Chapter 43: Captured
The flares in the sky are like a bright sun, reflecting the mountains and forests as if they were day.
The U.S. forces cleared a large area of the bushes from the hill to prevent obstruction of the view, and this did work, and the moment the three soldiers broke out of the bushes, they were exposed to the enemy's sight.
In an instant, he was attacked by the enemy's concentrated fire, and on the spot, one soldier's body was pierced by bullets, and another soldier was injured in the leg and fell heavily to the ground.
"Zhang Sheng!"
When the third squad leader saw this scene, the corners of his eyes cracked.
The enemy's fire on the mountain was extremely fierce, directly blocking the road where the three fighters attacked.
"Zhang Sheng, Zhang Sheng!"
The warrior wounded in the leg cried out to the warrior who was lying in a pool of blood, without any movement.
"Squad leader, Zhang Sheng has sacrificed!" His voice trembled a little.
"Li Guangxin, don't be sad, pull out the enemy's firepower!" The third squad leader had a grim expression and commanded behind them.
"Machine gun fire cover!"
The second platoon leader grabbed the dirt under him with his palms and shouted in a hoarse voice.
After all, two light machine guns could not suppress the fire of the enemy's heavy machine guns.
The crossfire formed by the two machine gun bunkers was so ferocious that it completely suppressed the fire of the two light machine guns in the second platoon, even if the two machine gunners fought desperately to risk being hit by enemy bullets through their bodies, roared and fired back at the enemy with the enemy's ferocious fire, but even so, it was useless.
In addition to the bunker firing points made of the enemy's two heavy machine guns, there were also light machine gun emplacements made of sandbags, and the number of light machine gun emplacements on the hill was much more numerous than the heavy machine guns.
In this way, it is not easy for the second platoon to hit it.
The demolition team that blasted the enemy's bunker, one soldier had been killed, the other two were wounded, lying on the ground and slowly squirming, carefully crouching, and the enemy's bullets fell around them.
The soldier with a wounded leg gritted his teeth and looked tense, holding the explosives bag, grasping the weeds on the ground with both hands, and almost with all his strength, dragging himself up and approaching the enemy's bunker.
Another soldier relied on the U.S. military to cut down the stumps left behind by the pine trees and curled up in a ball to avoid enemy bullets.
In this open area with a range of 30 meters, there are flares, and the American troops on the position can clearly observe the every move of the two people, their surroundings are covered by enemy bullets, and the American troops also know that if these two volunteers blow up their bunker, then their firepower will be reduced somewhat.
When the time comes, it will be weaker to block the enemy's attack.
"What about Xia Yuan, why hasn't Xia Yuan arrived yet."
The second platoon commander saw that this situation was not good, the two soldiers were too hard to suppress by the enemy, especially the soldiers who were huddled in a ball, and above his head, a large number of bullets continued to fall into the soil and tree stumps, and the smashed dirt and sawdust flew up one after another.
It was already dawn, and it was only two or three hours before the nine o'clock required by the battalion commander.
Two or three hours is not a long time, or even very short, for a battle, and sometimes a battle can last a day.
If you want to speed up your pace, you must call Xia Yuan over, his marksmanship is accurate, and he can knock out the enemy's firepower.
"He's coming!"
The leader of the squad led the people to the anticline behind the bushes quickly.
"Xia Yuan, don't ask for anything else, give me some of the enemy's firepower, so that it can't sound." The second platoon leader grabbed Xia Yuan's hand, "Can you do it?" ”
"Yes!"
Xia Yuan's tone was firm, and his gaze swept over several people, "Peace, Zhou Mao, follow me." ”
"Where are we going?"
Zhou Mao followed.
"Find an open field that can hit at least two fire points on the left and right."
Xia Yuan glanced at it, and soon had an idea, he stepped the gun over his body, rushed to a towering pine tree, pressed the soles of his feet on the trunk, jumped up, grabbed the trunk and easily climbed to the tree, looked around left and right, felt that this position was not very ideal, raised his head and looked at the tree, and climbed up a distance of one person again.
I used my bayonet to clear the branches in front of me, and my vision suddenly widened.
"Xia Yuan, how is it?"
Xiao Heping and Zhou Mao watched under the tree.
"Yes, you can help me look around."
Xia Yuan held the gun in front of his chest, aimed at the US military position in the distance, and pulled the trigger.
At this moment, the second platoon commander was leading the whole platoon to confront the enemy, bullets were intertwined over the open field in front, and the US troops not only swept away the tall bushes, but also cut down the pine trees in this area, leaving the stumps in place.
This provided better cover for the fighters in charge of the blasting.
The enemy's firepower was particularly fierce, even if there was a stump, it was still broken and splashed by the enemy's bullets, and the two fighters couldn't raise their heads at all, and the counterattack organized by the second platoon was difficult to suppress the enemy's fierce firepower.
In order to alleviate the pressure on the two fighters, the third squad leader immediately made a decision and sent two fighters from the demolition team again to rush forward on the left flank position.
Soon, they attracted the enemy's firepower, and the six fighters took advantage of the situation to hide behind the stump, put the blasting canisters and explosives bags behind them, leaned on the stump, and used their rifles to counterattack, which relieved the pressure on the other two demolitionists to a certain extent, but with little effect.
At this moment, one of the enemy's machine-gun bunker fire points suddenly went silent, and the bullets floating overhead suddenly decreased a lot.
The second platoon commander raised his head and looked surprised: "The enemy's firepower is dumb!" ”
The reaction of the third squad leader was even more rapid, and as soon as the whistle was blown, the soldiers who had already rushed to the open ground picked up the explosives bag and rushed forward.
Seeing this, the second platoon commander immediately shouted: "Cover! ”
They threw grenades at the front with all their might, dropped the grenades at the front of the enemy's position, and used the air waves and rolled up dirt generated by the grenade explosion, as well as the smoke of gunpowder that drifted away, to build a barrier for the comrades in charge of the blasting.
In the rear, Xia Yuan continuously pulled the trigger, and the enemy's seven or eight firepower points were all knocked out by him, along with the deputy shooter of the enemy's machine-gun fire point, he did not let go,
The fire points on the enemy's positions were briefly blinded, buying time for the attacking fighters.
On the battlefield, every minute and every second is very crucial, especially the light and heavy machine guns of the US army, and after a second of blind fire, experienced demolition fighters can seize this second of opportunity to rush forward between the pauses of the enemy's fire points.
Some fighters can rush three or four meters, and some fighters can rush out seven or eight meters away.
Don't underestimate the distance of a few meters, in a fortified battle, every meter responsible for blasting the enemy's fire point may require two or three fighters to pay the price of their lives.
Xia Yuan's suppression played a crucial role, and the second platoon was overjoyed, and when the enemy's light and heavy machine gun fire was temporarily ineffective, he quickly ordered the soldiers of the second platoon to advance and occupy a favorable position.
The light machine guns constantly sprayed flames from behind the bushes, sending bullets one after another to the enemy positions.
At this moment, the enemy on the position has fallen into a panic, they realized that something is wrong, the bunkers that formed crossfire on the left and right sides turned out to be muted, this situation is very rare, especially in addition to the heavy machine guns in the machine gun bunkers, the light machine gun fire points set up on the position are being knocked out by the enemy.
Seeing this, the captain and company commander of the US army immediately had a premonition that the situation was not good, and immediately asked the walkie-talkie soldiers to call for artillery support in the direction of the main peak.
There was enough artillery on the main peak, and the walkie-talkie soldiers whistled with walkie-talkies for a while, looking a little desperate: "Sir, they said that the main peak was attacked by a large number of enemies, and the artillery was used to block the path of the enemy's attack, and they asked us to hold on!" ”
“fuck!”
The captain and the company commander scolded their commander for eating, and the hill was already about to be beaten down by the enemy, and he actually let them insist.
To add insult to injury, however, there was another force of enemies on their left flank, equal in strength to the enemy on the right.
At this time, the commander of the second platoon also received a signal from the third platoon to come to support and attacked from their right flank.
The second platoon leader laughed: "Okay, the left and right flanks will attack the enemy at the same time, and I'll see how they defend!" ”
The enemy's firepower point was controlled by Xia Yuan, and their fighters in charge of demolition were constantly approaching the enemy's position, only a dozen meters away from the enemy's left flank bunker.
At the moment when the enemy's machine gun fire point just rang out, a bullet burst through the air and condescendingly drilled into the hole in the bunker, although it did not hit the head of the American machine gunner, but hit his body, and the vulnerable American machine gunner fell to the ground, shouting and demanding to withdraw from the battle.
He could clearly feel the hot blood flowing from the wound, and the blood was spilling out so quickly that it soaked through the clothes on his chest.
Withdrawing from the battle with wounded was the only way for the American soldier to save his life.
The first two machine gunners were hit by the enemy, and the wounded were in a strange position, both in the chest.
This American soldier is not stupid, in a simple judgment, he immediately thought of the Japanese sharpshooters encountered in the Pacific War, which caused them to lose a lot of people, and now this scene reminds him of a bad past, if it weren't for the captain's insistence, and the deserter would have been shot, he might have been a deserter.
Withdrawing from the fight with the wounded right now is the best way to go.
The moment he was dragged down, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed, even though the pain of the wound began to surface, stimulating the cranial nerves, but his face showed a smile for the rest of his life.
The battle is still ongoing, but the battlefield situation has been unfavorable to the American troops on the hill, originally there was only one second platoon on the left flank to attack the fortification, and the firepower on the American position was strong, but now, Xia Yuan almost controlled the firepower on the American position, and they could not call for artillery support, and the entire battlefield was controlled by Xia Yuan.
The third platoon joined the battle again, and the situation took a turn for the worse.
"As long as the U.S. troops can't call in for firepower reinforcements, the enemy on the hill will definitely not be able to hold it." The second platoon commander said to the deputy platoon commander, "It's seven o'clock, you don't need nine o'clock, half an hour to solve the battle!" ”
At this moment, the fighters in charge of demolition in the third squad are getting closer and closer to the enemy's bunker, Li Guangxin, who has broken a leg, is constantly crawling on the ground, and the soldiers in charge of demolition around him attract the enemy's firepower for him and buy him time, Li Guangxin seized the gap between the enemy's shots and tried his best to grasp the weeds and dirt on the ground.
"Cover Li Guangxin!"
The third squad leader watched Li Guangxin actually climb to a stone less than ten meters in front of the enemy's bunker, but was quickly suppressed by the American fire on both sides of the machine-gun bunker.
The soldiers of the third squad were about ten meters behind Li Guangxin at the moment, and the closest to him was the soldier of the same group with him, the grenade on his body had been lost, and he was shooting with a rifle, seeing that Li Guangxin was suppressed, and hearing the words of the third squad leader, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the blaster, and rushed towards the enemy's bunker with great strides.
The sudden jump of the enemy startled the American troops on both sides of the bunker, and successfully attracted their attention, and they turned their guns one after another.
Li Guangxin seemed to be aware of this extraordinary change, and when he looked back, he saw that his comrade-in-arms Zhang Shiming was holding a blasting canister, and the enemy's bullets hit him, blooming blood-colored flowers, and the cotton clothes on his body were beaten into dice, and blood quickly overflowed.
His body was pierced, and he opened his mouth to spit out red blood, and Li Guangxin read his lips: "Up!" ”
Li Guangxin endured the grief in his heart and the stinging pain caused by his broken leg, stood up suddenly, and rushed towards the enemy's bunker.
Enemy bullets grazed his body and hit him, blooming blood-colored flowers.
The third squad leader's eyes widened, looked at Li Guangxin's back, rushed to the enemy's bunker, and fell to the ground fiercely.
Boom.
The earth-shattering explosion rolled up a thousand layers of dirt and waves, and the mountain trembled uncontrollably, emitting a huge hum.
When the smoke cleared, only half of the enemy's machine-gun bunker remained, still standing there.
"Up!"
The third squad leader stared, shouted, and rushed over.
A wave of charges from the third squad finally blew up the enemy's pillbox.
The second platoon leader stood up behind the bushes and shouted: "Comrades, rush! Avenge the sacrifices of the third squad! ”
That tragic scene was still imprinted in the minds of the soldiers, and when they heard the order of the second platoon commander, they rushed out of the bushes on the left and right sides and quickly rushed towards the enemy's position.
Xia Yuan in the tree held a gun, shot the enemy's light machine gun one by one, and then aimed at the enemy in the trench and quickly harvested their lives.
The enemy in front of the second platoon had already been routed, and it was only a matter of time before they rushed up to take the position.
The third platoon on the right flank attracted the attention of the enemy on the flank, bought time for the attack of the second platoon, relieved the pressure.
Xia Yuan finished deducting the bullets in the magazine, re-stuffed the magazine, threw the gun behind him, jumped down from the tree, and quickly said to Xiao Heping and Zhou Mao, who were vigilant: "Go, the second platoon has entered the enemy's position." ”
"So fast!"
The two were slightly startled and hurriedly followed Xia Yuan's footsteps.
At this moment, the second platoon has already attacked the enemy's position and is engaged in a fierce white-knuckle battle with the enemy on the position.
When Xia Yuan arrived with Xiao Heping and Zhou Mao, the two sides were engaged in a fierce fight, a soldier was pressed by the enemy, and his hands were desperately pinching his neck.
But the fighters are far more ferocious than the American army, especially when the soldiers lose their weapons. (End of chapter)