Chapter 139: Golan Treasury

Anti-tank trenches were a trench-type obstacle built for blocking enemy tank operations that were produced in World War I and widely used in World War II. They can create many favorable conditions for anti-tank firearms to destroy enemy tanks.

In fact, after all, this anti-tank trench is a widened and deep trench. The specific size depends on what tank it is dealing with. The enemy tank cannot climb up if it falls head-on. If it is calculated based on the current Pershing tank of the US military, dig a depth of two, three meters, four, and five meters wide, just about the same one!

It can be imagined that if the tank had to drive from here, it would fall into the trench and could not come out. At that time, the Volunteer Army soldiers would be able to toss. At that time, all the Volunteer Army soldiers had to do was to drill into the anti-tank trench from the traffic trench, and then exposed some of their bodies to push the anti-tank grenades to the tanks that fell into the trench, or throw them from the bottom of the tank that was driving on the bridge...

As it turns out, even if it is a good barrier to modern tanks with excellent performance, it still has a good impact on. During the Fourth Middle East War in 1973, the Israeli army easily destroyed 250 tanks and 260 armored vehicles in Syria with an anti-tank trench.

However, the anti-tank trench dug by Israel is somewhat different from the ordinary anti-tank trench. The ordinary anti-tank trench piles the excavated soil on both sides of the trench, while the Israeli soldiers place all the excavated soil on their side, forming a dike of more than two meters high. Just this small change can play a big role in the battlefield...

This kind of anti-tank trench invented by the Israelis is called the Golan trench because it was built in the Golan Heights. I am now leading the volunteer soldiers to dig between the valleys, which is this kind of Golan trench.

I built the anti-tank trench between two high grounds defended by Volunteer soldiers. The terrain here is flat and is very suitable for tanks and armored vehicles to launch cluster attacks. Of course, it is also where the anti-tank trench can play a role.

"Comrades, what are you trying to do?" several soldiers from the 180th Division asked, standing on the top of the trench.

"Defend, defend against tank trenches!" Hu Zi, who was wearing mud and waving a shovel, couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, and finally responded.

"Defend the tank trench?" The comrades of the 180th Division couldn't help laughing as soon as they heard it: "Comrade, can this ditch be used to prevent tanks? In the same way, the American tanks are also made of mud?"

"Go away... why, why can't you?" Hu Zi replied dissatisfiedly: "If you have a genital, let's wait and see! Don't glar at that time!"

After the comrades from the 180th Division walked away with a smile, Hu Zi then came to me and asked quietly: "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, do you think this tank trench can really defend against tanks?"

"Just dig you, why are you talking nonsense!" I responded angrily, and then shouted to the soldiers: "Comrades, work harder, be sure to complete the construction in front of the enemy. Digging the anti-tank trench is a victory!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and stepped up their movements.

The Volunteer Army is good at civil engineering operations, and this section of the anti-tank trench is only more than 100 meters long, so it took only half a day to complete it. The soldiers even had time to practice in the rain for a while and dropped bombs.

As Ren Fengyou and Huzi said, the soldiers were worthy of throwing grenades. Before long, a soldier dropped the grenades within the specified range at a distance of 35 meters, which only attracted cheers from the volunteer soldiers watching around.

"Why haven't the Americans come yet?" Zhao Yongxin said impatiently: "At the Americans' speed, they can call reinforcements? I'm afraid that when they arrive, we will be almost ready to fight!"

"It's because of the weather!" I wiped the rain on my face and replied: "The American army is mechanized. North Korea's highways are disrepaired for so long. It's raining! There are many mudslides on the road, and there are many landslides, and they are moving forward while building roads. How can they be so fast!"

"That's right!" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but smile and said, "It's better to rain! After this rain, the four wheels of the Americans are not as good as our two legs!"

"What's good about it?" Hu Zi murmured and replied: "If they walked faster, I wouldn't have to wait so much! My hands were itchy..."

As they were talking, a wave of thunder suddenly came from the rain curtain. But what was surprising was that after a while the thunder did not stop, and it became louder and louder. The soldiers soon realized that it was not thunder, but the motor sound of the enemy's cars and tanks.

"Be prepared for combat!" With my order, the soldiers ran into the trenches one after another. I took Zhao Yongxin's company to climb onto the position on the high ground next to the anti-tank trenches. A company of the 180th Division was stationed here. Their mission was to defend the position, and we were responsible for dealing with the enemy's tanks.

The rumbling sound became louder and louder. After a while, two Sherman tanks and two cars full of American soldiers appeared at the corner of the highway six hundred meters away. The Sherman tanks had been converted into forklifts. The tanks were all covered in mud and water, including the American soldiers wearing raincoats on the car. It was supposed to be a small team that opened the road in front to reconnaissance. They must have suffered a lot along the way. Now they are all so tired that they have no extra strength to reconnaissance, so the convoy drove forward more than a hundred meters before suddenly discovering a long and tall anti-tank trench in front!

"fuck you!" In the sound of the wind blowing in front, I vaguely heard their cursing loudly, which made me think that Americans are actually very cute because they complain about the troubles their enemies have caused to them.

With a "bang!", a bullet shot out of my gun chamber. A US military in the car fell from the car and fell into the rain.

Nowadays, I usually answer this way!

The gunshot not only scared the US military, but also the volunteers of the 180th Division were shocked. With extremely low visibility in the rain, cars and tanks were vaguely 500 meters away, but I was able to hit the US soldiers on the car with one shot, which made the soldiers of the 180th Division look at me sideways.

"Who? Who shot the gun?" At this time, someone in the trench shouted in a questioning tone: "Who shot the gun casually without obeying the order?"

"Well!" Only then did I realize that there were quite a few people who strictly abide by orders on this battlefield.

"What's wrong?" Hu Zi replied a little unhappy: "The American devils have discovered us, why can't we shoot?"

At this time, a dense sound of gunfire suddenly came from the direction of the US military. The Americans seemed to want to avenge the arrow just now, and they only fired the light and heavy weapons in their hands into our positions. The tanks kept turning the turret and fired shells one by one. But they couldn't see people at all, and they couldn't even see the positions of the Volunteer Army. The shells and bullets were all flying around the mountains without any ridge, which made the Volunteer Army soldiers laughed at them.

"Look!" Hu Zi shouted in the direction of the questioning voice just now, "The shot just now was shot by our Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! We can beat the Japanese, but it's so satisfying if the Japanese can't beat us!"

"That's it!" Zhao Yongxin also shouted, "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui's shot! This made our volunteer army more morale and severely hit the Americans' arrogance. If you still obey the orders and wait until the Americans approach before attacking, are you fools who are those American scouts? Just dozens of people dare to rush towards our position?"

"Then you have to follow the orders, right?" Another dissatisfied voice came from the trench: "If you don't follow the orders, then there is still organizationality and discipline. You are typical personal heroism..."

"You..." Hu Zi glared at his eyes and rolled up his sleeves and was about to go over and grab someone.

"Okay, okay, let's say less!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but stop it, "This is a war. Everyone is a brother who lives and dies. What's there to fight for? Comrades, please be careful, the Americans should shoot, and be prepared to withdraw the tunnel!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded and stopped talking.

I couldn't help but sigh inwardly, and different troops were inevitably somewhat frictional. In modern information, I knew that the components of the 60th Army were quite complicated, including those who surrendered to the Kuomintang, those who rebeled, and those who had been bandits...

As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. Although most of the soldiers of the 180th Division look at us with a kind of admiration, a small number of people are still unwilling to accept it. They will inevitably feel a little awkward when they see our troops being valued by their superiors as soon as they join, and there will inevitably be people waiting to see our jokes, just like some soldiers laughing at our anti-tank trenches that they cannot hit tanks.

Just as I was thinking of a sudden roar from the sky, I waved my hand at the soldiers, and the soldiers would arrange their formations along the trenches and retreat to the tunnel. The soil was loose on rainy days, and the single-man air-raid shelter would collapse without a few shots, and there was also a lot of water accumulation, so hiding into the tunnel was a wise choice.

But after more than twenty minutes, when the enemy artillery fire extended backwards and we were surprised to find that there were many corpses of volunteer soldiers lying in the trenches that were blown up, and many volunteer soldiers were crazily digging their comrades buried in single-man air raid shelters.

"What's going on?" I was shocked to see this. I caught a young soldier and asked, "Why don't you enter the tunnel?"

"Company Commander, our company commander..." The young soldier may have seen such fierce artillery fire for the first time, and said with a little confused mind: "Our company commander said you are cowards, saying that you have never seen the world, and the Americans scared you like that after only a few shots, saying that we would not enter the tunnel..."

"Damn it! Where is your company commander?" I couldn't help but feel angry when I heard this.

"Where..." The little soldier sat not far away, looking at a middle-aged soldier with more than a dozen corpses on the trench with dull eyes.

I didn't say anything, and ran to him in two or three steps and grabbed his collar, pulled out his pistol and pushed it on his head...

A gunshot was heard, but fortunately, Zhao Yongxin came in time to lift my pistol into the air, otherwise the company commander would have already had his head blooming.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Under the shocked eyes of the volunteer soldiers, Zhao Yongxin snatched the pistol from me and persuaded: "If you have something to say, you have something to say, he has never fought with the Americans, and he doesn't know how powerful the Americans cannons are..."

The company commander was awakened by the gunshot at this time. In the rain, the confusion and dullness on his face turned into pain and regret in this moment. He could not tell whether it was tears or raindrops falling down...

I was still not satisfied, so I grabbed his collar and put him in front of me, stared at his eyes fiercely and said, "Tell you, there are no cowards or heroes on the battlefield! You can only save yourself and kill the enemy on the battlefield! The lives of the soldiers are used to fight against the enemy, not to show off your heroes!"

As he said that, he pushed him down into the mud and water. He ignored the eyes of the soldiers of the 180th Division and walked towards the high ground with Zhao Yongxin and the others. He was scared while walking. If the gun just now really killed the company commander, what kind of punishment would he be punished? Now the feelings are like killing people, and when they get angry, they will pull out their guns and kill people! In the days ahead...

Thinking that he had arrived at the foot of the mountain without realizing it, he lay down on the trench not far behind the anti-tank trench, set up a rifle and looked forward through the scope, and saw teams of US troops wearing raincoats walking towards our position under the cover of more than 30 tanks. The seven and eight in the front row were Sherman tanks that had been converted into forklifts, and several were dragging the rut bridges, and behind them were a lot of Xia Fei and Sherman, plus five Pershing.

The lineup of the US Marine First Division was indeed extraordinary, and more than 30 tanks were dispatched at once. It is said that this unit made many military achievements during World War II, and was the longest-standing and most involved in the US Marine Corps. It is known as the "Sword of America". Some people also say that during World War II, the results of this division's troops in the Pacific completely surpassed the entire record of the Chinese National Army and the Eighth Route Army in the War of Resistance Against Japan.

However, I think this is really exaggerated, because shortly after the Korean War started, the Volunteer Army wiped out the Polar Bear Regiment in Changjin Lake and even seized its regiment flag. The Polar Bear Regiment is a strengthening regiment of the US Marine Division, with its actual strength close to that of the Volunteer Army. If this US army is really that strong, how could it become terrible under the Volunteer Army?

However, after the war in World War II, they seemed to have a lot of experience in dealing with anti-tank trenches. And they didn't seem to take the weird anti-tank trenches built by volunteer soldiers seriously. So, they brought so many tanks at once, which clearly meant to use Sherman to quickly flatten the anti-tank trenches, or build steel bridges, and then let the combat tanks in the rear rush up.

Maybe they thought that the volunteer soldiers had no experience in tank defense! So they didn't take this inconspicuous tank trench seriously. But what they didn't expect was that this tank trench was a Golan trench that caused a great loss to the modern new tanks after more than 20 years.

With a dense sound of gunfire, American machine guns and cannons opened fire on our positions. Tanks and infantry divided into two groups to suppress the high ground on both sides of the tank trench, and sent a small team of US troops to launch a tentative attack on the high ground. However, it was very difficult to capture a high ground on this rainy day. Although the soldiers of the 180th Division had no experience in fighting with the US military, their combat effectiveness was not weak. Under the conditions of taking advantage of time and place, it was not difficult to fight. They quickly defeated the US military's two charges.

And right in front of us, more than a dozen engineering cars modified by Sherman were busy driving.

First of all, the difficulty they encountered was that the Sherman tanks, which were modified forklifts, found that they had nothing to do, because when they tried to use bulldozing and bury the trenches and wanted to fill the trenches, they found that the soil was all on the other side of the anti-tank trenches, and they had no soil available. If they wanted to use the soil, they had to drive the tanks to the foot of the mountain to shovel the soil. This was obviously very dangerous, because the explosive packs or grenades of the Volunteers could be dropped to the position where they shoveled the soil.

So they had to use bridge-building tanks to set up rut bridges on anti-tank trenches. The rut bridge is actually two steel plates equipped with wheels. They are lifted and traction equipment on the Sherman tanks, and they are erected on the trenches, one left and one right according to the spacing of the tank tracks, so that the tanks can drive through the trenches along these two steel plates.

However, after they set it up, they found that the bridge was one end high and the other end low. And the high end was set on the soft soil, making the steel bridge very unstable.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Zhao Yongxin said quietly beside me: "The enemy has built a bridge, should we go up?"

"Wait a little longer!" I replied.

At this time, the enemy finally mustered up the courage to send a Xiafei tank to slowly drive onto the rut bridge. Although Xiafei is a light tank, it weighs eighteen tons. It only drives a small section of the rut. The soft soil on the other end is crushed down... Then after a while, the tank hands finally muster up the courage to drive the tank forward again. The ruts sink deeper and deeper. Moreover, due to the different density of the accumulated soil, the two sections of accumulated soil sinking differently, the tank also slowly tilted to the side, and was so shocked that the tank observer, who had his head exposed outside, shouted downward: "Go back, go back!"

But everything was too late. With a bang, the whole tank turned over and fell into the deep trench. It was really hard for those tankers to suffer. The 18-ton tank was pressed on the body, so it was probably not easy...

The Americans were not lazy. They jumped down to rescue the tankers in the tank, but with the sound of two landmines, only two of the dozen infantry were blown out and crawled out with dark faces, and then no one dared to jump down again.

Then the US tanks walked around the tank trench for a few times, and perhaps they could not find a better way to cross the tank, so they had to retreat helplessly.

"What? Just retreat like this?" Hu Zi looked at the US troops retreating like a tide in disbelief. He was still holding an anti-tank grenade in his hand, preparing to do a big fight!
Chapter completed!