Chapter 36 Chapter Sixteen

In the next quarter of an hour, Liu Zongkui sat behind a rock on the mountain ridge line, swallowed a pack of compressed dry food Wei Xi handed him bit by bit with the water in the kettle on his body, and gradually recovered his physical strength. Only then did Xiao Bin and Chen Guoqing catch up with the other two platoons from the Seventh Company.Seeing that the deputy head had stopped the vanguard, Xiao Bin was a little anxious.Jiang Tao set the time for their small army to arrive at the 632 highland area to launch an attack at twelve o'clock at noon, and now it is less than ten minutes away from this time!

"Deputy head, shouldn't Qilian go first?" He limped to Liu Zongkui and said with his finger on the watch on his wrist. "No, wait a little longer!" Liu Zongkui replied without further explanation.After a few more battles, Xiao Bin will understand that for a field commander who independently leads his troops to carry out missions, only victory is the most important thing.The process of every battle is a collection of various expected and unexpected complex situations of both the enemy and the enemy. The commander must know how to implement the instructions of the superior in a timely and flexible manner instead of rigidly.

But half an hour later, he still made a compromise. He didn't wait for the ninth company as the guard and the migrant labor stretcher team led by the assistant instructor to climb up the mountain ridge. ordered: "Advance to the destination at the speed of the attack immediately! No matter what happens on the way, don't stop! After arriving at the 632 highland area, no matter which company is in front, you must immediately attack the three highlands there, don't wait!" "Yes!" Everyone replied. ——We can’t wait for Jiulian any longer.The troops of two companies rushing up from the Panling mountain beam line will soon be noticed by the enemies of Tianzi Mountain.Soldiers are expensive and fast!

Deputy Battalion Commander Cao Maoran led the seventh company and one platoon—the sharp knife platoon of the whole battalion—to take the lead in jumping over the mountain ridge line, rushing down the southern slope full of young masson pine forests half a person's height, and following a winding forest stretching to the southeast. Quickly ran across the path.Liu Zongkui didn't allow himself to stay any longer, and quickly followed up with Xiao Bin and Chen Guoqing after the seventh company had passed. His estimation was correct: our army was discovered by the enemy in the direction of Tianzi Mountain as soon as our army appeared on the southern slope of Qipanling.Fortunately, the path in the forest twisted and twisted, and the enemy obviously couldn't understand the intention of this troop going south to ride Panling for a moment. This hesitation made them move quickly for fifteen minutes without any threat from the enemy.But fifteen minutes later, although the enemy still hadn't figured out their intentions, a high-level dual-purpose machine gun on the No. They shoot up!

"Dong dong dong dong—" With the sound of shooting that caused earth-shattering reverberations in the Dashan Gorge in an instant, a series of terrifying sharp bullets dragged the metallic tremolo, and "cracked" Breaking through the air, it flew towards this small army coming south from the mountain ridge line, hitting stone chips flying into the sky, cutting off the crowns of young trees completely, and stirring up dead lines in the grasslands and bushes in the forest. blue smoke.After nearly four hours of raiding, the soldiers, who had become numb to the enemy's shelling, suddenly panicked when they were hit so violently. Some fell to the ground in fright, and some fled aimlessly. The advancing team immediately fell into chaos!

As soon as that terrifying sound sounded, Liu Zongkui understood what kind of weapon it was. With a "buzz" in his head, all the blood poured out of his body!Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun!Apart from the high-density mines, the high-level dual-purpose machine gun was another weapon that impressed him the most among all the weapons used by the enemy in the last border war.At that time, he saw soldiers who were hit by bullets from the enemy's Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun. Each of them had a bloody hole the size of a bowl, and they died instantly, with no hope of survival.Not only that, this extremely heavy and terrifying sound of shooting, together with the echo it caused in the valley, will also have a devastating effect on the soldiers' will to fight.Seeing the soldiers lying down one after another, Liu Zongkui was really anxious: Never stop!There are not many usable terrain and features on the hillside except for some bushes, and it is more vulnerable to enemy fire when stopped.With a distance of thousands of meters, the enemy can only shoot indistinctly. Instead of lying here and being beaten, it is better to rush through the enemy's fire blocking area quickly!

More importantly, they couldn't give the enemy commander more time to think about the intentions of this small force! "Don't run around! Don't stop! You all get up and run!" He cursed loudly, his face became very scary, and as he walked forward quickly, he kicked up and threw A person lying down in the grass kicked up! "Do you want to wait here to die?!" He opened his blood-red eyes and yelled at the man, not recognizing who he was in his eagerness.That person got up and ran forward, he didn't care about him, and searched for other people with that terrible look.At the same time, he did not slow down his pace.

He didn't notice that he had been exposed as a major athletic target.Liu Zongkui didn't realize that he was being targeted by the enemy shooter until strings of blue smoke rose rapidly from behind him.He lay down on the spot, rolled several times along the slope, and bent over and made several irregular movements among the bushes, only to be thrown off by the bullet rain that the enemy was following.When he got up again and looked at the troops, he found that it was still in a mess, but the overall speed of travel accelerated! Moving forward for a further distance, the high-level dual-purpose machine gun on the No. 3 peak of Tianzi Mountain will not be entangled with them.Liu Zongkui judged from the sound of gunfire that it had turned to the Ninth Company and the migrant labor stretcher team behind.He only took a breath when he heard the firing sound of a high-level dual-purpose machine gun on Yingzui Peak, the main peak of Tianzi Mountain in the southeast.Liu Zongkui was startled suddenly, and secretly called out: No!The enemy commanders have almost guessed their intentions!

——The enemy cannot react accurately now!There must be a little confusion for them! The troops in front stopped automatically because of the interception of a new high-level dual-purpose machine gun.Liu Zongkui arrived in a hurry and ordered Cao Maoran: "The whole battalion changed its course and turned to the southwest!" Not only Cao Maoran, but even Xiao Bin who followed him did not immediately understand his intention.Cao Maoran's reaction was faster than Xiao Bin's. He looked towards the southeast of Yingzui Peak, his eyes lit up like sparks, took the submachine gun from his right shoulder, held it in his hand, and shouted heroically: "Seventh Company, One Row , come with me—” He took the lead and rushed down the southwest mountain along a fork in the road.

The whole battalion followed them and turned to the southwest! Sure enough, the enemy was confused by their actions.In less than five minutes, the high-level dual-purpose machine gun on the No. 3 peak of Tianzi Mountain turned around again and fired head-on at the platoon of the Seventh Company, obviously suspecting that they were going to the west to reinforce the B Regiment that was attacked in the back and belly of the No. 001 Highland.A dual-purpose machine gun on Yingzui Peak in the southeast stopped firing! "The troops went down to the bottom of the valley, and then quickly headed east!" Liu Zongkui seized the opportunity and shouted at Cao Maoran.The forest at the bottom of the valley is lush and lush, and the team is hidden in it, so the enemy can't see their movement direction clearly!

This time Cao Maoran did not execute the order decisively.Cao Maoran looked at Liu Zongkui, wanted to say something, but stopped again!Liu Zongkui immediately understood what he meant: According to the enemy's report before the war, there was a large minefield set up by the enemy in the forest at the bottom of the valley, and the enemy called it the "death zone"!Liu Zongkui's brain became hot, without any explanation, he turned around and snatched the submachine gun from the hand of the guard Wei Xi, and rushed to the bottom of the valley first! ——It's too late to explain!This was also the case in the last war: when a subordinate has difficulty carrying out an order, he executes it himself.Not to set an example, at this moment time is the chance to survive, time is victory! But he was still blocked by Cao Maoran and Xiao Bin who were chasing quickly.Cao Maoran just hesitated for a moment, and the actions of the deputy head made him feel extremely embarrassed!He is the deputy battalion commander with a sharp knife company. At this time and place, the deputy commander can't go to the front instead of him, even if it means death!Cao Maoran rushed forward without saying a word, while Xiao Bin and Wei Xi grabbed Liu Zongkui's arms from left to right.Xiao Bin criticized him loudly for the first time today: "Deputy commander, you can't do this! You are the supreme commander of this army, and your responsibility is not to replace the sharp knife row to go to mine!" Liu Zongkui calmed down a little.Xiao Bin is right.But Xiao Bin didn't understand that sometimes whether the troops can act quickly depends on whether the supreme commander can act impulsively, and even risk death to go to the front to go to the mine! Later Xiao Bin also rushed to the front.Liu Zongkui stayed with the rest of the battalion.As he ran, he waited nervously for the sound of mine explosions from the knife platoon.He didn't hear the sound.Cao Maoran was a courageous and resourceful officer. He did not follow the deputy commander's order to go down to the bottom of the valley. Instead, he turned around and headed east when he went down to the height where the trees obscured the troops' whereabouts.When the Seventh Company arrived at the scheduled assembly point and attack starting position of the whole battalion—a narrow gully full of groves on the west side of the mountain leg in the south of the 631 highland—no one in the whole company was hit by a mine! Liu Zongkui did not stay in this gully, but followed a half-deep rain fissure to the top of the southern mountain leg of 631 highland. 632 Highland clearly appeared in front of him!Line up to the southeast are the 633 and 634 highlands!Suddenly he felt his mood really tense up, as if he had never been so nervous in his life! ——Because they successfully concealed themselves during the last march, the enemies on Eagle's Mouth Peak hadn't noticed that they had appeared here! He quickly and carefully observed the 632, 633, and 634 highlands with a telescope - most of the 634 highlands are blocked by the 633 highlands, and they can't be seen clearly - he felt that they were small and small on Qipanling. Suddenly I feel that they are also tall and majestic.But except for rocks, wormwood, bushes, and patches of groves, he found no enemy on the surface of any of the heights.Putting down the binoculars, he tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and ordered Cao Maoran to lead the Seventh Company to attack the 632 Heights immediately! "Put up the heavy machine gun and move fast!" he said. The Seventh Company quickly circled from the southern end of the mountain leg to the foot of the mountain on the west side of the 632 highland.Liu Zongkui's heart tightened: Among the three small highlands they were in charge of attacking, the 632 highland was the closest to Qipanling and the mountain pass between Qipanling and Feicuiling, and should be deployed by the enemy most! Xiao Bin hurried up the hill. "What's the matter?" "Deputy commander, the eighth company has reached two platoons!" "Where's Jiulian?" "Jiulian and Balian three rows did not keep up!" In the binoculars, the straggler line of the Seventh Company has advanced to the 633 high ground, and there is no gunfire on the hill! "Order the Eighth Company to attack Height 633 immediately!" He said to Xiao Bin without looking back. Xiao Bin ran downhill.Soon, the eighth company's team also passed through the southern end of the mountain leg, and attacked the 633 highland east by south! A telegraph operator with a radio on his back hurried up the mountain leg and said loudly to Liu Zongkui: "Deputy head, the Command Post of Regiment A has repeatedly asked if we have reached the designated location and started the attack!" Liu Zongkui looked down at the watch on his wrist: the hands of the watch had already pointed to half past one in the afternoon.He frowned and said coldly: "Now you report to the command post of Regiment A, and say that our battalion has arrived at the starting position of the attack on time, and the attack on the 632, 633, and 634 highlands is in progress!" He raised the binoculars again and turned his gaze to the 632 and 633 highlands! Fifteen minutes passed.Three streams of people from seven companies and three rows appeared on the hillside of 632 Heights, and the gunfire has not yet sounded from the top of the hill!twenty minutes.One of the three streams of people—the Seventh Company Sharp Knife Platoon—had approached the main peak, but the gunshots still remained silent!Now the Knife Platoon had disappeared into the mist on the summit, and he couldn't see it clearly with a telescope.Still no gunfire!Two minutes later, the voice of Deputy Battalion Commander Cao Maoran came loudly from the walkie-talkie: "304! 304! I'm 301! I'm Cao Maoran!" Liu Zongkui snatched the handset from the walk-talkie operator: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cao, report the situation quickly!" "Deputy regiment commander, the seventh company has occupied the 632 highland! There is not a single enemy on the highland!" "Very good!" Liu Zongkui said without revealing too much joy in his heart, "I order you to immediately occupy positions in the direction of Jade Ridge and organize defense!" "Understood!" Cao Maoran replied. He turned the telescope to the 633 highland in the southeast again, and he was not so nervous!Fifteen minutes later, Li Ao, commander of the Eighth Company, also reported to him from the top of the highland: "Deputy commander, our company has occupied Height 633. There are no enemies on it!" "Build a position immediately and turn to defense!" He gave Li Ao the order he had given to Qilian just now, and he did not forget to add a sentence: "Commander of the Eighth Company, what's the situation on the 634 Heights?" "Nothing," Li Ao replied after a while, "It's so quiet there, no one can be seen!" The trainer Chen Guoqing hurried up the mountain, and before he had time to say anything, a string of high-level dual-purpose machine gun bullets with tremolo hit the bushes behind Liu Zongkui from Yingzui Peak.Liu Zongkui was taken aback, Chen Guoqing didn't wait for the second bullet to hit, and suddenly pushed him down in the rain crack ditch! Twenty minutes ago, the Seventh Company began to attack the 632 Heights, and he heard the enemy's high-level dual-purpose machine guns on Yingzui Peak, but the gunshots were not aimed at them, so he didn't take it to heart.Later, because he was so focused on Qilian and Balian, he actually forgot about it! The second string of bullets also fell, sending sand and rocks flying up and down the Yurigou.Liu Zongkui raised his head, and the flushed Chen Guoqing told him another thing: "Deputy head, the Ninth Company is here!" Liu Zongkui straightened up from the Yurigou on his knees and looked towards Yingzui Peak in the south by west.He understood: the ninth company and the third platoon of the eighth company did not take the route of the seventh company and the eighth company just now, they led the enemy's high-level dual-purpose machine guns here at Yingzui Peak! "Go and order Jiulian to occupy Height 634! Move quickly!" he said loudly to Chen Guoqing, his face suddenly flushed.The enemy did not set up defenses on the 632 highland which is the closest to Qipanling. Of course, there is no reason to deploy troops on the 634 highland which is deeply defended.But now that the opponent has discovered them, the 634 highland will soon become the first target for the enemy and us!He must control it in his own hands before the enemy!Chen Guoqing ran down the mountain leg.After a while, a slightly chaotic team came out of the woods at the bottom of the ditch, bypassed the southern end of the mountain leg like the other two companies, and ran towards the 634 highland along the depression at the foot of the west side of the 632 and 633 highlands.Liu Zongkui's heart twitched! — This company cannot fight! ——But now they can't be stopped!He has no other troops to use!Only by occupying Height 634 can the whole battalion take the initiative in today's battle! ——"I won't let Jiulian persist on Height 634 for long," a new determination had formed in his heart. "As long as the Ninth Company controls the 634 Heights in time, and the enemy gives me time, I will send the Seventh Company to replace them!" He again forgot the enemy's high-level dual-purpose machine gun on Yingzui Peak, stood up from the crevasse, opened his eyes wide, and nervously watched the small team rushing towards the 634 Heights.At this moment, for some reason, his heart was painfully bound by a thin silk thread like it was before our army bombarded at dawn!