Chapter 9: Lurking

"Captain! Bags!" After a while, Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei came in with a large bundle of sacks on their backs, pounced on them in front of me, and then asked reluctantly: "Captain, what are we doing when you go out to fight the Japanese?"

"Dig a tunnel with your comrades!" I replied without thinking: "Didn't Xu Yongwei still learn blasting from Company Commander Zhang? When I'm busy outside, you two are not allowed to be lazy!"

"Yes!" Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei hurriedly stood up and responded.

"Captain Cui, the squad leader is selected!" Wang Yuehan walked up to introduce, "The first squad leader Hu Zudi, formerly the battalion commander of the 230th Regiment, was a Communist Party member. He joined the army for twelve years. He was a famous sharpshooter in the division. There were at least hundreds of enemies who died under him. The second squad leader Yang Zhenshan, formerly the platoon leader of the 231st Regiment and a member of the Communist Youth League, joined the army for eight years, and was good at fighting tough battles and was injured more than ten times. The third squad leader Wu Sihu, formerly the company commander of the 229th Regiment, joined the army for seven years, participated in dozens of battles, and had rich combat experience..."

"Um!" When I heard the name Wu Sihu, I suddenly remembered that he was the soldier who drew stones and soil to make up the numbers. I couldn't help but look up and looked at them.

Just this glance, we could see the difference between Wu Sihu and others. The other two squad leaders stood straight in front of me, with excitement shining in their eyes, holding the rifle tightly in their hands, and they looked eager to try, as if they were ready to go to the battlefield. Only Wu Sihu stood calmly in front of me.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but wonder what made this young man from Shandong face everything in his eyes so calmly. He looked like an outsider, completely observing everything that happened around him as a third party.

"Captain Cui!" Wang Yuehan said: "I don't know what Captain Cui has to do with my arrangement!"

"No objection! Very good!" I nodded.

Wang Yuehan is indeed a good deputy, which can be seen from the three squad leader he arranged. One of the 229th Regiment, the 230th Regiment, and the 231st Regiment. It can be imagined that most of the soldiers under these squad leader are soldiers of their own regiment. Such an arrangement allows the soldiers to get familiar with each other quickly and then enter the combat state as quickly as possible.

"Call all the comrades!"

"Yes!" The three squad leaders responded, called and gathered together, and soon gathered the soldiers in front of me.

"Send the sacks, one for each person!" I then gave another order.

It was when the three squad leader were working. The three squad leader started to distribute sacks without saying a word, but for a while, everyone in the hands of the soldiers held a sack. But just like they were holding paper before, this time they still looked at me with an unknown expression.

"Follow me!" I didn't explain, and pulled out the military sack and cut it open, then cut out the cloth strip and wrapped it around my gun, revealing only the scope hole, ruler and sight star. Seeing this, the soldiers quickly understood and started to do it with me.

After wrapping the gun, then hang the sack on your body. First wrap some cloth strips around your hands and feet to move, then put the remaining sack on your body, ask someone to help sew some on your clothes and hats with needle and thread, and then use the charred soil and water on the position to put it on your face. Once the sack is applied, a perfect disguise is completed.

"Hey! Captain Cui, you're going to have a few tricks!" Wang Yuehan walked around me up and down, left and right, and looked for a while before exclaiming: "This experience is different from being inexperienced. Look, if you lie down into the position, no one can find where you are hiding!"

I also wanted to take a mirror to see what I looked like, but it was almost impossible to have a mirror on this battlefield, so I had to turn my eyes to the warrior dressed in the same style as me.

The brown sack is already similar to the soil. When you apply scorched earth, it is really like Wang Yuehan said. It is difficult for anyone to find us when you lie on the ground without moving.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. I had only watched TV before and watched the sniper's disguise in the movie, but I didn't expect that the effect was really good when I tried it today.

"Comrades! Now assign tasks!" I took a branch and pointed to the topographic map of the 597.9 and 537.7 highland hanging on the tunnel wall. "Tonight our mission is to lurk in the back slope of these two highlands and the mountainous areas between the two inclined surfaces. The lurking locations are: 597.9 highland, 537.7 highland, 537.7 highland. The lurking location is mainly to observe the enemy's positions and hide themselves. The purpose is to observe the enemy and find out the enemy's schedule and distribution. It is required that trenches and bunkers cannot be built, which is undoubtedly the most obvious target for the enemy; no matter at any time, even if there are a single enemy or a small group of enemies, even if you are sure to kill them, you are not allowed to shoot! The lurking time is one day and one night..."

"What? One day and one night? No shooting is allowed..." Before I finished speaking, a big sensation caused among the soldiers. They always thought that this time they went up to beat the Americans, but I didn't expect that I ordered not to shoot, and even more unexpectedly, I asked them to lurk for a day and a night.

The Volunteers have lurked in the past, but strictly speaking, it cannot be considered lurking. Because it is just hiding in the forest waiting for the enemy to come, just like the Battle of Two Water Caves in the first battle in Korea. It is okay to sneak into the forest to pee or shit. But now, the soldiers all know what lurking this day and one night means...

"Captain Cui! That's not good!" Wang Yuehan immediately expressed his objection: "The lurking time has been so long, which means that the soldiers also have to lie on the positions during the day? And they can't build trenches, bunkers, and shoot. Isn't that a target for the enemy? I, I don't agree, it's too dangerous to do this!"

"Yes, Captain Cui!" Zhang Mingxue also answered from the side: "This is lurking for a day and a night, so what if you want to shit or pee..."

"It's all in my crotch!" I ignored Wang Yuehan's objection and ordered the soldiers: "Go back here to concentrate when it's dark tomorrow night! Let's go!"

Without saying a word, he turned around and lifted the black cloth and ran into the night.

The autumn wind was rustling, and the light from the searchlight pierced the darkness and shook it around the position. It was like monster eyes staring at our position in the darkness. Once you found something alive, you would stretch out your fangs and swallow us in one bite...

I took more than thirty soldiers to walk and stop, sometimes running and sometimes lying down, walking through the positions like ghosts.

The positions were filled with bumpy craters and scorched earth that were softly turned by shells. Although this greatly slowed down our speed of progress, it provided us with good cover. Because the sacks we wore were almost the same as the scorched earth on the positions. Whenever the light of the searchlight shone, we just lie into the crater and no matter how good the enemy has, we can't see anything.

After arriving at the designated location, I waved my hand back, and soon more than a dozen soldiers scattered and found their own lurking positions. It was a team of Hu Zudi, who would lurk here for a day and a night until now the next night.

Then there was Class 2 in the mountains, and finally the 537.7 Highland.

I also lurked on the 537.7 high ground, and the soldiers were covered in disguise. Once they lay down in the dark night, they could no longer find them. At first, I heard a little coughing and crawling sound. After a while, there was nothing left. The whole world fell into darkness and tranquility again.

Of course, except for the searchlights that pass over our heads.

The reason I chose to lurk in front of a small hill on the top of the mountain was that if I was discovered, I could use this hill to avoid bullets fired by the enemy. I originally wanted to hide behind a broken tree stump, but when I was bored, the US military would probably choose it as the target of practicing marksmanship, so I quickly climbed away. I used both hands and buried most of the gun body in the soil, only exposing the sniper lens for easy observation. Anyway, I didn't plan to shoot this time, so I didn't want to take the lead in violating the order I gave.

This was my first time to come to the 537.7 Heights. Before, because I had been focusing on building tunnel fortifications, I never noticed the 537.7 Heights beneath me. It was not until I received the soldiers to carry out the cold gun campaign that I asked Wang Yuehan for a terrain map.

After seeing the topographic map, I realized that the situation of the 537.7 Highland and the 597.9 Highland is completely different. The biggest difference is that only half of the 537.7 Highland belongs to the Volunteer Army.

The 537.7 Heights have two hills, divided into Nanshan and Beishan. Among them, Nanshan is under the control of the US military, while Beishan is in the hands of the volunteers. The 537.7 Heights that the soldiers usually call it actually refers to the 537.7 Heights. It is precisely because of this that the distance between the 537.7 Heights and the enemy's defense line is very short, especially the mountainous areas between the two highlands, the closest distance to the enemy's defense line is only more than fifty meters.

I guess this is the famous sniper ridge on Shangganling! I subconsciously raised my head and looked at the mountain area in the middle. Under the light of the hostile searchlight, I could vaguely see the outline of the mountain. Looking at the enemy's position, it is hard for me to imagine that the volunteer soldiers fought a sniper battle here that shocked the whole country. Because the terrain of this mountain is several meters to ten meters lower than the enemy's position on the opposite enemy, this height difference has a great impact on the two fronts so close. Especially in sniper battles, this height difference means that the enemy can observe more ranges from a high point, but we are just the opposite.

Feeling that my hands and feet were a little numb, I subconsciously moved and moved the center of gravity to the other side. I couldn't help but complain in my heart. It was just the beginning, and it was when I was relatively free at night. Once it was daytime, we would be completely exposed to the enemy's sight. At that time, as long as we move, even if there was only one finger, it was very likely that we would expose ourselves and cause a rain of bullets from the enemy.

But what else can I do? It is not common to use a cold gun, such a strait war. I remember the materials I read in modern times. The volunteers learned to lurk in front of enemy positions and then develop into lurking wars in the future, which started from this time.

In order to hit the target, the soldiers often secretly lurked in front of the enemy's position the night before, and waited until dawn the next day to prepare for ambushing the enemy, selecting the enemy's single or important targets to start. Moreover, even if they hit the target, they cannot return to the position, because as long as they move, they will be exposed to the enemy's firepower and there is no possibility of survival. Only when the night falls again can they slowly crawl back.

In this way, one task can be completed successfully.

While using cold guns to strike the enemy, this tactic also provides a wealth of lurking experience for subsequent lurking battles and lays the foundation for lurking battles.

However, while knowing this, I also know that the soldiers were not so professional in the early stages of the cold gun and cold gun movement. In modern information, the old volunteer soldiers who were still alive recalled: "When they started to fire cold guns, they hit an enemy, and the soldiers jumped up and shouted, "I hit it! I hit it!" Some soldiers in the tunnel would also run out to cheer, but the enemy's shells came over, and we suffered a loss!"

My purpose is very clear, which is to try to avoid such a thing, minimize casualties among the soldiers as much as possible, and let this cold gun and cold cannon movement enter the state as soon as possible.

This time, this is the reason why I let the soldiers lurk on the position and strictly ordered them not to shoot.

The soldiers are all sharpshooters in one place, and I don’t need to teach them the marksmanship at all. What they need to learn is how to lurk, how to endure, how to save themselves...

As time passed by minute by minute, the sky gradually became brighter. First, the outline of the top of the mountain gradually became clearer, and then the dividing line between the top of the mountain and the clouds gradually turned white, becoming brighter and brighter, and soon turned red again. Then before I was anxious to prepare, half of the sun appeared on the top of the mountain.

So my nightmare began.

The distance between the two hills is only more than one hundred meters. In the scope, I can clearly see the US military opposite coming out of their single tent, holding cups in their hands and towels hanging on their shoulders. I jokingly and washing with my comrades, and some even shaved in front of the mirror with music. The melodious music was clearly audible, and it turned out to be Marilyn Monroe's song "bye bye baby".

It seems that Monroe is not an ordinary hot man in this era! It is said that many Americans regard her as their dream lover and hang her photos on the head of the bed, especially the one where the skirt was blown up and reveals a pair of sexy legs...

Ouch! No... I actually reacted!

God, I am lying on the ground now, and I can’t move at all. Didn’t you deliberately do the right thing to me?

After pinching my fingers for a while, I could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. I looked at the shaved American opposite, but twisted my butt with the music. Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a strong desire to pull the trigger, but finally I suppressed it.

The morning was the time when the US military was most relaxed in its awareness of criminal defense, and I quickly came to this conclusion.

If I was the only one lurking now, then maybe I would do this without hesitation and be sure to escape. Because it can be seen that the Americans had no preparation at this time, machine guns, mortars, etc. were all placed aside from a distance, and only a few sentries were observing our army's positions with telescopes at the forefront.

In such a situation, I ran away after firing a few shots, and had every time I could withdraw back into the tunnel before they organized the fire.

But now I am not alone. Not to mention the order I gave myself to not shoot, there are more than a dozen soldiers lurking around me. I was prepared to run back in time, what about the other soldiers? The enemy's piles of shells hit me, it would be strange if we had no casualties.

Perhaps, other soldiers now have this kind of impulse! They are used to the life of shooting when they see the enemy raise their guns, and now they are asking them not to shoot under the order of death. This is really hard for them. It is like putting a big piece of fat meat at the mouth of a hungry wolf, but commanding it not to eat it.

To be precise, this should be a torture and a torture.

All I need is this.

I want to use this kind of torture and this kind of torture to train the soldiers' patience and calmness in the shortest time.

After today, I think when they see prey in the future, they no longer raise their guns and shoot them like before, but first think with a calm mind: Can this prey be shot? Is it worth it? Can they get out of it after the fight?

However, as the sun rose higher and higher, I began to regret that I followed.

Thirst and hunger made me feel sore, and what made me even more unbearable was that my limbs were broken and I felt like there were thousands of ants crawling and biting, and then there was numbness...

The fatigue and dizziness also made me a little drowsy at one point, but I didn't dare to let myself fall asleep because I was worried that once I fell asleep and turned over in my dream, I might never wake up again.

Mom! I couldn't help but curse. I'm very patient and calm, right? Why bother to come up and suffer this crime again! Now I really can't understand how the volunteer soldiers did these things. But what can this be counted? Volunteers can not only do these things, but also burn them to death without saying a word...
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