Not to mention, I used to think that this method was just a kid's trick to pretend to be a family member, and I was embarrassed to show off to others. But when I started using it, I realized that this method really has many benefits.
First of all, it is easy to obtain materials. The only materials used for this method are ropes and bamboo poles. Ropes are everywhere in the army. As for bamboo poles, you can just take a machete and walk into the forest and bring back several. So it’s not more than half.
It took more than an hour to prepare piles of fishing-like bamboo poles, and then the soldiers tied ropes and grenades to them one by one.
Secondly, this method does not require training. Children can play house, right? Unless someone is a fool, why would it be difficult to throw a grenade into the "skylight" and then shake the bamboo pole?
The most important thing is that this method can obviously reduce casualties. Use a fishing rod to throw the grenade from a distance... This means that people don't have to get close to the "skylight", and it also means that the Japanese Japs can't hit us at all...
If you can kill and wound enemies on the battlefield without risking your life, who wouldn't want to do it?
So after a while, we saw piles of bamboo poles piled up in front of the open space, and the soldiers were busy tying grenades to one end of the bamboo poles with ropes... But what made us a little helpless was: At this time, our troops
At least one-third of the grenades inside will not explode, so in order to ensure that we do not make useless efforts, we usually tie two to three grenades on the rope.
"Everyone is here! Get ready for battle..." Following the company commander's order half an hour later, the soldiers and I carried "fishing rods" one by one and dived towards the enemy's tunnel.
Why is it our army again this time?
The reason is that I came up with this idea, and other troops would not be so shameless as to take our idea and use it openly, not to mention... our superiors also want us to try this method to see if it works.
I led the soldiers to crawl on the mud for a while, and soon we climbed to a skylight. Several people spread out around the "skylight" and took out their engineering shovels to dig individual soldier pits... This was to prevent Japanese grenades from crossing the border.
, although the grenade is very scary when it explodes, in fact it is not very lethal. It mainly relies on the shrapnel after exploding to kill, so we only need to build the foxhole and hide in it... The enemy will not be able to do anything to us.
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Although we have experienced several battles at this time, we still feel nervous when the battle is about to come, especially me... Now the entire army can be said to act according to my method.
If this method doesn't work, it will not only embarrass me, but also make us unable to hold our heads high in front of other troops!
Especially the first squad leader and the third squad leader who belong to the same platoon as me...
Isn’t there a saying? The ones who are most likely to suffer from pink eye are those in their own family. If other people’s family has achievements, that’s other people’s business. If a brother has any achievements...then he is inferior to himself.
This is the situation I'm encountering now. Originally, I was the squad leader for only one day, and I was still a new recruit, so the first squad leader and the third squad leader didn't take me seriously. Now that I have taken office,
I have made several great achievements one after another, which I don't like. The third squad leader is better, but he has a dark face and doesn't speak. The first squad leader is unconvinced and makes irresponsible remarks to his soldiers, saying that I am just lucky.
Good or something like that...
If this was based on my previous temper, I would never end it with him. I would have to argue with him until I was red-faced. He was risking his life to fight for it. How can you just say that I rely on luck?
But things are different now. Whether we can keep our lives is still a question. Why should we care about this?
Ten minutes later, the starter waved two small red flags from side to side a few times. This was the signal for the start of the battle as agreed by the regiment leader. So I didn’t have any time to think about anything. I yelled “do it” and grabbed the hoist.
The grenade on the bamboo pole was thrown into the skylight...
The gunshots started ringing out soon, and the Japanese soldiers reacted quickly. They shot out and threw grenades one by one almost as soon as we started. Unfortunately, the openings of the skylights were only one meter square.
Due to the shooting angle problem, bullets couldn't hit us lying on the ground at all. Hand grenades could have some effect, but there weren't many of them thrown. In addition, we were all hiding in dug foxholes, so we couldn't hit us at all.
We don't pose much of a threat... Of course, if some grenades happen to be dumped in our individual fortifications, that's a different matter.
And what are we going to do? After throwing the grenade into the "skylight", all we have to do is to wave the bamboo pole and constantly shake the grenade on the other end of the bamboo pole... I think the Vietnamese in the tunnel may still look like
As before, they rush forward desperately to grab these grenades and throw them out. No matter what happens, they will have prepared sandbags and even their bodies to suppress these smoking grenades.
But... this time they will be surprised to find that it is not easy to do this now, because these grenades are jumping in front of them!
Then, seemingly both expected and unexpected, a burst of "boom" and a burst of screams came from the tunnel, but these explosions did not stop, and soon there was a series of more explosions.
It was a dull explosion... The sound of the explosion seemed to be a grenade exploding deep in the tunnel!
How is this going?
When I heard this sound, I was a little confused. Even if the soldiers threw the grenade accurately, it would only be thrown into the "skylight" at best, right? No matter how hard it was thrown, it would not be thrown deep into the tunnel! Later I found out,
It turns out that this is because the grenade explodes slowly. Just imagine, we threw dozens of grenades in at once, and many of the grenades were suspended in the air by ropes, so as soon as the first few grenades exploded... a huge shock wave naturally occurred.
He took those suspended grenades and flew deep into the tunnel, so the lethality...it blew up all the Japanese soldiers in the tunnel on the spot!
This was an unexpected gain. To be honest, I didn't expect this benefit before... This time, the Vietnamese in the tunnel didn't resist at all. No one fired or threw grenades outside. There was only that
Screams and groans seemed to be protesting to us... But these protests were useless. Once the soldiers saw that this trick worked, they did not wait for my order to throw the grenade into the tunnel again. After a muffled sound,
Even the moaning sound was gone.
"Okay!" Many soldiers were watching the battle on the periphery of the battlefield. They couldn't help but cheer loudly when they saw that we had achieved such a great victory easily.
"Squad leader!" At this time, Bayonet pointed the gun and shouted at me: "The Japanese seem to have been blown up. Let's rush in and give them a good fight..."
"You're stupid!" I responded angrily: "We were fighting well outside, why did we rush in? We think we'll live longer, don't we?"
"Well, yes..." Bayonet touched his head stupidly, as if he still didn't quite understand where he was wrong.
In fact, the bayonet is not wrong. It should be said that it is correct according to the concept of this era. The political education of this era requires soldiers to be brave, tenacious, and not afraid of bloodshed or sacrifice... In fact, many commanders are also willing to do this. After all,
The sacrifice is the soldier's life. As long as he can win, he will be promoted and make a fortune, right?
But to me, the battlefield is a place where the maximum benefit is obtained at the minimum cost. To me, the lives of soldiers are the most precious. If possible, we will use all resources to exchange for the lives of soldiers.
So I loudly ordered to the soldiers: "All of them are here, continue to open the 'skylight' along the tunnel and continue to bomb, and blow out all the Vietnamese Japanese!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded loudly and just do it. For them, my order is of course a better choice. No one is willing to go to the tunnel with a gun to fight the Japanese in the tunnel as the bayonet said.
So the next battle became simple. All the soldiers needed to do was to open the "skylight" all the way along the tunnel. After opening the "skylight", they used the old method to throw a lot of grenades inside... As
After a dull rumble, the Japanese soldiers inside were blown to pieces, and the chemical defense soldiers carried flamethrowers and sprayed it inside... This tunnel was considered to be clean!
"Comrade of the People's Liberation Army! Comrade of the People's Liberation Army..." After a few hours, the Yue Japanese who were forced inside finally couldn't stand it anymore. With a few harsh words in Chinese, a white flag shrunk out of the tunnel, and a man with a face full of tears shriveled up.
The dirty Vietnamese people stuck out their heads and said to us: "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army... we surrender, the People's Liberation Army treats prisoners preferentially... we surrender!"
"Put down the gun and come out!" I nodded to him and said, "If you don't kill if you hand over the gun, we will treat the prisoners leniently!"
Although I hate the Vietnamese devils very much in my heart, I also know that there are not only Vietnamese soldiers in these tunnels, but also many Vietnamese people. No matter how our government resists, no matter how much hatred we soldiers have, the people are always innocent.
of.
The Vietnamese civilian crawled out shakily with the help of two soldiers. His whole body was shaking like a frightened bird. As soon as he got out of the tunnel, he squatted on the ground and held his head while heading towards the tunnel.
Others inside shouted a few words in Vietnamese, presumably to persuade them to come out...
Then several more Vietnamese people came out. Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel relieved: We soldiers are not butchers. If the battle can end with the enemy surrendering, then no one wants to see more
of death.
However, the outcome on the battlefield in Vietnam is often not satisfactory, and things are never as simple as I imagined.