There is still hope that they will occupy the heights before the Soviet reinforcements arrive! Once this reinforcement was allowed to go to the high ground, their company had no choice but to launch a strong attack on the high ground, and at that time the Soviet army was condescending, not only would it be extremely difficult for them to occupy the high ground, but the situation of the whole company today would also be unimaginable!

The above thoughts may only be fleeting in his mind, but the panic and urgency they brought to him became the main force that determined and drove his thoughts and actions for some time to come. At this time, his command of the battle was still reflexive - not long ago, he asked the whole company to move eastward through the ridge valley to the east side of the 633 heights, and then to the south to attack the 634 heights.

He overtook the 3rd and 2nd rows of the line between the ridges and valleys, and rushed to the exit at the east end of the ridge valley, only to see at a glance the Grand Canyon that cut Vulture Ridge and No. 1 Ridge from northwest to southeast, and the East 1st, 2nd, and 3rd East Highlands on the east side of the canyon where the emerald flies lined up from north to south. The East 2nd Highland is facing the ridge valley between the 632 and 633 Highlands, while the East 3rd Highland crosses the canyon and looks down on a leg of the 633 Highlands and the entire 634 Highlands stretching out into the southeast mountain gorge. Since the early morning of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd East Heights, they have been using a heavy machine gun to attack the 629 and 630 heights at the eastern end of the No. 1 Ridge, and the strange thing is that their team poured out of the ridge and valley under their feet, and the two heavy machine guns on the East 2nd and 3rd Heights stopped firing. Cheng Yukun's heart tightened suddenly: the Soviet troops in the East Second and East Third Highlands had already discovered them! If they move along the foothills of the eastern side of the 633 Heights to the 634 Heights in an open field. It is likely to be intercepted by the fire of the Soviet troops on the two heights mentioned above!

But Deputy Regiment Commander Liu's order must be carried out! If the whole company is stranded in this ridge valley, it will immediately be hit by the fire of the Soviet troops in the East Second Heights! Cheng Yukun's brain was hot, and he became impulsive: the whole company must rush through this open field about 800 meters away!

"Backwards! The whole company picks up speed and runs forward—" He shouted at the team that had slowed down significantly, and took the lead out of the valley and ran along the path at the foot of the hill on the east side of Heights 633 towards Heights 634.

The 1st and 2nd platoons followed him and ran forward, and the speed of the whole company's movement accelerated!

From the moment he left Taniguchi, Cheng Yukun's throat seemed to be tightly jammed by a hand. Now the whole company is exposed to the guns of the Soviet troops on the 2nd and 3rd Eastern Heights, and the Soviet troops may shoot at any time! But the Soviets did not shoot. The Soviets were silent and watched as they approached the 634 heights!

There can only be one explanation for not firing a shot. This explanation must have something to do with a conspiracy, Cheng Yukun thought suddenly. As soon as this thought flashed in his heart, the pace under his feet slowed down, and the deputy company Jiang Yusheng and the 2nd platoon leader Cheng Fei ran in front of him with the 1st and 2nd platoons! But he didn't have time to think about what the conspiracy was. Cheng Yukun raised his head, and the 634 Heights and the steep main peak with four cliffs had appeared in front of him without any obstruction. Deputy Company Jiang Yusheng and 2nd Platoon Commander Cheng Fei were faster, and they and the 1st Platoon and 2nd Platoon had reached the big mountain leg of the 633 Heights stretching out to the southeast canyon, and beyond the ridges on the south side of the mountain legs was the depression at the junction of the 633 Heights and the 634 Heights.

At this moment, Cheng Yukun's heart tightened again for the special terrain of the 634 Heights! Whether it is on the map or in Deputy Commander Liu's order, it is not stated in advance that there is such a main peak on the 634 heights, but at this moment it stands tall in front of Cheng Yukun!

Yet he didn't stop. The deputy company commander and the 2nd platoon commander in front had led the troops to cross the last ridge and enter the depression at the northeast foot of the 634 Heights. The Soviet troops on the East 2nd and 3rd Heights still did not shoot, and there was no movement on the northeast side of the 634 Heights! He hurried forward a dozen paces, and led a few people from the company to follow the whole company through the ridge.

Looking back, I found that the last few soldiers, including Yu Changguiyi, a new soldier of the cooking class with a marching pot on his back, also jumped over the ridge. Above the high ground and on the East 2nd and 3rd East Heights, there was still no gunshot! Cheng Yukun suddenly had a bold idea in his heart: maybe there were just a dozen Soviet troops on the northwest side of the 634 Heights.

There was still heavy gunfire – not on the north and northeast sides! The thought emboldened him, but it didn't diminish the vigilance in his heart. As soon as he crossed the ridge, his eyes quickly searched the surrounding terrain; Regardless of whether there were still Soviet troops on the heights. The company was to attack immediately, and he had to first find a command post for himself where he could hide. He immediately found the site: the southernmost point of Heights 633 was a cliff, seven or eight feet high; On the grass under the cliff, dozens of pebbles lie horizontally and vertically, the big ones are like houses, and the small ones are like cows, scattered in an irregular circle. Suddenly, he thought of the Soviet reinforcements that would appear from the west side of the heights, and he unconsciously glanced at the western half of the pebble circle: the pebbles there were very large and tightly arranged, and there were a few teacup-sized pines growing between the cracks in the stones. It was these trees, which looked full of life in the sun, that made him make up his mind: set up the company command post here!

He only had time to quickly lay down in the pebble circle when gunshots rang out overhead! It had originally come from above the high ground, and the first string of bullets crackled on the pebbles in front of him, not posing a direct threat to his life, but allowing him to see through the gaps between the pebbles the scene in the depression ahead: several soldiers of the second platoon were preparing to climb towards the high ground, and suddenly seemed to be frozen, and froze there in various strange postures, before falling backwards and backwards. He had considered himself heroic and fearless since this morning, but at this moment, in the face of the imminent sight of death, the breathless horror of death made him tremble again!

He buried his head deep in the underground soil, and after a few seconds, he was able to calm down a little, raised his head and looked at the high ground, and couldn't help but be surprised: it turned out that not only was there a defensive position and a dozen Soviet troops on the northwest waist of the high ground, but there were originally three defensive lines of the Soviet army ambushed on the northeast, north and northwest sides, which were distributed at the waist of the high ground, fifty meters above the waist, and the platform ridge below the main peak.

From the dense gunfire, he could hear the whistling of rifles, submachine guns, light machine guns, and finally found a heavy machine gun in the third defensive position at the top! The network of fire they intertwined was overwhelming, and in the blink of an eye, the whole company was lying at the foot of the mountain on the northeast and north sides of the plateau! Only the formed units above the company level of the Soviet army were equipped with heavy machine guns, so he also understood: they encountered a company of defenders on the 634 heights!

Immediately he could no longer pay attention to the Soviet troops above the heights. Almost at the same time as the gunfire rang out above the high ground, the two heavy machine guns of the East 2nd and East 3rd Highlands, which had not been sniping at them from the direction of Vulture Ridge, also screamed frantically. Cheng Yukun immediately realized that it was the heavy machine gun in the East Three Heights. When he chose the command position, he was only worried about the Soviet troops who would appear on the legs of the high ground in the south and the big nose peak in the west, and did not notice that this pile of pebbles was located at the lower end of the ridge line that stretched diagonally down from the 634 heights and divided the northeast and north slopes of the high ground into two, and the terrain was the highest in the center of the depression, and the heavy machine gun bullets of the Soviet troops on the eastern three heights could just hit the circle. The first string of bullets fell to the ground, and Cheng Yukun's heart was once again filled with fear of death: as soon as he saw someone else's death, the Grim Reaper came to him, and he didn't even give him the time to settle down!

Instinctively, he leaned towards the east side of the pebble circle, curled up under a pebble, dodging the bullets that continued to come from the direction of the East Three Heights. But immediately a few more bullets "creaked" and landed on the ground on the right, and the pine and fir trees in the western half of the pebble circle also made a "click" cracking sound, and the stumps and leaves fell one after another. Chengyu Kunming came over in vain: this rain of bullets flew from the leg of the Big Nose Peak in the west of the depression!

Reinforcements from the Soviet army in the direction of Mount Xilian have arrived and are trying to ascend the heights from the northwest side of the heights!

Cheng Yukun will never forget this moment - not the moment when gunfire rang out on the high ground, nor the moment when the heavy machine gun of the Soviet army on the East Three Heights hit him with bullets, but it was precisely the moment when the Soviet troops in the direction of Xilian Mountain were about to land on the 634 heights - a feeling of falling into a trap suddenly rose in his heart. It turned out that when their company was moving from the east side of Heights 633 to Heights 634, the Soviet troops on the East 2nd and 3rd Heights did not shoot, just to let them enter the trap of the depression on the northeast side of Heights 634, and it turned out that the Soviet troops had long planned to wipe them all out in this trap! Now he understands what the conspiracy of the Soviet army is, but it is too late! Behind him is the cliff at the southern end of the 633 Heights, on the west side is the Soviet troops in the direction of Mount Xilian and the minefield under the control of Soviet fire, and the road on the east side is blocked by the heavy machine gun fire of the Soviet troops on the East 2nd and East 3rd Heights, and there is no way to retreat at all!

Another rain of bullets screamed into the pebble circle, and Cheng Yukun subconsciously buried his head and face in the grass and dirt, unable to carefully distinguish where they came from. He's going to die in the middle of this pile of pebbles, and no matter where he hides, bullets will find him. But the premonition of death did not make him lie in the pebble circle and wait for his death, but on the contrary, it made him sober and cheered up again!

Since there is no way out, let's fight. Fight with the fucking Soviet red-haired son! Today is either the fish dies, or the net is broken!

Let the 1st platoon and the 2nd platoon launch a strong attack on the high ground, and send the 3rd platoon to the west of the depression to snipe the Soviet reinforcements from the direction of Xilian Mountain. His heart was sad, his thoughts and actions were still reflexive, but he did the right thing: if the Soviet fire from three directions was allowed to continue to hit them fiercely, the destruction of this company would not take long! Cheng Yukun's head was raised, his upper body was propped up with his elbows, and he crawled through the gap between the two pebbles in front of him, then took out a small horn and used a series of long and short horn tones to give the orders to each platoon that was scattered in the depression to attack the high ground and snipe the Soviet troops in Xilian Mountain!

The trumpet was quickly answered. First, from a stone crack at the foot of the mountain on the north side of the plateau, the figures of the deputy company Jiang Yusheng and the leader of the 2nd platoon, Cheng Fei, flashed out, spreading out to both sides, each gesturing to the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd platoons to follow him and climb above the high ground. At the same time, Shang Yujun, the commander of the 3rd platoon, also led the 3rd platoon to crawl forward from the depression located behind the pebble circle to the west side of the depression in the rain of bullets to meet the Soviet troops from the direction of Xilian Mountain!

Then came the sound of rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns from the northeast, north, and northwest slopes of the heights! This is the sound of his own troops shooting Soviet troops from the bottom up! Cheng Yukun's desperate heart was shocked, and his eyes were immediately blurred by tears! He didn't believe that the 1st and 2nd platoons could attack the high ground, and it was hard to believe that Shang Yujun could block the Soviet troops from the direction of Xilian Mountain, but after all, these gunshots disturbed the Soviet troops above the high ground and on the legs of the Big Nose Peak on the west side of the depression, so that the rain of bullets falling into the pebble circle was obviously thinned. Cheng Yukun didn't believe that he could escape from the trap of death today, but he suddenly thought that his evaluation of the whole company and his combat command ability in the past was not completely accurate; In any case, when the company was about to be wiped out, he did not sit idly by as the secretary general, and everyone in the company, including him, performed heroically!

Thinking of this, his tears couldn't stop welling up.

When the 9th Company moved along the open ground at the foot of the hill on the east side of the 633rd Heights towards the 634th Heights, the real reasons why the Soviet troops on the 2nd and 3rd East Heights did not carry out fire interception were: at first the Soviets did not understand the true intentions of this contingent that suddenly poured out of the ridge valley between the 632nd and 633rd Heights, and the Vulture Ridge and the Hill of Xilian were each a defensive area, and the communication with each other was through a higher command authority, before they could report the new situation they found to the agency and receive clear instructions; It was normal for the Soviet troops on the 2nd and 3rd East Heights to not be able to respond appropriately, and the 9th Company took advantage of this time to enter the depression on the northeast side of the 634 Heights. At this time, the higher command had given clear instructions to the Soviet troops on the 2nd and 3rd Eastern Heights, and the defenders of the 634th Heights had also begun to fire on the 9th Company under the high grounds.

As for the Soviet troops coming from the direction of Xilian Mountain, they also carried out a fire attack in the third direction on the 9th Company from the leg of the big nose peak, which was also not out of a pre-planned conspiracy. Since the 9th Company had reached the northern and northeastern depressions of Heights 634 ahead of this Soviet force, the Soviet troops had to be placed under their own fire cover for their actions from the legs of the Dabifeng Mountain on the west side of the depression over the gully and to the high ground. And this very normal tactical measure just finally completed the desperate situation of the 9th Company under the 634 heights.

Cheng Yukun's horn reached Jiang Yusheng and Cheng Fei's ears through the dense gunshots, and the two of them put their faces on the ground and looked at each other knowingly. None of them had spoken a word, but they had spoken a thousand words in their hearts.

The two men end up with a smile for each other. This smile was a farewell and encouragement, and then jumped out of the stone crack where he was hiding.

There is a small pine tree the size of a thumb on the slope more than 20 meters in front of the left.

Jiang Yusheng jumped over the ridge line that separated the northeastern and northern slopes of the plateau and saw the small pine tree at a glance. In a web of death woven by the rain of bullets that overlap above the Highlands and in the Vulture Ridge area. The rain of bullets in the direction of Big Nose Peak in the west is blocked by the ridge line - the branches of this small tree are intact, and the verdant foliage still shines in the bright afternoon sun, indicating that it is a "safety island" where you can hide your own corpse. Moreover, the terrain is open and you can see from below and up what is happening on the northeast slope of the highlands.

Jiang Yusheng grabbed the body of the submachine gun with his right hand, the outside of his left arm was on the ground, his chin rubbed against the grass roots and stone ridges on the slope, his eyes widened forward, and he crawled towards the small pine tree in a low posture. His mood was tense, because on the side of the ridge line, the gunfire of Cheng Fei and the 2nd platoon attacking upwards had already sounded!

He finally made his way to the little pine tree with difficulty. It was a small crater, the mountain in front of it was raised, and the Soviet guns and bullets were blocked and could not be hit; On the left side is a strangely shaped mountain rock, which just protects the body and canopy of the tree from bullets from the direction of the East 2nd and East 3rd Highlands. Jiang Yusheng now understands why the 8th Company did not realize that the 634 Heights were ambushed by the Soviet Army after the 8th Company occupied the 633 Heights: The three defensive lines of the Soviet troops on the high ground had been built for some unknown years and months, and then let them grow wild grasses and shrubs up and down indiscriminately, unless they exposed themselves, it was difficult for the attacker's side to find the opponent from a piece of green with the help of a telescope. He could see clearly: the largest deployment of Soviet troops, and the greatest threat to them at the moment, was the first trench on the mountainside, about 80 to 100 meters away from him.

On the northeastern side of the plateau alone, two light machine guns and more than 20 automatic rifles and submachine guns fired fiercely downward, causing the grass and trees on the slopes and the depressions at the foot of the mountain to rise into a high, chaotic, blue-yellow dust; The second trench, located 50 meters above it, had weak fire, and there was only one light machine gun, a dozen submachine guns, and automatic rifles on the northeastern side of the heights; The third trench on the platform ridge below the main peak of the high ground was more than 100 meters higher than the second trench, and what attracted Jiang Yusheng's attention there was not a large number of submachine guns and automatic rifles, but an old Makqin heavy machine gun that screamed particularly shockingly. However, its main target at present is not them under the mountain, but the southernmost cliff top of the 633 Heights in the northwest, making it impossible for the 8th Company to go south there to support them with firepower. Jiang Yusheng reacted quickly in his mind: he should take 1 platoon to quickly develop towards the first trench of the Soviet army!

(To be continued)