Chapter 3: Crazy Heaven and Blood

"I'm a fucking genius, a real super-genius!"

Master Smith did not hesitate to praise himself, and he did qualify for it.

It was in the early morning of the 28th that Commander Smith's hunch became a reality. Division Commander Smith found out that he was really a super genius, he should be a soldier all his life, and he should receive this salary! All his hunches were proven, he repeatedly defied Commander Almond, he ordered the 1st Marine Division to slow down the march, he even went against the wind to commit crimes in a small town like the lower corner, he wasted time and taxpayers' money to build a military airfield, and even transferred the division headquarters there, it was really fucking right, it was a great job!

If it weren't for the caution of Division Commander Smith, if it weren't for his order to maintain the necessary communication contacts with the troops scattered all over the place, if it weren't for his order to prepare for sniping, to advance only a small distance every day, and to determine the location of the troops in advance, his 1st Marine Division would really be eaten by the [***] team!

But even so, the 1st Marine Division was still in great danger.

"Report, report, report Division!"

Everywhere there were reports from regimental commanders, who were eager to connect their vocal cords through the telephone line, directly to the eardrums of the division commander, and they shouted: "We are under attack, we are attacked by a large number of [***] teams!" ”

Without saying much about these regiment commanders, Division Commander Smith could also understand the situation faced by these regiment commanders, and through the phone, he could clearly hear the dense gunfire that rose and fell, heard the ** dense artillery bombardment, and heard the unique sound of the copper horn of the [***] team on the battlefield. A regimental commander closest to the front-line position, when reporting to Division Commander Smith, Division Commander Smith even heard the crazy roar of the [***] man as he charged.

Listening to the roar of those [***] people charging, the calm smile on Commander Smith's face finally disappeared. Through the telephone line, he could clearly smell the heavy murderous aura emanating from those Chinese soldiers, and now attacking his troops was not one or several troops at all, but a group of extremely hungry and cold, and they had to eat their flesh and drink their blood, otherwise they would starve to death and freeze to death, that is, a group of crazy machines that had seen blood, had completely red eyes, and only had their hearts left to attack, attack and attack!

"Don't panic," Commander Smith roared, "report to me immediately how many enemies are attacking you!" ”

"I can't tell, there are enemies everywhere, everywhere, horns, everywhere there is the squadron [***] charging us...... O my God! ”

More than a dozen flares were shot into the air, and with the miserable white light of the flares pulling out of the air, the eyes of one of the regimental commanders who were reporting to Division Commander Smith about the situation of the battle widened.

It was in the frenzied shouts and the sound of brass horns that the Chinese [***] people launched the most stormy attack on the defensive positions of the 1st Landing Division, and he couldn't see how many [***] people there were at all, because as far as the eye could see, there were people everywhere, and there were waves of attack echelons of black crows everywhere.

Those recruits in the 1st Marine Division who have not experienced World War II really don't understand, they are obviously charging forward with light and heavy machine gun fire and mortar bombardment, and they will die the fastest when they rush to the front, why can the [***] people still rush so vigorously and so crazy, as if what they are facing is not a position at all, but a paradise full of banknotes and beauties!

The heavy pressure peculiar to the charging of thousands of armies, the sound of the charging horn one after another, the crazy roar with a cold trill, and the rustling sound of the thin rubber shoes of the Chinese [***] people stepping on the snow, mixed together to form the craziest and heavier war drums on the battlefield.

The officers and men of the 1st Marine Division, who really fought with the Chinese [***] team for the first time, finally understood what the fighting style of the Chinese [***] people was. The squadron lacks the firepower to suppress the firepower and the attack of heavy caliber artillery, but they are not afraid of death, when tens of thousands of people charge together, that momentum, the power of tens of thousands of legs to rise again and again, even the earth seems to be forced to shake with their rhythm.

The officers and men of the 1st Marine Division once heard that the soldiers of this army all believe in bushido, will never surrender on the battlefield, and will commit suicide in the face of defeat to thank the emperor, when they hear this from the mouths of veterans, they have always only regarded these hearings as a pastime after tea and dinner, but today, looking at the middle [***] people who are charging with light and heavy machine guns and stepping on the corpses of their companions, they finally understand what it means to be a soldier who is more bushido than bushido! They finally knew that in this world, there really is an army that is not afraid of death!

In the dark, the accuracy of the machine-gun strafing was seriously affected, and at the same time, it was caught off guard by a sudden attack, and because the weather was too cold, a considerable part of the weapons did not play their due effect, and after more than ten minutes, the squadron [***] team successfully broke through the first line of defense of the 1st Marine Division.

When the two sides finally started a close battle, the overwhelming grenades smashed down on the officers and men of the 1st Marine Division hiding in the trenches. Looking at the smoke of the grenades all over the ground, those veterans and grassroots officers who had experienced World War II suddenly let out a hysterical howl: "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and kick all the grenades around you!" ”

The officers and men of the 1st Marine Division were like tap-dancing, and they desperately kicked the grenades that landed beside them, but more grenades were thrown at them. The officers and men of the 1st Marine Division soon discovered that the grenades thrown by the Chinese [***] people may have been due to the fact that the casting of the shells was not up to the mark, and there were not many shrapnel pieces produced after the explosion, and after some grenades exploded, the shells even only split into two pieces, and as long as the grenades did not fall right under their feet, the lethality was really limited.

Even they don't know how many grenades they kicked off, how many grenades exploded around them, and how many pieces of shrapnel embedded in their bodies, when the stormy grenade offensive finally came to an end, and everyone was terrified, those veterans and grassroots officers who had experienced World War II and fought bloody battles with the army on various islands in the Pacific Ocean all cried out in their hearts "God bless"!

Because they all know that the hand-to-hand combat that they have the most headache and the least want to see is about to begin! And almost at the same time, the heavy snow predicted by the intelligence gate finally came. Whether it is the Chinese [***] people or those veterans of the First Marine Division who participated in World War II, they all clearly understand that in the worst battlefield where the temperature has dropped to minus 30 degrees, even if they are only slightly injured, if they cannot be treated in time, they will be frozen to death because of blood loss in their bodies!

And the Chinese [***] people have also seen the officers and men of the 1st Marine Division, under the leadership of those veterans and grassroots commanders who participated in World War II, with their superior weapons, form the most terrible defensive fortress.

In the rush to respond to the battle, the officers and men of the 1st Marine Division used tanks as steel walls to form a ring of fortifications, and combined with their heavy machine guns, artillery, carbines, and M1 rifles, they formed a fire support point. That kind of powerful firepower, that kind of effective means of defense, all made the Chinese people pay a terrible price.

This is destined to be a crazy bloody battle with no way out!

……

After a night of fierce fighting, the first rays of sunshine in the early morning of 28 August gradually stopped, and Division Commander Smith, who was standing by the telephone with red eyes, was finally able to take a reconnaissance plane and helicopter to condescend from a high altitude and personally observe the current situation of the 1st Marine Division with his own eyes.

Looking at the ground below the reconnaissance plane, which had become as small as the deduction sand table in the command room, and looking at the defensive position of the 1st Marine Division, Division Commander Smith couldn't help but gasp.

At least one division of Chinese troops, through interspersed operations, has successfully occupied Fushengli and Xiaomintai, cutting off the return route of the 1st Marine Division's southward retreat; The 58th Division of the 25th Chinese Army has formed a three-sided attack on the 1st Marine Division; In Dead Eagle Ridge and Xinxingli, there was about a division of the squadron [***] that carried out a perfect chiseling attack on the 1st Marine Division, cutting the troops of the 1st Marine Division, which was already too scattered, into two parts that could not be taken into account.

In Liutanli, the vanguard of the 1st Marine Division had been fighting there with the [***] squadron all night, and the troops on both sides were still in a state of stalemate. If Division Commander Smith's judgment is not wrong, it should be the 59th Chinese Division that attacked the vanguard of the 1st Marine Division!

The 1st Marine Division was now really isolated on all sides, and at least three divisions had surrounded them. And even if the 1st Marine Division could break through the encirclement of these three Chinese divisions with their powerful firepower superiority, as long as they looked at the long area behind them that had been occupied by Chinese troops, Division Commander Smith understood that on their way home, the Chinese [***] people had set up layers of death ladders.

When he stepped off the reconnaissance plane, Division Commander Smith once again received an order from Commander Almond, and glanced at the documents sent to him by the Chief of Staff, Smith didn't say anything more, he really had nothing to say. It was because General MacArthur had not changed the battle plan according to the current situation on the battlefield, so General Almond still gave the order ...... "Marines, keep the original order, and attack forward!" ”

No one can say that General Almond's orders are wrong, and sometimes, the soldiers have to rush into the battlefield knowing that there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, and that once they step into it, they will never turn back.

Division Commander Smith glanced at the Chief of Staff, who also understood the situation of the 1st Marine Division, with a bitter smile on his face. Carefully folding this document and putting it in the pocket of his jacket, Division Commander Smith looked up at the haze above his head, and occasionally sprinkled a few snowflakes in the sky, feeling the silence and solemnity between the sky and the earth, and said softly: "It seems that we must fight for our own survival!" ”

"Let's go."

Seeing that Division Commander Smith actually climbed onto the reconnaissance plane again, the chief of staff subconsciously asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Master Smith slowly exhaled a long breath from his lungs, watching them form a white vapor visible to the naked eye in the cold air. This division commander, who was gentle and elegant because of his gentle appearance and maintained a gentlemanly demeanor, this man who had always been regarded by his superior, General Almond, as lacking the strength of a soldier, suddenly raised a trace of gold and gravel in his eyes. Division Commander Smith said in a deep voice: "If the squadron wants to eat our 1st Marine Division, it must capture Jieyuli, which is a strategic place that determines whether our 1st Marine Division can survive, and the temporary airport under construction is the last lifeline of the 1st Marine Division. ”

Division Commander Smith and Chief of Staff rushed to Jieyuli and established their division headquarters in such a small town. Their arrival has undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm into this small town with weak defenses.

After gathering all the officers, looking at these subordinates who were besieged and had a frightened look on their faces, Division Commander Smith tore the stupid order document issued by General Almond into shreds in front of everyone.

"We were surrounded, and I expected that around us, at least ten times as large as the [***] team, surrounded us. And our superiors are still ordering us to attack forward! At this time, we have no reinforcements to rely on, and if we want to survive, we must use our strength to break out of the encirclement! ”

Smith looked around the audience, his voice was not loud, but it carried a terrifying power: "I have fought two world wars, and I have fought against Germany, which has the highest degree of mechanization and likes to gather superior forces, and use high-mobility armored fighting vehicles, tanks, and artillery for blitzkrieg; I have repeatedly clashed with soldiers on various islands in the Pacific Ocean with the so-called individual shooting skills A, personal willpower A, and tactics B. I thought I had seen the best and most powerful army in the world, and I was even more proud to be an American soldier, but now I must admit that in the damned land of Korea, I have met another powerful and respectable army! They have the same bravery as the soldiers, but their tactics are more flexible, more weird, and of course, more difficult to deal with! ”

The audience was silent, and everyone was quietly listening to Master Smith's speech.

"But I want you to think about how we in the United States drove out the British colonizers two hundred years ago and built a free and powerful country! I would like to ask you to think about what we in the United States when we resisted the world's number one military power, and what kind of determination our most respected President Washington had at that time to sign the Reading Power Declaration that made us the United States rich and powerful! ”

Commander Smith raised his voice and shouted, "I'll tell you why we won!" That's because in the blood of us Americans, there is the greatest adventurous spirit that overcomes everything, and in the hearts of each of us, there is the fanaticism and explosiveness of those western cowboys! ”

"It was with this fanaticism and explosiveness that we defeated the British colonists, and it was with this fanaticism and our strong national strength that we turned the balance of victory in the Pacific Ocean little by little, and through the bloody battle of Midway, we fatally inflicted heavy losses on the navy and won the final victory! I don't want to tell you who we should fight for in this damn war, I just want to tell each and every one of you that in order to get back alive, for the sake of our loved ones and families, I want you to show the adventurous spirit of the western cowboy in your blood, and I want you and me to come back to America alive instead of throwing your own bodies on this damn plain full of ice! ”

Commander Smith slashed his arm down, and he shouted loudly, "Children, gentlemen, show all your courage, we should fight hard!" ”

At this time, everyone's breathing is heavy! At this time, everyone's eyes lit up! An unyielding aura rose from everyone's body, and slowly with Smith as the core, it gathered into an absolutely flamboyant breath that no matter what desperate situation it faced, it was necessary to break the situation with force!

Division Commander Smith is right, if it is said that the army dominates the world by relying on the bushido spirit they deliberately instilled, and using the team atmosphere to force everyone to abide by the concept of "if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent", then the reason why the United States has been able to rise rapidly in less than two hundred years depends on the fact that their entire nation is full of adventure and can burst out with the most terrifying sprint when faced with a desperate situation!

It was on this day that the troops of the 1st Marine Division, which had weak defensive strength in Jieyuli, suddenly burst out with the most terrifying combat effectiveness. They have been cornered, and they can't help but break out!

The airstrip ordered by Division Commander Smith was only a quarter of the runway completed, and the Marines in charge of the construction, while driving bulldozers and rollers to repair the runway 24 hours a day, were in the cockpit with M1s or carbines, desperately sniping through the defensive line and attacking them.

The commanders of the 1st Marine Division, who were divided into various corners of the battlefield by the squadron, also went crazy, and under the close protection of fighters and bombers, and with the support of absolutely superior firepower, they led their troops and even more desperately moved closer to Jieyuli. The few regiment commanders who were able to command the troops with the approval of Division Commander Smith were all veterans who participated in World War II, and none of these regimental commanders with rich combat experience were fools like General Almond, and they all understood that the division commander was in the corner, and if the corner was lost, and the 1st Marine Division lost the soul of Commander Smith, who could command the whole army, they could only fight separately and become a plate of scattered sand.

With the regiment as a unit alone, it is absolutely impossible for them to break through the layers of sniping of the [***] team and fight a way to survive back to the southern base!

……

Ten days later, when the first US heavy transport plane finally landed in Jieyuli, this Smith division commander gambled everything on the soldiers, and finally built an airstrip that defied military orders and became the last vital artery for the 1st Marine Division to communicate with the outside world.

Needless to tell what kind of battles the few regiment commanders who finally gathered around the division commander in the past ten days, we only need to know that more than 10,000 troops were assembled in Jieyu and transported more than 5,000 wounded only by military transport planes, which is really enough!

Looking at the remaining more than 5,000 officers and men of the 1st Marine Division in front of him, Division Commander Smith looked to the south from afar, at this time, the middle [***] team had two corps, more than 80,000 troops, copied from two loaves of bread, and on their way to the southern base camp, there were six divisions of the middle [***] team, which were fortified layer by layer to block their way home. The [***] team has obviously made up its mind, and in order to eat their well-trained and well-equipped troops, they have actually invested a large corps of more than 100,000 people!

Division Commander Smith was silent for a long time before pointing to the south and giving his order: "1st Marine Division, to the south...... Offensive!!! ”

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