Chapter 71 Unexpected Fight

"Captain!" After a while, Liu Shunyi handed a telegram to me and said, "Captain Wu has called back..."

"Read!" I said straightforwardly.

"This..." Liu Shunyi hesitated for a moment, then raised the telegram and said, "You can do it, boy!"

"What?" I was stunned when I heard this, and looked at Liu Shunyi in confusion.

Liu Shunyi held up the telegram innocently and said, "This is not what I said, the phone number is just four words: 'Boy, you can do it'!"

With a coaxing sound, before I could react, the soldiers were already laughing. Who would have thought that Wu Min would send such four words like such a serious telegram on the battlefield! I just saw it a little amused and crying.

"The regiment commander's method is indeed very good!" Li Pinghe said with a smile: "I don't understand even though you think of this method in your head! Use the water flow to bring the explosive pack down. As long as the comrades of the 539th regiment easily throw the explosive pack into the water, all the problems will be solved!"

"Yes!" Li Weiqiang nodded and responded, "No wonder Commander Wu sent these four words. We admire him very much! He was thinking about reinforcement of Battalion Commander Hu and others just now, but now there seems to be no need to do it. What if the puppet army put barbed wire in the river? The explosive pack will not fly to the sky after it is exploded! What can the pontoon bridge be? We can easily blow up the pontoon bridges as many as they build!"

"That's it!" Li Pinghe continued, "Our Volunteer Army troops are used to carrying explosive packs, but now because of the large number of recoil-free cannons, rocket launchers and other equipment, explosive packs have less and less functions on the battlefield! Isn't that? Although Commander Wu and others brought it, none of them were useful! I didn't expect this thing to come in handy at critical moments!"

"Did Commander Wu say something to do when he starts?" I asked a question that the soldiers were most concerned about.

"I didn't say it!" Liu Shunyi shook his head and said, "I'll send a message to ask again!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

After a while, Liu Shunyi took another telegram and said, "Captain Wu said he had already started. Let's put a few down first to try whether the wire length is appropriate!"

"Which position will see the 522.1 high ground?" I asked Liu Shunyi.

"Position No. 3!" Liu Shunyi pointed on the map.

Without saying a word, I walked towards the tunnel with my rifle. Xu Yongwei, Zhang Mingxue, Li Weiqiang and others quickly followed.

The shells on the 585.2 high ground are no longer so dense. I think this is likely because the puppet army rushed over in a hurry and did not bring too many shells. Now they have to concentrate their efforts to attack the 522.1 high ground, so the bombardment of our 585.2 high ground will naturally not be the same as before.

But even so, I dare not be careless and climb up the traffic trench meticulously. It is really not easy to move in this traffic trench. As the saying goes, people walk to the high places and flow to the low places. When the traffic trench is dug out, the rainwater on both sides is like finding a mother, and it is mixed with the new soil in the trench. The entire traffic trench is filled with turbid cement slurry that is not as deep as the knee. In addition, some areas have been bombed by the puppet army's shells, so it is impossible to walk inside.

However, if you are careful on the battlefield, you will not lose any loss. If you are not careful, you may die if you are killed. So for the sake of your life, it is better to go to the traffic trench in a proper manner!

"Captain!"

"battalion commander!"

...

Several people finally climbed to the No. 3 position. When several observers who were standing on the position saw us, they hurriedly made way for us.

I was not polite to them either. I found a place and lay down in the mud and water. I raised my telescope and looked at the North Han River on the 522.1 Highland.

The 585.2 highland is about two kilometers away from the 522.1 highland, but the straight line distance is only about one thousand meters, so even in these layers of rain, you can still vaguely see the battle situation of the 522.1 highland. The artillery shells kept blew out of smoke, and the dense gunfire was almost unstagnant. Occasionally, the sound of motors could be heard. You can imagine how fierce the battle situation in that direction was.

But now, what I care about is not the battle situation on the 522.1 high ground, but the movement on the North Han River...

I found that the vision was blocked by another high ground, so I changed my position and raised the telescope again. So the puppet army attacking on the Beihan River appeared in the aperture of my telescope. Because it was raining and the sky was very dark, I could not see it very clearly. I could vaguely see the puppet army moving northward on two pontoon bridges. Sometimes I would see one, two cars or tanks! The puppet army's pontoon bridge was advanced and the tanks could withstand it!

The several water columns that occasionally aroused on the river seemed to tell me that the soldiers in the 522.1 Highland were trying to use mortars to blow up the enemy's pontoon bridge. But helplessly, the puppet army suppressed the artillery fire on the 522.1 Highland. Another reason was that the visibility was very poor because of this weather, and it was difficult to accurately aim at the pontoon bridge.

Besides, the puppet army's pontoon bridge is so strong that even tanks can withstand it, so even if the mortar hits, it doesn't seem to have much impact!

With two "boom..." sounds, two water columns suddenly rose from the river. These two water columns were much larger and much higher than the water columns produced by mortars before. So I guessed that this should be the explosive pack that the 539th regiment dropped.

Sure enough, when I noticed that there was a large piece of barbed wire flew into the sky with two water columns, I was even more sure of this. I thought that the puppet army would be wondering at this time, where did the volunteers shoot guns from so accurately that they could hit the barbed wire they laid in the river.

No wonder they couldn't find it. At this time, the water of the Beihan River was turbid, and there were a few pieces of wood, wooden boards and the like in the water, which was normal. The explosive packs placed by the 539th ball were exactly tied to the wood and wooden boards. If you want to find them, you would only fish out every piece of wood and every wooden board in the river to check...

If they had such leisure, of course we wouldn't mind, but even if they could catch it, they would be frightened by the explosive pack that was sizzling with white smoke!

Seeing the explosive pack successfully blow up the barbed wire, I felt a little relieved. This at least proved that my method worked, and the enemy seemed to have no way to stop us from doing this, at least I didn't think of any solution!

In other words, as long as we have enough explosive packs, the puppet army's pontoon bridge will not be built near the 522.1 highland. Of course, if their pontoon bridge is so strong that it can't even blow up the explosive pack, then they are amazing!

But I know that this is impossible. Although I don’t know much about the floating bridge, one thing is very obvious, that is, it must be hard on the top and weak on the bottom.

The pontoon bridge is more likely to be attacked by enemies, and it also has to withstand the crushing of heavy equipment such as tanks, cars, etc. Can it work if it is not strong? Just like a tank, the frontal armor that is easily attacked is always the thickest, while the lower armor that is basically not attacked is definitely the thinnest.

That's it... as long as the explosive pack in the water explodes, haha...

So I held up the telescope and waited patiently. But for a while, I heard only a few loud "boom..." sounds, and several high water columns exploded beside the pontoon bridge. But what made me feel quite regretful was that none of these explosive packs had blown up the pontoon bridges of the puppet army. Some were closer and some were far away.

I called out a secretly, and I quickly understood what the problem was!

Even in the same river, the water flow rate is different. Some river sections flow fast, while others flow slow. Moreover, there are many uncertain factors. For example, the delayed explosion time of explosives of the same length will be different. The speed of explosives of different volumes and weights will be different in the river water. All of this will make the soldiers of the 539th Regiment unable to accurately control the explosives directly under the pontoon bridge to detonate!

The reason why I exploded the barbed wire so easily just now was that the barbed wire would stop something as big as an explosive pack...

At this time, I couldn't help but think of mines. If there is something like mines that trigger explosions, then all the problems will be simple. But where are we going to find mines now!

"Captain!" At this time, Li Pinghe hurriedly ran up with a correspondent with a walkie-phone carrying a walkie-phone and said, "Captain Wu's phone number!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, took the phone and said to the microphone: "Captain Wu, I know what the problem is, and I can't blame you!"

Wu Min on the other side of the microphone was silent for a while and replied unwillingly: "Captain Cui, why don't we put a few more and try it out? Maybe that would happen to hit it! Anyway, there are still some explosive packs..."

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard Wu Min's words, and then nodded immediately and said, "Yes, I need to put more! But I can't put them in batches, but dozens of them in a row at about the same time!"

"You mean..." Wu Min on the other end of the walkie-talkie hesitated and soon understood, and couldn't help but say excitedly: "Good way! You still have a way. During the period when the fuse was detonated at the pontoon bridge, dozens of explosions were almost continuous. If you explode in a series of explosions, I don't believe that no explosive pack will fail to blow the pontoon bridge!"

"Yes!" I replied, "Let's just give them a carpet bomb!"

"I'll do it right now! Just wait and see the show!" Wu Min on the other end of the walkie-phone hung up the phone.

522.1 The sound of gunfire on the high ground was still ringing. Although the explosion points on the river just now were very close to the floating bridge, the puppet army still did not realize that the danger came from the water. This can be seen from the fact that they were still busy transporting troops on the floating bridge.

But this is understandable. With such a dense sound of cannons, no one would think that it was just a few shells fired by the enemy. Who would have thought that the explosions actually came from the bottom of the water...

I raised my telescope again and observed the two floating bridges standing across the North Han River, as well as the puppet troops who did not know that death was coming and were still running on the bridge, quietly waiting for the moment when the results were revealed.

There is an old Chinese saying that planning things depends on people and things are achieved. Sometimes even if we plan carefully, the final result may still be unsatisfactory. Things on the battlefield are so realistic, and what we want is the result. For example, now, even if we plan everything, if we fail to blow up the pontoon bridge in the end, we can only accept it.

If this bridge bombing failed, what would happen? I dare not think about it, because this may mean that the Korean War will continue to fight! Although the Korean War in history ended after this war, who can guarantee that my arrival will not change history?

"Boom..." While I was distracted, a series of water columns burst out from the aperture of the telescope. These water columns were connected together, like a giant python lurking in the Beihan River, causing thousands of huge waves. When these huge waves rushed, the water of the Beihan River was as short as ten inches as if it had been pulled out in an instant, so that I could clearly feel this in the telescope.

I don't know if the pontoon bridge was blown up, because the two pontoon bridges disappeared into the waves of the world in just this moment. But one thing that is certain is that the puppet troops, cars, tanks, etc. on the pontoon bridge will definitely not be able to get it. Because even if the pontoon bridge is not broken, they will be blown into the river by the huge waves.

The river water rushed up high, and then it fell down evenly. When it fell back, it caused a chain reaction of the river water to surge towards the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. In an instant, the puppet troops, observers, machine gun positions, and even puppet troops holding machine guns to assist the 522.1 highland!

I was stunned for a long time and couldn't stop talking. My original intention was not like this. I never expected that dozens of explosive packs would have such great power to explode together. But it seems that the result would be good. It would be a bad thing for us to die a few more people in the puppet army!

Think about it, the explosive packs used by our volunteer military are all bought by the Soviet Union, and the ones contained in them are TNTs. Their power is not comparable to those of the black gunpowder explosive packs in the early days of the Korean War. It is not surprising that these hundreds of kilograms of TNTs exploded in the river water, which would cause such a small tsunami.

Let’s look at the two sections of floating bridges, where there is hope for preservation. Without exception, it broke into several pieces and drifted downstream along the river.

At this moment, even the sound of gunfire on the battlefield disappeared, and all the soldiers, whether they were the volunteers or the puppet troops, were shocked by this scene.

"Hey! This is so good!" After a long time, Li Weiqiang came to his senses from the amazing scene in front of him and exclaimed: "The feelings are that this puppet army has done too many bad things in normal times, and the river god is going to be unable to get along with them and they are going to destroy them!"

"Go..." Li Pinghe responded angrily: "We are in the land of North Korea, and there are also our Chinese gods in the rivers of North Korea?"

"We are here, and the river god will come with you!" Li Weiqiang argued.

"Good fight!"

"Well fried!"

...

The soldiers suddenly burst out from the position, and even charges and shouts of killing sounds sounded on the 522.1 Highland. It was obvious that the explosion just now gave the soldiers a great encouragement in both substance and spirit. So Hu Biao took the opportunity to launch a counterattack with the soldiers with high morale.

On the contrary, the puppet army was dizzy by the inexplicable explosion and the flooding river water. Not to mention the cars, tanks and troops that fell into the river water on the pontoon bridge, even the puppet army gathered on the north shore waiting to attack the 522.1 highland was washed away by the river water.

As one goes up and down, the puppet troops no longer have the intention of fighting and flee around under the guns and bullets of the soldiers.

The battle ended soon. Hu Biao commanded very well and did not let the soldiers rush down the high ground to chase the fleeing puppet troops. Otherwise, they would probably never be able to return to the high ground. After all, the puppet army's cannons were always staring at our high ground.

It was just a cheaper price for those puppet troops. If Hu Biao and the others rushed down the mountain to chase them, the puppet troops who had fought with the water and had their pontoon bridges had almost no chance of survival. But now they could tremble in fear and join the puppet army deserters in the north to join the side of the high ground.

I watched with satisfaction the puppet troops on the 522.1 high ground retreated to the garrison to repair it, put away the telescope and breathed a sigh of relief. Without the threat of the new force of the South Bank's 7th Puppet Division, the pressure on the 522.1 high ground was undoubtedly greatly reduced, and there should be no problem to persevere until dark.

"Captain! Go back to the regiment headquarters!" Xu Yongwei reminded from the side: "The puppet army suffered such a huge loss, and I will definitely use shells to vent my breath again in a while!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, turned around and walked towards the regiment headquarters along the traffic trench. At this time, there was no enemy situation outside to observe, and it was meaningless for me to take risks outside.

As soon as he returned to the regiment headquarters, Liu Shunyi and other soldiers came up happily, shouting in a mess: "Captain, you're fighting well!"

"It was so satisfying to fight! Not only did it lift the siege of the 522.1 high ground, it also caused a great loss to the puppet army!"

...

"Captain, Captain Wu is also very happy!" Liu Shunyi said with a smile: "He just said in the telegram that if there is such a thing in the future! Let Captain Cui, don't forget their 539th Regiment!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed out loud.

From their eyes, I deeply felt a sense of pride and excitement of victory. If it were on other occasions, it might be time for us to celebrate the achievements. But the roar of shells from the sky reminded me that the battle was not over yet, the situation was still grim, and we were still surrounded by the enemy.
Chapter completed!