Chapter 78: Rushing to the aid of Tiecheng Mountain
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He Pingxiong struggled to support himself with two light machine guns.
The soldiers of the Jacques army were still desperately charging, because they all heard that Dagaan had given them a death order, saying that if the Jacques army failed to sneak attack this time, they would not have to go back alive, so no one dared to retreat, and they kept desperately approaching He Pingxiong from all directions with concealment.
Bullets and arrows whizzed past He Pingxiong, and the situation was extremely critical.
In the end, it was he who saved He Pingxiong's life.
It turned out that a battalion of the Huaxia Army stationed in Tiecheng Mountain, after receiving the order to attack and pursue, at the request of He Pingxiong, left two heavy machine guns and one mortar recoilless gun each in Tiecheng Mountain.
In addition to two heavy machine guns guarding the only exit, He Pingxiong loaded a heavy machine gun on a wheelbarrow and arranged for it to be placed on the mountain to stand by according to the method proposed by Hu Zhen.
When the soldiers of a squad in charge of guarding the heavy machine gun guard heard the startling movement here, they quickly jumped up, pushed the heavy machine gun with a wheelbarrow, and fired fiercely at the dense shadow of the sneak attackers, regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one.
Suddenly, the rain of bullets swept through, whether it was a bush or a human figure, without exception, it was broken and knocked down like a piece of wood. The breeze at the top of the mountain blew, wafting up the debris of trees and grass and the smell of human blood.
The remnants of the sneak attackers screamed and retreated, rolling down one by one to avoid the frenzied heavy machine-gun fire, regardless of the cliffs behind them.
When a huge movement broke out on Tiecheng Mountain, Dagaan, who was waiting with a large army outside, knew that his sneak attack had successfully reached the top, but encountered fierce resistance from the defenders, so he did not hesitate to order an immediate attack on the exit wall of Tiecheng Mountain, in order to contain the reinforcements of the Huaxia army on the top of the mountain.
The location of the city wall was the key position of the Huaxia Army, and He Pingxiong arranged for the placement of two heavy machine guns and a recoilless gun. At this moment, when they heard the fierce battle on the mountain, they were also awakened, and all the personnel hurriedly entered their respective battle positions and opened their weapons.
The crowd of Jacques soldiers who rushed like a tide was fiercely blocked and fired by crossfire, and they could not rush to the position of thirty meters of the city wall at all, and hundreds of people fell on the way to charge, and more Jacques soldiers heard the sound of heavy machine guns, and even rolled and crawled on the ground and did not dare to move, no matter how the leader behind them ordered, they did not dare to get up and take a step.
Seeing that the Jacques army could not break through the dense crossfire of the city wall, He Pingxiong immediately reassured, and commanded the soldiers who rushed to support to knock down all the more than 200 Jacques troops who climbed up the mountain with fierce firepower, and used grenades to blow up the three ropes that were tied on the mountain, killing and wounding more than 200 Jacques troops, and firmly maintaining the position of the top of Tiecheng Mountain.
By daybreak, the Jacques had tossed and turned for most of the night, and had nothing to gain but a large number of dead and wounded.
He Pingxiong commanded the soldiers and the Chinese in Tiecheng Mountain, strengthened the fortifications everywhere, strengthened patrols, and strictly prevented the Yak army from sneaking up again. At the same time, He Pingxiong asked the wireless telegrapher to send a telegram to the headquarters of the Huaxia Army in Lag Town for help.
After Hu Zhen received the telegram for help from Tiechengshan, he immediately ordered reinforcements to Tiechengshan.
However, at this moment, the entire Huaxia Army is scattered to pursue and suppress the Jacques Army, and it is difficult for the main forces of each detachment to concentrate for a while, and the commanders of each detachment are all outside to carry out the task of commanding and pursuing.
For more than ten minutes, Hu Zhen paced back and forth several times in the general headquarters alone, and decided to use wireless telegraphy to order all troops to attack in the direction of Tiecheng Mountain as the center.
At this moment, in addition to the infantry weapons that are unique in the world, the Huaxia Army also has a world-leading unique skill, that is, equipping the troops with wireless telegraphs.
At present, the Huaxia Army's wireless telegraph machines have been equipped with regimental-level and battalion-level units under the jurisdiction of the detachment, and the headquarters can directly contact the troops at and above the battalion level for telegraph calls, as long as the troops are not in the middle of the movement or blocked by high mountains. After the non-stop call of the headquarters radio station, most of the troops were contacted and ordered to attack Tiecheng Mountain immediately.
When all the troops received the news that Tiecheng Mountain was surrounded by the Jacques army, they were all taken aback, and they couldn't imagine that they were chasing and suppressing the Jacques army outside, but the Jacques army surrounded their own strategic points, but they all reported to the headquarters that they should concentrate their forces in an orderly manner at this moment to return to Tiecheng Mountain, and it would take a certain amount of time.
Hu Zhen understood that if he concentrated his troops and then returned to Tiecheng Mountain according to the convention, it was possible that the Jake army in Tiecheng Mountain would escape again, so he immediately ordered all troops not to be rigid in concentrating troops according to the order of formation, but to immediately return to Tiecheng Mountain with as many troops as they could.
Hu Zhen also made up his mind that he himself would lead a company of the garrison of Lag Town to Tiecheng Mountain immediately with light equipment, master the troops rushing to the aid of Tiecheng Mountain, and launch a counter-encirclement of the Jacques army.
After receiving Hu Zhen's order, all the troops immediately took action, but everyone objected to Hu Zhen taking only one company of troops deep into the direction of Tiecheng Mountain, and suggested that in order to ensure safety, more than one battalion of troops must act with the commander-in-chief.
These opinions were all rejected by Hu Zhen.
Because the current strength of Lag Town is only more than 1,000 people in a regiment, and most of them are recruits who have not been trained in actual combat, if a battalion is dispatched, only a few hundred people will stay in Lag Town. Lag Town is the seed incubation place for China's future industrial construction, how can Hu Zhen easily put the unsafe Lag Town in danger?
Hu Zhen personally led two radio stations and a company of more than 150 people into Tiecheng Mountain, carrying 12 light machine guns, 3 mortars, 3 recoilless guns, and 3 heavy machine guns, each equipped with a rifle, a pistol, 150 rifle bullets, 60 pistol bullets, and 10 hand grenades.
Hu Zhen personally carried a light machine gun and a pistol and set off with the soldiers.
But where did the soldiers dare to let everyone's beloved commander-in-chief walk on foot like themselves, everyone tried their best to oppose it, it is estimated that if Hu Zhen proposed to carry everyone on the road at this time, everyone would take turns to carry Hu Zhen and run, but Hu Zhen insisted on walking with the soldiers.
In the end, someone found a horse for Hu Zhen to ride on the road.
However, after walking for a while, it was really inconvenient for Hu Zhen to walk the mountain road on horseback, and he used the horses to carry mortars, recoilless guns, light machine guns and bullets for everyone.
In fact, this is not Hu Zhen pretending to be forced, but Hu Zhen understands that he is riding a high-headed horse, won't he become the best target for snipers in the Jacques Army?
Although Hu Zhen can wear body armor that ordinary soldiers don't have, and march in this tropical jungle in body armor, not to mention that it's so hot, if the bullet of the Jacques Army hits the head without body armor protection, it will be really unlucky.