"Company commander, why do you want us to withdraw to the tunnel, don't you hold the position?" Squad Leader Hu found Company Commander Gao.

"First squad leader, the enemy's attack is too fierce, it is difficult for us to hold the position, and the artillery in the rear is too thick because of the smoke on the position to be accurately located, we just need to let the enemy into our position, and then let our artillery open fire on our position."

Company Commander Gao said patiently: "Your ammunition is almost exhausted, now go and replenish it, and when the round of shelling is over, let's rush out of the tunnel and drive the enemy out of our position in one fell swoop!" ”

Team Leader Hu's eyes lit up, "Okay! Let them also taste what it is like to be bombarded by shells! ”

"Yes!"

Squad Leader Hu suddenly remembered something: "Company commander, why didn't you see the instructor?" ”

The smile on the face of the company commander disappeared, and he sat in front of the box and was silent.

The fighters who came down from the positions also fell silent.

"On the way back to the tunnel, Instructor Lin was hit by an enemy shell and died." Company Commander Gao took out a shoe stained with black blood from his arms and held it with his hand, he has been working with Instructor Lin for seven or eight years, from the Anti-Japanese War to the Liberation War, he was used to Instructor Lin by his side, and suddenly left, Company Commander Gao felt uncomfortable.

He put away his shoes, and his eyes immediately became firm: "In a war, how can there be no sacrifice, there are casualties on our side, and the casualties on the side of foreign devils are even greater, a squad leader, immediately organize fighters who can act and replenish ammunition!" ”

Company Commander Gao's gaze swept over the pit and said, "What about the second squad leader?" ”

A soldier of the second squad had a choked voice: "Company commander, the second squad leader also died, he was hit by an enemy shell and broke the lower half of his body, the squad leader didn't tell us, and when I saw him, he had already died." ”

"Where's the deputy squad leader?"

"Sacrificed too."

"The second squad leader, like all the soldiers who sacrificed, died a glorious death and a great death! They have dedicated their lives to the motherland, and we must be ready to dedicate ourselves to the motherland at any time! Comrades, the more this time comes, the more we can't drop the chain! ”

Company Commander Gao picked up the gun on the table, "Quickly replenish the ammunition, and when Wang Yongmeng returns, we will immediately notify the artillery in the rear and bombard the foreign devils who occupy the surface of the position!" As soon as the bombing was over, we quickly organized a counteroffensive! ”

"Yes!"

Company Commander Gao walked to Xia Yuan's side: "Comrade Xia Yuan, through the organization's decision, from today onwards, you will be the second squad leader, do you understand?" ”

Xia Yuan was slightly stunned, then reacted and saluted: "Yes!" ”

The remaining soldiers of the second class looked at Xia Yuan with admiration in their eyes.

Lao Hu shouted happily: "Second squad leader! ”

Xia Yuan said with a smile: "Old squad leader, whether I am the second squad leader or not, I am your soldier, and you are still my old squad leader." ”

"Alright, let's go resupply ammo."

When the ammunition was replenished, the company commander Gao told the soldiers in the tunnel about the appointment of Comrade Xia Yuan as the second squad leader, and the soldiers applauded happily.

After a fierce battle, there were only five people left in the first squad, only four in the second squad, and with the company commander and the communicator, only ten fighters were left in the No. 1 tunnel.

After replenishing the ammunition, Company Commander Gao led nine people to give the final battle order in the tunnel.

"After the bombardment is over, after the position is captured, everyone carries a box of grenades, bullets, and blasting canisters, the first squad is responsible for holding the left side of the forward position, the second squad is responsible for holding the right side of the forward position, and the No. 3 position of the main peak has not been lost, if the pressure on their side is low, they will carry out fire reinforcements on our No. 1 position."

The high company commander quickly arranged, "Second squad leader." ”

"In!" Xia Yuan squatted on the ground.

"You bring two more boxes of grenades, your bomb throwing ability is our most effective means of striking the enemy, the forward position on the right is more prominent, and you face a lot more enemies than the enemy on the left, and your pressure is also very high."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"Let's go and get ready."

Xia Yuan summoned the only three remaining soldiers in the second squad and assigned the task to them, "Comrade Sun Gong is still by my side, help me fill the ammunition, the two of you, each with a 50 punch and a large eight grains, in exchange, the failure rate of 50 punches is too high, don't force it if it doesn't sound, change to a large eight grains, what we have to do is to destroy a large number of the enemy's living forces and knock the enemy back!" ”

"Be sure to watch out for the trenches under you. If you are short, you will immediately repair it, dig as diagonally as possible, and you don't have to be afraid of being buried, at least you won't be hit by a shell. ”

The three of them nodded and squatted on the ground, listening to Xia Yuan's words, and nodded again and again.

Squad Leader Hu is also making the final arrangements before the battle, knocking the enemy down, recapturing their positions, and holding on until the evening, the enemy will not attack, and the day will be completely over.

Comrade Wang Yongmeng came back soon, and he returned to the tunnel panting, "Report to the company commander, the squad and platoon commanders of each position have been notified." ”

"Good!" Company Commander Gao stood up, listened to the gradually weakening cannon sound overhead, and said: "The cannon of the foreign devil has spread forward, as long as there is no cannon sound above the head, it means that the enemy has occupied the high ground." ”

In the tunnel, the wounded soldiers were still pressing bullets, and the seriously wounded were resting under the orders of the high company commander.

The enemy's artillery fire had already blocked the rear area, and in order to cut off the enemy's support for Shangganling, the enemy dispatched 300 planes to bomb and strafe the entire rear logistics units of our army.

Xia Yuan has also realized that the transfer to the tunnel may be earlier than history, and his own well has not yet dug water, mainly because the internal environment of the tunnel is complex, mostly rock walls, difficult to chisel through, and it takes a lot of time.

He sat at the mouth of the pit leading to the position, holding his gun, thinking in his heart.

The soldiers of the first and second squads gathered here to prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking through the mouth of the tunnel.

Lao Hu held the gun and looked at the top of his head with a dark face: "The enemy's shelling has passed." ”

They were in the tunnel, and they could clearly feel that the originally dense artillery bombardment overhead had suddenly weakened a lot, which meant that the enemy's bombardment of the surface of the Shangganling position extended from the top of their heads to behind them as the enemy's infantry continued to advance.

Lao Li tightly touched the gun in his arms and said, "The enemy is coming up soon." ”

At the forward position, the American troops, who had been attacking all morning, finally stepped on the Shangganling Ridge, which had been bombarded by artillery fire, and there was no fortification, but a scorched earth, thick fog, gunsmoke everywhere, and plants and trees were ignited.

There were no corpses in sight on the position, and most of them were shattered by artillery fire, and the originally hard rocky surface was also blown into small stones one by one.

The U.S. troops bent down and cautiously climbed to the forward position of the No. 1 position, and after making sure that there was no enemy, a large number of U.S. troops quickly attacked, occupied favorable terrain, and quickly built fortifications, and soon they discovered the tunnel in front of our troops in the No. 1 position.

They threw grenades into the tunnel, accompanied by a huge explosion, and the inside of the tunnel suddenly became full of smoke, and when digging the tunnel, the position of the mouth of the tunnel was to dig a pit downward, so that the enemy's grenade would eventually fall into the pit, and not into the inside of the tunnel.

After an explosion, the U.S. military sent two soldiers with guns to cautiously approach the mouth of the tunnel.

Wang Yongmeng, who was looking at the mouth of the tunnel, immediately returned fire with a gun, and after killing one person, another American soldier shouted and ran out of the mouth of the tunnel.

"The enemy has touched it!"

Wang Yongmeng put away his gun and quickly ran to the rear, and the senior company commander, who had been waiting for most of the people, immediately picked up the phone on the table and said: "Regiment commander, the enemy has occupied the surface position of our army, and can carry out artillery bombardment!" ”

I only heard a 'cannon' on the other side of the phone, followed by a series of cannonballs dragging white tailitis from the rear position of the volunteer army across the sky, tearing the sky and falling to Shangganling, one by one shells blossomed on the surface position of Shangganling, and the American troops who had just occupied Shangganling not long ago were bombarded by the enemy, and the bench under the buttocks was not yet hot, so they were blown up by the shells and crawled to the rear.

Wang Yongmeng observed the enemy and immediately told the news of the enemy's retreat to Company Commander Gao, who took the phone and shouted: "Regiment commander, let the artillery extend the cannon forward, you can't let them leave so easily!" ”

"Command! Let the artillery gradually extend the cannon forward, and the enemy in Shangganling has already begun to retreat! ”

"Yes!"

As the U.S. troops retreated from their positions on the surface of Shangganling, our artillery fire began to extend to the front, chasing the enemy and inflicting huge casualties on the enemy.

When our artillery fire was extended, the volunteer soldiers quickly drilled out of the tunnel and launched an attack on the remaining American troops in the position.

Lao Hu took the lead, holding a submachine gun, and shot at the foreign devils he could see in his sight, he shouted: "Comrades! Rush me! Drive away the foreign devils and retake the position! ”

Lao Li and the others rushed out of the tunnel with guns and scattered around the No. 1 position, Xia Yuan shot at the foreign devils who could be seen in his sight, and quickly ordered the soldiers of the second squad to touch the bullets on the enemy's corpse, the enemy attack will not carry many things, a rifle, some bullets and some grenades, they will not carry anything other than weapons and ammunition.

Xia Yuan was quickly approaching a foreign devil whose legs had been blown off, and the other party looked at Xia Yuan with his hands folded and pleading, his face full of blood with a look of begging for mercy, but he was greeted by a cold bullet.

He put away all the guns on the foreign devils, took the bullet bags and grenades from them, and quickly looked up ahead.

The shelling of our troops had stopped, and the enemy abandoned position No. 1 and retreated down the hill at great speed, leaving more than thirty corpses on the positions.

Company Commander Gao quickly shouted: "According to the plan, immediately build fortifications!" ”

He found Xia Yuan and planned to guard the right side with the second squad, Xia Yuan spoke: "Company commander, you are the commander of the whole company, you can't go!" ”

Company Commander Gao said: "Your second squad itself is small in number, and the pressure is very high, I will assist you, and I just form a combat group with them!" Lose the position, you and I can't afford to take this responsibility! ”

He turned around and said in a tone that could not be refused: "This is an order!" ”

The right side is a more prominent forward position, and the slope on the right side is relatively gentle, easy to attack and difficult to defend, the previous second squad is top here, pay huge casualties, to hold the right position, deputy squad leader and squad leader are sacrificed here.

Xia Yuan didn't speak again, and immediately led people to build fortifications here, Sun Gong carried five guns, carried four blasting canisters, and carried half a box of grenades.

The others also basically carried a box of grenades for Xia Yuan, and after arriving on the right side, they looked for favorable terrain, used sapper shovels, dug trenches, and the forward position of the construction site, and the five people occupied the right forward position of more than 200 square meters, and dug a personal bunker.

No sooner had they dug the trenches than the enemy shelling came again, and there was a piercing whistling in the sky, accompanied by the roar of aircraft engines.

Xia Yuan squatted in the trench, looking at the sky filled with gunsmoke, one after another US planes appeared in the sky of Shangganling again, behind him, a new round of enemy shelling arrived, accompanied by a constant roar, the enemy planes dropped shells and napalm.

In just a moment, the entire No. 1 position turned into a sea of fire, and the two of them hid in the trench, and the shock wave of the napalm explosion above their heads continued to spread, rolling a large amount of sand and gravel flying away, followed by a heat wave from overhead, and in an instant, the position was covered with flames.

The flames of the napalm burned continuously, and black smoke shrouded the sky above Shangganling, which was obviously a clear day, but at this moment in Shangganling seemed to be the eve of a storm.

The heat wave baked the skin and flesh of his cheeks, the pungent smell of gasoline mixed with the smell of gunsmoke filled his mouth and nose, Xia Yuan covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, crouched in the trench, grabbed the gun in his hand, reached out to pat off the soil above his head, and carefully poked his head out, his vision was basically blocked by black smoke, and there were flames everywhere he looked.

The enemy had not yet attacked, the shelling continued, and the dirt that had just been knocked off the top of the head was buried again in a short time, and the trenches that had been dug had been filled with fragments of dirt and shells, and were submerged to the knees.

"Dig out the grenades!"

Xia Yuan retracted his gaze, took off the sapper shovel behind him, shoveled away the soil under him, consolidated the bunker in front, and just groped for the grenade box, with the help of the spreading gunsmoke, the enemy seen from a distance rushed up to the 597.9 heights again.

"Come up, come up! The enemy is coming! ”

Xia Yuan immediately shouted and said to Sun Gong, who was digging a trench beside him, "You dig a trench!" ”

On the hillside, there were corpses of the enemy everywhere, I had never seen so many corpses, the shells blew up, and it was not the soil that rolled up, but the soil stained with blood, the soil mixed with internal organs, and the soil mixed with flesh and blood, accompanied by the shelling, the enemy stepped on the corpses of his companions, stepped on the red, black, and red ground stained with blood, and stepped on the scattered minced flesh and internal organs, and launched a fierce attack on the 597.9 heights.

Xia Yuan has seen such an infiltrating picture like this.

Such is the cruelty of war.