Across the Yalu River 跨过鸭绿江 Episode 38

South Korean army Li Ji asked for surrender and brought news that the enemy was attempting to attack the Five Sacred Mountains and Shangganling. Deng Hua analyzed the situation and found that Shangganling became a position that must be maintained. He ordered troops to be deployed in the Pingkang Valley to closely monitor the enemy's movement. Carry out reinforcements and strikes.

The soldiers of the Fifteenth Army in the Shangganling Heights were digging the fortifications. US bombers flew in the air. The soldiers had to escape into the tunnel, but the telephone line was broken and they could not contact the division at all. The U.S. Air Force’s repeated bombings have reached a point of frenzy. Almost all telephone lines at the positions were broken, and all the communications soldiers sent out for maintenance did not come back. Now there are only three communications soldiers. Niu Bao, the squad leader of the communications squad, was familiar with the buried telephone line. He picked up the tool and ran out of the tunnel. The enemy's bombing injured his hands and legs. He crawled forward in the tunnel a little bit, and all the sacrificed comrades had it. In order to be able to connect to a connected telephone line, Niu Baocai grabbed one end of the telephone line with one hand, while biting the telephone line with his teeth, using his body as a conductor to connect the telephone line. The regiment headquarters finally contacted the division headquarters to request reinforcements, but Niu Baocai died heroically.

The enemy has occupied three positions, and the soldiers can only use the refueling tactics to make up for the injuries one by one in order to delay time. The division sent 135 regiments to regain the position. In order to take off the enemy's machine gun team, Li Zhongxian, the blasting platoon, rushed over and died with the enemy. Platoon leader Sun Zhanyuan was wounded by a cannonball and vomited blood. He dragged his already immobile legs on the ground and used machine guns to shoot down the opposite row of enemies. Looking at the enemies running towards him, he slammed the last one on his body. The grenade died with the enemy.

Park Young-en was fetching water by the river with the North Korean people carrying supplies on his back. A U.S. plane came to bomb again. A bomb exploded next to him. Once again, he opened his eyes and it was separated from the sky. The living people carried the dead people’s bodies together. , And then move on. The cruelty of the war has made them cry. They must quickly send things to the front line. Finally arriving in the tunnel, Piao Rongen couldn't help shed tears looking at the bloody grain bags. Only five of their fifteen members came to the front alive. The company commander Li Baocheng looked at the grain and didn't know how to swallow it. Two seriously wounded people were in urgent need of treatment. Five North Koreans carried the two wounded down the mountain on a stretcher. In order to protect the safety of the wounded, Park Young-en used himself as a bait to lure the enemy away. The bomb that rang behind him when he fell to the ground died with the enemy.

The two highlands of Wusheng Mountain and Shangganling fell again, and the battle was terrible. The company of the 45th Division and even the entire platoon did not return alive. However, the 15th Army was ordered to defend Shangganling at all costs, and the commander Cui Jiangong had to gritted his teeth and insisted, vowing to live and die with Shangganling. The enemy blocked traffic, ammunition and food could not be transported. The shells in the position could only be fired for another 20 minutes. The soldiers charged again under the cover of artillery fire, but the opposing bunker kept firing at the commanding heights. The superiors ordered that the number 0 must be taken before dawn. In the position, Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang Guangsheng ordered that every possible means must be taken to blow up the bunker, but the sixth squad responsible for the blasting, including the squad leader, had already sacrificed, leaving only two or three people alive. At this time, the correspondent Huang Jiguang volunteered, and he firmly said that he was small and flexible, and he could certainly blow up the bunker. He handed Zhang Guangsheng the application for joining the party and the letter from his mother to him, and rushed up against the enemy's shooting. After throwing the blasting tube into the bunker, Huang Jiguang was already seriously injured. However, looking at his comrades who were killed by the machine gun in front of him, he gritted his teeth and squatted forward, picked up the grenade on the sacrificial comrades and exploded another bunker on the side. Looking at the last bunker, he glanced back at the comrades behind him, struggling to stand up his chest and use flesh and blood to block the enemy's continuous shooting of the bunker and sacrificed heroically at the age of 21.

The tables and chairs in the negotiating conference room were put up again. The United States tried in vain to put pressure on China on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, but it had no effect. The Korean War caused heavy losses to the U.S. military, as did its Western allies. Now it coincides with the U.S. election. The U.S. is entangled with various political snobberies. Eisenhower has a lot of calls to return to his country to participate in the election, claiming that he will go to the North Korean battlefield to find a solution. But the ambition of US imperialism to seek hegemony will not be shaken, and China's belief in safeguarding sovereignty and pursuing peace will not be shaken either.

The critical situation of the Battle of Shangganling forced the 15th Army to dispatch a military guard company of 96 men. The 45th Division and the reinforcements stationed there have suffered heavy casualties. Only 80 men remain in the main tunnel. Soldiers, and half of them are wounded soldiers. The reinforcement line has been blocked by the enemy, and the guard company must break through the line of defense to guard the tunnel in the position. Before leaving, the guard company instructor Wang Lu bid farewell to the old chief Qin Jiwei, who had been guarding for many years, and the army commander Qin Jiwei told him that as long as he came back alive, he allowed him to pick the company and lead the command. Looking at the guard company going away, Qin Jiwei ordered all the chiefs to equip each with four grenades and prepare a coffin for himself. Even if he died, he would die in the Shangganling position.