After more than nine hours of battle, the second puppet division and the Ethiopian battalion forces launched charges against our positions again and again, and were attacked by us again and again. It was not until it was dark that they finally gave up the attack. Although the puppet army showed extraordinary bravery and combat effectiveness on this day, the mountains of corpses piled up on the positions were undoubtedly the best evidence of their failure.

The enemy suffered heavy casualties, so our army's casualties would naturally not be small. I didn't know when I was fighting on the position, but I only knew that the soldiers changed batch after batch. After returning to the tunnel and listening to the report of Instructor Qin, I found that Li Feng's second company had already suffered all casualties in the afternoon. Afterwards, it was actually the soldiers of Li Baocheng's eighth company.

"The casualties are too great!" I was shocked by the situation reported by Instructor Qin on the spot. At this casualties, it would be not enough for a company to stay for a day.

"Chief of Staff..." Li Feng was also injured. He hung around his neck with a bandage wrapped in his left hand, clenched his fist with his right hand, and said with gritted teeth: "Our casualties are huge, but I think it's worth it. Looking at the enemy's corpse in front of the position, I feel happy! I will go to the battlefield tomorrow and fight with those damn gods. It's better to go on to accompany the comrades under my command!"

"Yes! Fight with them!"

"Fight with them!"

...

The soldiers in the tunnel raised their guns and shouted indignantly. Only I looked at the map on the table without saying a word.

This is how the war was. Originally, I and the puppet army had no hatred. During World War II, China and the United States were even allies of the anti-fascist camp and were allies of the anti-Japanese war. This was the first time we saw many soldiers from the warring countries of the United Nations Army. For example, those barefoot Ethiopian camps, and the Volunteers were startled when they first saw the black regiments of the United States... However, as the battle became more and more fierce, more and more people died. There was no hatred between the two sides, and gradually they became deeper and deeper, and hatred was so deep that they were deeply hated!

"Chief of Staff!" At this time, a camouflaged observation post ran into the tunnel to report: "There is movement in the puppet troops outside and the Ethiopian camp's positions..."

"The enemy is coming?"

"It's just right! Go and beat him up!"

...

The soldiers grabbed the rifle without saying a word and went to the position.

"Come back!" I called them with an order, and then calmly asked the observation whistle, "What's the movement? Tell me more clearly!"

"The enemy did not come up!" The observation post explained: "But there were many sounds of cars and footsteps at the foot of the mountain. It was too dark and I couldn't see clearly. It should be the enemy troops who took advantage of the darkness to change defenses!"

"Um!" The soldiers sat back one by one after another as they listened to the observation whistle.

"Chief of Staff!" Qin's commander analyzed: "This should be because the enemy's troops suffered too much casualties, so they have replaced them with other troops!"

"Chief of Staff, phone number..." At this time, a correspondent handed the walkie-talkie to me: "It's Commander Zhang!"

"I am Cui Wei!" I took the walkie-talkie and revealed my identity.

"Chief Cui, you guys are fighting well today!" Commander Zhang seemed to be in a good mood on the other end of the phone. He said happily: "We just received a telegram from our superiors that the 31st Regiment of the Second Pseudo-Second Division had almost suffered all casualties in this battle today, and had completely lost its combat effectiveness! More than half of the Ethiopian Battalion was killed or injured, and he was unable to launch tomorrow's attack, so the US military had to transfer them down!"

With a "coax...", the soldiers in the tunnel also heard the words of Captain Zhang and couldn't help but shook hands and encourage each other happily.

"Captain Zhang, our army has suffered heavy casualties!" I reported: "Today there are only seven people left in the main defense of the second company, and the eighth company also suffered more than twenty casualties!"

"There will definitely be casualties!" Captain Zhang replied: "The soldiers fought very hard, their spirit is worthy of praise and worth learning from. But these casualties are worth it compared to the enemy's casualties! So you must persevere. If you fight with such casualties, the enemy will not last long! We will definitely win the final victory!"

"Yes!" I nodded heavily.

I know what Captain Zhang said is the facts, and even this battle plan for fighting people with people was formulated by me. But when it was really implemented, I saw so many new faces before I could get familiar with them, and I became a martyr in a blink of an eye. Only then did I realize that many things are easier to plan and more difficult to do, and even more so when fighting.

"Chief of Staff!" After pausing for a while, Commander Zhang continued: "I must notify you about something so that you and the soldiers can prepare!"

I was stunned when I heard Captain Zhang’s words. I soon realized that there was another military situation that was unfavorable to our army. So I gritted my teeth and responded: “Don’t worry, Captain Zhang, no matter how hard or difficult it is, the soldiers and I can withstand it!”

While saying this, I secretly glanced at the soldiers around me, and sure enough, they all showed firmness on their faces.

It’s so difficult to be a leader and a cadre! The facts are almost unable to hold on at this time. But I understand very well that the soldiers’ eyes are staring at me! If I complain on the phone at this time, "Captain Zhang, we have been fighting for so many days, and the casualties are too great and exhausted, so I will be unable to bear it anymore. Please replace us quickly!"

Then the situation can be imagined. Not to mention whether Captain Zhang would agree to replace us, the soldiers around him would be discouraged when they heard this, and the battle he received would not be able to be fought!

"Well said!" Captain Zhang on the other end of the phone praised: "I feel relieved with you. We revolutionary soldiers need your spirit! This is the thing. The superiors provided us with intelligence to find out that the puppet army that the enemy changed defense this time was the unit of the 30th Regiment of the 9th Division!"

I understood as soon as Captain Zhang said this. Just twenty days ago, this army was the 30th Regiment of the Pseudo-9th Division, which resisted the full ten days of attack by the five regiments of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army in the Baima Mountain area. This army was therefore called the "Baima Division".

What is the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army? I think as long as it is the soldiers of the Volunteer Army, even the soldiers of the People's Army, they all know it. It is the first main force that the boss called the "Long Live Army" by the boss in the early days of the Korean War. It is such a force that is good at fighting hard and hard fighting. It used five regiments to attack Baima Mountain, and finally returned in vain after suffering huge casualties.

Of course, the 38th Army failed to capture Baima Mountain in the end, a large part of the reason was that Shangganling started to fight. Our army believed that the enemy's strong attack was in the Shangganling area, so we ordered the 38th Army to stop the attack.

But being able to withstand the 10-day attack of the 38th Army, the combat effectiveness of the 30th Regiment of the pseudo-9th Division can also be seen.

"Captain Zhang, don't worry!" Thinking of this, I gritted my teeth and replied: "We will definitely be able to defend the 597.9 Highland and resolutely defeat the pseudo-9th Division!"

"Well! I believe you have this ability! I believe the soldiers have this ability!" Commander Zhang responded on the other end of the phone: "I will immediately send two companies to reinforce you with ammunition and supplies. You are ready to respond, and then study tomorrow's combat plan!"

"Yes!" I responded and hung up the phone.

"Chief of Staff! What is the origin of this 30th Regiment of the 9th Division?" Some soldiers couldn't help but ask strangely after hearing the conversation between me and Captain Zhang.

"It's nothing, it's just a trumpet of the puppet army!" I said with a pretended ease: "I have seen a lot of enemy ace troops, such as Gloucester Battalion, pseudo-capital division, etc., all of them are ace troops. If we are under our command, we can't even get it!"

"That's!"

"Isn't the 7th Division of the U.S. that we just attacked was also an ace force?"

"That's not? What ace troops! Under our bullets and grenades, aren't that the same?"

The soldiers all laughed relaxedly.

I am not trying to hide it from the soldiers on purpose. The 38th Army can be said to be a model unit of the Volunteer Army. Many troops have learned the slogans from the 38th Army. Many soldiers even accepted the concept of what the 38th Army is like, and what you are like... If I tell them now that the pseudo-9th Division we are going to face is a unit that has just defeated the offensive of the 38th Army, it will definitely hit their morale to a large extent, so I would rather they not know.

I think Li Baocheng, Li Feng and Instructor Qin also agree with this. As company-level cadres of the Volunteer Army, Li Baocheng is even the company commander of the ace troops. They have heard more or less about this battle more than ten days ago. But they are also smart people, and they all know the reason why I don’t tell the truth, so they don’t say it explicitly, just nodding to me to express their approval and understanding.

"What can the ace force, what can the ace force do?" Li Baocheng interrupted: "Chief of Staff, you are commanding battles on the No. 8 position most of today, so you don't see the combat effectiveness of the Ethiopian Battalion. If you want me to say, this Ethiopian Battalion will not be worse than any ace force, and its style is even very similar to our volunteer army!"

"That's right!" Li Feng nodded and said, "This is also the reason why our company has such a big casualty. Although they are not wearing shoes, their offensive speed is much faster than that of the Americans wearing boots. I think it's even harder to fight than the 7th Division of the United States!"

"Look, the most amazing thing is their skin like charcoal heads!" Li Baocheng joked: "That skin is the same color as the scorched earth on the battlefield. If they go to the battlefield naked and lie on the ground, no one of us will find it..."

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers were all amused by Li Baocheng's words.

In fact, even if Li Baocheng and Li Feng don’t say it, I know this very well. In addition to the US and puppet troops, although other troops joining the United Nations Army are small in number, these troops represent the dignity of their own country. Therefore, no country has not sent out its most elite troops, and the Ethiopian Serbia is no exception. Moreover, they have developed from long-term guerrilla warfare, and the spirit of endurance to endure hardships is not comparable to that of the US military with superior living conditions.

A large part of the reason why they can't get it on Shangganling is that the 597.9 Highland is easy to defend and difficult to attack. For terrain like the 597.9 Highland, if you attack from the front, there is actually no big difference between the ace troops! As long as the volunteer soldiers have grenades and explosive packs in their hands, I don't believe that the bones of the ace troops will be harder than explosives!

But the positions on our left wing are different...

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but frown, pointing to the No. 1 and No. 7 position on the map and said: "The enemy's frontal attack problem is not very big. The important thing is the enemy on the left wing. They are very close to our No. 8 position, and often charge against our position based on No. 1 and No. 7 position, which poses a great threat to us! I think that tomorrow the enemy's attack will focus on No. 8 position!"

"The Chief of Staff is right!" Li Baocheng also nodded and said, "The frontal terrain is too steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The puppet army had to attack just to restrain our firepower. But on the left wing our army no longer had a great geographical advantage!"

"The most annoying thing is that the position cannot be built in position No. 8!" A soldier stationed on position No. 8 interjected, "Once we built our sacks, we could knock out the enemy's recoilless cannon in two and a half. The position was loosened everywhere, and even light machine guns could not hold it, let alone heavy machine guns!"

"Can you... touch these two positions while it's dark?" Some soldiers suggested.

This idea is very tempting. The volunteers have always been good at night battles, and attacking in the night has almost become our routine, but I still quashed this suggestion.

Today is different from the past. In the past, we were hiding in the tunnel and could choose any position on the surface to attack. If the enemy could defend this, they could not defend that. But now, these positions No. 1 and No. 7 are clearly the support for their attack the next day. How could they not be guarded? Moreover, the troops stationed there are still the 30th elite puppet army troops. Maybe they have arranged a trap and are waiting for us to drill in!

"Chief of Staff..." While the soldiers were worried about this issue, a recruit ran up and said, "The No. 1 and No. 7 are both below the No. 8 position? I also looked at it today. These two slopes are steep and flat. Can we make some round grenades of the Americans..."

"Those two positions are far away from us!" Soon a soldier objected disdainfully: "We can't even blew the grenades, can the grenades still blew?"

"No..." The little soldier was snatched by someone else, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, blushed and said with a thick neck: "I mean, this can't be so far away, and I may even be able to roll to the enemy's position..."

"My little comrade, you have not been to the top yet!" Instructor Qin asked with a wry smile.

"No, no..." The shy little warrior's face suddenly turned red to his ears, and he stammered: "I, I... I just sent a box of ammunition on it!"

"Then it..." Instructor Qin explained patiently: "Then it is full of loose scorched earth, all of which were bombed by bombs. Even if the American grenade is round, it cannot be rolled into the soil, unless it is wood!"

"Oh, oh..." the little soldier responded a few times and did not dare to speak anymore.

I was stunned when I heard this, and raised my head in shock and asked Instructor Qin, "What? What did you just say?"

Instructor Qin was startled by my actions, and after a while he said in confusion: "I didn't say anything? I just said that the grenade cannot roll in this soil, I..."

As he said that, he looked at the other soldiers and asked, "I'm right!"

The other soldiers also looked at me for no reason, not knowing what medicine I sold in the gourd.

"Not this!" I ignored their eyes and continued to ask Instructor Qin: "What did you just say that can roll on the position? Wood?"

"Yes! It's wood!" Director Qin grabbed his head and said, "As long as this wood is a little larger, even if the soil is very loose, it can run on the position, right?"

"Chief of Staff, you are not injured!" Li Baocheng couldn't help but ask: "I heard that your hat was lit by the incendiary bomb today, right?"

"Go and go!" I cursed angrily when I heard this, "Your head was burned out! Yes! It's wood, there's a way to deal with position No. 1 and position No. 7 tomorrow!"

Thinking of it, I turned to the correspondent excitedly and ordered: "Contact Captain Zhang immediately!"

"Yes!" The correspondent responded and immediately called to the walkie-talkie.

After contacting me, I grabbed the phone and said to the microphone: "Captain Zhang, can you let every two troops coming to reinforce carry a piece of wood up?"

"Mu?" Commander Zhang thought he had heard it wrong. After getting confirmation, he asked in confusion: "What do you want to do with wood? If you want to bring wood, you have to bring a lot of ammunition! Moreover... two people carry a piece of wood, the speed will be much slower, which will increase the casualties of the reinforcements!"

"Captain Zhang!" I responded: "I know the difficulties will certainly be there, but whether the wood can be brought successfully may be related to whether our army can successfully defend the surface position tomorrow and reduce casualties of our troops stationed in Dinghai! So I hope that the reinforcements can overcome them, and that the ammunition must be insufficient, and the wood must be brought too!"

"No problem!" Commander Zhang immediately agreed when he heard me say this: "I will send you four companies to you, two companies transporting wood, and two companies carry ammunition. The tunnel is too small to accommodate four companies. The company that transports wood will come back immediately after arriving! In addition... I will notify the artillery troops to cover the reinforcements and implement twenty minutes of fire suppression on the enemy artillery, so that the soldiers can transport as much ammunition and wood as possible to the position!"

"Thank you for your support!" I couldn't help but feel a little moved when I heard what Captain Zhang said. I didn't even understand the reason. Not every Captain could do it by supporting me unconditionally.

"What else do you say thank you!" Captain Zhang smiled bitterly on the other end of the phone: "I should say thank you. Please tell the soldiers stationed on Shangganling that the motherland thanks you! The people thank you..."
Chapter completed!