Bangs Pressure (10)
"Divisional Commander!" Cowan was drinking a cup of coffee, and was almost burned by his own chief of staff suddenly screaming, and looked at his staff officer very dissatisfied: "Please calm down, the Chinese have not yet hit the headquarters!" "I'm sorry sir, now there is a new situation, the Chinese are counterattacking, they are attacking us from position No. 7, it is a division-scale attack, our artillery is shifting, there is no way to carry out fire support, what should be done now?" said the chief of staff. "Well, it seems that this Chinese commander not only has command skills, but also is very tenacious!" "Call in air support, and keep bombardment in their path!" Cowan said. ”
"Commander, we have captured the enemy's forward positions!" A battalion commander ran over and reported to his regiment commander. "Don't stop, continue to attack, Division Commander Liu Hai's order is for us to hit Sanjiabao in the shortest possible time, so we can't stop now, take advantage of the fact that the enemy doesn't know what we're going to do, hurry up and move forward!" The head of the regiment said. "Yes!" The battalion commander replied. "What about the other two regiments, have they already attacked our flanks?" The head of the regiment asked. "The offensive of the other two regiments also went well, all broke through the enemy's forward positions!" The staff officer came over and said. "Okay, take advantage of the sunshine, hurry up and dry the corn, and the troops will move forward immediately!" The head of the regiment said.
The three regiments that had been reinforced launched an attack on the Americans on the opposite side with position No. 7 as the center, but due to the suddenness of the attack, the Americans and South Koreans on the opposite side did not react, so it was predictable that the battle in the forward position would go smoothly, and it depended on whether the next battle would go smoothly! Although the regimental commander in charge of the attack in the middle moved quickly, he was still blocked in the next battle! Division Commander Cowen first ordered the artillery to resume artillery fire immediately, called for air support, and sent a large number of South Korean troops to withstand the attack from the front, while the American troops made a detour and infiltrated the two flanks in battalion and company units, but soon these American troops discovered that the attacking Chinese army was also guarded on both flanks!
"Fire!" The guns of the ghost artillery began to fire, and one after another shells crossed the sky and hit the South Koreans who were blocking the attack, and the South Koreans struggled in the shelling, but the American artillery did not sit idle, and immediately began to fire at the attacking volunteers after shifting their positions. The planes in the sky bombed along the route of the Volunteer Army's attack. In particular, during the offensive, the South Koreans on the position were stopped by the US military blocking force behind them, and they did not dare to run back at all, so they could only fight desperately, because after all, it was a blocking war, and the South Koreans still had the ability to hide in the trenches and shoot. The threat of the South Korean army and artillery, as well as the planes in the sky, put a lot of pressure and casualties on the attacking volunteers.
"Division commander, now our offensive is still ongoing, but the process is not smooth, first of all, the terrain problem, the mountainous terrain opposite the No. 7 position is vertical and horizontal, and there are many stones, which is not conducive to our feint, and there is also the problem of the enemy's firepower, aircraft, tanks and artillery together, and our firepower cannot keep up in time, especially on the current terrain, so I propose to stop the attack for the time being!" The chief of staff walked in with a telegram and said. "The offensive cannot be stopped, if we can't reach Sanjiabao now, our stalemate in position No. 6 will not be opened, if we can't hold position No. 6, then it will be very difficult for us to supply the tunnel, as for the problem of firepower, my solution is to send liaison officers to the attacking troops, and the liaison officers will provide accurate attack information to the artillery, and then the artillery will carry out fire projection!" Bangs said, "Go for it!" ”
The staff officer sent an observer to the attacking force, and began to provide artillery information to the artillery with walkie-talkies, but the artillery fire of the American army has become more and more concentrated, and Cowan sent a large number of American combat battalions, and the combat battalions of the American army not only have planes in the sky, but also tanks on the ground, especially planes in the sky, almost non-stop attacks, and the US troops under the command of Cowan have fully developed their firepower superiority, so that the casualties of the attacking volunteers are getting bigger and bigger!
"Don't fight!" Liu Hai said to his chief of staff, "Let the troops withdraw, take over the defense of Liu Xiaoshan's brigade, defend each position, and order two artillery regiments to cover!" "Yes!" The staff officer hurriedly said. Facing the three-dimensional firepower of the US military in the sky and on the ground, Liu Hai knew that if he continued to fight, he could only use the Americans as a target, and the best way now was to withdraw! Although Liu Hai was unwilling to withdraw like this, it was obviously unwise to rush hard in the face of huge casualties, so Liu Hai ordered to withdraw back.
"Division commander, the enemy's offensive is over!" The staff officer of the U.S. Army said to Division Commander Cowen. "Aren't they fighting?" Master Cowen said with some surprise. "Yes, they retreated, they retreated quickly, and there was artillery cover, we did not pursue!" The staff officer said. "Okay!" Cowan said with some disappointment, originally thought that he could take this opportunity to cause some heavy casualties to the Chinese, Cowan has designed a fire trap, as long as the Chinese continue to attack for an hour, their own fire trap can effectively kill and injure the other party, but did not expect that the other party actually retreated at this time, Cowan had to admire the battlefield instincts of the other commander!
"What's next?" Cowen's staff officer asked, "Are we going to counterattack?" Now we have restored our original positions! "If we want to attack now, it can only be that we keep attacking, and then we are constantly repelled by the Chinese, and with what happened last time, I don't dare to venture in!" Cowan said that the last time he thought he had broken through the No. 6 position, he was copied by Liu Xiaoshan, and he didn't take advantage of it at all, but lost so many personnel and equipment, so now Commander Cowan has become very cautious, especially in the matter of attacking!
"Are we going to abandon the attack on Position Six?" Division Commander Cowen's staff officer asked. "Of course not, we're going to keep attacking, only this time we're going to go in a different direction, like here!" Cowan pointed to a place on the map called Ansoon-ri, which was next to a former South Korean army's rush military road, and although it could only barely pass armored vehicles, it could also be inserted into the enemy's rear, which might delay a little longer, but it could definitely be taken by surprise. "It's too far away from Position No. 6, and if you attack from there, it's very likely that you'll encounter a large army of volunteers behind the battle line!" The staff officer suggested. "They don't have any big troops anymore, and some of them are all on the side of Shangganling, and there are not many troops behind the No. 6 position!" Cowan said.
Looking at the three regiments that were withdrawn, after counting, although there were casualties, the structure was still intact, and they could basically fight, and after the three regiments withdrew, they took over Liu Xiaoshan's position and prepared for defense! But the current situation is still relatively passive for Liu Hai, because the initiative is not in his own hands, not to mention the lack of troops, especially in terms of firepower, the gap with the US military is particularly large, so now Liu Hai is thinking about what the other party will do now, or where the other party will attack from. But when the troops withdrew, there was no movement on the other side, it seemed to be back to the previous confrontation, although Liu Hai was a little suspicious that the other party was preparing to attack again, but now it can only be on strict alert!
Cowan was not idle, and organized an assault regiment of tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery and infantry to move west from Position 6, and when they marched to the opposite side of Anshun-ri, they suddenly launched an attack. This place in Anshunli is not too important, although there is a road here that can lead to the rear of the volunteer army that Cowan said, but because the road is extremely difficult to walk, coupled with the remote location, there are generally no people here, and both sides have only arranged some guards here, and Cowan attacked from here, but also wanted to attack him unprepared.
In the small village of Anshunli, only one squad of the People's Army served as a guard here, and when the Americans attacked, the squad leader of the People's Army knew that he could not stop this group of American troops no matter what, so he could only send people to ask for help. The soldiers of the People's Army rushed all the way to the volunteers for help, and the volunteers who received the situation could only report, and after layers of reports, the news reached the command of the commander of Qin. Looking at this situation, Commander Qin could only order Liu Hai to send someone to solve this problem, because Anshunli was too far away from the main battlefield of Shangganling, and only Liu Hai could arrange people to rush to reinforcements directly, and when Commander Qin's order was issued to Liu Hai, Liu Hai knew what was going on.
"I said why didn't the other side react, it turned out that he was playing this one!" Liu Hai looked at the location of Anshun-ri on the map, if he sent a regiment over, first, he was afraid that it would be too late, and second, even if he arrived, he could only advance lightly, and the other side was tanks and artillery, and the light infantry was difficult to stop in the face of this situation, but he couldn't ignore it, Liu Hai was biting his lip and thinking of a way, a staff officer of the Korean People's Army said to Liu Hai that he only needed an infantry platoon to thwart the attack of the Americans.
This staff officer of the People's Army is a staff officer who has just been promoted, and this time he came to Liu Hai here mainly to be responsible for the contact between the divisional commanders of the two armies, but Liu Hai basically rarely has divisional contact with the People's Army, because his own artillery division can fight independently, so Liu Hai rarely contacts in this regard, and this liaison staff officer of the DPRK has become an ornament! Now this North Korean staff officer is going to have a platoon to block the US assault force, which is at least an armored reinforced battalion, which makes Liu Hai a little unconvinced. But after the North Korean staff officer said his own method, Liu Hai immediately gave him a combat platoon and asked him to rush to Anshun to block the surprise attack of the American army!