Chapter 41: The Ambush of Willow Tree Ping (Part 2)

  Finally, the enemy's vanguard troops crossed over the guard battalion's position without any vigilance and entered into the ambush circle of our troops. Slowly, within a few minutes, a column of 2,500 enemy soldiers stretching for less than one kilometer. Unaware of the danger, they swarmed into the ambush circle of the special operations company.

  Seeing the enemy had walked into his own ambush circle, a faint smile appeared on Zhang Hua's mouth. He quietly placed the binoculars in his hand on the edge of the trench and picked up the submachine gun behind him. And lightly loaded the bullets in his hand-held submachine gun, slowly aiming at the enemy who was getting farther and farther away from him.

  "Comrades, give me a fierce beating, open fire.... Da da da..." Just as the last soldier of the Jin-Sui army was walking at the end of the entire column, only 30 meters away from Zhang Hua's guard squad position. Zhang Hua did not hesitate and loudly ordered the soldiers in the guard squad beside him. At the same time, his right hand tightly grasping the submachine gun also began to quickly pull the trigger.

  A burst of crisp submachine gun fire rang out, and a string of bullets shot by Zhang Hua into the ranks of the Jin-Sui Army's artillery company walking at the back. In an instant, four or five artillery personnel walking at the back fell to the ground in a chorus of miserable cries. And immediately following Zhang Hua's gunfire was the sound of gunfire from the guard squad beside him.

  A heavy machine gun built on high ground, after receiving the order, quickly pushed away the withered grass in front of the machine gun. At the same time, under the manipulation of the machine gunner, from a height, a dense fire tongue was sprayed into the Jin-Sui army's marching column tens of meters away. Similarly, three light machine guns also constructed a tight crossfire network around the Jin-Sui army artillery company and heavy machine gun company that were walking in the rear.

  Three light machine guns, one heavy machine gun and several submachine guns, with no gaps in the hail of bullets, instantly knocked down more than 100 enemy artillerymen, leaving them no room to fight back. The frightened mules were also knocked to the ground by the dense hail of bullets, falling into a pool of blood. It can be said that at the beginning of the battle, the enemy's mortar company lost its combat effectiveness in the first place.

  Seeing that the artillery company had lost its combat effectiveness, all the firepower of the guard squad, under the command of Squad Leader Wu Tao, quickly extended to the enemy's heavy machine gun position which had already fallen into chaos. As a result, without any surprise, under the dense firepower, the originally chaotic heavy machine gun company was immediately torn apart by the soldiers. One by one, the Shanxi soldiers dropped the heavy machine guns on their shoulders and began to flee in all directions, seeking cover and hiding from the flying bullets.

  As the guard squad opened fire, those warriors who had been waiting impatiently also pushed away the cover in front of or on them. They jumped out of the trenches and set up their light and heavy machine guns at the predetermined positions, starting to pull the triggers at the dense troops of Jin-Sui soldiers on the highway.

  "Rat-a-tat-a..." 14 heavy machine guns, nearly forty light machine guns, plus the submachine guns and rifles in the hands of the soldiers. In the first round of firing at the enemy, more than five hundred enemies fell under the muzzles of the soldiers' guns. By the time these enemies came to their senses from the sudden attack, they found that countless gaps had been blown out of their marching columns by the fiery tongues.

  "Bastard, there's an ambush, quick, get down..." At the first sound of gunfire, General Wang Jingguo, who was on horseback, immediately flipped off his horse and tightly pressed himself to the ground. He loudly commanded several officers beside him. However, his command came too late. Just as he had barely fallen off his horse, ten bullets shot out by the sniper squad had already flown in front of these officers.

  "Ahh...!" A series of miserable cries rang out, the chief of staff and several regimental officers who had just been chatting with him fell off their war horses one after another, lying motionless in a pool of blood. Looking around, his own guard company had long since disintegrated under the intense machine gun fire.

  Under the special attention of the Chief of Staff and instructors, the Shanxi Army Guards Company was subjected to simultaneous attacks by no less than four heavy machine guns and four light machine guns at the very beginning of the battle. In the face of a dense firepower network, even if the equipment and training of these Shanxi Army Guards Company soldiers were excellent, more than half of the soldiers fell in the first wave.

  Those soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were now completely stunned by the scene in front of them. Faced with corpses all over the ground, severed limbs and blood, bullets flying overhead. The remaining soldiers had lost their usual vigor, and one after another lowered their heads, lying motionless on the ground, fearing that the Red Army on the mountain top would aim their machine guns at themselves again.

  "Bastard, didn't the Red Army retreat? How could there be an ambush, how could it be like this..." Seeing the 2,500 soldiers he led being shot to pieces under the enemy's dense firepower, without any chance of counterattack, Wang Jingguo couldn't help but start cursing loudly. But around him, not a single living officer was in sight, let alone anyone to answer his questions.

  "Rat-a-tat-a..." After the first round of shooting, although the warriors had taken advantage of the sudden attack and used their powerful firepower to inflict heavy casualties on the Jin-Sui army. However, a large number of Jin-Sui soldiers still survived the first round of shooting by the warriors. Under the command of some low-level officers, they began to launch limited counterattacks. The warriors who were firing from the trenches also started to suffer losses and casualties in these counterattacks.

  However, in any case, the warriors had a geographical advantage. In addition to their own firepower density, it was almost several times that of the Jin-Sui army below the mountain. Often, as soon as the enemy fired a few dozen rounds, they would be met with continuous sweeps from several light and heavy machine guns on the mountain ridge. The enemy who lay here would be instantly blown away by this dense hail of bullets, and no longer dared to have any thought of resistance.

  Slowly, under the continuous sweep of the warriors' gunfire, the Jin-Sui army soldiers below the mountain also slowly learned to be clever. Neither surrendering nor counterattacking, they just lay motionless on the ground. Faced with this situation, although the warriors had countless light and heavy machine guns, there was no accurate shooting target, only blind shooting could be conducted. The final shooting effect can be imagined. However, what the Jin-Sui army soldiers lying motionless on the ground did not expect was that the special forces company not only equipped a large number of light and heavy machine guns but also four newly captured mortars.

  "Hong Hong Hong Hong" Just as the warriors were fighting enthusiastically, four dull sounds came from a high ground less than 200 meters away from the highway. Immediately after that, a whistling sound pierced through the dense gunfire and reached the ears of soldiers on both sides of the battlefield.

  "Boom, boom, boom, boom!" Suddenly, four loud explosions sounded among the Jin-Sui army on the highway. The Jin-Sui soldiers closest to the explosion site were immediately hit by flying shrapnel, whether they were injured or still alive. What's more, some were directly hit by mortar shells and blown into pieces, not even leaving behind a complete corpse.

  After the four explosions, the smoke dispersed. At the explosion points, within a 5-meter radius around each point, every soldier of the Shanxi Army was lying on the ground with shrapnel all over their bodies. Many soldiers who were seriously injured were still writhing in agony and letting out intermittent cries of pain. Even more corpses had been blown off their hands or legs.

  "Ah ah ah..." The miserable cries of the soldiers were immediately transmitted to every soldier of the Shanxi Army who was lying on the ground. The terrifying cries almost made every soldier feel nameless fear. Many people began to pray, praying that the Red Army on the mountain ridge would launch a charge as soon as possible, and some soldiers had even prepared to surrender at any time.

  However, looking at the entire battlefield of Liu Shui Ping, there were still over a thousand Jinwei soldiers who could fight while lying on the ground. Could Zhang Hua launch a charge against these Jinwei soldiers with his 200 troops? The answer is no.

  Just at this moment of distraction, the artillery battalion's second round of shells landed again on the highway at the foot of the mountain. Four shells, once again stirring up a bloody rain.

  Shells rained down on their heads, and the hail of bullets flew past their ears. Soon, some soldiers couldn't bear this torture that was a matter of life and death. They started screaming wildly, venting their fear. Or they jumped up and ran back and forth on the battlefield, even launching a counterattack against the special forces on the mountain ridge... But all of this was strangled in its cradle by the dense firepower of the soldiers.

  "Commander, commander, we've been ambushed by the Communist Army! Our brothers have suffered heavy casualties. The Red Army's firepower is too strong, and they even have mortars. Our brothers can't organize an effective counterattack. Commander, you must make a decision quickly, or else these more than 2,000 good brothers will all become ghosts under the Communist guns..." A regimental commander who had already gathered beside Division Commander Wang Jingguo said loudly to the equally incredulous division commander.

  "My god, didn't the Red Army lack guns and ammunition? Where did they get so many light and heavy machine guns and bullets from... And what about the reconnaissance company's intelligence, didn't the Red Army retreat? Where did the Red Army that surrounded us come from?" Seeing row upon row of light and heavy machine guns spitting fire on the mountain ridge, as well as mortar shells constantly falling onto their own positions, Wang Jingguo loudly asked.

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