Chapter Twenty-Six: Let Jiang Out of the Cage

Chapter Twenty-Six: Let Jiang Out of the Cage

As soon as I walked into Division Commander Pang's division headquarters, I quickly felt the joy of Division Commander Pang and the operational staff officers, communicators, and telephone soldiers who were in the tunnel, and everyone had an excited look on their faces, as if they were celebrating a holiday. And I'm sure the reason why they're so excited must have something to do with the fight I fought yesterday. As soon as I entered the tunnel, the soldiers surrounded me, and some of them said:

"Look, Captain Cui is here"

"He was the one who fought"

"It was a good fight"

……

Master Pang smiled and beckoned me to take his hand, motioned for me to sit down in front of me, shook the cotton clothes draped on his shoulders and said happily: "I'm busy, I know that you didn't sleep all night last night, I didn't want to wake you up and let you sleep a little longer, but if I don't tell you good news, I won't be honest in my heart."

"Master Pang saw outside" I hurriedly stood up and 'straightened' up and said: "I should be woken up by circumstances, and now it's a war, how can I have time to snooze, I haven't slept for a few days and nights, and I'm used to marching and hurrying, it's nothing."

In fact, I was already lazy during my time in the hospital, and I didn't know how much I wanted to get into the warm bed and sleep beautifully

"It's time to sleep," Master Pang nodded and said, "Because the Yankees have already let us be completely beaten down."

"Oh, did the U.S. military give up the attack?" This is a result that I had expected for a long time, but now that it has been confirmed, I am still happy.

To tell the truth, Van Vliet's method of attacking our army's high ground at all costs and by all possible means is indeed a little frightening. Especially the special forces, helicopters, and a large number of snipers, and the sniper master who was so powerful that I was still a little scared at this time. These resources are also extremely valuable to the U.S. military, so they rarely appeared in previous wars, and even if they appeared, they were only used to capture important targets in a big battle, but now they are sent in order to compete for a 649.8 high ground that is not important to the enemy......

Van Vliet's madness really made me a little 'confused', and his style of play was as if he was fighting me with the most advanced equipment and the most 'elite' troops of the entire U.S. army. And I believe that if it weren't for the timing, if Van Vliet had had had plenty of time to attack, maybe I would have lost.

"They can't fight," Master Pang casually threw me a newspaper full of English and said, "The President of the United States has returned to China, and yesterday's battle made the headlines of the newspaper as soon as possible." Just like we thought, yesterday's battle was really Van Vliet's 'show battle', and journalists from all over the world are staring at it, right? Not only in the United States, but also in the newspapers of the whole world are saying that after this battle, you can be regarded as fighting for our volunteers all over the world."

"Hmm" I took the newspaper, still a little unconvinced.

I thought that the impact of this battle would not be small, but I really didn't expect it to be so big.

I flipped through it casually, and found that not only the front page, but also the entire newspaper, large and small, were almost all discussing and analyzing yesterday's battle.

Some said: "The Chinese army guarding the deep ditch of T-shaped mountain (another name for the 649.8 highland of the U.S. army, because it looks down on the T-shaped mountain from the air, it is called T-shaped mountain, also known as T-shaped mountain) The Chinese army defending the deep ditch has disgraced the coalition forces, and the attack planned by the coalition forces on the 'air, tank, artillery, and infantry coordinated combat experiment' has undoubtedly been repelled by the Chinese army."

Among them, there are many who fall into the well and are extremely sarcastic and sarcastic: "The attack of the coalition forces was repelled by the Chinese troops who had been blown to pieces by the artillery fire and aircraft of the coalition forces, and the amount of ammunition 'medicine' of General Van Vliet did not play the expected effect again......

"Before the battle, I received a copy of the "Operational Progress Schedule", but unfortunately, by the end of the battle, I found that the combat process was always stuck in the first ......"

Some reporters even published the voices of American citizens, and the American people condemned and questioned the US military one after another: "Is this attack a legitimate military operation, or is it a gladiator show by high-ranking guests risking the lives of soldiers?" If it is a military operation, then what are its strategic goals? ”

It seems that the American people still have some military knowledge, because they will at least know the strategic objectives of questioning the military in this military operation, and if this is put in our country, I think in exchange for the call for "down with US imperialism" over and over again.

At this time, I thought to myself, that is, when Van Vliet saw these reports, I didn't know what kind of expression he would have, but it didn't seem to matter anymore, because this war that made the US military lose face in front of the whole world made Van Vliet no longer have the face to sit down in the position of commander of the Eighth Army. This crazy guy will leave his job and return to China in ten days.

Looking back on past wars, Van Vliet was indeed a formidable adversary. What the American people and congressmen don't know is that the "amount of Van Vliet ammunition" that they have been questioning is the most direct reason for the heavy casualties of our volunteers in the battle

"Better news is this ......" Before I could finish the newspaper in a hurry, Master Pang immediately handed me a telegram.

I glanced at the telegram and got up from my chair: "What? Did the U.S. military take the initiative to resume negotiations with us? ”

"That's right," Master Pang nodded with a smile, "Otherwise, you think I'm full and have nothing to do, so I woke you up from the 'bed' for this newspaper?" ”

"I think that the U.S. military can take the initiative to ask for the resumption of negotiations so quickly, and it is inseparable from your kid's efforts" Commander Pang pointed at me and said: "You kid, the Yankees' special forces are all under your command and can't please me, I've heard that their sniper units are almost wiped out under your command Just from this point of view, I think Eisenhower knows very well how strong our defense line is"

Although Master Pang's words are a bit incompatible, I still understand what he means in my heart. Although the American people are questioning the strategic objectives of this battle, I know very well in my heart that a large part of the reason why Eisenhower connived at Van Vliet to carry out this so-called experiment of coordination between sea, land, air, tank, and infantry was to test the solidity of our defensive line.

But now, the facts are in front of us. The US military still has no way to take advantage of us despite its all-round superiority in the sea, land, air, tank, and foot, and even uses helicopter planes to land special forces, and this is not counting the geographical advantage and combat readiness advantage they occupy...... In the case of such an advantage, this battle is still fought like this, which can show one point in any case, that is, the modern equipment of the US army is helpless against the tunnel fortifications of the Chinese army, and the frontal defense of the Chinese army is unbreakable

I think Eisenhower saw this very clearly, or rather, he also realized that if he chose war, it would be impossible to break through our army's defense line in any short time. Then the only way out is negotiation

"But U.S. imperialism will never give up the essence of their aggression," Commander Pang continued......: "At the same time as we received this telegram, we learned that the U.S. troops had withdrawn from the Seventh Fleet in the direction of Taiwan......

As he spoke, Master Pang handed me a document. I took it and saw that it read: "The U.S. Seventh Fleet actually wants the U.S. Navy to act as the defense force of Communist China, and in the present situation, it is illogical and meaningless to ask the U.S. Navy to assume defense responsibility for the Chinese Communists, because that would make those Communists more free to kill our soldiers and the soldiers of our United Nations allies in Korea." Therefore, I propose not to use the Seventh Fleet again to shield communist China. Let me make it clearer that this order does not imply that we have aggressive intentions. I just affirm that we are in no way obligated to protect a country that is fighting against us in North Korea......"

Seeing these words of Eisenhower, I couldn't help but laugh.

I know this incident very well, and this is the reason why the US Seventh Fleet was stationed in Taiwan in the first place, as it is said in history, "let Chiang out of the cage," and anyone who understands it knows that is why, when our military is throwing most of its forces into Korea, the US military suddenly wants to withdraw the Seventh Fleet from Taiwan, and affirms that they "have no obligation to protect communist China......

Who is this protecting?

Its purpose is self-evident, that is, to take advantage of the fact that our millions of troops are in the DPRK and take advantage of our internal emptiness, to open the bolt 'gate' of the Seventh Fleet and let Taiwan stab us in the back. Indeed, in the year of '53, the Kuomintang's spy attacks on the mainland reached its highest 'tide', with more than 200 cases in the first five months

Only then did I realize that Eisenhower's greatness lay not in how capable he was in fighting, nor in his decision-making, but in the fact that he was able to say that the United States "has no obligation to protect Communist China" in such a very obvious purpose, as if China still had to thank the United States for its protection on the battlefield where the two sides were fighting inextricably......

Looking at my wry smile, Master Pang also smiled knowingly, and he pointed to the document with his finger and said: "This is the mask of the hypocrisy of US imperialism, a strong evidence of their aggressive nature. On the one hand, they are demanding the resumption of negotiations with us, and on the other hand, they are making small moves behind the scenes, the purpose of which is obvious, which is to try to coerce us with these crises in order to force us to make concessions at the negotiating table, but ......"

After taking a sip of tea, Master Pang continued with excitement: "Just like Comrade Zhou Enlai said, we Chinese love peace, but we are not afraid of war.

I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard Master Pang's words, I always thought that Master Pang didn't look like a person who could say these big truths, but I didn't expect that when I talked about these words now, it was not much worse than Li Pinghe

It seems that people in this era will say a few words like this, but it's just not time, but this is normal, the influence of the environment, even I will say it......

"So what the superiors mean is ......" Master Pang finally concluded: "It is to ask us to fight only and talk about it." We are not afraid of procrastination, and the further down it goes, the more detrimental it will be to Eisenhower. Now the initiative is on our side, and as long as we fight for a few more months, the United States will most likely be forced to loosen up at the negotiating table, make concessions on the issue of prisoners of war, and agree to repatriate all prisoners of war of our army."

"Yes," I nodded.

Of course, I understand the meaning of Commander Pang's words, Eisenhower's election success is entirely due to his promise to "end the Korean War as soon as possible and with dignity." If the Korean War drags on indefinitely, then I'm afraid that he, the president, will not be able to do so. Therefore, we just need to fight down according to this situation, and the United States will not be able to hold it out in a few months

But unfortunately, I know that the outcome of the matter is not as optimistic as Master Pang thought, and the reasons are...... One more more Stalin will die. As soon as Obayashi died, the Soviet Union bore the brunt of its own internal problems, and had no time to take care of the Korean battlefield. Most of the bullets and shells on the Korean battlefield were imported from the Soviet Union......

The end result, then, was that both sides had to make concessions

Of course, I must never say these things. Just kidding, if I can know when Stalin died, then I won't be an immortal

"Signed in the current situation of resuming negotiations" Division Commander Pang gestured to the map on the table and said: "The superiors think that there will be no major battles during this time, and in the future, the two fronts may once again tend to be cold guns and cold guns, and it is just the time for you, a sharpshooter, to play a role."

"No problem," I replied.

Although I knew that the future situation would not be as Master Pang had said, because the negotiations were wishful thinking on the part of the United States, Syngman Rhee did not agree. Moreover, the US military is accustomed to acting as a master, not asking Syngman Rhee about anything, and is even unwilling to let South Korea directly participate, and many agreements are "notified" to Syngman Rhee after they are reached. This doomed the final negotiations to fail smoothly. A few months later, the two sides would soon be fighting again over the prisoner of war

"At the same time......" Commander Pang smiled at me inscrutablely: "Through this battle, the superiors also realized the important 'nature' of sharpshooters in battle. In addition, the geographical location of our Wendenli area is very important, so it has been decided that you will form a cold gun unit, and the cold gun unit of the 26th Army will also be 'handed over' to you with full command."

"What?" Hearing this, I couldn't help jumping up as if I had been pricked by a needle, and looked at Master Pang in disbelief and said, "What does Master mean...... Hu Zudi's cold-gun unit is under my command? ”

"That's right," Commander Pang nodded: "They were originally trained by you, and they cooperated well with you, and their performance in the 26th Army was very average, and their performance under you was particularly 'outstanding', so the superiors felt that their troops might be able to play a greater role under you."

"Great," I said, waving my fist. This is great news for me, and even more exciting for me than the resumption of negotiations. With them, I can say that I am like a tiger, and I don't have to worry about being controlled everywhere on the battlefield of snipers

"And ......," Commander Pang continued: "In order to give you better combat effectiveness on the battlefield, the superiors plan to reassign those carbines equipped with night vision devices to you to use......"

"Night Vision Device" Listening to Master Pang's words, I don't know what to say. I also kept reading those carbines with night vision devices, and I asked Hu Zudi when they came. From their mouths, it turned out that the carbines had been handed over when the 26th Army returned home.

This also makes sense, such a good batch of guns, and they are also high-tech products, how can they not be brought back to China by the 26th Army. It's just that I'm so distressed, this gun is in someone else's hands, is there any hope for this want to come back? At this moment, I heard that my superiors were going to reassign them to me, and I couldn't help but feel that I had lost them

"Look at your excited look" Looking at my appearance, Master Pang couldn't help but laugh: "Those were originally the equipment you captured, but now they are just 'handed over' to you, can you be so happy?" ”

"Commander Pang, you don't know," I replied a little embarrassedly: "The soldiers all say that they should treat the gun as a wife on this battlefield. Look at ......."

As I spoke, I waved the rifle in my hand and said, "I now have a wife in my hand, and my superiors are going to assign us a wife, do you think I can be unhappy?" ”

There was a coax, and the surrounding warriors listened to my words, and they were all amused.

"I can make it clear" laughed for a while, and Master Pang's index finger clicked a few times in the air and said: "The best equipment is given to your troops, if you don't come up with some results, don't blame me for taking these equipment back again."

"Yes," I liked to salute Commander Pang diligently.

When I walked out of the division, I felt like I was in a different world. Not only because there is an extra cold-gun unit like Hu Zudi around him, but also because the entire situation on the Korean battlefield has changed in just one night. And all this change seems to be just because of that little scramble yesterday.

Although this battle was small, it affected Eisenhower's decision-making, and then the situation on the entire battlefield......