Veteran never die

Chapter 156 Battle of Shangganling

0155 Battle of Shangganling

The defector on the enemy side was Li Jieqiu, the staff officer of the Han 2nd Division.

He explained to the volunteers the secret that the US military would attack the Five Sacred Mountains in Shangganling, but unfortunately this information was also ignored.

Wang Shuo: "This is completely understandable, because the intelligence department of the Volunteer Army receives hundreds of pieces of information every day, mixed with true and false. Screening takes time."

Mistakes on both sides caused the U.S. military to not understand the defensive deployment of the Volunteers at the beginning of the battle, and the Volunteers were unable to accurately judge where the U.S. military would launch an attack.

In the early morning of October [-], [-].

美军第7师和韩军第2师先后以7个营的兵力在飞机大炮的掩护下，突然向上甘岭地区597.9高地和537.7高地北山发起猛烈进攻。

The indiscriminate bombardment of enemy aircraft and artillery.

The firepower density is as high as six rounds per second.

The fierce artillery fire made the volunteer soldiers hidden in the tunnel feel like they were bumping in a small boat on the turbulent sea, and the strong shock wave shook the tunnel.

The teeth of many soldiers broke their tongues and lips.

A 17-year-old soldier was shocked to death.

The scene at that time can be described as a hell on earth, it was so terrifying.

In addition, there is ground firepower and tanks attacking in turn.

The officers and soldiers of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army who stood firm were not afraid, did not give up an inch of ground, and fought tenaciously. They fought repeatedly with the enemy position by position, trench by trench, and even bomb crater.

The US military invested 7 infantry battalions, 18 artillery battalions, 200 sorties of aircraft, dropped 600 aerial bombs, and fired 30 artillery shells.

The volunteers fought against two companies and one platoon of the 15th Army, destroying more than 40 rounds of bullets and nearly [-] grenades.

In the end, the 537.7 highland fell.

The Volunteer Army suffered 550 casualties, while the US-South Korea allied forces as the offensive side suffered even more casualties, as many as [-] people.

Immediately afterwards, the battle began in full swing.

Shangganling has become a place where there are mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and repeated seesaw-style competitions have made both sides red-eyed.

In Shangganling, a narrow area of ​​less than 3.7 square kilometers, the US and South Korean coalition forces successively invested more than 190 troops, fired more than [-] million artillery shells, and dropped more than [-] bombs.

The top of the mountain was lowered by two meters, and the rock was blasted into powder more than 30 centimeters thick.

It is no exaggeration to say that more than 30 pieces of shrapnel can be counted from a section of soil casually grabbed from the ground.

A battle flag passed through a full 380 pieces of shrapnel.

As he spoke, Wang Shuo showed everyone photos of the battle flag covered with 381 bullet holes and the tree stumps on the Shangganling position.

"The warheads, shrapnel and bullet holes on this tree stump are the best proof of the fierce and cruel war at that time."

Most of the tree stump has been charred, and the whole is covered with bullet holes and cracks. So far, more than 20 bullets and shrapnel remain.

What is tragic, this is called tragic.

This is not a drama, this is real history, real battlefield scenes.

It's just that it's too far away from our time, and many people find it unbelievable to tell it, and many people can't imagine that kind of picture.

Some entertaining anti-war dramas make young people feel that war is not so cruel, and everyone has the halo of the protagonist
Wang Shuo, who is also a young man, is very different in this point. He has never seen a war scene, but he has heard the description from his grandfather since he was a child.

He knows, he can understand, now, at this moment, he can describe it.

During the battle, the Volunteers successively invested more than 43 troops, fought fiercely for 900 days and nights, repelled more than [-] attacks organized by the enemy, wiped out more than [-] enemies, and firmly nailed their positions on the [-]th parallel.

Van Fleet's original plan to use only two battalions of troops to take Shangganling in five days was completely shattered.

Shangganling has become the sad ridge of the US military.

Shangganling has also become a heroic land of the Chinese nation.

In this battle, the military prestige was played.

Let those arrogant Western countries see the determination of the Chinese to defend national sovereignty.

During the entire battle of Shangganling, not a single plane of our army appeared in the sky.

There is no record of our army's tanks participating in the war.

The sum of all the artillery of the Volunteers at the end of the battle is only a quarter of that of the enemy at the beginning of the battle.

After a battle, the United Nations Army fired a total of more than 190 million artillery shells and more than 5000 aerial bombs.

The Volunteer Army only had more than 40 rounds of shells, and they were all used in the later stage.

After the Battle of Shangganling, the U.S. military has never launched an attack of battalion or larger scale against the Volunteers.

The situation in the Korean War has since stabilized on the 38-degree line, and this battle established North Korea's southern and northern borders.

In this battle, the 45th Division of the [-]th Army, which was originally a second-class force, was basically wiped out.

But since then she has held her head high and stepped into the ranks of the first-class main force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

"My grandfather told everyone about "Heroes Hymn" before, telling the story of Wang Cheng. Now, I want to talk about Wang Cheng in the eyes of Americans." Wang Shuo has been following his grandfather's live broadcast after training. He thinks, Wang Cheng's story can be told from another perspective.

McCallaghan, a private of the U.S. Army, witnessed the Battle of Shangganling.

He survived the battle and survived until the end of the war.

But he's missing something, his left leg.

In the tug-of-war for the high ground, McCallaghan's left leg was blown off by a shell from the Chinese People's Volunteers.

Several years later, he returned to Shangganling, and cast a purple ribbon in memory of his deceased friend at the place where he fought.

Memories start here.

It was the late autumn of [-].

At the age of 23, McCallaghan followed the large army and gathered near the [-]th parallel in the south of Shangganling.

At that time, the Korean War was in a stalemate. In order to gain control and bargaining chips at the negotiating table, the United Nations led by the United States launched a series of attacks on the volunteer defenders on a highland in Shangganling. The volunteers were very tenacious and successfully repelled many attacks by the coalition forces. , and caused heavy losses to the coalition forces, with hundreds of casualties.

The superior ordered McCallaghan's company to immediately enter the battle.

Supported by aircraft, tanks, and artillery fire, Callaghan's company finally took the long-forsaken hill.

When Callahan, who was running in the front, rushed to the top of the hill, he saw an astonishing scene.

Only more than 30 corpses and one unarmed volunteer soldier were left on the entire position.

So far, Callahan can't forget the appearance of that volunteer soldier.

He looked very young, like an immature boy. He leaned against a tree trunk without branches and leaves, and his face was covered with mud.

He was shaking all over, not out of fear, but because he was seriously injured.

The warrior's eyes were full of anger and hatred.

The soldier kept saying something, even though he didn't understand Chinese, Callahan could still tell that the boy was scolding them.

(End of this chapter)