Although the mortar was used to stop the puppet army from digging holes and blasting on the top of our tunnels, our struggle against the enemy in the tunnels was still very difficult.

On the one hand, this is because our army does not have many mortar shells, only more than 500 shells in total, and each 'mortar' is less than 50 rounds.

Of course, we can't finish the shells all at once. Finishing the shells in one day may bring a lot of casualties and shocks to the puppet army, but it won't be long before they find out that we don't have shells, and they will destroy our tunnels.

Therefore, I divided the more than 500 shells equally, and controlled the use of *** with a large number of 100 rounds per day. Although 100 rounds a day is insufficient, it can make the puppet army dare not act recklessly, so that every time they dig an eye on the top of our tunnel, they have to secretly 'touch' and 'touch' and dare not 'make too much movement'. As a result, although we have no way to completely prevent the enemy from destroying our tunnels, we will slow down the enemy's destruction of the tunnels to a large extent.

This is not? In the past two days, it has only been blown up by the enemy for more than a dozen meters, and this speed is already within our acceptable range. Because I know that the time of our army in history was on the old moon blade day, and it was only three days away from now. The situation of the war is developing like this, and it is no longer a problem for us to hold on until the end of the day!

Another reason why our battles are so hard is that the quality of the puppet army has been raised to another level.

The initial tenacity of the American military was due to the fact that they were stationed in Korea as a savior and believed that their opponents were nothing more than some poorly equipped guerrillas. After fighting for a period of time and suffering several defeats, they realized their mistakes and felt more and more that they should not be caught in this war that had nothing to do with them, and the voice of anti-war in the country was also louder and louder. The impact of these on the US military is that the will to fight is getting weaker and weaker, and in the end, there is even more such a phenomenon as "the time to protect oneself and delay oneself, and so on." In the words of a veteran of the Volunteer Army, it was the US army at this time that was already "as soon as I saw the blood, as soon as I got a few people, the whole army retreated!" ”。

It is not surprising that the situation in the negotiations is becoming clearer and clearer, and the clever American GIs know the final outcome of this war. It will definitely end in negotiations, it is just a matter of time. Therefore, in such a situation, no one in the US military, who has always attached importance to life, will be willing to sacrifice his life for someone else's land!

Of course, there is still a difference between the US 7th Division, the ace unit that competed with us for Shangganling, and other US troops. But even so. After paying heavy casualties, they pushed the puppet army to Shangganling.

This shows that not only are American GIs unwilling to sacrifice their lives for nothing, but even Van Vliet and even Clark are unwilling to sacrifice more American citizens on this land.

This can't help but remind me that in modern times, when some people talk about the victory or defeat of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, they always like to compare the casualties of the volunteers with the casualties of the US army.

They always put forward a lot of data, saying how many people the volunteers sacrificed, while the American army only suffered how many casualties. Finally, to sum up: the number of casualties in the US army was much lower than that of the volunteers, so the Korean War was actually lost by us,"

This conclusion is obviously not in line with the facts, and at the same time very ignorant. Not to mention that judging the outcome of a war is based on whether or not the strategic objectives are achieved, in terms of the number of casualties, the volunteer army is fighting against troops from more than a dozen countries, including the US army, the puppet army, the British army, and the French army.

If there was no French army, it is very likely that the Volunteer Army would not have suffered a crushing defeat at Tohei-ri, and the victory or defeat of this battle played a key role in the overall strategy of the fourth campaign launched by our army.

If there were no British troops, in the third battle, the American troops might not have been able to escape the encirclement set by our army at all. In the fifth campaign, when our army launched a thunderous offensive against the enemy's defensive line, it would not miss the opportunity to take Seoul directly because the British Gloucester battalion held our army for three days and three nights.

Therefore, on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, we must not be small because of the small number of other troops. and ignoring their existence. Although they are small in number, they are all the 'elite' of a large country, and they can often play a pivotal role on the battlefield.

On the other hand, the U.S. military is always accustomed to fighting with the volunteer army from a long distance, always accustomed to using the troops of other countries as a cover and retreating by itself, always accustomed to letting the puppet army walk in front as cannon fodder, and always accustomed to protecting themselves "Just like now, they originally thought that they could easily do it with only two battalions of troops to take Shangganling, but after the battle, they found that this was not the case, so they quickly threw this mess to the puppet army."

It's strange to fight like this, and the casualties are not small!

However, can this also be said to be a victory for the US military? The defeat of the Volunteer Army?

Compared with the more cowardly of the U.S. military, the puppet army is becoming more and more courageous on the battlefield. From the beginning, they were always pinched as soft persimmons by the volunteers, always used by the volunteers as a breakthrough to break through the defense line, and always chased by the volunteers all over the mountain, and now they have gradually grown into a force that can stand alone.

The reason for this, I think...... It is due to the fact that the puppet army at the beginning of the Thousand Dynasties War was converted from the puppet army during the Japanese period of rule, and the reputation was too bad and the management class was too corrupt. Moreover, because the Korean Peninsula has been ravaged by the war for too long, the South Korean people also want to end the war as soon as possible, so they have joined the army one after another.

No matter what the reason is, in short, the combat effectiveness of the puppet army is no longer the Wuxia A' 'Meng' of the past. Although the soldiers do not admit this, they actually know it, which can be seen from the fact that they are all cautious on the battlefield and no longer take them in their eyes as before.

"Chief of Staff!" While I was lying on my bed, I was pondering in boredom, and the correspondent handed me a telegram from the regimental headquarters.

It is said that it is a telegram, and there is an "interlude" in it.

In the tunnel, the radio station could not receive the signal from the outside, and only the walkie-talkie could keep in touch with the rear as usual because it could throw the antenna outside.

But we soon discovered a problem. One day, I contacted Commander Zhang on the walkie-talkie, and in order to reassure Commander Zhang that there would be no more casualties by transporting supplies to Shangganling, I said a big thing on the walkie-talkie, falsely claiming that because we reasonably distributed food and drinking water in the tunnel, the supplies in the tunnel could last for at least half a month.

So Regiment Commander Zhang agreed not to let the logistics commanders and fighters risk their lives to transport supplies, but what makes me strange is that since then, the artillery blockade of Shangganling by the US army has also weakened. Linking these two things, it was easy for me to judge that our connection with the rear was being monitored by the enemy. The US military's radio equipment is very advanced, and it is not difficult to do this.

This also reminds me of the last time we launched an ambush against the U.S. Army, but the U.S. Rangers set up an ambush, and I was wondering how the U.S. Army could be configured just right in terms of time, place, firepower, etc., and almost 'forced' us to death. Now when I think of the walkie-talkie being listened to by the enemy, it quickly becomes clear.

Therefore, in order not to let important information fall into the hands of the enemy, we changed the method of communication with the rear, agreed with each other in advance to have an identical book, and then reported a large number of numbers on the walkie-talkie, and the correspondent looked for Zhuo in the book according to these numbers, and finally put these words together to form a complete telegram.

It is said that during World War II, the Japanese army used this method, which gave the US military's intelligence department a headache, and it was impossible to decipher these seemingly meaningless figures.

However, there are pros and cons, although this method can avoid the leakage of information, but I can no longer talk and chat with Captain Zhang on the phone. This is not? I was stuffy in the pit all day long. The battle situation at the mouth of the tunnel has stabilized, and there is no need for me to command it at all.

I wanted to help the wounded, but I didn't know how to 'get' it, and standing there was just getting in the way, so I could only lie on the 'bed' and sleep!

I took the telegram handed by the correspondent and looked at it, only to see a few sentences written on it: "In order to take advantage of the favorable terrain and annihilate the enemy in large numbers, it is planned to launch a campaign day and night. ”

When I saw this telegram, I rolled over and sat up from my 'bed,' read it again, and soon laid it under a kerosene lamp and burned it to ashes.

It's time to get started!

Although I knew for a long time that it would be launched on the day of the Blade, but now that I have seen this information from the telegram, I feel differently in my heart. Obviously, the reason why the superiors wanted to send me this information at the risk of being monitored by the enemy was because the enemy knew very little about Shangganling, and the two highlands were shrouded in smoke and could not be seen at all, and they could not formulate a battle plan according to local conditions, so they asked me.

This kind of information cannot be known to anyone, otherwise, once it is 'exposed' to the enemy to know our *** time, the casualties caused to our large army will be immeasurable.

I walked to the map and looked at it for a while, then I 'pulled out' a piece of paper, wrote two words on it, "troops", and asked the correspondent to give it to Regiment Commander Zhang.

After a while, the correspondent handed back a piece of paper, on which it was clearly written: "Three infantry battalions, one regiment of reserve troops, two artillery regiments, one rocket artillery regiment!" ”

I glanced at it, took the numbers to heart, and immediately put the telegram on a kerosene lamp and reduced it to ashes.

The telegram did not list specific figures, nor did it list specific troops, which is understandable. I think the superiors mean that they are worried that there may be leaks. And I don't need to be so specific, as long as I have a big number and be able to make a preliminary plan.

There are a lot of troops, the first batch of troops put into the army is as many as nine companies, and there are three artillery regiments with almost 200 'guns'! Although the telegram did not mention the number of shells, I think that in the more than ten days that we have been holding on to the tunnel, the rear must have accumulated a lot of savings, and I don't think it will be less!

But how to attack? Looking at the map, I can't help but start to get stuck!

Although I am familiar with the two highlands of Shangganling, especially the 'yin' highlands. I'm in this. On the high ground, it can also be said that he personally led the team to repeatedly fight with the enemy several times, and it can be said that he knows which position is important and which position is difficult to fight. But the war is sometimes a bit like a couple living together. It often is

This is not? I have repeatedly fought with the enemy on the Yaokou Heights several times, and each time the battle plan I drew up has changed and all the 'tricks' have been fought.

At most" means to divide the troops into three parts, attacking the left, right and middle flanks of Liaokou Heights respectively. The shape of the high ground is like an arrow pointing at the enemy, so that the attack can prevent the middle troops attacking the main peak from being flanked by the enemy on three sides".

But after thinking about it, I felt that this battle could not be fought like this!

First of all, such a plan is so uncreative that a random chief of staff from the army headquarters, division headquarters, or even regimental headquarters can work out such a combat plan. My superiors risked being spied on by the enemy to make me make a battle plan, and they never wanted to hear such a reply from me.

What is this trying to do? The more I thought about it, the stranger it became.

Even if the puppet army built a large number of cement fortifications on the surface positions, it was fully capable of recovering all the positions in Shangganling with three infantry battalions to attack, one infantry regiment as a reserve, and three artillery regiments. What's more, there are still tunnels on this Shangganling, and we should be together inside and outside!

Suddenly I remembered a sentence from the first telegram: "In order to take advantage of the favorable terrain, annihilate the enemy in large numbers!" ”。 So I understood that the purpose of this *** was not to regain the position. Rather, it is to annihilate the enemy in large numbers on Shangganling, with the purpose of depleting the enemy's living force!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh, using people to fight people, this is really a helpless move of the volunteers! If you want to gain a little advantage on the battlefield, you must try to fight close combat with the enemy, and you must do everything possible to fight with the enemy".

But in this way, Shangganling will undoubtedly be a battle of corpses and a sea of blood! It is no wonder that the whole world will call this Shangganling Battle "Verdun of the East"!

I shook my head, took a deep breath, and threw all these compassionate people out of the clouds, and there was no place for pity, pity, and so on on the battlefield. This is especially true when it comes to drawing up battle plans. Because at this time, the idea is how to make full use of the resources in hand, so that the weapons in hand can exert the maximum power, so as to kill and damage the enemy to the greatest extent."

The area of the hilltop position on the 7th Heights is not large, and under normal circumstances, in order to avoid being killed by enemy artillery fire, the number of troops deployed on the hilltop position will not exceed two companies. However, our army has nine companies, and even if it is divided into four companies to attack the strong 7 heights, there are still five companies, plus the troops in the tunnel, there will be six companies.

There is no way for so many companies to stay on the hilltop position at the same time, even if there are two casualties and there are still four companies left, the guards on the hilltop position are crowded, and the enemy will sacrifice as long as one shell comes over.

And "as soon as our troops return to their surface positions, the enemy will certainly play the same trick as they are accustomed to." Attack, artillery bombardment, attack again, artillery bombardment" This kind of "wave" after "wave" of bombardment like a "tide" will eventually consume our troops on the position, as before. Moreover, the time for the attack is completely in the hands of the enemy, and the initiative of whether to attack or not is also in the hands of the enemy, and even as long as they want, they can 'withdraw' at any time. We will not be able to achieve the goal of holding back the enemy and finally annihilating the enemy's living forces in large numbers.

So? How can we hold back the enemy and prevent the enemy from bombarding it?

Can you coexist with the enemy?

If we had restored only part of the surface position on Shangganling, and let the enemy still occupy another part of the surface position, there would have been two different forces on the small hilltop position in Shangganling, so that the enemy's artillery would certainly not dare to act rashly.

On the other hand, the enemy will certainly not be willing to give up the positions that are still in his hands, and will continue to send reinforcements to launch counterattacks through these positions, so that "a battlefield with people fighting people has appeared!"

That's right! Just hit it like that!

Thinking of this, I immediately decided on this plan, but what positions does our army have to occupy so that the puppet army can not withdraw and cannot be withdrawn, and it is not easy to fight?

I walked to the map in a few steps and looked carefully at the terrain of the riveting heights.

Our troops cannot occupy too many positions. If there are too many, the puppet army will feel that the general trend has gone, and simply abandon those few inconsequential positions.

The positions occupied by our army cannot be too few. If it's too little, there's a good chance it won't hold up at all. At that time, let alone annihilating the enemy, it is a question of whether or not the surface position can be restored!

Well, it's the main peak!

I then moved my gaze to the positions of the 8th, Kou, Old and 3rd Main Peaks that surrounded the main peak.

These positions were located in the middle of the Gaokou Heights, and were attacked from two sides by other positions. It is impossible for the puppet army to give up such a great opportunity to flank us. However, these heights are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and after occupying these heights, the volunteer soldiers also have considerable ability to stand here!

A bold plan slowly came to my mind, first the frame, then the flesh, then the details."

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