Chapter 45: Tunnel Warfare

Chapter 45: Tunnel Warfare

"Bang bang......" The fighters almost did not stop and rushed towards the hilltop position.

Three platoons in three directions, each platoon divided into three or four groups to cover each other's attack, once one unit is blocked by enemy fire, the other troops will speed up and attack. Attack from the flanks by cold-gun units or by combat units to quickly remove stubborn enemy points of fire. So it didn't take long for the entire hilltop position, large and small, to be under the control of the warriors.

If the battle is carried out according to the convention, if the volunteer army wants to successfully take the enemy's high ground, it generally has to have two to three times the enemy's strength, and often the attacking side suffers relatively large casualties. If you want to grab someone else's territory, of course, you have to exchange the lives of the soldiers. But obviously the battle situation doesn't have to be like this, for example, we are ......

Up to now, we also know that the total strength of the puppet army on the positive slope and the hilltop position will not be less than ours, and may even be more than us, but the puppet army is completely unable to resist our attack, and the casualty ratio of the enemy and us is not proportional.

It may be that the puppet army did not expect us to lurk under their noses and was caught off guard, or it may be that our army's tactics of cooperating with each other to attack can play a scientific role, or it may be that the puppet army has always been accustomed to the previous style of play of the volunteers, and now it suddenly encounters a different style of play and cannot adapt to it......

But in any case, this time it was our victory, and the defenders on the 902.8 heights were beaten to a pulp, and they could not organize decent resistance at all.

I took out my pocket watch and looked at it, and in less than ten minutes, the fighters had already occupied the hilltop position. The sharpshooters of the cold gun unit also followed in time, using night vision devices to chase and kill the puppet troops who were scattered and fleeing.

"Report" When I patted the dirt on my body and walked towards the hilltop position with easy steps, Li Guoqiang's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Our army has occupied the hilltop position, and the remnants of the puppet army are hiding in the anti-slope tunnel, are they pursuing?" ”

"Don't pursue, immediately build fortifications, anti-aircraft artillery," I ordered.

I know what Li Guoqiang means by pursuit, that is, to chase into the enemy's tunnel to solve the puppet army, I also believe that the soldiers have this ability, we have already done countless drills before this, and the soldiers know how to deal with the enemy hidden in the tunnel. But I know we don't have enough time.

There are more than 200 people in the Seventh Company, not to mention whether the puppet army's tunnels are enough to accommodate so many of us, and even if they are, we have no way to occupy the enemy's tunnels and hide all of them when the enemy's shells come, so we can only breathe a sigh of relief.

"Yes" Li Guoqiang responded, and the whole army immediately started to move as if they had heard the order at the same time.

Shi Shiran walked up to the top of the hill, surrounded by soldiers who were busy building fortifications and cleaning the battlefield. It seems that I am the only one who is idle.

In other words, it is not very difficult to create a few anti-artillery 'holes' in the enemy's existing positions. It is only necessary to dig a small pit in the side wall of the enemy's trench to achieve a good anti-artillery effect. In addition, it is still an anti-slope compared to the enemy's artillery, and the chance of being hit by shells is not very high, so I am not very worried.

"Lieutenant Lee, Lieutenant Lee, what's the ......?"

At this time, the Korean call from the walkie-talkie held by a corpse in the trench caught my attention, and I couldn't help but be stunned, so I grabbed the walkie-talkie and replied in Korean: "I'm Lieutenant Lee, everything is normal, everything is normal."

Originally, I didn't have the hope of being able to deceive the enemy, but what I didn't expect was that there was a relieved gasp from the other end of the walkie-talkie, and then after a while, the guy scolded in a loud voice: "I said Lieutenant Li, what did you do?" I called for a long time and no one answered, I thought you were killed by the Chinese army so quickly, don't you know to pay attention to the call? You're a lieutenant on the first day......"

I looked at the microphone in my hand in disbelief, and I could hardly believe my ears, the puppet army command had not even found out that the 902.8 heights were already in our hands? It's impossible, the puppet army at the top of the mountain didn't let us all annihilate......

Oh, then I quickly figured it out, the puppet army in the tunnel faced the same problem as we encountered when we went to Ganling, in the tunnel the radio 'fire' can't go out, they naturally have no way to contact the headquarters, and just now it only took us ten minutes to knock down the hilltop position of the 902.8 highland, most of the puppet troops didn't even have time to escape, so naturally they didn't have time to notify the headquarters, and even if the notice arrived, the headquarters didn't seem to dare to believe that all this was true

What an unexpected surprise

Thinking of this, I hurriedly beckoned to Hu Zudi, and held the walkie-talkie microphone that was still scolding and ordered Hu Zudi: "Organize the soldiers of the cold gun unit to monitor the puppet army's tunnel mouth, and once an antenna sticks out of the tunnel mouth, it will be blown up immediately."

"Yes" Hu Zudi understood, and with a wave of his hand, he went up with the soldiers of the cold gun unit.

"Hey, hey......" There was still a constant shouting and scolding from the walking gun: "Why don't you speak?" Is the Chinese army stupid...... I said Lieutenant Lee, the face of the Republic of Korea has been lost to you, such a small battle is unbearable, and you are still worthy of being a soldier......"

I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and replied, "Yes, yes...... We were attacked by the Chinese army just now, but we have repelled the enemy's great ...... There was a battalion that had been completely crushed by our valiant soldiers, and had suffered heavy casualties......"

I know that there is a habit of falsely reporting war exploits in the puppet army, and I have seen such information in modern times: a puppet army special agent unit infiltrated the rear of our army, and used a renegade bugler to blow the assembly horn, and the surrounding 20 or so volunteer soldiers almost instinctively gathered towards this uninhabited valley, at this time the machine gun sounded......

This puppet army agent also made a big fuss about this, and expanded the results tenfold, and the puppet army agent captain also won the title of "Tiger Behind Enemy Lines".

So, I think I should brag about it now, so that I might be able to convince the "bosses" more

"Ah......h Think I'm a liar......"

Just when I was secretly regretting my own cleverness, I didn't expect the guy to scold again: "I obviously heard Captain Park say that there is a regiment just now, what kind of eyesight do you have?" Seeing only one battalion, it is necessary to analyze the enemy's ability a little......"

I couldn't help but faint, it turned out that it wasn't because I bragged that he "saw through", but because I didn't brag enough about it

"Lieutenant Lee" scolded for a while, and the guy on the other end of the walkie-talkie finally summed up in an impassioned voice: "As a soldier of our Republic of Korea, as a warrior of our Fifth Korean Division, and as the vanguard of the people, no matter when and no matter what the situation, you must defend the 902.8 high ground with a fearless 'spirit'. If the Chinese army dares to provoke, give them a good look......"

"Yes" I said in my mouth, but I was secretly amused in my heart. What kind of warrior and what kind of vanguard he talked about, couldn't it be the army that we were able to solve in ten minutes just now......

Originally, I wanted this 'confused' commander who didn't know what the situation was to send some ammunition or something, but after thinking about it, I forcibly suppressed this 'desire'.

What we need most now is not the 'medicine', but time. Our most important task at present is to hold out here for two to three hours, and when the soldiers of the third battalion come up, we can say that the overall situation has been decided.

At this time, I suddenly realized that I was like a beggar who had been hungry for a long time, and whenever I saw food, I wanted to bring a little food, even though I knew that I was not hungry and that there was plenty of food. Just as there are still more than 100 boxes of ammunition in the pit now, and I still want to ammunition......

The explosion of a grenade came from the "boom ......", followed by Hu Zudi's report on the walkie-talkie: "The enemy tried to stretch out the antenna, but it has been blown up by me, and it has been blown up by me."

At this time, I turned my eyes to the direction of Hu Zudi, and with the occasional glimmer of light from the explosion of the 973 highland shells, I found out the mouth of the pit dug by the puppet army one by one.

There are more than a dozen pit openings. It can be said that these tunnels built by the puppet army are very rough, there is no cover between the mouth of the tunnels, nor are they built in relatively secret locations, and there is no 'crossing' trench bunker outside the tunnel for the soldiers in the tunnel to quickly deploy their troops. It's almost like a few children casually digging a few 'holes' in the slope that can hide people

That's right, it's a 'hole', not a tunnel.

It seems that the puppet army does have a hand in destroying our army's tunnels, but in the construction of tunnels, it is still much worse than us.

Seeing this, I was a little relieved, and ordered into the walkie-talkie: "Li Guoqiang, organize troops to attack the tunnel"

Since the puppet army didn't know that the 902.8 heights were already in the hands of our army, they naturally wouldn't shell the heights so quickly, so they gave us time to slowly clean up the puppet troops in the tunnels. It is said that although these tunnels are very crudely constructed, it is always a scourge to keep them. First, the puppet army in the tunnel may contact the command headquarters, and second, when the puppet army reinforcements come up, they will become a strange army. Just like the soldiers of our army hiding in the tunnels in the Shangganling Campaign, they cooperated with the ground forces to attack......

"Yes" Li Guoqiang, who was not far away, heard the order, threw the shovel in his hand to the ground, waved his hand at the soldiers, and shouted: "Second platoon, follow me"

It makes sense that Li Guoqiang will choose the second platoon to attack the tunnel, the second platoon leader Zhang Xiong is a well-known sharp-nosed man, although the people are tall and the horses are almost always bent forward in the tunnel, but somehow, the second platoon led by him has the best results every time when attacking the tunnel

According to Zhang Xiong's words, he bent down into the tunnel, and when the enemy threw a grenade in front of him, he could even save the action of bending down, and directly grabbed it and threw it back.

Li Guoqiang, as the commander of the Seventh Company, was also reluctant to suffer heavy casualties in this 'elite' unit in his hands. So this time I went to the real battlefield, so I naturally chose the second platoon, which was the best at fighting tunnel warfare.

Li Guoqiang made a few gestures to the soldiers, and the second platoon immediately quickly dispersed in squads, gradually tightening the net around the mouth of the tunnel like a fishing net spread in the wild.

Then they were divided into small groups of four or five fighters, each of whom was responsible for a tunnel entrance, leaning against the mouth of the tunnel, grabbing grenades and getting ready.

"Hands-on" With Li Guoqiang's order, the soldiers pulled the safety and sent grenades from both sides of the tunnel into the tunnel almost at the same time.

In the tunnel, there was a faint panicked cry of the puppet army, and then only a few muffled sounds of "boom ......" were heard, and a cloud of smoke came out of each tunnel mouth without exception.

At the same time as the smoke just came out, the soldiers waiting by the mouth of the pit had already turned on the flashlight on the barrel of the gun, and then they covered each other and drilled into the pit with one dodge.

"Bang bang ......" The dull sound of gunfire soon came from the ground, and occasionally one or two explosions were made, and sometimes it even felt like the explosion was right underfoot.

The puppet army obviously didn't expect us to dare to go into the tunnel and engage them in close combat, which is a method they have never thought of when they destroyed our tunnels in the past.

In fact, now that I think about it, I really think that the best way to deal with the tunnel is actually to drill into the tunnel and fight the enemy with real swords and guns. Because of any method, whether it is the US military's incendiary bombs and explosives are bombed, or the puppet army is more vicious and uses barbed wire to plug and gouge holes to contain explosives...... Although these methods are all effective and good, they all have an unavoidable shortcoming, that is, "slowness"

If the enemy digs one or two tunnels in the high ground and can drag an entire army for a month or two, just like Shangganling, then this battle will not be fought. In the end, even if you can use this method to slowly drag the people in the tunnel to death, the final result is actually defeat.

But getting into a tunnel is not the same as what the enemy is doing with real swords and guns. For a high ground, there may be defense and offense, needless to say that the defending side has many advantages, such as the geographical advantage of condescending, the advantage of bunkers, and the advantage of firepower, barbed wire, etc. But the pit ......

What the puppet army and the U.S. military never thought about was that as long as they had the courage to drill into this tunnel, the defender and the attacker would actually be on an equal footing, and it would be a 'hole' in the mountain, and no one would have an advantage. If you insist on saying that the defender has some advantages, this one can barely be counted as one if you are familiar with the terrain, but the simple terrain in the pit makes this one basically negligible

The so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, the tunnel is the real narrow road, and in such a narrow road, the number of soldiers is actually not so important, it depends on who has the courage to fight the enemy in this narrow road

Obviously, it is our volunteers who have the courage to fight. Because it didn't take long for the volunteer soldiers to retreat from the tunnel covered in blood, and one group after another reported "target clearance".

It doesn't take much time to walk through a tunnel tens of meters long. Of course, there are also some soldiers who are carried out by their comrades. In such a small space battle, if you want to have no casualties at all, it is impossible. But all the soldiers who can come out are volunteer soldiers, and there is not a single puppet army.

Leaving no prisoners is a principle of tunnel warfare, because it is difficult to control prisoners in the tunnels, even if those prisoners have already been shot.

There are two battalions of the puppet army stationed on the 902.8 heights, and in addition to the two companies that have just been defeated by us on the surface position, there is at least one battalion of the enemy in the tunnel, that is to say, there are forty or fifty puppet troops in each tunnel, but now they have been wiped out in the tunnel by four or five volunteer soldiers.

I believe that if these puppet soldiers had engaged us in a shootout on the ground, they would never have lost so badly. But they chose to hide in the tunnel. There's a saying that a tiger doesn't make an anti-dog, and I think that's what they do. In the hands of the volunteer soldiers, the tunnel fortifications are a powerful basis for preserving themselves to fight the enemy, but in the hands of the puppet army with insufficient courage, it has become a grave for burying them......

"The regiment commander has all been solved" Li Guoqiang walked to my side, scratched his head and said: "I knew that the puppet army couldn't help fighting, but I didn't expect that the puppet army couldn't help fighting this?" We only had about 20 soldiers killed or wounded, so we wiped out both of their battalions."

"Company Commander Li......" Hu Zudi came up with a rifle and said: "You are not right to say this, this is not a puppet army that can't help fighting, it should be said that Commander Cui's method of fighting the enemy is useful."

"That's it," Yang Zhenshan agreed: "If this is according to our previous fighting style, you say that we will fight two enemy battalions in a row...... Even if it can be fought like this, as soon as the trumpet blows, the troops rush upwards with a hula, and the enemy sweeps down more than two dozen machine guns."

"Cut ......" Lin Xue's disdainful voice came from behind him: "When Commander Cui trained the troops, who didn't agree and didn't agree?" ”

When Lin Xue said this, Li Guoqiang and the others, you look at me, I look at you, and they each smiled awkwardly and didn't know how to answer.

"Let's all go back to the position," I said for the soldiers: "This battle comrades have fought very well, but our task has not been completed, the puppet army will find out about the situation here at any time and send reinforcements, we must hold the position until the arrival of the third battalion"

"Yes," the soldiers replied, and each returned to his post to direct the soldiers to wait for the fortifications.

I looked to the south, and the high ground behind me was full of searchlights of the puppet army shining in all directions, and the gunfire of 973 next to me still rang out for a while, but no one noticed that the 902.8 high ground had changed hands.

So I thought, if I could just wait until the soldiers of the third battalion arrived, this battle seemed to be easily and satisfactorily over.

But I know that this is just a wish, a wish that is almost impossible to achieve......