The Bright Sword of Changjin Lake becomes stronger

Van Fleet couldn't help but cursed: "Farke, these guys are so cunning."

"How could they prepare for a counterattack in such a short period of time, and secretly transfer the main force to the east."

"This is really unreasonable."

A major general next to him said: "Your Excellency, Commander, it is obvious that the enemy knows that it cannot defeat us, so it concentrates its superior forces to deal with the Korean troops on the eastern front."

"Although their troops are all trained by us, their combat effectiveness is not good at all and cannot be compared with ours. I suspect that they are not a nation suitable for fighting."

Van Fleet waved his hand and said: "But we have to rely on them. After all, our military strength is limited, and our enemies are constantly increasing their military strength. If we only rely on us, our military strength will never be enough."

The major general said: "But now that the fighting has just begun, the Korean army actually asked to retreat. This is simply an escape."

"Once they all withdraw, our army may be defeated in this area on the Eastern Front, and the flanks of the 10th Army will be exposed, which may ultimately affect our entire war situation."

Van Fleet gritted his teeth and said, "Call them back immediately and tell them not to retreat no matter what. Anyone who dares to retreat without permission will be severely punished."

"yes sir!"

A staff officer nearby responded quickly and turned around to convey the order.

Van Fleet continued: "Immediately send a telegram to the 10th Army and order them to send troops to assist the Korean army. They must ensure that the front line can be stabilized near the Soyang River and must not allow the enemy to advance south."

"yes sir!"

Van Fleet looked at the sand table in front of him distractedly. The battle had ended like this, and the old guy was also very angry.

A staff officer nearby said: "Your Excellency, Commander, these volunteers are indeed difficult to deal with. Their weapons and equipment may be poor, but their fighting will is surprisingly strong."

"Even the Japanese army during World War II could not compare with them."

"Otherwise, they wouldn't have created miracles one after another."

Van Fleet sighed helplessly and said: 'I don't care how powerful they are, now we must defeat them at all costs! ’

……

Van Fleet thought that by ordering the Korean army not to retreat, he could prevent them from retreating. I have to say that his idea was too naive.

Van Fleet's order was sent to Liu Zaixing's headquarters. After Liu Zaixing received the order, he didn't know what he was doing wrong.

At this time, the 9th Division of the Korean Army had already begun to retreat across the board. Because they learned that the rd Division of the Korean Army had also begun to retreat, they did not continue to wait for orders and directly started running mode.

In this way, several divisions of the Korean army began to be defeated on a large scale.

Liu Zaixing wanted to stop all this, but it was too late. When he learned that all the troops had begun to retreat at a faster speed, Liu Zaixing no longer hesitated, and ran away in despair with his headquarters.

At the same time, Major General Byers, commander of the 10th U.S. Army, also received Van Fleet's order.

Major General Byers stared at the sand table in front of him and said: "I didn't expect these guys to be so useless. The thought of supporting them gives me a headache."

The staff officer next to him reminded: "But even so, we must send troops to support them as soon as possible. If these losers are really defeated, our flanks will also be exposed to the front of the volunteers, which will be very detrimental to us. "

Major General Byers stared at the sand table in front of him and ordered: "Immediately pass the order and order all troops to immediately send troops to move closer to the east to support the Korean army."

"yes sir!"

A staff officer nearby responded quickly, turned around and ran to deliver the order.

Major General Byers continued: "I heard that there are traces of enemy troops near the Wuma Zhi."

A staff officer quickly replied: "The report I just received is that a group of enemy troops did come around and attacked Wumazhi in a sneak attack. They also attacked a group of Korean troops just now."

Major General Byers asked, "How many are there?"

The staff officer replied: "The preliminary estimate should be only a few hundred people at most."

Major General Byers ordered: "Immediately send an order to mobilize troops to counterattack Wumazhi. You must take this place back to me."

"These hateful Chinese troops are so audacious that they even came to our rear. We must resolutely and completely eliminate them and recapture Wumazhi."

"yes sir!"

The staff officer responded and hurried to convey the order.

Major General Byers stared at the sand table in front of him and said thoughtfully: "The Chinese army chose the Korean army as the focus of its attack this time. It is just to find some rabble that are easy to deal with and win one or two battles to boost it. It’s just morale.”

"If the Korean army is really defeated, we can actually attack them from the flank and take the opportunity to defeat them."

"I think this may not be an opportunity."

"All units must be fully prepared for combat, especially for rest and recuperation at the rear. As reserve units, all troops are sent to the front line to prepare for battle, and they rush to various combat positions quickly to prepare for battle."

"yes sir!"

……

At the same time, at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army.

The boss stared at the sand table in front of him, always paying attention to the battle situation on the front line.

Telegrams from the front line were sent to the headquarters one after another.

Chief of Staff Jie Hui reported: "Boss, according to reports from the front line, the Korean army has shown signs of defeat across the board."

"All units are launching an attack with all their strength to maximize the results."

The boss asked in surprise: "The fighting just started, and the Korean army was defeated."

Chief of Staff Jie nodded and said, "Yes, the entire South Korean Third Army has begun to retreat."

The boss pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that our previous judgment was correct. This Korean army is still very easy to fight. They have no fighting ability."

"It's just that now they are retreating on their own initiative. They are retreating so fast. I'm worried that they won't be able to annihilate their main force."

Chief of Staff Xie frowned and said: "This is indeed a problem, but no one thought that they would run so fast. According to our plan, they could last more or less one day, but now it seems that they only lasted a few Within hours, the whole front was completely defeated.”

"Now I wonder if they are deliberately conserving their strength."

The boss frowned and said: "It's hard to say, but since we can confirm that they have really retreated, we can pursue them boldly and try to eliminate as many enemies as possible."

"Our ultimate goal is to strive to eliminate more of the enemy's effective forces, so as to shock the enemy. No matter when the time comes, we must not forget our strategic goals."

Chief of Staff Xie nodded and said, "Don't worry, boss, we will try to eliminate as many enemies as possible."

"Following the current trend, we should be able to successfully occupy the county, Cangcunli, Sanjuli, and Guifangshan areas."

"As long as we capture this area in the east, we can threaten the security of the US 10th Army from the flanks."

The boss nodded and said: "But the US military is not stupid. Now that the battle has begun, they must have woken up."

"Then the 10th Army will definitely not sit idly by, and they will definitely mobilize troops to support the Korean army."

Chief of Staff Xie pointed to the sand table and said: "Our troops have begun to weave along this line to block the support of the US military to ensure that we can completely defeat the Korean Third Army."

The boss nodded with satisfaction and said: "This battle is of great importance. We must not make any mistakes. We must kill the Korean Third Army Corps as soon as possible and occupy this area."

"Further east, what's the progress of the Korean People's Army?"

Chief of Staff Jie pointed to the sand table and said: "The Korean People's Army dispatched about three legions of troops and began to launch a full-line offensive from the east."

"So far, the progress is relatively smooth."

"If nothing else happens, they should be able to completely defeat the enemies to the east."

"If they are unable to defeat the enemy, after we kill the third Korean Army Corps, we can also deploy a corps of troops to penetrate eastward and sneak attack the Korean Army's flanks and rear in the east from behind."

"In this way, we can surround and even annihilate the Korean Second Army to the east."

The boss frowned and said: "These Korean troops are not strong in combat effectiveness, but they are not fools. Once the 3rd Army is defeated, will the 2nd Army still dare to stay on the position?"

"They will definitely follow and flee southward."

"So it's not easy to take advantage of this opportunity to kill them."

"Inform the People's Army that we have made breakthrough progress and ask them to strengthen their offensive. The enemy's 2nd Army will definitely not be able to hold on for long."

"Your troops should strengthen their offensive, bite this enemy force firmly, wait for the main force of our army to attack eastward, and then encircle and annihilate them in the east coast area."

"Yes!"

Chief of Staff Xie responded quickly and then went to deliver the order in person.

……

Five horses stood on the ground.

Wu Qianli looked at the road in the distance and saw the car lights on there.

Mei Sheng came over and said, "The enemy's troops are getting larger and larger."

Wu Qianli nodded and said: "There are them on both sides, and they should probably be the US military."

Yu Congrong on the side said with a smile: "The US military is better! Those Korean troops have no fighting power and will collapse in a single attack. It is really meaningless to fight them."

Wu Qianli said with a smile: "What you said is true. Let's have a good competition with these big noses today."

Mei Sheng also smiled and said: "These guys are as timid as mice. They have been hiding there. I see that they have gathered a lot of troops, but they don't even dare to attack."

"Chirp!"

At this time, there was a harsh whistling sound in the air, Wu Qianli's expression changed, and he quickly hid in the trench with the soldiers.

"Avoid the gun~!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two artillery shells fell on the position.

A violent explosion sounded, and two pieces of artillery fire exploded on the position.

The soldiers reacted quickly, and soon they all hid in the trenches.

Along the winding trench, we hid in the anti-gun holes and the tunnel behind.

Wu Qianli also got into a gun-proof hole and said, "The noise just now should be just an American tank gun."

"It looks like they are going to attack!"

As they were talking, artillery shells flew over one after another and landed on the position one after another. The two cannons just now were just test firings, but now is the real bombardment.

It is indeed just a tank cannon on a tank, but the power of artillery fire on these heavy tanks cannot be underestimated.

Artillery shells fell one after another, and the forward positions were caught in a barrage of artillery fire.

Listening to the commotion outside, Mei Sheng said: "The artillery fire is average, far from the enemy's heavy artillery battalion."

Wu Qianli reminded: "Don't be too happy too early. The enemy's heavy artillery battalion will come sooner or later. After dawn, there may be enemy aircraft bombing."

Just as they were talking, Yu Congrong ran in from outside.

Wu Qianli couldn't help but cursed: "You are desperate for your fucking life. Don't you know how to hide now?"

Yu Congrong said nonchalantly: "It's okay, the cannon that can kill me hasn't been built yet."

Wu Qianli said angrily: "Just do it!"

Mei Sheng approached and said: "Captain, there is good news. Our army launched a general offensive across the entire front. As a result, the Korean Third Army did not last long at all. Now it has been completely defeated."

"That is to say, if we hold on for a while longer, reinforcements should be arriving soon."

Yu Congrong said with a smile: "Let me just say, these Korean troops are a group of cowards, they will definitely collapse at the first touch."

Wu Qianli said thoughtfully: "It may not be a good thing if the Korean army collapses at the first touch!"

Mei Sheng frowned and asked, "Why?"

Wu Qianli said helplessly: "These guys are not good at fighting, but they are quite good at running away."

"Our purpose this time is actually to annihilate their vitality. Naturally, the more they are eliminated, the better."

"But these guys didn't dare to fight at all and ran away quickly. Our plan to encircle and annihilate them is probably in vain."

"At most, it's just to follow and chase, and annihilate as many enemies as possible."

"It seems to make sense."

Yu Congrong nodded and said: "The regiment leader has thought carefully. It seems that the enemy is defeated too quickly, which is not a good thing."

Wu Qianli continued: "Yes, many of our outflanking troops ran away before they reached their designated positions. It would be difficult to intercept them."

"But it's already like this. There's no point in saying this anymore. Try your best to expand the results."

"If we defeat them, we might be able to use the opportunity to trick the US military. Now I think the more important thing is to teach the US military a lesson."

"When we defeat them, this war will really end."

After hearing Wu Qianli's words, everyone nodded slightly.

Wu Qianli continued: "Okay, let's not talk about this. The most important thing for us now is to repel the enemy's attack."

"As I said just now, if the Korean army retreats, the US military will definitely come to support, and our place has become a strategic point."

"There's just one thing I don't quite understand. Logically speaking, the Korean army should take our route to retreat."

"Why do we only have U.S. troops here to support us, but we haven't seen the defeated Korean army yet?"

Others were puzzled when they heard this.

How did they know that the reason why the Korean Third Army was defeated so quickly was because they learned that Wumazhi had been lost.

Their way back was cut off, and there were enemies in front and behind, so one of them started to run for his life, and the other troops followed him.

Starting from the 7th Division, to the 3rd Division, and the 9th Division ran one after another, one running faster than the other.

Moreover, these cowards, knowing that Wumazhi was lost, did not dare to run towards Wumazhi. They preferred to go far away and headed to the southeast.

At this time, the tanks covered the US infantry and began to slowly approach the Wuma Zhi.

Soon, the US tanks advanced to the bottom of the mountain. Due to the steepness of the mountain, the tanks could not climb up at all.

In desperation, the US military could only send infantry to charge, while the tanks were responsible for providing fire cover under the mountain.

"Captain~! The enemy has launched an attack."

When Wu Qianli heard this, he loudly ordered: "Notify everyone to get on the battlefield immediately and help me defeat the enemy." ’

"Yes!"

Following Wu Qianli's order, the soldiers rushed out and rushed to their positions, getting ready for battle.

Wu Qianli rushed to a position, glanced down, and then raised his gun, aiming at an advancing American soldier.

At this moment, a large number of American troops were swarming towards the mountain.

Seizing the opportunity, Wu Qianli aimed at the US military and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang!"

Several crisp gunshots rang out, and several American soldiers fell to the ground. Wu Qianli's marksmanship was superb, one shot at a time, and the gun shot into the head.

The sound of gunfire was an order. As the gunfire rang out in Wu Qianli, the soldiers on the position aimed at the US military and pulled the triggers.

"Da da da~!"

"Bang bang bang~!"

Suddenly there was a loud sound of gunfire, and dense bullets swept down like raindrops.

The U.S. troops that rushed up were instantly mopped up. The ghost guys raised their guns and shot, but the soldiers of Gang 7th Regiment occupied a favorable terrain, and the ghost guys couldn't take advantage at all.

A US military officer shouted loudly: "No retreat, cover with fire, suppress the enemy's fire."

Under the orders of US military officers, US tank firepower became more intense.

A hail of fiery bullets continued to shoot towards the mountain, and the U.S. military's firepower was still quite fierce.

However, due to the problem of shooting angle, it was impossible for them to completely suppress the firepower of the Gangqi Regiment at the foot of the mountain.

Soon the attacking American infantry suffered heavy losses and could no longer hold on. The enemies who had not yet been killed were so frightened that they turned around and ran away.

Lei Gong saw the opportunity and shouted loudly: "Fire~!"

"Chirp chirp chirp~!"

Amidst the ear-piercing whistling sound, artillery shells fell one after another at the foot of the mountain, among the American troops.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

Violent explosions continued to sound, and the American soldiers who had just escaped were immediately turned upside down by the explosion, and the American heavy machine gun positions below were also successively destroyed by artillery fire.

A US military officer shouted loudly: "Quickly, knock out their mortars."

"Sir, their mortars are on the anti-slope position and our artillery cannot hit them."

"Fake~!"

"Retreat~!"

"Quickly retreat~!"

In desperation, the US military, which suffered heavy losses, could only be defeated across the board, leaving only countless corpses on the ground.

In just a short period of time, the US military lost nearly a hundred people in just one encounter.

In a temporary enemy headquarters in the distance, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph couldn't help but frowned when he saw this scene.

"Fake, a bunch of losers, were driven down by the enemy so easily. It's simply unreasonable."

"It's embarrassing, it's really embarrassing."

At this time, a US military officer advised: "Sir, please calm down. We can make a preliminary judgment that this enemy is indeed China's elite force, and its combat effectiveness is indeed not weak."

"Furthermore, Wumazhi is an area that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. They occupy the terrain advantage and it is difficult for us to capture them."

"My humble suggestion is to wait until dawn before attacking. Anyway, it's not long until dawn."

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph nodded slightly and said, "What you said makes some sense. Let's wait until daybreak before attacking!"

"Call air and artillery support."

"yes sir!"

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph frowned and said, "How could such an important place fall into the hands of the Chinese army?"

A US military officer said: "These volunteers are so elusive. Who would have thought that they would suddenly appear here?"

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph continued: "Why aren't troops stationed at such an important pass?"

A lieutenant said: "Didn't you say before that there is no need to station troops and set up permanent positions here?"

"And those Korean troops came to build positions, but you drove them away."

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph's face turned red and he said angrily: "Did I drive him away? It was the commander who drove him away!"

"Okay, don't talk about this anymore. Let's think about how to capture Wumazhi now."

"They're here, they're like a nail, they're very detrimental to us."

A major said: "Sir, don't worry. After daybreak, we will have air force and artillery cover. It is only a matter of time to eliminate them. I don't think we will waste too long."

Joseph frowned and cursed: "It's a pity that the Korean army has been defeated. Those idiots are not good at fighting. Their ability to run is unmatched. They can run faster than rabbits."

The major said: "We don't have to worry about this. The other troops have gone to support us anyway."

While they were talking, a major came over and said, "I just received a telegram from my superiors. The rest of the troops were blocked and ambushed by the enemy during their reinforcements. The progress was not smooth, and the Korean army has completely collapsed." ”

"Our superiors asked us to capture the Wuma Zhi as soon as possible and eliminate this enemy force."

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph frowned and said, "It seems that the war situation is far worse than we imagined."

"Reply the telegram to the commander and say that we will take down Wuma Zhi as soon as possible, but we need artillery support."

"yes sir!" (End of chapter)