The 180th Division's frontal battlefield artillery fire roared, and the only mountain artillery battalion was also pulled out, and the 539th Regiment was reinforced as the main attacker, and the pressure on the 539th Regiment was undoubtedly very great.

Don't talk about the 539th Regiment, the burden on the entire 180th Division is very heavy.

The commander of the 60th Army became the commander of the light pole, with only one division under his command, and faced the US Tenth Army, which was five or six times higher than his own strength, and the difficulties of this war can be imagined.

The sky shimmered.

A touch of the slanting sun fell at the mouth of the pit pointed by the 180th Division, and Deputy Division Commander Duan walked in, looked at Division Commander Zheng, who had not slept all night, and said, "Division, the sun is out." ”

Master Zheng's bloodshot eyes kept looking at the map, and when he heard the voice, he twisted his neck with a hint of numbness.

"The sun is out, it's a good sign, how is the situation on the lines?"

Deputy Division Commander Duan said: "The progress of the departments is slow. ”

Then.

The signal soldier put down the code in his hand and said: "Division commander, the first battalion and one company of the 538th Regiment have taken the 311 heights, 372 heights, and 343 heights on the south bank of the North Han River!" ”

This good news was undoubtedly encouraging, and the cadres of the division raised their heads one after another, and Chief of Staff Wang moved a small red flag on the map forward a little and said: "These three heights are an important offensive line in front of the 538th Regiment, and the defensive strength is about one battalion. ”

Division Commander Zheng had a smile on his face and said happily: "After a night of fighting, the first company has finally made a good omen, this sun is good, I know that all departments are very difficult, but now we have reached the critical stage of the fifth campaign, we must withstand the pressure on our bodies." ”

The 180th Division advanced the defense line of the US Tenth Army, with as many as 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and attacked the 50,000 or 60,000 troops of the US 10th Army with more than 10,000 infantry troops.

Such a collision is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Seventeenth.

The task of the 180th Division remains.

In order to complete the task last night, the casualties of the first company were huge, the 372 heights and 343 heights were defended by the second company, and the 311 heights were easy to defend and difficult to attack, so they were temporarily used as a resting place for the first company, and handed over to the first company to be deployed here, looking at the road below the mountain to prevent American reinforcements.

The road below is the famous Chuncheon Highway.

At this stage, Van Vleet believed that the United Nations forces could no longer retreat, or at least that the Chinese army could not hold out hope of victory, and he stressed that all units should give full play to their superiority in firepower, and that they should fight with steel and fire barriers in their defenses, and that they should not sacrifice their personnel.

At this time, the 60th Army had already assembled its forces and concentrated its main forces to launch an offensive in the direction of Chuncheon to Hongcheon, while only a powerful reconnaissance battle was launched on the western front.

On 18 May, a new order was issued to the 60th Army, and it was decided to transfer the 181st Division to the command of the 12th Army, and the 180th Division's assigned tasks remained unchanged. It was still along the Chuncheon Highway to Hongcheon to contain the frontal enemy and prevent the US 1st Marine Division and the US 7th Division from moving eastward.

In fact, the cadres of the 180th Division had already received this news, and the issuance of the transfer order still made people feel tight; from the 16th day, the order of the 179th Division had already been issued and it was under the command of the 15 th Army, but now the 181 st Division has been transferred away, and only the 180 th Division is completely left in the 60 th Army.

After a day and a night of counterattacks, the frontal enemy of the 180th Division retreated from Zhengping Mountain along the road to Hongcheon under the counterattack of the Volunteers, and the 180th Division had already exceeded the friendly troops of the enemy encircling and annihilating Hanxi by about 10 kilometers, and although the 63rd Army of the friendly neighbor had also crossed the North Han River, it was too far away from the 180th Division, resulting in only one 180th Division at the junction between the 19th Corps and the 3rd Corps. Therefore, after the two main divisions of the 179th and 181st main divisions moved to the eastern front in the operational sequence, the vacated operational area was all undertaken by the 180th Division.

Not long after the order was issued, a new order was issued.

It was still the established combat mission, and the 180th Division captured the Fasoli area north of the Hongchuan River, and the troops of the US 7th Division could not be aided from the east. In view of this situation, in order to achieve the operational intention and expand the results of the battle, Division Commander Zheng of the 180th Division ordered the two regiments of the first echelon to continue to attack south of the Hongcheon River and closely pursue the enemy in the direction of Chuncheon.

In the evening of the same day, the 539th Regiment crossed the Hongchuan River, and the 538th Regiment advanced to the area south of Duwudong and attacked from west to east.

The units of the 538th Regiment had already passed through the 311 Heights and continued to pursue, and the 1st Battalion and 1 Company remained on the 311 Heights, on the one hand, for recuperation, and on the other hand, to block the enemy.

The company that stayed on the mountain looked anxious, and even Xia Yuan thought that their follow-up battle would be to stay on the 311 heights, but he didn't expect the order from his superiors to come down soon.

Division.

At this time, the battle situation of the front line units of the 180th Division had been transmitted back to the division headquarters, and Division Commander Zheng looked through the information transmitted by the various divisions while checking the map.

"The enemy retreated to the red boat, and with heavy artillery fire, the positions of the 180th Division south of the Hongchuan River were blocked and fired, and each unit showed different casualties, and immediately reported this information to the corps!"

It is a taboo to give orders and commands privately in battle, and the corps must grasp the movements of various units and the enemy's movements in real time, and stand on the overall situation and issue operational orders to all units; every order will bring a certain amount of help to the immediate troops, and private command will lead to chaos on the battlefield and a chaotic situation, which is very undesirable in the movement warfare of large corps.

Don't say that you are a division commander, even if it is a military commander, you must not rashly issue combat orders, you must report to the corps and wait for the corps to give orders.

The Corps will convey the orders in turn, from the Corps to the military command, the military command to the division, the 60th Army only has one 180th Division left, and the military command has become the place where the order is transmitted, and the mobilized troops are transferred by the commander of the Zheng Division, and the commander of the 60th Army has undoubtedly become the commander of the light pole, and the transmission of orders and battlefield situation information on the 18th and before must go through the 60th Army Military Command, and the 180th Division reports to the superiors, and needs to be reported to the 60th Army Military Commander first, and the military commander then reports to the Corps.

Considering that there was only one infantry division left in the 60th Army at this time, the Third Corps issued the following order on the 19th: "The 180th Division will be transferred as the reserve of the Corps under the direct command of the Corps!" ”

The commander of the 60th Army directly became the commander of the light pole.

The information was quickly transmitted, and after more than half an hour, the Corps' order was finally issued, and the 60 th Army's combat command organ passed it on to the 180 th Division.

The signal soldier put down the code and said: "Division commander, the higher authorities have issued a new combat order!" ”

Division Commander Zheng immediately checked, "In view of the situation of the enemy's retreat, immediately search and advance in the direction of Jiuluan Mountain, Xiaozidong, and Tongguli with one battalion of the 538th Regiment and one battalion of the 539th Regiment, don't hesitate, move quickly!" ”

After receiving the order, Division Commander Zheng immediately came to the map to find Jiuluan Mountain, Xiaozidong and Tongguli, this area was the offensive position of the friendly and neighboring troops, and the 180th Division was about ten kilometers beyond the friendly and neighboring troops, which created a kind of step-like situation.

The enemy pursued by the friendly neighbor troops happened to be on the same front as the 180th Division, and it happened that the 180th Division's pursuit was blocked in the frontal area, so it was completely possible for the two regiments of the first echelon to separate one part and search and advance from the direction of Jiuluan Mountain, Xiaozidong, and Tongguli, so as to support the friendly neighbors and encircle and annihilate the enemy pursuing the enemy on the eastern front.

Inquiring about the intentions of the Corps, Division Commander Zheng immediately asked: "Which battalion of the 538th Regiment and the 53rd Regiment is closest to this position, immediately let them abandon their current established tasks and search in this direction!" ”

"The first battalion of the 538th Regiment and the second battalion of the 539th Regiment."

Division Commander Zheng immediately ordered: "These two battalions immediately march in the direction of Jiuluan Mountain, Xiaozidong and Tongguli to reinforce the enemy on the eastern front surrounded by friendly neighbors. ”

It was late at night, and the battalion headquarters issued a combat order, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies abandoned their respective positions and immediately marched in the direction of Jiuluan Mountain, Xiaozidong and Tongguli to reinforce the enemy on the eastern front to encircle and annihilate the enemy!

The order was issued, and the commander of the company quickly called a meeting of the platoon commanders of the first company, he put three stones on the ground, and said: "Here, it is the Jiuluan Mountain, Xiaozi Cave and Tongguli on the east side of us, this is also our goal, along the Chuncheon Highway all the way to the east, we can reach it, the battalion commander said, here is the enemy pursued by our friendly neighbors, we want to reinforce our friendly neighbors, and annihilate this enemy in the Tongguli area!" ”

Xia Yuan cautiously observed, and there was no specific movement of the 180th Division in his mind, but it was not difficult to see from the order that their first battalion had become a line with the pursuing troops of friendly neighbors, and the various units of the 180th Division on the front line were still struggling to pursue the enemy, and the American devils also began to become cunning during this period, they were waiting, and when the Volunteer Army's worship offensive was over, it was the time for them to counterattack.

From the 16th, the second phase of the Fifth Campaign, the counterattack, until the 23rd, the various units of our army began to run out of ammunition and food, and on the 24th and 25th, the Zhi Division ordered all units to begin to retreat one after another, leaving one part to block the enemy.

And now, the volunteer army is chasing the enemy and is happy, and all units are in a state of excitement for a great victory.

There was not the slightest foresight of the impending crisis.

After two battles of the three infantry companies of the first battalion, the various units suffered losses of varying degrees one after another, among which the company that served as the main attack task suffered the greatest casualties, and after three battles on the 311 heights, 372 heights, and 343 heights, the first company suffered more than 40 casualties, and during the time of recuperation on the 311 heights, the wounded have been sent to the field hospital to recuperate, and there are more than 80 soldiers who can continue to fight.

The casualties of the second and third companies were relatively small, and there were more than 100 people in each unit, and most of the tasks performed were blocking battles, providing time for the first company and other troops to fight.

Darkness covered the earth, a full moon hung in the sky, and the bright moonlight sprinkled large patches of silver on the ground, and the warriors could see their own shadows on the ground.

Company Commander Lei led the team to the assembly point, raised his head to look at the bright full moon in the sky, and said: "Today's moonlight is so bright, and you can see the mountains on the opposite side very clearly. ”

Instructor Shao: "The bright spot is good, so that our attack doesn't have to be dark." ”

The two chatted for a while, and talked about the attack on the night of the 16th, Xia Yuan's attack that night played a huge role, according to the soldiers present, a platoon commander shot a lot of American devils with a large eight grains, and those light and heavy machine guns that could be captured were also thanks to a platoon leader, he knocked out the bunker of foreign devils, so that the soldiers could break through the enemy's defense line without using Bazooka.

Shooting the devil in the bunker with the big eight grains was unheard of in previous battles, and even Chen Lie, who was quite good at marksmanship, could not do it to such an extent.

Company Commander Lei was very curious about how Xia Yuan's marksmanship had become so good, so he shouted, "Xia Yuan." ”

"Here!"

Xia Yuan was leading a platoon, and when he heard the words of the company commander, he immediately ran over.

"How do you practice marksmanship, do you have any tricks?"

Xia Yuan is now the soul of the company, a big eight grains are superb, can use the rifle of light infantry to knock out the enemy's bunker, which can provide great help to the company in the future battle, at least to reduce casualties, reduce ammunition consumption, especially Bazooka's rockets, Bazooka's rockets are very rare, they only got five rockets in a company, and when they hit the 311 heights, five rounds were consumed, and later they captured a lot of materials, especially light and heavy machine gunsThere were more than 20 of them, all of which were handed over to the Quartermaster Department, including American mortars, artillery shells, Bazooka and Bazooka rockets.

Xia Yuan thought for a while and said: "Company commander, the bullet trajectory of the submachine gun is different from the bullet trajectory of the rifle, the submachine gun is far away, and it can't hit people, so I want to change the rifle, the rifle has also been used, and I have fought a lot of reactionaries, and the training method is to figure it out by myself, just remember one thing, people can move, aim in front of him, there will always be a shot that will hit, and if you hit more, practice makes perfect." ”

This thing, if it weren't for the plug-in, he basically wouldn't want to catch up with Pinghe and Chen Lie, the two are very similar, they are very calm.

As for the skill, it is a little useful, but it is impossible to rely on this skill to achieve amazing marksmanship, marksmanship also needs to have a certain talent, many veterans may practice guns for a lifetime, and there is no talented recruit who can practice guns for a period of time.

Everyone wants to be a sniper, but a few can be a sniper.

Very few.

The technique of foresight in advance, as long as the veterans who have been on the battlefield, will basically understand some, especially in the period of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the army paid more attention to the individual skills of the volunteers, and the shooting skills were naturally a handful, and what Xia Yuan said was basically familiar to the soldiers, but he said it in more detail.