Chapter 80: Striking the West
Wang Xiaoliang was collecting rainwater on the leaves, and when he heard the order to set off, he immediately closed the lid of the kettle, put it on his waist, carried the heavy machine gun on the ground, and walked to the top of the mountain.
The crowd lined up in a straight line along the steep mountain road.
Ma Da picked some wild vegetables from nowhere, put them in his mouth and chewed them, his mouth was full of green juice, and when he swallowed the wild vegetables, he had an uncomfortable expression on his face.
"Eat it too."
He gave some of the wild herbs in his hand to the people.
Xia Yuan took the wild vegetables in Ma Da's hand, dropped the soil from the roots, and then rubbed it on his body, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.
"How's it taste?"
Ma Da was smiling.
"It's dry and hard to swallow, this is a wild vegetable? Not grass? β
Swallowed into the stomach, the mouth is a little dry.
Wang Xiaoliang handed over the kettle, Xia Yuan was not polite, unscrewed it and took a sip, rinsed his mouth, and then swallowed it into his stomach.
"Of course it's a wild vegetable, it's delicious to cook, if you don't cook it, it will definitely be dry and unpalatable, and you won't die." Ma Da grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth, followed by the soil, and did not dislike it, and when he chewed the roots, he spit out the roots that were stained with the soil.
He did not eat in the morning or at noon, nor did he take food from the enemy, but only some wild vegetables, which he did not cook, but picked them and stuffed them into his mouth.
After eating a few wild vegetables, the emptiness in the stomach gradually disappeared partially, and everyone regained some strength, so it was really tiring to fight continuously, I couldn't eat enough, and the continuous fighting, the rain made them feel a little cold now, fortunately, the poncho was captured from the American army, not like the rain before, but the clothes on the body were soaked, and it was also very uncomfortable, especially for the wounded soldiers, the bandages had been soaked by the rain, and they were covering it, and it was estimated that it was going to be inflamed.
When going up the mountain, Xia Yuan thought about finding an opportunity to fight the enemy's transport route, but when he thought of the number of American troops in front of them, a sense of powerlessness rose in his heart.
If they really hit the transport routes of the American army and captured the supplies, they could not reach the front line of the 180th Division when the rear roads were blocked by the enemy, and they still had to give up most of the supplies.
That was the next policy, and now that reinforcements have arrived, it is the best policy to hold on to the 393.1 heights.
From the direction of the enemy's attack, they felt behind the enemy, in addition to the American troops who were picking up the corpses, there were six tanks parked on the position, American soldiers were building fortifications along the high ground, some American soldiers were cutting down trees and collecting local materials, and some American troops were loading sandbags.
"Xia Yuan, look!"
Instructor Shao put down the binoculars and pointed to them in the direction of ten o'clock.
Xia Yuan squinted and saw that there were two American captains standing on a slightly raised slope in the distance, one of the American captains was looking with a telescope, and he didn't notice Xia Yuan's people hiding behind them at all.
"The company commander of the U.S. army, two officers, not small, we will make a great contribution if we kill them."
Xia Yuan retracted his gaze.
"The company commander of the US army, Lao Xia, them, the tank is parked next to them, they haven't discovered us yet, this is our chance." Lao Yang lowered his voice and turned his head to look at Xia Yuan.
"No, there are too many enemies, and they will be discovered in the past, and they will not be able to pass."
Xia Yuan shook his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Instructor, let's divide into two groups. β
Instructor Shao said, "You say, listen to you." β
"Sound from east to west!"
The two heavy machine guns were raised to the east side of the position, and there were more rocks and bunkers on the east side, although they were not suitable for heavy machine gun shooting, but it was convenient for the soldiers to spread out in a roundabout way, and there were many bunkers, which made it easy for the enemy to lose their targets, and it was a very good position to strike east and west.
The terrain on the west side was flat, and Xia Yuan led Wu Ping and Lao Yang to attack the enemy's position from the west, blowing up the enemy's tanks and the bunkers and fortifications on the position.
"There are only three of us, and when the battle starts, the enemy has not discovered us, we must not shoot, unless the enemy finds us, we can shoot back."
Xia Yuan pressed the magazine loaded with bullets into the magazine, and said: "There is another point, you must give priority to protecting your own safety when you act, I am responsible for blowing up the enemy tank, and your task is to cover me!" β
Lao Yang said: "You also have to be careful, everyone can't live without you." β
Xia Yuan patted Lao Yang's shoulder and said, "Don't worry." β
He got out of the bunker, rolled into the impact point in front of him, stared at the American soldiers who were busy on the position, digging fortifications, repairing pillboxes, moving corpses, each busy, the hatch on the tank was open, and the tank crew sat on it, staring into the distance, not realizing that danger was coming.
"Be careful!"
"Don't worry!"
Xia Yuan made a thumbs-up gesture, crawled out from the ground, and when the enemy saw it, he immediately lay on the ground and acted as a corpse, in order to make himself look more like a corpse, he also took off the poncho on his body, wearing a poncho, which was easy for the enemy to mistake for the corpse of his own people.
When the enemy's eyes are turned away, immediately crawl on the ground.
The rain fell to the ground, and the sky was covered with black clouds, gloomy and terrible.
When Xia Yuan began to act, Instructor Shao and his people also spread out on the east side, set up machine guns, and stared at the American troops in the distance.
"Lao Chen, let's kill the foreign devil sitting on the tank first, can you hit it." Instructor Shao called Chen Lie and pointed to the foreign devils on the tank in the distance.
"I can hit!"
Chen Lie grabbed the gun and nodded emphatically.
"Knock them out!"
Instructor Shao immediately ordered.
"Yes!"
Chen Lie loaded the gun with bullets, aimed at the American soldiers on the Iron King Eight in the distance, hooked his fingers, snapped, the gunshots rang out, and the foreign devil also fell off the tank.
"Hit!" Instructor Shao gave an order, and the soldiers pulled the guns in their hands one after another, and vented the bullets to the enemy.
The position was full of swaying figures of the enemy, and they were suddenly attacked by volunteer soldiers, who panicked into the trenches and returned fire on them on the ground.
The tankmen moved faster, got into the tank, started the tank, and the rumbling black smoke spewed out of the tank exhaust pipe, and the muzzle turned, aiming to the east side.
Rumble!
The ground around the tank shook violently, a shell flew at a very fast speed, boom, the mountains were all in position, the gravel was broken, splashed everywhere, the thick smoke could not even suppress the raindrops, and the rain curtain shook like shredded paper.
"Fight and retreat!"
Instructor Shao poked his head out of the bunker, stared at the US troops who began to rush up in an orderly manner in the distance, and immediately ordered that their task was to attack the east and the west and contain the US troops, and naturally they could not go head-to-head with the US troops, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and the terrain on the east side was very conducive to their guerrilla attacks, and an orderly retreat would inevitably attract US troops.
Behind them, two heavy machine guns were mounted on the ridge, and the bullet chains were stuffed into magazines, ready at any moment.
"Take the front line! Use infantry as the first line of defense, and tanks as the second. β
The American captain stared at the Chinese in the distance, judging from the chaotic gunfire that the number of Chinese was not much, so he immediately organized people to attack to the east, and when the enemy's eyes on the position were attracted by a part of the soldiers led by the instructor in the east, Xia Yuan immediately rushed out of the bunker, rushed into the front trench at a fast speed, and jumped in.
An American soldier seemed to notice something, looked back, it was rainy, the position was black, and he didn't find anything, so he walked away quickly with his gun.
"The company commander has acted, let's start acting too!"
Lao Yang put away the gun and said to Wu Ping on the side.
The two jumped out of the bunker, and under the cover of Xia Yuan in front, they soon came to the trenches, and the number of American troops in the outer trenches was not large, and they were not found. Coupled with the chaotic gunfire in the east, the sudden appearance of Chinese made the American soldiers mistakenly think that they were trying to retake their positions, so they set up defenses in the east, and the tanks stopped behind the infantry.
In this way, if the Chinese dare to rush, they will die under their guns and guns.
As everyone knows, this is exactly what they planned.
"It's done, then it's up to the company commander to do what they do."
Everyone stared at the American troops in the distance.
After the US troops only occupied the forward positions, they stopped the pursuit, and these foreign devils are not stupid, the eastern terrain obviously has an advantage over the Chinese, leaving the position to fight with them, it is an unwise choice, their task is to hold the position.
"When the enemy rushes out, you have to make good use of the two heavy machine guns, and the enemy tanks are moving, then retreat immediately. If the enemy does not choose to charge, but only occupies the position, relying on the position to return fire on you, you only need to contain it, and if the tank does not leave, we will have a chance, and if the tank is gone, our chance will be small. β
Chen Lie recalled Xia Yuan's explanation and said: "Xia Yuan is like a god, and the US military can guess what he thinks. β
Ma Da knocked out the bullets, squatted down to change the bullets, and said, "Hey, don't say it, after Xia Yuan came to North Korea, he was obviously much smarter." β
"We are in front of the open ground, the enemy charge will only suffer heavy casualties, and it is not easy for tanks to attack in this rocky area, the slightest accidental overturn will be more troublesome, if I am the enemy's commander, I will also choose to hold the position, after all, our firepower gap is too big, attack, it will definitely not be able to attack, but they underestimate our target."
Instructor Shao accurately grasped what Xia Yuan thought, and ordered: "When saving ammunition, keep the frequency of shooting, don't be reckless, and protect yourself." β
"Yes!"
The fighters fired in an orderly manner, sometimes fiercely, sometimes gently. On the other hand, several light and heavy machine guns spat tongues of fire, bullets hit stones, broken stones flew everywhere, tank heavy guns roared, a shell fell directly in front of them, and air waves swept the gravel everywhere.
Fortunately, the soldiers were veterans, and when the enemy's barrel was aiming, they immediately changed their position.
"Ugh!"
Xia Yuan grabbed an American devil, covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and held the bayonet with the other hand, and inserted it into his neck, the American devil let out a whimper and fell to the ground without moving.
Lao Yang ran forward, grabbed the gun that had fallen on the ground, withdrew the magazine, and took the ammunition and grenade from his body and held it in his arms.
Wu Ping held the gun and stared cautiously around.
"Canned!"
After packing up the ammunition, Lao Yang grabbed the box in the arms of the foreign devil, opened it and looked at it, his face showed joy, there were seven boxes of canned food in the paper box, which were exactly the same as the cans he ate that night.
"The foreign devils can't wait, they think they have held their positions and start transporting supplies to the mountains."
Xia Yuan looked at the trench, there were about seven or eight such boxes, let go of the corpses, and used a bayonet to pry open the boxes, which were filled with canned food.
"Such a small amount of canned food is not enough for a foreign devil to eat." Lao Yang felt strange.
"These cans are rations for a class." Xia Yuan covered the canned food box and said: "Now is not the time to think about canned food, first blow up the foreign devil's tank, blow up the tank, and then we have a chance!" β
This group of foreign devils obviously believed that they had taken the position, and there were five tanks, and they confidently believed that the Chinese could not take their position, so after occupying the position, they immediately began to mobilize ammunition and food from the rear to prepare to build strong fortifications on the position.
"Company commander, someone is coming!"
Wu Ping ran over.
"Prepare for battle!" Xia Yuan immediately looked away from the can on the ground and clenched the bayonet in his hand.
The two foreign devils were cautiously approaching this side with their guns in their arms, and they heard the movement here, so they walked more cautiously.
Suddenly, two figures flew down from the trench, knocking them to the ground, and the steel helmet fell at once, colliding with the wet wall and the ground with a crisp sound, these two figures were Xia Yuan and Lao Yang.
Xia Yuan grabbed the bayonet and pressed the foreign devil under him, the other party's arms were stretched out, grabbing his arm, wanting to form a confrontation with him, so that the bayonet in Xia Yuan's hand could not fall
"Man, your power is too small!"
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The foreign devil's eyes widened, and with a snort, the bayonet with dirt pierced into his body, and the strength of resistance gradually softened.
Pulling out the bayonet, Xia Yuan got up, and saw that Lao Yang was still fighting with the foreign devil, so he immediately stepped forward and pressed the foreign devil, grabbed the bayonet and inserted it into the opponent's stomach, and pulled out the bayonet.
Lao Yang grabbed the bayonet and stabbed it several times until the other party was completely immobile.
"Let's go!"
Xia Yuan didn't talk nonsense, grabbed the gun on the ground, took them to the back of the foreign devils, and then stared at the American troops shooting in the distance, most of the American troops ran over, and there were not many American troops left on the position, and they hid in the trenches and couldn't see Xia Yuan and them.
Xia Yuan used the sound to distinguish the position, led the three of them to rush behind the enemy, pulled up a grenade and threw it out, the grenade exploded above the enemy's head, and the broken shrapnel pierced into the dirt and pierced into the body of the foreign devil in the trench.