Under the cover of the morning fog, Wei Ran and Squad Leader Dao struggled to climb the steep hillside. From time to time, Wei Ran, who was walking behind, would pull a few real or fake trip wires.
"Can your legs still hold up?"
As Wei Ran spoke, he used his bayonet to dig up the soil at the edge of the bamboo forest, gently buried a Type 58 anti-infantry mine in it, then pressed it with soil, and broke off the tip of a spring bamboo shoot he found halfway and stuffed it.
It entered the gap in the mud deliberately left on the edge of the mine.
"no problem"
As the knife squad leader spoke, he used nylon thread to arrange several harmless tripping wires. At the same time, he dug up a spring bamboo shoot and threw it into Wei Ran's backpack.
“If you can’t hold on any longer, tell me in advance.”
Wei Ran gave an uneasy instruction, wielded a hatchet and chopped down a bamboo as thick as an arm, cut off two bamboo sections and punched them in the eyes, blocked the eyes with thin bamboo sticks and threw them into the basket on his back to use as a kettle.
This wasn't over yet. After cutting out two trekking poles, he then took out an anti-infantry mine, placed it under the chopped bamboo, and used the remaining bamboo poles to make a
Lever device for detonating mines.
Without further wasting time, the two of them continued to climb hard towards the top of the mountain with bamboo poles.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Near noon, just when they were halfway up the mountain and ready to stop at the eye of a mountain spring, three dull but powerful explosions suddenly came from the foot of the mountain.
Although the fog in the mountains had long since dissipated, they could not see anything because of the vegetation.
But even so, the two of them knew clearly that what had just exploded were the powerful landmines that Weiran had planted on the way to the hospital in the morning.
“It’s probably going to get lively later.”
As the squad leader Dao spoke, he brought the bamboo tube filled with water to his mouth and took a sip, then brought it to the spring and filled it again.
"The hospital at the foot of the mountain is probably going to be busy too."
As Wei Ran spoke, he blocked the bamboo tube filled with water with a bamboo stick and put it into the backpack. He also used the cover of the backpack to take out the water bottle that had been drunk long ago. He also went to the spring to fill up the cold and clear mountain water.
spring.
"How many more are there?" the knife squad leader asked while stuffing the bamboo tube.
"That's the last four." Wei Ran glanced at the inventory in the basket on his back, "Will you bury another one later?"
"Bury one." Squad Leader Dao tapped the damp soil beside the spring with his toe, "It's right here."
"give it to me"
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a piece of compressed biscuit from his backpack, broke it open and gave one to the other party. At the same time, he seemingly casually threw the wrapping paper onto the mossy stone beside the spring.
After finishing a simple lunch with two mouthfuls of spring water, the two of them each smoked a heavy nine, which is a tribute to the enemy. Then the sword squad leader took the SKS and set off first.
When he was far away, Wei Ran turned his back to him and took out the engineer shovel, dug up the damp soil full of footprints, buried a landmine in it, carefully closed the gap in the soil, and pressed it gently
He made a few footprints and pressed the cigarette butts left by the two of them on a stone that was only 20 centimeters away from the mine.
Putting away the engineering shovel, Wei Ran drew out his submachine gun, walked a few steps quickly to catch up with the squad leader, and walked less than 10 meters behind him in tacit understanding.
At the same time, at the foot of the mountain behind them, two trucks carrying medicines for field hospitals had been blown into flaming scrap metal by three consecutive landmines, blocking the only road sandwiched by paddy fields.
Dirt road.
Surrounding the two scrap iron trucks, the soldier who had burned cigarettes to the guards looked gloomily at the road he had just walked in the morning, waving his hand and directing the soldiers who brought them to push the two scrap iron trucks into the paddy field.
However, just as the two scrap metal trucks were finally pushed into the paddy field amidst the relatively neat chants, the tire of one of the trucks happened to press against an ordinary-looking wooden stick beside the paddy field.
.
"boom!"
In the second explosion that followed, the fourth Type 58 anti-infantry mine deployed by the guards on the roadside detonated as expected. The huge shock wave generated by the explosion of two hundred grams of TNT easily overturned the surrounding soldiers.
On the ground, by the way, a fragment of the mine shell was also sent into the eye socket of the smoke-dispelling officer, easily scattering his brain.
"The fourth mine exploded"
Wei Ran listened for a moment and then whispered, "It looks like someone will be going up the mountain soon."
"Command machine," Squad Leader Dao said in a low voice.
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took off his backpack, opened the raincoat at the bottom, took out the command machine inside and handed it to Squad Leader Dao.
After taking over the command plane, Squad Leader Dao turned it on and put on the headphones, then signaled Wei Ran to go ahead.
The two exchanged positions with each other, and Wei Ran also speeded up his pace slightly.
Fortunately, although the road up the mountain was difficult, they did not encounter any mountain people or enemies along the way.
In a blink of an eye, it was past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the two of them stopped right below a cliff.
This cliff that goes straight up and down is only fifteen or six meters high. There are a lot of tree roots and vines hanging down from it, which is actually a natural ladder.
Squad leader Jian Dao was still operating the command plane and seemed to be searching for signals. Wei Ran looked around and then climbed up alone on the vines.
Above this cliff was the top of the mountain. Halfway up the mountain, he could even clearly see the field hospital hidden in the deserted village at the foot of the mountain behind him, as well as the two hospitals outside the village that had been blown up by his mines.
truck.
"boom!"
At this moment, another distinctive explosion of the Type 58 anti-infantry mine came from the edge of the bamboo forest halfway up the mountain. After the explosion, he clearly saw two towering bamboos falling to the ground.
Obviously, someone has already chased me.
Not daring to delay any further, Wei Ran quickened his pace and climbed to the top of the mountain. After careful observation, he dropped the rope and pulled up the squad leader.
"Is there a signal?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
"Not yet," the knife squad leader took off the rope and asked in a low voice, "are you catching up?"
“Almost halfway up the mountain”
As Wei Ran spoke, he pulled out the hatchet that belonged to Nahan and cut off all the tree roots and vines attached to the edge of the rock wall. Then he took off the glory bomb tied with a red cloth around his neck and stuck it.
At the broken part of the vine, I tied the rope that the squad leader had just pulled up with a slip knot on a shrub root next to the rock wall, and tied the grenade's firing wire to the head of the rope.
It wasn't over yet. He took out another anti-infantry mine and held it in his hand. After walking more than ten meters with the sword squad leader, he buried it under the moss and deliberately left a few mines around.
footprint.
After only a moment, Squad Leader Dao waved excitedly to Wei Ran, then held down the earphones with one hand and the vibrating microphone on his throat with the other.
Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately picked up the submachine gun in his backpack and vigilantly monitored the surrounding situation.
Soon, the squad leader rolled up his sleeves and glanced at the time on the dial, communicated a few words with the radio station using code words that Wei Ran could not hear or understand, and then decisively turned off the power.
“Going down the mountain all night”
Squad Leader Dao put the radio into Wei Ran's backpack and whispered happily, "Hai Dongqing and the others have joined Platoon Leader Luo. Lu Yao and Zhang Hongliang have also been sent back for treatment. Now Luo Pai
Chang Zheng is taking Hai Dongqing, Li Dazhai and Wang Beizhan, and Zhao Yuejin is waiting to meet us."
After saying that, he raised his finger and pointed to another mountain, "They are across that mountain from us, on the top of another mountain on the other side. We will go down the mountain immediately and meet them early tomorrow morning."
"Let me re-bandage your wound first."
Wei Ran held down Squad Leader Dao who was about to stand up, reached into his backpack and took out another first aid kit he brought from the coffin hole.
After a whole day of climbing the mountain, soaked in sweat, the wound on the knife squad leader's leg was already red, swollen and pus-producing. If you get closer, you can still smell a faint stench.
Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart and the urge to go down the mountain to steal some medicines from the field hospital, Wei Ran used the existing conditions at hand to re-bandage him, and the two of them set off immediately, before the sunset was completely blocked by the mountains in the distance.
, moving down the mountain amidst the occasional explosions behind him.
At 7:30 in the evening, Wei Ran once again planted an anti-infantry mine directly under a cliff that he had to pass when going down the mountain. He turned around and carefully walked down the mountain with the faint light emitted by the flashlight covered with red cloth in the hand of Squad Leader Dao.
, and then passed through the valley full of gravel, supporting our exhausted body to the foot of the mountain on the opposite side.
At this time, the sky had completely darkened, and the night sky above was covered by clouds. It was obvious that it would rain soon.
To be on the safe side, the two of them climbed another hundred or ten meters toward the top of the mountain before the rain fell, and finally found a rock wall where they could hide from the rain and stopped.
"boom!"
Almost at this moment, there was a faint explosion from the direction of the top of the mountain opposite.
“The legs and feet are very fast”
The squad leader Dao just raised his head and glanced at the direction where the explosion came from, then took out his cigarette case and lit a heavy nine.
At the same time, Wei Ran also glanced at the time on the flyback watch, quickly took out a biscuit barrel from his backpack, and lit a few candles inside.
Relying on this weak heat to slowly heat the rainwater in the cup, Wei Yan peeled off a few more spring bamboo shoots he found along the way and threw them in.
While the spring bamboo shoots were cooking, he laid out a set of accompanying hair wires almost close to the ground, and hung a stone found from the valley on one end of the trip wire.
And directly under the stone was the last Type 58 anti-infantry mine carried by the two of them.
By the time he was done with this, less than fifteen minutes had passed on the flight back watch, and on the top of the mountain opposite where they came from, the deafening explosion of the Type 58 anti-infantry mine came again.
.
Even Captain Dao, who had been holding a telescope for observation, saw the flash of fire in the rain curtain on the top of the mountain.
"They are expected to come down the mountain overnight." Squad Leader Dao threw the cigarette to Wei Ran, but there was no worry in his tone.
"Now it depends on whether the rain is heavy enough. If the rain is heavy enough, the valley can flood, so we don't have to worry about the monkeys on the other side. If the rain is not heavy enough, we will have to go up the mountain overnight." Wei Ran truthfully stated the current situation.
situation.
"rest assured"
The squad leader said firmly, "This rain won't stop. Besides, let's fight back."
Hearing this, Wei Ran's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood the other party's plan. Before the flood in the valley, the two of them returned to the valley by the original route in tacit agreement, and walked along the valley upstream of the upcoming mountain torrent for three days.
After four hundred meters, he climbed up the hillside on the same side as his pursuers.
On the opposite bank, under the rock wall where they had just stopped, the biscuit barrel with candles inside seemed to have been accidentally forgotten there. Even the candles inside were not extinguished and were still passing through the candles around the biscuit barrel.
The ventilation holes poked with a hatchet released a faint firelight.
Less than five minutes later, floodwaters mixed with a large number of dead branches and leaves and even animal carcasses in the valley also rushed down from the upper reaches, erasing the last trace of clues they left when passing through the valley.
In the pouring rain, the two found a dead tree that had fallen to the ground, and built a tent with raincoats against the moss-covered trunk.
“Let’s drink something warm.”
As Wei Ran spoke, he had already taken off the cup set of the British army kettle and handed it to the squad leader. He poured half a pot of boiling hot water into it, and then threw a few boiled spring bamboo shoots into it.
With the help of this rare and precious hot water and vegetables, the two of them chewed the dry and hard compressed biscuits slowly while hiding in the darkness and listening to the excitement.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, along with the sound of another explosion coming from the bottom of the cliff near the foot of the mountain a few hundred meters away, the two of them also saw the light of the flashlight across the torrent.
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Soon, intensive gunfire, guided by the lights, hit the cracker barrel deliberately left by Weiran.
Taking this opportunity, Squad Leader Dao also activated the command plane. After waiting for a while, he whispered something through the throat shock microphone amidst the heavy rain and gunfire.
After less than half a minute of communication, Squad Leader Dao turned off the radio again. The two of them quietly hid on the edge of the flash flood and watched the fun.
After a burst of gunfire, the beam of the flashlight once again focused on the location where the cracker barrel had been left by the fire.
Taking the binoculars handed over by Squad Leader Dao, Wei Ran could clearly see that the pursuers used a similar method to Squad Leader Dao to throw a rope across the valley, and then someone climbed over and set up two ropes on the mountain torrent.
Road rope.
With the help of these two ropes, more than a dozen pursuers climbed the ropes one after another to the other side.
At this end of the mountain torrent, the opponent still left nearly a squad of troops, guarding the rope and keeping vigilance.
"boom!"
In less than five minutes, the last mine deployed by Weiran exploded. After a muffled thunderous explosion and a fleeting flash of fire, what followed was howls and screams from the other side.
However, Wei Ran and Squad Leader Dao had no intention of going up to replenish their guns. Instead, they just moved closer to the rope bridge left by the opponent, and then hid and waited patiently.
Soon, a figure walked to the shore holding a flashlight and faintly shouting something in the heavy rain.
After a while, two people separated from here and climbed the rope to the other side of the valley where the flood was carried.
At the same time, Wei Ran and Squad Leader Dao once again moved forward with their submachine guns in hand, closing the distance between the two to less than a hundred meters.
At this distance, even without telescopes, they could already see the occasional firelights on both sides of the bank, but because of the vegetation, they still could not see the enemies on the same side.
In the darkness, Squad Leader Dao gently patted Wei Ran on the shoulder and whispered into his ear, "Come closer and find a way to quietly deal with the people here."
Wei Ran gently patted the back of the other person's hand, put down the backpack and extra items, and slowly touched it.
Soon, through the movement, they found two groups of four enemies who had set up machine guns beside the two ropes, as well as a communications soldier a little further away who was reporting the situation through the radio. He was even standing sentry, but from time to time he asked others about the situation on the other side.
Two soldiers and a "squad leader" stood between the two ropes, holding a flashlight and shouting to inquire about the situation.
After calculating, there were only eight people in total. Wei Ran gently covered Squad Leader Dao's forehead with his hand, and slowly moved down to press his eyebrows.
After getting the hint, Squad Leader Dao nodded slightly, indicating that he understood Wei Ran's plan.
Seeing this, Wei Ran slowly moved his body and circled around the enemy who was on sentry duty in the distance.
Seizing the opportunity, he stood up quietly and stood close to a waist-thick tree. He waited patiently for the other party to come over with a gun. He immediately turned around and poked his kidney with a knife.
A hand covered his mouth.
Without pulling out the bayonet at all, he released the handle of the knife, reached out to grab the AK rifle in the opponent's hand, and pushed down the large pick that was enough to keep it quiet.
After waiting quietly for a moment until the corpse stopped struggling, he slowly lowered it down, took off the opponent's helmet and placed it on his head. Then he continued to help the opponent patrol with his own submachine gun.
When he met another patrolman "halfway around the field", he saw that the other patrol had turned into the knife squad leader, and that the other party recognized him, so the two of them lowered the muzzles of their submachine guns.
The probing hand gently touched Wei Ran's ears and throat, and Squad Leader Dao gave him his silent pistol. He took a step forward and continued to patrol around the field, gradually closing in on the two sets of machine gun positions near the two ropes.
the distance between.
With the silent pistol in hand, Wei Ran also patrolled around the field, gradually closing the distance between him and the communications soldier who was still reporting the situation through the radio.
A moment later, Squad Leader Dao stood under a tree not far from the "rope bridge", while Wei Ran walked behind the unsuspecting signal soldier, covered his mouth with one hand, and pulled hard with the other hand.
His head broke his neck with a soft "click" sound.
Let the signal soldier who was hiding under the tree lean on the tree trunk and continue to maintain the posture of sending the message. Wei Ran quickly walked towards the "squad leader" who was standing in the middle of the machine gun position and holding a flashlight to give instructions.
But another squad leader on the shore, Dao Baoguo, had already blocked the submachine gun's gun with his captured helmet and military uniform when Wei Ran was still two meters away from the enemy.
Mouth, amidst the rumbling thunder overhead, he pulled the trigger towards the machine gun position on the left!
"Pah! Pah!"
Wei Ran, who was walking faster and faster, also continuously pulled the trigger at the two machine gunners on the right. Regardless of whether he hit the target, he turned the muzzle of the gun and pressed it against the squad leader's back, and grabbed the gun in his hand with his right hand.
flashlight.
Just as the squad leader's body froze, Squad Leader Dao had already quickly walked around to the other side and started firing at the machine gunner on the right.
"Don't move," Wei Ran reminded in Vietnamese, "move the flashlight and let me see what's happening on the other side."
After hearing this, the squad leader hesitated for a moment, and finally moved the flashlight to shine on the shore opposite the flash flood.
Although blocked by the heavy rain, both he and the squad leader could see clearly that there were still six or seven people dressed as militiamen on the opposite side busy carrying the wounded, and two more people seemed to be bandaging and treating the wounded.
"Let the uninjured people withdraw immediately"
Wei Ran stood beside the squad leader and whispered, "Don't call out specific names, or you will die first."
The more difficult squad leader swallowed his saliva and shouted without hesitation, "You guys! Get back immediately! Hurry up!"
After receiving the order, although the people on the other side of the torrent did not understand what it meant, the few men dressed as militiamen and the two soldiers who seemed to be health workers immediately stood up, lined up and climbed the ropes to start moving this way.
Seeing that the first two had reached the middle of the rope, Squad Leader Dao, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately opened fire, using the submachine gun in his hand to empty the magazine at the remaining people waiting to cross the river on the other side!
Amidst the splashing bullet casings, the person on the other side fell to the ground. Wei Ran also kicked the squad leader under his control on the kneecap, forcing him to kneel on the ground, and then aimed at his ribs and liver.
The position was improved.
Stimulated by the severe pain, the squad leader clutched his ribs and fell to the ground, throbbing in pain. He was unable to resist and Wei Ran took away the Type 54 pistol that symbolized his identity from his waist.
By the time he squeezed the squad leader's wrists and ankle joints open, the squad leader had already put on a magazine, and slowly pulled the trigger towards the two militiamen hanging on the rope who were in a dilemma, letting them
They fell into fatal flash floods one after another.
After handing the seized pistol to Squad Leader Dao, Wei Ran climbed onto the rope and climbed to the other side to find the medicine they urgently needed.
The squad leader Dao also squatted next to the more difficult squad leader and began the cross-examination simply and rudely.
On the other side of the torrent, Wei Ran shot every thing that looked like a human being.
Among these people, there are only three or four in military uniforms. The other nearly one class of people are all dressed as militiamen in black clothes and black trousers. However, these people's weapons configuration is quite high, almost all of which are 56 punch or simply made in the Soviet Union.
AK47, and even the M16 rifle that the Americans left as souvenirs.
Fortunately, he found two shoulder bag-style medical bags inside. Although these two medical bags were not big, they contained a surgical bag and some anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics produced in China.
After picking a few useful items, he immediately climbed the rope and returned to the other side, just in time to see the knife squad leader raise his gun and kill the prisoner.
"How is the situation?" Wei Ran asked.
"These people are the garrison of the field hospital and the nearby militia"
The squad leader Dao explained while looking for the loot, "It is said that the son of the hospital director and a large number of medicines were blown up by landmines today. For this reason, the troops guarding the hospital sent about a company of troops and a militia company to cooperate with each other to find us.
.”
As he said that, he pointed to the radio again, "This class belongs to one of the companies, and is also the class of the fastest platoon in this company, so they are qualified to configure the radio. Along the way, this platoon
At least one squad member was killed by your mine, including the platoon leader. Half of the survivors were divided into groups to send the wounded back, and that was the rest. But according to the squad leader
He said that the other two platoons and their accompanying militiamen are on the other side of the mountain and will be here soon."
"What about us?" Wei Ran asked as he used his raincoat to set up a simple tent, "Set off overnight?"
"It's like reporting a message to the village chief."
The squad leader smiled and made his decision, and allowed Wei Ran to remove the gauze from his wound, preparing for the long overdue debridement and suturing.
