The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 433

At the headquarters of the [-]th Army, Commander Wei was standing by the radio station, waiting for Commander Zheng of the [-]th Division to report the battle situation.

But at the moment, the radio signal of the [-]th Division is still silent. It's not that there is no response to the situation, and if there is any, it must be asking for ammunition supplies.But the [-]th Division has not yet urged this matter again, and the tasks assigned by the superiors are still being carried out resolutely, and the radio station has not responded, indicating that their current actions are still in the plans of the chiefs, and there is no change.

Commander Wei also knows that the current situation between the enemy and ourselves is becoming more and more clear. Let alone the [-]th Division and one division are insisting, it is necessary to add two more divisions to their positions. His anxiety about the war is getting more and more serious. Seriously, it is still unclear what difficulties the [-]th Division is currently overcoming.

I'm so anxious.

Finally, after waiting patiently for an hour, Commander Wei couldn't bear it anymore, and said loudly to the signal soldier: "Get me the [-]th Division, hurry up!"

At present, at the headquarters of the 336.8th Division, Commander Zheng has also received the current battle situation of each unit. The [-]th Regiment crossed the Shaoyang River according to the orders of the superiors, and launched an attack on the Mochiyueli position of the US [-]th Division. , The [-]th Regiment attacked the front from the [-] highland and continued to advance.

So far, the situation of the various offensives is still under control, and he is also making careful arrangements.

He was discussing the telegram sent back by the [-]th Regiment with Deputy Commander Duan, analyzing the enemy's situation. Deputy Commander Duan circled the current position of the [-]th Regiment with a pencil, and drew two dividing lines between the enemy and ourselves.

At this time, the phone rang, and the correspondent answered the phone and said to Master Zheng: "Master, the number of the army commander!"

Deputy Teacher Duan also put down his pencil and listened attentively.

Master Zheng picked up the phone, and the voice of the army commander came from the phone: "Old Zheng, how is the situation ahead?"

Master Zheng replied immediately: "Everything is progressing according to the scheduled plan, please rest assured, Commander, I will report immediately if there is any situation!"

This time, Master Zheng didn't ask the army commander for supplies. He knew very well that the enemy had already blocked it to such an extent that even if it was a centimeter, the logistics department would not be able to send it to the [-]th Division.

After Mr. Zheng put down the phone, Deputy Commander Duan looked at the map, where the [-]th Regiment was in a prominent position, and said, "The [-]th Regiment is in a very dangerous situation. They have no food these days, and they have to face such a powerful enemy." The firepower, they are stiff now."

Mr. Zheng heard something in these words, and he asked: "Old Duan, what do you mean? Just say it."

Deputy Commander Duan simply stopped beating around the bush and said, "My suggestion is to transfer the Shanpao Battalion up and reinforce them in terms of firepower."

Master Zheng frowned, and said: "Even if the Shanpao Battalion is really transferred, our firepower is just a small raindrop to the enemy, not even a small raindrop."

Master Zheng’s answer is not an exaggeration at all. The mountain artillery battalion is only equipped with 24 mountain artillery. The American-made M1 75mm mountain artillery is very troublesome to transport. Everyone has to remove the wheels, and the gun body is dragged by horses. Those horses They are all American breeds, tall, big, and strong. If they were to be pulled by human beings, too many people would be needed and it would be too troublesome.

It is not an easy task to transport these 24 mountain cannons across the Han River.

Of course, Master Zheng was also thinking about saving ammunition. He knew that the twenty mountain cannons were used to reinforce the [-]th Regiment with little effect, so it was better to save ammunition so that the mountain cannons could be used to fight back at the enemy at critical moments.If all the shells are used up in advance, then these mountain cannons will be a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron in future battles.

Coupled with the frequent appearance of enemy planes, one after another flew overhead, and reconnaissance planes will be dispatched to detect the activities of the volunteers. Once the direction is determined, they will be bombed immediately.

The mountain artillery battalion, including anti-aircraft machine guns, dare not shoot frequently at a fixed point. If they are accidentally spotted by a US reconnaissance plane, they will be hit by intensive artillery fire, because they do not have the same army aviation as the US military, nor do they have any form of support. Therefore, the U.S. troops in front of the [-]th regiment were unscrupulous. They lined up the artillery and let out the shells frantically.

It can be said that the [-]th regiment fought hard.

The [-]th regiment was not much better.

At the most critical moment in the fierce battle, at [-]:[-] pm, the radio station of the [-]th Army headquarters received a top-secret telegram from Zhisi.

Commander Wei took a look and saw that it read: After the commander of the Volunteer Army and the party committee made a decision on the current battle, it was announced that the fifth battle was over, and it was decided that the whole army would be transferred to the [-]th line to assemble, and it would be ready to fight again after the troops were replenished!
This telegram was sent to each military headquarters of the Volunteer Army to make preparations in advance, and then the telegram from the headquarters of the Third Corps was also sent, ordering: the three divisions of the [-]th Army returned to the construction and were responsible for covering the entire army. The task of shifting the regiment backwards.

The order came from the Three Corps.

After reading it, Commander Wei felt that the order had to be completed immediately, and it was too difficult. He looked at the positions of the three divisions outlined on the map again, and the three divisions were scattered in different places.

Deployed on the [-]-kilometer front, especially the [-]th Division is at the front, which is particularly unfavorable for the completion of blocking tasks.

The actual situation on the battlefield is that the United Nations Army's large-scale counteroffensive has begun for two days, but the 21th Division is completely unaware of it and is still launching a resolute attack on the U.S. Army.The 100th Division launched its attack on May [-] to [-], and has advanced more than [-] kilometers. Due to the distance from the rear, enemy planes bombed and blocked, the logistics supply was interrupted, and hunger began to threaten the troops. The number of wounded increased sharply, but the lack of drug.

But the troops of the [-]th Division still fought tenaciously, and no one flinched.

In order to prevent being passive, Commander Wei drafted a telegram ordering the three divisions of the [-]th Division, [-]th Division and [-]st Division to stop attacking and prepare to move north.

The units of the 336.8th Division continued to follow the orders of the General Corps during the day, began to attack southward, and occupied the main enemy positions. The 30th Regiment centered on the 70 highland and pushed the front forward. In the Guli area, there were only the third battalion and the first battalion, and the first battalion suffered a lot of casualties after continuous mobile warfare. There were only more than 300 people left in the first battalion and one company, and only more than [-] people in the second and third companies. The artillery company has only reached more than [-] people, and there are not many soldiers who can continue to fight.

The 21th Regiment occupied the Wangyueli area and occupied the main position. Under the crisis of hunger and lack of ammunition, under the enemy's intensive artillery fire and continuous attacks, they completely smashed the enemy troops that rushed up one by one, and persisted. By the evening of the [-]st.

Night falls.

On a small highland one kilometer south of the 336.8 highland, this is where the company is stationed. After a day of fighting, they only occupied one highland. About ten kilometers further south, the enemy has deployed a large number of bunkers and heavy firepower. Even, it is absolutely impossible to attack.They could only withdraw.

The second company and the third company also occupied the east and west heights, so that the first battalion protruded forward, forming the vanguard battalion on the 336.8 height.

"It's the 21st."

Xia Yuan is almost living his life on his fingers.

Big Ma’s injury was not healed, his arm was wrapped with a bandage, he leaned against the trench, looked at the starry sky, and asked, “What’s the 21st?”

Chen Lie also came over and listened curiously, Xia Yuan smiled: "Do you know the meaning of May 21st?"

"What do you mean?"

Chen Lie asked nicely.

"I love you."

The two were at a loss, "I love you for anything."

"521, I love you, homophonic." Xia Yuan leaned against the cold wall of the trench and said.

"521, I love you." Big Ma smiled, "That's what I mean."

Before Chen Lie could figure it out, he understood after muttering a few words, "You guys are so boring."

"Hahahaha!"

Xia Yuan smiled and thought about the future world. In fact, both worlds are quite good, so there is no need to compare them.

After all, the future world is the world created by the ancestors, and they will not let people get confused about the world they created themselves.

Playing a homophonic stalk, the big man ran away with a smile, and ran in front of Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao, and asked treacherously: "Company Commander, instructor, do you know what day it is today?"

"Isn't today May 21st? What date?"

Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao asked suspiciously.

"I love you."

The big snitch smiled and ran away, leaving the company commander in a daze.

Instructor Shao smiled: "This guy"

Captain Lei laughed out loud.

The atmosphere on the battlefield was much happier after Big Ma made such a move.

The food-seeking team led by Lao Yang returned, each with a handful of wild vegetables in their hands. The soldiers had happy smiles on their faces, and it seemed that they had gained a lot.

Lao Yang raised the wild vegetables in Yang's hand and said, "I found a lot of wild vegetables, and you will have a good time tonight."

The soldiers grinned: "Is there any good food? Is there any white flour?"

Lao Yang curled his lips: "What's so delicious about white noodles? Cook wild vegetables and sprinkle some salt. That's how it tastes."

He immediately called the soldiers in the cooking class to start cooking wild vegetables. Since they can't live at night, even if the tunnel can block the fire, the smoke cannot. However, Xia Yuan showed them a smokeless stove some time ago, which made the cooking class The fighters have mastered a new skill.

The smoke-free stove was quickly dug, lit, and the mouth of the stove was blocked, so that the light of the fire would not easily leak out, and the smoke became very faint under a special method.

After the water boiled and the wild vegetables were thrown into the pot, Lao Yang took out a paper bag from his bosom and carefully opened it, revealing a white mass inside.

"Lao Yang, what is this?"

A soldier asked curiously.

"Salt." Lao Yang said, "I brought it from China and kept it on my body all the time, just to wait for this day. Put salt on it, and this pot of wild vegetable soup will be delicious."

The seized boxes of canned food had been sent back long ago. The soldiers were hungry, and when the salt was thrown into the pot, they seemed to smell the smell of food. In need of food, many soldiers swallowed their saliva, stopped chatting, and squatted aside holding their guns.

Even Xia Yuan felt a pang of hunger and couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

He had already thought of the difficulty of the second stage of the fifth battle, but he never thought that it would be so difficult, and a portion of boiled wild vegetables turned out to be their best food at the moment.

Xia Yuan leaned against the wall with a wry smile on his face, thought for a while, raised his head to look at the US military positions in the distance, and thought in his heart.

"Today is May 21. It seems that the second phase of the fifth campaign will end either today or tomorrow. The [-]th Division will be completely surrounded."

"Perhaps today may be the last chance, or let the enemy do it!"

Thinking about it, dinner was already served over there, and the soldiers filled some wild vegetable soup with the empty cans that the Yankees hung on the wire. His whole body was warm, and he seemed to be full of strength again.

Soon a bowl of hot wild vegetable soup was finished by them, and all the wild vegetables were eaten.

Lao Yang brought over a bowl and handed it to Xia Yuan: "Drink some, I'll serve it for you."

His thoughts were interrupted, Xia Yuan shook his head: "Old Yang, I'm not hungry, give it to the soldiers who need it, I'll go find the company commander."

Xia Yuan, who had made up his mind, felt that he could no longer sit still tonight, otherwise he would have no chance in the future.

"Go and find the company commander." Lao Yang looked up at Xia Yuan's back, "Drink the soup first."

"No."

Xia Yuan walked quickly.

Lieutenant Commander Lei and Instructor Shao were observing the enemy's deployment in front of them. They looked through binoculars and said, "It's weird. Is the US military camp so lively? What are they preparing for?"

"The enemy's position is brightly lit, and vehicles are coming and going. Will there be any more shells delivered?"

Instructor Shao observed with a telescope, and the expression on his face became a little ugly. The enemy's position was more than ten kilometers away from them, and the sky over there was brightly illuminated by lights, and trucks were coming in and out. It's very unreasonable. In the past, the enemies all got into sleeping bags early and went to sleep, but tonight they were uncharacteristically staying up all night.

This situation is very abnormal.

"Company commander, instructor."

Xia Yuan groped over from behind and ran to the two of them.

"Xia Yuan came just in time. You have a unique vision. Let's see what the enemy is up to for staying up all night." Instructor Shao handed the binoculars to Xia Yuan and said.

Xia Yuan picked up the binoculars, observed it symbolically, and had a general idea in his mind, which coincided with his plan, so he said: "Company commander, instructor, do you remember what I said when I was in the regiment headquarters? The enemy is preparing to launch a major counterattack, and it is estimated that this is hoarding artillery shells. Tomorrow morning, when they launch a major counterattack, these artillery shells and heavy firepower may be used on the 336.8 highland."

"what!"

The two were slightly startled.

"The U.S. military has money, and they will launch a big counterattack. They will definitely not use infantry to charge like us. They are like the little devils. They usually use shells to open the way. They have more money than the little devils. Just relying on artillery fire, they can level the mountain. Two meters."

Xia Yuan said seriously.

The two were shocked, and couldn't help but click their tongues: "It's really such an exaggeration, using shells to level the mountain by two meters."

(End of this chapter)