Chapter VIII: China-DPRK Unity

"Let's go!"

As expected, everything still developed according to the original history, and we received orders to march that night, but where to go and what to do, not only did I, the nominal company commander, not know, but even Instructor Zhao beside me did not have the slightest news.

But it should be like this, the third battle was launched under extreme secrecy, and the U.S. troops did not receive the slightest rumor or warning before the Volunteer Army attacked, in the words of the U.S. Army, that is, the Volunteer soldiers were caught off guard as if they came out of the ground.

Well done secrecy! In this regiment, perhaps only a few people in the regiment commander and political commissar knew the goals and tasks of our march. If these were known to the recruits, maybe a few of them would have accidentally become prisoners of the Combine, and that would be ......

Alas! I have a headache when I think of those recruits, their excitement is still there, and the whole army is marching silently, but I can always hear a little Sichuan whispering. And they seem to be very interested in the snow that is all over the mountains in North Korea, and from time to time they grab a few handfuls of snow and fiddle with them, and if it weren't for the help of the veterans of the beachhead company, I think they would have had a snowball fight on this march.

But this soon changed, and in the middle of the night the smiles on the faces of the recruits disappeared, and were replaced by exhaustion and pain, all with sad faces, and swaying under their feet.

This is just the beginning! Looking at the appearance of those recruits, I was also worried, just marching like this, if the machine guns and cannons hit, then I would be scared away!

"Hello comrades!"

"Comrades have worked hard!"

……

Several cars loaded with the Korean People's Army (KPA) drove by, waving warmly to us in Chinese, which made me realize that the KPA had also entered the war.

From modern sources, I know that after the Volunteers entered the DPRK, they fought two beautiful battles and won more than 20 precious days, and the Korean People's Army, which had been divided into scattered sands, was able to rest and reorganize, and finally had three corps (the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Corps) with a total of 14 divisions and more than 75,000 men in the third campaign.

The Sino-Korean Joint Command was then established, and the third campaign was the first joint battle between the Chinese People's Volunteers and the Korean People's Army. It is said that Kim Il Sung still wanted to get the command of the joint army of China and North Korea at that time, which puzzled me a little, he only had 70,000 soldiers, but we have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, not to mention how could he still ask for command when he had just fought a great defeat and almost wiped out the whole army?

"Company Commander, Company Commander!" At this time, Xiao Shandong ran up and shouted: "Then, the recruit can't walk, saying that he wants to rest and rest!" ”

"Take a break!" I couldn't help but scold: "Let's take a break, can we still catch up with the troops?" Drag them too! ”

"Yes!"

"I said Xiao Shandong!" I couldn't help but say with some dissatisfaction: "You have recruits in your platoon, and there are recruits in other platoons, why don't other platoons have recruits who can't walk?" Do you have it? ”

"I ......" Xiao Shandong, I didn't know what to say.

"There are miles in other rows!" Zhao Yongxin chased after him and quipped: "It's just that other platoon commanders know that they can't rest, and the recruits who are called to rest have been given a hard training." Xiao Shandong heard that the recruits wanted to rest, so he came to report to the company commander. Feelings are the habit brought by being a communication soldier, and you are used to passing on words! ”

"Coax ......", all the volunteer soldiers around who heard this laughed, only Xiao Shandong was red-faced, standing stunned and didn't know what to do.

"I said Xiao Shandong!" I said angrily: "You're also a platoon commander anyway, don't you pass the microphone?" Learn from the other platoon commanders! ”

"Yes!"

Looking at Xiao Shandong, who ran back to the queue, I couldn't help but shake my head, the time is too short, and I haven't adapted to my position at home, the same as the recruits, and the same with the veterans. Although this third battle was not difficult to fight and was a big victory, the fourth battle that followed was ......

"Stand by now!"

"Stand by now!"

……

At this time, orders were constantly passed from the front of the troops, and as soon as the recruits heard this order, they all lay down, and the screams and complaints became one, only Instructor Zhao and I shook our heads, but no one could do anything.

"Company Commander Cui, Instructor Zhao!" After a while, a herald came running and shouted, "The regimental commander has told you to go and have a meeting!" ”

When we arrived, the cadres of each battalion and company had arrived, dozens of people were sitting sparsely on an open space of more than ten square meters, a few ammunition boxes in front of us had set up a platform, and a military map was nailed to the front.

"Comrades!" Seeing that the people were almost there, Commander Chu pointed to the map and said: "Our current location is here, two kilometers ahead is the Imjin River, our mission this time is to hide in the nearby forest, and as soon as the order to attack arrives, we will break through the Imjin River!" ”

"Good!" When the warriors heard that there was another fight, they all clenched their fists and looked excited on their faces. Except, of course, for me.

"Let me start with the deployment of the enemy's forces." Regiment Commander Chu said with a solemn expression: "The puppet army with weak combat effectiveness is deployed along the river, the north bank of the river crossing point is a plain, and the south bank is a cliff that is seven to ten meters high. The river is 100 to 150 meters wide and one to two meters deep. ”

Speaking of this, the volunteers couldn't help but gasp, this kind of terrain means that the volunteers have to be exposed to the plains on the north bank, and then rush across the Imjin River, and climb the cliff of seven to ten meters on the south bank......

"Is the river frozen?" One of the fighters asked.

"Although it has been frozen." Chu Tuan said with a straight face: "But the puppet army on the opposite side destroyed the river with artillery fire day and night, and the river was in a semi-frozen state. According to reconnaissance, there are about two or three barbed wire fences in the positions on the south bank, and there are large minefields, mixed with various mines, and the number of light and dark forts is built at the key points of the garrison, and the number is ominous. ”

As soon as Chu Tuan said this, the soldiers were silent, and everyone knew in their hearts that the combat effectiveness of the puppet army could be said to be nothing to worry about, and now our biggest enemies were plains, rivers, cliffs, and mines......

The plains meant that we would be exposed to enemy fire prematurely, the rivers meant that many fighters would be frozen in the Imjin River, the cliffs meant that we had to climb up against enemy bullets, and the mines meant that the troops could not launch a group charge......