Chapter 49: The Battle of Tongdeng (19)

Chapter 49: The Battle of Tongdeng (19)

With bursts of explosions, the perforations outside the turret were cleaned up by the soldiers one by one.

We have new reinforcements and then teach them how to blast, so it is not difficult to do this. The new soldiers suffered heavy casualties when attacking the Guitun Fort, so of course they would not be polite to the Vietnamese army. Some used blasting tubes, some used explosive packs, and of course some used cluster grenades. The explosions outside made us feel their anger in the fort.

However, the unsatisfactory point is that if there are more than two places on the same side at the same time, the shock wave of the explosive explosion will push away the late explosion explosive and lose its accuracy. Therefore, it can only explode one place at a time on the same side. As the saying goes, if you are anxious, you can't eat hot tofu, the soldiers have to patiently take your time.

The soldiers were still full of interest at first, just like Shunzi, holding a childlike heart and wanting to play with it. But after more than two hours, the bomb was soon boring and gradually turned into a task. Finally, it was not until the sky was hazy that all the perforations on the second floor of the fort were cleaned up.

I don’t know who came up with the idea. The soldiers were worried that the bombed perforations would be opened by the Vietnamese army, so they carried loads of mud from the foot of the mountain, and the mud-water soldiers blocked the perforations in a few seconds.

"Call Comrade He Guoan!" Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Guitun Fort could no longer act as a mighty person. I breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the communications army: "And report to Captain Zhao that I can transport explosives!"

"Yes!" The communications soldier responded and immediately conveyed my order through the walkie-talkie.

Pingding Mountain is not high, and soon He Guoan came up with the soldiers who transported explosives. He saw me at a glance, and couldn't help but hold my hand enthusiastically. His frowns on his face bloomed like flowers, and said, "Comrade PLA! You fought so beautifully in this battle. I thought you would have to fight for at least a few days and nights to sacrifice many people! Unexpectedly, the sound of gunfire last night was resolved. When Comrade Xiao He told me that he had already been killed, I didn't believe it! *** people fought for 45 days! Thousands of people could not be killed, so you used it all night..."

"That's thanks to the information from comrades!" I said with a smile.

"No, no..." Old man He Guoan shook his head and said, "Before I came up, I had already asked clearly. After the battle, Commander Zhao told me that you pretended to be a 'save' by the Japanese devils last night. They came with a cooperating inside and outside! A clever plan! A clever plan! This can be put on the stage and sang. Even without my information, you can still use this method to fight! I, the old man, dare not take this credit..."

"Comrade He is too modest!" He heard He Guoan say this, I immediately felt respect for this old man who was not proud of his contributions and said, "If it weren't for Comrade He's information, we might have killed a lot of brothers! I would like to thank you on behalf of the warrior's manuscript!"

"Hey! That's what he said..." He Guoan stopped me and said, "You are our country's troops and are fighting for our people. I look at you, like your own sons. Who else can you help if you don't help me? Thank you, old man, for being anxious with you!"

As he said that, He Guoan laughed, and from time to time he looked at the turret with a wide iron gate, and said proudly to himself: "Iron lump, Iron lump, I built you with my own blood and sweat, but now I have destroyed you with my own hands... Don't blame me! Who asked you to protect the enemy..."

Listening to Old Man He An’s words, I couldn’t help but feel that things are impermanent.

Suddenly thinking about the purpose of asking Mr. He to come up, I couldn't help but ask He Guoan: "Comrade! This fort seems to have been transformed by the Vietnamese Japanese. Some places are different from the drawings you draw!"

"Oh... is that?" He Guoan frowned and replied: "With this possibility, it was decades ago when I built the fort!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

This is exactly what I think, but this is not what I really want to ask.

"Then can you still remember what exit there is in this fort?" I asked.

I came over from the Korean battlefield and knew it very clearly that no matter what tunnel, there would be no shortage. Some exits were not even dug, and there was no sign of anything from the outside. If all exits were sealed, it would be dug through the emergency exit in one or two hours. I didn't expect that when we were about to catch all the Japanese in Vietnam, they suddenly rushed out from somewhere without any precautions...

"Exit..." He Guoan walked around the fort thinking, sometimes following the soldiers carrying explosives into the fort to take a look. Sometimes he sat on the stone and took out the cigarette pole and sucked it "bangbang", as if he was recalling something.

Looking at his appearance, we didn't dare to disturb him, so we let him think quietly alone.

After a long time, He Guoan knocked on the cigarette pole, stood up and said, "There is no exit, but... I still remember there is a ventilation vent."

"Ventilation?" I was a little confused when I heard it. This was not what I wanted. But He Guoan's next words quickly aroused my vigilance.

"But this vent is called a vent, but it is built as big as a chimney!" He Guoan continued: "I was also wondering at that time why the vent was built so big. Now that I think about it, it is very likely to be an exit..."

"Um!" I was shocked when I heard He Guoan's words and asked quickly: "Then Comrade He, do you still remember where this vent is?"

"I don't remember it very clearly!" He Guoan shook his head and said, "When a person gets old, his head is a bit useless. Besides, this mountain is not much the same as before. There are craters everywhere, and I can't recognize it! But if you walk for a while, you may remember something!

"Okay! I'll accompany Comrade He around!" As he said that, he and He Guoan formed a circle around the fort like a walk. In front of him were soldiers carrying explosives coming in and out like ants.

Old Man He Guoan didn't say anything. He looked at it behind the fort, and carefully recalled the location of the fort repair that year. Sometimes he had to measure and measure his steps, and searched on the ground of this crater and ruins.

After walking for a while, he finally stood in a position, stepped on the splashed cement pieces under his feet, and said hesitantly: "Maybe it's here!"

At this time, I looked at the surrounding environment and was shocked: This is the back slope of Pingding Mountain. There are two small highlands not far ahead. These two small highlands can not only block the sight of our army on the top of the mountain, but also form a cross fire to block our army's pursuit. If the exit of the Vietnamese army is here and they plan to break through, they are likely to let them escape...

"Call the engineers here right now!" I ordered to the intercom: "There are also chemical defense soldiers, and a few more machine guns!"

"Yes!" The other end of the intercom responded, and soon more than twenty people ran over.

"It's this location!" I pointed to the place where Mr. He was standing and said, "I have found out all the miles around me! Machine gunners are looking for favorable terrain and *** this area from all angles! Prepare for chemical defense soldiers!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded and dispersed to prepare for battle.

The engineer carefully moved away the splashed cement blocks on it. These cement blocks were blown up by the artillery fire from the Guitun Fortress. The small ones were powder, and the large ones were as big as washbasins.

So I was thinking, maybe it was these cement blocks that made the Vietnamese army unable to escape from this passage! After all, if they were going to escape, last night was the best time to escape. When they were building this exit, they must have thought that the cement blocks that were blown away by the fort were just crushed tightly, and it was also the destruction of them!

It took me more than twenty minutes to clean the cement blocks and then remove the tangled grass and thatched roots, and sure enough, a cement cover plate the size of a tabletop was exposed.

He Guoan shouted excitedly: "Finished, the vent hole is found!"

Looking at such a large exit, the soldiers immediately became nervous. The machine gunner quickly pointed the muzzle at the direction of the cement cover, and the chemical defense soldiers also knelt down and pointed the gun at the entrance of the cave. The engineers all looked at me...

I nodded, and they immediately moved the cement board hard. When they looked out, they saw that it was a black hole without any light. There was a vague buzzing and coughing sound from inside. I guess the Vietnamese army inside was trapped so hard that it was almost impossible!

I lay at the entrance of the cave and shouted in, "Zhongdui is generous and blocked his life!" There was no answer in the cave.

I shouted again: "Nuokongsong Page!" There was still no movement.

"Comrade, I surrender! I surrender..." At this time, a hand suddenly stretched out in the darkness and climbed out of the cave with difficulty. What surprised me was that the Vietnamese army actually spoke Chinese.

The hole suddenly became chaotic, as if it was pierced through the hornet's nest. It must be that the Vietnamese army knew that there was still a glimmer of hope here, so they all rushed towards it.

At this time, my face changed. I was not ready to surrender so many of them. All my preparations were to put the Vietnamese army in the tunnel. If there were thousands of Vietnamese troops here, in fact, there were really noisy sounds, then the twenty or so people could not control so many prisoners. The most likely situation in the end was... all the prisoners fled in the chaos.

Just as I was hesitating, the first Vietnamese army had already emerged. At this time, gunfire suddenly sounded loudly, and the Vietnamese army in the passage screamed, and many bullets and blood were spraying out of the passage...

It is obvious that some Vietnamese troops were unwilling to let others surrender until their deaths, so they started killing these "traitors"!

"Defense troops!" Seeing this, I followed the trend and issued an order.

If they fired, I can't blame me for not giving them a way out.

With a "Teng", a flame went from the gun toward the cave, and screams suddenly broke out in the cave.

"Explosive pack!"

With my order, a fast-moving soldier put the explosive pack in his hand and waited for a while, and then threw it into the hole. With a bang, a piece of blood and gravel spurted out from the passage, flew into the sky like a fountain and then fell down and splashed on our bodies and faces. Every soldier around him was red little by little, as if he had a numb diagnosis.

Then, the whole world became quiet...

Hearing the sound in this direction, the people from my hometown, Li Shuibo and others rushed to me with guns, and asked nervously: "Company Commander, what's going on?"

"Nothing!" I pointed to the Vietnamese prisoner beside me who was trembling with fear, and replied easily: "It was just that I captured a prisoner and blew up an exit from the enemy!"

As he said that, he walked towards the top of the mountain without looking back. Only the twenty or sorrowful soldiers were left with big eyes. Because only they knew that just now, we decided the life and death of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers...

TNT explosives were transported in one box after another, and buckets of gasoline were filled with gasoline in a short while.

Commander Zhao and Political Commissar Wang also came up, and they happily greeted me as soon as they saw me.

Captain Zhao said with a smile: "This time I fought so well. You fought so well, and I said so well! The superior called and asked, "Have you completed the mission? Did the turret be shot down?" I was full of confidence and answered that they were 'Catched down and are in the blast'. According to the situation, at least more than a thousand well-trained Vietnamese were held in us!"

"Look at you're so happy!" Political Commissar Wang pointed at Captain Zhao and laughed at me, "He! I don't know how many times I said this today, but my ears are so calendered!"

"That's not?" Captain Zhao said with great thought: "Didn't you hear what your superiors say?'Ah? There are so many enemies? How do you fight?' Look! They didn't know that there were so many Vietnamese hiding in this small Guitun Fort, and they were urging us to attack! Attack..."

Looking at the way Captain Zhao looked, I couldn't help but laugh. The victory of this battle was not only our victory over the Vietnamese army, but also the victory of the "fight" between us and our superiors. If we fight according to the orders of our superiors, we don't know how many people will be sacrificed and how much time it will take to capture this fortress!

"Report to the regiment commander!" At this time, a communications soldier came to us trotting all the way and reported: "All explosives have been installed, a total of two tons of gasoline and twelve tons of explosives. If there are more, this turret will not be able to be installed..."

"Oh!" Upon hearing this, Captain Zhao couldn't help but point to the fort and joked: "This Japanese turret is quite capable of installing! Our explosives are almost insufficient!"

With a coaxing sound, all the soldiers beside them burst into laughter with pride.

"Order the engineers to prepare immediately! Wait for my order to explode!" This was the last order we left on Pingding Mountain, and then the entire army withdrew from Pingding Mountain.

Of course, we are not interested in accompanying the Vietnamese Japanese on the mountain anymore, but we don’t know what they feel now when they were sealed at the foot of the mountain.

I came over from the Korean battlefield and understood that the feeling of being blocked in the dark tunnel would make people crazy, collapse, despair, and even have the desire to commit suicide... From this point of view, we may have freed them!

At the entrance of the regiment department, I, together with Captain Zhao and others, looked at the fort on Pingding Mountain that made countless heroes shed the last drop of blood. It was once as fierce as a giant beast. At this time, the ministers who had been quietly lying at our feet waiting to fall. However, we all know that this is just its surface appearance. Under it, more than ten meters deep underground, there is still restless blood flowing. This determines that we must blow it up.

"Captain Cui!" Commander Zhao handed the walkie-phone microphone to me and said, "You'll give this order!"

"Captain..." I delayed: "This is not in accordance with the rules, you should order it!"

"Hey! This is what it should be!"

Captain Zhao's tone was unquestionable, so I had to take the microphone, sighed deeply, and gritted my teeth and said two words: "Detonate!"

With a loud "Boom!", a huge cloud of mushrooms rose from Pingding Mountain, and the red and black flames rolled and rose in the smoke. It seemed like a hurricane was shaking in the air, blowing the trees in the jungle, and making our hats fly all over the sky...

Later I heard that the comrades from the 638 and 639th Regiment ten kilometers away could feel the vibration and sound during this blast.

After a while, the explosion finally disappeared and the wind stopped. Everything around seemed to have become what it was, only Pingding Mountain seemed to have been cut by a knife, and the entire mountain was several meters shorter. It is really worthy of the name "Pingding Mountain".

Look at the Guitun Fortress, it has been blown into several pieces and flew away everywhere. His original position has become a big pit. It can be imagined that even if the person below was not blown to death or crushed to death, he would be shocked to death...

The cheers quickly rang out, and the soldiers raised their weapons and jumped, some threw their hats into the sky, some shot guns in the sky, and some rushed towards the bombed Guitun Fort, as if they wanted to see clearly what it was blown up.

Tan, Tanlong, unknown highland, train station, and this Guitun Fort... This battle was indeed very difficult, but we still laughed to the end.

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