Now.

The 113th Division, which was interspersed in the three institutes, was in full swing to convene a meeting.

The three places they were going to penetrate were the belly of the enemy, and enemy planes flew around in the sky, hovering overhead, and the daytime march was bound to be exposed.

But if they don't march during the day, then they will arrive at Sanshori one step later, and it is unknown whether they will delay their mission.

They didn't dare to turn on the radio and contact the military headquarters and the Zhi Division, and this area was surrounded by signal detection by the US military, and as soon as the radio was turned on, it was as if they had been posted with a locator.

Keeping the radio silent is the only way to do it at the moment.

However, the major question of whether or not to march during the day still looms over the heads of commanders at all levels of the 113th Division.

There was no unity of opinion in the short meetings on the march.

Some people have reasoned in saying that marching during the day will expose our intentions and that there is a problem of mass concept.

The soldiers did not get rest for several days and nights, and some of the soldiers vomited blood and collapsed during the rapid march, they were so tired that they should camp on the spot, and only when they were well rested could they win the battle.

Some disagreed with this opinion and demanded to continue on the road, and the military order was like a mountain, and no one knew whether stopping to rest would delay the task.

In the first battle, they had already lost a battle, and the 38th Army was criticized by the Zhisi, and a layer of dark clouds hung over everyone's heads, trying to remove the dark clouds above their heads.

The cadres who agreed to rest further elaborated their views: "The superiors did not clearly state when they would rush to Sanshori, or it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, whether it was to cook some food for the troops, or let the soldiers rest and rest, the soldiers had already vomited blood." ”

"I think this should be done, Shiji said that on the evening of the 28th, he would attack Gunyuri and Pricechuan, and it's still early."

Comrade Political Commissar of the 338th Regiment remembered that on a battlefield in the liberation of the North East in China, a unit was criticized for delaying a fighter plane because of a meal.

Then he said: "The chief ordered us to quickly intersperse with the three institutes, and quickly we must race against time, what is going on to stop and rest, the first battle was because of our paralysis and carelessness, which led to us being criticized by the chief, such a lesson is not enough." ”

Liu Haiqing, deputy division, resolutely supported the opinion of the political commissar comrade and said: "No matter how great the difficulties of the troops are, they cannot stop, yes, the soldiers need to rest, but the time is urgent, and if you arrive early, you can make full combat preparations and reduce the casualties of the soldiers." ”

"This is the highest mass concept in battle!"

Everyone was silent for a moment, and Comrade Jiang Chao and Comrade Yu Jingshan felt that Liu Haiqing's notice expressed their opinions, and Yu Jingshan said approvingly: "Lao Liu said it well, we should take the initiative early and not give up the initiative to the enemy, if we fall into a passive state, it will only increase casualties. ”

Comrade Jiang Chao stood up and ordered the team to continue to advance, and at the sound of an order, the commanders and fighters of the whole division marched to Sansholi in spite of fatigue.

However, enemy planes were always jamming overhead, flying past one formation and another, and the 'Black Widow' reconnaissance plane, always circling overhead.

At the beginning, as soon as the enemy planes came, they blew their trumpets to hide, and the troops stopped and stopped, delaying a lot of time.

It's not the way to go.

On the way, they held short meetings, believing that their position had penetrated deep into the enemy's belly, and that in the enemy's rear, and the enemy planes were high above the ground, it was not necessarily possible to distinguish whether they were enemies or friendly troops.

After careful consideration, they agreed to a plan to remove their disguise and swagger forward.

This is really a dangerous move, and once it is discovered by enemy planes, it will face a dangerous situation where the enemy will be attacked on all sides.

However, since ancient times, the soldiers did not tire of deceit, and the enemy's reconnaissance planes were really deceived, and not only did not attack their marching troops with fighter planes, but instead regarded them as the Li puppet army that had escaped from the direction of Tokugawa, and even asked the security team in the direction of Sanshori to prepare salted fish, rice, and boiling water for them.

Therefore, when the avant-garde battalion arrived at Sansho-ri, the enemy troops inside were not prepared in the slightest, and even opened the gate to welcome them in.

The avant-garde battalion fought quickly, eliminating the security forces of Sansho-ri, and the troops behind rushed in, quickly seized the slope near Sansho-ri, and dug bunkers and fortifications in full swing.

The shovel had barely been inserted into the dirt when a sharp whistle was heard from the scout in front of him.

Like a long dragon, the enemy rushed along the road in the direction of Sanshori, and there was only five minutes between them seizing Sanshori.

The 4th and 9th companies quickly crossed the highway and entered the field, suddenly opened fire, set fire to the truck that was walking in the front, and blocked the enemy behind them at once.

When the command post of the 338th Regiment rushed to Dongshan in Sansholi, he heard the rapid gunfire of the avant-garde platoon, and the regiment commander Zhu Yuehua hurriedly raised his binoculars to observe, only to see smoke and dust billowing up on the road leading to Sansholi.

It was the brigade that was still marching towards the Yalu River yesterday, and now it was panicking south, trying to escape through Sansholi.

"Quick! Grab the advantageous terrain! ”

It's a head-on encounter with the enemy.

The sound of a gun is an order.

The 338th Regiment was the vanguard regiment of the 113th Division, and a large number of troops rushed into Sansholi behind.

The sound of weapons colliding came and went, and the whistles of commanders and fighters echoed each other.

It's like a long race near the finish line, starting the final sprint.

Some of the soldiers were tired, so they dragged their bags behind them and continued to run forward with only weapons, ammunition, and rice bags.

Some soldiers fell down and never got up again, and the continuous rapid march caused many soldiers to go into shock, some were rescued by the hygienist, and some could never wake up.

The 113th Division marched 72.5 kilometers overnight, and at 7 a.m. on the 28th, it arrived five minutes ahead of the enemy, seized a favorable position in Sanshori, and completely annihilated a company of the US Army and an advance detachment of more than 30 people of the Fifth Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division with a sudden onslaught, and successfully blocked the enemy fleeing south in Sanshori.

There was a brief silence in Sanshori.

There were only corpses thrown by the enemy and wrecked cars on the road.

The instructors of each company began to build fortifications nervously, and the regimental command post was also in a busy atmosphere.

Regiment Commander Zhu Yuehua immediately asked Comrade Zhang Fu, director of the division's newspaper department, to issue a contract and report to the army and division.

Along the way, Comrade Zhang Fu and his men carried heavy telegraphing equipment on their backs, followed the troops on a rapid and rapid march, and when they arrived at Sansholi, the cotton clothes on their tired bodies were soaked with sweat, as if they had just been fished out of the water, their mouths were dry, and their legs were as heavy as lead.

Now they can't take a break and immediately set up a charter plane.

Since several items of the telegram were numbered according to the regulations before departure, only a few signals were needed. Zhang Fu skillfully sent several sets of signals, "Our unit has arrived at Sansholi", "The enemy intends to retreat south through Sansholi", "Please instruct our department on the task".

In five minutes, the contact between the regiment, the division, the army, and the Zhi Division was communicated.

The signal of the 113th Division suddenly came, and the telegraph operator of the Zhi Division quickly informed the Zhi Division of the situation, and all the departments that received the signal of the 113th Division were quite excited, and the air in the headquarters was lively, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

Someone was surprised and said: "The 113th Division is really fast, how long has it been, and it has been 3 schools." ”

The always serious Shiji also had a smile on his face, and the situation he was looking forward to finally appeared, "Immediately telegraph the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division to block the enemy fleeing south in the 3rd Division!" ”

"Yes!"

After receiving Shiji's instructions, the morale of the Sanshori side was greatly boosted, and the company instructor hurried to direct the soldiers to dig bunker fortifications.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Shiji sent a telegram to the combat units of the Western Front of the Volunteer Army, pointing out that north of the Qingchuan River, the main divisions of the US army were retreating southward.

"Our army cut off the enemy's retreat route according to the Jingbei telegraphic order, divided the encirclement, and completed the task of annihilating the four US divisions and the British 27th Brigade on the Western Front!"

In accordance with the instructions of the Zhi Division, Comrade Han immediately ordered the 42nd Army to speed up its advance toward Yinshan and Shunchuan in order to flank the main force of the 1st Cavalry Division stationed near Shunchuan and relieve the pressure on the 113th Division of the 38th Army.

Comrade Liang of the 38th Army ordered the 114th Division to move closer to the 113th Division as soon as possible, and flank the enemy who had broken through from the direction of Sansholi and Longyuanli from east to west.

From 9:40 a.m. to 3 p.m., Comrade Zhi Si sent three radio telegrams to the cadres of the 13th Division, saying that Zhi Si was very happy and encouraging them to resolutely cut off the enemy's retreat at all costs and cooperate with the main force to annihilate the enemy in the general battle.

When Shiji assigned combat missions to the troops on the Western Front, the 5th Regiment of the 1st US Cavalry Division retreated from the north and rushed towards Sanshori along the road.

The tank rumbled, shaking the rocks on the ridges on both sides.

The car roared, like a long winding dragon.

The 8th and 5th companies were the vanguard of the 338th Regiment, stationed on the east and west sides of the road, and when the enemy's vanguard arrived at the ambush positions of the two companies, they flanked the east and west, and opened fire on the enemy in unison.

This group of enemies belonged to the 'Founding Fathers' Division of the United States, the most combat-ready unit in the American army, and when they were attacked by the ridges on both sides, their artillery was already lined up in the rear, and it was clear that they had received the news of the loss of Sanshori.

The rumbling roar, in a burst of hot gas, rolled up with incomparable potential energy, crossed thousands of meters, and landed on the positions of the Eighth and Fifth Companies.

In the sky, the formation of US bombers roared in, and the black pressed flock was like a flock of big birds.

The instructor of the fifth company on the position looked at the enemy's posture and prepared for the artillery and air force to cooperate in battle, and shouted to the soldiers to pay attention to concealment, but the enemy below the mountain could not let it go.

The enemy wanted to use the air force to cooperate with the artillery, open a gap in the direction of Sansho-ri, and began to storm the position of the eighth company with the strength of one battalion, and the enemy tanks rushed to a distance of 100 meters from the position of the eighth company, opened fire, and the infantry, under the cover of the tanks, rushed up to the hill in groups.

The smoke of gunpowder filled the position, and the mountains were all over the field, and they were all the figures of US troops.

But several times they were beaten down by the fire of the second platoon, and the morale of the soldiers was unstoppable, and they were very happy to see that the enemy was so unbearable.

What bullshit Founding Fathers, that's just it.

When the instructor ran to the second platoon position, the soldiers said to him happily: "Instructor, the American devil is really a big bear bag, and he has been beaten down by us several times." ”

The instructor was calm and calm, "The battle has just begun, don't underestimate the enemy, the enemy can't be defeated, and if you are angry, you will definitely bomb us with more fierce artillery fire, you must protect yourself." ”

The squad leaders smiled and said: "Instructor, we all know it, you just see, today, none of this American devil can get by." ”

The enemy failed several times in attack, and as the instructor said, he became more frenzied in anger and shame, and did not hesitate to pour a large amount of artillery bombardment, using a low plow to bombard the position of the Eighth Company inch by inch, with the posture of flattening the hill.

A pillar of smoke several feet high rose on the position of the Eighth Company, and when the wind blew, it floated everywhere.

Shrapnel and stones flew all over the sky, and the soil around the hilltop position was bombarded by enemy bombs, artillery shells, and gasoline bombs, and some hard mountains were also turned into powder under the fierce shelling.

The smoke of gunpowder billowed from east to west along the direction of the wind, obscuring the sky and the sun, covering the sky as if it were dusk.

The smell in the air was pungent, the temperature rose, and the soldiers who were resisting with their flesh and blood came out of the soil and found that the machine guns of the three companies and each squad of the machine guns that cooperated with the battle had broken down because of the bombing, and seeing that the enemy was about to rush to the position, Comrade Mou Xingguang, the squad leader, crawled on the ground and climbed to the machine gun position at a rapid speed.

He held the machine gun in his arms, skillfully disassembled the parts, untied the clothes, wiped off the mud and gravel on the machine gun with the clean liner of the clothes, troubled the fault, replaced the parts, and quickly repaired the machine gun, effectively supporting the second platoon in the operation.

Every charge of the enemy was overwhelmed by the fire of the Eighth Company, but then the casualties of the Eighth Company increased dramatically, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers holding their positions.

Especially as time went on, the enemy could clearly feel that the Chinese soldiers on the hill were not in enough firepower, but the resistance was stubborn, which made them extremely excited.

After the new round of shelling, the number of tanks arrived at a position of 100 meters from the position of the Eighth Company, and the tank crews controlled heavy machine guns and began to sweep towards the position of the Eighth Company, covering their soldiers to storm the position of the Eighth Company.

In the face of the enemy's fierce attack, the remaining soldiers were not afraid, and they shouted the heroic slogan: "For the motherland, for the people, for peace, for victory, the enemy must not be allowed to run away!" ”

Hu Huihua, the leader of the fifth squad of the party member, led the whole squad to guard on a bare mountain bag, and fought to the end, leaving only him and another wounded soldier, still holding their positions, swearing not to take a step back.

They gathered the whole class of guns, including some that had been taken from the corpses of the enemy, and some grenades, all of which were loaded.

Hu Huihua put the wounded in the rear, more than 20 meters away from himself, he hid in front, all the guns were lined up, the ammunition was put away, and when the attack began, he picked up a gun, pulled the trigger, and waited for the bullets to run out, and the wounded soldiers behind him picked it up.

(End of chapter)