U.S. Army's Counterattack (6)
General Van Vliet; The troops on both sides were concentrated on the front, intending to make a desperate attempt to achieve a breakthrough in the direction of the main peak, and after Van Vliet's concentrated forces, the United Nations forces on the front of Shangganling had reached three South Korean divisions, one American division, and another American regiment, in addition to thousands of artillery pieces, and hundreds of sorties of planes maintained to carry out bombing missions in the Shangganling area in accordance with the requirements of the land forces!
"We have now concentrated all our combat power on the front, I have a strong advantage in firepower and troops, as well as the most powerful air superiority in the world, we will definitely be able to capture Shangganling!" Van Vliet is already a little out of sorts. This is understandable, because the Americans have thrown down too much steel and lives in the surrounding area centered on the two small highlands of Shangganling in the last month or so, as long as they can take it down, if they can take it, even if not a single Chinese is killed!
Van Vliet was actually not wrong, now whether it is firepower, strength or air superiority, the Americans have the advantage, after a few days of fighting, no matter which direction, the volunteers and the US army have reached a draw, and Van Vliet suddenly transferred troops from the left neighbor to strengthen the middle line, so that the volunteers in the direction of the main peak, at a disadvantage, from the surface of the situation, it is an opportunity for the US army to achieve a breakthrough. But there is no room for mistakes on the battlefield, and Van Vliet obviously forgot Liu Xiaoshan, who was still circling behind him. Liu Xiaoshan decided to strike westward, from the left flank of the No. 6 position to the west straight into the rear defense of the American army in front of Shangganling, just when Van Vliet concentrated his forces and planned to take advantage of the advantage to break through the position of the main peak of Shangganling in one fell swoop, Liu Xiaoshan arrived! In the direction of Liu Xiaoshan's westward advance, a large number of US artillery units were concentrated.
Van Vliet believes that the tenacious spirit is just a piece of human flesh in front of steel, and last time they were able to use sufficient firepower to inflict unbearable casualties on the volunteers, forcing them to give up the position of the main peak of Shangganling, then it is okay now, as long as they give full play to their firepower, the occupation of Shangganling by the volunteers is temporary, and sooner or later they will give up their positions like last time. But just when Van Vliet was desperate and determined, Liu Xiaoshan began a surprise attack in the rear of the American army with his own troops. Most of the artillery of the US army was concentrated on one line, so that all the firepower could be concentrated to pour down on Shangganling, and it was this arrangement on one line that facilitated Liu Xiaoshan's assault!
"This position in front of me is handed over to the third regiment to be eliminated, the second regiment is covered, and the first regiment is with me to assault the next position!" Liu Xiaoshan gave the order loudly. After receiving the order, the volunteers of the 3rd Regiment immediately launched an attack on an American * artillery regiment. The * artillery regiment of the US army also had escort troops, probably a company, but it did not play a role in the face of the attack of the volunteers! Because the artillery of the US army was a very happy branch of the army on the Korean battlefield, there was no air threat, and there was air cover, and it was very difficult for the volunteers who had very limited reconnaissance means and long-distance attack capabilities to attack the US artillery, so most of the US artillery was useless in ground defense, and there was no preparation for dealing with ground battles, especially close ground battles.
The attack of the three regiments was very sharp, and with the limited support of mortar fire, the three regiments broke through the blocking positions of the Americans and rushed into the artillery positions with a few charges. The artillery of the US army hurriedly began to resist, but in the face of the powerful assault ability of the volunteers, the American artillery was obviously not an opponent, and it was quickly broken and scattered! "The first battalion will go and kill the artillery and shells, the second battalion will pursue the fleeing artillery, and the third battalion will eliminate the scattered American troops and settle the battle as soon as possible!" The third regiment commander shouted. After receiving the task, the battalion commanders began to act according to the order, and fifteen minutes later, the artillery regiment of the US army was eliminated, and dozens of cannons and tens of thousands of shells were eliminated in one nest!
"Give it to me! Settle the battle in less than twenty minutes! Liu Xiaoshan found a tree nest and climbed up, and said to the head of the regiment. The commander of the first regiment was also unambiguous, and led people to cut in from the side of the American artillery regiment, and a company took the lead in killing it. This company disrupted the defense of the artillery regiment, and the commander of the regiment took the opportunity to take people to kill it directly, and after the unified killing and vertical chopping, the defense of the artillery regiment of the US army was completely broken! The commander of the first regiment did not care to chase down and kill those scattered and deserted American soldiers, and led people to destroy all the artillery and shells of the American army, so that the only two remaining artillery regiments of the American army in the Shangganling area were wiped out by Liu Xiaoshan's troops in less than a day, and the remaining artillery regiments were the artillery regiments of the South Korean Army and other national armies!
"Brigadier, we've found this thing!" The commander of the first regiment put a map of his captured American troops in front of Liu Xiaoshan. Although Liu Xiaoshan can't read English, he is still familiar with the map, and he can basically see where the map is drawn. A total of five prisoners were captured in the group, three Koreans and two Americans. Because of the urgency of time, Liu Xiaoshan finally said a valuable piece of information after shooting four of them. Liu Xiaoshan's original logistics center was just to store spare parts for clothing, and there was a shell warehouse five kilometers away, where 100,000 rounds of shells were stored, where was specially prepared for Shangganling, after hearing the news, Liu Xiaoshan finally found his goal!
"It really didn't take much effort to get it!" Liu Xiaoshan said: "The target now is the Americans' artillery shell warehouse, as long as this artillery shell warehouse can be blown up, see what else the Americans are doing here!" "It's only five kilometers, I'll go, brigade commander!" A regimental leader leaned over and said. "Nope! Let's go together! Liu Xiaoshan said: "They must have deployed a lot of troops on the front, and it is not easy for us to withdraw completely in our current situation!" My opinion was that the first regiment would take men to attack the artillery depot, and after it had succeeded, hold the road to the east, and I would continue to attack the enemy's artillery with the second and third regiments, and when the enemy's attention was completely drawn, we would turn east and return from the opposite side of position sixth! "That's right! The Americans would not have thought that we would return to position No. 6 the same way, brigade commander, high! The head of the regiment said.
After deciding on the number of his own roads, Liu Xiaoshan led the second and third regiments to continue to advance to the west, attacking the artillery positions of the American army one by one according to the locations marked on the captured US military map, and the rear of the US army was suddenly in chaos! The U.S. military hurriedly reported the situation to Van Vliet, hoping that Van Vliet could draw troops back from the front line, otherwise the artillery of the United Nations Army would be wiped out! After hearing this news, Van Vliet remembered that he had a volunteer army interspersed with troops behind him, but he never thought that they would attack his artillery, and the most important thing was that he greatly underestimated the number of interspersed troops at the beginning, judging from the current situation, the other party is at least a division-level unit, otherwise how could he attack his own artillery so blatantly? "Immediately send a division back to help, and be sure to destroy this interspersed force of the Chinese!"
"Brigade commander, it's almost, we've already knocked out a lot, and if we go west, we won't be surrounded by people!" The commander of the second regiment said as he looked at the wreckage of the South Korean artillery that was still on fire in the ravine he had just attacked. "yes, I think it's pretty much the same!" Liu Xiaoshan looked at the time and said, "The whole army turned around and headed east, go and join the commander of the first regiment!" "Yes!" The second regiment commander Li Zheng said. Liu Xiaoshan and the commander of the 2nd Regiment felt very accurately, and at this time, not only was Van Vliet's troops drawn from the front line about to arrive, but Van Vliet urgently rushed the troops of the South Korean Sixth Division, which was still being reorganized, to the vicinity of Shangganling as quickly as possible to help encircle and eliminate Liu Xiaoshan's interspersed troops.
Just when Liu Xiaoshan was killing these South Korean artillery regiments, the commander of a regiment led people to kill the US artillery shell warehouse by surprise. When I arrived, I found that this artillery warehouse was rebuilt from a large semi-underground fortification, which was built by small Japan in the past, and now it is used by the Americans to load shells! Most of these large-scale fortifications have very thick blast doors, and if you rush into an assault, the enemy in the warehouse closes the door, and it is really a dog biting a hedgehog with no place to eat! In order to avoid this kind of trouble, the commander of the first regiment also used his brains to ask several people to change into the uniforms of the South Korean army, and infiltrated them disguised as food deliverers. After a few people took control of the gate, a regimental commander led the men to attack. Under the cooperation of the inside and outside, the commander of the regiment successfully eliminated the remaining 100,000 shells here. After blowing up the warehouse, the head of the regiment followed Liu Xiaoshan's instructions and stuck to the spot and waited for Liu Xiaoshan to come back and join him!
Liu Xiaoshan rushed to the artillery warehouse where the commander of the first regiment was located with the second and third regiments, and the original plan was to retreat to the east. But just after Liu Xiaoshan and the head of the first regiment converged, the head of the first regiment reported a very bad news to Liu Xiaoshan. It turned out that when the artillery depot was blown up, a prisoner of the South Korean Army confessed one thing, that is, in order to counterattack Shangganling, the US military specially transferred a large-caliber special artillery regiment from Busan, which was a large-caliber heavy artillery with a caliber of up to 260 millimeters. After Liu Xiaoshan heard about it, he decided to kill this large-caliber special artillery regiment!