Chapter VII Filipino Battalion

"Woo" followed by the strange whistling of airplanes in the sky. A low-flying reconnaissance plane flew over the high ground of the ambush of the volunteers. This reminds the soldiers that the enemy is coming soon, and we have an old Chinese saying that there is no fixed way to fight, but obviously the Yankees do not know this sentence, because after fighting with them a few times, we can easily grasp some of the habits of the US military. For example, reconnaissance planes that have just flown are always accustomed to conducting aerial reconnaissance of the area through which their troops are going to pass. This may be a set of systematic, scientific combat practices that have been proven to minimize casualties on their own side.

If the reconnaissance planes can find something, such aerial reconnaissance may still have some value, but in this mountainous and forested area, it seems that the volunteers can easily disappear into nature as long as they hide in the air-raid 'shelters,' and some even need to put on a straw hat or 'plug' some branches. Therefore, this reconnaissance plane almost used its whistle to inform the volunteers all the way: "Our wise and martial alliance is coming, and it will definitely pass through this place, you hurry up and get ready!" ”

Most of the mountains next to the Yizheng fǔ corridor are horizontal, and they are also not high. Like a steel knife 'sticking' into the road, such terrain is undoubtedly more suitable for defense. Because this layer of hills has become our natural trenches, all we have to do is dig a trench on the anti-slope and set up machine guns on the high ground, which can form a 'cross' fire to block the road in the middle, and if it weren't for the Yankees' planes, artillery, and tanks, I don't think they would have been able to pose a threat to our line of defense.

I was lying alone on a corner of the high ground looking through the scope at the road ahead, from this position I could clearly see the plains below, because of the distance from the road, and the soldiers wanted to get closer to the enemy. That's why no one robbed me.

At this time, I fully realized the benefits of this deputy battalion commander, there is a battalion commander who commands the war, and there is a company commander who leads the charge of the team, and I, the deputy battalion commander, say to the battalion commander whenever I want to work alone, and shout to the company commander when I want to pull the team to fight.

The camouflage on my body made me feel a bit like the snipers I saw on TV and in movies. This made me feel a very strange feeling in my heart, it seemed to be a kind of quiet, and it seemed to be a kind of loneliness, as if the comrades who were lying in ambush not far away were isolated from me, like a hunter silently waiting for his prey to appear.

There was a slight stinging in my eyes, so I closed my eyes and rested for a while. It's been a long time since I've come out so "dignified" outside to bask in the sun during the day, and when I close my eyes, I feel some of the breath of a 'spring' day. The grass lying on his stomach was soft, a bit like a quilt at home. The wind blowing inside doesn't seem to be so cold anymore. It also smells of grass, and you can occasionally hear a few bird calls. It reminds me of the two birds I have at home, I don't know if they miss me for a long time, but I think they think they think more about food than I should.

It's a shame to say. I've kept them for so long and still haven't figured out what kind of birds they are, larks? Thrush? Or larks? I don't remember and I don't care, but for me, anyone who has wings and makes a nice call can be called a bird. I just don't want to be alone in a house that is too quiet, that would make me feel lonely"

The rumbling sound of the motor pulled me back to hard reality again. I sighed and slowly opened my eyes. I knew that what awaited me ahead would be another bloody life-and-death struggle

However, to my surprise, it was not the tank battalion I imagined that appeared in my scope, but an infantry battalion carried by a car first, although there were also two Xiafei tanks in front of the convoy, but this seemed too cold for the poison army. Such equipment, such a reckless rush forward in the form of a death squad, it seems that only a puppet army would do this,

It was only when the convoys drove closer enough that I could see the soldiers' uniforms on the back of the cars. It turned out that they were the 10th Philippine Battalion.

Speaking of the Philippines. The most impressive thing should be the fiasco of the American army in the Philippines in World War II, tens of thousands of US-Filipino troops were captured by the Japanese army, MacArthur escaped alone in a torpedo boat with his family, and before leaving, he released a sentence: "I will definitely come back!" ”

Sure enough, just a few years later, MacArthur returned to the Philippines to fulfill his promise, and at the same time made him brilliant with the war.

10th Philippine Battalion. It is a unit that has been tempered under the fire of such a war. In modern sources, I know that although this unit is called a battalion, it has more than 1,100 people. Almost the number of people in a regiment of volunteers.

The Philippine battalion seemed to believe in the reconnaissance of the sky reconnaissance aircraft, so it did not send scouts at all. It is said that this force was commanded by the 29th Brigade of the British Army, so it is not surprising that they would rush so rashly to the rescue of the British Gloucester battalion.

With the louder and louder sound of motors, the convoy of the 10th Philippine Battalion soon passed through the first line of defense of the Volunteers and continued to advance in depth of the Volunteers' defense. The volunteers did not shoot, and at the same time they hid well. The Filipino soldiers in the open compartment behind the car, although they looked around vigilantly with their guns in hand, as if they were facing a great enemy, still did not find anything hidden

In the scope. I took a closer look at the weapons in the hands of the Philippine battalion, they didn't have as many bazookas and recoilless guns as the American troops, but they were also fully American-style equipment, and most of the weapons in their hands were... Rifles and Peng submachine guns. The United States has colonized the Philippines for more than 50 years, so this Philippine army, which was trained by the US military, must have similar fighting habits to the US military!

The muddy road limited the speed of the cars, which also made the distance between the cars very short, and the whole convoy slowly climbed into the ambush circle of the volunteers like a bamboo snake. The Filipino soldiers in the back of the car wearing ordinary 'camouflage' military uniforms had cold faces, and their hands were tightly grasping the various weapons in their hands, as if they were ready for battle. But what they don't know is that they have entered the enemy's position, or arguably their place of death.

Suddenly, I only heard a bang, and a Xiafei tank in front of me pressed the mine, and the explosion was an order, and the jungle that seemed to be very ordinary just now suddenly appeared countless volunteers wearing straw hats and 'sticking' branches into the battle, and without saying a word, they picked up the light and heavy weapons in their hands and fired at the Philippine battalion in the open field.

It was only then that the Sha submachine gun, the turntable light machine gun, and the Golyunov heavy machine gun showed their characteristic firepower superiority. Needless to say, heavy machine guns that use bullet chains are also good at the theoretical ammunition capacity of turntable light machine guns. Submachine guns, on the other hand, have triggers, and their constant firepower is unmatched by other weapons, even the Browning light machine guns of the U.S. military.

The Philippine battalion was suddenly hit by such heavy firepower that it was instantly thrown into a 'mess', and many people were beaten into a sieve on the back of the car before they could react, and the blood sprayed out of the 'shot' stained the car red in an instant. Only a handful of people jumped out of the car in time and fell to the ground to resist. But then they were helpless to find that there were volunteers all around them who were 'shooting' at them, and they were not given a chance to fight back, and the bullets took their lives one after another.

This is the battle set. The two sides of the 'warring' war had never met, and even many volunteer soldiers did not know what nationality they were, but they still had to aim at their heads and pull the trigger.

Immediately after that, several cars were hit with a bang, and the fuel tank exploded, which made the soldiers of the Philippine battalion run around like ants on a hot pot. It was only with great difficulty that they figured out the direction, but as the volunteer soldiers threw a few anti-tank grenades at the cars at the exit, their retreat was blocked by a sea of fire, so they had to raise their hands high.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, sure enough, it was worthy of being a soldier trained by the U.S. military, and even the posture of surrender was similar to that of the Americans.

The battle ended in just ten minutes, the road, the mud, and the puddles were full of enemy corpses and bright red bloodstains, several burning cars emitted black smoke and a pungent smell of burnt fire all around, and the cars that did not burn were all dripping thick blood without exception, and there were already several pools of blood under the cars like stagnant water. Just like a few drops of rain falling in front of the eaves after a rain, the falling drops of blood can always 'stir' up a string of thin beads of blood.

In addition to the 20 or so cars in the rear that had not yet rushed into the encirclement, the Filipino soldiers in the 30 or so cars that entered the encirclement were either killed or captured, and the Philippine Difeng Battalion suffered heavy damage in just that moment.

It stands to reason that the combat effectiveness of the 10th Philippine Battalion, which has been tested by the fire of World War II, will not be so bad, but they almost jumped into our encirclement so easily without doing a good job of reconnaissance. Regardless of combat effectiveness. After entering the encirclement where our fire is so tightly arranged, except for a tank battalion that is fully armoured. Otherwise, even the Gloucester battalion would have to raise their hands and surrender.

I didn't fire a single shot until the end of the whole battle because I didn't see anything worth shooting. At the same time, I couldn't help but feel sorry for a while, if it was the U.S. military that came back this time, we could say that it would be a complete victory. The Americans have always attached great importance to the lives of their soldiers, and if six or seven hundred people were killed and wounded in just ten minutes of a battle, and the rest were captured, it would be a great blow to their morale in any case.

But now it is the 10th Philippine Battalion that has broken in, and in a sense, they are acting as substitutes for the US military. In other words, he has become a scout of the US military, and now the US military will inevitably be on guard

He lurked in the sniper position for more than half an hour, and as the sun slowly rose, the sunlight became more and more intense. Although the sun felt a little warm on my body, I couldn't stand the itching of the muddy water on my face after it dried out. I wanted to take advantage of the fact that the US military had not yet come to scratch the itch, but in the end I held back, what is a sniper! If you can't even resist this itch, it's not like you're ashamed of me to be so cool.

It turns out that I was right.

At this time, suddenly a few small birds flew in the forest in the upper left, and I thought that something was wrong, and if a bird was startled, it meant that someone was approaching. I quickly ruled out the possibility that it was ordinary people, and I was afraid that the dense gunfire and explosions just now could be heard from several kilometers away, and ordinary people would not seek their own lives to lean on the battlefield.

So who will it be? Yankee? It is also unlikely that the Yankees, with their modern equipment and firepower, would not be stupid enough to fight in the jungle, and it is more likely that they would order the air force to scrape, "A single incendiary bomb will burn that forest to ashes."

So...... It's the 10th Philippine Battalion!

Depend on! How did I forget that the Philippines is a tropical island country, and it is full of rainforests, so it's no surprise that their soldiers are good at jungle warfare.

This group of sneak attackers must be the group of people who have just escaped back, there must be four or five hundred people! If my guess is correct, they should have split up in two lines, one on our side and the other on the other side of the road.

Our volunteers have focused all their attention on the highway, and the hiding position is also on the anti-slope close to the highway, and the fire of light and heavy weapons is also deployed against the enemy on the highway, once these Philippine lines occupy the high ground and fight down condescendingly, it will almost be shooting at our back..."

! I underestimated you Filipino battalions, but it's good that I'm hiding here alone today and pretending to be cool, otherwise the consequences will be really unimaginable. I wanted to sneak down to warn my comrades, but I quickly gave up on this stupid idea, and the sound of gunfire was undoubtedly the best and fastest warning.

So I slowly turned my hands and turned the muzzle of the gun that was supposed to be facing the road towards the forest in the upper left. Sure enough, it was the Philippine battalion, and through the scope I could clearly see that they were wearing 'camouflage' uniforms. Jumping nimbly through the forest, taking advantage of the cover of the trees, quickly approaching our position.

The environment here seems to be very similar to the rainforest, muddy land. 'Wet' the trunks of the trees, except for the cold air, of course. Therefore, as soon as they entered the jungle, they seemed to be like a group of people in water, and they could not see the team that had just been beaten in the open ground and was powerless. But after watching for a while, I was able to grasp some of them jumping in and out of the trunks

"Bang!" My gun went off. The muzzle of the gun flickered, bullets flew out, and a Filipino soldier had just jumped out of a tree trunk. was hit in the head by that bullet. In the scope, I could clearly see that the enemy's head was bursting bright red like a watermelon that had been hit. Then he collapsed to the ground like an airbag that had been 'drained' of air.

I retracted my head and stepped back, supposedly as a sniper and a shot to change places, but I wasn't for that. Because I'm sure they won't be able to find my place even if they hear my gunshots. To be honest, the sniper position just now was ideal, and I was really a little reluctant, but in the end I gave up.

I don't know if it was my first 'girlfriend' who told me, "There is no such thing as perfection, and if there is, it must be a trap that will bring you bad luck!" ”

I believe this, that sniper position just now was too perfect, so I didn't dare to stay longer!

Sure enough, after a while, heavy machine guns and mortars beckoned to my sniper position, which made me sigh again at how true this sentence was! It's right to think about it, the Philippine battalion is good at fighting in the jungle. Then you can't see where it's good for sniping?

If my comrades-in-arms would have thought that I had tried to beat small animals to open meat, then the fierce gunfire of the Philippine battalion had completely sobered up the soldiers.

Without saying a word, Zhao Yongxin ran up with his company in a hurry, setting up machine guns and rifles and sweeping at the forest.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, are you okay?" Zhao Yongxin didn't forget to rush to my side and ask.

"It's fine!" I shook my head and said to Zhao Yongxin: "We must end the battle as soon as possible, otherwise it will be troublesome when the Yankee tanks come up!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin answered and hurriedly joined the battle.

I changed a position and slowly came out again, and the situation I saw couldn't help but make me frown, although the enemy and us on the battlefield were 'shooting', but the volunteers had the high ground as a cover, and the Philippine battalion had trees as a cover, and I didn't see who was hitting for a long time.

No wonder Ridgway asked the Philippine battalion to participate in the rescue operation, using the field artillery battalion to provide fire cover, the Philippine battalion, which is good at fighting jungle battles, attacked from both flanks, and then used the US infantry battalion and tank battalion to break through from the middle. It's a perfect combination. Fortunately, the Philippine battalion ran too fast and suffered heavy casualties in our ambush, otherwise it would have been a real headache.

If only there were a few incendiary bombs, looking at the woods where the Philippine camp was hiding, I thought: one fire will burn you all clean, and see what kind of jungle battles you are fighting.

Just as I was thinking that there was a sudden roar of planes in the air, Zhao Yongxin hurriedly ran to my side and asked, "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui." Enemy planes are coming, and it is assumed that our gunfire has drawn them. What now? ”

I understand what Zhao Yongxin meant, if you want to hide from the air-raid 'shelter', the high ground will soon be occupied by the guys of the Philippine battalion. It is even very likely that they will be blocked in the air-raid 'hole' and will not be able to get out. This if you don't hide. It's just for the sake of being bombed by planes."

Niangdi, this is not in, not in, this Zhao Yongxin is good, and he will throw this hot mountain to me at once!