Chapter 101: Little Stone Mountain

Chapter 101: Little Stone Mountain

The first thing I did was to take two guards to find the river under the guidance of the seventh company commander, let the guards test the depth of the river, and sure enough, it was more than one meter deep as the seventh company commander said, and then raised the telescope and extended all the way upstream along the river bank, and I could clearly see that the river went straight to the foot of the left side of Xiaoshi Mountain - this is exactly what I wanted to see.

Fearing that the extra stay would arouse the vigilance of the Vietnamese troops, I returned to the garrison with the soldiers after observing for a few minutes, and immediately convened a combat meeting of the cadres of each battalion.

"This attack is carried out by the six companies in conjunction with the tank forces in a frontal attack!" I glanced at my hometown and Wu Changhui and said: "Your task is to attract the attention of the Vietnamese army head-on, and you need to grasp the time of attack, not to advance too fast, and not to rush into the range of our army's artillery shells!" ”

"Yes!" Wu Changhui and the people in his hometown responded in unison.

"Company Commander Li!" I pointed to the left side of Xiaoshishan on the map and said to Li Zhifu: "You take the fifth company to lurk on the left side of Xiaoshishan, be careful not to let the Vietnamese army discover your whereabouts, and immediately attack the flank of Xiaoshishan after lurking and listen to my orders!" Is there a problem with the requirement to be fast, and to reach Xiaoshishan and launch an offensive within five minutes with a single order? ”

"No problem!" Li Zhifu habitually responded 'sexually', but soon hesitated and said: "Battalion commander, although the defense on the side of Xiaoshi Mountain is relatively weak, the firepower is also quite fierce, is it ...... for us to break through like this?"

"Yes, Camp Commander Cui!" He Liqiang's troops had just fought Da Shi Shan and Xiao Shi Shan, so the distribution of Xiao Shi Shan's firepower was very clear, and he nodded in agreement Li Zhifu said: "It may be right for us to focus our attack on the left side of Xiao Shi Mountain, this is indeed the weakest place for the Vietnamese army's firepower, but even so, the Yue devils still have one 'high-firing' machine gun and two 'strong' heavy machine guns here, and there are also five rock 'holes' with different light and heavy burst weapons." If our army breaks through, it must first cross an open area of nearly a kilometer, and at this time, the Vietnamese army can completely use firepower to suppress it while mobilizing reinforcements from other places, but I am afraid that this battle will ......."

"You all have a point!" I didn't wait for Battalion Commander He to finish speaking before he replied: "But what if the Yue devils don't have the firepower to suppress it at all?" ”

I turned to Li Zhifu and asked: "In five minutes, the Vietnamese army has no firepower to suppress it at all, is there any way for you to rush through this kilometer of open land and attack!" ”

"No problem!" Li Zhifu replied without thinking about it.

In fact, this is not a difficult task for a force, I calculated the time before, it takes more than three minutes to go cross-country with a thousand meters fully armed, and then there is still more than a minute to quickly launch the attack. I don't know if the other troops can do it, but I believe that the Fifth Company, a unit trained by my own hands, can do it, after all, they are already familiar with all this in the new barracks.

"Hmm!" I nodded and continued: "Then after you hear the order to attack, don't think about the fire suppression of the Vietnamese army, just rush to Xiaoshi Mountain as fast as possible!" Is the mission clear? ”

"Clear!" Li Zhifu nodded in response, and there was no hesitation on his face.

I think he must have known that I had a future ahead of me, and that I would never play with the lives of my warriors like that. Also thinking the same thing as Li Zhifu were the people from his hometown, Wu Changhui, and other cadres of the Second Battalion, which could be seen from their calm faces.

After being silent for a while, it was He Liqiang who asked the question, and he said to me with a 'cloudy' face on his face: "Camp Commander Cui, you see...... Don't we think about it any more, the enemy does not have the firepower to suppress it...... How is this possible? ”

"Battalion Commander He!" I casually took a pencil from the guard's hand, and said as I drew on the map: "Speaking of which, this time I would like to thank the commander of the seventh company of your battalion!" It was he who told me that there was a small river that led to the foot of the left side of the hill! ”

"Creek? What does it have to do with the river? ”

"Of course it does!" I continued: "The river is not fast, and it is more than a meter deep, just enough for the warriors to dive underwater. As soon as the shelling stopped, we launched a surprise attack on the left side of the hill, relying on the marksmanship of the 'shooting' group, as well as the continuous 'firing' of other fighters' machine guns and submachine guns, and if necessary, we could also 'fire' incendiary bombs with recoilless guns, which could completely block the Vietnamese troops in the rock 'hole' for five minutes or even longer. And by that time, the troops of the fifth company had already arrived......"

"Oh!" Hearing me say this, the soldiers understood, and couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement.

"I'll just say it!" Battalion Commander Wu laughed: "How can your Battalion Commander Cui's head be so simple, I'm just waiting for you to sing a good show!" ”

"This is indeed a solution...... He Liqiang said with some worries: "But it's daytime, and the river is not turbid, let's walk in the river with dozens of people in a row, and the devils can't see it?" ”

"Perhaps...... They really can't see it! I replied, "What are the devils doing when we shoot 'cannons' at the big and small rock mountains?" ”

"They're all hiding in the 'hole' to hide from the cannons!" Battalion Commander Wu said with a smile: "Besides, our cannon is hitting the big and small stone mountains, and there is gunsmoke and gravel everywhere, and those Yue devils hiding in the rock 'hole' can still see that some of our troops are secretly 'touching' from the river?" ”

"Yes!" The hometown people also nodded and said: "What Camp Chief Wu said makes sense, it's not that the devils can't see it, but they can't see it at all." They may hide in the rock 'holes' and watch through the smoke to see if there is an enemy attacking in the open ground, but they certainly don't think that we will dive into the river! I'm in favor of playing that, but ...... I don't approve of Battalion Commander Cui personally taking the troops up! ”

"That's right!" Wu Changhui nodded at me: "You are now our commander-in-chief, there are more important tasks in the rear that need to be coordinated and arranged, so don't go up in person!"

I smiled wryly and shook my head: "The time given to us by our superiors is only two hours, in other words, we only have one chance. If we do not succeed in knocking down the big and small rocky mountains this time and then capture the bridgehead of the Qiqiao River, then the consequences will be unimaginable. What's more, I've always led the 'shooting' team, and who knows how to use them better than me! If a bad one fails to successfully block the Vietnamese army in a rock 'cave', it will not only cause great losses to the troops, but also fail to complete the task 'handed' to us by the superiors! ”

The soldiers thought about it and felt that it made sense, so they stopped persuading, and the plan was decided.

The first to set off was the assault unit I led, and the members were the 'shooting' team that I had personally trained, plus the machine gunners, submachine gunners, bazookas, and recoilless gun 'shooters' who were selected from Xu Yongjian's 4th Company's 'Jing' and also performed well.

There are forty-six members in total. A total of three 'doors' of bazookas and four 'doors' of recoilless guns were carried, the bazookas were to prevent the possible appearance of tanks, and the recoilless guns were mostly carried with incendiary bombs, and mortars were not carried.

The 'shooting' team was led by me, and the other members were led by Xu Yongjian, and all the fighters wrapped their weapons and ammunition in advance in a waterproof cloth in a way that was easy to untie according to the requirements, and at the same time each prepared a thin bamboo pole with a bamboo joint to use for underwater breathing. Anyway, the jungles of Vietnam are full of such bamboos, so it is not difficult to do this, and after a while, all sides report to me that they are ready. So with my order, three red 'colored' signal flares rose into the air again!

This time, we have summed up our experience, and we no longer bomb more than 40 'guns' at the same time as before, and we will no longer bomb the big and small stone mountains at the same time, and the total area of the big and small stone mountains is so small that only a dozen shells are needed at a time to achieve the purpose of shocking the Vietnamese troops and driving them back to the rock 'cave'....... Therefore, we suggested that the artillery unit divide the artillery into three batches, and each batch 'fire' fifteen shells at the designated position, so that not only can the artillery be saved, but also the time of artillery bombardment can be prolonged.

In other words, what we need most now is the time for artillery bombardment, and the reason is very simple, once the artillery fire stops bombing, the Vietnamese army drills out of the rock 'hole' and looks at the foot of the mountain...... Those of us in the forty or so who walked in the river would soon be gone. Therefore, the artillery bombardment must continue until we reach the foot of Little Rock Mountain.

I did not immediately order the soldiers to set off, but used my binoculars to observe the large and small rocky mountains that were being bombarded by artillery fire for a while, and after seeing them covered in the smoke and rubble of the shells, I put away the binoculars and waved my hand back, and then led the soldiers to get up from the lurking place and 'touch' the river.

The river is three miles away from our position, but in order to shorten the time of operation, I have already taken my soldiers to 'touch' the river in advance and lurk at a distance of more than 100 meters.

So at this time, we only ran forward for a few minutes before we came to the river, and Li Shui'bo, who was walking in front, held a sniper rifle and observed the other side of the river for a while, before making a safe gesture to us, so the soldiers and I started to remove the camouflage on our bodies, and wrapped the barrel of the gun with a tarp as fast as possible, and jumped into the river one after another with a thin bamboo......

As soon as I jumped into the river, I felt so relieved that I couldn't help but take two deep breaths through the bamboo tube.

I don't remember the last time I took a bath, but it was a very uncomfortable thing to fight in the jungle of Vietnam, on the one hand, sweat, mud and 'damp' damp air 'made' my whole body 'uncomfortable', and on the other hand, all kinds of unknown insects were everywhere and 'squeal' and itchy.

It's just that it's uncomfortable to be uncomfortable, and we still think more about how to survive on the battlefield, so we don't have the time or 'spirit' to care about these things. But now, after jumping into the river to alleviate the pain on my body, I suddenly realized it...... It turns out what kind of world I just lived in.

It almost makes me wish I never got out of the water, but this is obviously unrealistic, because we are still on the battlefield of either you or me, and we have a very difficult task on our shoulders!

So I swam with my soldiers step by step along the riverbed towards the upper reaches of the river. Things didn't go as smoothly as we thought because we were swimming against the current, and the resistance of the current and the weight on our bodies prevented us from swimming fast. I had taken this into account before, and it forced me to make gestures over and over again to get the fighters to pick up speed.

After swimming for a while, Al Ziri, who suddenly swam in front of him as a sharp soldier, turned his head and pointed straight ahead and gestured, at first I thought I had found the enemy, but I looked in the direction of Al Ziri's strokes, and I almost couldn't help but vomit.

It turned out that not far ahead, there was a big tree that was hugged by one person and was broken and crossed in the river, and there were four or five corpses of PLA soldiers hung by its branches, lifeless hands and feet swayed with the ups and downs of the river, the whole face was as pale as a zombie, and there were even a few strands of blood in the mouths of some soldiers that were constantly seeping into the river......

Seeing this, I didn't sigh, and secretly said in my heart: Don't worry, when we come back from the lesson, we will definitely collect your corpse! Then he gestured to Al Ziri and told them to move on.

So one by one, we slipped under these sacrificed soldiers, and although the soldiers didn't say anything, I could see in their eyes the hatred and murderous spirit towards the Vietnamese army.

Although this is a war, if you kill me and I will kill you, everyone has nothing to say, but watching their comrades-in-arms die in front of them and watching their miserable situation, there will naturally be a kind of hatred in my heart, and there will naturally be a kind of hatred.

The volunteers during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea may have sacrificed themselves to killing the enemy for the motherland, the people, and the party, but the idea of the people who were soldiers in this era was very simple, and I stayed with them for a while, so I knew that what they thought in their hearts was actually that the devils were ungrateful, eating inside and out, and you fucking killed our comrades-in-arms! Lao Tzu fought with you......

The further we swam forward, the louder the sound of the explosion became, and from time to time there were some shrapnel and debris flying into the water from top to bottom to make a waterline, but this river 'bed' was like a trench blocking most of the debris for us, and the river was like a good barrier, eliminating the impulse of shrapnel and gravel for us, so these did not pose much threat to us, which made us still swim forward without danger.

It wasn't until I saw the river in front of me turn a bend in front of a large rock that I realized that we had reached our destination, the side of the small rocky mountain.