Chapter 142: Rescue (12)
After rushing into the enemy's range of more than thirty meters, the fighters first threw a volley of grenades at the enemy's position...... In general, we start throwing at the time of more than 50 meters and then make a charge, so that we can basically take the lead on the battlefield.
One of the reasons why it takes more than 30 meters to throw it now is because the grenades we use have changed from wooden-handled grenades that can be thrown farther to melon-style grenades. Another reason is that the visual distance at night is much shorter, and if you throw it from 50 meters away, it is basically a blind man touching an elephant.
Of course, this grenade fighting was mutual, that is, the Argentine army was throwing grenades at us when we were throwing grenades in the direction of the enemy.
It's just that the Argentine side has significantly fewer people on the flanks than us...... To be precise, the Argentine army is no less than ours, and the total number of an artillery regiment is more than 1,000 people, so it is much more than us in terms of numbers. It's just that the Afghan army adopted the method of guerrilla warfare at this time, so the position is very scattered.
There are pros and cons to dispersed locations.
The advantage is, of course, what I said before, so that the British SAS is a little at a loss, even if their combat effectiveness is also cooperated with helicopters, but it is difficult to clean up these scattered Afghan troops one by one in a short period of time, so the Afghan army has achieved the goal of entangling us.
The downside is ...... The overly dispersed forces make their combat effectiveness per unit area appear too thin, just like now, we only have one reinforced platoon of troops and casually throw a batch of grenades, that is, 30 or 40 grenades, while the Afghan army can throw only 7 or 8 grenades into our range due to the dispersion of troops.
So needless to say, this approaching grenade battle also knew who was more dominant, with a "boom" explosion. Like tigers, the soldiers led their British soldiers and rushed towards the Argentine troops in the dark night with bayonets.
The two sides soon fell into a scuffle. Scuffle in the dark.
This scuffle is clearly in our favor. The main reason is that we are wearing the uniform of the Afghan army, which makes it difficult for the Afghan army to distinguish between friend and foe.
Of course, we ourselves are also not very easy to identify in the dark, although we all have white towels tied to our left shoulders, but in a pinch, this actually does not play a very big role, because the white towels have been dyed dark by blood or mud until now, and it is difficult to distinguish in the dark night, and there is no time to distinguish carefully in this kind of hand-to-hand combat.
In fact, at this time, we can identify the enemy not by looking at whether there is a white towel on the left shoulder, but by whether it is facing each other. To put it simply. That is, as long as he has his back to us, he will not fight, and if he is facing us, he will not have to think about it, regardless of whether he is the enemy or not.
And here we have a big advantage in this regard...... We are the one who charges, and naturally no one rushes halfway but turns around to block their own team.
The Argentines were on the defensive, and because they had little fighting power per unit area, they immediately collapsed under our grenade-like charge and turned and ran away with their guns in hand.
As a result, the Afghan army, which is still on the defensive, is facing a thorny problem...... They couldn't tell if the shadows were friends or foes, so they didn't know how to face such an attack.
Although the Argentine artillery is a veteran, they have obviously never seen such a way of fighting in the face of the guerrillas, not to mention that the field combat ability of the Argentine artillery is already inferior to ours and even the British army under Major Weir. The reason why he was able to stop us just now was because he took advantage of tactics and darkness, and now he is being rushed by us. So the whole army soon collapsed...... In the dark night, we only saw a handful of Afghan troops here and there, crawling out of the snow and bunkers in a panic and fleeing in all directions. And at this time, SAS, which was one step ahead of us, even fell behind us.
"Hey!" When we joined forces with SAS again, some British soldiers laughed: "I didn't expect SAS to be so slow, and our covering troops are ahead of you!" ”
"And voila! While you're trying to escape, we've won another battle! ”
"I have reason to believe that SAS has once again demonstrated to us, how to retreat under the cover of friendly forces!"
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The SAS team members were all so angry that they gritted their teeth because of the British soldiers' robbery, but they had nothing to say.
The battlefield is like this, it is not about the su zhì nor the equipment, but only at whether it can fight and whether it can win the war, and at this point, the British soldiers of the training company tonight are obviously much better than the SAS.
But I knew that now was not the time to be complacent, for by this time the Harrier had already returned from dropping its bombs, and there was not a single shot of artillery fire coming to Port Stanley, and the only ones that could cover us were a few Bobcat helicopters overhead, but I think they had very little ammunition left.
However, before we could get any far, we saw a group of Afghan troops running out from the direction of Port Stanley...... I couldn't help but be surprised, and secretly said that this is the end, we have wasted too much time in the artillery position just now, and now the reinforcements from Port Stanley have arrived.
Although there are not many Afghan troops in front of us, the number of them is too large to be about four or five hundred people in a battalion, and if we want to fight, we can still defeat them. But it is conceivable that there will be more and more reinforcements from the Afghan army, and we will only be dragged here until we run out of ammunition and food, and finally be killed or captured by the Afghan army.
"Colonel!" Major Will ran over and crouched down next to me and sighed, "Although I didn't agree with your plan from the beginning, I have to admit that we have achieved a great victory so far. Now, however, I must remind you that we are running out of ammunition! ”
I understand what Major Will meant, it was completely expected that we would run out of ammunition so soon, mainly because the SAS had been under siege for more than a day, and this siege was still under siege with Stinger missiles by the Afghan army.
The Argentine army's Stinger air defense means that helicopters cannot deliver supplies to the SAS, and on the other hand, the target is too small to deliver supplies with transport aircraft...... The second line of defense that the SAS was on was only two small heights, and it was almost impossible for transport planes to accurately airdrop supplies onto these two small heights.
This directly leads to SAS being in a state of exhaustion, and if it weren't for our assistance tonight, they wouldn't be able to break through alone.
Of course, after the breakout, we quickly distributed the extra ammunition we brought with us to SAS.
However, we ourselves had to walk for several hours before we arrived at this wireless ridge, and we also had to go through layers of blockades and checks by the Afghan army, which determined that we could not bring too much ammunition, plus our company only had more than 100 people, while the SAS had more than 300 people, so there was not much ammunition for this point.
Plus now there are a few more battles in quick succession...... Wireless Ridge, Rough Diamond Mountain, and then the artillery position, it is not bad for the soldiers to have a magazine in their hands now.
"It's not your fault!" Major Will said: "The information we have is not accurate enough, and the rough diamond mountain has caused us too much trouble and wasted too much of our ammunition......
"Tell me, what are your plans?" I interrupted Major Will.
"Surrender!" Major Will said: "I have discussed with Major Hill, we have no hope of breaking through, and any further fight will only cause unnecessary casualties. ”
"Preserving the lives of soldiers is the most important thing!" Major Hill ran up and interjected, "There is no point in fighting any more without ammunition, I will make this request to Brigadier General Clapp, and I am sure that Brigadier General Clapp will agree to do so!" ”
I have no doubt that it really doesn't make much sense to continue fighting in the current situation other than to kill more people. According to the thinking of Westerners, this state of affairs now fits perfectly with the definition of "trying their best but not changing the tide of war".
On the other hand, although the current situation is unfavorable to us, the initiative of the whole battle is still in the hands of the British army, and in the foreseeable near future, as long as the British army finally wins the war, then the captured British soldiers, including SAS, will naturally be returned to the British army unconditionally.
The SAS was an important asset of the British army, so Clapp had every reason to accede to Major Hill's request for permission to surrender, and even be treated as heroes when they returned home.
But I'm still not reconciled.
Later I thought about it, I thought it might be because I was Chinese rather than Western, and the blood flowing in our bodies was that it was a shame to surrender, not to mention that we, the soldiers, including me, had never surrendered, so if we surrendered, how would we face our subordinates and comrades-in-arms after returning home?!
This may be a silly idea, because this battle is not even our battle, so we don't have to pay the price of our lives at all, but the Chinese soldiers just won't choose or even consider taking this step, which can be seen from the eyes of Zhao Jingping, Scar and others looking at me.
But what if you don't surrender? Is it really possible to use the little ammunition left in our hands to fight to the death with the Afghan army in this struggle that does not belong to us?
This is obviously unrealistic, even if we Chinese soldiers are willing, the British soldiers are not willing to do it!
Therefore, if we really do this, I am afraid that in the end, I am afraid that only a dozen of us Chinese soldiers will do useless things to spill their blood in a foreign land.
After thinking about it, I decided to try something that would almost never work...... (To be continued......)