"What, Major Li Doo-hyun, are you saying that your men just captured three soldiers of the Chinese army, numbered as the Chinese People's Volunteer Army?" Hehe, my Major Li, don't make such international jokes, the Soviet Union did not send troops, and China will definitely not send troops. ”

Captain Thomson, the commander of the U.S. Army Company, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the brand-new open-top jeep, first sneered twice and said in a skeptical tone without disbelief after listening to the report of Lee Doo-hyun who was sitting in the driver's seat of a dilapidated open-top jeep alongside him.

Originally, Lee Doo-hyun did not intend to report this situation to Thomson, but when he thought that their advance team of the US-South Korean coalition army found a Chinese army with tens of thousands of troops and did not report it, once it was found out, then the mistake he made by not reporting it would become extremely serious.

It was precisely because he realized the seriousness of the problem that Lee Doo-hyun drove this dilapidated open-top jeep to catch up with Thomson, who was driving in front of the retreating team to the south, and truthfully told Thomson the ins and outs of the three captured Chinese volunteer soldiers.

What Lee Doo-hyun never expected was that after listening to his report, Thomson not only did not believe what he said, but doubted him, which made him angry and annoyed, but he felt helpless about it.

In desperation, Lee Doo-hyun decided to argue with reason, gritted his teeth, and continued: "Captain Thomson, I hope you can pay attention to this extremely important piece of information I just provided. This is very important not only for our US-ROK joint advance team, but also for our entire ROK-US coalition plan to advance northward.

"In the name of a soldier, I assure you, Captain Tom, that what I have just said is true, and that there is absolutely no lie. I implore Captain Thomson to report this very important military information to the US-ROK Joint Operations Command Headquarters in the rear. ”

For the commander of the ROK army, even if his rank is higher than himself, Second Lieutenant Thomson, who is the commander of the US military company, is full of innate arrogance and rudeness from the bottom of his bones, and he exudes his superiority everywhere.

After the U.S. military company he led and the ROK battalion formed the US-ROK joint advance team, especially the battalion commander of this major, Lee Doo-hyun, who was very assertive, was dissatisfied and never gave a good look, and this time was naturally no exception.

Thomson, who was putting on a domineering posture, waved his hand at Li Doo-hyun, who was sitting in the open-top jeep next to him, and said in a somewhat impatient tone: "Okay, alright, Major Lee Doo-hyun, we are speeding up our retreat in the direction of Wenjing to the south, and when we arrive at Wenjing, I will verify the authenticity of the military information you just provided."

"Once the situation is confirmed, I will consider reporting to the U.S.-South Korea Joint Operations Command Headquarters in the rear. You better hurry to the back of the group and keep an eye on your soldiers who regularly violate military discipline, this is what Major Lee Doo-hyun should do. ”

Seeing Captain Thomson ignore this very important military information he provided, Lee Doo-hyun was extremely disappointed and secretly angry.

If it weren't for the order of their superiors, if their advance team of the US-ROK forces marching north encountered an unexpected situation on the way, he and Thomson would have to jointly sign and send a telegram to the US-ROK Joint Operations Command Headquarters in the rear.

If his superiors hadn't issued this order to limit his power, Lee Doo-hyun would have sent this military information that was extremely important to him as soon as possible, so why bother to find Thomson, who was not on good terms with him, to make a low-voice request, and in the end, he was touched with a nose of dust.

Angry and annoyed, Li Doo-hyun was a little disheartened when he saw Thomson's perfunctory attitude towards him, so he had to return to the tail of the retreating team to the south, leading the soldiers who had less than two companies left, and followed the American company that was walking in the front to the direction where Wenjing was located.

After cleaning up the battlefield, the soldiers of the third company ate a hot meal of small rice and stayed where they were, waiting for the combat instructions issued by the regimental headquarters.

However, there was one thing that made the company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju feel worried, that is, all the charcoal they had collected before had been used up.

"Hehe, Comrade Sun Lei, we've run out of charcoal, I know you're a monkey cub with a smart head, hurry up and think of a way to see where to get some charcoal back, so that we can continue to use it inside." Zhao Yifa, the company commander who put his hands behind his back, called Sun Lei aside and said with a smile.

Faced with this problem thrown by the company commander Zhao Yifa, Sun Lei scratched the back of his head, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Company commander, it was difficult for us to obtain charcoal before. Now where can you let me go and find charcoal for us? ”

Originally, the company commander Zhao Yifa thought that Sun Lei, a kid with a good head, could come up with a good way, but now when he heard Sun Lei say that there was no way, he was still happy just now, and at this time he showed a desperate expression.

After some discussion with the instructor Wang Wenju, it was decided to make the few white noodles they still had left, and let the soldiers of the cooking class make fried noodles, so that they could eat fried noodles directly to satisfy their hunger without lighting a fire.

After the soldiers of the cooking squad made most of the bags of white noodles into fried noodles, they allocated three days' rations to each soldier of the Third Company, and the daily ration was only two taels of fried noodles.

As soon as the distribution of this fried noodles was completed, at about half past three in the afternoon, the three connected to the next combat order conveyed by the regiment headquarters, and asked them to rest in place for three hours, that is, after dark, at 18 o'clock at night, they set off on time, interspersed with the south side of Wenjing.

The main combat mission of their three companies was to intercept the South Korean troops who had retreated south after the battle of Onjeong began, and to cooperate with other companies in the regiment to coordinate to block reinforcements that might arrive from the direction of Unsan.

From the valley of Liangshuidong, where they were located, interspersed with the ambush site five kilometers south of Wenjing, a distance of at least forty kilometers, they were given the time to go from 18 o'clock in the evening to 24 o'clock in the night with only two roads on this snowy white snow.

The company commander Zhao Yifa and the instructor Wang Wenju patted their chests and made a military order in front of the regiment commander before 24 o'clock in the evening.

When company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju conveyed to the officers and men of the company the interspersed combat tasks they had carried out tonight, the soldiers closed their eyes sleepily one by one, hoping that they could sleep soundly for more than two hours before dark.