Chapter 62 Like a Hose

The puppet army was not in a hurry, so we were anxious. Obviously, if this continues, although the puppet army cannot remove our thorns, they can easily complete the task, because the ferry and highway are already in their hands.

The puppet army achieved its strategic goal, which means that our mission of intercepting the puppet army's deserters was not completed. Although the volunteer army occupied the dangerous position of the 585.2 Highland, it compressed us on the highland because the puppet army's top regiment had a large number of Patton tanks and speedboats.

Is this? More than twenty Patton tanks, plus more than a dozen Sherman and Xiafei who arrived later, a total of thirty-seven tanks surrounded the 585.2 highland like an iron barrel, surrounded us and was in a mess. It can be imagined that once the puppet army deserters retreated here, all we could do was to fire some cold guns to increase the casualties of the puppet army, and there was no way to stop them from retreating.

"Captain! This is not a solution..." Looking at the gray sky outside the tunnel, listening to the sound of gunfires getting closer and closer in the north, Liu Shunyi couldn't help but say with some concern: "The superior sent a telegram saying that the battle situation on the front line of Jincheng was developing very smoothly, and the puppet army could not resist our army's attack at all, and perhaps it would collapse on the whole line soon!"

I understand Liu Shunyi's words. Once the puppet army collapses across the board, it is time for us to play a role, but now we are trapped on the 585.2 high ground and can't move!

"Captain! Look at it..." Li Pinghe said hesitantly: "Did you organize the commando to rush down..."

"Storm down? How to rush?" I frowned and said, "Didn't you see the tanks arranged by the puppet army at the foot of the mountain? This is rushing down in broad daylight? What should we use to deal with the Patton tanks? Use explosive packs to blow it up? Use the lives of the soldiers to hit the enemy's muzzle?"

"But what should I do if the tasks assigned to us by my superiors?" Li Pinghe said anxiously: "Sacrifice is inevitable. I believe that with the courage and spirit of the soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice, they can definitely defeat the paper tiger in front of them!"

"Captain! Let us go to the camp!" Wang Xin said impatiently: "The guards of the Ferry and the Second Battalion, I will issue an order to rush down and take back the Ferry!"

"Captain! Our battalion is on the battalion!" Hu Biao snatched up and said, "The first battalion guards the intersection of Huachuan Road. Let the enemy rush in and make the battle situation like this. Our battalion has no responsibility! Don't worry, regiment commander, even if no one of the battalions comes back, they will still pull out those iron lumps!"

I gritted my teeth and said nothing. Of course, the soldiers' statements also make some sense. If we were trapped on the 585.2 high ground, and we didn't even try to break through and fight back, then our regiment will definitely be disgraced in the volunteer army in the future, especially the 538th regiment, which is the ace unit of the 180th Division.

I know that if you rush on like this, there will be no change in the result. It is nothing more than sacrificing your life to save the honor of the 538th Regiment, or saving your life to make others laugh at!

For the soldiers, honor is more important than their lives, so they all do it even though they know they cannot do it. But for me, they are more willing to save their lives! I would rather the puppet army deserters slipped away in front of us, rather letting down the expectations of Commander Pang, and rather not be able to raise their heads in front of others...

"Captain, come on!" Liu Shunyi also persuaded: "It's been more than half a day. If the puppet troops retreat later, it will be too late!"

I didn't answer, and after a while I said in a muffled voice: "Is there any news from the scout?"

As the saying goes, knowing that the enemy is invincible for a hundred battles. When the battle was fierce before dawn, I sent scouts to investigate the deployment of the puppet army, but there was no news until this time.

Liu Shunyi shook his head and said only two words: "Maybe..."

Everyone knows what this means later. The puppet army *** regiment is not an ordinary force, and it is not an easy task to reconnaise in the area they defend.

But as he was talking, a telegraph soldier suddenly shouted excitedly: "It's Platoon Commander Chen..."

"What?" The soldiers couldn't help but turn their eyes to the direction of the radio.

The telegraph soldier did not dare to be distracted. He quickly copied a series of telegraph codes on the paper. Then another telegraph soldier opened the password to translate. After a while, a piece of telegraph was handed to me.

I took it and saw that there were only a few words written on it, the main force of the puppet army and the regiment headquarters were on the 522.1 Highland.

522.1 Highland...I didn't spend much time finding its location on the map. What surprised me was that its location was not in the direction of Huachuan, but between the 539th Regiment and the 538th Regiment...

I looked at each other with the soldiers, no wonder the comrades in the reconnaissance platoon found them until then. I didn't expect that the main force of the *** regiment had crossed the high ground where we were and left behind us. It was obvious that the purpose of their doing this was to cut off the 538th regiment and the 539th regiment.

Now, we are truly surrounded by the enemy and are extremely moved! Originally, I hoped that Li Weiqiang's third battalion could cooperate with the 539th Regiment to break through the front line of the puppet army's defense line in one fell swoop, and then kill and return the rifle... But now it seems that this only hope is gone.

"Captain! Go!" At this time, even Li Guoqiang, who had been silent, agreed to break through like this.

I still didn't say anything, and I kept thinking about one thing in my head: Is it meaningful to fight like this? What else can I get except for letting the soldiers fall under the enemy's gun? Honor? This thing may be very important to the soldiers, and may also be very important to the 538th Regiment. But for me, if I know that there is no victory and exchange it for blood and life, it means that I am not responsible for the lives of the soldiers and irresponsible to the relatives waiting for them to return to China in the country!

"Captain! Give the order!"

"Give an order!"

...

"Shut up!" I was annoyed by the soldiers, and Wuming yelled at them: "Are you the regiment commander or I the regiment commander? Can you control the orders if you can give me?"

With my fierceness, all the soldiers were silent, and they stood beside each other without saying a word.

I pointed at their noses in a muffled voice and said, "If you don't obey my command and think that my regiment command is inappropriate, you can ask the division headquarters to replace me, the regiment commander! Otherwise, you will not be whispering next to me!"

The tunnel was terriblely quiet, and even the telegraph soldiers and telephone soldiers stopped their movements, with only the sound of gunfire outside the tunnel, and there was still no sound.

After a long time, Hu Biao said: "Captain, we firmly obey your command!"

"Yes! Resolutely obey the command of the regiment commander!"

"The leader said that we can fight whatever we want!"

...

Other soldiers responded one after another.

"Yeah!" I nodded and said, "Everyone returns to your post to strengthen the fortifications, don't always think about strong attacks..."

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, without saying anything, and retreated out of the tunnel.

After a while, Li Pinghe handed me a cigarette and said, "Is it necessary to get so much fire? The soldiers didn't say that you were inappropriate in command. They were all people who have followed you for so long, so how can they not trust you?"

I took a deep breath, took the cigarette and lit it and started to smoke hard, and said, "I know they didn't mean that, but I don't force them like this. When will they finish? I need time to think carefully about how to solve this problem!"

"I think it is necessary to ask for instructions from the division headquarters!" Li Pinghe suggested.

"Yeah!" After a while, I nodded heavily.

In fact, the best way to rule responsibility. If the division headquarters asks us to attack, then I will not be sorry to the soldiers under my command, because this is the order of the division headquarters. The soldiers regard obeying orders as their duty, and I am just obeying orders. If the division headquarters asks us to stick to it, then even if the task is not completed in the end, then I will have an explanation from my superiors.

But I don't want to do this, because I believe that Commander Pang will let us attack and find a way to complete the task.

If Commander Pang really let us attack, what should I do? Can I explain it to my comrades who died on the battlefield with just obeying the order? Is it enough to explain to their relatives?

But now it seems that it is not enough not to ask for instructions, so I nodded and said, "Send a telegram to the division headquarters to explain the situation, please give me instructions!"

"Okay!" Li Pinghe seemed to know what I was thinking very much, and nodded and walked towards the radio station.

I took a few deep puffs of cigarettes and buried myself in the smoke. I am not a person who will regret doing things, because I know it is useless to regret it, but this time I do regret it. If I had not passed through the small path, the battle would also end as smoothly as historical development, and the soldiers of the 538th Regiment would not be in this dilemma. What am I doing for?

"Captain!" When I lit the second cigarette, Li Pinghe handed over a telegram and said, "Teacher Pang understands the situation, but he did not give it further instructions. He only said that you are fully responsible. Captain Cui will fight whatever he wants, and all responsibilities will be borne by Commander Pang!"

I was stunned when I heard this, and looked at Li Pinghe in shock, then looked at the telegram on the desktop. It was indeed as Li Pinghe said.

What kind of trust is this! Even if the general is not responsible for his life in the foreign army, it is difficult to achieve such a pressure as Commander Pang. He will bear all the responsibilities? Could it be that he will bear the responsibility for me to escape with the troops? Does that mean that I can maintain the situation in this way, and we can't conquer the puppet army's *** regiment cannot attack us... Until the puppet army deserters passed by and waited for our army's large troops to arrive, then everything would be fine?

No! If I do this, I feel sorry for the trust that Commander Pang has in me!

Commander Pang is so powerful! He knows his personality clearly, knowing that I am a person who is soft and not hard. If he uses orders to suppress me to attack, I will probably turn against others for the lives of the soldiers. But now...

I had to turn my attention to the 585.2 high ground on the map again, trying to find out the loopholes in the puppet army's defense!

The *** regiment is worthy of being the *** regiment. Looking at the 585.2 highland, as well as tanks, speedboats, etc., I really can't find any place to attack.

To the south, although the puppet army had relatively few tanks, only two or three for patrol missions, and there were only one symbolic platoon at the ferry. However, a Northern Han River was crossing the middle, and there were three speedboats on the river water to reconnaise, and on the south bank there were two companies of puppet troops deployed. Such defense made it impossible for us to cause effective impact on the enemy at all, because we could not quickly cross the Northern Han River under such circumstances.

To the north, more than 20 puppet troops formed a steel defense line in the open area at the foot of the mountain, followed by fortifications built by a battalion of puppet troops. If we rushed to this side, we would not only deal with the strafing of puppet troops and tanks, but also a large minefield in front of the position.

In the direction of Huachuan intersection, the puppet army just easily swung four or five tanks behind the intersection... If we want to attack in this direction, we will undoubtedly concentrate all the soldiers at the intersection and face the crazy strafing of enemy machine guns and cannons...

As the saying goes, success is Xiao He and failure is Xiao He. The special terrain of the 585.2 highland is very beneficial to our defense, but it also prevents us from attacking the enemies that besieged us.

But now, I have to find a way to defeat the enemy from this iron barrel siege!

We are not going to break through, but to defeat the puppet army! I told myself over and over again: Only by defeating them can we block the puppet army deserters who retreated later.

How much time do we have? I don’t know, at this time I even hope that the puppet troops in the direction of Jincheng can hold on for a while.

We don’t have to pay attention to the defenses of the puppet army’s south, because the puppet army deserters came from the north when they retreated here. If they could reach the ferry through the open area of ​​several kilometers north, it actually means that we are unable to stop them from fleeing south. Therefore, the focus of the attack is undoubtedly on the north.

The minefield can be solved, at worst, just use a mortar to blow out a way. But how can I rush through the defense line composed of tanks and infantry? In my mind, it seems that the soldiers are constantly rushing towards the enemy's defense line and then falling under the enemy's guns and cannons in batches. This scene seems to have been seen somewhere, right! It's in the Tinping! The facts have proved that such a sea of ​​people is useless.

Damn! How did the Volunteer Army defeat this *** regiment in history!

Thinking of this, I was stunned... Why did I forget this? The surprise attack on the *** regiment! I sent a reconnaissance platoon to take over the *** regiment headquarters, and also exploded the puppet army's oil depot and ammunition depot, causing the puppet army's originally tight defense line to collapse.

But this *** regiment is not the other *** regiment. Now that the *** regiment has arrived, can we still use this surprise attack? Even if we can, we are surrounded and cannot send a reconnaissance to discharge it!

With a problem that I couldn't solve, I walked towards the tunnel entrance with heavy steps.

The pouring rain made the whole world gray, and the sky was almost dark at this time, so the visibility was very low. Even the speedboats passing by the North Han River could only see a little shadow, and the puppet troops arranged on the south bank disappeared.

The whole world seemed very calm. Apart from the occasional sound of motors from tanks and speedboats at the foot of the mountain, it was not like a battlefield at all. But I knew that this place would soon become a battlefield full of killing and death. The water of the Beihan River was destined to be dyed red by blood.

At this time, the figures of several volunteer soldiers broke into my sight. One soldier, another injured soldier, was following a sanitary officer, and he seemed to be holding something high in his hand. When they approached, I saw clearly that he was holding an infusion bottle, and the potion was constantly being input from a hose to the wounded's body...

Rubber pipe? When I saw it like a hose, I couldn't help but remember the methods of puppet army agents hiding in the water to avoid our army's search. They can use it, why can't we use it?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel happy. In three or two steps, I walked to the map on the desktop, and then punched the map and shouted excitedly: "I have it! Just hit it like that!"

"Captain! Have you thought of a solution?" Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe immediately came up.

"Um!" I couldn't help but be stunned. The relationship was fascinated just now and didn't pay attention to their existence at all.

"I knew the leader would have a solution!" Liu Shunyi said excitedly: "Captain, tell me quickly! Don't fight the puzzle with us!"

"Look!" I nodded and pointed to the Beihan River at the foot of the 585.2 highland mountain and said: "At this location, we just need to get off the mountain and cross the road to the Beihan River. After it gets dark, we just need to avoid the tanks carefully, and it will be difficult for the puppet troops to discover us!"

"Yes!" Li Pinghe nodded.

This is not that the puppet troops were not strictly guarded, but that they did not expect that we would sneak into the Northern Han River.

"Go down the Beihan River..." My fingers stretched down the Beihan River on the map, and soon arrived at the 522.1 Highland where the puppet army is located, and said, "About two kilometers away, we will reach the 522.1 Highland where the main force of the puppet army and the regiment headquarters are located! I mean, send a small team to directly attack the puppet army's *** troops and blow up the oil and ammunition depots that may be stored there!"

"Captain!" Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe looked at each other and asked with a confused look on their faces: "This is a good method, but there are three speedboats of puppet troops patrolling the North Han River, and there are puppet troops everywhere on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Can our teams...can they travel so far without being discovered by the enemy?"

"Who said I let them swim over?" I smiled in a pretentious way.

"That leader means..." Listening to my words, Liu Shunyi and Li Pinghe were even more confused.
Chapter completed!