The firepower point at the front of the No. 11 position was pulled out, and with the counterattack troops in the tunnel of the No. 11 position, the soldiers of the eighth company passed through the enemy's forward position and entered the No. 11 position.

Under the smoke of gunpowder, the sound of gunfire is the music of this night, and the sound of cannons is the song and dance of the world.

Night combat is the strong point of the volunteer soldiers, and in such a situation, the positional counterattack, coupled with the sacrifice of their comrades-in-arms one by one in front of their eyes, their fighting momentum soared into the sky, shaking the smoke of gunpowder and shocking the roar of artillery fire.

Xia Yuan held the gun, like an undefeated warrior, where he was needed, he would support him, the bullets passed through the battlefield accurately, and it would not affect the soldiers around him at all, under the night vision, the night was like day, and the shooting proficiency was constantly increasing, and it had reached a very terrifying level.

A foreign devil pretended to be a corpse lying on the ground, suddenly stood up from the ground, and pounced on Xia Yuan, who was pulling the trigger and shooting, Xia Yuan's reaction was so fast that it couldn't even be described as an ordinary person, I saw him collect the gun and turn sideways, kick it over, and raise the gun to the enemy's body is a shot.

The whole action was done in one go, clean and neat, without the slightest drag.

Dai Wannian looked at Xia Yuan's fighting posture, and while watching, he sighed with emotion: "The Ninth Company Commander is really strong, if everyone has the Ninth Company Commander like this... Victory must be ours. ”

By dawn, the No. 2 position was littered with the corpses of the enemy.

Position No. 2 was recaptured.

The battle for Position 11 has also ended, and Position 11 has been recaptured.

Position Zero was filled with gunsmoke, and Position Zero was recaptured.

On the way to climb the No. 3 position of the main peak, there were corpses everywhere, the volunteer soldiers' and the enemy's were entangled with each other, and the ground of the Shangganling surface position was stained red with blood, and before the living soldiers could collect the remains of the sacrificed soldiers, the enemy's shells rang out in the sky.

There was a lot of shouting mixed in.

"Bombardment! Shelled! Find cover! ”

Everywhere are the figures of volunteer soldiers galloping, some soldiers were directly cut off by shrapnel when retreating, and some were blown up by shrapnel all over their cheeks, after hiding in the tunnel, the soldiers looked back at the Shangganling Heights that had been covered by shelling, the rolled up soil mixed with a piece of blood red, that is, the remains of their comrades were hit by enemy shells.

The fighters wept silently.

The squad leader's blood-stained hands vigorously grasped the martyr's strip of the volunteer soldier who had been dyed red, with tears in his eyes.

The great counteroffensive on the night of 17 days went very smoothly, and the US troops on Shangganling were wiped out to a great extent at the expense of a small number of soldiers; after the war, the number of casualties and missing on both sides had exceeded 5,000 during the three-day war, of which the US troops accounted for 80 percent.

Since the outbreak of the Battle of Shangganling, Shangganling has entered a repeated tug-of-war, and the artillery fire that has not been extinguished for days is like a storm, endlessly raging on every inch of Shangganling, the enemy is surging up like a tide, and retreating like a tide, flesh and blood are flying on the high ground, and the position is full of murderous spirit. The distance between the soldiers on both sides was very close, often shooting at each other for tens of meters, more than ten meters, and after the bullets ran out, they scuffled together, and it was not uncommon to engage in brutal white-knuckle combat.

The battle grew to an unprecedented level, and both sides threw their elite troops into these two small hills, which could only be deployed by one company.

A platoon commander of the South Korean Army recalled after the battle: "Due to the earth-shaking shelling and white-knuckle fighting, less than a square kilometer of the sniper ridge line (537.7 Heights Buksan) was stained red with blood whenever the high ground changed hands." ”

On the night of the 17th, the counterattack was very smooth, the enemy suffered heavy casualties, and the surface position of Shangganling was once again mastered by the forward company.

On the 18th, the enemy launched a rotational attack on the 597.9 heights of Wusheng Mountain with the strength of a regiment, and after a day of fighting, the forward company of the Volunteer Army suffered heavy casualties and retreated to the tunnel, and all the surface positions on Shangganling were lost for the first time.

At the military headquarters of the 15th Army, Commander Qin looked at Wusheng Mountain, and after seeing the battle situation of the 45th Division, he walked straight into the war room without saying a word, picked up the phone and gave a death order to the commander of the 45th Division: "Rely on the tunnel, hold the position, and crush the enemy's attack!" Don't let the enemy occupy Shangganling again! ”

Commander Qin's tone was calm, lacking this unchangeable majesty. The commander of the 45th Division immediately said, "Please rest assured, commander!" If there is one company left, I will be the company commander, and if there is one squad left, I will be the squad leader. As long as I am here, Shangganling will be the people of the DPRK and China! ”

After the outbreak of Shangganling, he barely closed his eyes, and when he was sleepy, he relied on smoking and drinking strong tea to support him, so he was so sleepy that he looked down on the marching bed for a while, due to excessive fatigue and serious lack of sleep, his originally round face was thinned and looked dry and haggard.

After talking to Commander Qin on the phone, he knew that the commander's temperament was not a decisive battle, the commander would not say such heavy words, the battle of Shangganling had reached a life-and-death juncture, and he could only win, not lose.

The urgent telegrams of the 135 regiment came one after another.

He had only one order: "Hold Shangganling!" ”

However, the last urgent telegram of the 135th Regiment was a request for 'insufficient troops', which lasted 18 days, and in the hands of the 135th Regiment, only a guard squad guarding the regimental headquarters remained, and he was finally sent to Shangganling.

The 135 regiment has been spelled out.

The volunteer soldiers who were sticking to the surface positions and tunnels of Shangganling were also well aware of the heavy responsibility on their shoulders, and they were determined to defend Shangganling to the death, and they would never allow the enemy to take a step from here, and they waged a battle to the death with the 'United Nations Army'.

The United Nations forces continued to occupy Shangganling, and the volunteer soldiers continued to emerge from the ground, and the offensive and defensive battles inside and outside the Shangganling tunnel were extremely fierce every day.

A counterattack unit of the Volunteer Army found more than 20 corpses of United Nations soldiers lying outside a small tunnel mouth when cleaning the battlefield, and in front of this tunnel mouth, surrounded by three layers of barbed wire, and there were two temporary pillboxes on both sides of the back.

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Facing outward, lying at the mouth of the tunnel, with both hands clenched at the machine gun, he maintained a fighting posture until death, and he fought the enemy alone for a long time, and even after his death, he still deterred the enemy with majesty.

The barbed wire fence at the entrance of the cave and the two makeshift bunkers prevented the enemy from breaking out of the tunnel, and the corpses at the mouth of the tunnel were the piles of corpses that the enemy never dared to approach.

The soldiers of the Volunteer Army died heroically, but they built a great wall of steel on Shangganling that the enemy could never cross.

From the beginning of the major counteroffensive, the forward troops of the Volunteer Army moved into the tunnels, used the tunnels to preserve their strength, maneuvered, attrition, and attacked the enemy in circles, and gained time to prepare for another counterattack.

The battle in the tunnel was extremely hard, the enemy used all kinds of vicious means to deal with the tunnel of the volunteer soldiers, and destroyed it, under the enemy's strict artillery blockade, the volunteer army could not provide personnel, food and ammunition and other support to the tunnel, and the wounded of the volunteers in the tunnel could not be transferred to the rear, and the remains could not be buried, and what was more serious was that the tunnel had been seriously damaged by the enemy, and the 45th Division was basically wiped out.

Give up, or stick to it.

On October 21, the 8th Company of the 134th Regiment holding the 597.9 Heights had only 15 people left in the fierce battle, only the company commander and two wounded men remained in the 9th Company, and only one wounded man remained in the 7th Company.

The battle until the 24th, it has been fierce for nearly a week, the seven days and nights of tunnel battles have become more and more intense, more and more cruel, the forward tunnel troops have been seriously reduced, and the situation is bad, he had to call to report to the Qin army commander, the Qin army commander was moved by the tenacity and tenacity of the soldiers, but his determination could not be shaken in the slightest.

He said to the brave and combative division commander: "I know your difficulties, but holding on to the tunnel and holding back the enemy is the key to overall victory. Now our overriding task is to win at all costs. ”

The battle was fierce, and not only the 45th Division, but the entire 15th Army came to a difficult moment. The commander of the 45th Division, who was well aware of the battle situation, replied in a firm voice: "Please rest assured, commander, we promise to stick to the end!" ”

In the battle of Shangganling, Commander Qin already looked at it with the idea of defeating the 15th Army, and he had to defend Shangganling no matter what!

Before the outbreak of the Battle of Shangganling, the Chinese side and the North Korean side had already held several negotiations with the US side in the south of the Korean side, and the prisoners were arguing endlessly, the US military meant that it was necessary to respect the wishes of the captives whether they would go back, in fact, we had to ask them if they wanted to go back, we had to ask them first, if they were willing to go back, we would send them to you, if they were not willing to go back, they would be sent to Zhongtai Province (abbreviation), there is no doubt, if the Chinese and North Korean sides agree, There is absolutely no possibility of our prisoners coming back.

They even put forward two-for-one and many-for-one quid pro quo, falsely reported the number of prisoners, and so on, and faced the negotiations with an arrogant posture.

The US military has also been arguing endlessly over the issue of the border line, and the US military, on the pretext that it has absolute superiority in the sea, land, and air forces, has proposed compensation for its homeland, and demanded that our troops retreat several hundred kilometers, and so on.

Negotiations, only after the enemy is subdued, will they sit down obediently at the negotiating table again.

This is the so-called political necessity that needs to be accompanied by military action.

After the success of the counterattack on the night of the 17th, instead of dealing a great blow to the enemy's arrogance, the enemy attacked more fiercely, and it was not until later that they realized that Van Vliet had already announced to the whole world as early as the 14th: "The Jinhua offensive has begun!" ”

He even proclaimed in a high-profile manner that this time, the victory belonged to the United Nations forces.

And now, after three days of brutal fighting, it was hard to take the surface position of Shangganling, I thought that the victory was in my hands, but only one night later, the triangular heights that had just been taken were lost, and even the sniper ridge was lost again, and the US 7th Division and the 2nd Korean Division were killed and wounded by the enemy, nearly 4,000 people were killed, and more than 1,000 were injured.

Later, the US 7th Division and the ROK 2nd Division attacked the 597.9 Heights in Shangganling, but after more than 40 repeated battles, they failed to seize the surface position, and suffered heavy casualties every day.

Van Vliet, who had suffered a heavy blow, continued to cobble together forces to organize the offensive in order to save his face.

On 25 October, Van Vleet handed over the defense of the battered US 7th Division east of the Hantan River and the task of attacking the 597.9 heights to the Han 2nd Division. The U.S. 7th Division moved westward to prevent the Volunteers from attacking its flank from the west of the Hantan River. "U.S. troops withdrew from the Triangle Mountain front due to a year-high casualty rate, and the Republic of Korea Army was brought in to replace them," the U.S. International News Agency reported. ”

The South Koreans were very annoyed by Van Vliet's decision. Ding Yiquan, commander of the 2nd Korean Division, said with emotion: This is a battle that will never be forgotten, and the positions that the US military has failed to seize must be seized by the South Korean army. After the change of defense, the Han Second Division launched a fierce attack on the 597.9 heights of Shangganling with full vigor.

It was possible to attack many times in a row, and each time it was beaten back by the volunteers with heavy losses. After attacking for several days, the 2nd Korean Division gained nothing, but the troops suffered huge casualties.

Only then did the Second Han Division wake up: It was originally an offensive mission undertaken by the Seventh Division of the US Army, but they could not take it back even after paying heavy casualties every day, and they were criticized by the newspapers, so they had to hand over this task to us. In other words, to make us stand-ins for American soldiers. The Americans and the South Koreans are also human beings, and don't we have to make sacrifices for them?

As a result, Jiang Wenfeng, the new commander of the Han Second Division, ordered the attack to be stopped, and the Han Second Division retreated from then on, resisting the order and refusing to attack. Jiang Wenfeng also said in righteous words: Disobeying the order, I may come into contact with my post and be sent to a military court, but I will not do it if I want our soldiers to die for the American soldiers.

The commander of the U.S. Ninth Army, who commanded the 'Jinhua offensive' on the front line, told Van Vleet about this incident, and although Van Vleet was angry, he was helpless, he knew better than anyone else that it was already difficult to mobilize the already imposing Han Second Division to replace the US Seventh Division, let alone expect them to do something that even the U.S. Army could not do.

As a matter of fact, both the U.S. and South Korean armies were terrified by the heroism and tenacity of the volunteers, especially when the trumpet of the charge sounded, and no one would be afraid to see the volunteers who were all over the mountains and in all directions, frantically attacking with a desperate attitude with them.