As the sun sets, only a golden light is reflected in the smoky northern foothills. The red 'color' bevel, which was already covered with blood, was even more desolate and heroic when it was illuminated by this remnant sun. Several volunteer soldiers with bloodshot bayonets were raised high, and under the reflection of the remnant sun, the brilliance was everywhere for a while. When the mountain breeze blows, the sassy coolness is 'forced' into the heart and lungs. The whirring wind is like the cry of the deceased; The mountain of dust and mist is like a resentment that has died in vain......

"Chief of Staff! The regiment headquarters ...... phone: "Just as my thoughts wandered in the weeping and parting at dusk, the voice of a correspondent pulled me back to reality.

"Hmm!" I nodded, stood up and moved my muscles, then lazily grabbed my rifle and walked towards the tunnel.

"One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion!" What the ancients said is still reasonable, since the pseudo-ninth division made us lose our temper, they can no longer show the original drive, and the subsequent charge is weaker and weaker each time, and the time is shorter and shorter...... Finally, when night was approaching, they were relieved to withdraw their troops.

The so-called elimination of one and the other, the momentum of the puppet army has fallen, and the volunteer soldiers will naturally become more and more brave and smoother in battle. There are wooden mines on the flanks that roll down one by one to keep them safe, and the enemy in front of them will be repulsed once they rush up. Although our troops still suffered many casualties, they never allowed the enemy to rush to our positions after that.

The 30th Regiment of the Puppet Army Division attacked for a day, and finally had to return without attack!

After turning a few corners along the tunnel, I came to the headquarters unconsciously, and Instructor Qin hurriedly handed me the walkie-talkie and said, "It's Regiment Commander Zhang, who is losing his temper for you to go to the battlefield in person!" ”

I shook my head with a wry smile, took the phone and said, "Report to Captain Zhang, I'm still alive!" ”

"I'm talking about you!" On the other end of the phone, there was a reproachful voice from the head of the regiment: "I said that no matter how I called, Instructor Qin answered it!" Tell it, it's all a story! Comrade Cui Wei, you have to figure it out! I asked you to go to Shangganling to command the battle, but I didn't let you go to war! ”

"Captain Zhang!" I replied a little helplessly: "You think I'm full of food and running to the position all day long!" I'm going to call and give orders in the tunnel and drive the enemy back, but will this work? Not to mention the rapid changes on the battlefield, the enemy is all ace troops, what a beautiful seventh division! Pseudo-Ninth Division! All of them are like wolves and tigers, as if they are going to eat us, and they can't afford to delay for a second. If I'm in the tunnel, I'll wait for the messenger to report back to me, and I'll take the messenger with me after I give the order...... This does not say whether the correspondent can deliver the order alive, even if the order is delivered, the enemy has already occupied the position! ”

As soon as I said this, Head Zhang had nothing to say. After a long while, the voice of Captain Zhang came from the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Then it's hard for you, you must pay attention to safety!" ”

"Don't worry! Captain Zhang! I pretended to be relaxed and said, "On the battlefield, the soldiers have given me the safest hiding place, and it will be fine!" ”

"That's good!" Head Zhang replied: "Another big victory, right?" What about troop casualties? ”

I couldn't help but set my eyes on Instructor Qin, I only cared about directing the battle on the position, and I really didn't think about counting casualties!

"Report to Captain Zhang!" Instructor Qin took the phone and said heavily: "I have already reported the battle, and the casualties of our army have just been counted, with a total of one hundred and twenty-seven casualties and fifty-six wounded!" ”

"What?" Hearing this, Captain Zhang and I were not taken aback by this number.

"Guo Sandan's four companies have all been wiped out!" Instructor Qin continued: "There are only two communicators left in the fourth company, and three fighters. Company Commander Guo was also seriously injured, and I have already sent someone to send him down! Chen Zhiyuan's third company had just gone up and suffered more than half of the casualties......"

There was silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie, and after Instructor Qin finished reporting, he handed the walkie-talkie to me.

"Company Commander Guo...... He's fine! I took the walkie-talkie and asked Instructor Qin.

Commander Qin didn't answer, just turned his gaze elsewhere and let out a long sigh. My heart sank and I understood what that meant.

I couldn't believe that a person who had just been asking for punishment in front of me and asking for meritorious service for his crimes had not even seen what he had been injured in the blink of an eye, and it seemed that he would never have the opportunity to meet again. I've had a lot of these experiences, but I still can't adapt to the contrast.

"Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff...... "After a while, I felt that Regiment Commander Zhang in the walkie-talkie was calling me.

I took the phone and answered, "I am!" ”

"Chief of Staff!" In the walkie-talkie, Regiment Commander Zhang said in an aggravated tone: "Through careful study, the superiors have decided to launch a *** attack on the enemy's position tonight, and restore all the surface positions on the 597.9 heights in one fell swoop!" ”

"Yes!" I answered without hesitation.

In fact, at this time, I didn't want to continue like this, and sometimes I even regretted making this plan to fight people with people. The plan was successful, but the implementation was emotionally unbearable. Although the battlefield is so cruel, although it has long been numb to the dead, there will be a limit to whatever it is. The dead people on Shangganling are beyond the limits that my soldiers and I can imagine!

I will accept it so simply, obviously to the head of Zhang is a little surprised, he was about to follow my doubts and 'confusion' to explain clearly, but now I don't know how to explain it.

After a while, he said: "Here's the thing, I reported your battle situation today to the division headquarters, and the division headquarters felt that the pseudo-ninth division should have been beaten by us this time. The Puppet Ninth Division is the 'elite' unit of the puppet army, and it will play a pivotal role on the battlefield in the future, and we can't let them have time to recover their morale, and at the same time, we can't let them go so easily. You should take advantage of their low morale and defeat them in one fell swoop! ”

I understand what Captain Zhang said, "Take advantage of your illness to kill you!" "It is the usual way of fighting of volunteer soldiers. Now is the time when the Puppet Ninth Division is weak, and it is naturally a good time for our army to annihilate it. What's more, this "White Horse Division" has just suffered heavy casualties on the 38th Army, the main force of our army, on the White Horse Mountain. Whether emotionally or realistically, it is determined that we will beat them down.

"But ......" Then I asked suspiciously: "Commander Zhang, although there are many surface positions controlled by the enemy on the 597.9 heights, the area is not large, and it is impossible to be the enemy's main force. If we want to achieve the goal of defeating the puppet Ninth Division, we are only afraid of ......"

"We've sent someone to scout this!" Regiment Commander Zhang replied: "In today's tug-of-war with you, the 30th Regiment of the Puppet Ninth Division has already suffered most casualties, and the rest have gathered on the 537.7 height, preparing to charge the 597.9 high ground again the next morning!"

Our plan is as follows: In the absence of artillery preparations, at nine o'clock tonight, your troops will launch a fierce attack on the positions under the control of the puppet army on the 597.9 height, and the puppet army stationed on the 537.7 heights will definitely come to reinforce it. Our army shelled the 537.7 high ground for ten minutes, and then attacked the 537.7 high ground with five companies, and flanked the rest of the 30th regiment of the puppet ninth division left and right! ”

Listening to Commander Zhang's words, I understood that the purpose of this night battle was not to restore all the surface positions on the 597.9 heights, but to destroy the 30th Regiment of the Puppet Ninth Division!

This plan may succeed, and the puppet army, unprepared, would not have imagined that we would shift our attention to the 537.7 heights. But at what cost? The terrain of the 537.7 Heights is relatively simple, there is no danger to defend at all, and the terrain of the North Mountain of the 537.7 Heights is slightly lower than that of the South Mountain, so the enemy's machine guns mounted on the South Mountain can 'shoot' the North Mountain. In this way, the five companies of our army attacked the 537.7 heights, not to mention how many casualties they would pay when attacking the pseudo-30th regiment, but after defeating the enemy, they would soon be hit by the enemy's fire in Nanshan......

"Captain Zhang!" I suddenly remembered that there was a passage to 537.7 on the 597.9 heights, and I couldn't help but say into the microphone: "There is a passage to the 537.7 heights on the 597.9 heights, isn't it?" Moreover, the tunnels on the 537.7 heights can accommodate the forces of two companies, so why don't we move the troops into the tunnels of the 537.7 heights in advance, so as to shorten the distance of the charge? ”

"That's right! How I didn't think of this! Commander Zhang on the other end of the phone suddenly said: "5 companies, you can divide two companies into ambushes in the tunnel, and the three companies outside can attack inside and outside, and eat the rest of the pseudo 30th regiment in one go!" Chief of Staff, the plan is going to be revised, and I will make a decision after discussing it with my superiors. You take a break with the fighters first, replenish some energy, and you will be busy at night! ”

"Yes!" I sighed.

In the first few days, I was fighting during the day and meeting at night, and my nerves all over my body collapsed and I never relaxed. I usually only care about fighting, but now that I was reminded by Commander Zhang, I realized that I was really tired.

So he sat on the ground and muttered to Director Qin: "Order the soldiers to hurry up and rest, there is a task at night......"

As he spoke, he fell asleep vaguely.

I felt that I had just closed my eyes, but I was used to taking out my pocket watch and seeing that it was already past nine o'clock, I couldn't help jumping up as if I had been pricked by a needle, and shouted at Instructor Qin beside me: "What's the matter, it's past the attack time, why don't you wake me up?" How's it going? ”

"Chief of Staff......" Instructor Qin said with some doubts: "Hasn't the attack plan of the Nine Points been changed?" ”

"Hmm!" Listening to Commander Qin's words, I vaguely remembered that there was indeed such a thing. This battle is too nervous, and my head is a little 'messy' and 'messy'!

"Chief of Staff, the phone, it's Regiment Commander Zhang!" Instructor Qin handed me a walkie-talkie, and I realized that this was why he woke me up.

"Comrade Cui Wei! The time for the attack is set at twelve o'clock! Commander Zhang on the other end of the phone said: "In two hours, two companies will enter the 597.9 heights one after another. But the plan has changed a bit......"

"Commander Zhang, you can give the order! What tasks have been assigned to us? "Listening to the head Zhang on the other end of the phone, I realized that the task given to us this time will definitely not be easy.

Sure enough, Regiment Commander Zhang said slowly: "The troops of our division are almost exhausted, and most of the remaining five companies are supplementary soldiers who have only participated in the battle for a few months, and the division headquarters is worried that it will be difficult for them to take on the heavy task of attacking the puppet 30th regiment from inside and outside. So...... I've given you this task! Most of your eight companies are veterans, and they have a lot of experience in tunnel warfare. ”

The fears of the superiors were justified. Lurking in a tunnel and then quickly rushing out of the tunnel to kill the enemy is easier said than done. For example, the coordinated operation of several tunnel entrances, the mutual protection between the tunnel entrances, and the soldiers who rush out of the tunnel mouth first must be responsible for vigilance, etc...... None of this is something that recruits know or do they do. So if this task is not 'handed over' to us in the Eighth Company, then who else can it be 'handed over'?

At this point, I almost hated myself for this mouth, and if I didn't say anything, I just took the order. Wouldn't it be nice to easily restore a surface position on the 597.9 heights? With the "Wooden Mine", it seems that the restoration of the surface position only requires condescending to put down the "Wooden Mine" piece by piece, and then rush forward with the soldiers......

It's good now, we were arranged to go to the 537.7 heights, and let the puppet army condescendingly fight us!

But then again, if I really didn't say anything, our task might be easy, but the volunteer soldiers who attacked the 537.7 heights don't know how many more people will have to be sacrificed.

Thinking about it like this, my heart gradually relieved, but I just felt that I had suffered from those fighters, and I just didn't have a good life with me!

"Chief of Staff!" Commander Zhang continued: "Your task is to move through the passage to the tunnel of 537.7 Heights before ten o'clock. When the rest of the 30th Regiment of the puppet army sends reinforcements to the 597.9 height, we will carry out a ten-minute artillery bombardment on the 537.7 height. And kill and injure the enemy's living force! Difficult? ”

"No difficulty!" I replied mechanically.

At this time, when I answered this sentence, I no longer thought about whether it was really no difficulty or whether it was false.

"Good! The 597.9 high ground will be temporarily 'handed over' to Li Feng for defense, and you will be ready with other troops! ”

"Yes!" I answered and hung up.

"Chief of Staff!" After I hung up the phone, Instructor Qin frowned and said, "This 537.7 highland is not easy to fight!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, and set my sights on the 537.7 plateau on the map.

After taking control of the surface position of the 537.7 Heights on the North Mountain, the enemy mobilized a large number of South Korean laborers and soldiers to make a day and night assault, build relatively strong field fortifications, and set up a large number of obstacles such as barbed wire and mines. But it's good to say that after a round of artillery fire from our army, it's almost over, and what gives me more headaches is the topography of the 537.7 heights......

The position of the north hill of the 537.7 heights is narrow and prominent, and is surrounded on three sides by the puppet army's annotated 'dong' Nanshan and the 537.7 highland Nanshan, as well as the No. 11 position on the east side of the 597.9 height. In all three directions, the puppet army set up anti-aircraft 'shooting' machine guns aimed at the 537.7 high ground North Mountain. Once we attacked, it was as if we had caught ourselves in the enemy's fire.

That's why we attack the 597.9 heights first, and then consider the 537.7 heights. If the surface position of the 597.9 heights is restored, at least the worries of the 537.7 heights can be relieved, but for now...... It seems that we have to launch an offensive on the 537.7 heights in advance with the enemy attacking from three sides.

Fortunately, this is a night battle, and it is a 'melee' with the enemy. If it was during the day, I wouldn't even think about it!

"Chief of Staff! Do you want to wake up the warriors? Instructor Qin asked.

I took out my pocket watch, looked at the time, shook my head and said, "Let them sleep a little longer!" ”

At eleven o'clock, an hour before the attack, I took three companies, Li Baocheng, Chen Zhiyuan, and Cheng Yuanqing, toward the passage. It is said that there are three companies, but in fact, all of them add up to more than 200 people.

It was still early before the attack, and the reason why I woke them up at this time was because the reinforcements had already entered the tunnels of Heights 597.9 in batches. As soon as reinforcements arrived, the already narrow tunnels became crowded, and the air became unusually 'muddy'. If we don't leave, the reinforcements behind us won't be able to squeeze in at all. So in desperation, I wanted the soldiers to rest for a while, so I had to order them to wake them up and lead them towards the 537.7 heights.

The passage is long and narrow.

This passage was originally dug for the connection between the two highlands, and if it was dug too wide, the amount of work was too large, and the second was that it was easy to be collapsed. Therefore, only one person is allowed to pass with his waist bowed, and the warriors must tie *** and *** together, and pull while climbing. And it was also necessary to be careful, because the enemy's positions were right above our heads. It took us half an hour to climb to our destination.

Here, we were warmly welcomed by the volunteer soldiers stationed in the tunnels, although it was easy for them to meet us, they only had to climb through the passage. But when they met each other, they were like brothers who had been separated for many years, holding hands cordially and hugging each other warmly......

In the dim light of the kerosene lamp, I looked at the smiling faces that were somewhat familiar and unfamiliar, and I only thought in my heart, I don't know how many people and smiling faces I can see in this pit tomorrow!