Chapter 68: Clearing the Barricades

“My god! The four main tanks of our army were destroyed, and there must be Chinese troops around here. Should not stay here, get all of us, the force to accelerate progress!”

When Thomas, the commander of the US military major, led the US-South Korean coalition army, which had fled eastward along the highway, to a place dozens of meters west of the barricade area set up by the third company of the Volunteer Army, he found that the four tanks that had opened the road at the front were blown up, and the soldiers driving the tanks were all shot and killed.

The English remarks of this battalion commander named Thomas were: Oh my God! Four of our U.S. main station tanks were destroyed, and there must be Chinese troops nearby. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and the order will go down, and everyone in our army will speed forward!

Now the sky is already bright, and the situation dozens of meters away in front of you can naturally be seen very clearly, but if it is in the dark night, in the absence of lights, let alone fifty meters, even more than ten meters away, it may not be able to see clearly.

The U.S. military herald gave Thomas a standard military salute with his right hand, replied loudly "yes, sir," and quickly passed Thomas's order through the walkie-talkie he was holding in his left hand.

The South Korean soldiers, who were in the vanguard, were naturally the first to bear the brunt, driving at the forefront of the US-South Korean coalition force in five military trucks, and the South Korean soldiers sitting in the truck compartment were crowded, and even one military truck had a game of arhats in the compartment.

Of course, this is not because the South Korean soldiers are bored playing the game of stacking arhats, but because the carriages of military trucks really can't fit so many people, so they have no choice but to use this way of "stacking arhats" to stay in the shoulder-to-shoulder compartments.

Relatively speaking, the U.S. soldiers in the middle of this US-South Korean coalition are treated much better than the South Korean soldiers in front, and they also sit in the military watch truck compartment, and everyone is lying flat in the compartment is also a lot of wealthy space.

What's more, there are several layers of quilts in the military truck compartment where the US soldiers are located, and it is not a task to lie on them and sleep comfortably, but those South Korean soldiers are shivering from the cold one by one, and it is not without benefit to huddle together, at least they can keep each other warm.

In addition to the soldiers of South Korea who were in the vanguard, the soldiers who were also in charge of the war were also South Korean soldiers, and they were treated the same as the South Korean soldiers who were the vanguard.

The reason why Thomas, the battalion commander of the US military major, who has the command in wartime, made a differential treatment arrangement was naturally to prevent the US soldiers of this battalion under his leadership from minimizing the casualties suffered by the US soldiers in the case of a strong enemy in front and pursuers in the rear.

As for the life or death of the South Korean soldiers who retreated with them, it was not what he needed to consider, this was the most real thought of this US military major battalion commander named Thomas, and the South Korean soldiers whose combat effectiveness was already weak naturally had no room for bargaining in front of the American GIs, and they had no choice but to give in.

When the U.S. military herald passed the order to move fast through a walkie-talkie, the ROK soldiers in the vanguard who received the order drove quickly towards the front of the highway in five military trucks.

Because the four bombed-out tanks were originally driving along the side of the road in a zigzag shape, and the width of this road is about nearly 30 meters, and the north and south sides are dozens of meters high slopes.

The body of this tank occupies nearly half the width of the road, so the five military trucks that the South Korean soldiers in the vanguard are riding in are also lined up in a "one" shape on the other side of the road, which can be said to be passing by the four tanks scrapped next to them.

With a "stab", the South Korean soldier driving the military truck at the front hurriedly applied a sharp brake less than five meters from the barricade area.

Unfortunately, because the four military trucks behind them did not know what the road conditions were in front of them and kept a distance of less than two meters, even if the South Korean soldiers driving the military trucks reacted enough to step on the brakes in time, the front and rear of the vehicles still collided together, and there were four "clang" crashing sounds.

The South Korean soldiers driving the military truck at the front first reported to their commander via walkie-talkie, who in turn reported to Thomas, the commander of the U.S. Army, that there was a roadblock more than 200 meters on the road ahead.

After listening to the report, the battalion commander of the stubborn US military major, who was not familiar with the specific situation of the roadblocks in front of the highway, immediately ordered the South Korean soldiers, who were the vanguard, to get out of the military truck bed and quickly clear them.

Soon, the order to clear the barricades reached the South Korean soldiers on the five military trucks that collided with each other, and although they all had feelings of resistance in their hearts, if the military order could be disobeyed, they had to jump out of the barricades with their bare hands to clear the roadblocks in front of them.

The South Korean soldiers who jumped out of the bed of the first military truck stepped into the barricade area without their knowledge, and only a few steps forward were there several violent explosions.

That is, after two eyelids, the South Korean soldiers who entered the barricade area were killed on the spot by the mines buried in the snow covered by the road, and they were blown up one by one with blurred flesh and blood, and their bodies were also mutilated, and they fell in a pool of blood.

The South Korean soldiers who were following behind suddenly saw their comrades-in-arms who were still alive just now, and when they were caught off guard, they were blown up in front of them.

Among these South Korean soldiers, there were many timid people who were scared to pee their pants and have frightened expressions on their cheeks after seeing the scene of the explosion, and it was difficult to disperse for a long time.

When Park Jung-tae, a South Korean captain company commander in charge of temporarily commanding the vanguard, discovered the situation, he quickly hid to the side, and reported to Major Thomas, the commander of the US army, through the walkie-talkie he was holding in his hand in a trembling voice.