Anti-US and Aid Korea's Sharp Knife Company

Chapter 42 Burial in Place
"Comrades, go!"

A few hundred meters ahead, a large number of Korean soldiers gathered by the Qingchuan River jumped into the icy cold Qingchuan River, chasing the battalion commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers who came to the battalion. The soldiers of the whole battalion gave orders.

The volunteer soldiers who had been sharpening their knives for a long time, after hearing the order from the battalion commander, they immediately stepped on the thick snow and rushed forward with cold guns.

After the volunteer soldiers of this battalion arrived at the Qingchuan River, none of the Korean soldiers who had gathered at the river were gone.

However, what made the volunteer soldiers overjoyed was that they seized a large number of weapons and equipment discarded by Korean soldiers who were eager to jump into the river to escape, especially the box cannons that Korean soldiers often used.

Moreover, the volunteer soldiers also captured more than [-] Korean soldiers who jumped into the icy river and couldn't swim and desperately shouted for help.

Among the more than 500 captives, there were not only Korean soldiers, but also more than a dozen soldiers from the American company, especially Captain Thomson, who was seriously injured and was dying on the bank of the Qingchuan River.

Later, Captain Thomson, who was shot in the chest and unconscious, was sent to the Volunteer Army Field Hospital in Wenjing in time. The doctors of the Volunteer Army performed an operation on him out of humanitarian assistance, and took out the bullet in his chest. , luckily saved his life.

Captain Thomson, the American company captain who swaggered in front of the South Korean soldiers, recovered and was imprisoned in the rear prisoner-of-war camp of the Korean People's Army.

As for the Korean soldiers who were not captured, as many as 1000 people were frozen to death in the fast-flowing and icy Qingchuan River under the ice floes.

There were only about 500 Korean soldiers who followed Lee Doo-hyun to escape to the other side of the Qingchuan River and survived. In the US company formed by a company, not only the company captain Captain Thomson was captured, but also less than a hundred people remained.

The third company of the Volunteer Army, which occupied the favorable terrain on the high ground five kilometers south of Wenjing, successfully completed the interception mission. Li Dequan, a group of soldiers, and the bodies of more than a dozen soldiers who died here were buried on the spot.

Due to the severe freezing weather, even if the soldiers of the third company seized dozens of military shovels discarded by Korean soldiers, the soil under the heavy snow was frozen, and they dug down for about half an hour. Time, and only dug half a meter deep.

Due to time constraints and heavy tasks, the third company of the Volunteer Army had to go to the cave area dozens of kilometers away, so they did not continue to dig down, and piled up the corpses of the dozens of soldiers who died and put them on the excavation site. In the pit that was only half a meter deep.

After burying the pit full of corpses with hard frozen soil, it was covered with a layer of white snow, and the names of every soldier who died here were written next to it.

Use such a simple grave to bury the bodies of the dead comrades-in-arms without even a tombstone. The soldiers of the third company and the whole company of the Volunteer Army, from the company commander and instructor to an ordinary soldier, stand here The simple ceremony of taking off their hats and marching in front of the mass graves moved everyone to tears.

In order to wait until the end of the war, it is better to come to this place to take away the bones of the buried comrades and transport them back to the country for burial. specially marked.

At first it was planned to rest at the same spot for half an hour before starting, but due to the need to dig a hole to bury the bodies of the dozen or so comrades who died here, and the soldiers were not in a good mood, it was delayed again. For half an hour,.

It wasn't until an hour later that there were only two platoons of more than 60 people left in the third company of the Volunteer Army, and then they set off for the destination where they penetrated into the enemy's rear this time-the Guitoudong area.

It is tens of miles away from the southern highland where the third company of the Volunteer Army is located to the Guitoudong area, and they need to climb five mountain peaks, and the road has long been covered with thick snow.

It can be seen from this that this is definitely an extremely severe test for the veterans of the third company of the Volunteer Army, because the regiment headquarters issued an order that they must rush to the location where the roadblock was set up before dark.

Otherwise, even if it is an hour at night, it is very likely that the fighter plane will be delayed, and the serious consequences will naturally be unimaginable.

in the wash.After marching for an hour, the commander of the third company of the Volunteer Army took out a map and looked at it. They had only traveled less than [-] miles. In the bitterly cold weather, he was so anxious that his forehead was sweating.

The vertical distance is tens of miles, but with several mountain peaks crossed on the way, the distance has been at least twice as long.

In addition, it is just over six o'clock in the morning, and the sky is gradually clearing up, and the eastern sky is also turning white, accompanied by the faint wine-red morning glow, and a round of rising sun is slowly rising above the horizon.

For volunteers who do not have air supremacy, it is very dangerous to march in an open place during the day without other things blocking it.

At that time, the air supremacy of the entire Korean peninsula was in the hands of the US military. They generally did not launch aircraft at night, but once it was daytime, they would immediately dispatch various fighter jets. ground forces.

Therefore, since the Volunteers entered North Korea to fight for about half a month, most of the time they chose to march at night and hide in dug air-raid shelters or dense woods during the day to avoid US fighter planes.

However, the interspersed task that the third company of the Volunteer Army received this time was to let them march during the day. At first, Zhao Yifa, the commander of the third company who dismissed the task of setting up roadblocks, finally felt that the task was quite arduous at this time.

"Old Wang, tell me, it's going to be dawn soon, and it looks like it's still a sunny day. If we don't think of a way quickly, if we march across the mountains and mountains like this, we will be killed in a few hours." It was discovered by a U.S. warplane in the sky."

The company commander Zhao Yifa, who was walking at the forefront of the third company of the Volunteer Army, looked worried, turned his head, looked at the thoughtful instructor Wang Wenju who was walking aside, and said worriedly.

The instructor Wang Wenju, who had come to his senses, also felt quite a headache about the question asked by the company commander Zhao Yifa next to him, and he couldn't help shaking his head.

"Old Zhao, how about this, let's go to a forest not far ahead, let the comrades have a rest. At the same time, let's mobilize everyone to brainstorm, what do you think?"

After careful consideration, the instructor Wang Wenju asked the company commander Zhao Yifa in a tentative tone.

After listening to what Wang Wenju said, Zhao Yifa nodded, and said weakly: "This is the only situation at present, and we will do as you said, Old Wang."

(End of this chapter)