Chapter 672: Guess How Much Power the Fallen Brothers' Children Hold

“Wenxi! Comrade…”

I had never seen Liang Erxi so heartbroken before, the pain was as if piercing his heart.

Wang Wenxi’s face was as pale as earth, he mustered all his strength to squeeze out a smile, placing his hand on Liang Erxi’s hand:

“Captain, you… take care, I… it’s okay if I die, take care…”

“Vice Captain!”

I couldn’t see my own expression, but it was probably like Liang Erxi’s.

Wang Wenxi looked at me, speaking intermittently: “Instructor, I… I’m just a rough man, normally speaking… I speak thoughtlessly, making you angry, you… bear with me, I’m sorry…”

“Vice Captain!”

At that moment, my emotions broke down, and tears flowed as if they were free.

His right hand struggled to move from Liang Erxi’s hand to his chest.

He spoke with difficulty, “Instructor, help… help me, here… is my family photo, my… family photo…”

Images suddenly flashed in my mind, of me and him crouching in the trenches in the early morning, that brief peace.

I hurriedly reached into the pocket he pointed to and took out what was inside.

On the family photo, there was him, his wife, and his two children…

I sobbed, holding the photo with both hands, trying to let him see it more clearly.

He looked at the photo, his whole body trembling: “I… I’m leaving, I just want to see it one last time… just one glance…”

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At this point, Zhao Yimeng fell silent.

Kangle stopped all actions at this time, sitting up straight, also maintaining silence.

After roughly the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Zhao Yimeng continued telling the story with a low voice.

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As we infiltrated, the intensity of the battle escalated.

Each of us received two sugar canes, but before we finished them, the enemy artillery on the main peak resumed firing at us.

This round of shelling was fiercer and longer than the ones before.

Smoke billowed everywhere, rocks flew wildly, pressing on us until we couldn’t breathe.

Just as the shelling ended, the enemy organized another charge, various types of machine guns spewed fire, bullets came flying at us recklessly.

“First platoon, suppressive fire!”

Liang Erxi shouted, lifting his machine gun and firing back.

In fact, this seemingly hopeless decision was absolutely correct.

As we peeked out from the trench, readying our machine guns, we saw the enemies were only about a dozen meters away.

“Hit them hard!”

Liang Erxi turned his grief into madness, bullets poured out like a tide.

With dozens of machine guns forming a dense cover of fire, the enemies in front of the position instantly cried out in fear, starting to flee.

They had sneaked up while the main peak shelled us, pinning us down.

And as this attack was repelled, the enemy returned to calm again.

At this moment, the radio buzzed, it was the battalion commander.

Liang Erxi reported our exact situation over the radio.

The battalion commander conveyed another message: the specific location of our battalion’s three companies was about ten kilometers from our current position.

Because we did not reach our target at the designated time, the partial plan was disrupted, and they could not assist us according to the specified plan.

Currently, they were holding key mountain passes, mainly to intercept retreating soldiers from the front line, ensuring the maximum weakening of the enemy’s effective forces.

For this reason, none of their companies could move, not even reallocating a single person or gun to support us.

Meanwhile, the battalion commander, unlike before, retracted his previous criticism and instead conveyed commendations from superiors, praising the ferocity of our second company’s infiltration, living up to its reputation as a model.

Heh.

When they walked the path we infiltrated, they too fell silent.

They finally understood, our being ninety-five minutes late meant something.

“Do you have any difficulties?”

“We’re sufficient in arms and ammunition but lack food and water!” Liang Erxi said, “Water, mainly water, we have exhausted our water supply completely!”

“You need to hold on! At least until tomorrow morning, then we can reach you!”

After a pause, the battalion commander said, “The superiors instruct, if you encounter difficulties, hold your ground there! Once we come up, we’ll take hill 323!”

“This is underestimating us! Our task is to capture hill 323! Even if our company is wiped out, we must die charging forward!”

“Who do you think you are! Wang Wenxi? Watch your attitude!”

“Reporting to the battalion commander! Comrade Wang Wenxi has already sacrificed himself, I’m the second company commander of the xx regiment, xx division, xx battalion, Liang Erxi!”

…

After the call, Liang Sanxi had a grim face, he turned to me and said, “Instructor, let’s hold a party meeting.”

But at this moment, everyone gathered around, full of patriotism and fervor to kill the enemy.

“We can’t take hits passively anymore! We must attack for a chance of survival!”

Liang Erxi looked at the soldiers gathered around and said solemnly, “I propose, forming a party member assault team, to swiftly attack the enemy’s main peak and seize the artillery position with all our might!”

“Xiaobeiping” immediately nodded and said, “The captain’s plan is the most appropriate at present, observing the enemy’s past movements on the opposite main peak, they rely mostly on artillery fire to suppress us.”

“As long as we eliminate that artillery position, we may have a chance to win!”

Seeing no opposition from everyone, Liang Erxi promptly issued two orders.