Chapter 198: The Sunshine at Dusk

The search for the troupe soon began.

The search was carried out by the troops of our 2nd Company, and the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion were required to stay in Ninh Kham for 12 hours.

I think this arrangement is still reasonable, we even have a Chen Yiyi who is very familiar with the terrain, and this is our biggest advantage in the search mission. The third battalion was stationed in Ningkang to prevent us from finding the art troupe and having no way out. In other words, we have twelve hours to find the troupe and bring them back.

From the company commander, we learned about the separation of the art troupe and other units.

Last night was the time for the 119th regiment to retreat...... Just as we thought before, we thought that the Vietnamese troops would not be able to penetrate deep into the occupied areas of our army for the time being, and the previous clean-up operation against the Vietnamese army agents was also very effective, so the troops were very relieved to march at night.

But what I didn't expect was ...... Vietnamese agents are nowhere near as easy to deal with as we think, as the old man said...... Vietnamese agents are often able to spend a week or more in environments you can't imagine, such as mud ponds, bushes, tunnels, with just a small amount of food and water...... Even the dung pit can be their hiding place, and sometimes the Vietnamese soldiers caught are miserable, and the whole body is bitten out by mosquitoes and insects, and you don't even look at it!

Therefore, it is impossible to completely eliminate the Vietnamese agents, who are usually lurking in places that are difficult for our army to find, and will assemble and play a role at critical times. For example, now when our army is retreating......

This was the case last night, the fighters of the 119th Regiment were unprepared and difficult to identify because they were marching at night. So along the way, there were many Vietnamese agents mixed in the marching ranks...... This is an old trick of the devils. However, although the trick is old, it is very useful. The retreat of our troops was already chaotic and disorderly, and it seemed that the Vietnamese agents only needed to pretend to be troops separated from the main force to join directly.

So the next thing is not difficult to imagine, first of all, the road ahead was blocked by fire from the high ground on both sides of the road, and the 119th Regiment hastily organized troops to attack the high ground...... At this time, the Vietnamese agents who were mixed with our troops were in trouble.

The Vietnamese army agents all wore PLA uniforms, and they fought indiscriminately in our troops in the night, and sometimes even shouted a few times in Chinese...... As a result, the 119th Regiment was in chaos, and no one could figure out whether the people around them were friends or foes.

This chaos proved to be the deadliest of all, because it made it impossible for a force to unite and trust each other. They will even kill each other if they don't control it...... Last night, the 119th Regiment was not able to control it very well, and as a result, it suffered more casualties than the battle on the battlefield.

The specific number of casualties is unknown, and the superiors will always deal with things like this that will demoralize the troops, but looking at this frame, you can know that there are many casualties.

The Art Troupe was just behind the 119th Regiment, and fortunately there were no Vietnamese agents among them, so there was no confusion.

Originally, at this time, what they should have done was to stabilize their positions and camp in place, or just lurk in the grass by the side of the road and wait for dawn. Just like when we go on a stealth mission, we lie in the grass and make an agreement in advance that no one is allowed to stand up, and as long as we see someone standing close to shoot......

But. The art troupe did not do this...... Maybe they're too nervous, or maybe they're worried that staying here will hurt the fish sooner or later. So I chose to bypass this right and wrong zone from the path.

Even Chen Yiyi, who grew up in Vietnam, does not dare to guarantee that every road is known, not to mention that it is still in the dark of night...... So the expected thing happened, the art troupe got lost in the jungle, and Zuihou was chased by Vietnamese agents when he contacted the headquarters.

We first found the area where the 119th Regiment had been ambushed, which was not difficult to find, because there was blood everywhere and some corpses that had not been cleaned up in a hurry. After that, we walked back and determined the path that the art troupe was going to bypass.

The group gradually went deeper into the jungle along the path, and after more than half an hour, they found the bodies of more than a dozen PLA soldiers......

Chen Yiyi rummaged over these corpses and said, "Judging from the degree of decay of the corpses...... It was sacrificed last night, and it should be the target we are looking for. It looks like they were ambushed here......"

Then he looked around, pointed to a bush not far to the north, and said: "The Vietnamese army should be hiding there, and the number should be no more than ten, maybe it happened by chance...... As soon as the fight started, the art troupe was in chaos, so they ran into the jungle in the opposite direction in a panic. This should be the main reason why they get lost. ”

Chen Yiyi analyzed it in an orderly manner, as if she had personally experienced the battle last night, which made the soldiers nod their heads in convincing, so they followed her into the jungle without hesitation.

The next tracking can be said to be all up to Chen Yiyi, and I don't know how Chen Yiyi practiced...... Along the way, she always found clues, sometimes broken branches, sometimes broken pieces of clothing, sometimes abandoned objects that fell on the side of the road...... We also found a pair of allegro in these abandonments, which proves that we are not on the wrong path, and this is indeed the direction of the march of the art troupe. It's just that from the footprints, it can be seen that they are in a hurry, and it is obvious that there are more devils chasing them.

When she walked to an intersection, Chen Yiyi's face became very ugly when she looked at the footprints on the ground.

"What's the situation?" Company Commander Luo asked with a solemn expression.

"The number of Vietnamese troops is beyond our imagination!" Chen Yiyi pointed to the footprints on the ground and said, "It can be seen from the footprints...... Two Vietnamese army units converged here to catch up with the art troupe, with a total number of more than 100 people. ”

"What? There are more than a hundred! "Hearing this, Company Commander Luo couldn't help but be taken aback, our team is only about forty people, although there are guards in the art troupe, most of them are literary and artistic soldiers who have no combat ability, so count it like this...... Our strength is not stronger than that of the Vietnamese army, and even if we find the art troupe, we are still in a passive state of being hunted down.

After thinking about it, Company Commander Luo gritted his teeth and said, "I can't care so much, let's find the target first!" ”

"Hmm!" Chen Yiyi nodded, and continued to lead the team to follow the footsteps.

Soon we found another battlefield, but to our surprise...... This time, the corpses of Vietnamese soldiers were lying all over the ground.

After searching for the corpses of the Vietnamese soldiers for a while, we found the bodies of two PLA soldiers, one in front of the other and one in the mud on the side of the road.

The first corpse, covered in mud and blood, crouched forward on the ridge, two meters in front of a total of 11 enemy corpses, holding a submachine gun in his right hand, and next to him there was a broken light machine gun and a 56 and a half. In addition to the submachine gun cartridge belt and grenade on his back, he also wore a submachine gun cartridge belt, two rifle cartridge belts, and a machine gun cartridge around his neck, and all of these cartridges were gone, even rifle ones.

The second corpse was lying 3 meters behind the right, also covered in mud and bloodstains in a fighting posture, holding a machine gun in his hand, a submachine gun on the side, and the bullets were also wiped out.

Then we found four bodies in a ditch about 7 meters behind them, but none of them had guns on them, and judging by the bandages and injuries on these bodies, they must have been seriously wounded before they died.

From the first corpse of the Vietnamese army to here about 200 meters, this short distance of 200 meters has a total of 6 traces of fierce battles, scattered with bullet casings and blood stains everywhere along the way, and on both sides of this bloody road are the corpses of the enemy, roughly counting as many as 56 bodies.

The nearest is only two meters away from the PLA fighters......

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, we can almost imagine what kind of battle was going on here. Two PLA fighters covered the four seriously wounded and lagged behind here, but instead of leaving the seriously wounded alone, they placed those seriously wounded in a deep ditch and then took all their guns and bullets to fight the enemy......

Although they still failed to win the battle in the end, and they did not save the lives of the wounded in the end, we saw the process of their struggle here, and also saw their spirit of never giving up until Zuihou was in the moment.

Two people, in the face of the attack of more than 100 Vietnamese troops, were able to hold on to the moment after the bullet...... The Vietnamese killed 56 people on the spot, not counting the wounded. Even I, who have been fighting until now, have rarely seen such a tragic scene.

"It's dusk when it's time to fight!" Chen Yiyi looked at the surrounding environment and quickly made a judgment: "They used the twilight sunlight to resist the enemy, and the terrain in this area is narrow, so they have such a result!" ”

After looking at the direction, I understood what Chen Yiyi meant by "by the twilight sunshine", the position of the two soldiers was in the west, and they were facing the sun in the west, while the Vietnamese army was facing the sun...... So under the stimulation of this sun, it can almost be said that they are blind, and the two PLA soldiers occupy some terrain advantages and hide themselves well in the mud, so they can achieve such a large casualty ratio with two people resisting more than 100 Vietnamese soldiers.

Merely...... In the end, they didn't make it to us!

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I would like to use this chapter to pay tribute to Hao Xiuchang, squad leader of the 381st Regiment of the 9th Company and 5th Squad, and the soldier Pi Xiangen.

Martyrs Hao Xiuchang and Pi Xiangen fought with the enemy in the defense of Banri and Kuntong in order to cover the wounded, and they broke through with the wounded on their backs, until Zuihou couldn't crawl anymore, and then placed the wounded and martyrs in a safe place to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and sacrificed their young lives after killing 56 enemies with all the bullets. (To be continued......)