Chapter 85 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Chapter 85 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

At one o'clock in the evening, the soldiers were awakened silently after resting for five hours. Many soldiers were still sleepy when they were woken up, but after hearing the order, they packed their luggage and drilled out of the tent and air raid shelter to gather.

The soldiers suffered a little. They risked their lives during the day to fight for a day, and only rested for five hours at night and would once again go to the battlefield where their lives were hanging on the line. Although this kind of suffering is nothing to me, a soldier who has come from the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, it is undoubtedly a torture for the soldiers who have been in a peaceful society for a long time and have just entered the battlefield.

Isn't this? Every warrior is yawning in the dark, or he is struggling and struggling with difficulty.

"Comrades!" I lowered my voice and gave an order to the soldiers: "The goal tonight is...Kumashan! The mission is to arrive at the main peak of Kumashan before dawn, and then launch an attack on the main peak of Kumashan at 7 o'clock!"

"What?" After I said this, all the soldiers were awakened. Although they knew there would be a mission tonight, they never expected that it would be a night attack on Koumashan.

We have been to the highland of Koma Mountain. Yesterday, the fifth consecutive roundabout to the back of the 417 Highland, launched a raid from Koma Mountain. So the soldiers knew very well that in the dense forest of Koma Mountain, it was difficult to find the way during the day, let alone at night.

But I didn't know whether the soldiers believed me or obeyed the orders. Although there were many doubts in their hearts, no one raised them.

After a pause, I continued: "The comrades in the artillery unit will guide us with the sound of cannons. We follow the sound of cannons all the way, not fast, but we demand stability, and we must not get separated. Especially when attacked by a small Vietnamese army, we require that all units must not be messed up and all those who are standing and running must be killed until the alarm is lifted. The fifth company is at the forefront and is responsible for reconnaissance, road opening and mine clearance work; the shooting team follows closely and is ready to snipe and kill the small Vietnamese army troops that may appear; the fourth company and the sixth company are closely followed, and except for cadres who can contact each other through walkie-talkies, everyone cannot speak. They must arrive at the main peak of Komashan before dawn. Is there any problem?"

"No problem!" the soldiers replied in a low voice.

"Okay!" I nodded and then ordered: "Now we move forward lightly, except for combat equipment and compressed biscuits that are supplied to the day, everything is left behind!"

For jungle combat, this is actually very critical. Last time we met the Vietnamese army in the jungle, we suffered such a hardship because of our inexperienced. The Vietnamese army only had a few magazines and grenades on their bodies, and there was nothing else in their hands. This allowed them to jump up and run down the jungle like monkeys.

And we... marched cushions, military uniforms, cans, etc., all together are 70 to 80 kilograms. This weight is only one of the reasons. With so many things on our bodies, we are inevitably caught and hung by branches or shrubs in the jungle...it is often fatal.

"Yes!" The soldiers did not doubt my orders and immediately took off too much weight and food on their bodies.

"Captain Cui!" Just as I was about to set off, I didn't know when the Chief of Staff brought Political Commissar Huang and several regiment-level cadres to us.

"Chief of Staff!" I have to admit that it was indeed a bit surprising to me to see them appear at this time, because it was already late at night, and even if this spoiled Chief of Staff did not sleep, there was no need to come in person.

Later I learned that the Chief of Staff attached much more importance to this battle for his career, for the sake of his career. In other words, for a very accidental reason, I was already sitting on the same boat as the Chief of Staff.

"Thank you for your hard work!" The Chief of Staff touched me heavily, which surprised me a little.

This shock was not because he, the chief of staff, was willing to shake hands with me, the battalion commander. I have shaken hands with the commander and the commander, so I would not take you, the chief of staff seriously. What shocked me was that the chief of staff and I were originally mortal enemies, but now suddenly...

"Thank you for your hard work, comrades!" The Chief of Staff shouted to the warrior in a low voice.

I know that the soldiers should answer "Serve the people!" at this time, just like the chief inspector on TV. But these new recruits would not know about this, and they replied in a slight manner:

"Not hard work!"

"Thank you for your hard work, too!"

...

Moreover, since most soldiers were not satisfied with the Chief of Staff’s previous performance, these words sounded more like polite words, which made Political Commissar Huang, who was standing next to him, laugh and cry.

"Comrades!" After a while of embarrassment, the Chief of Staff raised his fists and said, "Your good things, your Battalion Cui is good things. Under the leadership of Battalion Cui, you have completed the mission excellently and created miracles again and again. I believe that you will also create a miracle tonight, seize the main peak of Kumashan, and report to the people of the motherland with this excellent result!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, but they were not enthusiastic.

The Chief of Staff nodded at me helplessly. I waved my hand and shouted "Go!". The soldiers hugged and carefully touched the direction of Kumashan.

With a "boom!", a shell exploded on the main peak of Kumashan. The light it exploded into pieces like lightning, and also pointed out the direction for us.

In fact, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the Vietnamese army, our artillery fired cannons at the main peak of Kumashan all night, and never stopped for a moment. I think the Vietnamese army on the main peak of Kumashan was nervous for a while, but what they couldn't imagine was that those cannons were just to point us in the direction...

We were walking on the road that we deviated from the 417 Highlands. In one day, the soldiers embarked on this road twice, but for different purposes, the soldiers couldn't help but feel a little strange in their hearts.

After more than ten minutes, we arrived at the foot of Koma Mountain without any danger. The soldiers stopped involuntarily in front of this gloomy high ground. I also looked up at the high ground that devoured countless soldiers' lives, and then gritted my teeth and ordered to the intercom: "Enter the mountain!"

"Yes!" With Li Zhifu's response, the soldiers of the fifth company got in without looking back.

We couldn't see our five fingers! When we didn't enter Kumashan, we thought it was dark outside, but when we stepped in, we realized what the real blackness was. This level of blackness made us unable to see the task in front of us at all. It can even be said that there would be no difference between opening our eyes and closing our eyes. Even if the trees were right in front of us, we would bump into it.

This forced us to explore the way in front of us with a rifle as a blind stick, and the soldiers of the fifth company were also guiding us with the agreed animal calls in front of us.

At this time, I couldn't help but complain. What I considered before was theoretical feasibility. At that time, I only thought that we could not see the enemy and the enemy could not see us. This seemed fair, but I didn't consider how difficult it would be to march in such a dark night.

The initial march was quite smooth. After all, our army entered Kumashan several times during the day to find the main peak, so the beginning of the road was not difficult to walk, and we could basically find a road-like passage. But the more we climbed up, the more difficult it became, the branches became denser, the more green Teng, and the road was getting more and more difficult to walk.

But after a while, Li Zhifu reported on the walkie-talkie: "Battery Commander! You can't walk like this, you can't see anything, you can't open the way, you can't reconnaissance, and you can't clear the mines!"

I think it's the same. I don't know if this black black one is not the case, let alone clearing mines. I'm afraid I'll be afraid that I will run into the Japanese face to face.

"Or... put on the flashlight!" Someone quickly suggested: "Anyway, we didn't plan to go up the mountain without hiding it, so there is no way to hide it. There are landmines everywhere on the mountain. As long as one mine is stepped on, it will be exposed..."

What this soldier said was a bit reasonable. The Vietnamese army was not so stupid. They didn’t know how to defend and bury mines in such an important high ground. What’s more, we used rifles as guides and guides along the way. The Vietnamese army could find us by just hiding a sentry in the dark. Therefore, it was almost impossible for the Vietnamese army to sneak into the main peak without hiding it. This was not our strategic purpose. Our purpose was just to use the sound of cannons to point the direction to find the main peak, and use the darkness to narrow the distance with the Vietnamese army's jungle battle.

But now, if I want to light up the flashlight, it will undoubtedly give the Vietnamese army a great target.

"No!" Li Shuibo quickly opposed: "The snipers of the Vietnamese Japanese are not kidding. They can even find out that our soldiers smoke, let alone that they are using flashlights? If we light one, they will hit one, but in the end we still can't hit it!"

"What should I do?" Li Zhifu lost his mind after hearing this.

I couldn't help but frown. This is indeed a difficult problem. We are not worried about being discovered by the Vietnamese army. In fact, we have been prepared to be discovered by the Vietnamese army. But... if we had to use a flashlight to get up, it seemed that the Vietnamese army could only stop us by a few snipers.

I sat on the ground with some disappointment, then touched a piece of dead branches on the ground, and couldn't help but suddenly ordered to the intercom: "Cover the flashlight with a black cloth, and then tie the flashlight to the branches to illuminate it!"

"Well!" The soldiers were stunned when they heard this, and then agreed: "You can try!"

So within a while, several special light sources tied to dead branches appeared. The black cloth was covered to prevent the light source from spreading and illuminating the person holding it. The tied to the dead branches was to increase the height so that the Vietnamese snipers could not correctly judge the position of our soldiers. I remember that I used this trick when I was shooting cold guns before, in order to attract the target to shoot and expose the position first. I didn't expect that this time it could be used for lighting...

Of course, we dare not use this light source on a large scale, which is no different from seeking death. We just used two or three carefully, and these two and three were covered with several layers of black cloth, with only a little light of light more than ten meters away. But this is enough. They not only give the reconnaissance platoon enough visibility, but also point the direction for the soldiers behind so that they will not get lost in the dark.

With such a hazy light, the soldiers marched through the direction guided by the sound of cannons. After walking for more than half an hour, they did not find any shadow of the Vietnamese army. Except for the reconnaissance platoon, they found three mines and a trap, nothing happened.

Did the Yue Jun fall asleep? I couldn't help but feel confused. Things went much smoother than I thought.

At this moment, a sudden "bang!" gunshot came from the front, and a scout fell to the ground and shouted: "Discover the enemy's situation! Damn, the gun technique is accurate enough, and he was blown up by the flashlight!"

"Dadada..." Several more gunshots came from behind our army, and then people from my hometown reported: "We found the Vietnamese army behind us, and the Vietnamese army behind us!"

“There are also on the left…”

"And the right! We're surrounded!"

...

The gunshots quickly turned into a circle, and occasionally there were a few grenades exploded, but I soon found that most of them were our soldiers shooting. So I hurriedly ordered loudly to the intercom: "Stop shooting, stop shooting..."

The gunshots slowly stopped, and the surroundings returned to quiet and darkness, as if the Vietnamese troops had never appeared before.

"Comrades, you must stay calm!" I ordered to the walkie-talkie: "The Vietnamese Japanese lacked enough troops, and they did not have the ability to surround us at all. They were consuming our bullets. All units should pay attention to saving ammunition!"

"Yes!" Several company commanders responded embarrassedly. They were obviously panicked just now.

But this seems to be understandable. Who can calm down when fighting night battles that we are not good at on other people's land!

But from another perspective, fighting in this dark jungle seems to be the safest. As long as we don’t shoot, lie anywhere, no one will find your place. In addition, there are trees covering the sky everywhere in the jungle, so mortars, cosmos cannons, etc. are almost all decorations; machine guns and submachine guns can only be hit a few dozen meters at most, and even further away, they will be blocked by the tree trunks... So this jungle war, especially the jungle war in the dark night, will become a hand-to-hand combat if you are not careful. There are only a few people in the Japanese in the Yue Dynasty. It would be strange if they dare to fight with us!

However, I didn't expect that the Vietnamese army would be so smart. For example, just now, the Vietnamese army obviously wanted to create riots from our army and attacked in the chaos. It was like a few fierce wolf dealing with a flock of sheep. They would first chase and howl around the flock to cause the flock to stir up the flock, and then they would chase those who were alone and then look much easier.

Now, we are like those flocks of sheep, and the Vietnamese army seems to be the wolf that is eyeing us.

But... what they didn't expect was that we would never be a group of sheep to be slaughtered, but a group of wolf in sheep's clothing.

I thought about it and lowered my voice and ordered to the intercom: "The shooting team lurked in place, and the other troops continued to move forward!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded, and the dozen people in the shooting team immediately looked for their own hideouts according to my order, but the main force was still walking forward under the guidance of the reconnaissance platoon.

I found a big tree more than one meter wide and squatted down with my back against the trunk. As I had time, I lowered my voice and ordered: "The shooting team is not allowed to leave my sniper position no matter what. I will shoot and kill all the people standing. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" the soldiers responded, knowing what I was going to do.

The soldiers of the Fourth Company crossed our defense line in a bumpy manner, and then the troops of the Sixth Company were also alert to pass by us. No one noticed that there were more than a dozen soldiers hiding in this area. From this point of view, our hiding was still very successful.

The light of the reconnaissance flashlight gradually faded away, and the soldiers' steps slowly faded away, and the surroundings returned to a quiet and deep darkness. There was nothing except the sound of a few bugs that were unknown.

I don’t know how long it took, but a sound of dead branches suddenly came from behind me. I was shocked... I heard that the sound was less than thirty meters away from me. The Japanese devils actually had a way to be so close to me when they were so poorly visibility... either he was too familiar with the terrain, or he had the ability to fight jungle!

But no matter which category he belongs to, you can't think of getting it under my hands today!

But no matter how much I think about it, I didn't dare to be careless. I tried to slow down my breathing and didn't make any sounds. At the same time, I focused my attention and listened behind me... the footsteps were getting louder and clearer. The number of people was indeed as small as I thought. There were only a dozen people, which could be judged by the sound of their footsteps.

This is actually easy to understand. The so-called small boat is easy to turn around. To fight guerrilla warfare, of course, it is the harassment of small troops. If you always have one company or two companies, although your combat effectiveness is strong, you can easily expose yourself. If you accidentally fight with our army, you will become a head-on offensive and defensive battle.

This is also the reason why I asked the shooting team to participate in this battle alone. If there are too many people, it is easy to be messy, and if there is chaos, it will be injured by accident. So the best way is to use an elite soldier to cut the mess quickly!

Suddenly I felt a slight vibration coming from my back, so I knew that a Yue Japanese man was leaning against the same tree as me. I couldn't help but say something in my heart. If I chose to hide the side of the trunk, I would probably be in opposition to the Yue Japanese man...

I closed my eyes and didn't dare to breathe for a moment. Then I felt a breeze beside me, and I could even smell the scent of tobacco in the wind... I cursed inwardly: This Yue Japanese devil is a smoker! No matter where he is lurking, I can smell him just by smelling it!

After a while, I slowly opened my eyes and saw more than a dozen Vietnamese soldiers carefully following our main force...
Chapter completed!