Chapter 24: Magnetic Tactics

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After the French battalion's position was conquered, and then the valley in the middle was captured, the entire ring defensive position of Tohei collapsed.

The U.S. command headquarters in the center was overcome, and even the regimental commander, Colonel Freeman, was captured, so that the U.S. troops stationed on various heights lost their unified command and fought separately; Secondly, the U.S. troops on the high ground soon faced the attack of the volunteers in both the forward and anti-incline directions, and the Yankees did not have a strong will to fight because they paid attention to their own lives, so they raised their hands and surrendered after a little resistance.

Of course, the only exception to this was the U.S. troops stationed on Mount Wangmei to the south, who were not attacked from the beginning to the end of the campaign. Because there were no volunteers attacking on the other side, they were not surrounded and caught between two sides when we entered the central valley, and as soon as they realized that the situation was not good, they abandoned all their heavy equipment and fled.

As soon as the commander of the 354th Regiment, which had failed in the first charge, heard that the American troops had escaped, he asked the division commander several times to pursue the enemy. After getting the agreement, the soldiers of the 354th Regiment, who were holding back their breath, grabbed their rifles and chased after them without even bringing quilts. According to them, even if they don't kill a few enemies to avenge their dead comrades, they don't have to sleep.

In this dark night. The U.S. troops had neither cars nor tanks, and all the heavy equipment was left on their positions, and I couldn't help but be deeply worried about the U.S. troops who had embarked on the road of escape! If they could see the gnashing of their teeth at the warriors who went after them, I think they would have preferred to surrender.

What made the soldiers very sad was that as soon as the volunteer soldiers of the 357th and 359th regiments came up, they felt on the corpses of the enemy, searched for bullets and food, and after finding a little food, they shoved them into their mouths, and some also searched the prisoners. It made me realize that they had been out of food for a while, otherwise it wouldn't have been like this by their will......

Our division's troops have captured a large number of supplies from the enemy since the beginning of the Ui government, and then they have been airdropped by the American army, and although most of these captured materials have been handed over, some of them will be left behind when they pass through the hands of the soldiers, so the shortage of food is not serious. But other troops are different, although the amount of materials we handed over is also quite a lot, but the entire volunteer army has hundreds of thousands of people! I'm afraid that there will only be a little crumb of bread left in their hands.

"Give ......," I sighed, handing a pack of biscuits to a volunteer soldier who was searching the captive, but couldn't find anything. The warrior subconsciously stretched out his hand but quickly retracted it, his eyes fixed on the biscuit, his face full of embarrassment.

"Take it!" I pretended to pat the bag of dry food on my back and said, "I have more, take it!" ”

"Huh!" The soldier replied stupidly, looked at me gratefully, took the biscuit, turned and ate it with a dozen warriors.

The old squad leaders also took out their own food and distributed it one after another, until the dry food bags were handed out.

"Alas!" Zhao Yongxin sighed, shook the empty dry food bag towards the sky and said, "This is going on!" I'm going to go hungry and fight......"

"Who, who said they would be hungry?" Huzi smiled, patted the signal board on his back and said, "There is this thing, and I am worried about hunger." Hurry up and let the Yankees send some more! ”

"Huh?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, no wonder Huzi gave away all the dry food so generously, and his feelings were still based on this idea!

"Huzi!" I replied a little helplessly: "In this battle in Topingli, our signal board is such a toss, I'm afraid that this signal board will not be used in the future!" ”

"Huh? That...... Are you really going to be hungry in the future? When Huzi heard this, he couldn't help but panic a little.

"That's right, Huzi!" Xiao Shandong leaned up with some confusion and asked, "What did you toss this signal board just now, so that the Yankees' plane can blow itself up?" ”

"I, I don't know!" Huzi touched his head: "I just laid out this signal board, and then put it away, but I didn't expect the Yankee's plane to blow up...... Battalion commander, this signal board really can't be used? ”

"They have been deceived by us once, twice, and can they be deceived by us a third time?" I replied angrily: "Do you think the Yankees are as easy to deceive as you tigers, and everyone is stupid?" ”

The soldiers laughed loudly, but only I sighed in my heart, not only the signal board could not be used, after this battle, I was afraid that the US military would also know that the radio codebook had been captured by our army, and it would not be long before they would replace it with a spare codebook, and from now on they would never be able to decipher their messages so easily. In order to win this battle, the price paid is really not small.

"Platoon commander, platoon commander......" Huzi's soldiers shouted from the side when they heard this: "Then do we still have this signal board?" It's a big, heavy ......."

Huzi took off the signal board on his back and threw it on the ground, and replied angrily: "It's useless, what are you doing with it?" Lost it all...... Tired and deserved! ”

"Wait!" Huzi thought for a while and was still a little reluctant: "Let's find a place to bury it, I don't know when I can use it!" ”

"Yes!" Several of Huzi's soldiers answered the call and ran away with the signal board on their backs. Look at how they really have a bit of tiger energy, I just see that the soldiers are angry and laughing, what kind of people bring out what kind of soldiers!

Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield and then hid in the forest, which was supposed to be the time to eat something and rest, but just now the soldiers had divided all the dry food, and at this time they could only hide in the bed with an empty stomach. I rubbed my hungry stomach and couldn't help but feel a wave of frustration, this is not enough for two days, and I have to have an empty stomach again.

Tohei, this battle was supposed to be a battle defeated by the volunteers, but now it was won by me, how should things develop next? This question has always been on my mind, but I haven't thought much about it because I'm busy cleaning up the battlefield, and now when I lie down and rest, I think about it again in boredom.

Pulling out the nail in Topingli, the volunteers now have the opportunity to take advantage of the victory to pursue and shake the entire front of the United **, but I know that the volunteers do not have this condition, the further south they go, the longer the supply line, and now the volunteers are hungry like this, even if the US army does not fight with us, as long as they retreat all the way for a few days, they will starve us to death in a large area.

At this time, I couldn't help but think of the truckloads of grain from the parliamentary government, but what was that grain to an army of hundreds of thousands of people? At best, it's an extra piece of bread per person......

Thinking about it, I fell asleep unconsciously, with the pain of hunger and the fatigue of fighting all night.

A pain in my stomach woke me up, and when I opened my eyes, it was just past noon, and the sun was still hanging high in the sky.

Sometimes I feel like two things are at war in my body, hunger and exhaustion. When exhaustion overcomes hunger, I will temporarily put down my hunger and go to sleep, but as soon as the fatigue is relieved a little, hunger will soon come out and test my perseverance.

Look at the warriors who are all about the same, all of them are so hungry that they can't sleep, some are tightening their trouser belts more and more, and some are simply holding the snow and shoving it into their mouths.

"Battalion commander, battalion commander!" At this time, Zhao Yongxin didn't know where to get out, he dragged a towel in his hand and wrapped a bag of unknown things, and came to my side covered in mud and water and shouted: "Battalion commander, look ......"

As he spoke, he couldn't wait to untie the towel, and it turned out to be a bag of mushrooms and wild vegetables.

Depend on! This Zhao Yongxin really has two hits, these things are tantamount to a bunch of treasures to the hungry soldiers! The soldiers excitedly surrounded them as soon as they shouted, and some of them stretched out their hands to take them, but they were quickly stopped by the old squad leader.

"Comrades!" The old squad leader snatched the bag of mushrooms and stopped: "How can this mushroom be able to feed your stomach if you eat it like this, now there is still some time anyway, why don't we go and pick more and cook a pot of soup, so it's delicious and full, isn't it?" ”

"Yes, yes...... I'm going to pick it too! ”

"I'm going to make a fire!"

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"Don't pick poisonous mushrooms!" The old squad leader confessed to the warriors who went to pick mushrooms.

"How can you?" The soldiers responded with a smile: "We are all picking mushrooms from small to large, can we still tell what?" ”

Soon the soldiers were busy digging pits, collecting firewood, collecting snow, and soon a pit was boiled with water that would allow the smoke to disperse. After the water boiled, I threw those mushrooms and wild vegetables into the pot, that tangy fragrance...... It only amused the soldiers to salivate on the side, and they were all ready to wait by the pot with bamboo tubes and chopsticks that had just been tossed.

After watching those mushrooms and wild vegetables churn in the pot for a while. At the order of the old squad leader, the soldiers took out their bowls and chopsticks, and each filled a bowl and devoured it. I also loaded a bowl and squatted aside and moved the chopsticks, not to mention, this stomach is hungry no matter what I eat, I feel delicious, this big tube still feels not enjoyable, but the stomach is not so hungry, and the whole body is much more comfortable. At the same time, I sighed secretly in my heart, the day when the volunteer soldiers ate wild vegetables finally came. Although most of the warriors were born into poor families, they would recognize which wild vegetables were poisonous, but they did not choose to eat them when they were hungry. It is still inevitable that many people will die of poisoning.

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"Let's go!"

At ten o'clock in the evening, with a familiar command, the soldiers, who had already prepared their suits, set out on their march again. Volunteer troops rarely spend a few days in the same place, so it is not an exaggeration to call them wandering troops. Normally, I would not have cared about the direction and destination of the march, but this time I couldn't help but beat a small drum in my heart.

In real history, the volunteers spent two days and two nights, paid huge casualties and failed to capture Topingli, and then retreated to the north to retreat while defending. This time, because of my appearance, the volunteers defeated Tohei-ri overnight at a very small cost, and also captured a large number of Yankees......

Will this further stimulate the command's blind underestimation of the enemy? Will it make them ignore the difficulties of the volunteer army and march all the way? Is it going south or north now? As soon as I walked out of the forest, I couldn't tell the direction in the darkness for a while, so I simply stepped up my pace and caught up with Captain Chu in front of me.

"Captain! Where are we going? ”

"Chase the Yankees!" Head Chu turned his head and found that it was me, and couldn't help but nod to me: "Comrade Xiao Cui!" Today you are very brave and witty, I have heard from the political commissar, if this is not the way you think! It's really not easy to lay that Tohei Li! ”

"Huh?" I can't listen to Commander Chu's praise, as soon as I heard that I was really going to catch up with the American army, I secretly screamed that it was not good, with the current situation of the Volunteer Army, I still went to catch up with the American army, but I was afraid that the future losses would be greater than that of Topingli, and I would not have become a sinner for the ages at that time.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but hurriedly say: "Regiment commander, our troops have run out of food, and the bullets have all been taken from the enemy, and now they are almost fighting, and we have to chase the Yankees......"

"The orders of the superiors, we just have to carry them out!" The worry in Captain Chu's eyes flashed, and he followed the team without saying anything.

I returned to the team with anxiety, and my mind was full of thoughts about the crisis in front of me, if the volunteer soldiers had food and ammunition, then this gap in front of me was indeed a good opportunity, and the volunteers poured in in this local area of the eastern front with superior forces, directly threatening the rear of the American front on the western front, and then the American troops on the western front would once again face the danger of being divided and encircled. But the problem is that the volunteer army is now without food and ammunition......

But then I quickly thought that the situation now is similar to that of the third battle, and since the boss was able to stop the progress of the volunteers, he can do the same now. Thinking of this, I felt a little relieved, and walked forward with the team.

After a few hours of walking north, the further you go, the more surprising the sight becomes. The place that was originally defended by the American army is now deserted, there are burned houses and empty villages everywhere, broken cars and tanks have been blown up on the roadside without exception, everything that can be eaten and used has been burned, and even the freshly sprouted vegetables planted by the people in the fields have been burned to black.

It was a great rout of the American army in the Third Battle, but I knew that they were in the clear field, and the soldiers could not find a single bullet here, and at the same time they could not find a little food, and it is very likely that the Yankees were waiting for us with fortifications in our path.

Sure enough, just as it was about to dawn, the team stopped, and the scouts in front reported discovering the American lines.

Ridgway, Ridgway! I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart, this guy really deserves to be a top student of the West Point Military Academy, not only did he have a thorough understanding of the combat habits of the volunteers, but he even calculated how long the volunteers could march in one night.

We ran up at night to fight the Yankees, but they ignored it and retreated thirty kilometers back, which happened to be the overnight journey of the volunteers. The march of the volunteers relied on two legs, and the Yankee march was all mechanized, and the 30-kilometer journey was not just an hour or two away. By the time the volunteers arrived the next morning, they were half tired and half dead, but the American troops had a good night's sleep, had a full meal, and were waiting for us on the defensive line!

Moreover, at this time, the sky is almost dawn, and if the volunteers still want to go to war, it means that they will expose themselves to the bombardment of enemy aircraft and artillery fire and attack the enemy's defense line.

This is what Li Qiwei called "magnetic tactics", this tactic made the volunteers hold their stomachs, they couldn't catch up with them, they couldn't fight again, and when the volunteers were sleepy and retreated, the U.S. troops chased after them from behind......

Depend on! I couldn't help but curse secretly, in the thirty-six plans, I let Li Qiwei live and learn! Not to mention our tactics, they are also used against us Chinese!

Thinking of this, I couldn't hold back any longer, and ran to Captain Chu and said, "Commander, look at this situation......"

Commander Chu also saw the embarrassment of the volunteer army and understood the meaning of my words, but he just shook his head with a blushing face and said, "We can't retreat yet, we have to wait!" ”

"What are you waiting for?" I can't help but wonder.

"Just received a telegram!" Political Commissar Chen Ye replied on his behalf: "The troops of our two armies are moving to the flank and rear of the US troops on the Western Front, the purpose of which is to force back the US troops on the Western Front, reduce the pressure on the 38th Army and the 50th Army that I am fighting on the Western Front, and provide an opportunity for them to retreat safely!" We, on the other hand, are going to hold back the American troops here until the American troops retreat on the Western Front. ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, I was relieved, it turned out that this attack was not a real attack, but a counter-attack before retreating.

The retreat of troops, especially the retreat of large troops, is most afraid of being known by the enemy about the intention of retreating, because if the enemy knows, it is very likely to follow and kill all the way, so before retreating, most of them will come to a counteroffensive to repel the enemy and then retreat, or cover each other to retreat.

From this point of view, the boss made plans to retreat after stopping the footsteps of the volunteers in the third battle, and even the strategy of "putting the west on top of the east" formulated at the beginning was not for attacking, but for a better and safer retreat!

This time I'm worried about it for nothing......! ~!

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