The heavens start from Changjin Lake

After entering the DPRK, we encountered many villages and towns along the way, but they were all uninhabitable. As soon as the US military planes arrived, those villages along the roads turned into a sea of ​​flames and then turned into ruins.

Therefore, even if the 335th Regiment encountered many vacant villages along the way, they never lived in houses. Instead, they always lived a camping life of "covering the sky with paving, pillowing on stones and pedaling on the mountain."

Sleeping in the cold weather is the most difficult. The weather is cold, and the bedding brought by the soldiers is not enough to resist the cold. If you don't take off your clothes to sleep, your body will be frozen. The company will ask two soldiers to hold my feet while you hold them. Sleep with your feet up.

Xia Yuan was working with Xiao Heping. At that time, they were on a mountain road and their feet smelled bad. Fortunately, the cooking class would boil some hot water for everyone.

The smokeless stove invented by Xia Yuan is very easy to use. A company often digs more than a dozen smokeless stoves. Everyone is busy making fires and boiling water to wash their feet. After washing their feet, they cannot stay outside. They must immediately get into bed and cover themselves with clothes. On top, lay a quilt under the body and a bed above the body. Throw some branches and weeds on the quilt to make a disguise.

Although the conditions are hard, it is nothing to everyone.

The war conditions in the country were just as hard, so everyone got through it, and they had to be able to get through it first.

Besides, the difficulty now is to work hard to make a fire for happiness in the future. Everyone gritted their teeth and most of them persisted.

The translator Zhao Ruilong had never experienced such a life, but he gritted his teeth and persisted without saying a word. Instructor Hu was very good at taking care of people's emotions. Everyone knew that Zhao Ruilong was a recent graduate and was very precious, so even Li Li Some superior resources are urgently needed by Zhao Ruilong.

Zhao Ruilong refused, "Instructor Hu, stop taking care of me. There are so many soldiers younger than me in the company, so how can we treat them differently?"

Instructor Hu also wanted to say that Zhao Ruilong firmly disagreed.

Instructor Hu had no choice but to give up.

There were still a few strong female comrades in the army who had the same rights as male comrades to join the war in North Korea. They walked 45 kilometers on the first day and another 60 kilometers on the second day. They marched in a hurry for several days. They felt a little bit. It’s too much to bear, but they don’t want to be left behind.

Especially unwilling to say that women are inferior to men, they gritted their teeth and persisted, but fatigue was unforgiving. After one day of camping, they slept on the hillside with their clothes on, as if they were dead. There was no sense of wind or cold anymore. .

At dawn, the sky was gray, with scattered snowflakes falling at first, and then the snow became heavier and heavier, and they were buried. They still made sweet humming sounds under the snow cover, and it was not until they woke up from the cold that they I realized that I was actually buried in the falling snow.

After getting up, I stood on the hillside and looked out at the silver-covered land and the distant ridges, which were mixed in black and white, like a beautiful ink painting.

They were so entranced that they didn't react until the departure whistle sounded, put on their blankets, and continued to set off with the large army.

The heavy weapons and equipment of the 112th Division were not conducive to rapid advancement. The division commander, after discussing with the political commissar and deputy division commander, decided to order the troops to light up for the second time and speed up the rapid march.

But the speed was still not enough until the order from the military headquarters was issued.

The commander of the 112th Division looked at the order document and said: "Our superiors ordered us to take trains or cars and march to Xichuan quickly."

The deputy division commander said: "It seems that the situation is too urgent."

Taking the train, it was obvious that I couldn’t care less about anything.

However, the train the troops took only went to Bihehe. Because the station was bombed and they could not move forward by train, they got off the train collectively and continued their rapid march.

The troops marched to a ravine and camped. They found a car in the ravine opposite. The regiment leader sent someone to find out that it was the vehicle of the automobile regiment. He then showed the order of the "Chisi" and asked for the transportation of troops. The regiment leader led the regiment of these vehicles. When the director of the department saw that it was Shisi's order, he unloaded the sorghum rice loaded on the truck without saying a word. The regiment chief of staff led the third battalion to take the first step in the car, and then the Army Logistics Department organized cars to transport the 335th regiment. The rest of the crew rushed forward.

In the cooking class, Old Liu was still sitting in the car carrying a black pot on his back. The black pot scraped against the ground and made a crunching sound.

The mountain road is difficult to walk on, the car lights cannot be turned on, and the car drives very slowly.

After walking for a while, the front suddenly became lively and the speed of the car slowed down. Old Liu asked in confusion: "What's going on?"

Xia Yuan looked up with night vision and said, "There's a traffic jam. It's very jammed."

Ahead is a third-class highway with many vehicles. Vehicles from North Korean government agencies, diplomatic missions, and ox-drawn artillery trucks evacuated from Pyongyang. The road is so crowded that the cars are crawling like snails.

"It will probably be blocked for a while."

The commander went forward to negotiate with others, and the deputy commander of the 112th Division was furious. How could he complete the task of rescuing the People's Army equipment if this continued?

The deputy division commander thought that if the other party refused to give way, he would have to have someone move the car into the ravine.

The division commander did not agree with his idea. In order not to delay the time, he asked the political commissar to lead a battalion there first, while he stayed to mobilize the retreating convoy to make way.

At this time, it was almost dawn, the snow was falling, the air was cold, and a layer of white snow fell on the bodies of the soldiers in the car.

The division commander ordered the division's vehicles delivering ammunition and explosives to go back first, lest the US Air Force planes fly over and be bombed and explode, causing innocent casualties. He organized the remaining vehicles to hide along the ravines on both sides of the road.

At this time, the retreating Korean People's Army convoy in front was still in chaos, and everyone had no choice but to continue sending people forward to negotiate with the other party.

When the other party figured out that the incoming convoy was the Chinese People's Volunteers, who were ordered to stop the enemy and rescue equipment, the noisy shouts suddenly turned into warm cheers.

A senior officer of the People's Army immediately came out to take command, and the convoys of government agencies and foreign missions took the initiative to get out of the way. When the advance team of the 112th Division passed through, they even moved their vehicles into the ravine.

Although the road was cleared, the marching speed still could not be accelerated. The enemy agents along the way were quite active. As soon as the sound of aircraft motors sounded in the night sky, signal flares in the southeast and northwest could be seen rising one by one.

Sometimes it hits this side, sometimes it hits that side, and it indicates the target to the aircraft. As the plane passed over, the snow on both sides of the road melted and there were flames. Either the town was on fire, or there was a car burning there.

The car was stopping and running, and it was driving in a blur, which made everyone very anxious.

I only walked twelve kilometers in one night, and I couldn't even make it on foot.

At daybreak, the team had to camp in the mountains and forests. The cars were hidden in the ravines beside the road, camouflaged with grass or straw. The valley was so quiet that the earth took the opportunity to rise.

Except for the rumbling sound of artillery, the road was sparsely populated and there was no human figure. There was no smoke in the villages and no people roaring and horses neighing. Only the tired snores of soldiers could be heard in the jungle. Everything was as quiet as midnight, but at this moment But it was a day when the red sun was shining brightly, making the road that had been raining all night white.

This kind of sun has no temperature. It is like a huge light bulb hanging in the sky. It only emits light but not temperature.

"Life is completely upside down. Day becomes night, and night becomes day. I don't know when it will end." Zhou Mao muttered. "Just wait until the American devils are driven away." Xiao Heping yawned, which stung his eyes during the day and made him unable to sleep.

The soldiers chatted with each other, and fell asleep while chatting.

The enemy had control of the air and had a large target to march during the day, so he had to march at night.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, four "Yutiaozi" flew in and circled over the camp for reconnaissance. The roar of the aircraft's engines echoed in the valley, waking up many soldiers. No one dared to move. Staring at the four 'oil pickers' in the sky.

"Why is this plane like a fly?" Xiao Heping said in confusion.

"It's more disgusting than flies." Xia Yuan stared at him with his eyes open.

"Did it find us?"

Zhou Mao asked worriedly.

"Don't think blindly. If it finds us, it will start to bite people. Obviously it hasn't found us yet."

Old Liu was lying on the ground, staring at the cars flying in the sky with his big eyes.

However, the enemy planes flew close to the trees and ravines, and the wind blown by the wings actually took away the camouflage on the cars, exposing one car after another.

Immediately afterwards, everyone heard the sound of the aircraft engine approaching the ground, and then a heavy bomb was dropped. In an instant, the car burned, and the shock wave caused by the explosion spread through the forest like a huge wave, causing the soldiers to dive in. Get under the quilt.

As four planes bombed the cars hidden in the ravine, the soldiers became anxious.

At this time, a car full of ammunition was hit by an American plane and was about to explode close to where the soldiers were sleeping. The driver of the car ran over quickly, pulled away the body and got into the car. , pulling the ammunition cart with billowing smoke into the water.

The driver moved vigorously. When the car rushed into the water, he opened the door and jumped out.

The car fell into the water, the flames on the car were extinguished, and thick smoke billowed from the water in the river. Most of the cars were bombed by aircraft, and only the medium trucks and cars at the division headquarters were not attacked by the enemy.

It wasn't until all the plane's bombs were dropped and all the machine gun bullets were fired that it circled twice over the ravine and disappeared into the skyline.

Although there were no casualties in the troops, most of the cars in the convoy were blown up, and the spirits of the soldiers were also greatly damaged. Some company platoon cadres were lying in hidden troops, neither eating nor talking.

"This bitch can only be bombed, and she can't fight back. When will she be finished?"

Many soldiers are complaining.

The chief of staff of the regiment saw that this situation was not acceptable, and immediately gathered the cadres for a meeting: "What are you complaining about? You are below, the plane is above, the bomb is so accurate, but it just landed on your head. There are so many birds, who has ever had bird droppings on them? The enemy's planes are crazy, but we can't take pictures. The more scared they are, the crazier they are. We have to think, after we drive the American devils out of North Korea, what will happen to the American devils' planes? Dare it be so rampant? It doesn’t dare anymore.”

After returning, even the platoon leader told the soldiers not to be afraid.

The elder Liu lit a dry cigarette and said: "There is no use being afraid. You can only get beaten. We are living people, not corpses. We still have two legs. The plane can fly and we can run."

He pointed at the commander's medium truck and small car and said: "Look, the commander's car was not hit because it was well hidden. If we are well hidden, the American planes will not be able to detect us. They will not be able to detect us. They won’t blow us up.”

Xia Yuan was the first to cater to him: "The squad leader is right, fear is useless. The American devils will not let you go just because you are afraid. Think about the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation. Will the enemy not attack us just because we are afraid?" ? On the contrary, they will intensify their oppression of us, and we cannot be afraid."

"Don't be afraid!"

The soldiers thought about the hardships and dangers they had not experienced in the past, and felt strong in their hearts.

Xiao Heping said angrily: "When the time comes, when the American devils are caught, they must be taught a lesson."

Although the enemy planes are crazy, the geographical features of North Korea are very favorable to the volunteers. There are many mountains and ditches, and there is nothing they can do if they are well hidden. The US military planes are circling everywhere, which can only waste time.

When the advance team of the Army and the 335th Regiment rushed to Gouxian Ridge and Wenming Cave, the enemy had not arrived yet. They just sent planes here the day before to disrupt them.

When the People's Army saw the comrades from the Volunteer Army coming, they said happily: "Great, we finally don't have to retreat. It's time to start counterattack."

The advance team and the 335th Regiment successfully completed the task of rescuing weapons and equipment, and the troops continued to set off towards Xichuan.

On October 24, the Puppet 6th Division, 8th Division, and 1st Division had already occupied the Xichuan, Ningyuan, Ningbyon and Yongshan areas. The British 27th Brigade and the US 24th Division crossed the Qingchuan River from the Xin'anzhou area and advanced to Dingzhou and Taichuan respectively.

The superior ordered to annihilate the puppet army weighing thousands of pounds, and then attack the US military.

At this moment, the vanguard of the Volunteer Army has entered the Maekawa area.

The troops were resting at the crossroads. After receiving orders from Zhisi, the 38th Army was ordered to cooperate with the 125th Division and quickly assemble in the Wenmingdong and Cangdong areas north of Xichuan, preparing to annihilate the puppet Eighth Division in Xichuan and the area to its north.

The leaders are very determined. This is their first battle abroad, and they must fight well to bring glory to the country and the Korean people.

"Give U.S. imperialism a good beating and let them understand that we are not to be trifled with."

After a brief discussion, it was decided that the 113th Division would be the main attack, the 112th Division would make a detour to the east of Xichuan to cut off the enemy's retreat, and the 114th Division would be the reserve force.

At that time, the troops were on the march, and there were no calls or telegraphs, so they asked the chief of staff to go to the 113th Division to convey the order. Time was tight, so the chief of staff ignored preparations and hurriedly took the guards, got in the jeep and set off.

Although there were some accidents along the way, there was no danger, and we finally found the 113th Division who were eating in the ravine.

The chief of staff quickly conveyed the orders issued by his superiors to the commander of the 113th Division.