Chapter 169 The nameless highland has a name (22)

The fourth, fifth, and sixth companies of the second battalion guard the "Old Bald Mountain" in rotation. We have adopted the strategy of "fewer in front and more in back, and repair as soon as possible", placing weapons where they hit the enemy's heart, and destroying as many enemies as possible with the least amount of troops. At dawn on the 24th, the enemy counterattacked with three companies, and attacked twice.At noon, the enemy became more and more crazy, charging one after another.At four o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy attacked from south to north with a battalion of soldiers each, equipped with twelve tanks, and our artillery fire was unleashed.

Our tanks were out, covered by anti-aircraft guns. Our fighters hold their ground. On this day, we wiped out more than 500 enemies.The heroic 4th Company 9th Squad alone killed 150 enemies, and only 2 people in the squad were injured.The traffic trenches were all flattened by artillery fire. On the 25th, it rained at dawn, and the enemy used the sound of the rain to quietly counterattack in an all-round way, using four companies and eight tanks.In one morning, the enemy charged nine times!Enemy artillery fire began to destroy the bunker on the hill. On this day, the enemy suffered another seven or eight hundred casualties.

At noon on the 26th, the enemy's planes were dispatched.Only strafed first, then bombed. Hearing the news of the bombing, Commander Qiao reported to the division commander who had not had a rest for several days: "Master! You can sleep now, the enemy abandoned 'Old Bald Mountain'!" "how?" "Enemy planes bombed the mountain!" "Order all of us to go down the mountain, and leave no one behind! So that the enemy planes can only bomb their own bunkers, and we won't be able to bomb them alone! After the bombing, we will go up again." After the teacher finished speaking, he turned his body and fell asleep, with a smile on his lips. with.

Our soldiers all went down the mountain, and our anti-aircraft guns fought the enemy planes.Deputy Commander Chen was a little disappointed: "Could it be that the enemy just said that they will take back 'Old Bald Mountain', and that's the end of it?" The head of the regiment replied: "The enemy has already suffered over 2,000 casualties, and maybe they don't want to die another 2,000!" On the 27th, the enemy planes continued to bomb—using their own steel to blow up their own steel. The big arms dealers did indeed do a good job.Moreover, none of us were bombed, only many enemy corpses were blown to pieces.

Enemy broadcast: "Old Bald Mountain" has no military value. On the 28th, not many enemy planes came. We captured the "Lao Bald Mountain" and defended the "Lao Bald Mountain". The red flag of victory fluttered on the main peak with the spring breeze. ………… On the 28th, Marshal Kim Il Sung and Commander Peng Dehuai wrote to Clark: agreeing to exchange sick and wounded prisoners first, and suggested that the armistice negotiations should be resumed immediately. On the 30th, Premier Zhou and Minister of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the Korean armistice negotiations.

Our volunteers can attack and hold fast, and the battle of "Lao Bald Mountain" is a strong proof.At the same time, we have always adhered to the policy of peace! ………… In this battle, in addition to the weapons on the mountain, the enemy also used seven to ten artillery groups and fired more than 100,000 shells.The enemy planes dispatched more than 200 sorties and dropped more than 500 bombs. We wiped out a total of 2,062 enemies, captured four tanks, five bazookas, one 60-gun, 50 heavy machine guns, thirty-two, forty light machine guns, seventy semi-automatic rifles, and five carbines. Twelve, ten pistols, one carbine, eleven binoculars, twenty cameras, three walkers, fourteen stand-alone telephones, one switchboard... Destroyed four tanks and three planes , five planes were damaged, and two cars were damaged.

There were 366 heroes in our offensive and defensive troops, and there were 15 units of squads, platoons, companies, and battalions that collectively performed meritorious service. ………… The nameless highland really has a name! News of our victory spread throughout the world. The sound of the enemy's self-smacking also spread all over the world-first saying that "Old Bald Mountain" must be recaptured, and then saying that it has no military value after two days. The enemy's infighting also spread throughout the world: Columbia protested that her troops were placed in the most dangerous places, and when attacked, the US troops sat idly by, causing the Colombian Battalion to suffer a disastrous defeat!Washington quickly retorted: There is no such thing!Moreover, how could the battalion commander of a small Colombian battalion know the dispatch and arrangement of the US military headquarters!

The enemy's landing attack clamor became much hoarse, as if something hard had stuck in his throat. ………… Tan Mingchao returned to the company headquarters and immediately asked the company commander for a task.He had already rested, not only forgot his fatigue, but also felt that he had more strength in his whole body.He was also more daring. "Now, I can be used as ten people by myself!" He said to himself, rolling his eyes sideways. The company commander taught him to check the line near the residence of the "lonely aunt". He thought the work there was too leisurely, but on second thought, it would be interesting to go and see the "lonely lady".These days, he was so preoccupied with fighting that he almost forgot about her.The enemy couldn't take back the "Old Bald Mountain", so they kept bombing and firing randomly, bluffing.

Not far from the old pine tree, the wire was blown off.Tan Mingchao was wiring, injured his leg and fell down. The cannon came again.He could hear that the cannon was still coming here, and he wanted to dodge quickly, but his legs were numb and he couldn't move. At this time, he felt that someone was pressing on him. The shell exploded, but the person on him remained still.He slowly moved his upper body out from underneath. He and the "lonely aunt" face to face. Blood was oozing from her temples.There was no pain on his face, he was still so calm and peaceful, his eyes closed as if he had just fallen asleep, and he might wake up soon.

The blood on his leg stained her white dress red, and the blood from her head dripped on his face. Soon, under the ancient pine, He Zhongyun, the commander of the heroic battalion, saluted the "lonely lady" under the brilliance of the spring moon. Gao Jiabao, the trumpeter, and Wang Junhua, the hygienist, two young heroes, supported Tan Mingchao, and saluted her behind the hero battalion commander! Battalion Commander He turned around and looked at "Old Bald Mountain". "The mountains behind must also be taken down!" He said to the three young people. postscript

In October 1953, I went to North Korea with the third Chinese Consolation Mission to North Korea.After the consolation work was over, I got the permission of General He Long, the head of the regiment, to stay in the court for several months and experience life in the Volunteer Army. I lived in a certain army of the Volunteer Army for five months, interviewed many heroes who stormed and defended the "Old Bald Mountain", and read many related documents.I decided to write a novel. However, I can't write it.Five months is not enough to fully understand the life of the army.I can't write characters. I'm not willing to hand in a blank paper either.I am not willing to give up the glorious responsibility of singing the praises of the loveliest people, although it is better to write some reports than to hand in a blank paper. So, I organized what I heard and saw and wrote this article.This can only be counted as a report. This explanation is not to shirk responsibility, but to explain intentionally: experiencing life should be a long-term thing, and a general visit is useless.Without real life, literary and artistic works cannot be written. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the leaders, cadres and soldiers of the army, division, regiment, battalion and company of the Volunteer Army!Without their encouragement, care and help, even though it is a report, I would not have written it!The names of the characters in the article are not real, because there were many heroes and heroes in the "Lao Bald Mountain" battle, it is impossible to write them all, and it is not good to miss everything. Lao She, December 1954, Beijing