Chapter 156 The soldiers on both sides are red-eyed

Both sides continued to increase their troops. 100,000 troops gathered around Shangganling. At this time, the 45th Division had 4,000 casualties.The 134th Regiment had no soldiers to transfer, and the head of the regiment, Liu Zhanhua, even personally led the regiment health workers, buglemen, correspondents, and propaganda officers to charge. The tunnels were filled with the remains of combatants, wounded and martyrs.Gunpowder smoke and blood mixed together.Food is gone, water is gone, medicine is gone... At this time, Army Commander Qin Jiwei, as a front-line commander, had been sitting in the tunnel command post for seven consecutive days and nights, barely sleeping.

According to Army Commander Qin’s own recollection, when the fierce battle ahead reached a critical moment, he picked up the phone, connected directly to the front line, and said to the front line soldiers: “You guys fought well. On behalf of the Volunteer Army Command, I would like to express my condolences to you…” Before the words were finished, the soldier who answered was anxious: "Commander, please stop talking nonsense, let's talk about things that are useful!" The majestic army commander Qin Jiwei said with emotion in his memories: "The soldiers are right. For that sake, life may be sacrificed every second, so we should talk about business."

Commander Qin Jiwei called Cui Jiangong, commander of the 45th Division, and said to him: "My 15th Army bleeds but not tears. No matter how heavy the casualties are, we must continue to fight! For the sake of the overall situation, even if the 15th Army is wiped out, it is not a big deal." What. There are a lot of troops like the 15th Army in the country, and you can just bring one up if you’re exhausted, but there’s only one in Shangganling, and if you lose the Five Sacred Mountains, it’s not easy for you to come back and see me!” Master Cui Jiangong stated: "Please don't worry, if there is one company left, I will be the company commander, and if there is one squad left, I will be the squad leader. As long as I, Cui Jiangong, are here, Shangganling will still belong to the Chinese People's Volunteers!"

Qin Jiwei said: "The position cannot be lost, and the casualties must come down." Qin Jiwei felt unsatisfied, and continued: "Please tell the troops, until the last person is hit, I, Qin Jiwei, will go up to defend the position!" Speaking of this, if there is anything else to say, let's fight! General Wang Jinshan, deputy commander of the Corps, later recalled: "Shangganling was the last large-scale modern war I commanded. In this war, I not only gave orders to the military headquarters, but also directly commanded divisions, regiments, and even companies, platoons, Ben, what a thrilling bloody battle! My command post is located not far from these two highlands. I can see the bloody battle between the soldiers and the American devils through the telescope. I can’t eat it for two days and three nights. For dinner, we are not only short of planes, cannons, and ammunition, but also the most basic air, sunlight, and water! We don’t even have the freedom to shit! So we have to drag them in the tunnel, plus the bodies of dead soldiers, the wounded and sick The smell of the body, what the air smells like. When I was patrolling, I encountered a mutilated bloody hand and leg flying suddenly amidst the sound of gunfire."

The wounded soldiers in the tunnel bit the sheets with their mouths in pain because they had no alcohol or bandages, and some of them couldn't get the sheets out of their mouths after they died. On the Shangganling position, someone grabbed a handful of soil and counted 32 shrapnel; there were 381 bullet holes on a red flag; more than 100 warheads and shrapnel were embedded in a tree trunk less than one meter long. Deputy Commander Wang Jinshan said: "Not counting the 24,000 wounded and sick, there are two or three officers and soldiers killed by us on average per square meter."

When the battle was fierce, Wang Jinshan's "desperate" and "crazy" came up, grabbed the guard's submachine gun, and rushed out of the bunker with the gun. He pulls back. Later, the Party Committee of the Corps made a decision: "There must be guards guarding the bunker at all times, and Commander Wang is not allowed to go out casually." In this great contest of strength, will, and wisdom, this great contest of human limits, can the volunteers persevere? The Volunteer Army Command is not sure. The 3rd Corps was not sure. Wang Jinshan, deputy commander of the 3rd Corps, was not sure.

He called Qin Jiwei and asked: "Should we continue to fight the enemy, or should we stop?" Qin Jiwei: "Keep fighting! But the Corps needs to provide strong support in terms of manpower and ammunition." Qin Jiwei's meaning: first, we must support; second, it is difficult to support alone, and we need support.In fact, Qin Jiwei didn't know whether he could persevere at this point in the battle. Commander Qin Jiwei has two characteristics: 1. Calmness, he doesn't panic when a bayonet is poked into his butt; Therefore, he held a combat meeting, and the commanders expressed that they must fight on!After listening to everyone's opinions, Qin Jiwei made up his mind.

In 1952, the second branch of the second condolences group of the Chinese People's Volunteers came to the front line of the Five Sacred Mountains to condolences.This year's condolences group is headed by Liu Jingfan, and Chen Yi, Li Minghao, Hu Juewen, and Zhou Qinyue are the deputy heads of the group. There are 1097 people in 9 sub-groups.The condolence group asked to go to the front to see how the soldiers fought.In the end, the two representatives—Niu Rusen, a model industrial worker, and Lu Zhuguo, a writer, went to the Frontier Observatory and used binoculars to observe how the battle was fought on the ground.

When the two saw it, they wept.They watched and cried, and finally broke down in howls.Lu Zhuguo said: "I'm not leaving, I want to stay here and write novels about the heroes of Shangganling, so that people all over the country and the world will know what kind of people they are, why they are fighting, and under what conditions." How do you win these battles?" Lu Zhuguo traveled to every company that participated in the war, listened to the shocking stories of weeping ghosts and gods with tears in his eyes, and wrote "Shangganling" after many sleepless nights.This work was later put on the screen by filmmakers in New China.

Based on the interview, the writer Ba Jin wrote another moving story, which is the blueprint of the movie "Heroes and Daughters".