The phone hung up, and the whole tunnel was filled with a solemn atmosphere, and Instructor Lin no longer had a smile on his face, but was replaced by a solemn one.

Platoon commanders are aware of the enormity of the task.

"The meeting continues, now discuss the combat mission!" Company Commander Gao said: "In the past two days, the movements of the US army have become more and more frequent, and it is very likely that the time for the general attack is not far away, and we must prepare for it in advance." ”

The roar of planes was heard in the sky again, and as the battle of Cangshan ended, US planes continued to patronize Wusheng Mountain.

Since 8 October, after the commander of the 'United Nations Forces', Clark, agreed to Van Vliet's showdown operation, he began to carry out artillery bombardment and aircraft bombardment of the garrison of the Iron Triangle Volunteer Army.

On 12 October, there was a sudden increase in the number of enemy planes and artillery shells that came to patronize the positions of the Chinese People's Volunteers on Wusheng Mountain, Shangganling, and Beishan on the 597.9 and 537.7 heights. The fighters of the 'United Nations Army' frantically bombed the intended targets of the positions of the Volunteers, and dropped dozens of petrol bombs, and the flames of the Volunteers' positions were blazing and thick smoke was billowing in.

On the same day, the artillery of the US army also shelled the positions of Wusheng Mountain and the Volunteers in an indefinite manner, and also fired smoke bombs to indicate the targets of the bombing planes, and focused on strengthening the blockade and shooting of the Volunteers' roads.

In the forward observation post of the Volunteer Army, the number of soybean grains used to indicate the number of times the enemy's transport vehicles came and went increased rapidly, indicating that the enemy's movements were unusually frequent. During the day, the 'United Nations Army' pulled some American troops in cars and drove westward, but at night they transported large numbers of troops to the front line, so that our troops could not find out what their forces had hit.

The US military also sent more than 20 tanks to the Acer to swagger west along the Jinhua and Tieyuan highways, attacking the Western Mountains in sheep's clothing, in an attempt to give the commanders of the Chinese People's Volunteers the illusion of attacking the Western Mountains. At the same time, the US 7th Division and the 9th South Division, with a total of four battalions, respectively launched a diversionary attack on the 391st Heights, the northwest hills of Shangjia Mountain, the South Mountains of Zhicun, and the 419 Heights in front of the 44th and 29th Divisions of the Chinese Volunteers.

For a time, the wind and clouds from the West Mountain to the Five Holy Mountains were swaying.

As everyone knows, on the night of the 8th, a reconnaissance squad of the Volunteer Army defending the 597.9 Heights attacked Cangshan in Xiaganling, annihilated a company of the enemy, and stole important information.

During the meeting, the enemy's artillery fire also fell on the 597.9 Heights and the 537.9 Heights North Mountain, and the soldiers in the tunnels seemed to be sitting in a drum, and as the drum was beaten, the sound in the tunnels continued to roar.

It was in such a situation that some of the soldiers of the 9th Company waited in the No. 1 tunnel.

The process of the meeting went very smoothly, and Instructor Lin said in his final summary: "The battle will start soon, we must resolutely carry out the orders of our superiors, and actively respond to the 'hard bones' activities. All platoons and squads shoulder their responsibilities and do a good job in ideological work, and now is a special period, and the soldiers of the whole company must be ready for battle at any time, sleep without undressing, never leave their guns, and devote themselves to battle anytime and anywhere! ”

"Yes!"

After the meeting was over, the platoon leaders of each platoon quickly returned to their positions and called a meeting of the squad leaders.

"The battle will start immediately, and the superiors will ask us to hold our positions, not give up an inch of land, every inch of land will be fought, the position is everything, and holding the position is to surround our motherland!"

The fourth platoon leader said to the squad leader: "The squad leader should pay attention, there is a recruit in your squad who has little experience on the battlefield and may be timid, let the other soldiers in the squad set an example for this recruit, when he is found to be timid, or there is a mistake in his thinking, do not criticize, for the recruits, we should give enough tolerance, so that the veterans of your squad can give him encouragement and confidence to each other!" ”

"In particular, we must put forward the slogan of taking Comrade Xia Yuan as an example and fighting heroes as the goal in our platoon, and actively respond to the battle!"

"Yes!"

Then the squad leaders returned to the trenches where they were stationed, and took the squad as a unit to start the war ideological activities, and the squad leader gathered everyone together and said: "Comrades, when the motherland needs us, behind us is our country, holding the position means that we have defended our country, and if the enemy wants to get on the position, we must ask if the steel gun in our hands will agree!" If the enemy wants to cross the Yalu River, they must first step over our corpses! ”

"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees!"

"Comrade Zhao Fengshou, you and Comrade Xia Yuan are recruits who joined the company at the same time! Comrade Xia Yuan can do it, and you can do it too! We must take Comrade Xia Yuan as an example, go to the battlefield for the first time, not afraid of strong enemies, dare to fight!

Then we should do even more! Think about the fathers and villagers behind us, and think about the suffering that everyone suffered before the establishment of New China! Korean! Defend the country! If we don't fight this battle, and the foreign devils cross the 38th parallel and cross the Yalu River, the country we have worked so hard to build will be full of war again! Would you like to see such an outcome!? ”

The soldiers of the first squad held back their strength, and under the roar of enemy artillery fire, they shouted: "I don't want to! ”

The squad leader raised his voice too loudly, "Yes, we can't let this scene play out in our country anymore, we can't let our families be exposed to the light of war anymore!" Only by beating the enemy back and killing the enemy, like Comrade Xia Yuan, can we defend our motherland and our country! ”

"We must take Comrade Xia Yuan as an example and learn from his behavior of daring to fight! We must even more target those martyrs who died bravely, and not write the list of heroes! Paint the martyr's monument! ”

"Hold the ground, hold our home! Even if it's death, it's not right to take half a step back! Even if it is death, you must stand proudly on your own position! ”

Zhao Fengshou held the gun, clenched his fists, and had a determined look on his face.

Every soldier was holding back a lot of energy in his heart, and secretly swore in his heart that when the foreign devils came up, they must make the foreign devils look good!

This scene happened in various tunnels and in various companies.

All companies, all of them, were actively preparing for battle, and all kinds of slogans were shouted in all companies, platoons, and squads, and quickly received a positive response from the soldiers.

Xia Yuan was also transferred out of the reconnaissance squad and returned to his second platoon stationed in the No. 1 position, in the pre-war mobilization, Platoon Commander Sun also issued a slogan with Comrade Xia Yuan as an example, learned the spirit of Comrade Xia Yuan, entered the DPRK as a new soldier, played an outstanding role in the first battle, won a big victory, and in the second battle, annihilated a company of the US army.

Even the commander of the 15th Army used 'groundbreaking' to describe Xia Yuan's second battle, creating an exemplary example of our army winning more with less.

After Platoon Commander Sun passed the slogan to each squad leader, they were responsible for conveying it to every soldier.

After Xia Yuan returned to the team, the soldiers in the first squad were very excited, looking forward to Xia Yuan being able to create another good story in the third battle.

After squad leader Hu came back, he called the whole class to come over for a meeting, and he said: "Everyone already knows the current situation, the enemy is about to launch an attack on the Shangganling area, and the enemy passes through Shangganling, which means that the door to the rear of our army has been opened, and our rear will face loss!" We can only withstand the enemy's artillery fire and repel the enemy's attack! ”

"We have finally established a country, and we are about to live a good life, and the special US imperialism is not dead, and it is vainly trying to burn the flames of war to the Yalu River and to the northeast, think about how many Korean people's homes have been blown up by the US military, how many wives and children have lost their husbands, how many children have lost their parents, think about the villages we passed by, the children sat in front of their parents' corpses and wept, and behind them were the pictures of the ruins of the village that were bombed by US planes, and then think about the War of Resistance and Liberation that we had just experienced, Think about what little Japan did on our land, think about how our families were persecuted by little Japan, think about what you joined the army for! ”

"For the sake of food, for the sake of one's family, for a better life! The country is established, and good days are coming! ”

"But if we lose and the U.S. military hits the Yalu River, our country will fall into war again, and the image of that child sitting in front of the corpses of his parents and crying, with the ruins of the village bombed by the U.S. planes behind him will be played out in our country again!"

"Are we going to let this happen in our country?"

The soldiers thought of their war-torn hometown, of the thousands of compatriots in that city, of the babies provoked by the Japanese devils with bayonets, and of all the things that happened in the land they once loved the most, and they cried out with tears and tears: "Squad leader, I must not let this scene happen in my hometown!" I absolutely can't! We have to hold our ground and drive out the foreign devils! We want to defend our country! We must not allow our country to suffer the slightest harm! ”

"Even if it is death, I will push the foreign devil back!"

They shouted those inspiring words with all their might, and it was precisely because they had been in the rain that they wanted to hold up an umbrella for others.

Xia Yuan, who was sitting on the ground, also burst into tears, and the former volunteer soldiers held such a belief that they would defeat the US military with aircraft artillery, tank rockets, the world's most powerful and advanced navy, the world's most powerful weapons, and nuclear weapons with their own flesh and blood.

Squad Leader Hu wiped away the tears from his face and shouted: "So, even if we die, we must push the enemy back!" Even if you die, you will never be able to lose your position! Even if it is death, it will be fought to the death on our positions! ”

With a fierce look on his face, he shouted: "Even if you die, use our corpses to hold back the enemy's advance!" ”

The artillery fire overhead was still roaring, and the enemy planes were still roaring.

But this did not intimidate the volunteer soldiers in the tunnel! They have been oppressed before, and at this moment they finally stood up, how could they be willing to be oppressed again.

There is as much pressure as there is a rebound.

Eventually, these pressures will turn into endless fighting spirit, and you will fight back against the enemy fiercely!

......

At the headquarters of the 235th Regiment, after hanging up the phone, the regiment commander convened a meeting of the whole regiment to discuss the defense of the Shangganling area in detail.

The division headquarters and the military headquarters were also not idle, and at this time, everyone knew in their hearts what it meant that the more frequent movements of the US military were.

It is likely that the enemy's war plan is already being prepared, or is about to be underway.

At such a juncture, the 15th Army received an urgent telegram from Zhiji: "Tell the comrades of the 15th Army that not only must they prepare carefully, but they must also be prepared to pay a huge price." The Five Holy Mountains are our barriers, we must hold them firmly, and the military department will fully support you! ”

In view of the enemy's imminent fierce attack on Wusheng Mountain, the 15 th Army carried out a hard-headed activity of 'one person sacrificing his life, ten people are unstoppable' in the whole army, and the front-line commanders and fighters proposed that in the past, they swore to live and die with the position, but now they will not let the position lose half a point. The position must be saved, and the people must be saved!

At the same time, in response to the 'refueling tactics' presented by the 45th Division, the military department also made corresponding affirmations and high evaluations.

"Limited by the Shangganling area, our army is unable to carry out a large-scale counterattack operation, and the enemy is trying to achieve glowing results in Shangganling, so our army will actively respond to the battle! Not an inch of land! Every inch of land counts! ”

From the 8th to the 12th, in just four days, the army went to the division, the division to the regiment, the regiment to the company, and the company to the squad, and actively carried out hard-core activities. The commanders and fighters of the Volunteer Army called the defense of the Five Holy Mountains "the gate to defend peace", put forward the idea that "after the Five Holy Mountains and even Beiping, everyone will strive to make great contributions", vowed to "paint the martyrs' monument if they do not write the list of heroes", and were determined to "consolidate the steel position, fight the heroic troops", and resolutely smash the enemy's offensive!

The tragic Battle of Shangganling was about to begin, and the command post of the 15th Army was filled with a large volume of letters sent from the forward positions. In these letters, the commanders and fighters guarding Shangganling unanimously reported to their superiors on their preparations and expressed their determination to fight.

They reported on the accurate and thorough combat preparations made in accordance with the battle plan of their superiors, and shouted: "If we want to attack, we will fight wherever the superiors point us!" To defend, as long as we live, the position will never be ceded to the enemy! ”

The commanders and fighters who were not stationed in Shangganling wrote letters to the military headquarters to take the initiative to ask for battle, and submitted a combat petition to be transferred to the front line to fight, and they all rushed to become the reserve of the Shangganling front, rushing to the front-line battlefield at any time, and entering the battle at any time!

During this period, the morale of the whole army of the 15th Army was high, and everyone was proud to participate in the Shangganling operation!

The commanders of the 15 th Army were greatly encouraged by the commanders and fighters of their subordinates to kill the enemy, and they decided to command this battle well no matter what. Shiji even sent instructions: "Defend tenaciously, take the initiative, fight repeatedly, and fight for every inch of land!" To hold the position is to defend the motherland, and to hold the position is to defend world peace! ”

The deputy commander, deputy political commissar, and chief of staff of the Third Corps also repeatedly demanded: "The battle of Shangganling must be fought well!" "The 45th Division is ready to fight two divisions of the US army, and it must defeat the US Seventh Division!"

With such a high fighting spirit, why can't our army be able to win!

The whole army is united and vows to fight the US army to the end!

It's under such high morale.

October 13th.

A new day begins.