Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Bloody Battle of the Pass II

After a while, the 12 M26 tanks of the U.S. Army rushed down the roadbed, drove along the railway to the pass, and spread out to both sides openly. Constantly firing at the returning soldiers and the two high ground from the clearing of the battlefield. The enemies in the truck behind also jumped out of the car one after another. More than 20 people per car. Spread out the vigilance in all directions. A Wesley's field jeep rushed up from behind with a jump. The railway stopped about 500 meters from the pass, and an officer stood up from the seat on the right, holding a telescope to look in the direction of the pass.

Although Yang Guang couldn't see his collar flower clearly, he knew that it was definitely an important target. Yang Guang did not hesitate to pull the trigger.5,8 mm bullet mercilessly drilled into the right forehead of the American officer. Caused a round of applause from the 198 Heights.

After seeing his headshot, Yang Guang said to himself: "X, I really don't have the quality, do you want to be so good at looking at a position?" It was later learned that this cow would be the chief of staff of the brigadier general of the US 2nd Division.

12 M26 tanks were aggressive, 5 on the east of the road and 7 on the west of the road rushed towards the 198,169 heights respectively.

Yang Guang said to Wang Baozhu: "Company Commander Wang, in a while, Lao Li and I will use the American bazooka to hit a tank within 150 meters, and your bazooka has a long range, and it will be 150 meters away. He said to Lao Li again: "Don't panic, wait for the enemy's tank to be within 150 before firing, try not to hit the front, the frontal armor is thick, and it can't be penetrated."

In addition, they sent several anti-tank groups. This is an anti-tank short training course held by Yang Guang in the 373rd Regiment during the march. Taught some anti-tank native methods of the sixties and seventies,

In the hazy morning light, on the 198 heights, black shadows could be seen jumping up one after another, and soon they were hidden in the shelter of the tank's route, and a tank stopped at the edge of the woods 400 meters from the heights. At the same time, from behind a tree 5 meters to the right of the tank, a volunteer soldier came out, he held a stick tied to the explosive bag, and quickly put the hook made of wire on the explosive bag in advance, and hung it on the handrail of the tank crew getting on and off the car, and then pulled out the stick, turned around and jumped back to the big tree, two seconds later, there was a loud "boom", and the 5 kg explosive package ended the mission of the M26 tank, and the 5 crew members in the tank must be bleeding from seven holes, You don't have to be blown up, you have to be blown to death. After that, the warrior disappeared into the woods with the agility of a cheetah.

An M26 tank was slowing down and crossing a small ditch, from which a soldier jumped out of the ditch and used the same method to hang the explosive bag on the engine cooling net behind the enemy tank that was climbing up. With the sound of explosions. The tank burst into flames. The demoman, having finished his job, slipped back to his position from the other end of the ditch.

A tank that rushed to the front saw a pile of corn stalks piled up on the way forward, and it rushed over without hesitation, but a round stone under the corn stalks held up the chassis of the M26 heavy tank, and the tracks on one side were overhead, and the tank engine made a huge rumbling sound, and it was difficult to move an inch no matter how to refuel. From behind a nearby dung heap, a soldier rushed up and calmly stuffed the explosive bag into the bottom of the tank and pulled out the stick. Then throw away the sticks and turn around and a fish leap back behind the dung heap. Two seconds later, the tank was flipped up, and the bottom armor was blown open with a large hole of more than 300 mm, and billowing smoke continued to rise from the inside

When the comrades-in-arms on the mountain saw this wonderful sight, they slapped their thighs with joy and applauded." This trick is too good to beat the old beautiful iron turtle!" The remaining tanks saw that the three tanks to the west and the two tanks to the east were blown up, and hurriedly retreated. Wang Bao lived at the main peak of 198, saw that the US tank was about to run, and was in a hurry, so he fired a shot at the side of a tank that was more than 300 meters away and was turning around. One can clearly see the trajectory of the rocket, and the violent explosion threw the hatch of the American tank three or four meters high.

The first 12 M26 tanks invested by the US army were half wiped out in this way.

After the American tanks retreated to seven or eight hundred meters, they launched a heavy artillery attack on the position.198 Except for a few observation posts on the high ground, they had already withdrawn into the anti-artillery holes. Enjoy the dried millet rice steamed with canned beef and canned green beans.

Yang Guang saw Wang Baozhu in Shi Feng's 5th Company and said, "Company Commander Wang, I almost forgot about it. Then you immediately tell all the machine gunners to replace the first ten rounds in the magazine with incendiary and leakage rounds, and when the enemy enters the woods in front of you, you will open fire on the gasoline drums around the woods, and I will paint them all in white circles on the side of our position. There are 26 barrels in total, and after hitting the woods, block the woods with machine guns to prevent the enemy from running out. Burn these rabbit cubs." Wang Baozhu also asked about the situation, and took a few people to each platoon to inform them.

When breakfast was served, Ergou had already taken Yang Guang's shiny lunch box in his hand, and the first one gave Yang Guang a full lunch box, Yang Guang took over the stainless steel lunch box and dialed more than half of it for Ergou.

Ergou said: "This is American beef and green bean rice, why do you eat this!"

Yang Guang smiled and said to the little brother: "The beef and green beans are American, but the rice is ours. Let's eat more." After saying that, he ate it in a big gulp. Maybe he was hungry, and he felt that the taste was not bad, but the taste was not very good, and he swallowed it without chewing it. If you don't have vegetables, you just rely on the three or five green beans in the rice. Supplementing vitamins, he saw that everyone ate very well." "Hey," he thought to himself. It's not even a handful of snow before you get to the chow mein, and our fighters are so bitter." I quietly took out two multivitamins and swallowed them.

At this time, a soldier who was on guard outside ran in with a 4-fold telescope of the "93' type" and said: "Company commander, the enemy has entered the woods in front, and there are four or five hundred people. There is also some strange car activity in the distance.

Wang Baobao stood up, put the last bite of food in his mouth, took the binoculars and hurried out. Yang Guang picked up a sniper rifle and followed. He stood behind a rock, opened the gun front bracket, and slowly observed the enemy, 3.5 kilometers away, the engineer unit of the US 2nd Division was using excavators and bulldozers to build a gun position, and the enemy was gathering attacking troops in the woods in front of the artillery position. He said loudly: Company Commander Wang, inform the machine gun to enter the battle in two minutes and open fire on the oil barrel. As he spoke, he withdrew the cartridge from the gun, pulled out a cartridge from it, looked at it, and saw that it contained bullets with red transparent paint on the bullet and primer, loaded the cartridge, and then pulled the bolt to load the incendiary bullet. He quickly aimed at an oil drum at the rear of the east flank, fearing that the oil drum would be discovered and removed by the enemy. Ruined your "big plan"

Although Wang Baozhu did not know his "big plan", he immediately ordered Ergou and the other three soldiers to go to each platoon to inform him.

Yang Guang looked at the watch, and began the countdown to "ignition" in his heart, he saw two American soldiers walking towards an oil drum, one of them carefully checked the surroundings of the oil drum, and kicked the oil drum to see that there was no harm, Yang Guang aimed at the white spot, pulled the trigger, and with a "bang", a huge fire was ignited. The two American soldiers were splashed with gasoline, like two lit torches, screaming loudly and running around in the woods, spreading 'warmth' to everyone. The fire immediately ignited the dead leaves and trees that withered in the early winter around the area, Yang Guang kept firing at the white point, and soon the entire bushes near the east side of the railway were all set on fire, and more than a dozen machine guns also fired more than 100 incendiary and leaking shells at the oil drums around the woods, and around the woods, they continued to detonate huge fire balls, more than 20 exploding oil drums, and gasoline flying everywhere. Soon a prairie fire was formed, and the flames in the woods soared into the sky. A sea of fire, in the sea of fire ghosts cry wolves. The screams were heart-rending, and the scene was horrible. The howling north wind continued to pour oxygen into the burning fire. Make it burn more violently and more thoroughly. The American troops in the woods desperately escaped from the woods, away from the fire, and ran towards the dry Hetao in front of the 198 heights. But there was no paradise either, with a dozen machine guns tightly blocking the edges of the woods.

The north wind carried the scorching air, making the soldiers of the 198 heights, a few hundred meters away, feel the heat wave burning their faces. The air is filled with a disgusting smell of burning. But the warrior couldn't care about that much.

Two M2, 12.7 mm large-caliber heavy machine guns, nine light machine guns, like 11 constantly waving giant grass sickles, mercilessly harvested the lives of fleeing American troops. The tongues of fire that erupted from the muzzle of the machine guns quickly shot at the American troops who ran out of the fire, and the officers and men of the US Second Division fell in pieces, and the rain of bullets drove the enemy back into the woods, and the fire ruthlessly drove them out. Overwhelm the soldiers of the American army, how to be good. More than 300 charred corpses and wounded of American troops lay along the edge of the woods and in the loop. On the 198 heights, you can clearly see the American soldiers who were constantly struggling in the fire and some people who fell in the fire and kept twitching their limbs before dying, and these people died in extremely painful conditions. It's terrible. A wounded American soldier could not bear to endure the blazing fire, and he pulled a grenade and the fire reduced everything to ashes. They will forever be one with this strange land, thousands of miles away from the United States.

The machine guns stopped firing, and the screaming gradually stopped.

The battlefield suddenly felt extraordinarily quiet, and people on both sides were looking at the raging fire. The only thing that can be heard is the tree making a "pop. The popping sound of "pop" and the whistling sound of the fire burning.

Neither side expected such a tragic scene to occur before the contest officially began. Even the commanders and fighters of our volunteers on the 198 and 169 heights were shocked by this extremely terrifying battlefield spectacle for a while