Deep darkness, endless emptiness.

The soldiers and I knew that the puppet troops at the foot of the mountain were approaching the top of the mountain with weapons, but we could not see anything. What we could see was still the cannon fire that exploded in front of the position. Occasionally, a long lightning flashed through the entire night sky. The puppet troops that were rushing towards us like a tide suddenly broke into our sight, and flashed through our minds like ghosts in the dark.

The number of puppet troops was more than I thought. The puppet troops who rushed up had almost one battalion, not to mention the cover troops and reserve troops left at the foot of the mountain.

This also made me realize that the large army of our army will arrive soon. Because only at this time the puppet army will be anxious and will desperately let so many people launch group charges at the same time. The reality on the battlefield has proved that in the era of hot weapons, the effect will not be too different. Therefore, there is only one situation that makes the commander choose to use dense formations to charge, that is, once he rushes into the enemy position, he can take down the position in one fell swoop with the advantage of the number of people. Obviously, the puppet army currently charging towards us has the same purpose.

The sound of cannons gradually weakened, less and less, and finally stopped. This was undoubtedly telling me that the puppet army had approached the top position. My ears were "buzzing" in the cold night for a while before I got used to it. Then I heard the "whim" wind and the "tick" rain. I couldn't help but take off my hat and closed my eyes and raised my head, letting the rain falling from the sky wash the stains on my face. The cold rain hit my face, just like countless little girls' fingers gently bounced on my face. The mountain wind whistled past, combed my hair like my mother's kindness.

What a wonderful night! If there is still a little time, even if there is only a little time, I will hope that I can stand naked in the rain and let it soak it in enough, even if I will fall under the gun of the enemy in the next second...

But I know that all of this is a luxury for me. I don’t have that time and cannot control my own life. My life is not just mine, I also have to be responsible for the victory of this battle, and for the lives of more than 300 soldiers under my command!

This may be the sorrow of being a commander!

The puppet army is getting closer and closer. I can already hear the "bang" sound of military boots stepping on mud and water. Occasionally, several puppet soldiers will slip. They did not fire or fire flares. For the puppet army, they certainly hope that the darker the better. If they can ride the darkness all the way to our position, it would be more ideal. So they would not be able to do such stupid things that put themselves in adverse circumstances.

But we won't let the puppet army be so relaxed...

"One hundred meters!"

Hu Zudi's cold voice came from the walkie-talkie.

Hu Zudi, equipped with a night vision device, kept reporting to me the location of the puppet army through the night vision device. As the saying goes, knowing that the enemy is invincible for a hundred battles, as a commander, I must know the situation of the enemy. Only in this way can I issue an attack order when appropriate. At this time, the sharpshooter equipped with a night vision device is undoubtedly my best eye and ear.

"Eighty meters!"

Hu Zudi's voice changed from cold to cruel. I know why. At this time, only the entire army equipped with night vision devices could see the puppet army and clearly know the number of the puppet army. Seeing so many enemies in front of them, they naturally had a murderous desire to be with guns in their hands.

But I still did not issue an order to attack, so Hu Zudi and others could only wait quietly.

"Sixty meters!"

Hu Zudi's voice became a little impatient. I believe that he was not impatient because of himself, but he knew clearly that the number of enemies was several times higher than ours. With such a huge difference in numbers, it was easy for the enemy to break through our defense and enter hand-to-hand combat in an instant.

And it is obvious that the hand-to-hand combat at this time is definitely not what we plan or what we hoped!

"Forty meters!"

Hu Zudi continued to report. The reason why Hu Zudi reported alone was that other soldiers from the cold gun troops were arranged by me in the east positions. The anti-aircraft holes on the eastern positions were the key to our survival. At the same time, I also needed the sharpshooters of the cold gun troops to block and eliminate all enemies who attacked from the east and might survive the artillery fire. Otherwise, our hiding position would be very likely to be discovered by the enemy and threatened.

"Fight!" Just as the enemy was only thirty meters away from our front line, I suddenly opened my eyes, and ignited the two grenades in my hand and threw them into the darkness in front of the position.

Almost at the same time, the soldiers who had long been unable to hold back also threw out the grenades that had been prepared.

"Boom..." With the explosion, the puppet army screamed in the explosion's flames.

The gunshots quickly rang out, but the puppet troops were shooting aimlessly. None of the volunteers fired back and continued to throw grenades one after another.

This is a tactic that I agreed with the soldiers before the battle. According to the usual style of play, flares are usually used to hit the air, and then shoot when the soldiers see the target clearly. Of course, this style of play is understandable. Only by seeing the target clearly can you shoot! Otherwise, even if we are familiar with the terrain, we cannot accurately hit the target in this darkness.

But there will be a problem when fighting like this, that is, a flare strike is equivalent to sending a signal to the puppet army, which is almost telling the enemy that we are going to shoot and ask them to find cover quickly. The puppet army has also come from the war, and is naturally not fools, so when we see clearly the target and shoot, they are all lying on the ground. More importantly, the flares at such a close distance will also illuminate ourselves. This practice is undoubtedly unwise for us who have much weaker troops than the puppet army.

So I ordered the soldiers to neither fire flares nor shoot guns, and just wait for the puppet troops to enter the throwing range of the grenades and throw the grenades...

There are two benefits of fighting like this: one is that the sparks from the muzzle will expose our location but the grenades will not. Because of this, the puppet troops who were not familiar with the terrain and attacked us in the dark did not know where we were, and they could not even determine the distance from us. So we were blown up for a while and still couldn't tell the location of our defense line.

Another is that the bullets have no targets and the hit rate of the strafing fire is very low, while the grenades explode the entire surface. There are many puppet soldiers, so we can throw a few grenades down, and the shrapnel will fly around the inclined surface, and then it will kill several puppet soldiers. On the contrary, because they cannot determine the position of our defense line, they dare not throw oval grenades that are easy to roll back, so they have to raise all kinds of weapons in their hands to sweep them randomly.

The puppet troops who attacked us did not expect us to fight like this. They caught us off guard and were blown into the barrage of grenades. Even if a few lucky ones occasionally could rush through the barrage, Hu Zudi and his assistant would quickly deal with them in front of our position.

After being blown up by us for a while, the commander of the puppet army finally realized that if he continued to fight like this, his troops would likely fall under the enemy's grenades. So he heard a few "thump..." sounds, and several flares quickly rose into the air.

"Test!" I yelled, raised the rifle in my hand and pulled the trigger at the puppet army.

After the soldiers also threw out the grenades in their hands, they attacked the puppet army with various weapons.

In the end, the puppet army would shoot flares as well as I expected, so I had already issued an order: as long as the flares were lifted, it would be time to fire. So the soldiers seized the initiative again. Those who did not have grenades in their hands immediately grabbed the weapon and pulled the trigger at the enemy. Those who had grenades threw them out as quickly as possible...

On the other hand, the puppet army did not expect that several flares would suddenly come out from behind. They came without any precautions and did not rush to hide, and were exposed to the firepower of the volunteer soldiers almost without any cover.

The gunshots quickly rang out, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns... all sprayed balls of bullets at the puppet army in front of them.

Before this battle, I won many turntable machine guns for the 538th Regiment. Until now, although many turntable machine guns were blown up by enemy shells along with their owners, a considerable number of turntable machine guns were transferred to other soldiers due to the casualties of machine gunners. Therefore, most of the equipment held by the more than 300 people stationed on the top of the mountain were rotary machine guns and ***sha. Those who hold rifles are afraid that there are only sharpshooters like me who are used to using them.

With such a high density of machine guns and submachine guns, our army has a small number of people, but its firepower is not small. The pieces of bullets are almost denser than the rain in the sky. "Wow..." and like a big hand, it suppressed the puppet army's charge team. And on the way the puppet army was suppressed, there were pieces of corpses and shocking blood!

"Bang bang..." I mechanically pulled the trigger and knocked down two machine gunners who were trying to set up a machine gun in front of the position.

For me now, choosing enemies worthy of my attack and taking their lives before they come and pose a threat to us has become a conditioned reflex. In other words, even if I have nothing to think about and have no calculations now, just standing here will instinctively shoot dangerous targets one by one.

Just like me now, I keep pulling the trigger in my hand, and even quickly changing the magazine after the bullet is fired, but I am thinking about other things in my head.

As I expected, the puppet army continued to shell our positions. The shells produced a lot of gunpowders on the positions, and the blocking of the rain made it difficult for the flares to penetrate. As soon as the flares were lifted up, the land that should have been pale was as bright as a light with insufficient wattages. Even the puppet army was close to us, we could only vaguely see their figures.

This is exactly what I hope, because only in this way can the puppet troops on both sides of the south and north be able to cause "friendly casualties" to occur.

"Report the situation!" I shouted to the intercom, gunfire and explosions forced me to shout with all my might.

"To the east, the enemy was suppressed by our army's firepower and could not move!"

"In the north, the puppet army is launching a charge, but the offensive is not strong!"

I quickly got the information I wanted from the intercom.

The east side put the enemy outside a certain range was originally our plan, because only in this way could our army with more than 300 people have room for accommodation. However, the puppet army in the north was not strong, but it was a bit beyond my expectations.

If the offensive is not strong, it means that my strategy is likely to not achieve the expected results. What I want is that the puppet troops on both sides attacking like crazy, so that the two troops can collide hard, but now...

Then I quickly realized that the reason why the puppet army's offensive in the north was simply because they knew that we might mobilize artillery fire in the north, so the north was not their main attack direction at all.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but frown and ordered to the intercom: "Come some of the soldiers garrisoned in the north, and carefully put a few enemies in the north!"

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang, on the other end of the intercom, executed my order without hesitation.

This is showing the enemy's weakness! In fact, at this time, the puppet army in the south was caught off guard by us and had not recovered yet. I didn't need to transfer a group of soldiers from the north to defend. My purpose was to give the puppet army in the north an illusion that the puppet army in the south was too fierce, and I had to draw the manpower from the north... If this could not be fooled, then Li Guoqiang carefully let a few puppet army rush to our position, which I think would be enough to let them see hope for victory. If all this is the case, those puppet army still don't rush up to death, then I can only sigh that God will not bless me!

"Bang bang..." As the gunshots were heard on the intercom, I heard Li Guoqiang mobilizing his men and directing the soldiers to deliberately put a few people up!

By the way, it is easy to kill the enemy like this, but it is very difficult to let a few enemies up, and it is even a very risky thing. Isn't this? Even Li Guoqiang's seventh company was a little busy.

"At two o'clock, the three puppet soldiers let them come up!"

"Be careful with the sharpshooter, please kill those who want to drop bombs!"

"Zhang Xiong is ready, the enemy will be dealt with immediately as soon as he rushes to the position!"

...

It can be seen that Li Guoqiang's side did not go very smoothly, so they failed after two trials. It was not until the third time that two lucky puppet troops finally rushed to our position. However, as soon as they rushed to the position, the luck came to an end.

Who is Zhang Xiong? He has always been known for his quick movements. He is afraid that when the general stabbed the two puppet soldiers to separate the throats of the two puppet soldiers, the two puppet soldiers had not seen clearly who was in front of them!

"The puppet army was fooled!" Li Guoqiang then quickly reported: "They organized two companies to launch a fierce attack on our position!"

I shouted in my heart, this is exactly what I want.

"Dadadada..." The gunshots became increasingly dense, and both sides of the enemy and us poured tons of bullets into each other as if they were crazy. As the puppet army fired fewer and fewer flares, the surroundings fell into darkness again. Only the fire lights emitted from the muzzles of both sides and the lines of fire drawn by the bullets in the darkness were like a man-eating devil waving his chain, dancing in the air and taking away one life after another.

It makes sense that the puppet army no longer uses flares. In night battles, fighting flares will generally only be more beneficial to the defense. Because flares will expose the charge troops to the enemy's firepower without reservation. They used to use flares just to see the position of our army's defensive positions. After confirming this, lighting has become a matter that is beneficial to the enemy.

The puppet army took advantage of the darkness and pressed towards us in pieces. I felt that the time was ripe, so I gestured to the communicator who had been by my side. The communicator immediately broadcast the walkie-talkie and issued an order to the artillery unit.

At the same time, I ordered on the walkie-talkie: "Everyone has it, pass the order down, and immediately retreat into the anti-cannon hole in the east to wait for the order!"

"Yes!" The soldiers' answers came from the intercom.

The last time came, I ran a few steps back and found Li Guoqiang who was commanding the battle. The two of them hugged each other tightly without saying anything.

"Goodbye in the next life!" Li Guoqiang said relaxedly.

"Goodbye in the next life!" I choked up in my answer, wishing I could complete this task on his behalf, but I knew it was impossible. Not to mention that Li Guoqiang himself would not agree, even the soldiers would not agree...

"Woo..." Suddenly, waves of shells whistling in the sky. Li Guoqiang pushed me suddenly and shouted: "Go away!"

As he said that, he ignored me again and mobilized the soldiers to command the next battle.

I paused, and finally looked at the veteran who had been following for several years. As soon as I turned around, I ran to the east with the soldiers and ran towards the anti-aircraft bullet hole.

As soon as we hid in the anti-aircraft hole, the shells surged up in pieces. In the darkness, the whole world was boiling. The 585.2 highland was churning in the fire, shaking, and the roar of shells and shrapnel everywhere, and explosions everywhere!
Chapter completed!