Chapter 35: Numbers in exchange for life

Xia Yuan said to Zhou Xingyong beside him: "Take your people to stay, we have to break through from this direction." ”

He raised his gun and aimed at the machine-gun bunker on the mountain that was spraying tongues of fire, knocked it out with one shot, and shouted: "Old horse, you take the people and withdraw!" Call Lao Chen! ”

Ma Da held a submachine gun and fired at the enemy on the mountain, shouting: "Lao Xia, you are back alive, do you hear!" ”

"Don't worry, you don't know what I'm capable of, get out of here!"

Xia Yuan tensed his nerves, and there was a scream of enemy shells cutting through the air above his head, which rumbled on the ground around them, and some unlucky soldiers were hit by enemy shells and lay on the ground silently, for fear that they would shout pain and disturb the morale of the army.

"Go and save people!"

Xia Yuan shouted to Zhou Xingyong, and then called the two soldiers to rush up the mountain, the enemy's machine gun bunker just moved, a bullet fired over, there was no movement in an instant, the enemy's artillery could not hit them for the time being, the situation here has been controlled, and it is only a matter of time before it is taken.

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao took other soldiers to immediately reinforce the front, but they had just bypassed the place where Xia Yuan and they stayed, and passed through a rocky ditch with different bumps, and their vision suddenly widened, and the soldiers did not hesitate, they rushed out of the rocky area with their guns, and encountered the American troops on a hill head-on, and as soon as the enemy's heavy machine gun rang out, Tan Zhanbiao's squad who led the way in front fell down three soldiers.

The enemy's artillery rang out again, and the roaring shells rained down on their ranks.

The U.S. army built a large number of fortifications and artillery positions in this area, and when Syngman Rhee's army was frantically fleeing and retreating, the U.S. army, under the leadership of Ridgway and Van Vliet, retreated in an orderly manner, and it did not look like it had been defeated and fled.

"Damn, there are still foreign devils here!"

Ma Da scolded and picked up his submachine gun to fire indiscriminately at the enemy, and a long chain of fire strafed at the anti-slope where he was hiding, and the rate of fire of the heavy machine gun was very fast, and it sank into the soil above his head, and the exploding dirt flew wildly, landing on his hat, and soon covered with a layer of dirt.

Ma Da shook his head and looked into the distance, the enemy had a large number of American troops stationed on this hill, there were three heavy machine guns, and the jet fire chain was like a long whip, even in this daytime, it was very clear that Tan Zhanbiao, who was in charge of acting as a sharp knife at the front, was directly suppressed by the enemy's fire and could not move.

The U.S. artillery shells continued to fall around them, and one after another the impact points were blown out, and the dirt and stones rolled up were a foot high.

"Lao Chen, Tan Zhanbiao was suppressed by foreign devils, can you defeat the machine gunner of foreign devils!?" Ma Da shouted at the top of his voice.

"Do you think I'm Lao Xia? Say knock it out, it's hard to get it off at such a distance. "Chen Lie's marksmanship is good, but good marksmanship does not mean that the enemy's machine gunners can be defeated from such a distance, they are four or five hundred meters away from the position of the foreign devils, this distance has to consider a lot of factors, it is not easy to knock it out.

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao saw from a distance that three or four soldiers in Tan Zhanbiao's squad were killed by the enemy's heavy machine guns, and Tan Zhanbiao was also suppressed on the ground by the enemy's heavy machine guns and could not move, and they were very anxious.

They do not have the ability to attack as strong as Xia Yuan, and the enemy occupies a favorable terrain, which has a huge suppression on them, and it is daytime at this time, and the battle situation is very unfavorable to them, and after a minute, the scouts sent by the battalion headquarters ran over: "Commander Lei, the second and third companies encountered the enemy's stubborn artillery bombardment, the enemy not only has mortars, but also howitzers, we heard the sound of 105 howitzers, and then the sound of 155 howitzers also appeared!" ”

"The foreign devils are rich, but they bomb us with artillery." The scout added, "The howitzer is like no money." ”

Listening to the continuous roar in the distance, the position of the impact point was very strange, and some fell in a place where there was no one at all, Instructor Shao said: "Lao Lei, listen, from the perspective of the density of shelling, the foreign devils are not planned to open artillery, the foreign devils found us, but we are divided into three groups, the enemy is not clear about our strength, we have come this way, the surrounding terrain is well understood, only this 336 high ground is located near the highway, and it is an easy to defend and difficult to attack terrain, we must break through the enemy on the mountain, Attack from the rear of the enemy and relieve the pressure on the second and third companies. ”

"That is, they don't know how many of us there are, they can only be suppressed by powerful firepower, you are right, we must quickly take down the front and this high point, since the foreign devils can be stationed at this high point, then we can go around behind the enemy through this high point."

Company Commander Lei condensed his voice and said to the scout beside him: "We need Xia Yuan, he is now pinned down by the enemy's platoon of troops in our rear, you go and tell him quickly, and let him return immediately after defeating the enemy's level." ”

"Yes!"

The scout left quickly.

Company Commander Lei said again: "But we can't do it here and consume the enemy, Ma Shunyao, Chen Lie, you come here,"

In the front, although the squad leader Tan Zhanbiao was suppressed by the enemy's heavy machine guns and could not move, his position was also good, and he could observe the enemy's deployment on the mountain, and he found that the enemy had more than three heavy machine guns to build up the fire points, and it seemed that there were several dark ones, he looked back, and the commander of the Lei company was talking to the second platoon commander and the third platoon commander, and it was estimated that he was planning to organize a strong attack.

This scene was seen by a soldier on the right, this soldier was a veteran of the first class, named Qiu Shitian, he held his Soviet-made Mosin Nagant rifle, and said: "Old Tan, I know how many firing points there are in front, I will go to explore the way, and when the soldiers in the back come up, you tell them the location of the enemy's firing points." ”

With that, he crawled forward on the ground, and the enemy saw him, and the bullets from the heavy machine gun whizzed over.

Wang Xiaoliang and Liu Tiezhu raised their heads and stared at Qiu Shitian's back, after so many battles, there were only four of them left.

Tan Zhanbiao immediately shouted: "You come back!" ”

"Old Tan, don't worry about me, I know it in my heart!"

Another string of enemy heavy machine-gun bullets puffed into the ground above his head, and Qiu Shitian had to climb down, his voice buzzing.

Tan Zhanbiao shouted: "You come back, you don't need to go, I'll go by myself!" Hurry up, obey orders! ”

As he spoke, there was a pause in the enemy's heavy machine gun bullets, and Qiu Shitian got up from the ground, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed out five or six meters away, rolling and jumping into a bullet point, and the sound came from the bullet point.

"Old Tan, look at it!"

At the point of impact, Qiu Shitian got up again and rushed towards the enemy on the mountain, he ran fast while shooting blindly, in fact, he had no target at all, just wanted to seduce the enemy's machine gun to hit him.

In a few seconds, the heavy machine gun of the US army made a crisp sound with a bang, and in the blink of an eye, Qiu Shitian's body was covered with blood holes, and the bullet did not enter his body, like a stone falling into a pool of water, the bullet hit his cotton clothes and body to pieces, Qiu Shitian did not fall down in ten seconds, he used Mosin Nagant to prop up the ground, hoping that Tan Zhanbiao could count how many machine guns the enemy was openly and secretly, front and back, left and right, as if the machine guns of the whole world were shooting at him, and his body was beaten to pieces, The internal organs were like watermelon juice, covered in blood, and blood was constantly spurting out from the mouth and nose.

"Count clearly, I count clearly!" Tan Zhanbiao cried and shouted, as if he heard Tan Zhanbiao's voice, Qiu Shitian couldn't hold it anymore and slammed it on the ground.

Tan Zhanbiao, Liu Tiezhu and Wang Xiaoliang had tears in their eyes, and all three of them counted clearly, counting how many machine guns the enemy had, and this number was exchanged for the veterans' own lives.

"Comrade, there are probably a few machine guns ahead!?"

A soldier crawled into Tan Zhanbiao's place.

Tan Zhanbiao wiped the tears from his face and said, "You guys are here, there are three machine guns in ambush on your right, just under that tree, hurry up and kill it!" ”

This soldier is a battalion to support the artillery of each company, they fought on the front line in Tongguli, captured a lot of American mortars and artillery shells, the commander of the first battalion knew that their next task was to attack the 336 heights, in order to have the ability to attack the fortification, he divided the artillery of the battalion headquarters evenly among the companies, and equipped several mortars and some mortar shells.

After getting the location of the US machine-gun fire point pointed out by Tan Zhanbiao, the soldier glanced at the position of his finger, and then waved the red flag pinned to his waist with his right hand and waved it a few times.

Woohoo!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The four mortars let out a crisp tremor, the shells flew through the air, and fell far away on the position of the US machine gun fire point, the dust on the ground was lifted into the air, the explosion caused a huge vibration on the ground, and easily knocked out a US fire point, the enemy has many fire points, a lot of them, but the mortar shells are limited.

"Well played!"

Tan Zhanbiao shouted, and pointed directly in front of them: "Directly in front of us, there is also a firepower point, fight, knock them out for me, and avenge my comrades-in-arms!" ”

The soldier still waved a small red flag to the rear, but this time there was no shelling

Tan Zhanbiao waited for a while, but didn't see the shelling, "What's the matter, open the cannon, it's just this one, hurry up." ”

The soldier waved the small red flag again, but there was still no movement, and the soldier put down the flag and scratched his head helplessly.

After a short pause, the commander of the Lei company ran to the rear artillery position to ask about the situation: "What's going on?" Keep firing! ”

One of the artillerymen said: "Company commander, the shells are out." ”

"What?" Company Commander Lei was stunned for a moment, and wondered: "Didn't you capture a lot of shells from the American devils before?" And what about those shells? ”

The artilleryman said: "Company commander, we have always been lightly armed when we received the order, and the marching speed is still tight, we only carry a small number of shells, and the baggage team has not yet kept up." ”

Company Commander Lei sighed helplessly.

The few explosions just now made the last machine gun crew even more annoyed, it kept roaring like crazy, and the enemy on the mountain kept firing, and Tan Zhanbiao, Wang Xiaoliang and Liu Tiezhu couldn't fight back at all.

Another group of people rushed over, they ran in front of Tan Zhanbiao, and the two soldiers behind them threw four grenades, the distance was limited, and they couldn't reach the other party's position at all, but using a little smoke from the grenades, this team of people immediately stood up and rushed forward.

Tan Zhanbiao shouted: "Liu Tiezhu, suppress the opponent's machine gunner!" ”

Liu Tiezhu patted Wang Xiaoliang: "It's our turn!" Damn, everyone is dead, and we're fighting the enemy! ”

As soon as the machine guns rang out on this side, the mortars on the other side rang out, and three shells fell around the two people, and shrapnel flew everywhere, so that they had to give up suppression and fall to the ground.

Tan Zhanbiao gritted his teeth and fired at the enemy's heavy machine gun, to no avail, as soon as the enemy's heavy machine gun rang out, the barrel of the gun swayed from side to side for a few turns, and several more fighters fell.

At this time, Niu Fengyang rushed up with people, and also carried two light machine guns, and also began to return fire, the soldiers in front were still running forward, the bullets on both sides were intertwined above their heads, and the swishing almost flew over their scalps, dangerous and dangerous, the soldiers were not intimidated, and under the cover of the soldiers behind them, they became more and more brave.

Under such a heroic and fearless charge, three more fighters were knocked down by enemy bullets, fortunately they did not hit the vital point, all hit the arm, at this moment they were getting closer and closer to the enemy's high ground, a wounded soldier rushed to the enemy's machine gun fire point, there are many corpses of American devils, and the Browning heavy machine gun left behind, he didn't say a word, endured the pain of the arm, picked up the Browning heavy machine gun of the American army, turned to the left rear, then pulled the trigger, suddenly, Continuously, like the last firing point of the enemy.

Because the firing range was very close, the sandbags built up by the American troops on the high ground were also punched out of small holes, and the sand flowed down in a hurry, and the American troops on it were suddenly strafed by machine guns, and they threw a few grenades down the mountain in a panic, feeling that they were getting fewer and fewer, and after throwing a few grenades, they abandoned their positions in a panic and retreated.

This made the attacking soldiers a little confused, they thought that the American army would defend this hill, but they didn't think that the soldiers would attack quickly, they threw a few grenades and ran away.

Suddenly, the last firing point of the American devils exploded, and a deafening roar spread through the open field, and gunpowder smoke billowed out.

"Up!" Tan Zhanbiao picked up his gun and rushed forward with a few soldiers, wanting to find out.

It turned out that the last American soldier threw a grenade into the mortar ammunition box before retreating, detonating the remaining three boxes, leaving not a single shell, and only three mortars and four corpses that they could not hold before leaving.

The fighters picked up their guns and continued to shoot at the place where the American devils had retreated, but they had already run far away.

The battle here was basically over, and Company Commander Lei couldn't hear the gunshots of Xia Yuan and their battle behind him, so while the soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield, he hurriedly grabbed the scout who had just run back and asked, "Where are Xia Yuan and them!" ”

The scout said, "Company commander, they're gone!" There was only one fighter left over there, looking at a pile of loot, cannons, machine guns, and shells! ”

"What!"

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao were shocked.

(End of chapter)