Carry Your Broken Gun Yourself

Not to mention Hawkeye, even the old squad leader and the others were baffled.

In the end, the conclusion remains the same: when soldiers come, we will block them; when water comes, we will dam it.

After a day of rest, the 337th Regiment began a rapid advance toward the flank of Xichuan.

The four members of the Madman group trailed behind the group, their faces growing increasingly grim.

This was because bad news kept coming from Huangcaoling on the eastern front.

"The listening boat squad and their company are almost wiped out! Only Shi Ting and the political instructor are left on the position!"

"Enemy planes just dropped four more rounds of napalm; the hilltop is almost flattened, and the snow is scorched black!"

"The wound medicine is completely gone, and the cotton coat is frozen to the wound; I can't even tear it off!"

"I hear it sometimes..."

Naturally, he was also killed in action.

Now, the Listening Ship Squad can only rely on the last few hours of their spiritual existence to observe the final state of their company's position.

The elimination of foreign invaders during the Korean War was never a rare occurrence.

The pressure on the eastern front was far greater than Kuang Ge and his men had imagined.

Just then, the live stream chat suddenly stopped for a moment, and various text-based broadcasts suddenly appeared.

On the other side of Huangcaoling, the enemy troops pressed forward again.

The instructor, his face blackened with soot, threw away his empty rifle, pulled out the last grenade from his waist, and roared into the walkie-talkie.

"As long as one person remains, the position will never be lost!"

"Even if only one person remains, even if only one breath is left, we must hold our ground!"

boom!

The entire company of the Listening Boat Squad was wiped out.

They didn't even make it to the end of the countdown, to see who would collect their bodies, before being wiped out in this small place called Huangcaoling.

In the distance, other positions on Huangcaoling were still putting up a stubborn resistance, but they had nothing to do with the Listening Boat Squad, which was about to be transferred.

After a moment of silence, the live stream chat erupted with complaints.

"With temperatures tens of degrees below zero, food and medicine running out, and having to hold out against enemy aircraft and heavy artillery, no player squad can survive to the point of having anyone alive!"

The Listening Boat Squad had held out for quite a while, but they still couldn't hold out until the Battle of Huangcaoling was completely over.

This battle situation left Kuang Ge and his men speechless.

They were moving forward, but those on the eastern front had nowhere to retreat.

Hawkeye took a half-step closer from the side and rear, tugging at Crazy Brother and Old Squad Leader.

"The listening boat squad has been wiped out again..."

"The fighting at Huangcaoling was so fierce, but we haven't encountered any real tough battles on our side. That's very strange."

Hawkeye finally voiced his concerns and gave instructions.

"We've already missed one piece of information; don't believe a single word they say about safe places from now on!"

"Don't worry!" Kuang Ge exhaled a breath of white air, his eyes darkening. "It's not like we haven't been tricked by that old scoundrel Luo before."

"If there's a tough nut to crack in our way, we'll knock his teeth out first!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a series of rapid wading sounds came from ahead.

Under the cover of night, the Taedong River gleamed with a cold, gray light, and floating ice floes crashed together with a series of muffled thuds.

Company Commander Zhang strode back across the gravel, his thick brows furrowed as he glanced at the third platoon before issuing the order.

"Entire company, immediately occupy the Songli East and West Mountain line!"

"The 23rd Regiment of the 8th Division of the South Korean Army is advancing northward along the highway. We are the vanguard of the entire regiment; we must hold them back by the river to buy time for the main force to deploy!"

Platoon Leader Liu nodded solemnly and raised his hand to press forward towards the third platoon.

"superior!"

The seventh squad immediately rushed to the eastern mountain line to find cover and set up simple fortifications on the spot.

Not long after everyone finished setting up the makeshift fortifications, several blinding car lights shone from the direction of the riverbank.

Then, after discovering the three rows of positions, the artillery fire immediately came down.

The Southern Dynasty army was in a hurry to advance north. Before the artillery fire had fully spread, the infantry had already split into several echelons and pressed up the hill. Bullets flew wildly along the top of the three rows of simple fortifications.

Tao Dayou had already set up the firing position and mounted the light machine gun on the earthen embankment.

"Madman, feed!"

"They're here!"

Crazy Brother knelt behind him, one hand holding the ammunition pouch and the other reaching for the spare magazine.

Tao Dayou pulled the trigger, and the muzzle flashes danced continuously, instantly killing the enemy soldiers at the forefront.

The light machine gun ammunition was quickly depleted.

"It's empty!"

Madman had already pulled out the empty magazine and slapped the newly loaded magazine, now fully loaded with bullets, into the gun.

"beat!"

The machine gun paused for only one breath before spitting fire again.

Tao Dayou was responsible for blocking the front, while Kuang Ge stayed behind him and continuously supplied bullets.

The magazine was changed four times, and each time the action became smoother, the machine gun fire never stopped.

The spent cartridge cases landed at their feet and quickly formed a layer around them.

On the other side of the mountain, Eagle Eye and Deputy Squad Leader Xu each occupied a crevice in the rocks, specifically targeting enemy grenade launchers, machine gunners, and key personnel leading the team.

The Southern Dynasty army had barely climbed halfway up the mountain when the officers in front were shot down, and their formation immediately broke apart.

A few minutes later, the opposing team regrouped.

The second charge had only gone a few dozen meters when the two leading officers fell one after another.

The soldiers, having lost their command, could only lie down on the hillside to avoid machine gun fire.

After retracting back into the rock, Deputy Squad Leader Xu deftly inserted a five-shot bridge clip, displaying his eagle eyes.

"Good lad, your marksmanship is uncanny! Even better than I was back in Siping!"

Hawkeye smiled and slowly lowered the muzzle of his gun.

"You flatter me, deputy squad leader. There's another firing point in the lower right corner."

"I'll shoot to the left, you shoot to the right."

Deputy Squad Leader Xu peeked out.

"Okay!"

The two gunshots rang out almost simultaneously, and the light machine gun that had just emerged below immediately fell silent.

Then, after a short stalemate, the bugle call to charge suddenly sounded from the mountains behind, and the main force of the 337th Regiment arrived by outflanking maneuver.

Shouts of battle rang out from both sides of the mountain ridges at the same time, and a large number of soldiers pressed down on the riverbank from the flanks, with grenades falling one after another into the formation of the Southern Dynasty army.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The South Korean army, which was originally determined to advance northward, was blocked from the front by the Third Company, and the main force of the 337th Regiment was able to cut in from the flank and rear, and its formation was quickly cut in half.

Under the combined attack, the enemy could no longer hold out and fled after suffering 250 casualties.

The gunfire on the riverbank gradually subsided.

All that remained at the front lines were the groans of the wounded and the white steam rising from the cold barrels of guns.

Tao Dayou sat down against the half-finished fortification, his chest rising and falling, his arms trembling slightly.

Kuang Ge was squatting to the side, cleaning the magazines with his head down, when Tao Dayou suddenly ripped open the collar of his cotton-padded jacket, took a few breaths, and pulled out half a crumpled piece of coarse tobacco from his pocket.

He struck the match twice, but the wind blew it out.

Tao Dayou stared at the piece of tobacco for a while, then suddenly spoke.

"Madman."

"Huh?" Kuang Ge looked up, puzzled.

"What if this war really escalates one day?" Tao Dayou licked his cracked lips and said hoarsely.

"If I fall in this freezing cold, you'd better hold this gun steady for me!"

Crazy Brother was stunned.

Just as I was about to scold him, Tao Dayou was still talking.

"If you survive to victory, please send a message back to my hometown in Liaodong for me."

"Tell my mother that I didn't embarrass her."

Kuang Ge snatched the tobacco from Tao Dayou's hand and threw it down.

"Get lost!"

Tao Dayou was stunned by the scolding.

"Don't provoke me here!" Kuang Ge grabbed the canvas bag full of bullets and shoved it back into Tao Dayou's arms.

"You carry your own crappy gun; I'm not doing your hard labor!"

"After the war, go back to Liaodong yourself and go hug your three-year-old little sister. Don't come here and tell me what's going on after you're gone!"