Chapter 57 If everyone was like the Ninth Company Commander...
The firepower point at the front of Position 11 was pulled out. In cooperation with the counterattack troops in the tunnel of Position 11, the soldiers of the Eighth Company passed through the enemy's forward position and entered Position 11. The sound of gunfire and artillery intertwined with the
On the battlefield, corpses lay everywhere and blood flowed into rivers.
Under the smoke of gunfire, the sound of gunfire was the music of this night, and the sound of cannons sang and danced for the world.
Night combat is the strength of the volunteer soldiers. Under such circumstances, position counterattacks, and the comrades around them were sacrificed one by one in front of their eyes. Their fighting momentum soared into the sky, making the smoke billow and the artillery fire fire.
Xia Yuan held the gun like an undefeated warrior. He would support wherever he was needed. The bullets accurately passed through the battlefield without affecting the soldiers around him at all. Under night vision, in the dark night
Just like during the day, his shooting proficiency is constantly increasing and has reached a very terrifying level.
A foreign Japanese pretended to be a corpse and lay on the ground. He suddenly stood up from the ground and rushed towards Xia Yuan who was pulling the trigger and shooting continuously. Xia Yuan's reaction was so fast that it could not even be described as an ordinary person.
Kick him over, raise your gun and shoot at the enemy's body.
The whole movement was done in one go, cleanly and neatly, without any sloppiness.
Dai Wannian looked at Xia Yuan's fighting form and said with emotion: "The Ninth Company Commander is really strong. If everyone is as good as the Ninth Company Commander...victory will definitely belong to us."
The battle lasted until dawn, and the ground at No. 2 position was littered with corpses of the enemy.
Position No. 2 was recovered.
The battle at Position 11 has also ended, and Position 11 has been recovered.
Position Zero was filled with smoke, and Position Zero was recovered.
On the way to the No. 3 position on the main peak, there were corpses everywhere. Those of the volunteer soldiers and those of the enemy were entangled with each other. The ground on the surface of Shangganling was dyed red with blood. Before the surviving soldiers could collect the remains of the sacrificed soldiers, the enemy
The cannonballs rang out in the sky.
There were voices mixed with shouting everywhere.
"Bombardment! Bombardment! Find cover!"
There were figures of volunteer soldiers running everywhere. Some soldiers had one of their legs cut off by shrapnel when they were retreating. In some cases, their cheeks were covered with shrapnel from shells. After hiding in the tunnel, the soldiers looked back and saw that they had been shelled.
On the Shangganling Highlands covered by bombardment, the rolled-up soil was mixed with a patch of blood. It was the remains of their comrades who had been hit by enemy shells.
The soldiers burst into tears.
The squad leader's blood-stained hands firmly grasped the martyr strips of the volunteer soldiers that had been dyed red, with tears in his eyes.
The counterattack on the night of the 17th went very smoothly. After sacrificing a small number of soldiers, it greatly eliminated the U.S. troops on Shangganling. According to post-war statistics, during the three days of war, the number of people sacrificed and missing on both sides has exceeded 5,000, of which the U.S. military accounted for 5,000 people.
The ratio is eighty percent.
Since the outbreak of the Battle of Shangganling, Shangganling has entered into repeated tug-of-war. The continuous artillery fire is like a storm, endlessly raging on every inch of Shangganling. The enemy surges up like a tide, and recedes like a tide.
The high ground was full of blood and flesh, and the positions were filled with murderous intent. The soldiers on both sides were very close to each other. They often shot at each other from dozens of meters or more than ten meters away. After the bullets were exhausted, they struggled together, and it was not uncommon to engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat.
The battle developed to an unprecedented intensity, with both sides deploying their elite troops one after another on these two small hills where only one company of troops could be deployed.
A platoon leader of the South Korean Army recalled after the battle: "Due to the earth-shaking shelling and hand-to-hand fighting, every time the high ground changed hands, the sniper ridgeline (537.7 Highland North Mountain) of less than one square kilometer was dyed red with blood."
On the night of the 17th, the counterattack went very smoothly and the enemy suffered heavy casualties. The surface position of Shangganling was once again controlled by the forward company.
On the 18th, the enemy launched a series of attacks on Highland 597.9 of the Five Sacred Mountains with a regiment of troops. After a day's battle, the frontline company of the Volunteer Army suffered heavy casualties and retreated to the tunnel. For the first time, all the surface positions in Shangganling were lost.
At the 15th Army Headquarters, Commander Qin looked at the Five Sacred Mountains. After watching the battle situation of the 45th Division, he walked straight into the war room without saying a word, picked up the phone and gave a death order to the Commander of the 45th Division:
"Rely on the tunnels, hold the position, and crush the enemy's attack! We must not let the enemy occupy Shangganling again!"
Commander Qin's tone was calm, but he lacked this irrevocable majesty. The commander of the 45th Division immediately expressed his stance, "Commander, please rest assured! If there is a company left, I will be the company commander, and if there is a squad left, I will be the squad leader. As long as there is a company left, I will be the squad leader."
When I am here, Shangganling belongs to the people of the DPRK!"
In the tunnel where the commander of the 45th Division of Tokusanhyeon is located, the commander of the 45th Division has a stern face and an ashen complexion. After the outbreak in Shangganling, he barely slept a wink. When he was sleepy, he relied on smoking and drinking strong tea to hold on. He was really sleepy.
When I couldn't help it, I just stared at him for a while on the camp bed. Due to excessive fatigue and severe lack of sleep, my originally round face became thinner and looked dry and haggard.
After talking on the phone with Commander Qin, he understood that the commander's nature was not to fight to the death. The commander would not say such serious words. The battle in Shangganling had reached a critical moment of life and death, and he could only win, not lose.
Urgent telegrams from the 135th Regiment came one after another.
He has only one order: "Guard Shangganling!"
The last urgent message from the 135th Regiment was a request for "insufficient troops." After eighteen days, the 135th Regiment only had one guard squad left to guard the regiment headquarters, and he was finally dispatched to Shangganling.
The 135th regiment has been exhausted.
The volunteer soldiers who stood firm on the surface of Shangganling and in the tunnels were also well aware of the heavy responsibility they shouldered. They were determined to defend Shangganling to the death and never let the enemy take a step forward from here, and launched a life-and-death struggle with the "United Nations Army".
The United Nations troops continued to occupy Shangganling, and volunteer soldiers continued to emerge from the ground. The offensive and defensive battles inside and outside the tunnels of Shangganling were extremely fierce every day.
When a volunteer army counterattack force was cleaning the battlefield, they found the bodies of more than 20 United Nations soldiers lying outside a small tunnel entrance. In front of the tunnel entrance, there were three layers of barbed wire surrounding it, and there were two temporary fences on both sides of the back.
In the bunker, the soldiers walked into the tunnel and found that there was only one young soldier who had died in the tunnel.
This soldier faced outward, lying down at the entrance of the tunnel, holding the machine gun tightly with both hands, and maintained a fighting posture until his death. He fought with the enemy for a long time alone, and even after he died, he was still intimidating the enemy with majesty.
The barbed wire fence at the entrance of the cave and the two temporary bunkers prevented the enemy from rushing out of the tunnel. The piles of corpses at the entrance of the tunnel were dragged away by the enemy who never dared to approach.
The volunteer soldiers died heroically, but built a steel Great Wall on Shangganling that the enemy could never cross.
From the beginning of the major counterattack, the frontline troops of the Volunteer Army moved into the tunnels, using the tunnels to preserve their strength, deal with the enemy, consume them, attack the enemy, and buy time to prepare for another counterattack.
The fighting in the tunnels was extremely difficult. The enemy used various vicious methods to deal with and destroy the tunnels of the volunteer soldiers. Under the enemy's tight artillery blockade, the volunteers were unable to provide personnel, food and ammunition and other support to the tunnels.
The wounded volunteers could not be transferred to the rear, and their bodies could not be buried. What was even more serious was that the tunnels had been severely damaged by the enemy, and the 45th Division was basically wiped out.
Give up or persevere.
On October 21, the 8th Company of the 134th Regiment, which was holding the 597.9 Highland, had only 15 people left in the fierce battle. The 9th Company had only the company commander and two wounded people left, and the 7th Company had only one wounded person left. There was no food in the tunnel.
There was not much water left. After learning the news, Commander Qin decided to pull up the military guard company around him to counterattack the enemy and hold on with the warriors of the Eighth Company in the tunnel.
By the 24th, the battle had been fierce for nearly a week. The tunnel battles for seven days and nights became more and more intense and cruel. The forward tunnel troops were seriously reduced in number and were in a bad situation. He had to call Commander Qin to report.
Commander Qin was moved by the tenacity and tenacity of the soldiers, but his determination could not be shaken at all.
He said to this brave and skilled division commander: "I know your difficulties, but holding on to the tunnel and holding back the enemy is the key to overall victory. Now our overriding task is to win at all costs."
The battle was fierce. Not only the 45th Division, but also the entire 15th Army had reached a difficult moment. The commander of the 45th Division, who was well aware of the battle situation, replied with a firm voice: "Commander, please rest assured, we promise to stick to the end!"
In the battle of Shangganling, Commander Qin was already looking at it with the idea of defeating the 15th Army, and he had to defend Shangganling no matter what!
Political needs need to be coordinated with military operations. Before the Battle of Shangganling broke out, China and North Korea had held several negotiations with the United States in southern North Korea. The issue of prisoners was quarreling. The US military meant that it should respect the prisoners' willingness to go back. In fact,
We have captured your people. If they are willing to go back, we must first ask them. If they are willing to go back, we will send them to you. If they are not willing to go back, they will be sent to Central Taiwan Province (abbreviation). There is no doubt that if
China and North Korea agree that there is absolutely no possibility of our prisoners coming back.
They even proposed two-for-one, many-for-one exchange terms, falsely reported the number of prisoners, etc., and faced the negotiations with an arrogant attitude.
There are also endless arguments about the border issue. The US military, taking advantage of its absolute superiority in land, sea and air, proposed territorial compensation, asked our army to retreat hundreds of kilometers, and a series of other operations.
In negotiations, only when the enemies are defeated will they sit down at the negotiating table again.
This is the so-called political demand that requires military action.
After the successful counterattack on the night of the 17th, instead of greatly attacking the enemy's arrogance, they ushered in an even more violent attack from the enemy. It was not until later that they understood that Van Fleet had already attacked on the 14th.
It has been announced to the whole world: "The Jinhua offensive has begun!"
They even loudly announced that this time, victory belongs to the United Nations forces.
And now, after three days of brutal fighting, they finally captured the surface position of Shangganling. They thought they had a chance of victory, but just one night later, the triangular highland they had just captured fell, and even the Sniper Ridge fell again.
The 7th Division and the 2nd Han Division suffered heavy casualties from the enemy. Nearly 4,000 people died and more than 1,000 people were injured. The huge defeat made Van Fleet feel like he had just won a large amount of money and lost again.
Gamblers of light are constantly raising their stakes at the negotiating table in Shangganling.
Later, the US 7th Division and the Korean 2nd Division attacked Shangganling Highland 597.9. After more than 40 repeated battles, they failed to capture the surface position and suffered heavy casualties every day. This tragic situation was widely reported with shocking news headlines every day, U.S. News
The world has criticized this as a 'senseless sacrifice'.
VanVleet, who suffered a heavy blow, continued to join forces to organize attacks in order to protect his face.
On October 25, Van Fleet handed over the task of defending and attacking Highland 597.9 to the heavily damaged U.S. Seventh Division east of the Hantan River to the Korean Second Division. The U.S. Seventh Division moved west to prevent
The Volunteer Army attacked its flank from the west of Hantang River. American News International reported: "The U.S. military withdrew from the Triangle Mountain front line due to the casualty rate reaching the highest point in a year, and the Republic of Korea Army was transferred to replace them."
The South Koreans were very angry about Van Fleet's decision. Ding Yiquan, commander of the Second Korean Division, said with emotion: This is an unforgettable battle. The positions that the US military failed to capture will have to be captured by the South Korean army.
.After changing the defense, the Second Han Division launched a fierce attack on the 597.9 heights of Shangganling. If there is something you can't capture, we will capture it and show it to you.
It could attack multiple times in a row, but each time it was pushed back by the volunteers with heavy losses. After attacking for several days in a row, the Second Han Division gained nothing, but suffered heavy casualties.
Only then did the Second Han Division realize: The offensive mission was originally undertaken by the US Seventh Division, but they could not get it back despite heavy casualties every day. They were criticized by the newspapers, so they had no choice but to hand over this mission to us. In other words,
They ask us to be substitutes for American soldiers. Americans and South Koreans are also human beings. Doesn’t this ask us to make sacrifices for them?
Therefore, the new commander of the Second Han Division, Jiang Wenfeng, ordered to stop the attack. The Second Division of the Han Dynasty retreated to its original position, resisted the order, and refused to attack. Jiang Wenfeng responded righteously and said: If you disobey the order, you may be exposed to my position and be handed over to the military.
The court, however, wants our soldiers to sacrifice their lives for American soldiers, and I won't do it.
The commander of the U.S. Ninth Army who was commanding the "Jinhua Offensive" on the front line told Van Fleet about this matter. Although Van Fleet was angry, there was nothing he could do about it. He knew better than anyone else that the momentum of the mobilization was not high.
It is already difficult for the Korean Second Division to replace the US Seventh Division, let alone expect them to be able to do something that even the US military cannot do.
In fact, both the US military and the South Korean army are afraid of the bravery and tenacity of the volunteers, especially when the charge trumpet sounds, you will see the volunteers all over the mountains and plains, from all directions, attacking crazily with a desperate attitude.