Chapter 58 100 Independent Battalion
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The artillery fire continued, and the vanguard of the 538th Regiment rushed headlong into the valley to the left of the 222.9 heights at great speed. And at this time, the enemy was still unaware.
The valley is a bottleneck, and everyone knows it. For if the enemy discovers our troops, all they seem to have to do is set up a few machine guns on either side, or throw grenades into the valley, or organize a force to stop us at the mouth of the valley...... can cause great casualties to our interspersed troops.
The reason why the enemy did not discover us was that our artillery fire was still bombarding the deep positions of the American troops, and the explosion of the shells well covered up the rumbling of the tank engine. The U.S. military has never experienced such a dense and intense artillery attack by the volunteers, and it must have been stunned by the artillery fire, and it did not know how to climb out of the tunnel at this time. Another reason is that before the start of the war, I gave Li Yan a special account to carpet bombard the valley through which we were going to pass.
The purpose of this was to detonate the mines buried in the valley, and the other was that the valley was not well ventilated, and the shells were concentrated on the area for half an hour, and the thick smoke of gunpowder shrouded the whole valley like fog. In this case, it would be very difficult for the enemy to detect us even if they fired a few flares at our side, let alone that they would not notice it at all.
Endured with the almost suffocating smell of gunsmoke. Running forward in a valley full of craters, one foot deep and one foot shallow, in a short time smoothly crossed the valley and came to the anticline of the American heights.
Without my order, the fighters immediately found their positions according to the steps that had been practiced hundreds of times in the past few days. Zhong Chaoyang's fifteen tanks were formed into three teams, two of which each arranged a Stalin 2 heavy tank, and a company and a platoon of fighters to cooperate with them. Without exception, their muzzles and muzzles were all aimed at the valley where American reinforcements might appear, and once the American reinforcements arrived, they would stop the enemy from the valley at all costs.
The remaining five tanks slowly drove to our main target this time, the 490.1 heights, and they would provide fire cover for Li Guoqiang's troops. Hu Biao was ordered to quickly take the 222.9 heights and provide fire cover for the right flank of Li Guoqiang's troops.
I nodded with satisfaction as I watched the fighters move into their respective positions in a step-by-step manner, perhaps because of the pre-rehearsal process, all the processes were completed in just a few minutes. To my surprise, the U.S. forces had not detected our troops, who had broken through to their positions.
The sound of the artillery was getting quieter, and the gunfire on the other side was getting louder and louder, and I looked at the anticline of the American high ground by the light of a few burning pine trees, and sure enough, there were not many fortifications on their anticline. Except for a few tunnels for sheltering from the shelling, there are tents that have not yet been blown up.
Anticlines are good! Under such heavy artillery fire, the soil on the positive slope has been turned over several times, and it can almost be said that there is no grass left, but there are tents on the reverse slope that are intact.
At this moment, to my surprise, a US soldier who had just come out of the tunnel with a gun shouted at me, "Hey...... e n! hat are yur aiting fr! (Hey, hurry up!) What are you waiting for? )”
"Huh?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, but I quickly thought of something, maybe these American troops were taking us as their reinforcements. This may be because the Volunteer Army basically did not send tanks to fight, so the Yankees, who have always treated us as dirt buns, saw that our unit actually came up with infantry and tans when they saw it this time. And in the darkness and smoke of gunpowder, they can't see us clearly at all, so they take us for granted as "their own people". No wonder they didn't react until now, allowing us to seize all the vantage points without firing a single shot.
What an unexpected surprise! Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh secretly, and ordered Li Guoqiang beside me: "Let the soldiers stop talking, follow those Yankees up, and shoot again until they are discovered!" ”
"Yes!" Li Guoqiang answered the call and took out the two box cannons sandwiched in the belt, waved his hand behind him, and the soldiers climbed towards the high ground with their guns in the dark.
In fact, the U.S. military had many opportunities to find out that we were not their own, and the volunteer soldiers did not wear helmets and the models of tanks were different, but the smoke and darkness confused their eyes, and they did not expect that we would break into their positions so quickly, so when the soldiers followed them all the way to the halfway up the mountain, they still didn't realize it. Until a straggler of American soldiers just ran out of the tunnel and took a photo with a volunteer soldier, he couldn't help but exclaim: "h are yur!" ”
"Hold your mother's head!" The volunteer soldier kicked the American soldier to the ground with a single kick, and then without hesitation, he raised his rifle and gave him a refill.
Only then did the American soldiers who were running in front realize that something was wrong, and they turned around one by one, and suddenly found that there were groups of volunteer soldiers following behind them, and they couldn't help but be shocked and turned their guns to resist. But it was too late, and with a burst of gunshots, the Yankees fell down the hillside like stakes.
The Soviet-style weapons in the hands of the volunteers may not be as advanced as the US military on the whole, but the ammunition capacity of submachine guns and machine guns far exceeds that of any weapon in the hands of the US military. A large ammunition capacity means that the density of bullets fired in a short period of time is high. In addition, the U.S. troops were basically defenseless with their backs to the volunteers at this time, so it didn't take long for the one or two hundred U.S. soldiers in front of them to die and wounded, and no one was standing anymore.
Then the warriors shouted again, and rushed to the top of the hill with all their weapons.
The sound of gunfire and grenade explosions, the American troops on the hilltop soon discovered that our troops rushed up from behind, and they were also veterans who had spent some time on the battlefield, and quickly organized a fire counterattack. But it was all in vain, because they didn't have any fortifications behind them, and because they were easily slaughtered by us just now. So they are a year shorter than us in terms of firepower and momentum.
I don't know which veteran said that fighting a war is not only about people, not just weapons and firepower, but also about murderous spirit. Whoever is murderous on the battlefield and can overwhelm the other party and make the other party afraid, then you can live to win, otherwise you will only die.
Originally, I didn't take this sentence seriously, because I thought that "murderous energy" would only appear in martial arts, but now it seems that there is such a thing on the battlefield.
Soldiers who have been on the battlefield may have a feeling that they were terribly scared before they went to the battlefield and were terribly scared before the battle, but when they really arrived on the battlefield and started to kill, they were not afraid of anything, and they only thought about finding out the enemy and killing them.
This may be a state of having a "murderous aura"! In ancient times, when cold weapons were fighting, there were several criminals killed in front of the soldiers before the battle, which may also be to let the soldiers have more "murderous energy".
The more veterans who have fought, the shorter the time it takes to enter this state, and even some soldiers do not need to kill at all, they only need to see blood and artillery fire, and they can quickly enter this state of selflessness.
The soldiers of the 538th Regiment are all veterans, and they have killed a group of American troops just now. At this time, it was clear that they were already in a state of shape, and they only heard their shouts, and rushed up the hill with bayonets under the cover of the machine gunners' fire. Immediately after that, there was a terrible wail and screams from the top of the mountain.
The fighters occupied the position on the top of the hill so quickly that several T-34 tanks at the foot of the hill did not have time to provide them with firepower, because when they adjusted their muzzles and prepared the shells, they found that the volunteer fighters were already everywhere in sight.
It's as simple as that?
It was only ten minutes before and after, and there were bursts of cheers from the soldiers on the top of the mountain, and then a soldier waved at me the flag that he had occupied the enemy's position, which meant that the 490.1 high ground was completely under the control of our army.
For a long time, my subordinates and I, and even the entire division headquarters regarded the battle of the 490.1 heights as a great difficulty, but I didn't expect it to be so easy to do. This may also verify the sentence of ** - "All imperialism is a paper tiger"!
But I soon realized that I was wrong, because at the same time as the victory of the 490.1 heights came out, the 222.9 heights, which I thought could be easily won, were in trouble.
I don't know what's going on, because the 222.9 Heights are more than a thousand meters away from where I am, and I can't see the battle over there in the dark night, I just know that the shouts and killings over there have been tightened for a while, and the gunshots have also been fired for a while, and now it seems that the fighting is raging!
There's no reason for that!
According to the information we received before the war, the US troops stationed on the 222.9 heights had only two companies, a battalion of the 539th Regiment on the front and a battalion of Hu Biao on the back......
"Xu Yongwei!" I shouted without looking back.
"Here!" Xu Yongwei answered, and soon stood in front of me.
"Go to Camp Commander Hu and ask about the situation!" I ordered.
"Yes!" Xu Yongwei responded. He turned around and ran into the darkness.
I know Hu Biao's personality, he is a very strong person, I assigned him the task of winning the 222.9 heights, if he didn't come to report to me until the last minute, because he felt that he was asking me difficulties and making excuses. So much so that every time I wanted to know about him, I had to send someone to ask.
After a while, Xu Yongwei ran back, he didn't salute me, he carefully turned to the side and pretended not to talk to me, and reported: "Regiment commander, Battalion Commander Hu has encountered a hard idea over there, the soldiers rushed twice and were beaten down, according to the soldiers, the defenders on there are not Yankees!" ”
"Not a Yankee?" When I heard this, I couldn't help but wonder.
This doesn't make sense! Dozens of miles around it are the defense lines of the US military. There's no reason why another army would pop up here. What's more, if it wasn't the U.S. military, then our scouts would also be able to reconnoitre, wouldn't they?
"Captain!" Xu Yongwei then reported: "The soldiers said that this unit was very capable of fighting, and they wore Yankee uniforms, but they looked like Little Japan when they fought, and they looked like Little Japan!" ”
"What? Little Japan? "I couldn't help but be shocked when I heard this, and suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a unit in the US army. It was the 100th Independent Infantry Battalion, known as the Purple Heart Battalion.
The infantry battalion was composed entirely of Japanese-Americans, and legend has it that during World War II, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States fell into an atmosphere of hysteria, and the Japanese-Americans became the targets of their revenge. As many as 120,000 Japanese Americans, including the elderly and children, were forcibly removed from their homes and held in concentration camps.
However, some of these Japanese-Americans are serving in the U.S. military, and how to deal with these Japanese-American U.S. troops has become a thorny problem. On the one hand, the military expressed its extreme distrust of some Japanese soldiers, and on the other hand, it did not dare to dismiss them, because many people at that time believed that it was too dangerous to release these Japanese American soldiers who were familiar with the internal affairs of the US military and had strong military capabilities from the barracks. After much thought, the War Office finally decided to send them to the European theater.
In other words, it would be best for the U.S. military to hope that all of these Japanese soldiers would die honorably on the battlefield. As a result, the U.S. military always assigned the most dangerous and difficult tasks to the 100th Independent Battalion.
At that time, the plight of these Japanese soldiers was unimaginable, and they had to endure the fear of their families at the behest of their superiors and comrades-in-arms, because the families of most of them were still held in concentration camps and lived almost as prisoners. But it was in such a situation that their performance on the battlefield surprised everyone.
With more than 700 casualties, they rescued two hundred "cowboys" who had discriminated against them and troubled them from the German encirclement, and it took them less than a day to infiltrate the Gothic line, which the Allies had been unable to defeat for six months, and even Clark could not help but be stunned by their achievements.
On the Korean battlefield, this unit also fought with the volunteers, and a returned volunteer veteran described this unit as follows: "When I fought, I found that it was little Japan, and it was really difficult to fight, and more than 200 of us fought around him and more than 100 people, and we didn't fight it for a day and a night!" ”
From the simple and unpretentious words of the volunteer soldiers, and there is no personal subjectivity at all, I can understand how difficult this unit is.
I remember listening to the description of this unit by the veterans of the Volunteer Army in the video, and I couldn't help but tremble, because it made me emotionally unacceptable.
I didn't expect that now, I will face to face with this unit.
After thinking about it, I turned around and climbed up to the 490.1 heights that had just been captured by our troops. Halfway up the mountain, I saw several American prisoners squatting on the ground with their hands raised.
I won't say much. One of the American GIs, who had grabbed one of the bearded scumbags, asked, "If you want to live, then tell me the truth." What troops are stationed next to you, and how many are there? ”
"They are 100 separate battalions, sir!" The American soldier's answer confirmed my thoughts, and he looked at me with trepidation, and then replied: "There are more than 1,000 of them, and they are stationed on the four surrounding heights, and there are 300 men on each of them!" ”
"Why are you arranging it like this?" I asked, confused, "I mean, why are you the only ones who aren't from the 100 separate battalions?" ”
"God! I don't want that either! The U.S. soldier was almost in tears when I asked that, and he said bitterly, "Sir, I swear what I said is true." We are changing guards with 100 separate battalions one by one, and if it weren't for you, we would be on the ship back home tonight! ”
"Hmm!" I couldn't help but be a little surprised when I heard this, it turned out that it was not only our volunteers who changed their defenses and returned to China on this front line, but even the US military. But think about it, no one can stay on the high-intensity battlefield of North Korea for a long time, this is the case for volunteer soldiers, and even more so for the relatively weak-willed Yankees.
It is no wonder that the situation detected by our scouts some time ago does not correspond to reality, and it turned out that we just bumped into them when they changed their guards.
The Yankees on the 490.1 Highlands are really unlucky, they are about to return home, but they didn't expect to be killed by us......
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but let go of my hand, and comforted the American soldier and said, "Don't worry! Dude, if you return home, you may have to go to war again in a few months. But being our prisoner, you can wait until the war is over! ”
"yes, that's what I thought too!" The American soldier dared to say no, and his whole body trembled and nodded at me frequently.
I ignored those American troops, raised my eyes and looked around, and suddenly found that the 490.1 heights were actually surrounded on three sides by the 100 independent battalions of the US army at this time, and the 538th Regiment and Zhong Chaoyang's tank battalion in the valley were even more so.
A separate battalion of more than a thousand people!
Such a battalion is even more numerous than one of our regiments, and all of them are veterans who can fight, and if we do not quickly take down the two heights on the left, the consequences will be unimaginable......! ~!
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