Moderate Counter Attack (2)
"Brigade commander, division commander said let's pay attention to the enemy's movements, report any abnormalities at any time, and prepare for an attack at the same time!" The correspondent came to report. "What? I'm all set, why do I have to observe the report? Liu Xiaoshan looked at the correspondent strangely and asked. That's what the division commander said! The correspondent said. All right! Pay attention to observation, and report any abnormalities at any time! Liu Xiaoshan looked at the correspondent and knew that it would be in vain to ask. What does that mean? Called to be ready to attack, and to observe? What is this going to do, Commander? Liu Xiaoshan looked at the other side and muttered to himself.
"Division Commander, Brigade Commander Liu has asked for an attack many times!" The staff officer of the division headquarters came over and said. "Let him pay attention to observation, and he will naturally be allowed to fight when the time comes!" Bangs waved his hand. "Division Commander, now that you can attack, why don't you let him attack? It's a good night for us! The staff officer said with some puzzlement. Now we can't transport shells, our artillery support is limited, we can only choose the most suitable time to launch a counterattack, and it has to be moderate, if there is no fire cover, the casualties will be very large! Bangs said. Then Brigade Commander Liu called again... The staff officer said. Tell him to carry out the order, don't talk so much nonsense, just say it was me! Bangs said.
"Tell those two South Korean regiments to prepare for an attack and attack on position No. 6!" Cowan said to his staff. "Sir, there is no point in such an attack, those South Koreans will only consume our supplies and military expenses!" The staff officer reminded Cowan from the side. "You're right, those North Koreans are really useless, but it's not useless, at least they can consume the limited shells of the Chinese! The Air Force has stepped up its bombing, and even if they have the means, they can only bring in a limited number of shells, let these South Koreans consume their limited shells, and then we are attacking! Master Cowen said. I understand, I'll arrange it right away! The staff officer said.
"Brigade commander, the enemy seems to be gathering troops!" A regimental commander came over to report. "Attacking again?" Liu Xiaoshan said hatefully, "This has been prepared for a long time, and we have not allowed the attack, and now that people are going to attack again, aren't we preparing in vain?" Correspondent, give me a dead life! "Brigadier Commander!" The correspondent hurriedly ran over. "Report to the division commander and say that the enemy has the intention to attack!" Liu Xiaoshan said. "Yes!"
"The enemy is attacking again?" After hearing this, Liu Hai said, "Tell Liu Xiaoshan that once the enemy attacks, he will launch a counterattack immediately, but the counterattack troops must be divided into two batches, the first batch of counterattack troops must have the strength of one regiment, and the second batch of counterattack troops must have the strength of two regiments, and the enemy's attack troops must be wiped out cleanly and completely!" "Yes, we'll deliver your order right away!" The staff officer hurriedly said.
"Fight back now?" Liu Xiaoshan still didn't understand: "Are you sure this is the order of the division commander?" "Yes, I'm sure!" The correspondent said. "Order the 311th Regiment of the No. 6 position to take the lead in launching a counterattack, and the 2nd and 3rd regiments of this brigade will be the second batch of counterattack troops! A regiment as a reserve! As soon as the enemy charges, start fighting back! Liu Xiaoshan gave the order without hesitation. Brigade commander, the enemy has already begun to attack! "Liu Xiaoshan's staff officer ran in to report." What scale of the offense? Liu Xiaoshan asked. Regiment-sized attacks are all South Korean troops! The staff officer asked. Let the 611 Regiment immediately counterattack and rush head-on! Liu Xiaoshan said. Be! The staff officer hurriedly said.
The 611th Regiment is an old unit, which has fought from the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the present, and is a veteran unit that has experienced eight years of resistance against Japan, and is a veteran in both defense and offense. Looking at the South Korean soldiers rushing up, the regimental commander of the 611 regiment sneered, roared and rushed out, and the volunteers behind also roared and rushed out with their regiment commander. For these soldiers who fought for eight years in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and three years of veteran Chiang, those South Korean soldiers who only knew how to eat and receive salaries were just a bunch of rice buckets! The two armies collided together, and the South Korean Army was about to run back when they looked at the Xueliang bayonets of the volunteers, but the volunteers, under the leadership of the regiment commander, chased after them directly, and killed more than half of the South Korean troops in a meal like chopping melons and vegetables!
Cowan watched the South Korean army run back like a dog by the volunteers who rushed down from the position, and immediately beckoned to his staff officer: "They have all rushed down, let our men attack immediately, they have just finished hand-to-hand combat, and their physical strength is very high, tell the artillery to open the way, attack immediately!" "Yes!" Cowen's staff officers immediately followed Cowan's orders. A regiment of US troops, under the cover of a battalion of South Korean troops and six tanks, rushed towards position No. 6 in a mighty manner. Cowan watched his troops rush forward, and he felt very proud in his heart, he felt that this time the other party must not be able to block the continuous attack that he had painstakingly choreographed!
"Brigade commander, the second wave of the enemy's attack is coming! It's also a regiment-scale attack, but it's all U.S. troops, and it seems that it is inevitable! "The staff officer comes here to report!" I finally understood why the division commander didn't let me fight back, this American is holding back his strength to play wheel warfare with us! Damn it! Two regiments and three regiments, rush down for me, fight! Liu Xiaoshan looked at the attacking Americans and said. Be! After the commanders of the second and third regiments agreed, they turned around and led their troops to rush down. The second regiment commander and the third regiment commander were naturally not fuel-efficient lamps under the influence of Liu Xiaoshan, and the two regiment commanders took the lead in the charge, and the soldiers were naturally more desperate, and the two regiments rushed towards the American army!
Although the US military is much stronger than the South Korean army in all aspects, the strength of the US military is firepower and hand-to-hand combat is its weakness, while the volunteer army is just the opposite. Under the leadership of the commander of the second regiment and the commander of the third regiment, the volunteers of the two regiments fought together with the American army, using bayonet barrels when they were close, shooting at the distance, playing with their lives if they did not die, and holding the nearest enemy when they were wounded. "Damn, you still want to run? Give me chase! The second regiment commander roared and chased after him with a stabbed bayonet, and the third regiment commander also began to chase after him with a scream! The retreating American soldiers ran very fast, and the volunteers behind were in hot pursuit!
"How so?" Cowan was dumbfounded, what needed to be done at this time was to provide cover for the retreating American troops so that they could withdraw, "Order the artillery to open fire and cover the retreat of the troops!" "Division commander, now the two armies are too close to each other, and the artillery fire can't support it!" The staff officer next to him said. "Then order the machine gun to fire, try to block the pursuit of the other side, and let the troops withdraw first!" Cowan shouted anxiously. "Yes!" The staff officer hastened to order machine gun fire! The machine-gun fire of the American army had a certain effect, after all, there was a distance between the fleeing American troops and the pursuing volunteers!
"Withdraw!" The second and third regiment commanders looked at each other's machine gun fire and began to shoot, until they chased down, they could only plunge headlong into the fire net of the American army, the most important thing is that it is daytime, if you rush hard, it will not be good, so they withdrew with the troops!
"How so!" Cowan looked at the troops who were beaten back very depressed, and the staff officer next to him reported the casualties to him, the South Korean army suffered more than 760 casualties, and the American army suffered more than 230 casualties, although most of them were wounded, and the real death rate was not high, but the wounded were also attrition, and they could only be evacuated, and they had to occupy a large number of personnel and vehicles to evacuate. "Division commander, in fact, it's not that we don't have enough firepower, but that we can't do close combat, so let's not talk about the South Korean soldiers, and our soldiers are also very afraid of close combat with the other side!" The staff officer next to him said. "I can see it, so let's evacuate the wounded, organize our troops, and prepare for tomorrow's attack!" Cowan said with a sigh. "Looks like we'll have to figure it out again!" Cowan thought to himself.
"General Van Vliet, the situation is very complicated right now, and you have to make a breakthrough in the Shangganling area, which is important for both the war and the general elections in the country, do you understand?" The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff on the phone said to General Van Vliet in a serious tone. "I understand that we are trying to achieve a breakthrough!" Van Vliet said. "Don't talk to me about effort, I want results! Do you understand? Outcome! "There was a roar coming from the microphone!" Yes, I will definitely give you a satisfactory result! Van Vliet said.
"General Cowen, we have taken the main position in Shangganling, you have to eliminate those Chinese rats in the cave as soon as possible, and then develop an attack, we can't wait any longer!" Van Vliet said to Cowan on the phone. "I've been working hard, but those Chinese are not only tenacious, but also very cunning, but don't worry, I can definitely destroy them!" Cowan said. "I don't want to listen to the reason, and I don't want to know how the Chinese are, I just want to know the result!" Van Vliet snarled. "Mobilize all our South Korean troops here, as well as our troops, to attack the No. 6 position tomorrow, all the firepower must be put into cover, and the No. 6 position must be taken, no matter what the cost!" Cowan put down the phone and yelled at his staff!
Just after receiving Cowen's order, they immediately began to mobilize troops, and the US staff officers who were preparing for fire support did not expect that the counterattack planned by Liu Hai was not over, and Liu Xiaoshan's regiment had already come out of the night, ready to carry out Liu Hai's counterattack order.
Everyone on the US position, whether it is the US army or the South Korean army, feels that tonight will be a quiet night, the fight is earth-shattering during the day, and at night both the enemy and us will recuperate and prepare to fight again tomorrow, the Chinese are also people, they will also rest, but just when they thought so, three signal flares crossed the sky!