Chapter 46 chapter Five

Liu Zongkui fired the heavy machine gun that appeared on the mountain legs of the 631 highland in the north of Yingzui Peak.Together with another light machine gun that entered the depression on the southwest side of the main peak of 633 Highland, it effectively restrained and attacked the reinforcements of the enemy of Tianzi Mountain against the enemy of 634 Highland from the very beginning, so that the enemy on the legs of Yingzui Peak had to send The main weapons, including a heavy machine gun, were turned around to deal with the fierce blows from the north and northeast.The enemy infantry who had lost their fire cover was still tenaciously attacked by the nine companies and three platoons from the opposite side of the gully. Although the attack on the 634 highland had not completely stopped, it was already in a state of half disintegration.

Two hours have passed since the first gunshot exploded on the northwest side of Height 634, to the time when Liu Zongkui fired a series of bullets violently under the control of this heavy machine gun.During this period of time, many things happened in Liu Zongkui's heart or in the entire 632 Highland area. Gunshots suddenly sounded from the northwest side of 634 Heights, and Liu Zongkui immediately realized what a big mistake he had made!He shouldn't have sent the Ninth Company to occupy that high ground!Jiulian's military quality is too poor, he knew it before the war!Because the seventh company and the eighth company developed too smoothly on the 632 and 633 highlands, he also rashly believed that there was no enemy on the 634 highland, and sent the ninth company, which could not fight, there!Now he understands—not only because of the gunshots from Highland 634, but also because the depressions and gullies on the west side of Highland 632 and 633 in Jiulianshun suddenly gave him the kind of attack that was like a sharp sword piercing the enemy when he moved towards Highland 634. The feeling of defense depth - there are enemies on the 634 heights, and there should be no enemies!

But at this point there was nothing he could do about what was happening.He saw from the binoculars that the Ninth Company, which was suddenly attacked by a sniper, was retreating in panic. The enemy's dual-purpose machine guns on Yingzui Peak also turned their guns, and no longer attacked the mountain leg of the 631 highland where he was, but went to attack that team.A thought flashed in Liu Zongkui's mind: Call the Ninth Company to withdraw through the walkie-talkie, and send the Eighth Company that has already boarded the 633 Heights to the south of the 634 Heights.Looking at Jiulian again, he found that they did not break up under the enemy's attack, but quickly moved into the valley between the 632 and 633 highlands, with the intention of going around the east side of the 633 highland to attack the 634 highland , this incident made him suddenly feel that their thinking was right, Cheng Ming and Liang Pengfei might not be as bad as he thought before.Immediately, he could no longer consider letting the Eighth Company replace the Ninth Company to capture the 634 Heights—the Eighth Company went south from the main peak of the 633 Heights to the 634 Highlands. From the time he issued the order to the order turned into a combat operation, the speed would not be faster than the Ninth Company's arrival at 634 Highlands. Highlands earlier.He had already seen the enemy's reinforcements rushing towards the 634 Heights from the gap in the mountain on the east side of Yingzui Peak. He had no other choice but to let the Ninth Company quickly capture the 634 Heights!

He thought he was still calm, but in fact he was already in a state of confusion, and the vague sense of crisis about the development of the battle added anxiety and deep uneasiness to his sense of life.In this state of mind, he issued an order to Cheng Ming to quickly attack Height 634 from the east side of Height 633. He did not realize that there were no enemies on Heights 632 and 633, but it still quietly affected his decision just now, and 634 The gunshots on the high ground are not very dense at present, and the enemy reinforcements coming along the foot of Yingzui Peak also help him make this decision invisibly.The gunshots on the high ground made him judge that the enemy there might only have two squads or one platoon; the reason why the enemy in the direction of Tianzishan rushed to reinforce them, and a large group of troops came, probably had something to do with the situation above. ——The Ninth Company should be able to control the high ground before the enemy is reinforced!

Soon he realized that this was the second mistake he made today!Ten minutes later, he heard fierce gunshots like a sudden gust of wind from the direction of 634 Heights and Emerald Ridge, and he could distinguish the howling of a heavy machine gun from the gunshots from 634 Heights! The enemy of the 634 Highland actually has a heavy machine gun, which means that they are not two squads or a platoon, but a whole company! Immediately afterwards, Li Ao, the commander of the Eighth Company on the main peak of the 633 Highland, also reported to him through the walkie-talkie: The Ninth Company has been surrounded by multiple firepower from the enemies on the highland and the East Second and East Third Highlands on the northeast side of the 634 Highland!

Liu Zongkui felt that the thin thread that was fastened to his heart before dawn was pulled by someone again, and there was a burst of tearing pain in his left chest.The sense of crisis that had appeared vaguely in the bottom of my heart had become a real crisis: the reinforcements coming down from the direction of Tianzi Mountain went along the foot of Yingzui Peak to the opposite of the gully on the northwest side of 634 Highland, and began to attack the highland under the cover of firepower.It's just that for some unknown reason, their impact was hindered, and they didn't immediately cross the gully and climb to the high ground!

An intuition that the whole battalion was going to suffer a major defeat in the 634 highland area came to his mind today: in just 20 minutes, he had made two mistakes in a row; Experience a company that is not very strong inside to attack a pre-fortified high ground that is held by the enemy of one company, and is under fire from the east, south, and west; now add a company from the direction of Tianzishan The enemy's attack - in Liu Zongkui's imagination, the latter's threat to the Ninth Company at this moment is even more than that of the enemies on the high ground. Once they rush through the gully and climb onto the high ground, they will immediately annihilate the Ninth Company on the northeast side of the high ground from the flanks Sexual blow - the fate of Jiulian underground at Height 634 today is conceivable, and it is not impossible for the entire company to be wiped out!He couldn't help but do something about it right away!

The first thing he did was what any commander in the same situation would do.Liu Zongkui ordered Xiao Bin beside him: "Hurry up and ask Jiulian about the current situation!" "303! 303! I'm 304! Please answer!..." Xiao Bin turned around and took the handset from the walk-talkie operator, and shouted loudly. Neither he nor Liu Zongkui got an answer right away. The reason was that when the first burst of gunfire sounded above Height 634, the walkie-talkie operator who had followed Cheng Ming into the pebble circle was shot and died.The walkie-talkie was still on, but Cheng Ming, who was one meter away, did not immediately hear Xiao Bin's call from the deafening gunfire!

"303! 303! I'm 304! Please answer!..." Xiao Bin continued to call on the leg of the 631 highland, and an ominous thought flashed in Liu Zongkui's mind: Could it be that both Cheng Ming and Liang Pengfei died? ! After another ten difficult minutes, Xiao Bin unexpectedly heard the voice of Cheng Ming, the commander of the Ninth Company, from the dense gunfire from the handset: "I'm 303! I'm 303!..." A ray of surprise rose in Liu Zongkui's heart, he grabbed the handset from Xiao Bin excitedly, and shouted loudly: "Cheng Ming! Cheng Ming! I'm Liu Zongkui!... Hurry up and report what happened to you!"

Five minutes ago, Cheng Ming blew the trumpet and ordered the whole company to start fighting up and down the high ground. At the same time, he believed that he would die, with tears of despair in his eyes; After all, the sound of offensive gunfire reduced the bullets fired by the enemy on the high ground into the pebble circle, and a man crawled under the pebbles where he was hiding, and handed him the walkie-talkie receiver that had been calling.He took the handset, heard the voice of the battalion commander Xiao Bin, and then heard Liu Zongkui's shout—the deputy commander was not far away from him, but there and here became two worlds!

"Deputy regiment commander, we have been ambushed by the enemy! We are surrounded by the enemy!..." He shouted, and then thought again: the current situation between him and Quanlian cannot be changed by the deputy regiment commander! "Cheng Ming, calm down!..." Liu Zongkui raised his voice on the legs of the mountain on the 631 highland.Every shout of Cheng Ming at this moment seemed to be a reprimand to him, so his voice was filled with the anger that always appeared when he blamed himself, "You are a company commander!... Hurry up and tell me about the situation! " Another burst of bullets landed on the grass in front of him with a "puff", raising a cloud of dust and fascinating Cheng Ming's eyes. "Deputy head, I can't see anything!" He stopped panting and answered Liu Zongkui.He really couldn't see anything. As one row and two rows attacked the highland, bullets flew across the hillsides on the northeast and north sides of the highland, and the smoke and dust filled the air. All he could see upwards was a piece of earth-red mist rising from the ground. . Then Cheng Ming's voice was silent for a long time.This silence surprised Liu Zongkui.Because he could clearly hear many bullets whistling and landing around Cheng Ming from the "rustling" sound of the walkie-talkie.He grabbed the receiving microphone and shouted: "Cheng Ming! Cheng Ming! How are you?!...Quick answer!" "Deputy head, I'm Cheng Ming!" After a long time, Cheng Ming's voice sounded again.Just now a burst of bullets came too violently, in a panic he threw away the handset, and now he picked it up again. "Cheng Ming, Cheng Ming, let me ask you, what kind of support do you need now?!" Liu Zongkui exhaled nervously and asked loudly. Of course Cheng Ming felt that he needed support, but his military literacy was not enough for him to understand what the whole company needed most at this moment.However, from the words of the deputy head, he has heard the determination to support Jiulian at all costs. "Deputy Commander, we need artillery support! We need artillery support!" he shouted. The term "artillery support" was caught in his chaotic consciousness in a flash, but it immediately gave him inspiration: the enemy's firepower on the 634 height is too fierce, if the enemy is charged with a twenty-minute artillery attack, nine Lian's situation may be greatly improved! "You must be calm! First of all, as the company commander, you must be calm! I will ask for artillery fire for you now!" After saying these words, Liu Zongkui did not hesitate for a moment, facing Xiao Bin, and squeezed out a few words from his teeth: "Apply for artillery fire from Regiment A! Target 634 Heights, Yingzui Peak, and the enemy's mobile artillery group in the Tianzishan area! Hurry up—" It didn't take long for him to wait, and a large number of shells roared from the mountains to the north of Qipanling.The first shell fell on the mountainside on the west side of the 634 highland, and a black and red fireworks exploded.There was a buzzing sound in Cheng Ming's ear, and the ground beneath him shook violently. "Good fight!" He got excited and shouted into the handset. Before he had time to savor the joy contained in the pleasure of this moment, a 152mm caliber howitzer shell screamed, pierced the air, and fell into the depression on the left side of the pebble circle.He lowered his head subconsciously, and the shell exploded with a "boom-boom".Cheng Ming only heard two dead leaves rattle deep in his ears, and at the same time, it was like ten thousand steel needles piercing the eardrum and piercing into the brain.He was not stunned by the shock but by the pain, and then he was awakened by a shell that fell to the foot of the mountain in front of him! Afterwards, he experienced an extremely terrifying moment: he opened his eyes, and saw that the shell exploded at the foot of the mountain, a black and red flower like an upside-down umbrella, and the fireworks flew high together with the weeds and red soil. He went up to the sky; he didn't hear the sound, but felt that his eardrums and brain were in severe pain again, as if being pierced by thousands of steel needles. At this moment, he caught a glimpse of the fireworks above, and he almost fought with him in Heifengjian in the morning. The Chief Secretary flew high and completely, his hands and feet swiped twice as if swimming in water, like a bird with a broken wing, it fell limply to the ground, motionless.The scene was silent from the beginning to the end, and Cheng Ming was shaking like chaff before he understood why! "Company... Company Commander, don't let them shoot!" A voice came from behind him like a wave, and Cheng Ming's eardrums and brain hurt sharply again, but his hearing recovered.He turned around and recognized that the instructor Liang Pengfei, whom he hadn't seen since arriving at Height 634, was shouting to him.In the clouds of gunpowder smoke, the latter's eyes were so wide open, which in itself made Cheng Ming feel terrible. "Deputy regiment leader! Deputy regiment commander! I'm Cheng Ming!...I ask to stop the bombardment!" Cheng Ming came to his senses, grabbed the handset and shouted, "Deputy regiment commander, we can't fire anymore! The people are also blown up!" Immediately, Liu Zongkui shouted angrily from the receiver: "Cheng Ming, what's the matter with you?!... Where are your exact locations?!" "Report to the deputy head, our company has launched an attack on Height 634! We—" "Then what the hell are you asking for artillery support!" Liu Zongkui interrupted him furiously, turned around and yelled at someone: "Tell the artillery to stop shooting at 634 Heights immediately!" "Cheng Ming, listen to me!" "Here," the deputy head's voice rang again in Cheng Ming's ear, "You have to calm down! Command calmly!... Can you still retreat from Height 634 now?!" "Reporting to the deputy head, we have enemies in the east, south and west, and in the north—" He looked back at the cliff at the southern end of the 633 Heights, and saw the vines hanging upside down on the cliff, "Our north is a cliff ...We can't retreat!" Liu Zongkui's voice disappeared from the walkie-talkie.Cheng Ming panicked at the sudden silence of the deputy head. Deputy Head Liu's voice sounded again through the handset, and Cheng Ming realized that his premonition just now had been confirmed.Liu Zongkui gave him the order: "Cheng Ming! Cheng Ming! You have to calm down now! Calm down! If you can't retreat, organize a strong attack and take down the 634 heights!..." "Yes!" Cheng Ming replied.The shells that fell on the 634 Heights were sparse, but the little hope that had just appeared in his heart was like a light that lit up in the dark night, flickered and then went out!The deputy commander asked them to attack the high ground, which meant that he could no longer do anything for them except for artillery support and ordering them to retreat!Today, the fate of him and Quanlian on the 634 Heights has been determined! On the mountain leg in the south of the 631 highland, Liu Zongkui had just given the final order to the commander of the Ninth Company, and a sense of despair about this company was formed in his heart.Half an hour ago, he thought that quickly controlling the 634 Heights was the most important thing, and he even did not hesitate to let Jiulian take risks, but now he is thinking about how to withdraw Jiulian from there!The latter intention certainly ran counter to the combat order given to him by the head of regiment A, but for the sake of the lives of more than 100 people in that company, he was willing to bear the responsibility of turning an attack into a retreat!But the current reality is: relying on Cheng Ming and Jiulian's own strength, it is impossible to get them out of the current desperate situation!In order to avoid the complete annihilation of this company, he must order the Ninth Company to launch a strong attack on the high ground, so as to avoid being wiped out by the enemy on the spot. "Order the Eighth Company to go south from the main peak of Highland 633 immediately to support the battle at Highland 634. No matter what, the Ninth Company must be withdrawn!" He handed the walkie-talkie transmitter and receiver that he had been holding in his hand to Xiao Bin, and gave the order decisively . Xiao Bin immediately conveyed his order to Li Ao, the commander of the Eighth Company, through the walkie-talkie, but he could no longer care about this matter. The battle on both sides of the gully on the west side of the 634 highland attracted his main attention: Shun Ying With the help of a heavy machine gun and two light machine guns, the enemy reinforcements rushing from the foot of Zuifeng Mountain were trying to break through the weak line of defense of the Ninth Company at the foot of the mountain on the northwest side of the 634 highland, and climbed over the gully to the highland!In the whole incident caused by the Ninth Company's attack on the 634 Heights, the enemy's current assault on the northwest side of the 634 Heights has become the crisis point he is most concerned about!Once this part of the enemy has reached the 634 Heights, it will be too late for him to take any measures to prevent the Ninth Company from being wiped out! The firepower of the Ninth Company's sniper line at the foot of the mountain on the northwest side of the 634 highland looks so weak, they probably won't last long!For a moment, there was only one very impulsive consciousness left in his mind: we must give strong support to the sniper line at the foot of the mountain on the northwest side of the 634 highland, and prevent the enemy's reinforcements from Tianzishan from breaking through there! He asked for the handset of the walkie-talkie from Xiao Bin again, and called out to Eight Company: "302! 302! I'm 304!... Li Ao? I'm Liu Zongkui!...I'm ordering you to send a platoon with machine guns, go down from the southwest side of the main peak of 633 Highland, and help Jiulian block the direction of Tianzi Mountain. the enemy, don't let them cross the gully, the sooner the better!" This time, what he asked Balian to do has been delayed.It's not that the commander of the Eighth Company didn't carry out his order, the order was carried out by Li Ao, but before carrying out this order, he also carried out another order of his.The previous order was for them to go south to reinforce the Ninth Company. Since the top of the main peak of the 633 Highland extended to the south was a cliff, Li Ao decided to go down from the main peak to the east first, and approach the 634 Highland along the southeastern leg of the highland.They descended to the waist of the highland Dongdapo at a fast speed, but they received an order from the deputy regiment leader to go to the southwest of the main peak to reinforce the Ninth Company.Li Ao thought that the deputy commander's previous order had been cancelled, so he didn't dare to neglect, so he led his troops again from the east slope of Height 633 across the ridge line to the southwest slope.The consequence of such a toss is that the team of the Eighth Company has been moving back and forth on the 633 Heights for half an hour in vain for the two orders of the deputy head.Before they finally turned the deputy commander's second order into a combat operation, groups of enemy infantry emerged from the valley between the East 1, Dong 2, and Dong 3 highlands in the direction of Emerald Ridge.Under the cover of the heavy machine gun firepower of the above three highlands, these newly emerged enemies began to cross the large mountain gorge between the Gongmushan area and the Jade Ridge area, facing the 630th highland and 632nd highland at the easternmost end of Qipanling from east to west respectively. 633 Heights rushed over aggressively. Almost at the same time that the enemy emerged from the direction of Feicui Ridge, Liu Zongkui received a report from the Deputy Battalion Commander Cao Maoran from the Seventh Company on the 632 Heights.Subsequently, Li Ao, the commander of the Eighth Company, who had just returned to the ridge line from the east slope of the 633 Heights, also reported to him his newly discovered enemy situation.Li Ao also reported that another heavy machine gun of the enemy appeared at the waist of the north side of the third highland, and blocked the valley between the 632 and 633 highlands with fierce firepower. The highlands were divided and attacks were carried out one by one.Li Ao asked Deputy Head Liu for instructions: Are they still going to reinforce the Ninth Company's sniper line at the foot of the northwest side of the 634 Heights? Liu Zongkui didn't answer Li Ao's words right away, Xiao Bin and Chen Guoqing, who had been standing beside him, noticed that the deputy head's face was slowly but impulsively turning bright red.Liu Zongkui turned his gaze from Height 634 to Heights 632 and 633.Across the two highlands, he heard the dense gunfire from the direction of Jade Ridge, and immediately realized that with the new enemy situation in the east, the battlefield situation in the entire 632 highland area has undergone major changes.A few minutes ago he was only concerned about the fate of one company, but now he had to worry about the fate of the entire battalion.Judging from the enemy's actions, they not only need to eat the Ninth Company under the 634 Highland today, but also take back the entire 632 Highland area through large-scale combat operations, and may even carry out the entire Gongmu Mountain area including Qipanling. Total counterattack.If it is the former case, their battalion will immediately face an extremely difficult battle in the 632 highland area; No matter what the situation is, the situation of this battalion here today has become extremely dangerous! Liu Zongkui did not break away from paying attention to one kind of crisis to understand another kind of deeper crisis.The latter brought him a more oppressive sense of crisis than the 634 Heights battle at the same time it came, but he needed even a few seconds to truly understand its meaning and figure out what the whole battalion should do next. clock time.But the radio operator had hurried up the gully on the west side of the mountain leg and reported to him: "Deputy Head, Head Jiang of Group A is speaking to you!" Liu Zongkui took the radio handset that he handed over, and Jiang Tao's impatient, slightly exasperated call echoed on the mountain legs like an explosion: "Weishui! Weishui! I am the Yellow River! I am the Yellow River! Please answer! Please answer!..." "I'm Weishui! If you have something to say, please tell me!" Jiang Tao called him personally at this time, and nothing good would happen.Liu Zongkui tried his best to suppress the resentment and impatience in his heart, and answered loudly. "Weishui! Weishui! Deputy Head Liu?...I'm Jiang Tao! What's going on with you?!" "We have captured the 632 and 633 heights, but we encountered heavy enemy sniping on the 634 heights!" Liu Zongkui deliberately slowed down his speech, and answered each other word by word, "Our whole battalion is fighting bloody battles!" "Deputy Commander Liu, the enemy has launched a fierce attack on the 630 Heights at the east end of Qipanling!" Jiang Tao's voice became domineering and threatening, "I know you have occupied the 632 and 633 Heights. Now I want to convey to you the command of the army commander: All the recovered highlands, even a single mountain leg, cannot be discarded! Whoever discards them will be responsible for losing their land and losing their rights!...Also, I order you Take all three small highlands in the 632 highland area before 14:00 p.m., and now you have more than an hour! I will give you another hour to take down the 634 highland! Deputy head Liu, I hope you will not because of My own slow movement has affected our regiment's completion of the offensive combat mission in the Qipanling area on time—" "Captain Jiang, I understand what you mean!" Liu Zongkui suddenly pressed the microphone button, interrupting Jiang Tao's endless flow of words.At the moment when the battlefield situation in the entire 632 highland area has undergone major changes, he is unwilling to listen to this person's reprimand. "Regimental Commander Jiang, a large number of enemies have also appeared in the east of the 632 and 633 highlands that our battalion has occupied. I am going to organize a battle!" He casually returned the receiver to the radio operator, and then turned his gaze to the east.A large number of shells were flying from the two directions of Tianzi Mountain and Jade Ridge to the 630, 632, and 633 highlands, and they exploded one after another.He didn't think about Jiang Tao anymore, but the commander's order conveyed by the latter still played a decisive role in his newly formed determination. "Commander Xiao, convey my order to Deputy Battalion Commander Cao: He will lead the seventh company to be responsible for the defense of the 632 highland, including the valley between the north side and Qipanling. The enemy must not be allowed to occupy the highland, especially the enemy must not pass through. That valley penetrated in and cut off the connection between our battalion and Qipanling! Tell the commander of the Eighth Company that they must hold the 633 highland and the valley between the 632 highland and not allow the enemy to separate the 632 and 633 highlands from there !...You let them convey my order to all the cadres and soldiers: Everyone is in the position! Before receiving the order to retreat, you must resolutely fight to the last person!" "Yes!" Xiao Bin responded loudly, and immediately called the Seventh Company and the Eighth Company through the walkie-talkie. From the mountains to the north of Qipanling, our army's artillery group also started firing, targeting the enemy artillery groups in the Tianzishan and Jade Ridge areas.Obviously Jiang Tao knew the situation in the eastern section of Qipanling and the entire 632 highland area, and he called for artillery fire before him.But this incident did not relieve the pressure on his heart caused by the changes in the battle situation.Liu Zongkui walked a few steps towards the east side of the mountain leg along the crevasse under his feet, raised his binoculars again, and looked at the 634 highland.Just as he made up his new determination just now, he had already thought of it: the Eighth Company has a new mission, and it is impossible for them to reinforce the Ninth Company. After that, the Ninth Company can only rely on its own strength up and down the 634 Heights!He clearly knew that the hope of this company surviving was extremely slim. He even thought that the Ninth Company had probably been completely wiped out at this moment—the sniper line of the Ninth Company on the northwest side of the 634 Heights may have collapsed during this period, and Yingzuifeng Mountain The enemy on the legs may have passed the ditch long ago, and once the latter has passed the ditch, the last moment of the Nine Company's destruction will arrive! ——But what appeared in the telescope surprised him suddenly: he guessed wrong!The enemies on the legs of Yingzui Peak still haven't crossed the gully, and the nine company sniper line on the east side of the gully is still fighting! There was a sudden burst of gunfire on the east side of the 632 and 633 highlands!Liu Zongkui looked back from the direction of the 634 highlands, and looked towards the above two highlands again.The gunshots only showed one thing: the seventh company and the eighth company also engaged in fierce defensive battles at the eastern foot of the 632 and 633 highlands and the main peak!Every burst of popping gunshots sounded there at the moment, as if someone had hit his already fragile heartstrings with a heavy hammer! Xiao Bin and Chen Guoqing noticed that the impulsive blood on the deputy head's face became brighter.With the large-scale counterattack launched by the enemy in the direction of Jade Ridge to the 630, 632, and 633 highlands as the boundary, Liu Zongkui's spirit has entered a new state.He himself was not aware of this change, but it had already happened: before this moment, even though the Ninth Company had already been encircled under the 634 Heights and was facing the danger of complete annihilation, he still held the fate of the whole battalion in the 632 Heights area. He didn't lose confidence; after that, a feeling of being unable to control the development of the battle situation clearly appeared in his heart, causing great panic in the depths of his life.This panic is not about himself. Once the battle starts, his own life is nothing. What makes him panic is that the life and death of the hundreds of people in the whole camp brought here from Heifengjian will be passively handed over. He gave the battlefield many unknown and uncontrollable factors to dominate.He doesn't know how many troops the enemy is going to invest in the entire 632 Heights now, but judging from the current posture, it will definitely not use only one regiment of troops.The enemy also knows that to seize the 630, 632, and 633 highlands, they must use at least four times as many troops as me to be effective!Leaving aside the Ninth Company, the Seventh Company and the Eighth Company can fight against an enemy four times their size on the ground they are defending. However, if the enemy's strength exceeds this limit, he does not have a reserve team of soldiers to use. of!The enemy may also bring them the fate of destruction through another way, that is, after occupying the 630 highland, they will insert westward from the valley between Qipanling and the 632 highland, encircle them in the 632 highland area, and then divide and annihilate them.The latter possibility didn't just exist in his imagination. He had never fully believed in Jiang Tao, so he didn't dare to fully trust Jiang Tao's troops!Moreover, just now Jiang Tao gave them an order to stand firm in the form of an order from the army commander, but did not give them an order to retreat in camera.He couldn't help but understand in his heart: from now on, his battalion had to insist on fighting the enemy to the end here, and the fate of the whole battalion's officers and soldiers had been decided! Did Jiang Tao already know that they would encounter such a big trouble in the 632 highland area?In his current mental state of grief, indignation, despair and powerlessness, it is not very strange for the above thoughts to pop up from the bottom of his consciousness.Did Jiang Tao expect that the 632 highland area was a powder keg that would explode at one point, so he gave up the plan of the A regiment to monopolize the Qipanling area to recover the battle, and sent them here?Before the war, he had doubts and fears about Jiang Tao's command of the battalion of C regiment, and now he had to think that his doubts and fears had been confirmed.From his point of view, after Regiment A occupied the entire line of Qipanling at dawn, the third battalion of the regiment should have immediately descended from the 631 highland to the 632, 633, and 634 highlands. Jiang Tao did not do this. Fengjian rushed to the 632 highland area for a long distance, and there would be some famous tricks; before setting off from Heifengjian, Jiang Tao told them through his chief of staff that there were no enemies in the 632 highland area, but they fell into desperation here, almost falling into the a trap!Also, although Jiang Tao didn't have much contact with him after the combat operation started, he left him with a very real feeling: the head of regiment A has been guarding a certain place since he gave the order, watching closely regiment C The action of the three battalions!He knows everything that happens here!He knows Jiang Tao too well. Jiang Tao never pays attention to others for no reason. He is a consistent egotist. Once he suddenly casts his eyes on you nervously, there must be some kind of reason that only he understands. , the reason for having a significant stake in him. ——Liu Zongkui now feels that he is more convinced of the reason: the 632 highland area must be recovered, which is part of Jiang Tao's combat mission today; but he also understands that the 632 highland area is a hornet's nest, and he is afraid that his troops will suffer here It was a major failure, so I handed over the task to them! "How despicable! How cruel!...How vain!" Liu Zongkui cursed bitterly in his heart, but he had to admit painfully that if Jiang Tao really thought that way at the beginning, his goal had already been achieved by now!Their battalion replaced the A regiment in the 632 highland area to bear the heavy pressure from the enemies from Tianzi Mountain and Jade Ridge. Since they were already in a desperate situation, they had to engage in a desperate bloody battle. The troops of the A regiment did not suffer any pressure! Now even if he wants to withdraw the entire battalion from the 632 highland area, it will be impossible!Not only was the Ninth Company unable to withdraw from the 634 Heights, but the Seventh Company and the Eighth Company were also unable to withdraw from the battle at the 632 and 633 Heights at this time!As the supreme commander of this small army, he can only watch the entire battalion suffer the darkest fate and cannot help them! But must their situation be so hopeless?For a moment, a voice of grief and indignation yelled in his heart, the current situation of the whole battalion is so hopeless, can't you think of any way to help these brothers who were brought to the battlefield by you? "No, I must think of a way! I must think of a way!" cried his heart unyieldingly. Glancing at the extremely impulsive face of the deputy head, Xiao Bin's expression also changed.Looking at Height 633, he suddenly broke the silence and said: "Deputy head, I ask you to allow me to go to the Eighth Company! The Seventh Company has Deputy Battalion Commander Cao. I will go to the Eighth Company to have a look. By the way, I can observe the situation on the 634 Heights up close!" Xiao Bin's face flushed purple, his eyes filled with pain and intensity.Liu Zongkui only glanced at that face, and immediately thought of what this young man really wanted to say at this moment.At the current critical moment, he couldn't refuse the request to go to the battlefield alone, not to mention that Li Ao, the commander of the eighth company, might really need the help of a battalion chief! "Okay!... You go there and make arrangements and come back, don't be wary!" He said loudly. Xiao Bin answered "yes", took the guards with him, hurried down the mountain leg, and headed for the 633 highland. Liu Zongkui set his sights on the 634 Heights again.At this time, the trainer Chen Guoqing flashed in front of him. "Deputy head, I have an idea." He said, his eyes behind the glasses were extremely bright, because the deputy head turned to look at him, his face suddenly flushed red, but he still resisted Under the pressure of Liu Zongkui's eyes, he said what he wanted to say, "I think in the current situation, we should ask the A regiment for reinforcements!" "Reinforcement?!" Liu Zongkui almost cried out.Just half a minute before, the possibility had been conceived of in his mind when he had just begun to find a way out of the present impasse for the whole battalion.But he couldn't believe that he could succeed: Jiang Tao cherished his feathers so much. Today's situation is obvious. A fierce battle is bound to happen in this area. No one knows how the battle situation will deteriorate. Jiang Tao will not be clear about this, Will he throw his troops into this deadly place? ! "Deputy Commander, I think Commander Jiang of the A Regiment should give us reinforcements!" Chen Guoqing seemed to have seen through his mind, and continued, "Because of the appearance of our battalion in the 632 highland area, the battlefield situation in the entire Qipanling area has changed. Fundamental changes have taken place. At present, apart from the third battalion in the 631 highland area, the first battalion in the 164 highland area and the second battalion in the 342 highland area of ​​the A regiment are basically not under too much pressure. The A regiment can draw troops from there to reinforce us! , as long as we can persist in the 632 highland area, it is impossible for the enemy in the direction of Jade Ridge to pose a direct threat to the frontal defensive position of the A regiment riding Panling. The enemy in the direction of Tianzishan is restrained by the B regiment and the 632 highland area. There is no more sufficient force than at present, and we dare not attack Qipanling from the direction of 164 highlands and 342 highlands!" He paused, and then said, "Take a step back, even if Captain Jiang is worried that the enemy will attack 164, 342 highlands If he can't draw any troops to attack, he can also ask the division chief for reinforcements, even if he can give us an additional battalion, the battle situation in the 632 highland area will undergo a major change!" After saying these words, the two blushes on his cheekbones became bigger, his eyes became brighter, and he did not move away from Liu Zongkui's gaze, as if he believed more firmly than ever that his opinion was correct.Liu Zongkui was shocked: since the whole battalion moved to Heifengjian last night, this is the second time this shy instructor has said something very insightful in military affairs!This time, he will not ignore Chen Guoqing's words as a scholar's opinion!On the question of asking for reinforcements, the difference between him and Chen Guoqing was that he was thinking about it from the perspective of the Third Battalion of Regiment C and distrusting Jiang Tao, so he quickly came to a negative conclusion; Chen Guoqing was not the case. The latter thought about this matter from Jiang Tao's point of view, so he came to a conclusion that was beneficial to them.This is the genius of this scholar! Yes, he should ask Jiang Tao for help!江涛有力量也应当给予他们增援，哪怕是从师的预备队里为他们请求增援，因为这对江涛自己守住骑盘岭并最终完全控制632高地地区的三座小高地，完成今天的作战任务是有利的！刘宗魁的心已经热起来，只要江涛给予他相当一部分兵力——比方说就是一个营——的增援，632高地地区的战局就会再次出现转机！再有一个营他就能确保632、633高地不丢失，也就有了力量拿下634高地，将九连从覆灭的命运中解救出来（当然他们必须坚持到增援部队到来），拿下那座高地！以后他用手中这两个营的兵力在632高地地区组织防御，敌人没有八个营也即两个团加两个营的兵力是不可能取胜的！陈国庆的分析有道理，632高地地区的我军已成为敌人的心腹大患，不将这颗钉子拔掉，他们不大可能贸然去攻击骑盘岭！ 江涛会给他一个营的增援吗？一刹那间这个疑问也在他心里升起来了。但它没能消除生命里已经膨胀起来的激动情绪。江涛会这样做的，他为了别人不会这样做，但今天他是为了自己！而一旦江涛这样做了，已陷入绝境的C团三营也就有救了！ 他让魏喜跑去把电台报务员喊上山腿，从后者手里接过送受话器，大声向A团指挥所呼叫： “黄河！黄河！我是渭水！我是渭水！……” A团指挥所马上就有了反应。但回答他的呼叫的不是江涛，而是A团参谋长尹国才飘飘忽忽的声音： “我是黄河！我是黄河！渭水有话请讲！” “黄河！黄河！我是刘宗魁，我要和江团长讲话！” A团指挥所那边耽搁了一会儿。重新有人讲话时，传过来的仍是尹国才的声音： “刘副团长，我是尹国才！江团长不在，有话你就对我讲吧！” 江涛肯定就站在尹国才身边，但不知为什么不愿与他直接通话，刘宗魁感觉到了，心中的激动立即打了折扣！ “尹参谋长，我是刘宗魁！请你马上转告江团长，我们在632高地地区遭到了天子山和翡翠岭方向大批敌人的攻击和狙击，处境十分困难！我现在请求至少一个营的增援！” 送受话器里突然只剩下电流的充满不祥意味的“沙沙”声。过了很久，尹国才的声音才又试探似的飘过来： “刘副团长，我是尹国才。我想问你一句：除了兵力增援，你们还需要什么样的增援？” “需要重机枪！让增援部队至少带一挺重机枪！”刘宗魁一刻没有犹豫，就说出了他日前最渴望的东西。632高地上有一挺重机枪在啸叫，633高地上也有一挺重机枪在啸叫，唯独没有从634高地上下的九连听到重机枪的射击声，他能分辨出的只有敌人的一挺从南向北打响的重机枪的叫声。一闪念间他想到自己手中有一挺重机枪，就可以由西北向东南封锁住634高地西北侧的冲沟，迟滞鹰嘴峰山腿上的敌人跨过冲沟的时间。“……对了，”他又想起了另外一件事，“我们的担架队在翻越骑盘岭大山梁时没有跟上来，我们还需要担架队和前沿包扎组！”“明白了！”尹国才回答，“刘副团长，我马上把情况向江团长报告！” 送受话器里又只剩下“沙沙”的电流声。刘宗魁等了一会儿，醒悟到他同A团指挥所的通话已经结束。他向对方提出了增援的请求，但江涛会不会给予增援或者会给予什么样的增援，就不是他能把握的了！ “但愿这次他哪怕只是为了自己的胜利，也能答应我的请求！”又一发炮弹落下来，在他身后的林子里炸开。当魏喜慌忙将他按倒在裂沟里时，刘宗魁变得软弱和黑暗的心底，竟突然冒出了这样一句仿佛发向上天的祝祷！ ……猫儿岭的A团指挥所。江涛在“大厅”里走了几个来回，猛地站住，转过身去，用通红的凶狠的目光望着一直肃立在电台旁的尹国才，说道： “你通知三营营长，让他从628高地上抽出一个排，带一挺重机枪去增援C团三营！……再查查哪一个前沿包扎所和担架队离他们最近，也给他们派去！” 之后他便撇下所有人，走进自己的“卧室”，拉过一张折叠椅，深深地坐下去，硕大的士兵型的光头埋进两膝之间，两只手并拢捂住了自己的眼睛！ 自从翡翠岭方向的敌人开始对630、632、633高地实施大规模反扑，他在猫儿岭上的指挥所也遭到了敌人炮火更疯狂的袭击。它们不仅烧掉了岩洞外营地里没有拆除的五顶帐篷，炸坏了停在山腿下的一部运送给养的卡车，还让安装于一号岩洞深部的小型发电机停了转，刹那间江涛置身的二号岩洞里一片漆黑！ 等刘二柱和参谋人员们先是用蜡烛后用汽灯代替了电灯，江涛就从631高地上的三营营长那儿听到了敌人从翡翠岭方向大举反扑的消息。他原先就担心敌人对骑盘岭大规模炮击后会发动反扑，现在他的忧虑成了现实！出乎意料之外也更让他惊慌的是：对于骑盘岭东端之630高地以及C团三营已占领的632、633高地的反扑，竟是由翡翠岭方向的敌人单独实施的，而他以前最担心的却是天子山方向的敌人！既然翡翠岭方向的敌人倾巢出动对付630高地和632高地地区，天子山方向的敌人大概也要全部出动攻击骑盘岭中西段的342高地和164高地地区了！ 他的方寸已经乱了，虽然他没有意识到；他用一种愤怒和焦灼不安的声调向三营营长布署了该营在630高地上下的防御战，接着又呼叫631高地南方大山腿上的刘宗魁，向后者传达军长不准再丢弃已收复的国土的指示，命令C团三营死守已占领的632、633高地，并尽快结束634高地进攻战斗。——不久前他已将这个营收复632、633高地的消息报告给了军师首长，现在再丢了它们，或者拿不下634高地，他也是要负责任的！ 做完这一切他回到“卧室”里，身边回响着一发发炮弹在指挥所四周围的爆炸声，才意识到已经发生的事变具有更深一层的含意。战前无论是他，还是军师首长，想的都只是收复骑盘岭，却没有想到骑盘岭在敌人那儿，只是整个公母山—天子山—翡翠岭防御体系的一个组成部分，你攻击这个部分，必然会引起这个整体的反应。早饭前敌人之所以会给他一段时间享受胜利的愉快，那是因为一部庞大的战争机器运转起来，总要有一个过程。现在这个过程结束了，公母山—天子山—翡翠岭敌人的整体反应开始了！ 此刻让他深深忧虑的还不是翡翠岭方向已发现的敌情（虽然骑盘岭东端630高地和整个632高地地区发生的激战已成了他内心的一个焦虑点），而是骑盘岭正南方的天子山。从早上到现在，除向001号高地之敌增援了一个营、C团三营又在634高地上遭遇到狙击之外，没有人再向他报告天子山之敌还有任何举动。我军占领骑盘岭后敌人最应当做出的反应就是兵出天子山中段和西段，近距离地攻占164高地和342高地地区。一旦实现了这个意图，西可瓦解001号高地上下我军的攻势，东可与翡翠岭之敌遥相呼应，对631、632高地地区实施战术合围。天子山之敌没有这样做，反而由翡翠岭方向之敌率先对骑盘岭东端的630高地和632高地地区实施攻击，其中就不可能没有问题。他还没有想明白那是什么问题，刘宗魁就通过电台向他呼叫了！ 这时，师指挥部的电话也打来了，他让尹国才跟刘宗魁通话，自己拿起话筒，向师长简短地汇报了情况。他了解C团三营目前的艰难处境，但与他正在思考和为之焦虑的整个骑盘岭的安危相比，那个营和它在632高地地区的战斗又不是最重要的了！当电台里传出刘宗魁要求援兵的呼声时，他的大脑仍在迅速转动，方才没有想明白的问题忽然有了答案：天子山敌人沉默不动，而让翡翠岭之敌先期行动，很可能隐藏着一个阴谋。这个阴谋是：利用翡翠岭之敌在骑盘岭东端和632高地地区制造的危机局面，调动我军部署于164、342高地地区的防御力量，然后乘虚而入，攻击骑盘岭，一举夺回整个公母山地区！ “怎么办，团长？！”在他旁边，尹国才神情紧张地问。 “你问问他，除了援兵还需要什么？！”江涛回答。这个刘宗魁也太异想天开了，居然跟他要一个营的增援！ 如果刚才设想的局面发生，他就将承担使骑盘岭地区我军彻底失败的责任！不，他绝不能让天子山敌人的阴谋得逞！这个阴谋眼下已在他心里变得如此逼真和凶险，以至使他盲目地在鸦雀无声的“大厅”里焦灼地踱起步来，然而一个新意念也浮上了脑际：刘宗魁那儿肯定已经十分艰难，不然这个秉性倨傲的汉子是不会向他求援的。如果今天的战事真有可能像他想到的那样扩大和复杂化，让C团三营在632高地地区更久地坚持下去，不使它过早地全军覆没，对于整个骑盘岭防御战又具有重要意义了。只要那个营顽强地顶在632高地地区，敌人就很难从那个方向对骑盘岭展开正面攻击；从军事学术的角度看这个营，由于它突出在敌人的防御纵深，已成了天子山和翡翠岭敌人的腋下之疾，不先除掉它，是很难想象他们会没有顾虑地对骑盘岭西段和中段展开攻击的。——从这种作用上看，他还是应当给刘宗魁一些增援！ 但这种增援却不会是一个营！一想起刘宗魁竟然向他要求一个营，江涛心中的火气就腾腾地蹿上来。这个刘宗魁，他以为我是个军长吗？他以为我现在的日子很好过、兵力很充裕吗？一闪念间他也想到了陈国庆和刘宗魁想到过的解决办法：向师长要求，从师预备队里抽出一个营来。但这种想法马上就被他自己严厉地否定了：骑盘岭一线的防御战还刚刚开始，战斗目前仅仅局限在632高地——630高地那样一个很小的地区，他就开口向师长请求增援，师长会怎么看？师长一定认为：防御战还没有全面展开，江涛就惊慌失措了！事实上——自从昨天清晨他就一直有这样的感觉——即使到了这种时刻，师长也还是可以在报告军长同意后将他从A团指挥位置上换下去的！不，他不能给师长造成那种印象！一刹那间他下了决心：给C团三营派去一个排的兵力！ 即使这一个排他也是不愿派给刘宗魁的！在他的内心深处，632高地地区的攻防战斗固然对骑盘岭一线的防御战有重要意义，但最重要的防御目标却是骑盘岭！628高地位于631高地西侧，一旦骑盘岭东段629、630、631高地相继失守（作为指挥员，他应当把情况想得更坏些！），这个排还可以在那座小高地上抵挡一阵！眼下让这个排从628高地上撤出，去增援刘宗魁，无疑像从他心头割去一片肉！ “但愿这个排真能帮助C团三营！”江涛默默地祷念着，此刻他也真心希望刘宗魁得到他这个排的增援后，能够巩固自己在632、633高地的阵地，挡住翡翠岭、天子山两个方向敌人的攻击，直至最终把634高地也拿下来！ 江涛离开“大厅”后尹国才马上向三营营长传达了团长的命令。他还问清楚了：眼下距632高地地区最近的一支战地救护小分队，就在631高地下骑盘岭山梁上的树林子里待命，它是位于631高地北方的师医院第三包扎所支援给三营的，他们一直没用这支小分队，可以让他带上自己的担架队立即前往C团三营的作战地区，执行救护任务。 “你让他们现在就出发！”尹国才命令道。于是在刘宗魁向A团指挥所发出请求增援的呼叫后四十分钟，一个排的援兵加上一挺重机枪就由628高地出发，顺631高地南方大山腿下到C团三营营指挥所所在的山腿最南端东侧的冲沟里。看到这支小小的队伍，刘宗魁对江涛寄予的最后一线希望完全破灭了！ 这就是江涛给予他的增援！江涛并非没有给他增援，江涛给了他一个排，这就是说，除了这个排，你再也不能从他那儿得到更多的增援了！他们这个营的命运真的要像他想过的那样，完全交由战场上各种未知因素左右了！ 那种无望的和愤怒的感情又一次涌上心来，残存在他生命中的最后一点镇静和自持也失去了！ ——是他将这个营从黑风涧带进632高地地区这一死亡地带的，现在他却没有力量将它从覆灭的厄运中解救出来了。他唯一能做的事情就是与全体官兵一起战死！ 他的眼睛盯上了那挺重机枪！它让刘宗魁的心热辣辣起来！机枪手们已把它抬到山腿腰部棱线上架起，瞄准了634高地西北侧鹰嘴峰山腿上下的敌人。他没有让机枪手去操纵它，处在一种悲愤、绝望而又渐渐为自责充满的心境中，他觉得只有亲手操纵这挺重机枪，去遏制鹰嘴峰山腿之敌对九连的威胁，才是他最应当做的事情！是他今天的两次错误将这个连送进了绝境，九连的所有官兵都将因为他的错误而牺牲，他还有什么理由活下去！他现在只能用这种方法帮助九连了，让敌人的子弹在对射中将他打死吧，但在他被打死之前，他绝对不会让鹰嘴峰山腿的敌人过那道冲沟的！ ……他很快就沉浸在重机枪的射击声带给他的亢奋和狂热中了。这挺重机枪刚刚加入战斗，鹰嘴峰山腿上的敌人就乱了套，让他高兴，甚至没有注意自己已轻易地答应了一个人的请求。 “副团长，让我带A团这个排去增援九连吧！”教导员陈国庆走到他身旁，用一种热烈的恳求的声调说道。 尽管他的注意力集中在自己的打击目标上，还是转过头来看了陈国庆一眼。陈国庆的表情和目光里有一种东西让他心热。这位教导员仿佛要说：副团长，我知道我不是一个合格的军人，可到了这种时候，我还是应该上去了！ “好吧，我同意！”刘宗魁回答。方才他觉得自己没有理由拒绝肖斌，现在他也同样不能拒绝陈国庆上战场的请求。此刻拒绝一个军人上战场，几乎等于当着许多人的面污辱他！他没有多想这件事，目光随即转向南方的鹰嘴峰山腿，又打出了一串长长的点射！他很快就把这件事忘记了！从633高地主峰西南侧凹部林子里，也有一挺轻机枪响亮地叫起来！它是由已经上了633高地的肖斌派到那儿去的。肖斌本来让这挺机枪一路向西南插下去，可它运动到主峰腰部却遇上了雷区，这样它便就地卧倒，向鹰嘴峰山腿突然开了火！