blood of vietnam war

Chapter 9

"Here!" Scar handed me an iron box while I was still running away to hand in the sniper rifle.

"What is this?" I stared at the cylindrical iron box in a daze.

"Canned food!" Dao Scar said in surprise, "Aren't you a fool! Have you ever eaten canned food?"

"Oh! I'm a countryman, I eat less!" I responded casually, and took the can, but I couldn't find a place to open the can when I searched left and right... At first I thought I was dazzled, But it wasn't until Scar handed me a dagger that I realized that soda cans hadn't been introduced to China yet.

By the way, I was really hungry after a busy morning, so I didn't say much, I pried open the iron box three times, and when I opened it... I was dumbfounded, the stuff inside was broad beans.

I'm not someone who has never seen canned food, but in modern times there are only various canned meats or canned fruits. How can anyone use canned vegetables?

"Eat! What are you still doing?" Scar urged, "Hurry up, there are still tasks to do later!"

"Oh!" I reluctantly responded, and with a bitter face, I stretched my hand into the broad beans that looked like a bunch of worms hugged together.

It's better to have something to eat than to be hungry. I don't want to wait until I don't even have the strength to walk on the battlefield.But the taste was not as bad as I imagined (I found out later that it was entirely because I had never eaten this kind of food), but the broad beans were as hard as a steel bar, and I couldn't bite them in my mouth. not bad.

"Still thinking about your gun!" Dao Scar looked at my absent-minded look, and persuaded him from the side: "Don't think so much, even if you use 56 and a half, you still killed the Yueguizi sharpshooter? If there is one, there will be a second, do it well!"

As he spoke, he patted my shoulder and walked away, leaving me alone with a wry smile: Who knows if I will be the next to die!

"Comrades!" It was the company commander who appeared in front of us. He looked very excited, and before the soldiers lined up, he raised his hand and shouted: "I just got the news from the superior that our regiment has successfully broken through the Vietnamese army in the small area. The defense line in the Cao area, now is the time for us to march towards the old street!"

"Okay!" The soldiers were boiling, all of them were gearing up as if they were in a hurry to go to the battlefield, but I was the only one who sat limply on the spot and dealt with the can of broad beans in front of me.

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Lao Cai, the capital of Hoang Lien Son Province in Vietnam, is located at the confluence of the Red River and the Nanxi River. It not only has a railway leading to Hanoi, but also has roads and water transportation on the Red River. It is an important military town and a major traffic route in northwest Vietnam. An important gateway to Hanoi.To put it simply, as long as we take Lao Cai, we can continuously transport strategic materials through the river mouth to Lao Cai internally, and we can take a car directly to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, so its strategic significance is crucial to the entire self-defense counterattack. are of great strategic importance.

Most Chinese people may be familiar with and unfamiliar with this place.Familiarity is because most people have heard of this name, even now.It is strange because there are not many people who are lucky enough to come to this city to see it with their own eyes.

However, I don't think it is a lucky thing to be able to see it with my own eyes. The reason is very simple. We are not here to travel, but to fight.Seeing it, it almost means that another war is about to start soon.

In fact, we thought the war should have started an hour ago.Our purpose is to break through the old street's defenses, isn't it?A regiment of Yue Guizi relied on solid fortifications to block the attack of a division in front of our army, right?The regiment I belonged to was because it was difficult to attack from the front, so it broke through the Xiaocao area from the flanks and planned to attack the enemy where the old street was located.Unexpectedly, when we walked into the old street as if we were facing a big enemy, we found that there was no one in the empty city.

"This is the old street?" After walking for a while, Xiao Shitou could no longer bear the doubt in his heart, and asked softly, "The capital of this province...isn't it comparable to our county?"

In fact, this is also the doubt of all of us. Originally, we thought that this majestic provincial capital of Vietnam... Even if it is not as prosperous as Shanghai and Yanjing, it still looks like a town!However, when we see dilapidated brick houses and wooden houses, we realize that there is often a gap between reality and imagination.

"It's so rare!" Scar turned around and replied angrily: "The Yue devils have been fighting for decades, and their money is used to buy guns and ammunition. I didn't see that their soldiers couldn't even wear shoes. Come on? What's so strange!"

The other soldiers and I felt relieved when Scar said this. The Yue Guizi we saw these days did not wear shoes. At first we thought it was a habit, but when we saw their corpses armed When the shoes were still pinned on, I realized that they were reluctant to wear them.

For a person who is about to go to the battlefield, what is the idea of ​​not being able to avoid wearing shoes?All I know is that if I was going to the battlefield to face death, I would swallow ginseng fruit without hesitation.

But this is Vietnam, which has been at war for decades, and just a few years ago the Viet Cong were still at war with the Yankees!The planes and cannons of the Yankees are not vegetarians. It would be strange if this old street can look like it.

"Stop moving forward, rest where you are!"

"Stop moving forward, rest where you are!"

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The order came down from the front one by one, and the nerve-wrecking soldiers dispersed when they heard the order, and then there were wailing sounds, and they beat their backs and rubbed their feet, like a group of like refugees.

Some people may say that this is not like an army, how is it like a soldier?But the fact is that this is true. We have fought and made meritorious service on the battlefield, but it does not mean that we have strict discipline. The reason is very simple. Many of us have only been in the army for a few days. For example, I !

I found a rock and leaned the rifle aside, sat down impatiently and rubbed my sore and sore feet, complaining in my heart: bad food, less than an hour’s sleep, swarms of mosquitoes and flying insects, and another One death task after another... I am almost driven crazy by this world!You know, in modern times, when I go out, I get in the car and turn on the air conditioner when I enter the door. When did I suffer from this!

Now I have to admire the old man, I really don't know how this old guy survived!

Just when I felt sorry for my own fate, I found a soldier playing with the rifle I handed in not far away, and a large group of soldiers surrounded me, and there was a lot of admiration while watching :

"Hey! What kind of gun is this?"

"Where did you get it?"

"And with a magnifying glass!"

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Looking at me, I feel very uncomfortable. The sniper rifle that I finally handed in fell into the hands of others... If I knew it, I would also tell Scar, and put it in my hands for safekeeping before handing it over to the superior for "development" Well, at least you can show off in front of your comrades, right?

Just when I regretted my hindsight, there was a sudden "bang" gunshot, and the soldier with the sniper rifle in his hand burst out a bloody flower and fell to the ground.

I didn't think about it, I fell back into the stinky ditch behind me... Although I can't stand the suffocating smell in the stinky ditch, it's nothing compared to my life What.When I was, I took my rifle with me before I fell into the stinking ditch.

"There is a situation!"

"Ready to fight!"

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In an instant, the whole army was in chaos. Some soldiers lay down on the ground and raised their guns to face the direction of the gunfire, and there was a burst of beating. Some soldiers even rushed into the houses without protecting themselves at all...

"Get down! Come back!" I heard bayonets yelling at them. It is obvious that they were misled by the scenes in the movie or the propaganda that "revolutionary soldiers are not afraid of sacrifice and not afraid of death". Go face the enemy bullets.

It is true that they are not afraid of sacrifice and death, but it does not mean that they can just rush forward to die!

Unlike the bayonet, I did not try my best to call the soldiers back and hope to save their lives as he did, because I knew that was impossible.

I rolled in the smelly ditch as fast as I could and let the black and smelly water soak my whole body in an instant. Although the stench made my stomach churn, in the end I still Forcibly suppressed this nausea.I don't have time to vomit, and I don't have the right to vomit.After I crawled a few meters in the stinky ditch, I slowly poked my head out and looked in the direction of the sound.

It was a private house, but more than 200 meters away from us.So I concluded that the one hiding inside was not a sniper. The reason is very simple. No sniper would be so stupid as to have a sniper rifle and set up an ambush more than 200 meters away from the enemy.At the same time, it is impossible for the enemy to have a premeditated ambush, and the reason is very simple. If it is a premeditated ambush, then I will choose a rocket launcher or a light machine gun with strong firepower, at least the ak47 commonly used by the Vietnamese army.However, the gunshots from the civilian house at this time told me that the enemy was using two rifles and an AK.

So I wondered, the opponent was neither a cold-hearted sniper nor an ambush, so why did he come here?

Looking at the sniper rifle a few meters away, I seemed to understand something.

This sniper rifle represents two meanings. One is that the Vietnamese army thought that the soldier holding the sniper rifle was a sniper.

On this battlefield, a sniper is even more important than destroying a company of the enemy.And because he always hides in the dark and shoots the target, both sides in the battle hate the opponent's sniper very much, whether it is on the battlefield or after being captured.This is why snipers try to conceal their identities after being captured, and some people even hide their sniper rifles when they expect to be captured.

Another meaning is that our army did not have a sniper rifle at this time, and the soldier who died had a sniper rifle, which means that he must have killed a sniper from the Vietnamese army and obtained his weapon.

No matter which of these two meanings is, it can make the Vietnamese army hate him deeply, so they can't help but shoot him.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but secretly wiped my sweat. Fortunately, I didn't hold the sniper rifle in my hand just now, otherwise...

"Da da da..." The gunshots in front of the houses became more and more intense, and in the blink of an eye, out of the dozen or so soldiers who charged forward, four fell down, and the remaining seven or eight soldiers were still sensible and did not continue to charge forward. , or it can be said that intuition and instinct told them that they could not go any further.

Rushing forward regardless of the enemy's hail of bullets may still have some effect in the past, but it is not today when individual weapons are highly developed.

"Bazooka!" I heard Scar yell.

To be honest, this is indeed a good idea, let's care who has how many weapons there are in his private house!Wouldn't it be enough to have a blast from the bazooka?

But before the bazooka came up, Company Commander Li ordered loudly: "Don't use the bazooka! The superior has an order to protect the property of the Vietnamese folks! Besides, what if there are Vietnamese people in it?"

"Fuck!" I couldn't help but cursed fiercely in my heart, what kind of orders are these.

All right!Since the rocket launcher cannot be used, it is time to need a sniper.So I once again set my sights on the sniper rifle not far away...