At the military headquarters of the 60th Army, Commander Wei was guarding the radio, and he was waiting for Commander Zheng of the 180th Division to report on the battle situation.

However, at the moment, the radio signal of the 180th Division is still silent, and it is not that there is no reaction to the situation, and if there is, it must also be a request for ammunition supply. However, the 180th Division has not urged this matter again, and the tasks assigned by the superiors are still being resolutely carried out, and the radio station has not replied, indicating that their actions are still in the plan of the leaders at present, and there is no change.

Commander Wei also knew that the current situation between the enemy and us was becoming clearer and clearer, not to mention that one division of the 180th Division was holding on, even if it was necessary to increase the strength of two more divisions on their positions, his anxiety about the war was getting more and more serious, and he still did not know what kind of difficulties the 180th Division was overcoming.

I'm so anxious.

Finally, after waiting patiently for an hour, Commander Wei couldn't help it anymore and said loudly to the signal soldier: "Give me the 180th Division, quick!" ”

At present, at the headquarters of the 180th Division, Division Commander Zheng also received the current battle situation of all units, the 539th Regiment crossed the Shaoyang River in accordance with the orders arranged by the superiors, and launched an attack on the Mochizuki-ri position of the US 7th Division, and the 538th Regiment attacked frontally with the 336.8 heights and continued to advance.

So far, the situation of the offensive of the various units is still under control, and he is also making careful arrangements.

He was discussing with Deputy Division Commander Duan the telegram sent back by the 539th Regiment and analyzing the enemy situation, and Deputy Division Commander Duan circled the current position of the 539th Regiment with a pencil and drew two lines dividing the enemy from us.

At this time, the phone rang, and the correspondent answered the phone and said to Division Commander Zheng: "Division commander, army commander's phone!" ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan also put down his pencil and listened attentively.

Division Commander Zheng picked up the phone, and the voice of the army commander came from the other side of the phone: "Old Zheng, how is the situation ahead now?" ”

Division Commander Zheng immediately replied: "Everything is progressing according to the scheduled plan, please rest assured, I will report immediately if there is any situation!" ”

This time, Division Commander Zheng did not ask the army commander again for supplies, he knew deep that the enemy had already blocked it like this, even if it was a centimeter, the logistics department would not be able to send the 180th Division here.

After Division Commander Zheng put down the phone, Deputy Division Commander Duan looked at the situation on the map, where the 539th Regiment was showing a prominent situation, and said: "The 539th Regiment is in a very dangerous situation now, these days when they are out of food, they still have to face such a powerful firepower from the enemy, and they are now holding on." ”

There was something in this, and Master Zheng heard it, and he asked, "Old Duan, what do you mean?" Say. ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan simply stopped beating around the bush and said, "My suggestion is to transfer the mountain artillery battalion up and reinforce them in terms of firepower." ”

Division Commander Zheng frowned and said, "Even if the mountain artillery battalion is really transferred, our firepower is just a small raindrop for the enemy, and even a small raindrop is not enough. ”

Division Commander Zheng replied like this, it is not an exaggeration at all, the mountain artillery battalion is only equipped with 24 mountain guns, the American-made M1 75 mm mountain guns, it is very troublesome to transport, everyone has to remove the wheels, and the gun body is dragged by horses.

It was not an easy task to transport these twenty-four mountain cannons across the Han River.

Of course, Division Commander Zheng also considered wanting to save ammunition, knowing that these 20 mountain guns were used to reinforce the 539th Regiment, and the effect was very small, so it was better to save ammunition so that he could use the mountain artillery to return fire at the enemy at a critical moment. If all the shells are used up in advance, then these mountain cannons will be a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron in future battles.

In addition, enemy planes frequently appeared, flying overhead one after another, and reconnaissance planes would also be dispatched to reconnoiter the activities of the volunteers, and once the direction was set, they would immediately bomb them.

The mountain artillery battalion, including the anti-aircraft machine guns, did not dare to fire frequently at a fixed point, and if they were accidentally discovered by a US reconnaissance plane, they would be subjected to intensive artillery fire, because they did not have an army aviation unit like the US army, nor did they have any form of air strike, so the US troops in front of the 539th Regiment were unscrupulous, and they lined up the artillery in a row and frantically vented their shells.

The 539th Regiment fought a difficult one.

The 538th Regiment was not much better.

At the most critical moment when the battle was raging, at 2 p.m., the radio of the military headquarters of the 60th Army received a top-secret telegram from Shiji.

When Commander Wei looked at it, it read: After the commander of the Volunteer Army and the party committee decided to study the current war, announced the end of the fifth campaign, and decided to transfer the whole army to the 38th parallel to assemble, and prepare to fight again after the troops are replenished!

This telegram was sent to each military headquarters of the Volunteer Army, so that all armies could prepare in advance, and then a telegram from the headquarters of the Third Corps was also sent, ordering that the three divisions of the 60th Army should be reorganized and that they should undertake the task of covering the transfer of the entire corps to the rear.

This order was issued from the 3rd Corps.

After reading it, Commander Wei felt that this order had to be completed immediately, and the difficulty was too great, so he looked at the location of the three divisions outlined on the map again, and the three divisions were scattered in various different places.

The deployment on a frontal distance of 100 kilometers, especially the 180th Division, was particularly unfavorable for completing the task of blocking the attack.

The actual situation on the battlefield was that the United Nations Army's large-scale counteroffensive had begun for two days, but the 180th Division was completely unaware of it and was still launching a resolute attack on the US troops. The 180th Division had advanced more than 100 kilometers from the 16th to the 21st of May, but because it was far from the rear, enemy planes bombed and blockaded, logistical supplies were interrupted, hunger began to threaten the troops, and the number of wounded increased sharply, but there was a lack of medicine.

However, the troops of the 180th Division still fought tenaciously, and no one flinched.

In order to prevent falling into passivity, Commander Wei drafted a telegram ordering the 179th Division, the 180th Division, and the 181st Division to stop the offensive and prepare to move north.

The units of the 180th Division continued to follow the orders of the General Corps during the day, began to attack to the south, and occupied the enemy's main positions, and the 538th Regiment took the 336.8 high ground as the center and advanced the battle line, but because the 2nd Battalion of the 538th Regiment was in the Tongguli area, there were only 3 battalions and 1 battalion, and the 1st Battalion that had experienced continuous movement warfare suffered many casualties, with only 30 people left in the 1st Battalion and 1st Company, and only 70 people in the 2nd and 3rd Companies, plus the battalion organs and machine gun companies, it could reach more than 300 people, and there were not many soldiers who could continue the battle.

The 539th Regiment occupied the Mochizuki-ri area, occupied the main position, and under the crisis of starvation and lack of ammunition, it completely crushed the enemy units that rushed up one after another under the enemy's dense artillery fire and continuous attacks, and held out until the evening of the 21st.

Night falls.

On a small high ground one kilometer south of the 336.8 heights, where a company was stationed, after a day of fighting, they only occupied one high ground, and about a dozen kilometers to the south, the enemy arranged a large number of bunkers and heavy firepower, relying only on one company, it was absolutely impossible to attack. They were only able to retreat.

The 2nd and 3rd Companies also occupied the east and west heights, so that the first battalion protruded forward, forming the avant-garde battalion of the 336.8 heights.

"It's the twenty-first day."

Xia Yuan almost crossed his fingers to live.

Ma Da's injury was not healed, his arm was wrapped in bandages, leaning in the trench, looking at the starry sky, and asking, "What is the 21st?" ”

Chen Lie also came over and listened curiously, Xia Yuan smiled: "Do you know the meaning of May 21." ”

"What does that mean?"

Chen Lie asked.

"I love you."

The two of them were confused, "I love you for anything." ”

"521, I love you, homonym." Xia Yuan leaned against the cold walls of the trench and said.

"521, I love you." Ma Da smiled hehe: "This means." ”

Before Chen Lie could figure it out, he muttered a few words in his mouth and understood, "You guys are so boring." ”

"Hahahaha!"

Xia Yuan smiled and thought back to the future world, in fact, the two worlds are quite good, there is no need to compare.

After all, the future world is a world spelled out by their ancestors, and they will definitely not let people touch the world they built by themselves.

After playing a homophonic stalk, Ma Da ran away with a smile, ran to Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao, and asked in a sly manner: "Company commander, instructor, do you know what day it is?" ”

"Isn't it May 21 today? What day? ”

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao asked suspiciously.

"I love you."

Marton Snitch laughed and ran away, leaving the confused company commander behind.

Instructor Shao smiled: "This guy ......"

Company Commander Lei laughed.

The atmosphere on the battlefield was a lot happier after Ma Da did this.

The grain search team led by Lao Yang came back, each holding a handful of wild vegetables in their hands, and the soldiers were full of happy smiles on their faces, and it seemed that they had gained a lot.

Lao Yang raised the wild vegetables in his hand and said, "I found a lot of wild vegetables, you have a good mouth tonight." ”

The warriors grinned: "What kind of mouth, is there white face?" ”

Lao Yang pouted: "What's delicious about white noodles, boil wild vegetables, sprinkle a handful of salt, then the taste is good." ”

He immediately beckoned the soldiers of the cooking class to start boiling wild vegetables, because they couldn't live at night, even if the pit could block the fire, but the smoke could not be blocked, but some time ago Xia Yuan demonstrated to them the smokeless stove, which allowed the soldiers of the cooking class to master a new skill.

The smokeless stove was dug quickly, the fire was lit, and the mouth of the stove was blocked, so that the fire was not easy to leak out, and the smoke also became very turbulent under the special method.

After the water boiled and the wild vegetables were thrown into the pot, Lao Yang took out a ball of paper from his arms and opened it carefully, revealing a white thing inside.

"Old Yang, what is this?"

A soldier asked curiously.

"Salt." Lao Yang said: "This is brought from the country, and I have been putting it on my body just to wait for this day, put salt on it, and this pot of wild vegetable soup will be delicious." ”

The captured boxes of canned food had already been sent back, and the soldiers were hungry, and when the salt was thrown into the pot, they seemed to smell the smell of food, even if the belt on their waists was tightened, their stomachs also issued a cry for urgent need for food, and many soldiers swallowed their saliva, stopped chatting, and squatted aside with their guns.

Even Xia Yuan felt a pang of hunger and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

He had long thought of the difficulty of the second stage of the fifth battle, but he never thought that it would be so difficult, and a penny of boiled wild vegetables turned out to be their best food at the moment.

Xia Yuan leaned against the wall, with a wry smile on his face, thought for a while, raised his head and looked at the American military position in the distance, thinking in his heart.

"Today is the 21st of May, and the second phase of the Fifth Campaign seems to be coming to an end, either today or tomorrow, and the 180th Division will be completely encircled."

"Maybe today may be the last chance, or the enemy will do it!"

Thinking about it, it was already time to eat there, and the soldiers used the empty cans that the United States used to hang on the wire to fill some wild vegetable soup, with the taste of salty lakes, and drank with relish, and a warm feeling flowed into their stomachs, and the soldiers only felt warm all over their bodies, and seemed to be full of strength.

Soon a bowl of hot wild vegetable soup was drunk by them, and the wild vegetables were eaten completely.

Lao Yang brought over a bowl and handed it to Xia Yuan: "Drink some, I'll give it to you." ”

His thoughts were interrupted, and Xia Yuan shook his head: "Lao Yang, I'm not hungry, give food to the soldiers who need it, I'll go to the company commander." ”

Xia Yuan, who had made up his mind, felt that he couldn't sit still tonight, otherwise he wouldn't have a chance in the future.

"You go and find it, find the company commander..."Lao Yang looked up at Xia Yuan's back: "Drink the soup first." ”

"Nope."

Xia Yuan walked quickly.

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao were observing the enemy's arming situation in front, looked at it with binoculars, and said, "It's strange, this US military camp is so lively, what are they preparing?" ”

"The enemy positions are brightly lit, cars come and go, will there be any more shells."

Instructor Shao observed with a telescope, the expression on his face became a little ugly, the enemy's position was more than ten kilometers away from them, and from a distance they could see that the sky over there was illuminated by the lights, and trucks were coming in and out, which was very unreasonable, the enemy in the past had gone into sleeping bags early to sleep, but tonight it was unusual, and he stayed up all night.

This situation is very unusual.

"Company commander, instructor."

Xia Yuan touched from behind and ran to the two of them.

"Xia Yuan came just now, you have a unique vision, you come to see what kind of battle the enemy is engaged in when he doesn't sleep at night." Instructor Shao handed the telescope to Xia Yuan and said.

Xia Yuan picked up the binoculars, made a symbolic observation, and had a general idea in his heart, which coincided with his plan, so he said: "Company commander, instructor, do you remember what I said when I was at the regiment headquarters?" The enemy is preparing for a big counterattack, it is estimated that this is hoarding shells, and tomorrow morning, when they will make a big counterattack, these shells and heavy fire may be used on the 336.8 height. ”

"What!"

The two were slightly startled.

"The U.S. military has money, they carry out a big counterattack, they will definitely not charge with infantry like us, they are like little devils, they generally open the way with artillery shells, they are richer than little devils, just by relying on artillery fire, they can flatten the hill by two meters."

Xia Yuan said matter-of-factly.

The two of them looked shocked and couldn't help but smack their tongues: "It's really such an exaggeration, use cannonballs to flatten the mountain by two meters." ”