Chapter 132: Complete Chronicle

The inability to contact the rear has always been a big problem on the two high grounds of Shangganling. Sometimes, in order to convey a message or intelligence to the rear, it even has to be at the cost of the lives of several correspondents. But now, just as the enemy has occupied the surface position, our army can actually contact the rear, which is not surprising.

He took Li Baocheng and Qin commanders to the entrance of the tunnel and saw several correspondents excitedly holding a walkie-phone and shouting loudly. When he saw me coming, he hurriedly handed the walkie-phone up: "Report to the Chief of Staff, I just connected the regiment headquarters, but I can't hear anything due to signal interference!"

I didn't answer either. I took the walkie-talkie and hugged it in my ears. Sure enough, there were a lot of shouts and messy noises.

"What's going on?" I asked the correspondent in confusion.

"Report to the Chief of Staff!" A short correspondent saluted in front of me and said, "The frequency of walkie-talkies is low. There are more than 20 walkie-talkies in our tunnel. Now we use them together and call them together, interfering with each other, and no one can hear them clearly!"

"Um!" Hearing this, I immediately turned around and ordered Guidance Qin and said, "Immediately order the soldiers in other tunnels to stop calling. If there is any situation, the command center will report it uniformly!"

"Yes!" Instructor Qin responded and turned around and grabbed a few soldiers and asked them to send the order separately.

Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers were giving orders, I asked the short correspondent: "Tell me, how did you contact the rear? Isn't the walkie-talkie useless? Why are all walkie-talkie in the tunnel available all at once?"

"Report to the Chief of Staff!" the short soldier chuckled and said embarrassedly: "Yes, I made it up! I was thinking that once this antenna was extended, the American devils would blow it up, and then wrapped it around the grenade handle and threw it out. The tunnel was covered with shrapnel, broken guns, grenade handles and other things. The Americans would not pay attention to this thing. If this is not...you can use it!"

"Oh, not bad!" I couldn't help but pat the warrior on the shoulder and praised: "It's a good idea. I have solved the communication problem for us, and I have made great contributions this time!"

At the same time, I also sighed in my heart that sometimes it seems very difficult, just like the communication that needs to be exchanged for at the cost of life. If you think from another perspective, it is actually just so simple to wrap the antenna around the grenade handle...

Usually, I only think about fighting, ammunition, and food in my mind, but I didn’t expect this problem to be solved in such a simple way!

Now, I only sigh that I did not pay much attention to this information in modern times, and that the volunteer soldiers sacrificed so many comrades. But then again, there is no way to check the information so well.

"Chief of Staff, I'm connected!" At this time, a correspondent handed the walkie-talkie to me again and said excitedly: "There is no interference now, it's the voice of Captain Zhang!"

"Hey!" I snatched the walkie-talkie and said to the microphone: "Captain Zhang, I am Cui Wei!"

"Chief Cui! What's the situation?" The anxious voice of Captain Zhang came from the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Is the position still in our hands? Are there many casualties? Are there any ammunition?"

I couldn't help but look at Li Baocheng beside me. He obviously heard Captain Zhang's words, and a hint of shame flashed in his eyes.

What I wondered was that we had retreated from the position to the tunnel for at least one hour, but Captain Zhang had not yet discovered that the surface position had been completely occupied by the enemy.

However, I soon realized that Shangganling was shrouded in thick smoke and dust. Although it was only more than a thousand meters away from Wusheng Mountain, sometimes it was invisible behind the launch of signal flares, let alone people standing on surface positions. In addition, the US military continuously bombarded our supply line, which made the rear not understand the situation in Shangganling at all.

"Captain Zhang!" Thinking of this, I reported: "Because we lack ammunition and suffered serious casualties, I ordered the soldiers to take the initiative to withdraw the tunnel, maintain their vitality, and continue to fight against the enemy in the tunnel!"

Commander Zhang, the opposite side, was obviously relieved after hearing my words: "You are right! Comrade Cui Wei! Strategically, the two positions in Shangganling are the gateways of the Five Sacred Mountains. The enemy has consumed so much manpower and material resources, and even used artillery fire to block the supply line of Shangganling. Their purpose is very obvious! That is to completely defeat you, and then go to Ganling to attack the Five Sacred Mountains as a support! If we want to smash the enemy's conspiracy, we must preserve our strength and fight the enemy to the end. Please tell the soldiers on my behalf that our purpose is to drag the enemy to the two high grounds of Shangganling, rather than annihilate many enemies. In order to achieve this goal and complete this task, we must save ourselves and exchange one warrior for a hundred enemies, and we will not exchange it!"

"Yes!" With Captain Zhang's words, I felt much more at ease.

Volunteer soldiers have always charged in the battlefield without fear of sacrifice. Because they are like this, they naturally tend to be in their hearts to those cadres who are also brave enough to kill the enemy. If any cadres ask them to retreat and let them preserve their strength, they will wonder if this cadre is timid and retreating? He is timid and let us follow us to become turtles. So there are more people who are absent, and there are more and more cases of disobeying orders or selectively obeying orders.

The command I'm giving now seems to be in line with this situation.

If it were just one, the two companies were easy to control, but now there are dozens of broken up companies on Shangganling. Some of these companies even died, and were in a state of unmanned command and management. It was a good thing when they were fighting, but they were still in a state of working together to fight the enemy. But now, once they retreated to the tunnel, their morale was inevitably depressed.

Especially after Li Baocheng's ace troops came up, although I was the commander-in-chief of the two positions in Shangganling, I felt that I was gradually unable to control it.

Just now, after reporting to Captain Zhang about my order to retreat, I was in a state of great difficulty. If my order was not recognized by my superiors and criticized me for making any right-leaning conservative mistakes, the situation in Shangganling would be in chaos on the spot and would not be controlled. Don't be the chief of staff.

Now that he heard what Captain Zhang said, it was like giving himself a reassurance. Although the state of the soldiers has not changed, he has confidence in his heart.

"Comrade Cui Wei!" Commander Zhang continued to ask in the walkie-talkie: "How many people do you have combat capabilities now? How is the situation in the army?"

"Report to the regiment commander!" I replied: "After preliminary statistics, there are 73 people in the 539.9 highland, which still has combat capabilities, and there are 42 people in the 537.7 highland, but there are more than 200 wounded people, and the food and ammunition are almost used up. The wounded are not treated because there is no medicine!"

"The casualties are so serious!" My report obviously surprised Captain Zhang: "Comrade Cui Wei, you must find a way to persevere. We will find a way to deliver the supplies to you."

"Captain Zhang! Do we need our cooperation?" I answered and asked, "Are you going to start a counterattack again in the evening?"

"This is the situation!" Captain Zhang, who was on the other end of the walkie-talkie, hesitated for a while, and then replied: "It is impossible to deliver supplies during the day, and it is very difficult tonight. We have repeatedly fought with the US military for superficial positions in the past few days, and the US military has mastered the rules of our activities. Their artillery has adjusted the Zhuyuan standby before it was dark. Our army's artillery was ready to end. As soon as the artillery fire was extended, the US military artillery covered our army's reinforcement and supply routes on a large scale. Several batches of reinforcements of our army were injured and injured under the enemy's artillery fire. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly difficult to transport supplies as the opportunity of counterattack! You must make plans to stick to the tunnel for a long time without supply..."

Although the sound of the walkie-talkie was not very loud, the soldiers who were surrounded by me and listened carefully still heard these words and couldn't help but start to rush around.

"How can I stick to it without supplies?"

"That's it! If you are stuck in this tunnel, you will starve us to death even if you are hungry. It's better to go out and fight against the Japanese!"

"Yes! If you go out and fight, you can at least have a cushion!"

...

In an instant, there was a raft everywhere in the tunnel. Several soldiers grabbed the rifles and grenades and were about to run out of the tunnel.

"Come back to me!" I hurriedly hung up the walkie-talkie and shouted loudly, "Is there any organizational discipline? Do you want to go out and fight, is it useful to fight? Who will guard this tunnel after you fight all of them?"

After hearing what I said, the soldiers did not dare to speak out anymore, and stood in the tunnel for a while and did not dare to move again.

"Everyone has it! Except for the soldiers stationed at the entrance of the tunnel, they all gathered in the Invincible Tunnel for a meeting!" I said a word in a muffled voice, turned around and walked towards the command center.

"Chief of Staff!" I returned to the command center. Before I could sit for a while, Instructor Qin hurriedly walked up to report: "The situation is very serious. After hearing the news of persistence, the soldiers were very depressed and their guns were thrown around. Several fire accidents have occurred!"

"What a fuck!" I frowned and stood up with a loud voice.

After thinking about it, he turned around and asked Li Baocheng, "I want to incorporate all the soldiers in the tunnel into the Eighth Company, there is no problem!"

"All the soldiers are incorporated into the Eighth Company?" Li Baocheng couldn't help but say in confusion when he heard this: "Chief of Staff, there are so many companies and so many company commanders in this tunnel, and there are several battalion commanders, so let them all be incorporated into the Eighth Company?"

"Yeah!" I nodded, and while taking off the belt hanging on the wall and holding the m1911 on my waist, I turned and walked towards the Invincible Pit.

As he walked, he said to Li Baocheng who was following behind, "There is a reason for the soldiers to be incorporated into the Eighth Company. Your Eighth Company is famous for fighting in our army, and each soldier is proud to be part of the Eighth Company. The morale of the troops is so poor now that the combat order is very chaotic. I am afraid that they can't be controlled by casually organizing them into a company. But the Eighth Company is different. After being incorporated into the Eighth Company, the soldiers will feel that they are part of the Eighth Company. Since they are soldiers of the Eighth Company, of course they have to use the Eighth Company status to demand themselves! It is much easier to control the situation in this way. Do you have any problems?"

"No problem!" Li Baocheng responded without thinking: "The soldiers who can persevere in the tunnel are all good soldiers who can fight and fight. Being able to be part of the Eighth Company is also a blessing for our Eighth Company!"

"Well! That's good that you would think so!" I patted Li Baocheng on the shoulder, turned around and took him into the narrow passage.

Turn left and right in the passage for a while, and soon arrived at the relatively spacious Invincible tunnel.

I didn't rush to go in, but stood by the dark tunnel for a while, trying to understand more clearly what the soldiers are in now.

There was a strong smell of blood in the tunnel. I guess many injured soldiers couldn't wait to hear the situation. Under the light of kerosene, some soldiers were rubbing guns, some soldiers were lying half-lying, and from time to time, the wounded made a few depressing moans. There were also some quarrel-like shouts, and the entire tunnel seemed chaotic, with the air turbid and heavy.

"Let's go out and fight the Japanese!" A thick and strong machine gunner greeted the soldiers beside him: "Whoever we don't go out is a coward!"

"Who is the coward?" a short warrior stood up and questioned.

Volunteer soldiers all have a problem, that is, they can bear everything, but they can't stand being called cowards by others.

"Didn't you hear the orders from your superiors?" the short soldier asked in discontently: "We are revolutionary soldiers. If everyone doesn't obey orders like you, then what else can we fight?"

"Order!" the machine gunner raised the machine gun in his hand and said, "Whoever asks us to fight the Japanese will listen to the orders!"

"Don't make a fuss!" Someone also stood up to mediate: "We are all trying to eliminate the enemy and defend the position. If you have any different opinions, you can discuss it! When the Chief of Staff comes, see what to say..."

The quarrel had just subsided, and someone shouted again on the other side:

"Who goes out with me? I'll take you to fight the Japanese!"

"I!"

"I!"

...

There were actually several soldiers who stood up to respond, looking like a big "mutineering".

"Calm down!" A soldier soon stood up and stopped him, "This is a war, not a poker, you have to listen to the unified command of your superiors. Otherwise, you will make a big mistake!"

I stood at the entrance of the tunnel for five minutes and realized that the situation of the soldiers was much worse than I thought. They were all soldiers who had entered the tunnel and were broken up in a few days. Now they were together and unfamiliar with each other. They also had a great difference in how to fight the enemy with the rush. They were not from the same company, and they did not accept each other and did not allow anyone.

If we plan to counterattack every night, it will have little impact on them, because everyone wants to rest during the day and go out to fight the Japanese at night. The so-called brothers play on the wall and guard the outside. The difficulties and sacrifices on the battlefield have temporarily put aside the conflicts between them and fought together.

But now... as soon as the news of giving up the counterattack and sticking to the tunnel was released, the conflict between the soldiers and the company and the company was intensified.

This is absolutely impossible. Even if the soldiers have good quality, if there is no organization or command, they will be like a mess of sand fighting each other.

So I immediately walked among the soldiers, stopped at a moderate position, and called out softly: "Comrades!"

"chief of staff!"

"It's the Chief of Staff here!"

"Chief of Staff! Organize a commando! I'm the one, take us out to fight the Japanese!"

...

"Comrades!" I exclaimed in a heavy tone, and the soldiers calmed down at the same time, and they all looked at me with anticipation.

"Comrades!" I glanced at the soldiers and shouted loudly at the soldiers: "First of all, I want to announce something to everyone. According to the orders of my superiors, all the comrades stationed in the tunnel were organized into the Eighth Company of the 134th Regiment, with Comrade Li Baocheng as the company commander, and Comrade Wang Wenyong as the instructor. After the meeting of cadres at all levels, the soldiers were elected!"

With a "coax!", the soldiers immediately whispered.

They thought that what I said this time must be the order that my superiors asked them to stick to, but they didn't expect that what I said first was an adaptation.

The so-called avoiding the sharpness and attacking the laziness. I seem to be using this method now. When the soldiers are extremely resistant to sticking to the tunnel, I first talk about the orders they are easy to accept and willing to accept, and then ordering them to stick to the tunnel. This is relatively easier. However, this trick is usually used to deal with enemies, but I didn't expect it to be useful for my own comrades.

"Comrades!" At this time, Li Baocheng also stood up at the right time and said, "From now on, you are part of the Eighth Company. Do you know what the Eighth Company is? The Eighth Company is the invincible Eighth Company, the Eighth Company that sheds blood and does not shed tears, the Eighth Company that cannot be defeated, and the Eighth Company that firmly obeys orders! Can you do it?"

"Can do it!"

"Can do it!"

...

The soldiers raised their hands and shouted!

Now it's much easier. Looking at the soldiers who raised their hands and shouted, I let go of half of my heart. Volunteer soldiers pay attention to their promises, and in their words, they must keep their word. This is why Volunteer soldiers often take collective oaths when mobilizing before the war.

Not to mention, those vows that are nothing to me, modern people, can really play a role in this era. On the battlefield, some soldiers were timid when they looked at the guns and bullets. When they were about to get away, they often thought of the oath they had just made and sacrificed their lives.
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