Chapter Thirty-Nine: Fierce Offensive
The Frenchman's warehouse is close at hand, Wang Qichuan's former love is also close at hand, and even he can see the Vietnamese flag on the top of the warehouse on the hill. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
However, at such a juncture, it was difficult for Wang Qichuan's troops to advance any further.
Because they've met hard bones!
It turned out that between the positions of our troops and the warehouse, there was a small hill, which was not high, but the geographical position was extremely important, and it could not be bypassed in any case, and in order to seize the French warehouses and open the road to Hanoi, it was necessary to first seize this low hill.
And the importance of mountains, the Vietnamese people have also noticed it early.
In order to delay Wang Qichuan's offensive, the Vietnamese built a three-dimensional offensive on the mountain, and the whole offensive was condescending, connected like a "screw turn", and there were several firepower points on the nearby hill to support each other.
In the war in Vietnam, there is one thing that all Chinese soldiers admit, that is, the backing fortifications built by the Vietnamese military are very good and extremely efficient.
In the chain system of "three-ring holes," "holes," and "rat holes," from the most primitive bamboo sticks to the most advanced rockets, from the deadliest snipers to the most brutal infantry mines, this complex defense system is daunting, and it has also driven away the most powerful imperialist army in the world.
And now, it's our soldiers' turn to get through it.
In that war, which greatly ignored the rules of engagement, Wang Qichuan's troops suffered heavy losses on the outskirts of French warehouses, fighting from morning to noon, but they could not advance a single bit.
Later, Wang Qichuan was red-eyed, he contacted the artillery unit, and carried out indiscriminate bombardment of the small hill for three hours, and then ordered his troops to intersperse in a roundabout way, continuously suppressing the Vietnamese army's firepower points with recoilless guns.
The battle lasted from noon to night, and Wang Qichuan pulled out the last heavy fire point and prepared to advance towards the mountains.
But just when Wang Qichuan breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to move on, those rat-like Vietnamese troops killed a horse gun!
What Wang Qichuan did not expect was that the remnants of the defeated Vietnamese army were still giving stubborn resistance, and they used grenades and submachine guns to carry out a sneak attack on Wang Qichuan's troops in the "rat barn" guarding the mountain bunker. Those Vietnamese suddenly strafed at our soldiers who had just occupied their positions and had not yet gained a firm foothold, relying on underground bunkers, and in an instant, seven or eight soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
This time, it completely angered Wang Qichuan!
Faced with the greatest sacrifice and setback since the war, Wang Qichuan did not have time and patience to launch a "psychological offensive" against the Vietnamese troops hiding in the rat holes.
Such an offensive is commonly known in our army as "burning the company battalion".
After burning the company camp, Wang Qichuan replenished many guns and grenades, and it was not until there was no sound in those bunkers that Battalion Commander Wang personally led everyone down to investigate the enemy's casualties.
In the four "rat holes", Wang Qichuan found five corpses, but it was these five corpses that took the lives of eight young soldiers. No one knows what Wang Qichuan thought when he saw this scene, people only saw Camp Commander Wang crying, maybe because of his own chagrin, maybe because of the cruelty of the war.
On the battlefield, there really aren't many people...... It's made of iron.
But just as Wang Qichuan was about to leave after inspecting the corpses of the Vietnamese army, he suddenly became interested in the charred corpse crawling on the ground in front of him.
I don't know why, the corpse with its back to Wang Qichuan has a obviously bulging back, as if something big is pressed under the body.
Wang Qichuan had fought in Vietnam, so he was very familiar with the tricks of the Vietnamese, he knew that these Vietnamese were good at using tricks, and they liked to install trick mines under the corpses, and the specific method was to install a "pressure mine" under the corpse, if the soldiers collected the corpse for a while, rashly dragged the dead up, then the pressure mine would bounce up and detonate, and then cause greater secondary damage.
In view of these experiences, Wang Qichuan took matters into his own hands, and he gently reached out and touched the dead man's chest, wanting to personally solve this troublesome landmine so as to reduce some unnecessary sacrifices.
But when Wang Qichuan's hand reached under the charred corpse, he was stunned.
Because, what Battalion Commander Wang touched was not a cold mine, but ...... The head of a small child.
A bad premonition that he had never had before made Wang Qichuan's body cold.
Gently, he turned the charred man over, and then saw the whole picture of the two men.
In the blurred flesh and blood, it seems to be a mother and daughter.
Wang Qichuan looked at it, the woman seemed to love her child very much, and when she died, she fiercely protected her daughter's body with both hands, so that she was scorched, and the girl was not overly devastated.
But even so, the flamethrower's flames and lack of oxygen ruthlessly took the little girl's life. The girl's eyes were closed tightly and her hands were on her chest, showing the pain of lack of oxygen and the cruelty of war.
At that moment, Wang Qichuan was stunned, and a very delicate emotion made the soldier carefully examine the corpse again, and his eyes naturally fell on the small hand on the girl's chest, and on the two small and clenched fists.
The woman protects the child, and the child protects what is in hand.......
A curiosity that is very dangerous in war made Wang Qichuan squat down, and he gently stretched out his hand and waved the little girl's still soft palm.
A "five-purpose saber" appeared in front of Wang Qichuan.
He knew the knife very well......
Immediately, the soldier put away his knife, and without leaving a single tear, he told his subordinates to dispose of the bodies of the mother and daughter, and then led the troops to take the French warehouse, and then cleared the main road to Hanoi.
But on the night after the battle, Wang Qichuan was seen beating his chest in the corner, and the next morning, Wang Qichuan's eyes were red and almost completely blind.
After that, no one in the military region saw Wang Qichuan cry, and the version of this story has given birth to many conjectures and branches.
Some people say that the girl is Ruan Cao'er's child born by Wang Qichuan, and some people say that it is just an irrelevant woman, after all, that kind of knife is very common in the Vietnamese army, and it is normal for Wang Qichuan to occasionally admit his mistakes, and some people say that Wang Qichuan is a righteous murderer, and he knows that there are Ruan Cao'er's mother and daughter entrenched in the mouse hole......
As for why Ruan Cao'er was in that cave, there were many rumors at that time, some people said that she became the "public wife" of the Vietnamese army, just to earn money and sell her hue, and some people said that her new husband happened to be guarding here, and she did a funeral for no reason when visiting relatives, and some people said that she was a victim of Vietnam's anti-Chinese people, and was imprisoned in the "rat hole" by the Vietnamese army, and either resisted desperately and repelled our army, or was burned alive by our army.
Of course, there is no way to know what the truth is, all we know is that Wang Qichuan did not have any command mistakes in the battle, and everything he made was a choice that a soldier should make on the battlefield. And I believe that even if Wang Qichuan really knew that the person inside was Ruan Cao'er, he could only make that choice.
This is a soldier, a soldier who has been on the battlefield, he is not iron, but he is not mortal either.
And this is also the real origin of this saber in my hand.