The rest ended that night. It was said that it was a two-day rest, but not only did the fighting occur during the rest period, but strictly speaking, there were only two days before and after.

What I didn't know was that our rest time was supposed to be until the early morning of the next day, but because of the tight fighting ahead, we had no choice but to pull our troops up in advance.

"Company Commander!" On the march, I ran a few steps to catch up with Company Commander Luo and asked, "What's the mission tonight?"

I used to be a small soldier and didn't care about anything, but now I'm a platoon leader with more than thirty soldiers under my command, so I feel like I should also know something about the situation.

"Reconnaissance!" Captain Luo simply replied with two words.

"Reconnaissance?" I had an opinion when Captain Luo said this: "Company Commander, is it too dangerous to conduct reconnaissance at night? What is our route? What is the enemy's situation? What if we encounter a Japanese agent and pretend to be

How do we, the People's Liberation Army, identify..."

"Oh! Why do you ask so many questions? Just go your way!" Captain Luo didn't answer anything. It seemed that he was not in a good mood.

I later learned that in fact, Company Commander Luo had raised these questions at the operational meeting, but no one answered them. Only the battalion commander said: "You, Luo Xianwen, talk a lot, and I asked you to be a reconnaissance company.

Let’s keep track of the situation while fighting!”

This arrangement by the superiors actually makes sense. The reason is... As mentioned before, the personnel management of the army is not strict. Soldiers who are lagging behind in other units can just report their numbers and names to join the battle. So naturally, there will be

Many Chinese-speaking Vietnamese agents were inserted into our army...

Therefore, if you tell the grassroots troops about the march route and strategic goals too early at this time, you are actually telling the Vietnamese army.

So we are faced with a very strange battle. We don't know the enemy's location, we don't know whether our friends and neighbors are enemies or friends, and we don't even know what task we want to complete... We only know that the order is four words.

:Move forward!

I didn't like this feeling of being dishonest, so I took out a map that had just been given to me from my backpack and called Chen Yiyi over.

The two people found a place to hide under a tree on the side of the road, and then used flashlights covered with black cloth.

The purpose of this was to prevent the flashlight from exposing the entire troop, or exposing oneself to the muzzle of a Vietnamese sniper.

Fighting in a hellish place like Vietnam, a slight negligence may cost you your life.

"Look for it!" With the faint light of the flashlight, I said to Chen Yiyi: "Where are we now and what is ahead..."

Chen Yiyi couldn’t understand it after looking at it for a long time. At first, I thought she couldn’t understand the map, until she frowned and said, “Isn’t this map wrong... This road obviously leads to Sabah, how could Meng be drawn on it?

Kang went...and here, this should be the Red River, and there is no such thing in this mountain..."

"Uh!" Then I remembered what the old man said: "When our troops entered Vietnam, the maps we used were drawn during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Vietnam. They were old things more than ten years ago, and

Seriously distorted, many troops could not find the ground..."

Damn it, isn’t this map the same as not?

How can we fight this battle if we don’t know anything?

Suddenly, I felt like a blind man riding a blind horse.

But the battlefield is often like this. It doesn't mean that I can't fight if I can't fight. The orders from superiors are there... Even if we don't want to, we have to move forward.

"Platoon leader!" After walking in the dark for more than half an hour, Chen Yiyi caught up and reminded: "There is a checkpoint ahead. The Vietnamese call it Guimen Pass. The road passes through the middle of the highlands, and there are many grass and trees.

It's very suitable for an ambush, look... should we send someone to do some reconnaissance?"

I immediately reported this situation to Company Commander Luo, who immediately ordered the troops to stop. After understanding the general terrain, he convened several platoon commanders for a short meeting. It was decided that two platoons should be along both sides of the road.

Advance along the ridge, one platoon walking along the road, and one squad in front.

This decision is of course correct. If the main force is dispersed to the left and right, once an ambush breaks out in front, our army will undoubtedly directly threaten the enemy's two flanks.

But just when we were about to move forward as planned, the correspondent ran up in a hurry: "Company commander, the phone number of the regiment! It's the chief of staff..."

"Where are you?" A series of questions came over the phone.

Company Commander Luo searched for a long time on the map before he vaguely mentioned a location. In fact, Company Commander Luo was not sure whether it was accurate because the map itself was inaccurate...

"What are you doing!" The voice on the phone was full of anger: "It took more than two hours to walk five kilometers? Speed ​​up right away!"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the company commander, and at the same time, I felt sorry for ourselves. Some cadres know how to use a ruler to measure in the office. Not to mention that the map is not accurate. The distance measured with a ruler is also a straight line distance...

...let him try walking around in the dark on the winding roads in Vietnam?

"Chief of Staff..." Company Commander Luo became a little anxious: "We estimate that there is an enemy ambush in front of us, and we plan to advance through reconnaissance..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" The other side of the microphone interrupted the company commander: "Gather the troops immediately and run forward!"

"Yes!" Captain Luo responded helplessly and hung up the phone.

After being stunned for a long time, he murmured something: "It's so dark... gathering the troops and running forward, isn't this a reminder?"

But the military orders are like mountains, and we don’t know what the superiors’ arrangements are, and we don’t know whether not executing the orders will disrupt the superiors’ overall plan, so we can only execute them.

Perhaps the superiors ordered us to gather our troops and run forward because they knew there was no danger ahead.

We can only comfort ourselves in this way.

As I grabbed the gun and followed the troops forward, I tried my best to push the things out of my head... I hoped to find something the old man had said about this battle. But after thinking about it, there was nothing about this battle.

At this time, I couldn't help but regret a little. It would have been better if I had listened to the old man's stories more! In the past, I was always tired of what he said. According to what I said...it has been so many years, and it still doesn't matter.

What's the point of talking about it? A hero shouldn't mention his bravery in the past. I don't care how good you were in fighting before, but the person standing in front of me now is just a blind old man.

Now that I think about it, the words the old man said are almost his summary of combat experience. Almost every word can save my life!

However, not every sentence is useful because the battlefield situation changes too quickly.

For example, last time, the old man clearly said that our artillery battalion would be attacked by Vietnamese Japanese, and I remember it clearly.

but……

I didn't even know what was coming to the artillery battalion before I started firing, so even if I remembered, it wouldn't be of any use.

"Platoon leader!" Just when I was thinking wildly, Chen Yiyi poked me with the butt of his gun: "It's just ahead..."

Following Chen Yiyi's gaze, she looked around the corner. Under the blurry starlight, there was indeed a highland dozens of meters high. Because it was not high, the road was dug from the mountain col in the middle of the highland... That road

The two sides are like knives. If you get there and are ambushed, you will only get beaten. But the enemy seems to just throw grenades in there... without even showing your face. No wonder it is called the Gate of Hell.

Already.

Seeing this terrain, I couldn't help but frown, immediately stopped the troops, and said to the company commander: "Company commander, look, is it too dangerous for us to go up like this?"

"What can you do?" The company commander came up with a sad look on his face. He gestured to the soldiers behind him to stop advancing, then spread out the map in his hand and pointed to a high ground and said: "Look, the superior orders

We must reach Highland 239 within three hours. More than two hours have passed now, and we are still seven or eight kilometers away from our destination..."

Only then did I know that our target was Highland 239.

"Then..." I said hesitantly: "Then if you want to complete the mission, you can't die like this!"

"Are you sure there are Japanese ambush ahead?"

"uncertain!"

"Then why do you want to die?"

So I lost my voice.

In fact, there should be one principle on the battlefield: be careful to use the Wannian Ship. Even if there is only suspicion, it should be inspected and prepared. This is exactly the opposite of the law, which is to ensure that there is no doubt of the crime.

, when we fight, we must be suspicious of the crime.

It's not that Captain Luo didn't know this truth, but he was under orders from his superiors, so he had no choice but to take a chance.

But I was still unwilling to give in, mainly for the sake of my own life, so I plucked up the courage again and said: "Company commander, why don't we try the enemy? It doesn't take much time anyway!"

"Hmm!" Captain Luo thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "You mean...fire reconnaissance!"

"Yes! It's fire reconnaissance..."

In fact, I didn't know what fire reconnaissance was before this, but it was true that I thought of using the method of striking grass and alerting snakes. However, whether it is "fire reconnaissance" or "snatching snakes," what we have to do is actually the same, which is to shoot at the target.

Shoot and pretend to have discovered the enemy's situation to trick the ambushed enemy into taking the bait.

"That's fine!" Captain Luo nodded in agreement: "Then you guys can get in line and hurry up! Remember to pretend to be a bit like you!"

"Yes!" I responded simply.
Chapter completed!