Just as the 1st Marine Division was about to withdraw from Jieyuli, Division Commander Smith suddenly heard a fierce gunfire on the battlefield on the right flank, mixed with the dull sound of repeated bombardment by various caliber artillery. At this time, in order to withstand the repeated attacks of the middle [***] team, Division Commander Smith, who was already exhausted, suddenly remembered that in order to hold such a strategic place as Jieyuli, he sent a company a few days ago to hold a mountain peak on the right flank.

This is a position that must not be lost, and once this mountain peak is lost, the Chinese artillery can condescend from a high position to look over the entire corner of the hill and shoot shells into their arsenals. If it weren't for this company, which desperately resisted the wave after wave of stormy attacks of the [***] team, Jieyuli would have turned into a sea of fire under the artillery attack of the [***] team.

Beside him are 5,000 officers and men of the 1st Marine Division, who are ready to break through the blockade of the 1st Marine Division, which is ten times the size of their own [***] team, and on the battlefield on the right flank, there is a company that has been fighting bloody for several days and nights, and it is likely to have been broken up and scattered, and God knows how many people can survive. Put these two weights in front of any person, and you can quickly measure the difference in weight. In learning the Chinese Art of War, Commander Smith even memorized the idiom "a strong man breaks his wrist".

In his heart, recalling the meaning of the "strong man with broken wrist" that the instructor told them at West Point, this division commander who was considered by General Almond to "lack the strength of a soldier", suddenly flashed a trace of gold and gravel in his eyes. He turned his head and stared at the unity of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, which was standing in front of him, and ordered: "I'll give you two battalions and three hours to get that company back for me!" ”

Commander Lewis did not speak, he was in the Second World War, under the baptism of war again and again, and he has come to this day, and he is absolutely not afraid of any battle. But...... Mobilizing two battalions of troops, forced by assault while surrounded on all sides, can cost far more than a company. And any experienced commander understands that on a rapidly changing battlefield, a minute can make or break a troop, a corps, or even a battle, not to mention a full three hours of delay?!

"The 1st Marine Division is not my Smith's alone, but all of us." Division Commander Smith looked around the audience, and at this moment, his words were really loud, "I can't guarantee that I can take you all home, this is the battlefield, and as soldiers, we should have been prepared to face death." However, I don't think it is a reason to abandon anyone, to abandon the lives of the few for the sake of the lives of the many, and to abandon the interests of the few for the sake of the interests of the majority, in my eyes, this is also selfish! ”

Focusing on the interests of the whole, in the event of a conflict, the Chinese troops that require the individual to obey the collective, so as to obtain overall cohesion.

Pay attention to personal rights and interests, allow to show off your surname, have a western cowboy brave and romantic style, with a strong adventurous spirit, once cornered, will burst out of the most powerful combat effectiveness of the United States [***] team.

These are two different worlds, Asia and Europe, because of the influence of hundreds or even thousands of years of cultural traditions, and they have formed different concepts and implementation principles. This kind of concept and norm may not have an explicit legal provision, but it has become a kind of moral standard that restricts people's normal behavior, and both of these moral standards have their own correct starting point and their own theoretical basis.

As for who is more correct...... This is not a soldier on the battlefield, you need to distinguish it!

Commander Lewis still didn't speak, he just straightened his body, and in the face of Commander Smith, a commander who was fifty-seven years old but was still active on the front line of the battlefield, he seriously saluted his own military salute.

As Commander Lewis strode away, several of the officers closest to him clearly saw that in Commander Lewis's eyes, there was something crystal that was constantly beating gently.

"I'm the 1st Marine Division, Colonel Lewis of the 1st Regiment." Commander Lewis, who had received the maximum command authorization from Division Commander Smith, dialed the telephone number of the aircraft carrier group command, he inhaled lightly with his nose, looked at the combat map tiled in front of him by an operational staff officer, and said word by word: "I ask for support, I ask you to send bombers and fighters that you can send, and use the most dense and uninterrupted covering firepower to carry out continuous bombing for three hours, and completely cut off all the roads that the [***] team may attack us!" ”

In just three hours, from the aircraft carriers "Barry", "Philippines", "Sicily", "Barry", and "Wright", I don't know how many sorties of fighters and bombers rose one after another; In the space of three hours, the fighters, reconnaissance planes, and bombers of the US Fifth Air Force were even more overwhelming.

God knows exactly how many tons of ammunition these fighters and bombers dumped on the Gaima Plain, as all the commanders and fighters of the Chinese Volunteers understand, the day is a paradise for the US Air Force! They used tens of thousands of tons of ammunition to create life isolation belts on the Gaima Plain to cover Commander Lewis and successfully recapture the company that had been disabled stationed on the high ground.

The commanders and fighters of the Chinese Volunteers also knew that at night, the US Air Force would no longer be able to give full play to their firepower advantage because of the sight problem, and at that time, it would be time for them to attack the 1st Marine Division with all their strength and completely annihilate this well-equipped and well-trained US unit.

Of course, Division Commander Smith also understood what the commander of the [***] squadron was thinking, and Commander Smith had to admit that they really could not compare with the squadron [***] in terms of night combat and close combat.

"Don't care about the damn night, and don't talk to me about how difficult air support is by that time, if you can't support the 1st Marine Division at night, none of us will go back alive! For the 5,000 children of our 1st Marine Division to return to their homes alive, and for the 5,000 families that have not yet been broken, please! ”

Battles, the most tragic battles, battles for life and death, are undoubtedly a litmus test for a soldier. Smith, a man who was recognized by General Almond as "lacking the strength of a soldier", at this time, burst out with the brilliant light of a hero.

Whether it was moved by Division Commander Smith's request, or whether it was respecting Division Commander Smith, the US Air Force was really crazy on this night.

All the carrier-based fighters on the eight aircraft carriers, all the fighters and bombers of the Fifth Air Force that could be dispatched and could provide fire support, poured out.

It was on this night that the U.S. Air Force broke with their practice of never providing fire support to opposing forces at night. They threw tens of thousands of flares into the air, and one by one the flares pulled out a miserable white light in the air, fiercely piercing the dark sky, and at the highest price, the entire sky and the earth were illuminated into a piece of day!

It was in such a space and earth that the squadron that launched an attack on the 1st Landing Division was completely exposed to the eyes of the US Air Force pilots. It was under the repeated attacks of fighters and bombers that these [***] people, against the strafing of the artillery, heavy machine guns and carbines of the 1st Landing Division, were like the angry tide of the Yangtze River, surging from all directions. Watching them fall one by one in the dense rain of bullets and shrapnel flying everywhere, but the soldiers behind them, stepping on the blood all over the ground, continued to charge them in the loud charge, every officer and soldier of the 1st Marine Division clearly understood in their hearts that in the face of such a respectable enemy, if they did not have too strong air support, they could not imagine that one of them would be able to break through the encirclement alive!

It was with such air fire support that the 1st Marine Division still felt as if it was caught in a whirlpool from which it could not extricate itself. When they finally retreated from Jieyuli to the first target, they traveled eighteen kilometers and walked for thirty-eight hours, with an average of 500 meters per hour! And there is a longer and more difficult road ahead of them!

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon of 11 December 1950, the 1st Marine Division of the United States, under the cover of the Air Force's almost overwhelming outpouring of its nest, finally broke free from the siege of the [***] squadron on all sides through Zhenxingli.

By this time, the 1st Marine Division had suffered more than 4,000 casualties, and due to frostbite and other reasons, more than 7,000 non-combat personnel had been lost. The establishment of the entire army has been basically eliminated.

Division Commander Smith looked back at the road they had paved with blood and burning steel, and he let out a soft sigh in his heart: "Zhong[***] people, if you are given the same advanced weapons, so that you can learn scientific command and systematic logistics supply, you can really become ...... The strongest in the world! ”

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