blood of vietnam war

Chapter 50

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

What I don't know is that our rest time should have been until the early morning of the next day, but because of the tight battle ahead, we had to pull our troops up ahead of time.

"Company Commander!" On the marching road, 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 [-] soldiers under me, so I feel that I should also know something about the situation.

"Scout!" Company Commander Luo simply replied two words.

"Reconnaissance?" When Company Commander Luo said this, I had an opinion: "Company Commander, is it too dangerous to conduct reconnaissance at night? What is our route? How is the enemy's situation? How should our People's Liberation Army identify..."

"Hey! Why are you asking so many questions? Go your way!" Company Commander Luo didn't answer anything, it seemed that he was not in a good mood.

I found out afterward that Company Commander Luo had actually raised these questions at the combat meeting, but no one answered any of them. Only the Battalion Commander said, "As for you, Luo Xianwen, who talk a lot, I asked you to be a reconnaissance company. Check the situation while fighting!"

The superior's arrangement is actually reasonable. The reason is... As I said before, the management of the troops is not strict, and the soldiers who are left behind in other troops can just report their numbers and names and jump into the queue to fight.So naturally, many Vietnamese military agents who can speak Chinese will join our army...

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

So we are faced with a very strange battle. We don't know the enemy's troops, we don't know whether our friends are friends or not, and we don't even know what tasks we have to complete... We only know that the order is four words : Move forward!

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

The two found a place to hide under the roadside tree, and then lit the flashlight covered with black cloth.

The purpose of doing this is to prevent the light of the flashlight from exposing the entire army, or exposing yourself to the muzzle of Vietnamese snipers.

Fighting in this ghost place of Vietnam, if you are negligent, you may lose your old life.

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

Chen Yiyi looked at it for a long time but didn't understand it. At first I thought she couldn't understand the map, until she frowned and said: "This map is wrong... This road is obviously leading to Sabah, how can it be drawn to Meng?" Kang went... and here, this should be the Red River, and there is no such thing as this mountain..."

"Hmm!" Only then did I remember what the old man said: "When our troops entered Vietnam, the maps we used were all drawn when we resisted the U.S. and aided Vietnam. They are old things from more than ten years ago, and Severely distorted, many troops can't find it..."

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

If you don't know anything, how can you fight this battle?

Suddenly, I had the feeling of a blind man riding a blind horse.

But the battlefield is often like this. It doesn't mean that if I can't fight, I can't fight. The order from the superior is 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 rushed up and reminded: "There is a checkpoint ahead, the Vietnamese call it the ghost gate, the road passes through the middle of the highland, and there are many grasses and dense trees. It is very suitable for ambushes, look...send someone to scout!"

I immediately reported the situation to Company Commander Luo, and Company Commander Luo immediately ordered the troops to stop.After understanding the general terrain, several platoon leaders were called for a short meeting.It was decided that two platoons would advance along the ridges on both sides of the road, one platoon would go along the road, and a squad would be placed in front.

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

But just when we were about to move forward according to the plan, the correspondent hurried up: "Company commander, the regiment headquarters is on the phone! It's the chief of staff..."

"Where are you guys?" There was a burst of questioning in the microphone.

Company Commander Luo searched the map for a long time before vaguely mentioning the location.In fact, Company Commander Luo is not sure if he is accurate, because the map itself is not accurate...

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

Hearing these words, I couldn't help but complain for the company commander, and also for ourselves. Some cadres know to use a ruler to measure in the office. Let alone the map is inaccurate, the distance measured by the ruler is also a straight-line distance... …Let him try to walk around in the dark on the way around Vietnam by himself?

"Chief of Staff..." Company Commander Luo became a little anxious: "We estimate that there are enemy ambushes ahead, and plan to reconnaissance and move forward..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" The company commander was interrupted by the microphone: "Gather the troops for me immediately, and run forward!"

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

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

But the military orders are like a mountain, we don't know what the superiors have arranged, and we don't know whether the overall plan of the superiors will be disrupted if we don't execute the orders, so we have to implement them.

Perhaps, the superior 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.

When I followed the troops with the gun in hand, I tried my best to throw the contents of my head out... I hope I can find out the words that the old man described this battle.But after much deliberation, there is nothing about this battle.

At this time, I couldn't help but regret a little. It would be great if I listened to the old man's stories more!In the past, I was always bored with what he said. According to what I said...it's been so many years, why are you still talking about it?I don't care how good you were at fighting before, anyway, the one standing in front of me now is a blind old man.

Now that I think about it, what the old man said is almost the combat experience he summed up. Almost every sentence can save my life!

But not every sentence is useful, because the battlefield situation changes too fast.

For example, last time, the old man clearly said that our army's artillery battalion would be attacked by Yue devils, and I remember it clearly.

but……

I started fighting without even knowing the artillery battalion was around, so even if I remembered it wouldn't work.

"Platoon leader!" Just as I was thinking wildly, Chen Yiyi stabbed me with the butt of a gun from the side: "It's just ahead..."

Following Chen Yiyi's eyes and looking around the corner, under the blurred starlight, there is indeed a highland tens of meters high, and because it is not high, the road was dug from the middle of the highland... The road The sides are like knives. If people go there and are ambushed, they will only be beaten, and the enemy seems to only need to throw grenades in it... they don't even need to show their faces.No wonder it is called the gate of hell.

Seeing the terrain, I couldn't help frowning, stopped the troops immediately, and said to the company commander: "Look, company commander, isn't it too dangerous for us to go up like this?"

"Do you have a solution?" The company commander came up with a sad expression on his face. He gestured to stop the soldiers behind him, then spread out the map in his hand and pointed to a high ground and said, "Look, the superior ordered We must arrive at Height 239 within three hours, and now more than two hours have passed, and we are still seven or eight kilometers away from our destination..."

Only then did I know that our goal was the 239 Heights.

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

"Are you sure there are devils in ambush ahead?"

"uncertain!"

"Then what are you going to die for?"

So I lost my voice.

In fact, there should be a principle on the battlefield: that is to be careful about making the Ten Thousand Years Ship, even if it is just a suspicion, it must be tested and prepared as it is.This is exactly the opposite of the law. The law is that there is no doubt about the crime, and we must never suspect the crime when we fight a war.

It's not that Company Commander Luo doesn't know this truth, it's just that he is suppressed by the orders of his superiors, so he has no choice but to take chances.

But I was still not reconciled, mainly for the sake of my own life, so I mustered up the courage again and said: "Commander, why don't we try the enemy, anyway, it doesn't take much time!"

"Hmm!" Company Commander Luo thought for a while, then nodded and said, "You mean...fire reconnaissance!"

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

In fact, I didn't know what fire reconnaissance was at all before this, but it was true to think of using the trick of scaring the snake.However, whether it is "fire reconnaissance" or "striking the grass to scare the snake", what to do is actually the same, that is, to shoot at the target, pretending to find the enemy's situation to lure the ambush enemy into being fooled.

"Alright!" Company Commander Luo nodded in agreement and said, "Then you all stand in line, hurry up! Remember to act like a little bit!"

"Yes!" I replied simply.

I just thought in my heart, isn't it just a fire scout?Just shoot and shoot!