Chapter 157 Injury and Death

The position was filled with smoke and fire. The enemy rushed up again and again, and was beaten by us again and again.

The attack of the 187th Airborne Division was very fierce. At first, they always used small units of squads as units to conduct tentative attacks, and after exploring the strength of our army. After the firepower was discovered, they launched a company and battalion-scale impact under the cover of dense barrage shooting. The attack formation was first a commando composed of experienced veterans, a firepower team composed of heavy machine guns, recoil-free cannons and other firearms, and finally a second-tier group. The first wave of attack failed and soon retreated to the mountainside, and the second-tier team immediately launched a charge.

Their clear-level and strong continuous attacks made the volunteer soldiers guarding the frontier positions not rush to rotate. Because we were worried that once the US military launched a charge when we were rotating, a large group of US troops would occupy our positions in one fell swoop.

This situation puts the soldiers on the top of the mountain facing a very serious situation, that is, only the soldiers in the tunnel are supplemented, but no one has taken them down to rest. The soldiers only know how to fight, fight, and fight again! Unless they die, there is no way to stop.

This is like the slogan that soldiers often say: "Life is endless, battle is endless!" Originally, I thought this verbal and verbal were just a spiritual thing, but I didn't expect that at this moment, I got a testimony at the cost of life on this Shangganling.

"Bang bang bang..." I mechanically pulled the trigger and kept shooting the US troops rushing up with guns in the smoke.

Although it is daytime and the smoke emitted by the US smoke bombs is gradually dissipating, the visibility on the battlefield is still very low, and the US military dozens of meters away can only vaguely see a little figure.

But this was enough for me. I could tell the vital points of their heads from their vague figure. Then the rifle in his hand shot out a bullet without hesitation, knocking down the US troops in front of the position almost without any hesitation.

In fact, on the battlefield, the head of the US military is no different from the body of the enemy. The volunteers will insist on fighting on the position if they are injured, or even second and second, and still refuse to leave the position after three injuries until they are finally sacrificed. But the US military is different. For them, as long as they are injured, even if they are slightly injured, they have every reason to temporarily withdraw from the position. The US military attaches importance to life, and they also believe that going to the position after being injured will not only not be able to exert their due combat effectiveness, but may also drag down the entire army.

So at this moment, as long as my bullets can hit the Americans, no matter where they are, it will be decided that he will withdraw from the battlefield, at least not pose a threat to us anymore.

But I specifically took the lead in the US military, with the purpose of letting them know my existence.

A real sniper does not depend on the number of enemies that can kill, but on whether he can scare the enemy and dare not attack. For cluster attacks like the enemy, I believe that even the most powerful sniper is not as many enemies as an ordinary machine gunner. So I think I should play another role...

With a gunshot, a running US military force paused, and even screamed, he was shot in the head and fell to the ground.

I believe he is a veteran with great combat experience. He is very flexible in running between the craters, and the time and direction of running are completely irregular when jumping out of the craters. Sometimes he stays in the craters for only a few seconds, and sometimes even for several minutes.

I couldn't hold my gun and aim at the crater where he was hiding, waiting for him, because there were other American troops rushing up in front of the position. If I did this, it would be like giving up a forest for a tree.

So I didn't do this. I wanted to compete with him in speed and reaction! While shooting at other US troops one by one, I used the corner of my eyes to separate a part of my attention and monitor the crater he was hiding. When he jumped out of the crater, I quickly moved the muzzle to his direction...

I successfully shot him to the ground a second before he was about to pounce into another crater.

Although I won, I knew I was very dangerous because if I just had to slow down for a second, he could successfully hide in the crater and then throw grenades into our position!

"Bang! Bang!" Then two gunshots were heard. Two US troops carrying stretchers one after another flashed a faint blood light from their heads, and then they rolled towards the foot of the mountain. The stretcher lost its support and threw it heavily on the ground, causing the US troops on the stretcher to hold their feet and howl loudly.

They were medical soldiers and shouldn't have died. This was due to the steep incline on the 597.9 high ground, which made most injured US troops roll down for a distance. Therefore, medical soldiers did not need to approach the frontline positions to rescue many wounded soldiers. They were more than 70 meters away from where I was. At this distance, I could not find them in the smoke.

But unfortunately, I vaguely saw two red "cross" characters in the scope...

The enemy is the enemy, no matter whether he is a medical soldier or not. And I know that the medical soldier on the battlefield of the US military is also a man, and is also a combatant with a gun. So I pulled the trigger without thinking!

"Bang!" Another gunshot was heard, and another bloody flower burst out from the smoke, making me realize that the gun was not lost either. Of course, I couldn't guarantee that this bullet could hit the enemy's head, because I didn't see him at all.

I can't see him, and he can't see me either. This is a very simple truth.

Perhaps it was this reason that made him carelessly and carelessly, which was also the reason why he died. The bayonet raised high, reflecting the flames of the incendiary bomb shone in the smoke, and it was difficult not to let me know his position!

After I finished shooting three magazines, I knew that I had successfully let the US military know my existence. Because their offensive slowed down significantly, they became step by step, and were careful! This made the other soldiers on the No. 9 position where I was located relaxed, and the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions also sparse.

But on the other positions were still fighting in full swing. Especially the No. 10 position, I was shocked when I saw it. Perhaps because of the death of the observation post, the soldiers in the tunnel did not make any hurry to replenish them. There were only two injured soldiers on the No. 10 position in the smoke of gunpowder.

The soldier fired the submachine gun "da da..." and the grenades kept dropping down one by one, but the US military still attacked in groups like ants, and the situation was very critical!

Position No. 10 cannot be lost. It is the link between us and the main peak position No. 3. If it is captured by the enemy and has firmly stood firm, then our top position will be divided into two by the enemy, so that we cannot reinforce each other. At that time, we are afraid that the entire position will be defeated by the enemy.

Send people to reinforce? I looked around and found that there were only five or six soldiers, and the other positions were similar. Each position on the top of the mountain was not large, and naturally there were not many people stationed. If the only few people were sent to reinforce, it would be like tearing down the east wall and repairing the west wall. It is very likely that he saved the No. 10 position but lost his own position!

In desperation, I grabbed a soldier beside me and ordered: "Immediately notify the soldiers in the tunnel to replenish their troops! Position No. 10 will be lost!"

"Yes!" The soldier grabbed his rifle and turned and ran away, but I quickly called him back.

After gritting my teeth, I ordered the soldier: "Notify the mortars to prepare, target the No. 10 position, and order Company Commander Li Baocheng to counterattack the No. 10 position!"

"What?" The soldier was stunned: "Chief of Staff, the position has not been lost yet, are we going to counterattack?"

"Execute the order!" I shouted at the warrior almost hysterically.

"Yes!" The soldier looked at the two soldiers who were standing on the No. 10 position, turned around and ran towards the tunnel.

It was no hurry to notify the soldiers in the tunnel to replenish their troops. I knew this very well. Although the position on the top of the mountain was not far from the tunnel, the warrior ran into the tunnel and the time the soldiers went to the position was at least seven or eight minutes. On the No. 10 position, the US military slowly rushed in like a tide, and the two soldiers obviously could not hold on for so long.

"Bang bang..." I turned my sight to position No. 10, pulling the trigger again and again, hoping to slightly slow down the speed of the US military's rushing forward. But all this was futile...

Just under my helpless eyes, more than a dozen American soldiers rushed to the No. 10 position cheered and stabbed the bayonet in their hands deeply into the bodies of the two soldiers guarding the position. The bright red on the bayonet instantly stinged my eyes...

At this time, the group of American troops with bayonets suddenly became in chaos. They had just rushed in and jumped out of the position in panic. Just as I was surprised, a loud bang came, and a huge smoke and firelight rose from the No. 10 position. The group of American troops were also blown away to the surroundings with the explosion!

It was those two soldiers, and I soon realized this. They ignited the explosive pack at the last moment of their sacrifice... The result of this was that the US military could not obtain the ammunition on the No. 10 position, and more importantly, they blew up all the fortifications on the position, making it impossible for the US military to defend!

However, if you can persevere on the position like them until the last moment, watching groups of American troops rushing up with bayonets and not retreating, and even wait for the enemy to rush into the position and stab their bodies with bayonets, then you can pull the explosive pack! But I don’t know how much courage and perseverance this requires, because I asked myself that I could not do this...

As soon as the explosive pack sounded, although the US military that had just rushed up flew everywhere, on the other hand, it was telling that there were no more living people on the US position. The 187th Airborne Regiment was not an ordinary person, so he would not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So he ignored those comrades who were bombed and rushed to the No. 10 position with a bayonet!

But when they rushed to the position, before they could react, the mortars on the backscene surface of our army shook them in a mess, and they only hit them one by one and flew into the air, and then they were divided into several pieces and fell heavily. But the bones of these US troops were also hard, and they still refused to retreat under such circumstances.

Maybe they knew that this position was really hard to come by, or they knew very well that once they gave up the position, if they wanted to take it back, they would definitely suffer greater casualties. So no matter how many people were blown up by mortars, they still gritted their teeth and stood firmly on the position. Those who were already on the position looked for hidden dangers and set up machine guns on the position in the fire. Before they rushed to the position, they carried various weapons and rushed into the gap like a flood that broke the dam! At the same time, the US troops in other positions also tacitly launched a charge against our position, and even the US troops in front of me were no exception...

The 187th Airborne Regiment was indeed powerful. Facing the US military rushing towards us without fear of death, I pulled the trigger while cursing in my heart: The No. 10 position has been broken through by them. If they continue to fight like this, a large number of US troops will soon move from the No. 10 position to our back, and the results of the battle will be quickly expanded from the No. 10 position to the back of us, and the attacks on both sides will quickly expand the results.

Fortunately, I had prepared for this in advance, otherwise I would have no choice but to pull the soldiers back to the tunnel!

"Kill!" Just when the US military had not yet gained a foothold on the position, Li Baocheng rushed up with dozens of soldiers and followed the mortar bullet point. At the No. 10 position, a row of grenades were hit!

On both sides of the No. 10 position are position No. 3 and position No. 9. The soldiers on these two positions often point their guns at the enemy on the No. 10 position in a little bit of gap in repelling the charge of the enemy in front. This also made the US military on the No. 10 position focus all their attention on both sides. In addition, they were also blown up by the mortars above their heads, so they would never have thought that Li Baocheng's surprise attack suddenly appeared on the front. If you were not careful, Li Baocheng and the others ran closer and threw rows of grenades. There was only a scattered sound of "boom...", and a thick smoke rose from the No. 10 position again. Although the dozen or so American soldiers escaped the bombing of the mortars, they died without exception in the explosion of the grenades.

Li Baocheng and others rushed forward. After pulling the soldiers in front, they snatched the grenades and lay down. After the explosion, they snatched the soldiers in the back and snatched a row of grenades again. The grenade barrage was like a monster with feet, and they stepped towards the enemy step by step, smashing the US military's follow-up troops back.

When the soldiers put the machine gun on the No. 10 position again, I was relieved and the gap was finally filled in in time!

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng rushed to my side and lay down beside me. While picking up the submachine gun in his hand and shooting a shuttle at the enemy, he asked, "Are you not injured!"

"What did you do!" I asked without hesitation: "I didn't notice even if I had sacrificed the observation post. The No. 10 position was beaten so hard that no one knew. I almost threw the position away, did I know?"

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng said with a shameless look: "It's not that the observation post did not inform us of the news, but that all the people of the Company Chen were discharged, and Company Chen was also sacrificed. There was no one to find to replenish them for a while. Our Eighth Company was far away from their tunnel, so..."

Listening to Li Baocheng's words, I couldn't help but remain silent, and I kept caring about the war, but I didn't expect that the casualties of the troops had far exceeded my imagination. I couldn't help but look up at the sky, as if it had just passed noon. If this continues, I really don't know if the soldiers on the 597.9 Highlands can survive when reinforcements arrive at night.

The pressure suddenly eased, and the sound of guns and cannons slowly faded. Li Baocheng poked his head out of the trench and looked at it, turned around and reported to me: "Chief of Staff, the enemy has retreated!"

"Retreat the tunnel!" I threw a word and turned around and ran towards the tunnel.

"How many people can fight?" This is the first sentence I said after returning to the command center. This is the issue I care about the most and worry about the most.

"Including the soldiers who just retreated from the position, there are still 135 people!" Instructor Qin reported helplessly: "These people also include the minor wounded, cooks, and correspondents..."

I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time. I couldn't help but feel cold. It was only twelve o'clock now, and it was only more than two hours before the US military started to fight! More than two hundred casualties were killed or killed in more than two hours. If we continue to fight at this speed, we will never be able to hold on!

But what can I do? The battle must be fought, and there will definitely be casualties. Moreover, during this day, our reinforcements cannot come up at all. Seeing that the number of people is fighting less and less, I am not a magician and can turn into a lot of living people!

I originally thought that more than 300 people were enough to hold on the 597.9 high ground for a day, but now it seems that this idea is a big mistake.

The confrontation with the US 187th Airborne Regiment cannot be estimated by the casualties in the battle with the puppet army.

It was not that I didn’t expect this before, but that casualties would increase exponentially. I think a large part of this is that most of the volunteer soldiers are recruits! Although the recruits are brave and fight well, they lack combat experience after all, they are far from veterans in terms of cooperation and preservation, so it is normal for them to suffer heavy casualties.

What to do now? I couldn't help but frown.
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