Chapter 38: You Let Me Go Down? I can't get down, I can't do it
The machine gun continued to shoot bullets, the chamber of the gun had begun to heat up, Xia Yuan's hands were hot and bleeding, and he still kept shooting! Shoot!
Squad Leader Hu collected the guns and ammunition on the enemy's corpse in the distance, carbines, large eight grains, more than 50 pieces, and a lot of 60 mortar shells, hit this for that, pulled out the safety pin of the shell, and when the grenade was thrown at the enemy, the two bravely resisted the attack of the enemy on the left, and finally knocked down the enemy's counterattack after half an hour.
The battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and the enemy left behind a large number of corpses.
When Xia Yuan let go of the machine gun, the skin of his palm was connected to the body of the machine gun, and bright red blood flowed down from his black hand, he gritted his teeth, took out a piece of gauze that was not very clean from his arms, and simply wrapped it around his wound, and followed Squad Leader Hu to quickly run towards the position of the platoon leader.
The two of them saw from a distance the place where the platoon commander was lying, the two machine guns were still in good shape, there was a pile of bullet casings and bullet bags next to the machine guns, and where the muzzles of the machine guns were pointed, a large number of enemy corpses were lying horizontally and vertically. The two of them didn't care about their injuries at all, and ran to the position where the platoon station was lying in front of them, but they didn't see the platoon commander, only to see that on the ground behind the machine gun, blood soaked the mud on the ground, forming a pool of black-red mud.
But there was no platoon commander, and the two of them chuckled inwardly.
Squad Leader Hu's voice became choked, and his speech was a little trembling: "Look, look, the platoon commander said that he will be alive, look for it, he should still be able to find it, maybe he is just unconscious." ”
"Platoon Commander Sun! Platoon Commander Sun! ”
Xia Yuan shouted a few words, the person choked by the smoke couldn't open his eyes, it was more serious than the smoky smoking room, he suddenly remembered that there was a huge explosion from the direction of the platoon commander's ambush, and an ominous shadow enveloped his body, and he ran down the somewhat steep mountain like crazy, shouting 'Platoon Commander Sun' as he ran.
There were enemy corpses everywhere under their feet, stumbling and stumbling.
Suddenly, in a pile of chaotic corpses, he keenly found a shoe with two patches patched and dirty on the surface, and the squad leader Hu next to him ran over and looked at the shoe fixedly. This is not Platoon Commander Sun's shoes, who else can it be, under a broken corpse, there is an American devil, and you can vaguely see through the black corpse that this is Platoon Commander Sun, and there are seven enemy corpses lying next to Platoon Commander Sun.
Platoon Commander Sun persevered to the end, dragged his seriously wounded body, rushed to the enemy group with the last grenade, pulled the grenade, and died with the enemy.
Squad Leader Hu fell on Platoon Commander Sun's body in pain, tears were like beads with broken threads, and kept falling on Platoon Commander Sun's cheeks, he shouted Platoon Commander Sun's name, desperately swayed, and called, this old squad leader who had bled and sweated on the battlefield had not been beaten and cried by the enemy's guns, planes and tanks, and cried bitterly, but he cried so sadly at this moment.
Xia Yuan's dark face also had two lines of hot tears, he continued to suppress his emotions, looking at the corpses everywhere through his tearful eyes, he couldn't tell the enemy from his position, at this moment, his heart hated this war so much.
A seed of hatred had taken root in his heart, deep, deep......
Squad Leader Hu carried the corpse of Platoon Leader Sun on his back a little unexpectedly, and put it in the position he had just held, where he could see the left position and the right position. Xia Yuan sat on the top of the hill with the gun in his arms, looking at the gunfire that had stopped the No. 1 position, and the eyes of Mohu gradually became firm.
He stood up, and squad leader Hu turned his head and called out to him, "Why are you going?" ”
"I'll go see if there are any surviving fighters in the right position."
Xia Yuan sniffled and touched the right position, the gunfire on the right position had stopped when he woke up, but the enemy he didn't see touched up from the right flank, probably because the volunteer soldiers over there withstood the enemy's charge.
Passing through the battlefield filled with gunpowder, jumping over craters, through the smoke-filled scorched earth, he saw the position on the right, the entire position on the right was quiet, there was no figure in sight, no one could be heard.
Xia Yuan's heart sank and he stumbled over.
On the right position, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, there were no fortifications, there were dense craters everywhere, one after another, the ground was a piece of scorched earth, and there were corpses everywhere, there were foreign devils, and there were also his own people, he ran over, and saw Niu Xingcai's corpse, entangled with a foreign devil, his mouth bit the enemy's ear, and the blood on his body had dried up, full of bullet holes.
He saw Wang Shou's corpse, and a foreign devil was pressed, half of his body was blown up, and his white intestines flowed out of his internal organs, and there were several enemy corpses beside him, and his body was covered with wounds pierced by shrapnel.
He saw the corpse of the squad leader of the first platoon of the seventh company who came to support, and only half of it was left... He saw...
The corpse of a soldier was entangled with the enemy, and they used their lives to condense into a high wall, preventing the enemy from stepping on the position, and at the cost of their young lives, they repelled an attack by the enemy, and the figures standing on the forward position looked so heroic.
Xia Yuan held the gun, looking at the tragic scenes on the right position, the tears in his eyes were like beads of broken threads, constantly falling, the smoke blew his cheeks black, he wiped the tears on his face, and endured the grief in his heart, he understood that the battle on the second day had just begun, and everything was not over yet.
Putting away the grief in his heart, he turned it into a force to strike at the enemy, wrapped the gauze tightly around the palm of his hand, and tore off the glorious strip from the warriors.
Seeing that there were only thirteen glorious strips left in his hand, Xia Yuan's heart was like a stone, and he pinched the glorious strips of the soldiers very hard, neatly folded them and put them in the innermost part of his clothes, on his heart, and in the place where he thought he was the safest.
Then began to collect guns and ammunition on the battlefield.
I found some buried bullets and grenades on the scorched earth, found a half-burned ammunition box and loaded it, loaded some bullets and grenades in it, and the grenades I touched from the corpse of the foreign devil, and by the way, I found a few relatively intact guns from the corpse of the enemy and carried them to the place where Platoon Commander Sun sacrificed.
"How's the position on the right?" Squad Leader Hu collected a large number of guns and ammunition, two heavy machine guns, five light machine guns, three recoilless guns, nine recoilless artillery shells, and eleven 60 mortar shells, and piled up the entire hill.
Xia Yuan put the box on the ground, shook his head, and didn't say anything, but it seemed that he had said everything.
The bright eyes on squad leader Hu's dark cheeks darkened, "They have done a good job, they are heroes." ”
Xia Yuan nodded, put the ammunition on the ground, turned around and went to collect weapons and ammunition again, the enemy's attack is far from over, they will definitely not give up if they don't take Shangganling, the next battle will be more cruel and difficult, and even he may die here.
The scene he had just seen on the high ground on the right came to his mind, and he remembered the advice of Company Commander Sun when he died.
Xia Yuan's gaze became firm.
Team Leader Hu looked at his hands and asked, "How are your hands?" Is it serious? ”
Xia Yuan shook his head, his voice hoarse: "It's okay, it doesn't affect the battle." ”
He took off the steel helmet on the head of the foreign devil, took off the grenade and bullet bag on the enemy's body, threw it in the steel helmet, and collected a lot of ammunition after a while, but these were far from enough, the battle on other positions was not clear, but after the enemy's attack in the morning, it is estimated that there are no longer a few lost positions, and weapons and ammunition need to be prepared sufficiently.
Squad Leader Hu shouted: "Xia Yuan, you go down, hand over the position to me, and when the guns stop ringing, you let the Seventh Company attack it." ”
Xia Yuan turned his head, looked at squad leader Hu fixedly, and shook his head firmly.
The enemy's shells fell on the position again, rolling up a large amount of soil, and the cannon roared all over the world, Hu squad leader walked up to Xia Yuan and said: "You go down, the position is very dangerous, you can't die, your role is much greater than mine, you played a big role in the night battle, what a pity you died here." ”
He looked at Xia Yuan: "The Ninth Company has been exhausted, and the only ones who can fight are the two of us, if you want to leave a flame, you are the most suitable." When the enemy took up the position, he attacked it with his warriors. ”
Xia Yuan opened his chapped lips and said, "I'm not going, I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to stay on the ground!" ”
Squad Leader Hu shouted anxiously: "Why are you so stubborn! ”
"The company commander is dead, the instructor is dead, the platoon commander is dead, the deputy squad leader is dead, everyone is dead."
Xia Yuan held the gun tightly, his eyes were full of tears, and he choked up: "There are only two of us left in the Ninth Company, you let me go down?" I can't get down, I can't do it. ”
He has a concern in his heart, but there is no concern in the hearts of these living soldiers, he lives in an era of peace, and enjoys a life that these soldiers have never enjoyed, or even dared to think, compared to them, he is much luckier, because he knows what the future world will be like.
There are millions of soldiers who fought in Korea, and how many soldiers remained in Korea.
190,000! 190,000!
After experiencing Xinxingli and Watergate Bridge, and seeing a complete company with only two people left after a tragic battle, Xia Yuan was ready to sacrifice a long time ago.
He took a deep breath, looked at the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, and said in a deep voice: "There are so many people in the Ninth Company who have stayed here, they are watching us, what you said, I can't do it!" The task required by the superiors has not yet ended, as long as there is one person in the Ninth Company, the Ninth Company will always be there! The position is still in the hands of the Ninth Company! ”
He took a deep breath, looked at the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, and said in a hoarse voice: "The battle is not over yet, I am still here, you are still there, the enemy will not be able to fight, I said!" They want to hit me unless they step over my corpse first! Otherwise, if I don't die, they will never be able to fight! ”
Xia Yuan stubbornly turned around and continued to take the bullet pouch and grenade from the enemy, filling his body until he couldn't put it down.
One by one, the shells fell on the position, rolling up the corpses on the ground, the mud mixed with blood and soil splashed everywhere, the corpses were blown into minced flesh by the shells, and they were constantly vented, everywhere was a bloody color, everywhere was a terrible tragic situation.
Behind him, squad leader Hu shouted: "Xia Yuan, you go back to the tunnel now, let the seventh company commander come to reinforce us again, and then you follow the reinforcements out, okay." ”
Xia Yuan held a bunch of guns and ammunition, carried a few guns behind him, stood at the bottom of the slope, looked at squad leader Hu, shook his head, leaned over to the hill where the platoon commander sacrificed, put down the guns and ammunition, and took out the sapper shovel and began to build a bunker on it, the ground was too hard, barely dug to half a person high, just enough to accommodate a person's position, he threw the sapper shovel to squad leader Hu, leaned the gun in the bunker, pulled over and found barely enough ammunition, holding his gun and quietly waiting for the enemy's next attack.
Squad Leader Hu looked at Xia Yuan, who was expressionless, his heart hurt as if he was pinching, he took out some tobacco and a crumpled piece of paper with some trembling, rolled it for a long time, and then folded it in half and tore it in the middle, half of it was put in his pocket, and the other half was in his mouth, a cannonball fell behind him, and the soil continued to vent down, Squad Leader Hu also seemed to be unaware, took out a match, scratched it on the side of the matchbox, and cut the match with a slight force, he threw the broken match on the ground, took out another and continued to draw, and tried two or three times, Finally lit a cigarette, while smoking, his brows furrowed, his originally bright eyes became cloudy, and under the smoke, I don't know what Team Leader Hu was thinking in his heart.
A cigarette quickly bottomed out, threw it aside, and began to dig a trench with the sapper shovel that Xia Yuan threw over, digging almost enough, sticking the shovel into the ground, getting up to separate the pile of ammunition in front of him, and carrying it to Xia Yuan's trench.
The two were four meters apart, and squad leader Hu gave him some ammunition, and then moved a heavy machine gun, two light machine guns, and three boxes of ammunition to Xia Yuan's bunker, and put it down: "Alternate fire, one person loads, and one person covers the shooting." ”
Xia Yuan looked up at squad leader Hu's dark face, didn't say a word, got up and pulled the heavy machine gun and light machine gun into the bunker, opened the ammunition box of the light machine gun, and began to press the bullets into the magazine one by one, completely ignoring the pain in the palm.
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Squad Leader Hu retracted his gaze and returned to his position, filled all the magazines of the guns beside him with bullets, and spread them out in front of the bunker, the machine gun was added, facing the left, and Xia Yuan was facing the right.
The bullets were tired, Xia Yuan rested, took off his hat, patted the sand on his hair, looked at the sky without the sun, and couldn't guess what he was thinking in his heart.
The battle on the second day of Shangganling was so fierce.
The casualties of the volunteers are constantly increasing, and the casualties of the American army are also increasing.
Every day in the future will become more and more tragic day by day.
Van Vliet, commander-in-chief of the US Eighth Army, said: "This was the bloodiest and longest protracted battle of the war, and it was the 'United Nations Army' that suffered the greatest losses. ”