The instructor of the second company said: "This, what happened, how did such a big explosion come from the enemy's position. ”

A cadre at the battalion headquarters said: "Could it be that there was a fire, and the foreign devils set fire to the forest and burned to themselves." ”

"It's unlikely, if it was a misfire, the enemy would have been able to react at all, but this was clearly the result of the first explosion."

Company Commander Lei continued to look through the binoculars, and said, "The explosion is much quieter, and it is not as intense as when I first went up the mountain. ”

He turned his head and hurriedly asked the soldier beside him: "How long has the explosion lasted?" ”

The soldier said, "It will be ten minutes, at first the soldiers thought it was thunder in the distance, until there was a fire in the sky over there, and the big guy reacted, it was not the thunder of the rain, it was the enemy's side of the problem." ”

Instructor Shao pondered and suddenly raised his head: "Could it be related to Xia Yuan and Comrade Xiao Qin!?" They had been out scouting for hours, and it was almost dawn. ”

Everyone was a little stunned, thinking that it might have something to do with the two of them for a moment, but also thinking that it had nothing to do with them.

Battalion Commander Li said calmly: "This matter cannot be concluded so early, the artillery positions of the US army are tightly armed, we haven't even touched their positions, they may not be able to find them when they go, and they only have two people, how to complete the task of blowing up the enemy's artillery positions, this is unlikely to be completed." ”

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After thinking for a while, he said: "I need to wait until the two of them come back, ask them for the information of this outing, and then draw conclusions." ”

After a pause, he said: "Then again, if the location of the explosion is the enemy's artillery position, then the battle after dawn is beneficial to us, go back first, the regiment commander is following the third battalion towards our side, and we can arrive almost before dawn, it is estimated that at that time, Xia Yuan and Comrade Xiao Qin have also returned." ”

Commander Pang of the 538th Regiment followed the regimental headquarters and was rushing to the 336.8 Heights, and the three battalions were marching in front of them, and they were going to arrive at the 336.8 Heights at dawn to block the American troops who were trying to aid the east.

Nothing more than food, ammunition and medicine, which were the necessities that supplied the soldiers on the march to fight.

"The first battalion suffered the most casualties in the whole regiment, and medicine was very scarce, and there was not a lot of medicine left in the regiment, without medicine, the wounded could not be rescued, there was no food, the soldiers could only fight hungry, and there was not much ammunition."

These difficulties plagued Commander Pang all the time, looking for the army commander to ask for supplies, listening to the old Wang of the 539th Regiment said that he had already had to go through it once, and the division headquarters was also very miserable, and basically everything that could be taken out had already been taken out, and the difficulties could only be overcome by letting them find a way to overcome them.

This is a very nerve-wracking matter, where can food, medicine, and ammunition go, needless to say from the division commander, the old Wang of the 539th Regiment has already asked for it.

At the meeting, some cadres suggested that they could be captured from the enemy.

This proposal was rejected by Commander Pang: "The scale of the corps operation is huge, and the amount of materials captured from the enemy is limited, and it is simply impossible to supply all the troops. ”

The material problem has never been properly solved.

Just when the 538th Regiment rushed to the 336.8 heights, the commanders and fighters of the battalion headquarters of the 336.8 heights were stunned, just now, Xia Yuan and the scout Comrade Xiao Qin came back, as soon as Comrade Xiao Qin came in, he even forgot to salute, and told them excitedly that the enemy's artillery position had been blown up by them.

This news made them feel extremely shocked, they didn't expect that the enemy's artillery position was really blown up by Xia Yuan and Qin Shoutian.

It's hard to believe it, it's hard to believe it, a task that can't even be estimated to be completed by two people, who will believe it, but after listening to the narrative of the two, they feel even more incredible.

Not only did they enter the ravine, they probed the enemy's specific forces, but they even entered the enemy's artillery positions, and used the sound of grenades to detonate the enemy's gasoline barrels and shells, and successfully blew up the enemy's artillery positions.

But the two of them depicted all the processes and details so clearly that they had to believe that what they both said was true.

Battalion Commander Li was full of emotion: "It's really surprising, it is estimated that the foreign devils can't imagine that their artillery position was blown up, and it was only done by two people." ”

Everyone also sighed with emotion, how much it was hard to believe what they heard, but the details of what the two said were very detailed, and there was no way to make people not believe it, even if the whole process of the march was full of mystery, what passed through the enemy's minefield, passed through the enemy's sentry, hid under the enemy's searchlight, and the grenade was thrown more than a hundred meters away, and accurately landed on the enemy's gasoline barrel.

Everything is full of the uncanny and incredible.

But it is a fact that there was a huge explosion in the enemy's artillery position, and they all saw it, so it has to be believed that the two really blew up the enemy's artillery position.

"A battalion of the enemy, with tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, motorcycles, and firepower points on the hill and halfway up the mountain, is heavily defended on the front, mines are laid on the ground, and there are tanks, armored vehicles, and fortifications built with sandbags on the front, and it will definitely not be able to defeat them."

Xia Yuan said: "However, the enemy's artillery position was blown up by us, which will definitely have a certain impact on the next US attack." ”

Battalion Commander Li nodded, "The artillery position has been blown up, which will delay the attack of the US army to a certain extent, which is beneficial to us, and you two have made a great contribution." ”

Although blowing up artillery positions cannot affect the trend of the overall situation, the change to the first battalion is enormous, and the first battalion is already faced with a situation of being short of all kinds of supplies, and they are facing a regiment of US troops plus a battalion of US troops, and a division of the US army can be worth a corps of our army, and one regiment of theirs can be worth a division of our army.

The main reason for this is that the weapons and equipment possessed by the US military are too advanced, and our army can only rely on a strength higher than that of the US army to implement the strategy of division and encirclement.

It is to use more against less, to completely annihilate it.

And in the blocking war, it is often our army to fight with less to many.

Without artillery support, the US troops will lack the most effective means of striking at our positions, and perhaps they will be able to change the situation faced by the first battalion, which is of utmost importance, and as long as the 538th Regiment holds back the US troops coming to the aid of the east, it may be able to have some impact on the eastern front.

It was almost dawn, Xia Yuan, Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao came out of the battalion headquarters, and the hazy night sky had already shimmered in the extreme distance, and the inky clouds floating in the sky could be faintly seen.

"This time it was a beautiful job, the battalion commander and I didn't have much hope for your reconnaissance, but I didn't expect you to give us such a big surprise and blow up the enemy's artillery position, which is a great credit."

Company Commander Lei had a lingering smile on his face.

Instructor Shao also said: "The enemy's artillery positions were blown up, and when it was dawn, it was difficult for the enemy's artillery to do much damage to us." ”

Xia Yuan thought for a moment and said: "Company commander, instructor, I went to reconnoiter last night, and I didn't find the enemy's reinforcements, that is to say, the enemy's reinforcements are still on the way, and the enemy's artillery positions I blew up are only the American troops in front of us, and when the enemy's reinforcements come, they will also have artillery." ”

He wasn't just worried about that, he was worried about too many things.

Instructor Shao looked at Xia Yuan, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You have done a good job, what the next battle will be, it will all be handed over to God, I believe that we will definitely overcome difficulties and win this battle." ”

Xia Yuan looked at the company commander and the instructor, no matter how powerful the enemy they faced, the two of them always had the belief of victory on their faces.

He was looking at the 336.8 heights, a bright sun shone on the heights, like a hope to tear through the dark clouds, facing the bright sunshine, Xia Yuan threw away all the worries in his mind, the number of volunteer soldiers who died in the Korean battlefield is very large, and the volunteers are not gods, and there are countless situations facing defeats.

When they face a strong enemy, they will also worry, but after worrying, they still rush to the enemy with the idea of victory.

They don't even know if the battle will be won, they just know that the Motherland is behind them.

As early as the morning of 19 July, Li Qiwei, commander of the United Nations Forces, made a series of analyses and judgments on the basis of the reports of various units and the photographs sent back by the Air Force, and now the expectations of the front line have achieved his ideal results, indicating that the offensive has already worked, whether it is the western front, the central line, or the eastern front of the main offensive of the second stage of the Volunteer Army, the offensive of the Volunteer Army has obviously slowed down, and this is inseparable from the logistics of the Volunteer Army.

Due to the large-scale movement warfare of the volunteers, the food carried by the soldiers has been close to a week and is about to run out.

This was a huge opportunity for the United Nations forces, and Ridgway was about to start fighting back with all his might, chasing what he considered to be the poorest and most vulnerable team in the world. He proudly arranged for the US Tenth Army, the Ninth Army, and the Eighth Army to begin an all-out counterattack on the morning of 20 July.

In the second stage, Li Qiwei judged that the focus of the Volunteers' offensive might be on the central line, and with his arrangement, the frontal enemy strength of the 180th Division increased from 50,000 to 100,000.

The 180th Division is not only facing the major crisis of a sharp increase in the enemy's strength, but also, in order to resolutely carry out the offensive orders issued by its superiors, the 180th Division has been disconnected from its left and friendly neighbors in pursuit of the US troops, just like a 'convex' character. In addition, the 179th Division and the 181st Division were transferred to the east, resulting in the 181st Division, even if the whole division was lined up, it could not fill the vacancy in the middle line, and many areas showed a situation of no troops to hold on, which also laid the groundwork for the puppet 6th Division to penetrate and enter from the position of the junction of the 63rd Army and the 180th Division, go around behind the 180th Division, and intercept the retreat of the 180th Division.

At six o'clock in the morning of the 20th, the sky shimmered.

From the western front to the east, the 1st Cavalry Division launched a fierce attack on the positions of the 65th Army, the US 25th Division attacked the positions of the 64th Army head-on, the US 24th Division attacked the positions of the 63rd Army with the puppet 2nd Division, and the puppet 6th Division began to attack northward from the junction between the positions of the 180th Division and the 63rd Army, interspersed all the way.

Major Luo, who was in front of the 538th Regiment, came to the artillery position early, although the artillery position was blown up by the volunteers last night and lost a large number of shells and artillery, he also quickly contacted the rear to convey false information and let the rear airdrop a large amount of ammunition.

At the same time, a regiment of reinforcements arrived with ten 105mm howitzers, everything was ready again, Major Rohr took out the sketch drawn by the reconnaissance team yesterday from his bosom and gave it to an artillery second lieutenant, the artillery second lieutenant opened the drawing, looked at a few red circles on it, nodded to Major Rohr, the two looked at each other, smiled evilly, and ordered the four howitzers to adjust their positions.

In the distance, the roar came from far to near, and above their heads, dozens of planes appeared, very high and high away from them, but the roar was huge, and they inadvertently looked up, it was the B29 bomber of the US Air Force, Major Rohr unconsciously saluted the position of the plane with an American-style military salute, and the corners of his mouth cracked leisurely.

Winning the 336.8 heights, he is bound to win.

Soon, these bombers flew to the blocking position of the 1st Battalion of the 538th Regiment, and some fighters were awakened by the roar of these planes, and looked up to the sky with their hands covered their eyes, judging from the high ground that they were not here to bomb them, but flew straight over the positions they held and flew to the rear.

Xia Yuan squinted his bloodshot eyes, watching the group of planes disappear over their positions, heading towards the rear of the volunteers, and he could think of what they were going to do with his ass. This bomber group went to bomb and block the roads along the rear in order to cut off the supply lines in the rear of the volunteers. So much so that as soon as the battle began in the morning, it was discovered that the blood vessels connecting the front line and the rear had been cut off by them.

From the beginning of the war to the present, they have often flown enemy planes over their heads, and they have long been used to it.

The people who woke up, staring at these planes, had a lot of bloodshots, and their faces were very bad, from yesterday's last day to the last day when they woke up, they didn't rest for a few hours, they didn't check the number of planes or anything, they just stared blankly at the group of bombers that were going away, probably thinking, when can we have planes?

"Get up, check the weapons and ammunition, wake up the comrades next to you, cheer up, it's dawn, the enemy may attack at any time!"

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao stood up from the ground, their eyes were full of blood, their faces were gray and vicissitudes, their beards were tea-pulled, their eyes were sunken in their eye sockets, and their figures looked unusually thin and emaciated due to long-term malnutrition.