Chapter 116: The Battle of Tangji (12)
The task of laying mines was completed by three platoons, and their movements were very fast, and each person carried a dozen mines on their backs, and it would take a while to work hard.
Then Wang Mazi sent a platoon to deliver ammunition through the traffic trench, and when he went down, he carried the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers.
"How?" Wang Mazi asked the devil on the phone: "Do you want to replace your company and take a rest?" ”
The demon was stunned, he wanted to agree, he was indeed tired after fighting for most of the day.
But he still replied: "Tuanza, I've seen tonight, the interval between the devil's attacks is too short, and I'm worried that the devils will attack when they change defenses." And now that it's getting dark, it's hard for the new troops to get acquainted with the position, so if they catch the devils off guard...... 159 Heights is gone! ”
"Hmm!" Wang Mazi knew that what the devil said was right, especially the new troops were not familiar with the environment, and it was easy to be attacked by the devil in the dark, so he nodded and responded: "You must be careful, if you can't hold on, just say it!" ”
"Yes!" The Adversary responded.
Then he looked at the nearby warriors, and he didn't know if he had made a right or wrong decision.
"Platoon commander!" Looking at the corpses that were carried down, the old squad leader sighed and said to Zhang Chi: "Do you know what the soldiers are more afraid of?" ”
"What are you afraid of?" Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, didn't the old squad leader ask knowingly? What else can you be afraid of on the battlefield but to be afraid of death?!
The old squad leader raised his head at the corpses and said, "They're worried that they won't be able to return home!" ”
So Zhang Chi understood.
The old squad leader is right, this is Myanmar, and most of the Chinese are superstitious, especially in this era when the level of education is generally not high, even if they die, they hope to die on the land of their own country instead of guest death, even if they die in other places, they hope to be able to return to their homeland.
But...... Can their bodies be shipped back home?
Obviously, it can't, not to mention that it's thousands of miles away from the motherland, even if it's close...... The China-Myanmar highway is used for blood transfusions in the country, and all kinds of vehicles are already overloaded, where can so much gasoline and space be wasted to transport corpses.
Therefore, most of these bodies can only be buried on the spot due to conditions.
At the old squad leader's words, the soldiers were all silent, and everyone's hearts seemed to be pressed by a big stone, coupled with the surrounding darkness and the whistling mountain wind blowing on the high ground, which soon brought a desolation to the position.
"Be of good cheer, brethren!" After a while, Zhang Chi said, "I will definitely take you back alive!" ”
This is not an empty word, nor is it to comfort the soldiers, in fact, Zhang Chi has been working in this direction since the beginning, and he is and will be in the future.
But who can say clearly about the battlefield? Even Zhang Chi himself didn't know when he was going to fall!
"Boom", at this time an explosion suddenly sounded on the right flank, and it was obvious that someone had touched the thunder.
"The devil is coming!"
The fighters shouted, and without waiting for the order, they set up their guns in the trenches and prepared for battle.
But after waiting for a while, there was no movement, and the adversary fired a flare down, leaving nothing but corpses all over the ground.
"It could be a critter!" The Adversary said.
It makes sense for the Adversary to say that, because if the landmine had blown up a person, it wouldn't have been like this.
As we all know, the charge of a mine is relatively small, and under normal circumstances, it can only blow up a retreat or a hand or something, so that the target that triggers it can only be injured and not killed.
This is not to say that gunpowder is saved, but on the battlefield, it is often more beneficial to injure an enemy than to kill one...... Killing an enemy is just a corpse, and injuring an enemy will waste the enemy's strength and time exponentially while ambulating or transporting it, and even the screams of the wounded can serve as a warning to the soldiers.
But now there is no sound.
There were no shouts, no cries for help, not even moaning, so it was natural to have a conclusion, and it was often so...... The critter triggered the mine.
But Zhang Chi felt that something was wrong, he felt that the number of those "corpses" was too much.
So just when the soldiers gradually relaxed their vigilance, Zhang Chi raised his rifle and shouted: "Flares!" ”
Soon, another flare was rising, and by the light of the flare, Zhang Chi carefully observed the corpses that fell to the ground in the sniper scope, one after another, but he didn't find anything before the light of the flare faded away.
"Three platoons long, take it easy!" The Adversary shouted, "It's okay......"
"Platoon commander!" The hooligan also persuaded on the side: "The devil will move when he comes up!" ”
"Platoon commander!" The townsman asked, "Did you find anything?" ”
"I don't know!" Zhang Chi replied: "I just feel that something is wrong!" ”
In the next second, Zhang Chi shouted again: "Flare!" ”
Another flare rose into the air.
After looking at it for a while, Xiao Zhejiang said: "It's no situation, it's all corpses......"
Before the words fell, Zhang Chi fired a bullet with a "bang", which startled everyone.
Zhang Chi didn't shoot this shot tentatively, but he did find something...... It was a "corpse" that had fallen behind another corpse, and he was dressed like it, even with blood smeared on his military cap. But he overlooked the fact that the bodies in his vicinity had fallen to the ground in the opposite direction or sideways...... This meant that the group of Japanese soldiers were strafed by machine-gun fire during the charge, and they all fell backwards due to the inclination and recoil of the bullets, and if it was really a corpse, he could not have been lying upright in the direction of the 159th position.
"Bang!" Zhang Chi fired another bullet.
Zhang Chi believed that it was not a "corpse" either, as the elbows of his hands were slightly higher than his back...... Needless to say, he had a rifle in his hand and didn't adjust his posture before lying down, so he could only remain motionless.
Although, it is possible for a dead body to hold a rifle, but it is unlikely that it looks like this is ready to raise the gun and shoot a bullet at any time.
"Bang!" Under the puzzled gazes of the soldiers, Zhang Chi fired another shot.
"Three platoon commanders!" The adversary couldn't help but stop: "Don't make trouble, go back ......"
But at this moment, a howl suddenly sounded in front of the position, and a large number of "dead corpses" got up from the ground and grabbed their guns and rushed towards the 159 heights.
This frightened the demon screamed: "His grandmother, she really pretended to be dead, and almost let these dogs cheat her!" ”