"Ready, fire!"

With the order of Sun Lei, the commander of the third platoon of the Sharp Knife Company, on the slope of the hill five kilometers south of the military fortress in Xiajieyuli, ten mortars were lined up, and the ambulances were fired at the same time.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The first wave of 10 shells fell impartially on the hillside where the third company of the Sharp Knife Company was located, about 150 meters away, and immediately emitted a continuous and violent explosion sound.

At the same time, more than a dozen US soldiers around the 10 shells also let out screams, although they were fortunate in the misfortune and protected their lives, but they were also injured by the sudden shells falling from the sky, and under the unbearable pain, they let out a series of screams.

At this moment, the group of American troops that fled to the south, numbering about 800 people, reached a distance of about 150 to 100 meters from the north side of the hillside.

It can be said that this US unit, which is composed of about 800 US troops retreating from the south, is almost entirely within the range of the artillery bombardment, and every shell that falls is within five meters of each shell, but as long as there are US soldiers, there are only two results waiting for them, that is, death or injury.

As the supreme commander of this US military unit retreating south, Colonel Madip, commander of the US Army, was extremely shocked by the 10 shells fired from the hillside more than 100 meters away on the south side.

He originally thought that the small unit of less than 200 Chinese volunteers hiding on the hillside was no match for their current 800-strong US soldiers, both in terms of weapons and equipment and numerical superiority.

After all, he thought that there were at least a dozen machine guns in their ranks, and that every American soldier was armed with an American rifle and a hundred rounds of ammunition.

According to his previous understanding, the Chinese volunteer troops that were interspersed in their hinterland were cut off by their US fighters because their logistical supply lines were cut off, and they could not get sufficient supplies of weapons, equipment, guns, ammunition, or other material supplies.

Therefore, the weapons in the hands of every Chinese volunteer soldier are at most the weapons and equipment that leaned down from the building during the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, such as the 38 Dagai rifle, the official rifle made in Hanyang, and a small number of Soviet-style rifles, and even machine guns are rarely equipped, at most four to five wooden-handled grenades per soldier, and that's it.

However, this US regiment commander Colonel Madip may have amnesia; this morning, the ROK troops of a battalion of nearly 1,000 men led by US battalion commander Lee Doo-hyun all surrendered, leaving all their weapons, equipment, guns and ammunition on the hillside, a small force of less than 200 Chinese People's Volunteers.

It can be said that the commander of the US Army, Colonel Madeep, fled south with the remnants of the defeated soldiers who took him, forgetting that on the hillside 100 meters south of them, the small unit of the Chinese People's Volunteers of less than 200 people not only had sufficient weapons, equipment, guns and ammunition, but also had much better supplies and food than they did now.

Some obsessed US Legion Commander Colonel Madeep, after the ten shells fell, he hurriedly reassured the soldiers loudly: "Children, don't panic too much, on the hillside more than 100 meters away from them, there is only a squadron of less than 200 people stationed on the hillside. There aren't many of their shells, presumably just to scare people, there's nothing to be afraid of. ”

After pacifying, Colonel Madip, the commander of the American Army, immediately ordered after breathing a sigh of relief: "Children, we are still more than 100 meters away from the hillside on the south side, now we have to rush up as fast as possible, and fight with bayonets with the squadron of less than 200 people on the hillside, they are not our opponents at all, rush forward!" ”

The words of Colonel Madeep, the commander of the US Army, were quite encouraging, and they were very demagoguery, and the vast majority of the US soldiers who had just stopped and were frightened by the ten falling shells immediately immediately took his order, holding the American rifle with the bayonet in their hands, and desperately strode forward to charge.

You must know that the ground is covered with about ten centimeters of snow, and in the cold night, the temperature has reached more than 30 degrees below zero, and even the snow has a layer of ice on some grounds due to the melting of the day.

The more than 800 US soldiers who launched the charge ran forward less than 10 meters away, and many of them had already slipped and fallen to the ground, some of them fell to their heels, some of them fell to the bottom of their butts, and some of them fell directly and knocked out their teeth.

What's more, on top of the thick snow, it takes a lot of effort to move forward, and after charging forward more than ten meters away, many American soldiers have already begun to panting, all because they have fled all the way from the bottom corner, and the strength on their bodies is also very little.

At this moment, under Sun Lei's order, another wave of 10 shells fell 140 to 130 meters away from the hillside, and in the violent explosion of the "boom boom" shells falling on the ground, more than 20 US soldiers were blown up into the sky, and more than 50 US soldiers were wounded to the ground, unable to continue to move forward.

Next, five more waves of artillery shells were fired, each of which was 10 shells, which can be said to have blown up the US troops on the southern flank, and in less than five minutes, a full third of the troops were reduced.

More than 100 US soldiers were killed on the spot by these waves of shells, and less than 200 US soldiers were injured, and the injuries were not light, anyway, it has become impossible to charge forward, and these US soldiers who were injured on the ground and wailed in pain can only sit on the spot and wait for death, or they really even want to die.

Under the leadership of Sun Lei, the twenty soldiers in his platoon operated ten artillery guns to run away, and blocked the retreat route of the American troops on the south side led by Colonel Madip, the commander of the US Army, with shells.

In other words, this US army is still about 120 meters away from the hillside, and there is only one way for them to retreat, they can only rush forward, and there is no other way.