Chapter 17 Swallowing Mountains and Rivers

As soon as the remaining personnel of the 7th and 8th Companies withdrew to the No. 149 Heights, one rocket artillery battalion and one howitzer battalion of our artillery group quickly used intensive firepower to completely cover the 150th and 169th heights and related areas, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.

After occupying heights 150 and 169, the enemy then launched an attack on heights 149, which was covered and blocked by our artillery group. The enemy, with a reinforced company, launched a fierce assault on Heights 149 from both sides, regardless of casualties. The commander of the 1st Company and 2nd Platoon, Jin Guag, was ordered to lead 8 soldiers to support Heights 149, and they coordinated with our defenders on the Heights to defeat the enemy.

This was an extremely tragic defensive operation, and our 7th and 8th companies defended in echelons, from 6 o'clock to 17 o'clock, for a full 11 hours, and they were like nails, firmly nailed to their positions under dense artillery fire. It has repelled 17 group attacks of the enemy, and 207 corpses of the enemy in front of the position.

At 16:18, Zhang Youxia, the commander of the 119th Regiment, ordered the 1st and 3rd companies to carry out a counter-attack on the 150th and 169th heights. On the way, the counterattack detachment was blocked by the enemy's direct-aim artillery fire, and Zhang Youxia immediately ordered the assault detachment to hide and stand by on the spot, while a howitzer battalion continued to suppress the enemy on Heights 169 to suppress its attack.

After that, our 7th and 8th companies were organized into a number of small groups, which were flexibly engaged in battle one by one, relying on their positions to stubbornly attack the enemy. With the support and coordination of our artillery group's intensive artillery fire, the two companies successively repelled 17 small-scale attacks of the enemy, and finally withstood the first wave of attacks like a tide and firmly stabilized the battle line.

On the No. 142 high ground in the Nala area, the battle situation was terrible, and the devil cried terrified.

At the same time as the 169th Heights were fired, a battalion of the 174th Regiment of the enemy's 316th Division deployed on the north side of Hoangluo. With a company of troops, they attacked Heights 142 from the east, west, and south. Guarding the 142nd Heights was the 3rd Company and 3rd Platoon of the 3rd Battalion of the 119th Regiment, and at this time only the acting platoon commander Li Haixin and the 15 soldiers he led were all lightly wounded.

When the enemy touched a distance of 30 meters from the trench, Peng Minglin, our observation post, was the first to discover it. While reporting the situation to Lu's superiors, Li Haixin led the whole platoon of soldiers to respond calmly. Heavy machine guns opened fire first, and the fighters quickly knocked down the attacking enemy with cluster grenades and various weapons.

Seeing that the sneak attack could not succeed, the enemy relied on the superiority of troops and quickly and directly changed to a strong attack.

Under the cover of artillery and machine-gun fire, the enemy attacked our heights No. 142 with all their might. The enemy who rushed to the front threw explosive packs at our position, and more than 20 enemies took advantage of the smoke of the explosion to break through the trench from the north. Yang Guoyue, the leader of the 9th squad, led 4 soldiers to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, and quickly counterattacked like thunder along the trenches, killing 13 enemies and driving the enemy out of the trench.

On the other side, after knocking down four enemies with a submachine gun, Li Haixin fired a directional mine. The mines exploded "with a bang" in the bushes of the enemy and the enemy, and the enemy was blown down one by one. The remaining enemy lay on the hillside and shot wildly at Li Haixin. Li Haixin, who was exposed to the enemy's guns, was shot in the left chest, and blood flowed. But he still crawled forward with a serious injury, endured severe pain, and with great difficulty pressed another directional mine.

The directional mine exploded with a "boom", and the momentum of the enemy's offensive was suppressed.

Li Haixin, whose consciousness was about to be blurred, handed over the command to Yang Guoyue, and climbed forward with difficulty and pressed the third directional mine. At the same time as the mine exploded with a "bang", a grenade thrown by the enemy exploded near his head, and Li Haixin was martyred.

The walkie-talkie was blown up by artillery fire, and the 3rd platoon on the 169th Heights cut off contact with their superiors. Commander Yang Guoyue immediately ordered communicator Tang Youguo to run to report the situation to the company command post. Tang Youguo encountered the enemy as soon as he came out of the trench, and he himself died heroically after killing two enemies.

In order to rescue his comrade-in-arms Tang Youguo, the soldier Zhou Zhonglie braved the enemy's dense bullet rain and jumped out of the trench. He killed 3 enemies in a row, and he was also hit in the chest. He was mortally wounded and collapsed in the crater, still raising his gun to shoot at the enemy. After the bullet was finished, the enemy pounced on him in a vain attempt to capture him alive, and he resolutely pulled the grenade. With a bang, the grenade exploded, killing him and the three enemies who surrounded him.

At 5:45, the enemy, with the strength of a reinforced company, swarmed into position under the cover of direct fire from field artillery and 411 highland anti-aircraft machine gun fire. After killing 4 enemies, the soldier Liu Jiafu himself was seriously wounded. The bullets had already been fired, and the enemy rushed up to catch him alive, Liu Jiafu, who was wounded in both arms, bit Lasso with his teeth and pulled out the two grenades in his arms, killing all 14 enemies who rushed up, and he himself was martyred.

At this time, 5 people had been killed on the position, 8 were lightly and seriously wounded, and only 2 were not injured. Except for one tunnel on the 142 heights, which was still relatively intact, the rest of the fortifications were flattened by enemy artillery fire. Yang Guoyue led the soldiers to resist stubbornly against the strong enemy, and within 5 minutes, they repelled the enemy's third charge.

At 6:05, the enemy, with the strength of a reinforced company, launched a group charge and quickly occupied the surface position of Heights No. 142. Yang Guoyue quickly led the soldiers to retreat into the tunnel and insisted on fighting. After the enemy occupied the surface position, at first he did not know that there were still our soldiers in the tunnel, but in order to avoid our fierce artillery fire, a group of people retreated into the tunnel, and Yang Guoyue and other soldiers were killed by a rain of bullets.

Only then did the enemy wake up suddenly, pick up his gun, and shout "Chinese soldiers, don't fight, we will also treat the prisoners preferentially...... and before he finished shouting, Yang Guoyue sent a shuttle to the "West Heaven". Seeing this, the enemy in the rear quickly organized an attack on the mouth of the tunnel, and they set up machine guns at the entrance of the two tunnels to blockade and threw grenades into them.

Due to the lack of flamethrowers and other special weapons, the Chinese defenders in the depths of the tunnel had no choice but to keep yelling and screaming, intimidating and deceiving.

Yang Guoyue led 10 warriors to fight against the enemy, and with the determination to live and die with the position, they opened a tunnel battle with the superior enemy. They repelled the enemy's attempts to enter the tunnel again and again, and the enemy suffered more than 30 casualties, but they were still at a loss. Seeing that the strong attack could not be achieved, the enemy firmly blocked the mouth of the tunnel with firepower.

At 6:20, the enemy's 1st company continued to attack on Heights 145, and 2 squads of 8th Company pushed the enemy back to the south side of Heights 142. The enemy gathered another company to attack Heights 146, and the deputy commander of our 3rd Battalion ordered the 1st Platoon of 9 Companies to go forward to support the battle on Heights 146, breaking up the enemy's offensive and forcing the enemy to retreat to Heights 142 again.

From 6:50 a.m. to 8:06 a.m., the regimental mortar battery launched a heavy artillery attack on the surface of the enemy occupying Heights No. 142. For more than an hour of artillery fire covered, the enemy on the surface of the 142 positions was heavily wounded. The Annan army suffered heavy casualties, but with their rich battlefield experience, the remaining personnel still firmly controlled the surface position of the 142nd Heights.

At 13:25, the 8th and 9th companies counterattacked on Heights 142. Yang Guoyue and his soldiers fought from inside the tunnel and blossomed from the center of the position. With the support of fire from the friendly neighbors, the counterattack detachment and Yang Guoyue's 3rd platoon eliminated the enemy and regained the surface position at 15 o'clock, leaving more than 80 corpses of the remnants of the enemy, throwing down more than 30 seriously wounded and retreating in embarrassment.

The troops who held the heights 142, 145 and 146 were a magnificent heroic unit of our army. After the battle, the battalion presented the "Battlefield Report" to the superiors, which included the following paragraph, "half of the battalion was killed in battle, and all the personnel were wounded." The battalion commander was killed, and the deputy battalion commander, one company commander, and two deputy company commanders were seriously injured......"

From this "War Report" covered with the blood of martyrs, the tragic situation of the battle can be seen.

In particular, I, the "15 brave men" who held on to the 142 heights, fought fiercely for 10 hours with a reinforced battalion of more than 420 people of the Annam army with the courage to overwhelm all enemies. It repelled six successive group attacks by the enemy, killing and wounding more than 200 enemies and killing 104 enemies.

As soon as the fighting slowed down, our military reporters took to the heights and were shocked by the accumulation of enemy corpses on their positions. After the war, 5 martyrs in 3 platoons were posthumously recognized for their war exploits, and all 10 surviving warriors were honored for their war exploits. Three people were awarded the glorious title of "Battle Heroes", and the No. 142 Heights they held on to were also known as the "Lee Hae-hin Heights".

On the direction of the 662.6 heights, another defensive point, the battle was equally tragic.

At 5:45, the enemy's 876th Regiment launched an assault on Heights No. 103 with the strength of one company. Wang Baojun, Liu Wanchao, and Chen Guogang, soldiers of the 5th Company and 2nd Squad of our 119th Regiment, were ordered to lurk in the highland alert position of No. 102 Frontier. After being surrounded by dozens of times the enemy, they responded calmly and stubbornly resisted, disrupting the enemy's offensive deployment in an instant.

An enemy mortar shell hit their lurking position, Liu Wanchao died a heroic death, Chen Guogang was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and Wang Baojun was wounded in two places. Two soldiers of the Annan army rushed to the position and pounced on Chen Guogang, who was unconscious, and was killed by Wang Baojun with a submachine gun and a rain of bullets. He then carried Chen Guogang into the grass on his back, and quickly withdrew to Heights 103 moments before the enemy's follow-up troops surrounded him.

At 6:30, the enemy once again attacked Heights 103 with the strength of one company under the cover of artillery fire, and another company launched an attack on Heights 662.6.

The mortar company of the 119th Regiment quickly carried out blocking and shooting, and Li Congwan, the commander of the 1st platoon of the 5th Company, decisively commanded the whole platoon to fire at the enemy with all kinds of firearms, crushing the attacking enemy, and leaving more than 30 corpses of the enemy in front of the position. At the same time, a company of enemy agents attacking Heights 101 was also repulsed by 6 Company.

While the enemy was attacking the positions, a force of more than 30 agents quietly infiltrated the depth of our defense from the jungle between the heights of No. 100 and No. 81 in an attempt to sneak attack our artillery positions. The enemy has already advanced to Laoxinzhai and is only one step away from our artillery position. At the critical moment, the cooking squad of our 2nd Battalion, which was cooking, inadvertently took the lead in discovering the enemy.

The cooking soldiers did not panic, they were still stir-frying, but their eyes were all looking at the squad leader.

While stir-frying, the squad leader whispered, "Brothers, it's the turn of our cooks to deliver the door." Attention class, get ready - hit! The squad leader gave an order, and the soldiers threw away the spatulas together, quickly pulled the submachine gun behind them that had been opened with the safety open, and splashed a dense rain of bullets into the jungle dozens of meters away.

Regardless of their exposure to the enemy's field of fire, the cooks fired seven submachine guns to suppress the infiltrating enemy in the jungle. The Annan special team was dressed in the clothes of the Chinese army, and they did not expect that a small cooking squad would find out that their identities were different, and they were suddenly caught off guard, and more than a dozen people were killed on the spot by the dense rain of bullets.

The agents, who had come to their senses, quickly came with a dense burst of fire, all of which hit the seven soldiers of our cooking class......

This is a cooking class located in the depth of the defense and is cooking for the soldiers at the front. They paid the price with their lives, and with their flesh and blood and loyalty to the motherland, they firmly blocked the infiltrating enemy and bought a few precious seconds for the forward troops to return to defense.