Chapter 140: Dinner

In three days, the soldiers and the puppet army fought for the tunnel entrances tensely.

Because we used mortars to fight the destruction of the puppet army, and Sun Changlu and his opponents were becoming more and more skilled in shooting with mortars and higher accuracy, the puppet army was helpless in our way of fighting and leaving quickly. This made them less and less tunnels they could blow up, but more and more tunnels we dug, and in the end almost all tunnels were dug by the soldiers.

During the battles in the past few days, the soldiers fought against the enemies outside the tunnel, so there were not much casualties, only a dozen people were injured and injured. What made me feel gratified was that because of my prior preparation, the arduous situation when Shangganling defended the tunnel did not occur.

For example, the tunnel was extremely short of water; the logistics troops sent water into the tunnel regardless of their life danger, and even fell batches under the enemy's gun; the sanitation officer spent a whole day collecting water dripping from the cracks of the rocks just to let the wounded drink a few sips... All of this did not happen because of my water storage in the Invincible Pit.

So I was thinking, perhaps because of my appearance, the touching story of "A Story of an Apple" that happened in the Shangganling tunnel would not appear in our primary school textbooks, and the Eighth Company of Heroes may have lost many heroes.

But who cares about these things? The most important thing is to save the lives of some volunteer soldiers.

On this day, I had just walked around the entrances of various tunnels and received a telegram handed to me by the correspondent, which read: "Counterattack time: 22:25, target positions No. 0, No. 4, No. 3, No. 8, No. 9 and No. 10!"

I quickly understood that the combat plan I had formulated was recognized by my superiors. The two positions No. 0 and No. 4 were close to the right side of the main peak position No. 3, obviously to cover the right wing of the main peak position No. 3. Position No. 3 is the main peak, and if it is occupied, it can provide cover for other positions from a high point. Position No. 8 and No. 9 and 10 are on the left side of the position No. 3, to block the enemy attacking on the left!

It's really going to counterattack!

After confirming the counterattack time, I couldn't help but feel eager to try it out, although I knew that the battle in front of me would definitely be a fierce battle.

I think it's not just me. If the soldiers heard this news, they would definitely cheer. These days, the soldiers were almost sick in the tunnel. If they heard the counterattack that they were about tonight, there would be no reason to be unhappy.

At this time, a whistling sound of shells suddenly sounded in the sky, and then bursts of explosions and vibrations came from the top of the head, which made the earth and rocks in the tunnel fall straight, and the things shake, and the kerosene lamps were also shaken to the ground, and the tunnel immediately turned black.

The one who shot the cannon must be the volunteers!

Now there are only enemies on the surface of the position. Unless the enemy goes crazy, they will never shoot cannons on Shangganling. But isn’t it said that the attack time is at 10:25 pm? Why are you starting shooting cannons now?

I couldn't help but take out my pocket watch in confusion, turned on the flashlight and shone it. It was only twelve o'clock noon! It was still daytime outside, so our army wouldn't have started preparing artillery fire so early!

Could it be that our artillery was killing and destroying the puppet army?

It's impossible! Although it's only one thousand meters away, because of the thick smoke and dust, there is no way to see the situation in Shangganling behind. Usually, artillery soldiers fire according to the coordinates we reported.

"Chief of Staff! Chief of Staff..." It was not just me who was surprised by this incident. As soon as the cannon sounded, a group of anxious soldiers soon surrounded outside the command center.

"Chief of Staff! What's going on?" Miao Huaizhi was the most anxious. As soon as he ran in, he asked happily: "Is the counterattack about to begin?"

I did not answer, and found a kerosene lamp in the dark to ignite it, allowing the tunnel to regain its light. The soldiers beside me all the expected faces appeared in front of me.

"Comrades!" I raised the telegram in my hand and said, "The superior ordered us to start counterattacking positions No. 4 and No. 0 at 10:25 pm, and a full counterattack will begin soon!"

As soon as I finished speaking, the entire tunnel suddenly burst into cheers, and the soldiers could no longer suppress their joy. Some held their guns and applauded, while others immediately grabbed a few grenades from the ammunition box and stuffed them into their waists. The minor wounded were busy tidying up their bandages and bandaging themselves, wanting to go to the battlefield in the best condition, and even the seriously injured struggled to stand up. For a moment, the tunnel was as lively as the New Year and the festival, and the cheers even overshadowed the rumbling sound of cannons outside the tunnel...

"Chief of Staff!" After a while, Li Baocheng asked in confusion: "You just said... a counterattack will start at 10:25 pm?"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

"Then the sound of cannons now..."

"I don't know either!" I shook my head with a wry smile, thought for a while, then turned around and asked the correspondent, "Xiao Zhao, are you sure the telegram was not translated incorrectly?"

Correspondent Xiao Zhao was stunned and quickly picked up a book and flipped it around the string of numbers. After a while, he stood up in front of me and replied: "Report to the Chief of Staff, and make sure there is no mistake!"

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng was still a little worried and asked, "Look... should we confirm with our superiors!"

"No!" I shook my head and replied, "The attack time determined by the superior is around 10:30 pm, and it is at night. It makes sense to launch a counterattack at this time. If we contact our superiors too frequently, it will attract the attention of the enemy and there is also the danger of being monitored by the enemy. Our army will shoot artillery at this time, and there will be a reason for it. Let's wait patiently! Each unit will go back immediately to prepare for counterattack, and launch a counterattack against position No. 0 and position No. 4 at 10:25 tonight!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded, and they all returned to their tunnels ready to go.

At first I thought the cannon would stop after a while, but what surprised me was that more than an hour later, the sound of cannons outside the tunnel still tightened for a while. So I quickly understood the combat intentions of my superiors. After more than ten days of preparation, our artillery troops had accumulated a large number of artillery shells. They wanted to use this long-term bombing to destroy as many US troops as possible. The fortifications of the puppet army on the surface of Shangganling, and even had the intention to destroy the enemy's combat will.

If a unit is under enemy artillery bombardment for a long time, weak-willed enemies may lose their will to resist and may even collapse. Our volunteer soldiers have a profound understanding of this. I have seen many volunteer soldiers become madmen under US artillery fire...

Sure enough, after waiting for more than an hour, the sound of cannons still did not stop. It was not until more than four hours and when the sky gradually darkened, the sound of cannons slowly slowed down.

"Chief of Staff! Chief of Staff..." Just as I sighed that the artillery fire of the Volunteer Army was gradually getting fierce, several soldiers suddenly ran into the command center and reported to me anxiously: "Chief of Staff, the artillery fire has extended, and there seems to be a light from a signal flare in the direction of the Five Sacred Mountains! Is it time for a counterattack?"

"What?" I was stunned when I heard this. Without thinking too much, I ran towards the entrance of the tunnel.

When I ran to the entrance of the tunnel and looked out, it was as the warrior said, there was the roar of shells in the sky, but the explosion had already extended to the depths of the enemy. Through the layers of smoke and dust, the red light of several signal flares vaguely flashed in the direction of the Five Sacred Mountains. After a while, what surprised me even more was that behind the smoke and dust, there was a loud charge and a shout of killing.

"Chief of Staff!" At this time, Miao Huaizhi, Li Baocheng and others came up again. Miao Huaizhi said anxiously: "Chief of Staff, this is the large army that is about to start a counterattack, let's go too! If it is late, it will be absent from the fighter plane!"

"Go back!" I listened with my ears on my side for a while, and laughed, "Everyone is going back and ready, and order no one of the soldiers to rush out of the tunnel!"

"chief of staff……"

"Abide by the order!" I strengthened my tone, and the soldiers dispersed unwillingly.

This is a strategy set by our army! The purpose is to trick the enemy out of the cover and then kill the enemy in large quantities. I just heard it from the shouts of the soldiers, and it was not the sound of shouting while running.

I remember I used this trick before, but I didn't expect to appear on the battlefield again now.

I am not worried that the puppet army would be fooled. The US military could fire artillery without purpose, but as a volunteer army with very difficult logistics supply, almost every time the artillery was fired, infantry rushed up. This time, our army fired artillery for more than four hours in a row, so even the soldiers guarding the tunnel thought that they must have started a large counterattack.

What's more, most of the time when our army launched the general attack was chosen at dusk, so that the more we fought, the darker we could fight, and we had a whole night of night war. Therefore, the puppet army that had fought with the volunteer army for two years would naturally think that our army was going to launch the general attack. But when they hurried out to the cover department to repair fortifications, they found...

"Boom!" I was thinking, and another shocking bombing sound suddenly came from above my head. I hurriedly shrank my head into the tunnel and hid back.

This time, the shooting time was not long, only fifteen minutes. I was waiting at the corner of the tunnel to watch the show. Then I found that the artillery fire began to extend again, but this time there was no shouting of killing, and there was no light from the charge and signal flares.

Good guy!

Seeing this, I couldn't help but praise it secretly. I knew the exact time of the counterattack, of course I knew this time was fake again. But as the enemy of the puppet army, they would not think so. They would think that the last time was a scam, and this time it was really going to attack! The most wonderful thing is that the soldiers did not shout or scream, and there was no movement at all. This would make the puppet army mistakenly think that the volunteers wanted to come up secretly, so they crawled out of the cover and entered the position again, but it was another scam...

I think this is the so-called "unable to cheat" in war! It seems that the superiors have put a lot of effort into this battle.

Sure enough, the artillery fire returned without any mental preparation. This time, it took ten minutes to fire rapidly. The shells were densely packed like raindrops, and the entire hill on the Shangganling position was filled with gravel and scorched earth flying everywhere. The puppet army was just about to be beaten.

But this torture was not over yet. In the following hours, our artillery troops would occasionally bomb the enemy's positions. Sometimes there was a shout of killing, sometimes there was no shout of killing, and sometimes there was even a small force to cooperate with artillery fire and shoot while rushing up Shangganling. When the enemy ran out of fortification defense, the troops suddenly retreated and fired again.

This is true and false, but there is no need to think about it. Most of the casualties on the high ground have been killed or injured.

This reminds me of the story of "The Wolf is Coming" that I heard from my teacher when I was a child. I think that when we really launch a counterattack, the puppet army may think that we are still lying to them!

Later I learned that according to the report of our army's scouts hiding near the highway, after this bombardment, the bodies transported by the enemy were loaded with thirty trucks.

What made me feel more deeply was that this bombardment made our army's artillery gradually mature after days of war tests, and the use of artillery fire was reasonable and sophisticated.

What I know is that the comparison between our army and the US military in terms of artillery numbers has now shrunk from 1:10 in the early stages of the battle to 1:4, and the artillery fire organization and command has made great progress.

Yang Feiluo, a mortar gunner who once worked in the artillery unit, told me that our artillery now divides all artillery into five artillery groups according to the range and is arranged in a second line and is uniformly commanded by the army artillery command post. It also formulates a unified positional division code to enable rapid and precise shooting. Various types of artillery are also given different missions according to their performance: howitzers and cannons are responsible for suppressing enemy artillery fire, destroying enemy fortifications, and attacking enemy second echelons; rocket launchers adopt area shooting to mainly kill and damage enemy artillery fire and live forces; mortars are used maneuverably to intercept enemy groups for charge and shoot blind spots that are difficult to strike by other artillery.

At this time, the volunteer army had developed from the early Xiaomi and rifle equipment to now being able to defend the United Nations on the front battlefield!

At 22:20, only five minutes before the counterattack, the Shangganling was surprisingly quiet.

Starting from 12 noon today, our army fired artillery intermittently at the two high grounds of Shangganling for ten hours. In just one day, I think the volunteer artillery had poured tens of thousands of artillery shells into the position.

These shells once again blew up Shangganling a piece of smoke, and almost nothing was seen outside the tunnel entrance. Even the light of the enemy's searchlight could only leave a flashlight on the thick smoke.

Seeing the pointer on the pocket watch beating one after another, I couldn't help but frown.

I originally thought that our artillery troops would prepare for artillery fire again before the attack. The so-called "fifth, real, real, real, real, and empty," then I would give the enemy another shot of artillery fire. I thought the puppet army would think they were lying to them again and did not dare to come out of the cover, which gave us the opportunity to rush forward. But I didn't expect that time was approaching little by little, but there was still no sound of artillery shells in the sky.

Three minutes left!

The soldiers were ready to rush out of the tunnel. They held various weapons in their hands, the bullets were loaded, and the grenades were unbuttoned and lined up neatly, leaning against the tunnel wall. Just waiting for my order, they would rush out of the tunnel and rushed towards the predetermined position.

Since our artillery has bombarded the enemy's positions in an indiscriminate manner, the puppet army has no intention or courage to send people to monitor our tunnel entrance tonight, which allows us to rest assured that the attack time will come in front of the tunnel entrance.

Two minutes left!

Looking at the pointer on the pocket watch, my heart also beating. It seems that the superiors are not ready for artillery fire in the attack tonight? It only takes two minutes, and even if there is artillery fire, it is too late.

One minute left!

I put away my pocket watch, grabbed my rifle from my back, and installed it with a bayonet.

Our tunnel entrance is very close to position No. 0 and position No. 4. If we do not encounter obstacles from the puppet army, it will only take a few minutes to rush forward, so there is a very likely hand-to-hand combat. Installing a bayonet in advance is the best choice.

Almost enough to rush!

I thought this way in my mind, it only takes half a minute to go, and it doesn’t seem to matter if I go early and late.

But at this moment, a sound of "chickening..." suddenly came from the air.

It's "Katyusha"!

I quickly understood that tonight's general attack was not without artillery preparations, but used as artillery preparations, the "Katyusha" that made the enemy scared. This thing only takes a few seconds to hit hundreds of rockets on the enemy's position in one breath. No wonder it did not take action until this time!

"Boom!" Hundreds of rockets exploded on the enemy's position almost at the same time, and a dazzling white light flashed out from the high ground, instantly illuminating the smoke and craters on the position.

"Start meal! Let's eat!" Before the explosion had completely disappeared, Captain Zhang's loud roar came from the walkie-phone hanging next to him.

This is the code word that Captain Zhang and I made an appointment with him, which means to take the enemy to have a meal. So I nodded to the zombie commander, and he immediately jumped out of the tunnel and blew the charge.

"Run!"

"kill!"

...

The soldiers shouted and rushed out of the tunnel one by one. Although they had been squatting in the tunnel for more than ten days, eating half full every day to fight, and they were usually unable to stand steadily even when walking, they all jumped up like they were getting enough clockwork. I don’t know where the energy came from, so they rushed towards the position.

I also rushed out with a rifle with a rush, and the hero was so angry that he never returned.
Chapter completed!