Chapter 160: Forest

Chapter 160: Forest

"Kill!" With my order, Li Zhifu's fifth company soon joined the battle group of people in his hometown.

***The number of troops behind me was not large, and some of the troops led by my hometown people were eliminated. They were originally fighting and struggling to support them. At this moment, as soon as Li Zhifu's troops joined the battle, the Vietnamese army soon showed a defeat like a mountain of defeat. They no longer had any blockades. They gave up the high ground and ran back after the delayed mission. Of course, Li Zhifu and his hometown people would not let them go, and followed them all the way.

"Battlefield Commander Xu!" I nodded to Xu Fan, who was standing not far away, indicating that they could start retreating. At this time, the Vietnamese army had been firmly controlled by our army. Although it would take time to completely annihilate it, it could no longer stop Xu Fan and other soldiers of the 608th Regiment from retreating.

Xu Fan nodded heavily, walked up to him and finally shook my hand heavily, and said, "Captain Cui, I'm waiting for you at the border. You must live and I'll come back!"

"Don't worry!" I smiled relaxedly.

"Retreat!" Xu Fan gritted his teeth and waved his hands at the soldiers of the 608th Regiment. The army extended backwards like a long snake along the railway.

But I noticed that the soldiers were very slow, and from time to time, someone would look back at us. Many soldiers waved goodbye to us reluctantly, and some soldiers even secretly wiped their tears while walking...

For the soldiers of the 608th Regiment, our army is not only their comrades on their joint front, but also to a certain extent, the masters who took them to the battlefield. So although we didn't have a long time to date, the relationship between the two troops was very deep. They obviously knew that we stayed for the benefit of the entire army and for their survival, so they naturally felt a little emotional.

"Everyone is there!" I shouted to the soldiers: "Occupy the high ground and build fortifications!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded, leaned their rifles on their backs, carried boxes of ammunition left by the 608th Regiment and climbed to the high ground next to the railway.

This is the high ground that the Vietnamese army had just withdrawn, and there were several corpses of the Vietnamese Japanese on it. It should be said that it is not a high ground suitable for defense. On the right side is a forest. The Vietnamese army is easily invisible and fired cold guns at us. On the front is a large grass, which is obviously beneficial to the Vietnamese army's attack. The reason I chose this high ground to garrison was because it was next to the railway on the right side. If the Vietnamese army wanted to pursue Xu Fan's troops, we had to pull out our nails first.

Our troops are very limited, and the entire army is only more than 100. If only a small amount of troops are scattered to guard several hills to form a line of defense, it will be easily defeated by the Vietnamese army. So I can only choose such a hill as our army's blocking position.

But in fact, another reason is that I want to leave a way out for myself, a way out that may break through.

After a while, the people from the hometown and Li Zhifu also came back with their troops. The soldiers waved their engineer shovels and began to build trenches on the high ground without saying a word.

The Vietnamese army may have guessed our intentions from our actions, and immediately accelerated the speed and divided it into several sides to cover us. I think for the Vietnamese army, with such a good opportunity to make contributions in front of them, they would not be satisfied with just annihilation of our battalion (in fact, if it is to say one battalion, my troops under me are only enough for one company at best), so what they need to do next is to solve us as quickly as possible or find a way to cross our defense line and continue to pursue our army's large army...

It depends on whether they have the ability!

"Ltd Colonel Ruan!" I found Ruan Wenqin who built the trenches with the soldiers in the crowd. He winked at him and raised his head to the forest on the right and said, "If you change your mind, it may be too late to leave now!"

I know that Ruan Wenqin is good at guerrilla warfare, so I believe that if they hide in the forest at this time, they will have many opportunities to go out alive.

"Captain Cui!" Ruan Wenqin stopped the work in his hand and smiled relaxedly: "For a while, we didn't know why we fought, the country? We have no more; the people? We have no more! This makes us feel like robbers, like fugitives, hiding everywhere from the pursuit of the Viet Cong without a foothold. Now we finally know why we fought, do you still want to stop us?"

"Why are you fighting?" I asked.

"For your friends! For your brother!" Nguyen Wenqin replied.

I know that Ruan Wenqin is telling the truth, because we are likely to all die here, so there is no need for him to lie to me at all.

"Woo..." At this time, with the whistling of the shells, several shells exploded near our position, which was telling us that the Vietnamese army began to attack us.

Some people may say that the Vietnamese army always had to fire a few shells before charging. Isn’t this a reminder to us? In fact, the fact is not the case. The Vietnamese army understands that sneak attacks are almost impossible in this situation, so there is no need for them to hide their intention to charge. These shells are actually pointing the direction and issuing offensive orders for troops scattered at all angles and directions.

So the gunshots quickly rang out, and the shadows of the Vietnamese army were jumping towards us everywhere, and some even shot at us with submachine guns while moving forward.

Although I had long expected this situation to be surrounded, it still surprised me that the Vietnamese army could complete the encirclement of us in such a short time.

"Fight!" I gave the order to start fighting while the enemy was still far away.

The soldiers of the 608th Regiment left us with enough ammunition, so I didn't need the soldiers to save ammunition, what I needed was that they could use these ammunition to support them for as long as possible.

The gunshots immediately sounded, and the light of the bullets was thrilling in the dark night. The individual soldiers of the Vietnamese army were indeed very strong. They knew how to use the terrain and environment to cover them. Their number was much greater than that of us, which put us under great pressure in all aspects.

However, in today's highly developed individual weapons, it does not mean that a large number of people can gain an advantage if they have good qualities. The weakness of the Vietnamese army is that they also came from the mountain roads, so there are no heavy weapons like tanks and howitzers. At best, they are just rocket launchers, mortars, etc., and there are pitifully few shells, so they have no choice but to fight us several times.

When two equally powerful troops fight, they rarely have any commendable skills or strategies, because the defense and offense of both sides will not have any flaws, so both sides can only attack and defend or defend and attack step by step. The so-called big tricks and fools are afraid that this is what they are saying!

The Vietnamese army launched five consecutive attacks but failed to get a good deal. Some of them were testing our firepower, while others were concentrating their strength to break through our defense line. But our army could be said to be clear about their tricks. Whenever the Vietnamese army was testing firepower, the soldiers would plan to hide some of the firepower, just like the Vietnamese army did against us, and then suddenly fired when the Vietnamese army launched a charge. Sometimes they would deliberately make way for a gap, and when the Vietnamese army concentrated its forces to charge against the gap, they would throw out a row of grenades to kill them back...

More than half an hour passed, and the Vietnamese army got nothing but abandoned corpses in front of our position. Our army was also unable to move because we were surrounded by the Vietnamese army, because I knew that the reason why we could still persist until now was due to the terrain and darkness.

"Damn it!" After repelling the charge of the Vietnamese army again, Li Zhifu couldn't help but cursed: "Why does the Japanese in Yue seem to be fighting more and more, and they can't finish it!"

"The more you fight, the more you fight!" The hometown man touched the head of Hang Cai and smiled, "The more Japanese the Japanese are rushing towards here from all directions! Can we finish the fight?"

"Then...then we'll do that..."

Li Zhifu didn't say anything halfway, but I also knew what he wanted to say. If we just continued like this, we would either surrender or persevere until the end of dying with the Vietnamese army, but I didn't think so.

I looked at the multi-functional watch on my wrist. It was already forty minutes before Xu Fan and the others retreated. The Vietnamese army was no longer anxious to pursue, so I ordered to the company commanders beside me: "The mission has been completed, and I am ready to break through!"

"Break through?" The soldiers couldn't help but look at me in confusion.

"Battery Commander!" asked the hometown man: "There are enemies everywhere around us, and we have such great casualties, how can we break through?"

"Captain Cui!" Ruan Wenqin looked at the surrounding terrain and asked, "Which direction are you planning to break through?"

"Forest!" I looked at the endless forest on the right and said, "Now there is only the only way to live. As long as we break through the defense line of the Vietnamese army and walk into the forest, we will have hope of survival!"

"The words are good!" the hometown people continued, "But the Viet Cong would also think of these things. They were afraid that they had already set up heavy troops in the forest to wait for us!"

"Do you remember the heavy losses caused by the Vietnamese army in the bamboo forest?" I asked.

"Remember! The shells hit the bamboo forest and exploded in mid-air. The shrapnel and bamboo fragments produced will multiply the power of the shells!" The hometown people nodded, then quickly reacted and said, "The battalion commander means... to use cannons!"
Chapter completed!