The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 472 Tenth Army Almond

Teacher Zheng was anxious in his heart, but he never showed the expression on his face. He pinched off the cigarette and stared at the map with a calm face.

Deputy Commander Duan stepped forward and said to Zhao Guobang: "Hurry up! Continue to contact the Corps Radio Station!"

Zhao Guobang responded immediately: "Yes!"

Master Zheng looked away from the map, and said to Deputy Master Duan: "Old Duan, it's useless to be anxious now. The Corps must have encountered some problems. As long as the radio station of the Corps is turned on, it will definitely contact us. Come here first. one time."

In fact, Commander Zheng is more anxious than Deputy Commander Duan. After today's battle, the losses of the regiments are not small, and there are many seriously wounded from the front line. The nerves were gathered again, and a more complicated situation came.

It was difficult to lose contact with the Corps, replenish food and ammunition, and transport the seriously wounded backward.

Since he joined the Red Army in 20, Master Zheng has fought for more than [-] years. As the No. [-] commander of the whole division, he handled and operated various emergencies in front-line battles skillfully and calmly. In the current unprecedented harsh environment, he still behaved very calmly.

In addition to ordering the communications soldiers to continue to contact the corps, they also have to deal with various battles today. Judging from the situation submitted by the regiments, today's battle is already quite unfavorable to them. Even at night, the frontline battles can still be heard Flying, cannons roaring.

"The Yankees are going to toss until the next day, they don't want to give us any time!"

Mr. Zheng lit another cigarette, and his messy thoughts almost overwhelmed him.

During the transfer, when the Corps passed through the area east of Shanyangli, it was blocked and bombed by enemy planes day and night, and two radio vehicles were bombed.

Two days later, these missing comrades translators and confidential personnel just returned to the Corps. After they separated from the main force, they walked hungry for two days before finding the main force.

The U.S. counterattack on May 23 came seven days after the Chinese and North Korean forces launched the second phase of the fifth campaign.

Seven days is the period of time when our soldiers run out of food. Every soldier of the enemy knows this. They know that the volunteers have no food, so they will increase their offensive.It's not that the Volunteers were caught by Li Qiwei's offensive strategy, but that the logistics force was incomparable with the US military, and it also proved that the Volunteers did not have an advantage in fighting the enemy for food and ammunition consumption.

However, this does not mean that the Volunteer Army has no chance of winning. The Volunteer Army can also compete with the enemy in fighting will, just like General Liang Yulin recalled: "Our soldiers can endure more hardships than the US military."

In short, no matter when the war goes on, volunteer soldiers are not afraid of sacrifice at all, while the U.S. military is afraid of death.

This is the only chance for the Volunteers to win.

The one who fought against the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army was Van Vleet, who succeeded Li Qiwei as the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Army. As soon as Van Vleet took office, he encountered the fifth campaign launched by the Volunteer Army. He is a typical firepower theory. , trying to advocate the use of fierce firepower to destroy the enemy's vital forces, thereby reducing one's own losses.

It was also under the guidance of Van Vleet that the second phase of the Fifth Battle of the U.S. Army was pretty good, especially the Eighth Army was uncharacteristically. Continue to use heavy firepower to hit the spearhead of the Volunteer Army's offensive.When turning to the offensive, boldly intersperse, seize the commanding heights and ferries, divide into multiple troops to suddenly insert, and then carry out a deep movement.

In the later summer offensive, under the command of Van Vleet, 36 rounds of shells alone were consumed in just nine days. His style of play was later called "Van Vleet's ammunition volume." '

It's not that the Volunteers are unable to deal with Van Vleet's style of play.Understanding the enemy in battle is the experience our army has learned from the War of Resistance Against Japan to the War of Liberation. The Volunteer Army has a deep understanding of the enemy and then deciphers the enemy's tactics. This is a major characteristic of volunteer army commanders.

Right now, the [-]th Division has been fighting the [-]th Division for the past few days. It is the US Tenth Army, which is the main force under the jurisdiction of the Van Vleet Eighth Army. The commander is Almond. , The battle was not outstanding, but it was widely criticized by many historians later, and it was these criticisms that made him famous.

Because of his mistakes in guidance, his Tenth Army was too scattered in Northeast Korea and was defeated by the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army.

At the beginning, Almond's popularity was not good, and his relationship in the US command system was not good. He had a very bad relationship with Lieutenant General Walker, the previous commander of the Eighth Army. Later, Lieutenant General Walker was chased by the Volunteers. The jeep escaped and fell to his death. On the contrary, this gave Almond a chance to grow up and let him understand the importance of connections. Therefore, after Li Qiwei became the commander of the Eighth Army, he got along better with him.

Li Qiwei had just entered North Korea, and he urgently needed the respect of his subordinates. He took Almond's olive branch into his hands, and soon, Li Qiwei reported to his superiors that Almond was an aggressive commander under his command. Although the U.S. Tenth Army His reputation was greatly damaged by the defeat of the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army, but Ridgway retained his position as commander, allowing him to continue to serve and participated in the fifth battle.

Almond also vowed to avenge his shame in the fifth battle.

Who would have thought that in the second stage of the fifth battle, Almond would encounter the 1953th Division. The [-]th Division was like an insurmountable gap, causing Almond to lose both time and vitality.After the end of the Korean War, Almond retired in [-] and worked in insurance for another ten years after retiring.

At this time, Almond hadn't realized that he might have to work in insurance for ten years. At this moment, he was full of ambition to wipe out the [-]th Division.

Commander Zheng of the [-]th Division is a commander with a completely different personality from Almond. In this battle, Commander Zheng continued to command operations based on his previous domestic combat experience. At the same time, he has been actively understanding the enemy and exploring the characteristics of the enemy. in order to adjust the countermeasures.

Learning in war is an essential skill for every commander of the Volunteer Army.

In fact, at this stage, most volunteer commanders are still accustomed to using guerrilla tactics as their guiding ideology, but as far as the current Korean battlefield is concerned, factors such as unfamiliar terrain and lack of intelligence determine that guerrilla tactics cannot play a big role. Therefore, using large corps and interspersed with large movements is the main combat method in the early days of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it is the correct combat method.

The logistics can't keep up, it's too backward, it still doesn't work.Take this battle as an example. Originally, the [-]th Division of the [-]th Army was used as a reserve team. The ammunition and food of the [-]th Division were supplied according to the standards of the reserve team, which was shorter than the food maintenance time of the combat troops. For one to two days, the ammunition base is only a little more than two bases.

The situation changed suddenly, and the reserve team became a combat force. The weakness of the logistics support capability was suddenly revealed, and all the loopholes in the operations of the Volunteer Army's large corps were all reflected one by one after the [-]th Division served as a combat force.

Therefore, after the fifth campaign ended, there was no sixth campaign.

For the sake of fighting now, our army's combat effectiveness is at the end of its strength. What the whole city is fighting for is courage, boldness, and the will to fight bravely to sacrifice and dare to win.

From the second phase of the fifth campaign, when it officially fought against the U.S. Army, the [-]th Division has already begun to obtain information about the enemy through combat summaries. At present, Master Zheng and the others cannot know everything about the U.S. Tenth Army, but they know more than that. A star and a half.

The [-]th Division pointed out that the commanders were all working intensely. Deputy Commander Duan, Chief of Staff Wang, Director Wu and Commander Zheng, had not closed their eyes for several days. Very vicissitudes.

Deputy Teacher Duan sat on the stool and flipped through the documents for a while, and then fell asleep as soon as he lay his head on the table. No one could bear to wake him up, and wanted him to sleep a little longer, because he was too sleepy.

Mr. Zheng yawned again and again, smoking one cigarette after another, trying to relieve his mental fatigue.

The gunfire on the front line continued to roar, and some stray bullets hit far away, and were relatively close to the teacher's finger. With a bang, the teacher's finger was trembling slightly, and the table shook slightly. It was full of thin blood streaks.

When Chief of Staff Wang heard the commotion, he turned his head and glanced, and said with a smile, "Old Duan, what are you doing, are you sleepy?"

Deputy Teacher Duan sat there for a while, and before recovering from the sleepy state, he patted his cheek to make himself more refreshed, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Old Wang, how long have I been asleep?"

Chief of Staff Wang rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch seriously, and said, "You only slept for 8 minutes."

Deputy Commander Duan was very concerned about the frontline troops, rubbed his eyes, and yawned again and again, "I've only slept for a while, how is the frontline troops doing? Nothing has changed, right?"

Master Zheng said from the side: "Old Duan, take it easy, the front line is still stable, it's not early in the morning, go to sleep, I'll call you at four o'clock."

Deputy Teacher Duan took off his hat, scratched his scalp vigorously, and felt a lot more awake.

"Drink some water." Director Wu took a glass of water and handed it to Deputy Teacher Duan.

Deputy Division Commander Duan took a sip of it, collected himself, and said, "Forget it, I can't sleep anymore. I just had a dream. The Yankee's 155 howitzers kept hitting our position, and many soldiers died. The division also dropped a few coins."

When fighting against the reactionaries in China, Deputy Division Commander Duan had experienced the 105 howitzer. This was the first time he encountered the 155 howitzer. Its power was much greater than that of the 105. It exploded when it touched the ground, and the killing radius around the blast point could reach 40 to 50. Mi, the power can be called terrifying.

Chief of Staff Wang said with a smile: "Old Duan, you won't be afraid of 155, right? When we were poor and white, we never met."

Deputy Commander Duan put down the tea mug and said, "I'm not afraid, it's this damn thing that really makes people angry. If the U.S. Tenth Army doesn't use this thing to do it to us, the casualties these days will not be the same number as it is now, old Wang , as you said, the U.S. Tenth Army is equipped with more than 57 155 and 350 howitzers, and we have no room to parry."

Chief of Staff Wang looked at the casualty lists handed in by the companies in his hand, and couldn't help but said, "That's right, this guy Almond is relying on these things, and now he is biting us, he won't let go easily."

Deputy Division Commander Duan calmed down a little, and said, "You reminded me. Almond probably doesn't know that only our [-]th Division is following them to stop them."

Chief of Staff Wang somewhat disagreed with Deputy Commander Duan's opinion, and said, "No, I can guarantee that Almond must know about it. Look at the current attack momentum. It is obvious that they want to make dumplings for us and wipe us out."

Deputy Division Commander Duan shook his head: "No, the sniper teams of these two days have been very good. It's hard for him to judge our strength."

Chief of Staff Wang said: "Forget it old Duan, they have two hundred planes, these days, they are buzzing over our heads almost every day, and there are quite a few reconnaissance planes alone."

At this time, Master Zheng said: "Okay, you two stop arguing, no matter whether Almond knows about our deployment of troops, we still have to stop him according to the order of the military department. No matter what the situation is, we will Be prepared. If you two have time to quarrel, why not come and study with me about tomorrow morning's deployment."

"Or go to bed."

Deputy Commander Duan said very seriously: "Don't sleep, the gunfire is so loud, and the soldiers on the front line are desperately fighting, we must hurry up and study the next countermeasures."

Chief of Staff Wang said with a smile: "Don't mind, it's still early, it's okay to sleep for a while, I'm a little sleepy."

Deputy Teacher Duan pushed his shoulder with his fist and said, "Come on, hurry up."

In fact, Chief of Staff Wang was right this time. Almond already knew that his opponent was only the [-]th Division.

At the same time that Deputy Commander Duan was napping on the table just now, the U.S. Tenth Army station and the U.S. military transportation troops were still busy.Car fuel, ammunition supplies, etc. are being transported to the station one by one.

In a tent, Almond was sitting on a stool, reading domestic newspapers, with half a glass of boiled water on his right hand, Almond took a sip of the boiled water from time to time, and did not drink it all at once. It seemed that A little boring.

Today's offensive is not going well, the Chinese are very tenacious in their resistance, even though they already know that the Chinese army has no food today, the offensive is naturally ferocious, but it is such a ferocious attack that they just don't push their front forward How much he advanced, and after a day of fighting, he only occupied a few small positions. This made Almond more annoyed. He secretly cursed the people on the front line as stupid pigs. But they are all watching.

Especially those beautiful bodies, Almond really wanted to take a gun and shoot those guys out, and he would compare them in the newspapers all day long without doing anything.

(End of this chapter)