Chapter 15 The first body is not punished
The enemy's attack was blocked, so he had to retreat to the south side of Heights No. 146 and occupy favorable terrain to form a brief confrontation with us.
At 3:35 a.m., the enemy's in-depth artillery and forward-facing artillery suddenly attacked our positions No. 145 and 146, and the infantry took the opportunity to frantically storm the positions of the 2nd company and 3rd squad on the scale of the company. The 3rd squad responded to the battle with the fire support of friendly neighbors, and successively repelled three enemy counterattacks, leaving a corpse in front of the position.
The enemy retreated to the southwest side of position No. 146, and after adjustment, launched a series of attacks, all of which were forced back to their original positions by our 2nd Company's counterattack. At this time, due to the dense fog, unclear vision, and unclear enemy situation, our 119th Regiment and the 1st Battalion were unable to determine the direction of the enemy's main attack.
Fifteen minutes later, tragedy struck, the enemy first carried out artillery preparations on the high ground, and as soon as the artillery fire stopped, the enemy infantry launched a group charge on the scale of a battalion, regardless of casualties. The enemy did not care about life and death, and those in front fell, and the back surged up. The officers and men of the 2nd Company were firmly nailed to their positions, repeatedly fought hand-to-hand with the enemy who rushed into the trenches, and stubbornly repelled enemy attacks again and again.
The battle was extremely miserable, and the casualties of the 2nd Company increased rapidly.
Half an hour after the battle, the enemy attacked another round of deep heavy artillery fire, all of which hit the core position of the 2nd Company under the cover of heavy fog, and the company suffered heavy casualties. Under the cover of artillery fire, the enemy attacking forces once again rushed to their positions.
The command post of the 2nd Company was also directly hit by recoilless guns and bazookas, the company commander and instructor were killed at the same time, the walkie-talkie crew was seriously injured, the walkie-talkie was blown up, and the communication between the 145th and 146th positions and the battalion headquarters and the regimental headquarters was interrupted.
The enemy quickly rushed to the position, and the remaining fighters of the 2nd Company were forced to retreat to the top of Heights 146, ready to hold on. After breaking through the defensive position of the 2nd Company, the enemy captured the top of Heights 145 along the valley on the west side of Heights 146. So far, most of our heroic 2nd Company, more than 140 officers and men, have been killed, and the 145th Heights have been tragically lost.
The remaining soldiers of the 2nd Company were all lightly and seriously wounded, and retreated into the tunnel under the command of the artillery platoon commander and stubbornly held on.
At this time, the sky was not clear, the fog locked the mountain, and the battle on the high ground on the top of the mountain continued. The regimental headquarters and the 1st Battalion of the 119th Regiment did not know that the position of the 2nd Company of Ludao had been lost, and our army and the division's artillery group were unwilling to shell the position. The 1st Battalion first sent 5 line surveyors up, but they were sniped by the enemy and killed one after another.
After dawn, Chen Keyuan, the head of the regiment's reconnaissance section and the commander of the 1st company and 2nd platoon, was ordered by the regimental headquarters to lead two squads to attack the No. 145 high ground to conduct battlefield reconnaissance.
At this time, the fog is thicker, and there are shadows on the mountain, and people cannot be seen clearly on the opposite side. There were still sporadic gunshots of fighting on the top of the mountain, but as soon as they reached the front of the position, they were attacked by a round of fire from the enemy occupying the surface position, and the platoon commander Chen Keyuan died heroically, and the 2nd platoon was forced to retreat.
It was only at this time that the 119th Regiment accurately judged that the enemy had occupied Heights 145. At 5:30 a.m., a howitzer battalion of our artillery group fired rapidly, and the artillery fire completely covered the surface positions of the 145 heights. Most of the enemy, who had just occupied the surface positions on Heights 145, were killed in the artillery fire.
As soon as the artillery fire was extended, the reconnaissance detachment of the 40th Division, which had come to Heights 146 to carry out the task of capturing prisoners, took the initiative to cooperate with the 2nd Platoon to carry out a counterattack while the enemy was in chaos, and recaptured the hill in only half an hour. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the deputy commander of the 1st Battalion led the 3rd Company, with the support of our artillery fire and the fire of Heights 146, fought fiercely for two hours, recaptured all the lost positions, and Heights 145 was recaptured again.
The enemy retreated to the line of heights 411 and 251. At 6 o'clock, after adjusting the enemy's deployment, he once again launched a frantic attack with two battalions of troops, and the charging infantry was five or six hundred men. The deputy commander of our 1st Battalion quickly called for artillery fire to cover the front of the position, and the rocket artillery battalion of our division's artillery group fired a salvo, completely covering the starting point of the enemy's charge. The enemy's offensive was broken up in an instant, and after retreating, more than 130 corpses were lost in front of the position.
The two howitzer battalions extended their fire, turning the enemy's charge into a sea of fire. Due to the heavy fog, the 119th Regiment changed its fighting method, and the division's artillery group fought until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, using artillery fire to form a dense fire barrier in the dense fog, so that the enemy could not approach the front of our position, and finally had no choice but to retreat, and the 145 Heights were firmly in the hands of our army.
6.11 Sneak attack, the battle was tragic beyond imagination, almost all of the more than 140 soldiers of the 2nd Company were killed, and it was only after dawn that the position was lost and regained. This battle gave the 40th Division a great shock. The 40th Division was an iron-blooded force, and the enemy frequently attacked and the 2nd company was killed en masse, which made the whole division red-eyed. They shared the same hatred of the enemy, and the various positions quickly strengthened their defenses and were ready for battle.
The attack on the 145 heights failed, but the enemy did not stop attacking, and the first phase of the "MB-84" plan was being launched in depth. The various units of the Annam army began to attack several of our positions at the same time. Pei Ni, deputy commander of the enemy's 313th Division, was happy to see that the attacks had been frustrated one after another, and hurriedly ordered the commander of the 14th Regiment to go to the front line to direct the attack.
At 15:15, under the guidance of the 1st Company of the 821st Special Service Regiment, an enemy battalion moved along the west side of the Qingshui River suspension bridge to the 227th Heights, and was discovered by our 1st Battalion. The regimental headquarters immediately organized 100 mortars to carry out artillery fire to block the enemy, completely covering the enemy, killing and wounding more than 40 enemies, and quickly breaking up the enemy's offensive.
At 17:50, the enemy carried out non-stop artillery bombardment on the area of Ournara and the eastern mountain of the Bali River. At 19:30, one company of the enemy's 266th Regiment launched a tentative attack on the No. 34 Heights of Dongshan Auxiliary of the Bali River, and another company launched a tentative attack on the No. 34 and No. 35 Heights at the same time, but they were all quickly repulsed by the 5th Company of our 122nd Regiment.
While attacking heights 34 and 35, the enemy carried out artillery preparations for positions No. 150 and 151 in the direction of Inara to cover the tactical deployment of a reinforced company and special detachment of the 14th Regiment. When our artillery waited for the enemy to reach the forward minefield and prepare to open a passage, a howitzer battalion was used to block the artillery fire, and the shells accurately fell into the enemy group, causing the enemy to cry and howl, and the attack was quickly disintegrated.
Our 1st Company and 3rd Platoon, guarding the No. 169 Heights, fought tenaciously under the leadership of Acting Platoon Commander Feng Guangguang, and heavy machine gunner Ran Guiming pulled out a machine gun from the collapsed fortifications, and fired a long shot to burst the enemy's rocket pioneer, causing confusion among the enemy. Soldier Shi Zhuhai fired a rocket, destroying one of the enemy's heavy machine guns.
Twenty minutes later, the enemy again launched a charge on heights 150, 151, and 169, and our 1st Company, relying on favorable terrain and with artillery support, repelled the enemy with grenades and submachine guns.
In the direction of Dongshan of the Bali River, the enemy failed three attacks and had to retreat for reinforcements. At 20:40, about a company of the 14th Regiment of the enemy moved from Qingshui to the direction of Heights 146, but was blocked and covered by the fire of the artillery group of our 119th Regiment. After a round of firepower, most of the enemy's company was wiped out.
From 21 o'clock, at intervals of half an hour, the enemy continued to attack the positions of the 2nd and 3rd companies in the direction of our No. 146 heights with the strength of two companies, but each time they failed to approach the position, they were covered by the artillery fire of our artillery group, and they were crushed, with many casualties and corpses all over the field. At 21:35, the enemy suffered heavy casualties, and seeing that the attack was hopeless, he took advantage of the darkness to withdraw to the area south of the Qingshui River.
Starting from the June 11 sneak attack, the Annam army launched a tentative offensive on a regimental scale, that is, the first phase of the "MB-84" campaign plan, but all of them were thwarted by our army. The 40th Division killed and wounded more than 500 enemies and killed more than 280. On that day, the enemy fired more than 8,000 shells of various kinds at our positions to vent his hatred of defeat.
After the failure of the tentative offensive on a regimental scale, the Annam army held the Second Beiguang Conference on June 19 and adopted the combat determination of the Second Military Region. The 174th Regiment of the 316th Division, the 141st Regiment of the 312th Division, the 66th Regiment of the 10th Division, a battalion of the 198th Special Service Regiment of the 1st Military Region, an artillery battalion of the 312th Division, and two artillery battalions of the 10th Division were also transferred to the Hajiang area.
The situation was even more severe, and at this time, the total strength of the Annam army in the front had reached 10 infantry regiments, 14 artillery battalions, and 2 special service regiments, totaling more than 40,000 people. At the same time, in view of the operational characteristics of our army during the 11 June battle, the enemy summed up lessons and lessons, revised and adjusted the deployment, studied new combat means, and conducted repeated training. In a vain attempt to break through the defense line of the Chinese army in one fell swoop in the second phase of the offensive and regain the "lost ground".
The scale of the enemy's offensive is getting bigger and bigger, the number of troops is gathering more and more, and the pressure on the front line is getting heavier and heavier. The Kunming Military Region ordered forward reconnaissance units to quickly launch tactical reconnaissance. Located behind enemy lines on the Indochina Peninsula, our Anbei Group and various intelligence forces have also penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Annam Capital Plain to conduct strategic reconnaissance behind enemy lines.
Annan has been in the middle of war for a long time and has extensive experience in battlefield protection. In order to obtain important strategic information, our Anbei group ventured deep into Luocheng and the second frontier theater, and while obtaining important information, it also made great sacrifices, and the team leader Zhu Guoying was seriously injured and captured, and five intelligence officers were killed.
7.12 After the Battle of Songmaoling, Liu Guodong and Lin Zhumin's tactical team were ordered to go deep into the plain of the enemy's capital and rescue Zhu Guoying at the risk of death. But this meritorious intelligence officer of the Republic has been injected with toxin by the Annan secret service in his body, and after several months of suffering, he died a heroic martyr. This was another major loss in the history of our army's intelligence, and in the entire Anbei group, only the female intelligence officer Lingyu and her six-year-old daughter were rescued by the brother team that went deep behind the enemy line and returned to our safe base in Lancang.
The Chinese army has a glorious tradition of covert struggle, which was formed during the period of the Great Revolution and the Agrarian Revolutionary War. In those years, under the personal leadership of Zhou Enlai, a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation, the revolutionary ancestors of our army's hidden front played a major role in winning the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, New China was surrounded by tigers and wolves by foreign powers, and wars broke out on the Goryeo Peninsula, the Indochina Peninsula, the snowy plateau, and the northern glaciers. The first generation of China's founding leaders were not afraid of strong enemies, and under very difficult circumstances, through several border self-defense wars, they completely eliminated the enterprises of Western powers that were involved in China.
In particular, in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, our army carried forward the fearless spirit of not fearing hardship and death, and defeated the 17-nation coalition led by the United States, which was armed to the teeth to the teeth, in the icy and snowy land of Korea, and won decades of time for peacebuilding for our country in one fell swoop.
In view of the national security situation, our hidden front also took the lead in arranging, and in the absence of financial support from the state, the warriors of the republic went overseas alone. They took root, ensured their survival and sought funds through production and operation, and built an invisible and hidden line of defense for the republic.
Today, our country has risen majestically, and the hidden front has made great contributions!