Chapter 21: A desperate bet

With the help of snipers, the US military quickly gained the upper hand. More than a dozen snipers were almost fatal, which not only caused strong psychological pressure to our army, but also the speed of death and injury of our army made the soldiers in the tunnel not have time to replenish them. Several US snipers even locked the entrance of the tunnel. As soon as a soldier came out of the entrance of the tunnel, he fell under the enemy's gun before he was ready.

But in a moment, the enemy suppressed our army's firepower with an overwhelming advantage. The US military installed bayonets on their rifles, and just waited for the commander to charge towards our army's reverse slope at the command.

Finally, after a young soldier who had just got out of the tunnel fell under the enemy's gun, I could no longer hold back and pulled the board hard at a US sniper.

With a gunshot, the proud American sniper tilted his head and fell to Chen's ground.

Hu Zudi and others were already impatient. At this time, they heard the gunshot and immediately pulled the plate and shot the bullets at the target they had already chosen. The Chen camp of the US military suddenly became a mess, and most of the dozen snipers were killed and injured in this moment. They would never have thought that our army had snipers lurking in the dark and staring at them. In addition, while killing many volunteer soldiers just now, they gradually let go of their guards, so they were all unprepared and unconscious. The only thing that the ten snipers could escape under our guns was one who stood unsteadily and fell down, and a guy who just finished shooting a magazine and hid and loaded bullets.

Hu Zudi and others just witnessed how the US snipers killed volunteer soldiers, and they were already full of anger. This time, when they got the permission to open fire, they would not let the US troops go. After defeating the US snipers, they quickly pointed the gun at the second target.

But I didn't dare to do this because I always felt that someone was staring in our direction in secret, so after firing the bullet, I turned my eyes away from the scope. Although the scope could make me see more clearly, my vision was smaller. If I wanted to find my opponent, I needed a larger vision, and at the same time I was also ready to escape at any time.

At this time, I was actually comparing speed with my opponent and finding the opponent first.

If he finds me first, then I will undoubtedly be shot. With a distance of more than four white meters, I believe he can hit me, otherwise he will not deserve to be my opponent.

If I find him first, it means that the bait he released before was vain, and he may die under my gun.

I don’t know where he is, nor why he didn’t shoot, but one thing is obvious, that is, he probably didn’t expect that there are so many snipers in our lurking. It is also not easy to find me among so many snipers, and this is also the reason why I can survive until now.

But I quickly realized that I was wrong. I shouldn't stop and look for an opponent but look for a second target like other warriors, and then shoot the bullets of hatred at the enemy like them. Now I am like this, obviously making myself look special and expose myself.

Thinking of this, I immediately rolled two to the left, and there was a reason for rolling to the left. There was a good cover not far from the right and not far from the tunnel entrance. If I rolled to the right, I could quickly return to a safe place through cover. This is indeed a very attractive escape method, but the experience of the battlefield over the past few years tells me that this is the escape path for ordinary enemies. If you are facing masters, you should do the opposite.

So I chose the left side. Although there is no danger to defend on the left side, it can be said that it has made me even more exposed, but that is better than dying under the enemy's gun.

It turned out that I was right, because at the moment when I just rolled away, three bullets hit me one after another, slightly to the right of my position, stirring up several earthen flowers.

When I rolled, I didn't give up observing the direction of the enemy Chen Di, so I saw the enemy who shot at me.

That was an ordinary enemy that could not be more ordinary. No, it should be said that he was not ordinary, because there was a red cross tied to his left shoulder. The reason I ignored him before was because of the red cross on his right arm. Because I thought that as a sniper, of course, I would try my best to hide myself and not make myself look a little special. So I eliminated it immediately, but unexpectedly, the real opponent was him.

It seems that the Americans also know the principle of "doing the opposite way"!

On the battlefield of snipers, especially in the showdown between masters, it is not allowed to make mistakes, because once a mistake is made, it is very likely that the opponent will seize the initiative, and it is even possible to pay the price of his life for this mistake.

This is the situation now. My opponent made a mistake and he misjudged the direction of my escape. Because I had a chance, a chance to defeat my opponent and win this battle.

but……

I was born to be a person without a sense of direction. When I rolled two times on the ground and turned my eyes to the enemy's position again, I was a little out of my sight. When I spent a moment to determine the opponent's position, he had disappeared from my sight.

I locked his position with a rifle in case he suddenly popped up and shot at me. But after waiting for a while, I felt something was wrong. The enemy was in high places and I was in low places, and he could use the blind spots of my sight to change a position at any time. If I still stay here and don't move, it would be no different from seeking death.

So I hurriedly rushed into the cover on the right with my rifle. I was about to stretch out the rifle from the cover, but I felt a little unsafe. So I simply followed the cover and ran a few steps into the tunnel, then passed through the passage as fast as possible, drilled out from another tunnel entrance, and then slowly stretched out the gun and carefully poked out my head...

This place is more than 100 meters away from the position just now. I believe that the US sniper must have lost my direction now. At this time, I was thinking, if that guy could still find me easily, then I could only sigh that my skills were not as good as others!

I observed the US military front through the scope, searched twice but found no suspicious targets. But now I am not in a hurry, because the initiative on the battlefield was completely in the hands of our army.

The US military lost that large number of snipers, which directly led to the balance of victory falling to our army. Although there were still American fighter planes roaring above our army, and there were still many bullets and shells pouring towards us, the pilots in the air did not know where our sharpshooters were lurking, and at the same time they could not see us in the air, and they didn't even know what was happening on the battlefield...

Therefore, the plane did not pose any threat to Hu Zudi and other sharpshooters. Hu Zudi and others could shoot at the enemies on the top of the mountain with great peace of mind.

The role of a sharpshooter on the battlefield is sometimes far more than a machine gun and a cannon, not to mention that the squad led by Hu Zudi also has thirteen soldiers. These thirteen soldiers are equivalent to thirteen machine guns, and they use rifles to accurately shoot the US troops who dare to emerge from the top of the mountain position at every moment.

As soon as the US military's firepower was suppressed by Hu Zudi and other sharpshooters, the first battalion of soldiers led by Hu Biao got a chance to breathe. They quickly recovered from their previous disadvantage and organized firepower to attack the enemy's top position again. The sharpshooter and the first battalion's soldiers cooperated, and after a while, the US military could not raise their heads and could only nestle in a hidden place and throw grenades at our army.

Of course, those grenades can't play any role except that they can raise a piece of dust and smoke in front of the position.

If the battle situation continues to develop like this, then victory will definitely belong to us. So now I am not in a hurry. The US military is anxious, and my opponent is anxious!

But I think that no matter how powerful he is, he will be unable to turn things around. The sniper is a human, not a god. In such a situation where the defeat is determined, he also has no way to turn the situation around with only one person's strength.

Sure enough, until Hu Biao led the warriors to rush to the top of the mountain with bayonets and shouted, my opponent never showed up. He had already realized the result of the battle when he escaped from my gun and withdrew from the battlefield in advance.

I realized that this was a difficult opponent because he not only knew how to kill the enemy, but also knew how to save himself!

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"Captain Cui!" After returning to the tunnel, Hu Zudi couldn't help but sigh: "You have known the American sharpshooter for a long time, right? I've been wondering, why haven't you ordered to shoot? That guy is really good at pretending, we let him deceive him!"

I smiled bitterly and said with lingering fear: "You just came here and didn't know. I've fought with him before! Including this time, I almost died at his hands twice!"

"Oh?" Hearing Hu Zudi and his soldiers couldn't help looking at each other.

They were all my subordinates and had fought with me in Shangganling for a while. They all knew my skills. So now I heard that I almost died under the gun of the enemy's sniper twice, and they couldn't help but whispering to each other, talking about the mysterious sharpshooter of the US military.

"Captain Cui!" A strange little soldier stood up and said, "What are we afraid of him? Their sharpshooter had just died of so many people under our hands. Look! There are not many left of them now, and even if they use people to fight, they will be defeated!"

"This is Liu Yangxing, the third squad leader!" Hu Zudi introduced: "Captain Cui hasn't seen him yet! He was transferred from the military headquarters not long ago. He was a guard before. He heard that our front line was in need of sharpshooters, so he volunteered to join! As soon as he came up, he attacked several enemy 'big heads' one after another and made contributions. The comrades chose him as the squad leader!"

"Um!" I nodded, and couldn't help but nod and admired: "It's not bad! This shows that you are very patient and always wait for the enemy's 'big head' to appear, right!"

Of course I know that the "big head" that Hu Zudi said refers to the enemy's officer. Most of the sharpshooters in the volunteer army fight no matter what the enemy is, and few of them wait for enemy officers. But in fact, real snipers will always wait for targets worthy of attack. This will not only cause greater losses to the enemy, but also a kind of affirmation of themselves.

For example, I am not interested in small targets now, so although there are fewer enemies to kill, the results will be even greater.

"Actually..." Liu Yangxing touched his head and said embarrassedly: "Report to Captain Cui, it is actually because... I have been a guard for a long time and have been watching the chief for a long time, so I can always find a few officials from a group of enemies..."

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers couldn't help laughing as they listened to Liu Yangxing's words.

"You little devil!" Hu Biao also smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to have this skill. Why didn't you tell us before?"

"Then..." Liu Yangxing replied awkwardly: "Why are you embarrassed to say? I told Squad Leader Yang that he laughed at me as a slave, and he recognized my master accurately..."

With a coaxing sound, listening to Liu Yangxing's explanation, the soldiers laughed even more.

"Captain Cui!" After a while of laughter, Hu Zudi suggested: "The US military has such a powerful sharpshooter. I think you don't have to go up. It's too dangerous!"

"Yes, Captain Cui!" Yang Zhenshan nodded and agreed: "You are a leader. The entire regiment requires you to command the war. How can you go to the battlefield with your guns at any time? Besides, you brought our platoon with your own hands. Can you still be worried if we go up?"

"That's it! Just let's go, and I'll make sure to bring that guy's head back to the team leader!"

"Captain, please feel free to let us do it!"

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The soldiers also agreed, and some even waved their guns to express their determination to me.

I patted Hu Zudi and others on the shoulders gratefully and asked back: "If you were me, would you just let it go?"

When I asked this, the soldiers were stunned for a moment.

"That's it!" I said with a smile: "Do you want me to be a coward? I almost died in that guy twice, so you let me hide? Then why did I lead the troops to fight in the future? You let my soldiers laugh at me cowards behind my back? Everyone poked my backbone behind my back?"

"No... we didn't mean that..." Hu Zudi quickly explained.

"Okay, stop talking!" I stood up and patted my butt, and laughed: "Let's rest for a while! Get ready for the next battle. You will treat me as the Captain Cui who lurked with you to shoot cold guns back then! I share the blessings and bear the difficulties!"

"Yes!" Hu Zudi and others stood up and saluted me upright.

He walked out of Hu Zudi's tunnel No. 2 and unexpectedly found that the US military's bombing was not fierce this time. The shells were fired at our positions one after another, just like a cold cannon. Even the fighter jets bombing our army indiscriminately lost their traces. There was a strange strangeness on the entire battlefield, as if it was causing a bigger storm.

When I passed the tunnel of the Ninth Company on the way to the regiment headquarters, I suddenly remembered Lin Xue, and I couldn't help but feel my heart rising in my heart to go in and see her. But in the end I still held back. Now that the war is tight, I cannot affect the operation of the battlefield because of my personal feelings. If the war is delayed, I will not be able to forgive myself if I don't say that I will become a sinner forever.

I shook my head, took a deep breath of cold air, cleared the distracting thoughts in my head, and I accelerated my pace toward the regiment headquarters.

"Captain Cui!" As soon as I walked into the regiment headquarters, Li Pinghe handed over a telegram and said, "This is the telegram sent by Commander Pang, saying that it was the information obtained by the spies who invaded the enemy by the People's Army!"

"Well!" I quickly took the telegram and looked at it, and there was only a simple sentence on it:

"According to reliable information, Eisenhower only had three days to visit North Korea!"

"Only three days?" This information seemed worthless at first glance, it was just the itinerary of a newly elected president. But it was extraordinary in my eyes, because it was directly related to the battle in front of us.

This battle was performed by Van Vreet for journalists from all over the country and for Eisenhower. If Eisenhower is going back tomorrow, it means that Van Vreet originally planned to end the battle within today.

Of course, his original plan seemed to be foolproof. The powerful artillery and aircraft bombing had an absolute advantage in the front, and it also occupied the commanding heights, and even transferred a sniper platoon.

In this case, even if we cannot conquer our army's tunnel, according to common sense, we can successfully occupy our army's superficial positions and achieve the expected performance effect. I think this is also the goal of Van Vritte's battle, because it is impossible to clear the opponents in the tunnel within one day. The Shangganling Battle proves with facts that they may not be able to do it even in one month!

But the facts just can't be as he wished. Although the US military has worked very hard, unfortunately their opponent is my 538th Regiment.

If Van Vritte knew that the troops stationed on the 649.8 Highlands were the 538th Regiment, he would definitely not choose to fight here to perform. Unfortunately, he didn't know that the 180th Division had just entered North Korea and had not had much time to deal with the 649.8 Highlands, and the entry and access to North Korea and access to the 649.8 Highlands were carried out in secret, so I boldly guessed that Van Vritte's combat plan was targeting the 18th Army on the 649.8 Highlands.

This does not mean that the 18th Army has no combat effectiveness, but that the 162nd Regiment soldiers stationed on the 649.8 high ground were mostly new recruits sent to experience the battlefield in China.

"Captain Cui!" Li Pinghe pushed his glasses and said solemnly: "It's noon now, and it will be dark in a few hours! It seems that the Americans will have big moves!"

"Yeah!" I nodded in agreement.
Chapter completed!