History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
Speaking of the special combat hero Huang Jiguang, I think everyone is familiar with it. In the famous Battle of Shangganling, in order to take the 597.9 heights on time at dawn, Huang Jiguang sacrificed his life and blocked the machine gun muzzle of the enemy's last bunker with his body. At the moment when Huang Jiguang made a heroic act, Huang Jiguang's company instructor Feng Faqing rushed to the enemy's bunker with a broken heart and lungs and rushed into the enemy's bunker with a broken heart, and angrily fired a full 100 rounds of machine gun shells into it, while the company commander Wan Fulai was surprised to find that Huang Jiguang had been shot in 7 places, but there was no trace of blood on his body, that is to say, Huang Jiguang had completed this feat by rushing to the enemy's bunker with unparalleled willpower.
However, the 597.9 highland that Huang Jiguang exchanged for his life played an extremely important role after dawn. After dawn, 30 U.S. aircraft, more than 40 U.S. tanks, and more than 300 heavy artillery of the U.S. Army launched a powerful fire coverage on the volunteer positions, and then under the pressure of the U.S. Army Overseers, the U.S. Army's infantry began to attack like a tide. Apparently, Van Fleit was already red-eyed, and he could not believe that the two divisions of the American Army had made no progress in attacking the positions held by the two companies of the Volunteer Army.
However, the volunteers told the enemy with a dense barrage of machine gun bullets and countless grenades: You will pay a heavy price.
By the evening of the 20th, the "United Nations Army" had invested a total of 17 battalions of troops, but the casualties had exceeded 7,000, to which the American journalist Wilson described what he had seen and heard in his interview records: "Nearly a hundred companies each company has only 40 people left, and even a company commander named him, and only one sergeant and one private answered him... When the elite officers saw such a heavy loss, they couldn't help but cry. ”
At that time, when a South Korean army was about to change defenses with a reinforced company of American troops, it was surprised to find that when the original 200-strong American company withdrew from the position, there were more than 30 people left, and there were 5 guns left on them. They looked very embarrassed, not only covered in mud, but also frightened by the shells of the Volunteers, and when a mortar shell of the Volunteers landed next to a stretcher team of 4 people, they abandoned the wounded on the stretcher and fled for their lives.
According to the American soldiers captured by the volunteers, "The dozen or so battalions of the 'United Nations Army' who participated in the battle took turns to fight two or three times, and the 17th regiment suffered more than half of the casualties on the first day, and one of the companies was left with a second lieutenant!" An observation post of the Volunteer Army on the 20th found that in the trench directly south of Hill 597.9 alone, the US army collection team pulled away the bodies of 30 trucks at one time. However, the 45th Division of the Volunteer Army also paid a tragic casualty, and even could not come up with a complete battalion-level formation, so after the 20th, the Volunteer Army took the initiative to withdraw into the tunnels of the main position, and the most difficult tunnel operation in Shangganling also began at this time.