The next moment, the enemy's heavy machine gun bullets came whizzing over, blinding the mouth of the machine gun bunker twice in a row. The US military had already noticed it and even ordered the artillery in the rear to bombard the machine gun fire points occupied by the enemy.
Continuous shells fell on the machine gun fire points, sand and rocks flew up, and air waves rolled.
They had hid in the bunker, using the tunnel barriers to protect their own safety. Xia Yuan even used the engineer shovel he carried to dig into the bunker beneath him, digging out a sloping bomb shelter. A large amount of soil continued to
The ground fell from above the head, accompanied by the roar of artillery and the sound of bullets flying overhead. The bullets hit the ground and plunged into the shattered soil.
Along with the artillery bombardment, two foreign counterattack troops appeared, trying to recapture the bunker occupied by the three people. This bunker was like a nail stuck in the ground of their defensive position. If it was not pulled out,
The volunteers will take advantage of this point and tear a hole.
They have experienced this scene too many times. In the previous battles, there would always be an enemy unit suddenly inserted into the abdomen like a nail. The nail would not be pulled out. The slightest movement would cause pain all over the body. Lieutenant of the US Army
Immediately ordered the counterattack troops to go up, intending to pull out the nail under the cover of artillery.
"Grandma! The foreign devils are really just like an iron bastard. They are really hard to bite! Squad leader, the foreign devils' counterattack troops are coming up again. Fight them back to me. Don't let them touch Xia Yuan's position."
Upon seeing this, Company Commander Feng quickly ordered a machine gun fire team composed of light machine guns to attack the enemy's counterattack troops.
Seeing them tearing open a hole, how could they easily close it while watching the U.S. military?
The battle has progressed to this level. Even if we cannot defeat the wave of foreign counterattack troops, we still have to beat them painfully!
At this time, on the left side, the soldiers of the third squad had touched the ridge. A soldier shouted: "Squad leader, look, it's the company commander and the others!"
From a distance, we could see Company Commander Feng and a group of soldiers who were fighting fiercely with the US military. The fight between the two sides was extremely fierce. Although the foreign devils were large in number, the firepower of the group was not weak. Several light machine guns were enough to suppress the enemy's fierce attack.
The enemy's heavy firepower is not a decoration. The fire chain formed by the long bullets sweeps across the battlefield, like a long whip, hitting a group of soldiers on the ridge. From a distance, one can hear the bullets hitting the rocks.
The sound of popping open.
In the remains of a bombed bunker in the distance
"The enemy's counterattack force!" The third squad leader withdrew his gaze. The enemies on the position almost formed an encirclement on the first squadron. The number of counterattack troops was about two platoons, and more than 80 soldiers surrounded the first squadron from all directions.
past.
"Spread out in combat formation, look for your own shooting targets among each combat group, and listen to the sound of my gun and fire!"
"yes!"
Several combat groups quickly dispersed from their positions on the ridge. The foreign Japanese did not know that the third squad had already approached. They were concentrating on dealing with the first squad. Due to Xia Yuan and several light machine guns, the first squad fired.
The fight was extremely fierce, and the battle lasted for half an hour. The two sides actually fought back and forth.
But the situation on the battlefield may change drastically every second. No one can predict whether they will be killed by the opponent's bullets in the next second. All they can do is to shoot every second.
Shoot out enough bullets to suppress the enemy's firepower and infantry. Under continuous shooting, a platoon of enemy counterattack troops fell to pieces, and other soldiers quickly fell to the ground.
On the smoke-filled battlefield, the situation was changing rapidly. The enemy on the right sent a platoon of soldiers, and the enemy on the left also sent a platoon of soldiers to surround them, but unexpectedly there was a burst of gunfire from the left.
, the counterattack force on the left was pushed back. Before the enemy on the right could fully touch it, the machine gun bullets passed through quickly. A group of soldiers withstood the enemy's heavy firepower and helped Xia Yuan and the other three who occupied the enemy's firepower point.
Share the pressure.
After the bombardment, the three men emerged from the soil, shook off the soil from their guns, and quickly jumped into the battle.
"Company Commander, retreat, we don't have many bullets left!"
The squad leader held his gun, crawled along the bunker to Captain Feng, and shouted.
"Hold on a little longer, our reinforcements are coming up from the left, look!"
The squad leader turned around and saw the soldiers of squad three standing on the ridge on the other side against the enemy's fierce attack, sharing the pressure with them.
"In counterattack operations, we don't just need to counterattack, but to destroy the enemy in large numbers!"
Captain Feng raised his gun and said: "If our two squads can eliminate one company of enemies, we will make a profit. If we can eliminate two companies of enemies, then this counterattack will be a complete victory!"
"Immediately help Xia Yuan attract firepower, blow up an enemy bunker, and we will retreat!"
The squad leader looked at the corpses of the enemies lying scattered on the battlefield, and then looked at his own side. Every soldier was more or less injured. The soldiers in his squad had eliminated so many enemies, effectively wiping out all the enemies.
To generate troops, the mission of this counterattack has been achieved. If we can kill another enemy bunker, then this mission will have been overfulfilled!
Thinking of this, the first squad leader was determined. He set up a light machine gun not far from Captain Feng and fired back at the enemy. He shouted: "Comrades, the soldiers of the third squad are here to reinforce us! Hit me hard.
Every time an enemy is eliminated, we will exceed our mission!"
Within the firepower point, Yang Ming shook off the dirt on his body and suddenly said: "Listen!"
Xia Yuan held the gun and patted the dirt on his head. He paused and heard gunshots in the distance and said, "It's our reinforcements!"
Yang Ming nodded: "Yes, our reinforcement team has arrived! It must be Class Three!"
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Xia Yuan held the gun tightly, full of strength. When the battle was the most difficult, nothing was more encouraging than the arrival of his reinforcements. The sound of gunshots was intertwined and transmitted far and wide from Shangganling.
The suppressed soldiers not only did not feel scared, but were in high fighting mood. They held machine guns, not caring that their hands were burned with blood blisters by the hot machine guns, but there was determination in their eyes.
After a round of enemy artillery fire, the three of them did not show up again. The enemy thought that the three of them had been killed by their artillery, and focused all their attention on a group of soldiers on the ridge. The volunteer soldier on the ridge was Xia Yuan.
The three attracted a lot of firepower and created opportunities for them.
Xia Yuan keenly seized the opportunity, stood up suddenly, and threw the grenade in his hand hard. With the expectations of the soldiers, the grenade flew across the sky, and with a bang, it fell at the entrance of the enemy's machine gun bunker.
At the position, there was a bang, and the broken shrapnel suddenly filled the entire machine gun bunker. In an instant, the enemy's wailing sound came from the machine gun bunker.
An enemy bunker was blown up by Xia Yuan with a grenade.
A group of soldiers cheered loudly, and the soldiers were encouraged to shoot at the enemy or throw the few remaining grenades. The battle lasted for an hour and a half. Generally, the soldiers of the third group retreated to the tunnel and each soldier had a look on his face.
With a smile on their faces, the wounded saw the soldiers withdrawing and quickly asked about the fighting situation.
"... At that time, the enemy's seven or eight bunkers and more than a dozen heavy machine guns were fired at them. The rows of bullets were overwhelming. Comrade Xia Yuan was lying in the crater, holding a grenade.
You didn’t even look at it, you just threw it behind you, and guess what?”
"What's going on, what's going on."
"Say it quickly."
A soldier with a head injury vividly described the battle scene. Wang Lan bandaged the soldier's wound. The pain caused by the head injury did not affect his story-telling at all. He described the scene vividly, and suddenly in the middle of the sentence
There was a pause, and the injured, who were listening to the excitement, were sitting on the ground holding guns and asking questions hurriedly.
He then said eloquently: "That grenade landed on the enemy's bunker and exploded with a bang. I was dumbfounded, and our squad leader was also dumbfounded. When we were at the training ground
, it’s not that I haven’t practiced bomb-throwing, even if I watch the throw, I can’t throw it accurately, let alone throw with my back to the target, but what about others? Just lying in the crater like this..."
As he spoke, he was about to lie down on his back.
Wang Lan was bandaging his wound and was listening with interest. Suddenly he saw that he was about to lie down and said quickly: "Hey, comrade, are you going to bandage your wound?"
The soldier smiled coyly and said, "I'm sorry, Comrade Wang Lan." He coughed slightly and continued: "He is just lying in the crater without looking at anything, just two grenades."
He stretched out his hand and gestured, "Just two grenades, one was thrown on top of the bunker, and the other landed on the bullet hole of the bunker. The enemy's firepower point was blinded."
"Hey, Comrade Xia Yuan's bomb-dropping ability is really that great!?" asked a wounded man from the 7th Company.
"Is there any falsehood?" A wounded man from the Ninth Company said: "Xia Yuan just joined the company and participated in the first mission. He blinded the enemy's firepower point with a grenade!"
The soldier of the first squad said again: "Don't believe it, there is something even more mysterious. You don't know that when we broke through the enemy's first fire point, Comrade Xia Yuan single-handedly, under our cover, climbed to the enemy's fire point more than fifty years ago."
From a meter position, use a grenade and throw it along the enemy's gun hole, blowing up the enemy's firepower point in one go!"
The wounded soldiers' eyes widened with disbelief, and they were all surprised by Xia Yuan's bomb-dropping ability.
In the rest room inside the tunnel, the instructor said happily: "But we are back, how are the casualties?"
Captain Feng said: "Sacrifice two soldiers, blow up four enemy bunkers, kill at least one enemy company, kill the enemy effectively with the least casualties, thanks to the third squad, otherwise we will face the counterattack of two enemy platoons
, the casualties may be even greater!”
Company Commander Feng said again: "Instructor, this time we would like to thank Comrade Xia Yuan even more. You don't know that on the battlefield, he destroyed four enemy machine gun bunkers with grenades alone and killed many enemies with guns. His bomb-dropping ability
Very impressive. It is rare in the regiment to see a grenade thrown so far and so accurately. The most important thing is to grasp the time when the grenade explodes. Each grenade explodes on the enemy's head every time.
I think this kind of air burst mine can be promoted."
He said: "This kind of position fighting has a lot of craters. If the soldiers are skilled in making air burst mines, even if the enemy is lying in the crater and we throw an air blast mine over, the shrapnel will definitely destroy a large number of enemies!"
The instructor smiled and said, "You are good at this. I see that the soldiers who came down from the position are very enthusiastic about fighting. I can definitely take advantage of this opportunity to ask Xia Yuan to come up and give a speech."
He said: "Just now, the regiment commander issued a new combat order, and I also have some ideas of my own."
"New combat order?" Captain Feng asked: "Instructor, what is the new combat order?"
"On the 17th, our army will launch a full-scale counterattack against the enemies on Shangganling, striving to recover 597.9 Highland and 537.7 Highland in one fell swoop. Our troops in the tunnels will be ordered from the rear to take advantage of the darkness of night in units of squad soldiers.
Carrying out harassment operations cannot allow them to sleep so comfortably at night!"
The instructor said: "In addition, counterattacks during the day are not good for our army. During the day, we rely on the tunnels to deal with the US military. If they are energetic during the day, let them toss them during the day. At night, it is our turn to torment them."
Captain Feng thought carefully and agreed very much with the instructor's opinion. He said: "Instructor, you are right, we should make full use of the tunnels. And the counterattack this morning really taught me a lesson. The enemy is very capable of fighting during the day.
Especially their ability to build bunkers. A few sandbags and a few wooden boards can complete the construction of a machine gun bunker. It will not work for us to fight them head-on. We need to be flexible and start with the analysis of the enemy's movement on Shangganling.
, we should give full play to the advantages of the tunnel."
"In addition, you just said that you would take this opportunity to let Xia Yuan give a speech. I think this is a good thing. Xia Yuan is now the fighting hero in our No. 1 Tunnel. Starting from him, we should do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers and avoid them.
It creates a passive mentality."
The instructor nodded, "Then call Comrade Xia Yuan over and discuss it carefully."
"good!"
When Captain Feng found Xia Yuan, he was observing the progress of the well in the tunnel. The soldier digging the well was chatting with Xia Yuan. Seeing Captain Feng coming, he quickly said: "Captain Feng!"
"You say it, you say it." Captain Feng squatted in front of the well, looked at the well and asked: "How is the progress of the well?"
Xia Yuan squatted on the ground, looked at the soldiers digging the well, and said: "Company Commander, the progress is very fast, the humidity down there is already very high, I have carefully studied this location, and there is a high possibility of digging out the water source.
"
Since entering Shangganling, he has been thinking about digging a well. After such a long time, the depth of the well has reached two meters, and the hope of digging out water is getting bigger and bigger.