Chapter 850: Forced Crossing
The harsh natural environment is fair to the enemy and our army, and nature will not favor one over the other, but because of logistical capabilities, the impact of the cold and low temperature on the volunteer army is greater. ≧ Top Novel, www.
Gradually, the running squad and these soldiers standing in the water got farther and farther away, Li Yong glanced back, the troops had already passed guò, those soldiers were still standing motionless in the water, there was no intention of climbing up, Li Yong knew that life had left them.
These warriors are all good, they are all heroes, they know that they will freeze to death in the river if they use their shoulders to resist the ladder for a long time, but they still do it without hesitation, without the slightest hesitation, as if they are doing a very ordinary ordinary thing.
The bravery of the fighters is spontaneous, and it is also spontaneous to climb into the glacier to resist the ladder, this is only a very small local battle, there is no commander by their side, and the highest position of the fighter is only a squad leader, no one has to order them to do this, but they do it naturally, this kind of bravery comes from the usual little bit of education, to the depths of the soul, such education has been imprinted in their minds and deep into the bone marrow.
The troops continued to move forward, and the forward had already approached the other side of the big glacier, and they could go up a few dozen meters after rushing out with more strength, but at this time it was also the time when the enemy's fire counterattack was the most ferocious, and the remaining firepower was desperately fired, in order to stop the volunteers in the cold Imjin River.
The enemy's light and heavy machine guns plus all kinds of artillery fire are desperately firing on the ice, because with the addition of the small detachment, the five Makqin heavy machine guns in the center of the river have reduced the pressure on the 346th Regiment, but Makqin also has limitations. It can only temporarily suppress the enemy's machine-gun fire, and has little effect on mortar fire with curved ballistics. Because the enemy's mortars were hiding in trenches and fortifications.
One after another, shells fell from the sky and exploded on the ice of the Imjin River. The solid ice layer was blasted open one by one, and the ice caves that were blown open were connected into one piece, and then these ice caves collapsed with a bang, and the river rolled and gushed out.
The enemy was not muddy, and the mortar fire on the forward positions exploded violently, blowing up all the ice near the south bank that the 346th Regiment was going to attack, and the troops were blocked.
This is what the enemy wants, to intercept the charging volunteers on the rolling Imjin River, and then use firepower to kill and wound a large area.
There are no hidden objects on the river. Once the troops were intercepted on the ice, the consequences were unimaginable.
Li Yuming, who was running beside Li Yong, asked breathlessly: "Brigade commander, brigade commander, damn it, the enemy's mortars are also very powerful, and they have blown up all the ice, what should I do?" Don't you let our artillery squad do the same thing with them? ”
The enemy's mortars are powerful? Of course, if you have any shells, you can squander them at will. But we can't do it, the artillery squad of the squad carries a limited number of shells, and we have to save them for use at critical times, let's talk about it. Now that the ice has been blasted open, it's too late to confront the enemy.
Li Yong's head spun sharply, and the enemy's fire was fierce. Blasted all the ice near the south coast, and the thick ice turned into a mixture of ice and water. However, it was precisely because the enemy's attention was on the ice that he did not pay attention to the heavy machine gun squad of the squad that was shooting. If the enemy frees up his hands, the machine gun squad will be enough, you know, mortars are very good at dealing with heavy machine guns.
Seeing the enemy's mortar fire, the United Nations Army is not a bandit from Xinjiang and Tibet, and the infantry artillery coordination is more clever than the Volunteer Army in a certain way, Li Yong shouted loudly: "Li Yuming, let the machine gun squad follow up immediately, hurry up." ”
Under Li Yong's urging, the soldiers of the machine gun squad ran over without even having time to decompose the heavy machine guns, but fortunately they switched positions, and the machine gun squad had just withdrawn a few dozen meters when a mortar fire came over, and their original position became a large ice cave.
"Damn, it's so hanging, Lao Tzu almost has to confess."
The squad leader of the machine gun squad quietly wiped the sweat from his head, if the brigade commander's order was one minute late, more than twenty of them would be enough.
The forward troops of the 346th Regiment were only a few dozen meters away from the south bank of the Imjin River, but at this critical moment, the ice in front of them was completely blown open, and it was no longer possible to get through the ice again.
If you can't walk on the ice, and you don't have the time and conditions to erect a pontoon bridge, there is only one last way left, wading through the river, which is also called armed swimming.
The average water depth of the Imjin River is one meter five to two meters, which is not deep, but this is only an average number, not every place is the same, and the specific depth of the river may not even be clear to the locals, if it is a place with a water depth of one meter and a half, it is easy to do, and people cannot drown if they go down, but who can know whether the water in this place is deep or shallow, and if the water depth of the place where you jump down is two meters, then you don't need to be attacked by the enemy, and the water can drown people.
Measuring the depth of the current river has become a priority, but there is still time to measure what depth, and on the glacier, which is in danger of death countless times every second, the only way is to rush through it as much as possible, and only by rushing through it can you grasp the victory.
Seeing that one of the soldiers of the 346th Regiment who rushed to the front had reached the position of the blasted glacier, and his feet had already stepped on the edge of the cracked ice, he saw that this soldier did not hesitate at all, and jumped off the ice one by one.
At a low temperature of dozens of degrees below zero, without knowing the depth of the water flow and without knowing any hydrological conditions, jumping from the ice when charging, jumping down in cotton jackets and pants is not something that ordinary people can do, that is, PLA soldiers during the war years can make such a move!!
Seeing that the river water mixed with ice cubes suddenly flooded his chest, and the only thing left in his body that was not stained with water was a carbine held high in his hand, and this soldier did not seem to feel the biting cold, but shouted happily: "Comrades, the water is not deep, the time for meritorious service has come, follow me." ”
This soldier is too fierce, he is using his body to measure the depth of the water for the troops, fortunately, the water in the place where the 346th Regiment hit is not too deep, this soldier was not drowned, and the troops can swim over.
Li Yong asked a little soldier of the 346th Regiment next to him while running: "Who is this guy?" ”
The little soldier replied: "Report to the chief, it was Wang Fengjiang, the instructor of our fifth company, who jumped down. ”
Although Li Yong was wearing the uniform of the Korean ** team, this little soldier could still be sure that this must be a leader, and his position was not low.
Under the leadership of Wang Fengjiang, the soldiers jumped down the river with hula and struggled forward in the big ice river, with weapons and ammunition, water bottles and first-aid kits, as well as dry food for several days, and paddled to the shore with both hands under the weight of dozens of kilograms.
Li Yong's independent brigade is a sideways unit in the northwest, the character of the officers and soldiers of the brigade is not inferior, and the general troops are not eye-catching, but this is it, Li Yong can't help but secretly admire, the 116th Division of the 39th Army is really not simple, it is a real heroic unit, and there will always be people who stand up and turn the tide at every critical moment, these people usually do not show the mountains and waters, they are ordinary people, but they can always burst out with unparalleled strength at critical moments, and the minesweeping heroes Zhang Caishu and Zhao Zhenhai are such soldiers, The soldiers who sacrificed themselves to build a pontoon bridge in the big ice cave, as well as the current Wang Fengjiang who is struggling to charge, are all like this.
The Imjin River was blown open, and the water was mixed with large chunks of ice, which collided with each other and turned down sharply.
The situation is extremely dangerous, the ice floating in the river will pose a huge threat to the troops in the swimming, as long as the body is caught by two ice blocks, the person is finished.
Bullets whistled sharply in the ears, shells exploded one after another soaring water columns around them, large ice floes hit each other and rushed down, one after another soldiers were killed or wounded and washed away by the river, in the harsh battlefield environment, in the turbulent ice river, there is no difference between being wounded and sacrificing.
This is the most critical moment of the battle, whether the troops can break through the Imjin River At this time, the leaders at all levels of the Volunteer Army Headquarters are paying attention to the progress of the battle, and Mr. Peng and Han Xianchu, the former enemy commander, have stayed up all night.
Rush, rush, the soldiers gave up a qiē, no matter what bullets and shells he had, as long as he still had a breath, he had to rush forward, even if the most familiar comrades-in-arms around him died, there was no way to care, only to rush forward, rushing forward is victory.
Wang Fengjiang, the instructor of the Fifth Company, rushed to the front, and he shouted to his soldiers, telling the soldiers to follow his pace.
When they got closer, they were about to reach the river, but there was another problem, and a few soldiers who rushed to the front tried to seize the nearest place and climb up, but they couldn't get up.
This is because although the river is cold but buoyant, people will feel extremely heavy when they just come out of the water, carrying dozens of kilograms of weight, cotton clothes and pants are all soaked, and it is difficult to climb up from the shore when the body is exhausted.
Wang Fengjiang, who was standing in the river, ignored the bullets flying past him, and he used all his strength to push the soldiers from the water to the shore one by one, and then climbed up himself.
Wang Fengjiang was the fifth warrior to land on the opposite bank, and then the number of people who landed became more and more, and a large number of soldiers rushed up, and the entire south bank of the Imjin River boiled.
The cotton clothes and trousers of the Chinese soldiers on the south bank of the Imjin River were soaked by the river water, and they were immediately frozen as hard as stones in the low temperature of dozens of degrees, which made them look clumsy and stiff in the face of the bullets fired from the enemy's bunker, and batch after batch of soldiers were swept to the ground by the enemy's bullets.
Thank you, old man, Yan Bing for your concern, thank you for your monthly pass and reward (to be continued......) I527