It's dawn.

In the early morning, the enemy's most fierce offensive was temporarily stopped, and through the morning fog that gradually dissipated, Xia Yuan saw the smoke of birds and birds rising from the enemy's position, they were making fires and cooking, while the enemy's artillery was still falling on the position, and the American bombers were still circling in the sky and strafing and dropping bombs one after another.

"Platoon Commander Sun, company commander and platoon commander all sacrificed."

A platoon of soldiers ran over, with a crying tone in his tone, Sun Platoon Commander was startled, and when the soldiers leaned over, they saw the corpse of the high company commander crawling on the bunker of the trench, still holding a submachine gun in his hand, with magazines and bullet casings scattered all over the ground, and a black face with blood marks.

sacrificed, but still maintained a fighting posture.

Platoon Commander Sun slowly raised his head, with tears in his eyes, he stepped forward, endured the grief in his heart, straightened the body of the high company commander, pulled his clothes together, squatted on the ground and took off his hat, and the surrounding soldiers took off their hats one after another.

Xia Yuan was holding a gun and a hat in his hand, with a trace of tears in his hand.

Niu Xingcai cried: "Company Commander Gao also sacrificed..."

"Don't cry!" Platoon Commander Sun stood up and wiped the tears from his face, "We haven't won yet, the battle is not over yet, if Company Commander Gao is still alive, see us like this, what do we look like, put away the tears in your eyes, and turn the grief in your heart into our more powerful strength!" Now, there is no one row, no two rows, only nine companies! ”

He raised his voice and shouted: "Collect weapons and ammunition from the position and build bunkers!" Hurry up! ”

Xia Yuan took a deep breath, endured the grief in his heart, and said to Niu Xingcai and Wang Shou: "Company Commander Gao has sacrificed, we can't continue to grieve, we should turn grief into motivation and continue to hold our position." ”

His voice became low and fierce, and at this moment, he was no longer a traverser, but a Chinese people's volunteer.

"That's the death of the battle, and we have to stand on the position, and use our corpses to become a high wall blocking the enemy's progress!"

Platoon Commander Sun said: "Comrade Xia Yuan is right! Turn grief into motivation and use our corpses to become a wall that blocks the enemy's progress! ”

"Yes!"

The shouts of the soldiers were hoarse, and there were only a dozen fighters left in the first and second platoons, who were on the ground, touching the guns and ammunition on the corpses of the enemy, and touching everything that could be used.

Xia Yuan touched the pocket of the foreign devil, took out three pieces of chewing gum, was stunned, touched a lot of corpses, and gradually understood in his heart that the foreign devil only carried a small amount of weapons and ammunition when he launched this kind of battle, and basically did not bring food, and the enemy's commander also knew in his heart that the volunteer soldiers liked to touch the corpses, after all, they had been fighting for two years, especially in winter, the volunteers would leave the enemy naked in the snow, and the main reason was the scarcity of logistics supplies for the volunteer soldiers.

Therefore, the food and ammunition carried on the body will eventually become the enemy's supplies, so before the attack, the US military will leave what it has on its body, and only carry a small amount of ammunition, which is enough to use.

Touching three pieces of chewing gum is an unexpected joy, now the enemy's artillery fire is still raging in Shangganling, I don't know when it will stop, let alone when the supplies in the rear will be able to reach the forward position, the amount of three pieces of chewing gum is not much, can solve the urgent need.

Xia Yuan curled up in the crater, tore open the three pieces of chewing gum, divided them into small portions, and gave some to Lao Li, "Deputy squad leader, this is the chewing gum of foreign devils, give it to other soldiers, put it in your mouth and chew it, you can recover some physical strength." ”

The calories of chewing gum can replenish a small amount of physical energy of the fighters, although it is a drop in the bucket, but it is better than nothing.

"Hey, this is from a foreign devil?" Lao Li's black hand rubbed on his unclean clothes, and shouted: "Lao Hu, Lao Hu, come and taste the chewing gum that Xia Yuan seized." ”

He stood up and came to squad leader Hu, gave him a small piece of chewing gum, Lao Hu put down the sapper shovel in his hand, stuffed the gum into his mouth, and chewed it for a while: "It's so sweet, I have eaten this thing when I was in the rear before, it's the same as glue, I don't know how this foreign devil does it." ”

"Later, our country will also make this thing to eat." Lao Li smiled and came to Platoon Commander Sun again, "Platoon Commander, try the chewing gum of foreign devils." ”

Platoon Commander Sun, who was digging a trench, straightened up, "Yes, where did you capture it?" ”

Lao Li said: "The Xia squad leader touched it from the body of a foreign devil." ”

Platoon Commander Sun

At this time, a squad of the Seventh Company in the rear led some of the supplies to the forward position and found Platoon Commander Sun, "Report to Platoon Commander Sun, I am the squad leader of the Platoon and Platoon of the Seventh Company, this is the weapons, ammunition and some food you need, and we are also ordered by the company commander to stay on the position to help you." ”

The squad leader looked at the soldiers who were building fortifications on the position, there were more than 50 soldiers in the tunnel, even if they were separated, there should be more than 30 soldiers here, and now there are only more than 10 people left, which is only one squad of soldiers.

Platoon Commander Sun said: "Thank you, it's too timely, squad leader Hu, distribute the food to the soldiers, let the soldiers eat something first, pad their stomachs, the enemy is also eating at this time, and when they finish eating, it is estimated that they will launch an attack on the forward positions of our army, and they will not give up." ”

Squad Leader Hu sighed, put down the sapper shovel, and ran over to cooperate with the soldiers of the first squad to distribute some biscuits and canned food to the soldiers on the battlefield.

"Don't be busy, come and get something to eat, and then get back to work. Xia Yuan, rest first and eat something. ”

"Hey."

Xia Yuan carried the gun on his back, stuck the sapper shovel in his hand on the ground, and held the cannonballs that could fall on his side at any time, sitting in the trench, squad leader Hu sat beside him, the two were eating food while chatting, squad leader Hu saw that Xia Yuan had eaten the food in his hand in three or two bites, so he handed him the food in his hand.

Xia Yuan looked at squad leader Hu, squad leader Hu smiled: "Eat, you're growing your body, you should eat more." ”

Xia Yuan shook his head, but squad leader Hu stuffed the biscuits into his hand, bit the remaining half of the biscuit and got up to leave, and glanced back at Xia Yuan when he left: "I'll kill more enemies later!" ”

Xia Yuan looked at the half biscuit in his hand, his stomach was indeed very hungry, so he put it in his mouth and ate half of the biscuit in three or two bites, and continued to strengthen the fortifications after eating.

After a while, the enemy's artillery bombardment suddenly intensified, more fierce than before, especially the forward positions, especially by the foreign devil artillery', the soldiers had just dug up the trench, and then encountered the enemy's fierce artillery fire, the original half-man-high fortifications were quickly submerged to the knees.

The fighters could only repair the bombed-up fortifications under enemy fire in order to ensure the integrity of the forward positions before the enemy attack arrived.

At this time, the dense fog in the mountains had dissipated, and the vision of many soldiers had also become broader, and the enemy had reappeared in the line of sight after nearly an hour of rest, and their number was more than that of the enemy organized in the early morning, and it was impossible to count them carefully, but through the enemy's locust-like attack, it could be basically inferred that the number of enemies was at least one reinforced battalion.

Xia Yuan took a deep breath, in order to take the No. 1 position, the enemy entangled the strength of a reinforced battalion, such a frenzied behavior, Rao is familiar with the next changes in the situation He felt that the burden on his body became heavy, he put the ammunition box of bullets and grenades on the bunker, so that it was convenient for him to reach out and catch it.

Sun Platoon Commander knew Xia Yuan's shooting level and bomb throwing level, gave Xia Yuan enough ammunition support, and gave him three big eight grains, Sun Gong's position was taken over by Wang Shou, he filled all the three guns beside him with bullets, put them in a position that he could reach, and carefully poked his head out, the enemy in the distance was like a locust tide, they drilled out of the ravine, in the crater, behind the stone, on the anticline, cautiously groping forward, advancing.

In front of the position was a large number of enemy attacking troops, and in the rear was the enemy's continuous artillery fire, and US planes constantly dropped napalm bombs in the sky, turning Shangganling into a sea of fire, and the ground was baked into a scorched earth by the fierce flames.

With the blazing flames and the roar of falling shells, the enemy's offensive in the morning showed its fangs, and the right side of the No. 1 position, about two platoons of troops, was very scattered on the forward positions, so scattered distribution was effective to prevent the enemy from taking away many people with one shot.

Wang Shou unscrewed all the caps of the grenades and placed them in front of the bunker, and in the battlefield filled with gunpowder, he saw the enemy all over the mountains.

"Squad leader, there is at least one battalion of troops." Wang Shou retracted his body and said, "In order to capture our mountain, the enemy has made great efforts. ”

Xia Yuan didn't say a word, pressed the bullets into the magazine, put them on his body, and then stood up cautiously, lay behind the cover, stared at the enemy who came up from a distance, and put the gun in front of him.

There were only more than 20 fighters left on the right side of the entire No. 1 position, and it was almost impossible to resist the attack of a battalion of the enemy, but it was such an impossibility that the volunteer soldiers created one miracle after another.

On the second day of the battle of Shangganling, after integrating the erroneous move of the first day's offensive plan, the US army adopted a more vigorous artillery bombardment of Shangganling, according to Van Vliet's wishes, it was to let any life on Shangganling disappear in the artillery fire, and there was no offensive task on the 537.7 heights, and in just one morning, the enemy attacked the army with four battalions, from the left, center, and right directions, under the cover of aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and after the end of the morning offensive, the US army's morning offensive began.

Four battalions, more than 1,000 people, in addition to heavy firepower, each company of the US army is equipped with a large number of walkie-talkie infantry, recoilless guns, flamethrowers and other special US troops.

The No. 3 position of the main peak encountered the attack of a reinforced battalion of the enemy, and if the main peak was taken, it would be able to radiate the positions on both sides, which was the most unfavorable situation for our army, so on the No. 1 position very close to the main peak, Xia Yuan could clearly see that the main peak had turned into a sea of fire, and it was almost impossible to see where to hide, but when the enemy rushed to the forward position, the sound of machine guns came from the main peak.

At the front of the No. 1 position, the enemy had already touched up, and only four squads of soldiers were left to launch a fierce attack on the enemy, machine guns, submachine gun strafing, grenade bombing, Xia Yuan through sniping, constantly shooting the enemy in the control of the flamethrower of the American army, the American army carrying the recoilless gun on the shoulder, the American army carrying the walkie-talkie, the American army holding the sniper rifle and the US military lieutenant, the bullet whizzed through the crowd, accurately penetrating the enemy's chest.

This is the first time Wang Shou has seen the squad leader's sniping ability, the big eight grains are in his hands, and they have exerted great power, automatic rifles, and there is no need to pull the bolt, aim and pull the trigger, Wang Shou only heard Xia Yuan pull the trigger continuously, eight gunshots rang out, he raised his head to look at the enemy group, and saw the last bullet penetrate the enemy's head, with a shocked look on his face.

"What are you doing? Crush the bullet! Xia Yuan threw him the gun that emptied the magazine bullets, grabbed a gun that pressed his own bullets, and pulled the trigger continuously, after the bullets effectively killed the enemy's special troops, they were ordinary soldiers who killed the enemy, plus there were soldiers from other teams in the forward position to shoot and cover the fire, Xia Yuan's personal ability was greatly expanded.

But that's all, the enemy's recoilless guns, flamethrowers, snipers and other special units were shot, which greatly reduced the pressure on the fighters on the forward positions.

Squad Leader Hu patted the body of the gun of Fifty Chong, threw it on the ground, picked up the carbine on the ground, and continuously pulled the trigger on the enemy, Lao Li and Sun Platoon Commander were machine gunners, controlling the light machine gun to continuously fire at the enemy, when they helped Xia Yuan reduce their own fire suppression, Xia Yuan was not helping them, solving the recoilless cannon and flamethrower, the enemy's ability to break the point was greatly weakened, and he could only use the infantry to throw grenades to the forward position.

Only more than 20 meters away from the forward position, the enemy hid in the crater to shoot at the volunteers behind the bunker, the two sides launched a firing tug-of-war at a distance of nearly 30 meters, the battlefield where bullets flew indiscriminately, the slightest carelessness would be shot through the head, grenades and grenades exploded on the positions of both sides, and broken shrapnel flew everywhere.

"Xia Yuan!

Blow them up for Lao Tzu! ”

Due to the superiority of the enemy's numbers, relying on automatic rifles, even without light machine guns, the enemy was able to form a dense network of fire, and this superiority over the guns was soon revealed, and the soldiers in the trenches only heard the enemy's bullets whizzing overhead, but did not dare to rush out.

In the rear of the enemy, a water-cooled heavy machine gun was erected, and on the water-cooled heavy machine gun, there was a magnifier aiming one by one, and the heavy machine gun operator looked at the volunteers on the forward position through the magnifier, and they pulled the trigger, and the bullets of the water-cooled heavy machine gun formed a splendid chain of fire, pouring down to the top of the mountain from a position several hundred meters away.

The tanks parked at the foot of the mountain continued to bombard the mountain, and the enemy's self-propelled machine gun trucks hit the mountain with the sound of bullets in winter, and only a grenade could blow up the crater, and the enemy had already used all the means at its disposal, and launched an unprecedented attack on Shangganling at 8 o'clock in the morning.