The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 835 Helping Neighbors
The fighting in the past few days has been the fiercest. The enemy is attacking the position crazily. The forward position held by the fifth company and three platoons is a small hill with a patch of pitch pine and dead grass.

Just after dawn, more than a dozen enemy planes bombed the three rows of positions close to the treetops, followed by dozens of artillery bombardments, which seemed to flatten the hilltops where the three rows were holding on.

Several attacks by the enemy's infantry failed. The angry enemy began to bombard them with planes and artillery. The soil on the three rows of positions was turned over and over again. All the fortifications they built collapsed, and all the trees were cut into bare poles.

When the enemy attacked, the three-row position was like an erupting volcano. The soldiers lay in the craters and repelled the enemy's charges again and again.

At dusk, the enemy ignited the pitch pine and dead grass around the third row of positions. The fire rolled black smoke and rushed toward the third row of positions. Groups of Li puppet troops took the opportunity to rush up again.

The soldiers in the third row did not panic, and calmly aimed at the enemy, thinking of countermeasures.

Platoon leader Ma Zengkui blinked his eyes and suddenly ordered the deputy squad leader of squad seven to lead his men to put out the fire.

The deputy squad leader led half a squad of soldiers, hiding on the flanks of the position and behind big trees. When the fire approached, they used a row of grenades to repel the Li puppet soldiers behind the fire, and then used grenades to attack the soldiers who were spreading on the position. The flames are extinguished.

After it became completely dark, there was no sound except the crackling of unburnt wood on the battlefield.

Some soldiers said with a smile: "This Li Puppet Army is really good. It's cold, but he still knows how to set fire to keep us warm."

Everyone's dark faces showed white teeth and they were smiling.

On the depressing battlefield, everyone has long learned to enjoy hardships, which is also the strong quality of the soldiers.

The night was relatively quiet. Everyone was lying on the hot position, listening to the cries and shouts coming from down the mountain. Through the lights of the enemy's cars, the soldiers saw the enemy officers punishing their soldiers with sticks.

Those shouts were made by the officers. They were loud, jabbering, fast and angry, but everyone just couldn't understand them.

Those cries came from the soldiers of the Li Puppet Army. They were painfully beaten by the officer's stick. The soldiers covered their buttocks and their legs were twisted into a ball.

The soldiers on the battlefield looked on with smiles.

Suddenly, six colored signal flares rose from the bottom of the mountain. The soldiers put away their smiles and stared at the enemies at the bottom of the mountain. It turned out that the Li puppet army started to attack again under the coercion of the supervising team.

"Grandma, I can't even sleep at night!"

Some soldiers spat, cursed, and stuffed their anger into the magazine.

However, these Li puppet troops had been frightened by the volunteers on the position. They lay down more than 30 meters away from the third row of positions and stopped moving.

The soldiers in the third row cherished the grenades and bullets in their hands. They would not fire at a distance of less than 20 meters. It seemed that the enemy had identified the shooting distance of the volunteers and maintained a relatively safe distance.

Just like that, the position seemed to fall into silence again, with only the colored flares in the sky dissipating.

Some soldiers got impatient and fired a shot, trying to lure the enemy up.

But instead of coming up, the enemy started running down the mountain when they heard the gunfire. As soon as they ran, the other Li Puppet Army soldiers stood up and started running down the mountain.

On this day, the third platoon repelled seven attacks by a company of the enemy, and dropped two thousand artillery shells and bombs on a narrow position 200 meters long. However, the enemy not only failed to knock down the position, but also dropped it. Nearly a hundred corpses.

The casualties of the third platoon have already exceeded half.

When Company Commander Han reported the day's situation to the battalion commander, the battalion commander said happily: "Okay, okay! We will fight better in the future! You tell the comrades in the third platoon, the instructor and I congratulate them and express our condolences!"

Ma Zengkui, the third platoon commander who was standing next to the phone, interjected: "Company commander, tell the battalion commander that our determination to shoot is either to sacrifice gloriously for the motherland, or the motherland hangs medals on our chests!"

The battalion commander's voice of encouragement immediately came from the microphone: "I believe you will definitely wear the medal of the motherland!"

Xia Yuan did not participate in the subsequent battle, and the third company was also attacked wildly. The enemy had suffered a huge blow at the position of the third company. There were more than 200 people in a strengthened company, but only more than 20 came back, so the enemy was The three people on the hill were filled with hatred.

They launched a frantic retaliation against the Third Company's position that day. At noon, two enemy companies hit the Third Company's forward positions lined up in a row, and three rows of positions on the flanks were occupied.

The level of fierce fighting is not much worse than that of the main peak.

Feng Yuxiang pinched his waist and stared at the thick smoke over the hill where the Third Company was stationed, unable to see through it at all.

"The enemy is crazy!"

At noon that day, after learning that everything was stable on the main peak, Xia Yuan was urgently transferred back to defend the third company.

Xia Yuan joined the third platoon, and accompanied the third platoon to counterattack the hodgepodge of Li puppet troops and American troops on the ground.

He still used his subjective initiative. Xiao Heping and Zhou Mao were always by his side. After the previous cooperation, the three of them cooperated perfectly. While providing firepower reinforcements to the attacking soldiers in front, they also The ammunition on his body was provided to Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan maximized his shooting and throwing, and kept hitting the enemy's head with grenades one after another. Whenever the enemy's head popped up, a grenade would explode head-on.

After more than a dozen grenades were thrown down in succession, the enemy's firepower was suppressed, and the defensive circle built by several enemies was also destroyed by him. Three rows entered the position and started fighting with the enemy. An hour later, the enemy was abandoned on the position. More than fifty corpses began to flee crazily down the mountain.

The enemy who came to retaliate not only failed, but suffered a more serious blow. The mountain was still firmly in the hands of the soldiers of the third company.

The Battle of Feihu Mountain was the first serious contest between the 38th Army and the US Army and the Li Puppet Army after entering North Korea.

The enemy's artillery fire and aircraft were quite large, and even all the artillery of the puppet troops and the US military in Jichuan were able to bombard Feihu Mountain at the same time. The ability of long-range artillery support was outrageously powerful.

At the same time, their neighbor, the U.S. Ninth Army, can launch a joint attack with them.

Due to the large number of aircraft assisting the battle in the air and flying low, and the high density of their artillery shells, they were able to hit their own aircraft. This kind of formation was something the soldiers had never seen before in the civil war. , also the first time I saw it in my life.

In a cruel battle, there will inevitably be some who are timid.

The regiment's guard company deployed in the weak area was in a tight situation. The deputy instructor and the third platoon leader could not bear it any longer. They ran down the mountain with seven or eight people and said in a panic: "Regiment leader, retreat quickly, the enemy is coming!"

Fan Tianen and Zhao Xiaoyun sat still. Fan Tianen glared at them angrily, his heart trembling with anger. He thought that this position could not be lost so quickly, so he immediately shouted: "The position was lost!?"

The two men hesitated and remained silent. Fan Tianen understood even more clearly that he could not forgive these soldiers who fled the battle. He shouted sternly: "Yin Yueyou!"

"Here!" "Take them back to the position! If the position is not lost, shoot them on the spot!"

"Yes!"

Yin Yueyou was the regiment's reconnaissance staff officer. He immediately escorted the deputy instructor of the guard company and the third platoon leader away.

Political commissar Zhao Xiaoyun felt that human life was at stake and advised the regiment leader to be more cautious. Fan Tianen remained silent at first, then angrily picked up the phone and asked the division chief for instructions. The person who answered the phone was deputy division chief Li Zhongxin.

Fan Tianen told the deputy division commander that the deputy instructor of the guard company and the third platoon leader had escaped from the battle. The deputy division commander could not make the decision without permission and said, "You should just tell the political commissar directly."

He transferred the call to political commissar Li Jitai.

Li Jitai understood the situation and advised: "War is cruel. It is understandable that some people are timid and fearful. It is not appropriate to take such measures. You can give him more opportunities to exercise."

Li Jitai's reply made Fan Tianen calm down and immediately sent a correspondent to chase Yin Yueyou.

By this time, the company guards had counterattacked the enemy, and the correspondent rushed to the position panting and conveyed the regimental commander's new order to Yin Yueyou.

The deputy instructor and the third platoon leader have grown a lot after experiencing this. In the subsequent battle, the two also showed a strong will to fight and never escaped from the position again.

It is said that a strong general has no weak soldiers. This is the wise saying of military strategists!

The enemy's attack on Feihu Mountain is not only tentative. They want to fight hard to capture this high ground and open a way for them to continue to advance north.

Although the Volunteer Army's mission of luring the enemy in-depth is still unclear, the soldiers are determined to contain the enemy while holding on to the defense, and also strive to annihilate the first part of the Puppet Seventh Division.

The battle in Feihu Mountain was very fierce. Chief of Staff Jiang of the Military Department was really worried about the fighting on the front line. He led some staff members to the frontline command post of the 112th Division, which was a mine on the mountainside of Feihu Mountain.

Division commander Yang Dayi and deputy division commander Li Zhongxin are here.

As soon as we arrived at the division's fingertips, we could feel the fierce fighting on the front line. The mountains were shaking, and the roar was continuously coming from the front line positions. Standing at the entrance of the cave and looking at the sky, the smoke of gunpowder that blocked the sky shrouded the blue sky. The entire Feihu Mountain The sky also darkened at this moment, as if it was the end of the world.

Seeing the fierce fighting on the front line, Chief of Staff Jiang asked the deputy division to go and take a look at the main force stationed at Feihu Mountain and the headquarters of the 335th Regiment.

Li Zhongxin arrived at the regiment headquarters. Fan Tianen was very happy to see the division commander coming and said: "Commander, you came at the right time. The battle situation in the past two days has not been explained in detail to the division. I am also writing the content."

Li Zhongxin took a look at the battle situation that Fan Tianen had written for most of the time, and then asked about the detailed battle situation of the past two days. After listening to it, he said: "You fought bravely. Are there any difficulties? If you bring it up, the division will try its best to to meet your needs.”

Fan Tianen said firmly: "We can persist! I hope the division can support us with some ammunition. As long as there is ammunition, everything else is not a problem!"

Ammunition was difficult during this period. As the volunteer army's front line lengthened and enemy planes blocked it fiercely, food and ammunition could not be transported. The last supply was brought along with the army when they entered the DPRK. It was a reserve. supplies.

It was also because their logistical supply lines were blocked and it was really difficult to get all kinds of supplies, so the army decided to take out the stored supplies and transport them to various divisions and regiments.

But these supplies are very few. After all, the army has to march and fight, and it is impossible to carry so many supplies on the road.

Therefore, very few supplies were distributed.

Now it seems that I have to find a way on my own.

Li Zhongxin and Fan Tianen studied how to deal with ammunition and how to hold their position.

Fan Tianen suddenly mentioned something: "A soldier from the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion won a great victory. He eliminated a reinforced enemy company and seized a lot of weapons and ammunition. The 3rd Company was the only one among all the companies of the 335th Regiment that did not lack of ammunition.”

"Oh, what's the name of that little soldier? He must remember this contribution." Hearing this, Li Zhongxin raised his head and asked.

"Xia Yuan."

"Xia Yuan? Such a familiar name. I remember when we were in Beidong, wasn't the little warrior who broke the throwing record also called this name?" Li Zhongxin remembered it and said to Fan Tianen.

"Yes, that's the name." Fan Tianen said: "Later I transferred this soldier to the main peak to cooperate with the fifth company, and won several battles, especially a night attack, which wiped out a company of the puppet army and also captured A batch of weapons and equipment.”

"I heard the political commissar said that such soldiers are very suitable for leading troops in war." Li Zhongxin said.

"Xia Yuan is only seventeen years old. I plan to let the third company set up a fourth platoon to form a strengthened company. He will be the fourth platoon leader. His raid operations are very good, including falling behind before, attacking the US military station and seizing a truck of supplies. We can It can be seen that he is very suitable for this." Fan Tianen said.

"Then he is suitable to be a scout." Li Zhongxin nodded slowly, "Then let him start as a platoon leader, and then he will be given the title of commander of a reconnaissance company."

"it is good."

After Li Zhongxin returned to the division headquarters, Staff Officer Jiang asked him about the situation in Feihu Mountain, and then asked: "Can we still fight?"

Li Zhongxin said: "I think we can fight!"

Staff Jiang thought for a moment and agreed to continue the fight. Continuing the fight was also necessary to buy time and cover the adjustment of the troops' deployment.

Staff Officer Jiang plans to ask Comrade Li Zhongxin to go to the military headquarters to talk to the chiefs and put forward their demands so that the chiefs can make up their mind to continue the fight. He also plans to leave back to the military headquarters. This time he has got what he wants so that he can Research next steps.

It was not dark yet, it was still daytime, and enemy planes were flying rampant over Feihu Mountain.

When Li Zhongxin just returned from Feihu Mountain, the division headquarters had no water.

The guards lit a fire outside the cave and sat on the kettle. Unexpectedly, the small fireworks actually caused strafing bombing by enemy planes, and the kettle was also pierced. The guards had no choice but to go to the ravine to get some clean snow and put it in the kettle to warm.

When Staff Jiang was leaving, Yang Dayi said: "There are so many planes at the moment, it's too dangerous."

"It doesn't get in the way. Don't be afraid if there are few people."

After returning from the front-line division headquarters, Staff Officer Jiang brought his guards to the Wadong command post of the 112th Division. In addition to the staff of the 112th Division's political and logistical offices, this tunnel also had a battlefield dressing station, so it seemed very crowded.

At the northern end of the tunnel, a truck carrying luggage, a command vehicle, and an American military truck have been hidden. There are also a small amount of canned supplies on the truck. There are strips of dressings with blood stains on the edge of the truck bed.

Later, another medium truck drove into the cave, making it even more crowded.