A few of us were surrounded by the map on the back slope of the 237th Highland.
"How come the Third Battalion is so short of ammunition?" Company Commander Luo asked.
The third battalion commander replied with shame: "Before the troops moved into retreat, we had been working on the task of eliminating the remaining enemies near Sabah, and we were still fighting one minute before receiving the order to retreat. But... to be honest, we did have it.
The opportunity to replenish ammunition, but the soldiers were all over the head by the good news of retreating, and they all thought that the battle was over. Besides, many comrades thought that there was at least a few dozen kilometers to go when they retreated and returned to the country... The lighter they walked
The faster it will be, so there will be no ammunition replenishment in time!”
Commander Luo and I looked at each other, their eyes full of helplessness... For us, this food and ammunition can be said to be the most important thing, but I didn't expect that some troops would not even replenish ammunition in time to facilitate marching.
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But it seems that they can't be blamed for this. Any monster that has no combat experience and insufficient training is possible.
"But... we lack ammunition, the Japanese are also lacking ammunition!" Captain Luo thought for a while and said, "The Japanese are bypassing from the small road, right? They don't have much ammunition with them, and they are on the highway bridge.
I also fought with us, and this ammunition was probably consumed almost the same. It should not be difficult to block them!"
At this point, I did not agree with Company Commander Luo's point of view. I shook my head and said, "Although the Japanese invaders are short of ammunition, they can adjust long-range artillery fire assistance, which will greatly enhance Yue to a greater extent
The military's firepower reduces the consumption of ammunition. On the other hand,... as time goes by, the Vietnamese army will arrive more and more soldiers, and these newly added soldiers will bring some ammunition to supplement the troops of the Vietnamese army.
So the situation is not optimistic!”
"The second platoon leader is right!" Scar nodded and said, "I have worked with the Vietnamese devils for a while, so I am very clear about the combat methods and habits of the Vietnamese devils... What we met on the highway bridge were just the Vietnamese vanguards who were vanguards on the road bridge.
There will be more troops in the future, and they will even organize people who are good at climbing and walking on the mountain to help them transport ammunition. These people are actually the logistics team of the Vietnamese army. They will carry a bamboo basket behind their backs and put it in it.
It’s all full of shells and bullets, and you won’t walk much slower than us when you walk on the mountain road… As soon as they arrive, the ammunition problem of the Japanese will no longer exist.”
Upon hearing this, the Third Battalion and Company Commander Luo couldn't help frowning: In this way, our army not only has no advantage in military strength, but also has a far cry from the Vietnamese army in firepower. How can we fight this battle?
The air soon filled with a depressing atmosphere, and everyone was thinking about their own thoughts. Some were thinking about how to fight this battle, while others were thinking about why they were so unlucky.
, I'm about to go home and I'm still having such a thing... But no matter what everyone is thinking, one thing is the same, that is, I don't want to die.
"Comrades..." The last third battalion commander couldn't stand the atmosphere. He looked at us with apologetic expression and said, "Let's do it! I'm very grateful for staying and fighting side by side with us. The soldiers of our third battalion are not cowards either.
, and there will be no ungratefulness... When the war is almost over, we can't stand it, you can retreat and we will stay to cover it!"
"How can this work?" Company Commander Luo refused the third battalion commander's plan without thinking and said, "Since everyone is a comrade who lives and dies, they will have difficulties and bear it. If we shoot a few shots like this,
Leave you alone, what's the difference between it and deserter?!
!The soldiers of your third battalion are not cowards, and the soldiers of our second company are not those who are afraid of life and death!"
"Company Commander Luo..." The third battalion commander advised: "What I, Mr. Chen, most feared in my life is that I owe someone favors. You are not..."
"There is nothing to owe anyone favors!" Company Commander Luo interrupted the third battalion commander without hesitation: "This is a mission given to us by the superiors, and it has nothing to do with your third battalion!"
The third battalion commander looked at Company Commander Luo with gratitude and nodded silently.
"Second Platoon Commander!" Then Company Commander Luo called out to me.
"Come!" I stood up and responded.
"Let me think of a way out right away!" Company Commander Luo pointed to the map and said, "You can give you a feasible combat plan within one hour!"
"What?" I was stunned when I heard this. I thought that Company Commander Luo was going to give me some order, but I didn't expect that it was to ask me to find a way.
In fact, I was not the only one who was stunned. The Third Battalion Commander dared to look at Company Commander Luo and looked at me again... A company commander gave an order to ask his subordinates to formulate a combat plan... I am afraid that this is still the rest of the battlefield.
Have never seen it before.
"Oh, that's it!" Looking at the third battalion commander with a puzzled face, Company Commander Luo explained: "The second platoon commander under my command is...the think tank of our company. We even encountered difficulties several times.
He solved it. Don't worry, the third battalion commander, this kid will definitely have a way to get rid of danger!"
I was stunned when I heard Commander Luo’s words... I am not a god, what else can I do if the troops have no ammunition?
"Oh!" There was obviously the third battalion commander who did not agree with Company Commander Luo. He just nodded at me out of politeness, but his eyes were full of doubts.
Then Company Commander Luo handed me a cigarette, lit each other deeply and said, "Boy, can we more than a hundred people go home alive...it depends on you!"
"Company Commander, this..." I was embarrassed.
"Don't let this one and that one, think of your solution!"
I couldn't help but lean in my heart. Corps Luo is really good at ruling the blame. Can I bear this burden?
Didn’t the situation of the enemy and us be analyzed very clearly just now? The Japanese devils have more people than us and more guns than us. The most important thing is that we don’t have ammunition... Even if we have the ability to go all the way or give a pass a natural barrier, we can’t guard it.
ah!
Hey...If you can't defend, then you can only attack?
Thinking of this, I slapped my forehead and said, "The solution is to have one, but..."
"Speak quickly!" Captain Luo was overjoyed: "I knew you could do it. I had only limited you to an hour just now, and it was less than a minute!"
"What method?" The Third Battalion Commander was also a little expectant, but he still didn't believe that I, a small platoon leader, could reverse this one-sided situation.
"Company Commander!" I squatted in front of the map and said, "In our current situation, if we want to defend, we can't defend it. Even if we can defend it, we are afraid we can't retreat. The Japanese devils will stick to us all the way, and then we will only
I’m afraid that we will be killed or injured before we retreat to the highway bridge!”
"Well, let's talk about the key points!" Captain Luo urged impatiently: "Is your solution to let us retreat now?"
"I mean..." I bite and said, "Since we can't defend, why not attack?"
"attack?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
"Only our little ammunition can't even defend, and they will attack?" Someone quickly raised objections.
The person who said this was a company commander of the Third Battalion. He heard from the third battalion commander that he seemed to be named Xu Rui. It is said that he was the only company commander of the Third Battalion who had not sacrificed. You can imagine how tragic the Third Battalion's battle in the past few days was.
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"Of course!" I said: "First of all, we have just retreated from Hebian. The Japanese invaders of Yue have been quietly approached and we will shoot back. Secondly, the highway bridge in Hebian has been blown up by us, and the Japanese invaders of Yue invaders will want to
To go around Hebang, you have to go through the jungle and go around a big circle, which gives us time and opportunity to go back and set up an ambush. Again, only by setting up an ambush in advance will the long-range artillery fire of the Japanese invaders not have time to play a role.
At the same time, it is impossible to play a role. Only in this way can we eliminate the enemy as much as possible with limited ammunition and replenish the enemy's ammunition!"
I said so hard that all the soldiers around me were stunned.
After a long time, the third battalion commander nodded at me with a look of surprise and said, "The second platoon leader's analysis makes sense. There is a saying that offense is the best defense. Now maybe it's time for us to use offense instead of defense!
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"Battery Commander!" Company Commander Xu objected: "Is it too dangerous for us to do this? If the Japanese invaders find that they are unsuccessful in ambush, or the Japanese invaders do not appear in Hebang but go around further away, then
Don’t we even have no chance to retreat?”
I have to say that Company Commander Xu's concerns make sense. The main reason is that the road bridge in Hebian has been blown up by our army, so Hebian will lose its value, and it will be useless if the Japanese invaders take it away.
but……
"This is impossible!" I said: "The Yue Japanese will definitely appear in Hebian!"
After a pause, I continued, "If the Japanese invaders do not appear directly from Hebang, but go straight through the jungle and go further away... it will undoubtedly take more time. This is not an hour or two hours.
It's a problem. But we only need to hold on for a few hours and retreat after the engineers are ready to blow up the bridge..."
"That's right!" Commander Luo nodded and said, "The Japanese invaders have no time. They must take the shortest distance from Hebian and then launch an attack on our army along the highway. Only in this way can they stop me
The engineers bombed the bridge. So...we are not afraid that the Japanese invaders will not be surrendered!"
"There is another advantage!" The third battalion commander added: "Once we successfully attacked this time, the Japanese devils dare not be so arrogant in the next pursuit. They should pay attention to whether there are ambushers along the way, and they will also give them a chance.
We have more time and opportunity to get rid of them!”
"That's right!" Company Commander Luo and the Third Battalion Commander looked at each other and nodded, "Just do that!"
"You really have it!" The Third Battalion Commander patted my shoulder and said, "It's worthy of being the second company's think tank. I thought of such a good way so quickly! You can live a game of dead chess!"
Hearing this, he couldn't help but sweat. This was what Company Commander Luo said casually, and the Third Battalion Commander took it seriously. (To be continued.