade Shi Baoshan rushed to the enemy with a blasting canister and died with more than 20 enemies. Although the martyrs die, the name lives on!