War Military: From 1978

Chapter 130 Continue to infiltrate, deserter?

"Boom~!"

"boom!"

Artillery fire roared.

The town below had not been hit by a single shell yesterday, but today when the First Battalion attacked again, they simply opened up a path with artillery fire.

Although the regimental artillery battalion suffered a great disaster last night and suffered heavy losses, the first battalion itself also had a machine gun company with 82mm mortars, which were not lost.

In addition, each company was reinforced with 60mm mortars.

Not to mention being able to flatten all the houses in the town, at least it can gradually provide fire suppression when the troops charge into the town.

However, today when a large army entered the town again, the situation was obviously completely different from yesterday.

Yesterday, nine out of ten rooms were empty, but there were still some elderly, weak and sick people left. But today, it is really empty.

The old, weak and sick have all disappeared. Only occasionally someone will suddenly appear from a room and shoot you from behind. But after he shoots, when you rush over, you will find that the person has disappeared again.

There is a tunnel in the town. This was something I guessed last night, and now this situation is undoubtedly directly confirmed.

Moreover, the first battalion soon found some as well.

Even the first battalion organized people to rush in.

But the end result was tragic.

A squad of soldiers was eventually like a stone thrown into a lake.

Although ripples were caused, they soon calmed down.

Finally, the chief of staff ordered that no one was allowed to enter the tunnel if they found it, and that they should surround it outside and find a solution.

Then you can see people throwing grenades, pouring water in, or lighting fires to blow smoke in.

But it's basically useless.

The Vietnamese devils' tunnels have been improved through generations of war and are even more complicated than when we fought our tunnel warfare back then.

What’s even worse is that they finally lived in peace for a few years.

During this time, they did not stop digging the hole.

So after trying all kinds of methods, in the end they could only blow up the hole or directly block it with a large amount of collapsed house materials.

But it is obvious that this approach is not safe.

It’s such a big town, who knows how many exits the Vietnamese devils’ tunnels have.

And looking at what happened last night, Chu An actually suspected that the Yue devils' tunnels led directly to the mountains outside the town.

This is definitely a very troublesome problem.

If you want to solve this problem, there is only one way at the moment.

That is to capture the prisoners here, interrogate the entrances and exits of the tunnel, and then block them all.

But obviously this method is not very reliable.

We captured a prisoner yesterday. The woman who pretended to be pregnant had both her hands broken by Chu An but she survived.

But the woman refused to be persuaded or told anything, and after being caught, she refused to say anything.

"Platoon leader, do you think we can easily win if we continue fighting like this?"

Still at the same position as last night, Chu An was sitting in the trench. At this moment, Wang Xiaohu beside him frowned and asked softly.

Before the war, the combat spirit conveyed by the superiors actually made everyone very optimistic.

From top to bottom, everyone thought the war would be a piece of cake.

Including the development of the battle situation yesterday, there is no doubt about this view.

But after last night, let’s look at the situation in the town today.

It was immediately difficult to maintain this optimistic attitude.

Chu An glanced at him but said nothing, just threw a cigarette to him.

In fact, he had never been optimistic. Although he did not know much about this period of history, he was clear about one thing: although we ultimately won this battle, it was also a very difficult one.

"Wow~"

Wang Xiaohu struck a match and, with a very unstandard posture, held the cigarette between his two fingers and brought it to his lips to smoke.

For a man, war is definitely the best growth agent and also the fuel for cigarettes.

Just like Wang Xiaohu next to him, originally this guy was an optimist, smiling every day, but now looking at him, although he has aged in just one day, the childishness on his face is still there, but there is a seriousness and earnestness between his brows that was not there before.

Besides, this guy didn't smoke before.

But since he smoked his first cigarette at the Sancha Road bunker yesterday, he has smoked at least more than a pack.

Chu An gave him four or five.

"Whoo~"

After finishing a cigarette, Chu An stood up and glanced at the town below.

Their reconnaissance platoon did not participate in the battle today.

Their mission was to guard the forward command post and the medical team, as well as to protect the telescope and the SVD still at the forward command post.

Time passed slowly, and more and more of our soldiers appeared in the town below.

This is the follow-up troops of Regiment C gradually arriving and gathering.

But it's actually of no use.

By noon, the whole town was in ruins, but in fact, the number of enemies actually killed was less than five.

Everyone was completely helpless in the face of the enemy hiding in the tunnel.

However, the mission of Group C is not to fight them to the death here.

In the afternoon, as most of the troops of Regiment C gathered, the reconnaissance platoon also had a new mission.

Continue to clear the way.

Proceed along this path to conduct reconnaissance on Tong L.

According to the plan, the reconnaissance platoon was to split up later, but this was not necessary for this section of the road.

The entire platoon immediately went out again, but the difference from yesterday morning was that today's reconnaissance platoon had seven fewer people.

Among them, Deputy Company Commander Helanshan, soldiers Lin Sanliang and Liu Guoqiang left their heroic souls forever in this foreign land.

"Platoon leader! Platoon leader!" The reconnaissance platoon had just come down the mountain when suddenly a voice came from behind.

Chu An looked back.

It’s Zhao Rui.

Chu An frowned and looked at him. Fan Yunpeng quickly walked over to stop him: "What are you doing here?"

"Squad leader, I want to return to the team. Look, I'm fine. I can run and jump!"

As he spoke, he looked at Chu An.

He was injured just below his left shoulder, where the bullet passed through his body. Now the inside is covered with medicine and bandages.

Strictly speaking, it is not too serious, but it is nonsense to say that it does not affect combat effectiveness.

"Stop talking nonsense and go back!" Fan Yunpeng glared at Xiang with a sullen face.

"No, squad leader, platoon leader, I can do it, you have to believe in me!"

"Recover from your injuries and return to the team. Now is not the time to be stubborn!"

Chu An also walked up to him at this time: "I know you are not afraid of death, but you need to know what we are doing? We need to cross mountains and rivers along the way. Do you think you can keep up?"

"I can do it!" Zhao Rui looked over stubbornly and spoke with gritted teeth.

Chu An was speechless.

As his squad leader, Fan Yunpeng was even more direct. He slapped him on the head and said, "What the hell? Now, do fifty push-ups with your left hand!"

"I" Zhao Rui gritted his teeth and said to me. Chu An originally thought that he would give up.

After all, he injured his left shoulder, so how could he do push-ups with his left hand?

But this guy is a stubborn person. Now that I'm worried, he actually wants to lie down with one hand.

Chu An hurriedly reached out and grabbed him: "Stop messing around!"

After holding him, Chu An also became serious: "Even if you don't want to live anymore, you should at least think about us, okay?

If you fall behind, or if you encounter the enemy and cannot keep up with the team due to injuries, we will definitely take care of you! "

"Platoon leader, I don't need it." Zhao Rui wanted to be stubborn, but Chu An interrupted him and said, "This is not a matter of whether you use it or not, it's something we will definitely do!"

Looking at him, Chu An patted his shoulder and said, "Go back and heal your wounds. We will wait for you to return to the team!"

It was obvious that Zhao Rui's eyes were red, but this time he didn't insist.

"Yes!" He stood at attention without saluting, then turned and left.

Chu An watched him leave.

At this moment, looking at his back, Chu An had a lot of distracting thoughts in his mind.

He was wondering, if he was injured, would he still have the courage to ask to continue fighting on the battlefield with his injury?

After all, our army’s current regulations are that if the injury reaches a level that affects combat effectiveness, you can directly withdraw from the front line and return home.

But in just a moment, Chu An actually had the answer.

He has actually always been afraid of death.

But looking at the comrades around him, he knew that he could not bear to part with these comrades with whom he lived, trained and fought side by side.

"Let's go!"

Chu An turned around and continued forward with the reconnaissance platoon.

The difference from yesterday was that today they couldn't change their clothes and walk on the main road.

When Chu An received the task just now, he already knew that the main force had been split into two from Tong L, attacking towards the south and east respectively.

They are now heading towards Tong L and may encounter the main force's infiltrating troops.

If we change our uniforms again, we will be finished if the main force mistakes us for a group of Japanese invaders.

So, they could only wear our own military uniforms and walk through the mountains and jungles along the way.

"Platoon leader! Someone's here!"

Another mountain peak. Just after Chu An and others climbed up a cliff of more than 20 meters, the fourth squad leader turned around and shouted quietly.

Immediately, Chu An ran over quietly.

Lying beside him, Chu An also saw that just below them on the hillside, there was a soldier wearing our army's uniform running quietly.

Chu An squinted his eyes and looked at him, then took out a telescope and looked at him carefully.

I don't recognize it, but it is definitely our military uniform, and it should not be an imitation.

Because now he has taken off his cap badge and collar badge just like Chu An and others.

This is the order from the superiors this morning.

All members had to take off their red cap badges and collar badges. Not only cap badges and collar badges, but other red items were not allowed to be taken out during the march.

The reason is simple: bright red things are too conspicuous.

"How to do?"

The fourth squad leader asked, and at this time, other scouts also came over.

Luo Yun whispered, "He should be one of us. Judging from where he's walking, he seems to be running to the rear. Could he be a deserter from the front line?"

No one has ever encountered a deserter, and everyone certainly despises such a person. But now on the battlefield, one of our soldiers is actually secretly running to the rear in this mountain and forest. It is no wonder that everyone has wild thoughts.

"Old Fan!"

"Yes!" Fan Yunpeng responded in a low voice.

"Take the soldiers from the second squad and capture him."

In fact, as a scout with a mission, Chu An shouldn't be concerned with such trivial matters.

But now it’s different. This soldier seems to be walking from south to north, which means he is coming from the direction Chu An and the others are going.

In this way, if we catch him, we can find out what happened on the way here.

And, there’s one more thing.

Chu An and his men knew too little about the situation on the main front line. If this person was from the main force, he would definitely be able to get more information.

　I went out for drinks today and came back too late, so there might be one less update!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)