Chapter 349 To the west, to the west, and then to the west!

"Wo, boom!"

After the sad sound of breaking the air, I only saw a flame rising to the sky next to the canyon, overturning three or four rebels next to them, and their limbs were scattered everywhere.

"Damn it, it's exciting!"

"Come again!"

Han Luozi wiped the corners of his dry and cracked mouth. At the moment of loading the bullet, he grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth. He rushed to the front of the cannon and aimed at another stronghold.

Under the smoke, hundreds of soldiers bent down and rushed forward with gunfire along the narrow and curved mountain path.

After the rammed earth mound outside the mountain, Jiang Cheng held the rifle tightly and lay on the earth mound and looked at the roaring power of several cannons with camels that could not be pulled here. It was also a rammed uphill that was frozen hard and shouted loudly.

But his heart is still hanging, especially when he sees his comrades rushing forward against the rain, he is about to burst into fire in his eyes!

Although the artillery began to be powerful, the mortars in the regiment were also organized. The gunfire rumbled in the narrow Star Gorge, and countless rebels were extinguished in the fire regiments, but what worried everyone was that the terrain here was really unfavorable to attack!

Xingxing Gorge is the only place to enter the Hexi Corridor and enter Xinjiang Province. It is known as the first throat of eastern Xinjiang. The peaks are stacked on all sides, and there is only a winding mountain road. There are dangerous rock cliffs next to the two sides. The bucket of stones is the kind of word of mouth from generation to generation. Everyone is afraid of the typical "one man is the gate, ten thousand men can't open it" The ground.

So those rebels also know the importance here. Not only are more than 2,000 people stationed here, but they are all equipped with Russian rifles, and even some Russian soldiers can be seen.

Judging from the previous waves of attacks, it is not powerful whether it is the rebels or the Russian soldiers, but the terrain here is too narrow, and the rebels occupy a good position first. There is no need to aim at it at all, as long as they shoot down with their eyes closed.

And the road inside the canyon is narrow, and there is a big S-shaped deep bend, which can't be covered by mortars, so it hasn't been nibbled down several times in a row.

If you are on the flat ground, or even if the road is wider, not to mention that the second division and one regiment are here, even if you pull up his three companies, you can completely annihilarate these skinning bastards, but the road is too narrow, with at most three horses in parallel and attack, so the troops can't be opened at all, and they can only rely on the artillery to point one by one. Smash it off, and then the infantry will go up to solve the problem.

And you can't rush up one battalion at a time, otherwise you will really become a target, and you can only enter one company at a time.

Now that the second company is going up, they have penetrated nearly half of the canyon with the help of the artillery. From the mound, they can no longer see their comrades-in-arms, which makes everyone even more worried.

Suddenly, a burst of "Dad" suddenly came out of the canyon. With the sound of machine guns, Jiang Cheng and everyone suddenly stood up, and the sudden sound of dense machine gun shooting made everyone's eyes red!

Maxin machine gun!

Everyone is too familiar with this unique sound, because they are equipped with several of them, and they are more familiar with the power of this machine gun that can fire hundreds of bullets per minute, but no one expected that the rebels also have this thing, and put it in a place that can't be covered by corner shells!

Sure enough, the second company, which was constrained by the terrain, was caught off guard. Suddenly, more than a dozen soldiers were torn to pieces by dense bullets, and finally had to retreat from the corner.

"You son of a bitch!"

Han Luozi, who specially brought five cannons to support, was about to bite his teeth, but the shooting angle of the cannon was too low to aim at all, so he hurriedly rushed to the mortar position, grabbed a mortar and aimed at it with his thumb for a long time, and filled in the shell in person.

The ballistic curved mortar is a natural mountain king. After seeing the shell draw a wonderful arc, it actually drilled into the curved mountain path, but it was blocked by the line of sight. It could only see the smoke of gunpowder but not whether it hit or not.

Han Luozi did not stop. After adjusting the shooting angle, he handed the mortar back to him and looked at him. The admired mortar bearer with envious eyes, patted his buttocks and walked to the next gun position, calibrated, test fired, and then handed over to the mortar squad to bombard himself.

Under the leadership of his experienced gunner, the mortars became more and more accurate, and countless shells crossed the curved mountain path and drilled into the middle of the canyon. Although there was no actual damage, the increasing smoke undoubtedly gave the soldiers a shot of strength.

"Boom."

The roar in his ear did not disturb Jiang Cheng. He knew that it would definitely be his turn in a while, so he quickly pulled the most climbing warrior in the company to his side. Erwa, can you climb up that place?

The second child is a thin young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. He grew up in the mountains since he was a child, so he was the first in every climbing competition. Seeing the company commander pointing to a small groove on a cliff, he immediately understood what he meant and nodded vigorously: "Ok!"

"Well, you climb up with the rope later, and then pull up the machine gun set with the rope. In addition, you should remember that I only give you three minutes of cover! Do you understand? The machine gun must be fired in three minutes!"

"Yes!" The second child nodded vigorously, picked up the rifle and went to prepare.

Jiang Cheng quickly pulled several squad leaders over again: "Class One is equivalent to going up to support our flags and divert the enemy's firepower. Remember to open the way with more grenades!"

"Class two, cover class one."

"The machine gun squad followed the second child and beat me to the death after occupying the high ground. Don't let them look up!"

"Yes!"

As soon as he finished assigning the task, there was a sudden shout behind him: "Jiang Cheng, come out!" After the battalion commander rushed to the temporary bunker, hearing the sound, Jiang Cheng quickly climbed down from the mound and rushed to the battalion commander to salute and shouted, "Report to the battalion commander, Jiang Cheng of the third company was ordered to come."

"Get out of here, don't give me this set of articles." It seems that the sudden appearance of the machine gun just now made the battalion commander look very bad, and his saliva was about to fly to his face. However, he also knew that his subordinate had a way to fight fiercely, and immediately shouted, "It's your turn. Take out all your usual flowers. Don't humiliate me!"

"Yes!" Jiang Cheng blushed excitedly and quickly turned back and shouted, "Sanlian, follow me." As soon as he finished his words, the three companies, who had been on standby for a long time, rushed out of the cover mound like a cheetah.

A squad leader took the lead. After rushing out of the mound, he immediately propped up the double-headed eagle flag. The high-headed eagle flag suddenly shocked everyone's morale. The mortar company was even more crazy and poured shells into the canyon. Suddenly, the whole canyon seemed to be covered by thick smoke.

"Let's go!"

Seeing that the commanding heights on both sides were suppressed, Jiang Cheng shouted without saying a word and took his troops into the canyon like lightning. They skillfully leaned against the cliff, did not take the middle path, and kept shooting back.

Bullets passed through the ear, squirped on the stone wall, and exploded one after another, with countless stones falling from the cliff.

Go, go!

There is no second way!

Every three companies of soldiers knows this truth. They can only grit their teeth and rush forward with bullets, especially the group holding the flag high, which has become a magnet to attract bullets. They are shot by the enemy's most violently. If they have to shoot up, it will affect the speed. A group of soldiers simply carry their guns and use special grenades to open the way.

The smoke brought by the explosion of the grenade covered the eyes of the rebels and blocked their sight, which also made the rebels not see the second child hiding behind.

The second child knew that the opportunity was coming, and the situation was tense. Seeing that Class One was about to rush into the corner, he rushed to the cliff and climbed up like a dexterous ape.

After waiting at the top, I didn't care to look at the corner in front of me. I immediately put down the rope and began to pull up the comrades-in-arms of the machine gun squad one by one. Because the groove is not large, only three people can stand, so the remaining soldiers in the machine gun squad can only be anxious below.

After the machine gunner climbed up the groove, the scene in front of him suddenly became hot. He only saw that his beloved double-headed eagle flag was almost suppressed at the corner and could not move, and he hurriedly shouted.

"Bullet, bullet!"

The loading sound of the card wipe sounded rapidly. When the loader shouted loudly, the machine gunner suddenly pulled the trigger, and only saw a long tongue of fire suddenly spewing out the muzzle of the light machine gun.

The belt was rolled out of the ammunition box and swallowed up, and the shell kept firing out of the gun like a pop of beans, scattered on the nearby snow with pieces of white smoke. The machine gunner pulled the trigger desperately and kept turning the muzzle to increase the shooting. The reduced cooling tank even had no time to cycle to cool the barrel, and in just a few minutes, there were bubbles.

The second child temporarily acted as a crane and kept pulling up the ammunition box below to supply. The rebels and Russian soldiers in the distance did not expect that there were light machine guns that could be installed on the cliff, and they were suddenly beaten to the top of their limbs.

Jiang Cheng has been observing the enemy's firepower. Seeing that the machine gun sounded, the enemy was suppressed and couldn't even raise his head. He immediately shouted, "Go, rush, rush, don't stop!"

Hundreds of soldiers of the second company who were suppressed at the corner bowed their heads and ran under the cover of machine guns. I don't know how long it took, everyone suddenly felt that their eyes suddenly opened up.

"Ring out."

But before Jiang Cheng sighed, the scene in front of him made a big jump. He only saw nearly a thousand rebel cavalry holding knives and running fiercely towards the third company that had just emerged from the canyon.

"Fuck, I knew you would have done this!"

"Class Two, left!"

"Class three, on the right."

"After the fourth shift is interrupted, be careful of the enemies coming out of the canyon."

"Be careful, fight the horse first, and then the adult! Machine gun, machine gun ready!"

In Jiang Cheng's roar, the horses in the distance had already begun to sprint. The saber was raised high and mixed with white snow, emitting a chilly and dazzling light from time to time.

The flying iron hooves fell on the frozen hard ground, making a sound like the sound of gold and iron, beating around the hearts of the soldiers of the third company like a drum.

Looking at the rushing cavalry, a trace of joke flashed in Jiang Cheng's eyes. These bastards really thought that they could copy and extend the scene again, but they didn't know that the headquarters had already foreseen that they might be attacked by a large group of cavalry out of the canyon, so they specially equipped each leading company with four light machine guns, although one of them remained. The enemies in the canyon are suppressed on the cliff, but I still have three!

"Fy!"

When the cavalry shouted and getting closer, Jiang Cheng suddenly waved his arm. Suddenly, three long tongues of fire rose from the left and right sides at the same time. The dense bullets swept through the cavalry like a rainstorm, and suddenly scattered the cavalry formation. The sudden was different from the voice of the heavy Maxim, in every soldier. Ringing in my ear.

With the machine gun firing first, the soldiers also raised their guns one after another. It is difficult to dig trenches in this permafrost layer. What's more, it takes only a few seconds from drilling out to finding the strange soldiers, and there is no time to react at all, so everyone can only disperse to find cover.

This time, the rebels obviously miscalculated. They were no longer facing an unprepared company, but a whole reinforced company with three more machine guns, with more than 400 people!

The rainstorm-like bullet screen made countless war horses fall and torn in the wailing. Each war horse fell, but it messed up the formation behind, making the speed slower and more unavoidable.

At this time, the power of the Type 97 semi-automatic rifle finally appeared. This kind of rifle, which does not need to pull the bolt, can shoot with a trigger, is very fast. The soldiers either kneel or lie down, hiding behind the mountain stone and knock down every guy who tries to approach.

Just after the cavalry finally pulled a little closer with the rain of bullets, they were greeted by more dense grenade rains. A series of explosions made the formation could no longer be maintained. In the end, these cavalry had to fight separately.

Although some cavalry finally rushed in front of them, it only caused some confusion and did not disperse the formation of the third company. What's more, as long as the machine gun was ringing, the cavalry had to slow down.

But in a few minutes, the subsequent companies also drilled out of the canyon under the cover of machine guns. The cavalry, formerly known as the king of the army, finally gave in in front of machine guns and bullets.

"Well done!"

Ten minutes later, the battalion commander stepped on the corpse and walked out of the canyon. He immediately gave Jiang Cheng a fierce hug and shouted, "Pang the flag high for me!" Let these dogs know that this is our territory now!" --

The wide gate suddenly opened, and a steed and a team of soldiers stepped out of the majestic Jiayu Pass behind them with neat steps. From here, they will embark on the road of the western expedition.

By the side of the city wall, countless unknown people spontaneously walked to the foot of the wall, picked up the stone and hit the earth wall hard, making a thud sound.

Bayanzhuo grew up on the Mongolian prairie and was the best jockey. Although he changed his foreign gun, he still relied on excellent equestrian skills and became the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion.

But he had never seen such a strange thing. He quickly turned his head and asked the instructor who had just arrived in the camp: "Luror, what's the matter?" His voice was very loud, and he used Mongolia again, so the Mongolian soldiers around him understood the meaning and withdrew their eyes and looked at the instructor.

The instructor smiled. After a long time, he also fell in love with these straightforward men and also said in Mongolia: "It is said, "It is said that in ancient times, there was a pair of swallows nests in the distant gate of Jiayuguan. In the early morning, the two swallows flew out of the gate. At dusk, the female swallow flew back first. When the male swallow flew back, the door was closed and could not enter the gate, so she sadly touched the wall and died. For this reason, the female swallow was heartbroken and made a "choo" sound from time to time, crying until she died. After death, his spirit did not disperse. Every time someone hit the wall with a stone, he would make a "choo-choo" sound and talk to people.

"So!" The instructor looked around and listened to the Mongolian soldiers, and his voice suddenly became loud: "Everyone regards hearing the sound of swallows in Jiayuguan as an auspicious voice. After a long time, this has become a tradition of our Chinese nation. Whenever soldiers go out from here, whether they know each other or not, they come back here to pray for the army."

"Exiting the Jiayu Pass, it is the desert land of the Western Regions. Where is it? The wind is flying, and the sound is sobbing. Under that land, tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers of all ethnic groups have sprinkled their blood on the battlefield and the shroud of horse leather. To this day, their souls are still guard here and do not want to come back until they die!"

"They don't regret it!"

"Because they are fighting for the country, which is the home of our China!"

"Today, we have Han brothers, Meng brothers, and Miao Zang brothers!"

"We are a big family, and we are all Chinese children, so let's go today! They came to see us off again!"

"In the west! There are some people who want to split the country and become king themselves!"

"There, the Russians are also sharpening their knives, wanting to continue to slaughter us as cattle and sheep, to occupy our grasslands, to take away our cattle and sheep, and to take away our women!"

"So they came!" The instructor's eyes were shining, pointing to the people who hit the wall to pray for the soldiers, and shouted, "They are praying for us and waiting for us to recover the mountains and rivers!" Waiting for the triumphant return!"

"Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!"

The words of the instructor made the Mongolian soldiers around them excited and shouted one after another. Not only who took the lead, but suddenly there was a majestic and ancient march in the team.

The soldiers echoed one after another, and the majestic song suddenly resounded through the wilderness!

"Let's go!"

When the high-floating double-headed eagle flag suddenly leaned forward, tens of thousands of cavalry galloped out of the city gate, and the fierce horses stepped into the Gobi Desert with hiss.

Behind them, there were countless infantry soldiers, walking neatly and singing the same songs. In the tearful eyes of the people who hit the wall, they followed the hoof marks left by the cavalry brothers and walked out of the majestic pass.

"Strictly pass the 100-foot boundary in the west of the sky, ten thousand miles to recruit people stationed on the horseshoe. The flying pavilion is connected to the Qin tree, and the wall is obliquely lower than the clouds. Tianshan Mountain stands shoulder to shoulder, and the vast sea is vast and fascinating. Who said that it was dangerous for thousands of years? When I saw it, I only saw a ball of mud.

With ancient poems, the people crowded at the foot of the city wall. Decades ago, they sent away 60,000 children of the Hunan Army here, and also prayed for them and wish them a triumph!

But a few years later, they waited for less than 20,000 people to come back!

Now, they are here again to see off a new batch of soldiers. They don't know how many people will come back this time, but they believe that the land will go out with these soldiers and return to the arms of the Chinese nation!

Looking at these faces full of vicissitudes, every soldier's eyes were firm. They were in tears, but they did not look back, because they knew that the land was waiting for them to recover!

To the west, to the west, and then to the west!

All the soldiers remembered the slogan of the army!

The place where you step on is my soil!!

(to be continued)