Chapter 41: Recruits

"Retreat!" After the soldiers had planted a batch of mines on the top of the mountain, Company Commander Luo waved and ran towards the foot of the mountain with the soldiers.

Of course, in order to prevent the Yue Devil from chasing and killing all the way behind our ass, Scar also took a few people to lay mines all the way behind.

In other words, this is Scar's strong point, and if we want to say that we are veterans in our company, then only Scar is worthy of the name. He had participated in the Vietnamese army's battle against the Yankees before, didn't he? So this toss up mines, not to mention how skilled they are. One here later, another one over there later...... And it was strange to me that he was not slower than us when he was laying mines.

What's even more amazing is ...... When we all had the same amount of mines, Scar started to mine with grenades.

If this is the kind of melon-type mine on the Yue devil's body...... I'll use it to make a thunderbolt too, but let's make a thunderbolt with this grenade...... That's what I'm going to learn.

So I went after me and took a look...... It's as simple as tying a grenade to a tree or pressing it into a stone, and then tying a tripwire to the fire rope.

Of course, the effect of this deceit is not very good, after all, there is a delay in the explosion time of grenades, and the grenades of our army often do not explode...... In other words, when the more devils stumble over this kind of trickery, they have time to dodge. But one thing is certain...... This would have given the Vietnamese army all the taboos to slow them down.

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, Company Commander Luo led us to the mountain road...... And he turned to the east.

So the soldiers couldn't help but be surprised, and even a few people shouted at Luo Lian Commander: "Company Commander...... Is it the wrong way? ”

"This road has been sealed off by the sappers, hasn't it?"

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"That's right!" The company commander replied as he walked forward, "Hurry up." Target 419 Heights! ”

"The ...... of the mines"

"Just follow me! Why do you ask so much? Company Commander Luo scolded angrily.

So I understood. This is the head of the regiment arranged early in the morning haode...... The regiment commander had long known that the Vietnamese army would block the retreat of our troops with artillery fire. Later, I learned that it was not only artillery shells but also Vietnamese agents that the Vietnamese army used to block our army's retreat.

This is also the reason why the Weishenme Vietnamese army is not in a hurry to chase us behind...... Because the Vietnamese army thought that there was artillery fire and ambush in front, so it was not a sure thing to annihilate us?

Who would have thought...... Commander Liu had already asked the engineer troops to secretly clear a mountain road for us, so when the Vietnamese army agents were working hard in an ambush on the other side, we jumped out from the other road without realizing it.

Sure enough, just like I thought...... After more than half an hour of advancing along the mountain in the light rain, we came across our own troops.

"Is it a comrade of the second company!" After a cadre and Company Commander Luo finished the password. He shouted impatiently at us, "Why is it only here at this time?" I'm just sending you......"

"We've just had a good time, so we're losing track of time!" Xu Guochun's words made the soldiers heckle for a while.

The cadre gave us an unexpected look, and immediately realized the strength of the army in front of him, so he didn't dare to say anything more.

According to my opinion, he must be the engineer unit responsible for relaying mines on the mountain road, so I didn't know that the name of our Hero Second Company dared to speak to us like this. But as long as it's not stupid, you know...... If a unit can still talk and laugh when it is being pursued by the Vietnamese army, it is enough to show that this unit is not easy to mess with.

There are engineering units behind to cover...... The rest of the march was a little more relaxed, after all, we also knew that mines were easy to lay and difficult to arrange, and there were engineering units laying mines behind...... This means that it is difficult for the devils to catch up with us. In other words...... That is, we have successfully jumped out of the encirclement of the Vietnamese army.

Sure enough, I went along the mountain road for more than ten minutes. We're back on the road...... At this time, there were already groups of PLA fighters gathered on the road. Judging by the direction of their march and the fact that most of them were bare-assed...... They have also just been pulled down from the front line.

Company Commander Luo took out the map and looked at it as he walked, and soon selected a high ground to take us up.

And what surprised me a little was...... Other companies were not so lucky. Because I heard a few cadre-looking people asking everywhere: "Comrade...... Where is 443 Heights? ”

"Which is 201 Heights?"

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All right! In this era, the quality of the grassroots officers of our army is a little worse, and many of them are not even illiterate, let alone distinguish the direction or find the high ground.

However, I believe that this is not only a problem for junior officers, but also for mid- and high-ranking officers, of course...... The problem here is not that mid- and high-ranking officers are illiterate, but that they do not have enough experience or ability to command battles.

I think this is the reason why Weishenme's army paid more attention to improving the cultural level and streamlining of the army in the subsequent army reform.

Originally, we thought that the 419 Heights were completely guarded by us, but when we climbed the 419 Heights, we realized that this was not the case. There were already haode field fortifications and a bunch of recruits...... The reason why we can see at a glance that they are new recruits is because they are all neat and energetic...... At first glance, you know that you have never been in the tunnel.

"You are from the second company...... soon a cadre greeted us and shouted at us very arrogantly: "Which is your company commander?" ”

"I am!" Company Commander Luo stood up and said, "I'm Luo Xianwen, the commander of the second company!" ”

"I am the commander of the fourth battalion, Wang Jianfu!" The man stood on the stone and crossed his waist and said to Company Commander Luo: "The superior assigned your second company to our fourth battalion to coordinate the garrison of 419, you have received the order!" ”

"Roger!" Company Commander Luo stepped forward and said, "Resolutely obey the order!" ”

What? I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, let us listen to the orders of this recruit battalion commander?

In fact, it was not only me, but the soldiers were also full of unconvinced, and it was only because of this battlefield discipline that they endured it.

I wondered in my heart...... Where did this group of recruits come from, and how could Regiment Commander Liu arrange it like this?

Later, I learned that Head Liu actually had to do it as a last resort.

After knowing that our regiment was going to do it on its own, Regiment Commander Liu racked his brains to get more ammunition and soldiers for himself...... So the ammunition and reinforcements came up.

It's okay to say that this ammunition is up...... New ammo and old ammo are stacked on top of each other, but this is a replenishment...... It was a battalion that came up, and according to the previous practice, all the recruits of this battalion were scattered and supplemented to the various companies, so that the recruits and veterans could be integrated.

But now......

Time simply does not allow the regiment commander to do this, and these many troops are on the front line? And the battle is just starting, and all the troops are to retreat...... At this time, it is obviously not the time to disrupt the recruits to add to the companies, otherwise this disruption will add to the chaos, and it is easy to find a situation where each cannot find its own troops.

But this recruit...... No, no, you must know that we are facing a large army of Vietnamese...... It is very likely that this large force will be much larger than ours, so we can only let them go.

For this recruit unit, Regiment Commander Liu arranged it like this: Each company of recruits was stationed on a high ground, because they were worried that they would not be able to block the Vietnamese attack because they had no experience, so each company was assigned to a dissatisfied veteran company, and ordered the recruit company commander to listen to the command of the veteran company commander...... The three heights are unified under the coordination and command of the battalion commander of the recruit battalion.

That would have been fine...... Because battalion-level cadres generally organize and coordinate work on the second line, because he commands the whole battalion to fight on the three high grounds, his eyes must be fixed on the three high ground at the same time, and he must also contact his superiors in real time, and if necessary, he must send out reinforcements with the reserves in his hand, and so on.

But who knows this recruit battalion commander Wang Jianfu...... I don't know if it's the first time I go to the battlefield or if I want to show that I am very brave, I even handed over the battalion headquarters to the chief of staff and came up with a few guards......

So there is the current scene...... The commander of this 419 heights is not Company Commander Luo, but Battalion Commander Wang.

According to Wang Jianfu's words, it is to be on the front line to command more inspiring the soldiers to kill the enemy bravely and to give full play to the courage of the soldiers...... Actually, someone later learned about it from the battalion staff officer...... In fact, Wang Jianfu didn't want to change from a battalion commander to a company commander or platoon commander.

Anyway, this is a convention as a supplementary soldier, isn't it? Because the supplementary soldiers have no combat experience, they are usually demoted to fight in the veteran unit after they go to the battlefield, just like the squad leader Wu Zhijun under me before...... He was originally a company commander.

Of course, Wang Jianfu knew this, but he happened to encounter this battle when he came up, so he thought that the opportunity had come...... As long as he can win a battle on the battlefield, his superiors will look at him differently...... In other words, if the superiors can feel that their new battalion is no worse than the veterans, then the superiors are likely to continue to let him be the battalion commander.

That's what he said to his soldiers: "Comrades! As long as we fight a good battle, we can become an army of our own...... There is no need to go down to the army to be looked down upon by those veterans, so that the veterans look down on them! Let's puff out our chests in front of the veterans...... We won't be worse than veterans! ”

The wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel!

Fighting a war doesn't mean that you can fight well if you want to, and you can kill the enemy...... It's not that you can kill if you want to.

In order to do this, you have to go through the test of blood and fire, and we veterans know this very well.

But it's obvious...... The recruits don't know! (To be continued......)