"How could the special artillery regiment be wiped out, didn't Cowan report a few hours ago that the Chinese interspersed troops had fled from his positions?" Van Vliet said as he stared at his chief of staff in disbelief. "It's incredible, they've really retreated!" The chief of staff knew from Van Vliet's expression that Van Vliet was on the verge of breaking out, so he said cautiously. "That's not the reason!" Van Vliet said, "All the people have made huge mistakes, Cowan has not figured out the exact number of the enemy, our reinforcements are too slow, and the South Korean army is a bunch of rubbish, these idiots have joined together to give our enemies a chance to inflict heavy damage on us!" Bastard! ”

"Even so, I can't be angry yet, because I still have to command the battle!" Van Vliet asked his chief of staff, "What more do we have to lose, and what impact will it have on the next offensive?" "Several of our artillery regimental positions were also attacked by the enemy, losing more than a hundred artillery pieces and a batch of shells, to be honest, I propose to postpone the attack on Shangganling, we need time to rest and replenish artillery!" said the chief of staff. "No!" Van Vliet said, "We have nearly 1,000 artillery pieces, and now we have only destroyed more than 100 guns, which does not affect us much, and besides, we still have the air force, and we still have an advantage in firepower!" Attack immediately, we can't let the Chinese's counterattack succeed, we have been fighting here for more than 40 days, and we can't give up all the achievements! "Yes! Sir! The chief of staff immediately agreed.

Liu Xiaoshan led his regiment back to the No. 6 position smoothly, the regiment commanders were responsible for settling the troops, replenishing ammunition and food, and Liu Xiaoshan ran to find Liu Hai with a large pile of captured maps, because Liu Xiaoshan could not read the maps of the Americans, and he felt that Liu Hai must be able to find something valuable from these maps. Ran to Liu Hai's headquarters, Liu Xiaoshan first reported the situation of his attack this time, because this time the effect was obvious, and destroyed a lot of enemy artillery, and also killed an unexpected special caliber heavy artillery regiment, Liu Hai praised it on the spot!

"Division Commander, this is the map information I seized, do you see if there is anything useful?" Liu Xiaoshan took out all his seizures and spread them on Bangs' table. After being busy for a while, Liu Hai raised his head and told Liu Xiaoshan that he had identified six American artillery positions from the maps and materials, "That's great, then let's organize an artillery attack, six places, that's at least six artillery regiments, if this is a nest, it would be good!" Liu Xiaoshan said excitedly. Don't be so happy! Liu Hai said, "Generally speaking, after the enemy attack, in order to ensure safety, these artillery and command headquarters have to be transferred, and now even if it is an artillery attack, it can only be a chance!" "That's not bad!" Liu Xiaoshan said.

Liu Hai is not wrong, according to the general situation, after one's artillery position or headquarters is attacked, there is no guarantee that the position of one's troops and the battle plan have not been obtained by the enemy, all key points and even the battle plan will be changed, but there are some special circumstances that will not or cannot be changed, such as the current General Van Vliet. After being attacked, Van Vliet thought about attacking the most, because the capital he invested in Shangganling was too large, even after being attacked, Van Vliet still decided to attack according to the plan, in order to launch an attack as soon as possible, so he did not make the necessary adjustments.

Liu Hai arranged for the ghost artillery and Wu Fatzi to carry out artillery raids on the six places according to the six positions he judged, and after this round of raids, the artillery of the US army was hit again, which greatly weakened Van Vliet's firepower in the front of Shangganling. However, after Van Vliet's offensive began, the American army still dropped a huge number of artillery shells and * on the position, looking at the fire and burning flames that exploded on the high ground, Liu Hai knew that this was what the volunteers on the position had to suffer, although the American artillery was hit, but its scale and projection ability were still considerable!

After the artillery was finished, there was an infantry attack, and Van Vliet's South Korean Army took the lead in rushing up, and the position immediately reported the enemy's attack route and direction to the artillery behind, and then the artillery fire of Oh Fat Man and the ghost artillery interception, the South Korean Army rushed through the artillery fire and killed in front of the position, and the volunteers on the position immediately began to greet with machine guns and rifles*, and finally rushed up with bayonets to fight with bayonets. This set of offensive procedures went over and over again, the offensive of the United Nations army continued, and the main peak troops holding Shangganling also changed company after company, both sides fought from morning to night, and both sides suffered countless casualties, but no one was willing to take half a step back!

After a day's defensive battle, the main peak troops of Shangganling were replaced by four companies, and if it continued like this, the troops that the 15th Army and the 12th Army had just replenished would be exhausted again! The commander of the 15 th Army, who was a little anxious about the number of casualties, suddenly had an idea: Can we transfer some troops from both flanks to supplement the main peak position in Shangganling? Anyway, the positions on both sides have not been attacked by the United Nations since the afternoon before yesterday. Thinking of this, the commander of the 15th Army reported to Zhisi and asked for the transfer of troops from both flanks to reinforce the main peak of Shangganling. After reading the report of the 15 th Army, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese People's Volunteers felt that the idea of the commander of the 15 th Army was a bit of a palliative rather than a cure, even if he transferred troops from both flanks, he could only continue to fight a war of attrition with the Israelns, and the best way now was to force the Americans to stop attacking and admit that the battle had failed, which was the best way!

"Commander-in-chief, isn't this American not moving on the flanks? I estimate that they are afraid that they are not strong enough, after fighting for so many days, our troops have indeed suffered a lot of casualties, but we are fighting a defensive war, according to the proportion of battle losses between the offensive and defensive sides in a defensive war, their losses will only be more than ours, and it is impossible to be less than us, so I am sure that the reason why the Americans have stopped the attack from both sides now is because of insufficient troops, and they can only concentrate their forces on the Shangganling Heights in the front, and they have to stop the attack on both sides! "The chief of staff of the Volunteer Army reported his thoughts to the commander-in-chief.

"To be honest, I also think so, if we want to force the Americans to stop attacking now, we can launch a feint attack from both flanks, as long as we hit it all at once, we don't need to advance far, if the Americans' wings are empty, he definitely doesn't have the courage to let it go, if we really break through, then the troops in front of his Shangganling will have to be dumplings by us!" said the commander-in-chief. "The commander-in-chief is right, don't we have two armies on the right now, we can transfer one army to the left, and when the time comes, both sides will attack at the same time, making it look like they want to penetrate in depth, I don't believe that he is not afraid!" said the chief of staff. "Okay, that's it!" The commander-in-chief said, "Let Liu Hai arrange firepower, and one army on the left and right sides will attack the US troops, and the assault distance will be set at five kilometers!" "Yes!" The chief of staff said immediately.

In accordance with the commander-in-chief's order, the troops of the two armies on the right flank drew out the troops of one corps and went to the No. 6 position to prepare for the attack, while Liu Hai ran to the No. 6 position to arrange the targets of the attack and the artillery bombardment procedures for escorting the troops to launch the attack. The attack on the right side is a bit troublesome, because the situation of the US troops on the right is unknown, and the specific number of troops is not very clear, so it takes a bit of brains when attacking. Shiji handed over the attack plan on the right to Liu Hai, and Liu Hai arranged the procedures for the artillery attack according to the attack plan. Soon everything was ready.

The Americans' firepower was still concentrated on the main peak of Shangganling, and the volunteers of the two armies were already ready, and with the three signal flares rising into the air, the two armies in two directions, with the support of artillery fire, launched an attack on the depth of the US troops. Cowan on the opposite side of the No. 6 position, because he was twice in and out of the volunteer army led by Liu Xiaoshan, made Cowan very depressed, so he strengthened his position defense when there was no way to attack, most of the artillery fire had been arranged in advance to shoot Zhu Yuan, and also strengthened the fortifications, in this case, the volunteers who attacked from the No. 6 position did not take much breakthrough in the No. 6 position, because this attack was a campaign feint, so the volunteers just kept attacking, As long as the Americans can realize that the volunteers have the intention to attack!

Compared with the attack on the No. 6 position on the left flank, the attack on the right side was very smooth, and the attack of the Volunteer Army, with the support of artillery fire, broke through the American defense line in less than an hour, and because the forces on the right flank were also concentrated on the main peak of Shangganling, there were basically not many powerful troops on the right side, and there was only an independent brigade of the South Korean Army! The brigade commander of the South Korean Army looked at the overwhelming number of volunteers, and did not dare to block them at all, but ordered someone to blow up a bridge over a mountain stream, and then blocked the bridgehead with machine gun and artillery fire.

The sudden attack of the volunteers on both flanks greatly shocked Van Vliet, who was concentrating his forces to attack Shangganling, never thought that the volunteers still had enough troops to launch such a big counterattack, and Van Vliet hurriedly divided his troops to resist, so that the pressure in the direction of the main peak of Shangganling was greatly reduced!