Chapter 75: The Eternal

The puppet army suicide squad launched suicide charges on our positions one after another, but each charge was completely defeated by the soldiers. The so-called "one-game moves, then declines, and three-exhaust", this sentence makes sense, especially the puppet army suicide squad and our army suicide squad fight each other, and courage is even more important. Therefore, after the puppet army suicide squad was defeated by the soldiers for the first time, I knew that it was impossible for the puppet army to occupy our high ground with the tactics of suicide squads.

Sure enough, after the first failure, the charge of the puppet army suicide squad was weaker and weaker, and the pressure put on us was smaller and smaller. In addition, the tactic of charging with explosives and cluster grenades between each other, the volunteers on the top of the mountain obviously had many geographical advantages. Therefore, until the sky became dark, the puppet army suicide squad did not make any progress, and finally had to give up the charge and rest for a while.

The puppet army was not willing to make us feel better when they were resting. They always immediately shot pieces of shells onto our positions when the troops retreated. This is understandable for them. For those who were surrounded by us, these shells could not be taken away anyway. Knocking them as many of them as possible can reduce the burden, prevent the shells from being captured by the volunteers, and cause certain casualties to us stationed on the 585.2 high ground. No matter how bad it is, it can prevent us from getting a good rest. It can be said that it can kill the numbers in one fell swoop...

On the battlefield, both sides will always do their best to torture the opponent and make it uncomfortable! Although I understand this principle, I still can't help but curse the puppet army in my heart: Why can't these guys let us rest for a few minutes? After fighting all day, I was surrounded by fatigue, especially soaking in the dirty water and mud all over, which made me very uncomfortable.

I was soaked in water for too long and made my whole body feel edema. The most obvious thing was my feet, which squeezed so hard that my shoes were bulging and bloated. When I stepped on it, I felt like I wanted to spread my shoes open. At the same time, my hands also had layers of white wrinkles, especially the index finger of my right hand who was pulling the trigger. Due to the long-term soaking in my hands and pulling the trigger too frequently, the flesh had been worn off without realizing it, revealing a piece of white bones inside.

Humans are very strange animals. They would not notice these things when fighting the puppet army. At that time, we only wanted to pull the trigger and shoot bullets as quickly as possible, and do everything possible to keep the puppet army out of our firepower. Once the puppet army retreated and gave us a little chance to breathe, our whole body relaxed, and all the hunger, fatigue and pain were like a plague that infected the entire army. The soldiers in the trench collapsed almost at the same time as the puppet army retreated. Although their stomachs were so hungry that they were roaring and there was fried noodles in the dry food belt, no one was willing to move!

Although I am also a veteran, I have experienced many hard wars in my previous battles, such as marching endlessly for days and nights, such as enduring uninterrupted bombings by the US military in the tunnel for several days, and for example, dealing with the enemy through the tunnel in Shangganling...

But I feel that everything before is not as difficult as it is at this moment. I think there are two reasons. First, it is that the whole body is soaked in dirty water that makes me feel very upset. More importantly, I know that the war is about to end soon. Everyone says that the darkness before dawn is the most unbearable, and now I have finally deeply realized this.

There was a voice in my heart that I kept telling myself that if I could hold on for a while, the battle would end, but another voice would hide in the corner and cry... I really felt like I wanted to cry, and I really wanted to cry loudly in the roaring cannons, shouting: I can't hold on anymore, so I might as well just cut it off!

But I knew I could not do this because I was a regiment commander and I had hundreds of people under my command. I think they should be on the verge of collapse like me at this time. Their eyes were staring at me and thought I was my role model. If I did this, the confidence and courage of the soldiers would be completely collapsed in this moment...

In the darkness, several soldiers ran up along the traffic trench in flames. They should have been arranged by Liu Shunyi to rescue the wounded and replace the overly tired soldiers. However, because it was dark and they were wrapped in mud, they did not recognize each other. In a trance, I only felt that the figures and movements of these soldiers were very familiar, but they had no strength or energy to shout, and just watched them walk past me!

"Captain Cui! It's Captain Cui, Captain Cui is here..."

Suddenly a soldier discovered me and shouted that the soldiers turned around and gathered beside me. Only then did I realize that they were here to look for me. Then I looked closely and realized that it was Li Pinghe, Lin Xue and Jin Qiulian.

Jin Qiulian didn't care what others thought, and at the same time, she didn't care whether I would object or not. She pulled my hand and pulled it back and carried me on her back. The cat lowered her body and ran downwards to the ground.

She has this kind of personality, bold and a little bit savage, and immediately starts doing whatever she thinks. I believe that Lin Xue would think in her heart the moment she saw me, but her personality made her hesitate, so she let Jin Qiulian take the lead.

Perhaps because Jin Qiulian had been a sanitary officer for a long time, she was familiar with the road of getting off the position with the wounded on her back, but after a while, she carried me into an anti-aircraft hole. I noticed that the anti-aircraft hole was newly dug, which could accommodate more than a dozen people, and was supported by rows of logs. The dim light of the kerosene lamp illuminated the five or six soldiers in the tunnel, and were as weak as me. Some of them were injured. At a glance, you could tell that it was just carried back from the battlefield. Several health workers were nervously cleaning and bandaging their wounds...

I think this anti-aircraft hole was a place where the soldiers on standby on the backside reinforced the tunnel to accommodate the wounded. It seems that they were not idle when we were fighting the puppet suicide squad.

But... I soon thought that this anti-aircraft hole is now a very precious place. The puppet army's shells were blown up outside, but the soldiers who built this anti-aircraft hole would rather be bombed outside than give this anti-aircraft hole that could be said to be a life-long anti-aircraft hole to us who had just come down from the front line!

Human beings often reveal their nature when they are alive and die. In real life, too many people usually call themselves brothers, but at the critical moment of life and death, they stab their brothers in the back without hesitation. But at this time, what I feel is the courtesy between the volunteer soldiers.

What kind of courtesy is this? It is a courtesy that would rather put yourself in danger than give others more chances of survival! How many people can do this courtesy? Even brothers may not be able to do it! But the volunteer soldiers did it, and it was not just one or two!

I straightened my body and wanted to sit up. Jin Qiulian held me and asked unhappily: "What do you want to do?"

"I'm not hurt!" I replied unbearably: "Give the place to the injured comrades!"

"I said I was not injured, it looks like you are tired..." Jin Qiulian's voice choked up at the end of her speech. Don't turn her face and check my body on her own.

"Captain!" Li Pinghe and Lin Xue lifted the anti-cannon hole and followed in. Li Pinghe turned his eyes to Jin Qiulian and asked, "How is the situation? You are not injured!"

Jin Qiulian shook her head and quickly handed the kettle into my mouth, answering: "Like other comrades, they are hungry and tired!"

Then he raised the index finger of my right hand, raised his head at Li Pinghe, and said, "There is this..."

Li Pinghe looked at my index finger, which had already exposed the bones, and couldn't help but gasp, and involuntarily turned his eyes to Lin Xue, who had been following him and didn't speak.

Like others, Lin Xue's dirty face was stained everywhere, but I still saw her care, fear, panic and powerlessness in her eyes.

This cannot be blamed for her. As a recruit who has just been on the battlefield, she has to go through such a difficult scene before fighting many battles. I think no matter who it is, she will be afraid of. What's more, she is still a woman and a *** child.

I pretended to be relaxed and smiled at her, wanting her not to worry about me. But this smile didn't matter. Lin Xue felt sad when she looked at me for no reason, and two lines of tears fell down like pearls with broken threads.

Jin Qiulian, who was bandaging my wound, obviously stopped the movements on her hands. She looked at me with a strange look and then looked at Lin Xue. Lin Xue seemed to feel something, wiped her eyes and looked at us with tears, with a little unnatural look in her eyes. Li Pinghe pushed her glasses and shook her head helplessly. The atmosphere in the anti-cannon hole was extremely awkward, and I didn't know what to say!

"Hmm!" Li Pinghe broke the silence with a cough and said to Lin Xue: "Sister Xue, go and make some fried noodles for the group leader!"

"Hmm..." Lin Xue responded, lowered her head and took a cup of water from the corner, but she seemed to be completely unconscious of her hands, so much fried noodles were spilled out.

"Okay!" After Jin Qiulian bandaged my fingers, she looked at the other places and saw that there was no big problem. She secretly pulled it hard on my butt. It hurt so much that I grinned my teeth but didn't dare to scream. She could only use her eyes to express her ***. Unexpectedly, Jin Qiulian raised her head with a "hum" sound, and a winning smile appeared on her face, as if she was demonstrating to me.

I never expected this piece of paper to be broken under such circumstances. But to be honest, I didn't care much about them knowing each other. On this battlefield of life and death, I even had the desire to die, so I wouldn't care about these emotional issues! So even if they both ignored me at this time, I would laugh it off.

Only when we are unable to make sure whether we can live or not can we truly understand that life is the most important thing, so I really can't imagine how anyone would rather give up their lives because of the failure of love! Such behavior is really too luxurious for us. We have gone through a lot of hardships, tried our best to save our lives and defend the lives of thousands of people in the motherland, but they easily gave up their lives for a simple reason!

"Captain!" Lin Xue handed the prepared fried noodles to me, and looked at me secretly and lowered her head.

I was about to reach out to pick it up, but Jin Qiulian grabbed it. While scooping a spoonful into my mouth, I said with concern: "Your finger is injured, so I'll feed you! Eat slowly..."

"Or...I'll do it myself!" Looking at Lin Xue, who had a blushing face and seemed to have suffered a lot of grievances, I glared at Jin Qiulian in a heart-wrenching manner, and snatched the cup and swallowed it.

After half a cup of fried noodles, I felt the strength in my body recovered bit by bit. But I had a bad habit, which often wanted to sleep when I was full. In addition, I had not had a good rest for more than a day, and I had been tightly shattering a nerve to fight the enemy. At this time, I had enough food and drink, and my fatal fatigue hit my eyebrows like an unstoppable army. My eyelids were as heavy as if they were stuck. I fell asleep in a daze without even being anxious to put down the cup...

"Captain! Leader..." Hearing someone calling me in a daze, he woke up suddenly, reached out and grabbed the rifle beside him and wanted to walk out.

"Captain, Commander!" Several people next to me hurriedly stopped me: "Now is not the time to go out and fight to the death. I have to think of a way to make a decision!"

"What? What's the solution?" Looking at Liu Shunyi beside me, Li Pinghe, Li Guoqiang and others, I took a long time to react and asked quickly: "What's the situation? Is the enemy attacking?"

"Not yet!" Liu Shunyi reported: "But the observer found that the enemy gathered from our flank to the back slope, perhaps because he wanted to surround the back from the back, trying to attack three sides to take our position in one fell swoop!"

I shook my head so that I could wake up completely. I looked at the map that Liu Shunyi spread out in front of me and asked: "How long have I been sleeping?"

"After ten minutes..." Li Pinghe replied with some apology: "Because of an emergency, so..."

"Yeah!" I nodded and interrupted Li Pinghe and asked, "Where are the puppet troops gathering!"

"Here, there are also... there are two companies in each place, and the troops are still increasing!" Liu Shunyi pointed to several locations on the map and said: "The actions of the puppet army are very secretive. They do not use flares or turn on searchlights. They secretly arrange troops while shelling our positions. If I had not arranged several sharpshooters equipped with night vision devices to observe everywhere in advance, they would not have discovered their actions!"

"Yeah!" Looking at the several locations marked on the map by Liu Shunyi, I couldn't help but frown. Before, I only thought that the puppet army was not good at night battles, but I didn't expect that the puppet army would have to fight in this situation, and they seemed to have found the advantage of night battles. That is, they could easily bypass the firepower of the opposite flank path of our army and come to our back slope in the darkness.

585.2 There is a path on the left wing of the highland, and the right wing is the road from Huachuan to Jincheng. If it is during the day, both roads are under the firepower of our army. Especially the path that only accommodates two and three people side by side, our army seems to have to set up two machine guns on the top of the mountain to block the enemy north of the path.

But... it was another situation when it was dark. We could not use uninterrupted artillery fire to drive the road like the US military, and there were not so many flares that kept these two roads in bright conditions. So the problem arose. We could not implement the two roads at night, so that the puppet army could easily circumvent our backscene and even escape from the Huachuan intersection!

Of course, I believe that the puppet army would not choose to escape under such circumstances! The 585.2 high ground is still in our hands. If the army wants to escape, it will be lined up in a long line without any ends. We will fire a few shells and sweep a machine gun at the foot of the mountain and make them unable to stand it!

Their purpose is very obvious, just as Liu Shunyi said, sending commandos around us, trying to pull out our nail through several sieges!

The strategy of the puppet army is obviously very correct. The backslope has always been the weakness of our army's defense. On this side, it is difficult to build decent fortifications due to the low terrain and rainfall. Even the trenches can only be dug a small trenches. More importantly, our artillery positions are in the north. With the principle of the combat of the backslope, it is difficult for our artillery to carry out an effective blow to the puppet army attacking the backslope...

"Where is the comrade of the Twentieth Corps?" I asked in a muffled voice. Now this is my most concerned question.

"Here!" Liu Shunyi pointed to the map and said, "It's still eight kilometers away from us, and it's raining again. In addition, the puppet army blocked it along the way, so the advance speed is very slow!"

"How many comrades do we have to fight?" I asked again.

Liu Shunyi lowered his head and said heavily: "The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, only more than 300 people left! But the soldiers have a strong fighting will!"

This is the Volunteer Army! A unit with more than 2,000 people has not yet collapsed, and it is still able to hold its position. This is almost unimaginable for the United ***. Because according to the standards of the US military, if more than half of the casualties are killed or injured, it can be said that a force has lost its combat effectiveness. If this standard is followed, our unit should have been disbanded long ago, but we are still here! And no one mentioned "breaking through"...
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