"Comrades, rush!"

It was found that a large number of South Korean soldiers gathered on the banks of the Qingchuan River a few hundred meters ahead, rushed to jump into the icy water of the Qingchuan River, pursued the battalion commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army who rushed to the battalion, and gave orders to the soldiers of the entire battalion.

After hearing the order issued by the battalion commander, the volunteer soldiers who had been sharpening their knives for a long time immediately stepped on the thick snow and rushed forward with cold guns.

When the volunteer soldiers of this battalion arrived at the Qingchuan River, none of the South Korean soldiers who had gathered on the riverside were gone.

However, to the great joy of the volunteer soldiers, they seized a large number of weapons and equipment discarded by the South Korean soldiers who were eager to jump over the river to escape, especially the box guns often used by the South Korean soldiers.

In addition, the volunteer soldiers also captured more than 500 South Korean soldiers who jumped into the icy river water and could not swim and desperately shouted for help.

Among the more than 500 people captured, there were not only Korean soldiers, but also more than a dozen American company soldiers, especially Captain Thomson, who was seriously wounded and dying and abandoned on the bank of the Cheongchon River.

Later, because Captain Thomson, who was unconscious with a bullet in the chest, was sent to the Volunteer Army Field Hospital in Wenjing in time, and the doctors of the Volunteer Army performed surgery for him out of humanitarian assistance, took out the bullet in his chest, and luckily saved his life.

Captain Thomson, the commander of the U.S. company who flaunted his might and command in front of the ROK soldiers, was later imprisoned in the rear prisoner of war camp of the Korean People's Army after recovering from his health.

Of the South Korean soldiers who were not captured, more than 1,000 were frozen to death in the fast-flowing and icy Cheongcheon River under the ice floe.

There were only about 500 South Korean soldiers left who survived with Lee Doo-hyun to the other side of the Cheongchon River, and the American army company with a company formation, not only was the company leader Captain Thomson captured, but there were less than 100 people left.

After successfully completing the interception mission, the Third Company of the Chinese People's Volunteers, which occupied the favorable terrain of the high ground five kilometers south of Wenjing, buried on the spot the bodies of Li Dequan, a platoon and a squad of soldiers of the Third Company, who had previously frozen to death, and more than a dozen soldiers who had died here, before going to the Guitoudong area east of Wenjing to carry out the task of setting up roadblocks.

Due to the cold and freezing weather, even if the soldiers of the 3rd Company captured dozens of military shovels discarded by the ROK soldiers, the soil covered by the heavy snow was frozen, and they only dug half a meter deep after digging down for about half an hour.

Due to the tight time and heavy tasks, the Third Company of the Volunteer Army had to set off to rush to the **dong area dozens of kilometers away, so they did not continue to dig down, and piled the bodies of the more than a dozen soldiers who died together and put them in the pit that was only more than half a meter deep.

After burying the pit full of corpses in hard frozen soil, it was covered with a layer of snow, and the names of each of the warriors who died here were written on the side.

With such a simple grave, the bodies of the dead comrades-in-arms were buried, and there was not even a tombstone, and the soldiers of the three companies of the Volunteer Army, from the company commander and instructor, to an ordinary soldier, stood in front of this simple collective grave and took off their hats and saluted, and they were all moved and burst into tears.

In order to facilitate the end of this war, so that they could come to this place to take away the bones of the dozen or so comrades-in-arms buried and transport them back to China for burial, the soldiers of the third company of the Volunteer Army also made special marks before setting off to Guitou Cave.

Originally, I planned to set off after resting in place for half an hour, but because I had to dig a pit to bury the bodies of more than a dozen comrades who died here, and the soldiers were not in a good mood, this back and forth was delayed for another half an hour.

It wasn't until an hour later that only two platoons of more than 60 people remained, and the third company of the Volunteer Army set off for their destination behind enemy lines, the Guitoudong area.

It was dozens of miles away from the southern high ground where the third company of the Volunteer Army was located to the Guitoudong area, and they had to climb over five peaks and mountains, and the road surface had long been covered with thick snow.

It can be seen from this that this is definitely an extremely severe test for the elders of the third company of the Volunteer Army, because the order issued by the regiment headquarters is that they must rush to the place where the barricades are set up before dark.

Otherwise, even if it is an hour at night, it is very likely that the fighter plane will be delayed, and the serious consequences will naturally be unimaginable.

in washing. After marching for an hour, the commander of the third company of the Volunteer Army took out the map and saw that they had only walked less than 20 miles.

The vertical distance is tens of miles, but the distance is at least twice as long as the several peaks that you climb over on the way.

In addition, it is now more than six o'clock in the morning, the sky is gradually clearing, and the eastern horizon is also white, with the faint burgundy morning glow, and the rising sun is also rising above the horizon.

For volunteers who do not have air supremacy, it is very dangerous to march in the daytime if they are in an open area without anything else to cover them.

At that time, the air supremacy of the entire Korean Peninsula was in the hands of the US military, and they generally did not use planes at night, but once it was daylight, they would immediately dispatch all kinds of fighter planes to reconnoiter the enemy's situation on land and use them to bomb the enemy's ground forces.

Therefore, in the more than half a month or so since the Volunteers entered the Korean War, most of the time they chose to march at night and hide in dug air-raid shelters or dense woods during the day to avoid US fighters.

Zhao Yifa, the commander of the third company, who was dismissive of the task of setting up roadblocks at first, finally felt that this task was quite arduous at this time.

"Lao Wang, tell me about it, the day is about to dawn, it seems that it is still a sunny day today, if we don't hurry up and think of a way, if we march over the mountains and mountains like this, we will be discovered by the US fighters in the sky in a few hours."

Zhao Yifa, the company commander who was at the forefront of the third company of the Volunteer Army, turned his head with a sad face, looked at Wang Wenju, the instructor who was walking thoughtfully, and said worriedly.

Wang Wenju, the instructor who came to his senses, also felt quite a headache about the question asked by Zhao Yifa, the company commander next to him, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"Lao Zhao, it's better to go to a forest not far ahead, and let the comrades take a rest. At the same time, let's also launch a big group of brainstorming, what do you think? ”

After some careful consideration, instructor Wang Wenju asked the company commander Zhao Yifa in a tentative tone.

After listening to what Wang Wenju said, Zhao Yifa nodded, and said weakly: "This is the only situation now, just do what you said." ”