Chapter 150 Signal Bomb

The number of charges of the pseudo-9th Division can be said to be less than other troops, or more than other troops. Because we can no longer tell whether their offensive is one or multiple times.

What's the point? They clearly launched more than a dozen charges on our positions within half an hour.

How many times did they? But they never retreated from the position!

The US and other puppet troops retreated to the foot of the mountain to rest, while the puppet 9th Division rested at the gunpoint.

But no matter how many or fewer their charges were, the pseudo-military advisors brought unprecedented pressure to our position. These pressures were even far beyond the well-equipped US ace unit, the 7th Division of the US military!

"??!(Kill in Korean: Kill!)" The puppet army shouted and rushed up to more than a dozen or twenty people, but they were soon knocked to the ground by the soldiers' grenades and machine guns.

Their charge seemed meaningless, because so few people were not enough to have enough bullets from volunteer soldiers. But this was not the case, because the firelight emitted from the volunteer machine guns quickly exposed the firepower points of our army, and the puppet army mortars lurking in the smoke and dust quickly fired shells at our positions.

The shells stirred up a piece of smoke and dust beside us. After the smoke of gunpowder, several machine gunners of the volunteer soldiers had already fallen into a pool of blood.

Yes! The enemy of the pseudo-9th Division fought with me in this way. The number of people they rushed up was not large, only a dozen. But if we didn't drive them down immediately, we would follow a dozen or even more people up. And they did this, as if they just wanted to find the firepower point of our army so that the mortar behind them could cause us some casualties...

I have to admit that I can't believe that the army in front of me is the pseudo-9th Division I had fought against! I remember that in the first battle, under the leadership of Commander Chu, my 354th Division and I successfully stopped the pseudo-9th Division from fleeing south in the Battle of Jiulongjiang with a regiment of troops, and seized a large amount of their equipment.

It is said that this unit is composed of policemen under the rule of the Japanese army. What are policemen? Police are informal units, and they are police units under the rule of the Japanese army. I still remember the embarrassing appearance when they hurriedly dropped their equipment and fled into the forest at our guns. I still remembered the embarrassing appearance of them, but I didn't expect that in just two years, they had completely changed.

This may be the war’s refining of a unit!

There were roars from the left wing, and I knew that Li Feng was smashing the newly invented weapon "Mu Lei" on the enemy again. Because the left wing is relatively narrow, if the puppet army wants to attack upward, it must have a dense formation. This is when the "Mu Lei" comes into play. So after the "Mu Lei", I am not worried about the safety of the left wing. But this is the front...

Rows of puppet troops fell down, rows of shells hit, and the volunteer soldiers died one after another, and then grouped up. Such life-and-death struggles were repeated on the battlefield. Although the puppet troops never advanced on the front, they still kept biting us tightly and unwilling to relax.

But if the puppet army can fight, why are we volunteer soldiers Yiyou?

Dozens of mortars of the puppet army bombed the frontier positions of our army, bombing the entire position so that shrapnel flew everywhere and bomb craters were everywhere. In this case, the soldiers of the volunteer army knew what it meant to go to the battlefield. They all saw clearly. The soldiers who walked onto the position turned into a lifeless corpse in a blink of an eye, or were carried down with blood in their hands and feet.

But they were not afraid, and they rushed to the front line one after another.

I can understand the growth of the pseudo-9th Division. Two years of war were enough to make a defeated army grow into a force that could fight well, but most of these volunteer soldiers were recruits. They were all children of more than a dozen and only stayed on the battlefield for more than three months! But even so, they were still no less than the elite pseudo-9th Division in front of them!

I shot the rifle in my hand and made a "bang" sound. The puppet troops charging upwards almost just showed a little from the smoke and dust and were knocked to the ground. Of course, while shooting, I kept changing my position so that I would not be targeted by the enemy's mortars.

However, I soon discovered that there were too few positions that could be changed on a single position, and some positions were only a few square meters in total. So I simply wandered between the positions, and sometimes even climbed up to the main peak position No. 3 for a walk.

Just as our army and the puppet army were stalemate, a roar of planes suddenly came from the sky.

I have heard this sound a lot during this period, but because the smoke and dust on Shangganling were shrouded in the air, it was difficult for enemy planes to find targets on the high ground. In addition, the puppet army is charging towards our position, so I didn't take it seriously. I just felt a little strange. This time the US plane seemed to fly very low, and the sound seemed to be above our heads. I could even feel the airflow it brought when it flew by...

When the second plane flew overhead a few seconds later, I felt something was wrong!

If it is just an airplane, it may also be explained that the US military pilots are playing cool, and it seems that the US military pilots like to do this very much. In the past, now, and in the future, we have heard of US military pilots flying fighter jets in order to perform their superb skills. The result is that the cable is broken and 20 tourists in the cable car died. This is the cable car tragedy that shocked the world in 1998...

But now there are two planes, which makes me a little suspicious.

There are mountains everywhere near Shangganling and smoke. It is a great risk to fly low-altitude under such circumstances. This can at least show two points: First, the skills of this group of pilots are particularly superb; second, they must have special tasks.

What kind of task would it be?

I put away my gun and hid behind a rock, thinking about the possible measures that the US military planes might have taken against us, but they were quickly overturned by me one by one.

The puppet troops are too close to us, and the US military will not be able to carry out air strikes on us without determining the target.

The puppet army may have requested this. Not long ago, something like this happened. It was the "White Horse Division" in front of them. When they were stationed in Baima Mountain, they saw that the position was about to be captured by the 38th Army, so the puppet army used telegrams to ask the US artillery to bomb the position. However, the US army did not do so. They chose to bomb a large number of follow-up troops 20 meters away from the puppet army's position. (The US artillery usually only bombed 60 meters away from the friendly positions recently)

But even if the puppet troops ignored their own death and instructed the US military to bomb the 597.9 Highlands, the US pilots did not dare to do this. The reason is very simple. The practice of only defeating the enemy and ignoring the life and death of their friendly forces would make the US military lose its position in the United Nations and be blamed by other countries. The US military, which has always been wearing humanitarian banners, cannot bear this risk and responsibility!

So the question arises, why do American pilots do this? Is it just a coincidence?

An ominous premonition arose in my heart. I knew they had a reason to do this, but I couldn't think of what the reason was. The more I couldn't think of it, the more I felt fear in my heart. This fear made me want to order the soldiers to give up their superficial positions and retreat into the tunnel, but I knew it was impossible and wrong!

No matter what the two planes hovering above our heads do, if I order the entire army to withdraw into the tunnel, the puppet army can easily occupy our positions, and the US aircraft will no longer have to implement the following steps as planned.

This can be solved once, and we may also quickly launch a counterattack to regain the surface positions, but the second and third times? Will we withdraw from the tunnel as long as the US military sends two planes to turn over our heads twice?

So, no matter what conspiracy they are preparing to implement, no matter what danger the soldiers are in, I will have to wait until they start implementing it before taking action!

However... I still have to remind the soldiers first and prepare them!

So I immediately ran down the main peak position, and took a few minutes to find the company commander Guo Sandan among the soldiers lying on the ground, and ordered: "Pass the order and all the soldiers are ready to withdraw from the tunnel!"

"What?" Guo Sandan couldn't help but turn his head in shock and look at me: "Chief of Staff! We can withstand it. We are not afraid of any casualties. Even if we kill them all, we cannot throw the position to the enemy like this!"

"Abide by the order!" I didn't explain, and I pushed up with a word. In fact, I couldn't explain it clearly at this time, because even I didn't know what the enemy was going to do. It was just a intuition and a premonition.

"Oh!" Guo Sandan punched the scorched earth and smashed a deep pit in front of him.

He was obviously very dissatisfied with my order, so he didn't even respond to "yes". He turned around and asked the correspondent to pass the order angrily!

Without saying anything, I raised my rifle and aimed at the enemy who was still charging towards our army in front of the position. However, this time I did not shoot, but observed what was abnormal about them.

Sure enough, I soon discovered that the puppet army's offensive was a little different. The time interval between their charge seemed to be lengthening, as if they were waiting for something...

My brows couldn't help but frowned. What I worry about the most is the abnormality, because I can't think of why they are abnormal or their purpose! Such a situation can easily make people think of the saying "If you don't make a sound, you will make a big splash"!

Suddenly, a smoke bomb with red smoke rolled over and fell in front of our position, followed by two or three. The smoke bombs were only ten meters away from our position, emitting a thick red like blood rushing towards the sky...

No, this is not a smoke bomb, but a signal flare, a signal flare that guides the targets of US fighters.

I looked around the position and was surprised to find that our position was surrounded by those red signal flares. The enemy successively threw dozens of such signal flares to the front of our position, including the No. 8 position on the left wing and the No. 4 position on the right wing. Looking around, it was like a red brush that clearly depicted the outline of our position!

I know what they want to do!

I didn't have time to think too much, so I stood up and shouted: "Everyone is there! Get into the tunnel immediately!"

Although the soldiers were still a little confused, because I had already made them ready to retreat, I didn't think much about it now. I put away my weapons and ran towards the entrance of the tunnel. I didn't dare to be slow, so I grabbed my rifle and followed the crowd and ran towards the nearest entrance of the tunnel.

Although the soldiers were recruits, they had some time to enter and exit the tunnel entrance. Although they were not as natural as the veterans of the Eighth Company, they were not much slower. In addition, there were not many people stationed on the position, but they had already entered the tunnel in just over a minute.

As soon as I entered the tunnel, it immediately became dark. Before I could get used to the light in the tunnel, a red light suddenly appeared around me. At first I thought someone in the tunnel had lit a kerosene lamp, but when a burst of burning heat waves surged out of the entrance of the tunnel, I realized that it was not a kerosene lamp, but a burning bomb dropped by enemy planes outside the tunnel...

Realizing this, I hurriedly rushed forward heavily. My force was so strong that the soldiers in front fell to the ground one after another without any precaution. At this moment, with a sound of shouting, a flame rushed in from outside the tunnel like a red fire dragon. The flames made my skin and flesh exposed outside the cotton coat hurt, and my hair jumped up with gloating pleasure. At the same time, my chest was filled with breath and my head was dizzy, and the pungent smell of gasoline kept pouring into my lungs...

After a long time, when I was dragged into the tunnel by two soldiers and breathed in a few mouthfuls of "fresh air", my mind gradually became clearer. The US military's incendiary bombs were so terrible that I had already penetrated into the tunnel and almost suffocated to death by it. If it was outside... I wouldn't even imagine what happened next.

"Chief of Staff, are you okay?" Li Baocheng asked with concern.

But no one answered him, because at this time I was just panting and coughing, and could not say a word. Other taxis were similar to mine, and the coughing sounds in the tunnel were heard.

After a while, Guo Sandan recovered and said intermittently, "Shen, Chief of Staff... I apologize to you...!"

"What a crime..." I replied breathlessly.

"Disrespect to you..." Guo Sandan said ashamed: "I was angry with your order just now. I blamed you wrongly... If it weren't for you, we would have been all over again!"

"Tsk..." I couldn't speak, just shook my head while panting.

"I said, Company Commander Guo, you are capable!" Although I didn't care, Li Baocheng was unwilling to let him go like this. He grabbed Guo Sandan's collar and glared at Guo Sandan and said bluntly: "I'm angry at the Chief of Staff's order. Don't you know that we revolutionary soldiers must firmly obey the orders? Do you know what punishment will be for disobeying military orders on the battlefield?"

"No, don't blame him!" Listening to me, I took a few deep breaths, calmed down some of the discomforts coming from my lungs, and stopped me, "Comrades, don't argue, the puppet army will soon take advantage of the incendiary bomb to attack the position, organize personnel to put out the fire immediately, and seize the surface position!"

"Yes!" Li Baocheng responded, threw Guo Sandan in his hand to the ground, waved his hand to the tunnel, and immediately took more than a dozen soldiers to pick up shovels and run out of the tunnel entrance.

"Company Commander Guo!" After Li Baocheng and his party left, I said to Guo Sandan: "This is how Commander Li is. He is quick and decisive and quick. Don't take his words to heart!"

"No, Chief of Staff!" Guo Sandan contempted himself with a shameful look on his face: "Captain Li was right in criticism. Although I still executed the order in the end, I was still distracted and almost made a big mistake. Chief of Staff, please punish me!"

Listening to me, I couldn't help but smile and shook my head. This is the case with the soldiers of this era. If I encountered the same thing in modern times, it would be strange if Li Baocheng and Guo Sandan, two people who are both company commanders, were both company commanders, and would be bloodless. But now they are willing to scold and the other are willing to be beaten, just like they are holding the same heart and saying the same thing!

"Okay!" Looking at Guo Sandan's sincere face, I couldn't help but say helplessly: "According to my opinion, the puppet army must have been prepared for this move. In addition, we have to put out the fire from the entrance of the tunnel, so the personnel will not be able to unfold, and the speed will be much slower. It is very likely that the puppet army will occupy the surface position first. The punishment given to you will be denied. You will be allowed to commit crimes and make meritorious service. Organize the personnel to prepare for combat, and take advantage of the enemy's foothold before they are stable, and fight them down in one go!"

"Yes!" Guo Sandan responded excitedly, as if taking this task could make up for the guilt in his heart. He swept the shame on his face and stood up and saluted me: "Please ensure that the task is completed and resolutely drive the enemy off our position!"

As he said that, he turned around and called the famous one in his company. Soon, dozens of soldiers were arranged to three tunnel entrances near the top of the mountain positions, holding submachine guns and bayonets to prepare, waiting for orders, and rushed out of the tunnel to fight the enemy.

I also loaded my rifle with bayonets and bullets on the m1911 around my waist. I thought to myself that this group of puppet troops was not simple, and I actually thought of this method to seize the superficial position of our army. Compared with the strong attacks of the 7th American Division or the 2nd Puppet Division, it was a precedent. Although I pulled the soldiers back in time to avoid casualties, I was still forced to a passive position.

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Chapter completed!