Chapter 27 Machine Gun Position

The air in the tunnel was very thin, and the matches were not lit, let alone the kerosene lamp. In addition, because they were worried that the air would be exhausted, they did not dare to light the lamp. Everyone had to call a few cadres in the dark and gather together for a meeting a little wider. Although all the battalion-level cadres were convened, they were just a few chiefs of staff and the battalion commanders and instructors of the two battalions. Other battalions were buried in the tunnels in other highlands, and even the telephone line was cut, they could not get in touch, but even if they were contacted, they could not come...

It is really inconvenient to hold a meeting in the dark, because everyone can't do anything if they want to see a map. Fortunately, Deputy Commander Liu is capable. He found two flashlights from the soldiers, which added light to our temporary conference room. Speaking of which, most of the flashlights of the soldiers were thrown out when they were fighting against the enemy. It is really not easy to find these two flashlights now.

"Comrades!" Although I have never liked to preside over meetings, this meeting is different from usual, because this meeting will directly affect the life and death of the 538th Regiment, so at this time I didn't think about whether I like it or not.

"Comrades!" I shine the map spread on the ground with insufficient power flashlight in my hand, and I go straight to the topic: "I plan to take out the tunnel in the dark and fight another battle with the American devils at night. I wonder what are the opinions of the comrades?"

"no comment!"

"Blow him a little bitch!"

As expected, when the war soldiers were unwilling to show weakness, they all clenched their fists to agree. Even Deputy Commander Liu was no exception, but only Jiang Chunzeng and the chiefs of staff remained silent.

"Chief Jiang, Chief of Staff Huang, Chief of Staff Li!" Seeing that they did not speak, I asked straightforwardly: "I want to hear your opinions!"

"Captain Cui!" Huang Xianhua, who was impatient, spoke first: "We are also a member of the 60th Army. Of course, we also want to fight a turnaround battle for the 60th Army, but I think that even though I know it is impossible, this will not only not make a turnaround battle, but may also ruin a big deal! Maybe our army will suffer losses like the 180th Division again!"

"Yes, Commander Cui!" Chief of Staff Li agreed: "The more we are at this time, the more we must keep a clear mind and adjust our mentality. We cannot act voluntarily. Those who fight in war can live the lives of the soldiers! We cannot be so reckless."

However, Jiang Chunzeng, who was the most active and best advised me, stopped talking now. When I turned my eyes to him, he pretended not to see it, and habitually touched the matches and cigarettes in his pocket. Then he suddenly remembered that it was not suitable for smoking when the air in this tunnel was thin. He couldn't help but sighed and sat on the ground without saying anything.

"Captain Cui!" Huang Xianhua continued: "I mean, we can wait for the next chance to fight the battle. There are too many enemies outside, four divisions! It is dozens of times our troops. This time, we can persist like this and quickly complete the task and achieve a victory. If we go out to fight, it is likely to turn a victory into a defeat!"

"I think it's better to be safe!" Li Xiang obviously thought it was too risky for me to do this.

"Chief of Staff Jiang, what about your opinion?" Seeing that Jiang Chunzeng had not spoken, I had to call him directly.

Jiang Chunzeng breathed a long sigh, and after a long while, he smiled bitterly and said, "You know what I mean. We old guys are old. We just want to take steady steps and can't stand the stimulation of you young people!"

"I'm not hot-headed!" Seeing that the three chiefs of staff disagreed, I couldn't help but say helplessly: "What if I said this battle could be fought? Although there might be sacrifices and the sacrifices might be great, I believe that the enemy's casualties will be greater than ours!"

"Ball!" Jiang Chunzeng was a little angry when he heard me say this: "Tell me, we are all hiding in the tunnel and cannot contact the soldiers in other highland tunnels. How to fight this battle? How to notify other troops? How to inform them of combat plans? How to fight together? Let someone get into the tunnel and call them out?"

Jiang Chunzeng's concerns all make sense. The soldiers from all the high grounds of our army hid in their own tunnels. The tunnels were not connected to each other. The only way to contact - the phone number - had long been cut off by the United Nations army. Now we are actually fighting each other.

Of course, if we only hide in the tunnel, it doesn’t matter if we fight alone, but if we want to drill out of the tunnel to fight, then coordinated combat is a big problem. Most of the tunnels on other high grounds are like our current situation. They have blown up the tunnel entrances themselves, so we have no way to notify them of the combat plan, and at the same time, there is no way to let the troops fight together... But why haven’t I considered this?

"We don't need other high ground troops! It's enough for ourselves." I said something lightly, but it stunned everyone around me.

"Captain Cui...you mean..." After a long time, Li Xiangming felt a little reminiscent and asked in disbelief: "You mean, we fight the warriors from the highlands?"

"That's right!" I nodded.

"Hu Biao, how many people are there in your battalion?" Jiang Chunzeng shone the flashlight in his hand at the battalion commander Hu Biao.

"Report to the commander, there are still 85 people with combat ability!" Hu Biao replied heavily. Their battalion suffered the most casualties because it had fought with the pseudo-Capital Division several times.

"Where is Li Guoqiang?" The light of the flashlight shone on Li Guoqiang again.

"There are still 357 people with combat ability!" Li Guoqiang also stood up and answered. Each battalion of the 538th Regiment is super-staffed, with more than 500 people. Now, it has lost one-third of the loss in just a few days of fighting, and the loss cannot be said to be large.

"Yes!" After listening to the report of Hu Biao and Li Guoqiang, Jiang Chunzeng didn't say anything and sat cross-legged on the ground and rested against the tunnel wall.

I understand what Jiang Chunzeng means. He will ask Li and Hu at this time how many people there are. The purpose is very obvious, that is, tell me that all of us have only more than 400 people in total. Just relying on such a few people to attack the four divisions of the United Nations Army, which means that we have to deal with one hundred enemies alone. If we can win a battle in this way, it would be a myth...

"Captain Cui! Should we consider it again?" Even Deputy Commander Liu was a little shaken when he heard what I said. In fact, I know that it was not just Deputy Commander Liu like this, but other cadres must be wondering when they heard my crazy thoughts.

"This battle cannot be fought!" Huang Xianhua always spoke quickly. At this time, he stood up suddenly and didn't care about the face of me, the regiment commander, and said bluntly: "This is not a war, this is simply a nonsense! This is just a joke about the lives of the soldiers... let alone war, the enemies are all guarding outside the tunnel. Let's go out and fight the other one..."

"We won't go out of the tunnel!" I ignored everyone's reaction and shone the flashlight on several locations on the map.

"What? Where can I get out?" Huang Xianhua was stunned when he heard this, and then said angrily: "Can we still escape from the ground? With the ability of Tu Xingsun, he can travel thousands of miles a day in the land?"

"Tu Xingsun has no ability!" I replied without any objection: "But we have a channel to the forward slope."

"Um!" Everyone was stunned when I said this. Even Jiang Chunzeng raised his head and looked at me.

"The United Nations forces do not know that the tunnels on the front and back slopes are connected." I continued: "And the tunnels on the front slopes have been blown up by them, so they will not guard against the tunnel entrances on the front slopes at all. We just need to move from the passage to the front slopes and dig a little outward..."

"It's a good idea!" Huang Xianhua couldn't help but nodded, "It's dark at night that I can't see my five fingers. When we go out from the front slope that the enemy has not guarded, we can indeed do without realizing it. But we have too few people, and sneak attacks are OK, and when it comes to attack..."

"We are going to attack these points! Here, here, and here..." As I said that, I used the aperture of the flashlight to illuminate several positions on the map. This time, even Jiang Chunzeng became interested and leaned over to look at it.

"Machine gun position!" Everyone exclaimed at the same time. They were all veterans who had been through the battlefield and soon recognized the positions I was referring to were the five high grounds where the US military built the machine gun position.

"That's right!" I nodded and said, "What I want to attack is the five machine gun positions of the US military. There are not only anti-aircraft machine guns, but also mortars and recoilless guns. The purpose of the US military's position is to use firepower to force us into the tunnel and prevent us from breaking through, so the ammunition on it should be very sufficient, and there must be a lot of flares. Moreover, the US military would never dream of us attacking their high grounds, so the alert for these high grounds should be very relaxed. We secretly touched up and controlled these five high grounds in our hands, so..."

"Then the American devils are in trouble!" Hearing this, Jiang Chunzeng couldn't help but stand up, pointed at me with great enthusiasm as if he had changed to another person and said, "Good boy, you have already planned it and are still keeping it in vain, which makes us, the old guys, worry about it!"

"How can I keep it from being kept in touch!" I couldn't help but scream and said, "Before you have not finished speaking, you can't do a word, he can't do a word, I don't have a chance to speak?"

"Yes, yes..." Jiang Chunzeng looked in a good mood, and happily touched the goatee on his chin and laughed: "Now if we don't say it, you can just say it! Come on... continue."

"Well!" I cleared my throat and continued, "I think it is very likely to succeed in occupying these five enemy machine gun positions when it is dark and the enemy is not strictly guarding. Once these five machine gun positions are occupied, there will be at least two benefits for our army. One is that we can use the anti-aircraft machine guns and mortars on it to shoot and kill the United Nations army from a high place. The second is that the gunshots and cannons here can just cover and guide the comrades of the upcoming 68th Army, so that they can easily find the battlefield in the dark. If they can arrive here in time to cooperate with us to expand the results of the battle, then this victory will be very impressive! The most important thing is that either of these two benefits can become a condition for us to turn the battle!"

"Captain Cui is right! If you want to fight, you can fight a big game!"

"That's right! I snatched the enemy's anti-aircraft machine gun and let them taste the great things too!"

Hearing this, the soldiers all clenched their fists excitedly, looking eager to try.

"Although there will definitely be casualties, I think it can be fought!" Jiang Chunzeng nodded in favor: "The US military has a man named MacArthur who said when he landed in Incheon. It was a gambling for 50,000 US dollars. Today, our battle is almost the same!"

"Then bet!"

"Yes, fight!"

With the other two staff members nodding, the plan was decided.

"The first thing to do now is to prepare the tunnels on the front slope." Huang Xianhua started to arrange them without saying a word: "Those tunnels were blown up by the enemy. Although the soil layer is not very thick, it is very loose, and it will take some time to dig it up!"

"Leave this matter to me!" Liu Shunyi took over the task without saying a word.

"Comrade Liu Shunyi!" Jiang Chunzeng patted Liu Shunyi on the shoulder and explained: "This work is very important. It is directly related to whether we can drill out of the tunnel in time to expand our troops! And we must not make mistakes. Once it is dug down or dug too early, it is very likely to expose our strategic intentions, so you must act carefully!"

"Yes! Please rest assured, the leader, and ensure that the task is completed!" Liu Shunyi responded and turned around and went to make arrangements.

"The next thing is to divide the troops into five parts to assign tasks!" Jiang Chunzeng said and looked at me: "Captain Cui, what should you arrange?"

"Well!" Hearing this, I realized that the military matter should be decided by me, the regiment commander. After thinking about it, I said: "According to the report just now, we still have 442 people with combat capabilities, and we are divided into five parts. Each unit has about 80 people. The first battalion of Battalion Hu has only 85 people, which is exactly one part. The three companies of Battalion Li Battalion Li's second battalion were reduced to 80 people per company, and the additional 117 people were organized into a team of 80 people, led by Battalion Li and me. The remaining 37 people were left in the tunnel to protect the wounded and the regiment headquarters. Do you have any objections?"

"Captain Cui!" Li Guoqiang couldn't help but object: "There is no problem with this, but you don't have to go to the battlefield!"

"Yes, Captain Cui!" Hu Biao also said, "You'd better stay in the regiment headquarters with the Chief of Staff and others. Let's leave the outside matter to us!"

"That won't work!" I shook my head and said, "We don't have a telephone line when we go out like this. If I still stay in the tunnel, wouldn't I have broken contact with you? How can I command the war at that time?"

"That's right!" Everyone thought that if this was in the tunnel, they would really be unable to command the battle, so they stopped dissuading them.

"Battlefield Commander Li!" I turned around and said to Li Guoqiang: "Call the company-level cadres under your command to come up and assign combat tasks!"

Because the tunnel was too narrow just now, the superior company-level cadres were not called to have a meeting. If the company wants to attack a mountain alone, it is naturally another matter.

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang responded and turned around and left. After walking away for a while, he led a few volunteer soldiers to stumble and jog along the way. Seeing that they all had a sense of excitement on their faces, they must have known some news that they were going out to fight, so they ran up all the way regardless of the darkness under their feet.

"There are five high grounds we want to take down!" When everyone was all here, I shone the location of the high ground on the map with a dim flashlight and said, "It's up to me, Battalion Commander Hu, no..."

When I said this, I couldn't help but pause because I didn't know the names of the company commanders who had just come to the meeting. Those company commanders were also clever and immediately saluted me and introduced themselves: "The Fourth Company Commander Wu Xueshan!"

"Liu Chuanjiang, the company commander of the fifth company!"

"The company commander of the Sixth Company Yuan Yan!"

"Yeah!" I nodded and then said: "The five high grounds are each led by me, Battalion Commander Hu, Company Commander Wu, Company Commander Liu and Company Commander Yuan to take down a high ground. Among them, the high grounds on the left and right wings face the backscene surface of our position directly, so it is extremely important. Battalion Commander Hu and I are responsible for the other three high grounds. The operation time is set at midnight tonight. In order to avoid the troops staying outside for too long and being discovered by the enemy, we only have thirty minutes to prepare. During these thirty minutes, each unit must drill out of the tunnel as fast as possible to reach the designated high ground, and lurk in front of the enemy's position to prepare for combat. At 0:30, with the order of the charge, each unit launched an attack on time, requiring the enemy's machine gun position to be occupied as fast as possible!"

After pausing, I continued: "The soldiers of these positions have also seen them. They are the enemy's anti-aircraft machine gun positions and mortar positions, so each company is required to have mortars and machine gunners. When occupying the positions, be careful not to blow up the enemy's ammunition depot. After occupying the positions, make full use of the enemy's weapons, ammunition and flares, do everything possible to provide fire support to the neighboring highlands, and do everything possible to kill and injure the United Nations forces until all the bullets are burned!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded in unison. When they were stationed on the positions, they suffered a lot of losses from those machine gun positions. Many of their comrades died under the guns of anti-aircraft machine guns, but they were helpless and could not hit them, so they hated those anti-aircraft machine guns to the core. Now they heard that they were going to steal the enemy's machine gun positions and launch a large-scale killing of the United Nations army. They all looked light and gritted their teeth, hoping to rush out and do a big fight immediately.

After arranging the task, I couldn't help but relax. It's up to heaven to plan things, and I have done everything I should do. Whether I can succeed depends on the evening.
Chapter completed!