Chapter 373: Trail combat (Part 1)

After more than ten days of rest and preparation, the Eighth Company on the 597.9 Highlands finally had personnel replenished. The 45th Division Commander Cui Jiangong knew the importance of this position, so he specially enriched a lot of veterans in the 8th Company. At the same time, even Li Donghai from the Xiaolong Special Forces Brigade was adjusted here to prepare for a protracted battle with the US military opposite.

The current commander of the 8th Company of the 135th Regiment is Gao Yongxiang. He knew that today, the commander Cui Jiangong's attention was on a battalion of South Korean soldiers in the Nanshan position in the Zhuzidong on the eastern foot of the Wusheng Mountain. All the artillery and offensive troops in the division were launching fierce attacks there. He didn't know how the battle was there, but he felt something was wrong.

Although Li Xiaobu's situation did not bring much change to the re-arrangement of the 15th Army, the Eighth Company on the 597.9 Highlands still received support from the platoon of the 9th Company of the 135th Regiment. Logically speaking, Gao Yongxiang's Eighth Company should have full confidence in defending the position after being strengthened, but he actually felt his heart full of inexplicable depression.

The reason is that Company Commander Gao Yongxiang discovered an abnormality in the enemy position opposite the 597.9 Highland.

"Company Commander Gao, let me take a few soldiers to see!"

In fact, Li Donghai had known about Li Xiaobu and Wang Yang for a long time. He took it for granted that he believed in the information brought by Li Xiaobu. Unfortunately, he was not the commander of the army or the division commander, so he had no way to arrange the entire defense line of the Five Sacred Mountains now. But when he discovered the unusual movements of the enemy opposite like Company Commander Gao Yongxiang, he still showed enough vigilance.

"Okay, you can bring two soldiers there. If you find any situation, you must report it to me as soon as possible!"

It was not dawn at this time, and it was just past midnight. Logically speaking, the enemy would not choose to attack at this time. What's more, the current Forty-Fifteenth Division is attacking the south mountain position of the Zhuzidong on the eastern foot of Wusheng Mountain. The enemy is too busy to be busy, but what surprised Gao Yongxiang was that the US military position on the opposite side had been brightly lit for one night, and there were troops vaguely mobilizing inside, which made him suspicious.

"Don't worry, Commander Gao, when will our Xiaolong Special Forces Brigade lose someone?"

Speaking of the Xiaolong Special Forces Team, Li Donghai couldn't help but think of the captain Wang Yang. In Wang Yang's eyes, the first squadron could throw anything away, but he couldn't embarrass him. To be honest, Li Donghai couldn't help but rush into the enemy's convoy to find the captain, but he still has a task now, so he must not discredit the Xiaolong squadron. He can only hope that Wang Yang will be brave again and magically break out of the enemy's hit.

"Of course I believe you, so I'll send you there again! Please reconnaissance the situation on the enemy's positions and figure out what the enemy is doing, but you must pay attention to safety!"

After the last large-scale invasion of the enemy, the two armies had been extremely calm in the past half month. But the veteran Gao Yongxiang still felt uneasy and always felt a wave of heat that was about to soar into the sky in the calm. He repeatedly told Li Donghai that this time he must understand why there was such a big noise on the enemy's position.

After receiving the order, Li Donghai, who was also unwilling to let go, took two capable volunteer soldiers and went out to reconnaise. These two soldiers were not simple either. They were both backbones of the Eighth Company and had learned sniping skills from Li Donghai for a period of time.

However, what Li Donghai did not expect was that he, who was lurking in reconnaissance on weekdays, lost his way and smelled of gunpowder as soon as he approached the enemy's position.

He was hit by the enemy's machine gun fire so hard that he couldn't lift his head, and he was almost hit by several enemy shells. The enemy's strict defense was really shocking, which made Li Donghai feel like he was unable to move forward.

Facing such a defense, Li Donghai was really surprised, but when he turned to the enemy's side and then focused his eyes on the enemy's defense line, he was even more stunned.

The enemies on the positions opposite to Wusheng Mountain 597.9 are endless. Not only are the enemy searchlights lights brighter than before, but the people on the positions are also noisy, and there are rumbling sounds from cars and motors everywhere. Li Donghai feels that countless enemy troops are mobilized at the forefront of Wusheng Mountain.

Before Li Donghai could observe clearly, the artillery fire that suddenly began to attack Li Donghai and his team suddenly extended together, but this time it was no longer a few shells that were used to show their power, but hundreds of artillery pieces of artillery were used to show their power, and suddenly attacked the top of the No. 597.9 position behind Li Donghai and his team, shattering the defense of the position on our volunteers' positions.

This was not enough. Then Li Donghai saw dozens of planes rumbling from behind the enemy's position. The rumbling sound of the plane almost pressed against him, Li Donghai's head and flew over from above. The huge deterrent force made Li Donghai feel as if the sky was covered by the plane. The dense bombs were spilled down from the plane. The enemy's attack was so fierce and the strike was so great that it was much more terrifying than the last attack on the Five Sacred Mountains.

"No, it's going to be a big war!"

Li Donghai felt cold in his heart. At this time, there was almost no need to do any enemy reconnaissance. Seeing the movement of the enemy's barracks and seeing so many artillery bombings in the early morning, it goes without saying that the enemy would invade our position in a large amount of time. Li Donghai firmly believed that Li Xiaobu was seriously injured, and even Wang Yang was deeply trapped in the enemy group. There was no problem with the information brought by the enemy group, but he did not expect that the enemy would fight so resolutely and with great momentum, and would come so quickly.

The artillery fire continued to rage, the frontier passages of our army were sealed tightly, and the planes flew in batches, tossing and turning around on our army's positions. Fortunately, there was an underground bunker on the positions, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

No need to think that there will be a big battle. Li Donghai didn't care about reconnaissance anymore. He hurried back with two soldiers.

Through the underground passage on the position, Li Donghai finally returned to the position. Only then did he find that the enemy's dense shells landed on the position could not be scored, and the entire underground passage was shocked so hard that it was untenable, as if the sky was about to collapse.

The situation no longer needs to be reported to Company Commander Gao Yongxiang. Company Commander Gao was reporting to the battalion while preparing everyone to join the battle.

However, before Li Donghai and the others had finished explaining the mission, the artillery fire suddenly increased its weight.

The earth-shaking artillery fire was like an magnitude eight earthquake, throwing the tunnel around like a boat in the storm waves, bottles, cans, kerosene lamps and other things were so shaking that the ground was rolling around. The air waves scraped in from the entrance of the tunnel lifted the hats of several people into unknown corners.

Li Donghai accepted a new combat mission and was leading the soldiers to the entrance of the No. 3 defensive position passage. When the enemy's artillery fire was finished, they rushed out of the passage to defend the position. However, halfway through the way, they felt that their feet were soft and they stepped on something. Several soldiers couldn't help but fall to the ground. When everyone looked carefully, they turned out that Xiao Zhang, a small correspondent who was resting in the tunnel wall, was actually shocked to death in the No. 3 channel. The evil artillery bombardment unknowingly took the lives of our soldiers, and even made the soldiers who were preparing to attack spewed out of fire, and their teeth were chewed.

Finally, as soon as the enemy's artillery fire extended, Chen Jiafu, a soldier who served as an observer, ran in and reported: "The enemy is coming!"

However, at this time, the soldiers were like Li Donghai. They could not hear the sound of Chen Jiafu talking. Until Chen Jiafu ran to Li Donghai's ear and yelled at him, Li Donghai realized that due to the fierce enemy's artillery fire, his ears were stunned by the enemy's artillery fire.

According to Chen Jiafu's report, Li Donghai knew that the situation was extremely serious, and Chen Jiafu also reported the situation to him. However, when Company Commander Gao saw that there were many enemies, the first thing he thought of was to ask for the superior artillery support, but when the telephone was shaken, the telephone line must have been blown up. Needless to say, the telephone line must have been blown off.

Gao Yongxiang yelled: "Communication officer, fire a signal flare and request fire support!"

However, the situation on the battlefield was too serious. The communications officer fired three signal flares in a row, but the expected artillery fire came for a long time. Finally, Gao Yongxiang thought that it must have been covered by thick smoke and fog, and there was no signal flares behind him.

Faced with such a harsh battle situation, there was no way to imagine, and he could only fight against the enemy. Gao Yongxiang gritted his teeth and had to rely on infantry to fight:

"Each squad and platoon enters the position. Never let an enemy go to the position, the position is in the Eighth Company!!"

In an instant, the soldiers of the Eighth Company on the 579.9 Highlands fought with the tide of the enemy. The genius had just been bright, and the smoke was filled with the sunlight. On the battlefield where sparks were everywhere, the enemy and our soldiers fought into a group like night battles. In the distance, the command post of the 45th Division and the fingers of the 135th Regiment were only seen. The gunshots and cannons were heard everywhere. Although the commanders were worried, they did not know the situation at all.

It was not until the battle was over the Red Sun that the division fingers of the 45th Division and the 135th Regiment knew that at 3:30 am that day, the US Ninth Army gathered nearly 300 artillery guns from 16 artillery battalions and carried out a one-and-a-half-hour fire preparation at the two small hills of the Shangganling position, the "Triangle Mountain" and "Sniper Edge Line" of the Shangganling position. The fire density reached an unprecedented level. More than 30 fighter bombers of the Far East Air Force also flew over the war zone and repeatedly dropped bombs and fired, blocking all roads in front and behind the mountain. Thick smoke and fire hundreds of meters high were rushed into the radius of several kilometers. Not to mention signal flares, no one could see clearly what it was.

At the same time, the 391 Highlands guarded by the 44th and 29th Divisions, the nameless highlands in the northwest of Shanxi, the south mountain of Zhicun, and the 419 Highlands were also subject to restrained attacks by four battalions of enemy troops.

Van Ferrit finally "showed off" to the commanders and fighters of the 15th Army. Unfortunately, at this time, the commanders and fighters of the 15th Army had not realized that the enemy's main attack direction was here, and heavy troops were still arranged in the direction of the Western Mountain. They even believed that the enemy might be playing the strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain, so the commanders and fighters of the Shangganling direction could only rely on their not-so-strong power to resist the crazy attack of the enemy several times or even dozens of times!

However, taking it for granted, due to the emergence of this war, the Commander Cui Jiangong, who was paying far away from the south mountain position of the Wusheng Mountains, was able to finally focus on the vicinity of Shangganling.

The first camp was attacked by an unprecedented attack, and the entire frontier of the Five Saint Mountain was fatally threatened by the "United Nations Army". At this time, it would be a huge mistake to focus on the southern mountain position of the Zhuzidong on the eastern foot of the Five Saint Mountain.

Therefore, when Wang Yang and the volunteer soldiers of the Zhuzidong Nanshan position who rushed to the eastern foot of Wusheng Mountain saw an unprecedented strong attack from the enemy in the direction of Shangganling, they all responded the same way.

The soldiers of the Forty-fifth Division who stood on the south mountain position of the Wusheng Mountain on the eastern foot of Wusheng Mountain immediately repelled the remaining enemies, and then resolutely withdrew from the south mountain position of the Wusheng Mountain on the eastern foot of Wusheng Mountain, immediately returned to the frontier of the Wusheng Mountain to strengthen the power of deep defense.

At this time, Wang Yang and Rou Ruoxi also retreated to the rear of our army. They gathered together the 45th Division, the position of the south mountain of Zhuzidong, which was attacking the eastern foot of Wusheng Mountain, and gathered towards the Shangganling area.

However, even with such a development of the battle situation, the enemy's attack speed and sharp attack were still far beyond Cui Jiangong's expectations. As soon as the soldiers of the Eighth Company and the First Company were in a desperate battle as soon as they confronted the enemy.

After the last strong attack from the enemy, in order to better defend the high ground of the Eighth Company, Gao Yongxiang organized the entire position into 12 positions. The main peak is position No. 1, position No. 3 and position No. 9, position No. 7 in front of the left, position No. 10 in front of the right, position No. 0, position No. 4, 5 and 6 in sequence, and position No. 2 is located 4 meters behind the left of the main peak. In front of it, position No. 1 is position No. 11 in front of the left, and in front of it, it is position No. 5 and 6 in the opposite direction is position No. 537.7.

The garrison team sticks to every position in squads or groups.

However, it was only at dawn that the Eighth Company had repelled two enemy attacks, and the casualties were astonishingly large, and our artillery fire came to support. However, despite the suppression of our artillery fire, the highly retaliatory enemy gave our position greater artillery fire coverage.

In less than two hours, all the surface fortifications on the position were destroyed. The traffic trench more than one person deep is now only one foot deep. The position is full of American soldiers' helmets, densely packed, and it seems to have three battalions. The American soldiers are also evil today. Although they are like flocks of sheep, they are indeed straight and do not hide or hide, desperately holding machine guns and submachine guns, rushing upwards.

The entire US military attack started at 3 a.m. to around 7:30 a.m., and there was only one person left on the No. 11 position and was forced to retreat into the tunnel. This was the earliest position lost in Shangganling.

The loss of position No. 11 caused other positions to engage in close contact with the enemy. Soon each position was in a bloody hand-to-hand combat. Many times the soldiers formed a group of enemies, causing our artillery fire and the US artillery fire to lose their effect. However, in comparison, the US military invested several times the manpower and material resources that were the soldiers of my eighth company.

By 1:00 noon, the Eighth Company had repelled 11 consecutive attacks from the 31st US Infantry Regiment. Except for several positions around the main peak, the other surface positions were forced to abandon them, and there were not many people left on the position. Most of them were transferred into the tunnel to support them. Only the injured were flowing down the position, including Gao Yongxiang himself.

The Eighth Company had just rested and settled half a month ago, but after less than a day of battle, the soldiers of the Eighth Company were exhausted by the enemy again, and nearly one strengthening company was lost. This battle made Gao Yongxiang feel full of grief and anger. Seeing the soldiers falling down one by one with few enemies, he was really heartbroken, but in order to retain the final resistance, he had to take all the soldiers into the tunnel and insist on fighting.

At the same time, the loss of the Eighth Company's position was fatal to the First Company's position. Once this highland main peak was occupied by the US military, the first company's position would be completely exposed to the enemy's attack. The garrison team in Beishan, the 37.7 highland was attacked by the enemy on both sides. They were placed at high points and occupied by the enemy. They could not withstand waves of attacks after wave of US troops. In the end, more than half of the loss was finally forced to retreat to the tunnel.

However, it has to be said that the battle with the US military was also very beautiful and tragic. From the beginning of the battle, the gunshots of the soldiers of the whole company did not stop roaring. The grenade explosion tube was smashed with its head and face, and the dense rain of bullets made the enemy fall in batches. However, in the face of the enemy's forced attack, the soldiers of the whole company still felt the strong pressure. The enemy occupied the advantage of numbers and firepower. Although the soldiers launched attacks on the enemy one by one, the heroes could not withstand the number of people and were unable to support them for a long time.

What's more, the enemy has invested a lot of money this time, whether it is the South Korean army or the US army. Van Vertrie used the most capable troops and was defeated by the volunteer soldiers again and again, but the enemy was unwilling to fail and rarely competed with the Chinese soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, bayonets, butts, shovels, and even teeth, and twisted each other into a ball and beaten to the flesh and blood.

The enemy troops, like a tide, climbed upward without any chance, and defeated one group after another, as if they could not finish any battle.

Although the first company of the 135th Regiment led by the company commander of the 1st Company Wang Fuxin is a Dalian team with more than 280 people, he had just been with the enemy for a long time and could not resist and finally retreated into the tunnel. Before noon, more than half of the casualties had passed.

Until this time, when almost the most important 579.9 and 573.3 highlands on Shangganling were all lost and the alive soldiers finally turned into the tunnel to fight, the soldiers of the 15th Army finally realized that the enemy's main attack point might be in the Shangganling area. However, at this time, the Eighth Company and the remaining soldiers of the First Company entered the most difficult tunnel to fight, which finally kicked off the Shangganling Battle...
Chapter completed!