After changing into a dry military uniform, I devoured a large bowl of boiling water mixed with fried noodles that Xu Yongwei had prepared for me, and then drank a large cup of hot water.

Although the night of fighting and killing is not long, and the back and forth is only a few hours, the tension of the battle and the burst of potential when fighting for the enemy's 'life' still make people feel tired. I didn't feel it when I was fighting, I didn't even feel hungry or thirsty, but once I got to a safe place and relaxed, my whole body seemed to fall apart, and the feeling of hunger, thirst, and cold soon came up.

It's good now! After defeating the puppet army White Tiger Regiment that stopped in front of the 585.2 heights, it seemed that we just had to sit here and wait quietly for the deserters of the puppet army to appear.

I still didn't pay much attention to the upcoming puppet army deserters. Now they are like lost dogs, behind them are the troops of ten divisions of our army's 20th Corps to chase them, and we are blocked in front, and in front of the 585.2 heights, there are also steel and mud fortifications repaired by the puppet army for us, what pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches, anti-artillery 'holes', digging bunkers, etc. are all available. It can almost be said that as long as we still have bullets in our hands, there will be no way for the puppet army deserters to pass through this road at the foot of our mountain, let alone reach the ferry to cross the Bukhan River!

"Captain!" Just when I was about to fall asleep, Li Pinghe walked up to me and said, "This is a telegram from Master Pang, I think you should read it!" ”

I took the telegram and glanced at it, and when I saw it, I didn't want to read it, it was to congratulate us on our victory! Just when I was still complaining in my heart about why Li Pinghe woke me up for this, I suddenly saw the next sentence: "The puppet army on the 522.1 Heights is still resisting, and the 539th Regiment is blocked!" ”

"What?" Seeing this, he couldn't help but chuckle, looked at Li Pinghe suspiciously, and said, "How is it possible!" 522.1 The puppet army in the highlands is still resisting? White Tiger Regiment? Their regimental headquarters have been destroyed by us, and the ammunition depot and oil depot have also been blown up by us, what can they use to resist? ”

"Captain! 522.1 There are indeed gunshots in the direction of the highlands! Li Pinghe replied: "We are also wondering, why the comrades of the 539th Regiment have not yet come here, Deputy Regiment Commander Liu has already organized scouts to reconnoitre, and they will soon be able to find out the situation!" ”

I sat up from the shell box and walked to the map to observe for a while before I sat back in my chair in frustration and said, "We missed a point, the deserters of the puppet army who retreated from the direction of Jincheng River!" ”

"Hmm!" Li Pinghe nodded suddenly and said, "Makes sense!" There is at least one division of the puppet army in the direction of Jinchengchuan, even if it is defeated by the main force of our 180th division, there will be no shortage of troops and ammunition with their mechanized equipment, and they will join the remnants of the puppet army's White Tiger Regiment on the 522.1 heights......"

"We should beat the water dogs and hit the 522.1 high ground in the first place!" I couldn't help frowning, originally this 522.1 highland was not important, because there were no important roads passing through it, and there were no bridges and ferries nearby. But now, the purpose of the puppet army to occupy there is obvious, undoubtedly to open a gap in our defense line for the puppet army deserters, and then build a pontoon bridge to cross the North Han River within the fire control range of the 522.1 heights.

For the puppet army with the help of the Yankees, it was only a matter of ten minutes to build a pontoon bridge over the North Han River.

"Captain!" At this time, Liu Shunyi hurriedly rushed to me with a telegram and said: "The reconnaissance troops have news, the puppet army has gathered a large number of troops in the direction of the 522.1 heights, and there are also traces of the puppet army's activities on the south bank of the North Han River. ”

The atmosphere in the regiment headquarters suddenly became tense, it turned out that it was not only the rout of the puppet army, but also the reinforcements of the puppet army who arrived at the 522.1 heights.

"The intentions of the puppet army are obvious!" Liu Shunyi pointed to the map and said: "They want to open up a retreat for the puppet army from the direction of the 522.1 heights!" ”

"yes!" Li Pinghe nodded and said: "After all, we still underestimated the modern equipment of the puppet army, originally we thought that this was the only place for the puppet army to escape, but we didn't expect it...... They could have opened up a new retreat for deserters in a matter of hours! ”

"Hmm!" I couldn't help but nod.

This is a kind of lazy 'nature' in people's thinking, if the same situation happens to us, we can't get down in a few days to open a new road, so we take it for granted that we don't take this 522.1 highland as a thing. What I didn't expect was ...... The same thing is only a few hours away in the hands of the puppet army.

"Captain!" At this time, a correspondent saluted in front of us again and said: "A telegram from the division headquarters that the puppet army in the direction of Jincheng has been defeated by the comrades of our 20th Corps, and the strength of the four divisions of the puppet army is retreating to the south, and it is estimated that it will reach the 585.2 heights in more than two hours!" The division headquarters told us to prepare for the blockade! ”

I couldn't help but look up at Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi, they also looked at each other a little helplessly, now it's not a matter of us preparing to block the attack on the 585.2 heights, but the puppet army deserters will not pass us at all!

It seems that all this has come together, and the situation was fine just now, but now it has taken a turn for the worse......

"Two hours!" Li Pinghe pointed to the 522.1 high ground and said: "We still have a chance, as long as we can defeat this 522.1 high ground within two hours, we can block all the enemy's retreats!" ”

"Commissar!" Liu Shunyi looked at Li Pinghe in disbelief and said: "The enemy has many more troops than us, plus the ammunition we brought was not very much, so we used up part of it when dealing with the White Tiger Regiment, and now we have to fight the 522.1 heights...... When the puppet army deserters come, what will we fight with? ”

"As long as we take down the 522.1 heights and join up with the 539th Regiment and Li Weiqiang's three battalions, there will be ammunition 'medicine'!" Li Pinghe replied: "And we are not fighting in isolation now, isn't the 539th Regiment attacking in the east of the 522.1 heights?" It's not like we don't have a chance! ”

"But ......" Liu Shunyi continued to object: "We only have two battalions of troops now, and there are puppet troops everywhere, so it would be good if we could hold the 585.2 heights, and we have to attack the 522.1 heights...... 522.1 The puppet Seventh Division on the south bank of the North Han River on the high ground has a regiment! Shouldn't we think about it? ”

"We will not be intimidated by the strength of the enemy!" Li Pinghe waved his fist and said: "Commander Cui can directly smash the puppet army headquarters with only twelve people and blow up the ammunition 'medicine' depot and oil depot of the puppet army White Tiger Regiment, why can't our 538 regiment win more with less?" ”

"Political Commissar ......" Liu Shunyi is not a person who is good at words, and Li Pinghe doesn't know what to say when he says this.

"Captain! Give the order! Li Pinghe continued: "I know that it is not our fault, the superiors did not take into account the situation on the 522.1 heights at all when assigning tasks, but we should have a sense of responsibility as a revolutionary soldier." Just like the soldiers of the 38th Army fought in Sanshori! ”

I didn't answer. At that time, the comrades of the 113th Division of the 38th Army were ordered to stop the deserters of the US army in Sansholi, and the situation is very similar to our current situation is that the unfamiliarity with the terrain made the superiors ignore another retreat route of the US army - Longyuanli. However, the 113th Division consciously divided a regiment to seize Longyuanli and successfully blocked the retreat of the American army. It is precisely because of this battle that the 38th Army is called the "Long Live Army", which is what Li Pinghe called "the sense of responsibility of revolutionary soldiers"!

I didn't think about any "sense of responsibility" in my heart, nor did I think about anything that I couldn't complete the task, I only thought about it, and that was the lives of the soldiers...... I don't think anything could be more important than that!

So I sat back in my chair and said: "I think what you both said is right, Deputy Regiment Commander Liu explained from the tactics that this battle cannot be fought so much, and the political commissar also said that it is not our fault that this situation will be caused, it is a problem when the superiors formulate strategies, and we can now be said to be powerless!" I think if I report this situation to my superiors, they will agree with me to do this, and they will not ask us to make unnecessary sacrifices! ”

The meaning of my words is actually obvious, as long as you follow the orders of your superiors to hold the 585.2 heights!

"Captain!" After being silent for a while, Li Pinghe still insisted: "Do you remember what our purpose was in launching this campaign? ”

I was noncommittal, and I made up my mind that no matter what Li Pinghe said, as long as I didn't agree to make a move, I would see what he could do with me! See how he convinces me!

Li Pinghe smiled lightly, and said fearlessly: "The strategic purpose of our battle is to try to encircle and annihilate several divisions of the puppet army, so as to annihilate the living forces of the puppet army and make the Syngman Rhee group submit, so as to achieve the goal of ending the war as soon as possible, if the puppet army can escape from our encirclement smoothly......"

I couldn't help but be stunned, and then I realized that Li Pinghe knew much more about me than I imagined, so much so that he knew that if he hit my soft threat, I would know that I couldn't do it.

On the other hand, however, his words were indeed correct, and the reason why the Syngman Rhee clique finally agreed to the negotiations was not because the US military coerced and 'lured' him into profits, but because his main force and ace troops were greatly damaged in the Battle of Jincheng, and he simply did not have the capital to go it alone.

If...... What happens if I don't attack 522.1 now? Could it be that the main force of the puppet army easily jumped out of our encirclement? Could it be that the end of the Korean War was postponed because Syngman Rhee still had the capital to go it alone? With such a result, isn't that more people and more fighters going to die?

I glared at Li Pinghe fiercely, and then turned my gaze to Liu Shunyi. Li Pinghe smiled with a 'treacherous' look, and Liu Shunyi obviously understood the stakes, so he nodded helplessly.

"Time is running out!" I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time, and said, "Now we have less than two hours of time, so we will call a meeting of cadres immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Shunyi responded and immediately assigned the task.

The number of cadres is not large, that is, the commanders and instructors of the two battalions, as well as figures from special forces such as Li Guoqiang and Hu Zudi. As soon as the soldiers heard that they were going to fight the 522.1 heights, they didn't have much resistance. This is what I expected, let the volunteer soldiers go to war, it is difficult to see anyone say anything about difficulties and so on. If you really talk about difficulties, it must have reached the point where you can't stand it.

But how is this battle fought......

"How's the situation in the 522.1 Heights now?" I asked Liu Shunyi.

"I just got the information from the reconnaissance unit!" Liu Shunyi replied: "The puppet army has built two pontoon bridges over the Beihan River, one for the withdrawal of the wounded and the other for reinforcements from the Puppet Seventh Division. They should be fighting and changing defenses under the attack of the comrades of the 539th regiment! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded.

The endurance of the puppet army is not as good as that of our volunteer soldiers, and I am afraid that all of them have become tired soldiers after fighting for most of the night, and the ammunition 'medicine' depot on the 522.1 high ground has just been blown up, and their ammunition 'medicine' must also be in short supply. Considering these two factors, the puppet army on the 522.1 heights is large but has little combat effectiveness.

What gave people a headache was a regiment of the pseudo-Seventh Division......

"The connection between the north and south banks of the North Han River must be cut off immediately!" I pointed to the two pontoon bridges marked by Liu Shunyi on the map and said: "Blow up the pontoon bridges, only in this way can we cooperate with the 539th Regiment to quickly take the 522.1 heights!" ”

"But the regiment commander ......," Liu Shunyi replied: "According to reconnaissance, the puppet army has also considered that we may blow up the bridge, and has already laid down layers of defense along the coast!" ”

"Commander, let's go!"

"Let's Camp Go ......"

The fighters asked for battle.

I smiled wryly and shook my head, it's not a question of who to send, it's that we simply don't have the extra forces to attack the pontoon. A battalion is stationed on the 585.2 heights, and a battalion is attacking the 522.1 heights, who else can be sent to attack the pontoon bridge......

But it didn't seem like it would take so many people to blow up the pontoon, and I suddenly realized that there were some things that seemed difficult at first glance, but they weren't really like that.

I smiled lightly and said, "It seems that the puppet army hasn't discovered our secret yet, it's just ...... How did you forget? ”

My words that didn't match the preface and the afterword made the soldiers all stunned, you look at me, I look at you, and they don't understand what I'm talking about.

"Oh, did the regiment commander say ......" or Li Pinghe reacted the fastest, opened his mouth wide and said: "North Han River, rubber pipe ......"

"I forgot!"

"That's right! The puppet army is all deployed on the shore, let's sneak over from the water and load a few explosive 'charge' bags on the pontoon! ”

"Good idea, I didn't think of it!"

……

As soon as Li Pinghe said this, the soldiers also understood, and they waved their fists one after another, eager to immediately load those pontoon bridges with explosive 'medicine' bags.

"Captain!" Liu Shunyi couldn't wait to say: "Without further ado, I'll make arrangements, the sooner I cut off the connection between the north and south sides of the puppet army, the better!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, thought about it and then said: "Arrange a platoon of soldiers to go, 'get' more than a dozen explosive 'charge' bags under each pontoon, and detonate them together at the sound of the order, let's give those puppet soldiers a ruthless blow!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Shunyi answered, turned around and went to prepare.

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The rain was still "crackling" down, and there was darkness as far as the eye could see, and occasionally there was a little light and roar in the sky, and it was impossible to tell whether it was thunder or cannonball.

I took all the fighters of the 1st battalion and the other 7th company to secretly climb down the 585.2 heights and 'touch' towards the 522.1 heights, two kilometers away, and there were corpses of puppet soldiers and bombed-out tanks and cars everywhere along the way. These were all left behind when I led the assault troops to attack the 522.1 heights, and the second battalion 'engaged' with the White Tiger Regiment.

Looking at this battlefield, I knew that the battle here must have been very fierce, but it was obvious that the puppet army White Tiger Regiment was undoubtedly the losing side, which can be seen from the dead bodies on their way, and I can almost imagine them being chased and killed by the volunteer soldiers all the way and leaving their corpses all the way.

The soldiers of the cold-gun unit still walked in front of the reconnaissance according to the usual practice, and the night vision devices in their hands were undoubtedly a sharp weapon for killing the enemy in the dark, and they were also very good reconnaissance equipment.

We didn't have much time, and by the time we had worked out the battle plan and had the fighters ready for battle, more than half an hour had passed. This means that we only have an hour to capture the 522.1 heights.

In an hour, we captured the 522.1 heights, which had many more troops than we did......

I almost doubt that I am a little crazy, according to the general law of warfare, the defending side always has a geographical advantage, so the attacking side has to have two or three times more troops than the defending side, so that it can be considered equal in strength. And because the equipment of the volunteer soldiers is weak, our army often has to invest five to six times the number of troops when attacking the enemy's high ground.

However, we are now using a battalion to attack the 522.1 heights that are crowded with the rout of the puppet army, and we don't even know how many people there are in our opponents. The reason is that the puppet army on the 522.1 high ground is 'chaotic' and 'chaotic', and even if the scout scratches his tongue, he doesn't know how many people there are......

Not knowing the number of people on the other side made me feel a little weak, but I had to do it again. The reason is simple, I want to end this damn war soon.

As we turned a few hills along the road, the gunfire grew louder and louder, and in a few moments, the 522.1 Heights, filled with flares, searchlights, and the glow of bullets and shells, appeared in front of us.