The third squad once again won a victory, and the fighting enthusiasm of all the soldiers in the No. 1 tunnel can be described as unprecedentedly high, and the tunnel was already full of weapons and ammunition, and under the attack of three successive waves of organizations, a platoon wiped out nearly three companies of the enemy's troops and captured a large amount of weapons and equipment at the cost of four minor injuries.

By the end of the battle on the nineteenth, the soldiers in the tunnel were not depressed, but their morale was getting higher and higher.

They gathered all the captured guns and ammunition, hung strings of bullet bags on the wall, and each string of bullet bags was filled with magazines, including those of disc machine guns, and filled with bullets in the ammunition depot in the tunnel.

At the same time, the internal environment in the tunnel is also improving, the wounded have been moved to the rest room in the inside of the tunnel, and sandbags are also used to build staggered bunkers outside the tunnel, once the enemy appears at the mouth of the tunnel, the fighters in the tunnel can quickly strike at the enemy outside the tunnel, and the soldiers at the mouth of the tunnel have built a grenade-proof inclined ditch.

In addition, the soldiers also used sandbags to block some important places in the tunnel, and the enemy was not afraid to put cans of smoke and poison gas into the tunnels, and Company Commander Dai had already contacted the regimental headquarters to request reinforcements from the regimental headquarters, at least to send gas masks to each tunnel.

On the 19th day, the surface position of Shangganling once again fell into uninterrupted contention, and the fighting morale of the soldiers became higher and higher, and they all asked for battle, and under the leadership of Xia Yuan, they launched a counterattack against the enemy who had not yet gained a firm foothold in Shangganling, and only one morning, at the cost of nearly two squads of soldiers, repelled the fierce attack of the enemy's three battalions, and Shangganling was still firmly in the hands of our army.

Every time the enemy organized an attack, he had to pay a heavy price, and although there were huge casualties in our army, the fighters' will to fight did not weaken in the slightest.

In the afternoon, the enemy, who had not given up, once again gathered the strength of three battalions to counterattack the No. 1, No. 8, No. 2, and No. 11 positions in Shangganling.

Heavy artillery, tanks, planes, and antiaircraft artillery vehicles bombed continuously for three hours, and the entire Shangganling was filled with thick smoke, and the choked soldiers could not open their eyes, and even the observers could no longer see whether the enemy was attacking, and the napalm burned Shangganling into a sea of fire, and the magnificent scene like a mountain of flames constantly shook the commanders and soldiers of the rear military headquarters and division headquarters.

During that period of time, Shangganling was dark, and the scene like purgatory on earth pierced deeply into the hearts of the soldiers in the rear.

I don't know how many comrades will die in this smoke of gunfire.

But, this battle must be won no matter what!

In view of the fact that in the first stage, the loss of volunteers on the Shangganling position was quite large, and it was urgent to replenish the troops, especially the 235th Regiment was basically exhausted, and the Third Corps and the 15th Army transferred a total of more than 1,200 new soldiers to the 45th Division, plus the personnel drawn from the division's organs and service detachments, so as to enrich and rebuild the combat company.

In order to solve the problem of ammunition and ammunition and material transportation on the front line, the logistics department of the Chinese People's Volunteers and its second division vigorously supported the logistics department of the army, and in order to complete the transportation tasks of more than 100,000 artillery shells and replenishment needed for the follow-up counteroffensive, the logistics department of the army decided to put all four automobile companies in the direction of Shangganling. Under the slogan of 'all for the front, all for victory', the 15th Army transferred three battalions of the 29th Division and a large number of personnel from organs and organs to undertake the task of transporting the line of fire to and from the 40-kilometer mountain road, and the 45th Division organized more than 3,000 people, more than 500 livestock, and 40 horse-drawn carriages to participate in the transportation.

After the great counteroffensive on 17 July, under the continuous assault and rush transportation, 30,000 mortar shells alone were transported up the mountain.

In order to win the victory he was expecting, he was destined to throw more chips on the less than 4 square kilometers of land and use all his skills to maintain his reputation as an 'expert in mountain warfare'.

But unfortunately, he was in the wrong place to fight the wrong enemy, and in the following time, the Volunteer Army opened his eyes again.

Under the enemy's frantic attack on the 19th, the weapons and ammunition in the tunnels were consumed enormously, and the barrels of the machine guns were red, so the soldiers poured urine on them and continued to fight until the machine guns were broken, and the wounded kept pressing the bullets and gave them to the soldiers fighting on the surface positions.

The accuracy of the rifle was seriously damaged, and Xia Yuan had replaced more than ten guns, consuming thousands of bullets.

Since the morning, the first, second, and third classes have been constantly engaged in the battle under the leadership of Xia Yuan, and every time they return, there will be fewer people, and the soldiers know it in their hearts, but they are still holding on with a tenacious will, Xia Yuan has already felt that he has reached the limit, but at this moment, he must not relax.

The enemy's attack is uninterrupted, the more he arrives, the more he has to hold firm, dragging his tired body, he tells the soldiers in the tunnel about every battle experience, how many foreign devil officers, machine gunners, snipers, etc., each time to kill, which greatly boosts the morale of the soldiers in the tunnel.

Company Commander Dai instructed the soldiers to modify the environment in the tunnel, especially some wet soil, according to the method taught by Xia Yuan, wrapped in a piece of cloth, the two soldiers twisted each other, and a lot of water sources could be wrung out.

There was not enough water in the tunnel, so the soldiers dug out the wet soil from the well and used the methods of Xia Yuanjiao to get water. There is not a lot of water, under the condition of saving, it is still enough for the soldiers in the tunnel, and the water intake route in the ravine has long been blocked by the enemy's artillery fire, and with the loss of position zero again, the fire bunker built by the enemy on position zero is enough to cover the water intake route of the first tunnel, and even the route to transport supplies up the mountain.

Fortunately, the food reserves in the tunnel are quite sufficient, and two simple meals a day are controlled, which can basically meet the survival needs of the soldiers.

On the position, the battle became more and more intense, Xia Yuan continued to throw grenades, and in the end, his arms became numb and stiff, and he couldn't even lift his strength, so he controlled the machine gun to shoot at the enemy, the machine gun he controlled was very stable, the accuracy was very high, coupled with the blessing of his own strength, the bullets shot out were almost in a line, killing more enemies, which once made the lieutenants who attacked the devil's position feel desperate, and even called for reinforcements from the rear artillery at the expense of the bombardment of their own artillery, Large-scale bombardment of positions in Shangganling was resumed.

The result of such a bombardment was obviously that the casualties of the other side were greater, after all, the Volunteer Army only had one squad of fighters in the No. 1 position in Shangganling, and the enemy had a battalion of troops, and under such bombardment, the casualties caused by the enemy's own artillery shells were much higher than those of the Volunteer soldiers.

Xia Yuan had long been accustomed to the enemy's shelling, and as soon as the enemy's shells rang out, he immediately led the soldiers of the squad to retract into the bomb shelter pit dug earlier.

After carefully studying the enemy's way of building a firepower bunker, Xia Yuan issued the slogan of 'learning from the enemy' in the tunnel, and after brainstorming, he studied several simple and quick ways to dig and avoid bomb craters, learned the enemy's construction methods, and used sandbags and planks to build bomb shelters, the effect was extremely significant, and the enemy's bombardment ended, and our soldiers basically did not suffer many casualties.

After all, there was only one squad of fighters on the position, and with the existence of bomb craters, there were almost no casualties.

After the enemy's artillery bombardment, the morale of the enemy can be said to have been reduced to the extreme.

Under the last round of attack, Xia Yuan's heavy machine gun pressed the enemy to the point that he couldn't raise his head at all, and in the case of his own huge casualties, he repelled the last wave of enemy attacks before sunset and dusk, and in the face of the battlefield filled with gunpowder, only Xia Yuan and three other soldiers stood up from a piece of scorched earth.

The clothes on their bodies had long been torn, they were dirty all over their bodies, their faces and bodies were more or less abrasions, and the three soldiers were wearing bandages on their heads and were not badly wounded, these were the lightly wounded in the tunnel, and when the battle was at its worst, the soldiers of the three platoons were basically wiped out, and some of the lightly wounded were sent to fight on the surface positions.

Xia Yuan looked at the hazy sunset, wiped the blood stains off his face, and said: "On October 19, the Shangganling offensive and defensive battle ended, and this was only transferred to the second phase of the operation, thirteen soldiers who could fight in the No. 1 tunnel, and they were slightly injured, and more than ten were seriously wounded. ”

"As long as one person does not die, Shangganling is still firmly in the hands of our army!"

The battle for the surface position of Position No. 1 ended, and after two days of fighting, the soldiers of Tunnel No. 1 paid huge casualties, but they firmly held Position No. 1 in their own hands.

Tunnel 1 alone has three companies to be replenished, and this does not include the situation in other tunnels.

Company Commander Feng and the instructor of the Seventh Company commanded the operation in the No. 4 tunnel, and after a day of fighting, in addition to the devil's position in the mouth of the foreign devils, it was still in the hands of our army, the No. 11 position and the No. 2 position. Position No. 8, Position No. 3 of the main peak, and Position Zero under the main peak have all been lost, and these are all very important positions in the position, directly threatening the safety of other positions.

In this case, Rao is Xia Yuan felt powerless, even if he opened his plug-in to the maximum, even if he mastered several master-level skills, he also felt a burst of despair, the strength in his heart, the strength of struggle, was completely felt by the emotions of the soldiers in the tunnel.

The more sacrifices and casualties, the tighter the strength of the fighters, the higher the fighting mood of the fighters, they are like a spring, the greater the pressure, the greater the motivation to bounce.

This is an iron army that cannot be defeated or blown up!

If it were the U.S. military, it is estimated that it would have surrendered a long time ago. There is a criterion for the surrender of the US army, which can be surrendered without bullets, dry food, communication interruptions, and inability to break through, even if the casualties of the team reach two-thirds.

Xia Yuan's eyes are firm, keep Shangganling, and keep that hope!

Victory must belong to us!

"Company Commander Xia, are you injured?" Only then did a lightly wounded man see that Xia Yuan's cheek was grazed by a bullet, leaving a long blood mark, and sticky blood flowed out of his dark face.

"It's okay, it's grazed by a bullet."

It's also thrilling to say, if it weren't for his strong reflexes, plus he just happened to be about to take a bullet, it is estimated that the bullet directly pierced his cheek.

Thanks to his own luck, the bullet grazed his cheek and flew past.

At first, I didn't feel anything, after all, at that time, the battle was at its most intense, even if my cheeks were bruised, I didn't feel anything, and now that the battle is over, I have palpitations in retrospect, and my cheeks are faintly painful.

Back in the tunnel, the wounded soldiers surrounded one after another, and when they saw that the three of them were carrying a large number of guns and ammunition behind them, they knew that the battle had been won, and the soldiers showed an excited smile on their faces, but when they saw the wound on Xia Yuan's face, the soldiers asked Wang Lan to bandage the commander of the ninth company.

Wang Lan used anti-inflammatory drugs to help Xia Yuan treat the wound briefly, and said: "Ninth Company Commander, you are so powerful, you took the soldiers and held the position again, I admire you." ”

Xia Yuan said: "Those sacrificed soldiers are powerful, I just led them to fight." ”

He always remembers that he is not a hero when he is alive, so the person who sacrifices is a hero.

In his mind, he remembered the soldiers who pounced on the enemy with blasters and explosives bags and grenades in order to win the battle, and the soldiers who fought heroically in the rain of bullets and bullets, and the soldiers who persisted in fighting the enemy on the front line even if they were seriously wounded.

These are the heroes.

Wang Lan looked at the decrease in the number of martyrs in the tunnel, and the large number of martyrs' bodies placed on the edge of the tunnel, and her heart became silent, especially the remains of those martyrs who died but could not be buried, which may be the only pain in the hearts of the soldiers.

The soldiers in the tunnel were still busy, after two days of fighting, Xia Yuan was physically and mentally tired, and after sitting down and closing his eyes, he fell asleep, and then there was an even more fierce battle waiting for them.

"Company Commander Xia is also tired, he fought for two days and one night in a row, repelled more than 70 attacks of foreign devils of all sizes, and annihilated thousands of enemies, let him rest well."

The soldiers in the tunnel were basically wounded, and the work of taking water fell on the instructor and the company commander Dai, and the well did not produce water, but the humidity inside was very high, and the soil was put in, and it basically turned into mud after an hour, and then the cooks put the cloth in it to suck it and wring it out, so that the efficiency of taking water was greatly improved.

"First get some water for the fighting soldiers to drink, after a day of fighting, their mouths are basically peeled."

It took several hours to get two jugs of water, which was not very efficient, but it was better than nothing, so that they would have a solid point of access to water, and they would no longer have to risk sacrificing themselves to get water under the constant bombardment of enemy machine guns and aircraft artillery.

(End of chapter)