"Ta-ta-ta¡ª¡ª!" He fired three sets of short bursts in a row, both accurate and brutal. The Soviet army became confused, changed direction and ran back.
"Ta-ta-ta¡ª¡ª!" He fired another short burst at the opponent, but the gun stopped firing when he pulled the trigger again. There are no more bullets in the magazine.
The deputy machine gunner carrying a spare magazine never caught up and may have been sacrificed. It is impossible to replace it with a new magazine. Jiang Yusheng raised his head for the last time and looked towards the north side of the highland. Crossing the mountain ridge line, he saw that a small group of soldiers from the 2nd platoon had rushed up and down another communication trench towards the second trench. From the first trench where the remnants of the enemy had obviously been cleared, 1st platoon - probably A light machine gun from the second squad and another light machine gun from the 2nd platoon also began to shoot at the Soviet troops above the high ground to cover the upward attacking team.
"The 2nd Platoon is still attacking, and Cheng Fei is still directing the battle," he thought lightly, his grip on the gun handle softened, and his head fell to the ground tiredly.
A pebble in the grass stung his face. He felt uncomfortable. Then he moved his head with difficulty and placed it on the tilted handle of the gun. His eyes were wide open, facing the west, and never closed again.
A huge and heavy sunset hung red and low in the canyon between Mount Hilian and Mount Kibif in the northwest, dyeing every piece of grass on the hillside bright and clear. At this time, Jiang Yusheng saw the whole battlefield for the first time. Not only up and down the highlands, but also in the vast area of ????Xilian Mountain and No. 1 Ridge, the war was fierce but slow. One after another, the shells slowly fell to the ground and exploded; the flames slowly rose and extinguished; the trees that were hit ignited black smoke. Slowly drifting diagonally toward the sky. But the glory of the setting sun has not been damaged. It still paints the earth with its solemn light, giving the mountains, rivers, vegetation, people and explosion smoke on the battlefield a thick layer of blood-red color.
"This is very solemn and magnificent," he thought intermittently, "I didn't expect that I would die in such magnificence. But it's good to die like this."
His last thought was that this battle had been going on for a long time. It seemed like centuries had passed between the premonition of his own death and the actual arrival of death. Jiang Yu was calm and moved when he was alive and dead. He knew that his performance today was worthy of both as a soldier and as a friend. Now that you are on the battlefield, you can no longer control your own destiny, but you can still do something in this situation.
The battle continues. He died too young, but Cheng Fei survived the difficult beginning of the battle. There's no telling if he can survive this war and return to his hometown. "Cheng Fei and I are both the best people in the world, and we should not both die on the battlefield. Cheng Fei will survive, and then I will be worthy of my friends" He thought, tears streaming down his face.
Cheng Fei, commander of the 2nd Platoon of the 9th Company, died two hours ago on a concave slope 50 meters away from the first Soviet trench on the north side of the highland. Jiang Yusheng's feeling was right. Cheng Fei understood their desperate situation today: the 1st platoon leader had died, and the 3rd platoon was sent by the company commander to snipe the Soviet reinforcements coming from the direction of Mount Xilian. Today's mission to attack the highlands could only be It was completed by the 2nd and 1st platoons led by him and Jiang Yusheng. Since the 1st Platoon lost a squad in the ravine on the west side of Highland 633, Cheng Fei also had reason to believe that the main task of attacking the highland would naturally fall on himself and the 2nd Platoon. He believed that Jiang Yusheng was in more danger than he was: Jiang Yusheng was a sharpshooter. Such targets were the first to be eliminated by the Soviet army.
Cheng Fei led the 2nd platoon to conduct a storming attack on the north side of the highland, completely disregarding life and death. Even when the firepower on the mountain was the most intense and casualties continued to occur, he did not allow the 2nd Platoon's offensive to slow down. Two hours after launching the attack, he tenaciously advanced the entire platoon's attack formation to a place 50 meters away from the enemy's first trench. This is a concave slope. The mountain collapsed, creating a blind spot for Soviet troops to shoot. Cheng Fei stood upright, looked at the terrain above, raised his right hand and waved hard, sending a "quick impact" signal to the soldiers behind him.
His gesture froze in mid-air. What hit him in the heart from behind was a bullet that flew through the leg of Big Nose Peak, northwest of the Highlands. His body trembled, but he did not fall. He just leaned forward on a huge upright rock. His right hand hung down weakly, but it happened to fall among the branches of a bush above the rock. As a result, none of the soldiers who rushed to the front from his side noticed the death of the platoon leader; and no one would have to look back in the future. You can all see his high and rapid upward gesture.
Cheng Fei kept this gesture for two hours before his body went limp. The soldiers of the 2nd platoon had been attacking upwards without stopping under the platoon leader's stern gesture. Since Jiang Yusheng and the 1st platoon contained most of the Soviet firepower on the northeast side of the highland, they finally defeated the first line of fire on the north side of the highland. The Soviet resistance in the trenches was the first to enter.?This trench. After fighting hand-to-hand with the remnants of the enemy, only one squad and a light machine gun were left in the platoon. When they looked back, they still saw the platoon leader's stern "upward rapid attack" gesture. So the remaining eight or nine people and a light machine gun were mobilized again, shouting with grief and indignation, and launched a new attack on the Soviet army in the second trench along the communication trench on the north side of the highland!
At this moment, Cheng Fei's body went limp. The soldiers in the attack looked back and lost sight of the platoon leader's gesture, and they lost Jiang Yusheng's effective fire support with light machine guns. The offensive immediately lost its main impetus and came to a standstill.
However, the Soviet troops on the high ground used this opportunity to concentrate their firepower to disrupt the 2nd platoon's final offensive, shrink the troops in the second trench to the third trench, redeploy, and use all their firepower to violently attack the northeastern side of the highland and enter the first trench. The remnants of the 1st platoon in the trench quickly caused the last remaining soldiers of the platoon to lose their combat effectiveness. So Cheng Yukun, who had been lying in a circle of pebbles at the foot of the mountain and watching the progress of the battle on the mountain, realized that the favorable turning point that had appeared after occupying the first trench disappeared, and the situation became serious and desperate for him and the 9th Company again. Cheng Yukun only had a 3rd platoon left in his hands to snipe at the Soviet reinforcements on Mount Xilian at the foot of the northwest side of the highland. This part of the Soviet army was currently being attacked by a heavy machine gun from the north of Big Nose Peak and the northeastern part of the mountain. The firepower of a light machine gun was effectively contained. He did what he thought was the only thing he could do now: first used a small loudspeaker, and then sent messenger Ulan to convey his order, asking Shang Yujun to lead the 3rd Platoon into the attack on the high ground.
As early as when the entire company set off from the gully on the west side of the southern leg of Highland 631 and moved towards Highland 634, Shang Yujun had an ominous premonition in his heart. The black veil that had always shrouded his eyes during the attack. The curtain appeared again, making the sky, earth, mountains, rivers, vegetation, and the sun once again covered with a thin layer of gray-black. But before the 1st Platoon was sniped by Soviet troops on the northwest side of Highland 633 in the gully on the west side of Highland 633, he was basically able to control his emotions and did not want to believe the ominous premonition welling up in his heart. But then the least expected thing happened, and gunshots rang out on Highland 634. The silence that has enveloped the 634 Highlands area has been broken! The teams in rows 1 and 2 rushed back from the front like an ebbing tide. Suddenly, the black gauze in front of Shang Yujun's eyes became thick and real!
He instinctively felt that when he was running on the No. 1 Lingnan slope, it was enough for him to dodge Soviet bullets. But now it was different. He and the whole company had to rush up against the Soviet bullets.
At this time, he needs to use all his life senses to cope with the events in front of him. His actions are no longer controlled by normal and deep rational thinking, but are only controlled by the impulse to survive and the sense of responsibility of a platoon leader. His entire life Consciousness is also completely blocked under the ice layer of sensory meaning condensed by panic. The ice layer was very thin to begin with. After he led everyone out of the valley between Highlands 632 and 633, the highlands in the direction of Vulture Ridge and the main peak of Highland 634, which is surrounded by cliffs, came into view one after another. It became extremely heavy in his life!
The war quickly changes a person. Since Shang Yujun can no longer think at this moment, he is no longer the original Shang Yujun and has become a different person. The world is only filled with constant threats and dangers for him, and the meaning of his existence is limited to avoiding these dangers and threats, or eliminating them; in the past, he always had to go through a study to do everything. There was no such obstacle in his life now; he became a new man, a man who existed only in the sense of living and not in the sense of thinking about living; and as the battle progressed, he also He became a person who was completely abandoned by his own rationality and truly belonged to the needs of war.
Because the first impression given to him by the main peak of Highland 634 was extremely ferocious, Shang Yujun was aware of the approaching danger when he crossed the ridge line of the mountain leg on the southeast side of Highland 633. Just as he followed Cheng Yukun to the pebble circle in the middle of the depression on the northeast side of the highland, gunshots rang out. He saw a streak of green smoke "swishing" across the grass beside him, and immediately rolled over and hid under a pebble. Fear suddenly made his head swell, so even though he saw a person following behind him - the cook squad leader who ran into the third row of teams during the exercise - he was hit by the second string of bullets and fell down. As I went down, I didn't feel any bigger shock in my heart. Another long string of bullets splashed down the grass on the right side of his body. Shang Yujun closed his eyes, and for a moment his heart was filled with despair. The string of bullets grazed his trousers and cut off a section of the branches of a bush at his feet. Opening his eyes his attention shifted again, to his side. A semicircular black stone appeared where the Soviet bullets had just passed. What made him more frightened was that it turned out to be a crawling black stone! Suddenly it stopped moving, and with a clanking sound, Shang Yujun blocked a string of bullets from the Western Big Nose Peak's legs. Then it moved again, slowly crawling towards the cooking squad leader who fell at Shang Yujun's feet.
He finally saw clearly: it was not a black stone, but an upside-down marching pot; it was not the marching pot that was crawling, but Yu Changgui, the cook carrying the marching pot, braving the rain of bullets and heading towards The body of the cooking squad leader crawled away inch by inch, trying to do something for the latter.
Shang Yujun sobered up a little and truly understood the death of the cooking squad leader. Simple panic, coupled with grief and anger, suddenly blocked his throat!
Amid the gunfire like exploding beans, a man crawled up to him and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Platoon leader!" Platoon leader! listen! The company commander is using a trumpet to tune us in! The platoon commander and company commander ordered us to go to the northwest side of the highland for sniping! ¡¡±
Shang Yujun had already heard the sound of Cheng Yukun's command horn, but he didn't immediately recognize who was shouting at him. All he saw was a strange face, distorted by fear and passion. There was a gash on his left cheek, which was bleeding downwards. The man saw the confusion in his eyes, widened his eyes, and loudly announced his name: "Platoon leader! I am Lu Liwei!"
Shang Yujun recognized Lu Liwei, and the panic and anger in his heart surged up together, but he didn't understand what Lu Liwei yelled at him!
"Platoon commander, the company commander is adjusting us!" Lu Liwei pointed the words just now into his ear and shouted again.
Shang Yujun understood this time. Since his life activities were at the level of simple feelings and mechanical reactions, the fear brought to him by the bullets shot down by the Soviet troops on the high ground and the death of the cooking squad leader was once again absorbed by him. forgotten!
¡°3rd Platoon, follow me¡ª¡ª!¡± He shouted and jumped up from under the pebbles where he was hiding. Run quickly to the northwest side of the highland. A man suddenly rushed up from behind, grabbed his shoulders, and pushed him down to the grass!
A string of machine gun bullets flew past the back of his head and squeaked into the grass on the right. Shang Yujun closed his eyes and opened them again, and found that the seventh squad leader Lu Liwei had just rolled away from him. His strange ugly face was extremely frightened and angry, and his hat and submachine gun were thrown far ahead!
"Platoon leader, keep a low profile and crawl forward!" Lu Liwei's eyes widened and he shouted angrily at him.
Shang Yujun realized the danger just now. His eyes widened in confusion. Lu Liwei left him behind and crawled forward in an exemplary manner. On the way, he picked up his submachine gun. Shang Yujun and Leng Ding remembered the meaning of the fighting term he shouted, and followed Lu Liwei in a low and fast movement.
He arrived behind the strip of pebbles at the foot of the mountain on the northwest side of the highland two minutes later than Lu Liwei. This happens to be the blind spot for the Soviet troops above the high ground. Pebbles of all sizes are arranged in an orderly manner. In the middle of the pebbles are the clusters of people that 1st Platoon Leader Li Ansheng saw from the gully on the west side of Highland 633 before his death. The tall thatch, and the tall honeysuckle branches full of snow-white flowers among the thatch. A minute ago, Shang Yujun was only paying attention to the bullets fired by the Soviet troops above the high ground, but now he was paying attention to the Soviet troops appearing in the gully on the west side of the high ground and on the legs of Big Nose Peak. There was about a company of Soviet troops that had not yet fully arrived. The first two machine guns to arrive were set up on the beam line at the top of the mountain leg. One of them fired suppressively at the Chinese troops in the middle of the depression on the north side of Highland 634. The other one was used to deal with the squad that was still fighting unyieldingly in the gully on the west side of Highland 633. It seems that it was precisely because of the fire harassment from the latter direction that the Soviet troops who arrived earlier were unable to cross the gully immediately. However, the current firepower of the first squadron is already very weak and can no longer pose a threat to the growing number of Soviet troops on the Big Nose Peak Mountain Leg. Under the cover of the above two machine guns, the Soviet infantry formed a column and crossed the top of the mountain leg. The beam line followed a crack on the surface of the mountain on the east side and quickly rushed into the gully below. The Soviet troops at the front have even reached the bottom of this gully less than a hundred meters wide! Shang Yujun thought for a moment: He and Lu Liwei couldn't stop a whole company of Soviet troops swarming towards them! Behind the pebbles covered with dark green moss. This is where he will die!
Lu Liwei has already started on his right! "Da da da da da -!" Shang Yujun saw that since the distance between them and the Soviet army was less than 50 meters, Lu Liwei's long shot actually caused the seven or eight Soviet troops running in front of them to fall down in the gully. The Soviet troops behind them shouted "Wow!" and retreated towards Big Nose Peak. In the chasm leading to the top of the mountain leg. The retreating Soviet army was still crowded with the Soviet army that continued to flow downward! Lu Liwei's gunfire gave him great encouragement. Just to fight against the coming death, he fired the first long point shot at the Soviet army without hesitation!
He didn't notice the result of his shooting this time; when he pulled the trigger, he had already seen a ray of gray-brown fireworks from the corner of his eye from the beam line of Big Nose Peak's leg - it was a red and white streak. The tongue of fire was changed in tone by the black gauze in front of him. Before Shang Yujun had time to react, a row of heavy machine gun bullets hit him like a hurricane, and landed on the rocks in front of him. . He instinctively wanted to lower his head,A ball of warm and viscous liquid spurted out from the other person on the right faster than him, hitting his eyes with a "pop"!
This is a powerful and unexpected blow! Before he even opened his eyes, Shang Yujun understood what was happening!
Lu Liwei just said "Oh" and the submachine gun in his hand stopped shooting! In an instant, there seemed to be a swarm of bees exploding in his mind!
When he opened his eyes again, what he saw was a red world - red sky, red peaks, mountain legs and ravines, red rocks, trees and grass, and some moving red little people. , etc.; he was not surprised at all by this, but felt a kind of eagerness and anger in his heart. He understood that he was the only one left in the sniper position on the northwest side of the highland, and the Soviet army that had just retreated came down again. Go to the gully and rush towards him. He must repel the Soviet army that is getting closer and closer; on the legs of Big Nose Peak, the Soviet army's heavy machine gun is still shooting in this direction, and he does not want to hear its sound. There was a terrifying howling sound, and his ears could no longer hear any sound.
ps: A big trouble for human beings is that we cannot have unambiguous feelings. There is always something we like about our enemies, and there is always something we dislike about our lovers.