Chapter 151: Stepping on the Mines

Chapter 151: Stepping on the Mines

Without artillery preparations and no fire cover, when it was dark, more than 200 people under my command took Xu Fan's second battalion to set off.

The troops were divided into three parts, and the left and right wings were assigned a company, with the main task being to protect the main flanks and encircle the enemy. The main force was in the middle, composed of the troops in my hands and a company led by Xu Fan. The main task was to break through the defense line of the Vietnamese army and occupy key points along the way to take Pingding Mountain.

Of course, this unit is also indispensable to Nguyen Wenqin and his dozen South Vietnamese soldiers. The reason why they would let them participate in the war is because I urgently needed people at this time. On the other hand, Nguyen Wenqin and others tried their best to fight. Maybe they were making up for the leak of our whereabouts, or maybe for future cooperation. No matter what, although the number of South Vietnamese soldiers was small, they had good combat effectiveness because of long-term guerrilla combat. And because of long-term long-term dealing with the Vietnamese army, I knew the Vietnamese army's combat habits, so I didn't object to let them participate in the war. Anyway, there was no loss to us, right?

I led the soldiers to cover each other along the path and approached Tongdeng. I thought about the conversation I had just had with Liu Yun and Ariel.

I am very clear that according to my plan, our troops will undoubtedly be the last to be withdrawn. Even if they are not a life-threatening life, there are very few opportunities to survive. So at this last critical moment, I no longer care about anything and asked Liu Yun and Yichen to follow the regiment command.

Ariel Yichen had no objection, but Liu Yun refused to say anything, saying that they were originally part of the Sixth Company, and there was no reason to retreat with the soldiers of the 608th Regiment. They had to retreat with us, and finally even moved out his father, saying that if his father knew about this, he would definitely not agree to me.

But at this time, who could still care about so much that I had no choice but to yell at Liu Yun fiercely: "Do you know what you are doing? This is a war! And we are the last retreating force. We are going to retreat while fighting. Do you understand? You don't think about yourself. You have injuries on your body. You can't fight or run fast. Will you drag down the entire army to cause major troubles?"

This is true, because our troops behind the palace must have strong combat power and fast mobility, so all the wounded and inconvenient warriors were arranged to retreat together at the regiment command, leaving only the strong combat power and well-equipped warriors.

So Liu Yun stopped talking, but he lowered his head aggrievedly and kept crying. I didn't have so much time to stumble with her, so I told Yi Chen to turn around and walk away.

It took some time for the soldiers to do a disguise and check the equipment and then walked towards Tongdeng in a hurry with their rifles. It should be said that the best night battle time is late at night, two o'clock or near the early morning, because most of the Vietnamese soldiers were sleeping at that time, and seven o'clock was when the Vietnamese soldiers were full and had enough food and drink. They were both mental and prepared. Then I waited for so long because I was worried that the longer I waited, it meant that more Vietnamese soldiers would gather around us.

On the way, I knew that it was right to let Ruan Wenqin and his party join our army. Perhaps because they had been fighting guerrilla for many years, they knew very well where the Vietnamese army would set up secret sentries, so they volunteered to serve as vanguards in the front, detecting mines, clearing mines and secretly clearing the secret sentries set up by the Vietnamese army. Everything was done in an orderly and nimble manner.

This also made our vanguard approach Tongdeng Town very smoothly. After observing, I found that Tongdeng was very different from when we left. The originally complete houses were already ruined by ruins, with broken beams and collapsed bricks everywhere. From time to time, you could see several craters and burning traces. The people no longer knew where they had gone, and the entire Tongdeng Town had become a ruin with uninhabited smoke...

After a while, the troops entered Tongdeng Town. Ruan Wenqin and his men also retreated, approached me and said in a low voice: "The Viet Cong set up a line of defense more than 200 meters ahead. It was too dark and I couldn't see how many people were. I couldn't touch them!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, knowing that if even Ruan Wenqin said he could not touch it, he would have to be strong. In fact, this battle was strong. It would be a fantasy to have a team of more than 2,000 people who wanted to cross the enemy's defense line silently.

Without any hesitation, I gestured to the soldiers behind me, and the soldiers prepared to fight and dispersed in the battle formation. Then, as I waved my hand, the soldiers held their guns and stood up to rely on the broken houses and buildings to advance with their guns under the cover of the sniper rifles of the shooting team members.

"Battleman Captain Cui is really good at leading troops!" Seeing this, Ruan Wenqin couldn't help but sigh in a low voice: "If this regiment is of the same quality as you, it is not a question of whether it can break out of the encirclement, but whether to fight a beautiful annihilation battle here and then go back to ask for merit!"

I couldn't just smile bitterly when I heard this. Although Ruan Wenqin's words were not wrong, the facts were facts, and there were never so many ifs on the battlefield.

"Hey? Touch the special button! (Vietnamese: Who? Command!)" With a shout, we realized that our troops had already been discovered by the Vietnamese sentries.

We all know that this is inevitable, so we have been mentally prepared. With a crisp gunshot, Al Ziri knocked the shouting Vietnamese army to the ground.

The battle started almost the moment the gunfire sounded, and the Tongdeng Town, which was originally very calm, became boiling like a pot of explosion.

I hid under a broken wall with only half left, slowly poked out and raised my telescope to look at the line of defense. I could soon tell from the sparks coming out of the enemy's gun that the number of Vietnamese soldiers in front of me was not large, and there was only one company.

But this is not necessarily the case. After fighting with the Vietnamese devils for so long, I know very well that the Vietnamese army’s most common method is to deliberately not shoot in order to hide its strength. When our army thought that the enemy did not have much force to rush forward, they suddenly came out to give us an "accident".

But this time, no matter whether the Vietnamese army really lacks military strength or not, we only have one way to go, that is, to rush over here.

"Battleman Commander Xu!" I shouted to the intercom: "Board your soldiers and rushed forward!"

"Yes!" Xu Fan responded and led a company of soldiers to cross our defense line and rushed towards the Vietnamese army's defense line.

I did not let my troops rush forward, not because I was biased, but because good steel was used on the blade, because I knew that the charger not only had to face the enemy's bullets, but also had to beware of mines laid by the Vietnamese army. Just as our army would lay mines around the position before dark to prevent the enemy from attacking the enemy, I think the Vietnamese army would do the same.

That's right! My order does mean that Xu Fan's troops rushed up and stepped on landmines. It's indeed inhumane to do so, but there has never been a humane foothold on the battlefield. All I need to consider is how to make rational use of the troops and resources in my hands.

For landmines, there is no difference between new recruits with no combat experience or well-trained veterans, but in the eyes of a commander, this difference is huge.

"Tengteng..." A few sounds, the Vietnamese army fired several flares in the direction of our army, and the troops that were charging were exposed to the pale light of the flares.

The gunshots from the direction of the Vietnamese army immediately became fierce, and the soldiers rushing to the front row suddenly screamed and fell into a pool of blood. However, the Vietnamese army was not feeling well, because the troops under my command also occupied the favorable terrain and organized fire cover, especially the dozen members of the shooting team, who could all kill their opponents with the sparks emerging from the Vietnamese guns, so they suppressed the firepower of the Vietnamese army like a big hand.

"Comrades! Go!" With Xu Fan's shout, the stormtroopers, which were originally pressed on the ground by the Vietnamese firepower, got up from the ground in groups of three or three to rush towards the enemy's defense line. Then gunfire sounded one after another.

This is the difference between the new recruits and the veterans! If my troops are attacking, I will let the left, middle and right three routes start at the same time. Because only in this way can the Vietnamese defense line be subjected to the most violent impact.

But it doesn't matter. I never thought they would break through the defense line of the Vietnamese army, so I had already done it. After they stepped on the mine and retreated, they would launch a sudden attack on the Vietnamese army with their elite troops...

With a "boom!", a soldier was lifted by a mine and turned around in the air. When he fell to the ground, he had lost his entire leg. The scream soon followed. However, to my surprise, he gritted his teeth and endured it after a while, then turned over and picked up the rifle to continue fighting.

"Huh!" I heard Ruan Wenqin's surprise voice beside me. It seemed that I was not the only one who was surprised.

"Boom..." There were two more explosions. Because the recruits were too close to the storm formation, the two mines exploded four or five soldiers in succession.

I originally thought... when the soldiers knew that there were mines in front of the Vietnamese position, there would definitely be chaos because of this, so I was ready to take over their attack. However, they surprised me again. Their entire storm formation did not even slow down for a while, and they still rushed straight towards the Vietnamese defense line at an astonishing speed.
Chapter completed!