The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 420 The Destroyed Artillery Position
The instructor of the second company said: "Here, what happened, how did such a big explosion come from the enemy's position."

A cadre in the battalion said, "Could it be a fire? The foreign devils set fire to the forest and burned themselves."

"It's unlikely. If it was a misfire, the enemy would be able to react completely, but it was obviously caused by the explosion first."

Captain Lei continued to watch with the binoculars, and said again: "The sound of the explosion is much quieter, not as intense as when we first went up the mountain."

He turned his head and quickly asked the soldiers beside him, "How long did the explosion last?"

The soldier said: "It took 10 minutes. At first, the soldiers thought it was thunder in the distance. It wasn't until there was a fire in the sky over there that the big guys realized that it wasn't rain and thunder, but the enemy appeared." problem."

Instructor Shao pondered, and suddenly raised his head: "Could it be related to Xia Yuan and Comrade Xiao Qin!? They have been out to investigate for several hours, and it will be dawn soon."

Everyone was a little shocked and thought that for a moment they felt that it might have something to do with the two of them, but for a moment they thought it had nothing to do with them.

Battalion Commander Li said calmly: "This matter cannot be concluded so early. The artillery positions of the US military are heavily fortified. We have not even touched their positions. They may not be found when they go, and there are only two of them. How to accomplish the task of blowing up the enemy's artillery positions is unlikely to be accomplished."

After thinking for a while, he said, "We need to wait until the two of them come back and ask them about the information they went out to investigate this time before drawing any conclusions."

After a pause, he said again: "Speaking of which, if the location of the explosion is the enemy's artillery position, then the battle after dawn will be beneficial to us. Go back first. The regiment leader is coming towards us with the third battalion. It's almost before dawn." If we can make it there, Xia Yuan and Comrade Xiao Qin will probably be back by then."

Commander Pang of the 336.8th Regiment followed the regiment headquarters and was rushing to the 336.8 Heights. The [-]rd Battalion was marching in front of them. They were going to reach the [-] Heights at dawn to stop the US troops who were trying to aid the East. The Regimental Commander Pang was on his way. I also did not forget to convene a meeting, the content of which was the current dilemma faced by the [-]th regiment.

It is nothing more than food, ammunition and medicine, which are the necessities for the soldiers to march and fight.

"The first battalion suffered the most casualties in the regiment, and medicines were scarce. There were not many medicines left in the regiment. Without medicines, the wounded could not be rescued. Without food, the soldiers could only fight hungry, and there was not much ammunition."

These difficulties bother Commander Pang all the time. He asked the Commander for supplies. He heard from Old Wang of the [-]th Regiment that he had already had to go through it once. Yes, difficulties can only let them find ways to overcome them.

This is a very nerve-racking thing. Where can I get food, medicine, and ammunition? Needless to say, the teacher, Lao Wang of the [-]th regiment has already passed.

During the meeting, some cadres proposed that they could be seized from the enemy.

This proposal was rejected by Commander Pang: "The Corps has a large scale of operations, and the amount of supplies seized from the enemy is limited, which cannot be used by all the troops at all. If this method is feasible, all legions have already followed suit."

The material problem has never been properly resolved.

Just when the 336.8th Regiment was rushing to the 336.8 Heights, there was a battalion headquarters under the [-] Heights. They all forgot, and told them excitedly that the enemy's artillery position was blown up by them.

This news made them extremely shocked. They did not expect that Xia Yuan and Qin Shoutian really blew up the enemy's artillery positions.

It would be hard to believe that a task that could not be completed even if it was interspersed was completed by two people. Who would believe this, but after listening to the two people's narrative, they felt even more incredible.

Not only entered the ravine, but also checked the enemy's specific strength, and even entered the enemy's artillery positions, using the sound of grenades to hit the east and west, detonating the enemy's gasoline barrels and artillery shells, and successfully blowing up the enemy's artillery positions. It sounds like listening to myths same story.

But the two described all the process and details so clearly that people have to believe that what they both said is true.

Battalion Commander Li was full of emotions: "It's really surprising. I guess the foreign devils would never have imagined that their artillery position was blown up, and it was only done by two people."

Everyone was also moved with emotion. It was unbelievable after hearing this, but the details they said were very detailed, and there was no way to make people disbelieve. Through the enemy's sentry post, hidden under the enemy's searchlight, the grenade was thrown more than 100 meters away, and it fell on the enemy's gasoline barrel accurately.

Everything is full of incredible.

But it is a fact that a huge explosion occurred in the enemy's artillery position. They all saw it, so people have to believe that the two really blew up the enemy's artillery position. It was also thoroughly touched by Xia Yuan.

"The enemies of a battalion include tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, and motorcycles. There are firepower points on the mountain and halfway up the mountain. The front is heavily defended. There are mines on the ground. There are tanks, armored vehicles, and fortifications built with sandbags on the front. , I’m sure we can’t beat them.”

Xia Yuan said: "However, the enemy's artillery position was blown up by us, which will definitely have a certain impact on the next US attack."

Battalion Commander Li nodded, "The bombing of the artillery position will delay the attack of the US military to a certain extent. This is beneficial to us. You two have made great contributions."

Although blowing up the artillery positions cannot influence the overall situation, the changes to the first battalion are huge. The first battalion is already facing a situation of shortage of various supplies, and they are facing a regiment of US troops plus a battalion of US troops. A division of the U.S. military is worth a corps of our army, and a regiment of them is worth a division of our army.

The main reason is that the weapons and equipment possessed by the U.S. military are too advanced, and our army can only rely on a higher force than the U.S. military to implement the strategy of division and encirclement.

It is to completely annihilate them with many against few.

In the blocking war, our army is often against many.

Without artillery support, the U.S. military will lack the most effective means of attacking our military positions. It may be possible to change the situation faced by the first battalion. Can have some impact on the Eastern Front.

It was almost dawn, and Xia Yuan, Company Commander Lei, and Instructor Shao came out from the battalion headquarters. In the hazy night sky, there was already a glimmer of light in a very far place, and the dark clouds floating in the sky could be vaguely seen .

"You did a good job this time. The battalion commander and I didn't have much hope for your investigation. I didn't expect you to give us such a big surprise. Blowing up the enemy's artillery position is a big job." Credit."

Captain Lei had a lingering smile on his face.

Instructor Shao also said: "The enemy's artillery position was blown up. It was dawn, and it was difficult for the enemy's artillery to cause much damage to us."

Xia Yuan thought for a while, and said: "Company commander, instructor, I went to investigate last night, but I didn't find the enemy's reinforcements, that is to say, the enemy's reinforcements are still on the way, and the enemy artillery positions I blew up are only It’s just that the U.S. troops in front of us, when the enemy’s reinforcements come, they will also have artillery.”

It wasn't just these things that he was worried about, he was worried about too many things.

Instructor Shao looked at Xia Yuan, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "You have done a good job, what will happen in the next battle, I will leave it to God. I believe that we will overcome difficulties, Win this battle."

Xia Yuan looked at the company commander and the instructor, no matter how powerful the enemy they faced, they always had the belief of victory on their faces.

He was looking at the 336.8 highland, a ray of bright sunlight shone on the highland, like the hope of tearing through the dark clouds. Facing the bright sunshine, Xia Yuan put away all the worries in his mind. The number of soldiers is very large, and the volunteer army is not a god, and there are countless situations of failure. It is the volunteer soldiers who sacrificed meaninglessly one after another to turn the tide.

When they face a powerful enemy, they will also worry, but after worrying, they still rush to the enemy with the idea of ​​victory.

They don't even know whether the battle will be won, only that the motherland is behind them.

As early as the morning of the [-]th, Li Qiwei, the commander of the United Nations Army, made a series of analyzes and judgments based on the situation reported by the various troops and the photos sent back by the Air Force. The offensive has worked. Whether it is the western front, the central line, or the eastern front where the Volunteers mainly attacked in the second phase, the Volunteer Army's offensive has obviously slowed down. This is inseparable from the Volunteer Army's logistics disconnection.

Due to the large-scale mobile warfare of the Volunteers, the food carried by the soldiers has been close to a week and is about to run out.

This is a huge opportunity for the United Nations Army, and Li Qiwei will immediately start a full-scale counterattack, chasing the team that he considers to be the poorest and most vulnerable team in the world.He proudly arranged for the U.S. Tenth Army, Ninth Army, and Eighth Army to start a full-scale counterattack on the morning of the [-]th.

In the second stage, Li Qiwei judged that the center of gravity of the Volunteer Army's attack might be placed on the center line. With his deployment, the frontal enemy troops of the 5th Division increased from 10 to [-].

The 63th Division is not only facing a major crisis of a sharp increase in enemy troops, but also, in order to resolutely implement the offensive order issued by its superiors, the [-]th Division has been out of touch with its left and right neighbors in pursuit of the U.S. military. 'Braille.In addition, Zhisi transferred the [-]th Division and the [-]st Division to move eastward, causing the [-]st Division to be unable to fill the vacancy in the center line even if the entire division was lined up. This also paved the way for the Pseudo Sixth Division to intersperse from the position of the junction of the [-]rd Army and the [-]th Division, go around behind the [-]th Division, and intercept the retreat of the [-]th Division.

At six o'clock in the morning on the [-]th, the sky was shimmering.

The entire defense line of the Volunteer Army suffered a fierce attack from the U.S. Army. From the west to the east, the First Cavalry Division launched a fierce attack on the 65th Army's position. The US 25th Division attacked the 64th Army's position from the front. The Pseudo Sixth Division began to attack northward from the joint between the 24th Division and the 63rd Army positions, interspersed all the way.

Major Luo, who was in front of the [-]th Regiment, came to the artillery position early. Although the artillery position was blown up by the volunteers last night and lost a lot of shells and cannons, he also quickly contacted the rear to pass false information and let the rear air drop Lots of ammo.

At the same time, a reinforcement regiment arrived with ten 105mm howitzers. Everything was ready again. Major Rolle took out the sketch drawn by the reconnaissance team yesterday from his pocket and gave it to an artillery ensign. The artillery ensign opened the drawing and looked at it. A few red circles, nodded to Major Rolle, the two looked at each other, smirked, and ordered the four howitzers to adjust their positions.

In the distance, there were roaring sounds from far to near. Over their heads, dozens of planes appeared, very high and far away from them, but the roar was huge. The two of them casually looked up, and it was a B29 bomber of the US Air Force. Major Er unconsciously gave an American military salute to the position of the plane, and the corners of his mouth parted leisurely.

He is bound to win the 336.8 high ground.

Soon, these bombers flew to the blocking position of the [-]st Battalion of the [-]th Regiment. Some fighters were awakened by the roar of these planes. After passing the position they held firmly, they flew to the rear.

Xia Yuan squinted his bloodshot eyes, watching the group of planes disappear over their positions, running to the rear of the volunteer army, and he could think of what they were going to do with his butt.This bomber brigade was to bomb and block the road along the rear, with the purpose of cutting off the supply line behind the Volunteers.As soon as the battle started in the morning, they discovered that the blood vessels connecting the front line to the rear had been cut off by them.

From the beginning of the war to the present, they often fly enemy planes above their heads, and they have long been used to it.

The people who woke up stared at the planes. They were bloodshot and their faces were very bad. They hadn’t rested for a few hours since they finally finished work yesterday. The bombers going away may be thinking, when can we have planes?

"Get up, check the weapons and ammunition, the comrades who wake up wake up the comrades next to them, cheer up, it is dawn, the enemy may attack at any time!"

Lieutenant Commander Lei and Instructor Shao stood up from the ground, with blood-colored eyes, pale and vicissitudes of life, beards pulled tea, and eyes sunken in their eye sockets. Long-term malnutrition made their figures look abnormally thin and emaciated.

(End of this chapter)