Chapter 68 Red Flag

I waved to the rear, and Hu Biao immediately launched his troops according to the combat plan that had been formulated. The first company, which was the leader, deployed its troops according to the attack formation. The second company was ready for attack as the second echelon, and the third company, lurked on the second line as the reserve team.

On a rainy night, the soldiers were ready to fight. The guns were loaded on the bullets and the bayonets were supported. The mortars of the assisted heavy machine guns quickly put the guns, bullets, and shells into boxes next to the heavy machine guns and mortars, waiting for my orders.

I raised my telescope and looked at the 522.1 high ground. The lights of the searchlights and flares made the enemy's arrangement and movements clearly exposed to my sight. The most conspicuous were the two pontoon bridges on the Beihan River, two long puppet troops were running back and forth, one to the south and the other to the north. Obviously, as the scouts said, the reinforcements of the 7th Puppet Division were heading north, and the exhausted defeated soldiers of the puppet troops retreated south. But what they didn't know was that the two pontoon bridges had been tied up with rows of explosive packs by the volunteer soldiers...

Looking closer, there were two companies of puppet troops busy building fortifications at the foot of the mountain. Judging from the distribution and orientation of these fortifications, it was obvious that they were to defend against threats from our direction. It was too late to start building fortifications at this time. Moreover, because the 539th Regiment attacked fiercely on the other side, the puppet troops who were beaten to the point of being too busy had no time to divide the attention of this side, so the puppet troops in this direction looked very loose.

I put away my telescope and said to the messenger who was following me: "Pass the order and detonate!"

"Yes!" The messenger responded and immediately pulled out the phone to convey the order. Then, the messenger reported to me in a low voice: "Captain, it has already detonated!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

I know that the reason why the two pontoon bridges have not exploded is because the volunteer soldiers responsible for detonating the explosive packages need time to evacuate. What we need to wait for now is the time when the fuse is burned out.

The gunshots were still ringing, and the cannons were still ringing. Everything seemed to have not changed. The prisoners were still busy in the wind and rain. What they didn't know was that there were already a bunch of black guns aimed at them in the dark; the puppet troops on the pontoon bridge were still running back and forth like before. What they didn't notice was that the palm of the god of death had slowly extended to them from the river...

Then there was a burst of "boom...", and with the flames, the two floating bridges were blown into pieces in an instant. The puppet army, who had just run on the floating bridge to transport ammunition, were torn into pieces in an instant, and the wreckage of the floating bridge was thrown into the sky. Then they fell into the river one by one, stirring up water splashes. The burning wooden blocks flew, floating in the river water and drifting with the waves, illuminating the blood and broken limbs of the river. The Beihan River turned into a blood river in the blink of an eye...

All the puppet troops were stunned by this sudden scene. They subconsciously lying on the ground, all looked back at the scene on the Beihan River in disbelief. The machine gunners, searchlights, etc. arranged along the coast all focused on the two pontoon bridges that had been broken. What they couldn't understand was how could the volunteers blow up the pontoon bridge so thoroughly without knowing their defense...

I don’t know who fired a flare into the river, and a Beihan River, covered with corpses and blood, appeared in front of everyone.

It was obvious that the volunteer soldiers were also stunned by the scene in front of them, so that they all forgot that this was the best time to charge.

"Comrades! Go!" The first person to react, I waved the rifle in my hand, and roared and pulled the trigger at the puppet troops in front of me who were exposed to the flames.

The gunshots and shouts made the soldiers wake up quickly. With the red flag bearer waved the flag, they led the soldiers of a company to rush towards the puppet troops near the floating bridge.

The dense guns and cannons quickly rang out, and the unprepared puppet army could not resist the impact of volunteer soldiers. In addition, the puppet army was in the bright spots of flares, searchlights and firelights, which was undoubtedly the best target for the volunteer soldiers. They would be defeated in just one encounter.

However, the puppet army was worthy of being a unit that grew up in the war. It soon realized that the line of defense at the foot of the mountain could not be defended, so it quickly organized troops to cover groups of people retreating to the relatively dark 522.1 Highland.

"Operation!" With the order to the intercom, the troops of the 7th Company immediately set up formation and, led by the night vision of the cold gun troops, were attacked by the puppet army deserters.

The operation was not long, and the upcoming deserters of the puppet army gave us only one hour. In other words, we had to charge in one charge to capture the 522.1 high ground, otherwise, it was very likely that the puppet army would build a complete line of defense so that we could not complete the task in this limited time.

Only one army can do the 522.1 high ground with one charge, that is, the 7th Company equipped with a night vision device!

"Bang bang..." Under my leadership, the soldiers of the 7th Company slowly followed the retreating puppet troops. At the front were five soldiers equipped with night vision instruments. Their carbines came from time to time to shoot, killing several puppet troops who fell behind the team or want to turn back to defend. However, they ignored the other puppet troops who were only concerned about escape. Even if they completely shine their backs in front of us, we just let them escape.

This is the strategic policy we set at the beginning. To put it simply, it is actually to use the deserters of the puppet army to cover our raid troops to clear obstacles along the way.

The puppet army had actually built many fortification defenses on both sides of the mountain road. Although these fortifications were simple, they were just trenches, machine gun positions, etc. In such a short time, the puppet army could not build more fortifications, but even such simple fortifications still took a certain amount of time to deal with such simple fortifications. Because the puppet army often had to stand one or two machine guns casually to block us on the narrow mountain road for more than ten minutes.

It's easy now, and we just seem to have to follow the deserters of the puppet army all the way and then remove the machine gunners on both sides.

For the puppet army machine gunners arranged on both sides of the mountain road, their difficulty was that they could not distinguish whether the large group of people along the mountain road were enemies or friends. This may not be accurate enough. It should be said that they could distinguish between enemies and us, but what made them helpless was that their comrades were always at the forefront. When they discovered the enemy, the volunteer soldiers equipped with night vision instruments had already discovered them first and shot bullets into their heads accurately.

For those puppet soldiers who fled all the way, their pain was that they knew they were being used by us but were helpless. The enemy's gun was pointed at who was still brave enough to run away! Turn back and resist? No need to think about it, everyone who intends to resist is lying on the road!

If they were soldiers of the puppet army's *** regiment, I think they would probably sacrifice themselves to take the overall situation into consideration. Just like when the *** regiment attacked the 585.2 highland of our army, there was a suicide squad rushing towards our position with grenades and explosives bags. It should be said that the *** regiment had some combat styles that were very similar to the Japanese army during World War II.

It’s a puppet army in front of us who were hunted by us was not the *** regiment, they were defeated soldiers who were chased from Jinchengchuan all the way here by the 539th regiment. Several consecutive defeats in one night had already made them lose their spirit and courage, so they could only speed up and try to break free from our control as soon as possible. But what they didn’t know was that speed up was exactly what we wanted them to do.

So a very dramatic scene appeared on the 522.1 high ground. A team of volunteer soldiers drove the puppet army to the mountain like ducks. All the firepower points set up by the puppet army along the road were worried that they would accidentally hurt their own people, and none of them could play their due role. They had to helplessly knock out one by one and then one by us.

Our army was driving towards the top position of the 522.1 highland amid the gunshots and the screams of the puppet army. This was more appropriate than a war. Their attack speed was so fast that it was even faster than when I walked up a few hours ago. In a short while, I saw the rows of wooden houses originally as the headquarters of the puppet army. The two blown-up jeeps in front of the door were even emitting blue smoke...

This reminds me of a saying from the ancients, "The superior army attacks the plan, the second is the enemy, the second is the enemy, the inferior army attacks the city." The fact is indeed the case. With a good and correct strategy, what seemed very difficult originally, it will be very simple to do it.

"Did Erlian follow?" I asked casually on the walkie-talkie.

As the second company of the second echelon, we are reinforcements. Now we are about to attack the top of the mountain. The puppet troops on it are not the ones that our 7th company can deal with the most.

"Come on, right behind!" Yang Zhenshan's voice came from the walkie-talkie. He was in charge of the palace in this operation.

"Let them speed up and they will reach the top of the mountain!"

"yes!"

...

"Dadada..."

At this moment, a gunshot suddenly came to mind on the top of the mountain. The puppet army that had been running in front of us fell into a pool of blood in pieces. Then there was another roar, and one shell was blown up in the puppet army group. Several shells fell around us, and the mud was raised and shrapnel flew around us...

Fortunately, when the soldiers heard the gunshots were wrong, they fell to the ground as soon as possible, otherwise there would be casualties.

"Damn it!" Hu Zudi looked up at the puppet army who was beaten to scream in pain, and couldn't help but scold: "These puppet army is really fucking ruthless! They beat their own people so hard!"

"Tsk!" Wang Xinhe continued and said, "If they beat them so hard, then we will kill them with the tail of the puppet army..."

A fire of "boom..." covered all the sounds.

I hurriedly shouted to the intercom, "All units are unfolding in combat formations, and the Cold Guns are ready to cover them and ask the company commander of the Second Company to come up!"

"yes!"

The soldiers responded and immediately spread out to both sides with the mountain road as the top, looking for cover and sniper positions.

I raised my sniper rifle and watched carefully at the top of the mountain for a while. I could judge the fire light coming out of the enemy's muzzle that the enemy's defense was arranged very tightly. The light and heavy weapons formed an intersecting firepower net with each other according to different ranges, which could almost cover every inch of land in the open space of more than 200 meters wide in front of them.

At this time, gunfire sounds on the other side of the 522.1 high ground were also very dense. It is conceivable that the puppet army on the top of the mountain was in a state of attacking between the volunteers. In this case, such a tight line of defense could be built in an orderly manner, which is definitely not something that ordinary troops could do.

The word "*** regiment" quickly flashed into my mind. Although the regiment headquarters of the regiment was destroyed by us and the ammunition depot was also bombed, the original main force of the regiment was stationed here, with as many troops as two battalions. Even if the regiment commander, chief of staff and other high-ranking officials died under our hands, the battalion commander and company commander still had a lot of them, and it was still possible to organize a line of defense to resist.

Originally, their ammunition depot was bombed, and the tiger was equivalent to being knocked out of its minions, but the puppet troops retreated from the front line, Jinchengchuan, provided them with ammunition...

No wonder they were able to do such a ruthless move on their comrades. In fact, they didn't need to kill all the puppet troops in front of us just now. They could use mortars to separate us to save the lives of some puppet soldiers. But they did not do this. Obviously, they were worried that the puppet troops would have infiltrated the enemy, so they simply removed them all.

Back then, the Japanese army's combat style was to ignore the lives of soldiers to achieve their goals. Sometimes they could even persist by eating the bodies of comrades when they were short of food. Now I seem to see the shadow of the Japanese army in the *** regiment.

"Captain!" I was thinking about a volunteer soldier wearing a straw hat and covered in mud and mud climbed up to me and reported: "I am the company commander of the Second Company Li Guoxiang!"

"Yeah!" I took out my pocket watch and looked at it, pointing to the top of the mountain where we were spitting out flames, and said, "You have half an hour to defeat the top of the mountain. Do you have confidence?"

"Yes!" Li Guoxiang replied without thinking: "Please ensure that the task is completed!"

"Move quickly!" I told me: "The sharpshooters of the Cold Guns will provide you with cover. As long as you rush to the enemy's position, you will be victorious, do you understand?"

"I understand!" Li Guoxiang didn't say much, and turned around and went back to the army to organize an attack.

This is not because I favor the 7th Company. When there is a task of attacking, I will let other troops go to the task. The fact is that no country will use special forces to carry out the task of attacking, because there is little difference between a head-on attacking task, whether special forces are to be executed or ordinary troops. So for a commander of a unit, considering the interests of the entire unit, of course, they will intentionally protect the special forces and let them play in more meaningful battles.

For example, now, as long as the Second Company can rush to the enemy's position, even if the entire army is wiped out as soon as it rushes up, our 7th Company can follow up and use its advanced equipment, tacit cooperation, and strong individual combat capabilities to quickly occupy the top position.

The attack was soon organized, and the battle was almost the same pattern. After the firepower preparation, the soldiers launched a charge under the cover of machine guns. The charge of the volunteer soldiers was no exception. However, we have no artillery support for the moment, so we could only concentrate more than a dozen mortars and bombard the positions on the top of the mountain.

"Kill!" The soldiers of the company roared and, led by a red flag, lined up in dispersed formations and rushed towards the 522.1 high ground.

The soldiers of the 538th Regiment are all veterans with combat experience. They know how to protect themselves. They do not use their flesh and blood to slam into the enemy's muzzle like they are shown in movies or TV. There are many examples in reality that prove that such tactics are not feasible.

The chargers sometimes fell down and rolled, and sometimes took advantage of the enemy's machine gun's bullets to move, and quickly approached the top of the mountain position. Looking around, the inclined surface more than 200 meters wide seemed to be full of volunteer soldiers flying, but when the gun was really aimed at a certain soldier, he felt like he had nowhere to start.

The most conspicuous among them is the soldier holding a red flag. Since the volunteer army goes abroad to fight does not represent China, there are no "five stars" on the red flag used by the volunteer army, but it is actually a piece of red cloth.

This red cloth is very conspicuous under the wind and rain. I don’t know why the red flag bearer didn’t roll up the flag to charge and let it flutter in the wind and rain.

After a while, I realized that the purpose of the Red Flag Bearer was to attract the enemy's firepower and allow his comrades to charge better. The puppet army might think that if the Red Flag Bearer could be defeated, it would be able to greatly impact the morale of our charge troops! Isn't that? The two machine guns both swept towards the Red Flag Bearer's hiding place.

However, this also gave me the opportunity to snipe the enemy machine gunner. I gently pulled the trigger, and I heard two "bang..." sounds, and a machine gun immediately became dumb!

The red flag bearer was also clever. He took advantage of the opportunity of machine guns to jump out of the crater and rushed towards the top of the mountain. The fiery red flag sounded in the wind, attracting all the light and dark firepower of the enemy. The soldiers of the entire company also took advantage of the momentum to attack the top of the mountain.

Suddenly, the Hongqibe bearer fell to the ground with somersault, and the Hongqi fell down. The soldiers' charge was once again suppressed by the firepower of the puppet army.

Looking at the red flag bearer through the sniper lens, I found that his entire foot was broken, and his white bones could even be seen.

"I'm afraid this charge won't work!" I couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Chapter completed!