"Set fire?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this order.
When it comes to mowing the grass, everyone knows that the grass will burn near us. Cutting an open space can protect our standing from being affected, but this arson...
In fact, what the soldiers don't know is that the biggest harm from such a fire attack is not the fire or its temperature. It is very simple to prevent the fire and the surrounding temperature from affecting them, just open an open space around it. After all,
There is some thatch around, and its burning time is not long.
The greater danger is the air... A large amount of thatch burns quickly in a short period of time, which will completely burn the air near our location. Even if there is some air left, it will be mixed with carbon dioxide and ash, which will make people inside.
Suffocated to death.
There is only one way to solve this problem, and that is to quickly open up a larger space, and the only way to do this is to fight fire with fire.
"Yes!" Seeing that the soldiers were still stunned, I explained anxiously: "First cut the grass to create a large open space, and then take the initiative to set fire to the outside!"
"Well!" Scar quickly understood what I meant and immediately ordered: "Why are you still standing there in a daze? Take action quickly!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded and started moving immediately, although some of them still didn't understand the reason for doing so.
The soldiers moved very quickly. This is because there are many of us, and the other is because all the soldiers did farm work before becoming soldiers... To be precise, it should be before the war, because when they were soldiers,
I also used a hoe more than a gun, so I started doing what I was good at. Using a spur as a sickle, I cleared a large open space with a few clicks. The cut hay was moved to the outside of the open space.
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"Set fire!" After seeing that it was almost done, I gave the order.
Soldiers from several directions lit the matches at the same time, but the thatch was wet outside and dry inside due to the rain during this period, and the matches could not be lit for a while.
Seeing this, I gave another order: "Use incendiary bombs!"
"Yes!" The soldiers came to their senses after being stunned for a moment. They took a few mortar shells, opened the safety guard, knocked them on the ground, and then threw them in all directions around them.
Of course, among them, only the direction of the reconnaissance company was not dropped... We still have to consider bringing the reconnaissance company here too!
Just listening to a few "booms", the effect of the incendiary bombs was really incredible. Such an explosion ignited several fires in the surroundings, the thatch immediately started to crackle and burn, and the air was instantly filled with explosives.
The suffocating smoke... But I know that the level of this smoke is much better than waiting here.
"Batalion Commander!" Chen Qiaoqiao asked at this time: "What should we do with the reconnaissance company?"
After observing the fire around me and seeing that the fire had burned through a space that could accommodate more than a hundred soldiers from the reconnaissance company, I nodded and said, "Bring them here immediately, fast!"
"Yes!" Chen Qiaoqiao responded and turned around to leave.
"What are you still doing?" I shouted to the soldiers around me: "Let's go get the comrades from the reconnaissance company!"
"Yes!" Only then did the soldiers realize that the order I just gave was not just for Chen Qiaoqiao.
Except for one platoon of soldiers who stayed behind to look after supplies, the rest of the soldiers, including me, were all lightly dressed and ran with Chen Qiaoqiao... Everyone knows that time is life at this time, and we opened up a space enough to survive in our desperation, but
This does not mean that the reconnaissance company has also opened up such a space. Even if they had thought of this, they would not be able to do it quickly after being hungry for several days. Moreover, the fire may burn out the communication between each other at any time.
connect.
Then what I was most worried about finally happened...
Just before we rushed to the position of the reconnaissance company, the Japanese seemed to have discovered the movement in our area... The movement we made was really not small, and nearly a company of troops seemed to be going crazy without concealing it.
Running in the direction of the reconnaissance company, the movement of the thatch under the firelight was enough to attract the attention of the Japanese, so several incendiary bombs were fired right after.
Coincidentally, strong winds of level 6 or 7 blew up at this time. The fire spread rapidly with the force of the wind, and the fire in other locations also spread rapidly. In an instant, the combat area of dozens of square kilometers became a sea of fire, and the fire detonated the Vietnamese army's plan.
The landmines only exploded with a "bang" sound everywhere, and even we were surrounded by a sea of fire.
"Batalion Commander! What should I do?" Scar shouted at me.
"What else can we do?" I shouted: "Everyone is here, rush in and rescue people!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded in unison, and then rushed into the sea of fire without any hesitation.
There was a burst of heat and moxibustion pain, and occasionally I could smell some burnt smell. I could even feel my hair bending painfully due to the unbearable moxibustion, but I didn't have the time to pay attention to it. I just knew
As we ran forward in the sea of fire, we just hoped that the soldiers of the reconnaissance company would also take some emergency measures. Otherwise, even if we arrive now, we may not be able to save a few people.
But I guess the soldiers in the reconnaissance company are not that stupid, not to mention that there is Chen Yiyi there.
As I expected, after running forward for a while, I felt nothing in front of me... An open space appeared in front of me. After a while, I got used to the light, and then I saw a few inhuman warriors in front of me.
Looked at me feebly.
I rolled on the ground a few times to extinguish the fire on my body, and then asked: "Are you a comrade from the reconnaissance company? I am Yang Xuefeng!"
"Captain Yang!"
"It's really Camp Commander Yang!"
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Only then did I realize that I might have been burned so black by the fire that no one would be able to recognize me.
"Yang Xuefeng!" Then I saw a woman running from the other side. I recognized her as a woman from her voice. Jier guessed that she was Chen Yiyi, otherwise I wouldn't have recognized her at all, because she had already
I have lost a lot of weight compared to before, and can be described as skinny.
I went up to her and helped her, who was almost unsteady on her feet. After sighing, I said, "There's no hurry. We'll talk about it later."
"Comrades!" I shouted to the soldiers: "Follow those who are still able to move, leave the sick and wounded to us, move quickly!"
As soon as he said that, he bent down and carried Chen Yiyi on his back and rushed towards the fire... Fortunately, Chen Yiyi is relatively light now, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to do this. The reason is very simple, in the fire
On the one hand, we were being burned while running, and on the other hand, we were extremely deprived of oxygen. At this time, I was thinking, if we hadn’t trained in the hypoxic environment of the plateau, I don’t know how many people would have died at this time.
People are going to fall into this fire.
It is precisely because of this that the rescue speed is slow. I can still bear the lighter Chen Yiyi. If the other soldiers carry it, they are more than 100 kilograms of warriors. Moreover, both of them are equipped with equipment, so
They had no choice but to carry one of them, or alternately carrying one of them.
And the 180 soldiers of the reconnaissance company... even if they were not injured, they were too hungry to have any strength. In this case, it was difficult to rush through the sea of fire alone without help, which made us have to go back and forth several times.
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In this battle against the fire, the soldiers all performed bravely, whether they were from the reconnaissance company or the agent company.
Needless to say, the soldiers of the special agent company. A soldier named Zhang Xinqiang rushed into the fire scene five times and snatched away five soldiers. When he came out for the sixth time carrying a soldier on his back, he couldn't stand it anymore and fell down.
, but even at this time, he still pounced on the soldiers of the reconnaissance company... Zhang Xinqiang died in the end, but the soldiers he protected with his body survived.
Yang Xianping, the leader of the third squad, rushed into the sea of fire ten times to rescue ten soldiers. After the last time he rushed into the sea of fire, he never came out. We did not even find his body.
Xu Qing, the deputy squad leader, was injured in his feet while parachuting, but he still resolutely participated in the rescue operation. After rushing into the fire three times to rescue two soldiers, he finally collapsed in the fire scene from exhaustion.
As for the reconnaissance company, some soldiers were temporarily placed in the cave before they could evacuate. Because there were so many people in the cave, the company commander stood at the entrance of the cave and blocked the fire with his body. He was seriously injured and passed out at the entrance of the cave.
Of course, this was only discovered when we counted the number of people afterwards. At this time, all we knew was that we rushed into the fire again and again and carried people out again and again.
Fortunately, we took appropriate emergency measures and rescued them in time. In the end, only 20 people including comrades from the reconnaissance company died, including 12 people from the agent company and eight people from the reconnaissance company.
This number of casualties is quite small compared to the entire team of more than 300 people. After all, we are in a fire scene.
But the battle does not end here, on the contrary, it has just begun.
"Hurry up and rest!" I looked at the soldiers who were wolfing down water and eating dry food, and ordered: "Recover your strength as soon as possible and break out in ten minutes!"
"Yes!" the soldiers responded.
The reason why we are in such a hurry to break out of the encirclement and don't even give the soldiers of the reconnaissance company time to rest is because I know very well... the thatch in this open area has been burned to the ground. As soon as the sky breaks, our team will
In the eyes of Yue Jap, it will be as obvious as lice on a bald man's head.
In other words, we can only succeed if we break through before dawn.
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I would like to use this chapter to pay tribute to the 8th Company of the 184th Regiment (then the 2nd Company of the 10th Reconnaissance Battalion). When the company was performing a capture and destruction mission on the 1828th Highland, its section was surrounded by fires ignited by Vietnamese incendiary bombs. The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Company performed very well.
Brave, rushed into the fire many times to save his comrades
In this battle, five cadres and fifteen soldiers of the entire company died heroically. Among these twenty martyrs, 11 were posthumously awarded first-class merit after the war, and the remaining nine were posthumously awarded second-class merit.
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