Five hours later, under the cover of a 10,000-man army, Wang Dingyuan led the remaining 30,000 men and galloped along the mountain road towards Tianshen Mountain.
Even though they were running at full speed, they still couldn't catch up with the garrison and the Red Hat Army's new round of encirclement and suppression of the Tianshen Mountain position.
In the command vehicle, Wang Dingyuan asked an officer next to him in a hurried tone: "How far is it?"
The officer immediately replied, "Report, we are already advancing at full speed, but there is still 80 kilometers to go. The mountain road is difficult to travel. It is estimated that it will take at least two hours to reach Tianshen Mountain."
Hearing this, Wang Dingyuan hurriedly asked, "How about the battle over there? How long has it been going on?"
Beside him, his chief of staff glanced at his watch and replied, "Almost an hour too."
Wang Dingyuan frowned and said, "They have already fought three defensive battles. I estimated the weapons and equipment carried by General Staff Fei and his men, as well as the battlefield feedback data. It will be difficult for them to withstand this wave of attacks."
A general couldn't help but sighed: "Alas, we were already fast enough. We drove non-stop the whole time. The water tanks of the armored vehicles behind us were cracked several times due to the heat. For this mountain road, we really reached the speed limit."
Wang Dingyuan thought for a moment and immediately said, "This won't work. We must find a way to give them a boost, otherwise they will definitely collapse."
The Chief of Staff asked, "Do you need me to call Chief of Staff Fei?"
Wang Dingyuan waved his hand and said, "It's not a communication problem... Let's do this. Try to contact them first. Don't tell them that they are only 50 kilometers away. At the same time, tell the artillery battalion in front to ignore the main force and speed up to get to the front."
"yes!"
…
An hour later, on Tianshen Mountain.
In a dark natural cave, Fei Pingsheng, Xing Yao and others lay quietly behind the rocks, not moving a single step.
They were all wounded and their ammunition was running low, almost empty.
“Pah pah pah…”
There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, followed by several flashlights shining into the cave, sweeping across the gray stone walls.
Fei Pingsheng and the others lay quietly on the ground, holding their breath and clenching their weapons.
Several guards walked in from outside the cave and cautiously explored the cave. Their feet made a creaking sound as they stepped on the sandy ground.
Two people were already walking ahead, shining flashlights inside.
“Walk out! I saw you!!”
One of them shouted loudly in English.
The cave was silent, and no one responded. The team of more than ten people continued to move deeper into the cave, guns in hand.
Soon, the light reached the nearby area, less than half a meter away from where Fei Pingsheng and the others were hiding.
Xing Yao lay on the side, watching the light flickering, calculating the position of the other side, gritted his teeth, and whispered: "Fuck it, do it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, twenty or thirty soldiers hiding nearby suddenly jumped up, raised their weapons, and started firing at the garrison troops who were nearby.
“Da da da!”
A volley of bullets swept past, and several garrison soldiers burst into blood mist and fell in a pool of blood.
Seeing this, the remaining garrison troops retreated out of the cave while shooting.
"Fuck it, no one should live anymore!"
Xing Yao was so blood-thirsty that he led the other soldiers, who had already run out of bullets, and rushed into the crowd with their bayonets, engaging in a close combat with the enemy.
But at this moment, on the ground, a garrison soldier who had been shot twice in the abdomen was carrying a flamethrower specially designed for dealing with complex bunkers. He used all his strength to pull the bolt and pressurize the flamethrower. Immediately afterwards, with a whirring sound, a wave of fire rolled out and swept towards Xing Yao.
Xing Yao was holding a bayonet and had just stabbed a garrison soldier in the chest, leaving him no time to react.
"brigadier!"
A guard rushed over without thinking and knocked Xing Yao aside.
"call!"
“Ah~!”
The flames immediately engulfed the guard, setting his upper body on fire. He fell to the ground screaming and rolling around in agony.
The next moment, while the garrison was still firing, the two comrades rushed towards the guard, pinned him down with their bodies, then pulled off his clothes and continued to slap the flames off his body.
Xing Yao's eyes turned bloodshot. He held the bayonet and stabbed it into the flamethrower's neck with a "pop".
At the same time, Fei Pingsheng was also fighting fiercely. He shot and killed two garrison soldiers in a row, and the ammunition in his automatic rifle was completely emptied. Then he rushed into the crowd and fought with the enemy with his bayonet.
Soon, Lao Fei was exhausted and was forced into a corner with a dagger by an enemy whose gun had been shot down.
Looking at the shining dagger, at this moment, he didn't know whether he was thinking of his wife or the hot soup noodles he had been thinking about day and night in recent days. A force arose in his body and he swung the gun directly.
“Bang!”
The opponent's dagger was immediately knocked away, and while the opponent was stunned, he hit the opponent's stomach twice.
Blood spurted out like tap water, covering Fei Pingsheng's body, and then the enemy's body fell limply to the ground.
In just a few tens of seconds, an extremely bloody hand-to-hand combat took place in the cave.
When the last enemy fell in a pool of blood, the dozen or so soldiers left in the cave leaned against the wall, sat on the ground powerlessly, breathing heavily and replenishing their strength.
When the enemy launched this attack, not only did Fei Pingsheng's two brigades run out of artillery shells, but even the ammunition for ordinary soldiers was extremely scarce.
Many of the entrenched defense lines were also defeated. The enemy's main forces had all climbed up Tianshen Mountain and were launching a siege on Fei Pingsheng and his troops.
Inside the cave, there were corpses and blood everywhere, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
Fei Pingsheng calmed his breath and said in a hoarse voice: "Clean up the ammunition and prepare to withdraw..."
Xing Yao leaned against the stone wall, holding his left hand that was shaking from being detached. He paused for a moment and said through gritted teeth, "Damn it! As soon as I called, they said they would be there right away. Right away, right away. But when is right away? If we keep fighting like this, our soldiers will have to use knives to attack the enemy's machine guns!"
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Just as he finished speaking, a fierce burst of artillery fire suddenly came from the distant land.
The sound of the cannon was deafening, and the ground seemed to tremble continuously. Everyone present suddenly stood up from the ground and looked out of the cave.
On the mountain forty or fifty miles away, rows of artillery fire were firing into the sky.
Xing Yao froze in place for a moment.
At the same time, all the soldiers of the Renmin Army who were fighting hard on Tianshen Mountain, after seeing these shells rise into the sky and explode like fireworks, felt like a shot of adrenaline in their hearts, and regained hope. The originally low morale was once again burning.
Fei Pingsheng quickly ran to the cave entrance, looked at the illuminated sky, knelt down on the ground, and said with tears in his eyes: "Fuck, it's finally here!"
"Our main force is coming!"
"Look, we're very close!"
On the top of the mountain, soldiers were constantly shouting.
“Ding ding ding—”
I don't know who blew the loud charge horn accompanied by bursts of artillery fire.
Immediately afterwards, all over the mountains and plains, the Renmin Army soldiers who had been hiding in the dark rekindled their fighting spirit and turned into a torrent, launching a counterattack against the frightened enemy troops.
…
At the same time, in the command vehicle.
Wang Dingyuan looked out the car window and saw the artillery fire from the distant mountains. He gritted his teeth and said, "Faster! Faster!"
An officer of the Blackwater Corps could not help but ask: "Isn't it a waste to just use these shells to fire in vain?"
Wang Dingyuan looked at him and said firmly: "When people are in despair, what they most want to see is a little light. We must give them hope to live."
…
District 1, Washington, the new office building assigned to the Security Council.
In the dim interrogation room, a sturdy middle-aged man with a side parted hair stood there, with his hands behind his back, and asked the person next to him: "He still won't say anything?"
This man is called Liu Qi. He is one of the most hardworking staff members under Kong Zhenghui and also defected from Longcheng.
The men shook their heads, and Liu Qi grinned: "Okay, then I'll talk to him in person."