The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 157 Difficult Battle (2)

The next moment, the enemy's heavy machine gun bullets swished over, blinding the machine gun bunker twice in a row. The U.S. military had already noticed it, and even ordered the artillery in the rear row to bombard the machine gun fire points occupied by the enemy.

Continuous shells fell on the firepower of the machine gun, sand and stones flew, and air waves churned.

They have already hid in the bunker, using the barriers of the tunnel to protect their own safety. Xia Yuan even used the engineering shovel he carried to dig the bunker under him, digging out a slanted bomb shelter, and a large amount of soil kept flowing The ground fell from the top of the head, accompanied by the roar of the guns, and the sound of bullets flying over the top of the head. The bullets hit the ground and plunged into the shattered soil that had been bombed.

Accompanied by the shelling of the artillery, two counterattack troops of the foreign devils appeared, trying to recover the bunker occupied by the three people. This bunker was like a nail stuck in the ground of their defensive position. If it was not pulled out, The Volunteer Army will take advantage of this point and tear a hole.

They have experienced this scene too many times. During the previous battles, there would always be an enemy army that was suddenly inserted into the abdomen like a nail. Immediately ordered the counterattack troops to go up, intending to pull out this nail under the cover of artillery.

"Grandma! The foreign devils are really like an iron bastard, really hard to bite! The first squad leader, the foreign devils' counterattack force has come up again, beat them back to me, and don't let them touch Xia Yuan's position."

Upon seeing this, Company Commander Feng quickly ordered a machine gun fire team composed of light machine guns to attack the enemy's counterattack troops.

Seeing that they have just torn a hole, how can they easily block the hole while watching the US military.

The battle has progressed to this level, even if the counterattack force of the foreign devils cannot be defeated, they must still be hurt!

At this time, on the left side, the soldiers of the third squad had already touched the ridge, and a soldier shouted: "Squad leader, look, it's the company commander!"

From a distance, we could see Company Commander Feng and a group of soldiers who were fighting fiercely with the U.S. Army. The two sides were fighting extremely fiercely. Although there were a large number of foreign devils, the firepower of the first group was not weak. Several light machine guns were enough to suppress the enemy's fierce attack. The enemy's heavy firepower is not an ornament either. The chain of fire formed by the long bullets sweeps across the battlefield, like a long whip, striking a group of soldiers on the ridge. From a distance, one can hear the bullets hitting the stones and being crushed. The sound of popping.

In the remains of a bombed-out bunker in the distance
"The enemy's counterattack force!" The third squad leader withdrew his gaze. The enemy on the ground almost formed a situation of encircling the first squad. The number of counterattack troops was about two rows, and more than 80 soldiers surrounded the position of the first squad from all directions. .

"Spread out in battle formation, between each battle group, look for your own shooting target, listen to my gunfire and fire!"

"Yes!"

Several combat teams quickly spread out on the ridge. The foreign devils didn't know that the third squad had already touched it. They were concentrating on dealing with the first squad. The battle was extremely fierce, and after half an hour of continuous fighting, the two sides actually fought back and forth.

But the situation on the battlefield may change drastically every second. No one can predict whether they will be killed by the opponent's bullets in the next second. What they can do is to shoot at every second. Enough bullets were sent out to suppress the enemy's firepower and infantry. Under continuous shooting, a row of enemy counterattack troops fell down in large swaths, and other soldiers quickly fell to the ground.

On the battlefield filled with gunpowder, the situation is changing rapidly. The enemy on the right side sent a platoon of soldiers, and the left side also sent a platoon of soldiers to surround them in a double-team situation, but unexpectedly, there was a burst of gunfire from the left side , the counterattack troops on the left were repulsed, and before the enemy on the right could fully touch them, the bullets of the machine gun passed through quickly, and a group of soldiers resisted the enemy's heavy firepower and helped Xia Yuan and the three who occupied the enemy's firepower point Spread the stress.

After the bombardment, the three of them got out of the soil, shook off the soil on the gun, and quickly plunged into the battle.

"Company commander, retreat, we are running out of bullets!"

The first squad leader held the gun and crawled along the bunker to Company Commander Feng, shouting.

"Hold on, our reinforcements on the left are coming up, look!"

The leader of the first squad turned his head and saw the soldiers of the third squad staring at the enemy's fierce attack on the other side of the ridge, sharing the pressure for them.

"Counterattack requires more than counterattack, but destroys a large number of enemies!"

Company Commander Feng held his gun and said: "Our two squads, if we can eliminate one company of the enemy, we will make money. If we can eliminate two companies of the enemy, then this counterattack will be a complete victory!"

"Immediately go and help Xia Yuan attract firepower, and blow up a bunker of the enemy, and we will retreat!"

The first squad leader looked at the enemy's corpses lying all over the ground, and then looked at his own side. Every soldier was injured to some extent. The soldiers in his own squad had already wiped out so many enemies, and effectively wiped out some of the enemies. Raising troops, the mission of this counterattack operation has been completed. If one more bunker of the enemy can be killed, then this mission has already been overfulfilled!

Thinking of this, the leader of the first squad was determined. He set up a light machine gun not far from Company Commander Feng and fired back at the enemy. He shouted: "Comrades, the soldiers from the third squad are here to reinforce us! Hit me hard, Every time we eliminate an enemy, we overfulfill the mission once!"

Inside the firepower point, Yang Ming slapped off the dirt on his body, and suddenly said: "Listen!"

Xia Yuan held the gun, slapped the dirt on his head, paused, heard gunshots from a distance, and said, "It's our reinforcements!"

Yang Ming nodded: "That's right, our reinforcement team has arrived! It must be Class Three!"

There was a bright light in Chen Xuedong's eyes.

Xia Yuan held the gun tightly, full of strength. When the battle was most difficult, there was nothing more encouraging than the arrival of his own reinforcements. The gunshots intertwined and spread from Shangganling to far away.

The suppressed soldiers not only didn't feel scared, but their fighting spirit was high. They held machine guns and didn't care that their hands were scalded by the hot machine gun with blood bubbles one after another, but there was firmness in their eyes.

Under a round of enemy shelling, the three of them did not show up again, and the enemy thought that the three of them had been killed by their shells, so they focused all their attention on a group of soldiers on the ridge.The volunteer soldiers on the ridge attracted a lot of firepower for Xia Yuan and the others, creating opportunities for them.

Xia Yuan keenly seized the opportunity, stood up abruptly, and threw the grenade that had been pulled away in his hand vigorously. The grenade carried the soldiers' expectations, crossed the sky, and fell on the entrance of the enemy's machine gun bunker with a bang. With a bang, the entire machine gun bunker was filled with broken shrapnel, and in an instant, the howling of the enemy came from the machine gun bunker.

One of the enemy's bunkers was blown up by Xia Yuan with a grenade.

A group of soldiers cheered loudly. The soldiers were encouraged to shoot at the enemy or throw the few remaining grenades. The battle lasted for an hour and a half. Generally, the soldiers of the third class retreated to the tunnel. Smiling, the wounded saw the soldiers withdrawing and hurriedly asked about the fighting situation.

". At that time, seven or eight enemy bunkers and more than a dozen heavy machine guns were shooting at them together. The rows of bullets were overwhelming. Comrade Xia Yuan was lying in the crater, holding a grenade, not even looking at it. , just throw it behind you like this, and guess what?"

"What's going on, what's going on."

"Speak quickly."

A soldier with a head injury described the battle scene vividly. Wang Lan bandaged the soldier's wound. The pain caused by the head injury did not affect his storytelling heart in the slightest. There was a pause, listening to the enthusiastic wounded sitting on the ground holding their guns, and hurriedly asking questions.

He then eloquently said: "That grenade fell on the enemy's bunker hole, and it exploded with a bang. I was dumbfounded when I saw it, and our squad leader was also dumbfounded. When we were on the training ground , It’s not that I haven’t practiced bomb throwing before, even if I watched it, I couldn’t shoot correctly, let alone throwing with my back to the target, but what about others? Just lying in the bomb crater like this.”

As he spoke, he was about to take a supine position.

Wang Lan was bandaging his wound, and she listened with gusto. Suddenly seeing that he was going to lie down, she hurriedly said, "Hey, comrade, how about bandaging your wound?"

The soldier smiled sheepishly, "I'm sorry, Comrade Wang Lan." He coughed lightly, and continued: "He's just lying in the bomb crater, without even looking at it, just two grenades."

He stretched out his hand and gestured, "Just two grenades, one was thrown on the top of the bunker, and the other fell on the hole of the bunker, and the enemy's firepower was just blown out."

"Hey, Comrade Xia Yuan's bomb-throwing ability is really so powerful!?" A wounded member of the Seventh Company asked.

"Is there still a fake?" A wounded member of the Ninth Company said: "Xia Yuan just joined the company, and the first time he participated in a mission, he used a grenade to blow up the enemy's firepower!"

The soldier from Squad 50 said again: "Don't you believe me, there is something even more mysterious. You don't know that when breaking through the enemy's first firepower point, Comrade Xia Yuan single-handedly climbed to the enemy's firepower point more than [-] meters away under our cover. Position, use a grenade, throw it in along the enemy's gun hole, and blow up the enemy's firepower at once!"

The wounded's eyes widened, with unbelievable faces, all surprised by Xia Yuan's ability to throw bombs.

In the rest room inside the tunnel, the instructor said happily: "But you are back, how are the casualties?"

Company Commander Feng said: "Sacrificing two soldiers, blowing up four enemy bunkers, killing at least one company, and effectively killing the enemy with the least casualties is also thanks to the third squad, otherwise we will face counterattacks from two platoons of the enemy. , the casualties may be even greater!"

Company Commander Feng said again: "Instructor, we have to thank Comrade Xia Yuan more this time. You don't know that on the battlefield, he destroyed four enemy machine gun bunkers with grenades and killed many enemies with guns. His ability to throw bombs It is very powerful. It is rare in the regiment to throw the grenade so far and so accurately. The most important thing is to grasp the timing of the grenade explosion. Each grenade will explode on the enemy's head every time. I think this kind of air explosion mine can be promoted.”

He said: "This kind of positional warfare has a lot of bomb craters. If the soldiers are proficient in pinching air blast mines, even if the enemy is lying in the bomb craters, if we throw an air blast mine over, the shrapnel will definitely wipe out a large number of enemies!"

The instructor smiled and said, "You're good at this. I saw that the soldiers who came down from the battlefield were very enthusiastic about fighting. You can definitely take this opportunity and ask Xia Yuan to go up and give a speech."

He said: "Just now, the head of the regiment issued a new combat order, and I also have some ideas of my own."

"New combat order?" Company Commander Feng asked, "Instructor, what is the new combat order?"

"No. 17, our army will carry out a comprehensive counterattack against the enemy on Shangganling, and strive to recover the 597.9 highland and 537.7 highland in one fell swoop. The rear ordered our troops in the tunnel to take advantage of the darkness at night with squad soldiers as units. We can't let them sleep so comfortably at night with harassment operations!"

The instructor said: "In addition, the counterattack during the day is not good for our army. During the day, we rely on the tunnels to deal with the US military. They are energetic during the day, so let them toss during the day. At night, it's time for us to toss them."

Company Commander Feng thought carefully and agreed with the instructor's opinion. He said: "Instructor, you are right. We should make full use of the tunnel. And the counterattack in the early morning did teach me a lesson. The enemy is very capable of fighting during the day. Especially their ability to build bunkers. A few sandbags and a few wooden boards can complete the construction of a machine gun bunker. It won’t work if we fight hard against them. We need to be flexible. Starting with the analysis, we should give full play to the advantages of the tunnel.”

"In addition, you just said that taking this opportunity to let Xia Yuan give a speech, I think this is a good thing, Xia Yuan is now our battle hero in the No. Create a negative mentality."

The instructor nodded, "Then call Comrade Xia Yuan over and discuss it carefully."

"it is good!"

When Company Commander Feng found Xia Yuan, he was observing the progress of the well at the well in the tunnel. The soldier digging the well was chatting with Xia Yuan. Seeing Company Commander Feng coming, he hurriedly said, "Company Commander Feng!"

"Tell me, tell me." Company Commander Feng squatted in front of the well, looked at the well and asked, "How's the progress of the well?"

Xia Yuan squatted on the ground, looked at the soldiers who were digging the well, and said: "Company commander, the progress is very fast, the humidity below is already very high, this position has been carefully studied by me, and there is a great possibility to dig out the water source. "

After entering Shangganling, he has been thinking about digging a well. After such a long time, the depth of the well has reached two meters deep, and the hope of digging out water is getting bigger and bigger.

(End of this chapter)