Chapter 24: Change of the Sky

That night, we moved the regiment headquarters to the 965th Highland next to it. Chief of Staff Li suggested that we transfer the regiment headquarters to the 924th Highland relatively behind, but now we are surrounded by the enemy. There are no first and second lines in the four outer highlands. In addition, the middle highland cannot be dug deep due to rock formations, so we finally chose one of them.

The puppet army did not make us well this night, especially the puppet capital division. Their offensive was very fierce, and they rushed to the backscene several times to launch hand-to-hand combat. The soldiers had previous experience and were more vigilant. They always threw out rows of grenades when they were about to approach, and used grenade barrage to blow them up in a mess and then launched a counter-charge, and fought them back again and again.

What is even more difficult to deal with is that there are many puppet soldiers. They divided into several battalions to attack in turn, so that the volunteer soldiers could not get a moment of rest and spent the whole night fighting with the enemy. Especially when Hu Biao dealt with the first battalion of the puppet capital division, the physical strength required to fight for bayonets was not comparable to that of other battles. Many of them were lifted down and fainted due to excessive fatigue.

Fortunately, as the sky became brighter and brighter, the threat of letting the enemy rush to the position to fight repeatedly due to the lack of flares finally passed. The enemy seemed to be tired of fighting Mingjin and withdrawing the troops, so in the period before dawn, the soldiers finally got a rare opportunity to rest.

At this time, the battalion led by Hu Biao resisted the seven-hour attacks of several battalions of the pseudo-Capital Division, and launched four hand-to-hand combats in total. Although I did not personally be on the battlefield and did not see what they were doing, I knew what this meant. I remember that I only had a hand-to-hand combat with the pseudo-Capital Division once, and I was so tired that I couldn't get up on the ground, but this time...

"Captain Cui! The casualties are counted out!" Jiang Chunzeng walked to me and said heavily: "In just one night, Hu Biao's first battalion sacrificed more than 230 soldiers, seriously injured 126 people, and the rest were all slightly injured, including Battalion Commander Hu! Only 110 people in the battalion still have combat capabilities. The enemies who were killed have not yet come to count..."

"Well!" My face changed. Although I had been mentally prepared for a long time, I still felt so painful when I heard this number. These are the efforts and backbone of the 60th Army. I lost so many people in just one night.

I have no interest in listening to the enemy's casualties, nor do I need to listen, because I believe that the enemy's casualties will never be less than ours, and more importantly, they defended their positions and successfully completed the mission.

I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth and ordered: "Because the enemy has not launched an attack, immediately let the fifth battalion and the first battalion change defenses in the 1211 Highland, let the comrades of the first battalion hurry up and take a rest!"

"Yes!" Jiang Chunzeng responded and immediately grabbed the phone and issued an order.

The 1211 highland is located in the middle of the other four highlands and is under much less pressure than the other highlands. Although it is a bit like breaking down the east wall and repairing the west wall when they change defense with the first battalion at this time, this is a helpless move.

And I also know that the first battalion did not have much rest time, and the United Nations forces would soon launch a new attack. At that time, the 1211 Highland in the middle was working. Their firepower would cover the flanks of the surrounding four highlands, and sometimes even had to shoot enemies rushing through the tops of the surrounding four highlands.

"Captain Cui! Anti-tank trench...digged..." At this time, a man covered in mud and blood lifted up the black cloth and stumbled in. Before he could say a few words, his legs fell and sat on the ground.

"Deputy Commander Liu!"

Only then did we recognize that he was Liu Shunyi. The chief of staff and the guards hurriedly walked up to help him, and handed him a glass of water.

Seeing Deputy Commander Liu's face pale and not knowing whether it was rain or sweat flowing down on his forehead, I couldn't help but tremble in my heart, realizing that the continuous battles over the past few days have almost reached the limit of my physical strength.

He ordered the guard to take Deputy Commander Liu down to rest. He picked up the telescope and walked out of the tunnel. He looked at the flank of the high ground in the morning light. Several wide and deep anti-tank trenches appeared in the telescope's vision. Near the anti-tank trenches, there were many corpses lying, including puppet troops and volunteers. From these, we can see that the soldiers built these fortifications was not just as simple as civil engineering operations.

A melee last night almost forgot about Deputy Commander Liu's anti-tank trench. At this time, looking at the fortifications under the enemy's firepower, I really don't understand how they did it...

It was very bright on a rainy morning. I observed outside the tunnel for a long time before the sky gradually became brighter. The center of the high ground was filled with water that was covered with calves, but the color of the water was bright red, and several corpses could be seen soaked in it.

The heavy rain washed down the blood from several high grounds and gathered in the center to form such a shocking pool of blood. Occasionally, a few volunteer soldiers ran past here, and turned into bloody people when they turned their eyes...

"Rumbling..." At this moment, a sudden burst of thunder sounded around, with every direction, just like thousands of galloping horses running wildly from all directions, from our high grounds.

"Captain Cui!" Jiang Chunzeng's cry came from behind: "The US military has begun to attack!"

"Well!" Only then did I realize that this was not thunder, but the sound of the motor of the US tank. I couldn't help but walk into the command center and ask, "What's the situation?"

"The enemy attacked us from all directions, and this time they were all American troops!" Jiang Chunzeng replied: "With tanks as the forefront, there are more than ten aircraft in each direction."

"Come on command! I'll go to the position to see the situation!" Listening to Jiang Chunzeng's report, I grabbed the gun and went to the position.

"Captain Cui!" Seeing some Jiang Chunzeng hurriedly stopped him: "It's too dangerous on the position, so it's better not to go up!"

"Where is not a position here? Where isn't it dangerous?" I couldn't help but smile bitterly and replied, "You must be careful, what happened last night might happen again."

After I said this, Jiang Chunzeng had nothing to say, so I had to let me lead Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei to the position.

"Captain Cui!" Zhang Mingxue, who was walking, kept following behind him with his head on his back, spoke: "I..."

"What am I? Let me go if you have a fart!" I ran forward and scolded, "This is on the battlefield, don't be as timid as a woman!"

"Captain Cui!" Finally, Xu Yongwei mustered up the courage and said, "We think Chief Jiang and Chief Huang taught the right lesson last night. We don't have the ability to be your guards at all. We can't even protect ourselves! Or let's go to the battlefield! Let's fight a few American devils like other comrades!"

"Yes, Captain Cui!" Zhang Mingxue also said distressedly: "What Chief Jiang said makes sense. We are not protecting you, you are protecting us. It's not important that we are in danger. If we can't protect you one day, it will be a big deal!"

"Hey! I said you two boys! You guys are still wandering at this time!" I couldn't help but feel angry when I heard this. I turned around and patted them hard: "What? I don't want to follow me, I want to go to the battlefield to fight happily! I feel that following me is not satisfied with fighting the enemy, right?"

"No...that's not what we mean..."

"I tell you!" They didn't allow them to defend themselves. I ran forward and said to them behind me: "No one can fight when he was born, nor can anyone fight well as soon as he went to the battlefield. You can ask the comrades in our regiment, which one has not touched a gun for several years before he can become like this now! For example, I..."

Speaking of this, I couldn't help but be stunned. If I were the real me, it seemed that I had been rolling on the battlefield for less than a year.

"Hmm!" I coughed falsely, calmed down and continued, "Don't think I'm not old, I've been fighting Japan for more than ten years! So! Don't think about it. If you really feel that you are not capable enough to do this guard well, just spend more time learning the skills. Do you know?"

"Yes!" The two of them responded in unison behind, their feet following tighter, and their footsteps became more firm and more powerful.

But I laughed in my heart and lied again. But this time I didn't stutter because I was just thinking that this was really true for my other identity, "Chen Wei".

With Zhang and Xu, the two of them walked up to the position in the rain. The soldiers stationed in the position all the way gave us a look. There was no way. Before I came out this time, I was wearing a dry military uniform and had no mud and water on them. It was much worse than the soldiers who fought on the battlefield all night, so they recognized me as the regiment commander as soon as they walked out.

Then I quickly thought that if I could look up to see the situation of the US military like this, it would be strange if I didn't get knocked out by their snipers. So I pretended to slip and fell to the ground without saying a word, then turned around and sat up, haha... It's almost done now.

"Captain Cui, are you okay?" I deceived Zhang and Xu who were following behind me with this fake move. They couldn't help but run up to support me.

"It's okay!" I frowned and said to them: "You two remember next time that protecting me is not like this. If there are enemy sharpshooters looking at us now, your current actions will expose my identity. Next time this happens, you must try to block me with your body and observe whether there are suspicious enemies around you!"

"Yes!" The two of them responded knowingly, looked at each other, and then they realized that being a guard is different from killing enemies on the battlefield.

"Captain Cui!" At this time, a soldier with a box cannon in his hand and a box cannon on his waist ran towards me. He did not stand up or salute, but nodded slightly to me: "Captain Cui, why are you here? It's too dangerous here, you'd better go back! Please rest assured, the soldiers of our second battalion will never let the enemy collapse the position!"

"Yeah!" I nodded and didn't say anything.

I met him several times after I opened the meeting, so I knew that he was Li Guoqiang, the battalion commander of the Second Battalion.

Li Guoqiang was originally a commander of the 179th Division. It is said that this man started with the guerrillas. He was also a captain of the guerrillas during the Anti-Japanese War. After joining the Red Army, he also became the captain of the pistol team. The box cannon was superb and his love for box cannons can be said to be fascinated by the love of box cannons. Now the commanders are wearing Su-style Tokarev pistols, but he just wants to wear two box cannons.

Many people think that box cannons are old-fashioned, but this is not the case in the real battlefield. The Tokarev pistol and even the US m1911 pistol have a furthest range of only fifty meters, but box cannons can hit more than 100 meters, and their lethality is not weaker than other pistols at all. It is precisely because of this advantage that box cannons are favored by volunteer commanders who want to go to the battlefield. Moreover, their cost is very high. The cost of a box cannon can be almost the same as that of two m3 submachine guns.

So Li Guoqiang asked his superiors to wear box cannons and had no objection. As long as he could fight the enemy, many soldiers in the volunteer army did not replace Tokarev because they were used to box cannons, let alone Li Guoqiang was good at this. He heard that if he led his troops to charge towards the enemy or fought hand-to-hand combat, the two box cannons would hit one by one, and even if the enemy who was holding his own soldiers could not escape.

But the supply of bullets became a problem in the supply of bullets, because after the volunteers changed their clothes, the ones sent from the rear were Su-style rifle bullets and pistol bullets. So every time they wanted to go to the battlefield to fight, all the soldiers of Li Guoqiang dispatched other troops to collect bullets from the box guns. One collection was a box, and every time they were asked to carry it by his guards. The boxes of bullets were followed wherever he went. It was said that this had become a scene of the 179th Division.

At this time, looking at the legendary box cannon sharpshooter, even the commander of me was a little nervous. His right hand couldn't help but tighten the sniper rifle in his hand, lowered his voice and ordered: "Go up and see the situation together!"

"Yes," Li Guoqiang responded and ran ahead of me and led us up the edge.

Leaning on the edge, I slowly emerged and looked at it. What a guy! Tanks and armored vehicles surrounded us like iron barrels. Looking around, there were American soldiers walking forward with guns and following the tank farts, densely packed with ants. Then I looked at other hills with telescopes. Those high grounds that originally belonged to the People's Army positions have now been transformed by the US military into anti-aircraft machine gun positions and mortar positions.

Anti-aircraft machine guns can hit one or two thousand meters, and 82mm mortars can hit three thousand meters. They set up these weapons on those high grounds and can hit our army's positions directly from a height. Fortunately, it is raining heavily now, and they can't see us at a distance of one or two thousand meters, otherwise the threat to us is not ordinary.

"Captain Cui!" Seeing that the US military seemed to be attacking like this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but ask in confusion: "I've been thinking about it all the time! Why don't they prepare for artillery fire this time?"

"Um!" After being reminded by Li Guoqiang, I remembered that the US military had not fired artillery as usual before this attack. After thinking about it, I couldn't help but smile and said, "I think this time there should be a problem with the logistics of these American devils!"

"What?" Li Guoqiang was stunned when he heard this. It was common for the volunteer army to have problems with the supply problems. The problems with the supply problems of the US army seemed to be a little unbelievable.

"It should be impossible to be wrong!" I nodded confidently: "It has been raining for so many days in a row. Not only will our supply line be cut off! The US military will also have difficulties in supply due to bridges, roads or mudslides. In addition, the US military planes cannot take off for heavy rains for several days, so they cannot get supplies from the air, so it is common for them to have supply problems! But I think more importantly, they know that our reinforcements are on the road, so they dare not hit our shells in one breath!"

"Hey!" Hearing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but burst the mound in front of him with his fist excitedly: "I didn't expect that the American devils would have a day when they didn't have enough ammunition. I think they could capture our position. If the devils were not enough ammunition, then I would say that they would have been guarding for one day, and it would not be a problem to guard for ten days!"

"But we still can't be too happy too early!" I continued: "Although there is something wrong with the supply of the United Nations army, they have several divisions, and the ammunition is dozens of times that of ours. Therefore, we cannot hope that the enemy has no bullets, and we must be prepared for a fierce battle!"

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang responded, but couldn't help but laugh twice with excitement in his heart.

"Huh!" At this time, a strange scene happened. The US tanks stopped about 800 meters in front of our position. They didn't shoot guns or people came up. They just formed a circle and were wet in the rain, as if waiting for something.

"What's the point of these Americans?" Li Guoqiang couldn't understand either.

At this moment, the weather changed unknowingly. As the dark clouds slowly dissipated, the sky became brighter and brighter, and the rain also became smaller and smaller. Finally, a few rays of sunshine appeared...
Chapter completed!