At half past nine in the morning, the ROK troops of the battalion of the South Army who were marching south on foot from the south gate of the military fortress in Xiajiayuli were only one kilometer away from the destination of their march this time.

Don't look at it, Lee Doo-hyun led this battalion of South Korean troops, which has more than 1,000 troops, but because there are almost 700 South Korean soldiers in this battalion, they were all brought in a week ago.

That is to say, among the South Korean troops in this battalion, only about 300 people are soldiers of the regular army, including the soldiers of the South Korean army of the two companies led by Li Doo-hyun before have only touched the gun on the battlefield, but in the battles in Wenjing and Qingchuanjiang more than a month ago, they were all opponents of the encounter, and the Chinese volunteer troops were just throwing away their armor.

It can be said that in terms of combat effectiveness, the ROK army led by Lee Doo-hyun, with a total strength of more than 1,000 troops, would not have had the slightest chance of winning if he had not had the 10 mortars and 20 light and heavy machine guns given to him by the commander of the US Army, Colonel Madip, to fight against a small group of volunteers of less than 200 people on the hillside five kilometers south of Xiajieyu-ri.

However, now that he has the blessing of such powerful American-style heavy weapons and equipment, Li Douxuan thinks that his chances of victory are still very good, because he doesn't believe in this evil, and when he gets to the ground, he will not confront the Xiaogu troops of the Chinese Volunteers on the hillside with less than 200 people, but use the ten mortars to carry out a quick and indiscriminate bombardment.

In Li Doo-hyun's opinion at this time, as long as he used those ten mortars to bombard for the last hour, he could completely wipe out the living force of the small force of the Chinese Volunteer Army, which was less than 200 people, and then launch a charge.

No, when the South Korean soldiers of this battalion were still one kilometer away from the hillside, Lee Doo-hyun, as the battalion commander, immediately issued an order to stop advancing, and the South Korean soldiers who did not want to come out to fight this battle immediately stopped.

Operational staff officer Kim Sung-gi anxiously trotted all the way from the front of the marching team to the middle of the marching team, stood in front of the battalion commander Li Doo-hyun, and asked in a puzzled tone: "Your Excellency the battalion commander, didn't we just march forward well, why did we suddenly stop?" According to my sight, we are still about a kilometer away from the high hill in front of us, and if we continue our march, it will be ten minutes at most, and we will be at the foot of the mountain. ”

Regarding this question from the operational staff officer Kim Sung-gi, Li Doo-hyun, as the battalion commander, first calmed him down in a gentle tone and said: "Sung-ki-kun, don't be so anxious, this order to stop advancing was given by me to everyone in the battalion, and I naturally have my reasons for giving this order. ”

After saying this, Li Doo-hyun gently patted the shoulder of Kim Sung-gi who was standing in front of him twice with his hand, and then changed his words and continued: "Sung-ki-kun, what you just said is right, if we continue to hurry, we can indeed reach the foot of the southern slope after ten minutes, but the problem is that all the people in our camp have rushed to the foot of the mountain, and they can only climb it."

"Have you ever thought that if we were to climb the hillside, we were suddenly attacked by a small group of Chinese volunteers who were waiting on the hillside, even if they had less than 200 troops, it would definitely cause chaos among the soldiers in our battalion.

"You know, in our battalion, there are more than 700 strong men who were captured more than a week ago, and many of them are not very good at shooting. If you don't forget, more than a month ago, in the Wenjing and Qingchuan River areas, we took a battalion of mechanized elite troops that were beaten vulnerable, and now we must learn a lesson. ”

Kim Sung-gi, who was more impulsive when he encountered something, was originally on the way here, and he was still thinking about having a good theoretical discussion with the battalion commander Lee Doo-hyun, but when he listened to what Lee Doo-hyun said, he felt that it was very reasonable, and suddenly, he had no power to refute.

Even so, after Kim Sung-gi calmed down, he still asked the battalion commander Li Doo-hyun, who was standing in front of him, with a blank face: "Battalion commander, what you just said is indeed very reasonable, but the question is, what should we do next?"

"You must know that before we came, the commander of the American regiment, Colonel Madeep, sent a message, asking us to launch an attack on the small group of Chinese volunteers on the hillside in front of us at ten o'clock in the morning at the latest.

"It's already half past nine in the morning, and there is only half an hour left before the time set by the commander of the American Army, Colonel Madeep, for us to attack at the latest. Can our headquarters stop in this place and do nothing? If that's the case, then it's disobeying military orders. ”

When Kim Sung-ki, the combat staff officer, suddenly asked, he really stopped Lee Doo-hyun, who was the battalion commander, and he had been thinking of using mortars to bombard the hillside one kilometer away from the south.

But the problem now is that after he took the military binoculars and made a visual observation, the hillside was about a kilometer south of them, nearly 200 meters higher than where they were, and it was really difficult to bombard them with mortars.

After discovering this situation, Lee Doo-hyun took the military telescope in his hand and observed the east and west directions, and he was very frustrated that the east and west directions were also hills less than 50 meters above the ground, and mortars could not be used at all.

Just when Lee Doo-hyun was worried, Lee Jae-seok, the reconnaissance company commander of the South Korean army's battalion, rushed over and reported to the battalion commander Lee Doo-hyun that a large package had been found one kilometer east of them just now.

Moreover, this package was used by the U.S. military during the airdrop, and when they opened the large package on the ground with the South Korean soldiers of the reconnaissance company, they found that it contained fifty bottles of whiskey intact, and there was nothing else.

In order to verify the accuracy of this information, Li Doo-hyun did not dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly brought Kim Sung-ki, an operational staff officer, and asked the reconnaissance company commander Lee Jae-ki to lead the way in front of the stone and go to the scene to check it out with his own eyes.

When Lee Doo-hyun arrived at the scene of the incident, he personally checked the package that had been opened just now by the US military, and there were only fifty bottles of whiskey in it, and nothing else was found, which made him look confused.

However, Lee Doo-hyun was very curious about why there was a U.S. military airdrop package suddenly appeared in this remote place, and it contained whiskey that U.S. soldiers often drank but they only coveted, which made him puzzled.

In fact, what he didn't know was that this package airdropped by the US military and the fifty bottles of whiskey contained in it were specially placed in this place by Sun Lei, the commander of the third platoon of the Sharp Knife Company, after obtaining the consent of the company commander Zhao Yifa and instructor Wang Wenju, he led people to put it in this place, in order to attract them to look for it, and then drank the fifty bottles of whiskey.