Chapter 179: Iron-Blooded Resistance
"The traffic trench is dug a little deeper, and two layers of wooden planks are added to the anti-artillery hole at the back, the soil on it should be thicker, and the 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun should lean back, and the pitch angle should not be too small; The 35mm reintroducer grenade is equipped with three at each firing point, and the enemy is ready to greet him vigorously...... There are also anti-infantry mines, which are arranged in a fan-shaped shape on both sides for greater lethality......"
On the Songhu Peak at the slope of Highway No. 12 near the Qingchuan River, Lao Ge with a pair of red eyes, like a tireless bee, shuttled back and forth on the position, inspecting every anti-artillery hole, every section of communication trench, every firing point, and even every foxhole. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
But in spite of this, the sapper shovels captured by the enemy were still wielding tigers in their hands, and if one did not look at their tired faces, and only looked at the energetic scene, it was difficult to imagine that the soldiers of this heavy firepower company arrived here after a night of rapid marching.
As soon as the battle to repel the Turkish brigade ended, Lao Ge received an urgent telegram from his superiors, the content was very simple, only a few words: The enemy army fled south, and quickly seized Songhu Peak!
Seeing this, Lao Ge was not ambiguous, directly gathered the soldiers of the heavy firepower company who were cleaning the battlefield, and began to march towards Songhu Peak overnight.
The distance between Feiyunling and Songhu Peak on the map is 58 kilometers, but the northern part of Korea is surrounded by mountains and forests, and the roads are rugged, and even if there are roads that can pass through vehicles, they are mostly winding mountain roads, so the distance between the two is actually much more than on the map.
Fortunately, Lao Ge and they captured the motor vehicles of the Korean army before, so the initial march was quite fast because of the assistance of vehicles, but before the distance was halfway, most of the motor vehicles could not drive due to fuel exhaustion, and there was no way, Lao Ge could only command the company to march to Songhu Peak on foot.
Half the distance, coupled with the winding mountain road, to say the least, is more than 70 miles, even if you don't bear the weight, it is not an easy job to walk over on a pair of legs, not to mention that the soldiers of the heavy firepower company also need weapons and ammunition for combat and essential food.
If you add up to 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 35mm reintroductor grenade launchers and other fire support equipment, on average, each soldier has at least 30 kilograms of weight, carrying 30 kilograms of heavy objects, and galloping more than 70 miles on only two legs, the arduous task can be imagined.
However, the soldiers of the Heavy Fire Company had developed amazing perseverance, and in less than seven hours, they crossed the mountains between Highway 10 and Highway 12, during which they barely rested, pinched their thighs when they were tired, and grabbed a handful of fried noodles from a food bag and stuffed them with snow on the side of the road when they were hungry.
But despite this, the fatigue of continuous combat and long-distance marching is still like a never-ending wave, constantly impacting the tired bodies of the soldiers, so that many soldiers involuntarily close their eyes and fall asleep while walking......
Whenever they saw this scene, Lao Ge and Ren Anmin were like knives, and even couldn't help but order the troops to rest several times, but as soon as the order came to their lips, they were swallowed back by the two of them, because they knew that this way to defeat the South Korean army, break up the Turkish brigade, and travel a long distance to intersperse behind enemy lines was not a thrilling armed parade.
For this reason, the Volunteer Army Command has been meticulously planning for nearly half a month, setting up two big pockets on the east and west fronts of Korea, with the intention of wiping out the advancing US troops.
As for the Western Front, which decided the direction of the entire war, the Volunteer Army Command even arranged a heavy army group of five armies in front of the US Eighth Army, and at the same time formed two armies to penetrate the deep rear of the US Eighth Group, with the intention of forming a double-layered encirclement and trapping the entire US Eighth Group in the Qingchuan River area and then eliminating this heavy army group in one fell swoop.
If this battle is achieved, the Volunteer Army, which has taken advantage of the great victory, can effortlessly advance to the south, and then regain Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and even the entire area north of the 38th parallel.
It is precisely for this reason that, in order to achieve the purpose of this campaign, the Volunteer Army Command will form the two most elite armies into an interspersed interception corps, as the main force interspersed with the rear of the US Eighth Army, and from the beginning of the campaign, it has swooped down from the north to the south, and the heavy firepower company commanded by Lao Ge, as a sharp blade in the hands of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, naturally has to be used at key nodes.
Therefore, they were assigned to the interspersed interception corps, responsible for cutting off Highway 12, and blocking the US Eighth Army retreating south at the nearby Songhu Peak, and this node is the key to this battle, Lao Ge and Ren Anmin naturally know that it is powerful, so they must complete this blocking mission no matter what, even if their entire company is exhausted, as long as they can annihilate the US Eighth Army, it is worth it.
You must know that if this battle is won, Northeast China behind them, and even the vast hinterland of Shenzhou, will be truly safe, for the country behind them, for the glory of this military uniform, and for the wives and children in their hometown, they must do their best, even if the price of the comeback is life!
It is precisely knowing this truth that although Lao Ge and Ren Anmin couldn't bear to look at the tired soldiers, if they gritted their teeth and led the company to continue to move forward, they finally succeeded in seizing Songhu Peak at 8:17 in the morning and cutting off the southward retreat channel of the US Eighth Army.
"Old Sun, how is the soles of your feet? I'm going to rely on your old buddy to carry out a counter-assault at a critical time! ā
Lao Ge carefully looked at the situation on the position, while pondering, unconsciously came to a fortification, a platoon commander Sun Youde is commanding his soldiers to build a 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun position, Sun Youde's platoon is the main attack force of the raid on Feiyun Peak last night, because the Turkish brigade is on the Feiyun Peak Mountain, heavy troops are arranged under the mountain, forming a coordinated defense of the corner.
Therefore, the strong attack is likely to attract the enemy's rapid counterattack, so the only way to use a quick surprise attack can break the horns of the Turks' mutual coordination, it is based on this Lao Ge that the tactics of the white-knuckle raid are set, and the platoon in charge of the main attack in order to achieve the effect of surprise, before the attack is launched, the noisy winter cotton shoes are withdrawn, and only a layer of socks will be used to attack the enemy.
In this way, although the noise is minimized, so as to achieve the effect of divine soldiers falling from the sky, but the soles of the feet of a platoon of soldiers are seriously injured, coupled with the long-distance rapid march after that, the entire platoon basically does not have a pair of intact feet.
Sun Youde patted his thigh nonchalantly: "Don't worry, company commander, as long as the American devils catch up, we will beat them into a rolling gourd in a row!" ā
"Well, yes, that's what you want!"
Lao Ge smiled and stepped forward to pat Sun Youde's thick shoulder, and was about to say something, when a large number of buzzing sounds broke through the sky ...... the sky, which became bigger and bigger from far and near.
"Boom~~Boom~~Boom~~"
Before Lao Ge's words fell, the raindrops of cannonballs smashed down on the head and face, and the entire Songhu Peak was suddenly like a boiling pot, and it was instantly drowned in the overwhelming artillery fire......