The beacon of youth

Li Yong, who came from a distance, saw all this in his eyes. Li Yong was too lazy to explain to the group of prisoners, but just walked over and said in English: "Who is your commander, the commander stands up."

Seeing someone who could speak English, the prisoners looked at each other in surprise. After a while, a prisoner stood up. This was a fair-looking British boy in his 20s, with a beard visible on his ashen chin. He was clean shaven and his rank showed him to be a captain.

The captives who came over looked at Li Yong and the colonel's rank on Li Yong's shoulders with puzzled eyes, and didn't know whether the rank of the Chinese in the UN-army uniform was real or not, so they could only use a kind of reluctant The tone said:

"Reporting sir, I am Captain Charles of the Royal British Army. Our battalion commander was killed. I am the supreme commander here. I hope you can abide by the provisions of Article [-] of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war and ensure our personal safety."

It is not easy to call out to Li Yong, sir, the captives always think that the ones who attacked them were Koreans, but in front of the British and Americans, the so-called Republic of Korea-army and various military ranks and garbage in Asian countries are no different , to be clear, it exists like shit.

Charles?Heh, this name sounds too familiar. Li Yong remembers that there is a prince in England who seems to be called by this name. Could it be that he has caught a big man?

Li Yong laughed after thinking about it carefully. It is now [-] A.D., no, it is already [-] after zero o'clock. The current Queen of England seems to have just met the cheap father of the future Prince Charles. Prince Philip, a few heirs to the Greek throne, that is.Charles here and the big man in Li Yong's memory cannot be the same person.

His grandma's, for nothing.Li Yong muttered in his heart.

"Listen, Captain Charles. I'm not interested in your name, I'm not interested in any conventions. What I want to say is that I need your people to come with us to move ammunition and supplies. As long as you cooperate well with the Volunteer Army, your Life safety is guaranteed."

"Report sir, we are British, we are the Royal British Army, please abide by the Geneva Convention. Prisoners of war also have their own rights. We now need food and water, rooms that can keep warm, and effective medical drugs, not to carry any ammunition. "

Damn, captives have to talk about their rights, and they have opinions on moving supplies. This British guy is really funny. He doesn't think he is still on the hot kang in his hometown in England! ! !Oh shit.Pretending to be coercive is not the way to go.

Fortunately, Li Yong was the only one in the squad who could understand English, otherwise the soldiers would have beaten him to the ground with just this sentence.

"Listen, I'll repeat it again, just repeat it. Immediately take your people to carry supplies, as long as you behave well, you can survive. Otherwise, you will bear all the consequences. Just remind you. This is a battlefield, not the capital of London Liberty Square under the bell. Anything can happen, and it’s no big deal if dozens of people die, understand?”

Charles spread his hands and replied in a helpless tone: "Understood, sir, I will take my people to carry the supplies immediately, and I hope you can keep your promise."

Soldiers from more than 200 squads, about a hundred captives, and more than 20 trucks began to crazily rush to transport supplies in the hours before dawn. The dawn in the Far East and North Korea is very early, so we must seize them before dawn. The materials are well hidden.

Loading, loading, and loading, everyone is working like hell, including the captured Brits, to be honest, the UN-armed prisoners are not bad, just prove to them that they have a chance of life , these guys work very hard.

More than 20 trucks were going back and forth non-stop, piling up truckloads of ammunition and supplies in the large tunnel found by Ning Erzi and others. Seeing the snow-white car lights illuminating the road, Li Yuming, Li Jia and others The veterans in the brigade couldn't help admiring their brigade commander again.

At that time, cars were very rare objects, and there were even fewer people who knew about cars in the PLA troops in the remote Northwest, so that they had to burn the cars after they were seized. The independent brigade of the column has improved a lot since its establishment. As the leader of the brigade, Li Yong has always advocated that soldiers should regard driving and repairing cars as a basic skill, and everyone should learn it as long as conditions permit.

During the three-year war of liberation, the PLA captured a large number of enemy cars and trained many car drivers. Taking the Independent Brigade as an example, more than two-thirds of the soldiers who could drive cars, more than 200 people who came to North Korea There is no team that can't do it, so there is a status quo that you can drive a car now.

Almost all the cars in the Kuomintang army were supported by the United States, and of course all the seized by the Independent Brigade were American trucks. This is a good thing. The soldiers are also very familiar with the Yankee trucks serving in North Korea, and there are no homemade ones at all. Feel.

Soldiers who are used to hard times attach great importance to the seized materials and ammunition. They know that every truckload of materials is likely to save the lives of many comrades-in-arms, and they must not be sloppy.

Li Yong, the deputy logistics minister of the Volunteer Army, thought even more. In the Battle of Changjin Lake, the casualties of the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army reached an astonishing 40.00%. The entire company was froze to death by the established system, and the painful lesson is unbearable to look back on. Even in the three battles that just started, they fell into a situation of shortage of food and ammunition in the later period.

Matthew Ridgway, commander of the Eighth Army of the U.S. Army, is a professional soldier with a keen sense of the battlefield. It was this World War II veteran who discovered the logistical shortcomings of the Volunteers on the Korean battlefield and invented the famous "magnetic tactics."

Magnetic tactics, damn magnetic tactics, really made the Volunteers suffer quite a lot. Even if the Volunteer Army’s command organization understood the US military’s combat intentions in the later period, there was no way to break this vicious circle, because in reality, the national strength of China and the United States is too different. For example, the US military is all mechanized marching, attacking and fleeing very fast, while our army is all marching on foot, and the attack distance of a day and night is resolved by the opponent's march of one or two hours.

what to do?To achieve the same level of motorization as the U.S. military requires a large number of cars, but cars are really a luxury for the Chinese army. The thousand cars bought from the Soviet Union at a large price in the early days of entering the DPRK were destroyed within a few months. The air power of the U.S. military has blown up more than half, and another problem has arisen. If you want your troops to be able to march mechanized, you need strong air power to protect them, but does our country have them?Obviously not.

"Magnetic Tactics" is almost an overt conspiracy, relying on the strong comprehensive national power, it is too difficult to break the enemy's tactics under the circumstances of the huge difference in national power.

I don’t want to think about it. I get a headache when I think about it. Li Yong called Charles over to ask about the situation. There is one question that Li Yong has never understood. Why the British tank soldiers can’t help but fight. You know, the British soldiers who participated in World War II are still capable of fighting. It seems that the situation of jumping out of the car and fleeing when seeing a tank being destroyed should not have happened to them.

"Charles, I need you to help me find a tank soldier to understand the situation, the soldier in those Yankee tanks."

"Bill, come here, the chief of the volunteer army wants to ask you for questioning."

Following Charles' yell, a British soldier put down the ammunition box in his hand and walked over with doubts on his face.

Charles introduced to Li Yong that this is the guy who ran out of the tank. He is the only tank soldier here. You can ask him.

Bill walked up to Li Yong and stood at attention and saluted: "British Royal Army Sergeant Bill, bugle number, 230-4467, accept your order."

"Sergeant Bill, I want to ask you a question. Have you ever participated in combat? Have you ever been on the battlefield? Are you a professional tank soldier?"

Li Yong's easy-going tone made Bill very relaxed. After knowing that his life was not in danger, these British soldiers were very talkative: "Reporting sir, I am of course a professional tank soldier, and I have also participated in battles. I participated in almost all the battles commanded by Marshal Montgomery. But, by the way, I've got a good service medal."

When Bill talked about the medal, there was a smug look in his eyes, as if he had forgotten that he was just a captive, or was captured by the Chinese armed by peasants.

Li Yong: "Hehe, how can a soldier who has won the Excellent Service Medal be scared by an anti-tank shell and jump out of the car and flee? This is too surprising."

Bill didn't care about Li Yong's ridicule: "Sir, it's not that I don't want to fight. I was braver than you in the battle against the Germans. It's just...."

Having said that, Bill paused for a moment, and then continued: "I can't blame me, I can only blame the Yankees. I have never seen this tank before, and there is no detailed operation manual. I threw the tank away when I left. Just run, you guys came while we were familiarizing ourselves with the performance of the tank in the car, I don’t need to introduce everything later on, sir, you don’t like to hear it, your volunteers have better luck, if you let me familiarize myself with it for a day or two , whether your anti-tank guns can kill us is not sure, by the way, you only have one anti-armor recoilless gun, right?"

Bill didn't talk nonsense, and he observed very carefully. He even noticed that the Volunteer Army had only one recoilless gun that could resist armor. He was a veteran. From this point of view, Li Yong and his team were really lucky.

Li Yong: "Bill, what is your specific occupation in the tank?"

"Reporting sir, I am familiar with all the operational positions of the tanks except the Yankees' new tanks.

Thank you for the old buddy Anan, Makinofeng, 796693276, madman xml, Tiantianbaitou, leo Jielos, the monthly pass and tip of the high-speed car. (To be continued..)