Volume 2 The Second Battle Chapter 5 Accident
"How come you can shoot a gun?" I couldn't help but ask Jin Qiulian during the break. She looked very professional in her camouflage, and even her gun was wrapped in gray cloth. She really looked a bit like a sniper in the movies.
"That's right!" Hu Zi was also curious and said, "He was very accurate, one shot killed one person, comparable to our Platoon Leader Cui."
"My grandfather taught me." Jin Qiulian fiddled with the rifle in her hand, and then I realized that it was a Soviet-made Mosin-Nagant, which was called the water-repeating rifle by the volunteer soldiers.
Although this type of rifle was also present in the Volunteer Army, there were not many of them in the early days when they had not replaced. It is believed that it was brought over by Comrade Jin from the People's Army.
"I often wandered around these mountains when I was a kid, so I'm very familiar with this place." Jin Qiulian went on to say, "If it weren't for you, I would have returned to the main force long ago."
"What? Did we come to the wrong place?" I got angry again when I heard this: "Comrade, even if what you said is right, even if you can find the bag in time and return to the army, this kind of bandit mentality is not acceptable. A revolutionary soldier must behave like a soldier, and must have the organization and discipline of a soldier..."
"Platoon leader!" Fang Zai was stunned when he heard what I said: "When did you learn to speak like a political commissar?"
I was stunned when I heard that. Come to think of it, it's true. When did I become so talkative?
"Puff!" Jin Qiulian couldn't help laughing out loud: "Okay, okay, I admit my mistake and I promise not to make the same mistake again, okay!"
"How do we get back now?" Hu Zi said in a dilemma, "There are enemies everywhere, and I don't want to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains."
"Don't worry!" Jin Qiulian said with a smile, "I know this place well. I promise to bring you back... Hey!"
Jin Qiulian suddenly signaled us to squat down, and then gestured for us to stop talking. Just as everyone was amazed, there was a roar of motors from the bottom of the mountain. I crawled forward with everyone for a while, and when I looked out, I saw a winding road under the rocky cliff, and dozens of cars were slowly passing by in a long line.
Hey, I was feeling depressed and had no place to vent my anger, so I couldn't help but reach for the grenade bag.
"What are you doing?" Jin Qiulian looked at me in confusion. "Aren't we going back to the main force? Won't your bombing expose us all?"
"What if we're exposed?" I unscrewed the grenade cover and said, "We're on the cliff, and they're below it. Can they catch us? By the time their planes come, we'll have already run far away!"
"That's right." Hu Zi also rubbed his hands and said, "If we don't beat a few puppet soldiers and bring them back, what can we say to our comrades when we go back?"
"Huzi, Fangzi!"
"arrive!"
I suddenly became childish and took out three grenades and said, "Let's have a competition. Each of us will throw three grenades and see who can blow up the most cars."
"Okay!" Upon hearing this, Hu Zi and Fang Zi took out their grenades and got ready.
"I'll throw it first." Hu Zi pulled the fuse and threw one down without saying a word.
Hu Zi was indeed a veteran. The grenade drew a parabola and landed accurately on the car, but it bounced and exploded next to the car. Instead of destroying the car, it caused a commotion below. Machine gun bullets soon came up in rows, and the splashed gravel flew everywhere.
Then Fangzai threw another grenade out. Perhaps because of nervousness or the suppression of the machine gun, the grenade landed in the snow pile halfway up the cliff. The explosion only brought up a piece of rubble, which made the puppet soldiers below scream in pain.
When it was my turn, I found a car parked at the bottom of a steep slope not . I couldn't help but smile, pulled the fuse and threw the grenade lightly. The grenade rolled down the steep slope in front of everyone, and then rolled smoothly to the bottom of the car.
At this time, an unexpected accident happened. With a deafening bang, the car exploded with flames like a mushroom cloud, and then soon caused the explosion of two cars next to it, and then several other cars...
Suddenly there was a loud explosion, and the rocks on the cliff were shaken down. We were all worried that we would be shaken off the cliff.
After a long time, the explosions finally stopped. Everyone leaned their heads out to look and saw blazing flames and corpses of puppet soldiers everywhere below the cliff. The dozens of cars that had been lined up in a row were all blown to pieces.
Shit… I couldn’t help but look at the grenade in my hand and thought to myself: ‘This is not a grenade, it’s an atomic bomb.’
“Why is it so powerful?” Everyone was staring at the sea of fire below in a daze.
"Haha..." It took Hu Zi a long while to understand what was going on. He clapped his hands and laughed, "Boy, you are so lucky. We accidentally ran into the enemy's rear. What we blew up was the enemy's ammunition truck!"
"Oh!" After Hu Zi said that, everyone quickly understood that the problem was not with the grenade, but that the cars were loaded with gasoline, explosives, bullets, shells and the like, which caused a chain explosion caused by my grenade.
Jin Qiulian, who was lying beside him, laughed and said, "Bai Shanye has suffered a great loss this time?"
"What?" I was shocked when I heard this: "Are these all Paik Sun-yup's soldiers?"
"Right." Jin Qiulian joked, "You just jumped out of his encirclement and blew up his ammunition, and you don't even know who your opponent is? Who knows, he might be so angry that he's jumping up and down now!"
It turned out to be Paik Sun-yup's soldiers. I said to myself, no wonder. I just felt that they were a little different from other South Korean troops.
Although Paik Sun-yup was not a capable man and was too young compared to Walker and Ridgway, the soldiers he led - the South Korean First Division, also known as the Capital Division, could be said to be the elite of the entire South Korean army. They were all veterans who had fought in wars and were well-equipped, so it was no wonder that those few soldiers were so difficult to deal with.
If he knew that there were only four of us who caused him such heavy losses, I'm afraid he would be so angry that he would shoot himself.
"Let's go, Platoon Leader Cui, what are you looking at?" Jin Qiulian put her gun on her back and said with a smile: "Are you still waiting for Paik Sun-yup's plane to come and see what you look like?"
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(This chapter pays tribute to Leng Shuguo, the squad leader of the 5th squad of the 4th company of the 372nd regiment of the 124th division of the 42nd army. In the third battle, Leng Shuguo led five Chinese soldiers to rush towards the enemy's convoy, detonating the enemy's ammunition trucks and causing a chain explosion, earning him the honorary title of "Hero of Pursuit!")
