From the first day of the Battle of Shangganling, the 597.9 heights and the 537.7 highlands were stained red with blood, the blood on the hillside was blurred, and there were mutilated limbs and broken arms everywhere, and with the continuation of the war and the cover of the crazy fire of the US army, the remains of many martyrs could never be found again.
During the day, the US and Roks captured the high ground, and at night, the volunteers retook the position, and even in the time of a day, the position was repeatedly easy to defend. On October 18, 1952, all the surface positions in Shangganling were lost, and Qin Jiwei, who had always been calm, also picked up the phone.
The 15th Army was responsible for garrisoning the Shangganling position, which was the front of the Five Holy Mountains, and the Five Sacred Mountains were the gateway to the central front. Qin Jiwei picked up the phone: "Do you want the Forty-fifth Division, the Forty-fifth Division?" ”
The 45th Division was the main offensive division in the Battle of Shangganling, and it was Song Xin'an, the chief of the Operations Section, who answered the phone, and before he could say a few words, Song Xin'an cried out, because in the fighting in the past few days, the 45th Division suffered too many casualties.
In the five-day and night bloody battle, the 45th Division threw in more than a dozen companies, all of which were crippled, and the least one company could only make up one squad, and the maximum company had only 30 men left.
Cui Jiangong, commander of the 45th Division, took the microphone handed by Song Xin'an:
"Commander, I'm Cui Jiangong."
Qin Jiwei said solemnly:
"Tell the comrades of the organ that our Fifteenth Army will not shed blood and tears, and no one will cry, and for the sake of the overall situation, the Fifteenth Army will not hesitate to fight out." There are many units like the 15th Army in China, and there is only one in Shangganling. Old Cui, if you really lose Shangganling, you won't be able to come back and see me! ”
Cui Jiangong had followed Qin Jiwei for many years, and he knew the temper of this old superior very well, and if it were not for the extremely urgent time, the military commander would definitely not pull down his face to warn him, and when he hung up the phone, Cui Jiangong also made up his mind.
The 44th Division was the main division of the 15th Division, the 44th Division was good at attacking, and the 45th Division was good at defense. After the battle of Shangganling, Qin Jiwei still took the 45th Division as the main attack division after 2 days of consideration, which shows that Qin Jiwei still trusted the 45th Division and Cui Jiangong.
The command post of the 45th Division was set up in the tunnel of Deshan Da, which was only a dozen kilometers away from the front line, the lights in the tunnel were dim, only a dozen candles were burning non-stop, the smoke in the command post was swirling, everyone's face revealed anxiety and fatigue, and even the division commander Cui Jiangong had not closed his eyes for several days.
Cui Jiangong snuffed out a cigarette butt and said to the crowd:
"Fight, Lao Tzu still has some hole cards in his hand, enough for the devils to nibble for a while, the 45th Division has one battalion left, I will be the battalion commander, I will be the company commander!"
Song Xin'an, chief of the Operations Section, took over the conversation:
"Commander, I'll make you the squad leader, but after crossing the Yalu River, I don't plan to turn back."
Since Shangganling absolutely could not be lost, Cui Jiangong could only invest the last capital, except for leaving one company as a reserve, the remaining 5 companies were all thrown into the front line. The eighth and fourth companies of the 134th Regiment were to infiltrate two tunnels on the 597.9 heights that night, the six companies of the 135th Regiment gathered to the southeast of the 454.4 highlands, and the sixth company and the division reconnaissance company of the 134th regiment lurked on the north hill of the 537.7 highlands.
The 15th Army is not the ace army in the volunteer army, but the 45th Division of the 15th Army has an ace company with hundreds of victories, this is the eighth company, let the eighth company go to the front, it is Cui Jiangong personally ordered, this company is like a sharp sword, unless it is a last resort, Cui Jiangong will never use it.
In this regard, Cui Jiangong also specially instructed Liu Zhanhua, commander of the 134th Regiment, that after the Eighth Company went up, he would only counterattack and not defend, and as long as he regained the position, he would withdraw the Eighth Company.
After a night of covert operations, several companies crept into the tunnels of the highlands where they were located. The next night, with the roar of dozens of heavy artillery and Katyusha rockets of our army, the fighters of 5 companies began to counterattack Shangganling.
The Eighth Company took the lead in rushing out of tunnel No. 1, and soon the No. 1 position of the 597.9 heights was recovered, and the 597.9 highlands were easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it was handed over to the Eighth Company, which was good at fighting vicious battles. However, in front of Position 9, the Eighth Company was also forced to stop, and several consecutive strong attacks were returned, and there was an American bunker where machine guns kept spewing tongues of fire.
Even if our army's firepower has increased a lot, there are also many large-caliber artillery, but to solve the bunker in front of us, it is still necessary to rely on infantry to blow up.
Lai Fajun was next to cover with machine guns, and he watched as one soldier after another fell under the muzzle of the enemy's guns, and soon the machine guns were destroyed, and Lai Fajun's eyes were red, and he said to the company commander:
"I have to kill it."
Before the company commander Li Baocheng could agree, Lai Fajun rushed out with a grenade, and at that time he had already suffered three bullet wounds, and in the process of advancing, Lai Fajun was hit again, he was forced to temporarily stop and rest for a while, and when he had gathered his last strength, he pounced on the bunker, and in the violent explosion, Lai Fajun also disappeared.
The soldiers of the 15th Army shed blood without tears, while the soldiers of the Eighth Company were even more brave and fearless. After the start of the war, the US military hit countless flares and signal flares into the air, and the position was like daylight.
Long Shichang, a 19-year-old Miao warrior, picked up a blaster and rushed towards the BUNKER, where a shell exploded next to Long Shichang and his left leg was broken, but Long Shichang still dragged his mutilated body closer to the bunker.
The U.S. army may have thought that Long Shichang had been killed, so it adjusted the angle of the machine gun, and soon after, Long Shichang climbed to the bunker, he pushed the blaster into the bunker, and the U.S. troops inside saw a blaster appear and pushed it out desperately.
The seriously injured Long Shichang was almost out of strength, he could only use his body to press on the blaster, desperately squeezing inward, the blaster entered most of the section, it exploded, and like Lai Fajun, Long Shichang left nothing.
Company commander Li Baocheng recalled years later:
"At that time, I didn't shed a single tear, there were too many dead people, my heart and intestines became hard, I couldn't cry at all, I just said: Really brave, Long Shichang is really brave!"
The six companies of the 135th Regiment fought bitterly for 1 hour and 45 minutes at Position 6 alone, and most of the soldiers died in Position 6. By the time the sixth company reached position 0, there were only 16 people left in the whole company.
Zhang Guangsheng, acting chief of staff of the second battalion, came to reinforcements with five companies and two platoons, and they were ordered to retake Position 0 at all costs, and the firepower of the American troops was very fierce, and soon, all the combatants of the sixth company were killed.
If Position 0 cannot be captured, the US army will rely on Position 0 to launch a counterattack during the day, and once this happens, our army is likely to suffer from the enemy on its back. Carrying out orders is the duty of soldiers, and for volunteer soldiers, if they lose their positions, there may be only one possibility, that is, they have already destroyed everyone.
At the critical moment, Huang Jiguang climbed up from behind, Huang Jiguang, who was originally a correspondent, said to Zhang Guangsheng:
"Chief of Staff, let me get on it, as long as there is still breath, I will blow them up."
Huang Jiguang was talking about the bunkers of the US troops, and Huang Jiguang, together with the correspondents Wu Sanyang and Xiao Dengliang, participated in the final blasting mission. In the course of the operation, Wu Sanyang was killed and Xiao Dengliang was seriously injured.
Huang Jiguang was also hit by the enemy after solving a sub-bunker, but he still slowly moved towards the enemy bunker, in fact, Huang Jiguang at that time was already wounded by 7 bullets, theoretically, he was already a dead man.
However, at the last moment, Huang Jiguang opened his arms, pounced on the last point of fire, blocked the muzzle with his own body, and the gunfire of the whole night seemed to stop at that moment, and even the Americans were stunned by Huang Jiguang's feat.
Before blocking the muzzle, Huang Jiguang had already gestured to his comrades in the rear, And Feng Yuqing rushed over and gave all the bullets in the gun to the American troops in the bunker, and then he threw away the gun and hugged Huang Jiguang.
Huang Jiguang's front chest has been beaten into a honeycomb shape by bullets, a large hole in the back of the back bowl appears, even Chang Wan Fulai will never forget the scene in front of him, the other 7 wounds on Huang Jiguang's body, there is not a trace of blood flowing out, and there is no trace of blood in front of the bunker.
In fact, since Huang Jiguang was hit by seven bullets, he was even a dead man, and all his subsequent actions were a great challenge to modern biology and psychology, in other words, Huang Jiguang's blood had long been shed, and he completed this feat with his last spiritual belief.
Due to the tense war situation at that time, there was no time to transport the remains of the martyrs, and Huang Jiguang's body was only transported down a few days later. The weather was cold, Huang Jiguang's clothes and body were glued together, and the hygienist cried and soaked the clothes with warm water before taking off Huang Jiguang's torn military uniform.
At that time, it was necessary to change Huang Jiguang into a new military uniform, but Huang Jiguang still maintained a vigorous swooping action, the two arms were raised high, and they could not put them down at all, and then everyone tried to find a way to apply a hot towel to Huang Jiguang's stiff arm, and it took three days to make the arm soft, and finally, he put on a brand new volunteer uniform.
Heroes are eternal, and spirits live on forever. To this day, Huang Jiguang's heroic company still maintains the habit of roll call at night, and successive company commanders have to be the first to call out Huang Jiguang's name when they open the roster, and the reply they get is that the soldiers of the whole company are thunderous: To! (Text/Nine Fish Pavilion)