Regarding the issue of protracted war, the company commander was mentally prepared, but he still didn't dare to inform the troops so hasty for the time being.
You should know that it is already aggrieved for the soldiers to come here to carry out their missions. Other troops are returning home in batches. We still have to sleep in this wind and eat in the open and risk our lives to cover the troops' retreat... Just like Xiaoshi
Hair complaints: Are we fighting less wars or making less contributions than others?
If we really talk about the achievements made by the wars we have fought, our company can compete with all the troops, and we really dare to show our family background. But... even so, we have to be at the end.
Therefore, the soldiers had such a resistant mentality in their hearts. After discussing this, the company commander and the instructor dared not announce their mental preparations for "long-term warfare". They planned to wait for the soldiers to spend some time here and have some habits
, After adapting to the environment here, I will reveal it bit by bit.
Of course I agree with the idea of the company commander and instructor. In fact, the reason why I told the company commander this was mainly to make the company commander and other cadres mentally prepared.
As for the soldiers under his command... there is a saying that goes, "boil frogs in warm water". Put the frogs in a pot and heat them slowly... The fire cannot be too strong or too fast, slowly, little by little...
...The frog was cooked to death without realizing it.
This time, the company commander and instructor were dealing with these soldiers under our own hands. They slowly revealed the news to the soldiers little by little, and it is said that there is a little news today, and a little tomorrow... Well, the soldiers have been in a long time.
We don't take it seriously.
This sounds a bit cruel, but there is nothing we can do about it... The company commander is also a passive person to accept orders. He is also unwilling to stay on this battlefield again. But wars always have to be fought. He can do it
The only thing is to accept reality and find ways to make the soldiers accept it. Otherwise, we will soon face the problem of having the Japanese outside and unstable morale between the military.
Two things happened in the 581 Highland the next day:
The first thing was that early in the morning, five artillery observers came to our position with two radio stations on their backs, so we knew what was going on in setting up an observation station.
It is said that their soldiers belong to the Third Artillery Division, and their positions are just a few kilometers behind us. These soldiers are interesting. When they came up, they were all excited. At a glance, they knew they were new recruits who had never been on the battlefield...
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It should be said that they have also been on the battlefield, but the artillery troops are much more comfortable than our infantry. One is because most of them provide long-range firepower in the rear and do not directly enter the front line. Moreover, our artillery has been suppressing the Japanese artillery soldiers in the Vietnamese.
So it will undoubtedly be much safer than infantry. Another... is that the artillery unit has many cars, so its living conditions are much better than infantry.
So they didn't know the suffering of the front-line infantry. It is said that three of them were voluntarily registered to cooperate with us. They were excited at the beginning... They said that they had heard of our second company's name for a long time and had heard of many of our company's companies.
Heroic deeds, I heard that they are going to cooperate with Erlian and rush to do it...
As a result, when the company took them to the sleeping cat's ear hole, the few people were crying and crying... This is a cave. And it was wet and sticky. It was disgusting to hide in it.
Sleeping people?
The second thing is that we see an engineer unit laying mines below the high ground.
The mines are laid from the other side of the bridge to the other side of the bridge. Thunders are buried everywhere in the grass, paddy fields, and even in the streams, leaving only a road in the middle of the road, with small red flags planted on both sides...
So Company Commander Luo and I knew that the retreat work had reached the final stage.
What makes me helpless is... Our army is stationed on the 581 Highland, and the engineers do not leave us a map of minefields... What if we want to attack or go down the mountain to fight? I know where there are mines
ah!
However, this seems not surprising. In this era, the coordination and information sharing between various troops of our army can almost be described as the word "separate" as a formation. For example, the artillery observers who came just now... we did not receive it beforehand...
The superior's notice was, but after the person arrived, Company Commander Luo called the regiment headquarters to verify, and then received a response: "Oh, it's because of this, I forgot to notify you!"
After these two incidents, Captain Luo's brows became deeper and deeper.
I know what he was worried about. Company Commander Luo came from the Military Academy. Of course, he knew that the artillery observer came up to cooperate with the infantry, and he sent five... Why did he send five observers and two radio stations? It's a backup,
Two more were sacrificed, and one more was a radio station soldier... The two radio stations were also for backup. The quality of the radio stations was poor, one was broken or one was broken and another one was broken.
This also means that what I said yesterday is correct, and we are likely to be spending a long time with the Vietnamese Japanese on this border.
"Ding ding ding..." Just as we were still digging the trenches, Company Commander Luo came out of the company and blew a loud whistle at us, then gave an order: "All gather!"
"Comrades!" After we had finished the team, Company Commander Luo stood up and shouted at us: "I just received a notice from my superior that the engineers would blow up the bridge on time at 2 pm. The superiors ordered us to cooperate with the engineers' bridge bombing work.
, Receive the last batch of retreating friendly troops! Now I order the third row of garrisons on site, the first row and the second row of garrisons down the mountain to carry out the mission!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded and immediately began to organize their equipment according to the order.
Cooperating with the engineers to bomb the bridge, this is already our old mission... This has been fought similar battles, which is the benefit. For example, we are now very clear about what may happen when performing this mission. We should
How to garrison, how may the Japanese invaders attack, etc.
So after going down the mountain to contact the engineers, he immediately started digging foxglove pits.
But soon we knew the problem was not that simple...
At 1:30 pm, the company commander of the engineering company looked at the endless retreat troops on the bridge and said to Company Luo with great care: "It seems... the troops cannot withdraw at two o'clock.
How did this bridge explode?”
"Have you contacted your superiors?" Company Commander Luo asked.
"I just contacted me!" Company Commander Wu nodded: "What the superior means...the retreat troops will guarantee that they will complete the retreat mission before two o'clock!"
"Please be sure, it's useless!" Company Commander Luo couldn't help but curse: "Some cadres are just concerned about talking empty words and clichés, not caring about the actual situation!"
Only then did I realize something... It turns out that sometimes it was not because of the command error of the superiors, but there was a very bad atmosphere in our army. For example, even though we knew that we could not complete the retreat task before two o'clock, we had to hold on.
It seems ok... this phenomenon seems to be very common, in order to let the superiors know that they have the determination to complete the task ahead of time.
But... this will provide the superior with an incorrect information, and then the superior will command according to the incorrect information. In addition, the coordination between the various troops is not very smooth, so it becomes a big problem now.
Will the bridge be blown up according to the orders of superiors? It will undoubtedly leave many friendly troops on the other side of the bridge.
Don't you blow up the bridge? If the opportunity to fight is missed, even if the Japanese invaders take this opportunity to cross the bridge and launch an attack on us, then who will bear the responsibility... Don't say that this is a small matter, you will be shot when you disobey the military order in the face of battle.
It was almost two o'clock when the watch's pointer was approaching, but cars were still retreating from the south of the bridge. Most of the soldiers in the car were the remains of wounded and martyrs who could not walk. The car passed by
During the stone bridge, there were shocking bloodstains behind the road...
Then another infantry who was carrying out the cover mission in the south of the bridge also retreated because it was about to blow up the bridge. They were afraid that we would blow up the bridge, so they would not be able to come back.
Soon the pointer pointed to two o'clock... Company Commander Wu looked at the retreating troops on the bridge, gritted his teeth, and said, "No matter what, wait for another ten minutes, the infantry brothers bleed and died on the front line. We can't do it anymore.
What losses do they have!"
Company Commander Luo and I couldn't help but nodded and agreed with Company Commander Wu's words.
"Company Commander..." At this time, the correspondent of the engineer unit shouted at Captain Wu: "The superior has ordered me to ask why the bridge has not been blown up yet!"
Corps Wu's face was not bloody at all, and he gave an order to the correspondent without thinking: "Hook up the phone and don't answer it. I'm responsible for it alone!"
"Yes!" The correspondent responded, and hesitated to hang up the phone and stopped moving.
Ten minutes passed, but the retreating troops had not yet withdrawn, but the gunshots on the other side had already sounded, and we couldn't help but feel nervous immediately... You know, we were acting without authorization against military orders, and if we were still allowed to cross the bridge, the Japanese were rushing across the bridge.
If it is too serious, then the crime will be serious.
So no one dared to neglect. A few people rushed to the stone bridge and prepared to detonate. We set up machine guns and submachine guns on this side of the bridge to prepare to block the Vietnamese army.
At this moment, a jeep suddenly drove over from the south of the bridge, and walked down from above and a cadre shouted at us: "Who is commanding the explosion of the bridge? Who is responsible here?"
"It's me!" Company Commander Wu immediately met.
"I am Wang Qixing, deputy commander of the 168th Division!" The cadre shouted: "We still have many troops that have not crossed the bridge. Please don't blow up the bridge so early!"
Hearing this, we couldn't help but be stunned: there are still many troops... How many troops are there? How long does it take for these troops to cross the bridge? When these troops cross the bridge, will the Japanese will follow you? Or the Japanese
Will it be one step ahead of these troops?
We are once again in a dilemma! (To be continued...)