Chapter 20 Bullets
When I climbed the top of the mountain again, it was the time when the sun set. It seemed that it was still unwilling to become a memory for people today. At the last moment, it sprayed its extra red light from the treetops, dyeing the white clouds into blood and dyeing the green mountains into blood... But it seemed that the green mountains were originally bloody. In the blood, it gradually fell backwards and finally disappeared at the intersection between the mountains and the sky. The mountains were dimmed, the clouds were dimmed, and the trees were dimmed... The only thing that was not dimmed was the confident smiling faces of the soldiers.
The soldiers have reason to be confident and laugh. Our company has undoubtedly become the star company of the 639th Regiment. There are several reasons, and the most important thing is that they have won several consecutive victories. Almost from the beginning of the war, the high ground that other troops cannot defeat can be easily solved in the hands of our company.
For example, the 386th Highland, the raid troops that counter-encircled the Vietnamese army, and the 339th Highland that just captured... With these battles, it is difficult for our company to not let others know!
After the top position of the 339 Highland was defeated by our fifth company, the remaining battle seemed to be simple. The Vietnamese army, which relied on the fortifications on the back slope, quickly fell into our encirclement. The Vietnamese army hid in the tunnel, had about one company. Although they were quite large and of high quality, the firepower on both sides of our army could not emerge from the tunnel and deploy its troops.
So soon, a part of the Vietnamese army emerged from the tunnel and surrendered. But I have to admit that the number of these surrenders was indeed very small, but only more than twenty people secretly emerged from a few tunnels. Some of them were knocked to the ground by bullets shot out of the tunnel when they first came out of the tunnel.
Of course, we will not be ruthless when dealing with such a stubborn Vietnamese army. Moreover, the purpose of the Vietnamese army digging these tunnels seemed to be to prevent artillery. There was no mutual cover between the tunnels like we did during the war against the U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, so it was very simple to deal with them. The weapons, rocket launchers, cluster grenades, explosive packs, blasting tubes... In short, everything that can be exploded can be used. After the tunnel entrance collapsed, mark them and let several soldiers guard them to prevent the Vietnamese army from digging the tunnel entrance from the inside and causing trouble.
When we think of the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, we were hiding in the tunnel and letting the United Nations toss outside. Now we are the Vietnamese Japanese who are scrambling outside the tunnel. We feel so happy! It seems like avenging a revenge!
After being happy and happy, after getting the sniper rifle, I did not go to the front line to fight, but just stayed on the second line to command.
The reason is not that I am timid or afraid, but that I am not familiar with the performance of the new sniper rifle. Such as how many rounds of bullets are in the magazine, whether they are continuous or single, and how many meters of range... If I don't even know these things, I really don't have the courage to take them to the battlefield. After all, the battlefield is not as good as ordinary places, and I will lose my life if I am accidentally killed. So I believe that I will shoot whatever gun I catch on the battlefield, either I am not responsible for my own life or I am making a movie.
So, after the entire battle was over, I had time to take a good look at this sniper rifle that I could say was the one who got at the risk of my life.
The magnification is only four times, although it is not very big, I like it. Because the magnification of m1c I used to use was also four times, I have long been used to such scopes.
The magazine is equipped with ten rounds. I held it in my hand and thought about it. It was not very heavy. It was only nine kilograms, which was almost as heavy as the m1 rifle. This made me feel very easy.
I think the reason why this weight would be so light is due to the hollow stock. This stock design can reduce the weight of the entire gun and naturally form a straight grip. The center of mass of the stock against the shoulder is also closer to the axis of the barrel, which can better control the jumping of the muzzle...
I grabbed it in my hand and tried it. I felt that this thing could not be called a gun, but should be called a work of art. Only then did I understand what it means to be unable to put down my love and what it means to be ecstatic...
"Hey! What kind of gun is this? It looks so weird!" While I was playing with it, Shunzi came up, looked at the rifle in my hand enviously, and said, "I said the platoon leader, can I show it to me?"
"Go... it's going to dark. Let's set me a whistle and a mine!" I refused without hesitation.
"Platform leader, this is all set up, let me show it!" Shunzi still refused to give up.
"I said shunzi!" Al Ziri said sarcastically, "This is your fault. You didn't see that our platoon leader didn't even want his life for this just now! You are still fighting with our platoon leader!"
"Then, then I'm just looking, right?" Shunzi muttered with dissatisfaction: "It's not okay to look at it? It's like he's going to be killed..."
With a coaxing sound, the soldiers couldn't help laughing. What's wrong, if they came to grab this gun from me at this time, it would really cost me my life.
"This is a Su-made SVD sniper rifle!" Li Shuibo threw a military baton and several magazines to my side: "Planer Cui, you forgot to get the military baton and magazine!"
"Um!" Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but look at Li Shuibo with gratitude. Actually, it was not that I forgot, but that I didn't hurry to take it. After attacking the position on the top of the mountain, I was commanding the battle and never took it. Unexpectedly, Li Shuibo was quite careful.
"Only one magazine has bullets left, the others are empty!" Li Shuibo sat beside me and explained: "I flipped over him several times without any extra bullets!"
I looked at Li Shuibo and heard the implicit sound in his words. I quickly took off the magazine and looked down. The bullets were really different from the bullets of our rifle. The caliber was the same, but the bullets of the sniper rifle were longer, and the bullets of the Type 56 rifle were shorter.
There is no reason! They are all Su-style weapons, right? In my impression, whether Su-style weapons are machine guns and rifles, all bullets are the same? But that seems to be something from decades ago. Who knows what the bullet will look like now!
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. If there is a gun but no bullet, then it's the same as there is no one? Could it be that I only brought these dozen bullets on the battlefield?
"SVD is a special sniper bullet!" Li Shuibo took out a bullet from the magazine, pinched it in his hand and looked blankly, and said thoughtfully: "This bullet has high accuracy and great power! The warhead is a copper metal covered steel core hollow-pointed warhead. In order to achieve the maximum impact at the end of the ballistic, the warhead is equipped with lead! It even has lethality at a distance of one thousand meters..."
"Wait! How could you know so much about this kind of gun?" I asked in confusion.
"Because..." Li Shuibo hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and continued: "Because my brother was a sniper, a sniper of the 316a Division of the Vietnamese Army, he died on the battlefield of fighting against the Americans!"
"Oh!" I quickly understood Li Shuibo's explanation.
At this time, I could better understand Li Shuibo's pain and hatred for the Vietnamese. For Li Shuibo's family, they paid for Vietnam free of charge during the war between the United States and Vietnam, and even sacrificed the lives of family members for them! But what was the result of these? It was still a ruthless *** and expulsion.
Although there are many such things, Vietnam is a soldier, which means that every family who was expelled from Vietnam has more or less happened to this. It becomes very common for many things to happen, but I know in my heart that if this kind of thing really happens to me, I may not be able to accept it, and I may not hate Vietnamese like Li Shuibo!
"Platform Leader Cui!" Then Li Shuibo asked with a little shame: "I want to know... how did you find that sniper!"
I know why Li Shuibo had that expression on his face. It was obvious that he was trying hard to find the sniper at that time, but he might still want to compete with me. But the result was obvious. He even didn't know why I knew the location of the Vietnamese sniper.
"I'm not discovering it, but analyzing..." I pointed to the walkie-talkie on Li Shuibo's left shoulder and said, "Have you heard the people from my hometown report that they were also sharpshooters?"
Although I am the second platoon leader, I still serve as the company commander more often. The real second platoon leader is Li Shuibo. In order to facilitate command and contact, he was also equipped with a walkie-talkie.
"I heard it!" Li Shuibo nodded, then quickly understood, looked at me in surprise and said, "Planer Cui means... he can control both sides at the same time, so his position is..."
"You finally figured it out!" I chuckled and patted his shoulder: "Don't let go of every piece of information on the battlefield. Any piece of information that looks trivial or useless may make you win on the battlefield! Do you understand?"
"I understand!" Li Shuibo nodded in convincingly.
In fact, this is not his fault. The tense battlefield is full of bullets, shells and deaths, and it may even be locked by enemy snipers... In this case, it is indeed a bit difficult to ask him, a new recruit, to catch such an ordinary piece of information and analyze it.
But there are no excuses on the battlefield. Losing means winning or losing means winning, because bullets don’t matter how many reasons or reasons you have! So I didn’t tell Li Shuibo these “excuses”!
I know what Li Shuibo wants to do. He really wants to be a sniper like his brother. He does have potential in this area, but I don’t know if the battlefield will allow him to develop to that day.
But this is not the issue I am concerned about now. What I am most troubled now is that I have an advanced sniper rifle but face the embarrassing situation of no bullets available.
I sighed, and then pressed a bullet out of the magazine and put it in my hand. I couldn't help but exclaim.
This feeling is very familiar, as if there was an incident during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea: "This kind of bullet...is a bit like Mosinnagan's bullet!"
"It seems to be! I heard my brother talk about it..." Li Shuibo nodded and looked at me in confusion, as if wondering how I could know the old-fashioned rifle bullet of Mosinnagan: "The specifications of this bullet are exactly the same as those of Mosinnagan's rifle, but Mosinnagan's bullets do not pay so much attention to..."
"Well! It's really Mosinnagan's bullet!" I couldn't help but jump from the ground after hearing this.
I seem to have figured out a truth. There are only two types of bullets in Su-style weapons, which are divided into rifle bullets and pistol bullets. In addition to pistol bullets and submachine guns, other weapons such as rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns all use rifle bullets. This is to meet the requirements of facilitating ammunition replenishment on the battlefield.
So why did the Soviet Union develop another kind of bullet? It is obvious that it was because of the emergence of AK47. It was during the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea that the Soviet Union replaced Mosinnagan with AK47. After this... In order to replenish ammunition better and more conveniently on the battlefield, all the guns developed later used AK47 bullets, such as the 56 and a half in my hand, and the Type 56 light machine gun...
Damn! I caught a lot of these Mosinnagan bullets on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aid Korea. I didn’t expect that I still have to worry about this bullet now. If I could return to the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aid Korea with this gun, it would be so good!
Wait! The bullets of rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns are all unified with AK47. So what about heavy machine guns? They shouldn't be replaced! The so-called "looking at the bullets first" means the loading amount of bullets, the shape of the bullets (sharp bullets, round bullets), etc., to a large extent, determine its power and range. If the bullets of heavy machine guns are also replaced with such bullets with significantly smaller power and range, then what is the heavy machine gun?
"Shunzi!" Thinking of this, I waved behind me with a glimmer of hope.
"arrive!"
"Go! Come to the machine gun company to get some...heavy machine gun bullets!"
"Platform leader! Why do you do that thing?" Shunzi was a little puzzled.
"If you ask me, go and do it! Why do you ask so much?" I was a little impatient.
"Yes!" Shunzi didn't dare to ask too much, turned around and ran down the mountain.
"Hurry up! Run forward!" I rushed behind anxiously.
Shunzi increased the speed while turning back and pretending to be dissatisfied and shouted: "Plane leader, hanging himself will make people take a breath!"
With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all made Shunzi amuse him.
I tore a compressed biscuit apart and put it in my mouth to chew it. It felt good and fragrant, but it was a little harder. It was much better than fried noodles. But this is also in Vietnam. If it was on the snowy Korean battlefield, this thing that was so hard as stone would have to break my teeth!
Before he could bite the half of the piece, Shunzi came back panting with a heavy machine gun box: "Platform leader, our company has a great face. The machine gun company was unwilling to do so at the beginning! As soon as I reported our company's name, I gave it a box without saying anything! But it was sank..."
I ignored Shunzi's words, threw away the compressed biscuits in my hand, opened the bullet box and compared it with the sniper rifle bullets in my hand, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Yes, the bullets are indeed the same!
Later I learned that the bullets of this era were actually divided into three types: one was pistol bullet, one was rifle bullet, and the other, the sub-gun of the original Mosinnagan rifle, which is now called machine gun bullet! The sniper rifle in my hand used machine gun bullets.
With the gun and the bullets, I thought it was honest! I didn’t bother to eat the cookies, so I took off the bullets on the chain and filled the magazine. Although these bullets were not as good as the special bullets for sniper rifles, it was better to have them than not. So the five magazines were quickly filled, and of course I didn’t want the Type 56 bullets. The bullet bag was quickly filled with machine gun bullets, and it was loaded with more than 300 rounds before I stopped!
At the same time, I thought to myself that I will have to fight with the guys in the machine gun company in the future! Why don’t I ask for the bullets if I have exhausted them?
"Li Zhifu! Come out for me!" At this time, with a roar, Captain Zhang, who was bandaged on his head, appeared in front of us.
He came up and pointed at us in anger and asked, "Where is your company commander? Where is the company commander?"
"Yoho! Not dead yet?" I heard some soldiers beside me whisper.
"Come!" Captain Li hurriedly ran to Captain Zhang.
"I said to Commander Li, what are you doing? Why don't you ask you to reinforce? Ah?" As soon as he saw Commander Li coming up, Commander Zhang scolded: "Comrade! I tell you, your personal heroism is not good! You are in the limelight in front of the troops for your company to win battles. Ah? He actually put our third battalion in danger and refused to rescue, and acted without obeying orders..."
I couldn't listen to this anymore, so I stood up from the trench suddenly. Shunzi and Alziri hurried up to pull me, but I struggled hard and broke free.
"Captain!" I walked to Captain Zhang and said, "It was me who changed the order without authorization. If you are angry, come to me!"
"I just know it has something to do with you!" Commander Zhang replied angrily: "There are any kind of company commander who has any kind of soldiers! The company commander does not obey orders, how can the soldiers be obedient!"
I couldn't help but feel funny when I heard it. It seemed that this was not the kind of company commander who had any kind of soldiers, but the kind of company commander who had any kind of soldiers. Because I didn't obey the order first, Commander Li just followed me!
I didn't want to say much to Captain Zhang. I raised my brow and said to Captain Zhang's gaze: "Captain Zhang, you have to be clear about one thing. If we follow your order to reinforce, I'm afraid you can no longer stand here and talk!"
Captain Zhang obviously didn't expect me to be so disrespectful to him. After a moment of froze, he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay! OK! I will report the situation truthfully to my superiors, so you can wait for the punishment!"
As he said that, he turned around and left without looking back regardless of Captain Li's call.
"Oh! Why are you doing?" Commander Li looked at me with a blame, saying, "I know the Third Battalion Commander. If he makes him angry, he will have nothing to do. Let's take a look..."
Chapter completed!