Chapter 38 You want me to go down? I cant go down, and I cant do it either
The machine gun fired bullets continuously, and the barrel of the gun had begun to heat up. Xia Yuan's hands were so hot that they were bleeding, but he still kept shooting! Shoot!
Squad Leader Hu collected the firearms and ammunition from the enemy's corpses in the distance, including more than fifty carbines with eight large grains, and a lot of 60 mortar shells. He shot this one for that one and pulled out the shells.
When the grenade was thrown at the enemy, the two men bravely resisted the enemy's attack on the left, and finally defeated the enemy's counterattack half an hour later.
The battlefield was filled with smoke, and the enemy left behind a large number of corpses.
When Xia Yuan let go of the machine gun, the skin of his palm was connected to the body of the machine gun, and bright red blood flowed from his dark hand. He gritted his teeth, took out a piece of gauze that was not very clean from his arms, and simply wrapped it around it.
With his own wound, he followed Squad Leader Hu and quickly ran to the platoon leader's position.
The two of them saw from a distance the place where the platoon leader was lying. The two machine guns were still perfectly placed. There was a pile of bullet casings and bullet bags piled next to the machine guns. Where the muzzles of the machine guns were pointed, there was a large area of enemies lying in random directions.
The two men completely ignored their injuries and ran to the platoon station where they were lying. However, they did not see the platoon leader. They only saw blood on the ground behind the machine gun, soaked in the soil on the ground.
, forming a pool of black-red mud.
But the platoon leader was nowhere to be seen, and the two of them felt a little nervous.
Squad leader Hu's voice became choked and his words were trembling: "Look, look, the platoon leader said, he will be alive. If we look, we should still be able to find him. Maybe he is just unconscious."
"Platoon Commander Sun! Platoon Commander Sun!"
Xia Yuan shouted a few words. The smoke choked people and made it difficult to open their eyes. It was even more serious than the smoke-filled smoking room. He suddenly remembered that there was a huge explosion from the direction where the platoon leader was lying. An unknown sound.
A shadow enveloped his body, and he ran down the steep mountain like crazy, shouting "Platoon Leader Sun" as he ran.
There were enemy corpses everywhere under your feet, stumbling and stumbling.
Suddenly, among a pile of corpses, he was keenly aware of a shoe with two patches on it and a dirty surface. Squad leader Hu next to him ran over and looked at the shoe intently. This was not Sun Pai.
Who else could those long shoes belong to? Under a broken corpse, an American soldier was pressed. Through the dark corpse, you could vaguely see that this was Platoon Commander Sun. Next to Platoon Commander Sun was still lying.
Seven enemy corpses.
Platoon Leader Sun persisted until the end, dragging his seriously injured body, rushing towards the enemy group with the last grenade, firing the grenade, and perished with the enemy.
Squad leader Hu fell on Platoon Leader Sun in pain, and his tears fell on Platoon Leader Sun's blurred cheeks like broken beads. He called out Platoon Leader Sun's name and shouted desperately,
Calling out, this old squad leader who had shed blood and sweat on the battlefield had never been beaten or cried by enemy guns, planes or tanks, but he was crying so sadly at this moment.
There were also two lines of hot tears hanging on Xia Yuan's dark face. He kept suppressing his emotions and looked at the corpses everywhere through his eyes blurred by tears. He could no longer distinguish between the enemy's and our positions. At this moment, his heart
I hate this war so much.
A seed full of hatred has taken root in his heart, deep and deep...
Squad Leader Hu carried Platoon Leader Sun's body on his back in a somewhat careless manner and placed it at the position he had just held. From here, you can see the left and right positions. Xia Yuan sat on the hilltop with his gun in his arms, looking at
The gunfire has stopped at Position No. 1, and the originally blurry eyes gradually became firm.
He stood up, and Squad Leader Hu turned around and called him, "Why are you going?"
"I'm going to see if there are any surviving soldiers on the right side."
Xia Yuan sniffed and moved to the right position. The gunfire on the right position had stopped when he woke up, but the enemy he hadn't seen came from the right flank. It was probably caused by someone from that side.
Volunteer soldiers withstood the enemy's charge.
Passing through the smoke-filled battlefield, jumping over bomb craters, and through the smoke-filled scorched earth, he saw the right side of the position. The entire right side of the position was quiet, with no one in sight and no one talking.
Xia Yuan's heart sank suddenly, and he ran over stumblingly.
On the right side of the position, there was smoke and no fortifications. There were dense craters everywhere, one after another. The ground was a piece of scorched earth, and corpses were strewn all over the place, including those of foreign devils and some of our own people. He ran over.
, saw the body of Niu Xingcai, entangled with a foreign devil, his mouth biting the enemy's ear, the blood on his body had dried up, and was full of bullet holes.
He saw Wang Shou's body, and a foreign Japanese soldier lying on top of him. Half of his body had been blown away, and pale intestines flowed out from his internal organs. There were several corpses of enemies beside him, and their bodies were covered with wounds punctured by shrapnel.
He saw the body of the squad leader of the 1st platoon and 1st squad of the 7th company who came for support, only half of it was left... He saw...
The corpses of each soldier were entangled with the enemy. They used their lives to condense into a high wall, preventing the enemy from setting foot on the position. After they sacrificed their young lives, they repelled an enemy attack.
, the figures standing on the front line looked so heroic.
Xia Yuan held the gun and looked at the tragic scenes on the right side. The tears in his eyes were like broken beads, falling continuously. The smoke blackened his cheeks. He wiped the tears on his face,
Holding back the grief in his heart, he understood that the next day's battle had just begun and everything was not over yet.
He put away the grief in his heart and turned it into the power to attack the enemy. He tightly wrapped the gauze around his palm and tore off the honor stripes on the soldiers.
Seeing that there were only thirteen glory strips left in his hand, Xia Yuan's heart felt like a stone was stuck in his heart. He pinched the soldiers' glory strips hard, folded them neatly and put them at the innermost part of his clothes.
Put it on his heart, where he thinks it is the safest place.
Then start collecting guns and ammunition on the battlefield.
I rummaged through some buried bullets and grenades on the scorched earth, found a half-burned ammunition box and packed it, and put some bullets and grenades in it, as well as the grenades I found from the corpses of foreign devils, and by the way, I picked up some bullets and grenades from the enemy.
Several relatively intact guns were found on the body, and he carried it to the place where Platoon Leader Sun died.
"How's the situation on the right side?" Squad Leader Hu collected a large number of guns and ammunition, two heavy machine guns, five light machine guns, three recoilless rifles, nine recoilless rifle shells, and eleven 60 mortar shells.
, were piled up on the whole hill. It seemed that Squad Leader Hu wanted to fight the foreign devils desperately.
Xia Yuan put the box on the ground, shook his head, and said nothing, but he seemed to have said everything.
The bright eyes on Squad Leader Hu's dark cheeks said sadly, "They have done a good job, they are heroes."
Xia Yuan nodded, put the ammunition on the ground, and turned around to collect weapons and ammunition. The enemy's attack is far from over. They will never give up until they take Shangganling. The next battle will be more cruel and difficult.
He might even be sacrificed here.
The scene he just saw on the high ground on the right came to his mind, and he recalled the instructions given by Captain Sun when he died.
Xia Yuan's eyes became firm.
Monitor Hu looked at his hand and asked, "How is your hand? Is it serious?"
Xia Yuan shook his head, his voice hoarse: "It's okay, it won't affect the battle."
He took off the helmet on the foreign devil's head, took off the grenades and bullet bags on the enemy, and threw them into the helmet. After a while, he collected a lot of ammunition, but this was not enough. The battles on other positions were not clear.
However, after the enemy's fierce attack all morning, it is estimated that not many positions will be lost, and sufficient weapons and ammunition need to be prepared.
Squad Leader Hu shouted: "Xia Yuan, you go down and leave the position to me. When the gunfire stops, you let the Seventh Company attack."
Xia Yuan turned his head, looked at Squad Leader Hu intently, and shook his head firmly.
The enemy's artillery shells fell on the position again, rolling up a lot of soil. The sound of the artillery was loud all over the world. Squad leader Hu walked up to Xia Yuan and said: "Go down, the position is very dangerous. You can't die. Your role is much greater than mine."
, you played a big role in the night battle, it’s a pity that you died here.”
He looked at Xia Yuan: "The Ninth Company has been exhausted, and the two of us are the only ones who can fight. If you want to leave a flame, you are the most suitable. The enemy has occupied the position and led the soldiers to attack."
Xia Yuan opened his chapped lips and said: "I'm not going, I'm not going anywhere, I want to stay on the ground!"
Squad leader Hu shouted anxiously: "Why are you so stubborn!"
"The company commander is dead, the instructor is dead, the platoon leader is dead, the deputy squad leader is dead, everyone is dead."
Xia Yuan held the gun tightly, his eyes filled with tears, and choked with sobs: "There are only two of us left in the Ninth Company. You want me to go down? I can't go down, and I can't do it."
He has concerns in his heart, but these living soldiers have no concerns in their hearts. He lives in a peaceful era and enjoys a life that these soldiers have never enjoyed or even dared to think about. Compared to them, he is already much luckier.
Because he knows what the future world will be like.
Millions of soldiers entered Korea to fight, but how many remained in Korea?
One hundred and ninety thousand! One hundred and ninety thousand!
After experiencing Xinxingli, Shuimen Bridge, and seeing a complete company with only two people left after a fierce battle, Xia Yuan had already been prepared to sacrifice.
He took a deep breath, looked at the smoke-filled battlefield, and said solemnly: "There are so many people in the Ninth Company staying here. They are watching us. What you said, I can't do! The tasks required by the superiors have not yet been completed."
It’s over, as long as one person from the Ninth Company is there, the Ninth Company will always be there! The position will still be in the hands of the Ninth Company!”
He took a deep breath, looked at the smoke-filled battlefield, and said in a hoarse voice: "The battle is not over yet. If I am still here and you are still here, the enemy will not be able to fight. I'm telling you! If they want to fight, they can't fight first.
Step over my dead body! Otherwise, they will never be able to fight me until I die!"
Xia Yuan stubbornly turned around and continued to take away bullet bags and grenades from the enemy, filling his body with them until he could no longer put any more.
The shells fell on the position one after another, rolling up the corpses on the ground. The mud mixed with blood and soil splashed everywhere. The corpses were blown into pieces by the shells, and they continued to vent. There was blood everywhere.
A horrific scene.
Behind him, squad leader Hu shouted: "Xia Yuan, you go back to the tunnel now, let the seventh company commander come to reinforce us, and then you follow the reinforcements out, okay?"
Xia Yuan held a pile of guns and ammunition, and slung several guns behind him. He stood at the foot of the slope, looked at Squad Leader Hu, shook his head, leaned to the top of the hill where the platoon leader died, put down the guns and ammunition, and took out the engineer shovel.
He began to build a bunker on top. The ground was too hard and he could barely dig it to half a person's height, just enough to accommodate one person. He threw the engineer shovel to Squad Leader Hu, leaned his gun against the bunker, and pulled over what he found, which was barely enough for use.
Ammunition, holding his gun and quietly waiting for the enemy's next attack.
Squad Leader Hu looked at the expressionless Xia Yuan, his heart aching as if it was being squeezed. He tremblingly took out some tobacco and a piece of crumpled paper, rolled it into a long piece, then folded it in half and tore it in the middle, and put half of it on the
In his pocket, with the other half in his mouth, a cannonball fell behind him, and the soil continued to leak out. As if he didn't notice it, Squad Leader Hu took out a match, struck the side of the matchbox, and used a little force to
After breaking the match, he threw the broken match on the ground, took out another one and continued to strike. After trying two or three times, he finally lit the cigarette. While smoking, he frowned and his originally bright eyes became cloudy.
, under the smoke, I don’t know what squad leader Hu is thinking in his heart.
The cigarette was bottomed out quickly, and he threw it aside. He used the engineer shovel thrown by Xia Yuan to start digging a trench. He dug the trench almost, inserted the shovel into the ground, stood up, separated the pile of ammunition in front of him, and carried it to Xia Yuan.
Beside the trench.
The two were four meters apart. Squad leader Hu gave him some ammunition, then moved a heavy machine gun, two light machine guns and three boxes of bullets to Xia Yuan's bunker, put them down and said: "Fire alternately, one person is loading, and the other is
Covering fire."
Xia Yuan looked up at Squad Leader Hu's dark face. Without saying a word, he stood up and pulled the heavy machine gun and light machine gun into the bunker. He opened the ammunition box of the light machine gun and began to put bullets into the magazine one by one, completely ignoring the pain in his palms.
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Squad Leader Hu withdrew his gaze and returned to his position. He filled the magazines of all the guns around him with bullets and spread them out in front of the bunker. The machine guns were mounted and facing the left, while Xia Yuan faced the right.
When the bullets were exhausted, Xia Yuan took a rest, took off his hat, patted the sand from his hair, looked at the sunless sky, and couldn't guess what he was thinking in his heart.
The battle on the second day of Shangganling was so fierce.
The casualties of the volunteers are constantly increasing, and the casualties of the US military are also constantly increasing.
Every day in the future will become more and more tragic.
Van Fleet, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Eighth Army, said: "This was the bloodiest and longest-drawn battle in the war, and it was the United Nations Army that suffered the greatest losses."