"Captain!" While I was thinking about how to deal with the puppet army, Hu Zudi took a carbine with a night vision device and drilled into the anti-cannon hole and reported: "The puppet army has been assembled, and I believe it will launch an attack on our position soon!"

"Go to observe again! Pay close attention to the enemy's actions and report it immediately whenever there is any situation!" Without waiting for my answer, Liu Shunyi gave an order on my behalf.

"Yes!" Hu Zudi, who was panting, responded, and without saying a word, he crawled out again with a gun.

"Captain..." Li Pinghe said hesitantly: "Do we... should we consider breaking through..."

No one spoke, and the soldiers all turned their attention to me.

I know what the soldiers mean, in fact, it is natural to consider breaking through at this time. It seems that it is difficult for us to play any role here. The puppet army not only has much more troops than us, but also has also blocked our soft threat. I believe that any commander who is not a dead war will think of breaking through.

Of course... I thought about it too. And I believe that the purpose of the puppet army is to open a gap in the encirclement for a year, so if we use artillery to break out for us, I believe that the puppet army will not make things too difficult for us. They are not anxious to escape, and there is no room for leisure to chase us...

but!

What I am worried about is the point before. If the puppet army in front of me escaped, will it affect the entire history and postpone the end of the Korean War?

If it weren't for this, I would have taken the soldiers out long ago! Whether from my own perspective or from the perspective of protecting the lives of the soldiers, I would have done this! Even if Commander Pang uses military orders to suppress me here and stick here, it would be useless. I have never been a person who obeys orders!

But... I dare not take this risk. Although I know that even if I take the soldiers out and fight out, history will probably follow the original trajectory, but what if... if... history does not follow the original route after I fight out? What if we just persist for a few more seconds and the large volunteer army will come over? That means that I killed more than 300 soldiers, and even my own lives, and even the process of world peace!

The slogan of world peace seems a bit big, but the reality is indeed the case. More than a dozen participating countries are trapped in this. If the war continues to develop, it is very likely that it will become World War III. And all of this is about to end. Can I take this risk for these more than 300 lives?

"Captain! Make a decision quickly! If you are late, you won't be in a hurry!" Liu Shunyi looked at me in confusion. In fact, it was not just Liu Shunyi, Li Pinghe, Li Guoqiang and others who were also full of doubts. What they didn't understand was that I, who always gave orders very straightforwardly in my daily life, would hesitate for this matter now? What they didn't know was what kind of struggle I was in my heart.

"Captain!" Li Guoqiang pulled out the box cannon inserted at his waist and said, "Give an order! If you break through, let our 7th Company cover. There are more than 50 people in our 7th Company, so we promise to drag the puppet army to the position!"

"No!" I shook my head and finally made a decision: "We must stand on the 585.2 high ground and live and die with the position!"

The soldiers did not object. It can be seen that they were not afraid of death, but were waiting for my order. If I ordered a breakthrough, they would be happy to abide by it. If I ordered to persevere, they would not show any weakness.

"Captain!" Only Li Pinghe said with some difficulty: "Would we consider it again? The soldiers are very tired. In this case, we have little chance of defending..."

"No need to think about it anymore!" I said gritting my teeth: "From now on, what we need to consider is how to withstand the enemy's attack that is likely to come!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded.

Liu Shunyi thought about it and pointed to the map and said, "The enemies on both sides of the north and the east are easy to deal with. As long as we set up a few soldiers equipped with night vision instruments and artillery observers to cooperate, we can mobilize artillery fire to attack them! Moreover, the fortifications on both sides are relatively strong. If we arrange a company to defend, I believe that we can still defeat the enemy! It's just the enemy in the south..."

When Liu Shunyi said this, he stopped talking, but the soldiers understood the difficulties. The soldiers fought fiercely for a day and a night without any rest, and they had to constantly avoid the bombing of the puppet army artillery fire. Each soldier was seriously overdrawn. A company defended the front, and the back slope was at most more than 100 people. Can more than 100 exhausted soldiers stop the charge of a battalion of the puppet army?

It is definitely not possible to fight hard! I also realized this. After all, manpower is limited. Just as the charge of the puppet army's suicide squad cannot work. It is often impossible to get benefits on the battlefield with courage and fearlessness! So we must win with wisdom...

How can I win with wisdom? I couldn't help but turn my eyes to the darkness outside the tunnel. At this time, it was pouring rain outside. The thunder and the explosions of the puppet army's shells symphony. The fire and lightning produced by the explosion appeared and disappeared from time to time, and it was hard to tell each other. Occasionally, there were a few lights from searchlights, but it seemed so insignificant in the layers of rain that the light we saw was not as bright as the flashlight.

Darkness! Yes, it's darkness!

This is where I can use it. Looking at the holes outside the tunnel with poor visibility due to the layers of rain curtains, a feeling of familiarity surged into my consciousness.

This is like on the night when the sun was gone on, the searchlights and flares could not allow the soldiers to identify each other, so when our army counterattacked the surface positions on Shangganling, there were also "friendly casualties" caused by two companies misunderstandings. Since our army would have "friendly casualties" in this situation, why can't I let the puppet army be friendly too?

That’s right! Thinking of this, I immediately grabbed the map, looked at the triangular heights of the 585.2 highland on the map, pondered for a while and said: “We must concentrate all our troops on the east side, and only a small number of troops are left on the top of the mountain position!”

"What?" The soldiers all gave me a surprised look.

Liu Shunyi asked in confusion: "Captain, is it a fight like this..."

I shook my head and refused to let him continue talking. Time is tight now, and I only have very little time to arrange it, so I can't tolerate others interrupting.

I quickly sorted out my thoughts in my mind, and pointed to the position and said: "Our soldiers can defend at the beginning of the day. When the battle is in full swing, I will mobilize artillery to bomb the positions in the east. At this time, our main force must quickly attack in the east and hide it quickly!"

"Captain!" Li Guoqiang asked: "In this way, we can easily be accidentally injured by our army's artillery shells..."

"So we have to dig some anti-aircraft holes in the east-west location in advance!" I continued: "As soon as our army moved to the east-west direction, all the soldiers were hiding in the anti-aircraft holes waiting for orders!"

The soldiers listened to my combat plan and stared at me in discomfort. No one knew what medicine I sold in this gourd!

"Well, regiment commander!" Liu Shunyi deserves to be a person who has worked as a deputy regiment commander. He is knowledgeable and first understands my intention. He pointed to the map and said, "Regiment Commander, you keep the puppet troops in the north and do not blow up the puppet troops in the south. Do you want them to be allowed to... "

"Oh!" Hearing Liu Shunyi say this, the soldiers quickly understood. After looking at the map, they couldn't help but feel happy.

"Yes! That's a good idea!"

"That's right! It's so dark, let those bastards beat themselves!"

"This is called dog biting dogs. When these two dogs are almost bitten, let's rush out and reap what the benefits are...!"

"The fisherman's benefit!"

"Yes...it's the fisherman's benefit!"

...

In an instant, the soldiers started to discuss excitedly. When they heard me give the order to persevere, they all held the determination to die. It was nothing to hold the determination to die. What they were most worried about was that even if the soldiers had all fought all their positions, they could not hold them. This was also a very important reason why they thought they should break through. But now, after listening to my combat plan, they seemed to see hope for victory again. Although it was still a life-threatening death, it was enough to make them excited.

"Captain! There is not much time..." Liu Shunyi straightened the map and looked at it, and immediately said: "I will arrange for people to go east to build an anti-aircraft hole!"

"Yeah!" I nodded. Liu Shunyi would always seize the time to complete things within his ability, and I have long been used to it.

After Liu Shunyi left, I continued to say to the soldiers: "The combat plan has been decided, but I hope that comrades should also see the dangers in this. If the puppet army is not deceived, our army will not only lose its position, but also be wiped out. Even..."

I paused, looked at the scheming soldiers, and continued to say: "We may even be ridiculed by the comrades of the brothers, saying that we retreated and hid in the anti-cannon hole before the battle and ran away!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers started to talk. I looked at Li Pinghe, and Li Pinghe nodded helplessly and agreed to my statement.

Indeed, reality is so cruel. What the volunteer army hates the most is people who are greedy for life and fear of death. This is often a motivation, which always motivates the soldiers to fight against the enemy desperately. But everything will have two sides. At this time, it is obvious that it will have a counterproductive effect. If our plan is not successful, the ending will be found out from the anti-aircraft shelter and killed by the puppet army one by one! Of course, no one will rehabilitate us. Even if there are survivors rehabilitate us, I think it will be regarded as an excuse...

Of course such things are unfair to the soldiers, but the reality is that there are many such things on the battlefield!

For a soldier, the most important thing is the honor of a soldier. He can accept defeat and lose his life, but the most unacceptable thing is the loss of honor. So when I mentioned this, a considerable uproar was immediately caused among the soldiers.

"So, we can only succeed but not fail!" Li Weiqiang said gritting his teeth.

"Yes! You can only succeed but not fail!" The soldiers raised their fists one after another.

"Even if you lose your life, you won't regret it?" I asked.

"No regrets!" Li Guoqiang took a step forward, patted his chest and said firmly: "For the safety of the motherland, what's the point of losing this life?"

"Even if you leave a stigma for all ages, you won't regret it?" I asked again.

This time the soldiers hesitated, but Li Weiqiang quickly walked up and gritted his teeth and said, "No, no matter how we are willing to give up on ourselves and our conscience, no matter how they scold us!"

"Yes! Have a clear conscience! Let's fight!" Other soldiers also said in agreement.

Only the second battalion commander Wang Xin lowered his head and said silently, so the soldiers turned their eyes to him one after another.

Feeling the eyes of everyone, Wang Xin raised his head, looked around in confusion, and replied in embarrassment: "Captain, it's nothing that I left behind, I just thought... my mother at home..."

Wang Xin said this and the soldiers understood it, and when they thought of their family, they lowered their heads.

I also fell silent. We can have a clear conscience, but what about our family? If we are criticized, what should our family do? They will not only lose their own relatives, but also make people point fingers at the backbone...

With a severe sigh, Wang Xin grabbed the snot and tears on his face and said, "I didn't say anything! Just beat me!"

"beat!"

"Captain, give orders!"

I nodded heavily, endured the tears that were about to fall, pointed to the map and said, "The key to this battle is to make the puppet troops on both sides of the north and south fool them and kill each other! Then we can make trouble with the water! So..."

After pausing, Huan glanced at the soldiers, and I continued: "In order to ensure that the puppet army was deceived, after the main force withdraws from the position, we have to leave some soldiers to hold on the top of the mountain! There should not be too many people, just twenty. The task of these comrades is to... to pick up the misunderstandings of the puppet army on the top of the mountain, and eventually lead to them killing each other!"

"Captain! Let me go!"

"Let me get on!"

...

As soon as I finished speaking, the soldiers raised their hands to ask me for battle. There is no doubt that the chance of surviving in such a task is almost zero, but the soldiers still did not hesitate at all. I had expected this result and got used to it.

"Captain!" Li Guoqiang and other soldiers were quiet, and he spoke: "I think this task should be handed over to our 7th Company combat troops. My reason is... the training we received is American style of fighting, and so is the puppet army. We can easily integrate into the puppet army, and we can even cooperate well with them without being suspected. I believe we can complete the task well!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

In fact, what Li Guoqiang said was exactly what I was thinking. The special unit of the 7th Company was trained from the beginning of its establishment. Moreover, they were also a special force. Their mission was originally infiltration, assassination or lurking, and they were also very experienced in disguising themselves as puppet troops. It can be said that no one could see any flaws when they put on a puppet army uniform. It is naturally the most appropriate for them to complete this task at this time!

I patted Li Guoqiang on the shoulder, then hugged his shoulders tightly and shook them hard, trying to say something but couldn't say anything.

I don’t know how long he has been with me. When the 538th Regiment started to be formed, he has been the battalion commander in my regiment. He has not promoted him to any advantage or any official, but now...

He is a very capable tiger general under my command. Even if I have 1,000 and 10,000, I can’t bear it, what can I do? How can I finish my eggs when I collapse the nest? If I don’t do this, it’s very likely that the whole plan will fail!

"Captain! I understand!" Li Guoqiang stood in front of me, then saluted me upright and said, "In the next life, I will fight the Japanese with the commander!"

I gritted my teeth and tried hard not to let the tears fall from my eyes. I also stood in front of him and saluted, saying harshly: "Be prepared now!"

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang saluted, turned around and walked out of the tunnel.

The soldiers also saluted me one after another, and then went to the position to prepare.

"Captain..." At this time, several wounded soldiers who had not spoken in the tunnel supported each other and stood up, looking at me with a requesting look, "Captain, let's go too!"

I nodded helplessly. In fact, I just wanted to stop them from coming.

As soon as the wounded soldiers left, the huge anti-aircraft hole was empty, only Li Ping and he were left. Although it was safe in the anti-aircraft hole at this time, and the enemy had not launched an attack, I had no need to go out at this time. But when I thought that the soldiers were all under the bombardment of the puppet army artillery fire outside, I could not continue to stay in the anti-aircraft hole. So I grabbed my rifle, stuffed a few magazines into the ammunition bag, and finally checked the pistol and bayonet, and drilled out the anti-aircraft hole with Li Ping and his two!

Inside the cave and outside the cave can be said to be the two worlds of life and death. Inside the cave is warm and safe, and outside the cave is the rumbling of wind and rain with cannons. The whole world is like the devil's protection seen in fairy tales. Almost no place is safe. There are corpses, organs and broken weapons on almost every inch of land...

We ran up the traffic trench for a while and soon arrived at the top of the mountain. The soldiers were busy on the positions, some were building fortifications, some were carrying ammunition, and more were digging anti-aircraft holes on the positions in the east. Li Guoqiang gathered more than 20 soldiers from the 7th Company to assign tasks...

Of course, the puppet army definitely didn't give us much time. Therefore, the anti-aircraft holes that the soldiers could dig could barely hide in a small hole of a person. However, it would be better than nothing. Even if it was not good, it could block shrapnel.
Chapter completed!