blood of vietnam war

Chapter 140 The Cruelty of War

"Boom..." As soon as I walked up to the mountaintop position of the Vietnamese army with the flow of people, there were several explosions nearby.

Experience on the battlefield told me that it was not a shell, because I did not hear the scream of the shell, and I quickly judged that it was the unique muffled sound of the bombing tunnel... This sound was when I attacked the underground castle of the Vietnamese army in Laojie. That's a lot to hear.

At first I thought it was our soldiers throwing grenades or explosives into the tunnels of the Vietnamese army, but soon I felt that something was wrong... because soon after the explosion disappeared, our soldiers came. scream.

Some people may say... how do I know whether this scream is from the People's Liberation Army or the Vietnamese Army?

Indeed, although our army and the Vietnamese army said different things, there was still not much difference in the screams.But along with the screams, there were also yells and calls for help in Mandarin:

"Fuck you more devil..."

"I call you your ancestor, Yue Guizi!"

"Hygienist, hygienist...someone is hurt!"

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This seems to be a very normal little thing. It is not too normal to have an explosion or injury on the battlefield. I think most people will unconsciously ignore it when faced with this matter, and continue to do what they should do.

However, I feel that something is wrong... The one who was injured was the People's Liberation Army, which means that it was not the People's Liberation Army who bombed the tunnel crossing... Even if our troops have no training, we still check to see if there are any comrades around us before blowing up the tunnel crossing. There are indiscriminate and random bombings.

Then if it wasn't the tunnel entrance that our army bombed... then the Vietnamese army did it?Why did the Vietnamese army blow up the tunnel crossing?Ordinarily... this hilltop position has been occupied by our army, and the Vietnamese army bombed the tunnel entrance, so didn't they seal themselves in the tunnel?

As far as I know, the tunnels dug by the Vietnamese army on the high ground are not comparable to the tunnels dug on the "Eastern Invincible", even the underground castles in Laojie... This is not to say that the Vietnamese army has no time or time. Ability to dig, but not necessary.

The tunnel dug on the "Eastern Invincible" was used to hide the pointers of the Vietnamese army agents, the underground castle under the old street was used to preserve the vitality, and there were houses on the ground to fight guerrilla warfare and persist for a long time.

But what about on this high ground?Not to mention that this highland is easily bombarded by artillery and the entire mountaintop is lowered by a few meters... This is also very destructive to the tunnels. When the swarm covered, the violent vibration would cause many tunnels to collapse.

But this is second, and more importantly, the rainy season in Vietnam is coming soon. The climate in Vietnam is half a year after the rainy season... Just imagine, if the Vietnamese army spent a lot of time, manpower, and material resources on this high ground to build a huge Complicated network of tunnels, well then... clean up or fill the tunnels with water as soon as the monsoons come.

This is why our army was able to build huge, interconnected, and multi-functional tunnel fortifications in North Korea during the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, but in the ten-year war against Vietnam, it could only hide from the ears.

Poor tunnels mean fewer ventilation holes, and less ventilation holes mean that the tunnel entrance is even more important...so I don't understand why the Vietnamese army rushed to blow up the tunnel entrance, let alone...the Vietnamese army seems to have no need to do this, the tunnel is easy to defend Difficult to attack, isn't it?Putting a machine gun on the rack or arranging an ak47 will cause us a lot of trouble.

"What's going on!" I heard Commander Luo's cry, and he was obviously also puzzled by this.

"Report to the company commander!" Someone responded in the dark: "It's the Yue devils. They blew up the explosive package in the tunnel... and the tunnel entrance collapsed!"

This confirms my judgment, but I still don't understand why Yue Guizi did this.

At this time, I suddenly remembered what the old man said: "The Yue devils are smart. If you think that you have won the battle by occupying their highlands, you will suffer... The devils have already calculated the mortars before the war. All of them are aiming at their own forward positions, and some even aim at the trenches of the forward positions... As long as the forward positions are lost, before we have time to cheer, the devil's shells will come over!"

Thinking of this, I suddenly understood why the Yue Guizi wanted to blow up the tunnel crossing. They did it because we didn't even have a place to hide when the shells came!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help shouting: "All retreat! Withdraw from the position... The devil's shells are coming!"

The soldiers couldn't help being stunned when they heard my order. The position I just occupied is not hot yet... And I'm just a platoon leader, and the company commander hasn't spoken yet, so all the soldiers look at the company. Chang looked at me again, but didn't dare to move!

"Company Commander!" I anxiously called out to Company Commander Luo.

Company Commander Luo looked at me suspiciously. He was about to ask something but saw the anxiety in my eyes, so he quickly gave an order: "Everyone is here... evacuate the position immediately! Move quickly!"

The people in the whole company were a little puzzled after receiving this order, but they followed the order and followed me and Company Commander Luo to the other side of the hilltop position...

However, we can command our own troops, and we are somewhat powerless against the company that also attacked this high ground.

Some soldiers from the first company even laughed at our backs: "Cut, didn't you say that the second company can fight tough battles? How can they run faster than rabbits!"

"That's right... even if the devils really want to shoot, don't we still have ready-made trenches?"

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Originally, I wanted to tell them to retreat, but after hearing these words, I realized that I couldn't persuade them, and at the same time, I didn't have time... So I could only sigh in my heart: I don't know how many casualties this time.

Sure enough, the soldiers and I had just had time to climb over the top of the mountain when we heard screams coming from the sky... Then, shells exploded on the top of the mountain, including anti-personnel bombs and more incendiary bombs... ...As the old man said, the Yue Guizi must have adjusted the elements in advance, so these shells were fired accurately and hard, even if they didn't directly hit the trenches, they were all nearby.

If these shells are all anti-personnel shells, that's okay. The soldiers just need to hide in the trenches, as long as the shells don't hit the trenches directly, there will be no big problem.But the scary thing is those incendiary bombs... Even if this thing doesn't hit the trench directly, it will explode into a fire, and the incendiary agent is sprayed in all directions like a goddess scattering flowers, and the trenches are transformed in a short time. It has become a veritable wall of firewall.

Maybe Yue Guizi didn't have enough shells, or Yue Guizi felt that a few minutes of bombing was enough, so the artillery stopped soon, followed by bursts of screams...

The scholar lying next to me couldn't help but gasped, and asked, "Platoon Leader, how did you know that the Yue Devils were going to shoot? If it's a little later, we might all be gone!"

"Why are you talking about this?" Company Commander Luo scolded loudly, "Hurry up and save people!!"

"Yes!" The soldiers didn't dare to be negligent, they responded and turned around and rushed back.

But how do we save this... There are soldiers who have been blown to pieces, or people who have been ignited by incendiary bombs. If you save one, you can't save the other, and you can't save the other. this……

One soldier was covered in flames, and he could only run and dance while waving his arms in severe pain. Several soldiers surrounded him with an engineering shovel and poured soil on him, but it was of no avail. He was soon shaken off by himself, and finally fell to his knees powerlessly on the ground, curled up in an extremely painful position and bid farewell to the world.

Another soldier who was on fire had his leg broken, and he could only crawl and grab on the ground with difficulty. It seemed that only by venting all his strength could his pain be relieved a little... The soldiers hurried up to use soil to crush him The fire on his body is extinguished, and the rescued person still has a breath... But I believe that he would rather not be rescued...

I hurriedly ran up to press the wound of a little soldier. His chest was pierced by shrapnel, and the blood gushed out like a fountain... I wanted to help him stop the bleeding, but just in time I took out the bandage from the first aid kit. It was found that he twitched a few times and lost his anger after tilting his head.

I sat down on the ground, looking helpless at the blood, fire and death in front of me.I have to admit, on this battlefield, I learned how to kill people more than save people!

I don't know how long it took, but the scene was finally brought under control...but it's more like cleaning than controlling.

The corpses and wounded were transported back by the militiamen who caught up later, and after a rough count, there were only forty or so people left who were still capable of fighting. .

At this time, I couldn't help but be thankful that the third company in charge of the feint attack didn't rush up all at once, otherwise the three companies would be crowded on this high ground and let the Yue devils blow up...the loss would not be as simple as dozens of people.

"How did you know that Yue Guizi was going to have a cannon?" Luo Lianchang's face was blackened by the smoke, and he sat down in front of me and asked in a muffled voice.

"The Yue Devils are blowing up their own tunnels!" I replied, "They have two purposes for blowing up the tunnels. One is to worry that we will rush into the tunnels desperately after the shells come, and the other is to worry that the incendiary bombs will explode. they themselves!"

"Yeah!" Captain Luo nodded, and then heaved a long sigh: "It would be great if Captain Yi... could respond as quickly as you!"

I don't know how to answer, because I know... the first company commander died in the shelling of the Vietnamese army just now, his body was burned together with several soldiers, and the only thing that can be identified is the pistol on his body ...

"The Yue Guizi are too ruthless!" Xiao Shitou interjected from the side, "there are still their own people in this field, why do they..."

The situation that Xiao Shitou mentioned does exist. After every battle, there are usually wounded and prisoners.Just like in this battle, there was a large company of Vietnamese troops stationed on this highland. Although many Vietnamese troops fired grenades when our army rushed to the top of the hill and committed suicide, more than [-] people were still captured by our army. , Most of these captives were injured and comatose, or they couldn’t even commit suicide because of their injuries.

But even so, these wounded are still soldiers of the Vietnam Army after all, and they can even be said to be heroes of the Vietnam Army... So I still don't understand how the Vietnam Devils could do this cruel thing.

However, this seems to be a reasonable thing.

The battlefield is so cruel. The Vietnamese army, which has been in a state of war for many years, has formed a combat style of survival of the fittest like a beast. This is beyond the imagination of people like us who have lived in a state of peace for many years. (To be continued.)