Thirteen fighters, if they want to hold the 393.1 heights, it is obviously impossible, the enemy's follow-up reinforcements have arrived, the next offensive will only increase, and the terrain of the positions they hold is not good, the enemy's tanks can drive up, the artillery can completely cover, the anticline is far from their position, that area is not suitable for defense.

"I became the company commander, the first platoon commander was Comrade Yang Ziqing, and the deputy platoon commander was Tan Zhanbiao.

Xia Yuan became a company commander, first held a company meeting, twelve soldiers sat in a circle, Wang Xiaoliang lay on the trench, staring at the bottom of the mountain with a gun, while listening to the content of their conversation, turning his head from time to time to look.

Tan Zhanbiao became the deputy platoon commander, and he saluted: "Yes!" Captain! ”

Xia Yuan nodded, and said: "Instructor, the soldiers who sacrificed, we can't forget them, the battlefield log must be recorded, the number of enemies killed by each soldier, and how each soldier sacrificed, we must take notes, and when the war is over, we will take the battlefield log to ask the superiors for merit and apply for them to become martyrs." ”

"This method is good, leave it to me, I have a memory of how each soldier died."

Instructor Shao nodded.

Xia Yuan glanced around, glanced at everyone, and said: "If the enemy attacks the position in a coordinated way, a single defense is bound to be unable to resist the enemy's attack, and it is a matter of time before the forward position is captured, and the casualties will be further expanded until all are sacrificed, and in the end, the position is not held, and all the people are sacrificed." ”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do next.

Instructor Shao said, "Xia Yuan, do you have any way?" ”

"There is a way, but the effect is not very great, and it can only be used a few times, and it will not work if you use it again."

Xia Yuan said.

"It's better to have something than nothing." Chen Lie said.

"Yes, it's better to have a way than no way, even if we hold on for half an hour longer, we can fight for half an hour for the rear to transfer." Instructor Shao also said.

"Avoid it! Just now the enemy's tanks have rushed to the position, then the enemy is bound to organize tank teams to attack the position again, and we lack heavy firepower, and there are only six anti-tank grenades left, these six will be used at a critical moment, and in the next battle, we need to avoid the enemy's tanks. ”

Xia Yuan had a simple plan in mind, he drew a circle on the ground and said, "Here, it represents our position. ”

A few lines are drawn on the front of the circle.

"Here, is the direction of the enemy's attack, the enemy's tanks are in the front, they can block the damage of bullets and grenades, so that the infantry in the rear does not need to suffer many casualties, once they attack the high ground, they will unfold, remember the few hiding pits we dug earlier?"

He drew a small circle on the sides of the lines on the front of the circle and said: "We attacked the enemy's tanks from the flank, and also attracted the enemy's infantry, if we set up two machine guns on the left and right, and wait for the enemy's tanks to move forward, the infantry in the rear will be exposed, and the crossfire on both sides will cause the greatest casualties on the enemy's infantry." ”

Everyone immediately understood Xia Yuan's plan.

Chen Lie said: "To avoid its edge, we don't need to block it in the front, we only need to block the enemy on the flank, as long as the enemy's tanks pass through our defense line, the enemy's infantry will be exposed, this method is good." ”

Instructor Shao added his own ideas on the basis of the original plan, "If we choose some better positions, then the enemy's tanks will not be able to support their infantry, this method is really good, but we can't divide the force into two forces, the enemy's next attack will only be more fierce, we have to twist into a rope." ”

"Twisting into a rope has the advantage of twisting into a rope, and dispersing has the advantage of dispersing, and if we disperse, the enemy will not be able to judge how many troops we have left, but on the contrary, it will be twisted into a rope, which is easy to be distinguished by the enemy."

Listening to Xia Yuan's words, everyone also felt that it made sense, once their forces were perceived by the enemy, they would inevitably suffer a devastating blow, on the contrary, if they maintained a hazy sense of strength, the enemy would not dare to attack with a larger force, because once they attacked with a larger force, it would inevitably cause greater casualties, which the US command could not afford.

After the tank attack to the enemy's position, plus the arrival of reinforcements in the rear, gave the opposing commander great confidence, tangled five tanks, a battalion of the enemy attacked the high ground, this time, the commander took coffee, stood in the camp tent set up in the rear, looked at the 393.1 high ground filled with gunpowder smoke in the distance, it was bound to take this high ground.

Just when the 393.1 Highland Battle was about to break out, the US 7th Division once again mobilized large-caliber heavy artillery to directly bombard the Tongguli defense line held by the 539th Regiment.

This kind of large-caliber heavy artillery bombardment is undoubtedly the most deadly, and you must know that due to the transfer of the 179th and 181st Divisions of the 60 th Army, only one division of the 60 th Army remains, and on 21 July, it received an order to retreat, and then ordered the 180 th Division to block the enemy on the spot and prevent the enemy from attacking north.

The 180th Division, which was already short of food and ammunition, suffered increasing casualties in continuous mobile warfare, the formation of various units was incomplete, the strength of the troops was lacking, and the defensive line of one company to hold one position was too extended, and even if it was separated, it was not enough to deploy in all directions, so that the strength of each blocked position was at most one platoon.

A platoon of dozens of people, how long can withstand the heavy artillery bombardment of the US army and the coordination of the infantry tank, the defenders of the volunteers on the high ground are fighting with the enemy in the artillery fire, the power of the heavy artillery is so terrifying, even if it is seven or eight meters away from the impact point, it will still be swept away by the air wave generated by the heavy artillery, and the shrapnel penetrates the body, even if it is hiding in the bomb crater, it will not be spared, and the bomb shelter crater will be blown up and collapsed, and it will completely become the grave of the volunteer soldiers.

And the volunteers at the center of gravity of the bullet impact point are even more flesh and blood, no bones remain, just shelling, so that the volunteer soldiers who hold the position suffer a devastating blow, but what they received is the order to defend on the spot and block the enemy's northern attack, which means that the plane did not give the order to retreat, they can only stay on the position like a nail, even if the position is occupied by the enemy, as long as there is one person who has to desperately recapture the position.

The volunteer soldiers, who were already short of food and ammunition, could only hold their guns and counter-charge the enemy who rushed up again and again, and the bullets were quickly exhausted, with the butts of the guns, with stones, the enemy was repulsed, and the heavy artillery roared again and fell on the position, and the volunteer soldiers without ammunition could only hold the stones and wait for the enemy's attack under the enemy's artillery fire.

However, what awaited was a more fierce attack from the enemy.

The enemy launched a group charge with a whole battalion of infantry, and the positions that the tanks could attack were deployed in tandem. All the means available to the volunteer soldiers were used, and under the continuous attack of the enemy, there was no time for the volunteer soldiers to breathe.

In the end, the first line of Tongguli was lost and quickly occupied by the enemy.

The temporary command post of the 539th Regiment had a solemn atmosphere.

There was only a small wooden square table in the room, and the shelling of the US troops continued to fall around the temporary station, and the small square table could not stop shaking, and the four legs of the small square table were stuck in the mud, which still shook the small square table from side to side, and several pencils on the small square table were about to fall to the ground.

Political Commissar Han immediately put the pencil in his hands and said to Commander Wang: "Old Wang, tell the division commander that Tongguli has been lost." ”

Commander Wang sighed and said, "Can you take it back by organizing another counterattack?" ”

Commissar Han's eyes looked at Commander Wang, without words, and after a while, Commissar Han picked up the phone and called: "Hey, division commander?" I'm the 539th Regiment Han **, and now I have very bad news to report to you, division commander. ”

Master Zheng said with a stern expression: "Old Han, if there is anything, you can just say it." ”

Political Commissar Han said truthfully: "Just now, Tongguli was occupied, but the Jiuluan Mountain held by the 538th Regiment is still in our hands. ”

Division Commander Zheng said on the other side of the phone: "Your response is very timely, and the division will make another deployment." But now I ask you of the 539th Regiment to concentrate your attention and hold the position of Jiuluan Mountain, which the 1st Battalion of the 538th Regiment is holding. ”

Originally, Political Commissar Han and Regiment Commander Wang were ready to be criticized by the division commander, but now the division commander did not say a word about them.

Not to mention the two of them, the whole division is well aware of the current situation, and it is not easy to hold on to this role, and the defense line in Tongguli is not unjust, after all, they are facing the attack of two divisions of the US army.

Political Commissar Han said: "Please rest assured, I will arrange it immediately!" ”

The phone hung up, and Commissar Han said, "Lao Wang, you also heard it." ”

Commander Wang nodded, his eyes fell on the map of the small square table, and said: "The second battalion of the 538th Regiment was originally in Tongguli, and then continued to retreat backwards, and the first battalion was left by the 538th Regiment to hold on to Jiuluan Mountain in the process of retreating backwards, which solved our troubles, but after the battle on the 336.8 heights, the casualties of the first battalion were very serious, after all, they were transferred to Tongguli, and then to the 336,8 heights, and the continuous movement warfare also caused the first battalion to suffer heavy casualties. ”

Political Commissar Han said: "Indeed, now the division commander has asked us to stick to Jiuluan Mountain, which shows that Jiuluan Mountain is still in the hands of our army, and the first battalion is worthy of being the vanguard battalion of the 538th Regiment, and it has made great achievements." ”

"Don't say much, get ready."

Commander Wang and Political Commissar Han discussed again and again and decided to adjust the troops and increase the number of troops in the direction of Jiuluan Mountain.

Regiment Commander Wang stretched out his hand to support the small square table that was constantly shaken by the artillery fire, and said: "Put the 60 mortars of the machine gun company on it and beat these grandsons hard!" ”

Bukhan River!

Another US P51 reconnaissance fighter flew over the Volunteer Army, equipped with a reconnaissance camera in its belly, accelerated over the Bukhan River, and then climbed to a high altitude to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance. After flying forward for some distance, the pilot in the cabin looked down, he saw a long line of movement, he didn't dare to fly low, for fear of being discovered, so he shouted with the walkie-talkie: "The aerial photography is over, return!" ”

Then, circling over the team, it disappeared into the clouds.

The set of pictures taken by the US military reconnaissance plane just now was on the march of the 39 th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers.

The 39th Army was originally used as a reserve for the 3rd Corps, but Shiji was worried that the troops on the front line would be too crowded on the way to and from the front, so in order to avoid confusion, he ordered the 39th Army to move in advance on the evening of the 21st in order to make way for the returning troops.

The 180th Division received an order to retreat on the evening of the 21st, and the order to retreat suddenly turned into an order to defend on the spot and block the enemy's northward attack, probably because the 39th Army was still retreating, and if the 180th Division retreated, the rear of the 3rd Corps would be in chaos.

They are all retreating, and no one is left to stop the attack, and the consequences are unimaginable.

The safety of the 180th Division was ordered in danger.

Jiuluan Mountain, lofty mountains, mountains and mountains, misty and rainy.

Mist rises in the mountains.

Black smoke billowed over the mountains, and the rumbling sound echoed and rotated between the mountains, and the earth-shattering sound shattered the impact of the rain curtain.

393.1 The high ground was a scorched earth, most of the crooked bunker fortifications were destroyed by the enemy, the shells and howitzers fell on the high ground, exploded with a bang, threw the soil high, and the shock wave spread out more than ten meters away, and the large-caliber shells seemed to tear the sky and the earth apart, tearing the mountain to pieces, and even the hard rock turned into powder under such bombardment.

On both sides of the mountain, the vegetation is relatively dense, the forest is lush, accompanied by the bombardment, the shaking of the mountain, the leaves and grass sway from side to side, and the large droplets accumulated on the leaves and weeds crackle and smash to the ground, falling on the gray figures hidden in the middle.

The Type 50 military uniform was covered with mud and gunsmoke, and the only thirteen remaining people on the position had been hidden on the flank, and from a distance, I saw a battalion of US troops attacking the 393.1 heights, and the strength of a battalion of US troops was far above the volunteers.

Ma Da scolded: "MLGB, this group of little cubs is really not giving up, a company can't be defeated, so a battalion is sent, and the number of tanks has increased directly to five, if we withdraw from the position later, it is estimated that those shells will fall on us at this time." ”

Instructor Shao squinted, observed with a telescope, and said, "Xia Yuan's judgment is right, the strength of the US army has really increased. ”

"If that's the case, what if we can't defeat the enemy once the enemy takes the position?"

The worry in Lao Yang's heart was not out of nowhere, the enemy had so many troops, and they only had one squad of soldiers, if the enemy really took the position, it would not be easy to fight back, not to mention that at that time, the enemy's tanks had already been driven.

"We'll take it!"

Xia Yuan's eyes were firm, and he began to arrange the arrangement, the remaining heavy machine gun bullets in the company were not much, and two heavy machine guns were arranged behind them, responsible for fire cover and fire support when retreating.

The rest spread out in battle formation.

Xia Yuan picked up the big eight, aimed at the American soldiers who were hiding behind the walkie-talkie in the distance, and pulled the trigger.