Chapter 130: The Battle of Supply

The No. 0 position was successfully taken down by our army, and the defense of the enemy's No. 3 main peak position also collapsed rapidly under the attack of our army on both sides. Then the volunteer soldiers rely on the No. 3 position as a support to quickly expand the results of the battle to other positions. The surface positions were restored one after another with the sound of gunfire and the shouts of the soldiers.

The sky gradually became brighter. Amid the cheers of the soldiers, I slowly walked to the bunker in position No. 0. The hero was lying quietly on the ground, with the dense gun holes on his body shocking. But what surprised me was that there was no blood under these gun holes.

I slowly moved my gaze back, to the place where he had crawled, to the place where he had been lying down, and quickly understood as he looked at the scorched earth mixed with blood. He was seriously injured while lying down. When he tried his last breath to climb to the fort, he had already sprinkled the last drop of blood on the way forward, but when he was still dying, when the blood on his body had flowed out, he wrote this feat that shocked the world and cried the ghosts with his life.

The two health workers walked up. They carefully placed the hero's body on a stretcher while crying, just like carrying a wounded person who had not yet died, and silently carried him down.

Yes, he is not dead yet! He is still alive in the hearts of the soldiers!

The hero fell, but the army had an additional company, a company named after the hero - Huang Jiguang Company. From now on, this company will be called out late every day. The company commander will first shout the glorious name of the first soldier: "Huang Jiguang". The entire company replied in unison: "Come!"

I didn't cry or speak, just watched them silently carrying the stretcher down, and then disappeared from my sight.

Because I know that this is the battlefield, and now is not the time to cry, nor is it the time to care for comrades.

On the battlefield of Shangganling, Huang Jiguang was not the only one who used his life to die with his enemies and used his blood to pave the way for his comrades. In this land of only 3.7 square kilometers, in just a few days, countless unknown warriors have bravely sacrificed their lives.

In modern times, I have read such information. A veteran who once participated in the Battle of Shangganling said something, saying that on Shangganling, it has become a normal thing to block the gun hole like Huang Jiguang, and rush towards the enemy with explosives in his arms, and it is already very common!

Like all other veterans who came down from the battlefield, the veteran's language was not bold, and he spoke it in a relaxed tone. So much so that I did not realize the true meaning of this sentence, nor did I care about the meaning represented by this relaxed sentence.

But now I understand, I understand how unusual this "normal" is, how extraordinary this "normal" is, and at the same time, I understand what a heavy heart is behind the veteran's relaxed words!

"The enemy is retreating!" Someone among the volunteer soldiers shouted.

Without orders, the soldiers knew what this meant. The enemy retreat meant that they would soon launch artillery bombardment on our positions, so the soldiers left some soldiers responsible for the guards and retreated to the tunnel entrance like a tide.

"Captain Li!" After returning to the command center, the first thing I said was: "You fight very well, and I will report your heroic deeds to my superiors. Now your mission has been completed, and you can take it down as soon as you have the chance!"

But at this time, Corps Li and Wang Wenyong looked at each other without saying a word.

"Now is the time for the enemy to bombard us!" I continued: "The enemy will usually bomb for about an hour in a row. It may be more difficult to go on at this time, and there will be some unnecessary casualties. I suggest... you will charge our position at the end of the enemy's bombing. Retreat when we push it! That's the safest time. But I hope that you can leave ammunition and supplies before you leave..."

"Chief of Staff!" Before I could finish speaking, Li Baocheng stood up and said, "You are all fighting like this, how can we still retreat? Then... aren't we still deserters?"

"Yes! Chief of Staff!" Wang Wenyong also said: "When we first came, we didn't know that the situation was so critical, and the Americans would be so fierce. I don't think our superiors knew that this was the situation, so there was an order to remove us after the counterattack was successful! But now, I find that it would be extremely irresponsible if we execute the order to retreat again!"

"Instructor Wang is right!" Li Baocheng clenched his fist and thumped on the table: "The Chief of Staff is full of soldiers from various troops, and the number is not large. If we just retreat like this, the position may be suppressed by the enemy soon. Last night, our Eighth Company paid more than 80 soldiers' lives to take back the superficial position. We cannot let their blood flow in vain, and we cannot let them die in vain! Chief of Staff, let us stay here! We report to our superiors and apply to our superiors to stay! The Eighth Company stayed on Shangganling to obey the unified command of the Chief of Staff!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

In fact, this situation was already under my expectations.

When fighting in a soldier, sometimes it is a bit like having a relationship. When one party gives for the other, he will be reluctant to let go. If he gives, he will hope to get rewards. This is human nature. Therefore, the more he gives, the more he can't let go. Therefore, when smart people make girlfriends, they usually don't just give, but find ways to make their girlfriends give something!

By the same token, Li Baocheng's ace troops did not pay much casualties when they first came up, so they had no feelings for the land under their feet. It was very simple for them to retreat at that time. They could leave with just one order. But now, after they suffered heavy casualties, it would not be so easy to retreat.

They would think of those sacrificed comrades, and they would associate their sacrifices with this land, so they would have feelings, so they would not want this land exchanged for blood and life to be taken back by the enemy, so...

"Stay here!" I nodded and said, "Shangganling needs you here, and Wusheng Mountain also needs you to be stationed here. I think our superiors will also seriously consider our suggestions!"

"That's great!" Li Baocheng and Wang Wenyong saluted me at the same time: "We will arrange for the correspondent to report the situation to our superiors immediately!"

"Chief of Staff!" When Li Baocheng and Wang Wenyong walked out of the command post, Instructor Qin came up and asked, "Are we still going to stand on the surface today? The soldiers have fought all night, from 10 o'clock last night until dawn, now..."

"How long does the food in the tunnel last for us?" I asked.

Whether to fight or not is actually determined by me, but by the food in the tunnel. If there is food in the tunnel, you can not fight, and if there is no food, you have to fight!

The solid fortifications built by the US military on the surface positions are still vivid in my mind. Last night we paid a heavy price, and several heroes who sacrificed themselves to blow up bunkers and blocked gun holes emerged, and then took the surface position down. If the US military easily seized the surface position and gave them time to build fortifications, we would probably never have the ability to restore the position again.

"Dagain...it's enough for us to eat for four or five days!" Instructor Qin thought for a while and replied hesitantly.

"What? Why are there so few?" I was shocked when I heard this.

"Chief of Staff!" Instructor Qin said with some embarrassment: "If you want to fight, you have to transport ammunition, and if you want to transport ammunition, you will naturally have less food!"

"Um!" Hearing this, I realized that I had fallen into a vicious cycle without realizing it.

In order to transport the food smoothly, we must stick to our positions or restore the surface positions at night, and we must stick to or restore the surface positions. Ammunition is the basis. To transport so much ammunition, under the same conditions, we can only reduce the transportation of food.

"Send a correspondent to report to your superiors immediately!" Thinking of this, I immediately ordered: "Let your superiors try to send a batch of food before dusk tonight. If necessary, you can only send food but not ammunition! And immediately reduce the rations of the soldiers and make plans to stick to the tunnel for one month!"

"Chief of Staff!" Instructor Qin was shocked when he heard this: "If you don't send ammunition... how can this work?"

I understand what Instructor Qin means. On the battlefield, sometimes ammunition is much more important than food. Because with ammunition, there is the capital to fight against the enemy. With ammunition, you can protect your life. If your life is gone, what else should you do for food?

And now for us, without ammunition, it means being locked in the tunnel by the US military.

"Go!" I patted Instructor Qin on the shoulder and said helplessly: "Just do what I said!"

"Yes!" Seeing that I insisted, Instructor Qin had no objection, so he saluted me and went down.

Looking at the back of Instructor Qin leaving, I couldn't help but sigh.

The reason I gave this order is because I know that even if we transport ammunition to Shangganling, we will inevitably have insufficient ammunition and excessive casualties and give up the counterattack on the surface of the position in a few days.

Seven days! This is the time when our army and the US military repeatedly competed for surface positions in history. During these seven days, surface positions changed hands several times and fought repeatedly between our Volunteer Army 45th Division and the US 7th Division. In the end, our army gave up the competition for surface positions because the ammunition and troops could not be replenished under the firepower of the US military. The Shangganling War entered the second stage.

Now... because I have been hiding in the tunnel for a long time, I have no idea of ​​time, and I can't tell how many days it has been since the war in Shangganling started. It should be the fourth day! It's not far from the seven days in history. But I know that if my superiors agree to my report to only send food to the position tonight without ammunition, then from tonight, we must give up the counterattack and enter the second stage.

There is no way to counterattack without ammunition, and no one knows this very well.

I picked up the cold boiled water on the table and took a sip, and then sat back on the bed. I fought fiercely with the enemy for a night, and the exhaustion of physical strength and energy made me very tired. I didn’t feel much when I was discussing things just now, but now when I relaxed, I felt that the bones in my body seemed to be disintegrated. After a while, I fell asleep in a vague way with the enemy’s rumbling cannons.

The sound of cannons stopped abruptly and I woke up immediately.

Some people may be surprised by my reaction. They will think that they can sleep with the sound of cannons. Now that the sound of cannons has stopped, why are they awakened if they are quiet around them?

I think this may be an adaptation to a state! Anyone who has experienced sleeping in a car knows that when the car is running, the rumbling motor sound and the clanging sound of the window vibrating will become a lullaby, and once the car stops, it will wake people up.

My situation is similar to this situation now. As soon as the cannon stopped, I quickly realized that the enemy was about to charge, so I couldn't allow me to hesitate at all and grabbed my rifle and ran out of the tunnel.

“Woo…”

As soon as I ran out of the tunnel, I heard a strange scream from the sky, and a US pirate fighter plane flew over our heads.

When I looked up, I couldn't help but be shocked. There were densely packed US aircraft everywhere in the sky, at least 30 or forty, and they were idling around our two high grounds like a bunch of flies. From time to time, several aircraft were diving towards us and shooting! Some even dropped bombs directly at the entrance of our army's tunnel...

"Enter the position!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but shout at the soldiers.

The enemy's intentions are very obvious. They hope to use a large number of aircraft to bombard our army to prevent our army from entering the position, or to actually kill and injure our army's living forces to relieve the pressure on their attack.

Aircraft are different from cannons. Due to the curve angle, cannons rarely hit the back slope, and hit the front slope causes the risk of accidental injury. But there is no such problem for aircraft. Skilled pilots can accurately pour bullets and bombs on the back slope. The only thing that can make them worry is the mountain top position.

The area of ​​the top position is very small. Once the high-speed aircraft are not well controlled, they will often hit bullets and bombs on the US troops charging on the inclined surface. So I boldly guessed that the top position is safe at this time.

Sure enough, when I led the soldiers to rush up to the top of the mountain with bullets and bombs, although there was still the whistling of enemy planes above my head, they no longer dared to drop bombs at us.

He ran to the No. 9 position and lay down, poked his head out and looked down, and couldn't help but take a breath.

More than forty tanks were arranged densely at the foot of the mountain. Due to terrain restrictions, they could not carry out group assaults, so they simply went to close to shoot as a fort and used by machine gun forts. In front of them were teams of American soldiers who were fully armed holding various weapons and carefully approaching us. A rough estimate was that there were at least five or six hundred people.

This time I simply doubted whether the Americans in front of me were crazy, and they threw down such a lot of money for these two inconspicuous high grounds. Not to mention the tanks in front of me, the almost uninterrupted artillery blockade of artillery fire was carried out in the past few days to block the reinforcements and replenish the food and ammunition transportation routes, so I don’t know how many artillery shells they would consume.

On other battlefields, the casualties of the US military were of course smaller than ours. But in this war, I believe that the casualties of the US military were far greater than ours. I remember modern records that after the war, the US prisoners confessed that the eighteen battalions that the "United Nations Army" participated in the war on Shangganling, each battalion fought two or three times in turn. Some regiments suffered more than half of the casualties within a day, some had only one, and two people went back alive.

I really can't understand why the US military, which has always valued the lives of its subordinates, is reluctant to leave these two "unpopular ribs" here!

Although the geographical location of these two highlands is very important, what can they do if they can occupy Shangganling? They have not eliminated us hiding in the tunnel, so why don’t they dare to attack the Five Sacred Mountains?

But when I think about it, I quickly understood.

Van Vritte can't afford to lose that person!

Van Vreet is known as a mountain war expert. How could he lose to the Chinese who were almost primitive in this mountain? Of course not! So he ignored the casualties of the US military and sent a large number of planes, cannons, tanks and troops to the two small highlands of Shangganling, regardless of the casualties of the US military.

Little do they know that these aircraft, cannons, tanks and troops can fight a big battle and achieve greater results as long as they are moved to any position.

Clark can't afford to lose that person either!

The new commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army was determined to surpass his predecessor Li Qiwei and make other achievements in the Korean battlefield. How could he easily admit defeat in the first battle after taking office? Of course not! So he also lost the calm mind that a commander should have and let Van Vritt do a big fight.

Although facts have long proved that Van Vritte was wrong, because it was clearly written in Variet's combat plan that he only needed two battalions of troops to capture the two high grounds.

It should be said that this is an opportunity for our army and a great opportunity to annihilate the enemy.

On the battlefield, using people to fight people is the favorite thing for volunteer soldiers, not to mention that the US military has suffered more casualties than our army. If our army continues to persevere like this, the one who collapses and admits defeat will undoubtedly be the US military. It is even very likely that the US military will lose a lot of vitality because of today's wrong decision and will be at a disadvantage in future battles. But unfortunately, our army's too fragile supply line is doomed to not be able to seize this opportunity well.

"Prepare for battle!" Looking at the US military moving faster and closer on the hillside, I loudly gave orders to the soldiers.
Chapter completed!