Chapter 42 Reporter

"Staff Officer Li!" I didn't hurry to explain to everyone. I turned around and ordered Li An who was standing next to me: "Contact the artillery troops immediately and prepare for artillery attacks, target - Highland 317!"

"What?" Li An was stunned, but soon reacted and stood up and said, grabbing the phone and calling!

"Notify the soldiers in each tunnel..." I then ordered: "Everyone is ready for battle with bayonets, and use the charge as an order to rush out of the tunnel to fight the enemy!"

"Yes!" The correspondent responded and turned around and ran away. The tunnels dug by the volunteers were all connected to each other, so it was not difficult to notify the soldiers from other tunnels.

"Captain Cui! What you mean is to wait until the enemy occupies our position, then..." Seeing the series of orders I gave, Jiang Chunzeng seemed to understand my intentions.

"That's right! I just want to bomb our own positions with artillery!" I smashed Ma Liangshan's location hard on the map and said, "The fortifications on our positions have basically been blown up by the enemy. At this time, there is no place to hide on the high ground. Besides, the enemy doesn't know that we have artillery, so this time..."

"So this time the joint troops will suffer a great loss!" Everyone realized after hearing this. Jiang Chunzeng laughed and said, "It's also a pity that you can think of it. Use cannons to bomb our own positions. I have been fighting for so long and have never seen this kind of fighting style yet!"

"It's indeed a good idea!" Li Pinghe couldn't help but nod in agreement: "Our soldiers are all hiding in the tunnel, and there will be basically no casualties. After the enemy takes down our superficial positions, they will relax their vigilance if their plan succeeds. The artillery fires up, and then we drill out of the tunnel and rush out... There are only not many enemies who have sneak attacked back alive!"

"This is called "The Devil is One Thing High"!" Huang Xianhua burst into laughter.

"Report!" Li An stood in front of me and said, "Our army's artillery fire is ready!"

"Very good! Wait for my order!"

"Yes!" Li An responded and held the walkie-phone in his hand waiting for my order.

"Ding..." The phone rang.

As soon as Li Xiangming picked up the microphone, Commander Pang's angry curse came from the other end of the phone: "What are you doing? The enemy has climbed onto the position and you are still hiding in the tunnel but haven't come out? Where is the Commander Cui? Where did Commander Cui run? How did you fight? I hand over the main position of Ma Liangshan to you, you're fine! I threw it away in a day..."

Li Xiangming was so scolded that he didn't dare to say a word. He looked at me in a daze, with a look of asking for help on his face. But he was afraid, and I was also afraid. He quickly coughed a few times and said, "You push me first, I'll go and listen to the situation!"

"What? Captain Cui, Captain Cui..."

I didn't dare to pay attention to Li Xiangming's screams. I pulled Li An and its walkie-talkie to run deep into the tunnel for a while, found a location for a vent, and listened carefully to the movement of the surface position.

Although there were still a few cannons on the position, it was getting thinner and thinner. Soon after, a series of grenade explosions were exploded, and then the British army shouted wildly... Yes, it was the British army! This shout was not unfamiliar to me. I still remember that when discussing the government's dealing with their Royal Heavy Tank Battalion, they also resisted the British army's bayonet charges several times. They all rushed towards our position without hesitation.

But this time, I hope that they will charge more and more people will rush up...

Then there was silence, or silence... Maybe the British couldn't believe that victory was so easy, but after they carefully checked every corner of the highland, there were finally a wave of shocking cheers on the position!

“yeah!”

“Victory!”

...

There are all kinds of shouts and shouts. They can't blame them. The 317 Highland is the main peak of Maliang Mountain and the highest altitude in this area. Once this highland is captured, other highlands seem to be no problem, but what they did not expect was that what will happen next would make them realize that this battle was not as easy as they imagined!

"Fire the cannon!" With my order, Li An shouted at the walkie-talkie. After a while, a strange roar came from the position, and then the explosion sounded again.

"It's done!" I couldn't help but clenched my fists and ran back to the regiment headquarters excitedly. Only then did I realize that Jiang Chunzeng and others were also shouting excitedly. Even Li Pinghe, who was still afraid of hiding from the tunnel, also had a smile on his face.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but laugh. Things in this world are so strange. They are the same shells, they hit our positions, and they also shocked the earth and stones above us, but there was such a big contrast. Originally, this shelling was only scared for Li Pinghe, but now he looked like he was smiling and seemed to hope that the cannon could be hit harder!

The cannon sounded tighter and stopped ten minutes later. With a burst of bright charges, the soldiers who were already ready came out of the tunnel with bayonets and rushed towards the enemies on the high ground like tigers. The battle was so fast that when Li Pinghe and I got out of the tunnel, we only saw corpses on the position that were blown to pieces, and groups of British prisoners who were covered with dark faces and with hands holding up their hands.

I caught a prisoner and asked, and then I realized that this unit was from the Royal Scottish Regiment of the 28th Brigade of the British Army. They planned to use lightning to touch us in the tunnel while we were avoiding shells in the tunnel. They didn't expect that we would have artillery support. When they were blown up, they were stunned to find that the bayonets of the volunteer soldiers were already in front of them...

In just a few minutes, the "Royal Scottish Regiment", a trumpet unit recognized by the military circles of various countries, collapsed under our offensive. The more than 1,000 people who attacked this time, except for more than 300 people who escaped from the coverage of the shells, the remaining more than 800 people were either bombed into pieces or became prisoners of the Volunteer Army. The casualties of the Volunteer Army in this battle were almost negligible.

"Captain Cui! The division headquarters phone number!" Before I could come and appreciate my own results, the correspondent ran to the position and called me back.

"Report to the division commander!" After returning to the regiment headquarters, he answered the phone and hurriedly reported the situation to Commander Pang: "We took back the position, killed and injured, and captured more than 800 people from the Royal Scottish Regiment of the British, and the specific numbers are being counted!"

"Well! Good! You guy! We were worried for a while!" The laughter of Commander Pang and Political Commissar Zhong came from the other end of the phone: "Well, we thought you suffered the enemy's loss at first and lost the position! I didn't expect you to have this trick! I almost cheated us all!"

"Report!" I hurriedly replied: "The military situation was urgent at that time, so I didn't rush to report to the division headquarters, so..."

"It doesn't matter! The general will not give any orders from outside the army!" Commander Pang laughed and said, "I believe you have the ability to guard Ma Liangshan, so I will hand it over to you and fight it well! I will ask you for me in the future!"

"Yes!" I replied.

Before I could hang up the phone, the regiment headquarters was already full of joy. Everyone knew what this battle meant to us. Although the enemy we killed and injured in this battle would not be much more than the Canadian brigade's attack, the important thing is that this time the opponent was the British ace force. We could achieve such a comprehensive victory at such a small price. This is not only a matter of how many casualties and how many captured the enemy, but also a great extent to boost the morale of our army and undermine the enemy's confidence.

Facts have also proved that the enemy's defeat in this attack had a great blow to them, because from this battle that day, the United Army opposite us never launched a charge except for firing a bomb at our position and dropped several incendiary bombs on several planes to "fire".

I think they should be thinking about a question, that is, what can we do if we launch a charge? According to our current model, even if we don’t guard a person on the position, will they dare to occupy it? Whoever takes this high ground will be bombarded, and the soldiers in the tunnel rushed out nervously...

"Captain Cui!" Just as I was still proud of the results of the battle just now, Zhang Mingxue ran in and reported to me: "There are a group of people wearing suits and ties coming from the other end of the enemy. They held up something that was not known to us, and Battalion Commander Li asked me to ask if they wanted to break up!"

"Um?" I couldn't help but wonder when I heard this. Will there be a group of people wearing suits and tiees on this battlefield?

"Let's take a look?" Li Pinghe also became curious when he heard this.

I nodded, and the two of them didn't say much, grabbed the rifle and walked out of the tunnel.

"What's the situation?" He climbed to the top of the mountain and found Li Guoqiang's location, lay down next to him and asked casually.

"I don't know! It's so strange!" Li Guoqiang pointed forward and said, "I looked at it for a long time but couldn't understand what they were holding. Some of them were wearing tripods. They said they were guns! It didn't sound, and they didn't see anyone hitting them. They kept holding it and pointing around!"

Li Pinghe raised his telescope and looked forward in the direction Li Guoqiang pointed, and couldn't help laughing.

With some doubt, I also raised the telescope and looked in that direction. After a glance, I realized what Li Pinghe was smiling.

Those were United Nations reporters. At this time, they were accompanied by several US military officers and took photos 600 meters away in front of our position. What Li Guoqiang said was holding it in his hand, and some even had tripods, which turned out to be cameras...

"Reporter?" Li Guoqiang couldn't help but listen to our explanation: "Captain Cui! Are you saying that these guys are just calling 'Sea and Air Compensation' in the newspaper, saying that we have no journalists who are sincere in negotiating and intentionally destroying the peace talks?"

"Huh? How do you know these things? You also know 'sea and air compensation'?" I couldn't help but feel a little surprised when I heard it.

"It was the political commissar who told us!" Li Guoqiang looked at Li Pinghe with his eyes.

"Oh!" I nodded, and after listening to this, I understood that Li Pinghe is really omnipresent in doing ideological and political work!

"That's right! It's them!" Li Pinghe continued: "Comrades, we must see clearly. American imperialism not only invaded North Korea's land and bombed our country's territory, but also tried every means to put a 'legitimate' cloak on itself to cover up its invasion. These journalists are their minions and acted as thugs of American imperialism in the media. We must see clearly their true faces and not be blinded by their appearance..."

"Damn it!" Before Li Guoqiang could finish his hearing, he made up his mind: "Captain Cui, I'll get a few mortars to hang these guys who spread rumors and make trouble and have fun!"

"Don't..." I hurriedly stopped him and said, "They also said we were intentionally destroying the peace talks? If you killed a lot of reporters in just a few shots, wouldn't it be a shame for others? Besides, now they are here to take photos, and all the photos taken are from the United Army attacking our positions. Keeping these people bring the photos back is just evidence of the US imperialist invasion. Let's see how they can lie!"

"That's right!" Li Guoqiang fell back down after I said this, but he still said with some dissatisfaction: "Then let's just let go? Let's just let's take a look like this in front of our position?"

"How can it be!" I chuckled and said, "I said the reporters can't beat them, but I didn't say that those officers can't beat them..."

As he said that, he turned around and asked Li Pinghe: "How is it? Let's compete again?"

Li Pinghe was not willing to be outdone, and pulled the bolt down with a loud bang and said, "How to compare?"

"There are three officers in total! I accidentally injured the reporter and lost!" Through the sniper lens, I looked at the group of people and whispered: "The easiest way to compare is to see who beats more, but..."

"No problem, just compare like this!" Before I could finish my words, Li Pinghe responded in one go.

A smile appeared on the corner of my mouth. Li Pinghe looked very calm on the surface and looked gentle, but he still had the impulse and stubbornness of a soldier in his bones. Isn't this competition at all? The m1 rifle in my hand can be fired continuously, and it takes a lot of advantage in the rate of fire. Moreover, my gun also has a scope, so if you want to compare whoever beats more, Li Pinghe's Mosinnagan in his hand can almost be said to have lost, but he still gritted his teeth and responded to the competition.

What a soldier! He is willing to admit defeat if he can compete with him!

But to be honest, Li Pinghe is not without advantages. Mosinnagan has many models. The one Li Pinghe chose is the 1943 type that was finally finalized after several improvements. It is said that the gun has a range of one thousand meters, an effective range of more than 800 meters, and a killing distance of even two thousand meters.

The maximum range of the m1 rifle in my hand is only 700 meters. Now the target is about 600 meters, and it has almost reached the limit of my range. At this point, the Mosinnagan in my hand still takes a little advantage.

"I'll hit the one on the left!" I set my goal first.

I don't want to take advantage of Li Pinghe, because the scope on my rifle can be more than twice the size, so the target I chose was the hardest of the three US military officers. Most of his body was blocked by reporters busy taking photos next to me.

"Yeah!" Li Ping knew my intention very well, and he seemed a little unhappy in his voice, but I had to choose the difficult target, so he had to answer helplessly: "I'll hit the one on the right!"

I pointed my sight at my target. To be honest, I was not very sure. At a distance of 600 meters, even in the scope, I only saw a big outline, not to mention that the target I chose was hiding among the reporters.

I took a deep breath and gradually slowed my breathing down. My eyes stared at the target motionlessly through the scope... But at this moment, the guy actually took out a cigarette from his pocket and started smoking on his own. The smoke quickly spread around him. The smoke was swept around him, and the target was quickly lost.

Damn! Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse, saying that smoking is harmful to health, but I didn't expect that smoking can save lives now! But it's not that easy to escape from my gun...

I turned my attention to the reporter who blocked the target. The reporter was pulling out his horse stance to take pictures, his feet doing lunges one by one, and a large gap appeared in the middle.

After thinking about it, I moved my sight slightly down and aimed at the reporter's legs. I waited quietly, waiting...

With a "bang!", Li Pinghe's gunshots rang, which was exactly what I wanted.

Just as Li Pinghe's gunshots rang, all the reporters were frightened and all turned their eyes toward the direction where the gunshots came. Almost at the same time, the remaining two officers fell to the ground conditioned reflexively, and my target... His head was just between the legs of the reporter when he lay down...

So my gunshots!

With a "bang!", the officer's head tilted and turned into a dead body. However, I also noticed that the reporter's pants also moved, so I was worried that he had hit the reporter in the leg, but when I found that he was running faster than anyone else, a hanging heart was relieved.

The last officer did not react slowly. When he saw the reporter start to escape, he got up from the ground without saying a word and sneaked into the reporter group. He seemed to see that our target was soldiers, so he smartly chose to use the reporter as cover instead of showing off his strength to protect the reporter.
Chapter completed!