Chapter 17: Small casualties, big results! (Six geng)
More than ten mortars, five or six boxes of shells, and two boxes of bullets were quickly piled on the ground, and the leader of the third squad of the fourth platoon couldn't help but be curious: "You really annihilated a company of American troops?" ”
Xia Yuan raised his voice, "Then there is still a fake, and lying will be punished." ”
"Awesome!" The leader of the third squad of the fourth platoon was amazed.
At this time, the three squads of dark sentry soldiers hurriedly ran to the No. 1 position, rushed into the tunnel in a hurry, and happened to meet the fourth platoon commander who was transporting sand and gravel outside, "Platoon commander, where is our company commander?" ”
"I'm resting, what's going on, I'm so anxious, is there something wrong with the No. 7 position!" The commander of the fourth platoon saw that the soldiers in front of him were out of breath and sweaty, and he was shocked in his heart, so he hurriedly asked.
The soldier gasped, "Platoon commander, hurry up and wake up the company commander, Comrade Xia Yuan, Comrade Xia Yuan is back in the truck of foreign devils." ”
"What! Comrade Xia Yuan drove a truck of foreign devils! The fourth platoon leader was stunned for a moment, and quickly put down the basket in his hand, "Follow me." ”
The two walked through the tunnel and came to the lounge, where Company Commander Gao was resting on the table, with a map in front of him, the kerosene lamp emitted a dark halo, the female comrades of the art troupe and the medical staff were resting in the tunnel, and the four platoons ran over and gently woke up Company Commander Gao.
"Company commander, Comrade Xia Yuan is back."
As soon as he heard that Comrade Xia Yuan was coming back, Company Commander Gao was sleepy, and looked at the resting female comrades, and he booed: "Go out and say." ”
Outside the tunnel, Company Commander Gao asked, "What's going on?" ”
The fourth platoon commander said: "Chu Wazi, come over and tell the company commander what's going on." ”
"Company commander, I was on duty with Wang Wazi, and suddenly I heard an enemy truck approaching the No. 7 position, and when I was hesitating with him, the car suddenly lit up, so I asked Wang Wazi to call the squad leader, I touched it myself, but I didn't expect the people in the car to find me."
"When he got out of the car, I saw that it was Comrade Xia Yuan, and he said that I should call the company commander and set off with two platoons of soldiers, saying what to do to move supplies!"
Chu Wazi quickly said what happened not long ago: "Company commander, you quickly take someone to take a look, I see that the car is equipped with a mortar!" ”
"It's true!" Company Commander Gao hurriedly asked.
"It's true! Xia Yuan said that he would be punished for lying! Chu Wazi nodded firmly.
"It is estimated that Xia Yuan and they have encountered an accident!"
The company commander Gao immediately gave an order without delay: "Fourth platoon commander, you call the third platoon commander, stop digging tunnels, bring weapons and equipment, and assemble on the No. 1 position!" In addition, the first and second platoons were ordered to be combat-ready. ”
"Yes!"
Company Commander Gao hurriedly returned to the lounge, woke up Instructor Lin, called him outside, and told Instructor Lin what had just happened.
When Instructor Lin heard this, he was a little confused: "What's the matter, didn't you let them scratch their tongues?" ”
"I don't know what happened, a little soldier came back and said that Xia Yuan drove the foreign devil's car and pulled a few mortars back."
Company Commander Gao smiled bitterly: "This kid, he made such a big moth in the first operation, I just let three or four rows form a whole line, let's go over and take a look now." ”
Instructor Lin said, "I'll go and get dressed." ”
On the No. 1 position, more than 70 soldiers from the third platoon and the fourth platoon were quickly assembled, and the first and second platoons were responsible for digging tunnels during the day, so the defense and guard posts of the position were handed over to the soldiers of the third and fourth platoons, and at night the three or four platoons were dug tunnels, and the defense and guard posts at night were handed over to the first and second platoons.
Position No. 7 is a forward position, which is relatively prominent, and has always been guarded by four platoons and three shifts.
"Report to the company commander, the three platoons are assembled!"
"Report to the company commander, the four platoons are assembled!"
Company Commander Gao didn't say much, and said, "Let's go!" ”
The team formed two columns and quickly set off in the direction of position No. 7.
Company Commander Gao was a little anxious, and Instructor Lin said, "Old Gao, go slowly." ”
Company Commander Gao said, "Can I go faster?" What did the reconnaissance squad do tonight, why did they suddenly pull back a cart of mortars, and if I didn't solve this question quickly, my heart was like scratching, uneasy. ”
Instructor Lin could only shout: "Speed up!" ”
The soldiers didn't know what was going on, they followed the team in front of them, and soon arrived at the No. 7 position, passed through the No. 7 position, and continued to walk forward, and saw the car in Chu Wazi's mouth in the distance.
"Report to the company commander! Instructor! ”
Xia Yuan waited left and right, and when he saw that someone had finally come, he stepped forward to salute.
Company Commander Gao hurriedly asked, "Xia Yuan, what happened?" Where did you get the foreign devil's car? What about the others? ”
"Company commander, I'll tell you on the way! Just leave the two fighters to watch these mortars, and let's go now! ”
Xia Yuan opened the car door and boarded the car, "Company commander, I'll tell you on the way, let the soldiers get in the car first." ”
"All of them, get in the car! Running forward if you can't sit down! ”
Under the echo of Company Commander Gao, the soldiers of the third platoon crowded to board the car, and the soldiers of the fourth platoon followed behind the car.
saw that Xia Yuan turned off the car lights, started the car and turned around.
Company Commander Gao was a little surprised: "You don't drive with lights?" ”
Xia Yuan said with a smile: "Company commander, don't worry, I can see the road clearly at night." ”
The car started and set off in the direction of Cangshan Mountain.
The fighters followed behind the car.
Instructor Lin asked, "What are you doing tonight, how did you pull back so many mortars?" ”
Xia Yuan said: "Company commander, instructor, isn't our mission location Cangshan?" I observed the situation in Cangshan and found that the guard posts of foreign devils were very loose, so I asked squad leader Zhou to lead people to touch the weak guard back mountain, kill the enemy's guard post in the back mountain, and touch the enemy's living area and artillery position all the way. ”
"I found that most of these foreign devils live in the tunnel, so I asked Lao Niu to change into the clothes of foreign devils, and attacked the foreign devils in the tunnel, those foreign devils who did not die knew that there was an enemy who was changing into their clothes and attacking them, but they didn't know where we were, I took Lao Niu and they put black guns in the middle of the enemy, and the enemy shot at us, and some bullets hit the foreign devils on the other side, and then they were messed up."
"I also destroyed the wires and light bulbs on the position, and the enemy couldn't tell the enemy from the enemy, only knowing that the enemy was wearing his own clothes, plus we made trouble from it, and when we encountered foreign devils, we shot and threw grenades, which scared foreign devils so much that they shot when they saw their own people."
"After three hours of fighting, almost all of them were almost the same, Squad Leader Zhou rushed in with people and wiped out the remaining enemies, and in this way, we killed a company of the enemy at the cost of slightly injuring two soldiers!"
Company Commander Gao and Instructor Lin's expressions became stunned.
Company Commander Gao was shocked: "More than a dozen of you killed a company of the enemy!"
! ”
Immediately after, he excitedly said, "Good! Good! Good! He turned his head to look at Director Lin: "Instructor, do you hear that the reconnaissance squad killed a company of the enemy at the cost of slightly injuring two soldiers!" ”
Instructor Lin said with a smile: "I heard it, I heard it, I don't have to run away for the next class commendation, I guess the female comrades of the art troupe will stay for two more days." ”
"Hahaha!" Company Commander Gao smiled happily, and the previous uneasiness was swept away: "Great! The Scouting class was a huge surprise for me! By the way, how many people did you capture? ”
"More than a dozen, and the enemy's wounded." Xia Yuan said again: "Company commander, I also heard the content of the foreign devil's conversation, and the enemy's target is very likely to be Shangganling!" ”
"Can you understand the bird language of foreign devils?" Company Commander Gao was very surprised.
"Yes." Xia Yuan nodded: "At that time in 51, the war was raging, and I had long wanted to join the army to defend my family and country, so I asked my father to buy me a bird language book, and after studying for a year, I could understand some basic words." ”
Instructor Lin said: "This is an important piece of information, if it is really as Xia Yuan said, the enemy's target is Shangganling, then the value of this information will be immeasurable, which will play a key role in our army's deployment of Wusheng Mountain and changing the deployment of various divisions." ”
At the beginning of 52, the 12th Army and the 15th Army changed their guards, and the 15th Army was stationed in the area around Xixi Mountain, Wusheng Mountain, and Pingkang, and to the west was the 38th Army, which enjoyed the title of 'Long Live Army', and was stationed in the Tieyuan area.
Van Vleet has been preparing for an even bigger battle since losing the fifth battle, and their goal is the Iron Triangle!
The Iron Triangle is Pyongkang, Tieyuan, and Jinhua, and the left side of the triangle is the 38th Army, the right side is the 15th Army, and the bottom side is the United Nations Army.
In the early days of the Shangganling Campaign, the focus of the Volunteer Army's defense was also on the Western Mountain, which was due to Van Vliet's use of the blind method, he let the large army launch a pincer offensive on the Western Mountain on the Western Front, and the Eastern Front sent landing ships to pretend to land to attract the attention of the 15th Army, thus distracting the attention of the Ganling area on the Wusheng Mountain.
Van Vliet's plan was quite successful, because it was not until three days after the Battle of Shangganling began that the commander of the 15th Army Qin reacted that the enemy's target was Shangganling!
If you can gain insight and prepare in advance, you may be able to greatly slow down the living environment of the soldiers fighting inside the Shangganling tunnel, but it will not be able to change the situation of the battle, and the battle of Shangganling will still break out.
The main reason for this is that the Shangganling area is too narrow, and the two heights together are only 3.4 square kilometers, and in the later operations, both sides adopted the 'refueling tactics', the so-called refueling tactics are a company and a battalion to supplement the troops on the highlands.
In the end, the two sides invested more than 100,000 troops in this less than 3.4 square kilometers of land.
Even if Xia Yuan is from the future, even if he has the memory of knowing the trend of the battle of Shangganling, he can't change anything, this time period is in the stage of peace negotiations, and the two sides are engaged in a cold-gun campaign, even if it is a night raid, it is just a harassment attack by a platoon.
Even if Xia Yuan finally became the commander of the 15th Army, he could not change it.
Because when Marshal Peng returned to China, he gave the commander of the 15th Army an order that Wusheng Mountain was the gateway to the entire defense line of the Volunteer Army, and if it was lost, it would be responsible for history, and once the enemy broke through Wusheng Mountain, our army would retreat 200 kilometers along the entire line, and the result would be that the peace negotiations would fail.
Defend the Five Holy Mountains!
Every inch of land counts! Not an inch of land!
Xiaganling.
Cangshan.
Company Commander Gao and Instructor Lin looked at the mountain range in front of them in disbelief.
When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, looking at the pile of supplies transported down from the mountain, all the soldiers were convinced that Xia Yuan and his squad had defeated the enemy on a high ground.
It just so happened that Lao Niu and the others came down from the mountain carrying things, and when they saw Xia Yuan and the company commander, they were pleasantly surprised: "Company commander, instructor, third platoon leader, fourth platoon leader, you are here." ”
Company Commander Gao looked at the boxes of supplies in front of him, "You guys can fight, it's beyond my expectations, let's go, let's go up the mountain." The three platoon commanders and the four platoon commanders arranged for the soldiers to hurry up and carry the supplies. ”
Xia Yuan said: "Company commander, there are still cars in the woods, you find a few soldiers who can drive, follow me, don't turn on the lights, I will take everyone to transport the supplies back." ”
"Third platoon leader, don't you have a soldier in your platoon who can drive."
Instructor Lin shouted.
Company Commander Gao and Instructor Lin led the others to the high ground, there were enemy corpses everywhere, there were bomb craters everywhere, this place had obviously just experienced a small battle, most of the fortifications were seriously destroyed, some of the American corpses were blown up, and blood was flowing all over the ground.
Lao Niu took the company commander Gao and Instructor Lin to Squad Leader Zhou, who was in the enemy's main tunnel, he carried a gun on his back and said with a smile: "Company commander, instructor, platoon commander, you are here, come and come, look at the pit dug by foreign devils." ”
After a brief stroll, Company Commander Gao couldn't help but say: "The enemy dug this tunnel well, and ours is too far behind them." ”
Squad Leader Zhou said: "No, company commander, I also seized the foreign devil's radio, just this thing, you don't need a telephone line, you can directly receive the message, you listen to what it says, why does the foreign devil's bird language sound so weird." ”
Instructor Lin said with a smile: "This is the enemy's radio, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese devils had this thing, and many of them had very little equipment." It's still this foreign devil who is rich, and their company is one after another with this thing. ”
Gao Company Commander said: "Three platoon commanders, let the soldiers move all the things in the tunnel, move quickly, and return to the 597.9 high ground before five o'clock." ”
"Yes!" The third platoon commander immediately turned around and went to make arrangements.
They came to the enemy's artillery position again, and they were hot to see from the howitzers.
Company Commander Gao stroked the muzzle of the howitzer and said, "This thing is too heavy, take it at the end, take it away if you can, and blow it up if you can't take it away." ”
"It's good, it's too heavy."
Instructor Lin felt that it was a pity that our army was too short of artillery, and these howitzers were enough to form an artillery company.
Behind the artillery position, there was the enemy's material storage area, and the soldiers were happily carrying the supplies, and their happy voices could be heard from afar.
"With so many cans and four tents, the life of the little foreign devil is really good."
"What four camp tents, there is one of them with weapons and ammunition in it, and I heard from the soldiers who carried supplies over there, and there are brand new recoilless guns."
"Squad leader, come and see, it's full of meat, pickled meat from the enemy!"
"What kind of meat is this, it's so fragrant."
"What to see, what to see, hurry up, move them all, move them all to our position, let the big guy smell and watch."
"Come on, come on, don't ink, hurry up, work harder."
The camp tent was lively, the soldiers carried boxes of things outside, no one was tired, so many supplies, but they were excited.