Chapter 22: Toheiri

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It is located in a small basin with a diameter of about 5 kilometers and is surrounded by small hills: the highest Mount Wangmei in the south with an elevation of 297 meters, 248 highlands to the southwest, 345 highlands to the northwest, 207 highlands to the north, and 212 highlands to the northeast.

That evening, after a two-hour march, our regiment came to this village, which I had been terrifying all along. All along, I thought that the American troops must be stationed in the village, but when the comrades of the 354th Regiment pointed out to us where the enemy was stationed, I realized that I was wrong.

The U.S. troops were stationed in a valley about a kilometer in diameter, and this valley was bordered by Heights 207 to the north, Wangmei Mountain to the south, and Heights 202 to the east, and only to the west was a flat rice field and railway line, which was the position where our 353rd Regiment and 354th Regiment were to attack.

I think the U.S. military chose to defend in this narrow valley because of the lack of troops, and more than 6,000 people can form a circular defense with no gaps in this radius of only one kilometer. This avoids having us inserted from the defense gap.

If our army has artillery fire, it will not be difficult to capture this place, because it will not take many shells to cover this big butt area.

But we didn't.

Actually, there is, according to the information I know, in order to cooperate with the attack on Tohei-ri, the command also transferred the 42nd Artillery Regiment, but the regiment exposed its target because of the frightened horses during the march, and was bombed by enemy planes frantically, and was no longer able to enter the battle. No way, who let our artillery still use horses to pull the cannons!

I climbed a high ground and watched the enemy's position through the sight. Ever since I captured the 1 sniper rifle in my hand, it seems that it has become a habit for me to observe the enemy's terrain before the battle.

In the moonlight, I saw tanks lined up at the end of the rice field, and several trenches were dug in front of each tank, and barbed wire was surrounded in front of the trenches, and a few soldiers could be vaguely seen running back and forth in the trenches. Behind the tank are howitzers with towering barrels.

This arrangement can be said to be perfect, if we want to blow up the tank, it will have to go over the barbed wire, over the trenches, and then drop explosive packs, grenades on the tank...... But before we can do that, we have to cross a network of howitzers, tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks, and all kinds of weapons in the hands of infantry in the trenches!

What made me a little strange was that on the slope in front of the position, I could often see whole pieces of things glistening in the moonlight, and when I looked closely, I realized that it was the surface of the ice. It is believed that the enemy poured water into ice in front of the position in order to delay the charge of the volunteer soldiers. It seemed that they were very well prepared, so I thought that they might have planted mines in front of the position.

My heart sank. Without the cover of artillery, it is almost impossible to break through such a line of defense by a grouping charge of infantry alone. Unless, of course, the other side has all the bullets and shells.

Although I don't know the enemy's disposition, I can tell from the French flag flying on the opposite side that we are facing a tough French battalion. It is also ironic to say that in the Korean War, although the number of troops from other countries was small, in order to save face, they sent the most powerful troops.

For example, the French battalion in front of them, it is said that when they were fighting with the squadron with bayonets, they would kick the ass of the American GIs who fled back like a tide, and roared loudly: "Bastard, go back to the hill over there!" "On the contrary, the U.S. military, which is the backbone of the United States, is a big surprise in its combat effectiveness.

Since it was the French battalion guarding the open land in front of them, the other three heights must be guarded by the three battalions of the American army! The U.S. military will pick up the bargain and always throw the trouble to the troops of other countries every time. First, the Turkish brigade was sent to block the volunteers who were pouring in from the gap, and when they retreated, they let the British troops stand behind, and this time they gave up the most unfavorable terrain to the French battalion to defend......

"Shhhhh......h ”

Crawled back for a while. followed Zhao Yongxin all the way back to the regiment headquarters. As soon as I arrived at the regiment headquarters and saw the gloomy face of the head of the regiment, I felt that things were not good.

Sure enough, after a while, Commander Chu saw that everyone was almost there, so he said with a heavy heart: "Our 42nd Artillery Regiment was discovered and bombed by enemy planes during the march, and it was unable to participate in the battle. The 375th Regiment of the 125th Division of the 42nd Army was blocked by the enemy on the way to Toping-ri, and the 356th Regiment of the 40th Army-19th Division did not arrive on time for unknown reasons. At present, the only ones that can be put into battle are the 354th Regiment, the 357th Regiment, the 359th Regiment, and our regiment. ”

"Commander, didn't you say that there aren't many enemies?" A volunteer soldier smiled: "Then let's not wait, eat this piece of fat and pull it down!" ”

The soldiers also laughed out loud, echoing the soldier's statement, and some said that it was not easy for four regiments to fight such a palm-sized place? Some said to hurry up, or let other regiments rob it if they didn't take credit...... Even the old squad leader of Huzi is no exception, and they all don't take Topingli seriously.

I couldn't help but look at Commander Chu in confusion, and Commander Chu also saw my gaze, and I couldn't help but sigh helplessly and continued: "The 359th Regiment is mainly attacking the 202 Heights in the east, the 357th Regiment is mainly attacking the 207 Heights in the north, our regiment and the 354 Regiment are mainly attacking the west, the 354 Regiment is the first echelon, and we are attacking as the second echelon......"

"Captain! Why don't you let our group play first? One of the soldiers stood up and said, "Just point the enemy and follow the 354th Regiment in, then don't you just pick up bullets?" ”

"Captain!" Seeing that Head Chu hadn't talked about the real situation in Topingli at this time, I couldn't help but panic, stood up and shouted, but Head Chu just pretended not to hear it.

"Commander......" I called again, Commander Chu still didn't matter, and Political Commissar Chen Ye looked at me and motioned for me to sit down.

After I sat down with a frown, I waited for a while and still didn't see what Captain Chu said. The soldiers beside me were still talking and laughing to themselves, and I couldn't hold back anymore and stood up and shouted: "There are not only so many enemies in Tohei, but at least one regiment!" ”

As soon as I said this, the whole audience fell silent, and the soldiers all looked at me with strange eyes, and Huzi secretly pulled me twice beside me, but I let go and continued: "Commander Chu, haven't we seen the telegram sent by the enemy in the morning? What kind of army commander strictly ordered the commander of the 23rd Regiment of the U.S. Army to stick to Tohei-ri, and said that he would give priority to the air force to support, didn't he? ”

As soon as I said this, the soldiers started to talk about it, and the head of the regiment Chu didn't say a word with a straight face, and the political commissar Chen Ye pulled me outside as soon as he pulled me.

"I said Comrade Xiao Cui!" Political Commissar Chen Ye whispered: "Why aren't you flexible? I keep glancing at you, and you don't even see it, or what? ”

"Commissar!" I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "This man's life is at stake!" If the soldiers rushed forward like this without knowing the truth, then ...... That's the lives of thousands of soldiers! ”

"You think we don't understand? Just do you understand? Political Commissar Chen Ye said distressedly: "Commander Chu and I don't know how many times we have reported to our superiors all day, but the replies from our superiors are back and forth: a telegram cannot explain the problem, this may be a maze set up by the enemy in order to delay time, time is pressing, and the battle must start tonight!" ”

"Huh?" Although I knew for a long time that it was impossible for the command to abandon the attack plan because I knew the number of troops stationed in Toheiri, I was surprised to hear the words of the political commissar, because I didn't expect them to believe it at all.

Perhaps because the battle has been fought so far, there has never been a situation where the American army has had the opportunity to retreat but does not retreat after being surrounded, and if he does not seize the time to attack, Ridgway is likely to send reserves to plug this gap. At that time, it will become impossible to shake the entire front of the enemy. That's why the command, in such a situation of inadequate preparation, ordered so resolutely that the battle must start tonight.

"But......" I sighed helplessly, "then it's good to give the soldiers a wake-up call!" Just rushed up so recklessly......"

"What if you know?" Chen Ye shook his head and said: "Commander Chu also told the division commander about this, but the division commander can't help it, one is that this information is not necessarily reliable, and the time for the attack has been set, if you can't fight, you have to fight, and if you can't fight, you have to fight." Speaking out now can only shake the morale of the army and make the soldiers go to the battlefield with a skeptical attitude......"

"But the commissar ......"

"Comrade Xiao Cui!" Political Commissar Chen Ye didn't allow me to say more, so he interrupted me and said, "Put down your burden and get ready!" There's an uphill battle to be fought! ”

With that, he walked straight back to the venue.

I stood there and was stunned for a while, and gradually realized that it was not only me who could not be the master on this battlefield, but also the regiment commander and political commissar. Even the division commander who commanded the battle in a unified manner could not be the master.

In real history, there have been cases where the volunteers captured a few prisoners and interrogated from the prisoners that there were more than 6,000 garrisons in Tohei, but the command still ordered an attack desperately......

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It was getting darker and darker, there were a few stars in the sky but not too bright, a crescent moon had long since disappeared in the dark clouds, and the silence around was terrible. Everything seemed to be asleep, and only the occasional flare fired from the enemy's position could make one feel that there was a murderous motive hidden in the silence.

This is not the battlefield I want to see, let alone the battlefield I want to experience personally, I lie on the snow and look at the darkness in front of me with a heavy heart, a little helpless, but also a little bitter. Because I know that it will not be long before this place will be stained red with the blood of the warriors, and the corpses of the warriors will be heaped all over the place, and in the end, we will not be able to take this valley with a radius of only one kilometer.

If I could, I hope that the moment of war would never come. But time doesn't stop because of me, and the earth doesn't stop turning because of me......

Finally, with a shrill and loud trumpet, the warriors jumped up from the snow and rushed towards the enemy's position.

Because our regiment was attacking in the second echelon, everyone was lying in the snow and nervously watching the battlefield.

Almost at the same time as the trumpet sounded, several flares suddenly rose from the enemy's position, illuminating the snow in front of the position white, and the ice even reflected a dazzling light, which immediately illuminated the charging figures of the soldiers.

The guns soon rang out, and the first to fire were American tank guns, howitzers, and anti-aircraft machine guns, which spewed flames at the volunteers with the most intense firing speeds, and these long-range weapons formed the first line of fire in front of the enemy positions.

With a roar, one after another shells exploded among the soldiers, and each explosion set off a bloody storm, and the snow-white battlefield turned red in just this instant. But the warriors were undaunted, still shouting and charging at the enemy, the fighters in front fell, and the warriors behind rushed forward with the corpses. Under the bright light of the flares, the front of the position was full of soldiers rushing forward with their waists bent.

......The fighters who rushed through the first layer of barrage quickly broke into the minefield, and more than a dozen fighters were blown to the ground after only a few bangs. The explosion of a landmine is similar to the explosion of an artillery shell. Those of us who are outside the battlefield may not see the difference, but the soldiers in the midst of it know it, because they watched their comrades run up, watched them step on mines, and were mercilessly carried into the sky......

So the warriors knew very well what they were going to face, they knew that every time they stepped on it, it was very likely to cause a loud noise, and they were very likely to step into the ghost gate, but they still did not hesitate to step forward, step by step, until a loud noise made them unconscious.

They did not have time to demine and could only exchange it with this simplest method, the exchange of lives with mines! If this is also demining, then they are using their lives to clear the way forward for their comrades-in-arms behind them.

A soldier was blown off one leg by a mine, but he didn't hold his leg on the ground and howl like the American army, through the scope, I could clearly see that he just grabbed a few handfuls of snow and stuffed it into the injured leg, and the instant cold stopped the blood spurting out of the injured leg, and then he stubbornly stood up with his gun on the ground and limped forward. He didn't want to kill the enemy, he had lost the conditions to kill the enemy; He also didn't want to make meritorious service, which had lost its meaning to him; He just wanted to...... One more mine......

With a bang, his figure finally disappeared from the battlefield. My tears welled up uncontrollably, no one knew his name, no one would remember what he looked like, but that leg and a gun, forever imprinted in my mind.

Several fighters quickly set up mortars to shoot at the enemy positions, but before they could fire a few shells, the enemy found out, a bunch of machine gun bullets strafed, several fighters fell in a pool of blood, the range of the mortar was too short only a thousand meters, less than half the range of the anti-aircraft machine guns on the enemy tanks.

But amazingly, a hand, a bloody hand, suddenly stretched out from the pile of corpses, and that hand grabbed a shell, and then trembled and stuffed it into the muzzle of the mortar, and the shell exploded smoothly in the enemy position, bringing a scream. And then another, and another...... Eventually, the hand could no longer move, and it clutched a mortar shell and tried to get it into the muzzle, but in the end it couldn't......

The enemy would fire a volley of flares every five minutes, so that the battlefield was always shrouded in blinding light, and the volunteers were completely exposed to the enemy's fire, while the soldiers could not see the enemy's position at all, and could only rush forward again and again with will and spirit, but were beaten back by the enemy again and again. Finally, after the enemy planes also participated in the bombing, the fighters reluctantly retreated.

This is not a fight, this is a massacre.

In just a charge of more than ten minutes, at least four or five hundred volunteer soldiers lay down on the position. And many of the corpses were a blur of flesh and blood, completely unrecognizable.

The enemy's firepower is carefully arranged, howitzers, tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns constitute the outer fire network, rifles, machine guns constitute the middle fire network, submachine guns, grenades, flame ** devices constitute the inner fire network, the firepower is far and near with the airtight, coupled with the support of mines, barbed wire and aircraft, so that the volunteer soldiers can not approach at all.

Finding that the attack of the volunteers had been repulsed, the French soldiers on the enemy position cheered loudly, and when I looked through the scope, I found that all of them were not wearing helmets, and all of them had a red cloth belt tied on their heads, and then they all raised their guns and shouted in unison on the battlefield: "Camoloni!" ”

"Camoloni" is the name of a Mexican village where 90 years ago 65 soldiers of the French Foreign Legion were killed in battles with Mexican soldiers, and none of them surrendered. Most of the soldiers in this French battalion are veterans of the former French Foreign Legion.

They are a bunch of killers, a bunch of butchers on the battlefield.

Looking at their extremely crazy and arrogant looks, and then looking at the volunteer soldiers who died on the battlefield, I gritted my teeth and secretly swore that I would not let this battle develop like this, and the debts you owe will be repaid with blood after all!! ~!

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