Chapter 47: The Battle of Tong Deng (17)

Chapter 47: The Battle of Tong Deng (17)

When they were about to enter the secret passage, the soldiers were stunned. Without thinking, I lowered my head and went in.

There was a sultry heat and depression, and the thin air was mixed with a faint smell of blood and corpse stinking. I think the reason why I felt that the corpse stinking was because we had just crawled out of a large pile of corpses of heights.

I turned on the flashlight and shone it into the secret passage. The space was not narrow enough to accommodate more than twenty people, but there were two bodies of Vietnamese soldiers placed horizontally at the bottom, which made people feel uncomfortable.

The soldiers followed in one by one, but didn't say anything when they saw this. They sat down in two rows in a muffled voice. Hu Shaowen kept gasping, and Shunzi's eyes looked at the entrance of the cave from time to time...

"Captain Cui, I'm going to seal the cave!" Seeing that we were all in secret, Xu Yiguo whispered outside the cave.

"Wait..." Shunziteng stood up, ran to the entrance of the cave for three or two and shouted in a low voice: "Let me take a few more breaths, please help me and fan the air from outside..."

"Are you embarrassed?" Yang Songjian glanced at me, then pulled Shunzi down and sat down.

"Closed the cave!" I ordered outside the cave: "After going back, ask Captain Zhao to shoot a few less flares, and you must not stop fighting all, so as not to become suspicious of the Japanese!

"Yes!" Xu Yiguo responded, and sealed the logs into the hole with several soldiers, and then piled up the soil. Although I didn't see what happened later, I knew that Xu Yiguo and the others would try to make it as stable as possible, and finally put the marks made by the Vietnamese army, so as not to find a place for the Vietnamese army.

Although there is no substantial difference between sealing the entrance of the cave and not sealing the secret passage, in such a closed space, it will bring considerable psychological pressure to the soldiers. Especially in this tunnel, there are two Vietnamese corpses emitting foul smell...

I'm pretty good. I've been used to hiding tunnels on the Korean battlefield and seeing this kind of scene. But the soldiers have never experienced such things, and they are all so nervous that they can't speak.

Hu Shaowen's breathing was getting more and more violent, as if something was stuck on his neck; Shunzi nervously held the flashlight to look at the person and the person, sometimes not shining on the two Vietnamese corpses, as if he was worried that they would suddenly come alive; Yang Songjian was fine, without saying anything, and without strange movements, but just closed his eyes from time to time to take a deep breath; the calmest part was the hometown people and Li Shuibo, but I found that the hometown people took out cigarettes twice and wanted to light them, but soon realized that it was not suitable for smoking in this hypoxic environment, so he put the cigarette back...

"Try not to speak!" I said in a gentle tone: "Don't be nervous, keep breathing evenly, so that you can save oxygen..."

"Company Commander!" Before I could finish speaking, Hu Shaowen said to me with a pale face: "I, I can't stand it anymore, let me out! I don't want to stay here!"

"Go out? How can you go out now?" Yang Songjian asked back.

"Don't go out!" said the hometown man: "It is very likely that you will encounter the Vietnamese Japanese when you go out now..."

"I'm not afraid of meeting the Yue Japanese!" Hu Shaowen shouted in a crying voice: "Company Commander, please, I can't stand it anymore! Even if the Yue Japanese Japanese are beaten to death, I don't want to stay here! I want to go out and let me out..."

"Huo...", before Hu Shaowen finished speaking, a military sect pressed on his neck. I stared at Hu Shaowen's eyes fiercely and said, "Listen to me, we have no turning back to go! If you continue to stay here, there is no problem. If you say something else, you have to go out..."

I raised my head toward the two corpses at the bottom of the secret passage and said in an unquestionable tone: "Then you will be like them soon! Do you understand?"

Hu Shaowen looked at the cold light reflected from the flashlight from the blade, and nodded in horror.

I glared at Hu Shaowen again, glanced at the soldiers beside me who were staring at me blankly, and then I took back the military sect.

After this incident, the soldiers looked at me a little weird. I knew what they were thinking. They were blaming me for not acting on my own people, especially for Hu Shaowen, a teenager. But what they didn't know was that I had to do this.

Because I know very well that when a person is afraid and on the verge of collapse, he can do anything. Hu Shaowen was on the verge of collapse just now. If he didn't need Thunder to cover up his fear, then he would probably raise the ak47 in his hand and yell at us: "Dig a hole! Let me go out... I will kill anyone who doesn't let me go out!"

Moreover, I also know that this kind of fear is contagious. If Hu Shaowen's fear is not suppressed, then there will be a second and third Hu Shaowen... This often happens when cold weapons are fighting in ancient times. At night, a man dreams in the military camp and screams in a terrifying voice, which will soon spread the fear to other people, and then trigger a large number of people in the military camp to kill each other...

The soldiers around me have been on the battlefield for a few days, and it can be said that their psychological endurance is still quite poor. Especially, they have never killed anyone and fought a war. They have suddenly killed so many people in the past few days, experienced several deaths, and even watched their comrades die by their side with their own eyes...

Although I am not a psychologist, I know that they all have an energy that cannot be released in their hearts. This energy will burst out at any time. Once it explodes, it will be the kind of venting that will not distinguish between enemies and me at the same time!

Especially now, we are in an extremely closed environment because of our mission, and no one knows what is going on here...

Only then did I realize that perhaps my biggest enemy is not the upcoming enemy, but these comrades sitting beside me.

A low cry suddenly came from the secret passage. The soldiers turned their heads and found that it was Hu Shaowen who was secretly wiping his tears.

"Why are you crying?" The hometown man handed a handkerchief to Hu Shaowen: "The company commander is right! Do you know if you make a mistake and want to be a deserter? You don't think about it. It's not important if you go out and let the Yue Japanese slaughter. We also want the Yue Japanese to be suffocated to death. It's not important if we die. If this mission cannot be completed, how many people will die in the attack on the Guitun Fort? If it were me... I will stab you twice!"

After the hometown said this, the soldiers' faces also eased. I couldn't help but look at the hometown with gratitude. In fact, what I wanted to say just now is just now. But it was said by the third party of the hometown, and the persuasion was naturally completely different.

"So I said Shaowen!" The hometown man patted Hu Shaowen on the shoulder again and said, "Just as the company commander said, there is no turning back to go to this point! Let's just be determined to stab the Vietnamese's nest!"

"Yes! Come to those Japanese devils with great force!"

"Let's fight for those comrades who have sacrificed their lives!"

"In order to reduce the casualties of comrades, it's worth it even if we sacrifice!"

...

At this time, I finally knew why one of the cadres always had to be a singer and the other was a singer. The people in my hometown thought they had been a instructor for several years, so they understood this truth very well, so they came out to singer and singer at this appropriate time... We were so strict and lenient, fighting and persuading, which actually gave the soldiers a good educational role.

"Stop... stop sound!" At this moment, I seemed to hear a few strange sounds, and quickly raised my hand to signal the soldiers to calm down.

"Bang bang bang..." It was the sound of stone hitting the soil. The soldiers heard it clearly as soon as they calmed down. Everyone became nervous in an instant, and they all picked up their submachine guns and were ready to rush out.

I glanced at the soldiers and said, "What are you doing? Have you forgotten that they came to 'save' us?"

Hearing this, the soldiers couldn't help but smile awkwardly, put away their weapons knowingly, and fell to the ground one after another as if they were weak.

"Bang bang bang bang..." I smashed the log on the top with the butt a few times, and then the sound of excavation came from it soon.

I waved to Li Shuibo and asked him to stand in front and be prepared to deal with the Vietnamese army.

This is also the reason why I have to prepare two Vietnamese dialects. Once the Vietnamese army digs through the secret passage, a Vietnamese soldier needs to deal with the Vietnamese army outside the secret passage. A Vietnamese soldier must also prepare to answer in the secret passage, otherwise they may be exposed.

Li Shuibo has good psychological qualities and is also familiar with the title of the Vietnamese army, so of course he deals with the Vietnamese army outside. And the one who deals with the Vietnamese army in the secret passage was naturally Hu Shaowen.

The Vietnamese army was moving very quickly. Obviously they wanted to rescue us as quickly as possible, so the logs at the top of the secret passage were unveiled after a while. A few rays of starlight spilled in through the small hole, bringing a trace of light to our dark secret passage. A breeze blew, which made our spirits uncontrollably excited.

Only then did we realize that although the smell of corpse is filled with the air, it is nothing compared to lacking breathing...

"Comrade! Is Major Hu here?" The Vietnamese army outside the cave called out to us.

"No!" Li Shuibo replied straightforwardly: "He should be trapped in a secret passage behind us, and I don't know either!"

Of course, the answer between Li Shuibo and the Vietnamese army at this time was in Vietnamese that I couldn't understand. I didn't know what they were saying, so I was not nervous at all. Afterwards, I realized how wise Li Shuibo's answer was.

If Li Shuibo said at this time there was... then it was over, the Vietnamese army would definitely recognize which one was Major Hu. Li Shuibo said so lightly: Maybe he was trapped in a secret passage behind... so the problem was solved. When they dug through the secret passage behind and found that there was no Major Hu, we might have started fighting in the Guitun Fort!

The first person to go out was Li Shuibo. As soon as he went out, he whispered to the Yue army outside: "Comrade, thank you! There is too little air inside. If you don't come again, we will all be suffocated to death. Several comrades fainted..."

This sounds like thanks on the surface, but in fact it is implying that the Vietnamese army - the few comrades who came out later will not speak, it would be normal!

We were dragged out one after another, and I didn't know which one I was ranked. In short, when we were dragged out, we were all wearing a dead fish and just breathing.

"Comrade, can you still climb?" A Vietnamese officer whispered: "We can't carry you up the mountain, that will be discovered by the Chinese!"

"Yes!" Li Shuibo responded, and then used our company's special sign language to crawl forward.

Although we couldn't understand what the Vietnamese army was saying, we could understand the gestures. Hu Shaowen couldn't understand the gestures but could understand the Vietnamese language, so we all had no problem. They all pretended to be difficult and turned over, and then followed the Vietnamese army with difficulty to climb to the Guitun Fort on Pingding Mountain.

I was so happy when I climbed on the slope of Pingding Mountain. I thought that the Vietnamese army would confirm our identity during this process, but I didn't expect that they didn't do this at all. They didn't expect that someone would bury themselves in this secret passage that was difficult to breathe! In addition, they were all thinking about "rescuing" us as soon as possible. It would be dangerous to delay more time outside, so they did not doubt our identity at all.

But things were not that simple. Just when I was secretly happy, a flare suddenly appeared on my head. Everyone hurriedly lowered their heads and lay down without moving. After a while, when the flares became dark, we dared to raise our heads and crawl forward again.

At this time, I had a strange feeling in my heart that we had to guard against our own flares. But... I think Captain Zhao and the others should have discovered us. Now they may be secretly hiding for us to successfully deceive the Yue Japanese!

Pingding Mountain is not high, but under the interference of the flares, the group climbed and stopped. It took more than half an hour to reach the top of the mountain. At this time, the military uniforms on our bodies had long been ground to pieces, and there were also blood marks scraped from edges and corners. But the soldiers didn't know the pain at all, because our attention had long been focused on the black Guitun Fort in front of us.

This is the first time I have observed the Guitun Fort at such a close distance. From the outside, it looks so black and inconspicuous, as ugly as a steamed bun. But I know that in this small-looking fort, there are at least thousands of well-trained Vietnamese soldiers hidden...

The Vietnamese officer looked around and knocked heavily on the iron door three times. After waiting for a while, he knocked twice. The iron door slowly opened in front of us with the rumble...

"Quick!" The Vietnamese officer waved at us and shouted at us in a low voice.

Even if we don’t understand Vietnamese, we know that he is worried that our army will launch a raid when we open the iron gate, so we will get in as soon as possible.

Of course we wouldn't be polite. We got up from the ground one by one and rushed towards the iron gate. While running, we tied the flashlight to the barrel of the ak47...

"Wait!" Just as I was about to step into the iron gate, the Vietnamese officer who was carrying out the cover mission next to the gate stopped me, and his small eyes were aiming at me like rats. I soon realized that this guy had discovered the flaw because we were still weak just now, but now we were all alive again!

But he realized that something was wrong was too late. Before the Vietnamese officer could react, I had already pulled out the military spear and nailed it to his neck.

He wanted to scream, but because the army stinged in the vocal cords, he could not make any sound, so he could only make a little cooing sound in his throat. He covered his neck with one hand in pain, pointed at me in surprise, and pointed at the other Vietnamese troops as if he wanted to remind them... but it was still too late. I had already pulled out the pistol at my waist, "Bang..." a few times, and easily knocked down the Vietnamese troops who were responding to us one by one.

In a certain way, I should be doing this to repay kindness and revenge. After all, they worked so hard to "rescue" us, and they worked hard without credit. However, I like this kind of "revenge of kindness and revenge" because it means that we can defeat the enemy without any effort.

The battle started soon, and there were several upward steps behind the iron gate, which were connected to the small door of the first turret. We had already understood this from the old militia He Guoan. The soldiers who first entered the iron gate did not say a word, pulled a few grenades and threw them in...

Only a few explosions of "boom..." were heard, and a powerful wave of air spurted out from the small door with a pile of cement. Along with these, the screams of the Vietnamese army came out.

The soldiers pressed the flashlight on the barrel as fast as possible, and they all lowered their waists and drilled in...

"Bang bang..." The gunshots quickly rang.

When we rushed over, the Vietnamese army inside had already lie down on the ground. The grenades exploded in the closed space, and the harm caused by the shock waves would increase exponentially. The Vietnamese army was either injured and killed by shrapnel or was shocked by the shock waves. All we had to do was to add a shot at the Vietnamese army lying on the ground and struggled. Several Vietnamese soldiers struggled to raise their guns to resist, but they were quickly knocked to the ground by us!

A few minutes later, we occupied the first floor of the fort without any effort. However, there was a difficulty when attacking the second floor. If we follow the drawings drawn by Mr. He Guoan, entering the second floor is nothing more than a downward passage. We can throw grenades or even explosive packs from a high place... But after careful inspection, we found that this passage had been transformed into a ladder of more than a dozen floors, and there was also machine guns that could attack it in the castle, so we had no way to attack the second floor from the stairs that only allowed one person to pass!
Chapter completed!