Chapter Twenty-Four: Changing Heavens
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That night, we moved the regimental headquarters to the adjacent 965 heights, and originally Chief of Staff Li also suggested that we move the regimental headquarters to the relatively backward 924 heights, but now we are already in the enemy's encirclement, and the four peripheral heights have long been without the distinction between the first and second lines, and the middle high ground cannot be dug deep due to the rock formations, so in the end we still chose a random matter.
The puppet army did not make us feel better this night, especially the puppet capital division, their offensive was very fierce, and several times they rushed to the anticline to start a white-knuckle battle. The fighters were more vigilant with their previous experience, always throwing out rows of grenades when they were about to rush, blowing them up with a barrage of grenades and launching a counter-charge, hitting them back again and again.
What was even more difficult to deal with was that there were many puppet soldiers, who were divided into several battalions to attack in turn, so that the volunteer soldiers could not get a moment of rest and spent the whole night fighting with the enemy. In particular, Hu Biao dealt with a battalion of the puppet capital division, and the physical strength required to fight with bayonets was not comparable to that of other battles, and many of the wounded who were carried down were not because they were injured, but because they fainted due to overexhaustion.
Fortunately, as the sky grew brighter, the threat of hand-to-hand combat due to the lack of flares finally passed. The enemy also seemed to be tired of Mingjin to collect his troops, so in the period before dawn, the warriors finally got a rare chance to rest.
At this time, the battalion led by Hu Biao resisted the seven-hour repeated attacks of several battalions of the puppet capital division, and a total of four hand-to-hand battles were launched. I wasn't on the battlefield myself, I didn't see them with my own eyes, but I knew what it meant. I think that I only fought hand-to-hand combat with the puppet capital division once, and I was almost so tired that I couldn't get up on the ground, but this time......
"Captain Cui! The casualties are counted from the count! Jiang Chunzeng walked up to me and said heavily: "In just one night, Hu Biao's battalion sacrificed more than 230 soldiers, seriously wounded 126 people, and the rest were all slightly injured, including Battalion Commander Hu!" Only one hundred and ten people in the battalion are still capable of fighting. The enemies killed haven't been counted yet......"
"Hmm!" My face couldn't help but change, although I had been mentally prepared for a long time, but hearing this number still made my flesh ache. These are the hard work and backbone of the 60th Army, which lost so many people in just one night.
I am not interested in listening to the enemy's casualty figures, and there is no need to listen to them, because I am sure that the enemy's casualties will never be less than ours, and more importantly, they held their positions and successfully completed the task.
I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth, and ordered: "Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy has not yet launched an attack, immediately let the fifth battalion and the first battalion of the 1211 heights change their guards, and let the comrades of the first battalion seize the time to rest for a while!" ”
"Yes!" Jiang Chunzeng responded. Immediately grabbed the phone and gave the order.
The 1211 Heights are located in the middle of the other four Heights, and the pressure is much less than that of the other Highlands, although it is a bit of a taste of tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall for them to exchange guards with the first battalion at this time, but this is a helpless move.
And I also know that the first battalion does not have much time to rest, and the UN forces will soon launch a new offensive, and that is when the 1211 heights in the middle come into play. Their fire would cover the flanks of the four surrounding heights, and sometimes even shoot the enemy who rushed through the tops of the surrounding four heights.
"Captain Cui! Anti-tank trench ...... Dig up the ......" At this moment, a man covered in mud and blood lifted the black cloth and stumbled in, and before he could say a word, he sat on the ground with his legs limp.
"Deputy Head Liu!"
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At this time, we recognized that he was Liu Shunyi, and the chief of staff and guards hurriedly walked up to help him and handed him a glass of water.
Seeing Deputy Regiment Commander Liu's pale face and the way it was rain or sweat dripping down his forehead, I couldn't help but shudder in my heart, realizing that the continuous fighting for several days had made the soldiers almost reach the limit of their physical strength.
He instructed the guards to take Deputy Regiment Commander Liu down to rest, picked up the binoculars and walked out of the tunnel, and looked at the flanks of the high ground by the morning light, and several wide and deep anti-tank trenches appeared in the field of vision of the telescope. In the vicinity of the anti-tank trenches, there were still many corpses lying there, both from the puppet army and from the volunteers. From these, it can be seen that the construction of these fortifications by the soldiers is by no means as simple as civil engineering.
There was a scuffle last night. I almost forgot about Deputy Regiment Commander Liu's digging of anti-tank trenches. At this time, looking at the few fortifications under the enemy's fire, I really didn't understand how they did it......
The rainy morning was very slow, and I watched outside the tunnel for a while, and then the sky slowly brightened, and the middle of the high ground was already full of water up to the calf, but the color of the water was bright red, and I could faintly see several corpses soaked in it.
The heavy rain washed down the blood on several highlands, and gathered in the center to form such a shocking pool of blood. Occasionally, a few volunteer soldiers ran by, and in the blink of an eye, they became a bloody man......
"Rumbling ......" At this moment, a thunderclap suddenly sounded one after another all around, in every direction, as if thousands of galloping horses were spreading their iron hooves from all directions to our high grounds.
"Captain Cui!" Jiang Chunzeng's voice came from behind him: "The U.S. army has begun to attack!" ”
"Hmm!" At this time, I realized that it was not thunder, but the sound of the motor of the US tank, and I couldn't help but walk quickly into the command headquarters and ask, "What's the situation?" ”
"The enemy is attacking us from all sides, and this time it's all American troops!" Jiang Chunzeng replied: "With tanks as the guide, there are more than ten in each direction. ”
"You command! I'll go to the battlefield and see how it goes! "Listening to Jiang Chunzeng's report, I grabbed my gun and was about to go to the battlefield.
"Captain Cui!" Seeing this, Jiang Chunzeng hurriedly stopped: "It's too dangerous on the position, it's better not to go up!" ”
"Where are we not a position here? Where is it not dangerous? Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly and replied, "You should also be careful, what happened last night may happen again." ”
As soon as I said this, Jiang Chunzeng had nothing to say, so I had to let me run to the position with Zhang Mingxue and Xu Yongwei.
"Captain Cui!" As he was walking, Zhang Mingxue, who had been following behind him with his head, spoke: "I ......"
"What am I? If there's a fart, let it go! I ran forward and said, "This is on the battlefield, don't squirm like a!" ”
"Captain Cui!" In the end, Xu Yongwei plucked up the courage and said: "We think that Chief of Staff Jiang and Chief of Staff Huang learned the right lesson last night, we don't have the ability to be your guards at all, and we can't even protect ourselves!" Still, let's go to war! Let's fight a few American devils like other comrades! ”
"Yes, Captain Cui!" Zhang Mingxue also said distressedly: "What Chief of Staff Jiang said makes sense, we are protecting you, you are protecting us." We don't care if we are in danger, if we can't protect you one day. That's a big deal! ”
"Hey! I said you two boys! At this time, there is also a desertion! Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel angry, and when I turned around, I slapped their heads fiercely: "What's the matter? I don't want to follow me, I want to go to the battlefield to have a good time! You don't think it's fun to fight enemies with me, right? ”
"No...... That's not what we meant......"
"I'll tell you!" I didn't allow them to defend myself, so I ran forward and said to them behind me, "It's not that anyone is born to fight, and it's not that anyone can fight well as soon as he enters the battlefield." Go and ask the comrades of our regiment, which one has not been touched for a few years to become what it is now! For example, I ......"
Speaking of this, I couldn't help but be stunned, if the real me is me, it seems that I have been rolling on the battlefield for less than a year.
"Uh-huh!" I faked a cough, calmed down and continued: "Don't look at my age, I have also fought in Little Japan on the battlefield for more than ten years!" So! Don't think about it, if you really don't think you're capable enough to do a good job as a guard, you should spend more effort to learn your skills, you know? ”
"Yes!" The two of them responded in unison, their feet tighter, and their footsteps more determined and powerful.
But I laughed in my heart and lied again. But this time I didn't stutter when I lied, because I just thought that this was really not wrong at all for my other identity "Chen Wei".
took Zhang and Xu to brave the rain and walked to the position, and the soldiers stationed in the position along the way paid attention to us. No way, this time I was wearing a dry military uniform before I came out, and there was no mud or water on my body, which was much worse than the soldiers who fought on the battlefield all night, so as soon as I came out, they recognized me as the regiment commander.
Then I quickly thought about it. If I just come out to see the situation of the US military, it will be strange if I am not defeated by their snipers. So without saying a word, I pretended to slip and fell to the ground, and then I rolled over and sat up again, ha...... That's pretty much it.
"Captain Cui, are you okay?" My feint tricked Zhang and Xu who were following behind, and they couldn't help but run up to help me.
"It's fine!" I frowned and said to them, "You two remember next time that this is not how I am safeguarded. If there are enemy sharpshooters watching us right now, the actions of the two of you now will reveal my identity. The next time this happens, try to block me with your body and watch for any suspicious enemies around! ”
"Yes!" The two of them responded knowingly. After glancing at each other, they realized that being a guard was different from killing enemies on the battlefield in peacetime.
"Captain Cui!" At this moment, a soldier with a box cannon in his hand and a box cannon pinned to his waist ran towards me. He didn't stand up or salute, but nodded to me slightly: "Captain Cui, why did you come here, it's too dangerous here, you better go back!" Please rest assured that the fighters of our 2nd Battalion will never let the enemy collapse their positions even a single step! ”
"Hmm!" I nodded, and didn't speak.
I met him a few times in a few meetings, so I knew that he was Li Guoqiang, the commander of the second battalion.
Li Guoqiang was originally a regiment commander of the 179th Division, it is said that this master started as a guerrilla, and also served as a guerrilla captain during the Anti-Japanese War, and also served as a pistol captain after joining the Red Army. One hand of the box gun is amazing, and the love for the box gun can be said to be fascinating, so much so that now the commander wears the Soviet-style Tokarev pistol, but he is stunned to wear two box guns.
Many people think that the box cannon is old-fashioned, but this is not the case on the real battlefield. The Tokarev pistol and even the M1911 pistol of the US army have a maximum range of only 50 meters, but the box gun can hit more than 100 meters, and the lethality is not weaker than other pistols. It is precisely because of this advantage that the box gun has won the favor of the commanders of the volunteer army who want to go to the battlefield. And its cost is also very high, the cost of a box gun is almost enough to buy two M3 submachine guns.
Therefore, Li Guoqiang has no problem with asking his superiors to wear box guns, as long as they can fight the enemy, many soldiers in the volunteer army do not change Tokarev because they are used to using box guns, not to mention that Li Guoqiang is good at this. I heard from the soldiers who had told him that if he led his troops to charge at the enemy or engage in hand-to-hand combat, the two box cannons would be a dozen and one in a flick, and even the enemy who was hugging his own fighters would not be able to escape.
However, the supply of ammunition became a problem with the box cannon, because after the volunteers changed their equipment, all the Soviet-style rifle cartridges and pistol cartridges were sent from the rear. So every time he was about to go to the battlefield to fight, the soldiers of Li Guoqiang's entire battalion went out to collect bullets from other troops. As soon as he collected, he was a box, and every time he was carried by his guards, and wherever he went, the box of bullets followed, and it is said that this became a scene for the 179th Division.
At this time, looking at the legendary sharpshooter of the box gun, even I, the regiment commander, was a little nervous, and my right hand couldn't help but tighten the sniper rifle in my hand, lowered my voice and ordered: "Let's go up and see the situation together!" ”
"Yes," Li Guoqiang answered, and ran ahead of me first, leading us up to the ridge line.
Lie on the ridge line and slowly pop your head out to take a look, good guy! Tanks and armored vehicles surrounded us like iron buckets, and everywhere we could see were American GIs walking forward with guns and tanks, densely packed like ants. Then use the telescope to look at the other mountains. The heights that originally belonged to KPA positions have now been transformed by the US military into anti-aircraft machine gun positions and mortar positions.
ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS CAN HIT ONE OR TWO THOUSAND METERS, AND 82MM MORTARS CAN HIT THREE THOUSAND METERS, AND THEY CAN DIRECTLY HIT OUR ARMY'S POSITIONS FROM A HIGH PLACE BY ERECTING THESE WEAPONS ON THOSE HIGH GROUNDS, BUT FORTUNATELY, IT IS POURING RAIN NOW, AND THEY CAN'T SEE US AT A DISTANCE OF ONE OR TWO KILOMETERS, OTHERWISE THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY BIG THREAT TO US.
"Captain Cui!" Seeing that the U.S. military seemed to be about to attack like this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but ask with some doubts: "I've been thinking about it!" Why didn't they prepare for artillery fire this time? ”
"Hmm!" Being reminded by Li Guoqiang made me remember that the U.S. military really didn't fight as usual before this attack. After thinking about it, he couldn't help grinning: "I think this time it should be that these American devils have a problem with their logistics!" ”
"What?" Hearing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but be stunned, to say that it is still a common thing to say that the volunteer army's supplementary problem is still a problem, and the US military's supplementary problem seems to be a little unbelievable.
"I can't be wrong!" I nodded confidently: "It's been raining so hard for so many days, I think it's not just our supply lines that have been cut off!" The U.S. military will also have supply difficulties due to bridges, highways washed out or mudslides, etc., coupled with the heavy rain for several days, the U.S. planes cannot take off, and they can't get supplies from the air, so it is common sense that there will be supply problems! But I think it's more important that they know that our reinforcements are on the way, so they don't dare to smash shells on our heads in one go! ”
"Hey!" Hearing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but excitedly smash the mound of soil in front of him with his fist: "I can't imagine that the American devils will also run out of ammunition one day, and I will see how they will capture our position." If the devil's ammunition is not enough, then it is not a problem to keep it for one day, and it is not a problem to keep it for ten days! ”
"But we can't rejoice too soon!" I continued: "Although there is a problem with the supply of the United Nations army, they have several divisions, and the ammunition is dozens of times ours at will, so we can't hope that the enemy will run out of bullets, and we must be ready to fight a vicious war!" ”
"Yes!" Li Guoqiang responded, but he couldn't help the excitement in his heart and laughed twice.
"Huh!" At this time, a strange scene happened, those American tanks stopped at a distance of about 800 meters in front of our position, and the artillery did not hit, and no people came up, just gathered in a circle and rained, as if they were waiting for something.
"What are these Yankees doing?" Li Guoqiang couldn't understand it.
At this moment, the weather changed imperceptibly, as the dark clouds slowly dispersed, the sky became brighter and brighter, the rain became smaller and smaller, and finally there were a few rays of sunshine......
drip! Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, now I know what the US military is waiting for! How could I forget that the United States is a country with advanced modern equipment? They have advanced equipment to predict the weather, and they know that the rain will stop today......