Chapter 46: The Battle of Tong Deng (16)

Chapter 46: The Battle of Tong Deng (16)

The mission was quickly assigned. First, Commander Zhao and Political Commissar Wang explained the situation to their superiors with great thoughts and told them all about our combat plan. Then they repeatedly promised to take down the Guitun Fort tonight. Commander Zhao even shouted excitedly and used his head to guarantee that if he did not take down the Guitun Fort at night, he would raise his head to apologize. So the superiors finally nodded and agreed to our combat plan and no longer urged us to launch an attack immediately.

Although my superiors finally agreed, it still made me feel quite unhappy. I felt that those guys sitting in the office didn’t need any combat plan. When our army waved its flag and piled up people’s lives, there was no need to wait until night to take down the Guitun Fort! That’s why I reluctantly relaxed my time until night...

Then there are Dan Ren's member of the commando!

However, these members are not easy to determine. First, because these members must pass the military quality. After all, the number of Vietnamese soldiers trapped in the secret passage cannot be too many. This determines that the number of commandos cannot be too many, otherwise it will arouse suspicion of the Vietnamese army. The number of people cannot be too many, which determines that the military quality of each member must be excellent, otherwise even if we are allowed to get into the fort, it will not play a big role.

More importantly, the members of the commando must cooperate very well, and they must have a way of contact that can fight at night. After all, we dress up as the Vietnamese army, and in order not to make the Vietnamese army suspicious, we dare not tie white towels or other too obvious signs. Therefore, in the dark night, how to contact and identify each other is a big problem. Many times, we must rely on the tacit understanding between the soldiers.

Based on these two points, the fifth company that belongs directly to me will definitely not be able to escape.

Although the fifth company did not have much combat experience, it had received more than a month of training before the war, which also included subjects such as how to contact at night, and its military qualities on the battlefield were obvious to all. At the beginning, they fought several beautiful battles one after another like a little tiger. So it was completely uncontroversial to let us be responsible for the main force of this assault mission.

For this reason, Commander Zhao said to me with some guilt: "Comrade Xiao Cui! I'm going to make your company suffer again! Fortunately, you are here to reinforce this time, otherwise the soldiers of our regiment will not know how much casualties they will have to pay... I thank you for all the soldiers!"

Actually, I don’t want to be so tired, but it’s true that those who can work harder are really hard. This assault mission is extraordinary, almost to say that, which directly concerns whether we can successfully capture the Guitun Fort. Once this mission fails, it is very likely that our army will have to use ten times or even dozens of times of life to pile up, which I can’t tolerate.

I looked at the soldiers beside me who were busy changing into Vietnamese uniforms, and thought to myself: I wonder if they had ever thought that I seemed to have defeated the enemy again and again on the battlefield and saved their lives, but it was precisely because of this that they pushed them into new danger again and again.

The commando were the backbone selected from our company, including ten people including my hometown, Yang Songjian, Li Shuibo and others. It can be said that if our group of people cannot come back, the fifth company will be over. But I have to take this risk, because we must win this battle...

"Comrades, please be careful!" I put on the Vietnamese military uniform prepared by Captain Zhao for us. While deliberately poking several holes in the military uniform with a bayonet, I said to the soldiers: "Don't make your military uniform look so new, and don't make yourself so energetic! We are the Vietnamese soldiers who are trapped in the secret passage for a day and a night. There is insufficient air, insufficient water for food, and there is very little food... Staying in such an environment for a day, it is very likely that they will not even have the strength to speak. Do you understand?"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded, and immediately imitated me, and used bayonets to make their military uniforms broken and dirty. Some soldiers deliberately used the blood of some wounded people to apply on their faces. Some soldiers even picked up the bandages used by the wounded and tied them to their heads, tied them to their arms... We soon became a team of "remnants defeated soldiers".

Seeing the soldiers' vivid disguise, I couldn't help but nod. The training for more than a month has not been wasted, and the soldiers are now fully qualified to play the role of commando.

After doing this, I saw that it was still early outside, so I sat down with a sniper rifle in my arms and ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot and not walk around, so as not to misunderstand by other soldiers when they walked out as Vietnamese.

At this time, Hu Shaowen came up and asked with a pale face: "Company Commander, do you think... the Japanese devils will really take us to the fort? They really won't recognize us?"

"Do you hope the Japanese devils will recognize us, or do you hope they can't recognize us?" I asked back.

"This..." Hu Shaowen was stunned for a moment, grabbed his head and said, "I don't know either. If you are recognized, you will not be able to complete the task. If you cannot recognize it... we will enter the tiger's den..."

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed. But I could see that the smiles of several soldiers were quite stiff, because Hu Shaowen was talking about their thoughts.

The warriors will be afraid, there is no doubt about this!

Of course I am afraid. Even those who have fought for several years in Korea will be afraid, let alone those of them who have just walked on the battlefield for a few days. But I am a little used to it, because during the Korean War, I have done this kind of thing that dressed up as a puppet army and mixed into the enemy's troops. But the soldiers have never experienced such things, so it is inevitable that they will be nervous and afraid. Even the most experienced hometown people in this team kept smoking cigarettes to relax...

This is actually what I worry about the most, because I know very well that the most important thing for a task like this is psychological quality. If the psychological quality is good and you enter your role openly, then the task can be said to have been half completed. But... If anyone has a poor psychological quality, as long as one person reveals his strength, it will affect all of us and even the failure of the entire task.

From this point of view, I actually don’t want to bring Hu Shaowen with me. The reason is very simple. He is still a child and his psychological endurance is not as strong as ours. But... in a team of ten people, at least two people need to speak Vietnamese, one is Li Shuibo and the other is Hu Shaowen.

It soon became dark. I looked at the watch on my wrist and pointed at the pointer just at seven o'clock.

This watch was given to me by Captain Zhao. It should be said that it was also a equipment sent to me to complete the task better. Because in many cases, I need to know the time and agreed time.

This is a military watch with a watch cover. The center of the watch cover is engraved with a national emblem and a five-pointed star. The big words "Chinese People's Liberation Army" are surrounded by a semicircle. There is also a button next to it. Once you press the watch cover, it will pop open and reveal the surface inside.

After thinking about it, I took off the watch and put it in my arms. I didn't want the Vietnamese army to doubt anything when they saw this watch.

"Captain Cui..." At this time, Commander Zhao and Political Commissar Wang walked in, shook hands with me and asked, "Are you ready?"

"It's ready!" I replied.

"Okay!" Captain Zhao nodded and said, "It depends on yours! All the soldiers of our 637th Regiment and all the artillery soldiers of the division are watching you behind you. If you are discovered, we will launch a strong attack immediately!"

"Don't worry!" I replied casually: "You guys are waiting for our good news!"

In fact, I was not very sure about this mission. The main reason was that I was worried that the soldiers would show their weakness because of fear. I acted so relaxed and confidently, just to relieve the soldiers' tension and cowardice.

"That's good!" Commander Zhao nodded, and pointed to the dozen soldiers behind him who were also dressed in the Vietnamese army and said, "Captain Xu, you have seen him. I'll ask him to cooperate with you. If the progress goes well, they will take back the Vietnamese army besieged in the secret passage and...buried you back into the secret passage!"

"Hello, Captain Cui!" As soon as Commander Zhao finished speaking, Xu Yiguo warmly came up and held my hand: "Commander Cui, I didn't expect to fight with you! Don't worry, I will do my best to do my job well and will never drag you down. If possible, I really hope to be able to get along with you at the Guitun Fort..."

"Hmm!" Commander Zhao interrupted Xu Yiguo and said, "Company Commander Xu, if I remember correctly, you have raised this request eight times today!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers laughed again, but the laughter was a little depressed and helpless. I know that this is because soldiers like Xu Yiguo don’t have to participate, but some of my soldiers can’t do it if they don’t want to participate!

"Set out!" I didn't allow the warrior to have time to think more. Sometimes the more time I think about it, the more I will be more afraid. It's better to do it neatly.

After shook hands with Captain Zhao and Political Commissar Wang, I took more than 20 soldiers in Vietnamese uniforms to the direction of the train station.

We only arranged the assault teams of the railway station. Because there were also Vietnamese troops trapped in the secret passage on the nameless high ground, we also thought about whether to arrange another assault team to sneak into the secret passage like us to wait for the Vietnamese troops to rescue. There are many people and great power, right? Even Political Commissar Wang felt that one more ambush would have more chance of winning.

But I think that an ambush will not be of any benefit to us, but will also have an additional danger of being discovered. The reason is very simple. The Vietnamese army will not rescue us into the fort at the same time. The commando that entered the fort first will not wait for the second commando to launch an attack when the second commando enters the fort before launching an attack, because there will be too many variables that may be discovered, and they cannot be identified with each other, and it will only be a bad battle!

Therefore, even if we arrange two commandos, the only one that can play a role in the end is still the same. The other route cannot play its due role at all, and instead increases the risk of exposure.

So... after I finished talking about these principles, no one had any objections, and finally unanimously agreed to arrange a commando team, that is, us.

After jogging on the mountain road for a while, it didn't take long to arrive at the battlefield. A strong stench of corpse blew towards him with the breeze, which almost made the soldiers spit out all the food they had yesterday.

Under normal circumstances, the bodies on the battlefield were cleaned up by someone, but the current situation is special. The Vietnamese army was trapped in the fort and could not move, so how could they dare to come out of the inside to clean up the bodies? The Vietnamese army could not clean the bodies, so they naturally were not willing to let us clean up the bodies. The railway station and the nameless highland were under the firepower control of the Guitun Fort...

Therefore, all the soldiers who died during the battle last night, their bodies were unable to be cleaned up in time on the battlefield. In Vietnam, the high temperature and humidity of more than 30 degrees were accelerated by the deterioration of the bodies. So in just one day, the battlefield was filled with stench.

Especially at the train station, our army suffered heavy casualties here. At a glance, there were corpses everywhere. The roadside ditch was full of broken limbs, the shell craters were filled with blood, and the air around them was filled with blood. Under the pale moonlight, the corpses were all strange and could not recognize their original appearance. The climate caused the corpses to swell, their stomachs were bulging high, their clothes were swelling, and their eyes were treated as dinner by insects. There were two terrifying black holes on their faces, and the flesh on the wound was gone, and the thick white bones inside began to be exposed. Occasionally, there would be a corpse storm, and the unpleasant odor suddenly became thicker and heavier, making people's heads hurt...

The soldiers covered their mouths and noses, making unbearable "hmm" sounds... But I didn't do that, because I thought of the boss and the corpses on the battlefield, most of them were our soldiers and our comrades...

"Go as planned!" I ordered.

At this time, I hoped to capture the Guitun Fortress on Pingding Mountain as soon as possible, because only by knocking it down as soon as possible can these sacrificed soldiers be buried in peace earlier!

"Yes!" The soldiers responded in a low voice and slowly climbed out of the jungle under my leadership.

We don’t have to worry that the enemy will “rescue” the Vietnamese troops trapped in the secret passage at the same time as us, because our artillery was shooting flares at Guitun Fort. There are two purposes for this. One is to prevent the Vietnamese troops from getting out of the fort and colliding with us. The other is to use the light of the flares to prevent the Vietnamese troops from seeing our actions at the train station.

But even so, our group was still very careful and crawled towards the marks made by the Vietnamese army along the way.

I have to admit that the greatest torture for us at this time was not the enemy above our heads, nor the danger that was coming, but the yellow and green beach on the ground, foul smell of corpse liquid...

To reach our destination, we must crawl past those corpses and even over them. This inevitably makes us hold our hands and press them on our bodies... all of them are terrifying and disgusting corpses and organs that are already highly ***!

With a "Wow!", someone couldn't help but vomited, and then there were a few more sounds like a chain reaction. My stomach was also in a turbulent wave, but I endured it back with my will.

I did fight for several years, but I have never encountered such a situation, mainly because the cold and frozen corpses on the Korean battlefield were not so fast. So this is the first time for me... This feeling is not just about coming to hell, but I have the kind of *** I can shoot myself to avoid suffering this kind of sin again...

Fortunately, the Vietnamese army was not far away from the marks. We successfully arrived at the target position after more than ten minutes.

Although it was only a dozen minutes, the soldiers and I felt that the road was very long. After finally reaching the destination, we wanted to rest, but we found that the smell and disgust were always with us. Because the soldiers were already covered with corpse liquid of various colors...

What should I do next? Will it start digging? Will it arouse suspicion of the Vietnamese army in the secret passage?

I had never thought about this before. I vaguely remember that during the day, the Vietnamese army used the method of knocking stones to contact the Vietnamese army in the secret passage, so I grabbed a stone and smashed it down three times.

"Bangbang..." Three replies, as if it were the sound of the Vietnamese military smashing the logs on the top of the secret passage with their buttstock.

I couldn't help but feel happy when I heard this sound. I waved to the hand of several soldiers and pulled out the engineer shovels and climbed over.

The scorched earth was shoveled away by the soldiers like waves. They all had the experience of building fortifications, so this was nothing to them. After a while, a soldier dug a log, and everyone became nervous because we all knew that we would soon face to face with the Vietnamese troops, and what would happen then... no one knew!

I waved at Li Shuibo, pointed to him inwardly, and signaled him to shout inward.

Li Shuibo understood, climbed up in three or two, shouting in Vietnamese: "Comrade! Are you okay? How many people are there?"

"We have eight people!" A Vietnamese army replied weakly: "Hurry up... save us, and there are two more comrades who may not be able to do it!"

I feel relieved after listening to this answer. They obviously have lost their combat effectiveness due to lack of oxygen, water or food, etc., which will undoubtedly save us a lot of time.

He gave a wink at the warriors holding the shovel. They opened a few logs in three or two, and soon a black hole appeared in front of us.

"Comrade! Come out quickly!" Li Shuibo shouted inward in a low voice.

Sure enough, a trembling hand stretched out from it in a short while.

The soldiers didn't say anything, and pulled the Vietnamese troops out one after another. But what they didn't know was that every time we pulled one person out, we immediately blocked him and tied him tightly.

One, two, three, four... There are no more or less, exactly eight, and two more die inside!
Chapter completed!