Chapter 10 Repairing the Mountain
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Chapter 10 Repairing the Mountain
Mt. Jisan, an important plateau on the south side of the Han River, is surrounded by more than a dozen hills overlooking the highway from Suwon to Incheon and Seoul, and is the only way to cross Seoul in the north.
Although this is not the first time to build fortifications, this time it feels different from the past, because the volunteers are good at sports warfare, and they have always destroyed the enemy in movement, and even if there are fortifications, it is to block the enemy's escape path, but this time it is to defend against the enemy's attack.
The highway was full of retreating volunteer soldiers, and there was no end in sight in two long columns. It was the troops running ahead of us, and they were going to retreat to rest near the 38th parallel. But I knew that they didn't have time to recuperate, and they had barely reached their intended place of rest when the UN forces launched a full-scale counteroffensive, leaving them to rush back again.
At the same time, the withdrawal and reorganization of these units has brought tremendous difficulties to the troops that are serving as cover on the front line, and our regiment is unfortunately one of them, and the United Nations forces with advanced equipment and superior strength will come in the future.
In the past, the volunteer army used superior forces to encircle and annihilate the enemy army, but even so, it was often because the firepower was too weak, and it was basically unable to destroy the enemy army in a full formation. This time, I had to resist the attack of the combined forces with weak troops and inferior equipment, and my scalp couldn't help but tingle when I thought about it.
"Battalion commander!" Zhao Yongxin leaned up and whispered, "Isn't it time to send someone to transport those guns and ammunition from Seoul?" Although the retreating brother troops left a batch of ammunition, less than fifty rounds were distributed to the soldiers, which was ......fearful if the enemy came up."
"No hurry!" I shoveled a piece of frozen soil under my feet and said, "I have to report this matter to the regiment commander first, otherwise this sudden shipment of ammunition will be carried up, and it will be strange that he will not cure us of the crime of secretly hiding arms." ”
"What do you want to say?" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but hesitate.
"Let's get it straight!" I stood up straight and replied angrily, "We didn't make a mistake, so let's just say that what we collected from the puppet army and brought to Seoul is not enough?" What's there to be afraid of? I said Company Commander Zhao, have you done too much of stealing chickens and dogs, and you are even afraid of this? ”
"Why, how can it? Look at what you said, ......" Zhao Yongxin smiled embarrassedly: "Didn't you just bring a bottle of foreign wine from the presidential palace, and you handed it over to the public a few days ago, right?" ”
"Frankly lenient, what else did you bring from the presidential palace?"
"This ...... Battalion commander, show you something good! Zhao Yongxin mysteriously came up and took out something from his pocket, and he couldn't see what it was when it was dark, but he heard a sonorous sound, and an orange flame suddenly appeared, which turned out to be a lighter.
"Hey, it's rare!" Caught off, Xiao Shandong came out and snatched the lighter: "What is this?" ...... that can breathe fire."
"Small, Xiaoshan Shandong......" Zhao Yongxin said hurriedly: "Don't break it, that's me, my family's ancestral!" ”
"Who are you teasing! I see that it was stolen from the presidential palace again, and those who see it have a share, and this one belongs to me! Saying that, regardless of whether Zhao Yongxin agreed or not, he turned around and ran, where was Zhao Yongxin willing to give up, limping after him, but his foot injury was not all healed and he couldn't catch up with anything, so he gritted his teeth and scolded his mother, but it made the soldiers who were digging the fortifications laugh.
When the sun rose from the east and sprinkled the first rays of sunlight on the faces of the soldiers, the soldiers put away their sapper shovels one after another, ate a few handfuls of fried noodles and hid in the freshly repaired air-raid shelter to rest. But at this time, Huzi, who was in charge of the sentry, looked at the road ahead, rubbed his loose eyes, and said suspiciously: "Battalion commander, when is there an extra tree on the road ahead?" ”
I raised my rifle and looked through the sight, and I couldn't help but be startled to see several cars carrying American troops, led by two Sherman tanks, driving down the road.
"There is a situation! Get ready for battle!" I screamed.
Xu Feng also discovered the enemy situation at the same time, and the soldiers quickly set up their rifles in front of the trench.
The U.S. military will not launch a counteroffensive so soon! I couldn't help but feel strange in my heart, but when I looked at the group of American troops in front of me and only one company, I quickly realized that they were just a reconnaissance detachment.
In the past, reconnaissance tasks were entrusted to the puppet army, but this time it was all US troops, and it seemed that Li Qiwei was completely disappointed in the combat capability of the puppet army.
It was then that I realized another shortcoming of this defensive battle - the time of the attack was determined by the enemy.
Normally, when the time was decided by the volunteers, we always chose to attack the enemy when he had to rest in the evening, and then beat him all night while it was dark, but this time it was the opposite.
Through the scope, I could see that the enemy's reconnaissance troops were very cautious, perhaps having suffered from the previous three battles, and they were advancing very slowly, although they were fully mechanized troops, they were not much faster than the volunteer army, and there were several observers on tanks and cars with binoculars looking around, and from time to time they got out of their cars to observe the footprints on the road. It seems that they knew from those footprints that the large forces of the Volunteer Army were retreating.
Fortunately, the volunteer soldiers knew how to camouflage the fortifications, and they had tree branches planted in front of the trenches, straw hats on their heads, and the new soil dug out of the trenches was also transported to the back mountain, otherwise they would have been discovered by those observers.
"Put it in and fight!"
"Put it in and fight!"
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Orders were passed down through the soldiers one by one, and a division of the Volunteer Army was stationed on more than a dozen hills along the way, and it was undoubtedly the best choice to put the enemy in to fight.
Cars and tanks rumbled close to our forward positions, at least two spaces between tanks and cars, and as far as possible to the side of the road.
I knew that they were doing this to prepare for escape, to reverse and turn around, and it was clear that they were like little rats that came out to forage for food, as soon as they turned around and ran away.
The rumbling was getting closer and closer, the observers on the tank kept looking around, and the American GIs in the car were also on guard with their guns raised, and they were about to drive over the high ground where we were stationed, but they seemed to notice something and suddenly stopped, and then the convoy turned around in a panic and was about to run.
After all, they still found out, and I couldn't help but sigh, in this broad daylight, they observed so carefully, it was difficult for a division's fortifications not to be discovered.