Chapter 45: Trail War

"Bang bang bang..." The soldiers rushed towards the top of the mountain without stopping.

The three platoons are in three directions, and each platoon is divided into three to four groups to cover each other's attack. Once a certain unit is blocked by the enemy's firepower, the other troops will speed up attacking upwards. They either attack from the side by cold gun troops or combat troops, quickly removing the enemy's stubborn firepower points. So not long after, six hills, large and small, on the top of the mountain were already under the control of the soldiers.

If the volunteers want to successfully seize the enemy's high ground, they usually have two to three times the enemy's strength, and the attacking side often suffers more casualties. They have to steal other people's territory! Of course, they have to exchange the lives of soldiers. But obviously the situation of the war does not necessarily have to be like this, for example, now we...

After fighting now, we also know that the total strength of the puppet army on the front slope and the top positions is not less than that of us, and may even be more than us. However, the puppet army is completely unable to withstand our attack, and the casualties ratio between the enemy and us is not proportional.

This may be because the puppet army did not expect us to be lurking under their noses and was caught off guard. It may be because our army's tactics of cooperation with each other can play a scientific role. It may be because the puppet army has always been accustomed to the past style of the volunteer army, but now it has suddenly encountered a different style of playing and cannot adapt...

But no matter what, this time we won, the defenders on the 902.8 high ground were beaten up so badly that they could not afford to organize decent resistance.

I took out my pocket watch and looked at it. In less than ten minutes, the soldiers had occupied the position on the top of the mountain. The sharpshooters of the Cold Gun Army also followed in time and used night vision instruments to chase and kill the puppet troops who were fleeing in all directions.

"Report!" When I patted the soil on my body and walked towards the top of the mountain with ease, Li Guoqiang's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Our army has occupied the top of the mountain, and the remnants of the puppet army hid in the reverse slope tunnel. Will we pursue it?"

"Don't pursue, build fortifications and anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns immediately!" I ordered.

I know what Li Guoqiang meant by chasing, that is, chasing into the enemy's tunnel to deal with the puppet army. I also believe that the soldiers have this ability. We have done countless drills before this, and the soldiers all know how to deal with the enemies hidden in the tunnel. But I know that we don't have enough time.

There were more than 200 people in the Seventh Company. Not to mention whether the puppet army's tunnels were enough to accommodate so many of us, even if they were enough, we would not be able to occupy the enemy's tunnels and hide in them when the enemy shells came, so we could only breathe a sigh of relief before talking.

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang responded, and the entire army seemed to have heard the order at the same time, and immediately started to take action.

Shi Shiran walked up to the top of the mountain, and there were soldiers busy building fortifications and cleaning the battlefield everywhere. It seemed that I was the only one who was leisurely.

Speaking of which, it is not difficult to transform several anti-aircraft holes on the enemy's existing positions. Just dig a small hole in the side walls of the enemy's already built trenches to achieve a good anti-aircraft effect. In addition, compared with the enemy's artillery, here is still a backscene surface, and the chance of being hit by the shells is not high, so I am not very worried.

"Lieutenant Lie! Lieutenant Lie, what's the situation..."

At this time, the Korean call from the Walkie-phone that was holding the hand of a corpse in the trench attracted my attention. I couldn't help but be stunned, and grabbed the Walkie-phone and replied in Korean: "I am Lieutenant Lee, everything is normal! Everything is normal!"

Originally, I didn't hold the hope of cheating the enemy, but what I didn't expect was that a relief gasp came from the other end of the walkie-talkie. Then, after a while, the guy cursed in a stern voice: "I said Lieutenant Lie, what did you do? After calling for a long time, no one responded. I thought you were killed by the Zhong*** team so soon! Don't you know to pay attention to the call? You were the first day of being a lieutenant..."

I looked at the microphone in my hand incredibly, and almost couldn't believe my ears. The puppet army command hadn't found that the 902.8 highland was already in our hands? Impossible! The puppet army on the top of the mountain did not let us wipe out all...

Oh! Then I quickly figured out that the problems faced by the puppet army in the tunnel were the same as those we encountered when we were in Shangganling. If the radio could not be launched in the tunnel, they naturally had no way to contact the command center! We just took only ten minutes to attack the top position of the 902.8 Highland. Most of the puppet army didn't even have time to escape, so naturally they didn't have time to notify the command center. And even if the notification was made, the command center seemed to be unable to believe that all this was true!

An unexpected surprise!

Thinking of this, I quickly waved to Hu Zudi, covered the walkie-phone microphone that was still swearing and ordered Hu Zudi: "The soldiers who organized the cold gun troops to monitor the entrance of the puppet army's tunnel. Once an antenna sticks out from the entrance of the tunnel, they will be blown up immediately!"

"Yes!" Hu Zudi understood and waved his hand and took the soldiers from the cold gun troops up.

"Hey hey..." There were still screams and scoldings coming from the gun: "Why don't you speak? Did the Zhongzhang team be frightened by silly... I said Lieutenant Lie, you have lost all the face of the Republic of Korea. You can't stand such a small battle, and you are worthy of being a soldier..."

I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and replied in a hypocritical manner: "Yes, yes... We were attacked by the Zhong*** team just now, but we have already repelled! The enemy's *** sighed... There is a battalion that has been completely defeated by our brave soldiers, and there are heavy casualties..."

This is called "Kuwei" not afraid of bragging! I know that there is a habit of falsely reporting military achievements in the puppet army. In modern times, I have read such information: a puppet army special agent unit sneaked into the rear of our army and used a pictorial horn to blew the assembly trumpet. More than 20 volunteer soldiers around were almost gathering towards this unmanned valley with instinct. At this time, the machine guns fired...

This puppet army special agent unit also made a big fuss about this matter and expanded the results tenfold. The puppet army special agent captain was awarded the title of "Tiger behind Enemy" for this!

So, I think I should brag now, and this may make the "upper" believe it more!

"Ah..." Unexpectedly, the guy on the other end of the walkie-phone started to curse when he heard me: "Who are you lying to lie to me? I thought I was easy to lie to..."

Just as I regretted my own cleverness, I didn’t expect that the guy cursed again: “I just heard Captain Park say that there is a regiment, what kind of eyesight do you have? I only see one battalion, so I have to have some ability to analyze the enemy…”

I couldn't help but fainted. It turned out that it was not because of my bragging that he "sees through", but because I was not bragging enough!

"Lieutenant Lee!" After a while, the guy on the other end of the walkie-phone finally summarized with an intense voice: "As a soldier in the Republic of Korea, a warrior in our 5th Division of Korea, and a vanguard of the people, no matter when and in any situation, you must defend the 902.8 highland with a fearless spirit. If the Zhong*** team dares to provoke, give them some strength..."

"Yes!" I responded so much, but I felt funny in my heart. What warriors and pioneers he said were not just the troops that we had just dealt with in ten minutes...

Originally, I wanted the confused commander who didn't know what was going on to send some ammunition or something, but after thinking about it, I forced the desire to suppress it.

What we need most now is not ammunition, but time. Our most important task at present is to stick here for two to three hours. When the warriors of the Third Battalion come up, the overall situation has been decided.

At this moment, I suddenly realized that I was like a hungry beggar. No matter when I saw food, I wanted to bring some food. Even if I knew I was not hungry, I was also full of food. Just as there are more than a hundred boxes of ammunition reserves in the tunnel now, but I still want ammunition...

"Boom..." The explosion of the grenade came, and then Hu Zudi reported on the intercom: "The enemy tried to extend the antenna, but it was blown up by me, and I had blown up!"

Only then did I turn my gaze to Hu Zudi. Taking advantage of the few lights that occasionally came from the 973 Highland shells exploded, I found out one by one the tunnels dug by the puppet army.

There are more than a dozen tunnels in total. It can be said that the tunnels built by the puppet army are very rough. The tunnels are not covered by each other, nor are they built in relatively hidden locations. There are no traffic trenches or bunkers outside the tunnel for soldiers in the tunnel to quickly expand their troops. It is almost like a few children casually digging several holes that can hide people on the inclined surface!

That's right, this is a hole, not a tunnel.

It seems that the puppet army is indeed good at destroying our army's tunnels, but it is much worse for us when building the tunnels.

Seeing this, I felt a little relieved and ordered to the walkie-talkie: "Li Guoqiang, organize troops to attack the tunnel!"

Since the puppet army did not know that the 902.8 highland was already in the hands of our army, it would naturally not bombard the highland so quickly, so it gave us time to slowly clear the puppet army in the tunnel. Although these tunnels were constructed very roughly, keeping them was always a disaster. First, the puppet army in the tunnel might contact the command center, and second, when the puppet army reinforcements came up, they would become a strange army. Just like the soldiers hiding in the tunnel in the Shangganling Battle, our army cooperated with the ground troops to attack...

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang, not far away, heard the order, threw the shovel in his hand to the ground, waved his hand to the soldiers, and shouted: "Second row, follow me!"

It makes sense that Li Guoqiang would choose the second platoon attack tunnel. Zhang Xiong, the leader of the second platoon, is famous for his quick hands and feet. Although he is tall and big, he almost bent his back and moved forward in the tunnel, but for some reason, the second platoon he led always had the best results in the attack tunnel!

According to Zhang Xiong, he bent over and entered the tunnel. When the enemy threw grenades in front of him, he could even save the action of bent over and grabbed them and threw them back.

As the commander of the 7th Company, Li Guoqiang was reluctant to suffer heavy casualties from the elite troops in his hands. So this time he went to the real battlefield, so he naturally chose the second platoon who was best at fighting tunnel battles.

Li Guoqiang made several gestures at the soldiers, and the second row immediately understood and quickly spread out in squads, and gradually tightened the net entrance around the tunnel entrance like a fishing net.

Then it was divided into four and five soldiers in a group, each group was responsible for a tunnel entrance, leaning against the tunnel entrance, grabbing the grenade and preparing.

"Do it!" With Li Guoqiang's order, the soldiers pulled the insurance and almost sent grenades from both sides of the tunnel into the tunnel at the same time.

First, the strange panic sounds of the puppet soldiers were faintly heard in the tunnel, and then a few muffled sounds of "boom..." were heard, and a cloud of smoke came out of each tunnel entrance without exception.

Just as the thick smoke came out, the soldiers waiting at the entrance of the tunnel had lit up the flashlight on the barrel, and then flashed and covered each other and entered the tunnel.

"Bang bang..." A series of dull gunfires came from the ground quickly, and occasionally one or two explosions were heard, and sometimes even the explosion was under your feet.

The puppet army obviously did not expect that we would dare to get into the tunnel and fight with them in close combat. This is also a method they had never thought about when destroying our tunnel in the past.

Actually, when I think about it now, I really think that the best way to deal with the tunnel is to drill into the tunnel and do it with the enemy with real swords and guns. Because any method, whether it is the US military's incendiary bomb burning with explosives, or the puppet army's more vicious use of barbed wire to block the eyes and load explosives... Although these methods are effective and good, they all have an inevitable disadvantage, that is, "slowness"!

The one who grabs the opportunity on the battlefield is the first opportunity, and the one who fights is time. If the enemy digs one in the high ground, two tunnels can drag a whole army to one or two months, just like Shangganling, then don’t fight this battle. In the end, even if you can use this method to slowly drag the people in the tunnel to death, the final result will actually be defeated.

But drilling into a tunnel is different from the enemy's real swords and guns. For a high ground, there may be defense and attack. Needless to say, the defense side has many advantages, such as condescending geographical advantages, the advantages of bunkers, firepower, barbed wire, etc., to wait for work. But the tunnel...

What the puppet army and the US military never thought was that as long as they had the courage to drill into this tunnel, the defenders and the offensive sides were actually on an equal position, just a cave that was poked directly, and no one had the advantage. If you insist that the defense had some advantages, you could barely count it as one of them familiar with the terrain! But the simple terrain in the tunnel made this one basically negligible!

The so-called "a brave man wins when he meets a narrow road". The tunnel is a real narrow road. Moreover, in such a narrow road, the number of soldiers is actually not that important. It is to see who has the courage to fight the enemy in this narrow road!

Obviously, the one who had the courage to fight was on our Volunteer Army. Because not long after, the Volunteer Army soldiers retreated from the tunnel with blood all over their bodies, and reported "target removal" one after another.

It doesn't take much time to walk the tunnel that is dozens of meters long. Of course, some of the soldiers were carried out by their comrades. It is impossible to fight in such a small space without any casualties. But all those who can walk out are volunteer soldiers, not a single puppet army.

Not leaving prisoners is a principle in tunnel warfare, because prisoners in tunnels are difficult to control, even if those prisoners have been seized.

There are two battalions of the puppet troops stationed in the 902.8 Highlands. In addition to the two companies that were just defeated by us on the surface positions, there are at least one battalion of enemies in the tunnel. That is to say, there are 40 or 50 puppet troops in each tunnel, but now they are eliminated by four or five volunteer soldiers in the tunnel.

I believe that if these puppet troops had a gunfight with us on the ground, they would never lose so badly. But they chose to hide in the tunnel. There is a saying that if they don’t make a tiger, I think it’s them. The tunnel fortifications are in the hands of volunteer soldiers, which is to preserve their powerful support for attacking the enemy, but in the hands of the puppet troops with insufficient courage, they become the tombs to bury them...

"Captain! All are solved!" Li Guoqiang walked to me, grabbed his head and said, "I know the puppet army can't help but fight, but I never expected that the puppet army could not help but fight! Isn't this? We only had more than 20 soldiers who died or injured, and they took down both of their battalions!"

"Captain Li..." Hu Zudi came up with a rifle and said, "You are wrong about this! This is not a puppet army that can't help but fight. It should be said that Captain Cui's method of fighting the enemy is useful!"

"That's it!" Yang Zhenshan agreed: "If we follow our previous fighting style, you say that we will fight two battalions in a row...even if we can fight like this! But when the charge horn blows, the enemy will rush upwards, and the enemy will sweep down with machine guns!"

"Tsk..." Lin Xue's disdainful voice came from behind him: "When Captain Cui was training the army, who did this and that did not agree?"

After Lin Xue said this, Li Guoqiang and others looked at me, and I looked at you, each of them smiled awkwardly and didn't know how to answer.

"Let's go back to the position!" I rescued the soldiers and said, "The comrades fought very well in this battle! But our mission has not been completed yet! The puppet army will discover the situation here at any time and send reinforcements. We must defend the position until the arrival of the Third Battalion!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and returned to their posts to command the soldiers to build fortifications.

I turned my eyes to the south, and the high ground behind were full of searchlights of puppet troops illuminating everywhere. The guns and cannons of 973 were still ringing again and again, but no one noticed that the 902.8 high ground had changed hands.

So I thought, if I could just wait until the warriors of the Third Battalion arrived, the battle seemed to be over easily and successfully.
Chapter completed!