Under the stubborn resistance of the 42nd Army, the U.S. army's plan to attack Kongsidong was completely bankrupt.

When the news reached the headquarters, Chief of Staff Xie said excitedly: "Boss, I just received a report from the 42nd Army, and the opening was blocked. ”

"It's really too dangerous, fortunately, the 42nd Army arrived in time and blocked the opening, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable."

The boss nodded and said: "This time they have worked hard, this incident is a mistake in our command, but let the 42nd Army help us make up for the mistake, we have to thank the 42nd Army." ”

Chief of Staff Xie hurriedly said: "Boss, don't blame yourself too much, the enemy's counterattack is too fierce, we are not well prepared, and there are some mistakes, which is also human nature." ”

The boss waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't make excuses for yourself, we should sum up the experience and lessons and make every effort to avoid such incidents from happening again." ”

"Yes!"

Chief of Staff Xie hurriedly responded, then changed the topic, pointed to the sand table and said, "In this way, the Tieyuan line is safe." ”

"Although the 63rd Army fought hard, so far, it can still hold Cheorwon."

"If it weren't for the fact that the enemy couldn't take Cheorwon, they wouldn't have drawn troops to try to bypass Cheorwon and sneak attack Kongsidong."

"Fortunately, we made up for this gap in time, so that the entire Cheorwon line will be safe for the time being."

The boss said: "I know that the 63rd Army is also fighting hard in Cheorwon, but at this time, we must not retreat anymore and send a telegram to the 63rd Army, telling them that no matter what, they must hold Cheorwon and resist the enemy's offensive." ”

"Yes!"

The boss took his eyes off Tieyuan again, fell to another battlefield, and asked, "What is the situation of the 15th Army now?" ”

When the whole army retreated, the performance of the 15th Army was very good.

The commander of the 15th Army, Qin, has always been shrewd.

After receiving the order to retreat, he did not transmit the order to the division commanders and regiment commanders below.

Instead, he turned on the walkie-talkie, contacted the commanders of each regiment one by one, and personally explained the plan for retreat, including the route and time, so as not to cause confusion.

Because all units retreated in accordance with strict orders, the retreat of the 15th Army was carried out in an orderly manner, and it also ensured that the 15th Army could eventually retreat in its entirety.

Only the anti-aircraft artillery regiment violated the rules and opened fire without authorization during the day, as a result of which the anti-aircraft guns of the enemy planes were bombed by the enemy planes, and 19 anti-aircraft guns were lost.

For this reason, the shrewd commander Qin, who has always been a thief who pulls the abacus, was also heartbroken, and scolded the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment fiercely.

Overall, however, the 15th Army completed the order to retreat quite well.

However, due to the urgency of the battle, the enemy pursued too closely, in order to prevent the rout of the troops on all fronts and prevent the 38th parallel from being breached.

In order to buy enough time for the follow-up troops to prepare, the defensive line was reconstructed.

The boss had to give an order to let the 15th Army be responsible for the blocking mission, and the boss strictly ordered the 15th Army to hold on for ten days.

At this time, the 15th Army, which had just retreated, also suffered certain casualties after the first phase of the operation.

Moreover, at this time, the soldiers were already exhausted, coupled with the lack of food supply, some troops had even run out of food, and could only rely on digging wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

Even the captured Yankees learned to dig wild vegetables.

What's more, even the soybeans that were soaked in the horse manure on the road and were not completely consumed were picked up and eaten by the hungry soldiers.

It can be seen that the situation at that time was also very difficult.

And even so, when Commander Qin received the order to block, without saying a word, he immediately issued a combat mission.

The troops also strictly carried out the tasks assigned by their superiors, and in accordance with the instructions of their superiors, they quickly occupied Jiaobi Peak and Puda Peak.

Chief of Staff Xie pointed to the map and said: "At present, the 15th Army has seized favorable terrain in this area to block the attack. ”

"After two days of fierce fighting, a brigade of the Canadian Army has been repulsed and retreated to rest."

"But the 25th and 3rd Divisions of the U.S. Army are attacking the defense line of the 15th Army with all their might, and now the 15th Army is fighting very hard."

The boss said with a serious face: "Send them a telegram, I know they are having a hard time now, but we must hold on." ”

"In any case, I must be able to block the enemy's attack and provide enough time for the follow-up troops to build a defensive line."

"Whether or not we can stabilize the battle line near the 38th parallel is up to them, let them block the enemy's attack for me no matter what, I thank them."

"Yes!"

Chief of Staff Xie hurriedly answered, turned around and went to convey the order.

At this moment, in the face of the stubborn attack of the enemy, the 15th Army and the enemy were locked in a bloody battle on the front line.

There is no inconspicuous mountain, and at this moment it has become the focus of contention between the two sides.

Many of the hills had been scorched by the enemy, and it was on this scorched earth that soldiers on both sides fought to the death.

By the end of the day, many of the defenders had run out of ammunition and had no choice but to engage the enemy in a hand-to-hand battle.

The squad leader Chai Yunzhen fought extremely bravely, with thirteen soldiers, divided into three teams, and launched a counterattack on the three small hills occupied by the enemy at the same time.

Taking advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, he rushed up the hill with his men, and the warriors roared loudly, like a fierce tiger, and pounced into the crowd of enemies with bayonets.

Chai Yunzhen took the lead, rushed over first, raised his bayonet, picked and stabbed, and in a blink of an eye, he overturned two American devils.

The other warriors were also demoralized, and one by one they rushed towards the enemy without their lives.

Where had those enemies seen such a battle, they were immediately frightened and rushed to flee for their lives one by one.

Chai Yunzhen didn't want to let go of these American devils, and shouted loudly with a bayonet: "Chase me and kill these beasts." ”

Saying that, he led several of his soldiers to continue to chase and kill the enemy, and after recovering this mountain, Chai Yunzhen led the soldiers to chase after the enemy's buttocks, and directly rushed to another mountain in front.

These defeated and retreating enemies were also frightened stupidly, and they fled in a hurry while counterattacking.

More than 100 people were chased around by Chai Yunzhen and several of them.

However, when Chai Yunzhen drove the enemy down the mountain, he was the only one left by his side.

Chai Yunzhen observed the other two groups and found that they had also recovered the hill occupied by the enemy.

That is, one squad, divided into three roads, thirteen people, in less than seven minutes, took the four hills occupied by the enemy.

And on these four hills, the enemy had a whole battalion of troops, and it was repulsed by Chai Yunzhen's squad in this way, and dozens of casualties were unthinkable.

Seven minutes, one squad, repelled a battalion of the enemy and regained four hills.

This is simply a miracle of war.

And on the entire battlefield, our great volunteer soldiers have created one such miracle after another with their tenacious will.

And that's just the beginning.

After taking this mountain, only the leader of the Chai squad was left in the entire position.

He signaled to the warriors on the other three hills to hold their positions and wait for reinforcements to arrive, while he himself held on to the newly regained hill.

Although there was only one squad leader, he did not have the slightest fear.

Taking advantage of the gap in the battle, he quickly collected the weapons scattered by the enemy on the battlefield and placed them in different positions for easy access.

The enemy retreated in a hurry, discarding a lot of weapons and equipment, and some food supplies, which was the only good news.

The squad leader was busy recovering his position while eating something in order to recover his strength as soon as possible.

At the same time, on one of the enemy positions opposite.

Lieutenant Colonel Olier was furious, pointed at his subordinates' noses, and shouted, "Are you all stupid pigs?"

"So many of us were driven off the ground by several enemies, what about the honor of the soldiers? It's all a shame for you idiots. ”

An American second lieutenant retorted, "Sir, those enemies are not human, they are all demons in hell, it is really terrible. ”

"Fart!"

Lieutenant Colonel Olier roared angrily: "They are all ordinary people, and they are yellow-skinned, skinny, and not as strong as us, what is there to fear?" ”

"Immediately launch a counterattack for me, take back the position for me, if you can't recapture the position, you don't come back."

“yes sir!”

Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Olier, heavy artillery shelling broke out on the hill occupied by the captain of the American firewood squad.

"Chirp~!"

The piercing whistling sound continued to sound, and one shell after another fell on the position.

The firewood squad leader hurriedly hid in an anti-artillery hole, and the explosions outside were continuous, and the fire of the American troops was still very fierce, and the entire hill was soon enveloped by artillery fire.

After a heavy bombardment, the U.S. forces launched a counteroffensive again.

Lieutenant Colonel Olier sent a company to launch a counterattack, and more than a hundred enemy soldiers, guns in hand, rushed towards the hill with a whoop of screams.

Hearing that the sound of artillery outside stopped, the squad leader immediately rushed out of the anti-artillery hole, and the outside was filled with gunsmoke and a mess.

When he saw so many enemies rushing up, he immediately rushed to a machine gun position set up in advance, took out the machine gun hidden on the side, aimed at the enemy at the bottom of the mountain, and pulled the trigger.

"Da Da Da Da~!"

Dense gunfire rang out, and bullets flew towards the enemy like splashes of water.

"Puff~!"

The bullet struck the enemy's body with a muffled sound and splashed with patches of blood.

The terrible screams continued to sound, and I saw that the enemy troops rushing in front fell in an instant.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy behind was so frightened that they fell to the ground and began to raise their guns and shoot.

The squad leader had been observing the situation on the entire battlefield and found that on the other side, dozens of enemy soldiers had rushed up.

The Chai squad leader immediately rushed over and took out an ammunition box from a small hole next to it, and after opening it, there were grenades neatly placed inside.

Without saying a word, the squad leader picked up a grenade and threw it directly, followed by another grenade.

One grenade after another was thrown, and the grenades snorted black smoke and swirled and fell into the crowd of enemies.

"Boom~! Rumble~! ”

A violent explosion sounded, and the enemy was immediately blown up on his back, killing and wounding.

After throwing several grenades in succession, the enemy was also frightened to dodge, and did not dare to continue to rush up at the crazy shooting on the top of the mountain.

Then the Chai squad leader ran to another position, and saw the enemy who was about to move below, only a dozen meters away from the top of the mountain.

The squad leader immediately raised a submachine gun, aimed at the enemy, and directly pulled the trigger.

"Da Da Da Da~!"

Dense gunfire rang out, and a rain of blazing bullets swept swiftly towards the enemy.

Those American devils were swept down in an instant, and the enemy behind them saw that the situation was not good, and they retreated in fright.

In this way, the Chai squad leader alone held on to a hill, although he was in a hurry, he also successfully resisted the enemy's attack, killing and wounding dozens of enemies one after another.

The enemy army, which suffered heavy casualties, saw that it could not rush forward, so it could only retreat in disgrace.

Lieutenant Colonel Olier saw through the telescope that his troops were being repulsed again, and angrily scolded: "Waste, all are rice buckets." ”

"Inform the artillery, open artillery to bombard the hilltop positions, and the infantry are ready to attack again."

"In any case, give me back the position, they don't have many people on the top of the hill at all."

“yes sir!”

An American soldier next to him hurriedly answered, turned around and ran to deliver the order.

At this time, an American lieutenant said: "Sir, although the enemy forces are not many, they occupy favorable terrain and cause us such great losses. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Olier scolded angrily: "If it weren't for these bastards losing their positions, would we be so passive? ”

"Now that they have few troops, we should take back the position as soon as possible, if we wait until their reinforcements arrive, then it will be even more difficult for us to retake the position."

"It's also a death order from above, let's break through the enemy's resistance as soon as possible."

"Tell me, what are we going to do?"

Lieutenant Colonel Olier glanced at the American officers and soldiers present, and seeing that everyone obediently closed their mouths and said no more, Lieutenant Colonel Olier continued: "Keep attacking!" ”

"Retake my ground anyway."

“yes sir!”

The US officers and men present responded in unison.

On the orders of Lieutenant Colonel Olier, soon the enemy again launched a fierce attack.

More than 100 U.S. soldiers once again rushed up to the hill guarded by the Chai squad leader.

The battle broke out again, and the Chai squad leader guarded the position alone, but he was in danger.

With the favorable terrain, it constantly inflicts damage on the attacking enemy and slows down the enemy's offensive.

But this time, these American troops were also on guard, dispersed, and began to touch the mountain from different directions.

The battle fell into a stalemate for a while, and the Chai squad leader was still desperately blocking the enemy's attack.

Constantly the enemy fell under the muzzle and grenades of the firewood squad leader.

However, the enemy did not retreat, but got closer and closer to the top of the mountain.

At this time, taking advantage of the fact that the firewood squad leader was not paying attention, several enemy soldiers sneaked up to the top of the mountain.

Hearing the movement, the Chai squad leader turned back suddenly, and found that the enemy had touched it, so he was slightly stunned, but quickly reacted, and the Chai squad leader did not hesitate and immediately rushed forward.

When the squad leader saw that an enemy was rushing up, he raised his submachine gun and was about to shoot, but the gun made a crisp sound, but no bullets were fired.

It turned out that the bullets had been emptied, and there were no bullets on hand, so he didn't have time to think about it, so the squad leader directly threw away the submachine gun in his hand.

picked up a bag of explosives next to him, directly opened the fuse, and shouted loudly: "Lao Tzu fought with you brutes." ”

As he spoke, he rushed straight up with the explosives bag.

The foreign devils cautiously went up to the top of the mountain, and saw the firewood squad leader rushing over with the explosives bag, and the explosives bag was still snorting black smoke.

The volunteers are not afraid of death in battle, they have also seen it and seen this scene.

Several American devils screamed in fright, turned around and ran.

An old black man was careless, suddenly tripped and fell to the ground, and when he saw that the Chai squad leader had rushed over, this guy was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground and couldn't move, and a frightened roar came out of his mouth.

Seeing that the other enemies were all frightened, the squad leader Chai ran down the mountain, leaving only this old black who stumbled and fell stupidly.

So the Chai squad leader threw the explosives bag out with all his might, condescendingly, and the explosives bag was still thrown far away.

"Boom~!"

A violent explosion sounded, and several slow-running enemies were immediately blown away, and the remaining enemies saw that the situation was not good, and scattered in all directions.

After throwing out the explosives bag, the squad leader jumped up, rode directly on the old black, and stretched out his hands to choke the old black's neck.

This old black was also scared stupid just now, but after being overwhelmed, he was choked by the neck, and the instinct to survive made him gradually react, so he began to struggle to resist.

The two of them soon scuffled together, this old black is 1.9 meters tall, tall and tall, and his body is also strong, while the Chai squad leader is only more than 1.6 meters, and there is a big difference in height.

Moreover, the conditions were not good at that time, and the physical fitness was far worse than that of the enemy, and the thin body of the Chai squad leader was not of the same order of magnitude as the other party at all.

Moreover, in the previous battle, the Chai squad leader was already wounded, and the wound had no time to be bandaged, and now it is still bleeding out.

So there is a clear gap between the two sides in terms of strength and size, as well as in form.

But the Chai squad leader was fearless, and he scuffled with this old black like crazy, desperately attacking the enemy in front of him by various means.

The so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, this old black was also shocked by the momentum of the Chai squad leader, and he may not be as good as the Chai squad leader in terms of experience, so the two scuffled together, and this old black did not have the upper hand at all.

The Chai squad leader clasped Lao Hei's eyes hard, and the old Hei screamed, and then a finger slipped into Lao Hei's mouth.

The old black bit one of the fingers of the Chai squad leader hard, and both of them used all their strength.

As a result, one of the fingers of the Chai squad leader was bitten off by Lao Hei, and the Chai squad leader also pulled out one of the guy's eyeballs.

Lao Hei screamed in pain, but the squad leader Chai didn't realize it, maybe he was numb from the pain, or he only thought about killing the enemy in his heart, so he couldn't feel the pain for the time being.

Squad leader Chai took advantage of this opportunity to pick up a stone next to him and smashed it on Lao Hei's head.

Lao Hei's smashed head was bleeding, he screamed, suddenly struggled, pushed the firewood squad leader to the ground, and then staggered to his feet.

At this moment, this old black was already completely frightened, and he didn't dare to continue fighting, covering his bloody eye sockets, screaming and fleeing towards the bottom of the mountain.

Due to excessive blood loss and a long battle, Squad Leader Chai was pale at the moment and was already exhausted.

But even so, the squad leader of Chai staggered to his feet, found the submachine gun dropped by the enemy from the side, climbed some distance in the trench, got up and glanced down the hill.

I saw that more than ten meters away, several enemies were still hesitating, and they didn't dare to go forward or retreat, and they were slowly moving forward there.

Without saying a word, the squad leader aimed at the enemy and directly pulled the trigger.

"Da Da Da Da~!"

Dense gunfire rang out, and a string of bullets flew out quickly, and the five enemies were instantly beaten into a sieve and killed on the spot.

The other enemies saw that the situation was not good, and they turned around and ran in fear.

In this way, all the enemies were repulsed.

With his own strength, the squad leader killed and wounded more than 100 enemies, and repelled the enemy several times.

The Chai squad leader and their squad killed and wounded more than 200 enemies, and counterattacked to recapture four mountains.

After repelling the enemy's attack again, the captain of the Chai squad still held his position.

It wasn't until a comrade-in-arms rushed over to support that the squad leader finally couldn't support it and fainted.

So his comrades-in-arms hurriedly sent him off the battlefield, and then the Chai squad leader was sent to the rear hospital for treatment, and because of his serious injuries, he was sent back to China for treatment.

Since then, the Chai squad leader has lost contact with the troops.

Because of the poor transportation and communication at that time, after the Chai squad leader returned to China and recovered from his injury, he retired from the army and returned to his hometown.

At that time, the troops thought that the Chai squad leader had been sacrificed.

After the war, the Chai squad leader was recorded as a special meritorious service and awarded the title of first-class combat hero.

And these two medals have been kept in the archives of the 15th Army for thirty years.

In the memorial hall in a foreign country, the comrades of the Northern Dynasty also painted a portrait of the captain of the firewood squad according to their imagination, and hung it in their military memorial hall to remember this combat hero.

It wasn't until more than thirty years later that the 15th Army learned by chance that the captain of the Chai squad was not dead.

So he published a newspaper calling for his hero, and only then did he find this old hero who had hidden his merits and fame.

It was by virtue of the soldiers' tenacious fighting spirit that the 15th Army successfully withstood the repeated attacks of two divisions of the US Army and one brigade of the Canadian Army.

In the end, at the cost of more than 1,200 casualties, more than 5,700 enemy troops were killed and wounded, and the position was held for 10 days, successfully completing the task assigned by the headquarters.

Moreover, the 15th Army was also one of the few field army units in the entire Fifth Campaign in which the number of enemy annihilation was greater than the number of losses.

The message was conveyed to the command.

Chief of Staff Xie walked quickly to the boss and said, "Boss, the 15th Army has also completed the task brilliantly and blocked the enemy. ”

"Now that the enemy's offensive has been basically contained, we have successfully built a new line of defense, and now even if the enemy continues to counterattack, we can completely block them."

"Don't dare to say anything else, at least we can successfully maintain the battle line near the 38th parallel."

The boss finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, his face softened a lot, and said, "We can finally breathe a sigh of relief now." ”

"There were major mistakes in this campaign, and many unnecessary losses were caused, and this is all my responsibility."

The boss never shy away from his mistakes, and when something goes wrong, he always reflects on his mistakes first.

It is said that the boss has a big temper, but he has an upright personality, is dedicated to the public, and has never had the slightest selfishness.

He cannot forgive the faults of others, let alone his own.

Even decades later, at the end of his life, our boss is still constantly reflecting on his defeat.

Chief of Staff Xie hurriedly persuaded him: "Boss, don't blame yourself too much, there are various reasons for the defeat in this battle, and we have also saved the situation in time and avoided greater losses." ”

"Now that the battle line has gradually stabilized, then we can take advantage of the opportunity of defense to consume a large amount of the enemy's living forces."

"At the same time, we can also take advantage of this opportunity to continue to accumulate strength for the next counterattack."

The boss sighed helplessly and said, "Now it can only be like this, we have to re-evaluate the enemy's strength and earnestly learn the lessons of this time." ”

"The U.S. military is still advancing north, so give me a hard blow and consume as much of the U.S. military's vital force as possible."

"Yes!"

Chief of Staff Xie hurriedly responded. (End of chapter)