"Deputy Commander!" Commander Wu said with some embarrassment: "Look... the superior's order was to let us blow up the bridge on time at two o'clock. Now we have delayed it for nearly twenty minutes..."
"Comrade!" The deputy commander hurriedly held Commander Wu's hand and said in a crying voice: "I beg you, Brother Engineer, our brother has sacrificed a lot, and you can't watch our brothers stay
I can't come back from the other end of the bridge!"
"This..." Company Commander Wu looked at us and said, "I dare not accept this. Listen to the gunshot... The Japanese are about to arrive..."
The deputy division commander also understood. As soon as he heard this, he quickly understood the implication of Company Commander Wu, so he quickly held Company Commander Luo's hand and said, "Comrade... We are all infantrymen, we have all fought on the battlefield.
Everyone knows how hard the Japanese fight to the death, please help us! Don’t worry, I will blame you and shoot my brother and I will accompany you to the execution ground together!”
Commander Luo looked at me and nodded quickly.
"That's great! Thank you so much!" The deputy commander hurriedly held our hands to express his gratitude.
"Don't thank us first!" I interrupted and said, "If the Japanese invaders rushed to the bridge first, they wouldn't be sure that your troops would not be able to cross! We would have to blow up the bridge at that time..."
"If this is the case, it's no wonder you, we will admit it too!" said the deputy commander.
"How many of you didn't come?" I asked again.
"There is about one regiment of troops! Thirty cars!"
The deputy division commander's words made us gasp. One regiment's troops... there were more than thirty cars...
Looking at the weird expressions on our faces, the deputy commander couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
"Deputy Division Commander!" I replied, "A regiment's army, plus more than 30 cars... Do you know what will happen if it is bombarded by long-range artillery fire of the Japanese invaders when crossing the bridge?"
Hearing the words, Deputy Commander couldn't help but gasp. He looked at us with a surprised look and said, "Comrade... I didn't even think of this. You..."
"They are the Heroes' Second Company!" Company Commander Wu explained: "They fought the blocking battle between Dainaishan and the Pass!"
"So you are the Heroes Second Company!" The deputy commander held our hands again and said, "No wonder... No wonder he grasped the key to the battlefield so quickly... Then now..."
"There is nothing to think about now!" Commander Luo pointed to a high ground in the south of the bridge and said, "If the Vietnamese army occupied that high ground and blocked the bridge head with fire, even if two artillery observers guided the long-range artillery fire on it, they would even be the same as two artillery observers.
The bridgehead is bombing... your troops are afraid that they will not be able to get through!"
"There is only the first time to occupy that high ground!" I said.
"Comrade!" Chief Wu couldn't help but persuade him, "This is too dangerous..."
I know what Commander Wu said, it is indeed very dangerous. First of all, we are disobeying military orders and acting without authorization. Secondly, we have no time to build fortifications. Again, we are likely to be stuck by the Vietnamese army and unable to escape.
At that time, the engineers still had to blow up the bridge and threw us on the other side of the bridge...
In other words... we are now like asking for trouble.
In fact, we can completely refuse to do this, and the deputy commander has no reason to ask us to risk our lives to replace his soldiers. We can even say... As long as we didn't say anything just now, then we were on this end of the bridge.
Just wait. At worst, when the Vietnamese Japanese come up, they will blow up the bridge regardless of whether the friendly troops come or not... there is no danger!
Commander Luo glanced at the soldiers behind him and asked, "What do you mean!"
"Fight!" The first answer was Scar: "A regiment's troops... are all our comrades!"
"Yes, company commander!" The scholar also asked, "There is nothing to say. Even if we all sacrificed, it would be worth it to exchange dozens of them for another group!"
"Fight!"
"beat!"
...
The soldiers raised their hands to express their approval. The scene was so touched that the deputy commander's lips were trembling and could not say anything. He just gave us a silent salute.
"Okay!" With the support of the soldiers, Company Commander Luo's voice suddenly became louder. He raised his chest and shouted calmly and forcefully: "This is the warrior of our Second Company! Let's teach the Yue Japanese a lesson!
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"Yes! Give the Japanese a lesson!"
"Give them some color!"
...
At this moment, it is hard for me to imagine a unit that fought for dozens of days in a row, a unit that had been replenished twice but had suffered more than half of the casualties several times, and a unit that had just returned to China but was immediately rushed to the battlefield... Why?
Can maintain such strong morale.
At that time, I really couldn't understand what the soldiers were thinking, and I didn't know what they did this for.
Later, after getting in touch with the soldiers for a lot, I realized that the soldiers’ ideas were actually very simple, that is, they had a clear distinction between love and hate. They were indeed homesick and did not want to go to the battlefield again, but in front of attacking the enemy and rescuing their comrades, they were very troubled.
In front of them, they still won't hesitate.
This is what the real warriors should do! They do the most dangerous and heroic things on the front line, but they never boast or talk about the great things on the second line.
"Company Commander Luo!" Company Commander Wu seemed to be moved by our heroic spirit, and immediately stepped forward and held our hands and said, "What do you need help..."
"Ammunition!" Company Commander Luo didn't be polite to Company Commander Wu and said, "We need more ammunition!"
"No problem!" Company Commander Wu waved his hand and shouted to the engineering troops: "Leave all the ammunition to the comrades of the 2nd Company... No! Help the comrades of the 2nd Company to transport them to the high ground!"
"Yes!" The soldiers of the engineer unit responded simply.
"There's another favor!" Company Commander Luo continued: "If we don't have time to withdraw... Remember to blow up the bridge, you must not let the Japanese invaders come!"
Company Commander Wu couldn't help but feel speechless, and shook Company Commander Luo's hand heavily, unable to say anything.
Captain Luo waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers: "Highlands south of the target bridge, march quickly!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded in a neat and coaxing voice, and then lined up in neat formations and ran towards the south of the bridge.
I turned around inadvertently and found that the deputy commander followed with the guards, and even the jeep driver was pulled out.
"Chief!" I said, "You guys don't come up, you can't help you even if you come up!"
What I said is true. What can the deputy division commander do when he comes up? It's just that he gives the Vietnamese Japanese an extra target. What can the driver and the guard do when he comes up? The driver is driving, and whether he can shoot a gun is a question. As for the guard...
…Maybe there is indeed some training quality, just like Xiao Chen, but if you have the deputy commander, they are busy protecting the commander...
"Comrade! Don't worry about me!" The expression on the deputy division commander's face did not allow me to bargain at all: "You went up for our army... If I were still watching from behind, can I still be considered a person? Comrade! Let's die
If you die, otherwise I will be unhappy for the rest of my life!”
I thought about it and felt that the deputy commander's words really made sense. If it were me... in this case, it would be impossible to stay behind and let others fight for me, so I stopped persuading me.
This high ground is not high, but it looks like an elevation of about a hundred meters... To be honest, such a high ground is suitable for our current combat. When attacking the enemy, you can be condescending. It doesn't take much time to retreat. In addition, the road is still there
There was a big circle around the foot of the high ground... It took a while for the Japanese to catch up with us, so we planned to block the high ground for a while and then immediately retreat along the back slope of the high ground.
For this purpose, Company Commander Luo also observed the terrain of the back slope and set several suitable retreat routes.
As for us, we sent a few people to search the mountains as soon as we came up... The reason we did this was because we were worried that there would be Vietnamese agents lurking on this high ground. You should know that Vietnamese agents are everywhere. If there would be Vietnamese agents on this high ground, if there would be Vietnamese agents on this high ground,
When the battle is lurking and the battle is in full swing, we will take a knife from behind... or when the 168th Division's troops cross the bridge, they will be guided to bombard the bridgehead with random bombardment. Then everything is over.
The other people undoubtedly build fortifications. Infantry... Fortifications are needed everywhere they go, otherwise we can only be solved by just a fire, which will not have any effect except coming up to die.
Of course, at this time we can only build simple single-army fortifications. To put it bluntly, this single-army fortification is actually a pit... a pit that can hide in it alone.
In fact, we didn’t even have time to dig fortifications in single soldiers. Not long after we arrived on this high ground, we heard Wang Kechang shouting at us: “There is a situation… it may be the troops of the 168th Division!”
The reason why it is possible is that we have encountered too many situations in the battlefield where the Vietnamese army disguised as our army, so now we don’t dare to see the People’s Liberation Army and say it’s our own people.
The deputy division commander raised his telescope and looked at the other end of the foot of the mountain, then said with certainty: "That's right, it's our troops. Thank God... I finally rushed in front of the Vietnamese Japanese!"
However, the deputy commander immediately changed his face as soon as he finished speaking, and he hurriedly shouted to us: "There is an enemy... the Japanese are coming up!"
I raised my telescope and looked at the entrance. It was really... More than a dozen Vietnamese Japanese were quickly surrounding the flank of the 168th Division. They should have taken a shortcut and rushed to the front of the 168th Division. They were planning to hide in the grass and look down.
The way out of the 168th Division is blocked!
"Prepare for the battle!" Captain Luo shouted.
The atmosphere on the high ground suddenly became tense, and the soldiers put down the fortifications that had only been built and grabbed the rifle. (To be continued...)