Chapter 45: Accidental Injury

"Boom ......"

As I expected, the Vietnamese army was smashed on the 419 heights with one shell at a time.

The mortar is not accurate enough? It doesn't seem to matter, the Vietnamese army has artillery observers, doesn't it? All they had to do seemed to be to keep reporting a set of coordinates to the mortarmen in the rear, and then they could wait for the shells to explode one after the other on the hilltop position. Suddenly, there was a scream on the 419 heights, and the PLA soldiers were thrown into the air one by one, bursting out of a piece of blood and then falling down heavily.

"Seventh squad leader!" Company Commander Luo shouted behind him: "Suppress the artillery fire of the Yue devil for me!" ”

The seventh squad leader is Marx, that is, our artillery observer, and he is naturally responsible for such work as suppressing the enemy's artillery.

"Yes!" Marx answered, and immediately commanded several mortars of our company to fire shells.

But...... Obviously, our army does not have as many mortars as the Viet Nacks, because the Vietnamese army regards our direction as the focus of its offensive, so the Viet Nak forces and firepower in this local area are much more powerful than ours, which also makes the Vietnamese army calmly divide the mortars into several groups to engage in artillery battles with our army.

Some might say...... And what about the artillery of the regimental headquarters and battalion headquarters? And what about long-range artillery fire?

Long-range artillery fire is generally used to cover the Vietnamese army in an open area or on a positive slope, when the Vietnamese infantry attacks our troops on another slope, and the Vietnamese mortars are hiding behind the slope of another high ground one by one...... As a result, long-range artillery fire is difficult to use.

Mortar company at the battalion headquarters of the regimental headquarters...... You must know that at this time, the Vietnamese army was attacking the entire front of our army, and it was impossible for the mortar company to be used only on the 419 heights, so we could only use the two guns brought by the company and the two on the 393 heights...... Four mortars fired at the Vietnamese mortar positions that Marx had guessed...... It did work a little bit at first. But soon, the shells of the Yue devils quickly fell back......

The fighters had no choice but to hide in positions with mortars. No way. Who let us not have enough mortars!

So the fighters on the 419 heights were miserable...... In the air, the mortars of the Vietnamese army bombed round after round, and on the ground, the dense bullets of the Vietnamese army's M16 were fired in rows and rows, and only hit the 419 heights, which was a mess as if it had been turned over.

Those recruits had never seen such a battle, and they cried, screamed, and hid without any power to fight back, and even if they did, they would shoot outward, for fear that they would not know where the bullets were flying.

"Pull it down! Withdraw ......" Company Commander Luo desperately shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Give us the position!" ”

However, there was a crying voice from the company commander on the intercom: "Company Commander Luo...... The battalion commander told us to resist, and the battalion commander continued to send troops to the hilltop position...... He said that the enemy must not be allowed to move forward! ”

"Fuck it!" Company Commander Luo slammed his fist to the ground fiercely, only to be so angry that his face turned black. But there is still no way to deal with the situation in front of me.

Rush up and help the recruits fight? Such a chaotic situation in front of you...... Even if we rush forward, the outcome will be the same, and the shells and bullets will not hit us because we are experienced veterans.

Don't you rush up? It seems that he can only watch the recruits go up one by one, and then fall into the bullets and shells of the Yue devils one after another.

Where is this war...... This is to ram the lives of the soldiers into the muzzle of the enemy's guns!

But some people don't think so, like the comrade battalion commander...... I think he thinks it's bravery, it's not afraid of sacrifice!

I raised my binoculars and looked towards Heights 419, and it was easy to find Wang Jianfu commanding on the inclined plane, while he was brandishing his pistol and ordering another group of soldiers to rush up...... Several of the soldiers were so caught by the bullets and shells from above that they were forced by his pistol just as they tried to withdraw.

After thinking about it, I set up a sniper rifle on the rock in front of me......

"You...... What do you want to do? Company Commander Luo looked at me in astonishment.

All we could see from this position was our own people on the 419 heights, so of course Company Commander Luo knew my intention to set up a gun at this time.

"Do you have a better way?" I don't answer the rhetorical question: "If there is, say it quickly...... If it's any longer than that, this company will be gone! ”

Company Commander Luo couldn't help but be stunned. Then he gritted his teeth and nodded, "Keep your life...... It's a mistake! ”

"Understood!" I nodded.

In fact, I wouldn't have taken his life without Commander Luo's orders, although he really deserved to die. But I'm not a murderer...... The difference between a murderer and not is whether he kills an enemy or his own people. This seems a bit ridiculous, because the principle of this distinction is not between good and bad people.

"Bang!" The next second I pulled the trigger.

The straight-line distance between the two highlands was only more than 100 meters, so this shot knocked Camp Commander Wang to the ground without any suspense...... I hit him in the right leg, and the sniper rifle bullets and penetration were enough to cripple him...... Actually, I can choose to rub a little bit to make him temporarily incapacitated, after all, it's only more than a hundred meters, isn't it? It is also not very difficult to do this in the presence of a scope.

But I didn't, because I wanted him to leave this battlefield forever, as far away as possible...... Unless, he still wants to go to war in a wheelchair.

It's just that what I didn't expect was ...... It was because of this that the bullet I fired was stuck in the bones of Camp Commander Wang...... The sniper rifle uses machine gun bullets, and its warhead is heavier than rifle bullets for long-range stability and penetration, so a little experienced soldier can tell that it is a machine gun bullet.

And machine-gun shells from the rear...... It is only possible that it is your own people, and in addition to heavy machine guns, there are only sniper rifles that can fire machine gun bullets in your own people...... So the soldiers of the recruit company and even the battalion commander Wang himself knew that nine times out of ten, I did it. It's just that they didn't speak.

weishenme doesn't speak?

Needless to say, the fighters of the recruit company...... They didn't speak because they knew that my shot had actually saved their lives, and that the shot had some unexpected effect...... Because the recruits learned a lesson from this incident, that is, Yang Xuefeng...... If anyone provoked him, whether it was the enemy or his own people, he would do the same, so when they became my soldiers, they were very obedient, and they did not dare to say two when I said one.

Then this Camp Commander Wang didn't say anything...... That's a little weird.

In fact, it is not surprising, because later he was demobilized with the honor of "killing the enemy and being wounded", and he also recorded a second-class meritorious service...... A battalion commander, who went to the battlefield in person and was wounded, is also normal under a second-class meritorious service commendation. You can even say ...... The superiors would have punished him for his indiscriminate command, but because he was injured, his subordinates showed mercy, and because he considered that he had difficulties in life with a broken leg, he gave him a second-class merit to rely on a little bit of dependence. In this era, if you look for a job or something, you will be given a lot of care if you show off your military merits.

All right...... Since this is the case, what else does Camp Commander Wang say? Will he still say...... This shot was not fired by the enemy, but was plotted by his own people. It doesn't matter if you say that...... Maybe I will have to be court-martialed, but all his own credit will be gone, and maybe the mistakes of the indiscriminate command will be completely liquidated.

So much so that one day, when I found Wang Jianfu, who became a warehouse manager, again, he even asked his daughter-in-law to buy a bottle of Erguotou and a few side dishes to greet me.

When you're half-drunk and half-awake...... He patted the broken leg and said, "Brother...... This leg is thanks to you, I really hated you at first, and then I figured it out! If it weren't for your shot...... Not to mention how many soldiers will be killed, I'm afraid that I won't be able to come back to see my children and daughter-in-law! Come, for this shot...... Brother, I salute you! ”

Things in the world are sometimes so strange, sometimes they are doing bad things but they are actually good things, and sometimes they are doing good things...... But it can turn into a bad thing.

The words were far away, and at this time, a company commander's panicked voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Company Commander Luo!" The battalion commander hung the lottery! The battalion commander hung the lottery ......"

Soldiers are more taboo, perhaps partly because the soldiers at this time are generally not highly educated and superstitious, so they generally call the wounded a lottery, and the battle death is called glory.

"Hmm!" Company Commander Luo answered with a blushing face, and then ordered: "Carry him down immediately, you will command the battle!" Pull the troops down and hide in the trenches immediately! ”

"Yes!" The commander of the first company immediately gave the order to retreat.

So the troops quickly retreated, but with a bit of embarrassment...... It's just that I was a little surprised that they would remember to take the wounded with them in this situation, instead of running away......

A team that has never been on the battlefield is pretty good to be able to do that in such a situation.

Of course, the Vietnamese army will not let them go easily...... It should be said that anyone in this situation will take advantage of the victory to pursue, so the Vietnamese army is no exception.

It's just that...... The tactics of the U.S. military are a bit of a waste of fighters.

First, because of their long range, they are also far away from the hilltop position, and the long distance means that they need more time to pursue the enemy.

Let's do it...... It is because the U.S. military cares more about life, so its tactics always allow the infantry to advance only after it is basically safe to do so.

This group of Vietnamese troops trained by the US army will naturally be affected by this tactic, so when our troops have already withdrawn from the hilltop position, they continue to fire a row of shells on the hilltop position, and then rush up.

So this gives us a little time, a little time to be ready for battle and fight back...... Otherwise, if the Vietnamese army sticks to the tail of the recruits, even the gods will not be able to save them. (To be continued......)