Chapter 28: The tunnel

Although the lurking problem has not been solved yet, the plan proposed by Liu Shunyi may be the only way to attack the 902.8 Highlands, so a force specially used to sneak attack the 902.8 Highlands was soon formed under Liu Shunyi's ***.

Maybe I am better than Liu Shunyi in fighting, but I know nothing about organizing and integrating the troops. In addition, I also believe in Liu Shunyi's ability in this regard, so I let go and hand over this matter to Liu Shunyi.

Liu Shunyi did not disappoint me either. After a series of actions such as selection, separation, and appearance inspection, a special list was quickly placed in front of me.

I flipped through it casually and saw that the surname, hometown, combat experience, specialties and other records on it in detail. The thick book made me look a little too big.

So he simply pushed the list aside and said to Liu Shunyi with a wry smile: "I said Deputy Commander Liu, you should talk to me! If you want me to read these lists, even if you look at them for three or five days, you won't be able to tell anything about it!"

Li Pinghe took the list and flipped it out, shook his head and said, "It's also a thanks to Deputy Commander Liu's ability. It's only a few days to make it so clear!"

"That's it..." Liu Shunyi smiled modestly and said: "Considering that the main task of this army is to capture the enemy's positions first and hold on until the arrival of reinforcements, this is undoubtedly a battle to defeat the more with less, so each member should be a veteran with rich combat experience, and the position must be very firm. Otherwise, it is very likely that the entire army will be dragged down and the effect we expected. Therefore, I drew 225 soldiers from each unit of the 538th Regiment, and I registered their situation on this list. We originally planned to lurk one or two companies on the enemy's 902.8 high ground, but because our army suffered serious loss of personnel in the previous battle, we could only make up the number!"

"Yeah!" I nodded. The soldiers of the 538th Regiment were originally the elites of the 60th Army. At this time, taking out the elites from the soldiers of the 538th Regiment is undoubtedly a pursuit of excellence. Although such a unit has a small number, I believe it can exert its strong combat power at any time!

"The company is organized by the 7th Company of the Second Battalion, because many of the soldiers are from the Second Battalion." Liu Shunyi opened the list and pointed to the first page of the name and said: "So, I think it is most appropriate to let Comrade Li Guoqiang be the company commander of this unit!"

"What? Li Guoqiang is also on the list? And he is the company commander?" Hearing this, I couldn't help but look on the list in confusion. Isn't it? It clearly stated: "Company Commander: Li Guoqiang". I didn't pay attention when I was reversing the list just now...

Li Pinghe couldn't help but ask: "Who will command the Second Battalion?"

"For the time being, Deputy Battalion Commander Wang Xin!" Liu Shunyi replied.

Most of the soldiers in this unit came from the Second Battalion, which was expected. Hu Biao's troops in the first battalion suffered heavy casualties a few days ago due to the attack against Van Vritte. Li Weiqiang's troops in the third battalion had many new recruits who had just come to participate in the training, so the main force was naturally Li Guoqiang's second battalion.

I believe Li Guoqiang's ability. Of course, it is appropriate to let him lead this army. Isn't it just that doing this is right for the Second Battalion...

"Whether this army can capture the enemy's position and then successfully defend the position and wait for reinforcements to arrive, it is directly related to whether the battle can achieve the final victory!" Liu Shunyi explained: "So I think it is necessary to have Comrade Li Guoqiang as the company commander, so that this army can enter the state faster and better. On the other hand, it is also because of Comrade Li Guoqiang's two box cannons..."

"Oh!" Although Liu Shunyi didn't say everything, Liu Shunyi and I understood it.

In sneak attacks, especially in sneak attacks where there are fewer fights and more and you have to hold on for several hours after taking the position, it is inevitable to fight closely with the enemy. Obviously, at this time, the two box cannons in Li Guoqiang's hand can play a huge role.

Li Guoqiang's two box cannons were both twenty times. The two can fire forty guns in total. The alternating attacks were almost faster than submachine guns, and they were definitely much more accurate than submachine guns. I have seen him when he was on the battlefield. In close combat, he was like a tiger pounced into a flock of sheep, "Baoba..." and knocked down a large piece! If he included this task, the chance of success would be much higher immediately!

Seeing that I had no objection, Liu Shunyi continued: "In terms of the Cold Gun Force, I have recruited some sharpshooters from the 538th Regiment and other troops to supplement it. Now it has a scale of 35 people. Each squad has about eleven people, and they are assigned to three platoons of the company. In this way, there are 260 people in the entire company, and each platoon has about 80 people. The platoon leader is Zhang Xiong and Hu Zudi..."

"Wait!" I couldn't help but interrupt Liu Shunyi after hearing this and said, "Brother Hu Zu is the platoon leader? Do you mix the soldiers of the Cold Gun Army with the combat troops?"

"Yes!" Liu Shunyi nodded, looked at my strange expression, and asked in confusion: "Captain Cui means... to command them separately? Will he fight each other and cannot command in a unified manner?"

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard Liu Shunyi's words.

Liu Shunyi’s concerns make sense. Volunteer troops do not have advanced communication equipment like the US military, and can call each other at will. This is because there are more troops on the battlefield, especially during night battles, I am afraid that it will be difficult to identify each other, let alone unified command!

However... if the cold gun troops and combat troops are mixed together, it is obvious that the soldiers of the cold gun troops will lose their mobility. In this way, those "killers" who lurk in the dark can cause great pressure to the enemy will suffer a lot of combat effectiveness, and their role is just some ordinary soldiers with good marksmanship!

"Let them separate!" After thinking about it, I decided to say: "The Cold Gun Army is commanded by Hu Zudi and the organization remains unchanged. As for the issue of contact, this period of time focuses on training the cooperation between the Cold Gun Army and the combat troops!"

"Yes!" Liu Shunyi nodded, but his face was still a little embarrassed. Because it was obvious that for the volunteer army with backward communication equipment, no matter how sufficient training is or how tacit understanding is, the coordination between the combat troops and the cold gun troops is still an unsolvable big problem!

"Report!" At this time, a report came from outside the tunnel, and then a volunteer soldier from the logistics army came in and saluted in front of me: "Report to Commander Cui, the equipment assigned to us by the superiors has been delivered. Please ask the regiment commander what to do!"

"Equipment?" I was stunned for a moment when I heard this, but I quickly realized that this equipment was the carbine with a night vision device that Commander Pang said a few days ago. Perhaps it was for the sake of keeping it confidential, so the superiors did not let the transported soldiers know what it was.

These worries from superiors make sense. This batch of night vision devices can be said to be the only batch of high-tech equipment in our army! In North Korea, where puppet military spies are everywhere, how dare you say so blatantly that it is transporting "night vision devices".

Thinking of this, I didn't dare to be slow. I sat up from the bed and ordered: "Train to tunnel No. 2 right away!"

In the second tunnel of the Cold Gun Army, wooden boxes were carried in by the soldiers. Although Hu Zudi and others did not dare to move because they did not have my order, their eyes were staring at the nailed boxes.

After the soldiers from the Logistics Department carried all the wooden boxes in, saluted me and then left, I glanced at the soldiers who had been impatient for a long time, and nodded with a smile.

Hu Zudi and the others didn't know that they were asking them to unboxing, so they couldn't help but coaxed them around. But although they were all anxious and as if they were burning their eyebrows, they immediately became smaller when they arrived in front of the box. They all held military stings and pried them carefully, for fear of destroying the treasure inside.

Then with a cheer, carbines with night vision devices appeared in front of the soldiers. Although it was daytime, the light in the tunnel was still very dark. The soldiers who had used this thing connected the batteries for these rifles without saying a word.

Some of these soldiers have never seen or used these guns. They have heard a lot of the performance of this gun from their comrades. They have long been curious about this gun that can see things in the dark. Now when these new things are really placed in front of them, they can't suppress their curiosity. They immediately surrounded the experienced soldiers and asked them in groups. They were still touching here and knocking there, just like a country bumpkin entering the city, and everything was strange!

"Captain Cui..." After opening another box, Hu Zudi took out the things inside and grabbed them in his hand and looked at me in confusion.

I walked up to see the dim light and couldn't help but be overjoyed. Those things were nothing else, the micro walkie-talkie I seized at the puppet military agent base. After I seized and handed over, I disappeared. I didn't expect that I would be sent with the night vision device at this time. It was a really unexpected surprise! I took out the walkie-talkie and counted them and found that there were more than 40 in total, and they were all equipped with spare batteries.

Suddenly, I knew how to solve the coordination problem between the cold gun troops and the combat troops!

"Deputy Commander Liu!" I excitedly raised the micro walkie-talkie in my hand and said, "Let the cadres of the 7th Company take this thing one after another for a while, and the problem you were worried about just now will be solved!"

"What am I worried about?" Liu Shunyi looked at the micro walkie-talkie in my hand in confusion and said, "The regiment commander is saying... the unified command of the cold gun troops and the combat troops? It depends on this thing?"

"That's right!" I didn't say much, and skillfully installed the battery for the intercom, turned on the switch to match myself. Then I put another one on and threw it to Liu Shunyi, indicating that he would match it too.

Although Liu Shunyi didn't understand what I was selling in the gourd, he still put the earplugs into his ears as I wanted. By the way, all the volunteer soldiers wore military caps covering their ears, and most of them had no haircuts for many years. It was really not easy to find their ears and put the earplugs in.

After finally getting it done, I said "hehehe..." twice at the microphone clipped onto the collar. At first, Liu Shunyi hadn't reacted yet. After all, we were very close, so it was not surprising to hear what I said. But after a while, I suddenly woke up and looked at me with a surprised look.

"This... is this the phone?" Liu Shunyi looked at the light and small box in his hand. He really couldn't believe that the thing in his hand that had no wires could actually talk like a phone. Although the walkie-talkie also had no wires, he had never seen such a small one!

Liu Shunyi was a cautious person. He seemed to want to try the performance of this walkie-talkie. He ran away a few steps and "heat" to the microphone as I was, watching the soldiers laughing.

"Really, it's a phone call!" After touching his ears, Liu Shunyi had to believe it as he heard the laughter in his earbuds. He walked up to me, looked at the little thing in his hand and sighed: "The feelings are also received from the Americans! It's really a good thing. We were worried that we could not command the troops to fight in a unified manner. Now that we have this thing on our hands, we are calling while fighting, and all the problems have been solved!"

"This is not a phone call!" I replied with a smile: "This is called a walkie-talkie! But... even if there are these things, it cannot be said that all the problems have been solved!"

"Captain Cui means..."

I looked at the sky. It was almost noon at this time, so I asked for a telescope from Hu Zudi and handed it to Liu Shunyi, said, "Come with me!", and drilled out of the tunnel with a rifle.

He took Liu Shunyi along the traffic trench and arrived at the top of the mountain position more than ten minutes later. The soldiers stationed on the top of the mountain saw me and turned around and saluted me.

After finding a location on the top of the mountain, I set up a rifle at the front and said softly to Liu Shunyi: "Look!"

Liu Shunyi raised his telescope as he spoke and looked at the enemy's position. After a while, his face became increasingly ugly.

It took a long time to put down the telescope and sighed and said, "It's because I don't know enough about the enemy's situation. I didn't expect the enemy's patrol and reconnaissance to be so strict!"

"It's not your fault!" I patted Liu Shunyi on the shoulder and said, "The reason why the enemy sent so many troops to reconnaissance on the existing positions is because I think this is because I am worried that our army will lurk in front of their positions! It has been a while since our army launched a lurking battle to now. Our army has almost adopted lurking battle tactics for targets that are difficult to attack. As the saying goes, one learns from one mistake, and the puppet army has been attacked by us using lurking tactics until now, so there is no reason not to learn how to learn from it!"

"What Captain Cui said!" Liu Shunyi frowned and said, "Then how should we fight this battle? I originally thought that two companies should not be a problem at the forefront of the enemy's position, but now it seems... it seems that it is difficult to lurk in one platoon."

"This is also the most troublesome problem I have these days!" I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "There was a way, that is, we could fire cold guns and shoot those enemies so hard that we dare not come out to patrol easily, so that it would be easier for us to lurk! But the problem is..."

"The 902.8 highland is much higher than the 649.8 highland we stationed!" Liu Shunyi said: "So if we fire a cold gun, we are likely to not be able to gain any advantage!"

"That's right!" I nodded and said, "Although we have elite cold gun troops, we may be able to gain the upper hand in cold gun combat. But this is not what I want. Cold gun troops may suffer losses in the process of shooting cold guns, and we still need cold gun troops to attack the 902.8 Highlands! So this method doesn't seem to work!"

After hearing my analysis, Liu Shunyi had no idea and couldn't help but raise his telescope and look at the enemy's position. I also raised the rifle in my hand and looked at the teams of puppet soldiers passing by in front of the enemy's position through the scope.

At this time, several puppet troops who built fortifications suddenly entered my sight. They were building anti-aircraft holes in order to avoid our army's artillery fire. Those anti-aircraft holes suddenly looked like tunnels on our back-sloping fortifications, but because the main fortifications of the puppet army were built on the front incline, the anti-aircraft holes were also built on the front incline.

Looking at the anti-cannon holes, I couldn't help but be shocked. I put away my rifle and hid in the trenches and said to Liu Shunyi beside me: "I thought about what to do!"

"How to do it?" Liu Shunyi put away his telescope and squatted back.

"Dig a tunnel! Dig a tunnel on the enemy's position!"

"Digging a tunnel?" Liu Shunyi asked in confusion: "It's difficult for us to lurk at the front of the enemy's positions. How can we still dig a tunnel under their noses?"

"The difficulty of lurking is because of the big goal!" I replied, "But digging a tunnel is different! There is only one tunnel entrance, and we can also seal the tunnel entrance with wooden boards, and then cover it with snow. More than a dozen soldiers secretly dig it inside. As long as it doesn't make too loud noises, who will know?"

"Um!" Listening to my words, Liu Shunyi thought about it for a while and said hesitantly: "There are dangers, but it seems you can try it!"

"Besides!" I said excitedly: "We can shoot a few shots at the enemy from time to time, or shoot a few shots to cover the sound of soldiers working in the tunnel. And... the farther away from the enemy's position, the looser the enemy's reconnaissance will be. We can completely choose a farther away. The enemy's reconnaissance is not the tight position, and dig the tunnel to the front of the enemy's position all the way!"

"It makes sense!" Hearing me say this, Liu Shunyi waved his fist and nodded in favor: "Just do this, I think the enemy would never have thought that we would dig the tunnel in front of them under their noses! As long as we act carefully, it is entirely possible that God will lurk at the enemy's feet without knowing it!"
Chapter completed!