Chapter 50 Chapter nine

Nine company correspondent Wu Bin was ordered by Cheng Ming to avoid the rain of bullets flying down from the high ground, and crawled forward to the third row of sniper positions on the northwest side of the high ground. Take care of the ongoing battles up and down the Highlands. Everything that can be seen in this world—the sky, the peaks, the valleys, the forests, the dark red sunset in the northwest that sank to the bottom of the Dashan Gorge between Qipanling and Tianzishan—is still shrouded in the flames and smoke of war. It was tingling, tingling, but not only had he gotten used to them since the battle not long ago, but it didn't feel scary at all.His life had passed all barriers, including those of life and death, into a state of simplicity and excitement.In his consciousness, from the bottom of all the war sounds, an emotional symphony has been echoed. The melody is heavy, tragic but magnificent, and the wordless singing floating above the main theme is kind, melodious and bright.The former is a true description of the war scene, and the latter is a song for the living and dead in the war.It was in this solemn singing that he re-understood what happened up and down the highland: Although the enemy's high-level and flat-purpose machine guns on Yingzui Peak kept hitting a heavy machine gun on the southern leg of 631 highland with fierce firepower, the latter did not. Together with a light machine gun at the waist on the southwest side of the main peak of 633 Highland, it is still carrying out effective strikes against the enemy on the opposite side of the gully.Obviously, the combat effectiveness of the enemy on the other side of the ditch has been crushed. As long as our army's heavy machine gun continues to scream, it will be impossible for the enemy to cross the ditch, so he doesn't really care about them ; and above the high ground, the battle was far from over.Through the smoke and dust that filled the north and northeast slopes, he could see that the fighting was still going on between the first and third trenches.The first and second platoons had captured the first trench, and the enemy's forces and firearms were all shrunk into the third and last trench.However, the current situation of the enemy and us is different.The enemy's firepower above the high ground was still intensive and fierce. A heavy machine gun and another light machine gun located in the middle of the third trench rained down bullets like a wind. Their firepower not only covered the entire northern slope of the high ground and Dongpo also condescendingly controlled the depression at the bottom of the slope and the cliff at the southern end of the 633 highland, preventing the eighth company's firepower from going south from the main peak to the edge of the cliff, posing a new threat to them.There are also two light machine guns at the east and west ends of the third trench screaming frantically, and their killing targets are very concentrated, that is, the first and second rows of the first trench have been occupied.Intermingled with these light and heavy machine gun fires are a large number of automatic rifles and submachine gun fire points—the huge shadow of the peaks of Tianzi Mountain cast obliquely from the northwest to the top of the highland, blocking the remaining light of the setting sun, and clearly showing the trenches. Tongues of flame along the muzzle of the enemy's guns are revealed.But in the first trench, he didn't see one row and two rows organizing the attack again.His heart trembled: Judging from the fact that the enemy can shoot down without interference, the strength of the first and second rows is clearly exhausted!

The heights are still in enemy hands! At present, their platoon is the only force left in the company! The enemies above the high ground have also suffered heavy blows, but compared with them, they still have a clear advantage in terms of strength, firearms, and terrain! Before dark, the whole company will have the last attack, or take down the 634 highland, or be completely destroyed in the attack.It is impossible not to have this attack, because the combat mission has not been completed! It is absurd to hope for final victory.The consolation is that they can pass this last attack and prove to others that although they have failed, they have fulfilled their military duties to the letter!

He had vanquished death this afternoon in a bloody siege, but he could not hope to vanquish it in a final attack before dark! ... All these ideas came to him in a simple, intuitive way, not clear or coherent, but when they came he understood them. When Wu Bin crawled in front of him panting, before he even opened his mouth, he understood what order the other party gave him. "Third...third platoon commander, the company commander asked you to take over from the first and second platoons to attack... the high ground!" Wu Bin said out of breath. "Understood!" He simply replied and sent Wu Bin away.The company commander's correspondent noticed at this moment that the expression on his face was extremely fierce, and his eyes were cold.Then, as if he had forgotten the threat of the enemy that still existed on the west side of the gully, he simply stood up from behind the pebbles where he was hiding, and slowly scanned the entire platoon behind the sniper position with the terrifying gaze from above, and issued an order:

"Attention all platoons—follow me to the high ground! Class 8 is in front, Class 9 is behind, Class 7 is following me—" It was not that he didn't know that the remnants of the enemy on the west side of the gully could easily kill him, but in a new state of mind that had no mercy for himself or others, he no longer cared about this matter.Even the sadness that had surged in his chest just now turned into a part of the new fearlessness and strength in his life, making this boy standing in the afterglow of the setting sun possess the so-called mourning soldier in the art of war. All kinds of characteristics: grief and fierce emotions, determination to break the boat, eager desire to fight, expression of seeing death as home, and so on.The war simplifies the cumbersome content of life, leaving only one thing in his mind: lead the whole platoon to the 634 Heights for the last attack.This is your duty and your final destiny!

They did not follow the route of the first and second platoons, and carried out a frontal attack from the north and northeast sides of the highland, but followed a bottom-up rain fissure on the northwest side of the highland, avoiding the congregation on the platform under the main peak. At the attention of the enemies in the three trenches, they stooped quietly to touch it.This rain fissure was first discovered by Ge Wenyi, the leader of the eighth squadron. Its lowest end was half hidden in the middle of the pebble belt they used to attack the enemy on the west side of the gully. It was half a person deep and about five feet wide. with lush bushes and wormwood.As soon as Shangguanfeng gave the order to the whole platoon to attack the high ground, Ge Wenyi bent down and ran over, pointed to the rain gap, and said his suggestion:

"Platoon leader, we'd better not fight recklessly! I counted, and there are about 30 enemies on the high ground, but we only have 18 people left. We can't fight recklessly!... We should get out of this chasm." Touch it, play it by ear, it is best to touch the enemy's top trench all the way, and catch him by surprise!" Shangguanfeng saw the Yurigou and immediately understood Ge Wenyi's suggestion.He hadn't paid attention to Ge Wenyi after entering the blocking battle. At this moment, he saw the blood-stained bandage on the head of the eighth squad leader, and his military uniform was torn into pieces, but his eyes were still as bright as they were in Heifengjian in the morning. The resolute and heroic expression of the face showed that despite the battle just now, the firmness and passion of the heart were not damaged.Having such a squad leader join him in the last attack of his life, Shangguanfeng felt a simple kind of excitement in his heart.

"Okay, do as you say! Eighth squad leader, act!" He replied briefly.As soon as the words were spoken, a string of bullets shot from the legs of Yingzui Peak, flew ten centimeters away from his eyes, and hit the rocks with a "crackling" sound! "Hmph, the marksmanship is inaccurate!" A contemptuous thought flitted through Shangguanfeng's mind, he ducked down slowly, dodging another string of bullets that flew later, led the seventh squad, and followed Ge Wenyi's eighth squad into the The rain fissure.When the entire platoon withdrew from the sniper position and slanted up the northwest hillside along the rain fissure, Shangguanfeng looked back at his team.This was the first time he observed his team seriously after entering the battle today.After a four-hour long-distance raid in the morning and a fierce battle in the afternoon, and because he had eaten a few pieces of dry food in Heifengjian in the morning and hadn't eaten anything, it has become a hungry, exhausted, bruised and bruised army. team.In the increasingly strong mountain wind, the soldiers climbed up numbly, mechanically, and staggeringly, and the ragged military uniforms fluttered one by one.Shangguan Feng's eyes slid over the familiar faces that became unfamiliar at this time. He recognized Li Le who was frowning and pursing his lips angrily as if for some reason; Qin Erbao, deputy of the eighth class who went to the ninth class, was the most showy and talkative person on weekdays. Today, his face was pale, his eyes were dull, and he was gasping for breath, as if he had to exert all his strength every time he took a step up.Influenced by his simple, excited and intense state of mind, Shangguanfeng felt that this team was tormented by hunger, exhaustion, and pain to be lifeless.The team full of despair because they knew that they were carrying out the last attack was actually a team like him who had no fear of death and only had the determination to fight the enemy to the death!

These two lines of poetry somehow came out of my heart.For a while, another ancient and desolate poem flashed in my mind: Now, from the end of the team, he recognized Zhao Guangming, a new soldier from Class 9 who asked him to be transferred last night, and his twin brother Zhao Guangming.Realizing that the eyes of the two people were evasive, and they were getting farther and farther away from the team, anger quickly rose from Shangguan Feng's heart. "Squad Leader Ninth, order the tail to follow, don't pull too far!" He sternly shouted at Li Le, and stood still, seeing with his own eyes that Li Le repeated his order to the Zhao brothers, letting them follow the team , before moving on.

Because of the cover of this Yurigou and the ridge line on the east side of Yurigou that separates the north and northwest slopes of the highland, the enemy in the third trench above the platform under the main peak has not found them.In less than twenty minutes, they climbed to the intersection of the chasm and the east-west extension of the second trench.The ditches and trenches were interrupted here, and the hillsides up and to the west were all minefields, and a mine tripwire half-hidden in the grass was clearly visible.Shangguanfeng realized that his and Ge Wenyi's plan to follow the chasm all the way up to the enemy's third trench had failed.Right now, there is only one route left to attack the enemy above the high ground, and that is to move eastward along the second trench, and launch a frontal attack upwards under the third trench!

The team has automatically stopped in the last section of the chasm.The soldiers crouched under the ditch cliff, looking at him nervously, waiting for the next order of action.Shangguanfeng called Ge Wenyi and Li Le to his side, turned eastward from the crevasse into the second trench, and lay down on the ridge line that separated the north and northwest slopes of the plateau, closely observing the enemy's third enemy 50 meters above. The movement of the trenches.If it was said that when they climbed up from the bottom of the mountain, people in the first trench occupied by one row and two rows sporadically shot at the enemies in the third trench, but now there is no such sporadic resistance there.The enemy probably also felt that the attack power of our army at the bottom of the mountain was exhausted, and the riflemen and submachine gunners stopped firing. Only the heavy machine gun in the middle of the third trench and the two light machine guns at the east and west ends were not out of need but out of fear. Bullets are still pouring down the mountain and the 633 highland in the north without stopping.

Once the whole platoon has jumped over the ridge line in front of it and moved eastward through the second trench, it is impossible to hope not to be discovered by the enemy.At that time, the enemy will turn all the firepower, condescendingly, and wipe out the last attacking team at close range! Only by crossing the 50-meter distance between the second and third trenches before the battle started, rushing into the third trench, and meeting the enemy hand-to-hand, may they have the possibility of finally winning the 634 Heights in a melee.To cross this distance, you must first move eastward along the second trench to go directly under the enemy on the northern slope of the high ground. There are two communication trenches on the left and one right connecting the second and third trenches. They can divide their troops into two groups. Road, follow the two traffic trenches about 40 meters apart and move up to the third trench.The problem is that the enemy will never watch them move eastward through the second trench to their front, and then move along the two traffic trenches to their front! "Platoon leader, we can't launch an attack now!" Ge Wenyi, who had been silently observing the enemy's situation and the terrain, turned around and said, "We should wait until it gets dark before we start our action. Bigger!" Ge Wenyi's suggestion was undoubtedly correct.Shangguanfeng thought.But before finalizing the battle plan, he still looked back at Li Le, the ninth squad leader beside him.Ever since entering the blocking battle in the afternoon, especially when the whole platoon started attacking above the high ground 20 minutes ago, what Li Le gave him was a vague feeling of displeasure. "Squad Leader Ninth, what's your opinion?" He asked Li Le, his voice raised. "I...I agree with the eighth squad leader's opinion." Li Le said with a little unnatural expression, hesitating for a while.Shangguan Feng didn't take his gaze away from his face right away, so he realized that after saying the above sentence, Li Le's face appeared on his face as if he was angry for something he had seen on the way up the mountain. Eyes hardened, lips pursed. "Okay, let's wait until it gets dark. The specific plan is: divide the troops into two groups, follow this trench all the way to the east, touch the traffic trench on the east, and attack the third trench. The other route follows the first trench. All the way, stop at the traffic trench on the west side, and attack upwards!" His eyes scanned the faces of the two squad leaders in turn, and he made up his mind decisively, "... What do you two have to say?!" "I want to take the eighth squad Do the first route." Ge Wenyi said, his face flushed slightly because of the excitement in his heart, "In order to ensure that at least one of the two offensive teams can rush into the enemy's trench, I suggest a division of labor. . . . I mean we give The enemy came to "strike the east and attack the west". I led the eighth squad to attract the enemy's attention from the east as much as possible, and the platoon leader and the ninth squad led the seven and nine squads to sneak up from the enemy's traffic trenches in the west!" Being the first route is undoubtedly the most dangerous Yes, Shangguan Feng's heart was slightly excited.But he is the supreme commander of this offensive team, and he cannot compete with Ge Wenyi for the job that is likely to be the first to die.He accidentally glanced at Li Le, who seemed to want to say something, but finally didn't say anything. "Okay, that's it. Everyone go back and get ready!" He didn't care whether Li Le had the courage of Ge Wenyi.The battle preparation meeting before the attack of the whole platoon is over.The three returned to the crevasse, Ge Wenyi returned to the eighth squad, Li Le returned to the ninth squad, and Shangguanfeng returned to the seventh squad led by him. "Brothers, get ready for battle before dark! Put new magazines on submachine guns and rifles, and open all the grenade covers! If you want to eat dry food, hurry up and eat some dry food, drink some water, and act as soon as it gets dark!" He didn't Say more, just pick up the most necessary words and say it loudly to the seventh squad and all the soldiers in the platoon. He knew that the deeper meaning of his words was immediately understood by the soldiers.No one said anything, and no one showed excitement or other emotions, and no one ate dry food or drank a sip of water. Everyone just followed his instructions to change the magazines of their submachine guns and rifles, and put the caps on the grenades. It was opened, revealing the white ropes with fire rings.Then, all the submachine guns and rifles that had not opened their bayonets opened their bayonets with a "snap". The sun had sunk completely.A few fiery red clouds are still floating in the sky where the towering peaks of Tianzi Mountain have not faded for a long time.They prolong this evening so long, it seems that the night will never come again.Shangguan Feng packed up his submachine gun and grenades, sat down with his back against the crevice, and inadvertently browsed the world illuminated by the afterglow of the setting sun.He saw the sky, clouds, mountains, valleys, forests, streams, and vaguely, he also saw cities and villages; he felt that he should think about something last, such as the poems that once came to his mind on the way up the mountain, but A simple thought of hunger appeared on the surface of consciousness, and the urge to think about it disappeared.He took out a pack of compressed dry food from the bag he was carrying, mechanically peeled off the moisture-proof plastic paper, and gnawed on it.At this moment, his heart was extremely clean, spacious, and peaceful.