Chapter 79 537.7 Highland Beishan First Phase Counterattack
After the soldiers saw the appointment documents, there was a burst of cheers in the tunnel. They were happy for Xia Yuan. The man they admired became a battalion commander from a recruit in less than a month.
This is something that makes the soldiers very happy and happy.
A tall young soldier squeezed up to Xia Yuan and said: "Comrade Battalion Commander, my name is Li Xiangze. There are many units in the tunnel. I am willing to take charge of registration and register everyone!"
After a brief introduction by Li Xiangze, this comrade was a cultural instructor at the battalion headquarters, an intellectual young man who had been severely tested on the battlefield.
Xia Yuan immediately made the decision: "Okay! I will leave the level work to you!"
"yes!"
Li Xiangze said happily, "By the way, Comrade Battalion Commander, it would be better if you could give me a health worker, because there are many injured people who will pretend to be uninjured people to register to participate in the counterattack. They must be checked."
Xia Yuan asked around and found that there were no health workers in the tunnel. There was no way to meet this request, but the registration started quickly. Except for the seriously injured who could not move, the other soldiers sat up and the party members took out their
The league members took out their party cards. Each person described his or her duties and combat experience like a report, and expressed his or her determination loudly like an oath.
The man who had just been mediating the dispute for others walked up to Xia Yuan, took out his party card, and reported: "Comrade Battalion Commander, my name is Sun Shangyong. I am a party member. I joined the party on the front lines of the Huaihai Campaign in 1948. I have been a soldier.
Squad leader, I have fought in 20 to 30 major battles. I joined the Volunteer Army in 1950 and my current position is division chief. I hope the party will entrust me with the most dangerous and arduous tasks!"
His tone was firm and powerful, which moved Xia Yuan deeply. He said, "Can you command the battle?"
"Yes! I believe I won't be worse than those 'baby' platoon leaders!" He answered Xia Yuan confidently.
Xia Yuan nodded, "Okay, I will arrange a task for you later."
"Yes!" He replied forcefully.
After the registration, a few people were worried and approached Xia Yuan one by one to express their attitude and asked to give them combat missions. Faced with the enthusiastic attitude of his comrades, Xia Yuan answered them in the affirmative, and then he talked to the people in the tunnel again.
Each of the soldiers shook hands and encouraged each other.
Before dawn, Li Xiangze successfully completed the registration. Xia Yuan took the registered roster and looked at the names from different companies. There were thirteen correspondents in each company, which showed that the sources of personnel were mixed.
After a brief discussion, he divided the personnel in the tunnel into five squads. In addition to three combat squads, there was a complete squad composed of lightly wounded soldiers. The last squad was composed of seriously wounded soldiers who repeatedly requested to participate in the battle.
So turn them into a reserve class, the fifth class.
The atmosphere in the tunnel changed. The noises and groans of the wounded were replaced by the sounds of cleaning guns and twisting grenade caps. The quarrels disappeared, and people from so many different organizational units were closely united. The organization
Together, everyone has a common will: to destroy the enemy, hold on to the tunnel, and overwhelm all enemies!
When night came, Xia Yuan decided to take the soldiers out to practice and get better with each other.
Li Xiangze was appointed as the squad leader of the first squad, Sun Shangyong as the squad leader of the second squad, and himself as the squad leader of the third squad. When he came over, he observed the enemy situation on position 8 and built a simple position model in the tunnel with sand and stones.
Use it as an enemy bunker.
He gathered the two squad leaders together and said: "Tonight's battle plan is still a small counterattack. One squad will go first. There is no need to blow up the bunker. Your task is to deal with the enemy and destroy the enemy while protecting yourself.
We must not take the initiative to attack and sacrifice blindly!"
Li Xiangze assured: "Yes! Comrade Battalion Commander! Promise to complete the mission!"
The orders of the second and third squads are almost the same, they are all small-scale counterattacks, just fight, no attack, no sacrifice.
The wounded were also eager to find Xia Yuan and ask for orders. Xia Yuan said awkwardly: "Tonight's task is to get everyone together. We can hold on for a long time."
The current stage is a counterattack at Highland 597.9. Their mission here is still to rely on the tunnels, stick to the tunnels, and deal with the enemy. The counterattack operations of the small group of troops at night went very smoothly, especially after the battle of the third squadron, the soldiers were excited.
Running into the tunnel, telling the story of Commander Xia's combat performance.
The battalion commander knocked down the enemy's machine gun bunker with one shot and silenced the enemy's machine gun bunker. He knocked out the enemy's firepower point with two or three shots. They could see the illumination flares fired by the enemy very clearly. The bullets penetrated the enemy's steel helmet with a swish.
Here, the machine gun hadn't fired for long before it was shot down by the battalion commander.
Hu Changdao shouted excitedly: "The battalion commander is a fighting hero. He led a squad to annihilate a company of foreign devils, a legendary recruit, and turned the No. 1 position into a devil's position. The God of War in Shangganling must be awesome at shooting!"
The soldiers were excited when they heard it, howling and admiring Xia Yuan even more.
In this way, three days and two nights passed smoothly. Xia Yuan led them to carry out dozens of large and small counterattacks, destroying the enemy's fortifications dug on the top of the mountain, and destroying the enemy's heavy fortifications erected on the top of the mountain.
Machine guns and rocket launchers successively smashed the enemy's attempts to destroy the tunnels with explosive packets, poison gas, and incendiary bombs.
He persisted until the day of the counterattack. Xia Yuan heard the secret words of the regiment commander giving the attack order on the walkie-talkie:
"Xia Yuan, Xia Yuan, get ready to have dinner, get ready to have dinner, do you have chopsticks? Do you have chopsticks?"
Xia Yuan answered the regiment leader confidently. After this period of training, the soldiers have shown strong combat effectiveness and a fighting spirit that is not afraid of sacrifice. He believes that these soldiers can complete the combat tasks assigned by their superiors!
Then, the regiment leader ordered in secret words to launch a counterattack at No. 8 position of Beishan on Highland 537.7 at 11 o'clock in the evening.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Every time Xia Yuan talks to his superiors again, the soldiers in the tunnel look at him quietly, how eager they are for the day when the counterattack comes, and now, the opportunity
Finally arrived.
He put down the phone and said loudly: "Comrades! The regiment leader ordered us to counterattack position No. 8 tonight. Start preparations now!"
As soon as Xia Yuan finished speaking, the whole tunnel suddenly burst into cheers. The soldiers could no longer suppress their joyful mood. Some stood up with their guns high, and some stuffed grenades into their waists. The lightly wounded
They were busy arranging bandages, and the seriously wounded were also holding their bodies with guns, wanting to join in.
For a time, the tunnel was as lively as a New Year festival, and the soldiers were busy nervously.
The time for the major counterattack is getting closer and closer. The soldiers have already prepared everything. They hold their guns and lean on the ground with their butts and wait quietly.
Xia Yuan is watching the time.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, after a violent bombardment of the enemy's surface positions by the Volunteer Army's artillery fire, the 'assault platoon', which was mixed and organized by 16 units, followed the counterattack signal and, under the leadership of Xia Yuan, headed towards No. 8
The stick soldiers garrisoned on the position launched an attack. Tunnel No. 8 was like a volcano erupting. The soldiers launched an attack to the top of the mountain according to the predetermined plan.
The third squad led by Xia Yuan is the main force of this attack, the first squad led by Li Xiangze is responsible for the left-wing attack, and the second squad led by Sun Shangyong is responsible for the right-wing attack. They will face nearly a battalion on position 8.
enemy.
Their mission is to open the enemy's gate on position 8 and cover the second company on position 11 on height 597.9 to launch an attack on the enemy on height 537.7.
Xia Yuan quickly sniped and killed the machine gunners in the fire bunker and shouted: "Demolition team, come to me!"
"yes!"
The three soldiers shouted and climbed out of the bunker. Carrying blasting tubes and anti-tank grenades, they got out from behind the bunker and quickly crawled towards the enemy bunker.
Under the cover of various types of light and heavy firepower, three soldiers quickly rushed to the enemy bunker. Under the muzzle of the enemy's bunker, a soldier opened the blasting tube and stuffed it in. With a roar, gravel flew, and the mountain suddenly shook. Xia Yuan
Shouting: "Comrades! Charge!!"
As early as yesterday, they had cleared the enemy's bunker on the mountain, and during the day, they organized small groups of troops to harass the enemy on the ground from time to time, disrupting their progress in building the bunker. Tonight, the plan for the counterattack was
Issued.
After our army's intensive artillery fire covered the position, most of the enemy's fortifications on the position were destroyed, which reduced the pressure on the assault troops. Xia Yuan led the assault platoon and launched an attack on the enemy on the position according to the original plan.
, after they removed the enemy's firepower point on the reverse slope, they quickly climbed over the mountain ridge, built a simple firepower point, and suppressed the enemy on the ground.
The enemy has a reinforced battalion on the position, and all kinds of light and heavy firepower are covered like mountains and rivers. Tunnel No. 8 on Highland 537.7 is not as rich as Tunnel No. 1 on Highland 597.9. There are only two machine guns. Some soldiers
Even a bolt-action rifle was used.
During the counterattack in Tunnel No. 1, the soldiers had four fully automatic rifles per person, and personally owned as many as a thousand rounds of ammunition, more than ten mortars, more than twenty light machine guns, four heavy machine guns, bazookas,
There are twenty recoilless rifles, most of which were captured and collected by Xia Yuan, a seizure madman. There is no comparability between the two in terms of firepower.
Because of this, this battle was much more difficult than imagined. Although Xia Yuan had tried his best to snipe the enemy's heavy firepower, due to poor equipment, even if the enemy got rid of the heavy machine guns, their 60-gun
, recoilless rifle, Bazooka can always play a huge role.
At this stalemate, the reinforcements at Position 11 on Highland 597.9 successfully broke through the ditch formed by the two highlands and came up with reinforcements. Their addition immediately changed the occupation, and Xia Yuan continued to snipe the enemy's heavy firepower.
At the time of the killing, the Second Company arrived with their bazooka. With a series of roars, the stick soldiers blocking the defense line in front of them were quickly defeated. The soldiers came out of the bunker with murderous intent.
Enter position 8.
The battle lasted for three hours, and nearly two companies of enemy defense forces were eliminated on position 8. The position was filled with corpses. The disgraced soldiers packed up the weapons and equipment scattered on the position one by one. Xia Yuan carried his gun.
, standing on the battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke, shouting Hu Changdao's name.
Hu Changdao ran over, with excitement on his dark face. He carried several carbines on his back and several bullet bags hanging on his body. He said excitedly: "Batalion Commander, look, there are so many guns."
Xia Yuan glanced at Hu Changdao and said, "You are allowed to change the gun on your body and choose a good one."
Hu Changdao was extremely happy. He was a new recruit, and the gun he was issued was still a 50-charge gun with a high failure rate. It often jammed while firing, and often failed to fire. He had long wanted to replace the gun in his hand, but when he thought about it,
These guns were produced by our own country, and he felt a little reluctant to part with them. Apart from the military uniform and the people around him, the only gun on his body came from the country.
"Batalion Commander, I want to keep this gun." Hu Changdao touched the 50 punch in his hand.
Xia Yuan nodded. It didn't matter whose gun he kept. In Shangganling, the gun with a higher failure rate would be easily eliminated, delaying the opportunity to fight. He looked to one side and saw the second company commander and instructor walking away.
Came over.
"Summer camp director!"
The two came over, saluted, and reached out to hold Xia Yuan's hand.
"You came in time. We have been suppressed by the enemy, thanks to you." Xia Yuan said with emotion.
"Captain Xia, I think it's thanks to you that you helped us eliminate the enemy's bunker, so our soldiers can rush down like a broken bamboo." The instructor looked at the weather-beaten battalion commander in front of him with some excitement.
From a recruit to a battalion commander, the only person who could take up the post so quickly could only go through a cruel battle, and this cruel battle was Shangganling.
Everyone chatted for a while, and the second company commander and instructor left a lot of weapons and equipment for Xia Yuan and the others, and then left. Position 8 has been counterattacked, and they now have to quickly return to position 11. This counterattack operation
There is no doubt that it was a success, and the next 537.7 Highlands will be locked in repeated battles with the enemy until the end of the war.
The last large-scale attack of the Second Korean Division was on October 30th. Since November 5th was the day of the U.S. election, Van Fleet would not watch the loss of 597.9 Heights and personally go to the front line of Shangganling to help the Koreans.
The Second Division cheered up, but unfortunately their largest attack was quickly crushed by the counterattack of the volunteer soldiers. On the 597.9 Highlands, the Second Han Division lost at least two battalions. This is still a conservative estimate.
The Second Han Division in the 597.9 Highlands was exhausted. Their division commander realized the undesirability of this approach. Continuing to send soldiers to the highlands would only increase casualties. Therefore, the commander of the Second Han Division risked going to court-martial rather than giving up the attack.
597.9 Highland, only stick to 537.7 Highland North Mountain.
The current 537.7 Highland Beishan is still in their hands.