Chapter 44 third chapter

The sound of Cheng Ming's trumpet reached Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao's ears through the dense gunfire. The two people pressed their faces to the ground and looked at each other knowingly.None of them said a word, but they had conversed a thousand words in their hearts: "Come on, buddy!" "There is no way out!" "You take the second row and go up from the right, and I take one row and go up from the left!" "Today, the two of us will be reimbursed here together, which is pretty good!" "We still have a fight with them! They don't want to take too much advantage!"

"..." The two gave each other a smile at the end.This smile was a farewell and an encouragement, and then he jumped out of the stone crevice where he was hiding.Jiang Boyu stuck his whole body to the surface of the mountain, and nimbly turned over the ridge line extending from the top of the plateau and separating the northeast hillside from the north hillside. When he reached the northeast hillside of the plateau, Cen Hao leaped westward to the north of the plateau. Down the side hillside.Almost at the same time, the two waved an upward attack gesture to the first and second rows lying in the depression behind them.

Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao are good friends.Their unusual friendship was formed in their teenage years. The hometowns of Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao are in the same big village named Jiang Cenji in the Huaihe River Basin in northern Anhui.The two surnames of Jiang Cen in the village have been enemies for generations, and the children have also formed two opposing groups for many years.Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao used to be the leaders of the two groups of children who were at odds with each other. They were both strong, with strong fists, and each raised a fierce big black dog. They started fighting when they were naked, and they ignored each other until the fifth grade, and neither of them said a word to each other.

One day at noon in midsummer this year, the sun was scorching the vast Huanghuai Plain, and there was no wind. Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao, who couldn't stand the scorching heat, went to bathe in the river in the west of the village without calling their companions.It was a small river about 100 meters wide, and an old brick bridge with eight holes was erected on the river.Due to successive years of drought, the villagers kept digging down the riverbed, hoping to store more water in the river for irrigation. As a result, the bridge hole became deeper and deeper, and it was often below the heads of adults when the water was flooded in summer.In order to protect the old brick bridge, when the villagers dug the bridge hole, they left an oval bridge foundation under each bridge pier. They called them "bridge claws".Later, these "bridge claws" took on a new role: they provided a foothold for men and women descending into the river to bathe.

The river seldom has water and often dries up, so the children in the village have poor water quality.Cen Hao's family lives by the river, and they can barely come to "dog planing", but Jiang Boyu is not even good at "dog planing". But none of them could resist the temptation of the clear river water in that hot and steamy noon.According to the sphere of influence delineated by the battle, Jiang Boyu went to the west bank of the river, and Cen Hao went to the east bank of the river. They discovered each other in the moment before entering the water, and the habit and enthusiasm for fighting that had been formed in their hearts for a long time immediately dominated them again.Instead of taking a bath, the two played a dangerous game called "Seize the Bridge Paws": there were seven "Bridge Paws" submerged in the water, and the usual practice was that whichever of them "seized" the river first The "bridge paw" in the center, even if it made the other party "destroyed".

In the past, because the river was shallow and they couldn't swim, their way of "seizing the bridge paw" was very simple: first, stand firmly on the previous "bridge paw", and then rush towards the "bridge paw" on the other side of the bridge hole. The buoyancy and the inertia of body movement make me grasp the cracks of the bricks on the bridge pier immediately after arriving, stand firm and then make a new pounce on the next "bridge claw".Today is a bit different, the river has quietly risen due to continuous heavy rain, reaching their shoulders.Jiang Boyu was a little scared when he went into the water, but seeing that his opponent was not "showing timidity", he no longer cared about his fear; similarly, Cen Hao on the other side of the river was also inspired by his "bravery", and rushed towards the opponent without hesitation. river water.

At first they went smoothly, and they reached the third "bridge paw" on their side almost at the same time, but at this moment, the little fear in Jiang Boyu's heart had been magnified, and he couldn't stand completely in the last pounce, so he drank in a panic. Take a sip of water.After stabilizing his body and looking forward, he found that Cen Hao was about to pounce on the last "bridge claw", and he was anxious.The body fell forward involuntarily, and the limbs did not exert any strength, and the person suddenly fell into the deep water between the two bridge piers.He immediately choked on water and struggled desperately with his hands and feet.

Cen Hao, who had just grabbed the last "Bridge Paw", happened to see Jiang Boyu falling into the water.He became frightened and realized that there was no one around, so the terrified cry of "Help" did not come out of his mouth.In a flash, he had already decided that his old enemy was going to die, but Jiang Boyu struggled to get his head out of the water, and looked at him with dying eyes.Cen Hao's heart moved, he even forgot that his "water quality" was not good, he leaned forward and fell into the water, trying to grab Jiang Boyu.His neck was immediately embraced by Jiang Boyu.Cen Hao sank down, took a sip of water, and suddenly thought that he was going to die today.He struggled hard, his head came out of the water, and shouted at Jiang Boyu:

"Let go of me!" Perhaps the hostile consciousness formed over the years is still at work. What Cen Hao thought of when he shouted this sentence was: Jiang Boyu will not let him go.But the other party understood his words and released both hands from his neck.With a "dog planer", Cen Hao landed on the "bridge paw" where Jiang Boyu had stood, clasped the crack of the brick with one hand, turned his head and stretched out the other hand into the water, and shouted to Jiang Boyu: "Grab my hand!" It turned out that Jiang Boyu didn't grab his hand, but his hand found Jiang Boyu's hand in the water, and pulled the latter to his side.After Jiang Boyu stood firmly on the "bridge claw", he was panting nervously for a long time, looking at the slow-moving river with dull and terrifying eyes.

Finally relieved, the two enemies who survived the catastrophe smiled awkwardly at each other. Later, Cen Hao "escorted" Jiang Boyu to the west bank of the river: every time he crossed a bridge hole, Cen Hao floated over first, stood firmly on the "bridge claws", then turned back and stretched out a hand into the water, waiting for Jiang Boyu to go into the water With a pounce, he immediately grabbed his hand and pulled him over. When the two parted by the river, they were still not in the mood to talk, Jiang Boyu just gave Cen Hao a grateful look, then lowered his head and ran away in a hurry.

They didn't see each other again during the whole summer vacation.Going to school on the first day after the summer vacation, Cen Hao found that Jiang Boyu was waiting for him at the intersection outside the village.Jiang Boyu took out two identical tin pencil cases from his schoolbag, and gave one of them to Cen Hao.Cen Hao accepted after hesitating, which was hard to imagine in the past.Jiang Boyu's family came back from the county seat in 1960. His father was still working in the county bank, and his family was better off than Cen Hao. If Jiang Boyu gave him such a pencil case in the past, he would definitely think it was a humiliation to himself! So both of them laughed. From this day they became best friends. The friendship among children is often incomprehensible to adults: the moment Jiang Boyu fell into the water, he thought that Cen Hao would not save him. This time he was doomed, but he was wrong. In his heart, he felt a deep gratitude to the latter—in the past he was sorry for Cen Hao, but now Cen Hao gave him a second life, and he will do the same thing to repay Cen Hao in this life; what Cen Hao remembered It was the horror of the moment Jiang Boyu hugged his neck after falling into the water. If Jiang Boyu didn't let go, he would have been drowned, but Jiang Boyu listened to him and let go, even though he knew he would be drowned. In this way, there was another explanation in his mind - it was not he who saved Jiang Boyu, but the two of them saved each other.From his personal point of view, it was Jiang Boyu who saved him, and unconsciously he felt a deep gratitude to the latter.Moreover, because of this incident, they also vaguely feel that there is already some kind of mysterious connection between each other's lives, they need each other, and no one can leave the other! From this year until graduating from high school, going to junior high school and high school, and finally serving in the army, they were all together.They separated in the army, Jiang Boyu went to the Tuanzhi Special Agent Company, and Cen Hao went to the Second Battalion and Sixth Company. If things don't go well, that person will immediately become unhappy after a dozen miles of mountain roads, and he will definitely ask for leave on Sunday to visit.Both Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao developed smoothly after joining the army. They joined the party in the first year, became squad leaders one after the other in the second year, and were promoted to be platoon leaders by the same order in the fall of the third year.During this period, Jiang Boyu became a well-known special shooter, and he often went to various parts of the country to participate in competitions with the army shooting team.Jiang Boyu is not enthusiastic about staying in the army as an officer. His family has moved back to the county seat, and his father has become the bank president. After being demobilized, he will not be able to get a suitable job when he returns. However, Cen Hao cannot make up his mind to leave the army until he leaves the army.Since he was eleven years old, he was determined to do something to repay Cen Hao. First, he wanted to jump into the river to save his friend one day. For this reason, he went to the reservoir to find someone to teach him how to swim; later he became a soldier. , he thought about letting his father arrange a job for Cen Hao in the county after he was demobilized, and never go back to the countryside, but Cen Hao's appointment made his plan come to nothing.Cen Hao is willing to be an officer, but he can't refuse the appointment of the platoon leader: Aren't they two inseparable friends?What's more, his long-cherished wish to repay Cen Hao has not yet come true! Jiang Boyu stayed in the army like this.When he was twenty-three years old, he married the daughter of a bureau chief in the county "in the same family". Cen Hao, who was two months younger than him, got married because of his poor family and an old woman who was paralyzed in bed. "Rand aground".Jiang Boyu asked for leave and returned home the same night when he learned that a postman from a rural township had "severed diplomatic relations" with Cen Hao. Within a few days, he brought his eldest sister Jiang Ping, who had just graduated from the provincial medical school, to "meet" with Cen Hao. , and urged them to get married at lightning speed. In this way, they are not only friends but also uncles; the new layer of relationship makes them closer emotionally, but they lose their youthful childishness and completely become the loyalty, sympathy and sense of responsibility between men.Jiang Boyu vaguely felt that since that summer noon more than ten years ago, he had finally repaid Cen Hao, but at the same time he felt that he had played the role of a guarantor of the eldest sister's lifelong happiness morally. Only by caring and taking good care of Cen Hao in the journey of life can he be worthy of his elder sister; the greatest joy that marriage brought to Cen Hao is that Jiang Ping cured her mother's hemiplegia for many years with acupuncture and moxibustion, allowing the old man to stand up again.Cen Hao is a dutiful son, he is grateful to his wife, and even more grateful to Jiang Boyu who introduced Jiang Ping into his family.So whether it is to be worthy of his wife or even out of the psychology of repaying a favor, he can go through fire and water for Jiang Boyu. In the six months before the troops received the combat order, the shooting team of the military region sent letters to transfer Jiang Boyu many times.Of course, the regiment cherishes talents, but considering his professional expertise and future development, he did not express any intention of absolutely not letting him go. A friend heard the news that the troops were going to fight.He kept this matter a secret from Cen Hao, but the latter still knew about it. Before the war, the regiment reorganized the Ninth Company, transferred Jiang Boyu to be the deputy company commander, and asked Cen Hao to serve as the guard platoon of the regiment, which was relatively difficult to participate in the battle. platoon leader.Jiang Boyu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the latter news, and Cen Hao, the new security platoon leader, was re-appointed as the second platoon leader of the Ninth Company. There are many great friendships in the world, written in bamboo and silk, spread far and wide, and illuminate future generations, but they do not prevent the existence of those equally beautiful friendships between ordinary people.Both Jiang Boyu and Cen Hao knew that the other party entered Jiulian and finally went to the battlefield for their own sake, but not only did they not regret it, on the contrary they were secretly relieved because they realized that they had done something for the other party.The fact that they went to the battlefield together quietly gave each other a secret sense of psychological security—they saved each other from the brink of death in their youth, and this time they will surely help each other walk through the thunderstorms of war safely. Area.Even when they crossed Qipanling and rushed to the 632 highland area under the cannon fire, they never thought that the two of them would be in desperation together. ... There is a small pine tree as thick as a thumb on the slope more than 20 meters ahead on the left. Jiang Boyu saw the small pine tree at a glance after jumping over the ridge line that separated the north and northeast slopes of the highland.In the web of death woven by overlapping bullets from above the plateau and from the Emerald Ridge area—the bullet rain from the direction of the western Eagle’s Mouth Peak was blocked by the ridgeline—the branches of this small tree were intact, verdant The foliage still shone brightly in the afternoon sun, indicating that there was a "safety island" that could be used as a shelter for one's next body.Moreover, the terrain there is open, and you can look up from the bottom up to see what happened on the northeast slope of the entire highland.Just before he left the crevice where he was hiding, he had clearly realized that he, Cen Hao, and even the entire company were in danger today, and even bid farewell to his friend with a final smile. At this moment, the original wish in his heart was become more pronounced and intense. This wish is to let Cen Hao survive. Only by keeping Cen Hao can he be worthy of his elder sister; at the same time, he can truly repay his good friend for saving his life back then.He originally went to the battlefield for Cen Hao, but today the enemy gave him a chance on Height 634.Of course he also wants to live. He is only twenty-eight years old. He has been married for two years and has a very good relationship with his wife. Due to the separation of the two places, he and her have been together for less than three months, and he still feels like a newlywed. .But today's situation does not allow him to think about himself too much. Both he and Cen Hao may sacrifice today, so he has that strong and persistent thought in his heart: they both can't die, they must survive! For Cen Hao to survive, he must win the high ground!It was impossible to retreat, and all other ways out were blocked by the enemy.Taking the high ground is now basically a matter between him and Cen Hao. If he leads a platoon to attack on the northeast slope and the attack is not fast or smooth, Cen Hao will be in greater danger on the north slope of the high ground!Jiang Boyu could guess what Cen Hao was thinking at this time, he would definitely lead the second platoon to strive to be the first, to attract the attention and firepower of the enemies on the high ground to his side, and the purpose was also to hope that his friends, wife and brother could survive ! Jiang Boyu grabbed the barrel of the submachine gun with his right hand, put the outer side of his left arm on the ground, and rubbed his chin against the grass roots and rocks on the slope. He walked forward with wide eyes, and crawled towards the small pine tree in a low posture.He was in a nervous mood, because on the side of the ridgeline, Cen Hao and the second row's attacking gunshots had already sounded! He finally moved to the little pine tree with difficulty.This is a small crater. The mountain in front is raised, and the enemy's bullets are blocked and cannot be hit; on the left is a strangely shaped rock, which just protects the trunk and crown of the tree. Bullets from the direction of the high ground hit it.Jiang Boyu now understands why the Eighth Company didn't notice that the enemy was ambushing on the 634 Height after the Eighth Company occupied the 633 Height: the enemy's three defensive lines on the Heights had been constructed long ago, and then weeds and shrubs were allowed to grow up and down randomly. , unless self-exposed, it is very difficult for the attacker to find the opponent from the green with a telescope.He could see clearly: the most deployed enemy troops and the greatest threat to them at present was the first trench on the mountainside, which was about 80 to 100 meters away from him.Just in the section on the northeast side of the highland, two light machine guns and more than twenty automatic rifles and submachine guns fired fiercely downwards, causing the grass and trees on the hillside and the depression at the foot of the hill to rise into a messy, chaotic, Blue-yellow dust; the firepower of the second trench located 50 meters above it is weak, and there is only one light machine gun, a dozen submachine guns and automatic rifles on the northeast side of the highland; the third trench on the ridgeline of the platform below the main peak of the highland The first trench was more than 100 meters higher than the second trench. What attracted Jiang Boyu's attention was not a large number of submachine guns and automatic rifles, but an old-fashioned heavy machine gun with a particularly shocking sound.However, its current main target is not them at the bottom of the mountain, but the cliff top at the southernmost tip of the 633 highland in the northwest, making it impossible for the Eighth Company to go south to support them with firepower.Jiang Boyu quickly reacted in his mind: he should lead a row to quickly develop towards the enemy's first trench! The gunfire from bottom to top on the right side of the ridge line suddenly became intense, and Jiang Boyu's heart was slightly shocked again: Cen Hao is too impatient!When breaking up, he forgot to say a word to his friends: don't worry.Since they were going to fight the enemy to the death today, there was no need to worry.The enemy's intention is obvious, that is, to use all their firepower to injure and annihilate them while they are not stable under the high ground, and absolutely do not intend to give the opponent the opportunity to attack the high ground itself.The anxiety of the second platoon has already caused them trouble: from the first trench on the northeast slope of the highland, some enemies are crossing the ridge line and moving to the trench on the north slope to deal with the attack of the second platoon!He couldn't hesitate any longer, he had to shoot immediately and draw the main danger to his side! He turned his head and waved a "move forward" gesture to the second squad leader and the third squad leader who were lying prone in the grass on the slope behind him, and then stretched the muzzle of the submachine gun forward.The terrain here is very good, and he was able to immediately capture the slightly exposed target on the edge of the enemy's first trench from the blurred and swaying green grass shadows in the sight circle.And as long as this is done, the fate of the target caught by his sight circle will be decided - he is a sharpshooter, and he is absolutely confident in hitting all kinds of targets within a distance of three hundred meters! He's already ensnared a target with the crosshair.It was one of the enemy's two light machine guns in the first trench. The tongue of flame it spewed out swayed into a bright ball in front of his eyes, but he quickly caught the faint face of the machine gunner through the flames. . "Da da da——" a crisp short shot shot out.The light machine gun didn't stop firing immediately, it suddenly tilted its muzzle, and fired a long burst obliquely into the sky before it fell silent! It seemed that Jiang Boyu's gunshot ignited the ammunition depot, and from behind him, a dozen submachine guns and two light machine guns scattered on the hillside also screamed!A string of bullets flew up the mountain, colliding with the bullets flying from above in the air, and fell towards the enemy in the first trench.In an instant, the enemy's position was clearly in chaos! The corners of Jiang Boyu's resolute mouth twitched slightly, and a trace of relief floated indifferently in his heart.The results just now are of course nothing in his shooting career, and he has hit beautifully on targets that are many times more difficult than this.He didn't take seriously the sound of gunshots behind him: shooting should focus on accuracy, and shouldn't be so chaotic!The effect of shooting indiscriminately will definitely not be good!Suddenly his opinion changed: Although the gunfire from the soldiers behind him was not effective against the enemy, it created a deterrent momentum. The enemies who went to the north slope ran back in disorder! ——The pressure on Cen Hao can be relieved a little! He had now hooked the other machine gun with the sight ring.It was positioned slightly to the east, so he had to move the muzzle a few centimeters.Immediately after the gunshot, he dived away from his shooting position, followed by a series of rapid upward and low-profile movements, lying down on the ground behind a rock that could only cover his head, and at the same time A very neat shooting action.His subconscious feeling a few seconds ago was accurate: just lying down on the new shooting position, the place where he was just now was hit by a dense layer of dust from the rain of bullets flying from the mountain. The sunny little pines were gone too.He collected himself and realized that this was the third trench. The enemy's heavy machine guns noticed him! For a long time, he pressed his head and gun tightly to the ground, without looking up once, while the enemy's heavy machine guns frantically rained bullets on his surroundings.Every time a bullet drew a cloud of smoke towards him, his whole body would tremble violently. "Don't worry," he said to himself silently in his heart, trying to regain his composure, "Don't worry about Cen Hao, and don't worry about yourself either. The enemy was panicked by your two high-precision burst shots, and they might not be afraid A group of people shoot with low accuracy, but they are afraid of a super shooter like you. Therefore, getting rid of you is a top priority. ... As long as you stop here, they will quiet down again. Today you are left The next two things: kill the enemy and die. And death is nothing to worry about." His spirit has surpassed the panic of the stage of death cognition that once appeared after Quan Lian fell into a desperate situation, and also surpassed the pain and desolation left in the deep layer of consciousness when he said goodbye to Cen Hao—in fact, he said goodbye to life. It was all over; he could still feel death approaching him every second, but it was no longer at the center of his consciousness, it was the enemy on the mountain at the center, a simple hatred and anger towards the enemy , is the simple exhilaration that rises in life after two clean kills.At the center of consciousness is also the desire to attract more enemies from Cen Hao's side! He himself didn't know how long he had been prostrate behind that rock, until he heard the sound of enemy heavy machine gun bullets falling to the ground, and then raised his head to the high ground again.Not long ago he jumped upwards quickly, and the soldiers of the second and third squads also followed him to leap upwards and climb. At this moment, they also stopped attacking as he stopped advancing, but on his left and right sides, two A light machine gun of the squad and a submachine gun in the hands of the third squad leader were still shooting upward intermittently.Jiang Boyu cast his eyes on the enemy's first trench again, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited: during the time when he was lying still, not only the two light machine guns he had silenced screamed again, but also the two light machine guns that were close to each other On the ridge line on the right, a new light machine gun was added, shooting down the mountain with flickering flames. ——It was clearly reinforced from the offensive front of the second row on the north side of the highland! The enemy already sees him and the platoon as the main threat, which is good!This is his purpose.Listening carefully, the gunfire on the other side of the mountain ridge was still fierce and loud, which made him worry about Cen Hao again, "Cen Hao doesn't understand the reason not to be in a hurry. Patience and waiting for the best opportunity. . . . " He thought clearly again, "I'm a certified shooter and he's not, and I can't put him in more danger than me!" In fact, he understands that his situation may be more dangerous than Cen Hao.Although the enemy's heavy machine guns were no longer looking for him, since he appeared on the hillside on the northeast side of the highland, it was impossible for the enemy to monitor and deal with him without being very vigilant.This is probably the reason why the opponent transferred a light machine gun from the north side of the highland. His movements are swift and bold as he leaps forward again.Since there was an extra light machine gun on the mountain, Jiang Boyu did not dare to take the risk of stopping at the second shooting point and shooting—you might hit two enemy machine guns in a row, but the third machine gun would make many holes.Arriving at a new firing position before the enemy could react, his gun went off.This is a better position than the previous two shooting positions: there are two half-person-high stones in front of you, which can block the bullets fired by the enemy's three light machine guns from the southeast, south and southwest directions.Jiang Boyu looked very calm in his new shooting position. He shot and killed the enemy light machine gun shooter who had been reinforced from the ridge line, and then very calmly and quickly knocked out the other two light machine guns, and then shot again. After killing the two enemy submachine gunners one by one, he turned around and waved his hands at the second and third squads down the slope. The attacking team, which had been lying down in the rocks and grass, was obviously encouraged by the victory of the deputy company commander.Jiang Boyu first saw the leader of the second squad raised his head from behind a stone, shouted something hoarsely to the soldiers behind him excitedly, and took the lead in moving up the slope; then, the soldiers of the third squad also spread out from his left flank. Attack movement.The tactical moves that had been rehearsed repeatedly in the pre-war training were also taken out. Squads and squads, groups and groups, and people covered each other and advanced alternately.After a while, many people had crossed the height of the hillside where he was, and reached a place only about 50 meters away from the enemy's first trench.A light machine gun from the third squad also followed. The machine gunner chose a good position and beat the enemy's submachine gunners and riflemen in the first trench from time to time until they lay down and couldn't lift their heads.Jiang Boyu cheered up, but felt a pity: the shooter's hit accuracy was not high, and the shooting field was not wide enough. He jumped several times in a row, moved behind the machine gunner, and replaced the latter's light machine gun with the submachine gun in his hand. After revising the scale, his first long burst shot silenced all the enemy's firepower points at a distance of several meters in the eastern half of the first trench.This string of bullets obviously changed the fighting situation between the enemy and us in front of the first trench on the northeast slope of the highland.Previously, the second and third squads had advanced the attack line to only 50 meters away from the enemy. As soon as the enemy's gunshots stopped above, they understood what happened.Through the sight circle of the light machine gun, Jiang Boyu saw the second squad leader in the grass in front of him baring his white teeth in surprise, and immediately changed his exercise posture to running and jumping at high speed; in front of him on the left, the third squad leader also Change the original low-profile crawling into a high-profile leap forward.From the rocks and bushes in the front, back, left and right of the two of them, more and bolder fighters who did full-body exposure exercises soon "emerged", followed their squad leaders respectively, and formed two excited and active skirmishers, shouting loudly. , rushed to the first trench! Just now Jiang Boyu's heart clenched in joy and then twitched into a ball in pain.By now he had seen through the reticle of the light machine gun that the enemy had panicked from his few but effective strikes.When he was lying still, the firepower of the second and third trenches was condescendingly transferred to the north side of the highland, but now he transferred all the firepower, including the heavy machine gun on the ridgeline of the platform below the main peak, to the northeast side of the highland.He only had time to shout to the attacking team in front: "Pay attention to concealment--" The second squad leader who was running and jumping suddenly raised his hands up, and his body seemed to be cut off by someone, and he fell down slumped! It was the enemy's heavy machine gun that hit him! A wave of anger rushed to Jiang Boyu's forehead.The grief that had faded at the beginning of the battle suddenly rose from his chest and blocked his throat.The biggest threat to them right now is the heavy machine gun.This idea was immediately clear in his mind.It was it that disintegrated a platoon's most likely successful offensive, and gave the remnant enemies in the first trench a chance to breathe! He's going to kill it! He raised the muzzle of the gun, revised the scale again, and aimed at the fire-breathing muzzle in the center of the ridgeline of the platform under the main peak of the highland.At a distance of about 200 meters, he couldn't see the face of the enemy heavy machine gun shooter behind the flames, but he had worked hard to practice blurry shooting, so this was not a problem for him. "Don't worry," the voice reminded him again, and made his breathing calmer. "Da da da——" a crisp and bright short click sounded, and the flames of the enemy's heavy machine guns were extinguished immediately! The grief that blocked my throat went down.He was a little happier, and without taking a breath, he lowered his gun and fired at a light machine gun in the second trench, which also knocked him dumb.He noticed that the soldiers who had just been knocked down by the enemy's heavy machine gun jumped up from the grass and moved upward.He quickly pointed the muzzle back at the first trench, and swept a string of bullets flat along the edge of the trench without revising the scale.The two remnants of the enemy just popped their heads from the bottom of the trench, and they were suppressed by him; from the side of the ridge line, seven or eight enemies were about to rush over, but they were also scared back by his firepower.Jiang Boyu was excited: In addition to some submachine gunners and riflemen shooting in the second and third trenches, there was no enemy fire point in the first trench on the northeast side of the highland; After a light machine gun in the first trench was silenced, the enemy's firepower in this direction was weakened as a whole. The third squad leader and the second squad leader led the soldiers to quickly occupy the enemy's first trench! Fierce gunshots and shouts suddenly sounded on the west side of the ridge line, very close to the enemy's trenches. "Come on—" "Hand in your guns and don't kill—!" He judged that this was Cen Hao leading the second platoon into the enemy's first trench on the north side of the highland!Jiang Boyu was startled and blamed himself: "Aren't you too calm!... You can't let Cen Hao rush in front of me!" The last thought flashed, and he used all four limbs at the same time to stand upright from the firing position with the light machine gun in his hand. Get up, and stride forward, shouting: "Comrades, hurry up—" He forgot the enemy's heavy machine gun on the ridgeline of the platform under the main peak.Just now he killed only one shooter, but did not destroy the rest of the enemies.When he noticed a string of green smoke flying "piercingly" against the grass blades on the ground, his abdomen seemed to have been pierced several times with a red-hot steel bar.Jiang Boyu yelled "Yeah", but it was not loud, staggered forward, and threw himself on the grass. He didn't die right away.Because the enemy did not hit his vital parts.Death waited a long time to flap its black wings and come slowly, as if it was just to give him time to experience the pain before the flame of life was extinguished.After the initial fainting, the thought that clearly came to his mind was not the fear of death, but a deep annoyance. "I didn't let myself be anxious.... But I was anxious in the end." But the severe pain from below the body, like the internal organs being repeatedly seared by red-hot steel bars, interrupted his thoughts, and the ensuing violent The nausea partly suppressed the severe pain in the abdomen.Jiang Boyu spit out a lot of black and red filth one after another, his eyes glistened, his throat twitched, and his whole body was dripping with sweat.The vomiting stopped, and the severe pain came back again. It seemed that a small hand was slowly digging out in the abdominal cavity, and something was falling heavily. "Guts," he thought, waking up from yet another bout of giddiness, not surprised. "Put them back." A vague idea flashed in his mind, but when he was about to execute the command of the life center with his numb hands, the feeling of nausea and vomiting, which was worse than severe pain, surged again Throat. "...No, no need." He heard a faint voice in his heart say, and at the same time he opened his closed eyes and looked up to the high ground. No matter the excitement and excitement, pain and sorrow that he had just now, at this moment They have all been forgotten, and what remains in memory is only a little concern about the progress of the battle: Did a row of soldiers rush into the enemy's trench? ! His vision blurred for a moment, then became clear, and then a horrified expression appeared on his face.The gunshots rang out again deafeningly.This is the heavy machine gun that hit him on the ridgeline of the platform under the main peak of the highland, screaming crazily, pouring the flying bullets mercilessly at the first trench.A row of soldiers had entered the trench and were engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the remnants of the enemy, but the bullets fired by the heavy machine gun made them fall down like tree branches that were broken down the middle.Among the fallen people, he recognized the leader of the third squad and a Sichuan soldier from the second squad that he was familiar with.Under the cover of the firepower of this heavy machine gun, a group of enemies descended from the second trench to reinforce the first trench along a communication trench connecting the upper and lower trenches.Once the enemy reoccupied the first trench from the northeast side of the highland, Cen Hao, who had already rushed into the first trench on the north side of the highland with his second platoon, would be hit from the east, which would be very dangerous for him! No. Now Jiang Boyu thinks and does things slowly: he slowly affirmed the word "no" in the center of his life, and slowly pulled the light machine gun that had been thrown to the front back to his eyes; He raised his upper body and put the butt of the gun against his shoulder.The Grim Reaper had begun to show mercy at the last moment, gradually replacing the burning pain with the numbness of all parts of his body, allowing his spirit to regain his sobriety.Before Jiang Boyu's eyes, the sight circle became blurred and became clear, and became clear and blurred. Finally, it aimed at the enemy's heavy machine gun in the third trench. "Da da——" a burst of fire sounded, and the heavy machine gun went silent. "Good." he thought. Now he will finally help his comrades who entered the first trench.To help them is to help Cen Hao on the west side of the mountain ridge.His life and battle were coming to an end, and that was all he could do for his warriors and his friends.He lowered the muzzle of his gun and took aim at the group of enemies moving in the traffic trench between the second and first trenches. "Da da da——" "Da da da——" "Da da da——" He shot three short bursts in a row, both accurate and ruthless, the enemy team became chaotic, changed direction and ran back. “哒哒哒——”他又朝对方追加了一个短点射，再扣动扳机时枪却不响了。弹匣里没有子弹了。 背负着备用弹匣的副机枪射手一直没有跟上来，也许已经牺牲了。不可能再换上一个新的弹匣了。姜伯玉最后一次抬起头，朝高地北侧望去。越过那道山棱线，他看到已有一小队二排的战士顺另一条交通壕从下向上冲向第二道堑壕，而从残敌明显已被肃清的第一道堑壕里，一排——估计是二班——的一挺轻机枪和二排的另一挺轻机枪也开始向高地上方的敌人射击，掩护向上进攻的队伍。“二排还在进攻，岑浩还在指挥战斗。”他淡淡地想，握紧枪柄的手一软，头部疲倦地跌到地面上。 草丛中的一粒石子硌疼了他的脸。他觉得不舒服，便艰难地将头挪一下，放置到歪倒的枪柄上，眼睛大睁着，向着西方，再没有闭上。 一轮硕大的沉甸甸的夕阳红彤彤地低悬在西北方天子山与公母山间的峡谷里，将山坡上的每一片草地都染得通明透亮。这时姜伯玉第一次望见了战场全貌。不仅在634高地上下，而且在天子山和骑盘岭的广大地区内，战争都正激烈而缓慢地进行着。一发发炮弹慢慢地落地炸开；一团团火光慢慢地升腾，熄灭；被击中的树丛燃起一道道黑烟，慢慢地斜斜地飘向天空。但是夕阳的辉煌并没有被损害，它依然用自己凝重的光芒涂抹着大地，给战场上的山川草木连同人和炸烟厚厚地敷上一层血红的色调。“这很庄严，也很壮丽，”他断断续续地想，“……我没有想到自己会死在这样一派壮丽里。不过这样死了，也很好。” 他的最后一个意念是这场战斗已进行很长时间了。从预感到自己的死到死亡真正来临，仿佛过了好几个世纪。姜伯玉死时内心是镇静的和感动的。他明白自己无论作为一名军人还是作为一个朋友，今天的表现都是无愧的。你既然上了战场就不能再主宰自己的命运，可是这种情势下你还是可以做一点事情的。战斗仍在继续，他死得太早了，不过岑浩已经熬过战斗开始的困难阶段活了下来。说不准他真能熬过这场战争回到故乡。“……我和岑浩都是世间最好的人，不该都死在战场上。岑浩会活下去的，那样我就对得起大妹了……”他想着，泪水流了下来。 九连二排长岑浩两小时前牺牲在高地北侧距敌人第一道堑壕五十米处的一个凹坡里。姜伯玉的感觉是对的，岑浩与他在那道石缝里分手之后想到的是同一件事情。岑浩像自己的妻兄一样明白他们今天绝望的处境：一排长已经牺牲，三排又被连长派去狙击天子山方向来的敌人援兵，今天向高地攻击的任务只能由他和姜伯玉带的二排和一排来完成。由于一排在633高地西侧的冲沟里损失了一个班，岑浩还有理由认为对高地执行攻击的主要任务自然要落到自己和二排肩上。他相信姜伯玉的处境比他更危险：姜伯玉是神枪手，敌人最先消灭的就是这样的目标。姜伯玉是为了他才留到团里走上战场的，战前他在当了警卫排长后又坚决要求下九连当排长的原因也是为了陪姜伯玉上战场，一旦到了危急关头好同姜伯玉并肩战斗。岑浩尤其不能容忍自己脑海里一时闪出的另一种想法变成现实——他自己经历了这场战斗竟然没有死，极易遭受敌人重点打击的姜伯玉却牺牲了。不，那样他是无颜回乡见妻子的！ 如果他们两个人注定要一起牺牲在这座山头上，那就没什么好说了，假若只有一个人死，这个人就该是自己，他绝不能让姜伯玉死！ 自此他的生命意识就集中在最后一个念头上了。所以他才带二排赶在姜伯玉和一排之前向高地打响了进攻的第一枪，以后当姜伯玉在高地东北坡努力避开死亡，沉着而迟缓地向上展开攻击时，岑浩带二排在高地北侧进行的却是一场完全置生死于不顾的强攻。即便是在山上火力最猛烈、不断造成伤亡的情况下，他也没有允许二排的攻势减缓下来。发起攻击两小时后他就将全排的攻击队形顽强地推进到距敌第一道堑壕五十米的地方。这是一片凹坡，山势陷下去，形成了一处敌人的射击死角。岑浩直立起来，看了看上面的地形，扬起右手用力一挥，对自己身后的战士们发出了一个“快速冲击”的信号。 他的手势到半空中就僵住了。从背后击中他心脏的是一发由高地西北方鹰嘴峰山腿上飞来的子弹。他的身子一颤，并没有倒下，只是向前靠在一块巨大的直立的岩石上了；右手无力地垂下来，却恰好落到岩石上方一丛灌木的枝杈间。于是陆续从他身边冲到前面去的战士们谁也没有发现排长的死亡；而且，以后无论谁只要回过头来，都能看到他那个高扬的向上快速冲击的手势。 岑浩一直将这个手势保持了两小时，身体才瘫软下去。二排的战士们先前一直在排长这个严厉的手势下不停顿地向上攻击，由于姜伯玉和一排在高地东北侧牵制住了敌人的大部分火力，他们终于战胜高地北侧第一道堑壕内敌人的抵抗，最早进入了这道堑壕。同残敌肉搏后这个排剩下的只有一个班和一挺轻机枪，他们回头望去，看到的依然是排长那个“向上快速冲击”的严厉手势，于是这剩余的八九个人和一挺轻机枪又重新被动员起来，悲愤地呼喊着，沿高地北侧的交通壕对第二道堑壕的敌人展开了新的攻击！ 恰在此时岑浩的躯体瘫软下去。冲击中的战士回头望不见了排长的手势，又失去了姜伯玉用轻机枪对他们进行的有效的火力支援，攻势马上失去了主要的推动力，停顿下来。 高地上的敌人却利用这个机会集中火力瓦解了二排最后的攻势，并将第二道堑壕内的兵力收缩到第三道堑壕，重新部署，用全部火力猛烈打击高地东北侧进入第一道堑壕的一排残部，使这个排剩下的最后几名战士也很快失去了战斗力。于是一直卧倒在山下卵石圈中注视着山上战斗进展情况的程明意识到，占领第一道堑壕后一度出现的有利转机消失了，形势重新变得对他和九连严峻和绝望起来。程明手里只剩下一个在高地西北侧山脚下狙击天子山敌人援兵的三排，而这部分敌人目前又被来自鹰嘴峰大山腿正北方的一挺重机枪和东北方的一挺轻机枪的火力有效地遏制住了，他便做了自己认为现在唯一能做的事情：先是用小喇叭，然后又派通信员吴彬传达他的命令，让上官峰带领三排投入对高地的攻击。