CHAPTER IX

"Give!" While I was still struggling to turn in my sniper rifle, Scar handed me an iron box.

"What's this?" I looked at the cylindrical iron box and was stunned.

"Canned!" Scar was surprised and said, "You kid is stupid! Haven't eaten canned food yet? ”

"Hmm! I'm a countryman, eat less! I casually coped with the sound and took the can with my hand, but I couldn't find a place to open it...... At first, I thought I was dazzled, but it wasn't until Scar handed me a dagger that I realized that cans hadn't reached China yet.

Anyway, I was really hungry after a busy morning, so I didn't say much, and pry open the iron box in three or two clicks and uncover it...... I was dumbfounded, it turned out to be broad beans here.

It's not like I've never seen canned food, but in modern times, there are only all kinds of canned meat or canned fruit, how can anyone use vegetables to make canned food?

"Eat! What are you still doing? Scar urged: "Hurry up, there will be a task later!" ”

"Oh!" I replied very reluctantly, and with a bitter face, I reached for the broad beans that looked like a bunch of bugs hugging together.

It's better to have food than to be hungry, and I don't want to wait until I don't even have the strength to walk on the battlefield. However, it didn't taste as bad as I thought it would be (I later learned that it was entirely because I had never eaten this kind of food), but the broad beans were as hard as steel bars, and I couldn't bite them in my mouth.

"Still thinking about your gun!" Scar looked at my absent-minded appearance, and persuaded me on the side: "Don't think so much, even if you use 56 and a half, you still beat the Yue Devil Sharpshooter to death?" If there is a first, there will be a second, do a good job! ”

As he spoke, he patted me on the shoulder and walked away, leaving me alone to sit there and smile bitterly: Who knows if I will die next!

"Comrades!" The company commander who appeared in front of us looked very excited, and before the soldiers could line up, he raised his hand and shouted: "I just got the news from the superiors that our regiment has successfully broken through the defense line of the Vietnamese army in the Xiao Cao area, and now is the time for us to march towards Lao Cai!" ”

"Good!" The soldiers were boiling, all grinding their fists as if they were in a hurry to go to the battlefield, but I was the only one who sat on my stomach and dealt with the canned fava beans in front of me.

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Lao Cai, the capital of Hoang Lien Son province of Vietnam, is located at the confluence of the Red River and Nam Khe River, which has both railways to Hanoi, highways and water transportation on the Red River, and is a military town and traffic artery in northwest Vietnam, as well as an important gateway to Hanoi. To put it simply, as long as we take Lao Cai, then we can continuously transport strategic materials to Lao Cai through the estuary internally, and externally we can take a car to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, so its strategic significance is of great strategic significance to the entire self-defense counterattack.

Most Chinese may be familiar and unfamiliar with this place. Familiar because most people have heard of the name, even now. The reason for this is that not many people are lucky enough to come to this city and see it for themselves.

However, I don't think it's a blessing to see it with my own eyes, for the simple reason that we're not here to travel, we're here to fight. Seeing it, it almost means that another war will soon begin.

In fact, we would have thought that the war should have started an hour ago. Our purpose is to break through the defenses of Lao Cai, isn't it? The strength of a regiment of the Yue devils relied on strong fortifications to block the attack of a division in front of our army, didn't it? It was because it was difficult to attack from the front that my regiment broke through the Xiaocao area from the flank, intending to flank the enemy where Lao Cai was located on both sides. But unexpectedly, when we walked into the old street like a great enemy, we found that it was already an empty city, and there was no one here.

"This is Lao Cai?" After walking for a while, Xiao Shi could no longer hold back the doubts in his heart, and asked softly: "The capital of this province...... Why can't it compare to our county? ”

In fact, this is also the confusion of all of us, originally we thought that this was the capital of Vietnam...... Even if it is not as prosperous as our Shanghai and Beijing, there are still some towns! However, when we see the broken brick houses and wooden houses, we know that there is often a gap between reality and imagination.

"Rare and weird!" Scar turned around and replied angrily: "The Yue devils have been fighting for decades, and their money has been used to buy guns and ammunition, don't you see that their soldiers can't even wear shoes?" What's so strange! ”

I and the other soldiers were relieved to be scarred about this, the more devils we saw in the past few days did not wear shoes, at first we thought it was a habit, but when we saw that their corpses were still wearing shoes on their armed belts, we realized that they were reluctant to wear them.

For a person who is going to war, what would it be like to save himself from wearing shoes? All I know is that if I were going to battle and face death, I would swallow even the ginseng fruit without hesitation.

But this is Vietnam, which has been at war for decades, and just a few years ago the Viet Cong was still at war with the Yankees! The Yankees' airplane cannons are not vegetarians, and it would be strange if this old street could look like it.

"Stop moving forward and rest where you are!"

"Stop moving forward and rest where you are!"

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The order came down from the front, and the warriors, who had been nervous, dispersed as soon as they heard the order, and then there were wails, beating their backs and rubbing their feet, like a group of refugees.

Some people may say that this looks like a troop, which looks like a soldier? But that's exactly what happened, we fought on the battlefield and made meritorious contributions, but that doesn't mean we're disciplined, for the simple reason that many of us have only been in the army for a few days, like me!

I found a rock and leaned my rifle to the side, and I sat down and rubbed my sore, sore feet, crying bitterly: bad food, less than an hour of sleep, swarms of mosquitoes and flying insects, and one death task after another...... I'm almost going crazy with this shijie! You know, I'm in modern times, but when I get in the car and turn on the air conditioner when I go out, when did I suffer from this!

Now I have to admire the old man, I really don't know how this old guy survived!

Just when I felt sorry for my fate, I found a soldier playing with the rifle I had captured not far away, and a large number of soldiers were watching from the side, and they let out an exclamation as they watched:

"Hey! What kind of gun is this? ”

"Where did you get it?"

"And with a magnifying glass!"

……

It was very uncomfortable to look at me, and the sniper rifle that I had finally seized fell into the hands of others...... I knew that I also told Scar that I would put it in my hands before "researching" it to my superiors, and at least I could show it off in front of my comrades, right?

Just as I was remorseful for my hindsight, there was a sudden "bang" of gunshots, and a bloody spark broke out on the soldier with the sniper rifle in his hand and fell to the ground.

I didn't think much of it, and I leaned back and rolled into the stinking ditch behind me...... I couldn't stand the suffocating smell of the stinking gutter, but it was nothing compared to my life. When I did, I had my rifle with me before I climbed into the stinking gutter.

"There is a situation!"

"Prepare for battle!"

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In an instant, the whole army was in chaos, some soldiers lay on the ground and raised their guns to fight in the direction where the gunfire came, some soldiers were panicked like a headless fly looking for shelter, and some soldiers didn't even protect themselves at all and rushed into the houses with their chests puffed up......

"Get down! Come back! "I heard bayonets yelling at them, and it was clear that they were misled by the scenes taken in the movies or by the propaganda that "revolutionary soldiers are not afraid of sacrifice and death" and used their bodies and lives to face the enemy's bullets.

It's true that they are not afraid of sacrifice or death, but it doesn't mean that they can just rush up and die!

Unlike the bayonet, I didn't do as hard as he did to call the fighters back in the hope of saving their lives, because I knew it was impossible.

I rolled in the stinking gutter as fast as I could, and the black, smelly water soaked my whole body in an instant, and although the stench made my stomach churn for a while, I finally forced the nausea down. I didn't have time to vomit and I didn't have the right to vomit. I crawled a few meters in the stinking ditch before slowly poking my head out and looking in the direction where the sound was coming from.

It was a private house, just over 200 meters away from us. So I concluded that it was not a sniper who was hiding inside, for the simple reason that no sniper would be stupid enough to have a sniper rifle and set up an ambush more than two hundred meters away from the enemy. At the same time, it is impossible for the enemy to have a premeditated ambush, and the reason is simple: if it is a premeditated ambush, then I will choose a rocket launcher or a light machine gun with strong firepower, or at least the AK47 commonly used by the Vietnamese army. However, the sound of gunfire coming from the house told me that the enemy was using two rifles and an AK.

So I wondered, the opponent is neither a sniper with a cold gun, nor an ambush, so why did he come?

Looking at the sniper rifle a few meters away, I seemed to understand something.

This sniper rifle represents two meanings, one is that the Vietnamese army thinks that the soldier with the sniper rifle is a sniper.

On this battlefield, a sniper is even more important than taking out a company of the enemy. And because they always hide in the shadows and shoot their targets, both sides hate each other's snipers, both on the battlefield and after being captured. This is the reason why Weishenme snipers have to hide their identities after being captured, and some people even hide their sniper rifles when they are expected to be captured.

Another meaning is that at this time, our army did not have sniper rifles, and the fact that the soldier who died had a sniper rifle meant that he must have killed a sniper from the Vietnamese army and obtained his weapon.

No matter which of these two meanings is, it can make the Vietnamese army hate him to the core, so they can't help but shoot him.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but wipe a handful of sweat, fortunately this sniper rifle was not in my hand just now, otherwise......

......The gunfire in front of the house became more and more intense, and in the blink of an eye, four of the dozen or so soldiers who rushed forward fell, and the remaining seven or eight were still interested in not continuing to rush forward, or it could be said that intuition and instinct told them that they could not rush forward.

Rushing forward despite the enemy's bullets may have been useful in the past, but it is not in today's highly developed individual weapons.

"Bazooka!" I heard Scar scream.

Honestly, it's a good idea, we don't care who is in his house and how many weapons he has! Wouldn't it be enough to slam the bazooka?

But before the bazooka came up, Company Commander Li ordered loudly: "Don't use bazookas!" There is an order from the superiors to protect the property of the Vietnamese countrymen! Besides, what if there are Vietnamese people in it? ”

"!" I couldn't help but curse fiercely in my heart, what the hell is this order.

All right! Since you can't use a bazooka, that's when you need a sniper. So I set my sights on the sniper rifle not far away......