Chapter 6 Bridge South Heights

"Deputy Divisional Commander!" Company Commander Wu said with some embarrassment: "Look...... The order from the higher authorities was to blow up the bridge on time at two o'clock, and now we are all delayed for almost twenty minutes......"

"Comrade!" The deputy division commander anxiously shook the hand of Company Commander Wu and said with a crying voice: "I beg you, big brother engineer, our brothers have sacrificed a lot, and you can't watch our brothers not come back at the other end of the bridge!" ”

"This ......" Company Commander Wu looked at us and said, "I don't dare to accept this, you listen to this gunshot...... The more devils see that they are coming......"

The deputy division commander also understood, and when he heard this, he quickly understood the meaning of Company Commander Wu's words, so he quickly held Company Commander Luo's hand and said, "Comrade...... We are all infantrymen, we have all fought on the battlefield, we all know the hardships of fighting with devils, help us! Don't worry, I will be blamed from above, and I will accompany you to the execution ground if you want to shoot my brother! ”

Company Commander Luo looked at me and nodded quickly.

"Great! Thank you so much! The deputy division commander hurriedly shook our hands to express his gratitude.

"Don't thank us yet!" I interjected and said, "If the devils rush to the bridgehead first, maybe your troops won't be able to cross!" We're going to have to blow up the bridge then......"

"If that's the case, it's no wonder you, we admit it!" The deputy division commander said.

"How many of you didn't come?" I asked again.

"About a regiment of troops! Thirty dozen cars! ”

The words of the deputy division commander couldn't help but make us gasp, a regiment of troops ...... There are also more than thirty cars......

Looking at the strange expressions on our faces, the deputy division commander couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”

"Deputy Divisional Commander!" I replied: "A regiment of troops." plus more than thirty cars...... Do you know what will happen if you are bombarded by long-range artillery fire from the devils when crossing the bridge? ”

Hearing this, the deputy division commander couldn't help but gasp. He looked at us with amazement and said, "Comrade...... I didn't even expect that. You ......"

"They are the Second Company of Heroes!" Company Commander Wu beside him explained: "They fought the blocking battle between Dai Nai Mountain and the pass!" ”

"So you are the second company of heroes!" The deputy division commander shook our hands again and said, "No wonder...... No wonder they grasped the key to the battlefield so quickly...... Now ......."

"There's nothing to think about right now!" Company Commander Luo pointed to a high ground south of the bridge and said: "In case the Vietnamese army occupies that high ground and blocks the bridgehead with firepower, even as long as two artillery observers guide long-range artillery fire on it to bombard the bridgehead...... I'm afraid your troops won't be able to get through! ”

"The only way to take that high ground is to take the heights first!" I say.

"Comrade!" Hearing this, Company Commander Wu couldn't help but persuade him: "This is too dangerous...... right?"

I know what Company Commander Wu means, this is indeed very dangerous, first of all, we are acting in disobedience to military orders, secondly, we do not have time to build fortifications, and thirdly, we are very likely to be stuck by the Vietnamese army and unable to get out, and then the engineering troops will still have to blow up the bridge and throw us on the other side of the bridge......

In other words...... Now we are like asking for our own hardships.

In fact, we can refuse to do this, and there is no reason for the deputy division commander to ask us to risk our lives to change his soldiers. We can even say ...... As long as we didn't say anything just now, then we just waited at this end of the bridge, and when the devils came up, we would blow up the bridge, regardless of whether the friendly troops came over or not...... There is no danger at all!

Company Commander Luo swept his eyes over the soldiers behind him and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Let's fight!" The first to answer was Scar: "What about a regiment...... It's all our comrades! ”

"Yes, company commander!" The scholar also demanded on the side: "There is nothing to say, even if we all sacrifice, it is worth exchanging dozens of us for a group!" ”

"Let's fight!"

"Hit!"

……

The soldiers raised their hands one after another in approval, and the deputy division commander's lips trembled and he couldn't say anything, but silently saluted us.

"Good!" With the support of the soldiers, Company Commander Luo's voice suddenly became louder, and he straightened his chest and shouted calmly and powerfully: "This is the soldier of our second company!" Let's teach the devil a lesson! ”

"That's right! Teach the more devils go! ”

"Give them some color!"

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At this moment. It is difficult for me to imagine a unit that has been fighting for dozens of days in a row, a unit that has been replenished twice but has suffered more than half of the casualties several times. A unit that had just returned home but was immediately caught up in battle...... How can you still maintain such a high morale.

At the time, I couldn't figure out what the fighters were thinking, and I didn't know what they were doing it for.

Later, I had more contact with the fighters and realized that in fact, the soldiers' thoughts were very simple, that is, love and hate. They are indeed homesick, and they are indeed reluctant to go to the battlefield again, but they still will not have any hesitation in the face of attacking the enemy and rescuing their comrades, and in the face of major rights and wrongs.

That's what a true warrior should be! They do the most dangerous and heroic things on the front line, but they never boast or talk about anything on the second line.

"Company Commander Luo!" Company Commander Wu also seemed to be moved by our pride, and immediately stepped forward to hold our hands and said, "Is there anything you need help ......with?"

"Ammo!" Company Commander Luo was not polite to Company Commander Wu and said, "We need more ammunition!" ”

"No problem!" With a wave of his hand, the commander of the company shouted to the engineer troops: "Leave all the ammunition for the comrades of the second company...... No! Help the comrades of the second company to transport to the high ground! ”

"Yes!" The fighters of the engineering unit answered very dryly.

"There's still a favor!" Company Commander Luo continued: "If we don't have time to withdraw...... Remember to blow up the bridge, and you must not let the Yue devils come over! ”

Company Commander Wu couldn't help but be speechless, shook Company Commander Luo's hand heavily, and couldn't say anything.

Luo Lian waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers: "Target the high ground south of the bridge, march quickly!" ”

"Yes!" The warriors responded in a neat and loud voice, and then ran in a neat formation all the way to the heights south of the bridge.

I casually turned around and found that the deputy division commander was following with the guards, and even the jeep driver was pulled out.

"Chief!" I said, "Don't come up, it won't help you." ”

What I said is also the truth, what can the deputy division commander do when he comes up? It's just that the devil has one more goal, what can the driver and the guard do? The driver is driving, and whether he can shoot or not is a question. As for the guards...... Maybe there is indeed some quality in training, just like Xiao Chen, but with the deputy division commander in them, they are busy protecting the division commander......

"Comrade! Leave me alone! The expression on the face of the deputy division commander did not allow me to bargain at all: "You are here for our troops...... If I'm still looking back, am I still a human being? Homosexuals! If you want to die, let's die, or I won't be able to go for the rest of my life! ”

I think that the deputy division commander's words really make some sense, if it were me...... In this case, it is impossible to stay in the rear and let others work hard for themselves, so they will no longer be persuaded.

This high ground is not high, but it looks like a hundred meters above sea level...... To tell the truth, such a high ground is suitable for our current operations, when attacking the enemy, it can be condescending, and it does not take much time to retreat, plus the road still makes a big circle at the foot of the high ground...... It will take a little time for the Devils to catch up with us, so we will retreat along the anticline of the high ground after holding off for a while on this high ground.

For this, Company Commander Luo also specially observed the terrain of the lower anticline and set up several suitable retreat routes.

As for us, as soon as we came up, we sent a few people to search the mountain...... The reason for this was the fear of Vietnamese agents lurking on the high ground. You must know that Vietnamese agents are pervasive, and if there are Vietnamese agents lurking on this high ground, they will stab us in the back when the battle heats up...... Or wait for the troops of the 168th Division to cross the bridge and guide the long-range artillery to fire the bridgehead indiscriminately, and then everything is over.

Others undoubtedly built fortifications. Infantry...... Fortifications are needed everywhere, otherwise it would only take a single cannon fire to solve us, and it would be of no use at all except to come up and send us to death.

Of course, at this time, we can only build simple individual fortifications, which are actually a pit to put it bluntly...... A pit that can hide in it alone.

In fact, we didn't even have time to dig a single fortification, and not long after we arrived on this high ground, we heard Wang Kechang shouting at us: "There is a situation...... Probably the troops of the 168 Division! ”

The reason why we say that it is possible is because we have encountered too many times on the battlefield that the Vietnamese army has disguised itself as our army, so now we dare not see the PLA and say that it is our own people.

The deputy division commander raised his binoculars and looked at the other side of the mountain, and then said with certainty: "That's right, it's our troops, thank God...... It's finally ahead of the Yue devils! ”

However, as soon as the deputy division commander's voice fell, his face changed, and he hurriedly shouted at us: "There is an enemy situation...... The devil is coming up! ”

I lifted my binoculars and looked at the entrance, and it was really ...... More than a dozen Yue devils are quickly outflanking from the flank of the 168th Division, they should have taken a shortcut to seize the front of the 168th Division, and they were planning to hide in the grass and condescendingly block the retreat of the 168th Division!

"Prepare for battle!" Luo Lian screamed.

The atmosphere on the heights suddenly became tense, and the warriors put down their half-built fortifications and grabbed their rifles. (To be continued......)