Diversion Attack (4)
"Report!" Van Vliet's chief of staff ran in: "Commander, it's not good, the Chinese suddenly launched a fierce attack on the 391 Heights, and now the 391 Heights have been lost!" "Three-ninety-one heights?" Van Vliet turned unhurriedly to look at the map, looking for the location of the 391 Heights. "Here!" The chief of staff came over and pointed to a dot on the map. Van Vliet looked at the connecting lines on the 391 Heights and stood up abruptly, "What are the Chinese going to do?" Do they want to eat all the troops in our Shangganling area? "Commander, this possibility cannot be ruled out, they often attack where we feel that we are taken by surprise, and then detour into our rear to surround our combat troops!" said the chief of staff. "Impossible, we have so many troops in this area, and there is air support, they don't have the ability to destroy so many troops!" Van Vliet said. "But once they succeed, they can cut off our retreat and logistical supplies, and then force us to retreat, didn't they often do that before?" said the chief of staff. "Retake the 391 Heights now! Fast! ”
Van Vliet hurriedly gave the order, and the US troops near the 391 Heights had a total of one and a half regiments, including the regiment that had just been withdrawn from the 391 Heights, and a South Korean division, with a total strength of more than 8,000 troops. Under Van Vliet's orders, these troops began to assemble and launched a fierce counterattack on the 391 Heights, and according to Van Vliet's orders, they would take back the 391 Heights even if they were dead!
"Division Commander Liu, I'm sorry, we didn't defend tightly and let the enemy escape!" Interspersed with a report of shame on the part of the battalion commander. "It doesn't matter, the purpose of letting you intersperse is to force them to retreat, and if you can knock out their artillery, you already make money, don't you think I really want one of your battalions to kill a regiment of the Americans?" Bangs said. "I just feel like we should be able to do better!" The battalion commander said. "It's okay, it's good to think so, but the next task will be difficult, the enemy will definitely fight back, and it's hard to say whether you can withstand it then." Bangs said. "I think we should be able to withstand it!" The battalion commander said: "Isn't there another regiment of the People's Army?" "Not only to resist, but also to destroy the enemy in large numbers, to inflict heavy losses on the enemy in front of them, and to force them to transfer the two new American divisions in this direction!" Bangs said. "Destroy the enemy in large numbers? But we don't know how many enemies there are. The battalion commander said. So your troops are going to be put here! Bangs said as he pointed to a pencil line on the map.
"Is this the ditch where the enemy retreated?" Said the battalion commander of the Volunteer Army. "Yes, you put the troops here, find the best two places in the shooting range, add machine guns, cover with mortars and bazooka, and kill and injure the enemy in large quantities, but remember that you have to wait for the American army to attack before shooting, and you must mainly kill and injure the American army!" Bangs said. "Yes! I understand! The battalion commander said. If you have the chance, launch a counter-charge and do your best to kill the enemy! Bangs said. Be! The battalion commander said. Call the commander of the KPA! Bangs said. Be! ”
"Division Commander Liu, the commander of the People's Army is waiting for your orders!" The regimental commander of the KPA walked into the headquarters and stood straight. After this offensive battle, in which there were very few casualties, the regimental commander of the People's Army knew that he was a fool compared to the commander of the volunteer army in front of him. "How do you plan to arrange the defense on the ground in the first line of 39?" Bangs asked. "I plan to use two battalions to defend the position first, leaving one battalion as a reserve to counterattack at the right time!" said the commander of the People's Legion. "No way!" Liu Hai said, "Now withdraw all the troops, prepare a company, divide it into three sections, put a platoon in each section, two machine guns, and tell all the soldiers that each shot kills an enemy, and no empty guns are allowed!" "But is there a little less of a company?" said the regimental commander of the KPA. "When the enemy counterattacks, the fire must be very fierce, we can't go up and load the shells!" Bangs said. "Yes!"
"Mr. Commander! How much cover artillery fire do we have? The division commander of the South Korean Army asked the commander of the US Army. You know the artillery fire of our Americans, you will definitely be able to kill more than half of those Chinese, don't worry about letting your soldiers attack! The commander of the U.S. military said. All right! "The division commander of the South Korean Army is also a veteran who has fought with the volunteers many times, and if the US artillery fire can really kill more than half of the Chinese, then the Americans will hit Shenyang!" Tell our people to launch an assault in advance, follow the artillery charge of the American army, and strive to rush to the position in the shortest possible time! The division commander of the South Korean Army said to his regimental commander. But our soldiers are all new recruits, and if we don't cooperate well, there is a good chance that the artillery fire will hit our own heads! The regimental commander said. Then you charge with them in front! Said the division commander of the South Korean Army.
"Boom, boom!" A huge explosion sounded on the 391 Heights, and the shells exploded violently, turning the entire 391 Heights into a sea of fire. Before the artillery group was finished, more than a dozen US planes roared again, threw the * one by one on the position, and plowed the 391 Heights again with explosions! Watching the violent explosion on the position below, the commander of the People's Army palpitated, if he really put his two battalions on it, now there were probably only two platoons left, I didn't expect the Americans' counterattack to be so powerful, fortunately there were no troops above!
"Division Commander Liu, the enemy is attacking!" The staff officer came over and reported to the bangs. "But the fire cover isn't over yet!" Liu Hai asked strangely, usually the South Korean army will attack after the American shells and * have been blown up, but today the shells rushed up before they stopped! "This group of enemies is very strange, it seems that their commander is very experienced!" The staff officer said next to him. "Order all the artillery to bombard the area 500 to 900 meters in front of the 391 Heights, hit accurately, hit fiercely, and finish firing a base number of shells within half an hour and then retreat and transfer!" Bangs said. "Yes!" The staff officer replied. After giving the order, Liu Hai rushed to the lookout and observed the South Korean army attacking from the opposite side with a gun scope. After the command was communicated, four artillery regiments at the same time began to fire fiercely. The artillery of the KPA was still okay, it was very fierce and accurate, and the dense shells blew up the 500 to 900 meters section of the 391 Heights into a pot of steel broth, and the South Korean troops in the area suddenly suffered heavy losses!
"Find the enemy's artillery positions and take them out!" The regimental commander of the US army said to his staff officer. "Yes!" said the staff officer of the US military. "Tell the troops to wait until they blow up the enemy's artillery before launching an attack!" The commander of the American Army said. "No, regimental commander, you have just been transferred to North Korea not long ago, you don't know the situation, since the start of the war, our planes have destroyed the enemy's artillery positions very rarely, if you have to wait for those pilots, this battle will not have to be fought!" The staff officer said yes. "Well, tell the South Korean army to continue the offensive, our artillery fire wants to extend the enemy's depth to cover!" The commander of the American Army said. "Yes!" The staff officer said, "But what about offensive cover?" "Let the troops release * cover!" The commander of the American Army said. "Yes!" The U.S. military staff officer said. In a few moments, the artillery and mortar crews of the Americans fired a large number of * on the positions!
"Did the artillery do the evacuation configuration according to the method I gave them?" Bangs watched the Americans' artillery fire begin to extend, turned back and asked his staff officer. "It's all distributed according to your requirements!" The staff officer said, "But with such a big smoke, there is only one company on the position, and if the enemy rushes up, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand it!" "Tell the KPA commander to put all the reserves into the counterattack and rush down to fight the enemy with bayonets!" Bangs said. "Yes!" The staff officer's admiration for bangs in his heart at this time increased a few points. The enemy's * must have wanted to cover the charge of their own forces, but they definitely thought that they would also launch a large-scale counterattack with the help of smoke, if it was firepower, neither the People's Army nor the Volunteer Army would be an opponent, but if it was a bayonet, then neither the South Korean Army nor the Americans would be opponents!
"One battalion, two battalions, three battalions, all the people follow me and launch a counterattack against the enemy!" After the commander of the KPA heard the order, the head of the KPA personally led the team to launch a large-scale counterattack! In this offensive, the South Korean army suffered a lot of casualties due to intensive artillery bombardment in the previous offensive, so the strength of the attack this time was reserved, and only one battalion was sent to attack. Then under the cover of smoke, the South Korean army quickly rushed to the top of the slope, but what they didn't expect was that a large number of KPA soldiers rushed out of the smoke and rushed down with bright bayonets!
"Retreat!" The battalion commander of the South Korean Army was not a fool and knew that it would be too late if he didn't run any longer, but the KPA was condescending and the impact speed was extremely fast, and before the South Korean Army could recover from his composure, the bayonet had already reached his nose, and the South Korean Army, which had no time to escape, was stabbed to death by the KPA like a sheep, and the South Korean Army was suddenly in a mess and could not organize an effective battle at all. The South Korean Army was stabbed to death if it dared to resist, and it knelt down and surrendered in fright, and the South Korean Army, which had no advantage in numbers, was quickly dealt with by three battalions of the People's Army! When the smoke cleared, there was only a pile of dead people left on the position, the vast majority of whom were wearing South Korean military uniforms!