Chapter 49: Explosion
Thinking of this, Qin Shoutian felt more and more that Xia Yuan's actions were too risky.
"There will be sacrifices in war, let alone such a dangerous mission, and we have to make our sacrifices worthwhile."
Xia Yuan comforted Qin Shoutian, pinched a grenade in his hand, and said: "Tonight, we must destroy the enemy's artillery position, I can't think of any other way, as long as I can throw the grenade between the enemy's gasoline barrels, or throw it between the enemy's shells." ”
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The enemy's shells and gasoline drums were covered with tarpaulins, and he was not sure if such a method would work, but it was worth trying, bullets would not work, grenades would definitely do!
If you can blow it up, you can blow it up, and if you can't blow it up, you will retreat, there will always be a chance.
Qin Shoutian thought about Xia Yuan's plan and said, "Platoon Commander Xia, let me go, my grenade was thrown far away." ”
"Don't talk so much nonsense."
Xia Yuan stared at the enemy's searchlight, seeing that the searchlight was about to turn around, sweeping over, he immediately buried his head in the soil, and his voice became a little strange: "Remember, if you are discovered by the enemy, retreat immediately, this is an order, although you are not under my control, but now the two of us will carry out the task, I am the platoon commander and you are a soldier, obey the order!" ”
Qin Shoutian only bit his lip and said 'yes' very reluctantly, waiting a little nervously for the enemy's searchlight to float over.
When the enemy's searchlight floated over, Qin Shoutian hurriedly looked up, and saw that a grenade emitting white smoke had already flown out, and the height made him feel frightened, and the grenade floated from the sky and landed on the lighthouse a hundred meters away.
With a bang, it exploded, and with the sound of glass breaking, the searchlight more than a hundred meters away from them went out at once.
The brain exploded, the enemy's artillery position in front of him was chaotic, and there were enemy running figures everywhere, Xia Yuan brought Qin Shoutian much more shock, before he could react, Xia Yuan shot out like a sharp arrow, the speed was fast, just two breaths apart, Qin Shoutian found that Xia Yuan actually appeared under the enemy's searchlight dozens of meters away and hidden.
Qin Shoutian's eyes widened, and he quickly observed the surroundings, the panicked enemy was approaching in the direction of the explosion, the enemy's truck turned around and immediately moved away, and there was the sound of foreign devils shouting everywhere, and the sound carried a lingering panic.
didn't have time to think about it, he hurriedly loaded the submachine gun in his hand, and stared nervously at Xia Yuan, who was prostrate on the ground motionless in the distance.
The foreign devil with the searchlight above his head hit the light of the searchlight at the location of the explosion, and the foreign devil thought that the enemy might be hiding in the forest directly in front of the attacked searchlight, and the enemy had quickly set up a gun in the bunker under the searchlight, and the light of several searchlights illuminated the area as if it were daylight.
The U.S. soldiers ran in that direction, looking for shelter to hide along the way, nervously watching the black winter woods.
The sleeping soldiers in the guard post were also awakened by the sudden explosion, and they did not feel sleepy.
"Chinese, Chinese called!"
Hearing the shouts of their own people, these people are even more confused, there is no one to protect those gasoline barrels and shells, they can't be protected, the base number of gasoline barrels and shells is too much, the Chinese really want to fight, they can't move at all, some foreign devils are still responsible, supporting the past towards the location where the explosion occurred, while some foreign devils look like they don't care about themselves, hiding in the narrow space of the machine gun fire point, thinking that such a narrow space is very safe.
They have not yet realized the seriousness of the matter, let alone that the enemy has actually touched their position and concealed it, and they will not be able to find it at all, after all, when throwing grenades, it is silent, not like shooting, the sound of shooting will reveal their position, but throwing grenades is completely impossible to guess the direction.
It is precisely because of this that the Americans think that the Chinese who dropped the grenade are in the dense forest in front of them.
In addition to the foreign devils who were defending head-on, there were also many foreign devils under the command of the lieutenant, who were touching into the dense forest, such a situation was something Qin Shoutian had never imagined, in a tense environment, he thought that Xia Yuan would expose their location if he lost the grenade.
However, it didn't.
Xia Yuan smoothly rushed to the enemy's searchlight, and the searchlight above his head stupidly hit the only light source at the place where the explosion occurred, so that it was pitch black below it, and he didn't find that there was a person crawling on the anticline, even if it was a foreign devil who ran under the searchlight, he didn't find a person lying there, at this time, all the foreign devils' attention had been attracted by the location of the explosion in the distance, and the attention to the surroundings naturally decreased.
Suddenly, Qin Shoutian saw Xia Yuan, who had been lying on the ground and had not moved, got up, to be precise, he was squatting on the ground, slightly startled, he quickly picked up his gun and looked around, and found that there were no enemies around, and he was even more shocked in his heart.
"Is that also in his hands?"
Qin Shoutian was extremely shocked in his heart, this was on the artillery position of the US army, if he had come to blow up the enemy's artillery position, it was estimated that it would have been exposed a long time ago, but with Platoon Commander Xia, the road was unimpeded, and he seemed to be extremely familiar with the artillery position of the US army.
From passing through the minefield arranged by the US army to passing through the machine gun bunker of the US army, there was no pause, and the road was unimpeded until now, and it seemed that everything was in the hands of the platoon commander Xia, such a person, even in their platoon commander, had never seen it.
While thinking about it, Xia Yuan in the distance threw two more grenades, these two grenades were in completely different directions, one floated towards the enemy's firepower point arranged under the searchlight, and the other floated towards the oil drum covered with oilcloth in the middle of the enemy's artillery position.
Qin Shoutian's eyes widened, only to see that the grenade floating under the enemy's searchlight actually exploded in the air, a roar passed, the black smoke drifted away, the American troops below died tragically, and the American soldiers who were hit by shrapnel around them were lying on the ground wailing.
Another roar came from a distance that attracted Qin Shoutian, and he turned his head to look over, only to see the sky-high fire.
He subconsciously rubbed his eyes, and the enemy's oil drum was ignited.
Bang!
Without waiting for Qin Shoutian to react, the sky-rushing fire expanded instantly, accompanied by a roar, a fireball rose up, reflecting the entire sky in a fiery red, followed by continuous explosions, and the gasoline barrels with billowing black smoke were blown out, and the sky-high flames swept away at once, igniting the grass and trees on the ground, and the fire suddenly burned even more vigorously.
“fuck!”
The US military, in shock, was stunned.
Under the gaze of a group of bewildered American troops, the oil drums and artillery shells they had worked so hard to transport exploded even more intensely.
Bang!
The huge explosion shook the valley, the feeling of shaking the ground and the mountains kept transmitting, the exploding gasoline barrels ignited the shells hoarded under the tents, and the rumbling explosions rang out continuously, like bursting raindrops falling on the ground, and blossomed in the enemy's artillery group, the fire and the flying dirt reflected each other, and the screams combined with the explosion to compose a beautiful tune, but unfortunately the screams came and went quickly, and were soon drowned out by the more intense explosions.
The enemy's artillery base is very large, and it is estimated that the explosion will last for some time.
The speed at which the planned goal succeeded was very fast, which shocked Qin Shoutian and made Xia Yuan a little surprised, he thought that he would lose two more grenades, but he didn't expect one grenade to succeed.
"Let's go!"
Xia Yuan withdrew without looking back, picked up the gun and fired several shots at the American troops who came out of the sentry post behind Qin Shoutian, which itself had its own silence and flame suppression, coupled with a violent explosion, no one noticed the body of his gun, Qin Shoutian relieved himself from the shock, only to find that he was dragged by Xia Yuan into the forest, and the fire in the distance was soaring, and the thunder roared.
Qin Shoutian, who suddenly woke up, said excitedly: "Platoon Commander Xia, we, we have succeeded!" ”
"It's successful, retreat."
Xia Yuan looked very calm, it was not once or twice to bomb the enemy's artillery position, knowing that the logistics of the US army were very strong, this time the enemy's artillery position was bombed, and it would not take half a day for the enemy to reinforce a large number of howitzers, and this time to blow up the enemy's artillery position was only to ease the intensity of the US army's attack tomorrow.
You can't make a winning decision.
Small battles serve big battles, but this attack on the enemy's artillery positions can also change the situation faced by the 538th Regiment to a certain extent.
As they retreated, they could still feel the shaking of the ground.
A loud explosion echoed over the ravine, waking up the sleeping Major Rohr, who fell from his stool, got up quickly, and put his hat on his head crookedly while a soldier ran in from outside in a panic.
"Major Rohr, something is wrong, our artillery positions were attacked by the Chinese, and there was a huge explosion!"
"What!" Major Rohr was shocked, and came out of the tent, and looked up at the line of sky between the two mountains, and from the direction of their artillery position, the sky was already reflected in a fiery red, thick smoke billowed out, and the rumbling sound was continuous, and the ground trembled slightly.
“fcuk! fuck! ”
The bombing of the artillery position made the Major Rohr thunder, he threw his hat on the ground, his face was pale with anger, his heart was throbbing, and an artillery group was blown up by the enemy, a responsibility he could not bear.
The soldier said, "It must be the Chinese in front of us who are doing it!" ”
“fuck!” Major Rohr cursed, slammed the beer on the table to the ground, and the beer with white foam splashed everywhere, spraying him, Major Rohr seemed to be unaware, with the help of the light, staring at the high ground on the map: "It's dawn, I want to take the 336.8 high ground!" I'm going to take 336.8 Heights! ”
He knew in his heart that he could not afford the responsibility for the bombing of the artillery position, and that he could only make up for his mistakes, and perhaps the punishment imposed on him by his superiors would be lighter.
336.8 on the high ground.
More than ten kilometers away, you can hear the sound of explosions in the distance, the sound is very subtle, and it spreads to this side is a continuous rumbling sound, which wakes up some of the soldiers who are sleeping lightly.
Ma Da rubbed his eyes, looked at the sky in the distance, and said, "Grandma, what the hell are these foreign devils doing, setting off firecrackers?" Or are you celebrating something, and you still need to celebrate if you lose your position? In the middle of the night, you don't have a good rest. ”
He yawned, turned his head to look at Chen Lie, and found that this guy had already gotten up and stared into the distance.
Chen Lie said: "It's not the enemy setting off firecrackers, it's the sound of explosions. ”
Ma Da was a little stunned: "Their house exploded? ”
Chen Lie nodded: "It should be, maybe the superior sent interspersed troops to bomb the enemy's artillery position, and it can be felt from such a distance, which shows how strong the explosion is." ”
Ma Da's sleepiness disappeared, and he laughed: "Great, let those foreign devils also taste the taste of being fried." ”
At the battalion headquarters, a dim kerosene lamp, the commanders and fighters of the first battalion were still discussing tomorrow's battle plan, and the commander of the second company suggested: "Let the three companies be divided into three echelons and disperse on the position to hold on, so as to reduce the casualties caused by the enemy's artillery bombardment, and at the same time be able to hold the position for a longer time." ”
Company Commander Lei shook his head: "No, if the enemy's attack is very fierce, the troops on the mountain will not be able to hold on for so long, and it is very likely that they will retreat in vain under a wave of enemy attacks." ”
The commander of the third company also said: "At present, we do not know the strength of the enemy, only that there is a regiment of the enemy who is reinforcing the enemy in front of us, and in such a situation, it is an unwise choice to disperse our forces and hold the high ground." ”
The commander of the second company fell into deep thought.
While Battalion Commander Li was thinking, a soldier quickly ran in: "Report!" There is something important to report on the front! ”
Battalion Commander Li didn't raise his head and said, "Speak!" ”
"A violent explosion was heard from the direction of the enemy, and it was suspected that the enemy's artillery positions were blown up." The warrior said quickly.
The battalion headquarters was silent, the commanders and fighters looked at each other, they quickly got up from the ground, rushed out of the battalion headquarters, and could vaguely hear the roar echoing in the valley, the rumbling sound spread, and the echo was so intense.
"This ......"
A group of people looked at each other.
Battalion Commander Li glanced at the 336.8 highlands and immediately said, "Go to the highlands!" ”
Everyone hurriedly ran to the high ground, riveted their strength, standing on the high ground, they saw the discolored sky in the distance, and Battalion Commander Li immediately said to the guard beside him: "Telescope." ”
The guard took off the binoculars on his body and handed them to Battalion Commander Li.
He got the binoculars and quickly adjusted the focus to look into the distance.
Commander Lei and others also took out their binoculars to observe in the distance, there was a fire in the far sky, thick smoke billowed out, thunder roared, the explosion did not seem to be as intense as just now, but such a fire could not be faked, the forest was ignited by the explosion of gasoline barrels, the flames rose, and the surrounding area was fiery red.
They were so shocked that they couldn't speak, and they put down the binoculars and handed them to the people around them with a shocked face, and after the people around them finished reading, they also had a look of surprise on their faces.