Chapter 51 chapter Ten

Ge Wenyi, the leader of the eighth class, is a typical elder brother personality.At home, he is the eldest son; in the army, he became the squad leader in less than a year; he is from Cangzhou, Hebei, a land that is often reminiscent of the Peking Opera "Lin Chong's Night Run". True color, which subtly blended the spirit of chivalry and martial arts into his elder brother's consciousness.Ge Wenyi had nothing to ask for when he came to serve in the army: his father, who was an excavator in the Kailuan Coal Mine, saw his retirement age and agreed to let him take up the job as soon as he was demobilized. Therefore, his life path was clear and he had no worries. One thing is different from the other two squad leaders in the platoon; he only went to the second grade of junior high school, and his education level is not high. ——All of these make his elder brother-type character mature rapidly at the age of twenty-one.However, the leadership consciousness inherent in the elder brother-type personality, sympathy for the weak, and fighting against injustices are contrary to the order of the army life, which takes obedience as the first gist. Therefore, after serving in the army for four years, Ge Wenyi's portfolio has several routes. Seeing injustice and drawing swords to help each other leads to disciplinary decisions.During the expansion period before the war, the old company was cleared out, and it was transferred to the newly formed third battalion and ninth company.

Ge Wenyi was silent for a while in the new company.On the one hand, he has to gradually become familiar with the surrounding environment; secondly, his self-esteem has been bruised by this transfer.Like everyone else, he believed that anyone who had "reinforced" from his unit before the war had "problems," and he was deeply ashamed to be among them.But his unusually active disposition prevented him from being silent for long.He must play the new role of guardian, hating someone, sympathizing with and helping others.Ge Wenyi quickly hated the company commander and instructor, and his feelings for the platoon leader were more complicated—he began to feel uncomfortable with a seventeen-year-old man as his leader, and often deliberately placed a little in front of Shangguanfeng. The veteran is airy, but when he realizes that the platoon leader is actually like an ignorant boy who was "bullied" by the company commander's instructor on the way to the battlefield, all he has in his heart is sympathy and a strong sense of protection.

Therefore, on the last night before the war, after the whole battalion arrived at Heifengjian, he took the initiative to drag Li Le, the squad leader of the ninth squad, to find Shangguan Peak in front of Maoerdong, and made a brave and fearless confession to everyone. The platoon leader, who was not so confident and capable, was "gasped" like a little brother.His confession was accepted by Shangguanfeng. From this moment on, his sense of the role of leader and protector, which had been suppressed since he arrived in the new company, was fully restored. He was enthusiastic, healthy, and full of vitality in spirit and character. up.

However, after a blocking battle in the afternoon, especially after the last attack on the high ground began, Ge Wenyi realized that his estimate of Shangguanfeng was wrong, even though the platoon leader choked up loudly after the blocking battle, But whether it's the bravery shown in the battle, or the words and deeds in the process of directing the whole platoon to carry out the last attack, he found that Shangguan Feng is not as weak as he imagined, on the contrary, he is stronger and more powerful than his appearance. people.Ge Wenyi's latest conclusion is: without him by his side, the platoon leader can lead the platoon well!

His role consciousness in front of Shangguanfeng changed unconsciously.In the past, what he thought was to assist or even replace the platoon leader in commanding the platoon as a protector, but now he automatically lowered himself to the position of the squad leader under the command of the platoon leader.Since his zest for life and elder brother-type character could not stop him from helping others, he made himself an important strategist beside the platoon leader without being obvious.After the start of the last attack, he has put forward three suggestions to Shangguanfeng: one is to sneak up on the rain fissure on the northwest side of the highland; After the soldiers attacked the high ground in two ways, he suggested to change the "two ways simultaneously" into "strike the east and attack the west", and took the initiative to take the task of leading the eighth squadron of "sound east".To his great satisfaction, not only were the above three suggestions accepted by the platoon leader, but the first two were immediately implemented, and the third was about to be implemented.At this moment, his view of Shangguanfeng has completely changed: he believes that he is smart, and Shangguanfeng can accept his suggestion, which not only shows that the platoon leader is also smart, but also shows that he respects himself beyond ordinary people.At this time, Ge Wenyi's heart was full of respect for Shangguan Feng, not just respect, but also a family like flesh and blood.Of course he understood the deeper meaning of what the platoon leader said to the whole platoon just now. Ge Wenyi thought excitedly at this moment: It was the war that brought him and two strangers like Shangguanfeng together. It is very likely that they died in the last attack on Heights 634, so they are no longer ordinary comrades in arms, but brothers who share life and death.Shangguanfeng agreed to take the eighth squad to carry out the mission of "Shengdong", which gave Ge Wenyi another kind of exciting emotion: the traffic trench on the east side of the north slope of the highland is directly under the heavy machine gun in the middle of the third trench. It is very unrealistic for them to enter the traffic trench and start the fire first, and then try to rush out from the enemy's firepower network-such a situation with little hope of survival and heavy responsibility (otherwise it is not enough to cover the main force of the platoon from the traffic trench on the west side). If the platoon leader does not entrust him with the task of jumping from the ground to the enemy's third trench), who can he entrust it to? !

... It was getting dark. It went dark suddenly.Just as the last few fiery red clouds floating high in the western sky dimmed, the dark and chaotic shadows of night rushed over all over the mountains and plains. As if hearing a silent order, Shangguanfeng stood up from the chasm with a "huo". Ge Wenyi and Class 9 Li Le also stood up. Realizing that the moment of the final attack is approaching, the entire platoon of soldiers also stood up. Out of breath, a black figure came up from the bottom of the mountain along the chasm. It was Wu Bin, the company correspondent. "Third...third platoon commander, the company commander asked me...why you didn't launch an attack!...The company commander asked me to convey his original words, 'Whoever shrinks back and flees in battle, he must execute Battlefield discipline!...'"

The company commander saw them staying in this chasm for a while, so he didn't trust them anymore!Shangguanfeng thought.A cloud of anger surged up in his heart. "Go back and tell the company commander that we will launch an attack now!" He said to Wu Bin in a forbearing and stiff tone, without concealing his disgust for the man who gave orders down the mountain.He wanted to explain why the whole platoon was delayed in this chasm, but suddenly thought of the attack that was about to start, and he was unwilling to say anything. No need! Ge Wenyi led the Eighth Squad into the second trench. He left Wu Bin and hurried to the front of the Eighth Squad.

Above the plateau, enemy fire was again intensified, apparently by nightfall.The chaotic bullets drew countless bright bullet trails, weaving a firepower net covering the entire north and northeast slopes of the highland. "Platoon leader, we're going!" Ge Wenyi yelled in a low voice beside him, then waved his hands violently behind him, arched his back, jumped over the ridge line first, and walked quickly along the trench to the east. He was a little impatient.As soon as he left the platoon leader, such a thought came to Ge Wenyi's mind.It was the company commander's words conveyed by Wu Bin just now that made him suddenly irritable.In Cheng Ming's words, there is a kind of suspicion towards the platoon leader and their team, which also includes suspicion towards him; Feng's distrust made him more uncomfortable than his distrust.What's more, the reason why the company commander sent Wu Bin up the mountain was the suggestion he made to the platoon leader before dark. brought about an unpleasant experience.He had to take the eighth squad into action immediately, let Wu Bin see it with his own eyes, and then go back and tell the company commander whether all the surviving people in their platoon—from the platoon leader to the soldiers—had any cowards who fled the battle.

But before starting to act, you should explain some very important things you thought of to the platoon leader.Now he thought as he ran across the trench.The most important thing is to let the platoon leader know that he and Squad 8's action is a feint attack, and that the platoon leader's own Squad 7 and Squad 9 will carry out the main attack mission. Act rashly and expose yourself to the enemy prematurely! It was too late to turn back and tell the platoon leader.He couldn't and didn't want to stop the attack in progress. "A person as smart as the platoon leader will think of this matter." He comforted himself in this way, and stopped thinking about it.

His attention had been drawn to the point of enemy fire above the high ground.He himself led the remaining seven men of the squad under the fan of light machine gun fire at the western end of the third trench.The enemy's ballistic trajectory was very low, and a string of bullets dragged their red tails and landed on the ditch cliffs on both sides of the second trench, screaming and drilling into the soil.Ge Wenyi threw himself to the bottom of the ditch suddenly, feeling his heart stuck in his throat. "Pass backward, crawl forward!" He issued an order to the back, stabilized his mind, and led the whole squad to continue moving forward at the bottom of the trench covered by the enemy's firepower net.

Twenty minutes later, he had brought the Eighth Squad into the center of the area covered by the enemy's firepower network.For this reason, he is mentally ready to go into battle at any time.What surprised him was that until they finally approached the traffic trench leading to the third trench on the east side of the north slope of the highland, the enemy hadn't found them yet! He raised his head slightly under the edge of the ditch, and looked towards the enemy position fifty meters above.He saw the heavy machine gun that spewed out a ball of dazzling fireballs from the muzzle. It was located on the machine gun position two meters to the left from the top of the traffic trench, and it was clearly extinguished; on the right was the one he had seen before setting off. Light machine guns: On both sides of the light machine guns and heavy machine guns, there are more than a dozen submachine guns and automatic rifle fire points scattered. Together with the light and heavy machine guns, they constitute the area with the most intensive firepower in the third trench.He was overjoyed: it was the deafening echoes caused by the enemy's dense shooting in the mountains that drowned out the sound they made when they were moving in the second trench, and the flickering flames of the enemy's muzzles dazzled the shooters themselves. eyes, concealing their whereabouts under each other's noses! Here's an opportunity to take advantage of!Looking at the traffic trench leading to the enemy's position in front of me—half of it is shrouded in night, and it is illuminated by strings of tracer bullets from time to time; half of it is illuminated by the flames from the enemy's muzzle—— Ge Wenyi noticed that his heart was beating fast and anxiously!You should touch it while the enemy is not aware of it, and suddenly appear on the enemy's position, hit him in the center and bloom, and be caught off guard!he thinks.Immediately, I felt sorry again: there was only less than one squad behind him, and even if he could rush to the enemy's position, it was not enough to completely subdue the enemy in a melee! His mind calmed down slightly.Now he thinks, the battle plan of "striking east and attacking west" that was mostly conceived by him just now is not impeccable.Had he known that this kind of opportunity would arise, he should have asked the platoon leader to bring the Seventh and Ninth Squads over, concentrate his forces to carry out a violent assault on the enemy's position from the center, and ensure that they will land on the enemy's position in one fell swoop and cut the enemy in half. Then the soldiers split into two groups and spread firepower to the left and right to clear out the remnants of the enemy who could not look at each other from head to tail, or at least drive them all out of the third trench - even if the latter situation occurs, the situation on the high ground will undergo a fundamental change ! One should be sent back and asked the platoon leader to bring all the seventh and ninth squads over!As soon as this determination was formed in his mind, what he was worried about just now happened! From the lower end of the traffic trench to the west, a series of gunshots suddenly sounded loud and clear! "Da da da da da——" the enemy on the mountain froze for a moment at first, but immediately came to his senses. With horrified shouts, almost all the muzzles of the guns turned towards the place where the gun was fired.In an instant, the traffic trenches and trenches where Squad Seven and Squad Nine were located were covered by a fire net that destroyed everything! Ge Wenyi's heart sank suddenly! If the enemy is allowed to concentrate their firepower and continue to fight, it won't take long for the seventh and ninth squads to lose their combat effectiveness, but they are the main force to carry out this attack! The platoon leader and the others were exposed before the eighth squad started!He was responsible, he should have made it clear to the platoon leader before the operation started, but he didn't do that! The platoon leader and Class Seven and Class Nine must be rescued from desperation as soon as possible!For this reason, he and Squad Eight must launch an attack immediately to attract the enemy's firepower to their side! All these thoughts rushed out of his mind for a brief moment.He didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately issued an attack order to the whole class: "Deputy squad leader with machine gun cover! The others follow me—" When he uttered the last sentence, he jumped up and ran towards the traffic trench in front of him.He didn't crawl forward, he just stooped a little while running.Fortunately, he was still with him during the first part of the journey: the enemy on the mountain only shot at the attackers found on the northwest slope, and failed to immediately notice this small team coming up from the east, so that he could climb the mountain in less than ten minutes. After completing two-thirds of the steep slope, move to a place seven or eight meters away from the muzzle of the enemy's light and heavy machine guns. According to his original plan, he wanted to lead the soldiers behind him all the way to the enemy's position.The reason why he had to stop was that the enemy blocked the exit of the communication trench with many empty ammunition boxes when he retracted from the second trench, preventing him from rushing into the enemy's third trench in one go.And because there are light and heavy machine guns of the enemy firing fiercely on both sides of the blocked traffic trench exit, no matter which side he wants to rush up from, he must first destroy one of the machine guns! Without thinking about it, he chose the enemy's heavy machine gun as the target of his first attack, because it was the most threatening target to the platoon leader and the seventh and ninth squads at the moment.Ge Wenyi did not forget the light machine gun on the upper right of the traffic trench.First, he calmly leaned his body against the wall on the east side of the traffic trench, took out two grenades with the cover removed from behind, roughly estimated the distance with his eyes, and at the same time pulled the fuse, and threw them at the gun behind the heavy machine gun. The enemy went into the trench, and then quickly threw two grenades at the enemy light machine gun position at the upper right.The grenade thrown at the enemy's heavy machine gun position had just exploded, and he had already rolled out of the traffic trench, jumped up on the slope below the enemy's heavy machine gun position, and rushed upwards quickly, and the submachine gun on his chest also "dat da da" at the enemy. Fan-shaped strafing past the position! The enemy's two light and heavy machine guns went silent before he boarded the enemy's trench, and the seven or eight rifle and submachine gun fire points close to the light and heavy machine guns also stopped firing in panic during his subsequent close-in shooting.When he jumped onto the enemy's trench in three steps and two steps, Ge Wenyi looked back subconsciously, and found that the only four soldiers behind him were also rushing up.The submachine gun on his chest never stopped firing, and he saw with his own eyes that three or four enemies who were lying on the edge of the trench on the east side of the enemy's heavy machine gun dropped their guns and stood up, and then stepped forward. Fall backwards!He was about to turn the muzzle of his gun to the trench on the west side - he finally didn't turn around, and suddenly, his left chest was hit hard by repeated bullets again and again! What hit him was an enemy who he thought had been knocked down by him just now, but was not knocked down, but just fell in panic.As soon as Ge Wenyi turned his gun, he got up, and in a panic, shot all the remaining dozen bullets in the submachine gun magazine on Ge Wenyi's chest! The great pain was felt in an instant afterwards.Ge Wenyi's whole body convulsed, and he fell face up on the grassy slope in front of the enemy's trench! Until the last moment of his life, Ge Wenyi never really believed that he would die.When the platoon began to attack before dark, a thought of death had crossed his mind, and he had chased him away.Of course he understood that what they carried out was the last attack of the entire company today, and the chance of success could be said to be very slim, but deep down in his heart, it was still impossible for him to admit that his young life would perish with this attack.He believed in something handed down by the veterans of the last war: death eludes you in war, so long as you don't dwell on it.But he was sacrificed, and the heroic attack of the eighth squad led by him was not successful: as he fell, the speed of the four soldiers charging behind him was also affected, and a few shouted indiscriminately from the east of the trench. The enemy running over filled the defensive position that was almost broken by them.Several submachine guns fired together, and in less than a minute, all four soldiers fell on the hillside not far from the enemy's trench.But as far as this battle is concerned, the role they can play has already been played: the sudden attack of the eighth squad knocked out the enemy's heavy machine gun and a light machine gun, making its position lose the most important supporting force and greatly slowing down the enemy's progress. The 7th and 9th Squads located under the northwest side slope were under devastating pressure; their attack also caused confusion in the enemy in the third trench. Ten meters away, the attacker left behind a light machine gun in the second trench.Before the enemy settled down, the light machine gun fired with grief and indignation, and the first string of bullets knocked down several enemies who were trying to control the heavy machine gun again! Therefore, after Ge Wenyi's heroic assault with the Eighth Squad failed, it was mainly because the light machine gun was put into battle that the enemy in the third trench was cut off from the middle, and the heavy machine gun that threatened the attacker the most did not sound again. As soon as it started, it became the enemy's confidant, making him have to concentrate most of the firepower that was divided into two sections, and pour it over!