In the Far East, the Allied Far Eastern Joint Command more than 200 kilometers behind the defense line of the Allied Komsomolsk.

General Patton, commander-in-chief of the Allied Far East, was lying on the map table, carefully observing the terrain of the Sino-North Korean border with a magnifying glass in his hand, and when the magnifying glass moved to Sinuiju, he paused deliberately and succeeded in finding the signs of two bridges on the Yalu River.

"The commanders of the two major theaters secretly inspected the Sino-Korean border, the Sinuiju garrison has reached four divisions and has fully assumed the role of an advance base, plus the two bridges have been flattened ferries, do the Chinese really want to solve the Korean problem in one fell swoop?"

Admiral Patton raised his head and looked at Marshal Zhukov, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Theater of Operations next to him, as if asking. Standing on the sidelines, Deputy Commander of the US Far Eastern Theater Avery and Soviet Political Commissar General Cherevchenko, did not speak, but only looked at the map there.

Zhukov nodded with his hand on the two major Sino-DPRK border rivers of the Yalu River and the Tumen River, and said: "According to the distribution of Chinese forces in the two major theaters of war in the northeast and the Far East, coupled with the recent frequent transfer of troops into the northeast, their operational intention of attacking the DPRK to solve this border crisis in one fell swoop is very clear. ”

Patton took his large pipe from his staff officer, lit it, took two puffs, and then asked with a smile, "Marshal Zhukov, isn't such a clear battle intent a conspiracy?" What theater commanders inspected, planes frequently reconnoitred, and troops moved frequently, all of these made the Chinese's combat intentions extremely clear. ”

Zhukov waved his hand, and the two of them deliberately walked into a lounge to isolate the others from the outside. Zhukov said with a smile, "General Patton, is the behavior of the Chinese very much in line with what we are preparing to do in Europe?" Perhaps this was a feint from beginning to end, a disguise under the true combat intentions of the Chinese. This point, my thoughts coincide with you, General. ”

As a famous marshal of the Soviet Union, although Zhukov did not achieve any earth-shattering results against the Chinese in the Far Eastern theater, he did not have the strength to fight back against Yue himself, and if he had not been strategizing in the Far East, the Far East of the Soviets would have changed his surname to Zhong or Yue long ago.

Patton smoked his pipe with his head in a sullen voice, and said half-loudly, "At the last Montana meeting, General Eisenhower put forward a proposal to open a second battlefield, which was unanimously agreed by the senior Allied generals present at the meeting. According to the preliminary plan that you and I know, the actions of the Chinese do coincide with our feint plan.

However, Marshal Zhukov, we must note that we are trying to carry out a substantial attack on the Nazi regiments by opening a second battlefield, and it is very likely that the Chinese will also occupy Korea to attack the Nazi army.

You should note that the closest place between Korea and Yoben is only a narrow strait of more than 100 kilometers, and in addition to Korea, the Chinese also occupy the entire Far Eastern coastal area, and once Yoben falls, the Allied Far East theater will be wiped out. ”

Zhukov nodded, this may be surnamed he didn't expect that the situation in this large area of China and North Korea and the Soviet Union can be seen clearly by anyone with some military and political minds, but precisely because it is simple, there is no superfluous choice between China and China, either offensive or defensive, the place is so big, it is not the Soviet Union, and there is no place to retreat.

"Although there is no final indication that the Chinese will attack Korea, I believe it is necessary to strengthen support for the Yamaben homeland, and if the situation continues to deteriorate, I will apply to the Allied High Command in my capacity as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Far East, raising support to Hiroben to the same level as Britain and the Soviet Union, and focusing on air force and defensive capabilities."

Admiral Patton let out a long breath and exhaled a smoke ring, a little sullen.

"General Patton, the commander who opened up the second battlefield this time, Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower recommended you, but the current situation ......"

Zhukov wanted to speak again and again, now the affairs of the Allied forces are basically decided by the Americans, the Soviet Union itself is difficult to protect, the British would have been surrounded by Europe without the help of the Americans, and the Americans used tens of thousands of aircraft, tanks, artillery, and more countless war materials in exchange for the highest voice within the Allied forces.

Although the Soviet Union knew its Nazi opponents in Europe better than the Americans, and although it also had many extremely outstanding generals, it could not serve as the commander of the European theater of operations that was about to open up a second battlefield.

Patton shook Zhukov's hand with a smile and said, "Marshal Zhukov, in less than two years of cooperation, I found that you are a very good theater-level commander. Your military literacy and your ability to command armor and large corps operations are enough to be in the top five of the Allied forces, and maybe even better.

The problems of the Far Eastern Theater of Operations are comprehensive, and the difficulties are very great, and they tie your hands and feet, but it is undeniable that you are a very good theater-level commander.

But the war on the European side was becoming more and more tense, and General Eisenhower had sent me a telegram in the morning, asking me to prepare for my departure as soon as possible. ”

"Thank you, General, for your compliment, but who is your successor?" Zhukov wondered.

"General Bradley, the new five-star general of the United States." Patton waved his hand, smiled, and said, "However, in addition to commanding the American forces in the Far East, he is only serving as the deputy commander of the Allied forces in the Far East Theater, and I strongly recommend to Eisenhower and Mr. President that you be the commander of the theater." ”

"It's... This was a big surprise. Zhukov was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect Patton to recommend himself as the commander of the Allied Far Eastern Theater before he was about to rush to the European theater.

"Good luck, in any case, I trust your judgment on the problems of the Far Eastern battlefield, we have millions of troops in the Far East, and whatever the conspiracy of the Chinese, I believe that with the marshal's ability to deal with it, you will be able to deal with it easily." Of course, Bradley is also a good commander, and I think you'll have a good time working together. ”

Barton waved his hand, ending the temporary but inevitable conversation.

"Long live anti-fascist and anti-Nazi!" Zhukov also responded with a smile.

As a result, while China was intensively preparing for a feint attack on Korea, the Allies had already planned a plan to open up a second battlefield in Europe, and Admiral Patton was transferred to the European theater as commander.

Before leaving, Patton did suggest to the Allied top brass and the American political axe that they should strengthen their armament, and soon, as Bradley took up his post, a fleet of ships loaded with anti-aircraft weapons and warplanes sailed into ports in the sphere of influence of the Allied and Far Allied forces almost simultaneously.

On the Sino-North Korean border, as China was preparing day by day, at the end of May, preparations for a larger-scale feint finally began.

Langsan, a small town less than 50 kilometers from Sinuiju, has long been devoid of Koreans, and the war has made it a military fortress, and the houses here have been reinforced with cement and steel over and over again, and the walls of the houses have been torn down or a hole dug for the use of small and medium-caliber front-line artillery or anti-aircraft guns.

The roofs of the houses were already made of concrete heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft fortifications, which were at the forefront of the confrontation between the Chinese National Defense Forces and the Chinese Army.

Behind it is Sinuiju, a small city that is also gradually militarized, and in front of it is a whole infantry wing.

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 247th Division of the Wehrmacht were stationed here to confront the Japanese army.

Langshan, which is not big, is said to be a town, but in fact it is more like a village, but now it has become a frontier composed of steel and concrete.

As soon as the day dawned, the soldiers who had been on duty for three hours before dawn handed over their posts one after another and went to sleep.

"Ahh

The battalion commander Su Zhishan got out of the bunker, twisted his body and stretched, yawned, and got up as soon as he showed a little white light after inspecting the sentry three times last night.

Recently, he has been very vigilant, and the troops are rumoring that the Wehrmacht is going to attack North Korea.

This is great news, if the Wehrmacht attacks Korea, then Su Zhishan thinks that his 1st battalion will be the first battalion to act, after all, the position is there.

He also attended the regimental headquarters meeting two days ago, and the regiment commander told everyone to be ready for battle at any time, and not to let the devils on the opposite side have any conspiracy and tricks to succeed.

At the end of the day, don't let people touch Sinuiju.

Although there are four elite infantry divisions with relatively advanced equipment and brave combat stationed in the vicinity of Sinuiju, once they are blinded by the two divisions opposite him, Sinuiju may not be lost, but it will definitely become a mess.

"Find something to eat first, maybe you can catch up with the cold gun."

Su Zhishan walked all the way to the temporary field kitchen, in order to let the soldiers eat at any time, especially those soldiers who stayed up late and stood guard on duty not to be hungry, there were people on duty in the kitchen twenty-four hours a day. The soldiers and the battalion commander had been up for about the same time, and people greeted him along the way, and he returned the salute one by one.

The cooks wanted to give him hot porridge, but Su Zhishan stopped him, directly picked up the cold porridge, sandwiched some pickles and sauerkraut, peeled a cold duck egg, and ate it in three or two bites.

Throwing down the rice bowl, Su Zhishan went to the roof of the house that had already been converted into a fortification. The cement is capped, and sandbags are piled up, which is bulletproof and protective.

"Battalion commander, you're here on time, hehe!"

On the roof, the sniper who was smiling silly there with a gun was Cui Yiyuan, the ace sniper of the 1st battalion, the son of a farmer, who had the opportunity to go to college, but he was unwilling to go to school, but came to the army instead.

"You kid, this speed is okay!"

Su Zhishan looked at the 3 X's painted on the sandbag next to Cui Yiyuan, which proved that he didn't know when, this kid had already killed three devils when he got up.

Here, the matter of playing black guns and sniping with each other is staged every day, and Cui Yiyuan's biggest ability is to be able to snipe at night. In addition to the low-light night vision goggles specially issued to him, he relied more on the skills of cats in the dark.

It could be a car light, it could be the light of a security searchlight, it could be a small fire, it could be a cigarette butt, he dared to shoot as long as he could, and the accuracy was very high. In Su Zhishan's words of encouragement, it is a pity that it is just a bullet if it is wrong, but once it is hit, it is the head of a devil. Be bold and big, and strive to play a trump card for the whole army.

"I remember how many snipers you kid sniped in total? 60 or 70? Su Zhishan took a sniper rifle from the guard behind him, and he was also funny, the two changed the shooting port and talked quietly.

"73 people, one step away from the ace snipers of the whole army." Cui Yiyuan smiled happily, except when sniping enemies, he always looked optimist.

"You guy, you can't see it, haha, I'm waiting for you to get back the certificate of the army's sniper ace."

After Su Zhishan finished speaking, he didn't say much, and carefully searched for the movements of the opposing army from a periscope dedicated to snipers.

After a long confrontation, the army also learned to be obedient, for example, in the earliest days, the devil who used the searchlight at night was standing behind the searchlight, which was almost a dozen and a piece, and later he learned to be much smarter. Night and day are cautious.

After searching for more than ten minutes, the two did not find any more targets.

This specially designed medium sniper rifle, the 43-year-old SJ-1 sniper rifle, is distinguished from the ZJ-1 sniper rifle, a heavy sniper rifle equipped today. The SJ-1 medium sniper rifle is more suitable for this kind of positional confrontation, flexible and easy to use, and the sniper bullets it is equipped with are no longer a certain type of heavy machine gun bullets, but specially designed multi-purpose sniper bullets, including armor-piercing bullets, incendiary bombs, anti-personnel bullets, etc.

"Battalion commander, look, there's a devil's sharpshooter behind that eaves at 3 o'clock."

Su Zhishan is also a sniper, experienced, after finding the opponent's position through the camouflaged periscope, he carefully put the SJ-1 sniper rifle up and set it up, and slowly stretched it out to the firing position.

"Armor-piercing shells should be used." Su Zhishan prepared an armor-piercing bullet, then took a deep breath, aimed at that position, and fired with one shot.

"Bang!"

After the crisp gunshots rang out, Su Zhishan didn't look at the results of the battle at all, and hid directly in the fortifications, but on the other side, Cui Yiyuan shouted, "It's hit, the devil has been shot." ”

The sniper bullet just now pierced directly through the eaves and killed a devil sharpshooter hiding behind.

The two were about to find another target, but someone was shouting below.

"Battalion commander, the phone number of the regimental headquarters."

Soon, Su Zhishan got off the roof, took the phone, and asked, "Commander, I'm Su Zhishan!" Are you going to fight devils? ”

"Su Zhishan, I'm Wang Xinghe. I order your troops to immediately open fire on the opposing position, with a fire intensity of level 3 and a duration of 5 minutes! Remember, this is just a feint, not a real attack. ”

There was news on the other end of the phone that made Su Zhishan happy, feint and attack, scare the devil every day, maybe you don't have to fight the other party. In the past, due to various reasons, the confrontation was not really fighting, it was just playing with each other.

Su Zhishan immediately ordered: "Pass the order, after 10 minutes, the whole battalion will fire on the position of the army, the fire intensity is level 3, the duration is 5 minutes, remember that this is a feint, not a real attack." ”

"Yes!"

The order was quickly conveyed, and ten minutes later, Su Zhishan personally picked up an anti-aircraft machine gun for the protective fortifications, and after leveling it, he aimed at the opposite position of the Yue army, and then opened fire fiercely, shouting loudly: "Fight!" ”

…… Soon, news of another large-scale exchange of fire between the Chinese and the Chinese army in Korea quickly spread throughout the two countries and the other allies, and it has continued, and the large-scale exchange of fire between the two sides on the outskirts of Sinuiju has not stopped since late May, and the vast majority of people sadly believe that the Chinese are about to attack North Korea and that the allies will face another defeat.

(To be continued)