Chapter 43 Those who sacrifice are heroes, and those who are alive are also heroes.
"Feng Ji! The superiors have issued a new combat order! Our army is holding on to the surface position and has suffered too many casualties. In view of the intensity of the enemy's fierce attack, we are now relying on the tunnels to carry out counterattacks with the enemy! We will no longer send small groups of troops to the surface of the position and add more troops.
Oil tactics need to change!”
The regiment leader said: "Order the troops on the surface to retreat to the tunnel and let the enemy ascend to Shangganling!"
Company Commander Feng immediately asked: "Commander, if we retreat to the tunnels to fight, do we have to give up our superficial positions?"
The regiment commander said: "No! Our army's casualties on the surface positions are too great. The enemy's bombardment is so fierce that no matter how many people we send will be lost or killed, on the contrary, rely on the tunnels and wait for the enemy to occupy the high ground, and then carry out the attack before the enemy has established a position.
Positional counterattack operations can change the situation in which our army's holding troops on the surface of the position are fighting against the enemy while resisting enemy artillery fire! It can greatly reduce the casualties of our army!"
Company Commander Feng understood immediately: "Yes! I promise to complete the mission!!"
"In addition, we must learn to use the tunnels and think more. Every time the enemy retreats, they will bombard the surface positions of Shangganling. We must make good use of the gaps in the enemy's retreat. The forward positions are far away from the tunnels, so abandon the forward positions and
Under the condition of ensuring the safety of our soldiers, we can carry out the most effective counterattack against the enemy."
"Yes! Commander, I understand what you mean! We abandon the forward position and rely on the tunnels. When the enemy's artillery comes, we hide in. When the enemy's artillery is gone, we will counterattack and come out!"
"Yes! We have to fight like this. Although the surface position is important, the life safety of the soldiers cannot be ignored. We must be prepared to fight the enemy for a long time!"
"yes!"
Holding on to the surface position requires paying a huge price. The enemy's shelling started at 3:30 yesterday and continues until now. This is just the beginning of the battle. Faced with such fierce bombardment, the volunteer soldiers who hold on to the surface position have to pay a huge price.
How difficult it will be.
The enemy's artillery fire taught the commanders and soldiers of the 15th Army a deep lesson. They thought that even if the enemy launched an attack on Shangganling, they would adopt the same attack as in previous battles, but they did not expect that the enemy's attack would be so fierce and continuous.
The large-scale bombing has been going on for two days, and the casualties recorded in each tunnel are shocking. On the first day alone, the Shangganling garrison suffered more than 500 casualties, and this was just the beginning.
With the loss of various surface positions, commanders and soldiers understood that if they wanted to fight the enemy for a long time, positional warfare was impossible. The price paid in positional warfare was too high. Once the enemy retreated, they would use artillery fire to attack our positions.
Covered by artillery fire, the volunteer soldiers stationed at the forward positions had no time to retreat.
After careful discussions, our army believes that since we are in Shangganling, we must rely on the tunnels as the backbone and be prepared for a protracted war. The US military is coming this time with great ferocity and will never give up.
On the third day, a piece of news came from the rear, which made the commander of the 15th Army believe that this decision was the right one.
Due to Xia Yuan's appearance, the general trend of the Shangganling battle was changed. Originally, it was not known until three days after the battle that the enemy's attack target was Shangganling. However, due to his appearance, a big tongue of the US military was caught, allowing our army to learn the enemy's attack target in advance.
It was Shangganling. After obtaining the intelligence, all the commanders and fighters were discussing how to not only hold the position but also effectively attack the enemy on this land area of less than 3.7 square kilometers.
After research, the commanders formulated several theoretical plans. Whether they are feasible or not depends on the degree of the enemy's attack until the battle begins.
The Battle of Shangganling suddenly started on the 14th. It was expected and unreasonable. After learning that the enemy's attack target was Shangganling, our army strengthened its reconnaissance of the surrounding areas of Shangganling, dispatched a large number of reconnaissance troops, and mastered some key
information, but the enemy's ferocious posture still exceeded the imagination of all commanders.
Only one day after the outbreak in Shangganling, all the surface positions on Highland 537.7 fell, and three positions on Highland 597.9 were lost. Although they counterattacked and regained it on the first night, they also suffered huge casualties, with five companies and more than 500 casualties.
The battle on the second day was even more intense. In just one morning, positions 9 and 10 on the left were lost. Position 3 on the main peak was in danger. Positions 7, 11, 2, and 8 on the right were lost.
The position is in danger.
In addition to the positions on the ridge behind, there are also garrison troops. According to the news passed by the communications troops, there is only one platoon of soldiers capable of fighting in the No. 1 position, and only one squad left in the No. 3 position. No news can be transmitted from the other positions, and the enemy has blocked it.
All backslope routes.
Faced with such a situation, the commander immediately ordered the implementation of plan No. 2, relying on the tunnels and using the tunnels to launch a surprise counterattack against the enemy!
It can not only effectively reduce the casualties of our troops, but also effectively eliminate the enemy's effective strength.
Just when the order was issued, the battle on position No. 1 had already broken out. The enemy's last wave of attacks at dusk was fierce. Before they reached the forward position, the enemy's tanks and machine gun carriages had already begun to exert their force. At dusk, the smoke filled the air.
The battlefield was torn apart by chains of red fire, and bullets hit the forward positions, leaving huge craters.
After collecting a wave of bullets and grenades, the three people hid in a pile of enemy corpses extending 20 meters forward from the forward position. Bullets continued to fly past their heads. The three people lay down in the pile of corpses and quietly
He stretched out his gun.
There is basically no combat plan, and the number of people is too small, so it is difficult to exert a huge effect. The only thing they can do is to use the advantages of the battle line to retreat while fighting. The enemy's artillery fire is perfectly avoided by them. Next, they face the enemy's sea of people.
Tactics, two consecutive days of fierce attacks, the enemy did not capture the No. 1 position, their commander must be very angry.
The more you are at this time, the less you can let go. You have to hit the enemy so painfully that he screams. Only then will this battle be considered a victory!
Xia Yuan took a deep breath and aimed at the soldiers in the enemy's army carrying recoilless rifles.
Suddenly, he was surprised to find that the enemy's artillery attack was gradually decreasing and disappearing. With sporadic shells falling on the position, he looked up at the sky and found that it had indeed disappeared. The enemy's bombardment was over.
"Things have changed!?"
Xia Yuan was not new to the battlefield. The end of the unconventional shelling by the US artillery made him immediately alert. According to the past, the enemy's shelling did not follow the advance of the infantry and gradually extended to the rear until the enemy's
The infantry was driven back and artillery bombardment once again covered the battlefield.
But now the sudden cessation of shelling made him feel uneasy.
At this moment, the sound of machine guns came from behind. Xia Yuan's uneasiness was amplified. He immediately turned around and found a squad of soldiers coming from the rear position. He keenly discovered that the soldiers of this squad only carried guns and ammunition, and
It does not carry a large amount of weapons and ammunition like the previous reinforcements.
"The situation on the battlefield has changed!"
Xia Yuan immediately shouted: "Sun Jiazheng! Wang Shu! Come back! Retreat immediately!"
His shock was confirmed. The soldiers from the squad who came were from the second platoon. The squad leader looked at the only three soldiers left in front of him. He looked around and saw the enemies all over the mountains and plains. His heart sank.
He immediately said: "It's too late to explain. Our superiors asked us to retreat immediately! Retreat to the tunnel!"
"What!"
Xia Yuan couldn't believe his ears.
"Our superiors ordered us to retreat to the tunnel!"
"yes!"
The other party repeated it again. Xia Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes were red, he held the gun tightly, stared at the enemy's charging figure, turned around and retreated to the rear with the soldiers of this squad.
Staying is revenge, retreating is discipline.
But he is a volunteer soldier and a soldier. It is a soldier's bounden duty to obey the orders of his superiors.
After a day of fighting, Xia Yuan dragged his tired body back to the tunnel. There were many soldiers in the tunnel, including the wounded from the 9th company and the wounded from the 7th company. Their bodies were wrapped with bandages and dotted with blood.
White bandage.
"Coming down, coming down! The soldiers at the front are coming down."
Wang Yongmeng ran in from outside.
When they heard the voices of the soldiers coming from the tunnel, they all sat up holding their injured bodies while they were sitting in the tunnel. They looked towards the entrance of the tunnel leading to the front. Company Commander Feng heard the voice and immediately got up and took everyone back.
Go to a central location for rest.
The wounded and soldiers from the Seventh Company gathered around him.
The wounded members of the Ninth Company saw a very familiar person among the people who had been withdrawn from the forward position, but they didn't know who it was. The man was dirty, his uniform was torn, and the cotton inside came out, and his face was bruised and bruised.
It was dark, and his hands were wrapped in dirty bandages.
When the soldiers saw that only three people came down from the forward position, they basically understood. They lowered their heads and looked silent.
Captain Feng looked at the three people in front of him, his eyes turned red and tears flowed down his face. He wiped the tears from his face, stepped forward and looked at the three people, and said solemnly: "You are heroes! You are so good! None of you are.
Cowards!! What I, Feng Ji, admire the most are warriors like you! Dare to fight and fight hard! Just do what you say!"
He shouted loudly to the soldiers who did not go to the front line: "Look! These are the heroes we worship! It was them who withstood the enemy's attack on the front line! It was they who held our position! It was they who made the foreign devils understand
, we are not easy to mess with!”
"In the next battle, every battle will be more difficult, and every battle will be more cruel! But I hope that like all the soldiers fighting on the front line, you can use your own lives! Use your own blood to defend our country.
Country, protect her and cherish her!"
“Because only when we have a country, we have a home!”
"We drove away the little devils! We beat away the reactionaries! We finally lived a happy life, how can we let these foreign devils invade us again! No! Absolutely not!"
The soldiers' eyes were bloodshot, and they turned the grief in their hearts into motivation, shouting extremely loudly: "Absolutely not! Absolutely not! Absolutely not!"
Captain Feng held his gun and shouted: "Second Platoon, pack up your equipment and prepare for counterattack! Take our position in one fell swoop!"
The soldiers in the second row roared in unison: "Yes!"
Xia Yuan pulled Captain Feng and said seriously: "Captain Feng, I also want to participate in the battle!"
Captain Feng looked at the soldier in front of him, feeling a little familiar, and asked: "Are you the battle hero of the Ninth Company!?"
Xia Yuan shook his head, "I am not a fighting hero, those who sacrificed their lives are heroes. They all died, but I am still alive, so what kind of hero am I?"
He said somewhat mockingly: "I am just a person who survived the battlefield."
Captain Feng stepped forward, stared at Xia Yuan's dark cheeks, and said: "Those who sacrificed are heroes, and those who are alive are also heroes. Seeing the comrades around him fall in front of him one by one, this road is destined to become more difficult!"
A little setback will knock you down, so since the founding of our party until now, so many comrades have left us, do we have to blame ourselves like you and be unable to get up?"
He stared at all the soldiers: "Real heroes are tempered from battles! They have a tenacious fighting spirit and an indomitable fighting will! They are our role models! Our pride! They are also ours.
goal!”
Company Commander Feng's eyes fell on Xia Yuan: "You are a hero, but you have experienced too few battles and experienced too few things. I think if your platoon commander and company commander were still alive, looking at you like this, they
How sad will it be? The sacrifice of the soldiers will not be in vain. They will hold a light in front of our road. This light is to guide those who are confused and guide us. Remember their teachings and remember
Keep their appearance and defend our position."
"Pack up your weapons and ammunition and prepare to follow the second platoon."
Xia Yuan gritted his teeth. In his mind, the faces of Instructor Lin, Company Commander Gao, Platoon Leader Sun, Squad Leader Hu, and Deputy Squad Leader Li kept popping up in his mind. The faces of the soldiers of the first squad, the soldiers of the second squad, the soldiers of the ninth company, those fighting
After winning the battle, the smile on his face was still imprinted in his mind.
Their words kept ringing in my ears: "Hold the position!"
"I understand, thank you, Captain Feng!" Xia Yuan nodded heavily.
"Just understand. They died, but they did not die in vain. We should inherit their will and spirit and defend the motherland behind us!"
Captain Feng held his gun and shouted: "Replenish ammunition!"
At this moment, the wounded soldiers stood up one by one, including those from the Ninth Company and the Seventh Company. They looked at Company Commander Feng and shouted: "Captain Feng, we also want to go to the battlefield! We also want to take action! Please
You allow us to follow you, counterattack together, and take back our position together!"
Captain Feng turned his head and looked at the wounded who were injured and wrapped in bandages. Their bodies were injured, but their spirits were still tenacious and high. As time went by, they continued to squeeze inside and turned into a ball.
The motivation to push out.
With tears in his eyes, he shouted in this tunnel with noisy artillery fire: "Comrades! I can understand your mood of asking for a fight, but now we are not dead, our position has not been lost, and our hope is still there.
We can't let you go up and die, if the battle really goes to that extent, you will be the second echelon!"