Chapter 2: Reunion
It is said that before Van Vliet came to Korea to become the commander of the Eighth Army, he was responsible for training new soldiers, so he should have been very handy in commanding the US troops.
I saw that the convoy was soon neatly parked on the side of the open field under the command of several officers, but what made me a little angry was that the position where the convoy stopped was close to the center of the road far from the open field, and we did not plant bombs there, otherwise we would have only needed to take the lead a little now, and then wait for the explosives to explode before pulling up the troops and rushing down, and the battle would have ended.
And then it didn't take long. Three Sherman tanks with forklifts drove up, rumbling through the open ground pushing dirt. A hill was bulldozed in a few strokes, and now I know why the tanks brought by the artillery are all "colored" Shermans, and it turns out that they are carrying them to open up positions
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Meanwhile. Dozens of American GIs also hurriedly jumped out of the car, holding all kinds of light and heavy weapons in their hands, and some were also carrying *** on their backs, as if they wanted to seize the commanding heights"
Brother Zhen?
It soon dawned on me that the commanding heights they were trying to seize were the high ground we had ambushed. I couldn't help but curse secretly, I should have thought a long time ago of which artillery position would so easily give up the surrounding commanding heights to others. If that's the case. Then it seems that the volunteers can fight as we like as long as they set up a few mortars on the anti-slope of the heights!
Watching dozens of U.S. troops split into three teams and run towards the three high ground where we were lurking, I couldn't help but secretly cry bitter in my heart. Do you want to start fighting now? Buried bombs won't blow them up! What's more, in history, this armored battalion was able to complete the tasks 'handed over' from above on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was able to withstand the attack of a battalion of volunteers for three days and three nights. In the end, the lives of more than 100 volunteer soldiers were exchanged for the cost of fifteen dead and wounded, which is enough to show that this is not an ordinary army.
Looking at the fact that they did everything quickly and methodically, from the stationing of the convoy to the arrangement of Sherman tanks to open up positions, to seizing the commanding heights, I believe that they have a good fight
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Let's fight! Although one of our companies may be able to take advantage of the unpreparedness, it will certainly not be able to inflict big losses on them, not to mention that they have also stopped the artillery of the puppet army, which is several times our number. Don't fight! When they climbed the heights to build fortifications, they were likely to find us lurking on the anticline. The soldiers have no experience in latent warfare, and the current latent skills are not comparable to Qiu Shaoyun's latent skills at that time, as long as there is a soldier who can't hold his breath
Just thinking about it, with a burst of footsteps and shouting, a squad of American GIs had climbed the high ground, and then put down the weapons in their hands without saying a word, and then waved the sapper shovels.
I hurriedly lowered my head and did not dare to look at them, fearing that the eyes that I looked at them would attract their attention. But even then I knew they were so close to me, because the clods of dirt they shoveled could hit me in the head.
"These *** raised Han *** team!" An American soldier rudely spat on his saliva and scolded: "All they know is to run, run, run away, and run away, I really don't understand what it's to 'spend' so much money on them!" ”
"They were scared out of the squadron!" Another U.S. soldier said disdainfully: "The battlefield is more than ten kilometers away from here." It's been a maximum of two hours since the start of the war, and I can't imagine that those Korean *** teams have already run here! ”
"They must have heard the Chinese fart and started running!"
On the high ground, the unbridled laughter of the American soldiers was heard.
One shovel of soil, two shovels of soil, three shovels of soil,
You Yankee, you shovel the soil will not change the direction, every shovel will be tossed on my head, the dirt is just that, and from time to time there are a few stones "Fortunately, I am wearing a cotton hat, otherwise you will be smashed to the head before the war starts!" But after a while I soon realized that something was wrong, and if I went on like this, I was going to bury this kid alive? After the battle, if my comrades-in-arms find out that my head is buried and suffocated to death, I don't know if they will laugh or cry!
Now I deeply regret that I lurked at such a high position in order to be able to see the road
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"Enemy!" Just when I felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe, I heard the Yankees above me shout: "It's the Chinese, they're coming!" ”
Then they quickly threw away their shovels, and the sound of machine guns, loading bullets, and pulling bolts sounded above them. The artillery and armored vehicles on the open ground were also busy, and according to the combat habits of the US military, they generally distributed tanks, self-propelled guns, and other armored vehicles on the periphery to form a steel defense line, and the howitzers were all placed in the middle, and this was exactly what I hoped for.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the volunteers came at a really good time, otherwise I might have to bury them alive now.
"Come on!" I heard a Yankee in Shang'an nervously muttering, "Come on! Chinese, you are already dead. I'm going to show you how good I am! ”
I slowly moved my hand down to 'touch' the grenade hanging from my waist, my movements were slow for fear of alarming the Yankees, who were only a few meters away from my position. But fortunately, they focused all their attention on the volunteers who were moving this way, so they didn't notice my movement
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"Git tart bite" when the Yankees' machine guns just rang out. I pulled out the safety of the grenade as fast as I could, threw it on, and rolled to the side without thinking.
"Stand by!" There was a Yankee scolding from above, and soon there was a row of machine guns ... Let my stomach just go! , conceive me to run fast. Otherwise, in their dying air horns "will be beaten into a sieve."
I heard a bang, and then a scream came from above.
"Kill!" The soldiers did not need my orders, they all stood up from their lurking places and rushed towards the high ground, dozens of men at such a close distance to attack the positions defended by a dozen people, and the battle was over in less than two minutes. When I rushed to the high ground, I saw only the bodies of five or six American GIs lying on the ground in the fortifications that had not yet been built in a hurry, and four other American GIs raised their hands in the air, looking at us volunteer soldiers who did not know where they had come from. In the hands of a soldier who looked like a communications soldier, the voice of the commander was heard from time to time over the walkie-talkie: "Hell! What the hell is going on? Why not fire? Why not fire! ”
I glanced down at the American artillery in the open field, and saw that they had set up a circular defensive formation as I thought. couldn't help nodding, and soon ordered Ren Fengyou: "Point."
"Yes!" Ren Fengyou answered, turned around and left with the two soldiers.
At this point, the Yankees seemed to have finally discovered that their positions had been lost. Tanks, self-propelled guns, and Yankees' light and heavy weapons roared at once, and in an instant bullets and shells rained down on the high ground. The warriors fell to their stomachs. I hurriedly ordered the soldiers to crawl towards these anticlines that could not be hit by direct 'fire' artillery, and anyway, in a short time you will be blown up into the sky, and we will not be able to deal with you.
But what I didn't expect was. Suddenly there was a "tart" sound behind me, and the bullets made the soldiers a little inexplicable, and I soon realized that this was the volunteer army treating us as enemies, and I couldn't help but curse in my heart; Who am I messing with? How to chase and fight at both ends!
"Liberate New China! Liberate New China! "I hurriedly shouted at the volunteers who were rushing up while fighting, but they couldn't hear my shouts at all in the sound of gunfire, and they were still one by one, rushing upwards vigorously, and even I saw that some of them had their bayonets loaded! Oh my god! I couldn't help but scream bad. If this volunteer army rushes up and stabs us as enemies, we won't be able to fight back
At this critical moment, I don't know who blew the little trumpet, which is only in the hands of the volunteers, so soon the soldiers who charged at us with their guns slowed down. Then he carefully sent two warriors to come up and ask.
"What are your portions?" The two soldiers were holding ***sha submachine guns in their hands, and when they came up and saw our dress, they believed that we were our own people, but they still asked suspiciously: "The superiors didn't tell us that there would be their own troops here!" How did you end up here? ”
"We are" I couldn't help but be stunned as soon as I said this, our company was cobbled together by soldiers from different units, and it seemed that it was not right to report any number. After thinking about it for a while, I replied a little helplessly: "I am the 3rd Battalion of the Old Army Division."
But before he finished speaking, he let the submachine guns of the two little soldiers be put on the top, and he shouted: "Don't move, who are you?" ”
**! The hatred in my heart, let others put a gun on the head, and I haven't been so guilty of fighting until now!
"You are of the Mourners. So who are we! Another soldier cut off: "You pretend to be 'quite like', and you almost 'blinded' you." But you didn't expect the fake Li ghost to meet the real Li Yi! ”
"What?" I couldn't help but be overjoyed when I heard this: "You, you are the neck group"
"I can't think of it!" The warrior seemed to be still complacent about seeing through my "tricks".
At this time, the volunteer soldiers in the back also followed up one by one. Suddenly, I spotted a few familiar figures, and exclaimed with great joy: "Huzi! Old squad leader,
"Yes, yes, Deputy Battalion Commander Cui?" The old squad leader's half-believing voice came from the opposite side.
Huzi couldn't resist an arrow step and rushed up, hugged my shoulder and looked left and right, and then punched me and said, "Good boy, I said you can't die!" It's not a good drop, I'll just say that your life is hard! ”
"Ball!" Hearing this, I was angry, and couldn't help but scold back: "It's hard to die? I almost died under your gun, and I was put to my head with a gun! ”
"Go, go," Huzi waved at the two soldiers with submachine guns, and then said to me with some embarrassment: "The new reinforcements are big or small, don't worry about them."
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"What are you doing? Do you want to go to war? At this time, Xu Feng pushed away a few people and walked up, and when I saw that it was me, I couldn't help but be stunned: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" ”
"Camp Commander Xu!" When I saw my comrades-in-arms, I couldn't help but secretly rejoice, it turned out that the enemy's artillery battalion was discovered in history, and it was Xu Feng's battalion that had not been defeated for three days and three nights.
"I'll talk about that later!" Xu Feng quickly ordered: "The most important thing now is to take down this artillery battalion of the enemy for me, comrades!" Follow me! ”
"Yes!" The battlemen answered the call and prepared to charge.
"Camp Commander Xu!" Seeing this, I hurriedly went up and stopped Xu Feng: "Battalion Commander Xu, we don't need this artillery battalion to fight, I've arranged it!" ”
"Scheduled? What does it mean? Xu Feng couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"Ren Fengyou!" I didn't answer, but turned and shouted behind me.
"Here!" Ren Fengyou, who was covered with branches, quickly ran up.
"It's lit!"
"Oh! That's pretty much it! "I calculated the time, the lead is very long, all the way from the high ground to the center of the open field, it will take at least a few minutes to order the explosives, and it is almost time now, so I didn't rush to explain more, and hurriedly ordered: "All of them, all of them lie down!" ”
Of course, Ren Fengyou and the others knew what was going to happen. So the front simply lay down. Although Huzi and the others were suspicious, they also fell to the ground one after another under Xu Feng's nod.
At this time, the American troops may not be able to find the target, and the gunfire gradually stopped, only occasionally fired a few flares to illuminate the surroundings, but we hid on the anti-slope of the high ground, and they could not see or hit at all. There was a sudden and eerie silence all around. But Ren Feng and I both know what kind of storm is hidden behind this quiet.
"What are you doing?" Huzi lying on the ground couldn't bear the 'sex' anymore, but before he could finish his words, there was an earth-shattering roar from the US military position, followed by another "explosion, which soon became a difference, shaking the high ground below us to tremble, hot 'waves' and gunpowder smoke continued to pour from the mountain, and the firelight soon reflected every inch of the surrounding land."
The explosions came one after another, and after ten minutes finally stopped, and the fighters slowly climbed up the hill. I saw a scene that even veterans like Xu Feng and Huzi were stunned by: the entire open area was blown out of several large craters, countless tanks, cars, howitzers and self-propelled guns were crowded together and burned, some were blown to pieces, and even many tanks and self-propelled guns were blown to the ground. The U.S. troops were nowhere to be seen, and the heights were littered with shattered organs, with the occasional intact charred corpse burning in the fire. There was a pungent smell in the air, and the puppet army who was originally stopped on the highway by the US military did not know where to run at this time.
Although the U.S. military's use of tanks and armored vehicles to build a ring of defense is indeed very strong, it often crowds themselves together because of the number of armored vehicles.
"This, you kid" Huzi looked at this scene, pointing at this and that with one finger, he couldn't say a word for a long time.
"What's going on?" Xu Feng was more calm and said the question in Huzi's heart.
"This is all the credit of our company commander!" Ren Fengyou looked at the destruction of so many enemies, and couldn't help but answer excitedly: "Our company commander!" I had already planted shells and explosives here, but I didn't expect the enemy to really come, and it was full of tanks, cars, and artillery. ”
"Company commander? When did you become a company commander again? Xu Feng couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"That" Battalion Commander Xu! When I heard this, I replied embarrassedly, "Didn't I fall behind the enemy?" This is a team that I pulled up on my own. They are all soldiers who have fallen behind in various units, and they can afford to be "admired" by the brothers, so they pushed me to become the company commander! ”
Khan, as soon as I said this, I realized that it was really a bit like the incision that the Mountain King said, if Chen Ye was the political commissar, I would definitely have to count my "Mountain King Thought" again.
"You're a kid!" Huzi laughed on the side: "We all thought you had seen Marx." I didn't expect you to pull up a team behind the enemy, and hit a lot of tanks and artillery at once! ”
"I heard that I found Deputy Battalion Commander Cui?" At this time, with a familiar cry, Zhao Yongxin limped up, looking like dancing.
"Company Commander Zhao!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but greet him.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, it's really you!" Zhao Yongxin warmly shook my hand and said, "It's good to come back." It's good to come back, but I want to die. You don't save it, it's not exciting to fight! ”
Huzi watched from the side and said: "You are thinking that Deputy Battalion Commander Cui will come back this time, so you don't have to be the acting deputy battalion commander!" complained in front of us all day long, saying that it was better to be a deputy battalion commander than a full company commander! He also said that the company commander could take a hundred soldiers to fight, how happy it was."
"Wow tiger!" Zhao Yongxin pretended to be extremely angry and said, "Our brothers, you actually betrayed me!" ”
The two sang and harmonized, which only made the soldiers laugh.
At this time, Chen Liang and Gao Chengshan, who were stationed on the other two hills, also gathered, and when they saw their troops, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and regardless of whether they knew each other or not, they all enthusiastically came up to shake hands with the soldiers.
I have never been separated from the big army, and I can't experience the joy of returning to the big army.
"Come back!" Xu Feng patted me on the shoulder and said, "It's still the deputy battalion commander, this position has always been reserved for you!" ”
"Good!" I didn't even think about it. But soon they pointed at Chen Liang and asked, "Then, what about these comrades?" ”
"They'll be incorporated into our camp for the time being!" Xu Feng nodded: "Most of their troops are resting in the rear, and it is not appropriate to disperse the team now and let them go back to find the troops, they can continue to fight after being incorporated into our battalion, what do you think?" ”
Xu Feng's last sentence was said to Chen Liang and others.
"No problem!"
"I agree!"
Chen Liang and others expressed their willingness to fight with the troops, so our battalion had one more company. turned into a veritable reinforced battalion.