Because we were worried about the strategic intention of the main force of our army to move eastward, we received an order from the division headquarters not to take a step out of the tunnel during the day. It didn't seem like much to us veterans, but it was different for the recruits, who were always walking around the tunnels, sighing a few boredness from time to time, and I just shook my head.

Finally, in the evening, the volunteers all packed up and prepared to set off, always thinking that they could go to the big army now. But at this moment, a correspondent came and asked the battalion-level cadres to go to the meeting.

Walking out of the tunnel, we gathered Battalion Commander Xu and Instructor Lin, and followed the messengers along the trenches built by the People's Army, the comrades of the People's Army were quite kind, and many people greeted us warmly along the way, and some even asked us which unit we belonged to in proficient Chinese, and there was always an indescribable nostalgia in their eyes when they looked at us. I was thinking in my heart that this part of the people who can speak Chinese should have fought in the People's Liberation Army, and now that I see that we must be thinking about the army!

He followed the messenger into a spacious air-raid 'hole', and at this time there were already more than a dozen of them gathered in the 'hole'. People, there are people from the People's Army and volunteers, Commander Chu, Political Commissar Chen Ye, and the Commander of the People's Army, Jin Chuanchang, are talking about something around the map.

Before the meeting began, I looked at this place for a while, which was supposed to be the headquarters of the People's Legion. I can't help but feel a little unbalanced in my heart when I look at it, it's all the same tunnel, and this tunnel is much better than what we live in. Logs are neatly arranged around the tunnel wall, spacious enough to accommodate dozens of people, a military map is neatly nailed to the wall, and desks, chairs, kettles, teacups and other daily necessities are readily available. What surprised me even more was that there was a small 'door' in the tunnel wall on the right, and a small 'bed' could be faintly seen through the dim light. It seems to be a single bedroom.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, what kind of tunnel is this, compared to where we live, it can be called a presidential suite.

I have known for a long time that the People's Army is not equal to officers and soldiers like the Volunteer Army, but the treatment is not so different! It is no wonder that those fighters who have been transferred from the People's Liberation Army to the People's Army will be reluctant, because in the volunteer army, everyone will suffer together. No one has anything to say, but in this People's Army"

"Comrades!" Seeing that everyone had arrived, Chu Tuan raised his head from the map and said, "We just received an order, our army is eight o'clock tonight." That is, two hours later, a full-front attack will be launched against the puppet army! ”

"Good!" When the warriors heard that there was a fight, they all clenched their fists excitedly.

"Time is running out, let's make a long story short!" Regiment Commander Chu raised his hand to signal the comrades to calm down: "Since the war is imminent, our army is not in a hurry to move closer to the main force, and the higher authorities have decided to let us cooperate with the comrades of the 47th Regiment of the 13th Division of the Third Corps of the People's Army to fight together, this is Colonel Jin Chuanchang, the commander of the 47th Regiment of the People's Army. ”

A few sparse applause erupted in the room, most of them from the People's Army. Last night, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army heard that this regiment commander did not take our Volunteer Army seriously, and they would inevitably have some opinions about him in their hearts. Several volunteer soldiers applauded and walked out of the salute

"Comrades!" Colonel Kim Chang began to speak again: "It has been some time since the establishment of our China-DPRK Joint Command. However, this may be the first time that the People's Army and the Volunteer Army have really been "mixed" to fight together, and I hope that under the wise leadership of the great leader General Kim Il Sung, the two armies will be able to "finely" work in harmony and bravely kill the enemy, display the majesty and momentum of our two armies in a "mixed" battle, and report to our leader General Kim Il Sung with the most brilliant results! ”

"Long live General Kim Il Sung!"

The KPA cadres shouted with their fists raised, and the soldiers said they could not understand Korean. But Kim Il Sung's name is no stranger, and now looking at the appearance of the People's Army, I can guess what they are shouting. So everyone had a little unnatural on their faces, because the soldiers usually shouted 'Long live Chairman Mao', but now they heard another voice

"Long live the Chinese *** party!" Long live Chairman Mao! I don't know who took the lead in shouting first, but the soldiers became energetic when they heard it, so they shouted as if they intended to compare with the People's Army, and the call covered the People's Army in an instant, only to see that Regiment Commander Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye were a little crying and laughing.

"Comrades!" At this time, Political Commissar Chen Ye stood up and pointed to the map and said: "Time is running out, let me first briefly introduce the enemy situation: The enemy of our army is the first and third army corps of the puppet army, with a total strength of more than 100,000 people, and along the line of the Zhaoyang River, they are the puppet sixth, first, fifth, third, seventh, and eleventh divisions. The main task of our army is to cooperate with the People's Army to cross the Zhaoyang River, seize Houpingli and Meishanli, enter the Wangshenggu area, 'insert' into the junction of the puppet 6th Division and the US 7th Division, cut off the connection between the puppet 6th Division and the US 7th Division, and prevent the puppet 6th Division from escaping south! ”

"Comrades must pay attention!" Political Commissar Chen Ye paused and then continued: "The strategic intention of our army is to concentrate superior forces to annihilate two or three divisions of the puppet army, so the most important thing in this battle is to 'insert' quickly and 'insert' deeply. ”

"Yes!" The warriors answered.

"I said something different last night," at this time, Commander Chu cast his eyes in my direction: "We have the heart to compare with the comrades of the People's Army!" The warriors turned their eyes all to me in a moment's time, and occasionally let out a few snickers, only to 'make' me scratch my head in embarrassment.

"Compare with the comrades of the People's Army to kill the enemy. That's a good thing, too! Commander Chu smiled secretively: "It's good to be braver than anyone who kills the enemy and fights more reactionaries than whoever fights!" But we must remember, don't hurt the harmony between brothers, on this basis of the competition, our volunteers have never been afraid of anyone, and have never been a bad seed, comrades, do you say yes? ”

"Yes!" The soldiers roared in response, how could the soldiers not understand the meaning of Commander Chu's words, so they all wanted to do a big job.

After the meeting ended, they returned to the tunnel and 'handed over' the task to the soldiers, who knew that they could not go back to the troops, and they were still frustrated. But as soon as I heard that Regiment Commander Chu had the intention to test our regiment with the People's Army, everyone was aroused. I can't wait to go to war right away.

The Zhaoyang River is a north-south river! It has a wide mouth and a depth of water, which can be waded through on foot, and is located exactly to the left of the two South Korean corps.

Obviously, the puppet army also realized the shortcomings of its left flank, so they laid mines, barbed wire, and built fortifications such as pillboxes and cannons along the river, in an attempt to make up for this defect with the natural danger of the Zhaoyang River.

It should be said that these arrangements are quite correct, and I was lying in the mud on the west bank of the Zhaoyang River in full gear, looking at the layers of barbed wire and pillboxes across the river through the scope with a little starlight, and I couldn't help but have a different feeling of looking at the command structure of the puppet army.

Although it is already May, the river is still cold, and it is not easy to wade through the river, not to mention that there are many barbed wire, mines and pillboxes on the other side of the river. If the puppet army is really a force that dares to fight, then it is not difficult to rely on such fortifications to hold the offensive of the volunteers, but it is a pity that they are not,

The so-called fortifications are dead, people are alive, and the most important thing in fighting a war is people, not fortifications. Even with such a natural danger, the volunteers only fired a few cannons and shouted a few shouts to kill the puppet army and began to flee, so what use can even be a strong fortification?

It is said that when the US military received the news that the volunteers broke through the defense line of the puppet army, they did not believe that it was true. Because they can't believe that the straight-line distance on the map is the old kilometer, and the actual ground distance is out of kilometers, how can the Chinese break through such a long distance overnight without being familiar with the terrain at night, which is almost the distance of the squadron *** marching overnight.

If this is true, there are only two reasonable explanations: one is that the South Korean Third Army did not resist at all, and as soon as the Chinese attacked them, they got out of the way, allowing the Chinese to pass their blocking positions in great stride; And then another. Chinese soldiers grew wings and had the ability to fly.

After this battle, the U.S. military believed that such an incompetent army had no value in existing, and the South Korean Third Army was disbanded. The disbandment of a native army by order of the foreign *** team that "assisted them in the war" because of a defeat in the home battle is in any case the most bizarre thing in the history of world warfare.

At this time, a string of red 'colored' signal flares suddenly rose in the sky, and the attack of the volunteers began.

Suddenly, the sound of artillery roared behind us, and one shell after another exploded on the other side of the river, and the flashes of fire destroyed the barbed wire and pillboxes on the other side of the river, and detonated the ground

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However, the artillery fire of the Zhiyuan army will always be limited by the fragile supply line, and after just ten minutes, the artillery fire began to extend, and several red 'colored' signal flares rose again in the sky.

"Kill!" Then there was a shout of killing that shook the sky, and the soldiers stood up from the ambush point one after another, and rushed towards the Zhaoyang River with their guns in hand. Suddenly, on the hillside, in the fields, and on the road, "there were soldiers everywhere, and in the darkness it was impossible to distinguish which were the volunteers and which were the people's army.

Then there was only a thud and a thump sound, and the warriors scrambled into the icy river like penguins jumping into the sea.

I swear I wouldn't have been stupid enough to jump into the river before the snow and ice had completely melted, if it were just me. Then let the river water soak my cotton clothes, and then swelled like a fermented steamed bun.

But seeing so many people jumping into the river without the slightest hesitation, I am embarrassed to be the particularly timid one, and I believe that many of them have the same idea as me.

The biting cold kept coming from my lower body, and I could feel the flowing river taking away the temperature from my body little by little, and after a while I could barely feel the presence of my feet.

When bravery becomes the norm, a significant part of those who were not brave will also become brave, as we do now.

The gunfire on the other side of the river was slight, and several volunteer soldiers went down, and the blood quickly stained the river around him, but the soldiers seemed to be accustomed to this, and still marched forward with firm steps.

Experienced volunteer soldiers couldn't help but be relieved when they heard the sporadic gunshots. Because if the enemy had been throwing butterflies in an organized manner, then the gunfire would have been one and the same, and the flares should have been fired before that, but now there was not even the sound of artillery. This is enough to prove that the enemy's resistance is not strong, or that the enemy has begun to flee.

Sure enough, when we rushed to the opposite shore ten minutes later, we found that there were only a few people on the opposite bank who didn't know that they were really not afraid of death. The puppet army, who still didn't notice that everyone else had fled, was firing machine guns in the bunker, so the soldiers easily threw a few grenades to solve the problem.

Puppet Sixth Division I remember that in the first battle, our regiment was heavily wounded at the Jiulong River, and now it is so coincidental that I have met this old opponent here.

Speaking of this puppet 6th Division, it is really a strange unit, it was originally a bad division with the worst reputation among the puppet army's troops, because before the war started, several battalions of troops ran to the north to surrender to Kim Il Sung.

But it was this rotten division that played a pivotal role in the first shot of the Korean War, because they were the only prepared army, and their resistance bought precious time for the other troops to retreat.

The unit turned over as a result, but it still behaved so incompetently at gunpoint of the volunteers.

The smoke of gunfire is still filling, the iron wires and trenches are already in disarray, and there are shell craters everywhere. Several enemy corpses were on the side of the road, and it is conceivable that they had been completely routed in just ten minutes of shelling.

"Run forward" came the command from the front. I didn't have to rush to find a dry cotton coat, so I had to run forward with the troops. The troops soon took up the mountain road, which was a route that had been laid out before the battle, and if we wanted to contain as many enemies as possible, we had to march on two 'legs'

Road.

To my surprise, this mountain road has a sense of déjà vu, I think I walked this mountain road when I retreated after the Hengcheng counterattack last time! I remember that there was a small village next to this mountain road. There are dozens of wooden houses scattered along the roadside, and a small river runs around the mountain, and the mountain is covered with green trees. Peaceful and pleasant.

This time, however, when I passed by the little village that had made us love, there was nothing left. All that was left in front of him was a scorched pile of ruined earth.

The puppet army ransacked this beautiful village, and at the foot of a dirt hill not far from the village, we saw an old woman sitting in a newly dug 'hole' and 'hole', and the old man's moaning sound came from the 'hole' and 'hole'. Old lying on a straw mat. His right arm was blown off. I couldn't suppress the resentment in my chest, nor could I comfort these two suffering old men. I could only silently pour half a bag of fried noodles in the dry food bag into the old woman's clay bowl. The old woman's indifferent, painful and numb expression. I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.

This reminds me of a Korean movie I watched in modern times, one of them. The plot says that when the Korean People's Army came to fight, a 'woman' or 'woman' went to a meeting organized by the People's Army just for a bag of rice, and the puppet army wanted to shoot her as a red 'sex'. I think something similar happened to this village!

After following the comrades of the People's Army on the muddy mountain road for seven or eight hours in a row, they finally arrived at their destination, Meishanli, before dawn. It is said that this People's Army is worthy of being born as a guerrilla, and its ability to climb mountains and mountains is no worse than that of the Volunteer Army. It's just that what I don't understand is why the KPA officials wear boots. No, as soon as they arrived at their destination, the People's Army in boots became a beautiful sight.

One by one, they sat on the stones, muttering, "Oops." Ouch," and with a look on his face. Grinning his teeth, he slowly pulled down his boots in pain, and pulled them down to see that it was miserable! The white socks were all dyed red, and even the regimental commander was no exception.

"Look at your majesty!" Zhao Yongxin snickered while digging the trenches: "What are those long shoes called?" ”

Roar! Instructor Zhao responded.

"Hmm, boots!" Zhao Yongxin nodded and said, "If only our country had this thing called boots in ancient times!" ”

"Why?" As soon as he heard this, Instructor Zhao couldn't help but wonder: "What does this have to do with ancient times?" Isn't it like shoes? ”

"In ancient times, if you had this thing, then the 'woman' didn't need to be so troublesome to wrap her little feet, right?" Zhao Yongxin said with a smile: "As long as the 'female' person wears this thing, she can't run as fast as she wants."

The soldiers laughed, but before the soldiers' laughter fell, a strange roar suddenly sounded in the sky. The soldiers were all people who had passed the curtain of battle, and as soon as they heard this sound, they knew that it was the enemy's shelling, and hurriedly threw away their shovels and lay down on the spot.

I had just fallen into a small ditch that I had dug when I heard a bang beside me, and with a sound of vibration from below me, the earth rushed towards me like a 'wave' and a 'wave'.

Then, before we could come back from the sound of the cannons, there was a burst of gunfire all around, and I poked my head out of the small ditch to look around, only to see heads popping out of the surrounding high ground at some point. They were '' heavy and light weapons and firing heavily at our positions that we had not yet constructed.

***！ Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, we want to ambush the enemy here. Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by the enemy. And to my surprise, it was the puppet army that ambushed us that we looked down on in our hearts!