"Report!" While I was discussing with Regiment Commander Pang and Political Commissar Pan pointing to the map, a correspondent hurriedly ran in and reported: "Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, and Battalion Commander Zhang of the third battalion to report that the left flank of their position heard gunshots!" ”

"What?. Hearing this, Regiment Commander Pang couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Have you found out which unit it is?"

"Not yet!" The correspondent replied: "Battalion Commander Zhang has already sent a reconnaissance team to reconnoitre. But it hasn't come of it yet

Commander Pang anxiously paced back and forth for two steps, and then quickly ordered: "You go back and tell Camp Commander Zhang!" Report to me as soon as you find out! ”

"Yes". The correspondent answered and quickly ran out.

"The troops that were originally stationed on our left flank were. Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask.

"On the left wing is Fifteen Lan. On the right flank is the Sixty-Third Army". Commissar Pan looked at the map and replied.

Actually, I know all these things. Asking so knowingly, I don't want to make Head Pang and Political Commissar Pan wonder how I know so much.

"It doesn't make sense." Commander Pang frowned and said, "Could it be that the enemy has already broken through?" The comrades of the 15th Army can't stop it? ”

"It should be the comrades of the 15th Army who have received the order to start retreating, I replied.

"But," Captain Pang said in confusion, "Why didn't they tell us when they retreated?" Isn't this putting our left flank *** at the guns of the enemy? ”

They didn't know that our army was still holding its ground, and when I heard this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "The comrades of the 15th Army thought that we had also received the order to retreat. And according to my thoughts. The sixty-third army on our right flank will have the same idea! ”

Hearing this, Captain Pang, who was pacing anxiously at the words, stood still as if he had been electrocuted. It took a long time before I walked quickly to the map. Then he sighed, raised his head with difficulty, looked at the political commissar Pan, and said, "Old Pan, we are going to become a lone army."

Political Commissar Pan nodded solemnly: "I think." We should report these problems to our superiors in a timely manner and attract the attention of the command as soon as possible! ”

"That's right, I'll go see the teacher now!" Commander Pang grabbed the belt and pistol hanging next to him and tied them to his waist, but was stopped by Political Commissar Pan when he was about to go out.

"Lao Pang, do we have to wait for Battalion Commander Zhang's reconnaissance results to come out before reporting. I haven't figured it out yet. In case,"

"I can't care so much!" Commander Pang lifted the black cloth and walked out, and after walking a few steps, he turned around and shouted, "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, you will also come along."

"Yes!" I answered, and followed behind Commander Pang with the guards.

followed Regiment Commander Pang all the way forward, but it took ten minutes to come to the division headquarters.

"Report!" Captain Pang didn't take a breath, and shouted outside the 'door' out of breath.

"Come in".

As soon as the words fell, Commander Pang couldn't wait to lift the black cloth and break in: "Division commander, political commissar, I have something to report!" ”

"Huh? Is it Captain Pang? There is also Deputy Battalion Commander Cui. Division Commander Zheng couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw the two of us: "Why are you not on the front line to command the war, what are you doing here?" ”

"I'm here to ask for credit." Political Commissar Wu laughed: "Don't worry, we were still discussing you just now!" Fought such a one, a big victory. You will be credited with it."

"No, political commissar" Commander Pang didn't know where to start in a hurry, not to mention that the retreat of the 15th Army was only suspicious. It has not been finalized yet, and Head Pang was stunned for a while and didn't know what to say.

"Master Zheng". I replied on behalf of Commander Pang: "We may fall into the encirclement of the enemy. The fifteenth army on our left flank has retreated! ”

"The Fifteenth Army has already retreated? So fast? Hearing this, Senior Commander Zheng and Political Commissar Pan couldn't help but be taken aback. Captain Pang glanced at me with some surprise, I knew what that glance meant, he was blaming me for saying that a piece of information that had not yet been determined was certain. This will inevitably lead to the suspicion of lying about the military situation.

But I don't care about so much, first, in my knowledge, I can be sure that the 15th Army has indeed retreated, and the 63rd Army on the right flank will soon retreat; Second, I hope to buy more time for the counselor. It would be best if the division could not be surrounded by the enemy.

"Why haven't we heard anything?" Political Commissar Pan couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Where did you get the information!" ”

"This," I couldn't help but look at Head Pang hesitantly when I heard this, and I couldn't help but feel embarrassed in my heart. You can't lie openly in front of Captain Pang who knows the truth!

Head Pang also opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. Let's be honest! That's not what I said. Go on as I say. That's another lie about the military situation!

"Report!" When the two of us were in a dilemma, a volunteer soldier with five big and three thick soldiers crashed into outside the 'door', and seeing that he had a Tokarev pistol pinned to his waist like Commander Pang, I was thinking that he should be too, ***.

Sure enough, Master Zheng soon asked, "Hmm? Head Wang. Can I help you?.

"Report to the division commander and political commissar!" Head Wang saluted the two and reported, "Four o'clock in the afternoon." Small groups of enemy units were found in the positions on the right flank of our regiment. So a reconnaissance detachment was sent to reconnoitre. It turned out that the comrades of the sixty-third army had withdrawn from their positions".

"Hmm". Hearing this, Senior Commander Zheng and Political Commissar Wu couldn't help but take a 'gasp' and walked to the map in unison, and Commander Pang and I breathed a sigh of relief. Glance at each other tacitly.

"Lao Zheng!" Political Commissar Wu looked at the map and hesitated,

Raise your head and say! I will see if we should withdraw the main force to the North Han River and train it, and leave only the covering troops in the south to block the enemy, so as not to fall into passivity."

"That's what I am, idea!" Regiment Commander Pang couldn't help but 'interject' and said: "Our army's Koukou Division and the Murderous Division will not be able to arrive in time, if we still leave the main force of the division in Jiangnan." It is bound to be attacked on three sides. And our army is fighting on its back. What a taboo for soldiers! ”

"This, I also think about the problem." Division Commander Zheng sighed and said, "The problem is that the order from the higher authorities is for us to defend in place and cover the retreat of the large army. We have to think about the big picture. If we do not complete the tasks 'assigned' to us by our superiors, resulting in overall passivity, it will be even more difficult to clean up. Moreover, without receiving instructions from my superiors, I have no right to change the order to block and cover the retreat of other troops on the spot! ”

"Then" Political Commissar Wu hesitated: "Let's report the situation to the military department, how about the next move?"

"Please!" Master Zheng didn't seem to want to raise difficulties to his superiors, so he pushed this problem to Political Commissar Wu.

"Hmm". Political Commissar Wu gritted his teeth, and quickly ordered the radio soldier next to him: "Radio! Report the situation immediately to the military headquarters※ ※※

When Regiment Commander Pang and I walked out of the air-raid 'shelter' in Huaibu, our hearts were heavy, because the order of the military headquarters was still to order the Fourth Division to defend on the spot and cover the retreat of the large army, and to wait for the Cave Division and the Murderous Division to move closer to us.

In modern times, I know there is a misunderstanding.

In fact, the military department also had the intention of letting the division retreat, even when we were debating whether to retreat or not. There was also a controversy similar to the division headquarters just now. Some suggested that the division should be withdrawn, while others suggested that the orders of the higher authorities should be carried out. The reason for this came from the fact that the military department received an order from the corps command:

Due to the lack of transportation capacity, the wounded of the current war artillery have not yet been transported. For this decision was made. The ministries will not withdraw for the time being. and built strong fortifications at the front. Hold off the enemy. The wounded were evacuated before they were collected. I hope that all the armies will arrange and sue us with this 'spirit' spirit."

The meaning of this telegram is very clear, that is, to ask the armies to organize the transport of the wounded. When the wounded are not transported, do not leave the wounded and evacuate, if your own wounded are transported. You can retreat. There is no specific army for a specific division",

But. It was such a telegram with a clear meaning. The corps command understood it as: "The corps must cover the transport of the wounded of the whole corps." By order of the corps command. The military headquarters strictly ordered the division to defend on the spot, and strictly ordered that the infant division must wait for the wounded to be transported away before withdrawing. Even if it is a big sacrifice!

Commands must be executed. This order from the military department is a given. Everyone was speechless. Even if you know that this battle cannot be fought, even if you know that if this continues, the whole division may be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy. But a command is an order

What can I do? Rushed up to tell them that the order was just a misunderstanding? Tell the military department on the radio. Do you want them to re-understand the meaning of that message from the Corps? Not to mention that I am just a small battalion commander, and I am also a deputy, no one will believe this when I say it, they just need to ask: "How do you know the telegram sent by the Corps to the military headquarters?" "Then I'll die before I get out of school!

"Captain Pang. I'm back to position! "When approaching the regimental headquarters. I said to Pang Kechang, who was bowing his head and pondering.

"Hmm! Arrived at the regimental headquarters? Captain Pang woke up from his contemplation, nodded at me and said, "Go!" Go back and get some rest. Soon there will be a bad battle to be fought! ”

"Yes!" I answered and turned to leave.

"Come back, come back". But before he could take a few steps, he was stopped by Commander Pang, who stood in front of me and straightened his belt and discipline buckle, and said with a serious face: "Comrade Cui Wei, your performance in our army is very good!" Blocked the attack of the enemy's tanks for our army, and also provided our army with valuable combat experience, thank you for the soldiers of my division! But by order of the superiors. The task of blocking and covering the retreat of the large army on the spot was 'handed over' to our army, and the fighters of the other units were all withdrawn according to the order, and forty years was no exception! ”

"Captain! You ». Hearing this, I finally understood the meaning of Captain Pang's words. He's trying to kick us at this point. Finish.

"Less nonsense! Execute the command! Captain Pang's tone did not allow me to refute at all.

"I, I'm not leaving." I cursed in my heart: ***! I'm tired of hearing orders again.

"You" Seeing that I didn't obey the order, Captain Pang had no choice for a while, so he was so angry that he gritted his teeth. After a while he sighed, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Let's go!" Take your troops and leave tonight! ”

It doesn't matter if I want to or not. He turned around and drilled into the air-raid 'hole'.

When I returned to the air-raid shelter, the sky was getting darker, and I took out the map in my arms, and I couldn't see anything clearly under the dim sky, so I had to give up. Re-wrap the map and put it back into the cotton coat

I found a place in the dark pit and lay down, but my mind was full of thoughts.

A few days ago, I thought that letting the volunteers retreat two or three days earlier would reduce the casualties of the volunteers to a great extent, but now it seems that I have gone too far with optimism. What I did not expect was that the Volunteer Army retreated ahead of schedule. Then the US military will naturally launch a counterattack in advance. Yankees can't be stupid enough to see all the volunteers※

, the removal of the meeting and so on; The difference between the opening and deletion according to the historical date is that the US military is not so well prepared

Therefore, the retreat of the volunteers after two or three days can indeed reduce the casualties of the volunteers to a certain extent. But I'm afraid that the final battle situation is still not optimistic. At least until now, Hanshi has not escaped the danger of being besieged, and is still repeating the history of being besieged.

And I, the one, are well aware of this history. But I was helpless to find that I didn't seem to play much of a role in this.

What can I do if I go on like this? As long as Division Commander Zheng Qigui always adheres to his principles, insists on abiding by the orders of the military headquarters, and even later breaks through the encirclement in accordance with the breakthrough route instructed by the military department, then the result will still be the same as in history.

No way! I can't let that happen! Thinking of this, I sat up and shouted in the dark, "Zhao Yongxin! ”

"Here!"

"Is your lighter still there?"

"In!" But Zhao Yongxin quickly hesitated: "Deputy battalion commander Cui, there is an order from above." It is not allowed to be known ".

"Let the soldiers plug the 'hole' with cotton clothes!" I didn't think about it, so I gave the order.

"Yes!" There is no need to name names. Soon, several fighters took off their cotton clothes and blocked the 'hole'. The 'spirit' appearance of the volunteer soldiers really has nothing to say.

Just listen to "Keng." I took out the map from my arms, and Zhao Yongxin quickly brought up the lighter, and the soldiers knew that I was going to look at the map, and they were very cooperative.

The map's a, one, highland, and highway roads soon became clear. Under the beating of the firelight. The yellow-colored map turned a quivering blood-red. It seems that a battle of war and blood is going on above

The US 1st Division is here, the Wild 7th Division is here, and there are also the US 24th Division, the Pseudo Sixth Division, the Pseudo Capital Division, and the enemy's five. It's just a little surprising that because the task of the division is to cut off the connection between the US army and the puppet army, and the location is exactly at the 'junction' between the US army and the puppet army, so after the division was surrounded by the enemy's coalition forces, the US army did not find this because of the lack of contact with the puppet army, until the old 0th Division withdrew along the North Han River in accordance with the instructions of the military headquarters.

At this time, the military headquarters was afraid that they did not know that the highly mechanized US 24th Division had crossed the Bukhan River, but they were still ordering the Tian Division, which had become a lone army, to deploy defenses along the river to cover the retreat of the large army. So the divisions that were deployed along the river suddenly discovered that they were full of enemies in front of and behind them."

There is no doubt that during the period when the old 0th Division was besieged, the command of the military headquarters was very 'chaotic' and 'chaotic'. They always gave orders one after another to the divisions in danger to occupy favorable terrain and block the enemy without knowing the military situation. Even, sometimes the division received two contradictory orders at the same time. First, a telegram demanded that they move north of Mapingli to block the American forces. However, no sooner had the troops walked five kilometers towards Mapingli than they received a telegram telling them to take the place and cover the retreat of the wounded.

In addition, Division Commander Zheng Qigui was a person who strictly abided by the orders of his superiors, so the opportunity to break through again and again was lost in telegrams and orders

's army commander Wei Jie was finally moved because of this, and it is really hard to escape the blame.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the military department, the intelligence system and communication equipment of the volunteer army are too backward. The speed at which the US military penetrates and 'intersperses' has always been ahead of the intelligence transmission of the volunteers, so the information obtained by the military headquarters is always lagging behind, and the operational plans drawn up are always inappropriate.

The most famous of these was a "tank commando unit" personally organized by the commander of the US army, Al-Mon. "With the cooperation of the planes, this tank assault team actually quickly broke through a highway that the Chinese Volunteers most needed to guard against at a speed of 32 kilometers per hour, so that the US troops could easily 'insert' diagonally along the highway from Hong to Phosphorus, and surrounded tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers south of the Zhaoyang River. This includes the division.

That's right! Tank commando! Hong, to the hoof

I quickly found the two locations of Hong "and Qiho" on the map, looking at this winding highway on the map, I couldn't help but 'gasp' a cool breath, this highway is like a steel knife from the US army's defense line obliquely 'inserted' to the Zhaoyang River, if the Guan army 'inserted' into this road, and then along the Zhaoyang River to deploy defenses, then all the volunteers who did not rush to withdraw from the Zhaoyang River will be surrounded in the small salient of the eastern front.

Now it is not only a question of rescuing one division, but also of rescuing all the other volunteer soldiers who have come to evacuate the Zhaoyang River in a hurry. And all this, the point is on this road, on that "tank commando"!

The good thing is that our current location is not far from this road. Looking at the straight-line distance on this map, it is only seven or eight kilometers, and the actual distance should be more than ten kilometers!

"All assembled!" Thinking of this, I stood up and ordered, "Gather all the warriors." Ready to go".

"Yes!" The warriors answered. Soon began to organize the equipment, and a few soldiers quickly ran out to inform the other fighters in the tunnel.

Captain Pang is right! Looking at the busy soldiers, I couldn't help but sigh. We should indeed leave the division, and now it is time to say goodbye to Commander Pang.

But! I'll be back! “