Chapter 77 The end of the counterattack, the position of battalion commander
The soldiers became more and more courageous in pursuit, and soon rushed to the flank of position No. 2. After quickly placing combat orders, regardless of whether the enemy discovered it or not, they quickly ordered the artillery to fire at the enemy in position No. 2, and then they continued to attack position No. 8.
tactics, but this time, under the command of Xia Yuan, they will do the opposite.
Without killing the enemy commander, how Position 8 was lost will soon be known to the enemy at Position 2.
Therefore, they will definitely strengthen their flanks.
As for the butt, they will probably send people to look at it, but there will definitely not be too many soldiers looking at it.
Xia Yuan had used this move when attacking the Shuimen Bridge, attacking from the south top of the bridge and from the north. Since the enemy already knows how the soldiers attack, then do the opposite. Are you strengthening the flanks?
? Then I will hold up my side and touch your buttocks.
Five mortars, three light machine guns, one heavy machine gun, three recoilless rifles, and three bazookas were left on the flanks to act as a feint attack. Company Commander Dai Wannian led No. 1 and No. 8
A squad of soldiers from each tunnel launched a feint attack on the flanks. Xia Yuan, Kuang Junyi, and Zhang Xiaosheng each led a squad, and the two squads of soldiers who joined them in tunnel No. 8, led by Xia Yuan, reached the bottom of the mountain and used the help of Xia Yuan.
Under the cover of darkness, attack the enemy on the mountain from the enemy's rear.
In the command tunnel in the No. 2 position, the commander of the No. 8 position reported the situation of the No. 8 position to the commander of the No. 2 position with lingering fear. Then, under the advice of the commander of the No. 8 position, he strengthened the defense of the flanks and buttocks. Of course,
The focus of defense is still on the flanks.
Sure enough, the battle on the flank started. The firepower of the volunteers was extremely fierce. The machine gunner followed the instructions of Captain Xia, not to save bullets. No matter whether he hit the enemy or not, he just shot. The main thing was to attract the enemy's flank.
Recoil gunners, artillerymen, and bazooka operators also kept in mind Captain Xia's instructions. There is no need to save artillery shells to win the battle. We can have as many guns as we want. No enemy will make them for us.
After the remnant soldiers of Position 8 and the enemies of Position 2 merged, they quickly strengthened the flanks. The commander of Position 8 looked at the flares lighting up on the flanks with a smile on his face: "We have figured out the attack method of the Chinese soldiers.
Already."
The commander of the second position smiled and nodded: "Yes, thanks to you, otherwise the Chinese soldiers would not be able to defend the flanks for long if they attacked with this level of firepower."
The commander of position No. 2 listened to the gunfire of the volunteers on the flanks with lingering fear. It was really thanks to the remnants of position No. 8. They not only replenished the soldiers of position No. 2, but also brought their own experience of failure, allowing him to
React quickly and strengthen the flank defense.
Little did they know that behind them, a reinforced platoon of troops quickly gathered and dispersed on the enemy's reverse slope, waiting for an opportunity.
After a brief observation, Xia Yuan showed a smile on his face and ordered the artillery to adjust the artillery fire, aim at the firepower point on the enemy's butt, prepare to load ammunition, and at the same time ordered each squad to prepare to launch an attack.
The soldiers quickly launched a fierce attack on the enemy's rear, unleashing heavy firepower and flying bullets. The number of troops guarding the enemy's rear was no more than thirty enemies per platoon, and the two rounds of artillery fire resulted in numerous casualties.
The heavy machine gun fired a round, and Xia Yuan sniped at close range.
The attack lasted only one minute, and one platoon lost one-third of its troops.
The two commanders who were enjoying themselves were stunned when they heard the fierce artillery fire from the volunteers behind them. Then they saw the platoon leader of E Platoon stationed at the rear rushing in with a disgraced face and shouting in horror.
Behind them, a large enemy force was found!
Big army!
When the commander of the No. 2 position heard this, his eyes turned black.
The commander of Position 8 reacted quickly and immediately shouted: "Quick, order the troops to quickly support the rear defense line!"
It was a line of defense they built on the reverse slope, but it was very fragile because the troops attacking them were led by Xia Yuan, who was known as the "Legendary Recruit" and the "God of War in Shangganling". His attack method was extremely fast, like
A cobra attacks with lightning speed, piercing the enemy's fragile defense like a sharp knife.
A remnant platoon on the defense line that was destroyed by artillery fire was dispersed by the volunteers led by Xia Yuan without waiting for the arrival of reinforcements. The rear troops quickly relied on the enemy's defense line built on the reverse slope to quickly build artillery positions.
Heavy machine gun firepower point, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy on the mountain.
A stick soldier fired a flare into the sky. In an instant, the entire rear position was exposed to the enemy's sight. However, these stick soldiers who rushed up were shocked. There were enemies all over the mountains and plains, and their figures were everywhere. They spread
On the battlefield, on the piles of rocks, they were pouring towards the position, like a tide.
The stick soldiers quickly set up firepower points and covered the ground fortifications, but one shell after another destroyed their dream.
The forward position encountered a fierce attack by the Volunteers in Tunnel No. 2, and the flanks also encountered a fierce attack by the Volunteers. Although the two defense lines were temporarily able to hold, it was only barely possible. They experienced two rounds of artillery fire from the Volunteers' rear artillery positions.
Boom, there were already heavy casualties, and there were not many soldiers that could be mobilized. If the defeated troops from position 8 hadn't joined in, I'm afraid they would have fallen by now.
It was under this circumstance that a large force of the Volunteer Army actually appeared behind them, and its offensive was extremely fierce. Like a ferocious beast, it tore their fragile position in the rear to pieces. The more ferocious the Volunteer Army's offensive became.
, the morale of the stick soldiers became increasingly low.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Soon, under the leadership of Xia Yuan, this group of volunteers who looked like jackals, tigers and leopards tore apart the enemy's blocking defense line and successfully broke through into the enemy's position.
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"Destroy all enemies in front of you!"
Xia Yuan shouted, holding a light machine gun, as if possessed by the god of death, with night vision turned on, those enemies who were hiding in the trenches and trying to sneak attack them in the dark soon lay on the ground under a barrage of bullets.
They didn't understand until their death how the Chinese soldier who controlled a heavy machine gun discovered them while they were lying on the ground in the dark.
They didn't understand until they died, and they met God with this doubt.
Unfortunately, God did not stand on their side. Perhaps he was moved by the will of the volunteers, or frightened by the volunteers' spirit of not fearing death. God's miracle has never happened on the Korean battlefield. This was a cruel war.
In this war, human life is the least valuable thing.
Xia Yuan yelled and kept ordering each combat group to attack in that direction. He was like a soldier with God's perspective. He spotted the enemy soldiers wherever he looked. He first fired bullets and then bombed them with grenades.
Then he ordered the combat team to move closer.
It was under such command that the casualties of the soldiers were greatly reduced.
The soldiers also realized how powerful Xia Yuan was. Combat groups were scattered around Xia Yuan in a fan shape. Xia Yuan's orders were passed on by word of mouth.
Gestures, because it was dark night, even if there were flashes of artillery fire all around, malnourished soldiers could easily misread the gestures.
After the rear troops broke through the enemy's defense line, facing the pressure from the rear, the defense line constructed by the stick soldiers on the flanks and front line began to loosen and slowly collapsed.
The first to be defeated was the frontal defense line. Since the flanks had strong heavy firepower, they did not need the support of Xia Yuan and others. However, the volunteer soldiers on the frontal defense line had less heavy firepower and faced the enemy's heavy firepower suppression, which put great pressure on them.
, Under such circumstances, Xia Yuan and his men quickly broke through the enemy's central position and reached the frontal battlefield. The frontal enemy, who was attacked from behind, quickly encountered the front and rear flanking attacks of the volunteers and quickly collapsed. The volunteer soldiers led by Xia Yuan quickly
Join the soldiers in Tunnel No. 2.
At this point, the situation at Position 2 quickly changed.
Under the attack of nearly a company of troops, the flank was quickly defeated.
Within four and a half hours, positions 1, 8, and 2 were successfully recovered by volunteer soldiers. Just as they were preparing to attack position 11, a signal to occupy the position was lit on position 11.
Xia Yuan and the others stopped, with smiles on their dark faces.
At three o'clock in the evening, all surface positions in Shangganling were recovered. The 86th Regiment's assault troops occupied all positions on Highland 597.9 and quickly ordered the soldiers on each position to repair the fortifications overnight.
Xia Yuan had learned the enemy's method of building bunkers, and led his soldiers to use sandbags and remaining wooden boards on the position to dig holes and fill them with soil to build fortifications, bunkers, trenches, and communication trenches.
At dawn, a prisoner was sent to the forward position. This guy seemed to have been stunned by the power of the volunteers' artillery fire. When the translator asked him, he was just shaking like chaff all over his body and yelling like a maniac:
"It's over! You can't run away! The US military and Syngman Rhee are finished!"
No valuable information was obtained from this lost and somewhat insane prisoner. It turned out that he was a strong man just captured from Busan to supplement the recruits of the Second Division of the South Korean Army. Except for the fact that he knew which squad he was in
In addition, he couldn't even remember clearly the numbers of their platoon and their company. From the few words he shouted, it made people feel that he knew their fate better than the US military and Syngman Rhee.
There was a shimmer in the sky, and soon the sun penetrated the layers of smoke and shone in.
The soldiers had long been prepared to deal with today's ferocious enemy attack. They had prepared all the weapons in the tunnel. However, on the second day, because the ground reserve team suffered a heavy blow, the enemy failed to launch a major counterattack. They struggled
The fist that I was prepared to use to hit someone has been crushed into pieces.
All surface positions in Shangganling are still firmly in the hands of our army.
On November 2nd, during the staged counterattack operations and various tasks of consolidating the tunnels, Xia Yuan led a team of soldiers to continuously block the enemies rushing up from the front. During the continuous blocking process, the soldiers also
It was discovered that the enemy's attack was weakening and was far less violent than before.
On November 4th, during the day, the enemy organized three attacks. The scale of the attack was only one reinforced company. When the machine guns on the devil's position rang out, all the enemies ran away.
Xia Yuan led the soldiers back to the tunnel and told Dai Wannian about today's position defense. However, when he came in, he found a strange face in the tunnel. Xia Yuan asked: "Who is this..."
Everyone stood up, and Dai Wannian introduced Xia Yuan: "This is the battalion chief of staff of the 135th Regiment, Wang Zaibang."
Xia Yuan was a little surprised and saluted with a gun.
Wang Zaibang held Xia Yuan's palm and sighed: "I have long heard about the name of Shangganling God of War, the legendary recruit, and today I finally saw it. This time when I came to Shangganling, in addition to issuing combat missions from superiors, the most important thing is to find you.
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Xia Yuandao: "Chief of Staff of the Battalion, please tell me."
Wang Zaibang took out a document from his arms and said, "This is an appointment document. It is the appointment document for the commander of the 4th Battalion of the 135th Regiment."
Xia Yuan's eyes narrowed and he looked at the document in Wang Zaibang's hand. His mind was buzzing. This was more shocking than being hit by a cannonball.
Wang Zaibang continued: "As you can see, after the superiors decided, the 135th Regiment was expanded into a strengthened regiment. There are currently no good candidates for the additional fourth battalion. The superiors discussed and discussed that you will be the commander of the fourth battalion."
Xia Yuan said with some loss of voice: "Chief of Staff of the Battalion... This... I have just served as the commander of the ninth company and I didn't even take it for a month... How..."
Wang Zaibang comforted him and said: "In the thirty days and nights of counterattack operations, you used your excellent command skills to successfully capture positions No. 1, 8, and 2 with minimal casualties, annihilated a battalion of the South Korean Army, and created the Shangganling counterattack operation.
The largest number of enemies was eliminated in this battle. If the people of the 83rd Regiment hadn't captured Position 11, I guess you and your men would have reached Position 11."
He said: "This one thing is enough to demonstrate your commanding ability. What's more, when you first joined the company, you fought in the unknown highland. With your support, you successfully broke through the enemy's fire bunker blockade and captured the unknown highland.
The South Korean Army went down to Cangshan Mountain in Ganling Mountains. You led a squad of soldiers to annihilate a company of the US Army, creating a model night attack battle in history where a small number of people defeated a large number. You did it with only minor injuries to two soldiers, and captured a large number of soldiers.
Weapons and equipment, and at the same time, you led the soldiers to dig water wells to solve the water shortage problem in Tunnel No. 1, laying the foundation for the victory of the subsequent tunnel operations in Tunnel No. 1."
"As for your performance on Shangganling, although the leaders did not see it with their own eyes, the results of each day's combat were reported to the regiment one by one, and the regiment handed it over to the division headquarters, and the division headquarters handed it over to the military headquarters.
Even Commander Qin praised you as 'the well-deserved God of War in Shangganling'"
"The position of battalion commander has already buried your military exploits."
"When the battle on Shangganling is over, the regiment commander will not be able to escape."