Volume 2 The Second Battle Chapter 16: Blowing up the Bridge (Part 2)
After a cloud of smoke, the car was safely parked in the middle of the stone bridge. It did not fall off the bridge or explode, but it just had some problems and could not be moved. The puppet soldiers in the car immediately became a mess, yelling and jumping off the truck and running back to the other side.
"It didn't blow up? How could this happen?" Jin Qiulian looked at all this in shock and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.
"Girl," the old squad leader asked, "Isn't it that you used explosives given by the Soviet Union? The explosives in our army are not that pure. Some of them are mixed with captured explosives. The power is not as strong as theirs."
So that's how it is. I cursed in my heart that it was unfair. Now it was time to watch a good show. Although the puppet army deserters on the opposite side were not a large force, there were more than a thousand of them. If a platoon of more than thirty of us were to fight them, we would all be killed.
"Da Da..." The enemy's machine guns and mortars soon started firing, but they didn't see anyone at all, and just fired and bombed randomly at the bridgehead. Several shells hit us, and mud and snow splashed all over our faces.
"Do you have any more explosives?" Jin Qiulian seemed upset because she failed to complete the task.
"No more." The old squad leader replied, "Wouldn't it take three days and three nights of forced march? Who would dare to carry so much explosives?"
"Give me the grenade."
"What are you going to do?" Seeing Jin Qiulian tying five or six grenades together and about to rush forward, I pulled her back.
"Are you crazy?" I glared at her fiercely and said, "Wouldn't it be a death wish if you went out now?"
"But the bridge was not blown up." Jin Qiulian's face was pale and she was so anxious that tears were about to fall.
"How can you blow it up if you rush in like this without thinking?" I snatched the grenade from her hand and pointed at her and said, "You say other people are stupid in fighting, but I think it's just right for you!"
With a chuckle, Jin Qiulian remembered what she had just said to me and couldn't help laughing: "Do you have any solution, Platoon Leader Cui? If I let the enemy cross the bridge, the regiment commander will definitely not let me off."
"What can I do... Hey, that's not right!" I was about to say that there was no way, but suddenly I saw the puppet army on the other side of the bridge sent two tanks to clear the way, and I suddenly had an idea.
"What's wrong?" Jin Qiulian looked at me with confusion.
"I have a way. Maybe we can try it!" I didn't have time to explain, so I ordered the squad leader and Huzi: "Comrades, take my gunshot as a signal and fire together. Just aim at the first tank. You can use guns or grenades."
"Yes!" the soldiers responded in a low voice. Although they did not ask, I think they must be very confused at this time. Although the place where we were hiding was not far from the bridgehead, it was still dozens of meters away. At this distance, even grenades would not have any effect on the enemy's tanks, not to mention bullets.
"Platoon Leader Cui..." Jin Qiulian was about to ask something when I interrupted her by raising my hand.
"We don't have much time. I'll explain it to you later." I handed her Mosin-Nagant rifle to her and said, "You're an accurate shooter, right? When I charge forward, you just need to cover me. Shoot any enemy that's aiming at me."
Jin Qiulian was stunned for a moment, as if she wanted to switch roles with me and let her rush forward, but when she saw my unquestionable look, finally nodded.
Two "Xiafei" tanks drove towards the stone bridge one after another, and behind each tank were dozens of trembling infantrymen. It was obvious that they were ready to escape at any time.
In fact, at that time, except for the pseudo 1st Division, also known as the Capital Division, whose quality was unsatisfactory, the rest of the South Korean army could be regarded as a mob, because many of them were temporary expansion personnel who had never fought in a war.
When the Korean War first broke out, the Korean People's Army launched a thunderous offensive against South Korea, causing heavy losses to South Korea's puppet army. Later, when the People's Army was defeated, the puppet army quickly expanded with the help of the US military and launched a counterattack.
But it is conceivable that the army expanded in this way is nothing more than ordinary people with guns. It is no wonder that in the military history of the US military, words such as "disorganized army" and "rabble" are used many times to describe the South Korean army.
For example, this time, they knew that the bridge had been bombed, but they still dared to use tanks to clear the way.
Don't you know what a dangerous bridge is? Don't you know that overloading is very dangerous? You must obey traffic rules, brother...
Although this "Xiafei" tank is light, it still weighs at least ten tons. So two of them would weigh more than thirty tons. As long as I can find a way to drive both tanks onto the bridge, hehe!
The first tank slowly drove onto the stone bridge, the white five-pointed star on the turret was particularly dazzling in the moonlight . It was not idle after it got on the bridge, and easily pushed the broken car on the bridge forward.
So this is also related. After reading this, I seem to understand why they still used tanks. There is nothing wrong with using one tank. It is also necessary to clear the road and push the car off the bridge. But their mistake was that they should not have used two tanks...
"Rumble!" The car was pushed forward amid the noise of tanks. The enemy seemed to realize that the stone bridge could not bear too much weight. The second tank drove up only after the first tank had gotten off the bridge.
From this perspective, they seemed to have thought it through very carefully, but what they didn't expect was that this was a battlefield, and the enemies on the battlefield would never let you off so easily.
"Shoot!" When the second tank drove onto the bridge, I gave the order and fired a shot at the first tank. I didn't even aim with this shot, because everyone knows that bullets cannot penetrate the tank's armor, and from the angle I was standing, I couldn't see the infantry hiding behind the tank at all.
"Boom boom..." I don't know who threw a few grenades, but they exploded not far from the bridge head, scaring the puppet soldiers following the tanks and making them turn around and run away.
But what surprised me was that the tank did not run away as I had expected, but continued to move forward slowly.
"Oh my god! What's going on?" I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, could it be that the puppet soldiers in the tanks are not afraid of death?
But when I saw the car in front of it, I quickly understood that our grenades and bullets were firing wildly outside, and its observation mirror was completely blocked by the car, so it couldn't see a thing!
