Chapter 846: Courage is always the first
The third battle, which had been brewing for a long time, finally began, and the Volunteer Army took out all the artillery shells that had accumulated in the recent period and bombarded the enemy positions on the other side of the Imjin River.
Hundreds of large-caliber heavy guns fired a salvo at the same time, and in less than a minute, the whole sky was red, and the rumble of the shelling shook people's eardrums.
On the UN-Army position, all the people were defending against artillery, looking for a dead spot in the artillery attack, for fear that they would be killed by shells falling from the sky in the next second.
This was the first large-scale use of artillery by the Volunteers after entering the DPRK, so the United Nations Army, as the opponent, was very uncomfortable, and some of the soldiers who had been blown up were running around, shouting and shouting as they ran, as if a shell was going to fall on their heads in the next moment, and then exploded with a bang, blowing all the pieces to pieces.
In such an environment, Zhang Caishu, a veteran soldier of the 346th Regiment, rushed out of the tunnel with his demining team and plunged headlong into the minefield.
This is the most desperate job, demining?
It's easy to talk but it's hard to do work, don't say anything about demining if you're not careful, and even your own life has to be put into it.
Demining soldiers are a kind of troops that are indispensable in both skill and courage, and they need a high degree of mental concentration, but the battlefield environment has deteriorated, and it is too difficult to concentrate mentally, and under strong external interference, it is possible to blow themselves up with a trembling hand, and their own sacrifice is a trivial matter, and delaying the task in the regiment is a big thing, so the soldiers who can enter the demining team are the best fighters of the 346th Regiment, and they are also the soldiers with the most stable psychological elements, all of whom were selected by Zhang Caishu and regiment commander Wu Baoguang from thousands of soldiers.
With the help of the flash of the shell explosion, Zhang Caishu and the soldiers of the demining team crawled forward in the minefield, crawling forward.
While using the probe in his hand to open the way little by little, they want to open up a path for the whole group in a limited time, Zhang Caishu knows.
All the cadres and fighters of the whole regiment were looking at themselves, and thousands of pairs of eyes were looking at the soldiers of the demining team.
Including a special detachment from headquarters.
All the officers and men of the 346th Regiment were nervously watching Zhang Caishu and his demining team, the distance was not too far, and the flash of the shell explosion on the other side of the river made Zhang Caishu and his soldiers disappear from time to time.
What is time?
Time is of the essence, the demining team of the 346th Regiment once again explained this truth on the battlefield, Zhang Caishu is very confident in the mines he wants to remove, he has been in the army for ten years, what kind of mines Zhang Caishu has never seen!
Landmines made in China, the United States, Germany, and Japan.
It's not all for Lao Tzu to exclude, this minefield was hastily arranged by the enemy when he retreated, and the method of laying mines is not clever, and it is not difficult to clean up the mines.
Before the liberation, China's national defense industry was weak, and a considerable part of the weapons and equipment in the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation were foreign goods, because of the urgent needs of the war, which also made the Nationalist Government at that time hungry and hungry, as long as it was a weapon, as long as it could fight a war, it would buy it, which caused chaos and disorder in imports.
So much so that there are all kinds of weapons in the troops, and the caliber varieties are also messy, but.
This also has an advantage, the People's Liberation Army, which is famous for its poverty, has also opened its eyes after seizing all kinds of weapons and equipment, taking a veteran like Zhang Caishu as an example, after ten years of campaigning, he has seen almost all the infantry light weapons and equipment in the world, mines?
In Zhang Caishu's words, Lao Tzu has seen all the mines in the world, and technology is not a problem for Zhang Caishu, the most critical problem is time, because he only has twenty minutes.
Move forward quickly.
To speed up, Zhang Caishu dismantled the fuses one by one from the mines and then casually set them aside.
Five meters.
Ten meters, twenty meters.
Under the gaze of several thousand pairs of eyes, Zhang Caishu led his demining team to move forward continuously, and under the cover of our powerful artillery fire, it continued to advance for several tens of meters.
Zhang Caishu and his military skills are skillful, and the mines that have been raised can be seen everywhere, and Li Yongren, who was watching the battle in the rear, was secretly frightened, the density of the mines was too great, and at such a distance of several tens of meters, the mines destroyed by the demining team were already countless.
Like the soldiers of the 346th Regiment, the squad lay in the tunnel to watch the movements of the demining team, looking at the black and slimy mines, Li Yuming and others whispered in Li Yong's ear, if the damn thing is not ruled out, the losses of the rushing troops will be too great.
Thanks to the 346th Regiment with a veteran soldier like Zhang Caishu, this allowed Li Yong to put forward the construction of the yƬ to be implemented, otherwise even if there are good tactics, it will not be implemented, or that sentence, there are thousands of strategies and tactics, and bravery is always the first.
The soldiers of the 346th Regiment became excited, because as long as the demining team cleared the minefield, the troops would have reduced a lot of casualties when they impacted, otherwise they would have to use their flesh and blood to cross it, and the soldiers understood the reason.
But this is just a good wish of the warriors, how can there be so much shun on the battlefield, it is impossible.
Suddenly, a shiny thin iron wire appeared only more than a zhang away from Zhang Caishu, this is a very thin and thin iron wire, it is not appropriate to describe it as iron wire, it should be steel wire, yes, it is steel wire.
If it weren't for the bright light from the explosion of the shell that made the iron wire flash for a moment, it would have been possible to ignore the past, Zhang Caishu followed the trend of the iron line and carefully observed, a thin steel wire appeared out of thin air on the battlefield?
There must be a problem.
Sure enough, more than ten meters away, there was a twisted ball of mixed thunder, these mines connected by iron wires were twisted together on the left and right, and dozens of mines were connected by steel wires, and the swarthy body contained huge energy.
This is a kind of mixed fire mine specially designed to prevent infantry, as long as one of the charging infantry triggers, a chain explosion will occur, which is a great threat to the assault force, because the time for laying mines is urgent, and the retreating United Nations-forces have all these mines on the surface.
It is obviously not possible to deal with such mines and remove them one by one, because the number is too large, and Zhang Caishu does not have so much time to squander.
Is there a solution?
Of course there is, Zhang Caishu turned around and shouted to a soldier not far behind him: "It's mixed thunder, prepare." ā
After years of cooperation, the soldiers behind him understood and quickly handed over a long wooden pole that had been prepared in advance.
The wooden pole is more than one zhang long, and there is a strong iron hook tied to the top, Zhang Caishu slowly stretched out the wooden pole, and used the iron hook to firmly hook the lead of the thunder.
This is an extremely dangerous action, and everyone can see that he is going to use the wooden pole in his hand to detonate the mixing thunder.
Detonating is a good way to quickly remove mines, as long as you twist hard, dozens of mixed hair mines will be reimbursed at once, fast and efficient, but this distance is too close, the farthest group of mixed hair mines is only a dozen meters away from Zhang Caishu.
At a distance of only a dozen meters, dozens of mines exploded together, will the people in the vicinity survive?
Zhang Caishu, who has been a soldier for many years, of course knows the danger, but he doesn't have time to think about so many whys, he only has one thought in his heart, he must clear the mines and open the way for the troops to attack the troops, as for whether he can survive ...................
There is a delay reaction process of a few seconds from the twisting of the lead to the explosion of the mine, and there is a small crater two or three meters away from Zhang Caishu, the depth of the crater is just enough to accommodate his body, a veteran soldier who has rolled countless times on the battlefield can make full use of the terrain to avoid risks, Zhang Caishu is such a soldier.
Looking at the crater around him, Zhang Caishu made a gesture to let the soldiers behind him retreat, and then twisted the long wooden pole in his hand violently, and rolled into the crater several times at the moment of twisting.
Boom, boom, the continuous explosion seemed to sound in Zhang Caishu's ears, his belly was shaken in the crater, his head was dizzy, and the gold and silver stars were popping up in front of him, Zhang Caishu felt that his stomach was churning for a while, and he retched a few times but didn't vomit anything.
According to modern medicine, Zhang Caishu was shocked into a concussion because he was too close to the explosion point, so he felt nausea, vomiting and dizziness.
But Zhang Caishu not only didn't feel that there was anything wrong with nausea and vomiting, but he felt very happy, because having a feeling proves that he survived, he didn't die, he didn't die in the explosion just now, this is good, he can still continue to carry out the mission, as for the concussion?
That's what the hell it is.
As if Fang Cai's explosion hadn't happened, Zhang Caishu crawled out of the crater and waved his hand behind him.
Zhang Caishu, who waved his hand back, had two meanings, one was to let the soldiers of the demining team go with him, and the other meant to tell the chiefs and comrades-in-arms who were nervously observing behind him that he Zhang Caishu was still alive.
Zhang Caishu's actions made thousands of soldiers of the 346th Regiment break out in a cold sweat, and the head of Wu Baoguang, who was nervously observing, wiped the sweat from his head with his hand, and scolded and shouted in his mouth: "Damn, Zhang Caishu, this guy is really going to scare Lao Tzu to death, look at how Lao Tzu cleans him up." ā
None of the people in the regiment command post took care of Commander Wu Baoguang, because everyone knew that Regiment Commander Wu was purely talking nonsense, packing up Zhang Caishu?
Zhang Caishu is a baby bump in his eyes, and he has been an old comrade-in-arms for many years, how can he be willing to clean it up.
The successive explosions cleared a large part of the road in front of the demining team, and the detonation of the mixed mines with wooden poles was dangerous but also very efficient.
(To be continued)