Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven

In a trance, I felt as if I was lying on the soft grass under the night sky, and the tap next to me was not turned off, and water was gurgling. "Water! There is water! I want to drink water!" I seemed to hear my own faint cry that was almost moaning, so I tried to open my eyes to find the location of the faucet, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open my eyes. "Old Wei, hold on for a while longer." Someone next to me whispered softly in my ear. Who is talking to me?Why do you seem to be far away from me?Am I still alive?Where am I? I was thinking drowsily, all kinds of hallucinations rising in my mind, and gradually, I fell asleep again.

"He is only temporarily severely anemic and the pH of his body fluids is disturbed, and he is a little collapsed. We will inject some glucose and saline into him and he will be fine. I just took a pulse and he is out of danger. Comrade, don't worry!" It was a woman's voice.I slowly opened my eyes. "Where are we?" I finally heard my hoarse voice. "Old Wei, you're awake! Hehe." Turning my head, I saw Huang Biao was beside me. "This is the artillery position. Let's move to their tunnel now." Huang Biao answered me happily rubbing his hands, his mouth so happy that he grinned to his ears.

"Are all the wounded here?" I asked. "Not one of them!" Huang Biao just smirked now. I tried to sit up, but found myself still numb. Looking up at the emergency light at the top of the tunnel, I murmured, "That's good." "The platoon leader and a dozen people have also withdrawn safely." Huang Biao continued comfortingly. There was a bitter taste in my mouth.A reinforced battalion has more than 500 men, and only one platoon is left with the wounded.It's just a daytime battle!If we follow today's style of play, it will take a few days for the enemy to drive straight into the ground and join the Eighth Army Group besieged by us.At that time, don't talk about encircling and destroying the enemy, those of us who are still struggling on the outside line will be surrounded by devils if we are not careful.How can we resist such a fierce continuous attack of the enemy?How long can we last without effective logistical support?

"Is there any water?" I asked. The female hygienist handed me a water jug.I started to drink greedily, and the overflowing water soaked the clothes on my chest. "How's the situation outside?" I asked Huang Biao. I looked up the watch to check the time, it was 9:30 in the evening, and I had been in a coma for more than two hours. "Not very good. The enemy has now occupied the surface position of our battalion and is now attacking the artillery position here. The second line of defense set up in the regiment has fully contacted the enemy. According to the artillery company commander, our regiment's current defense line has been captured by the enemy. Elongated, it is more difficult to hold on to it.”

Huang Biao looked at me straight, with a glimmer of haze in his eyes. At this time, there were continuous explosions outside. "Old Wei, you rest here. I will go to the battle." After Huang Biao finished speaking, he raised his gun and ran out. I looked around the tunnel, which was a temporary rescue point for the wounded, surrounded by the wounded of the artillery company and the infantry company that had just been transferred from the front position.Let me count, there are about forty fighters.In the corner, a female medic fixes a soldier's severed leg.The medicine box was placed at the feet of the hygienist. The box was opened, and the medical equipment inside reflected a faint metallic luster under the emergency lights.At the end of the tunnel, a soldier sitting against the wall was coughing softly, and the health worker next to him was slapping his back, probably choking on water.

My eyes fixed on a steel helmet thrown on the ground in the corner. The camouflage lining of the helmet had been scratched by something, and the fixing belt of the helmet was soaked in blood and dust, and the fixing belt had turned black.I began to wonder who the owner of this steel helmet was. A soldier hurried in: "Are there any health workers? Hurry up to the battlefield!" The two hygienists didn't say a word. After quickly packing up their things, they followed the soldier and disappeared at the end of the tunnel. "Nervous up there?" I sat up anxiously, feeling as if I had regained some strength, but my legs were a little numb, so I tried to stand up while holding onto the bed.As soon as I straightened up, I felt stares in my eyes, and I had to sit down and take a deep breath.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, it took me a while to wake up. I have to go up! I gritted my teeth and stood up again, not daring to move too fast this time, and slowly straightened my waist.A submachine gun was leaning against a wall in a corner not far from me, and I walked straight over.The gun was in good condition with bullets in the magazine.I turned to look for my helmet, but couldn't find it.I picked up the bloody helmet I saw just now and buckled it on my head and walked out of the tunnel. When passing the tunnel entrance, I saw an individual night vision goggle in the hand of a wounded man.

"Dude, can you lend me your night vision goggles?" I asked with a small smile. The wounded man with the bandage on his head took a look at me and handed me his night vision goggle: "Remember to return it to me." "No problem." I patted him on the shoulder, turned and walked to the surface. "Armor-piercing rounds! I want armor-piercing rounds! Hurry up!" As soon as I reached the end of the tunnel, I saw several artillerymen operating 100mm anti-tank guns in a hurry, and a non-commissioned officer was anxiously clapping his hands to direct his artillery squad.

After occupying the opposite hill, the enemy is using automatic grenade launchers to suppress the firing of our artillery from our company's position. Through the night vision goggles, I can vaguely see that the enemy's tanks, like giant spiders, are rolling up to the top of the hill and attacking in depth. "Target 921 meters, release!" The artillery commanded by the non-commissioned officer spat out a tongue of flame, and the huge recoil shocked the soldiers pressing on the gun mount to bounce, and the gun position was filled with dust. "Quick! Quick! Next shot!"

Under the urging of the non-commissioned officer, several artillerymen fired rapidly and kept firing. The enemy's intensive suppressive firepower hit the concrete bunker outside the artillery position, causing countless fragments to burst out. "Don't be afraid of the enemy! Go on! The target is 934 meters, let it go!" The sergeant commanded the artillery to attack hoarsely. I bent down with a gun and walked towards the sniper position halfway up the mountain. The machine guns and automatic grenade launchers of the enemy infantry were raining bullets on our positions here, and the Devils certainly didn't miss the show, spinning around the top of the hill and firing.Our surface positions are now ablaze, and the old night vision goggles I wear on my head are jammed to the point of failure.

A health worker next to him hurried into the tunnel with a bloody soldier on his back, followed by another. The battle on the anti-tank artillery positions has reached a fever pitch. It seems that the enemy is determined to break through our regiment's defensive field tonight.Lying in the trench, I saw from the night vision device that there were already several burning enemy infantry fighting vehicles and tank wreckage on the top of the opposite mountain.The position of this anti-tank artillery company is located on the rear side of our infantry position, and can attack the enemy's armored units attacking from the left side of our infantry position.Now this has become a forward position, and the enemy's continuous stream of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles is preparing to turn over the infantry positions occupied by them and penetrate into the deep positions of our infantry regiment.Several 100mm anti-tank guns installed on the right position seem to have caused huge casualties to the enemy.The positions of the anti-tank guns were built with thick reinforced concrete bunkers, and the artillery was deeply hidden behind the bunkers. Although the range of fire was limited, the enemy could not directly destroy the artillery. Moreover, the anti-tank guns were originally intended to shoot directly. A group of shells from the heavy long-range artillery summoned by the enemy artillery liaison officer fell at this moment, and the position was instantly enveloped by a huge explosion of 155mm howitzer shells. I buried my head and waited for the shelling to end. The soil and sleepers around the bunker were thrown high and fell heavily by the explosion of the shells again and again.Thick and choking gunpowder smoke drifted in the bunker, and the shock wave formed by the explosion swirled in torrents, as if a violent sandstorm was blowing in the bunker. I looked up after the explosion of the enemy's shells was over.The surrounding scenery surprised me. Not far from me, a trench covered with I-beams was collapsed by the shells falling directly on it, and the deformed I-beams stood upright in the trench.I don't know if there are any of our soldiers inside. If there are, they might be nailed to the ground by the I-beam! The old-fashioned night-vision goggles finally worked, and I saw the pale green figures of enemy infantry squirming at the foot of the hill. The devils started to attack, and the fire support point set up on the opposite hill kept pouring small-caliber grenades and mortar shells on the surrounding defensive positions, and the self-propelled artillery farther away suppressed the routes that reinforcements might pass around our positions . Within the range of a few square kilometers here, the enemy's helicopters are no longer much of a threat from the ground. A group of three helicopter fire suppression groups patrolled back and forth in the combat airspace dispatched by their aviation coordinator, trying to find a place that could be used by a group of fighters. hit prey. Through the infrared night vision device, I looked at the enemy infantry who were approaching our position along the trenches and canals in the dark. Due to the covered infrared combat uniform, the green figure of the devil infantry was distorted and deformed and difficult to recognize. "Why did the enemy suddenly become clear-headed?" Watching the methodical tactical actions of the Devils' attacking troops, I began to feel bad. It stands to reason that after a day of tough battles, the devils should make appropriate adjustments in the rhythm of their attack.The hysterical attack during the day has lost so many ground attack troops. In any case, the follow-up echelon should replace the vanguard assault group that has been fighting hard during the day. At least the enemy should temporarily take a defensive posture to gain time to rest and adjust the combat order, and re-attack them Conduct reconnaissance of the opponent's defense situation on the previously determined offensive route, and formulate a new combat plan. However, the enemy now shows no signs of weakening firepower or even temporary formation confusion caused by switching combat sequences.Compared with the confrontation that started in the morning, the devil in front of him suddenly seemed to have become more mature and stable. "This is probably the characteristic of the enemy's digitalized combat force's networked and coordinated operations introduced by Liu Gong. There is no pause or gap. As long as the offensive peak has not been reached, continuous powerful long-range fire strikes and air-ground integrated coordinated attacks will be maintained until the opponent I couldn't fight back and fell." I thought bitterly. Tonight should be a cool night, but now the surface of the position is shrouded in scorching flames.My chest was pressed against the hot trench wall, and the bitter acid in the air made my lungs tingle. The infantry swimming in the tunnel entrances and trenches began to make noise, and the devils approached, and quickly fired to suppress them.Several soldiers carrying heavy weapons passed by me and disappeared in the choking smoke, even though I knew they might be only a dozen meters away from me. The sky outside the trenches of the position is the territory of the enemy's small-caliber grenades. Continuous flames wrapped in various shapes of shrapnel danced wildly outside the trenches with piercing tunes. The infantry moved carefully between the trenches and the tunnels. Occasionally, during the interval of enemy artillery bombardment, they swung up automatic rifles and automatic grenade launchers to shoot in the general direction of the devil's attack, and then quickly moved to a safe position.However, where is there an absolutely safe place when the entire surface of the position is covered by devil artillery fire?No, maybe the hidden part of the tunnel behind is safe.From time to time, infantrymen were torn to pieces by the huge shock wave of the large-caliber mortar shells that fell straight into the trench and exploded, and they didn't even have time to shout.The enemy's new round of offensive has just begun, and the casualties on our position began to increase rapidly. On the front and left side of our 100mm anti-tank artillery position is a huge minefield, with a depth of four kilometers in front of and behind the position where the mines of our line of position are buried.Since this area is an undulating southern hilly terrain, the landform is relatively complex, including hilly mountains, ditches, farmland, a large number of agricultural irrigation facilities and residences, etc. are used by our engineers, and different types of combined minefields are set up everywhere. .Therefore, the enemy has not been able to display the ability of continuous assault on a wide plane.In order to effectively stop the enemy's armored forces and delay the enemy's advance, our poorly equipped reserve infantry division can only rely more on these things.The relatively complex terrain and landforms in this area have helped a lot. The enemy has paid a huge price for being able to clear the minefields and open up an effective attack channel.Every time they attempted to clear mines, they were severely sniped by our firepower, especially during the day when we still had a complete configuration of far and near firepower. The enemy could not break through from the left side of our infantry battalion position throughout the day. Now the enemy attacked the positions guarded by our three infantry companies in the evening after their air force threw thermobaric bombs to the ground and directly destroyed the positions of our infantry battalion. Chance. But the enemy has found the positions of our battery an insurmountable obstacle. At the beginning, the enemy tanks and armored infantry fighting vehicles that kept coming up from the rear and pierced our defensive positions were once suppressed by our anti-tank artillery with intensive anti-tank firepower. Wrecked on the side.The irritated Japanese army used a large number of anti-tank missiles and attacked for more than two hours with the support of low-altitude firepower and long-range howitzers and semi-guided heavy multiple rocket launchers. The enemy infantry also used a large number of anti-material weapons to attack the position.Now our artillery positions are incomplete, and the reinforced concrete bunkers with a thickness of more than three meters cannot effectively protect the anti-tank artillery positions.Thanks to the limitation of undulating terrain, the enemy infantry cannot use anti-tank missiles to directly attack our artillery positions within the effective range of the heavy machine guns and automatic grenade launchers equipped by our infantry. Because of this, it cannot attack outside the effective range of anti-tank guns. But the enemy still has aviation fire support. After the devils put in helicopters to bombard the artillery bunkers with missiles and cannons from low altitudes, and used drones to guide the "Tow" missiles launched by the infantry fighting vehicles behind to attack, our anti-tank guns began to fall silent one by one. The enemy who had been caught in a stalemate began to take the initiative again. "Lie down!" When the strange hissing sound of the enemy's mortar shells gliding was heard in the air, a soldier not far from me threw the soldiers who were shooting the Japanese infantry with automatic grenade launchers into the trench. The shells immediately exploded on the edge of the trench. I raised my head and looked along the trench. It was Lao Liu.Lao Liu slowly got up from the ground with difficulty, like opening a rusty folded chair, the muddy water flowing from his body poured down as his body stretched. The soldier who was lying on his stomach under Lao Liu immediately turned over and sat up. It was Jiang Lei.Jiang Lei held an automatic grenade launcher in his arms, and his face was already blackened by the smoke and dust floating around the surface of the position. "Lao Liu, Jiang Lei. Are you two still fucking alive?" I grinned, baring my teeth. Before Lao Liu could reply, another shell roared down, and everyone fell to the ground in unison. "No, we can't fight back here. Retreat to the mouth of the tunnel." Lao Liu shouted, pulled up the river barrier and crawled towards the entrance of the tunnel. Indeed, from entering the trench until now, I have not even had the chance to stand up and shoot.The enemy's uninterrupted blockade of intensive artillery fire showed terrible power, and the shells using air bomb fuzes formed a huge fragmentation barrage over the position.We have no microwave equipment that can interfere with the electronic fuze of enemy shells. "Is anyone there? Come here!" There was a hoarse shout behind us. We turned around and saw that it was the artillery sergeant.His artillery squad bunker had been bombarded by enemy fire, and the artillery fell sideways on the ground and crushed his legs.Dust and smoke billowed in the artillery bunker. Everyone ran up quickly and worked together to remove the large artillery frame that was pressing on the artillery sergeant's leg. At this time, a health worker passing by behind ran over and began to check the injury on his leg. "Second squad leader, your calf is broken, I'll carry you down." "No! Help me stop the bleeding first, I'll see if the cannon can still work." The artillery sergeant roared, struggling to lean against the anti-tank gun and checking the gun's sight and retreating machine with bloody hands. The artillery sergeant seemed to have fallen into a state of madness. Jiang Lei elbowed me in the back and quietly pointed to the destroyed bunker.Following the direction of Jiang Lei's finger, I saw a terrifying scene. The soldiers of the several artillery squads who were still alive and kicking just now have now become limbs and arms all over the place. Shredded clothes, crushed steel helmets mixed with broken reinforced concrete fragments are scattered all over the ground.The blood gushing from the bodies of the sacrificed soldiers smeared the barrel of the anti-tank gun red.The firing port of the bunker that was bombed by the enemy's artillery fire is pouring into billowing gunpowder smoke. "Go to the back and see if there are any armor-piercing bullets." The artillery sergeant shouted to the health worker with red eyes. The health worker silently glanced at the artilleryman, then turned and walked into the tunnel. "The artillery can still be used! You three bastards, why don't you come over and help!" The artillery sergeant suddenly turned his head and yelled at the three of us who were mourning for the dead soldiers of the artillery squad. I signaled Lao Liu, who was about to answer, with my eyes to keep quiet, and the three of us began to turn the blood-stained cannon over and straighten it under the command of the artillery sergeant. "Hygiene! Armor-piercing bombs! Armor-piercing bombs!" The artillery officer sat on the big frame, leaned against the sight, and shouted loudly while turning the handwheel.His stomach was still bleeding. "I'm going to help." Lao Liu turned around to help the health worker carry the shells. "The enemy, the enemy is coming up. Tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles! Why haven't the shells arrived yet!" The artillery officer shook the handle and cursed hysterically. "Cannonballs! There are cannonballs!" I turned around and saw Sanitary Zhang and Lao Liu running over panting carrying a box of shells. "Quick! Quick! Quick! Reload! Stupid! Can't even reload?" Under the command of the artillery sergeant, everyone hastily opened the bolt and reloaded. "Target 1021 meters! Let it go!" Under the order of the artillery sergeant, I pulled the firing rope. The huge recoil force threw several people who were pressing on the gun mount high up, and the artillery officer firmly grasped the gun body with both hands. When the artillery hadn't stopped and the gun position was still dusty, the artillery sergeant had already put his eyes on the sight glass to check the shooting results. "Fuck! It's off the edge!" "Come again! Why are you in a daze? Armor-piercing bullets!" The artillery officer slapped his blood-soaked hands angrily. Another armor-piercing projectile was stabbed into the barrel by the health worker. "Target 1012 meters! Let it go!" "Hit! Come again, it's still moving!" He opened his mouth wide and shouted loudly, growling. "These bastards! Armor-piercing bullets!" "Quick! Turn off the cannon bolt!" "Target 995 meters! Wait, wait! Let it go!" "Okay, reimburse one!" The medic who was carrying the shells in the back ran back and forth panting, and more shells were thrown into the barrel. With the roar of the artillery, the empty shell casings that were unloaded rolled on the ground steaming and collided with each other, making a crisp metal impact sound. The anti-tank guns roared and jumped again and again. The steel-forged machine seemed to suddenly come to life. The amount of advance is calculated accurately and abnormally, and there are almost no false occurrences. Yes, he's supposed to be a reincarnated sharpshooter. In the dark night, at the entrance of the tunnel on the mountainside where shrapnel was flying and smoke was everywhere, the sharpshooter searched for the giant beasts made of steel that roared and broke into the home rashly, and are now close at hand. The red tungsten alloy sub-caliber sabot-piercing bullets were accurately shot into the darkness by the hunter, with a huge howl, and the hunter devoted all his strength to each throw.The surrounding land was infected by this force, and the soil rose again and again.Sitting on it, we were thrown up and shocked by its huge power again and again.The giant beasts hit by the hunters howled desperately on the top of the opposite hill, and the huge secondary explosion tore their bodies to pieces. "Again!" the artillery officer hissed over his shoulder at me. The helmet and earplugs had long been thrown away by the artillery sergeant, and the blackened head and face formed by the gunpowder smoke contrasted sharply with the white teeth. Seeing his bright eyes with excitement, I also smiled.Suddenly, my eyes fell on his dusty ears.Blood was gurgling from his earlobe. The artillery sergeant's ears have been deafened long ago! "Dangerous! Get down!" Following Lao Liu's shout, I was thrown to the ground by Jiang Lei. boom!boom! Several enemy guided mortar shells landed near the gun emplacements. I was dizzy from the explosion that was so close at hand, and sour water poured out of my already empty stomach.I retched for a while until tears welled up in the corners of my eyes. It took a long time for everyone to straighten up from the thick gunpowder smoke. "Second squad leader, Lao Qiu! How are you doing!" The health worker lying behind found that the artillery sergeant, who was holding the anti-tank gun tightly and covered in blood, had passed out. "Old Willow!" Jiang Lei found that Lao Liu who was lying next to the gun mount hadn't moved. The two of us hurriedly picked up Lao Liu and checked his injury in a hurry.Fortunately, no wounds.Lao Liu was close to the entrance of the cave, but he quickly fell down, but was fainted by the shock. "Old Qiu! Don't die! Wake up! Let's continue firing!" The medic put his arms around the artillery sergeant and burst into tears. We were surprised to see that only the upper half of the artillery officer's body was intact in the arms of the health worker. One of his legs was neatly cut off by shrapnel, and the other leg was only hanging on his body. The hygienist wept mournfully while wiping the thick dust from the artillery officer's face with his hands.His face was as sallow as a dead man, and his lips were bloodless. The artillery sergeant was still clinging tightly to the barrel of the cannon, and the health worker did not move his body for a long time.The two of us helped the unconscious old Liu to the corner behind the tunnel, and when we turned around to help the health worker lift the blood-stained artillery sergeant, he woke up leisurely. "Don't, let's continue firing! Why are you in a daze! Ah! Reload! Ah!" The artillery sergeant tried to sit upright.He gritted his teeth deeply, and let out a low gasp from his nostrils.With the movement of the body, the blood continuously splashed out and poured on the dusty gun carriage. The hygienist picked up a cannonball while crying, and I opened the cannon bolt.Load and close the bolt. The flashback of the artillery sergeant was so shocking that his arm had the strength to turn the handwheel. "Target 983 meters! Get ready! Release!" As the artillery officer shouted and was about to pull the rope, I suddenly found that the artillery did not rotate as flexibly as usual. The artillery was blown out! The retreat machine was blown up, and the dark yellow liquid flowed all over the ground with the rotation of the gun body. "Bastard! Why didn't you fire the cannon?" The artillery sergeant stared at me with fiery eyes.His fingers felt sticky when they touched the retreating liquid, so he raised his hand to have a look. After stunned for a while, the artillery sergeant silently leaned forward, hugging the damaged artillery tightly with both hands. "Xiu..." He seemed to murmur. When the three of us were silently surrounding the artillery sergeant looking for words to comfort him, there were hurried footsteps in the tunnel behind, and then someone shouted orders in the dark. "Retreat, hear no, retreat, to the second line of defense. Quick!" Finally couldn't hold on anymore. Our artillery positions were almost blown to pieces by the enemy's artillery fire, and the trenches in the surface positions had already been completely flattened by the enemy.Without enough anti-tank weapons, the soldiers can only rely on the bare tunnel exits as sniper positions.If we don't retreat into the tunnel, we can only be slaughtered on the surface. "Retreat! Old Qiu! Let's retreat." The medic whispered to the artillery officer, whether he could hear him or not. The artillery officer lay motionless on the gun. "Old Qiu? Old Qiu? Wake up! Old Qiu!" The medic hugged the artillery sergeant's already stiff body and wailed, shaking his body frantically.I also go to help him.He was found almost ice-cold.Yes, the body of a person who has lost all blood cools down very quickly. Jiang Lei couldn't bear to turn his head and look up at the top of the tunnel wall, so as not to let the people next to him see his tears falling down. The damaged anti-tank guns are still standing upright on the gun positions, with the blood of the defenders all over their bodies.A war dead still hugged the cannon body tightly, and the barrel stretched majestically into the night sky, silently expressing its indomitable spirit. In the darkness, the retreating crowd quickly gathered in the tunnel and walked past us silently. All those who passed by the gun positions took off their helmets and stopped for a while. The medic was still crying and trying to wake the artillery officer. "Retreat." A man who looked like an army officer patted the health worker on the shoulder and disappeared into the darkness. I really couldn't dissuade the grief-stricken hygienist, so I could only wake up the comatose old Liu in the corner. The enemy artillery fire began to thin out, and I knew that the enemy ground forces began to approach our current position. "Jiang Lei, get the health worker. Let's go!" I lifted Lao Liu and shouted to Jiang Lei. Farewell, brother! I took one last look at the artillery sergeant who was still lying tightly on the cannon but would never wake up, and helped Lao Liu staggeringly followed the retreating flow of troops to leave the place where I had only stayed for half an hour.