Chapter 158: The Raging Ground

The US artillery fire fell on our positions one by one, and the intensity was no less than the bombardment at the beginning of the Shangganling Campaign. Not only that, but dozens of enemy planes were stationed over the high ground, hovering like flies on the high ground, and from time to time they swooped down with a sharp whistling sound and dropped heavy aerial bombs and incendiary bombs on the high ground. The temperature in the tunnel rose rapidly, and the air became unusually 'muddy' and stuffy, so that the soldiers were almost out of breath.

The target of the US military is our anti-cline position, and I am well aware of this. Their shells did not do much damage to our tunnel fortifications, because the tunnel fortifications were built on the anti-slope plane, and most of the shells were blocked from the positive slope.

However, the bombing of aircraft is different, they can completely set the target of the airdrop on the opposite side of the 597.9 height, plus the power of heavy aerial bombs is also much greater than that of artillery shells, once they try their luck to blow up the mouth of the tunnel or a vulnerable part, it is very likely to blow up or block the tunnel. In this way, firstly, the volunteer soldiers in the tunnel can be killed and injured, and secondly, the volunteer soldiers can be sealed in the tunnel, and the hilltop position cannot be reinforced.

However, fortunately, the 597.9 altitude is very steep, and steepness means that the target is very small, and the probability of enemy aircraft bombing is also very small. In addition, the visibility around the heights was covered with smoke and was very poor, so the threat to us from enemy bombs was not very great. But it was the incendiary bomb that made us cry bitterly...... It made the whole tunnel like a fire cage in a scorching heat, and the soldiers all sweated like rain, and they all took off their padded jackets. What was even more unbearable was that the incendiary bombs burned out the air around the vents, making the air in the tunnel thinner and thinner, so that I didn't even dare to light a kerosene lamp, so I could only use my flashlight to shine on the map on my desktop and fall into deep thought.

In fact, the U.S. military doesn't need to bother to bomb us like this at all, they only need to attack us for another hour...... In just one hour, we may be left without soldiers. And they can easily occupy all the positions of our army, even the tunnels that they have been fighting for nearly a month and cannot take away.

Of course, the U.S. military doesn't know this, so it's still doing this useless work.

However, the result did not seem to change, because after the bombardment, they would definitely charge us again, and we still couldn't hold out until dark. From this point of view, I would prefer that the US bombing will last longer, preferably until dark......

But I also know that this is impossible and unrealistic!

What to do? Under the aperture of the flashlight, I stared at the 597.9 high ground on the map and asked myself over and over again!

Still retreat back to the pit with the fighters as before? This may be a way, if we die out of the war situation will not benefit the situation at all, if we retreat to the tunnel to preserve our strength, at least we can ensure that the tunnel is in our hands, at least the US troops who occupy the surface position will still be uneasy, at least we still have the opportunity to cooperate with reinforcements to launch a *** ......

At the very least, that's probably enough for me to find a good reason to abandon the superficial position. But I am still reluctant, because I know very well that the various positions on the 597.9 heights are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if we give up the surface positions like this, I don't know how much it will cost to take them down.

Plug the gun hole again like Huang Jiguang did? Rushing to the enemy's machine-gun fort with explosives bags like the previous *** surface position? None of this is what I want, and this time we are facing the 'elite' US 187th Airborne Regiment, once the 597.9 heights fall into their hands, even if we still have so many heroes desperately trying to go up, maybe we will still not be able to take back the position.

As long as we hold out for another half a day and wait until it gets dark, the tide of battle will change dramatically.

So I'm not reconciled!

There are more than a hundred warriors in the tunnels of the 537.7 heights, and they are also transferred over to defend?

That doesn't seem like a good fit. It was still five or six hours before dark, and they could only hold out for two hours if they were transferred, and the result would be the same. Moreover, the consequences of 'draining' the troops in the 537.7 highland tunnels are also very serious. Of course, I knew that there was no danger to defend that height, and the only thing that our army could rely on and hide after attacking it was the tunnel fortifications there. If we lose all the tunnels in the 537.7 heights, then it's not hard to imagine what happened next. Those tunnels will soon be occupied by the puppet troops stationed at Plateau 537.7 Nanshan, who will then transform them into bunker fortifications. At that time, if our army wanted to recapture the 537.7 heights, it would have to face the enemy's pillboxes and shells with its flesh and blood......

"Chief of Staff!" Just when I was thinking hard, Instructor Qin, who was also worried about this problem, reminded on the side: "Let's report this situation to our superiors and listen to their superiors' thoughts!" ”

"Is it useful to report to your superiors?" Li Baocheng said helplessly: "What the superiors can do is to send reinforcements to us, and the Yankees' plane is staring at us!" Who can come alive in this broad daylight! ”

"Then report it too!" I sighed deeply: "Now is the critical moment of the 597.9 heights, the situation is very critical, and the surface position is very likely to be unable to hold. Let's report, and the superiors are also prepared! ”

"Hmm!" Instructor Qin listened, and immediately dialed the phone of the regiment headquarters.

"Let me do it!" Instructor Qin raised the walkie-talkie and was about to speak, but I picked it up.

I'm not used to anything, I say the good things, and the bad things are left to the subordinates.

"Captain Zhang!" Wiping the beads of sweat from my head, I gasped hard in the turbid air, and said into the microphone: "Commander Zhang, the combat effectiveness of the 187th Airborne Regiment of the US Army has greatly exceeded our imagination. Our casualties were very large, more than 200 casualties in more than two hours of fighting, and now we have only more than 100 people left. If you continue to fight like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold on! ”

"Hmm!" Commander Zhang on the other end of the microphone was obviously taken aback when he heard my words, and the first thing he reacted to was: "I'll send reinforcements up immediately!" ”

"Captain Zhang!" I stopped: "It is useless to send reinforcements, past experience tells us that sending reinforcements at this time will not play any role in the battle situation except for the soldiers to die in vain!" ”

There was silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie, and after a long time, Head Zhang sighed and said, "Otherwise, you should retreat to the tunnel!" We make a battle plan, *** in the evening! ”

"I want to ......," I nodded with difficulty, and replied, "I think that's the only way to do it!" ”

"Chief of Staff!" At this time, Li Baocheng stood up and said, "Ask Regiment Commander Zhang, can you let the artillery bombard the position until dawn!" ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, my eyes couldn't help but light up, and I quickly conveyed Li Baocheng's words to Head Zhang.

But Commander Zhang's words disappointed us again: "During this time, artillery was used very frequently, and we no longer have so many shells in stock!" ”

After a pause, Regiment Commander Zhang asked: "By the way, can you cooperate with the artillery to minimize casualties and hold out until dark!" ”

"Captain Zhang!" I replied helplessly: "Shangganling is very steep, the enemy is attacking on a positive slope, and it is difficult for our artillery shells to hit them!" ”

"But ......" and then I quickly thought: "We can find a way to kill and injure their follow-up forces to weaken their offensive!" ”

Thinking of this, I didn't care about speaking, so I 'handed over' the walkie-talkie to Director Qin, and raised the flashlight to shine on the map on the desktop.

The enemy's offensive time these days is too regular, and every morning it is about eight o'clock to launch a charge. Of course, this is because Shangganling does not light up until eight o'clock. But...... Why didn't I think about why the enemy could charge so punctually? Every time they charged, several battalions of troops would rush up, and in order to achieve the purpose of continuous attacks, the second echelon of troops would be continuously replenished!

With such a large force, how did they manage to charge at our positions at the same time? These troops, if they were not assembled in advance, it is difficult to believe.

My flashlight went down the road between Heights 597.9 and the high ground where the enemy was located, and as in the rest of Korea, everything near here was mountain-to-mountain, and there was hardly any open area for large troops.

Apart from......

"Yes, this is it!" The light from my flashlight moved to a few hundred meters away from the upper right corner of 597.9 Heights and stopped. It was a valley, a valley full of trees. Overgrown with trees, it means that it is difficult for us to find the troops hiding inside, and because it is relatively low, the whole thing is hidden in the 'shadow' shadow of the peak of the 597.9 highland, so very few shells can blow up there.

If I'm not mistaken, whether it's the U.S. military or the puppet army, they all assembled here before the attack.

So I immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted into the microphone: "Commander Zhang, there is a valley in the upper right corner of the 597.9 plateau, do you see?" ”

After a while, Head Zhang replied, "See! What's the situation? ”

"I suspect that the enemy's attacking forces were assembled in this valley!" I replied excitedly: "I hope that the artillery will bombard this valley, and if we bomb it right, the enemy attacking force will suffer heavy casualties, and we will have hope of holding our position!" ”

"No problem!" Hearing this, Regiment Commander Zhang agreed: "You still hold your position, and the bombardment of this valley will be handed over to me!" ”

"Yes!" I answered and hung up.

But then I realized what kind of risk I was taking in the decision I had just made with Head Zhang. What if the enemy hadn't rallied in that valley? Then we may end up with a total loss!

I was thinking about it when the sound of the cannon outside suddenly stopped.

I gritted my teeth, immediately made up my mind, and yelled at the soldiers: "Go to the battlefield!" People are in the position, and they swear to live and die with the position! ”

Although I didn't know much about Sun Tzu's Art of War, I also knew that there should be no hesitation on the battlefield, especially in commanders. To go to the position or not to take the position, for the commander who simply does it, it is just a matter of choosing one of the two. If you choose the right one, you win, if you choose the wrong one, you lose, and there is at least one half of the win.

But for a hesitant command, just as he hesitated, the best fighters had slipped out of his hands. By the time he thought of the answer, he had no choice, and he had no choice but to lose.

Because I knew this, I made a decision very simply.

"The people are in the position! Swear to live and die with the position! ”

"The people are in the position! Swear to live and die with the position! ”

……

The fighters raised their rifles and shouted a few times after me, then turned around and got out of the tunnel.

Gunsmoke and dust!

Although the air outside the tunnel was filled with the scorching smell of petrol bombs and the smell of gunpowder from cannonballs, when I walked out of the tunnel, I still felt like my whole body was loose, like a big stone pressing on my chest and suddenly no one carried it away.

The air outside is just as smelly, and even as 'muddy', but there's at least oxygen in it......

Without haste to observe the crater of the aerial bomb several meters deep, I grabbed my gun and stepped on the scorched earth that was still steaming, and ran towards the hilltop position.

As soon as the warriors ran to the position, they frantically raised their shovels and dug in the position, and although the soil was too soft to build a trench, they still had to dig a small pit for themselves where they could hide. The machine gunner had to shoot the scorched earth even more, otherwise the light machine gun's bipod might sink into the dirt, and if the heavy machine gun fired a few shots, the shock might bury it entirely.

As is customary, my target is still Position Nine. I quickly found a position on the position, lay down, raised my gun and poked my head out to look down, good guys, those Yankees have brought up the tanks again.

Maybe it was because they suffered the loss last time, so this time they didn't hit the smoke bombs. This allowed me to get a clear view of the tanks lined up at the foot of the mountain. After counting, there were more than 20 of them, either looking for a suitable firing position, or adjusting the height of the tank gun......

Look at the soldiers of the 187th Airborne Regiment, all lying in hiding places at the foot of the mountain, waiting for the order to attack us.

After a while, the enemy tanks were ready. With the order, the tank guns and the high-altitude machine guns on the tanks fired at the same time, and the position suddenly became lively. The sound of gunfire, artillery and bullets became one, and the soldiers of the 187th Airborne Regiment also cautiously rushed towards our position with the bullets and shells.

"Hit!" When the US troops were still more than 100 meters away from our positions, I gave the battle order.

In the face of the troops of the 187th Airborne Regiment of the United States, I did not dare to ask them to get closer and fight again. What's more, we are now *** sufficient, and the main purpose is to delay time, and it is a victory to be able to hold out until dark. So I'm not going to move as usual.

The soldiers immediately pulled the trigger towards their chosen target, and rows of bullets passed, and the American soldiers fell in a pool of blood one by one.

It was disturbed by smoke grenades, so I didn't notice the killing of the American soldiers of the 187th Regiment. This time I can see it clearly, although the way of death is no different from the others, but what makes me a little strange is that when they are hit, their bodies often fly very far, which also makes almost everyone who is shot by them roll down the slope!

Could it be that this is also a training project of the 187th Regiment? I couldn't help but feel a little strange when I looked at it.

But then it soon became clear that it was caused by the body armor they were wearing. At this time, although the body armor cannot protect against bullets, it can greatly reduce the penetration of bullets. For example, the turntable machine gun and the Golunov heavy machine gun in the hands of the fighters could have easily pierced the enemy's body at this distance, and inflicted secondary damage on the enemy who followed him. However, because the US military wore body armor, the bullet could not penetrate the enemy. All the kinetic energy on the bullet was borne by the US military who was shot.

So, only a row of bullets went down, and the mountains were full of American corpses rolling 'messily' on the slope!

This may be the reason why the US military knows that body armor cannot protect against the bullets of Soviet-style weapons in the hands of the volunteers, but still has to equip the 187th Regiment! It seems that our army's machine guns swept down so condescendingly, and if they could penetrate the enemy's body, they could indeed cause a lot of secondary casualties, but I didn't expect the U.S. military to solve this problem in this way. It is no wonder that this 87th Airborne Regiment is much more difficult to fight than other ace troops......

"Bang bang ......" I finished the eight rounds in the magazine in one go, and soon a few more American soldiers rolled on the inclined plane. But they were still charging at us like a 'tidal wave' under the cover of tank artillery and machine guns.

They were divided into several teams, and they were very nimble in attacking us with the help of craters and stones. They are very well equipped, machine guns, mortars, recoilless guns, etc., are everywhere at a glance, and even the carbines in the hands of ordinary soldiers can be fired in bursts. As a result, the whistling of bullets on the positions became a constant blow towards us like a gust of wind. The soldiers almost 'fired' at the enemy with bullets and shells, and many soldiers died in the stray bullets 'fired' by the enemy.

Of course, because of the angle, the casualties of the US troops are still much larger than ours. But I know that the number of US troops is also much larger than ours, and if we continue to fight like this, even if the US troops do not attack the position, they will be able to achieve the final victory!

I wonder if the artillery is ready?

I 'pumped' and looked up at the valley in the upper right corner, but in the smoke of gunfire, I couldn't see anything except the American troops who were charging frantically towards our positions.

Whether I can hold the position or not depends on whether I guess right or not!