Chapter 4: Perseverance (2)
The artillery fire of the American army extended again, and two companies of American troops under the cover of 20 tanks rushed violently towards position No. 9; A party member rushed out with three fighters, Zhang Dongfang took a bazooka and two soldiers carried bazooka special bombs on their backs and rushed into the gunsmoke-filled position at the same time; The warriors in the tunnel stood in a row, ready for reinforcements, and everyone's face flashed with a resolute gaze that was not afraid of sacrifice; Qin Zhonghua held a telescope and observed the situation of the position......
After Zhang Dongfang entered the position, he quickly occupied a position conducive to concealment and attack, he set up a bazooka, and quickly aimed at an enemy tank that was about to enter the range of the bazooka, while calculating the approximate speed of the enemy tank in his mind. 1, 2, 3..... Zhang Dongfang quickly pulled the trigger, and with a bang, the enemy's tank did not move..... Start hit! Zhang Dongfang quickly picked up the water rifle he was carrying, aimed at a few enemies who tried to get out of the tank and escaped, a few gunshots rang out, and several enemies fell to the ground in response...... "Don't look at your height, your marksmanship is quite high!" The bazooka is also very good!" Zhang Lan, who cooperated with the hygienist to rescue the wounded, said admiringly. "Now hurry up and change your position, you hurry up and help the wounded!" Zhang Dongfang immediately instructed Zhang Lan and led a few people to immediately run to the new battle position, they left the original position in less than 5 seconds, and several shells hit the position, and multiple explosions occurred. Zhang Dongfang and two soldiers used two bazooka shells to knock out two US tanks in two different positions, and Zhang Lan and the medical staff rescued four lightly wounded and two seriously wounded from the line of fire during this time. The loss of 3 tanks and nearly 100 casualties in less than an hour made the US army's offensive more and more frenzied, and the ammunition consumption of the volunteers was very huge; In the shortest 10 minutes, a soldier walked out of the tunnel and rushed into the smoke of artillery fire...... 6 machine guns have been damaged, and the consumption of grenades and grenades has reached 6,000; Some of the enemy rushed to the position at the moment when the machine gun was broken, and the soldier picked up the machine gun and smashed it into the enemy's head; Some of the seriously wounded rushed forward before the enemy could move around, and our fighters pulled grenades and perished with the enemy.....
The enemy Pyros posed a great threat to our fighters, and many of their fighter grenades were drowned in flames by enemy Pyros before they could be thrown...... A number of enemy tanks frantically rushed to our position at the same time, and when Zhang Dongfang was looking for a new position, an enemy tank had already rushed to the position; "Hurry up and load and I'll hit the enemy tanks, and you will hit the infantry behind!" Zhang Dongfang urgently communicated with the two fighters. The cooperation of the three people is still relatively tacit, and while the special ammunition for the bazooka is loaded, the two fighters shoot and throw grenades at the enemy's infantry respectively; Zhang Dongfang destroyed the enemy tank again, and at the same time, two comrades cooperated to repel the enemy infantry, and one soldier quickly climbed onto the wounded enemy tank and completely scrapped it with a grenade. At this time, Zhang Dongfang found that the turret of an enemy tank was rotating about 100 meters, "Quickly reload, and then you quickly withdraw" Zhang Dongfang urgently called his comrades again; At this time, the turret of the enemy tank had already turned to Zhang Dongfang's direction, "Either the fish is dead, or the net is broken!" Zhang Dongfang picked up the loaded rocket launcher and aimed at the enemy tank and fired, and at the same time the enemy tank also fired...... Zhang Dongfang and his two comrades-in-arms quickly lay down, and waited for a while that there was no explosion near them; One of the fighters looked up and saw that the enemy tank was already on fire. Zhang Dongfang and another fighter also got up to observe the enemy's situation, "What's going on?" One soldier asked, "It may be that the enemy's tank shell jammed or fired a dud," Zhang Dongfang analyzed; "The enemy seems to have retreated, and we have repelled the enemy's attack." Another fighter said excitedly; "It's not good, the enemy is going to open fire or bombard again; Hurry back to the tunnel! Zhang Dongfang said as he took the two soldiers and quickly returned in the direction of the tunnel. In the distance, the roar of B-26 bombers could be heard faintly, "Get back to the tunnel!" Zhang Dongfang and the two soldiers reminded their comrades loudly while running; When he and his two comrades-in-arms had just entered the tunnel, the US army's high-density heavy artillery fire had already covered the 597.9 height, and after the shelling, the B-26 bomber dropped several special special bombs, and the 597.9 high ground was instantly plunged into a sea of fire......
The soldiers who were waiting in the tunnel to attack again all said that the enemy must have suffered a big loss this time, and they all used special ammunition...... Zhao Lianfa, Li Wenwu, and Qin Zhonghua first counted the casualties and the number of people who were able to hold on to the fighting ground in a short period of time, and before the battle began, the first platoon of the ninth and eighth companies and the reinforcements added up to a total of 210 people, and after a morning of fighting, there were still 115 people left, including 15 seriously wounded. Zhao Lianfa once again stressed that in the afternoon, he would continue to operate in accordance with the tactics formulated at 9 a.m., but assigned the task of using bazooka to the deputy platoon commander of the second platoon, "Lao Cannon (the original bazooka marksman of the Ninth Company, who once consumed 20 bazooka special shells to destroy 19 tanks of the US army)"; Arrange for Zhang Dongfang to be responsible for destroying the enemy's high-value targets (such as the enemy's grassroots commanders, etc.) in the later battles; Because Zhao Lianfa heard from the two fighters and Zhang Lan that Zhang Dongfang was a sharpshooter, and he used a rifle to accurately eliminate multiple enemies from a long distance while destroying enemy tanks...... Moreover, under Zhang Lan's repeated efforts, Zhao Lianfa agreed that Zhang Lan would help Zhang Dongfang familiarize himself with the ranks of the US army, and temporarily instruct Zhang Dongfang on how to better understand the enemy's high-value targets in the next battle.
While the enemy's artillery fire was once again extended, a battalion of US troops swooped down on the 597.9 heights again under the cover of 20 tanks. The combat team composed of Zhang Dongfang, Zhang Lan and two fighters quickly entered the combat position, "That is the US military major, the other is the captain, and the one with the walkie-talkie is contacting the superior or reporting the location of the target to request artillery support; That U.S. soldier is their flamethrower, and what he holds in his hand is a special ejector......" Zhang Lan carefully and in detail introduced the characteristics and signs of important targets to Zhang Dongfang. "Okay, I've remembered, thank you Comrade Zhang Lan; The two comrades hurried to take her back, and the wounded could not do without her. Zhang Dongfang gave Zhang Lan an "eviction order", and the last two soldiers took Zhang Lan back to the tunnel. Zhang Dongfang changed his position again, aimed at a US military major who was waving his hand and commanded, pulled the trigger, and the US military major tilted his head to the ground. Zhang Dongfang immediately took cover, quickly changed to a new position, and killed a US captain who was contacting the artillery fire and a US soldier holding a special jet with two shots, and then quickly concealed and hurried to the next battle position......
The volunteer soldiers on the position continued to use the tactics of the morning to fight bloodily with the enemy, and the soldiers waiting to attack in the tunnel rushed into the smoke of artillery fire one after another without hesitation...... Volunteer grenades and grenades constantly exploded on the side of American troops and tanks, and the continuous firing greatly increased the failure rate of rifles and machine guns; What is somewhat gratifying is that the US military's forward command and infantry artillery coordination are much worse than in the morning, and some US military units seem to have a tendency to be leaderless...... Once again, the enemy's offensive was fought. "It seems that this attack on the enemy's front-line commanders and other high-value targets has worked......," Zhao Lianfa muttered as he observed the battle at the mouth of the tunnel.
Throughout the afternoon, the U.S. Army launched more than ten frantic attacks under the cover of more than 20 tanks, but they were repulsed by the Volunteers, and the U.S. Army finally stopped the attack at dusk; Later battle reports showed that the U.S. Army lost a total of 10 tanks in the morning and afternoon, and the 2nd and 31st Battalions of the 31st Regiment of the U.S. Army, which attacked the 597.9 heights (the regiment was completely annihilated by the Volunteers in the Battle of Changjin Lake, and later the U.S. Army rebuilt the regiment), lost more than 70%, and the forward commanders were almost wiped out; The U.S. Army replaced the 32nd Regiment and continued to attack until dusk, but it was still repulsed by the Volunteers, and the forward commander of the 32nd Regiment lost more than half.....
On the first day of the battle, the volunteers repelled a total of 29 enemy attacks, of which the No. 9 position repelled 21 enemy attacks, and the No. 9 position and the main peak position of the 597.9 heights were still in our hands......