Chapter 26: Wire mesh

"Captain Cui!" It was night when we were nervously preparing for the reconnaissance activities that Ji would arrive, Wang Yuehan led a few soldiers into the tunnel.

"The qualities you requested are here!" Wang Yuehan pointed to the package in the hands of the soldiers behind him and said, "This is the military uniform of the puppet army. Just in case each person prepares a set, and the bullets you requested, and these two..."

"Report! Artillery scout Zhang Fafu and Yang Minle come to report!" The two volunteer soldiers stood in front of me without waiting for Wang Yuehan's introduction.

Oh, they were the artillery scouts sent by the division headquarters. I couldn't help but look at them roughly. Both of them were thin and small, and the walkie-phones on their backs were almost as old as theirs. Both of them looked not old, they were neatly dressed in military uniforms, straight waists, and their two pistols looked a little majestic on their waists. Looking at their faces, they were wearing both nervous and excited smiles.

Seeing this, I was stunned. If a veteran goes to the battlefield to fight, his face will always be an extraordinary calm or solemn. New recruits are either excited or fearful when they go to the battlefield. It is okay if they are afraid, but that means he at least knows the terribleness of the battlefield. If it is excitement...

So I asked casually: "Have you ever been to the battlefield?"

"I've been there!" What unexpectedly was that Yang Minle nodded without thinking: "We have been artillery soldiers for half a year, so how could we have never been to the battlefield!"

"But..." Zhang Fafu touched his head awkwardly and replied: "It's the first time I'm going to the front line to face the Japanese..."

"Who said it!" Yang Minle shouted from the side, "You have forgotten all your feelings? Last time we met a few American devils who were escorted down, they still shaved their big noses?"

Upon hearing this, I was stunned, and the soldiers were also stunned, and they stopped their hands and stared at the two artillery observers.

"Call the division headquarters..." I didn't explain much, but turned around and ordered Wang Yuehan: "Substitution now!"

"Yes!" Wang Yuehan had no objection, turned around and walked out of the tunnel.

"Switch people?" Hearing this, Zhang Fafu and Yang Minle looked at each other and said anxiously: "Captain, why is this? We... have we made a mistake?"

"No, you didn't make any mistakes!" I shook my head and said, "I just want to complete the task successfully. I just don't want everyone to accompany you to die!"

"Accompany us to die?" Zhang Fafu couldn't help but be stunned, but soon understood: "Captain, you are worried that we will drag the troops down! Don't worry, although we have never been to the battlefield, we are not cowards!"

"Yes, Captain Cui!" Yang Minle also said anxiously: "We are all raised by our mothers. If you can do it, we can do it too! Don't look down on us!"

"I don't look down on you!" I felt helpless: "Sometimes, I don't dare to fight to the death, especially when I go to the reconnaissance mission. Do you understand?"

"I, I... I don't understand!" Zhang Fafu thrust his face, his lips trembled, and he said excitedly: "Who is the artilleryman is like us. He is busy for a while during the war, and then he has nothing to do and sleep. Why do you change us? I just won't leave!"

"I won't leave either!" Yang Minle also said.

"Hey, I'm still cheating!" I couldn't help but get angry when I heard this, and said in a heavier tone: "If you ask you to go back, you will go back. What do you think this is? You're acting like a sissy, cheating? We're playing hard, you know?"

"Captain! At worst, we don't want to die!" Zhang Fafu gritted his teeth stubbornly, his eyes wet, and he held back his tears.

"You..." Seeing these two little guys so stubborn, I couldn't do anything to them for the moment.

"Captain Cui!" At this time, Wang Yuehan came back. He looked at Zhang Fafu and Yang Minle helplessly and said, "The division headquarters replied. The artillery troops originally had several observers with combat experience. Unfortunately, they were injured in this enemy air strike. They could not find a suitable candidate for a while. In addition, these two comrades calculated that their mental arithmetic ability was very strong, so..."

"Um!" I couldn't help but frown with a headache when I heard this.

I had had several coordinated combat with the artillery before, so I knew that the calculation of the artillery was not that simple. There was no calculator at this time. When the battle was tense, it was too late to calculate manually. Many times, I had to observe and quickly analyse, and at the same time report parameters to the artillery position at the rear to the walkie-talkie...

"Okay!" I nodded helplessly: "But you two follow me closely. You can't leave the army at any time. Don't act rashly!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, Zhang Fafu and Yang Minle smiled immediately, and they looked at me both angry and funny.

After preparing for a while, I saw that the time was almost over, so I took the soldiers to set off.

The world outside is very dark and cold, and the thick clouds block all the light in the sky. The visibility is very poor, and I can only use the little light emitted by the snow on the ground to vaguely see the scenery one meter away. There is nothing in the sky except for snowflakes as big as goose feathers.

I couldn't help but say in my heart that I finally encountered a good thing today. This dark and cold weather is suitable for us to sneak into the enemy's camp. However, this also brought difficulties to our marching. Fortunately, the soldiers were drawing these positions every day during this period. It can be said that they knew exactly where there was a stone and where there was a bullet crater in front of them. So the group entered the frontier positions without any danger.

I waved my hand to the back, and soon two sharpshooters jumped up and groped towards the enemy's position.

If there were US snipers lurking on the opposite side, more than a dozen of us would have been rashly going out, and none of us would have been able to come back. So the role of these two soldiers was to use their lives to test whether there were enemy snipers. It is precisely because of this that they "carefully" exposed more so that the snipers hidden in the dark could discover them.

But what made me feel grateful was that the crows were faintly heard in the darkness. This was the security code we agreed on. The US snipers did not enter the lurking position so early as we expected.

Just like last time, Wang Xianru walked forward while observing, while others carefully followed him and stepped forward in his footprints. Because he had already laid a path for this minefield when he was lurking last time, the speed of this time was much faster. In a short while, everyone, led by Wang Xianru, approached the place where I lurked last time - the barbed wire mesh.

Because cutting the wire mesh is likely to be found by the enemy, Wang Xianru took out a wooden fork that had been prepared long ago, chose a place to slowly support the wire mesh, and the soldiers drilled under the wire mesh one after another like loaches.

But when it was Zhang Fafu's turn, he found that he was still busy untiing the walkie-phone on his back. I waved my hand impatiently, and soon a soldier knew to help him take off the walkie-phone, and then handed the walkie-phone to the other end of the wire mesh.

Zhang Fafu looked at me with a little embarrassed look, lowered his body and drilled under the wire mesh. However, because he was inexperienced, his butt was too high, and an iron bar on the wire mesh hooked his pants. He suddenly pulled the wire mesh into the area, and the can box hanging on it immediately made some light sound.

Before the barbed wire bounced back, I grabbed it with a quick look. The palm of my hand hurt. I quickly realized that I was grabbing an iron spike, but I didn't care about that much and still held the barbed wire steadily to prevent it from shaking too much.

I know very well what I will wait for us if I let go. Once the canned box on it alarms the US sentinels, they just need to shoot a few flares at this position, so don’t say whether they can complete the task. I’m afraid that there will not be many people who can stand back.

The soldiers understood the power of this, so soon two more people came up, one for me to hold the barbed wire, and the other was busy unraveling Zhang Fafu.

I slowly loosened the wire mesh, and after waiting for a while, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Looking at the palm of my hand, I had already been stabbed by an iron thorn, and the pain made me feel cold. But I still gritted my teeth and held the wire mesh, and pulled my palm off the iron thorn.

"Captain, you are injured!" Zhang Fafu noticed this scene only then and ran back to ask with some disobedience.

"Shh..." I let out a light sound to signal him not to speak. I calmly took out a piece of gauze from the first aid kit around my waist and quickly bandaged it. Then I skipped a few handfuls of snow and buried the blood on the snow. I didn't expect that when the US military sentry came to check the wire the next day, I found a pool of blood here.

After waved his hand, the soldiers crawled under the barbed wire again in an orderly manner. When Yang Minle arrived, he was almost lying on the ground and being pulled over by someone.

Of course, when I climbed over, the stinging pain in my hand made my movements not so natural, but this small injury was nothing to me. However, when I climbed over the wire mesh, I saw that Wang Xianru was holding a wire tightly in his hand and still motionless, and the other end of the wire was still vaguely connected to the ground, I couldn't help but feel a cold sweat. Because I realized that what Zhang Fafu was touching just now was not only the cans hanging on the wire mesh, but also the mines...

Barbed wire was invented by a shepherd in the United States. In order to see the role of piaotian literature on the battlefield, he was originally very single, to delay the movement of infantry and vehicles. During the First World War, on the battlefield with machine guns, if a group of mines and barbed wire sluggish infantry charges in front, and then a large number of machine guns were used to shoot the charge infantry, this could almost become a line of defense that could not be broken. This made the middle and late stages of the First World War a situation where "whoever charges will die", and eventually evolved into a "trench warfare" that did not charge, and each dug a long trench to shoot each other and shoot guns, and fired cannons stalemate until the emergence of tanks...

The barbed wire has developed to this day, not only as a delayed infantry, but also as a responsible for alertness. For example, the Americans connected these barbed wire mesh to mines... Although these mines are far away from them, they cannot kill a few people, but once these mines are detonated, the troops coming to attack will soon be exposed to the enemy's firepower.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but secretly thank him again. Fortunately, I brought this guy Wang Xianru!

After this period of lurking battle, we knew very well the location of the enemy's post and even their trenches and machine gun positions, so our group easily bypassed the enemy's post and crossed the top of the mountain.

I secretly emerged from the top of the mountain and looked down. I couldn't help but be shocked. I saw that the backslope was full of single tents set up by the US military. There were several bonfires lit by stars beside the tent. Several Americans who might not be too cold to sleep were gathered in front of the bonfire and smoked cigarettes and roasted the fire. Some people seemed to be roasting food on the fire, talking and laughing. A gust of cold wind blew, and a burnt fragrance floated under our noses, causing the soldiers and I to smack our lips and swallowed our saliva.

The American life is good! There are conditions to eat barbecue on the battlefield...

"What should I do?" Huang Sihu slowly climbed beside me and asked quietly.

What else can I do? I couldn't help but smile bitterly when I heard this.

I should have thought that many Americans like to spend nightlife! Of course we can't see people in such a dangerous place on the front slope, but in this back slope... Now it's two o'clock in the middle of the night, which is when they are nightlife! It's just that we've suffered, the plan is very careful, and the time is just right, but unexpectedly, they're ruined by these guys who don't sleep.

Will you get rid of these Americans quietly?

These Americans sat in a circle, and no matter which direction we sneaked over, it was hard not to be discovered by them. And there were as many as six of them, and it was really unrealistic to solve them without a single sound.

Sneaking over?

Torchs are lit everywhere on the backscene, and it is almost impossible to pass through the noses of these Americans without realizing it.

"Can you get around?" I asked Wang Xianru next to me in a low voice. He often touched mines in this area for a while and was most familiar with the terrain in this area.

"Yes, yes, but we don't have time!" Wang Xianru replied.

I understand what Wang Xianru meant, and detours mean that heavy snow could not cover up our footprints. Ordinary American soldiers might not notice these, but snipers are different. After all, the footprints of my liberation shoes are still very different from those left by the US military deer-skin boots.

Wait...There are big differences in footprints, but the difference seems to be big!

I suddenly remembered the US sniper who was shot dead by me that day, and seemed to be wrapped in white cloth. In fact, this is nonsense. Hiding in a snowy day, no one is covered in white. More importantly,... the US sniper seemed to be wrapped in his mouth and nose, only revealing his eyes...

After thinking about it, I whispered to Huang Sihu beside me: "Pass the order, and all comrades cover their mouths and noses with white cloth, and don't speak, follow me!"

"What?" Huang Sihu was stunned when he heard this, but nodded in his unquestionable eyes and whispered my orders one by one.

He covered his mouth and nose with a white towel and tied it behind his head, then put on a white camouflage cloak, wrapped it tightly from head to toe, only revealing his eyes, and took a breath and stood up from the invisible place, pretending to be walking up from another high ground, and easily led the soldiers into a small group to walk towards the foot of the mountain.

We quickly attracted the attention of those American troops, but obviously they regarded us as their snipers as I hoped. Because I noticed that they all cast admirable eyes at us.

Snipers have a transcendent identity in the US military and advocate personal heroism. American soldiers always hope to be able to leave the shackles of the troops and become a lonely hero like a sniper. In their words, being able to become a sniper is a very "cool" thing!

So I was showing off and raised the m1 rifle with a scope in my hand at them, which immediately attracted the whistles.

Actually, I am trying to "show" our identity. If these US soldiers still have some doubts about our identity, then I think this m1 sniper rifle with a scope is enough to dispel their doubts.

"Swish swish..." I noticed that the footsteps of the soldiers were a little messy. I soon heard that it was Zhang Xuefu and Yang Minle. I couldn't help but feel nervous and prayed secretly that these two guys should not have any trouble at this time. The US snipers are well-trained. If they fall down or get weak and can't walk anymore, then they're still showing their feet...

"Hey! Brother!" At this time, the scream of an American soldier shocked me and I couldn't help but stop and look at the US soldier.

The soldiers also thought they had been discovered by the US military, and they all stopped and looked at the US military, and their hands unconsciously reached towards the rifle wrapped in white cloth.

"Do you have two hams?" The US military raised the grilled food in his hand and raised it at me: "It's not good to have ice and snow. I think you need this very much!"

"No, I don't need it!" I replied in English: "If you need it, I'd be happy to bring back two enemy genitals and let you skew on it and have a full meal!"

"oh……"

"Ha ha……"

My answer made the US military laugh wildly.
Chapter completed!