The difficulties faced by the regimental headquarters were very severe, the situation of the first battalion was not good, the situation of the second battalion and the third battalion was equally bad, and after fighting until now, who dared to say that their situation was good, let alone the problem of the defensive line faced by the first company, their problems also belonged to the problems of the first battalion.

The most critical point is that the fighters are hungry, and in the absence of ammunition, the first line of defense is deployed, and the grenades are almost lost, according to the statistics submitted by the companies, the grenades of the first company have been exhausted, and the grenades equipped by the fighters are currently pulled from the corpses of the enemy.

There was not a single grenade left in the second company, but many of them were captured from foreign devils.

There are still a dozen grenades left in the third company, and some grenades have also been captured from the US military.

There are still some anti-tank grenades left.

Battalion Commander Li was worried, his eyes were staring at the map, and his thoughts were fluttering: "How can you fight such a battle, and fight a bloody battle with the enemy?" ”

He didn't have a good way to deal with the next battle, and the only thing he could do was ask the regimental commander for help.

The battalion chief of staff also understood the difficulties they were facing at present, and after thinking about it, there was indeed no better way to defend on the spot and prevent the enemy from attacking north, for fear that the battalion would be wiped out.

The first company, on the high ground, packed up the already small amount of ammunition and loaded it all on the car, and more than 30 fighters carried guns on their backs, followed behind the truck, and began to chase the butt of the first battalion in the direction of Jiuluan Mountain and Tongguli.

"The second battalion has already launched a defense in Tonggu, we have to launch a defense in Jiuluan Mountain, if I die, the first company will be handed over to Xia Yuan to command, he will be a good company commander, at least better at leading troops to fight than me."

As if he was arranging the aftermath, Company Commander Lei said, "Lao Shao, when the time comes, you have to listen to Xia Yuan's opinion." ”

"Don't talk about those frustrating words, in case we don't die, we still hold our ground."

Instructor Shao scolded with a smile, took a deep breath, and his eyes were a little more solemn, maybe at that time, maybe he would also be sacrificed.

There are more than 100 people who went abroad to fight in a company, and now there are only more than 30 soldiers left, and his heart hurts.

It doesn't hurt, these soldiers have followed them all the way from the Liberation War to the bandits, and they have crossed one ditch after another, but they didn't expect to stay in a foreign country.

Xia Yuan drove the car, he couldn't see any expression on his face, maybe he would also die in this battle, the 180th Division has been fighting since the movement war, he is fighting with his life in every battle, he wants to use his own strength as much as possible to reduce the casualties of the troops, but he underestimated the war, the movement war of the real large corps is completely different from Shangganling, after all, the Shangganling period is already the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the logistics supply of the Volunteer Army has been basically perfected, the tunnel system has reached its peak, and the tunnel alone stretches for thousands of kilometers, The enemy's air force is already difficult to inflict casualties on our troops.

The actual situation was that the gap between the volunteers and the US army was too great to be suitable for carrying out large-scale corps movement warfare, and the reason why the first few campaigns were successful was also entirely MacArthur's arrogance, believing that China would not dare to send troops, and even if it did, it would not send many troops, and it would be 50,000 people to die, but in fact, there were already 260,000 volunteers in the first batch of volunteers who entered Korea to fight. The sudden attack caught the American troops by surprise.

In the first Battle of Yunshan, the U.S. army had already failed, but still did not learn a lesson, and went its own way, causing the 1st Marine Division to be almost completely annihilated, and forcibly beat itself from Yunshan to the 38th parallel.

After Ridgway took office, he learned the lessons of MacArthur and moved the situation back a little bit after only two battles, the great pursuit at the end of the fourth campaign, and the same at the end of the fifth campaign, even if the sixth campaign was carried out, the logistics support capability of the volunteer army was not solved, and the worship offensive was still the most fatal loophole of the volunteer army.

Therefore, after the Fifth Campaign, there was no large-scale corps movement warfare, but with light kraft candy, concentrating superior forces to attack the enemy's weak points, the target was Syngman Rhee's troops, all kinds of blitzkrieg battles, small-scale battles, the scale of which was rarely more than one regiment, the front line carried out piecemeal kraft candy, dug tunnels in the rear, hoarded materials, and began a positional war with tunnels as the backbone.

If you think about it, the battle at this stage is undoubtedly the hardest.

Lao Yang looked at Xia Yuan and asked: "What are you thinking, Lao Xia, I think your idea is very good, if you can blow up a few enemy cannons, then a few fewer shells will fall on our position, but the disparity in strength is too great, we are the number 30 people, we really want to make a fuss in the enemy station, it is estimated that no one will be able to come out." ”

After a pause, he said again: "I admire you a lot, you can take the platoon commander and the platoon commander Chen, as well as Liu Tiezhu to drive four truckloads of supplies from the enemy's station, in fact, I also want to follow you together." ”

Xia Yuan smiled bitterly, "Actually, I don't have much confidence in taking you into the enemy's garrison smoothly, you know, the fewer people who act, the less risk of exposure, on the contrary, the more people, the higher the risk of exposure, if so many of us are disguised as disgraced, we will definitely be suspected by the enemy." ”

Lao Yang pondered, "At least you did what none of us could do, these four truckloads of supplies came in time." ”

Looking up at the soldiers chasing slowly in front of him, he couldn't help but speed up his pace, "Only when you are full and have weapons can you fight the enemy, otherwise everything else is in vain, and besides, the canned food of foreign devils is really delicious, I haven't even tasted what to eat." ”

"The things made by foreign devils are actually not delicious, not as delicious as our Chinese food, and China has just been established."

Xia Yuan smiled and said, "Just look at it, when our country becomes strong in the future, there will be such rations." ”

Lao Yang looked longing, "I really hope that this day will come soon." ”

“???！

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The familiar sound of a whistle came from ahead, and they stopped and looked up to see two warriors running down the hill on one side.

Xia Yuan looked up, and Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao came over and said to him: "This is what our battalion left to pick us up, which means that the battalion headquarters is in front, let's go now." ”

"Company Commander Lei, Instructor Shao!"

The two scouts ran down, looked at the four trucks, and couldn't help but say, "We almost thought it was a foreign devil, but I didn't expect it to be you." ”

"Don't beat us up like foreign devils."

Company Commander Lei couldn't stop smiling on his face, patted the car body, and said, "Our company platoon commander has captured food, ammunition, and medicine. ”

"Really!? It's the battle hero of the platoon leader again!? ”

Xia Yuan was already a combat hero of the battalion headquarters after the battle on the 336.8 heights, and his affairs had long been on the "Soldier's Life Newspaper", and the 180th Division knew about it, especially the feat of leading the battalion scouts to blow up the enemy's artillery position, which was already well known.

The two scouts were a little excited, and one of the soldiers who was a little lower said: "Company Commander Lei, we heard Xiao Qin say that Platoon Commander Xia led him through the enemy's defense line, and the enemy couldn't see them at all, and he successfully blew up the enemy's artillery position, which is really powerful." ”

Company Commander Lei smiled: "Xia Yuan, Xia Yuan, come here." ”

"Company commander."

Xia Yuan was chatting with Lao Yang, and when he heard Xia Yuan shouting, he looked up.

"He's a platoon leader, Xia Yuan. These two are scouts at the battalion headquarters, Comrade Lao Li and Comrade Xiao Han. ”

Company Commander Lei said by name.

The eyes of the two scouts who looked at Xia Yuan became hot, and they saluted and greeted: "Platoon leader!" ”

They admired Xia Yuan, after all, few people could accomplish what he did.

Xia Yuan returned the salute and said, "Hello." ”

After a simple greeting, Company Commander Lei asked, "What about the battalion commander?" ”

"They're still ahead, about five kilometres away from us." Said the scout.

"Okay, then let's hurry up, in three hours, it will be dawn." Company Commander Lei looked at his watch, raised his head and said, "Comrades, let's continue to set off and catch up with the battalion commander." ”

They also need to take the road to bring back the four truckloads of supplies.

The two scouts took the first step to the battalion headquarters through the path to report to Battalion Commander Li.

When receiving the news that the company had caught up, Battalion Commander Li was walking at the tail of the team with the comrades of the organ, in addition to the comrades of the organ, there were also baggage, cannons and heavy machine guns captured from foreign devils, but there was no ammunition, but they were not willing to lose these things, especially those howitzers, if they could capture the matching shells, it would be a big killer, they were afraid of it, even if it dragged down the speed of the march, they had to drag it.

The howitzers were disassembled by the fighters into small parts, the heavy ones were pulled by horses, and the light ones were carried by people.

By the time the scouts caught up, they hadn't gone far.

"Battalion commander, Commander Lei, they are behind." Xiao Li said.

"It seems that they have already picked up Xia Yuan and are chasing us." The battalion chief of staff said: "Shall we stop and wait for them." ”

"It's important to hurry, they'll catch up." Battalion Commander Li said in a deep voice, and asked again: "Xiao Li, did they bring back any useful information or anything?" ”

"Yes, Company Commander Lei and they are driving a truck, and the truck is pulling a lot of supplies, and Company Commander Lei said that those materials include medicine, food, and ammunition."

Battalion Commander Li and the battalion chief of staff looked at each other with surprise on their faces.

"What you say is true? They drove back the truck? How many trucks are there. Battalion Commander Li asked hurriedly.

"There were four trucks, the trucks were full of supplies, all four trucks were stuffed with them, and they were on the road." Comrade Xiao Li continued: "Company Commander Lei said that those trucks were driven out of the enemy's garrison by a platoon leader, and the platoon commander was really powerful and could drive the enemy's trucks out. ”

Comrade Xiao Li's tone was full of envy and admiration.

This time it was the turn of Battalion Commander Li and the battalion chief of staff to be shocked, they listened in disbelief, and they looked at each other with a hint of disbelief.

"Comrade Xiao Li, do you know the consequences of lying about the military situation, if Lao Lei doesn't drive back four trucks, I will have to trouble you!"

Battalion Commander Li said with a straight face.

"Report to the battalion commander, what I said is true, and Lao Han can also testify!" Comrade Xiao Li immediately straightened his posture.

"Go and call Comrade Xiao Han over."

Li Yingzhan shouted, "No, I'm going to ask in person." ”

He took the comrades of the battalion headquarters to the reconnaissance squad and found Xiao Han, and after confirmation, what they said was true, and it was the turn of Battalion Commander Li and the comrades of the battalion headquarters to be shocked.

The battalion chief of staff had a look of disbelief on his face: "Four truckloads of supplies, one platoon commander, how did they drive the enemy's trucks out of the enemy's station." ”

"Hahahaha!" Battalion Commander Li was smiling: "No matter how it is prescribed, so many materials are enough to solve the urgent needs, the most important thing is medicine, the food is good, you can take local materials, there are not a lot of wild vegetables in the ravine, I have organized the comrades of the organ to find wild vegetables, but this medicine can not be found at any time, there is a lack of medicine, many wounded in the regiment are hard to carry, with this batch of medicines, you can alleviate the situation of the wounded, this is the most important." ”

After a while, Company Commander Lei and the others caught up, and Battalion Commander Li and the others had been waiting for a long time.

"Battalion commander!"

The soldiers of the first company stopped, and Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao jumped out of the car.

"Quick, let me see what you've captured!"

Battalion Commander Li hurriedly stepped forward with his people, looked at the four truckloads full of supplies, couldn't stop smiling on his face, and said 'good' several times, "You have made great contributions, and now the whole regiment is in short supply of materials, and these four trucks of materials can solve the urgent needs." ”

Company Commander Lei said: "Battalion commander, four truckloads of supplies, one cart is ammunition, one cart is canned food, and the other two trucks are all medicines. ”

Battalion Commander Li nodded and said: "The demand for medicine should be higher than the grain, the food is good, the soldiers can still delay the wild vegetables, gnaw the bark to relieve it, but they are injured, they can only carry it, many wounded soldiers in the regiment headquarters can only carry it because they have no medicine, and they have sacrificed a lot of wounded, and I will immediately organize comrades to send these medicines to the regiment headquarters." ”

Company Commander Lei said: "It's all arranged by the battalion commander." ”

Battalion Commander Li's eyes fell on Xia Yuan, Ma Da Man, Chen Lie and Liu Tiezhu, "The four of you really gave us a long face, you have seized so many materials, a great achievement, you will tell us how you drove the foreign devil's car later, not only I am curious, but the chief of staff is also curious, many comrades in the battalion headquarters are very curious." Terrible! Awesome! It is an honor for our army to have you! ”

"Report to the battalion commander, we just took advantage of the chaos to drive the enemy's car out, nothing powerful."

Xia Yuan is still very modest.

"Nothing great? If you change to someone else, it would be nice to be able to drive a car. ”

Battalion Commander Li said.

The battalion chief of staff said on the side: "Don't talk about opening up, it's still a question of whether you can touch it." You don't have to be modest, we will report this matter to the regimental headquarters, no, we should report to the division headquarters, the four truckloads of supplies are very important, we will send them back first. Lao Lei, your company must hold a ten-kilometer defensive line, and we have asked the direct team of the battalion headquarters to support your company and help you form a defensive line. ”

Company Commander Lei glanced at Xia Yuan and nodded heavily: "Yes!" ”