With a "boom!", the stone bridge persisted until the last moment before it was detonated, but no one in the company successfully broke through until the last moment...
On this side of the stone bridge, we could only watch the Vietnamese army on the other end slowly surrounding the high ground in the south of the bridge, and then shrinking the encirclement smaller and smaller...
They fought to the last moment, so the battle lasted for a long time, and after we withdrew from the battle, we persisted for more than twenty minutes. This time was absolutely weak for the troops and was not easy to face the situation of the 316a Division of the Vietnam Army.
What's more, the Qiaonan Highlands can be said to have no basic field fortifications.
All of us watched this scene silently on this side of the bridge until the gunshots were silent and finally disappeared completely.
"Oh!" Company Commander Luo took off his military cap and sat on the ground with annoyance.
To be honest, although the battle just now was not our fault, and even in terms of the loss ratio, it can definitely be said to be a victory, but everyone was a little unhappy. The reason is that everyone knows a little... The reason why we can still live now is completely
It is because of a series of replacements. In other words, someone sacrificed it on our behalf.
We are indeed afraid of death and are unwilling to die, but we are even more unwilling to die for us, let alone more than twice as many comrades as us (we have participated in the battle in the company and have not been fully edited). This makes us feel like we are
It's like owing someone else something.
"Company Commander Luo!" The deputy commander walked up with a pale face, shook Company Commander Luo's hand, and said, "What our 168th Regiment owe you..."
"Deputy Commander!" Company Commander Luo interrupted the deputy commander and said, "If you didn't let the company go up, then I, Luo Xianwen, patted my chest and agreed, but now... don't say this!"
Company Commander Luo has an objection to the deputy division commander's approach, because he feels that at any time the deputy division commander should not let twice the warriors go up and rescue us. This is a mistake from the commander's perspective. He thinks the deputy
The commander of the commander is to be proud of his personal feelings.
But then again, this is just the wishful thinking of Commander Luo. In fact, what he didn't know is... The deputy commander did this not only because of repayment and repayment, but because of our identity - Heroes 2nd Company
.
You should know that our company can be said to have made many military achievements in the counterattack battlefield and has won one miracle after another. So it was reported and promoted. Now it is all taken as a role model and a model company to learn from. If
What impact will such a company be completely wiped out by the Vietnamese army or captured by the Vietnamese army because it covers other troops? What kind of impact will it have on the entire army? What kind of blow will it bring to the morale of the army?
It is precisely because of this that the superiors do not think that the deputy division commander's command is wrong. Any commander will make this decision from this perspective. Because the battlefield sometimes is not just a simple matter of casualties, but more importantly,
Politics is influenced by morale, just like the deputy division commander cannot be captured or shot dead by the Vietnamese Japanese.
But the deputy commander at this time did not explain anything, but nodded to express his understanding. Finally, he shook Company Commander Luo's hand, shook our hands, and said, "Comrades from the Second Company, there will be a time later!"
As he said that, he saluted us and took the soldiers of the 168th Regiment down.
"Company Commander Luo!" Company Commander Wu also walked up and said, "We are going to retreat too, there will be a period of time later!"
Commander Luo silently held Commander Wu's hand and nodded.
Soon, the troops were almost retreating. At this time, the scholar couldn't help but ask: "Commander Luo...what about us? Should we retreat too?"
Corps Luo did not answer, but just said two words in a muffled voice: "Return to the camp!"
The soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, their faces were full of doubts but they dared not ask anything, or they had already felt something, but they were unwilling to say it.
The soldiers had just returned to the 581 Highland, and it started to rain heavily in the sky...
The weather in Vietnam is very strange, the most strange thing is the drought. The rainy season is clear. The dry season starts from November every year to March the following year, and the rainy season starts from around March and April until November. In other words, it is almost the same.
Half a year of drought and rain.
In fact, this is why our army will set the counterattack in mid-February. The battle starts in mid-February, and it will be March after more than ten days of fighting. It takes more than ten days to retreat... So
The battle can end before the rainy season comes.
Maybe some people say... why do you have to end before the rainy season? You should know that the mountain roads in Vietnam are difficult to walk. If it rains... it will be muddy everywhere and even some places will directly turn into swamps, and many bridges
It will also be flooded by the surge in the river. The Americans have had enough of the torture of the Vietnamese rainy season. When this comes, the tanks, cars and other things can't move at all, so the Vietnamese guerrillas started to move again.
...
Especially for cars, this thing cannot move, it means that ammunition supply cannot be transported, or it depends entirely on manpower transportation. The Americans are pretty good, and there are helicopters and other things to help transport grain and ammunition, but what does our army have?
First of all, let alone the limited helicopters of our army at this time. Even if there are hundreds of helicopters... Our combat troops are hundreds of thousands of troops, which is a drop in the bucket and cannot satisfy our army's logistics.
So the superiors are still very wise in this regard. They teach the Vietnamese a lesson and then withdraw to the border before the rainy season.
Some people say...Why didn't our army attack Hanoi during the counterattack?
First of all, let’s not say that this is not the strategic purpose of our army. Even if we have this intention... it is not difficult to imagine what the consequences of going straight after learning about Vietnam’s rainy season.
That's right, our army's hundreds of thousands of troops can indeed capture Hanoi without any damage, and even more places can be captured. After all, after our army captured the important towns in Vietnam's mountainous areas, it will be flat in the south. Such a terrain is more suitable for the development of large troops.
.But the question is where our supply line is? When the rainy season comes, it will break the connection between my hundreds of thousands of troops and the country. This is not the impact of Vietnamese military agents attacking my logistics supply line everywhere.
Of course, these are not what we need to care about, because we have now withdrawn from the border. More importantly, we are now deeply affected by the rainy season and have no mind to care about any strategy.
The climate in Vietnam is already very humid, and now the rain is even worse. The whole world is like fishing out of water, on the leaves, in the air, in the mud... besides water, there is still water, and no more
There is no dry area to see.
In such a ghost weather, let alone digging tunnels, even the trenches and cat holes we built before were all turned into piles of mud.
"Company Commander!" In the end, Liang Lianbing couldn't help but speak: "When will we stay in this ghost place until?"
"I don't know!" Chief Luo sighed and replied: "The superior has not given the order yet!"
Company Commander Luo's words made the soldiers silent. Although the soldiers were anxious, they also knew that the company commander was innocent. Let's ask questions again, blame them, and complain again... the company commander could do nothing.
"Oh! Why do you care about so much?" Scar took off his clothes clean after a while, ran to the rain and washed them while saying, "Isn't it good now? At least you don't have to worry about having no water and drinking or anything.
Eat...you can also take a shower!"
The soldiers seemed to be affected by the scar, and the atmosphere relaxed a little.
"Come on..." Scar greeted the soldiers: "It feels so comfortable!"
Under the scar's face, a few people ran out soon, and then more and more people joined in, and the atmosphere quickly became active... They were like children in the rain and
Sing and dance, or play...
Looking at this scene, I could only smile bitterly. All we can do now seems to be the only way to make joy in suffering.
Fortunately, Chen Yiyi was not here... Otherwise, if she had seen this scene...
Alas! I couldn't help but sigh again when I remembered Chen Yiyi's departure.
"Second Platoon Commander!" At this time, Company Commander Luo walked to me and sat down, asking, "What do you think?"
"What's the idea?"
"What should I do in the future?" Corps Luo said: "I want to hear your opinions!"
"Well, this..."
This is indeed a difficult problem. It is absolutely not an easy task to stick to it for a long time or even confront the Vietnamese Japanese under such conditions.
Fortunately, the old man also said a lot about dealing with this situation, so I thought about it and replied: "First of all, let the Japanese invaders know that this is the border, and we will not retreat any further!"
This is very obvious. If the Japanese do not think this is the border, then they think we will retreat, so they will continue to "**", and the pressure we have to bear will undoubtedly be greater.
"Well! This is easy to deal with!" Captain Luo nodded: "In fact... the Japanese devils should have already known it! At this moment, their interspersed troops are afraid that they have already met our friendly forces!"
After saying this, I understood that our 581 Highland is not an isolated position. We are here to guard the border, right? This means that our troops will spread out in the border area like chains, so the Vietnamese army ignored it.
Any part you intersperse, you will inevitably encounter a blockade from our army, so they knew that this was the end of our retreat.
"That's a big deal!" Company Commander Luo paused and continued, "When the Yue Japanese come up, we will shout a few more words to them!"
OK! I can think of what Company Commander Luo is going to shout, "You have entered China, please withdraw immediately, otherwise we will..."
When he heard these words, it was strange that the Japanese devils didn't understand.
"Second!" I continued: "It is to build some fortifications that can survive in this rain!"
Corps Luo nodded. These fortifications are essential to survive here. (To be continued.