Chapter 84: The Final Battle
The wounded looked at each one with firm eyes, and after exchanging opinions, they wrapped a large number of grenades around their waists, and each one with a determined face, they were ready to fight the enemy until they died. The counterattack troops suffered heavy casualties, and the wounded in the tunnels spontaneously formed combat squads to fight desperately with the enemy on the position.
When their ammunition was gone, they looked at the enemy rushing up, and one of the wounded pulled the grenade on his body, rolled down the hill from the high ground, and in a fierce explosion, the blood-colored earth was raised high, and the aftermath of the explosion swept away the enemy beside him.
They used their lives to compose a mournful song, and their young lives dissipated in a huge roar.
The soldiers seemed to be ready to sacrifice for a long time, they faced the enemy, when they pulled the grenades on their bodies, they did not have the slightest fear and hesitation, and they pulled the grenades on their bodies very decisively, and they used their lives to resist the enemy's attacks wave after wave.
However, the enemy did not rest on their laurels, and their frenzied attacks began again.
On the No. 1 position, Zeng Yunqing was seriously injured and endured severe pain into the battle, but a piece of shrapnel injured his right eye, and his left eye was also covered by smoke and mud, and he couldn't see his five fingers when he stretched out his hand, so he relied on his two ears to look for the enemy, and after hearing the enemy's roar, he threw grenades and grenades.
The soldiers carried the company commander to the back of the position, but now that the battle is becoming more and more intense, one less person means that the enemy's chance of breaking through the position is increased by one point, not to mention that he is a party member and should rush to the front, he disregarded the soldiers' obstruction and arrived at the position again.
Let's try it soon, everyone. 】
The battle lasted until dawn, and only six fighters remained on position No. 1, three on the left flank and three on the right.
Zeng Yunqing touched a few grenades, supported the roots of the tree to the position, he lay behind the enemy's corpse, and instructed the soldier Yang Luchang: "The enemy will call me when they come up!" ”
When Yang Luchang saw the company commander's lips tense because of the pain all over his body, he was grieved and burst into tears.
The enemy came up again, but Yang Luchang did not tell Company Commander Zeng that he led another soldier to fight down.
The sky is getting brighter.
Zeng Yunqing and the soldiers lay on the position, the enemy at dawn, organized another attack, in this defensive battle, a shell broke Zeng Yunqing's stomach, he stood up stubbornly, threw the last grenade and died heroically.
Right wing.
When the battle was fierce, the No. 2 position was lost, Xia Yuan led the last two soldiers to rely on the trench to fight fiercely with the enemy, and when the bullets ran out, they smashed them with stones, smashed the enemy back, and quickly rushed out of the bunker to pick up the weapons and ammunition on the enemy's corpse, and quickly replenished their own ammunition.
"This group of foreign devils has been fighting for three days, and they will fight if they can't be defeated."
Hu Changdao wiped the dust off his face, except for his eyes, which were white, the others were black, and the continuous battle made all three of them injured, Hu Changdao's left arm was injured by shrapnel from the shell, and Xia Yuan's abdomen was pierced by the shell, and his body was dirty.
They have been holding on to their positions for several days, I don't know how many enemies they have repulsed, only a little steamed bun before, and the rest of the time is to survive strongly, in the face of the enemy's fierce attack, the three rely on their tenacious will to fight, and the enemy is repelled wave by wave.
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On the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, Hu Changdao lay on the bunker to observe, Xia Yuan and another soldier named Yang Shaowei rested in the trench, the ground of the trench was broken shrapnel in addition to the bullet casing, and the broken guns were scattered in the trench and buried by the soil, some exposed half of the gun body, and some exposed a gun handle.
The remains of the warriors were neatly placed in the cat's ear holes.
The air was filled with heavy gunsmoke, and the sky when you looked up was already obscured by the smoke.
Xia Yuan couldn't remember what day it was, it should be the seventeenth, it should also be the eighteenth, the No. 1 position is still firmly in their hands, and the people around them have come and changed a batch, just like the green leaves of spring turn into dead leaves and fall to the ground in autumn, and the spring of the next year is full of tender green leaves.
The sky again resounded with the sharp whistling of enemy shells, which bloomed all over the position.
The three of them hurriedly hid in the cat's ear hole, and waited until the enemy's artillery extended to the rear, accompanied by Xia Yuan's order, they rushed out of the cat's ear hole, and with the help of the guns and ammunition placed in the trench before, they quickly returned fire to the enemy, and the sound of machine gun gunfire echoed in the valley, and the sound of artillery was deafening.
When the enemy's artillery fire ended, our artillery rang out again, and blossomed everywhere at the front of the position.
The follow-up reinforcements did not come up again in the face of the enemy's artillery fire, and now they have entered the final pull of the 537.7 heights, and the soldiers who held on to the position have clearly felt that the enemy's offensive is not as good as one time, and from the very beginning they can organize the attack of battalion-level units, and now they are basically rushing up the hill one by one.
The soldiers knew that the enemy was running out of skills and was about to lose his hand, and the hope of victory was at hand.
From the 14th to the 20th, the 93rd Regiment of the 31st Division of the 12th Army and the 106th Regiment of the 34th Division were successively engaged in the battle. Under extremely difficult conditions, the 106th Regiment first fought hard with the enemy in the forward positions with small detachments and with the support of powerful artillery fire in depth, covering the main force to rush to repair tunnels and ground fortifications.
At the front of the No. 1 position, Xia Yuan led a squad of soldiers to fight the enemy, while the rear troops quickly built trenches, bomb craters, and cantonment tunnels.
After the tunnel was built, the soldiers relied on the cantonment tunnel to fight with the enemy, and the brutal battle lasted for several days, Xia Yuan suffered different degrees of gunshot wounds, and after being wounded, Xia Yuan still insisted on fighting on the front line.
He had already learned the time from a battalion commander of the 106th Regiment, and Xia Yuan had also realized that the battle in Shangganling was basically coming to an end, but he was no longer the one who had just entered Shangganling, he had found his own soul in Shangganling, his own Chinese soul.
On the 21st and 22nd, the 'United Nations Army' was no longer able to organize an attack with troops above the battalion level, and only made small attacks with a platoon to a company, and there were only small-scale battles in other areas of Shangganling.
25th.
A new round of scramble began, the enemy with poor skills organized the last scale of the attack, after repelling several enemy attacks, the enemy's artillery bombardment fell again, Xia Yuan led several remnants to stick to the No. 1 surface position, when the enemy's artillery fire covered over, Xia Yuan entered the bomb crater to cover Hu Changdao, unfortunately was hit by a shell, and passed out.
The soldiers looked at Xia Yuan who fell to the ground and let out a terrible scream.
Hu Changdao held Xia Yuan in his arms, crying and shouting: "Battalion commander, battalion commander, wake up." ”
A soldier wiped the tears from his face, tightened the wound on Xia Yuan's body with a bandage, and then probed Xia Yuan's neck and snort, shouting: "The battalion commander is still alive, the battalion commander is still alive, hurry up and send off the position!" ”
Hu Changdao put Xia Yuan on his back, turned around and said, "You hold the position, I'll go and carry the battalion commander down!" ”
Hu Changdao ran along the mountain ridge to the tunnel, and the soldiers who were organizing a counterattack saw Hu Changdao running down, and hurriedly surrounded him, and when he saw Xia Yuan, who was covered in blood, he was shocked, and Hu Changdao cried with a hideous face: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
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He ran all the way, surrounded by the soldiers into the tunnel, the soldiers behind him had scarlet bloodshot eyes, when some soldiers saw the seriously injured Shangganling soldiers, tears immediately flowed out of their eyes, the hero who had fought in Shangganling for more than a month fell, as if he had cut them in the heart.
For Hu Changdao, the moment Xia Yuan fell, the spiritual pillar in his heart also fell.
He rushed into the pit like crazy, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Hygienist! Hygienist! Where is the hygienist! ”
The movement alarmed the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 106th Regiment in the tunnel, who was discussing the battle plan, and he ran out quickly, and when he saw Xia Yuan, who was seriously injured and passed out, his expression froze suddenly, and he immediately pulled away the soldiers beside him and called the hygienist over.
Hu Changdao grabbed Xia Yuan's handsome black palm with trembling hands, he grabbed it hard, his whole body was trembling, and his tears kept rolling down like the mouth of a broken embankment.
"Guard... Students, battalions... How long... Shape? ”
He asked in a trembling voice, unable to speak.
The third battalion commander stroked Hu Changdao and said, "Camp Commander Xia has survived since the beginning of the battle, and this time it will be the same, he will be fine." ”
Hu Changdao's tears were still rolling down, he pursed his lips tightly, and his face turned pale.
The hygienist checked Xia Yuan's injuries and said, "Battalion commander, Camp Commander Xia's injuries are very serious, especially the head, and he must be sent to the hospital in the rear for treatment, judging from the current conditions of the tunnel......"
"Then send it to the rear, Captain Li Shi, you take a fighter from the combat group to escort the summer battalion commander!"
The third battalion commander quickly ordered, he looked at Xia Yuan lying in Hu Changdao's arms, and sighed in his heart: "What a good battalion commander." ”
From the start of the battle of Shangganling to the present, The summer battalion commander led people to fight from the 597.9 heights to the 537.7 heights, and more and more deeds about the summer battalion commander were passed to the rear, especially the troops who participated in the counterattack and then met the summer battalion commander, and the matter of seeing the summer battalion commander fighting was transmitted back to the rear, and all the soldiers understood that the high ground with the summer battalion commander was indestructible, the enemy could not take it, and the counterattack operation with the participation of the summer battalion commander could always end quickly, and he was like a torch illuminating the hearts of the soldiers participating in the counterattack and guiding them to a bright road.
After the summer battalion commander came to participate in the defense of the No. 1 position, the No. 1 position has been firmly in the hands of our army, and most of the wounded in the pit have come down from the position, and they tell the battle deeds of the summer battalion commander, and that kind of worship comes from the heart.
The news that the summer camp commander was seriously injured and unconscious soon spread to the tunnel, and the wounded people also wanted to come to see the summer camp leader, they were wrapped in bandages, their eyes contained tears, and they wept silently.
Hu Changdao trembled and said, "Third battalion commander, I want to be with the battalion commander." ”
The third battalion commander nodded.
The battle team soon set off, they took turns carrying Xia Yuan from the 537.7 heights, and soon came to the headquarters of the 106th Regiment in Wusheng Mountain, at this time the commander of the 106th Regiment was arranging troops through the intelligence sent from the front line, this is a man from Shandong, surnamed Zhao, who has fought Little Japan, fought liberation, and made great achievements.
Commander Zhao was discussing the recent battle with the political commissar, Commander Zhao smoked a cigarette, looked at the model map of the 537.7 highland in Shangganling, and said: "The offensive of the foreign devils has weakened, it is not as fierce as before, and they have also reached the point of exhaustion, it is estimated that it will not be long before this battle will end." ”
The political commissar nodded, and a smile appeared on his face: "Since the battle of Shangganling began, the enemy's offensive has become more and more fierce day by day, and after our artillery is in place, the third stage is opened, and the enemy's offensive is much worse than before, on the one hand, because it is winter, on the other hand, the enemy has been dragged down by us." ”
At this moment, there was a commotion outside, followed by hurried footsteps through the tunnel outside.
A correspondent hurriedly ran in, his eyes were red, and his voice trembled and said: "Regiment commander, political commissar, Xia... The summer camp commander was seriously injured and sent down, so go and have a look. ”
The two were taken aback, and the political commissar hurriedly asked, "Camp Chief Xia, is it Camp Chief Xia Yuan?" ”
The correspondent nodded anxiously, his eyes were red and full of tears, since the beginning of the battle of Shangganling, Xia Yuan's heroic deeds have spread in all armies and companies, especially the third stage of the counterattack, Xia Yuan took the soldiers to kill the No. 1 position, No. 8 position, and No. 2 position, and was made "unbeatable heroes" by the soldiers.
Many companies that did not participate in the Shangganling mission asked their superiors to fight, and if they wanted to participate in the Shangganling battle, they would also become a glorious hero like Xia Yuan.
Almost the entire corps, when it comes to the 'Shangganling God of War', no one doesn't know Xia Yuan. Not only ordinary soldiers worship Xia Yuan, but even some commanders and fighters worship Xia Yuan in their hearts, admiring his fighting spirit and individual ability, under his leadership, he has turned the 597.9 Heights into what the enemy calls the 'devil's position'.
And the news that Xia Yuan was seriously injured suddenly reached their ears, and the head of the Zhao regiment and the political commissar all changed color, and immediately asked where the camp commander Xia was, and learned that Xia Yuan had been sent to the rear hospital set up, so they hurried over.
When they came to the hospital in the rear, they found that it was surrounded by soldiers, three layers inside, and many wounded soldiers in addition to the guards, all of whom gathered in a tunnel, looking forward to it.