The Corps logistics department and the local government came to him in the hope that he would dispose of the horses. He used you to exchange the car for me, and all these horses were pushed back if they were left behind. Li Ziyuan's attitude on this matter was so tough that even the acting commander of the corps, the madman general known as Erye Zhukov, was helpless against the commander under his command.

But the Corps just ordered cars, where to find him enough cars. There is no way, and he can only let his method go. At this time, because of the victories in the first four battles, some cadres did not think much of Li Ziyuan's approach. Some people even think that Li Ziyuan is right-leaning and afraid of starvation.

The local government was angry, and it was really under a lot of pressure, so it simply sent a telegram to Li Ziyuan's old political commissar. In the face of the political commissar's reproach telegram, Li Ziyuan fully stated his reasons in a reply of 3,000 words, and finally persuaded the political commissar.

For Li Ziyuan, after convincing the political commissar, he didn't care at all what others said. Originally, according to Li Ziyuan's plan, according to the current replenishment of a large number of liberation fighters in the army, the composition of the unit has changed greatly. As well as those who are getting acquainted with the newly supplemented, some Soviet-made equipment, it is better to train for at least three months.

But the development of the battle situation did not give Li Ziyuan too long to train. A month after arriving in Hebei, Li Ziyuan commanded the troops to take a train from Hebei in batches to the junction of China and North Korea. In accordance with the orders of the superiors, the whole army followed the main force of the corps into the Korean war.

After entering the DPRK, Li Ziyuan carefully avoided the almost ubiquitous bombing of the enemy planes, and marched as quickly as possible to the designated assembly area. But along the way, looking at the bombed northern part of North Korea and the ruins everywhere, Li Ziyuan and the military political commissar looked at each other for a long time and were silent.

At the same time, he constantly encountered air raids by US planes along the way, and he was powerless to fight back, which also made Li Ziyuan feel extremely pressured. The Soviet-made anti-aircraft machine guns that were replenished were like dragonflies in the water. Later, Li Ziyuan even stopped firing the anti-aircraft machine gun in the name of saving bullets.

After arriving at the designated area to launch the attack, Li Ziyuan found the commander of the general engineer battalion. He was told that his engineer battalion would not have to do anything after the troops attacked. There was only one thing, that is, to follow behind the troops and clear all the enemy troops and our army's equipment that had been blown up from the road.

At the same time, a batch of timber should be prepared, and once the road is blown out of the crater by enemy planes, a temporary bridge through the crater should be erected as quickly as possible.

Li Ziyuan handed over two battalions of the Engineer Battalion, which had been reduced from the rebel troops from Sichuan, to the commander of the engineer battalion. And told the engineer battalion commander that as soon as a wounded person came down from the front line, he must be evacuated as quickly as possible.

There is absolutely no room for the wounded, there is no backlog. At the same time, he asked the military logistics department not to leave the horses that were killed along the way. All of them will find a way to make bacon or bacon and send them to all three divisions. And find a way to find a suitable area behind the troops to stock up on a batch of ammunition and food.

He also repeatedly warned the three division commanders and political commissars that they were not allowed to use this meat until the last moment. As the units moved forward, the captured supplies, especially foodstuffs, were in the hands of the divisional level. Horses that were killed, trying to make them into bacon. Each division had to set aside a battalion to carry spare food and ammunition.

All captured US weapons and ammunition should be used as best as possible. All units should use the captured weapons and ammunition in a unified manner. It turned out that Li Ziyuan, who had always been vigorous and resolute, was a mother-in-law this time. The tube is not only very fine, but also repeatedly emphasized. Let the cadres who know him not very accustomed to the practice of the army commander.

After five battles were fought, the army under Li Ziyuan's command fought quite well in the first stage. But after entering the second stage, Li Ziyuan couldn't say anything. The army he commanded was transferred two divisions because it was used as a reserve, and only one division commanded by He Sanliang and some directly subordinate units were left in his hands.

However, taking into account the first stage, the entire Volunteer Army did not annihilate a large number of living forces of the enemy. And his own army is now in the position of the corps or even the reserve of the Zhisi, and he may have to go up at any time. One division, I'm afraid, is simply not enough. This has nothing to do with whether this division commander is his old subordinate or not.

So before the two divisions were assigned to other armies, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate to risk being accused of self-centeredness. From the two divisions assigned to other corps, two battalions and two divisions were sappers from each division. Li Ziyuan's approach caused a lot of controversy at the time.

But in the second stage of the enemy's counterattack, his hand played a decisive role. At that time, the logistics and supply of the Volunteer Army were quite poor under the constant air raids of enemy aircraft. There were even times when hundreds of tons of ammunition and food were blown up by enemy planes on the way.

The supplies hoarded in the rear could not be delivered, and the wounded in the front could not be transported. Fighting only on the food and ammunition they carried has become the most fatal weakness of the volunteers. The army commanded by Li Ziyuan was better because it had made some preparations in advance, but it was really not possible to have hundreds of horses, which could be used as military rations. Many of the other armies had been out of food within five days of the battle.

Captured materials are often blown up by arriving enemy planes before they can be transported away. The U.S. military is indeed wealthy, and a soldier's daily ration can meet the needs of several soldiers of the Volunteer Army. And there are meat and vegetarian food, all kinds of canned food are complete, and there is even hand paper.

As long as they have planes, they can replenish supplies and ammunition whenever and wherever they want, and the wounded can be easily transported. Since the start of the five battles, Li Ziyuan has seen US planes more than once and transported the wounded away from the noses of his own troops. But their own troops can only watch and have nothing to do.

However, most of the time, because of the air blockade of the US military, the various units of the Volunteer Army could only rely on the materials they carried to fight. Once the food and ammunition they were carrying were exhausted, the troops had to be withdrawn. After discovering the weakness of the Volunteer Army, the U.S. Army changed its past tactics in this campaign.

At the beginning of the campaign, there was a big retreat at the beginning. Only use air superiority and long-range artillery fire to kill and injure the volunteers, and after the food and ammunition carried by the volunteers are exhausted, they will organize the troops with tanks as the vanguard, and use the advantage of their large number of cars to quickly counterattack.

At this time, after a long period of fighting, the units of the Volunteer Army were killed and injured by the enemy's superior ground-to-air firepower because they could not replenish food and ammunition, and their combat effectiveness was seriously weakened. This tactical change of the US military, which gave full play to its superior firepower and mobility, caught the volunteers by surprise.

The original plan formulated by the Zhi Division to stop the southward movement and adopt the method of mobile defense to cover the transfer of troops alternately has not yet had time to be realized, and the US army's counterattack has already begun. At this moment, Li Ziyuan received an order from the corps to immediately cover the transfer of the wounded of the corps on the south bank of the Han River.

After receiving this order, Li Ziyuan frowned. How will this battle be fought? He has only one division in his hands, and he has to defend such a wide position. And the troops on both wings have already been transferred to the rear. If an inadequately organized army of oneself fights under the condition that it is attacked on three sides and on the other side, it actually puts the whole army in a dangerous zone.

But a soldier is a soldier, and under the order of the acting commander of the Corps, Li Ziyuan finally chose to carry it out. Not because of anything else, but because of the more than 8,000 wounded who have not yet been evacuated. With the other armies rapidly retreating northward, Li Ziyuan commanded his own army, a division and four battalions to be exact, and crossed the North Han River against the enemy.

Before the troops were deployed, Li Ziyuan asked the remaining two divisions to arrive as quickly as possible at all costs. also personally asked for He Sanliang in front of him, and told him sentence by sentence. When to retreat and how far to retreat, and how long to hold on to a certain position, it is necessary to retreat.

Since there was no horizontal contact with the friendly and neighboring troops, Li Ziyuan repeatedly told He Sanliang that once he discovered that the friendly and neighboring troops had moved, he would immediately withdraw to the north bank of the Han River. At the same time, Li Ziyuan commanded three divisions of engineer companies to erect three pontoon bridges on the Han River with the bridge deck about 20 centimeters underwater.

The wounded of the division, as well as the front-line non-combatants such as the art troupe, were quickly withdrawn to the north bank of the Han River and immediately moved to the rear. At the same time, Li Ziyuan sent the last bit of ammunition in his hand, as well as all the remaining food, to the division. If it weren't for his previous mother-in-law's mouth, it wasn't for the Chuan Maduo he brought before to transport some supplies.

The food and ammunition in his hands were no better than those of his neighbors. It is estimated that the troops are already fighting hungry now. But even so, Li Ziyuan's military headquarters has reached the point where he can't even drink gruel. However, except for Li Ziyuan who left some food for the confidential personnel, the rest of the food was still given to the front-line troops.

After the food and ammunition were delivered, Li Ziyuan ordered the four battalions that he had stuck down to immediately build a defensive line on both flanks of the division's retreat route on the north bank of the Han River. Li Ziyuan gave only one order to these four battalions, and before receiving an order from the military headquarters, even if they were exhausted, they were not allowed to retreat a single step.

Before the transfer of a friendly neighbor's army, Li Ziyuan used the commander of that army to be the old superior-subordinate relationship of the commander of the military region when he was an independent brigade commander in the Taihang Military Region. I went directly to the commander who was almost completely out of ammunition and food, and asked for some ammunition and food, and most importantly, a regiment.

From the other side, not even from the army of his own corps, a battalion was forcibly stuck. When this battalion was ordered to move backwards, it entered Li Ziyuan's position in the wrong direction and was directly detained by Li Ziyuan. As for how to explain to the brother troops, Li Ziyuan, who is quite empty of troops at the moment, has not considered it at all.

However, this regiment that was asked for from the old chief is now a relatively complete regiment of the army. But in fact, because of the casualties in continuous combat, there were actually only two battalions of troops. But together with the four battalions stuck in his hand, plus the other battalion that was deducted, it was enough to form two reinforced regiments.

All the troops under General Li Ziyuan's hands, except for He Sanliang's division on the south bank, the rest of the troops were all spread along both flanks of the North Han River. to cover the rear and flanks of the division, and placed its own military headquarters near the north bank of the Han River. After doing everything he could, Li Ziyuan frowned as he watched the constantly exploding artillery fire on the south bank of the Han River.