Episode 97 Encounter with a tank

In the darkness, the two Ming soldiers stared blankly at each other, and after a while, one of them whispered:

"The villager just said that there is no Qing army living in the village! So what's going on with this track print? ”

"Perhaps...... The Qing army originally came to this village, and then left? ”

Neither of them could make up their minds, and lowered their heads to feel the tracks on the dirt ground.

This track is not wide, much narrower than the tank track of the Ming army, but it is very deep. It shows that the tonnage is not small. However, the track marks are already dry and hard, and they really don't look like fresh.

The second soldier was a little hairy, and whispered:

"Hey, let's go back to the village entrance first and report to the squad leader! Let the squad leader decide. ”

The first soldier shook his head and whispered:

"Go back if you don't figure out the situation, beware of the squad leader killing you! With these two eyes black, how can the squad leader decide? Can you still decide on flowers? We don't have to ask us to come back and ask again! ”

"So, what are we going to do? Go back and ask? ”

"What else can I do! Let's go, knock on the door again, and ask when the Qing army lived here, how many people, which part, how many tanks there were, and when they left! Aren't we scouts doing this! ”

The two scouts made up their minds, and then returned to the door of the house just now, and knocked on the door carefully:

"Hey, fellow...... Fellow...... We're the same two guys, and we want to ask you......"

The door opened again, and the head of the householder showed his head, looked left and right, and said nervously:

"Why are you here again, hurry, hurry into the house and say, don't let people see it!"

The two nodded, looked around, and dodged into the room.

……

Entering the house, the two were stunned. Seven or eight Qing soldiers pointed their guns at them, and they also had guns behind them.

"Hands up!"

The fellow who opened the door behind him shouted.

The two were dumbfounded, turned their faces to see, and dared to love the "fellow" who opened the door for him twice, who was actually a Qing soldier, and he was wearing a captain's military coat.

The brains of the two Ming army scouts "buzzed", and they slowly raised their hands.

Several Qing soldiers surrounded him, quickly dismounted his weapons, and searched his body again. A Qing soldier whispered:

"What part of the Ming army are you?"

The Qing lieutenant said coldly:

"When they first came to ask, they said that they were from the Fifth Armored Division of the People's Guard, and that the big army was behind!"

A Ming soldier still wanted to make eye contact with his companion and lie, so a Qing soldier took out his ID from his pocket and handed it to the Qing soldier non-commissioned officer:

"Company commander, look, ID!"

The company commander of the Qing army took it, opened it and looked at it, and nodded again:

"Well, sure enough. Feed! How far is your army? ”

A Ming Jun sneered and said boldly:

"Coming soon! The whole armored division is in the rear, more than two hundred tanks, several hundred armored vehicles and self-propelled guns! Surrender quickly, and save your lives......"

Several Qing soldiers were nervous and looked at their company commanders. The company commander was also a little nervous, hesitated, and waved his hand:

"Go and get everyone up! Get out of the village now! ”

"Huh!"

……

Outside the village, at the east end of the village, two squads of Ming army scouts were still waiting for the two to return to report. I've waited for so long, almost half an hour, and there is still no movement at all.

The two squad leaders couldn't wait, and looked at their watches, where time was ticking. The main force of the reconnaissance battalion in the back is still waiting. Later, the main force of the division is driving here. The entire division, with thousands of chariots and artillery pieces and nearly 20,000 people, will not stop here and wait for such a small village. If there is any situation, it must be found out immediately.

The two discussed for a while, led the two classes, and officially and quietly entered the village.

Twenty or so people were tiptoeing with guns in their hands, and before they could go a few dozen meters into the village, they heard a series of dogs barking in the west of the village, and then the dogs in the whole village barked wildly.

This small group of Ming troops was wondering, why did they enter the village from the east, and the dogs in the west barked first? I saw dozens of meters in front of me, more than a dozen black shadows scurrying out under the moonlight, still carrying guns in their hands.

By the light of the moon, it was discovered that it was the Qing army.

The Ming army here is worthy of being scouts, and their psychological quality is very good. The squad leader made a gesture, and no one fired, but they all squatted on the ground, bent their waists, and followed silently.

Needless to say, the two brothers who were sent in first must have encountered this small group of Qing troops. The Ming scouts of these two squads planned to follow first, ambush the dozen or so Qing soldiers in an open place, and find out the whereabouts of the two brothers.

Fortunately, the dogs in the village kept barking, and although these two dozen people trotted and followed all the way, they were not heard by the Qing soldiers in front.

But......

Turning a house, another path on the right suddenly appeared, and the twenty or so Ming soldiers suddenly collided with a large group of Qing troops on the right. Both sides immediately shouted into a ball:

"Ahh Enemy! ”

"Ahh Enemy! ”

"Crack! ……”

"Smack!! ……”

"Da Da Da! ……”

"Bang! …… Bang! ……”

There was an exchange of fire on both sides, and for a moment there was a burst of gunfire and a flash of fire in the darkness. The two groups of Qing troops in front and on the right numbered fifty or sixty men, all shouting and firing. Although there were few people on the Ming army's side, most of them were automatic weapons, and submachine guns and light machine guns just strafed the Qing soldiers, and the opposite side screamed and fell into a large area.

"Boom !!"

A grenade was thrown over and exploded in the Ming army. In the huge firelight, three Ming soldiers were killed on the spot and two were injured.

The Ming army was not polite either, and immediately threw several grenades at the same time. With a few loud bangs, more than a dozen Qing soldiers lay down on their backs.

After a few minutes of fighting, Qing troops appeared from all directions, more and more. Although the Ming army here has powerful weapons, it can't stand the large number of people on the other side, and they shoot from all directions. One squad leader of the Ming army had already been killed, and another squad leader gave the order to retreat. The remaining dozen or so Ming scouts kept firing, covering each other and retreating while fighting.

By the time they retreated to the entrance of the village, there were less than fifteen people left.

"Stay here for help!" The squad leader of the Ming army shouted and ordered while firing a gun, "Our firepower attracts the Qing army, and we are waiting for the main force of our battalion to come to reinforce!" ”

"! Monitor! A small village, why are there so many Qing troops! ”

The squad leader held a submachine gun, lay behind the well platform, squinted his eyes, shot one after another, and shouted between shots:

"How do I know! At least two companies! ”

"Squad leader, if you want me to say, we might as well ......"

"Bang!"

As soon as the soldier next to him said a few words, he fell to the ground with his face on his back, half of his head was torn off, and his flesh and blood were blurred.

The squad leader turned his head to look, his face changed color slightly, his throat rolled, and he lowered his head a little more. He pulled out a grenade, pulled the ring, waited for two seconds, looked at the place where the muzzle flames were most concentrated on the opposite side, and threw it directly.

"Boom !!"

In the flash of the explosion, several people from the Qing army on the opposite side fell to the ground.

Another soldier beside him shouted:

"Squad leader, they are so capable of fighting, I'm afraid it's the Eight Banners Division!"

The squad leader leaned his back against the stone platform, loaded the magazine of the submachine gun, gasped and said:

"Don't say it, it's possible!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a bullet grazed the side of the stone shaft, causing stone chips to fly. The bullet bounced off the brick wall of the house next to it and flew to the ground next to the squad leader. The bullets flew in place like spinning tops, emitting green smoke.

The squad leader reached out and picked up the rifle bullet, which was still a little hot, wiped the dirt, and looked at it by the light of the explosion.

This is the best copper warhead. It was heavy, it had been knocked out of shape, reflecting a purple-red light. If the steel warhead wasn't that heavy at all, it wouldn't have been deformed.

"It's really possible that it's the Eight Banners Division."

He threw away the warhead and muttered to himself. Then, he grabbed the submachine gun and shot at the opposite point, but his mind was fast thinking:

How many of these Qing troops were there? Do you want to retreat from the east end of the village, or do you want to hold on to the village and wait for help?

A heavy machine gun suddenly sounded on the opposite side, and it was a water-cooled heavy machine gun. Obviously, the Qing army on the opposite side launched a Makqin heavy machine gun.

Since there are heavy machine guns, the Qing army in the village is either a unit above the battalion level of the Han army, or a company-level unit of the Eight Banners Division.

As the Makqin heavy machine gun on the opposite side rang out, the rifles and light machine guns of the Qing army seemed to have a backbone, and they also opened fire intensively. The firepower of the two light machine guns on the side of the Ming army was obviously inferior to that of the other side, and the bullets they brought were not much, so they were not as confident as the opposite side.

The squad leader scolded secretly: If you bring a woodpecker, you will make the other side dumb in a few seconds. …… However, it has also been going on for a while, and the reinforcements of the main force of the company behind should have arrived.

As if confirming his thoughts, a mortar cracked dozens of meters behind him, followed by a muffled sound overhead, and then half of the village was illuminated.

Everyone looked up and saw a flare hanging high in the air, spraying blinding magnesium light, slowly descending. This was followed by two more crisp sounds, and two more lights popped up in the sky.

At this moment, the whole village was covered with snow.

The dozen or so surviving Ming soldiers at the entrance of the village were lying on the ground, turning their heads to look behind them. I saw two pairs of four bright headlights turning and sweeping over, and then I heard the sound of engine vibrations getting closer and closer. - Those were two combat vehicles, I don't know if they were armored vehicles or tanks.

More than a dozen Ming soldiers burst into cheers, as if the battle had been won.

The two pairs of headlights, accompanied by the roar of the engine, rushed closer and closer, rushed straight to a place about ten meters outside the entrance of the village, and stopped.

These two pairs of bright headlights have obviously become a good target for the Qing army on the opposite side. Suddenly, there was a "clanging" around the headlights, and sparks splashed everywhere.

Suddenly, two pairs of headlights erupted from the top of the orange flames, two feet long, stabbing people so much that they couldn't open their eyes. At the same time, the cacophony of logging pierced the sky.

Listening to the familiar "woodpecker" sound, the Ming army lying on the ground cheered again, and they were all very enjoyable. The nest and nervousness just now are all gone.

The Qing army on the opposite side suddenly flew with blood and flesh and screamed. The two straight lines of fire were like the whips of death, repeatedly whipped on the Qing army's position. Wherever it is drawn, there is death.

Twenty more Ming troops jumped down from two armored vehicles and reinforced them among the dozen Ming troops on the ground. Previously, these dozen or so Ming soldiers seemed to see their relatives, and pulled them to tell them loudly about the situation in the village.

……

"Huh? Wrong! ”

A new Ming platoon commander looked at the battlefield at the entrance of the village with a telescope, and counted the corpses of the Qing soldiers on the ground with flares, as well as a few places where fire was still fired. He frowned, and said to himself:

"Why are there only a few of them? That's not right! The Qing army wants to run, which is obviously left to cover the broken back! ”

As he spoke, he saw a bright light in the distance to the north, and then a large ball of fire rose into the air, illuminating everyone's faces with fiery red. A few seconds later, a muffled sound of an explosion wafted over. Before the Ming army could react, they saw the same place again, and a series of fireballs rushed into the sky. Thick black smoke then rose and explosions came after a few seconds, as if watching others set off fireworks in the distance during the Chinese New Year.

"Such a big explosion!" A Ming soldier shouted, "What blew up?" The artillery carts of the Qing army? ”

At this time, the radio on the armored car behind him sounded, and there were intermittent shouts from inside, and they were terrified.

The platoon commander immediately pounced, climbed into the car, plugged in the headset, and asked loudly:

"What's going on? What's going on over there? ”

The only sounds in the headset were a flurry of explosions, gunfire, and the roar of the engine. Several frightened voices loomed into the headset:

"Tank...... Tank ......"

"Hey, hey!" The platoon leader of the Ming army shouted, "Fox fox!" I'm an elephant! I'm an elephant! Please reply when you hear it! What tanks? Who's shouting? Is it our tank? ”

There was no reply in the headset, only a faint shout. The radioman on the other side was apparently unresponsive.

Suddenly, another flash of fire rushed into the sky from the north, and a series of large fireballs rose into the sky with black smoke. At the same time, there was no sound in the headset at all, not even the "ambient sound", only the sharp radio noise remained:

"Squeak...... Woo...... Hiss...... ......"

The platoon commander looked up at the spectacular explosion scene in the north again, and for a while, he moved to another band, the headquarters of the reconnaissance battalion.

He estimated that the battalion headquarters should be about half a kilometer west of the village.

The battalion radio station was connected, and there was also a panicked voice, and several radiomen were shouting. The platoon commander shouted for a long time, and finally understood the order of the battalion headquarters: immediately lead all forces to directly enter the village from the east end and attack the enemy.

"All right, brethren!" He threw down the headset, held on to the armor plate and shouted down, "Three shifts and four shifts, get in the car!" One shift, two shifts, follow behind! Let's go into the village! ”

The third and fourth classes are the dozen or so Ming soldiers who were withdrawn from the village. The platoon commander let the two squads that had just fought get on the bus, which was tantamount to letting them go to a relatively safe place to rest and recuperate, and let the newly brought two squads follow up under the car.

After the deployment was completed, he waved his hand, and the two armored vehicles roared again, vibrating and rushing towards the entrance of the village, throwing themselves into the battlefield.