Chapter 74 The third stage of the Shangganling battle!
Whether Xia Yuan has such courage, there is no doubt that he does, but it is just that he does. He cannot die yet, he must destroy the enemy as much as possible and win this victory.
The tug-of-war on the 29th was even more cruel. The almost crazy enemy launched wave after wave of attacks on Shangganling. Xia Yuan led the soldiers in the tunnel to stand up to stop the enemy. After a day of fighting, although the surface positions of Shangganling were once again
It changed hands, but the enemy also paid an extremely heavy price. In position No. 1 alone, under the mutual statistics of the soldiers, nearly 200 enemy people were wiped out, and this did not include the people Xia Yuan killed himself.
A soldier following Xia Yuan said, "The ninth company commander killed at least two hundred people!"
Some soldiers also said, "The Ninth Company Commander killed not only 200 people, but probably more!"
Xia Yuan had not calculated much. In just one day, he consumed more than 700 bullets and more than 300 grenades. Of course, most of the time he used grenades and bullets to suppress the enemy. Sometimes he might not have fired.
In the middle, he hit the soil in front of the enemy. When the fighting became fierce, he had given up aiming and shot randomly. Because the enemy was already in front of him and the bullets of the machine gun were all gone, he used the rifle to shoot until the enemy was in his hand.
The accuracy of the gun was not high, and the bullets fired were all crooked, so he changed it to a 50-shot gun.
The 50-pound gun doesn't feel good in the hand, and the failure rate is too high. Flying dust often gets thrown into the ejection port, and the gun often fails to fire.
Xia Yuan slapped the gun body vigorously, raised it and thrust it towards the enemy. Bullets flew across the position, and artillery shells exploded on the position. The soil in front of him could no longer be gathered together, like sand in the desert, mixed with a large amount of
of shrapnel.
Xia Yuan still remembers that when a new recruit first arrived, he sat on the ground, holding his shoes and counting seriously, "Five...six...seven...eight..."
A soldier asked him what he was counting, and the recruit replied angrily: "Counting shrapnel. Damn it, I said the shoes were cutting my feet so hard. It turns out there are so many poor things in the sand."
The shrapnel in the soil is about the size of a pinky fingernail. If you grab a handful of soil, the soil will be full of these shrapnel.
It is already November, but the temperature in Shangganling is very warm, and the soil is hot.
The difficult battle on the 29th was finally over.
Captain Dai found Xia Yuan and said, "Captain Xia, you have come back just in time. The superiors have issued new combat instructions. Tonight, our army will conduct a round of artillery fire coverage of the surface positions, and a company of soldiers will enter."
In the main tunnel, tomorrow and night, we will launch a decisive counterattack on Shangganling!"
Xia Yuan reacted suddenly and asked: "What day is it today?"
Zhang Xiaosheng said from the side: "Today is the 29th!"
"Number twenty-nine!"
Xia Yuan's eyes moved slightly and he suddenly became excited. He realized that the third phase of the Shangganling operation had begun.
Because of his participation, the rear commanders were informed in advance that the US military was about to attack Shangganling on a large scale. Our army was the first to react and assembled artillery shells in advance to launch the first phase of the attack on Shangganling. It was originally planned to enter the tunnels on the 20th after the general attack on the 19th.
The battle started the second phase of Shangganling, but it came two days early. The first phase ended on the 18th and entered the second phase.
The third phase started on the 30th and lasted until November 25th, when the Battle of Shangganling ended.
The third stage is the decisive counterattack and position consolidation stage.
After more than half a month of tug-of-war, the US 7th Division and the Korean 2nd Division were exhausted. Although the US 7th Division was defeated, its name was still in Shangganling. It just changed from the main attacking force to assisting the Korean 2nd Division in the attack.
, a week before this counterattack, the United Nations and South Korean troops on Highland 597.9 were targeted.
On the night of the 29th, the prelude to the battle began. The long-range artillery fire of the Volunteer Army began to destroy the enemy's surface positions in Shangganling. Under the cover of artillery fire, the 3rd Company of the 86th Regiment took advantage of the night to advance to the tunnel positions in Shangganling to enhance the strength of the troops in the tunnel.
, prepare to cooperate inside and outside in the decisive counterattack.
In the light of exploding artillery shells, the soldiers of the third company used skillful tactical movements to launch flexible movements in front of the enemy. At eleven o'clock, the voice of the commander of the third company, Kuang Junyi, came from the walkie-talkie. They had passed 2,000 meters from the enemy.
The fire control area entered the tunnel at the cost of five casualties.
At this time, a platoon of soldiers from Kuang Junyi's third company entered the No. 1 main tunnel in Shangganling. They entered the tunnel under the warm welcome of the soldiers in the tunnel.
Xia Yuan, Dai Wannian, Zhang Xiaosheng and other key members of Tunnel No. 1 were in the tunnel to welcome the soldiers who joined the tunnel. Seeing Kuang Junyi leading a platoon of soldiers into the tunnel, the soldiers in the tunnel warmly welcomed the comrades of the Third Company.
arrival.
Dai Wannian said: "Captain Kuang, you see, you are here. You have worked hard, come here, come here, come to the pit."
Kuang Junyi calmed down, first observed the tunnel, and couldn't help but sigh at the greatness of the tunnel warriors. Then he looked at Xia Yuan and said, "This is the ninth company commander Xia Yuan. I have heard of your battle deeds from behind.
I finally saw it today.”
Kuang Junyi held Xia Yuan's hand and felt a little distressed when he looked at the palm wrapped in black bandages.
He shouted: "Hygiene, health worker."
Xia Yuan pressed his hand and said: "Captain Kuang, my hand is fine. Leave the things to the soldiers who need them."
Kuang Junyi said: "How can this be done?"
Xia Yuan comforted him, stretched out his palm, made a fist, released it, made a fist again, and released it again, and said: "My hand was only burned by the barrel of the machine gun. There is no problem now, and it is basically much better.
"
Kuang Junyi nodded and asked the hygienist to give up.
The four of them gathered in the lounge in the tunnel, feeling the bombardment from the rear artillery above their heads. Dai Wannian said with a smile: "After holding on for so long, I can finally fight a happy counterattack."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The previous few times were fought by small groups. In order to preserve themselves and at the same time effectively eliminate the enemy's active forces, the soldiers fighting in the tunnels basically
They all use combat groups or squads as units to carry out raids at night to eliminate foreign Japanese and stick soldiers.
He was often hit by the enemy's heavy firepower. Although he destroyed a large number of enemies, his own casualties were also considerable.
Now the clarion call for the counterattack is about to sound. The soldiers in the tunnel can't sleep. They are very enthusiastic about fighting. The wounded are preparing weapons and ammunition to be used in the counterattack. The soldiers are sitting in the tunnel, using their clothes.
They were wiping their guns in relatively clean areas, and some were wiping the dust off their faces with towels, arranging their appearance, as if they were welcoming a major festival, preparing to fight back and prepare for victory.
Xia Yuan looked at the movements of the soldiers outside and said with a smile: "After the big counterattack begins, the difficult conditions in the tunnels will be gone forever."
The three of them had smiles on their faces.
The enemy's guns and artillery are the first danger that our soldiers face, and the difficult conditions in the tunnels are the second danger that our soldiers face.
Counterattack enemies and improve tunnel conditions.
This is the third stage!
As the four people discussed all night, the artillery fire stopped, the sky became bright, and gunpowder smoke filled the entire ridge. The cold wind blew across the mountain top, bringing a chill, but in the tunnel, it was so hot. When the soldiers were resting,
, still discussing how to fight tonight.
When Xia Yuan appeared in front of the soldiers, a series of eyes focused on him, including the eyes of the soldiers in the tunnel, and the eyes of the soldiers of the third company who followed Kuang Junyi into the tunnel. In addition to curiosity, these eyes also
More of an adoration.
Xia Yuan did not speak, and glanced at the soldiers in the tunnel. Company Commander Dai Wannian, instructor Zhang Xiaosheng, and Company Commander Kuang Junyi stepped forward and stood beside him.
The soldiers in the tunnel stood up, and even the wounded stood up with the help of their comrades. Comrade Wang Lan was mending the soldiers' clothes with needle and thread. Seeing this, he put down his needle and thread and stood in the tunnel.
The artillery fire covered the rear, and the deafening roar could be heard in the tunnel. It continuously made a dull sound in the tunnel, and the rumble spread non-stop.
The soldiers stood in the tunnel, wearing military uniforms. Everyone was dirty, and their faces were stained because they were wiped with towels, but their faces were firm and their eyes were bright and shining.
That is a light full of hope.
Captain Dai looked at Xia Yuan and nodded to him. Xia Yuan's eyes were firm and unyielding. He was like a bright star, lighting up the way forward for the soldiers.
With the encouragement of the three of them, Xia Yuan said: "Comrades, I think you all know me very well. Maybe you have heard of my deeds before I came to Shangganling. Speaking of which, I am about the same age as you.
It’s almost the same. When it comes to fighting, everyone has fought more than me. To be honest, I actually don’t have any special skills. It’s like how do you teach me to kill the enemy? You can’t teach me, other than pointing a gun at them.
The enemy is suddenly swarming."
"However, many people don't know what the competition is about. Some people will say that the competition is about weapons and equipment, while others will say that the competition is about logistics supplies."
"But I want to say that the comparison is not about these. It is not about whose country is strong and whose country is weak. It is not about whose weapons and equipment are superb and whose weapons and equipment are backward. It is not about whose soldiers are well-fed and well-dressed. We are competing.
It’s the will!”
"Will! Will on Shangganling! From the battle on Shangganling to now, from the 14th to today! In half a month, I have seen too many soldiers sacrifice their lives around me, and I have seen too many companies destroyed in Shangganling
Our company commander, after he was hit by enemy shells and his eyes were blown out by enemy shells, he reloaded according to his feelings and fought tenaciously with the enemy until the last drop of blood was drained from his body. The enemy was repulsed. We, the company commander
Many, many bullet casings were seen under his body."
"Our platoon leader, after his legs were blown off by the enemy and the left position was lost, controlled the machine gun to cover us, and finally died together with the enemy!"
"The fourth platoon leader, position No. 2 fell, in order to cover Comrade Zhao Fengshou's retreat, he fired the last grenade and rushed towards the enemy group!"
"In a later attack mission, Comrade Zhao Fengshou was tasked with blowing up a bunker. He threw the blasting tube into the enemy's bunker. The enemy pushed the blasting tube out. He pushed the blasting tube with his chest and died together with the enemy's bunker.
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"Han Xianxu, after all the bullets were fired, the enemy rushed to the position. In order to stop the enemy's attack, he held a bayonet and launched a suicide attack on the enemy!"
"Zhu Xinchang, with all his bullets out and no stones around him to throw, he opened his arms, rushed towards the enemy, and struggled with the enemy."
"Niu Xingcai and Wang Shou, when I was the squad leader, there were only two soldiers left in our squad. They stood on the right side of position No. 1 and fell on the left side. When I came back from supporting the left side, I saw them and
The position coexisted and perished, and their bodies struggled with the enemy. They bit the enemy's ears, and their bodies were covered with blood holes. When the bullets were used up and the stones were thrown away, they used their own flesh and blood to form a wall.
Withstood the enemy's attack!"
"Wang Yongmeng, the recruit who joined the company with me, became a hero. He often told me that he would also be a hero in the future. He fought back on the 17th day and night, following the seventh company commander to reinforce the comrades on position 4.
Attacking the enemy's position zero, when the anti-tank grenade did not blow up the enemy's bunker, and when he no longer had any weapons, he opened his arms, rushed towards the enemy's gunhole, and used his body to cover the enemy
The line of sight bought a little time for the counterattack troops in the rear, who rushed to position zero and took the position back."
He said with tears in his eyes.
Every familiar name rushed to the battlefield under his leadership. Under his watch, they died together with the enemy.
The soldiers listened to the battle deeds of the heroes, and their hearts were touched by the battle deeds of the martyrs. Their eyes suddenly filled with tears, and some soldiers were already in tears.
He continued: "During the Tunnel Counterattack, Tunnel No. 11 was short of water and food. They were so thirsty that they couldn't even swallow biscuits. Eating the biscuits was like eating a pile of iron nails. In order to win the battle and survive, they put
They collect their own urine and drink it when they are extremely thirsty. They lick the walls and lie on the ground to breathe the cold air on the ground to relieve their thirst."
"I asked them if drinking urine was bitter. They said it was bitter, but they said it was not bitter. They said it was bitter only during the Red Army's Long March. They could still eat radishes in the tunnels, but the Red Army had to eat grass roots and boil leather belts. They
Still happy."
With tears in his eyes, Xia Yuan raised his voice and said: "Why, the war is so cruel, why do we still fight? The enemy is so powerful, why do we strive for victory? Isn't it just to protect our homeland behind us? The Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China.
Steal our cultural treasures. The little Japanese devils are here, burning, killing, and looting our homes, taking away our food, jianyin women, doing all kinds of evil!"