The battle in Xinxingli started at 4:30 p.m. on November 27 and was completely annihilated at 4 p.m. on December 2, which took five days.

With the end of the first night of the battle on the night of the 27th, the Ninth Corps divided and surrounded the 1st Marine Division in four positions: Xinxingli, Liutanli, and Xiajieyuli, and some troops blocked the attacks between Xiajieyuli and Liutanli and Xinxingli, and between Xiajieyuli and Gutuli.

Interspersed with divisions, on the first night, the 1st Marine Division was like an earthworm, cut into several knots by the sharp knife of the Volunteer Army.

The entire Battle of Changjin Lake was presented on the surface of our army with superiority after the end of the battle on the first night.

At dawn, the snow gradually lightened, and after a night of fighting, the US high ground captured by the Ninth Corps in the Battle of Changjin Lake only sent small formed units to stay behind, that is, units ranked in squads, and large troops rested farther away from the heights, which was caused by our army's lack of superior artillery firepower and air supremacy.

This also formed a situation, although the overall situation is that our army surrounds the enemy with superior forces, but during the day, when the enemy attacks, it is the enemy who fights more and less, and the US army fully grasps this weakness, gathers superior forces, regains the lost position, and under the cover of tanks, heavy artillery and aircraft, launches a counterattack on the high ground where the volunteer soldiers are stationed.

And the volunteer soldiers stationed on the high ground need to hold out until nightfall!

The U.S. army's attack method was the same as that of the Japanese army, but the U.S. army's attack method was more ruthless, heavy artillery bombardment, aircraft bombing, firepower covering the mountain, aircraft low-altitude strafing, and then the infantry charged.

In addition, the firepower coverage of the US army does not include the hill on the high ground, but also the anti-slope of the hill and the rear of the high ground, especially the artillery bombardment of the anti-slope will continue, the intention is to block the passage of our second-line reserve reinforcements, prevent our army from reinforcing the volunteer soldiers on the high ground, and isolate the defending troops on our high ground, while the enemy can continue to increase his troops and attack again and again.

As for the tactics of our army, it is relatively simple, the troops stationed on the high ground always follow the defensive line, calmly let the enemy get closer, and then open fire fiercely, and when the enemy goes further, the grenades will fly sideways, and after the grenades are blown up, the bayonets of the volunteers will be pushed into their stomachs.

Don't look at the tall and big US soldiers, but what they are most afraid of is that the volunteers fight close combat, often the volunteers rush out of the bunker with guns as soon as the trumpet of the charge sounds, even if there are only a few dozen volunteers and more than 200 people in the US army, they will be chased by the volunteers, and they dare not fight hand-to-hand.

Although the soldiers of our volunteers were brave and tenacious, the reinforcement road on the anti-slope of the high ground was blocked by the enemy, and the enemy could send additional troops to continue the attack.

Such an offensive and defensive mode continued to be staged throughout the Battle of Changjin Lake.

Xia Yuan followed the large army and withdrew to the rear, and he could hear the continuous sound of the American artillery fire from a distance, from dawn to noon, the artillery fire still continued, and he couldn't count how many times the American planes bombed, how many shells were vented, and he didn't know how many more than 30 soldiers in the platoon guarding the 1100 high ground withstood the enemy's charge, and how many remaining combatants were still under the all-round coverage of the artillery fire.

Only that at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the artillery fire in front of us stopped.

The soldiers stood in the rear, looking in the direction of Xinxingli, no one spoke, just watched quietly, that day, it was a good day, but the smoke of gunpowder covered the whole sky.

Xia Yuan held the gun, sat quietly on a protruding rock, and watched quietly. The cruelty of the war, even if he, a person who is open, feels the heart of the heart, and he himself does not dare to guarantee that he will stick to his position, relying only on more than 30 people, how to hold on for a day.

I don't know how cruel, tragic and desolate the future Tieyuan Resistance Battle and Shangganling Battle will be.

Yu Congrong took the canned food captured from the U.S. Army and came to Xia Yuan's side, "Eat some, eat more to kill the American imperialist devil." ”

Xia Yuan turned his head to look at Yu Congrong, saw his reddened eyes, silently took the can in his hand, and ate it in small bites.

Yu Congrong sat beside Xia Yuan, looking at the direction of the 1100 heights, the smoke was still filling, but the artillery fire had stopped, what this meant, everyone knew in their hearts.

Xia Yuan ate a little, padd his stomach, and handed the rest to Yu Congrong: "Let the wounded soldier eat." ”

Yu Congrong smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "You eat, they have it." ”

"Oh." Xia Yuan nodded, no longer silent, he suddenly remembered his batch of supplies, and said to Yu Congrong: "By the way, the truckload of materials I captured earlier is still in the west of Xinxingli." ”

The battle has started in Xinxingli, and we can't let the batch of materials we captured leave there in vain, and we must let it work.

Yu Congrong asked in disbelief: "You really got a cart of supplies for the enemy?" ”

Xia Yuan nodded firmly: "Nonsense, I'm going to get it back and hand it over to the 239th regiment, they attacked the enemy's two heights last night, and attacked the enemy's forward positions from the front, plus the logistics supply can't go up, and they consumed so many materials on the first night, they must need this batch of materials." ”

Yu Congrong thought for a moment and got up: "I'll go find the company commander." ”

Soon, a small soldier came to the area where the fighters were resting and shouted: "Comrade Xia Yuan of the Seventh Piercing Company!" Seventh, interspersed with Comrade Lian Xia Yuan! ”

Pinghe shouted to Xia Yuan in the distance: "Xia Yuan, call you." ”

Xia Yuan got up, turned his head to look at Pinghe, Lei Gong and Wu Wanli, who were sitting together, and walked over.

Lei Gong looked at him and stood up: "This is war, the high ground cannot be defended, everyone knows what it means to defend the high ground, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, you are uncomfortable, the commander of the 238th regiment is even more uncomfortable, when he gave the order, he was under great psychological pressure, so we have to use the gun in our hands to win this battle and destroy all the enemies in Xinxing!" ”

Xia Yuan nodded heavily and held the gun in his hand hard.

Lei Gong patted him on the shoulder, "You were already very good last night, the instructor handed over your record to the division headquarters early in the morning, killed the commander of the bear regiment of the US army, captured their military flags, blew up the enemy's firepower points, sketched the US army's defense map, relieved the siege of brother troops, and covered the marking bombs so that the US army could not bomb us, you are a hero!" A true hero!

”

Xia Yuan looked at the soldiers of the Seventh Company with eager eyes, some of them were wrapped in bandages, some were lying on the mattress, but their eyes were full of admiration and praise.

Lei Gong smiled, "Go ahead, rest well when you come back, look at your eyes, what kind of red they are, we have to fight tonight." ”

Xia Yuan grinned, said goodbye to Lei Gong and Wu Wanli Pinghe, came to the command headquarters, and met Wu Qianli, Mei Sheng, Yu Congrong, Tan Ziwei and the commander of the 238th Regiment, as well as the commander of the third battalion of the 238th Regiment, who had a relationship with each other last night.

Battalion Commander Sun stepped forward, shook Xia Yuan's hand, and said excitedly: "Comrade Xia Yuan, I want to thank you!" I had already heard from the members of the demolition team last night about what happened to them last night, and that without you, the enemy's pillboxes would have inflicted heavy casualties on our troops. ”

Xia Yuan said: "This is what I should do." ”

The commander of the 238th Regiment said: "Time is pressing, I have heard about your seizure of a truckload of supplies, I also telegraphed the 239th Regiment, and they have also sent people to look for it, don't worry about it first." The 239th regiment's receipt last night was also very large, relying on the defense map you drawn, with the target of the artillery to hit, all the fortifications of the enemy's forward positions were destroyed, in one day, they dug trenches and communication trenches at most, and at night, it was our general offensive again, this American army in Xinxingli! We're going to eat them all! ”

Xia Yuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and nodded heavily.

The commander of the 238th regiment said with a smile: "You are now a combat hero, I will write down your deeds with your company commander early in the morning and hand them over to the division!" Just now, the department's commendation order came down, do you want to take a look? ”

"Commendation order? Want! ”

The instructor of the 2238th Regiment took a telegram and handed it to Mei Sheng: "You will read it out by you." ”

"Hey."

Mei Sheng smiled, took the telegram with both hands, and glanced at Wu Qianli.

Wu Qianli immediately said: "Then gather all the soldiers of the Seventh Company!" ”

Tan Ziwei also said to the instructor beside him: "This celebration, instructor, ask the soldiers of our battalion to come and listen, be careful, don't be discovered by the US reconnaissance plane." ”

The camp instructor smiled and said, "Yes, I'll call it." ”

The commander of the 238th Regiment looked at the instructor beside him, and the instructor said: "There are too many people, and the goal is too big, but when the war is over, this commendation will be awarded by the whole army, and the soldiers will see it." ”

The regiment commander thought for a while and said, "Okay, then listen to you, and on the day when the award comes, I will hold a regimental meeting and read it to the soldiers in person, so as to motivate the soldiers." ”

Xia Yuan scratched his head a little embarrassed.

After a while, there were volunteer soldiers squatting in the valley where they were resting, the seventh interspersed company and the third battalion of Tan Ziwei had already gathered, more than 400 people, many of them were wrapped in bandages, and some of the soldiers' clothes were still relatively thin, crowded between the valleys, wearing cotton clothes worn backwards and thick cotton military hats.

Mei Sheng was at the front of the team, holding the commendation order, his eyes eagerly swept over the soldiers below, and he said: "Comrades, just last night's battle, one of our soldiers in the Seventh Interspersed Company was praised!" Guess who. ”

Mei Sheng's words caused the soldiers to whisper, thinking that it would be a new combat mission, but they didn't expect that a combat hero was born, and they were discussing in whispers.

Lei Gong was full of smiles, but Wu Wanli was confused, "Lei Gong, what are you laughing at." ”

Lei Gong smiled and said, "You still don't know? ”

Wu Wanli shook his head blankly, "I don't know." ”

Yu Congrong turned his head, "Xiao Wanli, it's your brother Yuan, you followed Daddy Lei last night, I don't know what your brother Yuan did." ”

Wu Wanli looked at Yu Congrong, "What did you do?" ”

Pinghe's muffled voice came out, with praise and admiration in his eyes: "Xia Yuan's marksmanship is getting better and better, he is growing up very fast, and he will definitely be able to grow into a sniper in the future!" ”

Yu Congrong sat aside with a gun and laughed: "Thanks to the company commander who gave Xia Xiaozi to our platoon, hehehe, I picked up the treasure." ”

Wu Wanli didn't speak, his eyes were shining.

Tan Ziwei said with a smile: "Okay, Coach Mei, don't play dumb riddles to the soldiers." ”

Mei Sheng smiled and read aloud, "To Comrade Xia Yuan, the Seventh Interspersed Company of the First Regiment of the Siege: Comrade Xia Yuan, when he was separated from the team, sketched the deployment map of the US army in Xinxingli, which laid the foundation for our army's all-out offensive at 4:30 pm on the 27th, greatly reduced the casualties of our army, and ...... in the battle on the night of the 27th."

Thinking of this, Mei Sheng's tone turned sharply, sonorous and powerful, and his tone was full of firmness and pride: "When Comrade Xia Yuan was separated from the large army, he was not afraid of a strong enemy, faced difficulties, and made great achievements.

A great credit! ”

"First-class merit!

”

Mei Sheng's words exploded in the team like thunder, whether it was the soldiers of the third battalion or the soldiers of the seventh interspersed company, all the soldiers looked at Xia Yuan's eyes changed, became hot, worshipped, became respectful and admired, and became happy and eager.

Xia Yuan, when the division headquarters commended the whole division for the first time, they already knew each other.

One person resisted a reconnaissance company of the US army, and was wounded and jumped off a cliff and survived.

One man and one gun annihilated more than 30 people of the enemy's reconnaissance platoon, and the enemy was so frightened that he did not dare to show his head, and after completely annihilating the enemy, he captured the weapons and equipment of a platoon.

In last night's battle, one person smashed several US firing points, rushed into the US military headquarters, killed the US commander, captured a US military flag, blew up several enemy pillboxes, and met the troops north of the river bridge!

This is a real hero who can't be killed!

Wu Qianli said: "Applaud!" ”

Mei Sheng carefully rolled up the commendation order, slapped his palm vigorously, and looked at Xia Yuan with a happy face, with affirmation, pride, and pride in his eyes.

The applause was like a wave, which lasted for a long time, and all the soldiers looked at Xia Yuan excitedly.

Xia Yuan stood beside Mei Sheng, an incomparable sense of pride rose in his heart, his expression was solemn, and he saluted all the soldiers with a noble military salute!