Chapter 52: Stepping on the mine

"Oh! Commander Cui..." In the tunnel of the division headquarters, Commander Pang happily waved to me when he saw me. When I walked to him and stood to salute, he shook his cotton coat, looked me up and down, and then joked: "What? After I came back, I came to see me without changing my clothes? When did I become so important, the old man?"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers in the tunnel would laugh in their hearts. I also felt a little warm in my heart. I knew that in the hometown of Commander Pang, the title of old man is usually used on my father. In the relationship, Commander Pang regards himself as my father.

Not to mention, I also have that kind of relationship with Teacher Pang, both a teacher and a friend.

"Captain Cui! Your battle last night was a powerful battle of our 180th Division!" A volunteer soldier next to him replied, "You don't know what! Now our entire army is talking about the battle you fought last night!"

"Yes! Using one company's troops to capture the high ground of the two battalions of the puppet army, it can withstand the attack of the puppet army and a regiment... I really doubt if I heard it wrong!"

"I asked if the puppet army was getting more and more unable to help but fight?" Some soldiers also expressed doubts about this.

"Go to yours!" Soon several soldiers retorted with laughter: "Even if the puppet army really can't help but fight, it wouldn't be that almost two regiments would have to kill Captain Cui in one company!"

"If you want to know if the puppet army can't help but fight, can you tell me if you, Staff Wu, go up to fight in person!"

"Where do you want me to tell me! If Staff Officer Wu goes up and fight, he must bring more pairs of pants in advance!"

“Why?”

"Prepare to wet your pants!"

With a coaxing sound, the division headquarters immediately laughed again, telephone soldiers, telegraph soldiers, staff officers, guards, etc., and they would not let go without distinguishing their ranks from each other and joked. The tunnel was full of relaxed and cheerful scenes.

By the way, this situation will only occur in our volunteer army. If it is in the People's Army... let's not talk about the People's Army! Even our *** is also very strict. Not to mention such "big and small" jokes, if you are disrespectful to your superiors, you will be scolded and punished.

Master Pang seemed to enjoy them as he saw them like this. After laughing happily for a while, he changed the subject and asked me: "Is there anything wrong? Don't stay in the tunnel and have a good rest. If you are tired, you will still run here for a night?"

"Report to the commander!" I replied, "I came for the offensive tonight!"

"Um!" Commander Pang nodded and said, "You don't have to be too concerned about this. Your main task is to defend the 902.8 Highlands and provide some firepower assistance to the troops attacking the flanks of the 973 Highlands! Your regiment fought several battles in a row, and the losses were not small and the troops were insufficient. Let's hand over the battle tonight to the 539th Regiment and the 540th Regiment!"

"Teacher Pang, I don't mean that..." I couldn't help but smile bitterly. When I heard the tone of Commander Pang's words, my purpose seemed to be to grab the mission. Just kidding, I can't get along with myself, right! I'm so tired that I still come to grab the mission.

"Why is that?" Commander Pang pointed to the chair in front of me and signaled me to sit down, and then said, "Comrade Cui Wei, your regiment is fighting very well this time. I also believe in your regiment's combat effectiveness, but we also want others to have a chance to perform..."

"Team Commander Pang!" I didn't explain, but simply pointed to the two highs 973 and 883.7 on the map and said: "I think there is something wrong with the combat plan tonight, and maybe it will cause great losses to our troops!"

"Oh!" Commander Pang was stunned. He looked at me with surprise, and said nothing more. He nodded: "Tell me!"

"Team Commander Pang!" I pointed to the flank of the 973 Highlands and said, "This is the weakness that the puppet army just exposed. The enemy has no way to make up for this weakness in one day. Needless to say, everyone knows it. So it is normal for this plan tonight to attack the flank of the 973 Highlands tonight! But we will think about it, how could the puppet army not think of it? If the puppet army also thought about it, how could we successfully attack it?"

"Yes!" Commander Pang frowned and nodded: "What you said makes sense, but your strategic intentions are too obvious!"

"So I think..." I continued: "If we really want to attack this direction tonight, we would be better than the *** girl who is clear and clear! The sneak attack will only cause us to suffer greater casualties! For example, lurking, and feint attack... All of this will bring unnecessary casualties to our soldiers. The puppet army already knows our intentions, and their artillery fire has been waiting in front of us!"

"Then you mean..."

"Can you consider changing the main attack target?" I pointed to the 883.7 high ground on the map and said: "The puppet army exposed a huge weakness on the 973 high ground. They thought we would attack this weakness with all our might, so it is very likely to increase troops to the 973 high ground and turn all the artillery and firepower to the 973 high ground. But we just want to give up the easy and difficult to attack the 973 high ground and attack the 883.7 high ground!"

"The puppet army has limited troops, and increasing the 973 highland means that there is insufficient reinforcements in the 883.7 highland!" Commander Pang nodded and said, "And once the 883.7 highland also falls within the territory of our army, the 973 highland is actually under the siege of our army on three sides. Even if its geographical location is higher than the two small highlands around it, it is difficult to achieve anything!"

"That's right!" I continued: "If the 883.7 highland was successfully knocked down by us, then the 973 highland could be said to be full of loopholes. The defensive loopholes just exposed on the right wing have not yet been urgently filled, and the left wing has another loophole! Moreover, the reinforced concrete fortifications built by the puppet army cannot be completed in one day or two days! At that time, we have to attack the left wing or the right wing, or the left and right wings, so we have the final say?"

"We can do this!" After a pause, I continued: "Everything is still feinted in front of the 973 Highland as planned. The difference is that we secretly put the main attack force on the 883.7 Highland, and sent a small team to the flank of the 973 Highland to create a illusion of large troops lurking. Even the 902.8 Highland stationed by my 538th Regiment still provides firepower support, making the puppet army believe that our army's main attack direction is on the flank of the 973 Highland. After the battle in the 973 Highland starts, then suddenly attack the 883.7 Highland..."

This combat plan is almost carved from the same mold as our plan to seize the 902.8 Highlands. As we all know, using similar combat plans twice in the same place can be said to be a taboo for military strategists. However, sometimes it is this military strategist, which can often catch the enemy off guard against it if it is unexpected.

"You boy!" After thinking for a while, Commander Pang couldn't help laughing: "The three high grounds called "Gyeonggi Baoliu" by the puppet army are played with by you in your palms! It deserves the misfortune of these puppet soldiers. Please don't meet you, the nemesis again in your next life!"

Soon, Commander Pang summoned cadres from the 539th Regiment and 540th Regiment to have a meeting. The protagonist of this battle was not our 538th Regiment. Commander Pang also intended to let me go back and rest, so he did not let me attend the meeting.

After returning to the regiment headquarters this time, I could no longer control my fatigue, and I didn't care about the mud and blood stains all over my body, so I fell on the bed and burped my head and fell asleep.

Maybe it was because I knew the overall situation was determined! So I slept very heavily during this sleep, and it was a long time until the rumbling sound of cannons that night shocked me from the bed.

I didn't wake up from the sound of cannons as before and immediately reach out to grab my rifle, or jump out of the bed and rush out of the tunnel as soon as possible. If it were in the past, I might have thought my reaction had become slow, but now I don't think so.

Because I have developed a habit of opening my eyes the moment I open my eyes. What’s more correct is that before I open my eyes, I recall in my mind what environment and state I was in. For example, just now, when I was awakened by the sound of cannons, I recall in my mind the fastest and fastest place I was in before going to bed. When I opened my eyes, I knew that I was in the regiment headquarters and it was very safe here. I was not in a state of war...

So I could sit up from the bed calmly, and without even touching the rifle, I grabbed the telescope and walked out of the tunnel.

It was another night of stars and moonlight. All the light came from the flames that exploded when the shells exploded on the 973 Highlands. Occasionally, a few flares would jump into the sky happily. They originally wanted to show off their brilliance in front of everyone, but they were dimly lost in the flames and smoke of the shells. However, they dragged their regretful tails into the abyss of darkness.

I raised my telescope and looked at the 973 Highland, but soon I found that there was no difference between having a telescope at this time, because there was nothing in my sight except that fire.

After more than ten minutes, the cannon sounded as soon as the charge stopped. It was the troops of a battalion of the 540th Regiment, which was launching a feint attack on the 973 position.

In the aperture of my telescope, gunfire and cannon sounds were everywhere on the front of the 973 Highland. The soldiers of a battalion spread out as scattered as possible on this side, making each battalion look like a regiment.

This seems to be very powerful, but the feint attack is very obvious. Because the 973 Heights and 902.8 Heights have the same characteristics, that is, the terrain is complex. Even without resistance, it will take about four hours for our troops to climb the 973 Heights. It is nine o'clock now, and it is only seven or eight hours before dawn. So if you really fight like this, you are afraid that you will not reach the middle of the mountain until dawn!

But this is not important. Whether the puppet army believes that we are feinting attacks or not, this is not the point. What is important is whether the puppet army believes that there are a large number of volunteer soldiers lurking on the flanks of the 973 Highland.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but turn my gaze to the flank of the 973 Highland. Although it was still dark and there was nothing to see, I knew that there was a small team lurking there, a small team that wanted to make the puppet army mistakenly think that there were a large number of volunteer soldiers here preparing to launch a raid from this direction.

What method will they use to create this illusion? At this time, I couldn't help but feel curious.

This task seems simple, but it is not easy.

Let the soldiers distract and shoot guns to attract the attention of the enemy?

As we all know, our army has extremely strict discipline when lurking. Even if the shells explode beside us and the incendiary bombs are burning on our bodies, they will still be able to move them. Then someone will take a gun to attack the enemy's position? This is too obvious!

Pull up a large army to charge towards the enemy's positions?

This can indeed achieve the goal of fooling the enemy, but... the puppet army's artillery fire and machine gun swept, and the number of casualties in our army will not be small. If this is the result, then there is actually no difference between a real charge or a fake charge!

With a "boom!", a fire exploded on the flank of the 973 position. At this time, the aperture of my telescope was facing this part, so I clearly saw that there were five or six soldiers in the fire that were overturned to the ground, and one of them was flew directly into the sky.

It's a landmine! I couldn't help but feel ache in my heart, knowing that this was a small team lurking on the flank of 973 and stepped on the landmine.

Why were they so accidentally stepping on a landmine at this time? I couldn't help but frown and thought that this plan was ruined.

But just when I was disappointed, there was another explosion more than two hundred meters away, and this time there were seven or eight volunteer soldiers in the fire.

Impossible! Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but be shocked. Aren't the soldiers lurking in the 973 Highlands only one team? As I think, there will be no more than one squad! How could they be so accidentally stepping on landmines one after another, and they are still in such a dense formation to step on landmines. There are actually seven or eight people around a mine...

At this moment, I suddenly realized something and couldn't help but look at the side of 973 in disbelief.

I suddenly understood what method they used to make the enemy believe that there were a large number of volunteer soldiers lurking here. This method was to step on landmines! I couldn't believe this was true, because I didn't think anyone would step on it without hesitation even though they knew there was a landmine in front of them, or even stepped on it in groups!

But they did it! They did it on purpose, but they did it on purpose, and even calculated the distance between them! Landmines in two places more than 200 meters away exploded at about the same time, which could easily create an illusion for people, that is, the area is full of people...

So soon a row of flares hit the top of the mountain position, and the pale and dazzling light shone the entire side of the 973 position clearly. The critical moment has come, can the puppet army truly believe it? It is only a moment to see it.

I turned the aperture of the telescope to the area where the mine exploded just now, but was surprised to find that there was nothing there. Deaths and injuries, wounded, blood... there was no shadow at all, as if nothing had happened.

The volunteer soldiers were obviously ready to hide the bodies of the casualties under the mines as quickly as possible.

I have to admit that this psychological tactic is indeed very clever. This is what we often say in idioms, "it is more obvious if you want to cover it." The more hidden it means that more people are hidden in this area. And what is more clever is that there are occasionally some flowers, plants or small trees in the grass in this area. The movement is very light, and you can't find it without careful observation. But it is precisely this way, which can achieve the best effect...

The feint attack on the front, the mine explosion on the side and the intentional hiding of the corpse, coupled with these abnormal movements, quickly made the puppet army believe everything, so before the flares went dark, waves of shells came from the sky!

Then the radial explosion of artillery fire burned the sides of the entire 973 Highland. What surprised me even more was that with a sharp and strange roar, more than a dozen fighter planes emerged from the clouds, including Mustangs and pirates, and several night flight aircraft "Black Widows" equipped with night vision instruments.

These aircraft were obviously ready for combat at an air force base behind the front line, and came to reinforce after the war began. It was even possible that they had already hovered around here, waiting for the puppet troops to send a signal of assistance to them, and then emerged from the clouds to join the war.

Their bombing targets were obvious. They ignored the volunteer soldiers who were feinting the front of the 973 Highland. As soon as they dived, they dropped one incendiary bomb after another on the side of the highland...

"Boom..." With a few loud noises, the entire side of the 973 Highland was instantly trapped in a blazing fire, and the entire sky was illuminated red. In the blink of an eye, the "suspicious area" could no longer find a living creature except for the crackling plants that were still in pain.

The US military's planes actually made an exception to join the war!

It is said that before this battle, the disagreement between the US military and the Rhee regime was well known to the world, so the US military has always adopted a silent attitude towards our attack. The Americans actually wanted to use our hands to teach the disobedient Rhee regime a lesson.

But this time, the US military obviously also knew the importance of the three high grounds in front of us to the puppet army's defense line. Once these three high grounds fall into our hands, the puppet army's defense line will be very likely to be torn apart by our army and threaten them who are defending on the second line.

Besides, if the puppet army was defeated too much and lost too much land, Eisenhower would not be able to fulfill his decent promise to end the war! Therefore, both public and private, the US military must help the puppet army in this battle.

But what they didn't know was that all this was a ***! When things developed to this point, the situation was no longer something they could control. The puppet army could not do it, nor did the US army!
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