Chapter XXVII

Chapter XXVII

The first thing I did when I returned to the 649.8 Heights was to go to the No. 2 tunnel where the Cold Gun Unit was located and told Hu Zudi and the others what they were going to stay, but to my surprise, they were not as excited as I thought, they just glanced at each other and then lowered their heads.

"What's the matter, comrades?" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask, "Do you have any opinion on this decision of your superiors?" Or do you have an opinion about me? ”

"Commander Cui......" Hu Zudi shook his head and replied: "We are all brought out by you, and it is not a day or two to follow you, how can I have an opinion on you, it is too late to be happy, and I will not have an opinion on the decision of my superiors, ** Soldiers are meant to obey orders, right?" ”

"Then you ...... this?"

"Let's talk to the comrades of the 77th Division, we don't even have to say hello," Liu Yangxing replied: "When we came out this time, we thought we would be able to go back soon, but we didn't expect to leave...... Many people are afraid that it will be the last time......"

"What nonsense?" Yang Zhenshan interrupted Liu Yangxing's words and said: "I said squad leader Liu, you haven't been a soldier for a day or two, have you become such a mother-in-law?" Where to fight wars are not all wars, and are they not all about winning glory for the country and defending the country? What did Chief of Staff Wang tell us? Where we are needed more, we have to fight, where do we usually deserve to be like? What's wrong? You're really needed now, aren't you? ”

"Where?" Liu Yangxing waved the rifle in his hand and said unwillingly: "Who is not happy?" People, people just want to be in the army a little bit, but you don't want to? ”

Yang Zhenshan was said by Liu Yangxing, and there was no voice.

Seeing this, I knew what the problem was, they were brought out by me, but they were soldiers of the 77th Division. Most of them were born and died in the 77th Division, shedding their blood for the honor of the 77th Division, and growing from a recruit to a veteran in the 77th Division...... Now that I suddenly received an order and became a soldier of the 538th Regiment of my 180th Division, the loss in my heart is inevitable.

The reason why I didn't take this into account is entirely because it didn't happen to me at all, and the so-called "standing and talking doesn't hurt my back" may be what I said

So I wondered if it was selfish to pull the 77th Division, an 'elite' cold-gun unit, into our regiment.

Seeing that I was embarrassed, Hu Zudi hurriedly persuaded the soldiers: "Comrades, what Comrade Yang Zhenshan said is right, our ** soldiers are to obey the orders of their superiors, where we are needed, we will fight where we are, not to mention, we are not following others, we are following Commander Cui to fight coldly When Commander Cui left us, didn't the comrades always hope that Commander Cui would come back and fight with us?" How? Now that we're really fighting together, you're losing your temper like a again? ”

With a coax, the soldiers all burst out laughing, and the atmosphere immediately eased a lot.

I didn't think it was funny when I heard it, and I joked at the soldiers: "No wonder I, the regiment commander, have not been promoted, the feeling is that you guys have been thinking about it in your heart, hoping that I will go back to be your platoon commander."

When the tunnel was neutral, there was a burst of laughter.

"Commander Cui" Hu Zudi said with a smile: "I won't tell you, the soldiers know that they are coming back to fight with you, don't mention how happy they are, especially Liu Yangxing, Zhang Liangliang, and Wei Xinming, they all returned to the cold gun army after you left. Liu Yangxing, that guy also threatened to compete with you."

"What, how dare you......" As soon as Hu Zudi said this, Liu Yangxing's guy couldn't sit still, and hurriedly stood up and waved his hands 'chaotically': "Commander Cui, don't, don't listen to the platoon commander's nonsense." What kind of competition, that's a ...... for advice."

"Yo hey" Yang Zhenshan said on the side: "I said Squad Leader Liu, we can all hear it clearly, who just joined the Cold Gun Army, listening to us talk about Captain Cui, the face was unconvinced, I don't know what the sky is, and he said: 'What can that be?' Let me too, if I am, I won't fight any less devils than Captain Cui'. Comrades, don't you think so?"

"Yes," the fighters coaxed.

Some soldiers teased: "If you want me to say, Squad Leader Liu saw Captain Cui's ability on the battlefield, and his courage was broken, so the competition will become a consultation."

With a coax, the soldiers laughed again, only to make Liu Yangxing stand with a red face and not sit or sit

"Comrades," I relieved Liu Yangxing and said: "Liu Yangxing's 'spirit' who wants to compete with me is very good, isn't there a saying that 'a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier', Comrade Liu Yangxing has the idea of competing with me, which means that he has an enterprising 'spirit' and is a good soldier who wants to be a general. When we go to the battlefield, we will fight more enemies than whoever fights, and when we go down the battlefield, we will have better experience than whoever we have summed up."

"Yes," the fighters clenched their fists and said, "In this way, our killing skills will be better and better, and we will fight more and more enemies."

There were even some soldiers who couldn't wait to say: "Regiment commander, you just give an order, let's go up and compete."

"Don't worry," I stopped: "To fight a cold gun is to be patient, we just fought a big battle yesterday, and I don't think the enemy will make any moves, so let's rest and rest today, take care of the 'spirit' and assign tasks tomorrow."

"Yes," the fighters responded in unison.

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After "Regiment Commander Cui" returned to the regiment headquarters, as soon as Liu Shunyi saw me, he immediately reported to me: "The enemy on the enemy's 902.8 heights has been replaced by a puppet army again, and the reconnaissance platoon caught two 'tongues' and asked, and found that they were troops of the puppet Fifth Division."

"Well, it's a change of troops again" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this.

Although Van Vliet was defeated, it was surprising that he withdrew the American troops so quickly. A few days ago, they had just withdrawn the puppet army and replaced it with the US army, and after a battle, they withdrew the US army and replaced the puppet army. Not to mention the very possibility of being attacked by the enemy when changing defenses, it is very likely that the new troops will suffer losses because they are not familiar with their positions

"And this ......" Immediately after that, Liu Shunyi pointed to the map on the desktop and said: "The superiors have made a summary of the information obtained on the entire front, and they have just notified us of the deployment of the enemy's forces on the front by telegram, and I have marked it on the position."

"Hmm" I couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, with Liu Shunyi's assistant, I could indeed save a lot of trouble.

When I walked to the map on the table, I couldn't help but close my mouth in surprise. Because on the map in front of him, from left to right, except for the US 2nd Division, the US 187th Regiment and the US 45th Division on the east coast, which are US troops, the rest of the places are all puppet troops. What is the pseudo-ninth division, the pseudo-capital division, and the pseudo-seventh division...... Only in the second line can the US troops rarely see one or two divisions

"It seems that the U.S. military has no intention of fighting again," Liu Shunyi said excitedly.

"Hmm" I nodded in agreement, not to mention that I know from modern sources that the United Nations forces have slowly withdrawn from the Korean War from this point on, and this conclusion can be easily drawn from the current disposition of troops.

Obviously, the U.S. military is gradually 'handing over' the front to the puppet army in preparation for its withdrawal from North Korea. Their purpose in defending the east and west coasts was to protect the security of the harbor and allow the U.S. military to use the navy through the port to withdraw from the battle if necessary.

I think this is also a measure taken by the US government to protect the US military. It is already obvious that the war will be ended by negotiation, the question is only the length of time. Therefore, as a US politician, from the perspective of protecting American citizens and their own interests, they are certainly not willing to continue to pay more US military lives for this war that is a foregone conclusion.

The Yankees' life is valuable, if we can proceed from our own interests, at this time, should we also arrange all the people's army to the first line, and we only wait and see on the second line, and then fight for a little interest at the negotiating table, and then pull it down?

But this is not the case, the reason is that the puppet army has become more and more numerous, with the full equipment and support of the US military. It can even be said that they have considerable combat effectiveness under the tempering of the fire of war. However, the KPA forces have not yet fully recovered from the casualties of the Inchon landings. It can be said that if the Volunteer Army also plays this game like the US Army at this time, then the entire front will soon move north......

This is why, after the end of the Korean War, many units of the Volunteer Army remained in North Korea to assist in North Korea's "post-war reconstruction."

"It seems that this time, we are not far from peace" Li Pinghe pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with a relaxed smile: "Yankees, this is clearly 'preserving strength', Rhee Syngman without the support of the United Nations Army, just like a tiger without teeth and claws, look at how fierce it is, as long as we work harder, we can completely defeat the enemy and drive US imperialism back to their own country."

"Yes to drive US imperialism back"

"Completely Defeat the Syngman Rhee Regime"

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Listening to Li Pinghe's words, the surrounding soldiers also waved their fists in response.

But I know that the truth will not be as simple as they think, one is that the Syngman Rhee authorities are not satisfied with the current situation, and they are bent on using the power of the United Nations to unify Korea, so of course they will not be willing to make peace like this. The other is that the Soviet Union will soon reduce its logistical support for the Volunteer Army to a large extent due to domestic reasons.

After the War of Liberation, many people wondered why our army did not equip our troops with the enemy's advanced equipment on the battlefield. The main reason for this is logistics, which is bullets

A gun without bullets is not much different from a burning stick on the battlefield. This is also the reason why when I entered the DPRK, I was equipped with a large number of 38 large covers and medium formal rifles. When the Japanese army invaded China, in order to facilitate the supply of ammunition and medicine, several arsenals were directly established in China to produce the ammunition and ammunition needed for the 38 big cover. After the surrender of the Japanese army, these arsenals were eventually captured by our army. When we entered the DPRK, our army already had the ability to produce rifle bullets such as the 38 big cover and the Zhongcheng on its own, so these rifles became the only choice for the volunteers.

However, since the five campaigns were redressed, the weapons of the volunteer army were gradually replaced with Soviet-style weapons in batches, but the arsenal for the production of ammunition and ammunition was not built in time, which directly led to the fact that most of the ammunition and ammunition of the volunteer army were imported from the Soviet Union. At this time, the volunteer army units were actually subject to the Soviet Union to a considerable extent.

As a result, as soon as problems arose within the Soviet Union, our side had no choice but to make concessions at the negotiating table.

"Let's discuss the plan of attacking the 902.8 heights again, the enemy's attack has been repelled by us, and now it is our turn to attack" I poured cold water on Li Pinghe and others, who were excited.

"Commander Cui" Li Pinghe couldn't help but look at me in confusion and said: "Now that the situation is very good, why are you still in a hurry to hit the 902.8 highland?" ”

"Yes, Commander Cui" Even Liu Shunyi didn't understand at this time, he looked at the map, and then lowered his voice and said: "Now the negotiation situation has become clear step by step, occupying one more high ground and less occupying one high ground, strictly speaking, there is no conflict of interest for my country, I think ......"

I understand Liu Shunyi's following words, he used to be a deputy army commander, and the deputy army commander can already be said to be a high-level strategic planner. So it's not unusual for him to think of this, the more high-level people are, the more they put the interests of the country first. And the more low-level volunteer soldiers, the more they may put their personal feelings first, such as what kind of friendship between China and North Korea, or because a certain old lady in North Korea is very good to him, or because a certain soldier of the People's Army saved his life, so he is hot-headed and wants to occupy more land for North Korea

However, proceeding from reality, the situation is exactly as Liu Shunyi said, occupying one more high ground or one less high ground will actually have no impact on China's interests at all, but will sacrifice the lives of many volunteer soldiers

I don't know this, but I also know that this battle is going to be fought no matter what. And not only to fight, but also to fight a big war that no one could imagine, the purpose of which was to let Syngman Rhee, who was clamoring for independence to fight the Korean War on his own, know that without the support of the United Nations army, we would not only have the ability to resist the war launched by him to unify Korea, but also have the ability to reunify him in turn

After thinking about it, I stared at the map in front of me and said: "I just came back from the division headquarters, and the superiors mean that we can only fight, and we can only talk about it, so we don't need to think too much about negotiations, we only need to think about how to fight this battle in front of us."

"Yes" Listening to my words, Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi couldn't help but glance at each other.

Although what I said was a bit reluctant, it was indeed what Master Pang said, so it was difficult for Master Pang to say anything.

Looking at the 902.8 highland on the map and thinking for a while, Liu Shunyi proposed: "In my opinion, there is only one way to hit the 902.8 highland, and that is to lurk."

"Lurking?" Li Pinghe objected: "It is too difficult to lurk, and even if our troops succeed in lurking at the foot of the 902.8 Heights, it will still take three or four hours to climb the 902.8 Heights and deploy the troops. During this period of time, once discovered by the enemy, it is very likely that it will be blocked and bombed by enemy planes and artillery fire, and I am afraid that more than half of the casualties will be suffered on the road. I don't think it will work."

"No" Liu Shunyi shook his head and said: "I've actually been thinking about this problem all this time, I think we shouldn't lurk at the foot of the 902.8 Heights as usual, but should lurk at the front of the enemy's position, that is, on the 902.8 Heights."

"Lurking on 902.8 heights?" Li Pinghe and I coincidentally set our suspicious eyes on Liu Shunyi.

"Here's what I think...... Liu Shunyi is worthy of being a deputy military commander, and he is not panicked at all under our questioning gaze. He straightened out his thoughts, and then said unhurriedly: "It is impossible to lurk a large force in the front line of the enemy's position, it is easy to be discovered by the enemy, and at the same time, the risk is too great, once it is discovered by the enemy, it will be a situation where all the games are lost." So I thought it would be possible to lurk a large force at the foot of a large mountain and a small force at the front of the enemy's position. For example, one or two companies of 'elite' troops. As the first echelon, they took the lead in attacking the enemy, seized one or two positions when the enemy was unprepared, and held them for two to three hours, waiting for reinforcements from the large forces."

"Hmm" Listening to Liu Shunyi's plan, I couldn't help but nod.

I think it is very likely that his plan came from the case of the American Rangers boldly seizing the high ground in the rear of our army. Because in his plan, one or two companies lurking in the enemy's forward positions are actually special forces sneak attacks, seize advantageous positions, and wait for reinforcements from large forces.

That's when I thought of the Cold Gun Unit and the upcoming night vision devices, who might be able to play a role similar to the U.S. Special Forces in this battle.

But...... The number of cold gun troops is too small, now there are only about twenty, which is far from one or two companies.

However, this does not seem to be a big problem, because the soldiers of the 538 regiment are also 'elite', and it is not very difficult to 'extract' one or two experienced veterans from them, and then cooperate with the cold gun troops.

The most difficult thing was how the soldiers of this or two companies could lurk under the noses of the enemy for a long time. The front of the enemy's position was not anywhere else, but there were patrols of the puppet army walking back and forth......