U.S. Army's Counterattack (5)

Cowen, who failed in his last effort, could only obey the order Van Vliet, and in addition to the necessary defensive forces, sent the last South Korean division under his command to the battlefield in front of Shangganling, the reason why Van Vliet wanted to concentrate his forces in two directions on the front of the main peak was because the second echelon in front of Van Vliet was hit by the fierce fire of Liu Hai's Eighth Artillery Division, although the establishment was reorganized, but the losses were huge because of the huge losses, and the combat strength of the United Nations troops in front was greatly damaged, Coupled with the removal of the aircraft that suppressed the artillery fire, Wu Fatzi and the ghost artillery under the command of Liu Hai naturally did not eat dry food, with the attack of the United Nations Army, the mobile and flexible gave timely artillery support to the volunteers on the position, although the artillery fire of the United Nations Army was also fierce, but with the support of artillery fire, the volunteers on the main peak withstood the attack of the United Nations Army.

In the battle of the main peak, the US troops first focused their attention on the 537.9 heights, concentrated a large amount of artillery fire and planes and threw an unprecedented number of shells on the position, although the volunteers on the position dug some fortifications and artillery holes, but they were far from enough, so they had to use the firepower points and permanent firepower points built by the US troops on the positions as hiding places. Soon the volunteers found that the quality of the US military's military engineering was really not boastful, as long as those permanent fortifications were not directly hit by large-caliber shells or * direct hits, ordinary explosions really could not do anything about these fortifications, and the volunteer soldiers relied on these remnants of American fortifications to withstand the fire of the Americans.

In order to be able to capture the position, the Americans also threw heavy * and *, the entire high ground was surrounded by shells and flames, many soldiers and wounded soldiers of the volunteer army were shocked to death or burned to death by the shells, no matter how much the American firepower covered, every time they attacked, there would be volunteers from the broken fortifications and soil to shoot at them, once wounded, they would take * or blasting canisters, or * bags to rush down and die with the attacking American troops or South Korean troops, the American army almost attacked several times, They were all beaten by the tenacious spirit of the volunteers who were not afraid of sacrifice and would rather die together than take half a step back, and they withdrew because of low morale.

At the time of the seventh attack of the American army, there were only five soldiers left on the 537.9 heights, and one of these five soldiers was a nineteen-year-old soldier who could no longer hold on because one of his legs was blown off, but when he saw the American troops climbing up again, there was a glimmer of hope in his eyes. This soldier no longer had the strength to hold the blasting canister more than ten meters away from him, so he could only tie a few * into a bundle at hand, and then used his last strength, pulled the string of *, and then turned out of the trench, and when he rolled into the group of American troops, the * bundle in his hand rang!

"Little town, well done! No shame on the Chinese! The deputy company commander, the supreme commander on the position, looked at the three soldiers beside him, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted, "The fifth company now has only four combat strength left, and the enemy's seventh attack has begun, ask for new troops to take over!" Request artillery coverage, request artillery coverage! "Comrades, hit me and hold out until the arrival of the receiving troops! Call me! The deputy company commander put down the walkie-talkie and commanded the three soldiers around him to shoot at the rushing American troops. The U.S. troops had obviously seen that there were not many volunteers on the position, so they roared and rushed up. "*, get on the bayonet!" The deputy company commander shouted, and the other three fighters knew that the time was up, and without hesitation, they did not hesitate to put on *, loaded their bayonets and rushed towards the enemy. After a few minutes of hand-to-hand combat, the four volunteer soldiers pulled the * on their bodies, and the deputy company commander saw their own covering artillery fire hit the position before the * explosion, and then died in the explosion of *!

Wu Fatzi's heavy artillery plowed along the strike line, covering the new company to go to the high ground to take over the defense, and on the other hand, striking at the American troops who were almost rushing to the position. Wu Fatzi's heavy artillery is not only powerful, the most important thing is that the battle-hardened Wu Fatzi has almost no error in the shelling, one by one the shells are pressed towards the charging American troops like a wall, watching the shells pressed intensively, the American soldiers can't care about occupying the position, turn around and start to retreat, so as to buy time for the reinforcements to rush to the position. When the reinforcements arrived at the position, Wu Fatzi immediately stopped the shelling and began to move. The reason why this is so is because Wu Fatzi has figured out the law of the US planes, once the shelling of the volunteer army starts, the US planes will counterattack within ten minutes of being ten minutes faster and a little slower, and within fifteen minutes, so it must be transferred before this and camouflaged alive!

"Collect the remains of the martyrs, build positions, and prepare for the next attack of the American army!" The company commander who came up with reinforcements looked at the corpses of the volunteers on the battlefield, and his heart ached violently, but he quickly forced back this mood, because war is to die, although these are their own comrades, but the Americans' offensive continues, and now is not the time to be sad! With the support of Wu Fatzi, the new company took over the defense of the high ground.

"Bastard!" Van Vliet had already taken over the command of the attack on the main peak of Shangganling after the failure of the fourth attack of the United Nations Army, but with the seventh attack that had just failed, Van Vliet already felt unbearable, and he commanded tens of thousands of troops and far more than ten times the opponent's ground-to-air firepower, but under the loss of troops, he still gained nothing, which made Van Vliet feel that he had to find a way! After Van Vliet carefully understood the situation, he felt that the reason why the volunteers were able to hold their positions was because the volunteers had figured out the law of their own firepower attacks, and if they broke the existing laws of firepower, they would be able to catch the volunteers off guard, and they might be able to capture the position when the time came!

"Listen to me, your artillery should be a little more artistic, for example, after the cover, when our troops attack in front of the enemy's position, you can fight another round, when our troops are about to withdraw from the battle, you can also fight another round, when the battle is over, you can fight another round! In this way, we can have three artillery support in one attack, and we can also have three chances to strike at the enemy, understand? Van Vliet said to his artillery commander. Yes, we remembered! We will use artillery reconnaissance planes to carefully adjust the shelling target, and try not to hurt our own people! The artillery commander said. The most important thing is to strike at the enemy, because the South Koreans who rushed to the front! Van Vliet said.

After adjusting the artillery tactics, the US military reorganized the offensive. This time Van Vliet carefully organized an attack, and in order to attract the attention of the volunteers, Van Vliet concentrated two South Korean divisions and launched an attack on the 597.9 heights next to it! In order to fully attract the attention of the volunteers, Van Vliet also specially organized fighter planes to carry out a frenzied bombing of 597.9, making it look like he was going to suddenly attack the 597.9 heights. "After the bombing of the planes, two of our regiments and one South Korean division launched an attack on the 537.7 heights, while the two South Korean divisions on the right concentrated their forces on the 597.9 heights. Do you understand? Van Vliet said to his men.

"Two South Korean divisions attacking the 597.9 heights?" After hearing the report, Liu Hai felt that this was a perfect opportunity to kill and injure a large number of enemies. At the time of the counterattack, the rocket artillery division had to temporarily withdraw from the battle because it had all the *. However, just yesterday, the logistics and transportation of the Volunteer Army created a miracle, in the midst of thousands of bombing sorties by the US army, a batch of * was transported to the front line, and as soon as this batch was delivered, two divisions of the South Korean Army launched an intensive attack on the 597.9 heights, which is precisely the strength of the *, and carried out a short and intensive fire strike on the enemy within the unit area! So Liu Hai decided to seize this opportunity to hit the UN army hard.

The US offensive began, and the two South Korean divisions began to attack towards their target, and at this time, the two rocket artillery divisions arranged in front of Sangganling suddenly began to cover with dense firepower, and the two divisions of the South Korean Army, which had already attacked the 597.9 heights, were instantly covered, and the dense explosion of the South Korean Army that was advancing in the offensive area was blown up into a mess. The fire assault of the rocket artillery division was dense and short, but the power was huge, and the two South Korean divisions were killed and wounded in an instant, and in the face of huge casualties, Van Vliet felt that it was difficult to accept, but after all, it happened, in the face of the huge casualties of the South Korean army, Van Vliet did not dare to guarantee that the other side would not have another such attack on the 537.7 heights, so in order to prevent the US troops from also suffering such terrible casualties, Van Vliet temporarily canceled the US army's attack on the 537.7 heights.

As the offensive continued, the losses of the United Nations forces rose in a straight line, two US regiments and one independent battalion had withdrawn from the battle because of the huge losses, and the United Nations forces attacking the main peak of the front had only half an American division and one South Korean division, but except for two outpost positions that were captured by the US troops, the rest of the main peak positions were firmly in the hands of the volunteers. Seeing that the results of his more than a month of hard fighting were about to come to naught, Van Vliet was determined to make a desperate gamble and concentrate the forces on both sides on the front to make a final struggle!