Chapter 19 The West Tops the East Release

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Chapter 19 The West Tops the East Release

Finally it was time to retreat. According to the order, our whole army withdrew to the north of the Han River, leaving the defensive line to the 38th Army behind us, where they would hold out for ten days to cooperate with the strategy of the main force of "putting the west on top of the east".

"Putting the West on Top and on the East" is a battle plan formulated by President Peng. Because the enemy adopted the combat mode of advancing flat and supporting each other this time, our army was unable to move to the enemy's rear to carry out division and encirclement, forcing our army to fight positional warfare with the enemy, which was not good at.

So according to this situation, General Peng formulated a strategy of "putting the west on top of the east", which simply means that on the western front, the enemy's most elite and powerful attack force was withstood with weak forces (the 38th Army, the 50th Army, and the First Army of the People's Army) on the western front, while the eastern front was blocking and deliberately putting the enemy in, so that in the area of Hengcheng and Topingli on the eastern front, the enemy's battle line formed a salient, and then divided and surrounded with superior forces, artificially creating a fighter for the volunteer army to fight a mobile war.

However, while the Eastern Front was divided and surrounded by superior forces, it meant that the 38th Army and the 50th Army, which were desperately holding the American army on the Western Front, would not be able to retreat a single step and would not receive any reinforcements. Not to mention that they will definitely have to pay huge casualties, once they are broken through by the enemy, the entire front will completely collapse, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

The pale crescent moon illuminated the gray-black sky, adding light to the night that had just begun, and also illuminating the path of the march for the warriors.

My soldiers and I walked down the highway with a line of American GIs with their hands held high. He was dressed in tattered cotton clothes, and his face and body were covered with dust and blood. At the end of this battle, there were only about 80 people left in the whole battalion, but the soldiers were very proud that we had captured more American soldiers than we did.

"Comrade, well played, well played!"

"Comrade, well done!"

……

When we passed through the defense area of the 38th Army, the soldiers of the 38th Army all looked at us with envious eyes, and the smiles on their faces were like welcoming the soldiers who had returned triumphantly, and their cordial greetings seemed to have regarded us as heroes in their hearts!

But I know that the real heroes are them, and they will hold this position alone for ten days, facing the American troops who are many times their size, and their casualties are even to the point of breaking their bones.

I walked forward slowly, looking at the smiling faces of the soldiers of the 38th Army beside me, they smiled so innocently, so proudly, I don't know if I will ever see them again in ten days. Hopefully, the anticline fortifications I proposed will result in fewer casualties.

Our group followed the road north and crossed the ice of the Han River again to return to Seoul.

Although it has only been a few days apart, the feeling of entering Seoul this time is completely different from the last time. The slogans on the streets were still there, but no one shouted slogans, no one cheered, not even those of us who had just come down from the front. Only occasionally I saw groups of KPA soldiers running nervously past us, nodding slightly at us as they passed us. A slightly stiff smile appeared on his face.

They are the First Army Corps of the People's Army, which is responsible for defending Seoul and Incheon, and because their combat effectiveness needs to be strengthened, the headquarters has always placed them on the second line.

At this time, Seoul was already ten rooms and nine empty, and after hearing the order to disband, the soldiers and I found a decent house and lived there.

As soon as he entered the house, Huzi found a piece of land and laid down the quilt, and lay down with a thud.

"I said Huzi, what's wrong with you?" Zhao Yongxin quipped: "When did our tiger become a sick cat?" ”

"You try!" The most unbearable thing for Huzi is to make people look flat, and when he heard this, he turned over and sat up: "You try it!" Six people fight bayonets with more than 100 American devils, can you still stand after you fight? ”

"What do you mean six miles?" Xiao Shandong answered: "Isn't there still Camp Chief Cui?" ”

"That's it!" The old squad leader also responded: "I can see it clearly from above, if it weren't for Camp Commander Cui who put down the devils one by one, you can still lie here?" ”

"Then ......" Huzi scratched his head and lay down again, muttering in his mouth: "I said fighting bayonets, and I didn't say that Camp Commander Cui was not ......"

I didn't care about saying anything, I spread out the quilt with hunger and pain, and only after lying down did I breathe a sigh of relief, and the bones in my whole body seemed to fall apart. After a few days of life-and-death struggle, several times he picked up his life before the ghost gate closed. I think that in modern times, I would be half nervous to take a test, but now I think about it, it's really a little ridiculous.

Looking at the situation of the soldiers, it is almost the same, even the veteran squad leader who has been in battle for a long time is almost tired and lying down. Such bloody battles have not been experienced before, but they have never been fought for three days in a row like this.

After a while, there was a burst of snoring in the room. I just felt my eyelids sink and fell asleep......

But not long after he fell asleep, he heard the order for the whole army to assemble outside, and he got up in a daze, packed up his equipment and ran out, and the soldiers outside were already neatly lined up in two columns.

"Let's go!" With an order, the team set off.

I don't know where to go, I don't know what the task is, I don't even know the number of people in my team. If I had before, I would have caught up with the regiment commander and asked him, but now I can't beat that spirit. What if you ask? It's a war back and forth.

But I'm not in a hurry, the soldiers are in a hurry, especially those recruits who are whispering this and that in the ranks, so there is a lot of discussion in the ranks.

"Where is this?"

"I don't know."

"It is said that it is to support the troops of the Eastern Front, and the Eastern Front has let the enemy fight over!"

"What? Did the troops on the Eastern Front lose the battle? ”

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At this time, I really admired the gossip of the soldiers, and I don't know which correspondent or the guard sent it, but it was really like that. It's just that the truth is not like they say that the Eastern Front troops lost the battle, but the volunteers deliberately put the enemy in.

There are not enough troops! I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, the war has been fought so far, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army have been seriously reduced, and the troops on the front line no longer have an advantage compared with the United Nations Army, and even those of us who have just been withdrawn from the front line have not had time to rest and recuperate before being transferred to the front line again.

Although the Fourth Battle was not the heaviest battle of the Volunteers, it was the most difficult battle. Because the volunteers had to face not only the enemy army with similar strength, but also the disparity in equipment and supplies, as well as the fatigue accumulated in the previous three battles......

I struggled to open my jerky eyes, dragged my heavy feet like lead, and followed the troops, suddenly realizing that we were going back to the pattern of day and night, and it was only after suffering that we had adjusted our biological clocks a few days ago.

The soldiers marched east along the north bank of the Han River, and since the American troops were still desperately resisted on the south bank of the Han River, except for the occasional encounter with a few Yankee planes, the march was very smooth.

Because there were not many enemy aircraft, sometimes the troops marched in camouflage even during the day. From this, we are even more sure that the US military aircraft are not enough. Think about it too. It is not surprising that their planes, which are not only bombarding our army's long supply lines day and night, but also providing firepower on their hundreds of kilometers long, would ignore our troops moving on the second front.

All the way to the east, I saw more and more soldiers digging fortifications and waiting for battle, including volunteers and people's army. Compared to the Western Front, there were much more troops here, and there were four corps of the Volunteer Army and three corps of the People's Army secretly assembled in this vicinity. And we were faced with only the puppet 8th Division in Hengcheng, the 2nd and 24th Divisions of Tohei Satomi, and the French battalion.

Presumably, Peng always gathered all the available troops in this area, and tried to strike a fierce blow to the enemy with local superior forces.

On the evening of the third day, we arrived at our destination - Hengcheng!

Originally, I thought that I could rest for a while when I arrived in Hengcheng, but Chu Tuan only left the army for a while, and as soon as he returned, he hurriedly pulled the troops again and continued to march.

This time, even I couldn't help it, so I hurried a few steps to catch up and asked, "Commander, where are you going?" ”

"Insert into the rear of the puppet army!" Regiment Commander Chu didn't stop at his feet, and said in response: "The superiors praised our regiment for fighting well in the position, and asked us to insert it in the rear of the puppet army to fight a few more battles." ”

Saying that, Captain Chu turned around and patted me on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Thanks to the anticline fortifications you said!" This time, our regiment has made a reputation, and several division commanders of our unit have said that they want to learn from us in combat! ”

"Huh?" As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned, it turned out that it was all my anticline theory.

But think about it, most of the volunteers are not good at positional battles, and our regiment was able to block the attack of the superior US army on the front line for three days a few days ago, and it was still fighting during the day, so it is difficult to think of being famous. Thereupon. Our regiment has naturally become the only unit that is good at positional warfare, so who else can we send if we are not sent to the interception mission of inserting into the enemy's rear this time.

Thinking of this, I can't help but secretly complain, the so-called capable people work hard, that's what it means!

"Speed up!" Chu Tuan whispered: "The battle is about to start, let's cross the enemy's defense line before the battle starts!" ”

It is almost impossible to sneak over the US defense line before the battle starts, although the US army's will to fight is not high, but there is a whole set of systems and systems, if you want to cross their defense line without being detected, unless you deceive them like the Battle of Yunshan.

But it is not difficult to cross the defense line of the puppet army, just like Commander Chu said. If we find out, we'll call it......

Out of Hengcheng to the southeast walked more than ten miles to a small mountain village, the front of the sharp soldiers came back to report that the front found the enemy, I and the head of Chu secretly climbed up, through the moonlight to see. Hey, these puppet armies have made progress, they have drawn barbed wire fences and set up sentry posts outside the village, and two sentries with guns on their backs are tired of rubbing their hands and stomping their feet in the cold wind.

"Is there a way to get around?" Commander Chu observed with a telescope for a while, then turned around and asked the KPA guide beside him.

"Yes!" The guide nodded: "There is still a road half an hour further east, but maybe there are puppet armies!" There are mountain trails too, but they take longer! ”

"There's no hurry." Commander Chu frowned, waved his hand back, and four or five volunteer soldiers secretly touched the two sentries on both sides.

After a while, the cold light flashed in front of them, and the two sentries fell silently.

"Let's go!" Commander Chu gave an order in a whisper, and ran towards the village with his waist and head.

As soon as I entered the village, I felt that something was wrong, I thought that this was just a small village and there were not many puppet troops stationed, but the troops couldn't help but be stunned when they turned a corner along the road, and the cars in front of them lined up in a long line and stretched to the darkness, not to mention dozens of them. On the other side, there were more than a dozen Xiafei tanks parked indiscriminately, and on the side of the road were countless single tents, and there were a few faint snoring sounds from inside, seeing that there was at least one regiment of the puppet army stationed here.

No...... It should not be said to be a garrison, it should be said to be a march.

I quickly thought that the volunteer troops on the Eastern Front were "losing and retreating" to this position, and these puppet troops pursued them all the way to this position. I think they haven't tasted victory for a long time, especially how happy and glorious it is to be able to defeat the Chinese army that they have always feared in their hearts!

It's no wonder that they still shout in their dreams: "Chase! Chasing ......"

Although we also had a regiment, but after a few major battles, the number of people in the regiment was seriously reduced, and at this time the whole regiment was only four or five hundred men, and now we were in a daze and plunged into the enemy's pile, in case we were surrounded by these puppet troops......

Although we are not afraid, the Yankees, who are several times more than us, have been beaten down by us, can we still be afraid of these puppet armies? But if you do this, I am afraid that this mission will not be completed.

This situation was obviously beyond the expectations of Captain Chu, and I saw him frowning under the moonlight, and his face suddenly became grim. But he did not hesitate to lead the soldiers on, and at this time it was too late to turn back, so we had to go inside.

At this time, a very strange scene appeared in the dim moonlight, and there were groups of puppet soldiers sleeping on both sides of the road. But in the public there is a volunteer army that is passing through silently. Sometimes even one or two puppet soldiers even got out of the tent to pee, glanced at us with sleepy eyes, and went about their own without care, and hurried into the tent when they were done.

Maybe they think, "If those were enemies, I'd be dead!" ”

Like a person who has nothing to do, they scared us volunteer soldiers who were marching on the highway into a cold sweat, the soldiers put their hands on the trigger, the grenades also opened the lids, and they were all ready for battle! But to the surprise of the soldiers, in the end, they passed through without danger.

But what made me very painful was that during this time I found a very large tent, and I guess some kind of official was hiding in it! Several times I wanted to rush in and kill him while they were asleep, but I forced the thought down for fear of exposing the entire army.

Just when the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, something unexpected happened, only to see a few red signal flares suddenly rise in the sky behind them, followed by the sound of artillery, and even a few shells exploded around us.

- The Volunteer Army has begun a counteroffensive.

Suddenly, there was a mess in the puppet army's camp, and everyone climbed out of the tent in disheveled clothes, some got under the car, some climbed into the tank, looking everywhere for a place to hide from the bomb. Captain Chu waved his hand, signaling us to ignore it and move on. I secretly said in my heart that the opportunity had come, so I deliberately took a few steps behind and came to Huzi's side.

"Huzi, take your people with you!" I whispered, pretending to dodge the shells and turned to run.

After a while, Huzi followed with five warriors, and although their eyes were full of doubts, they didn't ask much, so they followed me and trotted all the way back to the camp of the puppet army. There were puppet soldiers holding their heads in front of and behind them looking for cover, and no one noticed us in different military uniforms in the darkness. Besides, our gray-black cotton clothes shine in the moonlight, which is really similar to the brown military uniform on the puppet army.

I ran forward with the impression and walked or stopped, and in a short time I ran to the tent, and there was some faint light inside, and to my surprise there were no guards outside, maybe I was following somewhere to hide from the shells! Anyway, I couldn't care so much if I was already here, so I pulled out my pistol and lifted the door cloth and rushed in.

"Bang bang bang ......bang" a few shots, as soon as I broke into the tent I knocked down a few unsuspecting puppet soldiers, the remaining two puppet soldiers hurriedly raised their hands, their eyes were full of horror and surprise, they couldn't understand how we could rush here so quickly.

I looked around, and realized that I was wrong, that this was not a tent for an official, but a communication station. I saw that the documents and papers were scattered all over the place, and there were radios, telephones, walkie-talkies, and code books everywhere...... And then there are things that I can't tell what they are.

But it's not bad to have these things, these are what the volunteer army lacks! Since you've been here, how can you come back empty-handed? So I quickly let Huzi and them carry it on their backs, and by the way, I also brought the codebook with me.

"What's that?" At this time, a stacked plate in the corner caught my attention, according to the experience I got from it, those treasure mountains, treasure houses, often the more inconspicuous things are more precious, so after watching such a plot a few more times, I vowed never to let myself enter the treasure mountain empty-handed back in the future, this time will naturally not be an exception.

Sure enough, the puppet replied in a trembling voice, "That, that...... It's a signal board! Aircraft Signal Board! ”