Chapter 112: Cover

"Comrade Xiao Cui!" Captain Zhang said to me apologetically: "I'm leaving you alone, don't blame me!"

"Report to Captain Zhang, no wonder!" I stood up and said, "Revolutionary soldiers are not afraid of hardship or sacrifice. I will go wherever I need me! Resolutely fulfill the mission entrusted to us by the Party and the people!"

As I said these words, I cried in my heart, if you really blame you, you won’t let me go, so it would be better to be more righteous!

"Okay!" Captain Zhang nodded: "I'm relieved if you say that. In fact, I have to call you this time! Our regiment has not much ammunition, and most of the special forces who attacked the Americans that night was consumed. Now I'm really a bit tough, so I was wondering whether I can use the least bullet to achieve the greatest result like those snipers of the US military! So I thought of you..."

"Captain!" I couldn't help but wonder: "After killing those US special forces, did not seize any ammunition?"

"Those bullets are not enough to get stuck in the teeth!" Commander Zhang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Actually, those American soldiers should have received orders and cannot leave ammunition for us, so when our army rushed forward, they destroyed all the remaining ammunition. What we can get is nothing more than searching the few points from the corpses."

"Um!" I couldn't help but smile bitterly when I heard this. Then I realized that the US military had a plan to prevent us from getting supplies from them. No wonder they tried to snatch the bodies of their comrades before being repelled during this period. Even if some of the bodies were not snatched back in time, the volunteers had no food except for searching for some limited bullets on them. Thinking about it now, they should not be allowed to carry any food before being ordered to attack.

"My thought is..." After a while of silence, Captain Zhang continued: "A thousand soldiers without bullets are not as good as one hundred soldiers with bullets, so I want to concentrate all the bullets in the regiment, pick out more than one hundred veterans with the best guns in the regiment and lead you to guard the 175th Highland!"

"Captain Zhang!" I was shocked when I heard this, "If we don't say that we can't withstand the enemy's bombardment, we can't even kill the enemy's tanks no matter how accurate the gun is!"

"Don't worry!" Captain Zhang replied: "I have dug a tunnel on the 175th Highland! The tunnel can prevent enemy bombardment, so we will leave the highway bridge. As long as the highway bridge is blown up and the enemy will not be able to repair it, the enemy's tanks will not be able to pass."

After a pause, Captain Zhang continued: "Your mission is very arduous. You have to face several enemy attacks at the same time. We cannot provide you with no bullets. In order to preserve the vitality, we will soon leave the battle!"

"Well!" After hearing Captain Zhang's words, I realized that I had become a part of the cover force. But thinking about it, this is probably the only way to complete the cover task and preserve strength. In the case of insufficient ammunition, instead of distributing ammunition to a regiment and making everyone insufficient ammunition, it is better to concentrate ammunition to a selected elite army. The combat power of the two is not much different, while the former sacrifices several times that of the latter.

Although this seems to be a bit unfair to left-behind soldiers, there is no fairness on the battlefield, and there is only cruel reality on the battlefield. What methods can better kill and preserve yourself and what methods are the most efficient is a good method.

"How is it? Are you determined?" asked Captain Zhang.

"Yes! Ensure the task is completed!" Although I don't like this, I still have to accept this reality.

"Remember!" Commander Zhang finally explained: "Highland 175 is there, the highway bridge is there; if the highway bridge is there, the Americans can't get over it, and our large troops can retreat safely! So you must hold on for a night no matter what, retreat before dawn. You must never let the enemy repair the bridge and let the enemy's mechanized troops pass by. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" I secretly complained in my heart, holding on for a night and retreating before dawn. Even if we can hold on for a night, can we still retreat at dawn the next day?

So I led my troops to the 175th Highland, with 115 people in the company, all of whom were elite soldiers and powerful soldiers picked out from the regiment.

I usually rarely contact the soldiers of other regiments, so although I am their acting company commander, except for Xiao Chen, who has met several times, I know nothing about most of them. This made me want to change the company commander several times, but thinking that it seems that changing the generals at the last battle is not a good thing, so I gave up.

After walking up the 175th high ground, I found that the above had completely changed. More than a dozen large and small tunnels were built around the top of the mountain, and logs were firmly supported on the side walls and top of the tunnel. After walking in, I found that these tunnels were actually connected to each other, and the entrance of the tunnel was open in a position conducive to shooting, which means that you can basically hide in the tunnel and shoot at the enemy. The entire top of the mountain was built like a giant bunker, and there were deep trenches outside the tunnel. It seemed that Captain Zhang had put a lot of thought on it.

After counting the bullets, there were more than a dozen magazines in total, three grenades, one grenade, and the other soldiers in the company were similar, plus a few explosive packs and grenade launchers. Although there were several machine guns, there were only more than 500 bullets, so they were simply thrown to a machine gunner to pull them down.

The sun gradually sets down the west mountain. I stood on the high ground with a sniper rifle. I watched the last ray of sunlight gradually disappear in front of me. I couldn't help but sigh, I wonder if I could see this lovely sunlight rise again tomorrow.

I also thought that a few days ago our regiment was sieging the US special forces here, but now we are garrisoning here waiting for the US troops to siege.

There was a loud "boom..." sound. When the large army retreated, the highway bridge was quickly bombed into two sections. Commander Zhang quickly withdrew with his troops, and at the same time told us that the enemy was coming soon.

"Comrades!" Before the enemy came up, I summoned the cadres of the company to hold a simple meeting: "Comrades, this war is an extremely harsh test for us, but I believe that with our unity and courage, we will definitely be able to defeat the enemy's planes and cannons and successfully complete the tasks assigned to us by our superiors!"

"Finish the task resolutely!"

"Swear to live and die together with the position!"

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The soldiers clenched their fists and expressed that they had been in this world for a long time. I still learned how to inspire the soldiers' fighting spirit.

"Comrades!" I paused for a while and continued, "Although the regiment left all the bullets to us, more than one hundred bullets are not too many. They have to be quickly hit and bang a few minutes and then disappear. So! In this battle, everyone must remember to take the right shot. Do you still remember the sniper of the US military?"

I pointed to my eyebrows and said, "When I fight, there are no need to fight many enemies, nor are there fast ones, but I want to fight accurately, so that all the enemies will bloom and make the enemy feel heartbroken!"

"Captain Cui?" At this time, someone asked in confusion: "If the Americans rushed up in a hurry? Will we fight slowly?"

"Yeah!" I nodded and said, "The comrades are all calm. The Americans are afraid of death! If we hit him in the head, they will not dare to rush up!"

"That's it!" a soldier said, "If this is rushing up, it's just right. Let's go up and fight for bayonets, and even bullets can be saved!

Haha... the soldiers smiled relaxedly, as if they didn't take the upcoming fierce battle to heart.

"If there is no problem, comrades, go back and prepare!" I also pretended to be relaxed, but I was full of worries in my heart.

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and returned to their respective posts to prepare for combat.

"Boom..." With a burst of cannons passing by, the battle finally started before dark. The US military, contrary to the usual habit of not launching attacks at night, carried out an hour-long artillery preparation on the 175 Highlands, and continued to explode until it was completely dark. Even though Commander Zhang had built the tunnel very strongly, three tunnels were still blown down under such long-term continuous cannon bombardment, and more than ten volunteer soldiers were buried inside and could not be rescued.

As soon as the cannon stopped, the US military came up, and it was black and poured towards our position like waves, as if to mercilessly submerge our isolated island in their footsteps.

I watched all this without moving, and then I was even more sure that the previous decision to save the soldiers was correct. More than one hundred bullets were not too many, and the number of the US military was dozens of times that of ours. If we didn't save ammunition and hit the enemy randomly, we were afraid that the US military would consume all our bullets twice. At that time, it would be difficult to complete the tasks assigned by our superiors.

So, now there is only one way to delay time as long as possible, that is, shoot accurately to hit their morale.

Four hundred meters. Although the enemy had already entered my sniper siege at this time, I did not order shooting, because I believe that in this dark night, it would be difficult for the old-fashioned rifle without scopes in the hands of the soldiers to hit the enemy at this distance.

Three hundred meters, I couldn't help but frown. Although I knew that the soldiers under me were all elite soldiers selected from a regiment, I didn't know how smart they were. The moonlight tonight was not very bright, so I'd better wait!

Two hundred meters, seeing that we were not shooting at such a close distance, the US military might have thought we had no bullets, so they cheered and rushed towards the high ground, but their rushing exposed their weaknesses.

They were originally in a row of scattered soldiers, which made it difficult to kill them on a large scale, but as they rushed up the relatively narrow hillside, their distance between them became smaller and smaller as the encirclement narrowed, but in a short while it reached the point of crowding people.

"Fight!" It was not until one hundred and fifty meters away that I issued a battle order to the soldiers. At the same time, I raised my rifle and thumped it. A bullet passed through the neck of a US military in front, and then hit the head of a US military behind. In the scope, the US military behind me fell down with a loud bang, but the US military in front covered my neck in pain and slowly knelt on the ground, trying to block the blood that was constantly spraying out with both hands, but all of that was futile.

Before I could appreciate my masterpiece, I quickly aimed at the neck of another US military...

The US military attacked from the hillside, so they would unconsciously raise their heads when charging upwards. Moreover, they were all white people, which would inevitably expose their white necks to my muzzle one by one. Although the area was not large, it was enough for me.

In such a dense formation of the US military, the chance of the bullets penetrate the neck of the previous US military and hit another US military is very high. So in my sight, the US military basically fell down in strings.

At this time, I was thinking that if the US military was smart enough, it should let the black regiment play a role. Although their combat effectiveness was not high enough, they could even save on disguise in this dark night.

The soldiers also fired the rifles in their hands. Although many of the soldiers were holding eight large pills seized from the US military, they all aimed slowly and then shot according to my orders.

The soldiers of the Volunteer Army were already very good, not to mention the elite soldiers selected from a regiment. With the sound of gunshots, the US troops running in front fell to the ground one after another. Although the number of people was not large, most of them were shot in the head and killed. On the contrary, I... because my appetite was too big and I had to hit the head in pairs, and the chance of the bullet hitting the head for the second time was very small, so most of the wounded were still caused by me.

The US military was frightened by this scene. They all lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise their heads. At the beginning, they would shoot rows of flares, and then use the submachine guns in their hands to fight back for a while. However, the effective range of their submachine guns was only 100 meters, and the bullets were flying all over the sky. Although the machine guns were long, after the soldiers accurately knocked the machine gunners out several times in succession, no one dared to shoot them again.

Because of angle, it is difficult for the US military to see the volunteers hiding in the trenches even with the help of flares, so the Americans holding a rifle in their hands did not even have the desire to shoot.

Then in a short while, they rolled and crawled and ran back with the bodies and wounded.

"Damn it! All the corpses were dragged down, and no one was left..." Looking at the retreating US military, a soldier couldn't help but curse.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly. The US military is paying more and more attention to the issue of ammunition being reused by the volunteers. It seems that it will not be so easy to get supplies from them in the future. This makes me think of my sniper rifle. If this is the case in the future, then my sniper rifle will soon face the situation of having a gun but no ammunition.

Alas! What else do you think about going forward? I think I am already in danger and I don’t know when I can live. I will pass this level first!

I counted the magazines and found that four magazines had been knocked out just now. This was just a charge. If this continues, the US military can consume all our ammunition if it charges four or five times. At that time, I was afraid...

"Bang!" At this time, I only felt a little cold thing falling on my face. When I reached out and touched, a drop of water fell on my face, and then it soon formed small ice cubes.

I couldn't help but be stunned and thought to myself that God wouldn't tease us like this, it was raining at this time?

As if answering me, a few drops of rain fell on my face one after another, forcing me to admit this painful fact.

"It's raining, it's raining!" The soldiers couldn't help but panic. They were not afraid of the enemy's guns and bullets, but they were afraid of it, because in such cold weather, once the cotton coat on their bodies was wet by the rain, it would undoubtedly be fatal.

"Enter the tunnel!" After looking at the rain getting heavier and heavier, I ordered helplessly: "Each unit should pay attention to the enemy from the entrance of the tunnel, and immediately warn if it discovers the enemy situation."

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and drilled into the tunnel one after another.

After entering the dark tunnel, I patted the cotton coat on my body, and the small ice cubes condensed on the cotton coat fell like sand. The volunteers did not have rain gear, which determined that we could not fight on such a rainy day. If this was discovered by the Americans, then...

"Enemma, the enemy is coming!" The shouts of the soldiers standing at the entrance of the tunnel changed dramatically, and I couldn't help but gritted my teeth in my heart, and greeted the eighteen generations of their ancestors.

In the light rain, I pulled the troops out and saw hundreds of American soldiers wearing raincoats and holding guns slowly walking in front of the high ground. When they reached more than 200 meters, they stopped and did not rush up. They just walked left and right, just like walking in their backyard, and occasionally shooting a few flares on our positions.

Seeing this, I couldn't help feeling angry. If we hide in the tunnel to shelter from the rain, it's only a few minutes to reach more than 200 meters. The US military might have rushed up before we rushed out of the tunnel to unleash our troops; but if we don't go back to shelter from the tunnel to shelter from the rain, we will soon be frozen to death outside...

"Chinese soldiers!" At this time, a loud horn came from the US military camp: "Chinese soldiers, the United Nations has declared you as invaders. Put down your weapons and come out to surrender! The United Nations forces treat prisoners preferentially..."
Chapter completed!