Seeing Xia Yuan, the platoon commander suddenly cried bitterly, and said tremblingly: "Camp Commander Xia, the soldiers have all sacrificed. ”

As he spoke, his body was bleeding outward, and the wound was so great that the bleeding could not be stopped.

Xia Yuan grabbed him, his eyes were red, and said, "I know, I know, don't say it, Hu Changdao, hurry up and bandage the wounds of the platoon leader." ”

There was no bandage around him, so Hu Changdao hurriedly found a bag of rice to bandage him, and while bandaging it, he pleaded: "Platoon leader, you go down and raise it for a few days, and come back after you are ready." ”

A long row looked at Xia Yuan, then looked at Hu Changdao, and it took a long time to squeeze out a few words from between his teeth, and his voice trembled, "Camp Chief Xia, Comrade Changdao, I, I'm dying...... Want... Hold the ground......"

With that, he stopped breathing.

Hu Changdao looked at the platoon leader blankly, the one in his hand was already stained with blood, Xia Yuan gently put the body of the platoon leader aside, took a deep breath, and said, "The enemy will attack later, let's quickly repair the fortifications." ”

Hu Changdao nodded emphatically, looked at the corpse of a long row, and his eyes became more determined.

At this time, there was another gunshot from the position, and the two of them didn't care about digging the cat's ear hole, carrying the grenade brought by a platoon leader, and quickly got out of the cat's ear hole, and saw a combat group of soldiers shooting at the South Korean army that rushed up, they saw Xia Yuan and Hu Changdao, and a soldier said: "Battalion commander Xia, have you seen our platoon commander?" ”

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

As soon as they arrived on the right flank, they saw that there was not even a single person on the No. 2 position, and a large number of South Korean troops surrounded them from the bottom of the mountain.

Xia Yuan fired eight shots at the enemy and said, "The platoon leader has died!" ”

The three soldiers were stunned for a moment, turned their heads to look at Xia Yuan and Hu Changdao, who were shooting at the enemy frantically, their eyes turned red all of a sudden, and they shot wildly at the enemy.

After repelling an enemy attack, Xia Yuan left a box of grenades for the three of them and said, "The No. 2 position will be handed over to you, and I will take Hu Changdao back to the No. 1 position." ”

"Yes!"

Xia Yuan took Hu Changdao and quickly returned to the front battlefield of the No. 1 position, the communication soldier was still fighting, but his right arm was already hung with color, Hu Xiudao bandaged him and said: "Comrade, you go down first, here is handed over to me and the battalion commander." ”

The correspondent did not hesitate too much, gave advice, and quickly evacuated, and he still had important information to pass to the rear.

After repeated setbacks in the attack, the enemy with poor skills brought in more than 20 tanks, drove them into the ravine at the bottom of the high ground, and bombarded the big rock on the No. 1 position with direct fire.

Xia Yuan and Hu Changdao shrank behind the big rock, and the tank shells kept falling on the stones, and the ears of the two of them were buzzing.

"Attention! Spotting the plane head-on! Xia Yuan shouted.

Hu Changdao covered the sun with his hands, looked up, and a US F-84 'oil pick' rushed down, and the bullets swept down like splashing water, whining past his head, bringing up a strong gust of wind, raising all the floating soil on the mountain, and sprinkling the two of them with their heads and faces, and their eyes were squinted so that they couldn't open them.

Hu Changdao turned his back on his face, rubbed his eyes, and suddenly heard the familiar screaming sound above his head, like a group of grasshoppers flapping their wings and flying over, he hurriedly lay on the stone to look, black smoke rose from the ravine, rushing into the sky, and the group of tanks were like frightened turtles, fleeing in all directions in the smoke.

When Hu Changdao saw it, he shouted excitedly: "Battalion commander, have you seen it?" The howitzers of our volunteers are amazing! ”

However, the US fighter planes were so rampant that one plane had just passed, and the other one had swooped down, almost clinging to the top of the mountain, whistling past, Hu Changdao was furious, turned over and sat up, grabbed an automatic rifle and was about to hit the plane, and the bullet had not yet rushed out of the chamber, but when he saw that the plane suddenly flashed red, it exploded into a fireball in mid-air, and the explosion was shattered, and smoking fragments were scattered everywhere, scattered on the position like a falling meteorite.

Hu Changdao asked with a confused face: "What's the matter, why did it suddenly explode?" ”

Xia Yuan stared at the broken wreckage of the plane and said, "The enemy's plane hit the howitzer shell. ”

Howitzers in the sky swept across the position and landed on the enemy's tank phalanx, and the enemy's planes were also arrogant, and even tried to pass over the position, but the dead were hit by a howitzer shell and exploded instantly.

Xia Yuan retracted his gaze and found that there was not much ammunition hidden under the stone, and after looking around, Xia Yuan immediately said: "Don't look at it, hurry up and collect ammunition!" ”

Hu Changdao "hey" sound, quickly collected the weapons and ammunition scattered on the position, but unfortunately the amount of ammunition is not much, before they collected much ammunition, the enemy is like a locust to attack the mountain, although it is the first time to go to the battlefield, but he has also experienced large and small battles, as if to become a qualified volunteer soldier, in the face of another attack by the enemy, he did not hurry to throw grenades at the enemy under the mountain, but the enemy all over the mountains is difficult to rely on grenades to eliminate it.

After the grenade was dropped, he pulled out his gun and fired at the enemy.

Xia Yuan relied on the ammunition he had touched from the enemy to shoot at the enemy, and with the sound of gunfire, one enemy fell on the way to attack, and the bullets whizzed through the enemy's body and shot through their body armor.

At the critical moment, the artillery support of the volunteers happened to arrive and blossomed among the enemy group.

The battle lasted until dusk, and after a day of fighting, both men were exhausted and had little ammunition left, and they withdrew to the pit and sat down on the ground to rest. Braving enemy fire, the transporters sent baskets of ammunition into the tunnels.

The deputy platoon commander came down with people, and after a day of fierce fighting, there was only one platoon left of the fighters who could fight.

Xia Yuan said: "The next time you fight, you need to bring the lightly wounded. ”

The deputy platoon commander nodded, pondered for a long time, raised his head to look at Xia Yuan, and said, "Camp Commander Xia, you can arrange it." ”

The platoon commander had already died, and the soldiers of the No. 2 position were basically all sacrificed, leaving only their group of remnants on the No. 1 position.

Xia Yuan called a few lightly wounded people who could continue to fight, formed a squad, and said: "This squad is led by me to hold the left flank, you move to the right flank, just look at the right flank, there is a stone in the middle position as a cover, easy to defend and difficult to attack, just put a combat group on it." ”

The platoon leader nodded.

Before they could rest for long, the observer ran down, "Battalion commander, the enemy is touching again." ”

Xia Yuan shouted, "Act now!" ”

The fighters sorted out their equipment and set off for Position 1.

The artillery fire of the volunteer soldiers was already in place, and they could completely get out of the tunnel movement and fight the enemy on the position, and when the enemy's artillery bombarded us, our artillery also bombarded them.

It's a brutal meat grinder, and it's up to whoever gets more meat into it.

It is clear that the enemy's casualties were much higher than those of the volunteers.

The battle at night was more intense, the enemy took advantage of the night to counterattack to the top of the mountain, the soldiers rose up to resist, and the night of fighting repelled more than 20 enemy attacks, and the volunteer soldiers also suffered huge casualties. In the second half of the night, the commander of the third company joined the battle of the No. 1 position with the reserve platoon, and after paying a huge price in casualties, he successfully held out until dawn.

And at this stage, there is not just one Han Second Division.

The troops mobilized by the US military include the US 7th Division, the 187th Airborne Regiment, the 2nd and 9th Divisions of the South Korean Army, and the Ethiopian and Colombian Battalions. They were like playing wheel warfare, launching a fierce attack on the 537.7 heights of Shangganling, whether day or night, which was undoubtedly a life-and-death battle for the troops stationed on Shangganling.

The night was spent in a difficult battle, and the arrival of the day showed its other side, the volunteers who lost the support of the night were exposed to the mountain ridge, and fought from night to early morning, the enemy did not intend to let go of the 537.7 heights, and did not wait for the volunteers on the heights to rest, and the enemy counterattacked Shangganling again.

At this time, there were only more than ten soldiers led by Xia Yuan and the third company commander on the No. 1 position, Xia Yuan, together with himself and Hu Changdao, divided everyone into four combat groups, led by the third company commander Zeng Yunqing to lead two combat groups to garrison the left side, Xia Yuan led two combat groups to garrison the right side, the enemy's wave after wave of charge, was repelled by the soldiers wave after wave, after the repulsion, Xia Yuan immediately organized the soldiers to pick up the enemy's weapons and equipment, the enemy saw the volunteer soldiers jump out of the bunker, and then used artillery bombardment to pick up ammunition of the volunteer soldiers.

The soldiers who came out to pick up ammunition also made the enemy realize that the volunteers stationed on the No. 1 position had almost reached the point of running out of ammunition and food, so after the end of the shelling, they again organized their troops to launch a fierce attack on the mountain, due to the lack of ammunition, the soldiers were beaten by the enemy to retreat to the tunnel, and after replenishing the ammunition in the tunnel, before the enemy could gain a firm foothold in the position, the artillery fire of the volunteers came to support, and the continuous explosion sound came from the position.

After the bombardment, he led the fighters of two battle groups to kill and drove the enemy from the position again.

After two days of repeated tug-of-war, the mountain was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder, and the soldiers were covered in mud mixed with sweat and mud. I didn't drink a sip of water or eat a bite of food for two days and one night, but they encouraged each other, all of them talked and laughed, and some of them hummed the tunes of their hometown, and their emotions were active.

Xia Yuan picked up four hard steamed buns from the position, as excited as if he had picked up a baby, there were five people in the class, he was very nonsense to eat one, and the rest were one for each person, this was their meal for two days.

The six people sat in the dug trench, chatting about the affairs of the whole world, eating steamed buns, and talking about their famous hometown dishes, and the soldiers had a great appetite.

At dusk, the golden sunset sets on the mountain, casting a layer of glow over the hazy gunsmoke.

One of the soldiers held his gun, looked at the sky covered with golden clouds, and said, "It's beautiful." ”

Another soldier chewed on the hard steamed bun and said, "Yes, it's so beautiful, it's very much like the sky in our house, standing on the mountain and looking at the sky in the distance." ”

He thought of his hometown and his fellow villagers.

The glow fell on Xia Yuan's face, which had already been blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, and his arms were wrapped in bandages, he raised his head and looked at the dusk in front of him.

"It's a lot like winter back home."

During the Chinese New Year, facing the snow, the golden sun shines on the snow, this scene is so familiar.

The warriors looked fixedly at the golden dusk in front of them, and smiles appeared on their faces.

yes, it's a lot like winter back home.

One of the fighters said firmly: "We must hold our positions and hold our homes!" ”

It was getting dark, the artillery fire of the counterattack roared above their heads and flew towards the enemy's position, this was the artillery fire of their own people, the artillery fire that belonged to them, the soldiers who held on to the No. 1 position excitedly jumped out of the fortifications, set up machine guns on the top of the hill, and the comrades who covered the counterattack charged forward, the explosion of the grenade gradually moved forward, and the counterattacking troops drove the enemy out of the front position again.

The soldiers of the first platoon always held the No. 1 position, so that the counterattacking troops successfully recaptured the position, and in two days of fierce fighting, killed and wounded more than 900 enemies, and achieved a major victory.

After the enemy suffered a heavy blow, he quickly scraped together a part of his forces, and under the cover of artillery and aviation fire, he continued to carry out fierce counterattacks, and the counterattacking troops fought bloody battles with the enemy and stubbornly held on. And the pressure undoubtedly fell on Xia Yuan and Zeng Yunqing, the commander of the first company, who were holding the No. 1 position on the left flank of Beishan on the 537.7 heights, which was the enemy's key object of care, and was very unfavorable to the 'United Nations Army' in terms of geographical advantages and terrain, so they desperately wanted to fight for it.

As soon as the volunteer soldiers entered the position, it was like entering a sea of smoke and fire, and the enemy roared and rushed up again and again, and was beaten again and again by the soldiers who had only one squad left on the hill and rolled down the mountain like a wolf howl. A company of enemies rushed up again, and the company commander Zeng Yunqing raised his hand to throw a grenade and ejected it, and a bullet pierced his right wrist, and blood flowed. The right hand could not move, and it was very inconvenient to throw a grenade with the left hand, so he carried a blaster and pounced on the enemy, and when he was ten meters apart, he used all his strength to send it forward, and with a loud bang, the smoke screen was filled, and the blaster blew up a large number of enemies.

Zeng Yunqing quickly withdrew the fortifications, and one of the enemy's shells injured him again, and the soldiers cried for him to withdraw to the tunnel, Zeng Yunqing said: "I can still hold on, leave me alone, go and fight the enemy, you must hold your position!" ”

One by one, the warriors fought with tears in their eyes.

New changes were taking place on the position all the time, groups of enemies were annihilated, and the counterattacking troops also paid a considerable price, the company commander of the counterattacking force was sacrificed, and then the chief of the division who acted in command also died, and the situation was very urgent.

A fighter climbed into the tunnel, "The company commander died on the position, let's quickly prepare grenades ..."