But it said northwest.

The direction of the breakthrough of the 180th Division.

538th Regiment Headquarters.

Commander Pang used to be a big man of 1.8 meters with a red face, but now, like the soldiers, he has a sallow complexion and a lot of weight loss.

"Regiment commander, Sun Zhaoguang, the commander of the fourth company of the second battalion, they are all gone."

"I see."

"Regiment commander, Company Commander Qiao Yanhu fought hard with his beloved in the fifth company, and the enemy tanks were reimbursed."

Head Pang asked, "What about Old Qiao and them?" ”

"All sacrificed."

Every time Commander Pang heard such news, his heart was like a knife stabbed, and he was so uncomfortable that he couldn't breathe.

Since the 180th Division began to decide to break through, their 538th Regiment has served as the pioneer, and one of the three infantry regiments must take the initiative to dedicate itself to large casualties in exchange for small casualties of large troops, which is very similar to the 7th Interspersed Company, and the 538th Regiment is to use its own flesh and blood and life to fight a road for the 180th Division.

At this time, the chief of staff of the Hu regiment came back with two bundles of telephone wires in his hand, and he said to the regiment commander Pang: "Regiment commander, even if you can't be a telephone line, you can throw grenades farther." ”

Commander Pang asked eagerly: "Eagle Peak's opening can't be torn open, and our entire division will die here, what should we do?" ”

A company of the 540th Regiment that had previously left in Eagle Peak had already coexisted with the position, and it had been too long, and a company could withstand several rounds of brutal attacks from a division of the US Army? No food, no ammunition, no personnel.

Xia Yuan led the Seventh Company to hold out for almost a day, except for him, the whole company died, how long could they hold on to Eagle Peak? It didn't last long, Eagle Peak was lost, and the American troops occupied Eagle Peak and formed a defensive line along the road.

The 538th Regiment, as the vanguard of opening the way, must open this line of defense in a short period of time, and in the rear, the US army's pursuing troops are nervously catching up, and once they catch up, the 180th Division will be in danger.

Commander Pang couldn't help it, picked up the Czech style that he had been carrying with him since the breakthrough, and was about to take Lao Hu to the front line.

"Regiment commander, I haven't finished my words yet, some people in the second battalion have knocked out seven tanks, and now a small opening has been opened, and we are sure that we can control it at present, while the enemy has not found out, let's quickly take the troops out of the army."

Chief of Staff Hu said quickly.

The solemn expression on Head Pang's face stretched, "Okay, good!" I want to reward them for breaking through, these comrades are all good! ”

Chief of Staff Hu took a shell gun, gestured towards the company behind, signaled everyone to follow, and said while following Commander Pang: "Yes, these young men can really fight, there are many soldiers who are very tenacious, not afraid of sacrifice, and rush forward vigorously, they are all good, they are all our good comrades!" ”

After paying the price of huge casualties, the 538th Regiment successfully tore a small hole, and Regiment Commander Pang led all his troops to drill into the hole immediately.

At this time, the six tanks of the US 10th Army's Niuman Elite Task Force, plus some of the personnel of the 1st Marine Regiment who came over, seemed to smell the intention of the 538th Regiment and wanted to intervene in one by one.

Guarding the buckle were the soldiers of the third battalion and eight companies, who found the enemy on the road, and the number of such an enemy far exceeded them by dozens of times. The commander of the eighth company gathered everyone together:

"Comrades, the main force is rushing outside the encirclement, which is related to whether our 180th Division can break out of the encirclement and not let this enemy discover our main force."

"The time has come when the motherland needs us, don't be afraid, wait a minute, I will still be your company commander, we are still brothers, let's fight the little devils, the reactionaries, and the American devils together."

The warriors were half-squatting on the ground, the butts of their guns were on the ground, their hands were tightly gripped, their faces under their hats were green, and their eyes were bright, revealing ferocity and murder that did not fit their age.

In order to prevent the enemy from discovering that the main force of the regiment was drilling outside, the brothers of the 8th Company were fearless in the face of several times the enemy, and with an order, machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, and grenades greeted the enemy together.

The ammunition carried by the soldiers of the Eighth Company is simply not enough to fight a blocking battle, not to mention that this is the US military strength of a marine regiment, plus artillery, tanks, and mobile troops deployed by mechanized troops, but even if they know that they are not enough to fight, the soldiers still unswervingly follow the instructions of the company commander to block the enemy who comes over.

Two comrades with good marksmanship first ambushed the Soviet-made water rifles at the nearest firing range and hit the fuel tanks in front of two US motorcycles.

What I didn't expect was that the ground tank ignored the motorized infantry in front, increased the throttle to crash through the paralyzed tank, and ran forward vigorously.

The fighters were a little flustered, the ferocity of the enemy was beyond expectations, the tanks were ramming along the road, and the ground was shaking.

"The more crazy the enemy is, the less we can let them succeed!"

The commander of the Eighth Company shouted: "Comrades, after fighting for so long and killing a lot of American devils, it is enough, it is time for our Eighth Company to dedicate itself, and we can't embarrass our regiment commander!" ”

"Hahahaha! When we get there, it's time for comrades to digest that we are the bearest in the whole group! ”

"Okay, let's not talk about it, get on the bayonet, drag these for a minute, and we'll buy them a minute."

The trumpeter blew the trumpet.

At the moment when the horn sounded, all the men of the Eighth Company, together with the stretcher bearers, the hygienists, the men, and the two gun store keepers, jumped out of different bunkers with the soldiers and rushed to the road.

After the group that rushed to the front was strafed by the tank's machine gun, the tank ran over the body of the battle, and with a loud bang, the corpse exploded, and it was a soldier who had not yet died with his last breath pulled the grenade on his body.

However, the power of the grenade was limited, and the enemy tanks were still frantically rushing towards the soldiers of the 8th Company.

At the end of the battle, the soldiers of the 8th Company won 18 minutes for the 538th Regiment and even the whole division to break through to Eagle Peak at the cost of all sacrifices.

He Yongguo, the instructor of the Seventh Company, heard a sudden gunfire in the direction of the Eighth Company on another hill, and he immediately judged from the sound that they had encountered several times the enemy.

In order to indirectly support the Eighth Company to block the attack, he decided to take the initiative, and now in addition to more than seventy people in his hands, he still had two recoilless guns and five shells left, he stood on the top of the hill and ordered the soldiers to open fire and run out of shells, so that all the enemy's fire would be attracted to him.

He led people to fight from the outside to the inside, and continued to fire at the enemy's nest, and the US army could not judge how many people He Yongguo still had in a short period of time, thinking that the 180th Division had a decisive battle with them with the main force, so the enemy has always been attacking in a cautious defensive posture step by step.

It's like boiling a frog in warm water, the more the enemy is like this, the happier He Yongguo is, they themselves are trying to contain the enemy, as long as they are delayed, the more time the 180th Division will have to break through.

In this way, the two sides were deadlocked, and for a whole day, the seventh company, like the eighth company, fought to the last soldier, and never retreated from the position, and no one knew their battle deeds, because there were no survivors to tell outsiders, only that the seventh and eighth companies attracted most of the American pursuit troops at the cost of all heroic sacrifices, in exchange for the time of the whole division to break through.

The situation is especially tragic for the fighters of the battle sequence.

The logistical and transportation situation of the 180th Division is still not good.

When breaking through, the team responsible for transporting the baggage had some mules and horses, and the hunger forced the soldiers to be helpless, so some people thought of killing the horses.

The mule and horse squads that carried the baggage, the soldiers were too hungry to walk, and they almost couldn't get up when they rested on the side of the road.

"Hey, wake up, get up, and keep walking."

"Instructor, I'm so hungry, give me another half bowl of raw sorghum rice to swallow, and I promise to walk for two more days."

The instructor of the third battalion was extremely uncomfortable when he heard the soldiers say this.

He looked at the mules and horses pulling the mountain cannons in front of him, and moved to kill the horses, so he stepped forward and said to the breeder: "Kill one, just one, give meat to the soldiers, and I can drink blood." ”

The keeper also heard what the soldier said, and his heart was very uncomfortable, and he fell into a difficult choice for a short time, and neither his comrades nor the mules and horses were reluctant.

Now that the enemy's gunfire was getting louder and louder, and he could fall into another encounter at any moment, if his comrades didn't eat something, what strength would they have to fight with the enemy, thinking of this, he drew the bayonet at his waist and walked towards the horse.

Another breeder, who was feeding the forage, saw him coming with a knife and immediately took a horse in his house and shouted, "No, no, no! Lao Li, do you still have a little conscience, they followed us all the way into the court, and how much work did they help us do? They're no longer livestock! ”

"They are our comrades-in-arms!"

Lao Li was deaf, and continued to walk this way with a bayonet.

When the breeder saw Lao Li's posture, he knew that he had a murderous intention, and with his small body, where could he stop Lao Li, so he opened the reins of the two mules and horses, gently stroked the foreheads of the mules and horses a few times, and said: "Brother, you run quickly, they want to kill you." ”

After saying that, he also slapped the horse's buttocks a few times, but the horse that untied the reins not only did not run, but stood there motionless, as if waiting for Lao Li to kill them and satisfy the soldiers' hunger.

Horses are human, and after being with the warriors for a long time, they can basically understand the thoughts of some warriors.

The young breeder suddenly knelt down in front of Lao Li, "Please, don't kill them!" ”

The instructors and the warriors looked at it, and their hearts were very uncomfortable, they also followed the horses all the way from the country to here, and the horses helped them carry things along the way, and helped them too much, and the breeders had long been bound by the horses, just like their comrades.

Killing them, the keeper's heart is also very uncomfortable.

The instructor sighed, stopped Lao Li, and said, "Forget it, don't kill them, but it's inconvenient to follow when breaking through, it's too dangerous, let them go, let them go back to the mountains, where is their home." ”

However, Lao Li, the breeder, looked at several injured comrades because of the strenuous exercise, the wounds broke open again, and the blood flowed down the bandages to the ground, and he clenched the knife in his hand again, "Kill one, kill one for the wounded to eat." ”

The horses are motionless, eating grass with their heads down, their noses constantly spitting hot air, and their larger eyes are full of humanity.

"The enemy is catching up!"

From behind came the shouts of the soldiers, followed by the sound of gunfire, and the bullets came from the far hillside and hit the ground, making craters.

"The enemy is coming, pay attention to concealment!"

"Lie down, lie down!"

"At three o'clock, two machine guns!"

"Put the horse down, hurry!"

The convoy was disrupted at once, and the enemy's cannon rang out overhead, and it fell between the ranks with a bang, and people were blown to the ground, and dirt was splashed everywhere.

"Lao Li, wake up!"

The young breeder saw Lao Li who fell to the ground, Lao Li's body was full of bullet holes, and blood continued to flow outside, infecting the clothes on his chest, Lao Li threw the bayonet on the ground, and said with his last strength: "I'm sorry, I was wrong just now, just listen to the instructor's words, and let them all go." ”

"Lao Li, Lao Li!"

Lao Li's head tilted to the side, and the young keeper let out a heart-rending cry.

The horses standing there also neighed, like sorrow, and like sadness.

The young keeper took them by the way, dragged them into the mountains, beat them again with the reins, and cried: "Go away, don't die, go quickly!" ”

The horses that ran into the mountains were so humane that they stood in the bushes and looked at everyone with reluctance. The young keeper is still waving at them, signaling them to run.

Later, more than a dozen horses were found after the whole division returned, and they did not move in the woods on the west side of the mappingli, and followed back as soon as they pulled the reins on them.

The people who followed the team, whether it was people, animals, or cold mountain artillery, for the soldiers, they were all close comrades-in-arms, who were born together and came to Korea from China to win glory for the country.

The 180th Division's road to breakthrough was particularly difficult, Yingfeng was blocked by the enemy, and the 538th Regiment, as the pioneer, was destined to pay huge casualties.

In the battle of breaking through the encirclement, the various units lost contact for a time, the enemy's encirclement and pursuit were too fierce, and the highway was even more convenient for the enemy's mechanized troops to deploy, and the firepower was powerful, extraordinary, and there were constantly stragged soldiers and large troops scattered, lost in the mountains and forests, and heard gunfire everywhere, unable to judge the direction.

Often they look for the direction of the noisy gunfire, and from afar they see only the fierce fire of the enemy, and they cannot see their people.

The ferocity of the enemy's fire gave the soldiers a deeper understanding, it was too fierce, and the enemy's shells seemed to be endless, and the artillery fire reflected the black faces on their positions.

Their expressions were vivid, and they were forever frozen in the ferocious fire.

(End of chapter)