Chapter 53 The will of the soldiers is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea
The time for the launch of the general attack was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers were loaded with weapons and ammunition, quietly waiting for the artillery bombardment from the rear.
When the time came to about eleven o'clock.
The powerful artillery group of the volunteers hidden in the ravines and low-lying areas suddenly roared like rolling thunder, and artillery shells shot into Shangganling like raindrops. Katyusha was roaring, heavy artillery was roaring, and countless rockets were intertwined and flying in the sky, reflecting the red sky.
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Some of the U.S. troops on Shangganling were building fortifications, while others were sleeping soundly in bunkers. When the angry roar of artillery shells sounded above their heads, these foreign devils were stunned.
In an instant, rockets and artillery shells fell like raindrops. The entire 597.9 Highland was like an erupting volcano, shaking constantly, as if it would collapse at any time. The tunnels roared like drums, and the soldiers opened their mouths wide and watched.
Seeing the artillery fire flashing from the rear of our army, everyone was extremely excited.
"That's our cannon!"
Some soldiers shouted with great excitement.
Yes, those are their own cannons, and our motherland is becoming stronger bit by bit.
In the rear, the commander of the sixth company commanded the soldiers of the second row, followed by the extending artillery fire, and quickly attacked the enemy's position.
After the artillery fire left the surface of the position and extended to the rear, the troops quickly attacked the hole. Xia Yuan shouldered the mission of sneak attack and immediately led the second squad of soldiers to move quickly to position 8. As soon as they came out of the tunnel, the enemy's attack on position zero was
Heavy firepower came in, and the bullets hit the entrance of the tunnel, forming a fire net.
"Company commander, be careful!"
When Xia Yuan left the tunnel, Wang Yongmeng shouted loudly behind him.
"You should also be careful!"
After rushing out of the tunnel against the enemy's heavy firepower and coming to the outside world, they were greeted by the falling shells and the roaring hurricane blowing up a large amount of sand and gravel from the ridge, spreading and spreading, making the soldiers unable to open their eyes.
The Shangganling position had turned into a scorched earth under the repeated bombardment of enemy and friendly artillery fire. Xia Yuan led the second squad of soldiers and quickly moved to position No. 8. They quickly arrived at a reverse slope pit, where they could see the enemy on the ridge moving into the trench.
Hiding, the shelling from behind was extremely fierce, and rocks continued to roll down from the ridge.
"Deputy squad leader, just take a combat team with two machine guns and occupy the ridge later. Cut off the connection between the enemy's No. 2 position and No. 8 position. Don't let the enemy's troops on No. 2 position be reinforced to No. 8 position.
position."
Xia Yuan was lying in the bunker. When arranging the operation, he looked at the flickering artillery fire in the sky. "According to this level of bombing, it is estimated that most of the enemy's fortifications on the surface will be destroyed by artillery before long. Some of the defenses on the ridge will be destroyed by artillery fire."
There are still some fortifications left, we need to pull them all out."
The U.S. military built a large number of defenses on ridges and positions, including bomb shelters, troop garrison pits, and criss-crossing trenches and firepower points.
After the artillery fire extended to the rear, Xia Yuan led the soldiers to rush towards the ridge. They encountered the enemy's fortifications built on the ridge head on. It was a firepower point. After the enemy's gunfire, a string of bullets were fired over, and a series of
The bullets clanked on the surface of the ridge, and the sound of machine guns rang in the valley.
The soldiers of the second squad quickly lay down and fired back at the enemies on the mountain with their guns in hand. Bullets continued to sweep across the position. In addition to the sound of exploding shells, there was also the sound of guns and cannons interlacing.
"Company Commander, I have people blow up the enemy's bunker!"
The deputy squad leader of the second squad shouted, grabbing the blasting tube next to him and rushing forward.
A bullet suddenly came out of the barrel and struck into the mouth of the enemy's machine gun bunker that was constantly spraying flames. The enemy's bunker was suddenly extinguished. The deputy squad leader of the second squad widened his eyes and said, "Beautiful, blow him up!"
He got up from the ground and led a combat team towards the ridge, walking through the enemy's hail of bullets. After hiding in the bunker, he crawled on the ground using his hands and feet.
The enemy's light machine gun fired a stream of bullets, making the soldiers of the demolition team unable to raise their heads. The suppression of the soldiers could hardly play a key role. The numbers of both sides were completely disproportionate. Even with the shelling of our army, our army
The artillery fire was prepared and another round was fired. Although it was covered, it still left a large number of relatively solid enemy defenses.
At this time, the artillery fire has spread to the rear, and our counterattack troops have been dispatched. Under such circumstances, howling artillery support is unrealistic.
In addition to the enemy's fortifications on the surface of Shangganling, the important targets of the artillery group are also the enemy's fortifications in the rear, as well as enemy tanks, armored vehicles and other targets.
Those machine gun bunkers that were lucky enough to remain could only be handed over to the counterattack troops in the tunnels.
Xia Yuan controlled the big eight pills and continuously pulled the trigger. Under night vision and eagle eyes, he changed several magazines in a row. Except for a few empty shots, all the other bullets hit the enemy, bringing huge damage to the enemy.
casualties, the counterattack at Position No. 8 has begun. Except for the second squad led by Xia Yuan, there are only two people left in the No. 8 Tunnel counterattack force, two lightly wounded. When they saw Xia Yuan, their faces showed
Xiyi thought it was his reinforcements. After running over to inquire, he found out that they were the counterattack troops from Tunnel No. 1.
Xia Yuan continuously pulled the trigger, and the bullets whizzed across the battlefield, leaving a string of bullet marks in the air. The bullets kept flying past. The enemy's light machine gun was the target of Xia Yuan's care.
There was a sound, and a bullet shot out after the muzzle of the gun. With a pop, the enemy fell to the ground and the machine gun stopped.
Xia Yuan's powerful shooting ability bought the soldiers responsible for the blast a lot of time. They jumped out of the bunker, fired the blasting tube under the cover of their comrades, hoeed under the enemy's machine gun bunker, and quickly dodged behind them, followed by a sound
After the shelling, the enemy's machine gun bunker suddenly collapsed and the ground was shattered. There was a burst of smoke and the remaining bunker was gone.
"superior!"
Xia Yuan stood up directly, pulled the trigger continuously, shot three foreign Japanese with their heads exposed, turned around and shouted: "Are you the counterattack force in Tunnel No. 8?"
"Company commander! I am Yang Shuhuai, a soldier from the second squad of the third platoon of the ninth company, reporting to you!" A man with a dark face and a bandage wrapped around his head looked solemn.
"You know I'm the company commander?" Xia Yuan asked loudly.
"I know, Comrade Wang Yongmeng told me!" Yang Shuhuai nodded.
Xia Yuan looked at the soldier beside Yang Shuhuai. This soldier was a little dazed. The bandage almost covered his head, leaving only a pair of eyes and a mouth exposed.
"Company commander, he is a soldier of the seventh company, his name is Li Jiawang."
Yang Shuhuai shouted again: "My ears were damaged by the enemy's shelling."
Xia Yuanming realized that he couldn't hear the sound. No wonder he looked a little dumbfounded. He didn't know what the two of them were going to say, and he also knew that his ears were damaged, so he didn't say anything. He was dirty all over, and he was holding a dog in his arms.
gun.
Xia Yuan shouted and asked again: "Are you two the only ones left in Tunnel No. 8?"
Yang Shuhuai said: "Company commander, there are five wounded, two seriously wounded, and the others have all died."
Xia Yuan was slightly silent. This was the situation in one tunnel, but what about the situation in other tunnels?
The soldiers' will is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. Even if they fight to the last man, when the counterattack order is given, they will resolutely charge towards the enemy with their guns in hand.
At this time, the voice of the deputy squad leader of the second squad came from the mountain, "Captain Xia!"
"Let's go! Follow me!"
Xia Yuan held a gun and rushed towards the mountain.
Yang Shuhuai touched Li Jiawang next to him and gave him a forward gesture. Li Jiawang nodded and followed Yang Shuhuai's footsteps with his gun in hand.
The enemy on the ridge of Position 8 did not stop Xia Yuan's intersecting troops for long. With Xia Yuan as a powerful offensive weapon, the enemy's defenses built on the ridge were useless. As soon as the enemy's head popped up, the bullets shot out.
It penetrated the soldier's head so fast that no one could react.
"Pick up the gun, pick up the bullets, pick up the grenades, and be quick!"
Xia Yuan shouted, lying on the back slope of the ridge, looking towards Shangganling shrouded in a layer of thick black smoke. After experiencing the bombardment of our army's artillery group, Shangganling was like a volcano about to erupt, with black smoke billowing and the mountain shaking.
, you can see the blooming mountains from a distance.
There were rockets overhead, and the sound of the flying shells was sharp and harsh. The sound of bullets passing through was everywhere. Without night vision and the vision of an eagle, on such a battlefield, you would have no idea from which direction the bullets were coming.
, let alone how many remaining enemy bunkers there were in that cloud of smoke, let alone how many enemies there were on the surface of the position.
Fortunately, Xia Yuan turned on the plug-in. With night vision turned on, Shangganling was basically no different from the daytime. The eagle eye could not penetrate the layers of dense fog, but it could see farther than ordinary people.
It is difficult to see stones on the surface position. There are sand and shrapnel everywhere that have been crushed by artillery shells. There are no corpses. The corpses have long been annihilated under the intensive artillery fire.
This is Shangganling.
For warriors who have not used plug-ins, Shangganling is shrouded in darkness, shrouded in black gunpowder smoke, and shrouded in hail of bullets. It is undoubtedly like a giant beast that swallows people. Once you go up, you will never come back down.
But at this time, as the bombardment of our artillery group continued to extend, the remaining small groups in each tunnel emerged. They looked at Shangganling, which was filled with gunpowder smoke, like a giant beast swallowing a man in one mouth. Without any hesitation, they faced the enemy's hail of bullets.
Keep crawling on the ground, get close to the target, and stuff the grenades and blasting tubes in your hands into the enemy's machine gun bunker.
The battle has begun and the major counterattack has begun.
Just when the battle was getting fierce, Company Commander Feng received a new order from his superiors and immediately went to Tunnel No. 4 to reinforce the counterattack troops on the surface of Tunnel No. 4 and regain the important position '0'.
The instructor said: "I'll go with you!"
"good!"
Captain Feng looked at the soldiers in the tunnel and shouted: "Let's go!"
After receiving the order, Captain Feng immediately led the first and third squads of soldiers to the No. 4 Tunnel. A series of dense bullets were fired from the No. 0 position in front, hitting the stone on the reverse slope, knocking the stone into pieces.
The sound of bullets ricocheting echoed across the valley.
During the move to Position No. 4, the enemy's bunker on Position Zero ejected a series of bullets. Immediately, several soldiers were hit by the enemy's bullets and fell on the road to reinforcements. The soldiers did not dare to stop.
, Captain Feng urged the soldiers to speed up. Staying for one more second means more danger.
In such a situation, we can only abandon the soldier who was hit by the bullet, and we can't even check whether he is dead or alive.
This is war.
Every soldier knows this very well in his heart. Although it hurts to see his comrades around him fall, there is nothing he can do.
Order is above all else, staying means sacrifice.
The enemy was standing on the mountain and would not give them a chance to rescue them.
The only thing they can do is to reinforce Position 4 and cooperate with the soldiers on Position 4 to capture the enemy's Position Zero.
Comrade Wang Yongmeng held the gun with his heart as firm as a rock. This was his first time on the battlefield. Looking at the fallen and sacrificed soldiers did not affect his determination to kill the enemy at all. It only became a force that inspired him.
He, constantly urging him to move on.
Position Zero is surrounded by cliffs on the left and right, and the only passable one is a ridge less than ten meters wide that connects Position Four. Since Position Zero is close to Position Three on the main peak, it can condescendingly blockade Four, Five, and
Position No. 6 can also block the entrance to the large tunnel of the Volunteer Army's Position No. 1 to the left. The enemy is tightly fortified in this place.
After the counterattack began at 11 o'clock, the Sixth Company and the Fifth Company launched four consecutive attacks on the enemy, but failed to destroy the enemy's main fire launch point.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The soldiers of the two companies also suffered heavy casualties. The commander of the sixth company, the instructor of the sixth company, and the instructor of the fifth company died. The commander of the fifth company was seriously injured and was temporarily put on hold in the No. 4 tunnel, able to continue fighting.
The soldiers were left with only one squad that was not full of soldiers.
The reinforced soldiers from Tunnel No. 1 temporarily supplemented the subsequent counterattack force.
The fifth company commander said to company commander Feng: "The enemy has built a large number of defenses on position zero, especially relying on machine gun bunkers dug out of the mountains to block the already small ridge. The five companies were sent up.
None of the demolition teams were able to break through the enemy's fire blockade. There is only one squad left in the fifth and sixth companies. Position Zero must be captured and the enemy cannot continue to occupy Position Zero."
Position Zero posed too great a threat to other positions. The superiors specifically pointed out the importance of Position Zero, and the artillery group also concentrated fire on Position Zero. However, the enemy relied on the fortifications built on the mountain to withstand one round of our army's attacks.
The artillery bombardment, even if it destroyed the enemy's firepower points, was not able to destroy much.
Company Commander Feng kept the words of the fifth company commander in mind and led less than two squads of soldiers to the No. 4 position and looked up at the No. 0 position.
The mountain is steep, and the fire bunker built by the enemy on Position Zero radiates to the entire position, and even the large tunnel on Position 1. Under such circumstances, Position Zero must be dismantled.
"If only Xia Yuan was here! He should be able to throw the grenade over!"
Company Commander Feng observed the distance between position 4 and position 0. It was about 150 meters away, giving Xia Yuan enough fire cover to get close to position 0, which would definitely blow up the enemy's bunker.
, Captain Feng has great faith in Xia Yuan’s bomb-dropping skills.
"It will probably be quite difficult if he comes. The terrain is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack."
The instructor observed for a while and then said solemnly.
"How many warriors are left who can participate in the attack?"
"There are still seventeen soldiers, one machine gunner, two walkie-talkie operators, two correspondents, plus you and me, a total of twenty-four people." The instructor replied: "We have formed eight combat groups and are attacking the enemy!
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"good!"
Captain Feng gritted his teeth, "Then send multiple demolition teams up, and other soldiers will provide fire cover!"
Watching the soldiers of the demolition team holding anti-tank grenades, blasting tubes, and explosive packets, they rushed forward while the smoke was thick and the sky was dim.
However, the mission of the demolition team could not be completed. The enemy's machine gun bunker continued to spray out chains of fire. Watching the soldiers fall one by one, Captain Feng and the instructor were heartbroken.