afterglow

Chapter 33

Zhou Changfeng, who was dizzy, looked down and found that his abdomen was already red, and then he felt water droplets flowing down his neck; when he touched it, his neck was also bleeding?

Several people around were shocked, and the medical soldiers who rushed over hurriedly checked him, but fortunately, the shrapnel just scratched the neck and only scratched a hole; while the other shrapnel hit the rib directly.

"It's not a big problem...Bring me the bandage! You go and save others!" Zhou Changfeng grabbed the bandage, then stretched out his hand and pushed the medical soldier away.

He glanced in front of him, and asked loudly while wrapping the bandage: "How is the situation of the enemy tank unit..."

"Boom!" Before he finished speaking, another 4.5-inch grenade hit the outer wall of the third floor.

Although the soldiers had previously stacked bags of soil behind the wall to reduce secondary damage from stray bullets and shelling, the effect was limited after all.

The grenade just now directly reimbursed an anti-aircraft machine gun team. The window they were in had been blown open, exposing the twisted steel bars.

Choking on the dust, Zhou Changfeng got up from the ground and saw several parts of a heavy machine gun tripod, and a severed hand that was bloody and bloody. The dial of the watch on the wrist was broken, but the hands were still tenacious. walking.

The strong smell of blood and gunpowder smoke penetrated into his nose together, and the instinctive physiological reaction made him feel sick, but now he had to swallow desperately to suppress the feeling of vomiting.

"As an officer, you must lead by example" is not difficult to say, but how easy is it to do it when you are on the battlefield?
A second lieutenant with blood on his face walked a few steps, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Sir! It's too dangerous! Go to the first floor!"

"Nonsense! Go back to the battle position, Lao Tzu!" Zhou Changfeng went to a window without paying attention, and leaned tightly on those earth bags.

He took a deep breath, then carefully stood up and looked out through the binoculars.

I saw that half of the dozens of tanks had been destroyed and injured at this moment, and the ground was covered with bullet holes. More than 200 British and Indian troops accompanying them were digging foxholes on the spot while fighting back desperately.

Sure enough, it was going to get stuck there.

Even the simplest field bunker can greatly weaken the effect of incoming firepower, and a qualified infantryman can dig a lying foxhole in only ten minutes, and then half an hour can be used as a basis to strengthen it. Kneeling foxhole.

This unit of the British and Indian Army is extremely courageous. They are now under attack from both sides of Height Zero and the urban area, but they still have not retreated, and they are stubbornly carrying out close operations.

He retracted his head, turned around and asked, "How about the woods in the north?!"

Someone replied: "I have observed movements, but the details are unknown!"

After learning about the situation, Zhou Changfeng went downstairs. As soon as he returned to the command post, he called to inquire about the situation of Height Zero.

After a long wait, Liu Qidong's voice sounded from the microphone, "Our side is doing very well, only a dozen rounds are dropped per minute."

Zhou Changfeng took two sips of tea, and said in a deep voice: "Before the sun sets, the enemy army that cuts into the middle area can build a bunker. After they are stable, the enemy army in front of you may try a general attack, and then count forests to the north of the city." There are also enemy troops infested, and it is estimated that we will be restrained later, so we may not be able to support us later!"

"Battalion Commander, don't worry, we still haven't had a good time. If we don't kill a hundred or eighty enemies, we will have no face in visiting brothels in the future."

"Oh, it's easy to say, don't complain later."

As soon as he put down the microphone, a communication soldier held the message in both hands and handed it to Zhou Changfeng.

He took it and glanced at it, to the effect that the retreat of the [-]th Division was still not smooth. It was bombed repeatedly by the enemy air force this afternoon, and the division commander was seriously injured. One evening.

In addition to this bad news, the two good news are that the main force of the Third Mixed Brigade is also working hard to arrive at the moment. Although they have also been attacked by air, they are expected to arrive in two days; Materials required are listed.

Zhou Changfeng, with a complex expression, thought for a few seconds, and said: "Call back, we will do our best to hold on. The supplies... [-] forced bullets, June [-]th forced bullets, [-]nd and [-]rd heavy sharp bullets, and grenades are the most important. The rest of the supplies are whatever."

The so-called double and triple point bullets are actually the standard infantry machine bullets of the Ming army, with a caliber of 23mm, or 7.36㎜; while the heavy point bullets are theoretically special ammunition for machine guns. In contrast, the light-tipped bullets used in ordinary rifles have a lead-core flat bottom.

Of course, the two can actually be mixed, but the ballistic performance will change, and there will be obvious differences in the middle and long distances.

The sound of guns and guns is still ringing, and the fierce fighting is still going on.

After just over half an hour, several A9 cruiser tanks ran out of ammunition, but they still used machine guns to shoot desperately.The anti-aircraft machine gun team that suffered heavy losses had to give up shooting against it. Now only one of the four anti-aircraft machine guns is usable, and the other needs to be repaired.

The so-called "always walk by the river, how can there be no wet shoes", the nimble and ghostly combat anti-gun team also had bad luck. Earlier, three people were blown away by several 2-pound high-explosive bombs.

Less than 10 minutes before sunset, the general offensive of the British and Indian troops really arrived as Zhou Changfeng had guessed.

After heavy destructive fire on the hills, the [-]th British Indian Artillery Battalion switched to suppressive fire, and the Raigal and Hyderabad Battalions put all six of their companies into the fight, attacking in three waves.

Soon, Height Zero ushered in an unprecedented fierce battle.

Meanwhile, the two companies of the Tespur Battalion had already entered the stretch of woods to the north of the city, and were cautiously advancing southward. They planned to set up an in-depth defensive position from the edge of the woods.

"Boom!" The explosion of the landmine was accompanied by screams, and the two soldiers wailed in a pool of blood.

How many more mines are nearby?Fear stems from the unknown, and the panicked British and Indian soldiers stopped in their tracks.

At this moment, not only a few observation posts and guard posts near the woods were monitoring their movements, but the hospital building was also aware of it.

Zhou Changfeng nodded, and then a communication soldier picked up the phone and said, "Squad [-] and Squad [-], prepare according to the original plan, please reply."

After a few minutes.

Soldiers from Company A and Company C of the Tespur Battalion fell on the ground and stabbed obliquely into the soil with long P1907 bayonets—if they hit a hard object, it might be a landmine, otherwise they can continue. Emergency mine detection method in the case of sappers.

The gentle breeze is blowing, which makes people feel much more comfortable in this hot and humid climate.

Suddenly, a red flare shot up into the sky, which was very obvious.Immediately afterwards, the whistling sound of mortar shells suddenly reached their ears?

Three rounds, a total of twelve smoke bombs fell in the woods, and the red phosphorus inside reacted immediately, and began to release dense red phosphorus smoke rapidly.

The expected explosion did not come, and the British and Indian soldiers lying on the ground looked at each other in blank dismay—did the Chinese shoot the wrong shell?
(End of this chapter)