Chapter 146: Position No. 10

Although the firepower on the enemy's positions No. 1 and No. 7 have always been a thorn in my heart, I never thought of a way to deal with them on this battlefield. I had insufficient troops to fight and were suppressed by them everywhere without fighting. The battle was really a bit infuriating. More importantly, the two armies of the Second Puppet Division and the Ethiopian Battalion were one on the left wing and the other on the front, and almost uninterrupted attacks on our positions. The situation on the battlefield was very tense, which made me have no time to think. There were even several times when I started hand-to-hand combat with the puppet army. Fortunately, the soldiers in the tunnel came to reinforce in time, which suppressed the puppet army.

We don’t know how many attacks we have repelled, how many batches of soldiers on the position have changed, or how many enemies we have killed. We just know how to constantly pull the trigger, throw grenades and throw explosive bags, and drive the enemy out of us again and again.

In just half a day, the bodies of the puppet army were everywhere between the No. 8 position and the enemy's No. 1 and No. 7 position.

Every time the puppet army launched a charge, it would leave dozens of corpses in front of the position. As the number of charges exceeded, the corpses would overlap one by one, paving a bright red blood path in front of us. Position No. 8 also became a veritable mountain of corpses.

"Chief of Staff, this puppet army is really not afraid of death. After this, it's so hard that it keeps rushing up!" When the enemy retreated, a soldier with a dark face handed me a cigarette.

I took the cigarette and looked at it. I didn't expect that it was the little soldier I met who threw grenades into the position during the first battle. I couldn't help but be stunned. I thought to myself that this guy was really lucky. The volunteer soldiers on the position had changed many batches, but I didn't expect that he was still here. Looking at his military uniform, almost none of them were complete. There were holes and strips everywhere, and the inside and outside were burnt through, and his skin was burned. He mixed with the charred clothes, and he couldn't tell which ones were clothes and which were meat.

"Injured?" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask: "Can you hold on?"

"No problem!" the little soldier smiled with a dark face, "This little injury is nothing! But I feel so depressed. Before I joined the army, I heard the volunteer comrades returning to China say that the puppet army is the least attacking. They all ran faster than rabbits after a fight, and they all went into the deep mountains and forests, and they couldn't catch up. Why are they now..."

I didn't answer, and said with a smile: "Are you still afraid now?"

"I'm not afraid as I fight! I just want to kill a few more enemies!" The little soldier raised the rifle in his hand. The confidence was completely different from the first time he saw him.

"So now... will you still throw grenades and blasting tubes around?" I asked again.

"How can it be!" the little soldier laughed and said, "Now they are all thrown into the enemy!"

"Isn't that all?" I took a sip of cigarettes and breathed a long breath and said, "It's only been more than half a day that you have learned how to fight the Japanese. You're just a little less experience than the veterans. That's the puppet army who has been learning it for two years!"

"Um! That's the case..." Hearing my words, the little soldier suddenly realized and touched his head.

"Boom..." The enemy mortars began to bombard again. Without saying a word, I grabbed the rifle and led the soldiers to the front positions.

When I ran to the position, the puppet army surrounded me again. I suddenly felt a sense of disgust. The puppet army had attacked back and forth dozens of times this day. They were not afraid of death or casualties. I was annoyed by the attack! But what could I do? This is a soldier, not that I could not fight without fighting!

"Be ready for battle!" With my order, the soldiers prepared grenades and blasting tubes one after another. They dug a small hole under their body with engineer shovels and buried most of their bodies in the soil.

After the first painful lesson of being sneak attacked by the enemy with incendiary bombs, the soldiers would carefully not lean on the front line every time they entered the position, and used soil to cover the warriors beside them. Although this would not completely solve the problem of incendiary bombs, they could give the soldiers enough time to escape.

Moreover, the soldiers quickly understood. If the puppet army wanted to fire incendiary bombs, the charging puppet army would inevitably have some people who were trembling and dared not come forward. This is understandable. When the incendiary bombs exploded on this position, the viscous liquid with fire would fly around, and the range of killing would reach dozens of meters away. No one wanted to be stuck by that thing. So after a while, the soldiers could easily know whether they were going to fire incendiary bombs from the performance of the charging puppet army.

When the puppet army saw that the fire bombs could not have much effect, and the fire bombs would have to burn for a long time, so they could not step on the flames to attack upwards, so they were no longer interested.

For example, this time, when I saw the speed of their charge forward, I concluded that they would not fire incendiary bombs.

But I soon found out that I was wrong...

"Boom..." With a few loud noises, several bright red mushroom balls rose behind us, and a wave of heat also surged towards us.

When I looked back, I saw that the road between our position and the tunnel entrance had been sealed tightly by the flames of the incendiary bombs. I quickly understood the purpose of the puppet army doing this. Their intention was the same as our artillery bombing the 537.7 highland, and the purpose was to block the opponent's reinforcements.

The puppet army fought with us for more than ten days on the surface of the 597.9 Highlands. Of course, we also knew the terrain and tunnel entrances here. It was not difficult to do this!

"Ah!" I was thinking, the puppet army shouted and rushed towards our position on the body of their comrades. This time they charged so quickly that they rushed to a place only twenty meters away from our position, so that the puppet army responsible for covering positions No. 1 and No. 7 had no time to fire and fire, because it was easy to cause accidental injuries at such a short distance...

"Fight!" With my order, the soldiers ignited the grenades one after another and threw the blasting tube. Then, at the moment when the grenade was out of hand, they quickly raised all kinds of guns and pulled the trigger at the enemy "bang bang...".

One by one, the enemies fell under our guns and spread a layer of "new soil" on the pile of corpses in front of the position. Then another roar was heard, and the explosives dropped by the soldiers exploded one after another, throwing all the dead and undead on the ground into the sky. Blood, shrapnel, scorched earth, mixed with various organs and flew around. This position was like a giant mixer, turning the living people into dead people, and then smashing the dead people into mixed things together!

Maybe if all this in front of us appears in another occasion, we will be scared and disgusted... But now no one will pay attention to these things, because everyone knows that this is the battlefield, and it is at the critical moment of life and death. If we are scared and disgusted, then the next one that becomes gravel and the mud warrior under our feet will be ourselves.

Therefore, it is not a very miserable thing for us to have feelings such as sadness, fear and disgust. What’s worse is that we don’t even have time to exaggerate or express these emotions!

Before the explosion stopped, the soldiers tacitly threw a row of grenades around the position again, and then raised their guns to fight against the enemy... The soldiers also understood that only by throwing grenades at the same time and fighting with bullets can the most save ammunition and exert the maximum power of these ammunitions.

Suddenly a shell hit the position, and the three soldiers were immediately lifted aside, and a gap appeared on the front line. Fortunately, the soldiers had been through this situation several times, and immediately divided two soldiers from the other two directions to fill the gap.

But I couldn't help but feel strange about this shell, because when the shell exploded, the broken soil flew towards the enemy, which means that the shell was fired from the rear. But behind us is our army's No. 10 position...

I turned around in confusion and couldn't help but be shocked. About a platoon of puppet troops had secretly bypassed the No. 8 position we were stationed at some point and attacked from the No. 10 position behind us. Because we were throwing grenades around the position, we didn't notice it.

If you look at the No. 10 position carefully, it is still quiet. Apart from the smoke of gunpowder explosion and the flames of burning, there are only tree roots, corpses and bare mountain buns. If you have a little slippery reaction, you can't see a single figure!

Have all the soldiers on the No. 10 position been sacrificed?

Position No. 10 is equivalent to the back of Position No. 8 and Position No. 9. If Position No. 10 is lost, then Position No. 8 and the soldiers on Position No. 9 will be lit up in front of the enemy. Just like just now, their recoilless cannons and machine guns can directly hit our positions...

Time passed minute by minute, and there was still no movement on the No. 10 position. The enemy was closer to the mountain. They might still be worried that there were people on the mountain, so they all climbed up carefully with their guns, so the speed was not fast.

At this time, I could no longer hold back my anger. I patted the little warrior lying beside me, pointed to the No. 10 position behind and ordered: "Come with me!"

As he said that, he grabbed a few grenades from the ammunition box beside him and stuffed them into the grenade bag at his waist. He held another anti-tank grenade in his hand, held a rifle and rushed towards the No. 10 position.

The little soldier was also clever and snatched a few grenades without saying a word, and followed me with a blasting tube.

At this time, I had made up my mind that if I could reach the No. 10 position before the enemy, it would be best. Two people were guarding the No. 10 position. If I couldn't arrive in a hurry, I would try my best to take it back.

Two people are fighting against the enemy in a platoon? And they are fighting in close combat...

If I put this idea at other times, or if I think about it calmly afterwards, I would definitely think I was crazy! But I was just trying my best at that time. Anyway, if I couldn’t defend the No. 10 position, all the soldiers, including me, could not survive. It would be better to fight!

I ran all the way to the No. 10 position. The soft soil made me deep and shallow, and in the end I didn't even care about losing my shoes. Seeing that the No. 10 position was right in front of me, a row of machine gun bullets suddenly flew towards me. I hurriedly lying on the ground, and a few rounds of ammunition made the dirt beside me rush.

Apparently, the enemy had discovered me and hoped to block my way with a machine gun.

Time is very tight. Although I have made up my mind to take the No. 10 position back no matter what, I actually know very well that if the enemy first occupy the No. 10 position and then shoot down a condescendingly, then the chances of our successful regaining it will be very slim. On the contrary, if we can occupy the No. 10 position first, the chances of defending it will be much greater.

But at this moment, he was suppressed by the enemy's machine gun...

I grabbed the rifle and wanted to kill the machine gunner, but when I thought about it, I felt something was wrong. The enemy suppressed me with the machine gunner, and on the other hand, he seized the time to run on the position. When I killed the enemy machine gunner, the enemy would take the position first?

Thinking of this, I immediately turned over and rolled into a crater beside me, stopped for a while and then suddenly rushed to another crater. When I fell into the fourth crater, I rushed to the top of the mountain. I looked up and saw that the enemy had also come up. The distance was only seven or eight meters, so close that even the puppet army's terrified eyes could see!

I didn't think much about it, and once I pulled out the security pin of the anti-tank grenade in my hand, I threw it out towards the puppet army rushing up!

With a loud "Boom!", the anti-tank grenade was triggered, and it exploded as soon as it hit people or landed. So the group of puppet troops did not hurry to avoid it, and it was bombarded like a branch. But the enemy did not hurry to avoid it, and I did not hurry to avoid it either. I only felt my head buzzing, and my eyes fainted as soon as they were dark.

I was confused and felt someone shaking around me constantly. I opened my eyes and the anxious face of the little soldier appeared in front of me.

"Chief of Staff! You are finally awake!" Seeing that I was still alive, the little soldier couldn't help but say excitedly: "Chief of Staff, hurry up... the enemy is coming again!"

"If the enemy comes up, go and fight! What are you doing here?"

"Yes!" the little soldier responded, and immediately grabbed the grenade and threw it into the position.

I just felt cold sweat coming out of my body, and stars appearing in my eyes, as if the world was spinning. When I was fumigated by the choking smoke, I almost couldn't breathe, and my whole body felt like I was shaking with pain as if I was stabbed by needles. I really wanted to just lie down and sleep for a while.

But I knew that it was not the time to rest. The reinforcements in the tunnel were pressed out by burning bullets, and the enemy attacked us one after another. Once I fell asleep, I was very likely to never get up again.

So I forced myself to turn over, took out two grenades from my waist, gritted my teeth and endured the pain and crawled to the little soldier. I looked down. More than a dozen puppet troops were trying to attack position No. 10 under the cover of machine guns. I bit the grenade string into my mouth, threw it down one left and one right. With two loud noises, four or five were blown down. The remaining puppet troops retreated unwillingly.

"Chief of Staff! Position No. 9..."

Following the little warrior's gaze, he saw that there was only one wounded soldier and Li Baocheng left on the No. 9 position. He was already in danger and was about to be unable to defend.

"Go and reinforce!" Seeing this, I immediately ordered: "I'm here to guard it!"

"Yes!" The little soldier responded, ran towards the No. 9 position, and then grabbed the grenades in the ammunition box and beat them again!

This time I turned around and suddenly saw another group of puppet troops rushing upwards under the position. Looking at the No. 8 position, there were only two soldiers left. I couldn't help but complain. It would be a solution if this continues...

But after thinking about it, he didn't dare to slow down his movements. He touched the soldiers who died beside him for a while, collected seven or eight grenades and prepared. Seeing the enemy coming up, he grabbed the grenades and threw them down. The puppet army learned his lesson now, and they knew that there were not many defenders on the position, so they divided them into two parts, one attacked from the front, and the other surrounded from the side. I wanted to get up to another direction to stop the enemy from coming up, but as soon as I stood up, I felt dizzy. Just when I was helpless, a familiar figure ran over again, and without saying a word, grabbed the grenades on the ground and threw them violently.

I looked closely and saw who else was not that little soldier? He ran back when he ran back and just filled the vacancy in position No. 10!

In this way, the little soldier ran around between several positions, rushed to this position, and then to that position, busy and continued to attack the enemy's offensive again and again at critical moments.

I don’t know how long it took, but the soldiers in the tunnel finally put out the flames and replenished it. The enemy retreated unwillingly.

"Chief of Staff, are you okay?" After the enemy retreated, the little soldier sat next to me with a sweat on his head and panting, and asked intermittently: "Have you, are you... hurt? Let me see..."

"No!" I smiled and shook my head, sat up, patted his shoulder and said, "Little comrade, you're good at fighting! Do you know how many times I've repelled the enemy's charge?"

"Ah? This... I'm so busy, I don't remember to count it!" the little soldier grinned and laughed.

A volunteer army observation post ran over and interrupted, "I know that although I couldn't get through on the other end of the fire wall, I could see clearly. He defeated the enemy's twelve charges by himself!"
Chapter completed!