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Chapter 124 Answers

"Chief of Staff!" Before dawn, I was just lying on the 'bed' to rest for a while when I was woken up by Instructor Qin.

I knew that Instructor Qin wouldn't wake me up if there was nothing urgent, so I rolled over from the 'bed' and sat up with a goot and asked, "What's the situation?."

"Chief of Staff". Instructor Qin handed me a glass of water that had been prepared in advance, pointed to a volunteer soldier behind him and said, "Xiao Chen, the correspondent I sent to the regiment headquarters, is back."

"Hmm, what did Captain Zhang say? , I hurriedly asked.

"Report to the Chief of Staff!" Xiao Chen saluted me and replied, "Commander Zhang asked me to tell you that our stone regiment is almost finished, and we have to garrison the main peak of the Five Holy Mountains, so we really can't 'pump' troops." However, Regiment Commander Zhang reported our situation to the division headquarters, and also reported your suggestion to the division headquarters. The division commander meant that if our reinforcements launched a direct attack on the enemy at Shangganling from the direction of Wusheng Mountain, they would be intercepted by the enemy's machine guns and artillery, and they were afraid that the casualties would be very large

"Hmm!" I nodded, agreeing.

The two heights of Shangganling are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the only way to lead from Wusheng Mountain to Zhugao is only 1,500 meters wide, even if there is no enemy defending on Shangganling in peacetime, just the artillery fire blockade can make the troops who come to reinforce suffer heavy losses, not to mention that the enemy occupies the surface position. When it can be blocked with machine gun fire.

"So is there any solution for the Lower Division?" I asked.

The division commander meant that Xiao Chen replied: "He suggested that our army will not implement *** tomorrow night, and he will send us seven companies of reinforcements, which will enter the tunnel in batches tomorrow night, and after gathering strength, the surface position will be restored at eight o'clock the night after tomorrow!" ”

"Good!" Commander Qin and I glanced at each other, nodded to each other, and both felt that this plan was feasible "Division commander, let's make preparations for receiving reinforcements tomorrow night!" Xiao Chen continued to report, "If necessary, our army can also carry out a feint attack on the enemy's surface positions to cover the smooth entry of reinforcements into the tunnel."

"It's still the division commander who is thoughtful." Instructor Qin nodded and said, "It's just that this reinforcement is coming up," it's very difficult!" ”

I understand the meaning of Instructor Qin's words, we are now unable to hold on to the surface position because of *** reasons, and the US army will occupy the surface position early the next morning. The U.S. military is not stupid, of course, they know that our army may have reinforcements, so when they are building, they will definitely think of using machine gun positions to block our reinforcements, and they will also closely monitor the tunnel entrance.

Therefore, even at night, if our reinforcements want to enter the tunnel, they have to go through layers of blockade by the enemy's bullets. Of the seven companies sent by the division commander, half of them would make it to the tunnel alive.

So after thinking about it, I fought at the various tunnels on the map and said: "We must do everything possible and do our best to ensure that our tunnel mouth is not blocked by enemy fire, only in this way can we minimize the casualties of our reinforcements and create conditions for the victorious restoration of the surface position!" ”

"Guarantee that the mouth of the pit will not be blocked by enemy fire?" Hearing this, Instructor Qin couldn't help but be puzzled and said: "Chief of Staff, as soon as the 'color' is bright this day, we are going to retreat to the tunnel, right?" We can't get out of the tunnel ourselves, how can we ensure that the mouth of the tunnel is not blocked by enemy fire? ”

"Strengthen the defense at the mouth of the tunnel and organize the soldiers to shoot cold guns in the tunnel!" I replied, "Anyway, as far as we can observe at the mouth of the tunnel, we must not allow the enemy to move!" ”

"This can be done!" Commander Qin nodded and said: "Although our army lacks ***, and the soldiers are very tired from the 'fierce' battle for several days, fortunately, Battalion Commander Li's troops have just come up. He can be asked to do this task".

"Li Zhengyong?" Hearing this, I couldn't help but think of Battalion Commander Li who had just entered the tunnel, and couldn't help frowning and asking, "How many soldiers does he have on his hands?" Is it up to the task? ”

"While you were asleep, more than two dozen of his troops came up one after another!" Instructor Qin replied: "I counted just now, there are a total of fifty-three people in his army who still have combat effectiveness, and the 'spirit' spirit is in good condition, and the *** on their bodies is also sufficient." As for whether it can be a cold shot at the mouth of the tunnel, I don't think there will be any big 'chaos'! ”

"Hmm". I nodded.

Besides, Instructor Qin hesitated, and then continued: "We have successively invested in the 7th, 8th, and five companies on the high ground, and after these few battles, there are not many people left. The largest is the company, with only thirty people left, and the least is the eight, less than ten.

With such a small number of people, it is difficult to accomplish this task under unified command! ”

"Alright! Then let Battalion Commander Li carry out this task! After thinking about it, I agreed: "But I want to 'hand' over to Camp Commander Li, the No. 6 pit has not had time to dig through with other pit tunnels, it is a relatively isolated pit and its geographical location is very important, there must be no mistakes!" ”

"Yes". Director Qin responded. After thinking about it, he pointed to a few places on the map and said: "It's easy to shoot cold guns in the tunnels, but according to the experience of crying several surface positions after being sucked up, the enemy will build machine gun forts in these small locations. These are places that we can't observe at the mouth of the tunnel, but the enemy can control several of our troops here, "here, here, and here."

"When will the reinforcements come up tomorrow night?" I stared at Instructor Qin and pointed to those places and asked. "I asked just now!" Instructor Qin replied, "These seven companies, reinforcements are in a hurry?" There were three companies on the heights, four companies on the heights of the reinforcements, and as soon as it was dark, the first company set out. We want to blow up these fire points beforehand, and time doesn't allow it! ”

I paced a few steps beside the map, and I couldn't help but feel anxious.

The reinforcements had to pass through the blockade of the US artillery, the blockade of the Wusheng Mountain by the US machine gun fort, and finally find the tunnel in the darkness and break through the enemy's fire blockade at the mouth of the tunnel before entering the tunnel. Therefore, although there are more than 1,000 people in the seven companies of the reinforcements, it may be like Li Zhengyong's troops tonight, and only a few dozen people can successfully enter the tunnel in the end.

We have no way to blockade the artillery of the US army and control the fire in the direction of Wusheng Mountain, that is beyond our ability, but the machine gun forts at the mouth of our tunnels, these machine gun forts are almost built on top of our heads, and we have nothing to do with them."

Did you plant explosives in these locations beforehand? This obviously did not work, and the shelling before the enemy's offensive would have turned over the scorched earth on the positions several times. When the enemy rushes up, the explosive bag and fuse don't know where to fly even if they are not blown up.

Wait a minute! Right above our heads?

I suddenly took the map and carefully observed the locations pointed out by Instructor Qin.

That's right! The Shangganling was filled with smoke from the prolonged shelling, and visibility was low even during the day, let alone at night. Therefore, in order to achieve the purpose of monitoring the mouth of the tunnel, the US military often builds a firepower point above our heads. In this way, you can not only monitor the mouth of the tunnel, but also condescendingly 'shoot' to kill the enemy who breaks out of the mouth of the tunnel!

Above our heads, that is to say the vertical distance will not be very dogs,,

"There's a way!" Thinking of this, I immediately pointed to the map and said to Instructor Qin: "It is not yet dawn and the enemy has not yet attacked, immediately organize soldiers with experience in surveying and mapping to measure the coordinates and directions of these locations!" ”

"Coordinate bearing?" Instructor Qin couldn't help but feel a little confused when he heard this.

"That's right!" I nodded and asked, "There must be quite a few of our soldiers who have worked as artillerymen." Find them out at once, whatever method you use, and let them calculate the azimuth coordinates of these locations for me before dawn! The accuracy of 'fine' is based on what our army can dig through the channel! ”

"Dig the passage," Listening to Guiding Qin, he seemed to understand something, and without saying a word, he grabbed the phone and connected the commanders of each company, and then quickly conveyed the order.

"Chief of Staff!" After a while, Instructor Qin put down the phone and walked up to me and reported, "Chief of Staff, the task has been assigned!" What do you mean

"When it is dawn, you go and organize a team of soldiers to dig the passage!" I said to Instructor Qin: "Just dig according to the coordinates mapped, the location where the enemy has built a firing point is very close to our tunnel, isn't it?" At most, it's only a dozen meters, and it's almost the same for a day! ”

"What's more," Instructor Qin said knowingly, "What's more, these passages shouldn't be too big, as long as they can be stuffed into the explosive 'medicine' bag!" ”

I looked at Qin Commander and laughed in unison. ※ ※※

The sky soon brightened, and the Americans carried out a half-hour artillery bombardment of our positions as usual, and although they knew that these shelling would not cause much casualties to the enemy, they were always accustomed to doing so.

Perhaps they hoped to gain a little confidence and courage from the burst of artillery and the scorched earth on Shangganling! Perhaps only in this way will they be able to convince themselves to rush desperately for a war that has nothing to do with them at all.

But this time, they got their wish.

Because they occupied all the surface positions almost without any resistance. On this day, many American troops will surely regard it as a lucky day, because I heard the huge cheers of the American troops outside the tunnel, and the excitement was far greater than the first time they occupied Shangganling.

The rest of the battle was no different from the previous days, and the U.S. forces soon began to build fortifications on surface positions, and sent small numbers of troops cautiously close to the mouth of our tunnels, hoping to destroy our tunnels with explosive packs, grenades, and the like. Sometimes they would throw a few tear gas canisters into the tunnels of our troops. But our army has long been prepared for this. All we have to help is to plug the mouth of the pit with sandbags. So the U.S. military can't do anything about us for a while.

If there is anything different, it is that the US military is digging the ground to build fortifications on it, and our volunteers are also digging in the tunnels. It's just one digging down, one digging up.

The volunteer soldiers have little experience in digging tunnels, and they have all kinds of tools for digging tunnels, so it only took half a day to dig a distance of more than one meter from the designated location.

"Ginseng" Gao Yong's face was pressed tightly against the top of the road. He listened carefully, and then turned to me and whispered, "Yes, you can hear the Yankees digging in the ground."

"Hmm! Then don't dig any more! Come back! , I hurriedly ordered.

I don't want to dig this passage right now and be surprised to find that there's a 'hole' in the ground down there.

"Quick, quick, stuff on top! With Gao Yongxiang's order, two volunteer soldiers soon supported the top of the passage with wooden planks and sticks that had been prepared long ago, so as to prevent the passage from collapsing due to the vibration of the shells outside.

Looking at the skillful movements of the fighters, I couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. The volunteers have always been known for being good at civil engineering, and even many of them are carpenters, miners, etc., which reflects their benefits.

This is not? Originally, I thought that this passage would simply dig a 'hole' upwards, but there will be a lot of problems when it comes to implementation. The biggest problem is that if we dig directly up our tunnel, it is very likely that we will blow up the enemy's fire fort and blow up our own tunnel.

But this problem was easily solved by the fighters. The solution is to dig a passage in the side wall of the tunnel and detour to the bottom of the enemy's fire. In this way, the soil layer directly above the tunnel will not be damaged, and the soldiers also use a large number of logs to support the top of the tunnel to ensure that the tunnel does not have problems.

This reminds me of a common siege method used in cold weapons warfare in ancient times. At that time, the warriors dealt with the long-lasting city wall, and in order to achieve the purpose of destroying the city wall, they would secretly dig a long tunnel under the ground, which would lead to the bottom of the city wall, and then load a large amount of explosives under the city wall.

Then it was easy, just light the fuse, and with a bang, thousands of troops and horses that had already been prepared would rush in from the gap in the city wall".

This time we used the method. How similar it is to the siege method of the ancients. If our opponents are Koreans, I may have to worry about whether they also know this method, after all, Goryeo must have suffered a lot from this in ancient times. But what we are facing now is the US military, and they certainly can't imagine that the culture of the Chinese nation has such a long history and is so broad and profound!

"Chief of Staff, you're all set!" After finishing the incident, Gao Yongxiang climbed out of the passage, patted the dust on his body and reported to me: "On the high ground of Zhukou, there are a total of twenty-one beauty points, except for two because the location is not outside, the remaining nineteen are all ready!" ”

"Is the explosive pack ready? I asked again.

"You're ready!" Gao Yongxiang replied excitedly: "Don't worry, Chief of Staff, when the sky is dark, we only need to dig a small 'hole' in it, and then stuff the explosives 'charge' package under the enemy's ***, and let them fly!" Look at them and be proud."

"Boom". With a bang, the surrounding soldiers were all amused by Gao Yongxiang's words.

After making these preparations, he ordered the soldiers to go back and rest for a while, and the night of this day came in anticipation of the soldiers.

Looking at the darkening sky outside the tunnel and the searchlights of the U.S. military one after another, I stuffed a few handfuls of fried noodles into my mouth and waited at the corner of the tunnel.

I'm waiting for reinforcements from the division headquarters to send us. We can't do it too late, and we can't do it too soon!

We don't have ***, which determines that we can't compete with the enemy in the tunnels. This is not to say negative or timid, but it is an indisputable fact. On the battlefield, it is indeed necessary to give full play to the subjective initiative of the soldiers, but at the same time, it is necessary to respect the objective facts.

Not being able to compete with the enemy means that it will not be long before we can lift the control of the U.S. military's fire outside the tunnels. Although because of the explosive 'charge' placed under the enemy's firepower, we can blow up all the enemy's firepower points controlling our tunnel mouth in one fell swoop. But the U.S. forces will soon launch a counterattack and then reoccupy these firing points to control our tunnels.

So these "secret weapons" of ours only work when it matters most, and they can only be used once!

So I was thinking, there are a total of four companies of reinforcements coming to the highlands tonight, and they will enter the tunnel in four batches, so which batch should I use this "secret weapon" on? It's a real headache.

I was thinking about it when suddenly there was a burst of gunfire at the foot of the mountain, and the sound of the cannon became more intense. The flares of the US troops were fired in pieces, and the light of the searchlights also shone down, illuminating half of the sky below.

I hurriedly raised my binoculars and looked at the foot of the mountain.

In the bright light of the U.S. flares, clouds of smoke appeared in the aperture of the telescope. The smoke was so thick that even the glaring searchlights of the U.S. military could not penetrate it. Occasionally, I would see a few figures running forward, but before I could see them, they were gone.

It didn't take long for the gunfire to slow down, and only the shells and flares fell far down on the land.

I put away my binoculars and sighed to myself: at least this batch doesn't need a "secret weapon"