Chapter Twenty-Four: The Battle Ends
Ji Chungeng, the 6th Company of the 172nd Regiment, was tasked with blowing up the communications tower built by the United States in North Korea and cutting off the connection between the front line of the American army and the Changjin Lake command. The U.S. troops stationed in this communication tower were stationed in a North Korean village, and the village was divided into three lines of defense, each of which was impregnable as a spoon, and was covered by three tanks and seven or eight self-propelled anti-aircraft machine gun vehicles.
It is precisely because the firepower of the US military is too strong and all kinds of heavy weapons that the US military can only be stationed along the road or in a position that is not high on the mountain. On the other hand, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army who fought in Korea were all veterans who had fought devils in the past and liberated the whole country, and in addition, the tactics that the soldiers of the Volunteer Army were most familiar with, such as night raids, interspersing, and outflanking, and with the three-three system of combat formations, they were often able to take the enemy by surprise.
At half past ten o'clock in the evening, they began to launch a night attack on the Yankees' communication tower, and in just 10 minutes, they captured the first line of defense of the US troops, and the US troops who reacted quickly launched a fire attack on the soldiers of the 6th Company, and the positions they had just recaptured were instantly covered by artillery fire, and many people were killed and wounded.
If it weren't for the arrival of the Seventh Company, it is estimated that Ji Chungeng's company would have been wiped out by the enemy.
Ji Chungeng took the few remaining soldiers of the Sixth Company to the second line of defense, the second line of defense has been broken by them, there are many corpses of American soldiers lying in the trenches, he is a soldier in his twenties, he does not look very old, many soldiers are seventeen or eighteen years old during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, some are in their early twenties, they are already veterans in the team, and many of them have become cadres.
The help of the Seventh Company was like a relief in the snow for them, and the second line of defense was taken, and Ji Chungeng had greater confidence to blow up the communication tower, even if the US army had three tanks, it could not resist his determination to blow up the communication tower.
But the third line of defense is where the heavy firepower of the US army lies, tanks, self-propelled anti-aircraft machine gun vehicles, and more than 30 US troops in the trenches, these US troops still have combat effectiveness, so that Ji Chungeng, who has organized several alternate leaps, is helpless.
At this time, he found a soldier of the Seventh Company, with good marksmanship, who did not shoot many times, but one shot at a time, very accurately.
The soldier did not keep shooting, but waited quietly, once the enemy came out of the trench, the muzzle flame flashed, a bullet was fired, Ji Chungeng saw that on the American position illuminated by the embers on the opposite side, an American soldier was lying on the ground.
After firing a shot, he seemed to have entered a state of silence again, lying quietly behind the cover, not shooting, still maintaining the aiming action, and the whole person remained motionless.
Sniper!
Just for a moment, such a word appeared in Ji Chungeng's heart, during the Anti-Japanese War, when he was still a child soldier, he followed the old company commander to fight devils, and he had met snipers, the marksmanship was terrifying, and he could accurately kill their machine gunners every time, the marksmanship was very terrifying, and there was a lack of heavy firepower at that time, and the old company commander asked the soldiers to blow up with grenades and cover them with firepower, but they failed to kill the sniper, but it was that sniper who made the company suffer huge losses.
Up to now, many companies attach importance to the marksmanship of the soldiers, and the training organized is most shooting training in addition to daily physical training, but how can snipers be trained so easily, and there is no one in ten thousand who can become snipers.
I didn't expect that there would be such a sniper in the 7th Interspersed Company.
Ji Chungeng couldn't help but take a second look, the little soldier was lying behind the bunker, motionless, wearing a gray military coat, almost integrated with the ground. The shells fell beside him, kicking up a huge amount of dirt and almost burying him, but he remained motionless. In him, Ji Chungeng saw calmness and patience, he had heard the instructor talk about the snipers of the Japanese devils during the Anti-Japanese War, calm and patient, their target was the company's commander and sniper.
At the end of the enemy artillery bombardment, an American soldier quickly took the place of the former machine gunner and dealt a heavy fire blow to the volunteer fighters.
Wu Qianli and Yu Congrong couldn't raise their heads.
Bang.
One shot.
Ji Chungeng hurriedly looked at it, and the machine gun that sprayed angry tongues of fire blinded.
Really a sniper!
"This kid is not blind in vain, Yu Congrong blew up their tank for Lao Tzu." Wu Qianli hid behind the corpse of a dead cow, raised his head to look at the blinded enemy's firepower point, knew that the opportunity had come, and quickly shouted at Yu Congrong, who was lying behind a slope, and he had already gotten into a cowshed.
The machine guns were dumb fired, and only the enemy's self-propelled anti-aircraft machine gun vehicle remained, and under the cover of Xia Yuan's shooting, the two moved very quickly.
But the enemy's self-propelled anti-aircraft machine gun car Xia Yuan had no way to take it, the car was moving to shoot, and after the enemy hid the baffles on both sides of the self-weight machine gun, it was difficult to aim, even if the bullets of the volunteer soldiers were shot over, they left sparks on the baffle.
Seeing that the enemy's self-propelled anti-aircraft machine gun vehicle was resisting most of the volunteer soldiers, Mei Sheng immediately shouted: "Bazooka! ”
Bazooka rocket launcher is a kind of individual anti-tank weapon invented by the United States in World War II, its shape is similar to the cylindrical Bazooka musical instrument and gets its name, in the War of Liberation, the People's Liberation Army captured a lot of Bazooka of the United States to support the Kuomintang, and so on to the Korean War, China imitated Bazooka, called the Type 51 anti-tank rocket launcher, and put into use on the Korean battlefield.
Due to the limited number of imitation bazookas, one battalion was divided into three bazookas, and the seventh interspersed company was a heroic company, and the seventh interspersed company was often tasked with interspersing, so naturally one bazooka was also assigned.
Mei Sheng set up Bazooka, aimed at the enemy's machine-gun car, and fired a rocket at it, and the sky-high flames rolled up a wave of air, a deafening roar was heard, and the houses on both sides also collapsed in the terrifying explosion.
"Charge in a three-three battle formation!"
The enemy's heavy fire points were knocked down by two at once, Ji Chungeng, who was aiming at the opportunity, immediately blew the bullet whistle, and the fighters drilled out of the long bunker in a scattered formation, leaping forward while covering the shooting.
At this time, the U.S. tanks have also been mastered by Wu Qianli and Yu Congrong, as described in the movie, the two drove the U.S. tanks, rushing all the way from the slope to the bottom of the slope, crushing wooden houses.
Xia Yuan was dumbfounded, standing on the mountain with a gun and looking down the mountain, the two tanks of the US army had been destroyed by the two, and only the last tank was left chasing the tanks driven by Wu Qianli and Yu Congrong, rushing down from the mountain, and the two tanks were one in front of the other.
Wu Qianli had just come out of the tank, and he caught a glimpse of another tank sliding down the slope on the mountain, destroying the houses along the way, he was startled, and immediately got into the tank, shouting: "Yu Congrong!" Load the shells! ”
He used the periscope to observe, constantly adjusting the position of the gun barrel and aiming at the enemy tank. The barrels of the enemy's tanks were also turning, and the two tanks were aiming at each other. The shells exploded in a burst of sparks, and the enemy tanks exploded, and the enemy shells landed on the flanks and rear of the two piloted tanks.
Xia Yuan pinched a cold sweat for the two, made sure that there was nothing wrong, and immediately threw himself into the battle behind him, the enemy's tank was destroyed, and the battle was basically coming to an end.
The U.S. troops, who did not have heavy fire support, were beaten by volunteer soldiers who were familiar with various battles, and the ammunition of the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle was pressed with eight rounds of ammunition.
There were not many American troops left in the third line of defense, and they were quickly wiped out by the volunteer soldiers who rushed up.
With a roar, the communication tower set up by the US military on the hilltop was blown up.
The sky is white, and the mountain tips are shining.
The bullets in the magazine were empty, the gunfire on the battlefield gradually disappeared, pursed his mouth without saying a word, Xia Yuan, who was nervous, suddenly relaxed, sat on the ground, his silent heart began to beat violently, and his fingers trembled slightly.
The battlefield was filled with gunsmoke and dazzling corpses everywhere. His clothes were also swarthy, his face was swarthy, and his hair was dirty. The vast majority of the fighters were like him, some were seriously wounded, especially Ji Chungeng's company, they took the main attack position, and only a few dozen people survived.
Mei Sheng shouted loudly: "Clean up the battlefield quickly and try to leave before the sun comes out." ”
Wu Wanli ran over with a few guns, "Brother Yuan, look at me picking up so many guns." ”
Xia Yuan turned his head, and a mouthful of big white teeth appeared on his dark face: "What kind of gun do you want, you want bullets, you can't have a gun without bullets, go pick up bullets, leave some bolts without jamming, and lose the rest first." ”
"Oh yes, and grenades, don't forget the grenades, cannonballs, they're treasures."
It's not good for them to have fewer guns and more guns, and it is not a wise choice to go over the mountains with so many guns.