It was night, and the L Mountain position was silent.

An hour later, the radio station between the division headquarters and the regimental headquarters began to communicate, and then the regimental headquarters contacted the subordinate artillery companies to convey the combat orders.

The fighters of all artillery companies checked the artillery and ammunition overnight, prepared for the battle, and made sure that nothing went wrong.

In the early hours of the next morning, the fighters woke up one after another, quickly threw themselves into their posts, engrossed and waiting for the signal.

More than ten kilometers away in Guan County, Su Luo and several people were also waiting.

From the time they received the order from the regimental headquarters, one day and two nights passed, and they kept a close eye on the direction of the position on the hill, but there was no movement.

Lei Jun and the others were all nervous, although they were not on the front line, they hardly slept in the past two nights.

"Su Luo, is the time you speculated accurate?" Song Da looked at Su Luo and spoke softly, after receiving the order before, everyone was discussing when our army would open fire, and the answer Su Luo gave was early tonight.

When several other company commanders and instructors heard this, they all looked at Su Luo, and Song Da could be said to have asked what was in their hearts.

Su Luo held a leaf in his left hand and rubbed it, and said in a faint voice: "The pre-war preparations should be done by yesterday evening, and the evening should be over at the latest." ”

Everyone did not doubt his words, according to the wartime arrangement, it should have ended yesterday afternoon, but the terrain here is complicated, so everyone has no bottom in their hearts, but it should be similar to what he said.

"Do you want it?" One of the older Xu Company Commanders took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and asked everyone if they wanted to.

"Good fellow, bring a cigarette."

"Give me a ......"

Except for Su Luo and Song Da, everyone else asked for one.

Lei Jun looked at the two of them and asked, "Company Commander Su, Director Song, you don't smoke?" ”

"I smoke occasionally, it's relatively rare, and our company commander Su doesn't smoke." Song Da glanced at the cigarettes in their hands, and continued, in fact, he would have wanted to light a cigarette, but Su Luo's habit he knew that if everyone smoked, he would sit alone, and the scene would be weird.

However, as soon as his words fell, Su Luo spoke, "Lian Commander Xu, bring me one too." ”

"Huh? Good. Company Commander Xu reacted for a second, then quickly took out a cigarette from his pocket and gave it to him, and at the same time threw the match over.

Song Da was dumbfounded, and looked at Su Luo a few times in a daze, and then said embarrassedly: "Is there anything else?" Why don't you give me roots too? ”

Company Commander Xu smiled, and immediately threw another one to Song Da.

Su Luo struck a match, did not rush to light his own cigarette, but handed it to Song Dayong.

Song Da was not polite, with a cigarette in his mouth, he lit a fire with his hand, and couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then spit out a faint smoke ring like enjoyment.

Su Luo withdrew his hand and blew out the match, but his cigarette was still not lit.

Seeing this, Song Da was puzzled: "You don't order?" ”

"Wait." Su Luo shook his head, and continued to play with the leaves in his hand with his left hand, his eyes were still staring at the direction of L Mountain, and his eyes were deep.

After waiting like this for about an hour, several cigarette butts had been thrown on the grass where several people were sitting in the pitch darkness.

Su Luo always held a cigarette and looked at the mountain, motionless.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he stood up on the ground, and in the next second, he saw the eastern sky, three red signal flares rushing into the sky, flashing with excitement in the dark night sky.

The leaves fell to the ground with his movements, and he clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, "Here we go!" ”

As early as when he got up, the others sensed that something was going on, and quickly got up, and also saw three flashes of red.

At the same time, on the position of L Mountain, the artillery fighters had long been ready, and when they saw the signal flares rising in the air, the artillery that was ready to fire finally let out a roar.

The anger of our army against Army Y for several years all poured out at this moment.

On the position, more than 200 artillery pieces, including cannons, mortars, and howitzers, opened fire at the same time, and countless shells flew over our army to the enemy's positions, covering the enemy's border positions and command posts, as well as hundreds of targets such as munitions warehouses.

Soon, half of the sky in the L-Shan theater was dyed red by the flames of war.

The night sky, which was originally pitch black, instantly lit up and turned red.

The soldiers of the border regiment were surrounded by the sound of "boom, boom, boom" artillery in their ears, and some soldiers with good eyesight could also see the smoke and dust rising from the enemy's positions through the artillery fire.

Although Su Luo couldn't hear or see the situation of the position clearly, the artillery fire in the east could be seen clearly.

The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, he lowered his head and struck a match, and the cigarette that had not been lit was finally lit by him.

He squinted and raised his cigarette in the direction of the east, and the red star on the cigarette butt flickered in the silent night, as if echoing the artillery fire on the position on the hill.

After a few glances, he took the cigarette and put it in his mouth, because it was the first time he smoked, he didn't know how to hold the cigarette, and he pinched it with his thumb and index finger very casually.

"Ahem......" before he took a sip, and he couldn't help choking.

To be honest, this cigarette is really hard to smoke, and it tastes good without alcohol.

But at this moment, he prefers smoke, red and dazzling.

Holding back his cough, Su Luo took two more sips, then looked at the fiery red sky in the east and slowly exhaled smoke rings.

Song Da and the others were also dumbfounded.

This is the most artillery fire they have seen since they became soldiers, and it is also the most artillery fire they have seen since they grew so big.

"How many shells are going to be fired tonight......" Su Luo looked at the red sky and muttered.

Lei Jun also came back to his senses, and said excitedly: "It doesn't matter how many shots he has, it's good to kill those Y soldiers, and let out a sigh of relief." ”

Company Commander Xu looked at the artillery fire over there, and said with a smile: "'When the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold', this is not false at all. ”

When the others heard this, they couldn't help but laugh out loud, and in the silence of the night, no one deliberately whispered, and they were not afraid to wake up the soldiers.

At such an important moment, it would be better if the soldiers could see it with their own eyes.

Su Luo's mouth also had a light smile on the corner, and while laughing with everyone, he stared at the direction of L Mountain,

The soldiers who really had the opportunity to be vigilant heard the laughter of several company commanders, and woke up, and before they could react, they saw that the sky in the east was blazing red, and their eyes immediately widened, and after they understood, they quickly woke up their companions.

Ten to ten, ten to hundred, and finally the soldiers in the entire training site woke up, and they all lay at the entrance of the cave and looked at the sky, their eyes flashing with excitement.

The shelling of Mount L did not stop until dawn on the morning of the 2nd.

But then, starting at 9 o'clock in the morning, our troops shelled the enemy's positions twice for about half an hour each time, and the same was true every day after that, and our troops continued to carry out artillery attacks on the enemy's front line and surrounding positions without interruption.

On the other side, all the infantry fighters, including Su Luo's battalion, were always ready, waiting for the order of their superiors at any time to go to the front line.

This wait is more than 20 days.

On the morning of the 23rd, Su Luo finally received an order from the regimental headquarters, asking them to train a battalion in Guan County, and be sure to arrive at the main position of L Mountain before dawn on the 24th, and join the border regiment that had been guarding there.

Su Luo passed this order to the soldiers, and everyone was in good spirits, and then immediately began to prepare, waiting for departure.