Deputy Division Commander Duan picked up the written report on the table, "...... Two battle groups were formed with six people, two platoons of the enemy were annihilated, the commander of the C Company of the US Army was captured, two bunkers were blown up, and the interspersed mission was successfully completed. ”

He raised his head: "Divisional commander, how are you going to reward it." ”

"There are merits and demerits, let's talk about them separately, after all, everyone is not the Xia platoon commander, if they all learn from him to act on his own for merit, wouldn't this army be chaotic."

Division Commander Zheng knew in his heart, "Criticize first, criticize him for not abiding by discipline and acting without authorization, and he must be severely criticized, the discipline of the army is the most important, and he can't take the lead, otherwise the soldiers will all go to fight for credit, and who will still fight." ”

"That's right." Deputy Division Commander Duan said, "What about praise? ”

"Praise is naturally not less, after all, they have done such a big thing, of course, praise must also be praised fiercely, we must distinguish between merit and demerit, the two cannot be compared."

Division Commander Zheng said: "Go and draft a commendation order and send it to the 538th Regiment to criticize Xia Yuan's unauthorized actions, and at the same time highly affirm Xia Yuan's efforts to defeat the 336.8 Heights with the soldiers of the two combat groups, and appraise Zhou Xingyong, Yang Ziqing, Wu Ping, Ji Zhongning, and Han Peng as combat heroes. ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan said with a surprised expression, "In this way, will it have a bad impact on Xia Yuan." ”

"No, it won't." A smile appeared on Senior Commander Zheng's face: "Not only will it not, but it will arouse his heart of not admitting defeat, after all, the people who acted with him have rated the battle hero, but he himself didn't, if it were me, he would definitely be unwilling, and he must continue to work hard to show his superiors." ”

"Hahahaha."

Deputy Master Duan smiled, "Okay, I'll go and draft." ”

It took a while for the commendation order to come down, but the order was issued very quickly, the regimental headquarters was very close to the 336.8 height, and the order could be delivered in more than ten minutes, and when the order was received, the sky had already darkened, and the US troops stopped shelling.

This dusk seemed so calm.

Not far from the position of the 1st Battalion of the 538th Regiment, there were a battalion of troops of the US 10th Army, several tents, one of the largest tents in the middle, only one person in this big tent leaned on a chair, covered his face with a military cap, and there were three cans of beer on the table, which were open, I don't know if there were any more, he put his two feet on another chair, swinging leisurely, not seeing the severity and cruelty of the battlefield at all, as if he had come on vacation.

A soldier came in from outside the tent door and said to the swaying officer, "Major Rohr, the reconnaissance team has only returned seven people. ”

When the officer heard this, he suddenly stood up, his hat fell to the ground, and he didn't bother to pick it up. He is Major Rohr, the commander of the reinforced battalion of the 1st Marine Division of the US 10th Army, the former opponent of the 9th Corps, after the Battle of Changjin Lake, the 1st Marine Division was transferred to the rear to rest.

"Oh they had gone to God."

Major Rohr said inwardly, shook the three cans of beer on the table, all empty, and said: "I'll show me two later, besides, what's going on, the shelling in the afternoon is very long, it is said that they have long been finished, how many Chinese troops are there on the opposite side?" ”

"I don't know, Major Rohr, the person who came back said that there were a lot of Chinese soldiers on the other side." The soldier said.

"Idiot, I know there are a lot of people, I'm asking for the exact number."

Major Rohr scolded.

The soldier said: "I don't know, Major Rohr, these seven people of the reconnaissance team still ran back secretly after dark because they were killed in the collision, and the machine guns on the opposite side are very dense, and it can be judged from this point that they must be quite a few people." ”

The first battalion moved from Tongguli to the 336.8 heights, and captured a lot of light and heavy machine guns along the way, the light machine guns have been equipped to the squad, and the heavy machine guns are platoon and strong, but the number of bullets is not much, and Battalion Commander Li wants to use bluff to confuse the enemy.

Doing so may attract more firepower, but in the same way, the firepower on this side has increased, and the firepower of other lines has been relatively weakened, there is no way, the first battalion can no longer continue the next pursuit battle, and can only stay on the 336.8 heights to block, their weapons and equipment are quite luxurious, and there are a lot of American equipment in the woods in the rear, which can equip three ordinary companies.

In this regard, Major Rohr did not care at all, "We will add more 105 howitzers in the early hours of tomorrow morning, and before ten o'clock tomorrow morning, we will completely solve the frontal Chinese army." ”

Outside the tent, another soldier walked in, this is an American lieutenant, holding two beers in his hand, he came to bring him beer, he put the beer on the table, and said: "Major Rohr, reinforcements are about to arrive, Shangfeng wants us to take the position tomorrow, and the air force will have three planes to go to the opposite position to reconnoitre." ”

Major Rohr's confidence in victory grew again, and he said: "Hehe, that's great, tomorrow morning, at 7:40, we will start the first round of shelling!" ”

When the first battalion attacked the 336.8 heights, the US army did not fully grasp the exact strength of our army, and in the face of sudden attacks, the US army has always responded in a hurry, if it were not superior to the volunteers in weapons and equipment, I am afraid that it would be like the descendants of the sun, and it would be shattered at the first touch, and the five divisions of Syngman Rhee on the eastern front had been beaten to pieces, and only the US troops were resisting and retreating to the rear in an orderly manner.

In World War II, Germany had Italy, a pig teammate, and the U.S. military during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea had a South Korean Army, a pig teammate.

The seven people who came back from the reconnaissance team drew a sketch with their memory in the afternoon, and handed it to Luo Er for fun, this sketch was only marked with a few red circles, and there were a few volunteer soldiers guarding this position in this red circle, but there were not many troops.

Major Rohr looked at the picture with satisfaction, slipped it into his arms, put his military cap over his face again, and swung his legs on the chair again.

On the 336.8 heights, the units of the first battalion are digging trenches, and tonight, like the division headquarters, they have not rested all night, up and down, extremely nervous, and after the end of the small-scale attack of the American army during the day, even the artillery will not be fired, and anyone can see that this is the calm before the storm.

The sound of shoveling soil became one, and a row of soldiers Wang Xiaoliang was also digging at the door, 'oops', suddenly, he screamed, and the shovel shoveled a stone, shaking his tiger's mouth to a severe pain, he skimmed the sapper shovel, and smashed the position just now with the butt of the submachine gun, the temperature plummeted at night, the ground was frozen hard, and he smashed it a few times, but the soil did not fall much, but he was tired enough.

"It's too hard, I won't dig it, phew!" Wang Xiaoliang rubbed the tiger's mouth, panted, sat down and grabbed a small handful of fried noodles and stuffed it into his mouth, it couldn't be done.

On the position to his left, a man kicked him and said, "Little ghost, hurry up, you don't dig, you will stand here tomorrow morning and blow up your turtle son!" ”

When Wang Xiaoliang heard this, he was also a Sichuanese, so he said: "Which one are you, why do you kick Lao Tzu?" ”

The man turned his face around, and there was an unusually obvious black mole on the left side of his face, and said, "You little devil has no conscience, and I ambushed the last seven people in the afternoon, and I helped you." With that, he touched the Czech light machine gun behind him with a sapper shovel.

Wang Xiaoliang seemed to react and said, "Oh, in the end, a few American soldiers attacked me and the squad leader's position, and you helped us solve it." ”

With that, he stood up and shook the man's hand.

After Wang Xiaoliang was knocked down by the wave of grenades, Tan Zhanbiao was the only one left in their position at that time, and the two machine gunners of the second company saw the emergency here, hurriedly ran over, and set up machine guns at a distance in front and began to shoot, putting down the enemy.

Wang Xiaoliang said again: "It turns out that you are from the second company, we have met before, and I don't know your surname." ”

"My surname is Zheng."

The man said that he pointed to the black mole on his face again, and then said, "Everyone calls me Zheng Da Mole, Qingzhongren." ”

Wang Xiaoliang said: "Comrade Zheng, you and our division commander have the same surname, we are still fellow villagers, and we are all four people from Sichuan." ”

Zheng Da Mole said: "Why don't you dig it?" I'm telling you how to make it better. ”

After speaking, he grabbed the sapper shovel to demonstrate to Wang Xiaoliang, shoveled out a small hole in the low place, poked the sapper shovel into it, and pressed down hard, and the frozen hard soil on the top was pried, and a small piece of soil fell down.

Wang Xiaoliang seemed to understand, and digging according to the method taught to him by Zheng Dazhi was really much better than just now.

Everyone piled the shoveled soil on the bunker, and beat it tightly with shovels, and compacted and compacted the soil on it as much as possible, so that such a simple fortification could withstand some bullets at a critical moment.

Digging trenches is a very physically demanding thing, trenches must not only be dug deep, but also to prevent enemy shelling, and even dig anti-tank trenches if necessary, digging for more than an hour, the depth has almost reached the ideal position, in the middle of the earthwork, a loud voice shouted:

"Let's take a break."

The movement of shoveling soil gradually disappeared, some took off their hats and wiped the seawater on their faces, some sat on the ground and gasped, this labor intensity was indeed very great, originally fought a day, some companies have been fighting in motion, exhausted, now is the time when the human body needs sleep the most, but it is necessary to build fortifications in a hurry, some people sit down and do not want to get up, just want to sleep.

Some soldiers sat down and fell asleep on the ground with their guns, Commander Lei came over and woke them up again, Instructor Shao felt sorry for the soldiers, and said: "The rapid march went to Tongguli, and after two consecutive days of fighting, all the way to the 336.8 heights, just before they had time to catch their breath, they encountered the enemy, after a day of fighting to take the high ground, this has not rested, and they are going to start digging trenches, the soldiers are people after all, and they have not been killed by the enemy, but the body has collapsed first." ”

Company Commander Lei smiled bitterly and said, "It's easy to catch a cold when sleeping on the ground, so let them take out the futon, rest on the ground first, and pay attention to the vigilance at night." ”

Seeing that some soldiers fell asleep as soon as their buttocks hit the ground and tilted their heads, Company Commander Lei was also distressed, fighting is like this, sleeping in the open air, sometimes having to march and fight for several days in a row, and there is no time to rest at all.

Xia Yuan saw the company commander and instructor walking towards them from a distance, touched Ma Da and Chen Lie with his foot, then stood up and said hello: "Company commander, instructor." ”

Ma Da and Chen Lie were still sleeping, after all, they didn't have Xia Yuan's strong physical fitness and spirit, and after sitting on the ground, like other soldiers, they fell asleep next to the ground, and they slept very fast.

"Don't call them, let them rest well, but it's always a little bad to sit on the ground and sleep, spread out the bedding on your body to sleep, the enemy is not expected to touch it tonight, and there will be a fierce battle to fight tomorrow."

Company Commander Lei looked at the resting soldiers around him and said, "Also pay attention to the vigilance at night." ”

Xia Yuan nodded: "Company commander, don't worry, with me watching here, the enemy can't touch it." ”

"It's enough to have your words, Xia Yuan, you and Chen Lie's marksmanship are good, I won't say much about things on the battlefield." Instructor Shao said: "Eliminate the machine gunners and walkie-talkie liaison officers of foreign devils as much as possible." ”

"Understood."

Xia Yuan nodded, and said: "Company commander, instructor, after such a long time of rushing and fighting, the ammunition and dry food on the soldiers are consumed very quickly, and it may not last long, and we will face the situation of running out of food." ”

After a pause, he said: "This American devil fights and does not bring dry food, we have also eliminated a lot of foreign devils, and we have captured a lot of guns, but there are few bullets, and there is almost no food." ”

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao glanced at each other, they had thought about this problem, but this problem was not something they could solve, they had to find the regiment commander, or even the division commander, maybe they could solve it, and the logistics and materials were not something they could consider.

Company Commander Lei said: "I will respond to the higher authorities for the replenishment of materials, and the soldiers need to persist again." ”

He touched his grain bar and said, "I don't have much left, yes, when the food is gone, what will the soldiers eat." ”

The food problem is indeed a big problem, and the ancients said that before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. Without grain and grass, the army would have little combat effectiveness, not to mention carrying guns and cannons, running hundreds of kilometers and chasing the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles.

Xia Yuan had a plan in his heart, and he didn't know if the company commander and instructor would agree, he said: "Company commander, the battle situation on all fronts is relatively difficult now, even if there is food, we must definitely focus on the main force, and we must find a way to solve the food problem by ourselves." ”

"Do you have any solutions to the food problem?" Instructor Shao asked, since he went to the Korean battlefield, the platoon leader is very different from before.

"Night attack on U.S. positions."

Xia Yuan said, "The U.S. army does not bring food to the battlefield, they have figured out our logistical supply difficulties, a soldier can carry dry food for seven days at most, so they go to the battlefield without slacking off dry food, we can't get replenishment from them, after seven days, the food is eaten, the soldiers have to be hungry, hungry, there is no combat effectiveness." ”

"This is the opportunity for the U.S. military."