The hygienist cut open the soldier's cotton coat, and his right arm was only attached to a little flesh, and half of his body was covered in blood. The hygienist immediately used first aid to stop the bleeding for him, but it was too late, he couldn't support it and fell to the ground, his breathing gradually weakened, the bright hole gradually faded, and he still said in a weak voice:

"Company commander, I can still continue to fight, and I want to be like you, become a Ying..."

Before the hero finished speaking, he had no movement, his eyes were still looking at Xia Yuan, the soldiers were crying, Xia Yuan squatted on the ground, blinking his eyes desperately to prevent tears from falling, a tear still rolled down his cheek, the tears were so hot, stinging the scar on his face, and also stabbing his heart.

He has seen too many scenes of such sacrifices, there are many soldiers who were shaken to pieces by the enemy's shells, but he did not feel the slightest, but he did not eat or drink, and soon died in the tunnel, some soldiers were wounded from the battlefield and kept silent, because they knew that once they were wounded, they could not go to the battlefield again, so many wounded soldiers were unwilling to admit the fact that they were injured.

Xia Yuan closed his eyes with his hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "You are already a hero, Huang Xinmin, we will always remember you!" ”

He stood up, looked at the soldiers in the seriously wounded No. 2 tunnel, thought twice, and decided to send someone to send them to the No. 1 position, the most rare thing was not to transport the wounded back to the No. 1 pit tunnel, but to take a lot of pains, and even use orders to get them out of the battle. The wounded had their own reasons for refusing:

"My injuries are not serious, my hands and legs are not broken, and I can still destroy the enemy."

"My determination is to fight the enemy to the end, I will not go down!"

"I am a party member, I can continue to fight, I can't insult party members!"

"As long as I have a breath, I will take a breath with the enemy!"

"I just can't go out to fight, I can still guard the tunnel!"

"I am a member of the Youth League, I swore an oath that I will not be in the line of fire if I am wounded!"

The soldiers said one by one with indignation, even if Xia Yuan asked them to withdraw with an order, they still refused, vowing to live and die with the position, the soldiers in the No. 8 pit and the No. 1 pit were all infected by the emotions of the soldiers in the No. 2 pit , and their red eyes were bubbling with an unprecedented will to fight.

Time did not make them wait too long, the enemy called in the American fighters, bombers and artillery fire to cover the lost Shangganling position, Xia Yuan could only lead the team to temporarily withdraw to the No. 2 tunnel.

A lightly wounded man lay at the mouth of the tunnel, responsible for holding back the enemy who rushed into the tunnel.

"Who!"

The fighter shouted.

"Commander of the Ninth Company, Xia Yuan!"

Hearing the voice of his own people outside, the wounded man hurriedly put away his gun, looked at the dozen or so soldiers who entered the pit in surprise, his eyes stayed on Xia Yuan, and asked in surprise: "You are Company Commander Xia!"

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Xia Yuan shouted: "Send the wounded in and send two people to guard the mouth of the pit." ”

The conditions in the No. 2 tunnel were more difficult than expected, the tunnel was half blown down, everywhere was a mess, the air carried the smell of gunsmoke, sulfur, blood, feces and sweat, the bodies of the martyrs were placed on both sides of the tunnel, several seriously wounded people were lying in the tunnel in pain, they heard the movement outside the tunnel, struggled to get up and looked at the soldiers who came in, and said excitedly one by one:

"Company Commander Xia, it's Company Commander Xia!"

Xia Yuan's arrival caused the shock of the seriously injured in the No. 2 tunnel, they dragged the seriously injured body, struggling to get up and wanted to see Xia Yuan's face, although they were on the same high ground, but each of the soldiers in the tunnel had their own tasks, even if it was two positions next to each other, the soldiers in the tunnel rarely had the opportunity to contact.

When they came again, they already knew that there was such a combat hero on the Shangganling position, and now they finally saw it, how not to be excited.

Xia Yuan walked forward quickly, held the hands of the soldiers, and said excitedly: "I'm here, you guys quickly rest, and when you recover from your injuries, let's continue to fight." ”

The seriously wounded soldiers were happy and warmly welcomed the soldiers in the other tunnels, and the leader of the first squad of the second platoon of the 4th Company who was seriously injured said: "Xiao Shen, take out the radishes and let the soldiers eat them first." ”

Xiao Shen was the young soldier who had just been in charge of guarding the entrance of the tunnel, he was slightly injured, he sighed, took out a half-eaten radish from the bag hanging on the wall of the tunnel, and ran over and said, "Company commander, you eat some radish." ”

Xia Yuan's eyes fell on the bag that had dried up, swept through the tunnel, there was almost nothing to eat, he shook his head, "You eat these things, we have eaten." ”

The No. 2 position and the No. 11 position are the two most tragic positions at the moment, from the first day of the outbreak of the battle of Shangganling, it encountered the enemy's fierce attack, only the first day, it has been lost, and after such a long battle, the soldiers in the tunnel have changed batch after batch, and the conditions in the tunnel are becoming more and more difficult, Xia Yuan saw it in his eyes, and it hurt in his heart.

The conditions of the No. 1 tunnel are actually not very good, the food is basically eaten, and the water was dug out last night, which greatly improves the water shortage in the tunnel.

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Xia Yuan saw that there were still a lot of biscuits on the ground, and he knew what was going on, it was not that the soldiers were unwilling to eat biscuits, but that the biscuits at this time could choke people to death, and they couldn't even swallow saliva when they ate a biscuit, and they could even grind their throats when they ate it.

The soldiers squatted on the ground, looking at the comrades in the No. 2 tunnel, they were very distressed, but they could not do anything.

The enemy's artillery fire covered the surface positions and anticlines of Shangganling, and it was basically impossible for Xia Yuan to bring water from the No. 1 position, so he could only wait until the enemy's artillery bombardment was over.

As for why they didn't bring some water over during the battle, the soldiers' bodies were already exhausted by hunger, and it was already very reluctant to bring some weapons and ammunition to fight, and it was almost impossible to bring water from the first position to the second position.

Even Xia Yuan didn't think that he would be able to hit the No. 2 position with people, this round of artillery fire basically blew up the stick soldiers, in order to deal with the harassment of the volunteers overnight, they built the bunkers next to each other, although they can resist the small-scale harassment of our army, but once the cannon sounds, their bunkers will be blown up in a row.

In order to encourage the soldiers in the No. 2 tunnel, Xia Yuan decided to lead a combat team and a hygienist to stay in the No. 2 tunnel, and ordered the other soldiers to go back to their respective tunnels first, and at the same time told the soldiers in the No. 1 tunnel to tell Company Commander Dai Wannian about the situation in the No. 2 tunnel to see if they could transport the water.

On the night of October 25, Shangganling, which had been devastated by artillery fire and gunpowder smoke for a day, quietly quieted down as night fell. At night, a transport team of the Volunteer Army accepted the task of delivering ammunition to the 597.9 heights, and a platoon of fighters set off from the rear, and they transported the supplies to the No. 1 tunnel, and then the No. 1 pit tried to transfer it to other tunnels.

At night, water convoys set out from Tunnel 1 to deliver water and basic supplies to Tunnels 8 and 2 at risk.

The seriously wounded in the No. 2 pit have been passing by drinking urine, and they drank the water they had not seen for a long time, and they all took a small sip very carefully, for fear of drinking too much, and then said to give this water to other wounded, you pushed me to let it, this scene was once staged in the tunnel of Shangganling.

Considering that the situation in Tunnel 11 may be the same as the situation in Tunnel 2, Xia Yuan asked the soldiers in Tunnel 2 to drink water while asking about the situation in Tunnel 11.

An injured man who had been a transporter described some of the conditions in the tunnels.

In the struggle to hold on to the tunnel, due to the combat needs of artillery fire and bombardment, the mouth of the tunnel changed from time to time, and the transport team often killed and injured the enemy with fire in order to find the mouth of the tunnel. The No. 11 tunnel entrance held out for ten whole days, and the shortage of water, food, and ammunition was very serious, and the superiors searched for the location of the No. 11 tunnel entrance more than once, but because the position was destroyed by enemy artillery fire, they sent people to support them several times, but they could not find the tunnel entrance.

Xia Yuan immediately decided to lead two soldiers as the vanguard to find the mouth of the No. 11 pit where he had lost contact, carry some weapons and ammunition, as well as a small amount of water, and go in the direction of the No. 11 position with Sun Shuren and Wang Yuanhe.

In the night, they set off.

The enemy's artillery fire was extremely ferocious, and the bombardment of the 597.9 heights was stopped, but the artillery fire still covered the main peak of Shangganling, and the logistics supply route of our army.

From time to time, there are shells that fall on the anti-slope plane and make a roar, they brave the enemy's shells to drill into the smoke and dust, separated by a distance of two or three meters, carefully move forward, the enemy's flares light up from time to time, they stop and go, when passing through the enemy's blockade area, they crawl on the ground, with the help of night vision, he took the two of them successfully to a rock next to a ditch and stopped.

The smoke and dust were thinner, and the enemy's flares were brighter, Xia Yuan lay behind the rocks and looked ahead, 40 miles away was the hill they were going to.

With the help of night vision and eagle eye, he saw a black tunnel on the anticline, only the size of a bucket, and the location was very hidden, if it were not for night vision, it was estimated that it would be difficult to find.

At the moment when the enemy's flare went out, Xia Yuan led the two of them to quickly rush forward, advancing twenty meters, the enemy's flare rose into the air again, and the three of them quickly lay on the ground, but the enemy's flares were against them, hanging in the air one after another.

Sun Shuren lay on a piece of loose soil, gasping for breath, the dust was full of ammunition smell, and his nostrils were itching, and he tried his best to suppress it just because he wanted to sneeze.

When they were more than ten meters away from the anticline, the enemy found them, rows of bullets swished over, Xia Yuan's movements were very vigorous, and he rushed to the anticline with a brisk step, the speed was very fast, but Sun Shuren and Wang Yuanhe were not so lucky, Sun Shuren was shot and died, and Wang Yuanhe was seriously injured and lay on the ground.

Wang Yuanhe shouted without raising his head: "Company commander, leave me alone, I will climb down." ”

Xia Yuanqiang endured the grief in his heart, both of them were soldiers in the No. 1 tunnel, they had experienced several battles together, and their friendship was very deep, and now seeing that one of them was sacrificed and the other was seriously injured, the sorrow in his heart was bursting for a while.

"You must go back alive!"

Xia Yuan knew that he couldn't rescue the other party at this time.

The No. 11 position was not counterattacked by the soldiers, the stick soldiers were still on the No. 11 position, once the fight started, he may not be able to get cheap, and the enemy's artillery fire was shelling the anti-oblique in front of him, after his observation, this area is not suitable for attack, if you really want to cover here, you will die here, he can only grit his teeth, turn his head and touch the tunnel.

At this moment, someone in front of him whistled softly, and then shouted softly: "Here is the one who sent the ammunition, here is the one who sent the ammunition!" ”

Xia Yuan was slightly stunned, and looked ahead with the help of powerful night vision, there was a steel helmet dangling in the direction where the sound came from, and he thought that the Chinese words he had just heard were a little awkward, and he quickly realized. Ignoring it, he felt his way to where the hole had just been found.

In a pile of rubble, he saw the mouth of the tunnel at Position 11, and when he got closer, a hot air rushed to his face, and he heard the sound of shovels shoveling dirt inside.

"Who!" Someone suddenly spotted him in the tunnel and shouted loudly.

"I, the commander of the Ninth Company, Xia Yuan."

Xia Yuan crawled out of the loose soil and plunged into the tunnel.

It's been a long time since I've seen my comrades-in-arms who came to support, and the shouting comrade was stunned for a long time before he reluctantly opened his arms, hugged Xia Yuan's neck hard, and turned around and shouted softly, expecting excitement: "Comrades, the commander of the ninth company, it's the commander of the ninth company!" That battle hero! ”

The pit suddenly boiled, and it was spread everywhere: "Battle heroes, battle heroes are coming!" ”

Xia Yuan's hands were tightly held by more than a dozen pairs of jet-black hands, and a swarthy face appeared in front of him, and a dirty warrior looked at him with excited eyes, which he had never seen before, so bright, as if with countless hopes.

Late at night, the transporters in the logistics direction risked their lives to also send radishes and steamed buns, although there was only one basket, but the soldiers of the No. 11 position, who had not eaten much for a long time, were very happy and shouted excitedly: "The chief has sent someone!" The chief has sent someone! ”

It seems that this is their hope.

Today is definitely a day of great encouragement for the soldiers in the No. 11 tunnel, not only the combat heroes in the No. 1 pit suddenly came to the No. 11 pit tunnel, but at the same time, the transporter sent by the chief also sent a lot of food, which gave great hope to the soldiers in the No. 11 pit who had run out of ammunition and food.

The soldiers sat together, leaning against the damp stone wall, discussing radially, asking about Xia Yuan's battle deeds, and hearing that the US Seventh Division was defeated, the soldiers said excitedly:

"Well played, you should fight like this! Beat them up, beat them down! Victory will be ours sooner or later! ”

"Comrades, our efforts have not been in vain, stick to the tunnel, and victory will belong to us sooner or later!"