Chapter 10: 9th Company

After discussing with Liu Shunyi, Li Ping and the other two for a few hours, they could not come up with a satisfactory plan, so they could only put the plan to attack the enemy's 902.8, 973 and 883.7 highlands aside. After all, on this battlefield, not every combat plan can be thought of just a frown, and it is still early to leave the war, so we have time to slowly consider this issue.

"Captain Cui!" Liu Shunyi pushed at me and said, "Since you are back, I will hand over the command tonight!"

"What are you doing in such an urgent situation?" I couldn't help but joke: "I want to have a few more days of leisure! You, the acting leader, have done a good job, and have managed the 538th Regiment in an orderly manner. What do I think! The soldiers are afraid that you will be the leader more!"

"What are you saying?" Liu Shunyi replied with a wry smile: "You don't see if you are coming back. The soldiers are so excited and spontaneously made such a beautiful regiment headquarters for you. After a while, the regiment headquarters will go to my regiment headquarters to see what it means to have different lives!"

With a coaxing sound, the three of them couldn't help but smile at each other.

"The distribution of our army is on this map!" After a while of laughter, Liu Shunyi pointed to the map and said, "The distribution of the 180th Division is that our 538th Regiment is stationed at the 649.8th and 510th Heights, the 539th Regiment is stationed at the 890.2th Heights on the right wing, and the 540th Regiment is stationed at the second line as a reserve. Our division is the 179th Division on the left wing and the 181st Division on the right wing. Our division is located in the middle protruding part of the entire army's defense line. The total length of the defense line is close to eight kilometers, making it the longest division on the entire army's defense line!"

"Good steel is used on the blade!" I nodded with a smile.

Judging from this arrangement, the 180th Division is now obviously regarded as the main force of the 60th Army. Thinking about the 180th Division in history, it was once idle because of its disastrous defeat in five battles, but now it can become the sharp knife of the first army in an important position. It can't help but sigh that the world is impermanent.

"Our regiment headquarters..." Liu Shunyi then pointed to the map and said: "The first and third battalions were stationed on the 649.8 high ground, and the second battalions were stationed on the 510 high ground on the right wing!"

649.8,510...I felt a headache when I heard such a small elevation. The positions of the puppet army were more than 800 and more than 900, while the heights of our army were more than 600 and more than 500... There was a difference of three or four hundred meters. Such a height difference could make the puppet army feel comfortable and condescendingly and explode with our heads.

"The reason for the Third Battalion to be stationed in the 649.8 Highland with the First Battalion!" Liu Shunyi continued to explain: "It is considered that a large number of soldiers from the Third Battalion are recruits. For example, the 9th Company of the Third Battalion is composed of trainees who have just graduated from the Infantry School. Although they have a lot of theoretical knowledge, they do not have much practical combat experience. Moreover, they are different from ordinary soldiers. The country has spent a lot of effort on their cultivation, so I think they are worthy of protection and cultivation."

"Yeah!" I nodded, quite impressed by Liu Shunyi's careful arrangement.

"How are they doing?" I asked casually.

When I asked this, Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe couldn't help but look at each other and laughed.

"A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger!" Li Pinghe replied: "I just came up and didn't know the cruelty of the battlefield. I have been asking for assignments for several days!"

"That's good! Why don't you let them go up and try it!" I couldn't help laughing as I heard it.

"With their mentality, is it suitable for war?" Liu Shunyi explained: "They treat war as a family! I want them to see more, calm down and send them up. Otherwise, there will be a lot of casualties as soon as they go up!"

"Then let them try!" I replied, "Didn't the battlefield be a university? If you go to the battlefield and don't let them go to war, then what else can you learn?"

Liu Shunyi’s worries make sense, but the so-called long-term illness requires strong medical treatment and prevent them from going to the battlefield to experience it. Of course, they will not make any progress!

"Captain Cui means..." Liu Shunyi asked uncertainly: "Are you asking them to practice on the battlefield?"

"You have to practice!" I nodded: "Let's practice tonight, I will lead the team. The training subject is... lurking in front of the formation and shooting cold guns!"

"Captain Cui, this is not a big deal!" Li Pinghe hurriedly stopped and said, "You also know that the gap between the enemy and me is very big. It's okay to let the students go up and practice. You are the leader of the group..."

"Nothing is impossible!" I replied, "It is precisely because I am a regiment commander that I have to let them see if I, the regiment commander, can do it, and whether they can do it as an ordinary warrior!"

After I said this, Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi had nothing to say. In addition, they knew very well that I have always been in charge in person, so I didn't stop it.

Actually, I am not trying to set an example, but I have been in the hospital for so long and have been practicing alone in the snow with imaginary enemies. Now I can’t help but feel itchy and want to go up and try my skills.

"Pass the order!" I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time, and ordered: "At 12 o'clock, the 9th Company will lurk on the position on time to fire the cold gun, give them two hours to prepare, and let the company commander give me a combat plan!"

"Yes!" Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe responded, saluted me and conveyed the order.

After the two of them left, I took off the rifle hanging on the wall, grabbed a piece of cloth and wiped it. Although the ones who were taking to the position tonight were just some students from the scholastic school, the enemy was real, so I still didn't dare to take it lightly.

"Captain Cui!" After only a dozen minutes, Jiang Changshun hurriedly ran to me and saluted me, "Captain Cui, really, have we really put on the battlefield?"

"Of course it's true, and even if the orders are issued, they are fake? Do you think that fighting is a family?" I couldn't help but say bitterly.

"No, no..." Jiang Changshun was quite bold when he was in the school, and he would still go against me at that time. At this time, no matter how he looked, he was half short. At this time, he was robbed by me, so he touched his head unnaturally and said, "I mean, I mean... I want to make sure!"

"What are you sure about?" I pulled the rifle in the wrench and said, "Get out a plan right away to prepare the soldiers!"

"There is a plan!"

"So fast?" I couldn't help but look at Jiang Changshun in confusion.

"Not so fast!" Jiang Changshun explained: "We are crazy about going to the battlefield these days, so we have been thinking about it ten or eight times in our minds!"

"Well! Tell me..." I took Jiang Changshun to the map on the desktop.

Jiang Changshun was not polite, and walked straight to the map and said, "I have observed the terrain. The 649.8 highland I stationed is closest to the 883.7 highland that the enemy is stationed, which is more than 300 meters long. However, when facing the enemy's 883.7 highland, it is a jungle. Although it is convenient to hide in the jungle, it will cover the sight of the troops on its own to a certain extent. Moreover, the target is too large and the danger is too high..."

"Yeah!" I nodded. Jiang Changshun's consideration made sense. When sniping in the jungle, it is difficult to see the opposite target in the dark unless you climb onto a tree. But if you climb onto a tree, the retreat speed will be too slow, and the enemy will first suspect the forest when he hears the gunshots, and then he will be done with a cannon.

With my approval, Jiang Changshun seemed to become more bold and said excitedly: "So I think we can set our target on the 902.8 highland on the side."

Jiang Changshun pointed to the map and said, "Here! The flank of the 649.8 highland is obliquely *** the enemy's 902.8 highland. Although the straight line distance here is a little farther, it is more than 400 meters, but it has good visibility and is flat and covered with snow everywhere, which makes it easy for our troops to hide. Once the enemy is started, it will be difficult to find our location!"

"How many people are you going to send?" I asked.

"One platoon!" Jiang Changshun replied: "I have been reconnaissance. Every night, at three o'clock, there will be a puppet army going to the frontier to patrol routinely. Tonight our cold guns target them!"

“Where is the retreat route?”

"Retreat route..." Jiang Changshun obviously didn't expect this, so hesitated for a while and then made a deformed line on the top of the mountain and said, "Let's withdraw from the top of the mountain and return to the reverse slope..."

"The enemy's communication equipment is advanced, and the artillery will open fire within ten minutes after the start of the attack!" I asked, "If you retreat from this follow line, are you sure you can withdraw within ten minutes?"

"This..." Jiang Changshun replied nervously: "I haven't calculated it, but sacrifice is inevitable..."

"It's not wrong to sacrifice when fighting!" I replied in a stressful tone: "But the unnecessary casualties of the soldiers due to the wrong command are committed!"

"Yes!" Jiang Changshun stood up and responded.

"Do you know where the mistake is?"

"I don't know!" Jiang Changshun replied with a stern look: "Please give me instructions from Captain Cui!"

I nodded and said, "Since we are lurking on the side of the high ground, the shortest route to the back slope is not to come back from the top of the mountain, but from the hillside..."

As he said that, he drew an arc on the hillside with his fingers. Jiang Changshun quickly understood and replied with a shameless look: "What Captain Cui taught me is that I almost killed my subordinates with my own hands!"

"Maybe you may be among these sacrificed people!" I patted his shoulder and said, "You must remember that you are not allowed to make mistakes on the battlefield, because as long as you make one mistake, you may not have a second chance! Go and prepare!"

"Yes!" Jiang Changshun greeted him and retreated with convincingness.

In fact, it is already very good to be able to do it like Jiang Changshun. It seems that the knowledge Jiang Changshun learned in the school was not in vain. I just don’t know how they performed on the real battlefield?

I pulled the bolt hard and pressed a row of bullets on the rifle. I thought to myself: It’s a mule or a horse, just take it out and take it for a walk.

At 10:30, I was covered in white cloth and walked into the tunnel where the Ninth Company was located. Jiang Chang and the soldiers were already waiting for me in the tunnel. Perhaps they learned it from other soldiers, and they were all covered in white cloth and painted their faces black, and their rifles were also disguised. At first glance, it looked like that.

What made me dissatisfied was that their faces were full of excitement. This was exactly what I was worried about. If they were veterans, their faces would be calm and they could not see any expressions. But for new recruits, especially those who were eager to make contributions, they would have such expressions on their faces.

There seems to be nothing wrong with having such an expression. It is wrong to show their mentality. This is an impatient mentality, a mentality that is not suitable for lurking combat.

In fact, I can't say what mentality is suitable for lurking combat. Maybe, lurking combat can be compared to fishing. If you throw the bait down and wait quietly on the shore, there may not be a fish hook. Maybe the fish secretly eat up all the bait, and it may not be possible that the fish will catch a small fish that is not enough to be stuck in the teeth... So lurking and shooting cold guns should not have too much hope, but the soldiers in front of them are obviously not like this.

I walked over step by step, and the students in line stood up in front of me one by one, as if they were accepting my review. To be honest, this made me feel a sense of vanity. Although I was just a leader at this time, I felt like a general.

Then I was surprised to find that Lin Xue was also in the team. Because her face was covered with mud, I looked at her for a long time before I recognized her. She also blinked at me mischievously...

I looked at Jiang Changshun in confusion. Jiang Changshun didn't understand what I meant at first, but when I saw Lin Xue, I suddenly realized: "Oh, Comrade Lin is the deputy company commander, and she firmly demanded to go up with our troops, so..."

"Deputy Company Commander! Resolutely demand to go up together!" I glared at Lin Xue with some anger, but I couldn't do anything to her in front of so many soldiers.

"Set out!" With my order, the soldiers took steps and walked out of the tunnel.

Because they were trained in the intra-school school, their pace was very uniform, even more than that of the veterans of the Volunteer Army!

The vast white patch of land outside the tunnel, the moonlight shone on the warriors' disguise, integrated with the snow on the ground, making us an excellent disguise color.

The soldiers all walked towards the designated position with their waists, which reminded me of the "finding points" I practiced while in school. Now this skill seems to come in handy.

When I thought of "finding something", I remembered the pairing of Lin Xue to perform tasks, so I couldn't help but search for Lin Xue's figure in the crowd.

It is not difficult to find her. I am already familiar with her steps and movements, so although the light is not very good now, and she is also among a group of soldiers with similar heights and disguises, I still easily find her.

Her movements were also very familiar, and she had obviously received training in this regard. In fact, all the soldiers in front of me performed quite well so far. She reconnaissed and sneaked along the way, and even successfully removed two mines...

The US military can use aircraft to lay mines, so it is not surprising that landmines will appear on our positions.

It was completely beyond my expectations that the soldiers would perform so well. But it is not surprising to think about it. Some of them, such as "second-generation reds" like Jiang Changshun, suspected that they had already started to receive relevant military training when they were sensible since childhood, and some people might even grow up with the army. It is reasonable to have such qualities.

At this time, I seemed to understand Liu Shunyi's psychology of protecting this army. If such a army is well trained, it will definitely play a big role in the army in time.

The troops successfully entered the designated position, and the soldiers entered the position silently. I looked at the surrounding environment a little. As Jiang Changshun said, it was a terrain suitable for sniping. It was more than 400 meters away from the 902.8 highland stationed by the enemy opposite, and it happened to be within the range of the soldiers' shooting under the moonlight.

It seems that Jiang Changshun is not simple, and he can clearly understand the time, place, and the situation of the enemy.

The soldiers each made gestures and found a suitable sniper position, and I also found a relatively flat position in the snow to lie down.

At this time, a few "silly" sounds came from beside me. When I looked back, I found that Lin Xue was crawling towards me with a gun. I couldn't help but frown and glared at her fiercely. She couldn't help but be stunned, and soon realized that she had made a mistake. She blushed and didn't dare to say more. She pouted and crawled to a position more than ten meters away from me.

Perhaps the war was not tight during this period, and the puppet army was used to living a comfortable life, so there was no previous tense atmosphere on the battlefield. The lights of several searchlights were shaking weakly above our heads. I believe that most of the puppet army who were searchlights had no targets to observe. Because there were several of the lights that shone into the sky and they didn't know.

I raised the rifle in my hand and looked at the enemy's position through the sniper lens. The woods, castles, barbed wire, traffic trenches, trenches, and cover... appeared in front of me one by one, and I even vaguely discovered the entrances of several tunnels.

"Damn the puppet army!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse. These guys not only learn the American combat methods, but also learn the combat methods of our volunteer army. If they dig many tunnels on the backscene like us, it would be even more difficult for us to capture these high grounds. Maybe there will be the same situation in Shangganling. We occupied the surface positions, but we cannot take down the puppet army hiding in the tunnel. They can also cooperate with the surface troops and attack us who occupy the surface positions with the inside and outside.
Chapter completed!