Staggered Attack & Defense (3)
"Division commander, it's not good that our six artillery positions were counterattacked by the other side at the same time, and the losses were extremely heavy, especially the loss of artillery shells!" The staff officer rushed in and reported to the commander of the 7th Division of the US Army! "What a speed!" The commander of the 7th Division of the US Army said in surprise: "It has only been an hour since our artillery regiment was attacked, and the counterattack came so quickly!" It seems that the opponent's artillery is not simple! "That's right, this shows that the reaction speed of the other side's artillery is not slow, and it also shows that the air force's gang of waste has a rather limited effect on the bombardment of the Chinese's artillery positions!" The staff officer said. "Don't complain about the Air Force, although the enemy is counterattacking, but our artillery positions are far from the front line, and the number of their long-range heavy artillery is definitely limited, and the counterattack will not be too powerful, order the various artillery regiments to move quickly!" The commander of the 7th Division of the US Army said.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "One shell after another fell on the artillery positions of the American army, and the American artillerymen began to move while dodging the shells!" Do you understand the separation of shells and cannons from the cannons? Can't let our shells blow up our artillery, the car has to be fast, tow the cannon, tow the cannon! "The artillery commander of the US army, looking at the shells that fall from time to time, anxiously commanded his artillery to start moving! The artillery of the US army is still of very high quality, under the command of the artillery commander, the artillery began to withdraw in an orderly manner, although the losses were very large, but under the command of the commander of the seventh division to judge the insufficient number of heavy artillery of the volunteers and the command of the commander of the US artillery, all six artillery positions of the US army were transferred within an hour!
"Alright, tell them to stop fighting!" Liu Hai said, "Inform Commander Qin to pay attention to the enemy's attack, although we have hit the artillery of the US army, but the number of our heavy artillery is limited, which is not enough to fully damage the US artillery position, at this time the US army is very likely to use the attack to block the counterattack that our army may launch!" "Yes!" The communication soldier next to him hurriedly agreed. "Send an observation group to the high ground, establish an infantry and artillery connection, and tell the 7th and 9th Artillery Divisions to be ready to suppress the enemy's attack at any time!" Bangs added a command. "Yes!"
"Order the South Korean Army to launch an attack on the two heights of Sangganling and all nearby positions, immediately! Inform the Air Force and fully support the attack! The commander of the 7th Division of the U.S. Army ordered. Division commander, our artillery is still being transferred, and without the support of artillery fire, the offensive will not be fruitful! The staff officer next to him said. I don't plan to be able to achieve any results, the biggest firepower of the Chinese is their artillery, they launch such a large-scale counterattack against our artillery, it is very likely that they will take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, the purpose of our attack at this time is to suppress the enemy's attack, maintain our offensive position in Shangganling, and not give them the opportunity to increase the depth of Shangganling's defense! The commander of the 7th Division of the US Army said. But our artillery has no way to support it, and if their artillery suppresses it, the casualties will be very large! The staff officer said. It doesn't matter, it's the South Koreans who died anyway! The commander of the Seventh Division said. All right! The staff officer agreed.
"This American's pulse is too accurate for us to touch, and he will do whatever he says?" An artillery staff officer said to another. "This American has more artillery and more planes, if our division commander had the same thing as the Americans, he would have hit the American capital a long time ago!" The staff officer next to him said. "What are you muttering? Hurry up, calculate the distance, the division commander wants it! The chief of staff came over and said. Be! "The two of them immediately focused and got to work." Report, the highland liaison group reported that the opponent's attack was very inactive, and the purpose of the attack was unknown! "The Signal Corps is here to report!" Gotta spice up the Americans! Bangs said. What does this American want to do? The chief of staff said. They wanted to suppress our attack, but now that we didn't attack, they hesitated! Bangs said.
"Then you said that you want to give them more food, do you want to induce them to attack?" The chief of staff asked. "Yes! The period during which we have struck their artillery, the transfer of their artillery and the search for new firing positions is the period of time when we gain an artillery advantage, and since we do not have the ability to completely destroy the enemy's artillery, then if we can no longer use the advantage of this time period to strike at the enemy, then our counterattack on the enemy's artillery will be meaningless! Bangs said. You mean, an artillery counterattack is a serial scheme? The chief of staff said with a sudden realization. That's right! Counterattack the enemy first, so that the enemy loses the artillery advantage, and then make full use of the artillery advantage to kill and injure the enemy! Bangs said.
"Did you figure it out?" The chief of staff anxiously ran to the desk of the staff officers and asked. "Calculated the distance and time of the opponent's attack section on the left and right flanks here!" A staff officer handed the paper to the chief of staff. The chief of staff hurriedly ran to Liu Hai with the paper and handed it to Liu Hai. Liu Hai took it and looked at it, threw it directly on the ground, twisted it back and looked at the staff officer behind him, "No!" "This..." Several staff officers looked at each other! Liu Hai walked to the table by himself, looked at the map, measured it with a ruler a few times, and said to the chief of staff, "Tell the Seventh Division to cover five hundred meters in front of the position from four thousand meters away in five minutes, and the time will be controlled within four minutes!" "Yes!"
"You're all pigs!" The chief of staff looked at several staff officers anxiously and said, "Can this matter be miscalculated?" "I'm sorry, we were wrong, next time we will be serious!" A staff officer said. "I'm sorry, do you know how many more of our fighters could die if you miscalculated? I told you not once, you all have one big demerit! The chief of staff said. No need," Liu Hai came over and said, "I don't blame them this time, it's not that they miscalculated this distance, but that there is a ditch on this section of the road, and it will take some time to cross this ditch when they attack!" "And how do you know?" "I've been there! In the future, you staff officers will have to go to the front to make actual observations, and the operational commander cannot always stay in the command headquarters! Bangs looked at a few staff officers and said. Be! Several staff officers said immediately.
"Fire!" The artillery of the 7th Artillery Division began to shoot according to the order, at this time a division of the South Korean Army that received the order to attack was launching an attack on the high ground on both sides of Shangganling, and the shells of the 7th Division began to cover 500 meters in front of the position, and with the explosion of the shells, the South Korean troops who were attacking suddenly died on the ground, and the shells that exploded continuously pressed forward from back to front like a wall, although the artillery of the 7th Artillery Division was not as elite as the artillery regiment of Wu Fatzi, but they were all 100 mm caliber cannons, The poor North Korean army was beaten miserably, looking at the dead bodies and pieces of flesh all over the ground, the South Korean army collapsed and rushed to the back!
"Why did this waste run back again!" The chief of staff of the US military looked at the South Korean soldiers who had retreated in embarrassment and said dissatisfiedly. "Don't behave these South Koreans, the other side's artillery fire is indeed dense enough, they are right to escape, if they insist on staying on it, they can only die!" The commander of the 7th Division of the US Army said. "But what if the enemy takes the opportunity to fight back?" said the chief of staff. "The Chinese will not fight back, they are just using their artillery superiority to consume us!" The commander of the 7th Division of the US Army said. "You didn't mean ... Before the chief of staff could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the commander of the 7th Division! "I misjudged, they didn't plan to fight back at all, they just wanted to hit our offensive force!" The commander of the 7th Division said. "So what now? Our attacks on both flanks and frontal have all been repulsed! The chief of staff said.
"Judging from the casualty figures and the situation on the battlefield, this is a Chinese fire trap, striking our artillery is only the beginning, inducing us to attack and then by striking at our attacking forces, consuming our offensive forces is their goal!" The commander of the 7th Division of the US Army said: "Now that our artillery has restored its ability to shell, if we carry out artillery support step by step, and then swarm to attack, it will be used by the Chinese again, so the best way now is to attack, but not with great fanfare!" "And how are we going to attack?" The staff officer asked. "First send a small force, arrange signposts on the way to attack, and then release* to cover the battlefield!"
"Put the signposts and *?" The chief of staff of the U.S. Army's Seventh Division asked incredulously. "Every time we attack, we can get the enemy's artillery support, which means that the enemy has a viewing group in their forward positions, we can send a small force to put up signposts on the road of the attack, and then release* to cover the enemy's observation, so that they have to carry out a long period of artillery fire blocking and shooting, but their logistical support is not enough to provide them with the conditions for a long period of artillery fire, and after their blocking artillery fire is stagnant, we are attacking!" The mayor of the 7th Division of the US Army spoke his mind. "Yes! I'll do it right away! The chief of staff said immediately. Remember, when we attack, we are attacking on all fronts, and this time we will take all the high ground along Shangganling in one fell swoop! The commander of the 7th Division said.
"A small group of enemy movements were found in front of the position, and the specific purpose is not clear!" The observation post on the position reports to the company commander on the position! "A small group of enemies?" The company commander ran to the position of the observation post to take a look, and only found a few enemies on the pile of corpses in front of the position, not knowing what they were doing! "It's okay to pay attention! These few people can't do much of a thing! The company commander said. Be! The observation post said. The company commander saw that those people were the U.S. troops who came up to place the road signs, and the company commander's neglect allowed the U.S. troops to successfully place the road signs!