On the front line, veterans said: "Those who come out of the battlefield intact are not the lucky ones, they are only survivors!"
This kind of survival comes at a price, and the price is the blood and lives of comrades.w w vm)
There was a soldier from Li Ziying who participated in the siege of Dongzhi County. The commander of the sentry was Li Yunquan. Li Guolou promoted his relative in an unusual way, which was criticized by everyone. However, he let Li Yunquan lead his troops to attack again and again, and gave him great rewards. The opportunity to perform meritorious service also gave Li Yunqi outstanding military exploits, something to talk about.
The composition of the team is mainly composed of captains. The four newly promoted captains Xu Yuguang, Deng Tong, Gu Xin and Hu Yinshan lead the team.
In the spring of that year, Gu Xin was not yet 22 years old and had just been promoted to captain. Looking at the intense and orderly training of other teams, he always felt that his team was really awkward because he was a returning spy who had defected. Especially among the members of the team. They are all like this, those three eye-catching "surrender faction"!! Qiao Ren, He Zhuzhu, and Wu Lai always find other teams to compete with each other.[
Qiao Ren is a native of Dong Zhiyuan, and he hates Hui people from the bottom of his heart. Whenever he has the opportunity, he wants to rush in and kill him. He is too lively and difficult to control. He Zhuzhu is five and six skinny. He looks weak, but his muscles are very strong. Well, he is good at climbing mountains. Wu Lai is a country bumpkin. He has never been to the county town before. He is standing guard with a shotgun in the fortress of the returning army. He has little exposure to new things and is curious about everything he sees. Although he is very simple, he still makes fools of himself. .
The training before the war became more and more intense. When practicing throwing, the soldiers were throwing it like crazy. Their arms were rounded and they were throwing wooden grenades. This hand grenade throwing is the foundation of life on the battlefield. No one dared to be lazy. The soldiers On the second day of practice, my arms were so swollen that I couldn't even lift them. The actual shooting practice was extremely intense. After practicing for about half a month, I also made a lot more hair than before.
These soldiers had long range and accurate shooting. Only then did they stand out from the crowd and honorably join Li Ziying and join the battle in Dongzhi County.
The night before the war, Gu Xin and the others sat by the tent and smoked silently. Wu Lai stared blankly at the stars in the night sky. He said that this way his mother could see him. Qiao Ren, who was leaning against the willow tree, leaned against the willow tree. Moonlight held the book and still read it silently.
"Don't embarrass me. Chief Li is watching us. Only if we make a meritorious service this time will other troops recognize us. Believe me, I will let you walk out of the battlefield alive." Gu Xin put out the cigarette butt and said harshly. After saying that, he turned around and went into the tent to sleep. There were more than a dozen people crowded into one tent. The soldiers, who were sleeping in their clothes, couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
Finally, the battle of Dongzhi County began. In the early morning, more than a hundred soldiers from Li Ziying were scattered and hidden in the woods on the east side of Dongzhi County. Their comrades huddled in twos and threes in the cold trenches. In this small forest, In addition to the Li Ziying soldiers, there were also several other brother sentries lurking. The Qing army soldiers were silently waiting for the order to attack.
When it was almost 4 o'clock, Wu Lai groped his way to Gu Xin and sat down against the simple trench. After a long silence, Wu Lai finally spoke: "Captain, there is something I have wanted to tell you. Some time ago, there were several A brother from Team 4 came to see me. I wanted to treat them to a drink, but I didn’t have any money, so I stole some broken silver from you. Do you mind.” Then he gave Gu Xin a handful of broken silver and ran away. It's open.
Gu Xin wanted to stop him, but Wu Lai quickly disappeared into the mist.
After 5 o'clock, the rumble of artillery was heard in the distance. The sound was a bit like thunder in the sky. It seemed that the artillery unit was already engaged with the enemy.
At 5:30, under the command of the sentry commander Li Yunqing, they stepped out of the simple trench and began to search forward. Gu Xin held high the battle flag and walked at the front of the team, followed closely by Qiao Ren, and behind him was He Zhuzhu.
At the beginning of the battle, Li Ziying's position was relatively close to the front. However, after seven or eight turns, Li Ziying moved to the back of the large army. He watched the neighboring troops rushing into the city, especially when he saw the elder brother Laohui. When the flag was raised, the soldiers felt very uncomfortable.
People are afraid of death, but when a soldier goes to the battlefield and has nothing to fight, the feeling is worse than death. Some time ago, Gu Xin and others have been wandering around in the mountains, searching for and suppressing the returnee guerrillas and the Qing army. After that, the remaining returning guerrillas often harassed the Qing army's rear transportation units. Li Ziying's mission was to find them and eliminate them.
On the morning of March 10, the Qing army transport team was shot four times sporadicly. It was done by the Hui army guerrillas. The accuracy was shockingly poor. There were no casualties in the Qing army escorting the convoy. The superiors reported that there might be remnants of gunfire nearby. After returning to the army, they ordered Gu Xin to lead the team. Fang Zhiyong, the leader of the reconnaissance team, came back to report that a small group of returning troops had been found on the nearby hills. It seemed that the enemy had not noticed that the Qing army was surrounding them. The shooting just now might have been a coincidence.
The Guxin team quickly passed the reconnaissance brigade and headed towards the high ground where the enemy was present. There was an open area of about 40 to 50 meters around the high ground. There were obvious traces of trampling on the grass. There was a bunker on the high ground, and there was another bunker on the hillside about 50 meters away. There was a circular trench, and it was estimated that there were at least two teams of returning troops.
Li Yunquan led the follow-up personnel to approach the Ming Highland one after another. The sentry officer Li Yunquan ordered that it must be captured before dark. Several captains and corps commanders began to move closer to the sentry officer Li Yunquan and listened to his assignment of tasks.
Li Yunquan ordered: Send the first and second teams to disperse from the front to meet the enemy, the third team and the supervisor and others will detour from both sides and pretend to attack the high ground. The third team is responsible for fire support, and the fourth team will follow up behind the first team and the second team.
The mission of Guxin's team is to forcefully pass through the open area below the circular trench, seize the trench, and then use the trench as a basis to cooperate with the second team to kill the bunker and seize the entire famous high ground.
It was their first time to participate in the battle. The soldiers were very excited and never thought that people would die in the battle. Qiao Ren was extremely excited and looked around, very dishonest. Gu Xin and Wu Lai had to hold Qiao Ren to the ground for half an hour. Finally, gunshots suddenly rang out from both sides of the highland. Within a few seconds, the gunshots were very dense. As soon as Wang Gao heard the shooting, he jumped up and was about to rush forward. Gu Xin grabbed him and dragged him away. He came back and pinned him to the ground again.
Gu Xin angrily shouted: "Listen to my orders!"[
Wang Gao's chest heaved, and he had nowhere to vent his resentment. He grabbed a handful of grass and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it like a cow.
After a while, there was a figure shaking in the trench on the high ground. The returning army couldn't hold it anymore and began to deploy troops on both wings. Gu Xin turned around and ordered: "Open all the safety guards and pull the string of the grenade!"
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"Run." Gu Xin and his comrades charged towards the high ground. Gu Xin was running at the front, holding a gun and running. Those few seconds were the slowest in his life. His mind went blank and he only thought about it. : "I am the captain. I have to take the lead. If I die, I have to die first."
Soon Wang Gao surpassed Gu Xin and rushed to the front. In the blink of an eye, he fell behind the team by a large margin. Just a few seconds after a team launched the charge, the enemy's gun also rang, and the gun roared from the ears.
If it flies by, the right shot will kill someone.
Wang Gao threw a grenade, and the smoke was still clearing. The first team had already rushed across the open area. Wang Gao was already close to the trench. Just as his right foot stepped on the edge of the trench, he stumbled and fell.
He fell heavily into a pit under the trench.
The second team also began to pass through the open ground. The Qing soldiers threw rows of grenades into the trenches, suppressing the enemy's musket fire with continuous explosions. At this time, Wang Gao suddenly jumped up from the pit, like a wounded man.
Leopard jumped up to the edge of the ditch in a few steps. He grabbed the enemy's hot barrel tightly in the smoke, lifted it up desperately, and grabbed the gun back. At the same time, he shouted without looking back:
"Captain, come on quickly!"
Huijun also held on to the gun and fought with him. Wang Gao held the hot barrel of the gun with his left hand and hit Huijun's head with the butt of his rifle with his right hand.
Gu Xin jumped into the trench and found that another returning soldier was pointing a gun at Wang Gao. He immediately shot him and got in under his right armpit, killing him for the first time. The distance was less than 5 meters.
However, the guy also pulled the trigger the moment he fell to the ground. Wang Gao shook a few times in the rain, and then fell to the edge of the trench. The second team, Xu Daya and others, took advantage of the opening opened by Wang Gao and rushed forward.
When a returning soldier bent down and was about to get into the hole in the trench wall, he was stabbed in the shoulder by the second captain Xu Daya with a bayonet. Then a young soldier from the second team stepped up and fired the butt of his rifle. The returning soldier suddenly collapsed on the ground.
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Sentinel Li Yunqi led the third team and the fourth team also occupied both ends of the trench. He ran over and ordered the first team to quickly prepare to blast the bunker. Taking this opportunity, Gu Xin quickly took Wu to find Wang Gao.
Wang Gao was lying on his side in the pit below the trench with his rifle in his arms, curled up and groaning softly. The front of his shirt was soaked with blood. He was wounded in the body. I hurriedly unbuttoned his clothes and found the wound under the collarbone.
Blood continued to pour out as he breathed, and dark blood clots gathered around the hole.
"You bastard, you can't die." Gu Xin poured a bottle of Zhuge Xingjun on the wound and covered the wound with a pack of cotton.
Wu bit his lip tightly, his face was pale and a little bloody, and he tore open the first aid kit several times with trembling hands. Gu Xin asked Wu to hold up Wang Gao's upper body and bandage him carefully.
"Wu, take care of him and get Wang Gao some water." Gu Xin asked Wu to press Wang Gao's wound and not leave even a step.
Then Gu Xin turned around and climbed into the trench with his gun. At this time, there was a brief silence on the top of the mountain. It was so quiet that it was almost breathless. The Qing soldiers were ready to charge, and the returning troops seemed to be waiting for the Qing soldiers.
During the army's charge, the two demolitionists of the second team jumped out of the trench under the fire cover of the entire sentry. The enemy relied on the bunker and aimed and fired. The two demolitionists were wounded one after another and fell on the grass.
He Zhuzhu wrapped eight hand grenades around his waist, and tied three explosive packages together with his leggings. Holding the explosive package in his arms, he jumped out of the trench for the second time. The various firearms in the sentry were more fierce than before.
roared, licking the entrance and firing holes of the bunker with tongues of fire.
The gun in Gu Xin's hand also kept shooting at the firing hole of the bunker. At the same time, violent explosions were heard from the high ground, followed by another explosion of grenades, followed by another big explosion, and the enemy's
The firepower suddenly stopped, and Gu Xin and his comrades rushed forward despite the scorching heat wave. He Zhuzhu was groping in the smoke with his legs sprained, laughing like crazy.
Finally, Li Ziying attacked the devastated high ground and found a total of 53 corpses of returning soldiers and some disgusting body parts in the trenches and ruined fortifications.
Li Yunqiu also lost 15 of his men and stood silently on the high ground weeping.
Gu Xin took several soldiers to see Wang Gao. He sat up at some point, and his originally cheerful and optimistic face was so haggard that it was difficult to recognize him.
"As long as you are alive, we will carry you down the mountain." Gu Xin led the soldiers to cut down trees and make a simple stretcher.
Wang Gao wanted to say something upright, but looking at the solemn face of the sentry officer Li Yunqi, he could only cry silently. He is still alive, and the other 15 comrades are sleeping on this land.[
The battle on March 10th made young men like Li Ziying who were new to the battlefield begin to mature and become more alert. Some people are still afraid of death, but more of them are hatred. The comrades who have been together day and night will leave you in the blink of an eye.
, especially those soldiers whose fellow soldiers died in the battle, they have to endure greater suffering.
In the next two days, Li Ziying participated in several small battles, which were basically raids, digging holes, etc. Li Ziying killed 39 enemies and captured 15 enemies at the cost of slightly injuring four people.
people.
Everyone has been in a high mood for the past few days, and the shadow of the battle has long since faded away. In the jungle on the high slopes of the loess, dogs are flying around, and you may be hit by cold guns at every step. Overly emotional thoughts on the battlefield are often dangerous. As a captain,
Gu Xin often communicates with his comrades in a team in his own way. He pats the shoulders and shakes hands, and the soldiers can gain strength from him.
Now Li Yunquan is facing the morning glow, waving the revolver in his hand, Gu Xin is holding high the Li-zi banner, rushing to the front of the Li-zi camp, and more than 160 soldiers have entered Dongzhi County. They want to fight for this side.