Rise from eight hundred.

Gu Beijiang was running wildly in the jungle. His lungs were about to explode, but he never stopped.

Anyone who runs 3 kilometers in a subtropical jungle fully armed would probably feel the same as him!

What's more, Gu Beijiang only took 9 minutes, which actually broke his highest record in training by 30 seconds.

However, the three red flares rising above the area where the regiment's field medical team was located indicated that the area was suffering a terrible attack and was the highest level of distress signal.

  The tragic scene of the attack on the division field hospital by Jiaozhi agents half a year ago kept reappearing in Gu Beijiang's mind. In just 20 minutes of attack, dozens of wounded soldiers who were recuperating in the field hospital were slaughtered, nurses were brutally doused with gasoline and burned, and some were even disemboweled and tied to trees.

The division commander vomited blood on the spot and swore to the sky that he would avenge his subordinates. In the following months, more than 300 people from the divisional reconnaissance company and two regimental reconnaissance companies of Gu Beijiang's infantry division sneaked behind enemy lines and carried out even more brutal revenge.

Hundreds of Jiaozhi Army's logistics support personnel were killed. The Jiaozhi Army in the area even had to withdraw its main force to carry out a large-scale cleanup of its own rear, which resulted in the loss of the main front line of defense and retreat to the second line of defense. That was a solid defense line that Gu Beijiang's infantry division had suffered nearly a thousand casualties but failed to conquer. However, it was lost due to the brutal revenge of China after the brutal and cruel attack. The Jiaozhi Army suffered a great defeat this time.

However, no matter how bloody the revenge was, or how glorious the military exploits were, they could not bring the slightest joy to the face of the division commander with outstanding military exploits, nor could they bring pride to the eyes of the tens of thousands of men in this mountain.

  That is not only a shame, but also a regret that can never be made up for!

Those female nurses who were as young as flowers should have been enjoying their youth in the sun like their peers, but in order to defend their country, they went to the battlefield, and ended up leaving their youth in the southern border of the motherland!

Now, the helpless Jiaozhi people are resorting to the same old tricks again. How can Gu Beijiang tolerate this?

Gu Beijiang, deputy company commander of the reconnaissance company of the 103rd Regiment of the D Division on the Laoshan front.

Gu Beijiang joined the army at the age of 16, and encountered the counterattack two years after joining the army. As a private, Gu Beijiang fought bravely in that battle. When breaking through a pass, he jumped into the trench of the Jiaozhi Army, killed 7 Jiaozhi soldiers with submachine guns and grenades, and stabbed two people to death with the triangular bayonet he carried with him. He was awarded the second-class military merit and was promoted to deputy squad leader before the battle.

When ordered to retreat, the infantry company where Gu Beijiang was stationed was the rear guard of the entire regiment and encountered siege by a reinforced infantry battalion of the Jiaozhi Army. When the squad leader was killed in battle, Gu Beijiang, who was only 18 years old, stepped forward and led the remaining 9 people in the squad to defend the company's flank for 11 hours, and waited for the support of the military region's special forces brigade.

After the battle, Captain Tang of the Military Region Special Forces Brigade looked at his nephew, who had four wounds and a dark and thin face but still grinned. He was silent for a long time and did not say any words of encouragement. He just patted him on the shoulder gently.

Perhaps on that battlefield, only Captain Tang, who was at the regimental level, knew who this soldier was.

Commander Gu, the chief commander of the Eastern Front, remained unmarried throughout his life. He had only one son born to his nephew, whom he named Beijiang himself. The son grew up by his side since childhood. Although he was called his nephew's grandson, he was undoubtedly his biological grandson.

After the war, Gu Beijiang, who used the alias Gu Bei, was promoted by the regiment to deputy platoon leader and sent to the Taihang Special Forces Academy to study for three years. When he returned from his studies, he happened to be in the Liangshan rotation, so he was promoted to deputy company commander of the reconnaissance company directly under the regiment and entered the battlefield.

This time, the regiment headquarters led the division headquarters to order an attack on the main peak No. 8 of Laoshan and its affiliated high ground. If the Jiaozhi army wanted to sneak into the country from here again, they would have to either pass through numerous minefields or face the criss-crossing firepower points of the Chinese soldiers.

The regiment headquarters attached great importance to this battle. Not only did it mobilize the three infantry battalions of the regiment, it even sent out the reconnaissance company to detour nearly 3 kilometers to the rear flank of the No. 20 main peak to ambush the Jiaozhi army for support. The entire reconnaissance company was left with Gu Beijiang and two reconnaissance squads of 8 people who stayed at the edge of the battlefield to kill and capture the retreating and fleeing Jiaozhi army members.

  Of course, there is also the intention of the Guard Regiment Headquarters!

For this long-prepared offensive, the front-line command fully supported 3 divisional artillery regiments and 2 corps artillery regiments. At that time, a corps artillery regiment of the Chinese army generally had four artillery battalions, namely: two howitzer battalions, each equipped with 12 122mm howitzers; one rocket artillery battalion, equipped with 18 07mm rocket launchers; one cannon battalion, equipped with 18 85mm caliber cannons;

一个师属炮团则编有三个炮兵营，分别是：一个152榴弹炮营，装备18门152毫米榴弹炮；另一个122加农炮营，装备18门122毫米加农炮；还有一个85毫米加农炮营，装备18门85毫米加农炮。

The Chinese army, which suffered from severe fire phobia during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Ice War, was blatantly eager for heavy firepower. In this war, an infantry regiment attacked with more than 280 artillery pieces of various types. If it were the Japanese army back then, any permanent division would have to kneel down and call them daddy just by this wave of heavy artillery.

The leaders attached so much importance to it, how could the 103rd Regiment dare to neglect it? The regiment headquarters built the forward command headed by the regiment commander less than 1500 meters away from the front line. That was also a very dangerous area. Not only was it within the coverage of the enemy's heavy artillery, but it was also within the attack range of the Jiaozhi agents who were most adept at crossing mountains and ridges.

The fierce battle had been going on for half a day. After two hours of artillery preparation, no less than 2 artillery shells were thrown, completely destroying all the trees on Peak No. 3. The three infantry battalions were also working in an orderly manner to recapture the high ground around Peak No. 8. If nothing unexpected happens, Peak No. 3 will be recaptured in another hour, and the Jiaozhi Army will be completely locked outside the border.

But at this moment, the field rescue brigade, 3 kilometers away from the front line, fired three scarlet red flares!

There was no rescue call, which obviously meant that the telephone lines had been cut off long ago. This must have been a long-planned attack.

Although the sporadic gunfire coming from the distant mountains was nothing compared to the deafening sound of the main battlefield due to the long distance, it was like a lightning strike to the officers and soldiers of the D Division who had already suffered a heavy blow.

Because it was wartime, as many as a hundred wounded and more than 30 medical staff were sent there, but there was only one ordinary infantry platoon to protect them. If the last situation happened again, the officers and soldiers of the 103rd Regiment would not be able to forgive themselves.

But in the emergency, the front command was unable to withdraw troops to provide support quickly, and the important task of returning support had to be handed over to Gu Beijiang.

"3 kilometers, 11 minutes, can you, Gu Beijiang, make it?" Before leaving, the team leader asked Gu Beijiang a question.

Gu Beijiang did not answer. He turned around and started running with the two reconnaissance squads.

There was no time to mobilize, Gu Beijiang led the way and ran wildly in front of the team of 30 people!

Although Grandpa Gu Xishui never told stories about his youth, Gu Beijiang knew that his grandmother was buried in the Taihang Mountain Martyrs Cemetery, where he had visited almost every year since he could remember.

Grandpa would walk around all the tombstones and then sit down in front of grandma's tombstone until the sun sets. When Grandpa Lei calls him to eat, he will gently hug the cold tombstone and wave goodbye.

None of the uncles talked about their grandparents' past when they were young. Only Grandma Zhuang told him with a sigh that when her grandfather was young, he ran all the way across the tragic battlefield, but it was too late when he arrived, and he failed to save his beloved girl.

Even though the war had been over for almost 50 years, he had never been able to forgive himself. He did not marry another woman, and he had sincere love for her, but more importantly, perhaps it was for atonement!

  It’s too late, a lifetime regret!

The sound of gunfire was becoming clearer and clearer. The sound of the AK-47 assault rifles commonly equipped by the Jiaozhi Army, the Type submachine guns that were the most commonly equipped by the Chinese side, and a small number of Type automatic rifles mixed into the ears of Gu Beijiang who was still running wildly.

That means the Jiaozhi agents have not completely occupied the camp of the Field Rescue Brigade, and the 30 infantrymen guarding them are still resisting.

Gu Beijiang gradually slowed down, giving his lungs, which were about to catch fire and explode, some temporary relief. Looking back, he saw that there were less than 10 soldiers in the reconnaissance company and a pig who could keep up with him.

Army pig!

The military pig with the rank of corporal is named Hanhan, but Hanhan is not stupid at all. He is the top mine-clearing expert in the reconnaissance company. He can smell the mines as long as they are five or six meters away from him, even if they are buried half a meter deep in the soil. He has saved the lives of the officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company countless times in the past six months of fighting.

It is said that it is the 8th generation grandson of the legendary Sergeant Guaiguai, whose bronze statue stands at the gate of the military academy. However, after several generations of domestication and improvement, its body size is not as big as its ancestor. It weighs about 160 kilograms and has slightly weaker combat effectiveness, but is more suitable for running in this subtropical jungle.

However, Gu Beijiang remained calm. This was a much better result than he had expected. Running three kilometers in this jungle was no less difficult than running five kilometers on the plains. But he and his soldiers miraculously arrived within 10 minutes, which was one minute earlier than the 11 minutes required by the regiment commander.

In order to support their comrades, the 10 of them broke their own limits. If this was reported as a training result, it would at least break the field army record.

But this may come at the cost of physical damage, but no one cares about this.

The clear sound of gunfire that reached our ears was the best reward for everyone present; they arrived in time.

"Everyone, take a break for one minute, and attack in groups of three, taking turns to cover each other. Let me emphasize two points. First, we are not capturing prisoners this time, so we don't need to use our tongues. Second, the Jiaozhi army agents must have planted booby traps and landmines in the surrounding area, so stay alert!" Gu Beijiang gave the order.

A minute later, the lagging scouts arrived one after another, and the nine soldiers who had taken a short rest and Gu Beijiang joined the battle as planned.

3个战斗小组，共携带3杆五六冲锋枪和4杆八一式步枪以及一具69式火箭筒配2发火箭弹、2发钢珠跳炸杀伤弹！

The steel ball bouncing fragmentation bomb used in conjunction with the Type 69 rocket launcher was successfully developed by the Military Industry Research Institute under the leadership of Professor He on the eve of the first counterattack several years ago. Initially, due to its low production volume, it was only distributed to the special forces of the military region. After several years, it had been widely distributed to the infantry companies of all participating troops.

  The Jiaozhi Army had received a lot of aid from China and the Bear Country in the past. The number of Type 56 and Type 69 rocket launchers equipped by its infantry was no less than that of China. They were not only used to destroy China’s armor, but because of their large numbers, the Jiaozhi Army actually used rocket launchers to attack individual soldiers!

Do you know how much of an impact the sight of a person dying from a bowl-sized wound caused by a 40mm rocket piercing the chest (because the human body is soft tissue and the trigger fuse on the rocket does not explode) would have on the psychology of officers and soldiers, on those going to the battlefield for the first time, and especially on new soldiers who have just joined the army!

With the large-scale use of this steel ball bouncing fragmentation bomb specially designed for killing infantry on the battlefield, which has a maximum diameter of 76 mm, an ammunition weight of 2.67 kg, contains 900 steel balls, has an effective range of more than 1500 meters, and is equipped with an anti-throw device and a collision-delay fuse, the Jiaozhi army was defeated.

After hitting the ground, the steel ball fragmentation projectile bounces up to about 1.5m and explodes in the air, with a dense killing radius of 20m. The effect of a steel ball fragmentation projectile is comparable to that of a 122mm grenade! This means that an infantry squad leader can command a 122mm howitzer to strike the target in front of him anytime and anywhere. What kind of firepower is this!

The Jiaozhi agents were students taught in Chinese military academies. In the past few decades, many of them had studied in Chinese Army academies, but the only military academy they had never entered was the Taihang Special Forces Academy. The founder of the academy stubbornly did not allow any foreign students to enter. Not to mention studying, even visiting required the signature and approval of the highest level.

The stubbornness of the general who once killed many enemies on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War was criticized by many people, who believed that he had disappointed his international friends. However, he had most of the military behind him, and his students and old friends were in important positions in the army. Even when the situation was most chaotic, no one dared to go deep into the Taihang Mountains to touch him.

Perhaps, even a confused person would know very well that a man who once built the Jingguan with the heads of Japanese invaders in the Patriotic War would probably not even frown if he fed a few people to the wild wolves in Taihang Mountain.

It was not until the war broke out that everyone realized how prescient that man's stubbornness was.

The special forces brigades of various military regions that were deployed to the battlefield from the very beginning were far ahead of the Jiaozhi agents in terms of training and tactical concepts. The Jiaozhi agents could plant mines and launch secret attacks on ordinary troops, but if they wanted to attack important targets, such as radar stations, senior command posts, etc., they would be wiped out!

The Jiaozhi Army had the habit of laying booby traps and landmines behind them to protect themselves. The three teams bypassed four booby traps and three minefields in an area about 3 meters away from the battlefield, and marked them to prevent subsequent comrades from accidentally touching them.

It was not until they were about 180 meters away from the battlefield that the three extremely patient combat teams officially launched the attack!

At that time, it was six minutes after the reconnaissance company arrived at the battlefield, and the infantry platoon position located at the core of the battlefield had shrunk to an area of ​​less than 6 square meters.

Judging from the figures of Jiaozhi agents constantly flashing around the battlefield, the number of Jiaozhi agents lurking this time is no less than 80, which is the strength of a reinforced platoon. No wonder the medical team of the field hospital fired three red flares at the beginning.

  If reinforcements don’t arrive quickly, they can only hold out for 20 minutes at most before their defense line is breached!

The first to send out the attack signal was not the nine scouts who were 180 meters away from the battlefield, but Gu Beijiang who was the farthest away.

The gun in Gu Beijiang's hand was probably the most old-fashioned of all the soldiers present. It was a semi-automatic rifle designed in the 1950s. It was an old gun that had been eliminated from service, but it was equipped with a high-power scope. The price of the scope alone could buy more than a dozen such old guns. But no one except Gu Beijiang himself knew that this gun was given to him as a reward by Mr. Tang when he ranked in the top three in the graduation assessment of the Special Forces Academy. The high-power scope came from the United States. It was not captured in the Ice Field War, but was given by a close friend of Mr. Tang several years ago.

Apart from his comrades in the reconnaissance company, not many people knew that their deputy company commander, who was young but had 6 years of military service, not only possessed extraordinary courage and an extremely calm mind, but also had amazing marksmanship.

Even without the extremely expensive high-power scope, he could hit a high-speed running Jiaozhi infantryman from 600 meters away with his naked eyes using his old rifle, which was said to be given by the Special Forces Academy as a souvenir to graduates.

That is absolutely unimaginable shooting skills. You know, in the field of vision of ordinary people, at a distance of 400 meters, a person is basically only the size of the needle in the middle of the aiming ring, and at 600 meters, you can't even tell whether the target is a person or not.

However, Gu Beijiang's 600-meter shooting of the enemy with the naked eye does not rank among the top five in the Chinese military's record of killing the enemy with the naked eye.

The first one was a sharpshooter named Zhang who appeared on the ice battlefield. He used a Mosin-Nagant 1944 carbine with a mechanical sight to kill an enemy 800 meters away.

Gu Beijiang's shooting instructor is a super sniper who has lived in seclusion in Taihang Mountains since his old superior founded the school after the Battle of the Ice Field. He has a terrifying record of shooting enemies with the naked eye at a distance of more than 750 meters.

Out of respect for Gu Beijiang's grandfather, the old instructor who had almost stopped teaching students came out of retirement to serve as a shooting instructor for Gu Beijiang's class. Gu Beijiang, who had a pair of farsighted eyes, became one of the three most outstanding students in the old instructor Niu's life.

The super sniper, who was named Niu Er and later Lao Niu, had been in the military academy for 30 years and taught at least 800 students. The students who could come to this military academy were the best of the best selected from the millions of troops. To be able to become one percent of these outstanding soldiers shows how highly Instructor Niu thinks of Gu Beijiang.

Gu Beijiang lived up to his instructor's evaluation. Standing on a high ground 400 meters away, the deputy company commander of the reconnaissance company set up his old rifle and fired his first shot, which accurately hit the back of the head of a Jiaozhi agent who was kneeling on one leg and preparing to fire a rocket launcher behind a bunker in the distance!

The Jiaozhi agent who fell to the ground like a rotten wood might not have realized that his life had come to an end. At the moment his body fell, his fingers instinctively pressed.

The rocket launcher, which had been completely tilted, hit his comrade 10 meters away on the flank hard, and three Jiaozhi agents were directly blown into the sky.

Accompanied by Gu Beijiang's accurate shooting, the scouts who had approached the battlefield from the dense forest began to attack the Jiaozhi agents from the rear.

Two green and one red flares were also fired into the sky!

That is the code signal that every Chinese infantryman must remember. The Chinese military is best at preparing for a rainy day. Even though there are telephones and individual wireless communicators in this era, in order to prevent these modern communications from being unusable, it is time for the primitive flares to come into play.

"Everyone, take cover! Our army is about to launch an artillery bombardment!" The infantry platoon leader on the core battlefield immediately understood the meaning of the reinforcement signal flare.

Ten seconds later, a rocket was launched from the dense forest and fiercely penetrated into an area where there were at least a dozen Jiaozhi agents.

900 steel balls are like the devil's grin, harvesting lives wantonly!

Because they were located behind the Jiaozhi Army, the bunkers used by the Jiaozhi agents to block bullets in front of them were completely defenseless in the face of the madly splashing steel balls.

  With this one shot alone, more than fifteen Jiaozhi agents were shot into sieves by steel balls!

The power was so great that even at a distance of more than 50 meters, some Jiaozhi agents were caught off guard and had their bodies pierced by the steel balls.

Maybe he didn't die at that time, but on a battlefield like this, being injured is equivalent to death!

The Jiaozhi agents were very fierce. Even when they were attacked from both sides and suffered heavy casualties in just one encounter, they still did not retreat. Instead, they sent some of them to turn back to meet the enemy while the other part continued to attack the core camp.

However, another bouncing steel ball bomb continued to bombard them mercilessly, and screams of pain echoed throughout the mountains!

Taking advantage of the chaos among the Jiaozhi agents, Gu Beijiang's famous scene was born!

In just 60 seconds, the deputy commander of the reconnaissance company, who was 400 meters away, fired a total of 13 bullets, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 2.

He almost killed an entire infantry squad by himself!

It’s not that there were no Jiaozhi soldiers who tried to counterattack the Chinese sniper who was hundreds of meters away, but without exception they were killed by Gu Beijiang who felt the trajectory of the bullet.

The rocket that was closest to hurting Gu Beijiang landed 13 meters away from Gu Beijiang's sniper point. The splashing stone debris hit the helmet of the deputy commander of the reconnaissance company, leaving a shallow dent, but it did not even bother the hunter who was frantically harvesting prey.

The extremely accurate shooting and the scouts who were joining the battlefield one after another wiped out the ferocity of the Jiaozhi agents, and they chose to break through.

  But it's too late now!

Not only have all 21 scouts who had fallen behind arrived, but the 103rd Regiment also dispatched a half infantry company to rush towards this valley.

The angry infantry commander gave the same order as Gu Beijiang!

Of the 80 Jiaozhi agents, 63 bodies were left at the battle scene, and 14 bodies were scattered in the jungle 100 to 800 meters away from the battle scene. The scouts who were chasing them frantically would certainly not give these brutal guys a chance to return home.

The last three, who also ran the farthest, were less than 3 meters away from the first-line checkpoint.

Night had already fallen. If the three men had been allowed to hide for another 3 minutes, they might have had a chance to return alive.

Unfortunately, Private First Class Han's keen sense of smell made them lose their last chance of survival.

Gu Beijiang, who had tracked them down, first shot and killed one person with one shot, and then used the folded three-edged bayonet on the tip of his old gun and the assassination technique taught at the Special Forces Academy to kill two people with his bare hands.

The two Jiaozhi special agent masters holding US military daggers never understood until their death why they could defeat the tall and strong Americans, but could not defeat a Chinese youth who was only 1.7 meters tall when they worked together.

  In particular, he still stubbornly used the outdated bayonet tactics from decades ago!

"There are no outdated tactics, only outdated people. Hand-to-hand combat! It is the glorious tradition of Chinese soldiers and the embodiment of the fearless spirit of Chinese soldiers. It will never be out of date in any era!" Those were the first words proudly said by Grandpa Agen, who personally taught Gu Beijiang bayonet fighting, as he stood in front of Gu Beijiang with a bayonet in his hand.

"Kill!" When Gu Beijiang, who had experienced the battlefield himself, saw the white-haired old man half-squatting and yelling, he felt like he was being stared at by a tiger, and the hairs on his body stood up.

At that moment, Gu Beijiang was convinced that the bayonet god of war, who had once broken into the US army with a rifle and killed 19 US soldiers in the Battle of the Five Sacred Mountains on the Ice Field, could easily kill him, a young and strong man who had trained in the army for several years, even if he was over 75 years old.

How could the dead Jiaozhi agents know that they were facing the third generation of Chinese soldiers who were jointly trained by the best group of Chinese soldiers who were once in China.

To put it more bluntly, they are a group of little monsters taught by old monsters.

  Even Tang Shanhe had never received such treatment in his youth. The truth was that when he was young, those old guys were still in their prime and could not spare much time to train him. By the time Gu Beijiang arrived at the military academy, the old guys had basically retired and stayed in the courtyard drinking and bragging. Suddenly, a comrade-in-arms and his junior came into their sight. Do you think it was all because of Gu's face?

That's a cute toy too, okay?

After three years of studying at the Special Forces Academy, Gu Beijiang felt that he would be killed by these old guys sooner or later. If it weren't for his grandfather's face, Gu Beijiang would have said goodbye to all the old guys except Grandpa Tang long ago.

It’s not that Mr. Tang is so approachable, but mainly because he doesn’t dare. Even Aunt Jibei, whom he fears like a tiger, is accompanied by the old man with a smile.

Aunt Jibei was the woman who had come back three times and "beaten" him three times. Even though Grandpa Agen said he was very good, he couldn't last more than ten moves. In Gu Beijiang's mind, she was definitely the best fighting expert in the army.

"I am fighting with the old man now. We can evenly tie in training, but on the battlefield, I will die in the third move!" Tang Jibei answered Gu Beijiang calmly after hearing his flattery.

"Fuck!"

  If culture is not enough, then let’s make up for it with WTF! Gu Beijiang stood there for a long time!

How can you know the cruelty of a war without having experienced it? To survive, even sheep learn to eat meat.

. . . . . . . . .

"You're good! You ran very fast in that battle." Ten years later, the already very old Gu patted the back of Gu Beijiang's hand and passed away with a smile.

  Gu Beijiang burst into tears!

Before his death, my grandfather did not praise him for his achievement of killing 16 enemies. He only said that he ran fast enough. Because he ran fast enough, he arrived there and was not too late!

  And grandpa, in this life, it’s too late!

He smiled at his deathbed, because he could finally go see her!

It has been 60 years, and he still remembers her, but does she still remember him?

. . . . . . . . .

2020!

While people all over China were wearing masks, a group of medical staff in white coats in Rongcheng, Sichuan Province went against the tide, dragging huge suitcases onto buses. They were going to a battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder.

Among the people seeing her off, a young man looked eagerly at the girl who was about to get on the bus, and suddenly shouted, "Du Xiaoyao, when you come back, I promise that all the housework will be mine from now on!"

"Okay! Gu Xigua, you are right!" The girl turned around and smiled like a flower!

The 25-year-old Gu Xishui already had a sparkling look in her eyes! (End of this chapter)