The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 440 How to fight?
The difficulties faced by the regiment headquarters are very serious. The situation of the first battalion is not good. The problem is also a problem belonging to the first battalion.

The most important point is that the soldiers were hungry and launched the first line of defense in the absence of ammunition. The grenades were almost thrown away. According to the statistics submitted by each company, the grenades of the first company have been exhausted. The grenades currently equipped by the soldiers It was pulled from the dead body of the enemy.

Not a single grenade from Erlian was left, but quite a few were seized from foreign devils.

There are more than a dozen grenades left in the third company, and grenades were also seized from the US military.

There are some anti-tank grenades left.

Battalion Commander Li was worried, staring at the map, his thoughts wandering: "How do you fight such a battle? Do you fight bloody with the enemy?"

He has no good way to deal with the next battle, the only thing he can do is to seek help from the regiment leader.

The chief of staff of the battalion also understood the difficulties they were facing at present. After much deliberation, there was indeed no better way to defend on the spot and prevent the enemy from committing northern crimes.

Yilian packed up the few ammunition on the high ground and loaded them all into the truck. More than 30 soldiers with guns on their backs followed the truck and started chasing the ass of the first battalion towards Jiuluan Mountain and Tongguli. Enter.

"The Second Battalion has already launched defenses in Tonggu, and we are going to launch defenses in Jiuluan Mountain. If I die, the first company will be handed over to Xia Yuan. He will be a very good company commander, at least better than me. Lead troops to fight."

Company Commander Lei seemed to be arranging the funeral, and said again: "Old Shao, you should listen to Xia Yuan's opinion more then."

"Don't talk about that frustrating thing. If we don't die, we will still hold our ground."

Instructor Shao scolded with a smile, took a deep breath, and looked a little more dignified. Maybe by that time, he might have died too.

There are more than 100 soldiers who have gone abroad to fight in a row, and now there are only more than 30 fighters left, and his heart hurts.

It doesn't hurt, these soldiers followed them all the way from the War of Liberation and the suppression of bandits, through one after another, they stayed in a foreign country unexpectedly.

Xia Yuan was driving the car with no expression on his face. Maybe he would die in this battle. Since the [-]th Division fought in mobile warfare until now, he has been fighting with his life in every battle. He wanted to use his own strength to reduce the casualties of the troops as much as possible, but he underestimated the war. The mobile warfare of the real large corps was completely different from Shangganling. After all, the Shangganling period was the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The system has reached its peak, and the enemy's air force has hardly caused casualties to our army just because the tunnels stretch for thousands of kilometers.

However, the first five battles were to drive the enemy to the 5th parallel, and the mobile warfare of the large corps was the last resort. So success is entirely due to MacArthur's arrogance. He thinks that China dare not send troops. There were 26 people, and the sudden attack caught the US military by surprise.

In the first Yunshan battle, the U.S. military had already failed, and they still did not learn their lesson and went their own way, causing the [-]st Marine Division to be almost wiped out, and forced themselves from Yunshan to the [-]th parallel.

After Ridgway took office, he learned from MacArthur's lessons. After only two battles, he moved the situation back a bit. The big pursuit at the end of the fourth battle was still the same at the end of the fifth battle. If the logistical support capability is not resolved, the worship offensive is still the most fatal loophole of the Volunteers.

Therefore, after the fifth battle, there was no large-scale mobile battle of the corps. Instead, light brown sugar was used to concentrate superior forces to attack the weak points of the enemy. The target was Syngman Rhee. There are rarely more than one regiment, and the front line uses zero-knocking brown sugar, and the rear digs tunnels to store supplies, and begins a positional battle with the tunnels as the backbone.

Thinking about it carefully, the battle at this stage is undoubtedly the most difficult.

Lao Yang looked at Xia Yuan and asked: "What are you thinking, Lao Xia, I think your idea is very good, if you can blow up a few enemy guns, then a few fewer shells will fall on our position , but the disparity in strength is too great, we only have 30 people, if we really want to make a fuss in the enemy's garrison, it is estimated that no one will be able to come out."

After a pause, he said again: "I admire you very much. You can take the horse platoon leader, Chen platoon leader, and Liu Tiezhu to drive four carts of supplies from the enemy's garrison. In fact, I also want to act with you."

Xia Yuan smiled wryly, "Actually, I'm not very sure that I will lead you into the enemy's camp smoothly. You know, the fewer people in action, the lower the risk of exposure. Conversely, the more people, the higher the risk of exposure. If so many of us pretend to be ashamed, we will definitely be suspected by the enemy."

Lao Yang thought, "At least you did something that none of us could do. These four truckloads of supplies arrived just in time."

Looking up at the soldiers chasing after him, he could not help speeding up his pace, "Only when you are full and have weapons, can you fight the enemy, otherwise everything else is useless. Also, the canned food of foreign devils is really good. Eat, I didn’t even taste what I was eating.”

"The food made by foreign devils is actually not delicious. It's not as good as our Chinese food. It's not because China has just been established."

Xia Yuan smiled and said, "Just watch, when our country becomes stronger in the future, we will have such rations."

Lao Yang looked forward to it, "I really hope that this day will come quickly."

"!!"

A familiar whistle came from the front. They stopped and looked up. Two soldiers ran down from the mountain on one side.

Xia Yuan looked up, Captain Lei and Instructor Shao came over and said to him: "This is what our battalion stayed to meet us, which means the battalion headquarters is ahead, let's go, let's go there now."

"Commander Lei, Instructor Shao!"

Two scouts ran down, looked at the four trucks, and couldn't help saying, "We almost thought it was foreign devils, but we didn't expect it to be you."

"Don't beat us up like foreign devils."

With an unstoppable smile on Lianchang Lei's face, he patted the car body and said, "Our company's first platoon leader seized food, ammunition, and medicine."

"Really!? It's that battle hero from the leader again!?"

After the battle at 336.8 Heights, Xia Yuan was already a battle hero of the battalion. His story had already been published in the "Soldier's Life News". The feat of blowing up the enemy's artillery positions has long been known to everyone.

The two scouts were a little excited, and one of the shorter soldiers said: "Commander Lei, we heard from Xiao Qin that Platoon Leader Xia led him through the enemy's line of defense, and the enemy couldn't see them at all. , and successfully blew up the enemy's artillery position, which is amazing."

Captain Lei smiled: "Xia Yuan, Xia Yuan, come here."

"Captain."

Xia Yuan was chatting with Lao Yang, when he heard Xia Yuan's call, he looked up.

"He is the platoon leader, Xia Yuan. These two are scouts from the battalion headquarters, Comrade Old Li and Comrade Xiao Han."

Commander Lei pointed out the names.

The eyes of the two scouts looking at Xia Yuan became fiery, and they saluted and said hello: "A platoon leader!"

They admire Xia Yuan, after all, few people can accomplish what he does.

Xia Yuan returned the salute and said, "Hello."

After a brief greeting, Captain Lei asked, "Where's the battalion commander?"

"They are still ahead, about five kilometers away from us." The scout said.

"Okay, then let's set off quickly. In three hours, it will be dawn." Captain Lei looked at his watch, raised his head and said, "Comrades, let's continue to set off and catch up with the battalion commander and the others."

They still need to take the road to transport the four trucks back.

The two scouts went one step ahead to the battalion headquarters to report to Battalion Commander Li through the small road.

When he received the news that the company was catching up, Battalion Commander Li was walking at the tail of the team with the comrades of the agency. In addition to the comrades of the agency, there were also luggage, artillery, heavy machine guns, etc. seized from the foreign devils, but there was no ammunition. But they are still unwilling to throw away these things, especially those few howitzers. If they can capture the supporting shells, they will be a big killer.

The howitzers were disassembled into small parts by the soldiers. The heavy ones were pulled by horses, and the light ones were carried by people.

When the scouts caught up, they couldn't get far.

"Battalion Commander, Company Commander Lei and the others are behind." Xiao Li said.

"It seems that they have already arrived at Xia Yuan and are chasing us." The battalion chief of staff said, "Should we stop and wait for them?"

"Hurry up, they will catch up." Li Battalion Commander said in a deep voice, "Xiao Li, did they bring back any useful information or something?"

"Yes, Company Commander Lei and the others are driving a truck, which is carrying a lot of supplies. Company Commander Lei said that the supplies include medicines, food, and ammunition."

Battalion Commander Li and the battalion chief of staff looked at each other with surprise on their faces.

"What you said is true? They brought back the trucks? How many trucks are there?" Battalion Commander Li asked anxiously.

"There are four trucks, the trucks are full of supplies, all four trucks are full, and they are on the road." Comrade Xiao Li continued: "Commander Lei said that those trucks are a long line of them. They drove out from the enemy's garrison, and the platoon leaders are really powerful, they can drive the enemy's trucks out."

Comrade Xiao Li's tone was full of envy and admiration.

Now it was the turn of Battalion Commander Li and the battalion chief of staff to be shocked. They listened in disbelief, and looked at each other with a hint of disbelief.

"Comrade Xiao Li, do you know the consequences of lying about the military situation? If Lao Lei doesn't drive back four trucks, I will trouble you!"

Battalion Commander Li said with a straight face.

"Report to the battalion commander, what I said is true, and Lao Han can also testify!" Comrade Xiao Li immediately stood at attention.

"Go and call Comrade Xiaohan over."

Li Ying stood and shouted, "No, I have to ask in person."

He took the comrades from the battalion department to the reconnaissance squad and found Xiao Han. It was confirmed that what they said was true, and it was the turn of Battalion Commander Li and the comrades from the battalion department to be shocked.

The chief of staff of the battalion had a look of disbelief on his face: "Four trucks of supplies, how did the platoon leader manage to drive the enemy's truck out of the enemy's garrison."

"Hahahaha!" Li Battalion Commander Li was laughing: "No matter how it was opened, so many supplies are enough to meet urgent needs. The most important thing is medicine. There are a lot of wild vegetables. I have already organized the comrades in the agency to find wild vegetables, but the medicine is not always available. There is a lack of medicine, and many wounded in the regiment are carrying it. With this batch of medicine, the wounded can be relieved. That’s what matters the most.”

After a while, Lieutenant Commander Lei and the others caught up, and Battalion Commander Li and the others had already been waiting for a long time.

"battalion commander!"

A company of soldiers stopped, and Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao jumped out of the car.

"Quick, let me see what you have seized!"

Battalion Commander Li hurried forward with his people, looked at the four trucks full of supplies, couldn't stop smiling, and said 'yes' several times, "You have made great contributions, and now the whole regiment is in short supply of supplies. , these four truckloads of supplies can meet the urgent need."

Company Commander Lei said: "Battalion Commander, there are four loads of supplies, one load is ammunition, the other load is canned food, and the other two loads are full of medicines."

Battalion Commander Li nodded and said: "The demand for medicines should be higher than the food. The food is good. The soldiers can eat wild vegetables and gnaw on the bark for relief, but they are injured and can only carry it. There are many people in the regiment. The wounded soldiers had no medicines, so they had to carry them hard, and many wounded had been sacrificed. I will immediately organize comrades to send these medicines to the regiment headquarters."

Lei Lianchang said: "It's all arranged by the battalion commander."

Battalion Commander Li's eyes fell on Xia Yuan, Ma Dagai, Chen Lie and Liu Tiezhu, "You four really give us a face. You have seized so many supplies and made a great contribution. Later, you will tell us what you are How did the foreign devils drive out? Not only I am curious, but the chief of staff is also curious. Many comrades in the battalion are very curious. Amazing! Amazing! It is an honor for our army to have you!"

"Report to the battalion commander, we just took advantage of the chaos to drive out the enemy's car, it's nothing serious."

Xia Yuan is still very modest.

"It's nothing special? If it were someone else, it would be nice to be able to drive a car."

Battalion Commander Li said.

The chief of staff of the battalion said from the side: "Don't talk about driving it out, it's still a question of whether you can get in. You don't have to be modest. We will report this matter to the regiment headquarters, no, we should report to the division headquarters. The four carts of supplies are of great importance. Let's send them back first. Lao Lei, your company has to stick to the ten-kilometer defense line, and we have already asked the team directly under the battalion headquarters to support your company and help you build a defense line."

Company Commander Lei glanced at Xia Yuan, nodded heavily: "Yes!"

(End of this chapter)