Chapter 11 Accident

The wind stopped and the snow stopped.

The temperature was very low, and the whole world was silent under the snow. It seemed that everything was cold by the sudden severe winter. Even the shaking searchlights on the puppet army's positions stopped rotating. Several light columns were like monsters' eyes, staring blankly at the sky and dazed towards the position...

I have been mentally prepared for the cold on the ground, because I have experienced the great lurking of ice and snow before this, but I still couldn't help but tremble in the biting coldness around me.

I couldn't help but turn my eyes to the soldiers lurking around me. At first, there was nothing unusual, but not long after, there were faint sounds of teeth bumping and gasping. I couldn't help but smile. The temperature in North Korea is not as cold as in China. It can reach tens of degrees below zero when it gets cold. It is common for people to freeze to death.

It is said that in the early days of the Korean War, the US military was accustomed to using seated toilets in China, so when skimming the strips, they were used to using stools or something else to cushion them. As a result, when they finished, they found that their butt was frozen on them and could not be relieved...

Although this happened a few years ago when the US military had no experience, it was enough to show how cold North Korea was. Although the soldiers of the Ninth Company came from the ***, and the winter was also very cold there, it was still a small matter compared to North Korea.

Obviously, they were not prepared enough at this point, or they did not expect that the winter night in North Korea would be so cold, so they were all trembling. Although I couldn't see them trembling on this moonlit night, they could clearly see the grass and trees that kept shaking around them.

Everyone will tremble in the cold temperature, including me. They won’t tremble, either means there is a nerve problem, or it means that he is almost frozen to death. Their mistake is that they should not be used to lurking in the bushes, and should not be used to using the bushes as their cover...

If I were a puppet army sniper, I could determine their position based on this point and kill them one by one. At that time, there was no need to say that I would shoot cold guns, but I was afraid that an enemy would lose a lot of people without hitting him.

However, the soldiers were soldiers who had received training in the intracom school for several years. Although they could not stand the cold in the snow, they still gritted their teeth and persevered. Moreover, some soldiers soon discovered the problem of lurking in the bushes, so they changed their snorkel positions one by one.

I turned my eyes to Lin Xue not far away, and she also looked at me. The contact between the two eyes made me feel a little warmth. I saw Lin Xue smiling at me with difficulty, as if to reassure me.

I could only nod at her. On the battlefield, although I often have to cooperate and tacitly understand each other, there are still many things that I need to rely on myself, and my comrades can't help. For example, the lurking now...

The cold constantly tests our will and makes time very long. I took out my pocket watch several times to look at the time, but found that time had only left that little bit. I wanted to put the pocket watch in front of me to pass the time, but after thinking about it, I finally put it back in my arms because I was worried that the low temperature outside would freeze the hand of the pocket watch.

It was finally time for Jiang Changshun to wait for the routine patrol of the puppet troops. I couldn't help but raise my gun and point it at the opposite high ground again.

There is no movement, there is no movement...

Time passed by minute by minute, but the patrol troops of the puppet army never appeared.

At this time, Jiang Changshun couldn't help but crawled to my side and whispered: "Captain Cui, maybe it was because the weather was too cold tonight, and the puppet army patrol team was lazy!"

I nodded gently, but I felt it was unlikely. First of all, the puppet army was a local who lived in North Korea for a long time, and they should be more likely to get used to the winter temperature here than we did. Secondly, after more than two years of training on the battlefield, the puppet army was no longer as scattered as in the early days of the Korean War. Although the war was not tight during this period, they would not be negligent in routine patrols.

"Wait a little longer!" I said to Jiang Changshun softly.

"Yes!" Jiang Chang responded, and said nothing more. He slowly climbed to the side and continued to lurk in the snow.

Half an hour passed, and the enemy's patrol still did not appear. There was not even a single footprint on the white snow. I even had some doubts about whether there was a living person on the high ground opposite.

An hour passed, but there was still no trace of the enemy. Everything was so quiet, terrible and abnormally quiet.

What the hell is the enemy doing? I couldn't help but think in my mind, is it really like Jiang Changshun said that the puppet army did not patrol because it was too cold tonight and was lazy?

At this time, a faint sound of dead branches breaking came from a place only fifty meters away from our position. So I understood that the enemy had taken action tonight.

Because of the action, because they had troops moving towards us, they didn't need to send people to patrol. At this time, their vanguard had already reached our noses. We had always focused on the enemy's positions. With the perspective of our lurking position, we did not find that there was an enemy under our noses...

I quickly climbed forward for two steps, carefully judging my rifle forward, and then observed the woods below through the scope.

After seeing this, I said intimately that the terrain of the woods will not be much lower than that of us. If there is an enemy hiding in it and fighting us, those trees as thick as thighs will undoubtedly be the best cover for the enemy. However, we were exposed to the snow one by one, and there was not even the simplest cover.

Retreat now? I'm afraid it's too late.

At a distance of more than fifty meters, the soldiers just stood up... It can even be said that if the enemy observes carefully in this moonlight, we cannot escape the enemy's eyes even if we crawl on the ground. If we do this, we can only fall one by one under the enemy's gun!

So shooting a warning? This doesn't seem to be appropriate.

Our lurking location is half an hour away from the main force in the reverse slope tunnel. Even if the main force can set off immediately when we hear the gunshots, I am afraid that when they arrive, we will be eaten by the enemy.

Besides, before we set off, we told Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi that we were coming out to lurk in cold guns, so there were a few gunshots that could not attract their attention at all...

I looked around. The soldiers were unaware of the crisis in front of me and were still fighting against the cold desperately. They still stared at the opposite side of the position with concentration. Then they looked at the surrounding moonlight, which made the open space extremely conspicuous under the reflection of the snow.

The enemy is in the dark and I am in the bright. Suddenly, we seem to be in a dead land. We came out to be hunters, but we didn't expect that Yi Ran became prey without realizing it!

I couldn't help but blame myself secretly. I originally wanted to bring the soldiers up to practice, but now I put them in such danger.

Regret is useless! I knew this very well, so I immediately retreated carefully and made a gesture to Jiang Changshun not far away, telling him that there are enemies below and telling him not to act rashly!

My gestures were used when organizing soldiers to shoot cold guns before. Although Jiang Changshun had never learned them, Daqing could guess the meaning. After understanding them, his face changed. Looking at the terrain, a hint of panic flashed in his eyes.

After all, I have never been to the battlefield. Seeing his expression, I felt a little unsure. In the past, commanding troops to fight, whether it was a company or a battalion, I knew the qualities and abilities of the troops in my hands. At the same time, the soldiers also knew my abilities and combat habits, so they could be able to fight with them. Those troops were as easy to use as my hands and feet.

But now, although Jiang Changshun's Ninth Company may be much higher than ordinary troops in terms of quality, I lack understanding of them, and they do not understand me. This makes me unable to predict what they will do or what they cannot do... For example, I am not sure now whether if I tell other soldiers about the enemy in the woods, it will cause panic among the soldiers and expose us all. This has brought great difficulties to my command and many variables to the battlefield!

The situation was very critical. I could vaguely hear the "crying" sound of puppet army boots stepping on the snow in the forest. So I was thinking that if the soldiers didn't know there was an enemy in the forest, they would be very likely to be shocked when they saw the enemy. The biggest possibility afterwards was - either shouting a command or *** and shooting...

And these are the ones I want to see the least. If this happens, although we can take the initiative to kill a few puppet troops who have walked out of the woods, the puppet troops will soon retreat into the woods, and that is the time for us to suffer casualties.

What should I do? At this time, I couldn't help but feel anxious. I couldn't retreat, and I couldn't fight! Ran Dao said, just stay there?

That’s right! Just stay there!

Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that our biggest advantage now is that the enemy does not know that there are people in this snow. If we keep lurking here until they all walk out of the woods... No! We shouldn't have fired when they just walked out of the woods. The number of enemies who came to the camp this time should not be small. We can't take them all out in one breath. If we let them run back a few people, even if there are only a small part of the people, it will be difficult for us to escape from danger.

So, we only have one way to go, that is, wait for them to wait until they come to us or even between us, and then launch a sudden attack!

We took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the puppet army being beaten by us and was unable to figure out the situation and retreated to the woods, we also took the opportunity to retreat!

After thinking about the combat plan, I immediately made a gesture at Jiang Changshun. Because I was worried that he would not understand my gesture, I had to write a few words on the snow: "Don't move and shoot." This means that I ordered the soldiers not to move or shoot.

Of course, Jiang Changshun was not a stupid person. After nodding knowingly, he quickly conveyed my orders with Buxiao's gesture. This made me sigh at the importance of unification of gestures.

Just as I was thinking, several puppet soldiers holding guns suddenly appeared in the forest. Their appearance obviously surprised some of the soldiers who had not yet arrived and were anxious to receive the orders, and they all turned their eyes to me, including Lin Xue. I raised my hand and signaled them not to shoot, which calmed them down.

I couldn't help but screamed for luck. If someone fired a gun at this time, casualties might be inevitable. Fortunately, these students who graduated from the school also knew that they could not act without permission.

The puppet army was very careful in their actions. They walked out first, four or five people, and looked outside at the top of the mountain for a while. After not finding any abnormality, they waved behind them.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel funny. They made the same mistake as we did just now. We just focused on looking at the enemy's positions, but we didn't find the enemy under our noses; but now they are only concerned about observing whether there is any situation on the top of the mountain, and they don't seriously look at the snow under our feet...

In fact, because it has not snowed for a while, there are still many traces of soldiers crawling on the snow. They did not find this, so they were destined to suffer casualties.

After a while, more and more puppet troops emerged in the woods, and there was a company that was slowly touching the top of the mountain with its waist and guns. They were like us, all wearing white cloths. At first glance, they looked no different from us!

Now I couldn't help but feel a little troubled. The people on both sides look similar and wear similar clothes. How can I distinguish between the enemy and me when I fight? But when I think about it, I feel that there is no need to worry. The enemy is large and they are all standing. When the fight comes, I will just put down all the standing ones!

"Crack..." The enemy's footsteps were getting closer and clearer.

The distance of fifty meters was not very long. After a while, the enemy's vanguard had arrived in front of us. This made me unable to help but hold my breath, lower my head, and dared not make a sound.

What I worry most at this time is that if a soldier cannot hold back his anger and pulls the trigger at the enemy and exposes the target, it will undoubtedly put us in danger. However, the soldiers are worthy of coming out of Buxiao, and they can all be calm, at least for now.

Another worry is that the puppet soldiers walking in front of the reconnaissance may step on which warrior. Although they can't see us, if they step on a living person, the feeling of foot will definitely be different. Then we will not be able to hide it anymore. One of the puppet soldiers' military boots will sway past me. As long as he is a few centimeters more, he will step on my head! But fortunately, this situation did not happen either...

The puppet army scouts walking in front were released by us, and then the puppet army was large. After they walked out of the forest, they deployed their forces, and more than 100 people lined up in two rows of scattered soldiers to touch the top of the mountain. Like the vanguard, they did not notice the traces on the snow. In fact, even if they noticed them, they would not doubt anything, because they had every reason to believe that the traces were tortured by the scouts who had just passed.

So they felt relieved to touch the top of the mountain, and some even speeded up and started jogging.

"beat!"

When the enemy walked almost face to face with me, I shouted loudly, raised my rifle and fired eight bullets in the gun chamber at the puppet army in front of me.

I didn't need to aim at such a close distance. Every gunshot would bring a scream, and a puppet army would fall to the ground without any preparation. I was so close to them that I could hear the "bump" sound when they fell to the ground...

Almost at the same time, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers also rang out, and gunfire sounds suddenly appeared in front of the open space. The inconspicuous puppet soldiers fell into a pool of blood before they could figure out what was going on.

Screams continued. Although the number of puppet soldiers was several times that of ours, their weapons and equipment were better than ours. Strictly speaking, we were still within their encirclement, but this sudden situation made them completely unaware of what was going on. The first reaction was that they were ambushed, so as I had expected before, they left dozens of corpses and turned around and ran into the woods...

"Retreat!" As soon as the puppet army retreated, I ordered Jiang Changshun to retreat.

"What?" Jiang Changshun was stunned. Wu raised his rifle in his hand and shot the retreating enemy, then turned around and asked, "Captain Cui, now is the time to eliminate the enemy, why..."

"Fuck you do the orders for me!" While I raised my rifle to shoot at the enemy that was retreating like a tide, I lowered my voice and ordered Jiang Changshun: "Immediately order the troops to withdraw to the tunnel according to the retreat route!"

I cannot give orders to the soldiers loudly because the enemy is too close to us at this time, and they are all puppet troops. They are likely to understand Chinese puppet troops. If I do this, the puppet troops will know that we are going to retreat and catch up with us, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Yes!" Jiang Changshun looked at the escaped puppet army reluctantly, turned around and conveyed the order.

I knew Jiang Changshun couldn't bear anything. At this time, the puppet army completely lit their backs in front of us, and it was the time to shoot them in large numbers. But what he didn't know was that once the puppet army fled into the forest, the situation would be reversed.

The soldiers began to retreat one after another, but at this moment, I suddenly felt something was wrong in my heart. Before I could figure out what it was, several gunshots of "bang..." suddenly came from behind me. Two soldiers who were about to retreat fell to the ground with a muffled groan.

It was the vanguard of the puppet army! I realized this very quickly.
Chapter completed!