Chapter 16: Night Raid
The previous wave of attacks has just ended, and the smoke is still wafting on the battlefield! Everywhere there was the stench of dead bodies dismembered by bombs and the stench of burnt human flesh! The once beautiful mountains and forests are now devastated, and there is a lot of devastation after the war!
The commander of the 2nd Army of South Goryeo, General Lee, stood on a high hill, he did not take a telescope, but directly looked at the North Goryeo army that began to slowly retreat two kilometers away with the naked eye!
"It's another tough battle!" Looking at the slowly retreating North Goryeo attacking troops, his subordinates finally held their positions after paying a heavy price!
"How long can you keep this going?"
General Li said with some sadness: "The door of the free world is about to be trampled by barbarism, and they are all brothers and compatriots of the same nation, why can't they be solved in the right way?" β
"General!" Just when General Li was stunned, an adjutant in camouflage uniform came to General Li's side!
The adjutant's face was covered with black ash, obviously he had just returned from the battlefield! Seeing that the general turned his head, the adjutant hurriedly said: "The enemy has retreated!" β
General Li nodded heavily and said, "I saw it, they are retreating!" But the price we paid is not small! Their reinforcements don't seem to be endless, when will they be considered a head if they continue like this? β
The adjutant was originally here to report good news, but he didn't expect General Li to be so depressed!
He was stunned for a moment, and then said as if reminded: "General, I mean to say! The other side suffered three times as many casualties as ours! Although they have a lot of people, they are poorly equipped! As long as we hold on here, waiting for reinforcements, we believe we can defeat them! β
General Li listened to the adjutant's consolation, but he was not half happy, he still shook his head, sighed and said: "Our army is less than 400,000 combined, including the sea, land and air!" And their army is the whole country! Everyone in North Goryeo can become a soldier, so are we going to fight against a country?
Our air force was scrapped at the first time, and it seems that the missiles in North Korea have long been aimed at our planes. Now that only the navy is left cruising on the seashore, should they be told to open the way for ships to come up on land?
And, reinforcements? Where did the reinforcements come from? We have suffered heavy losses and have no new soldiers, but the North Goryeo side is sending people over in a steady stream, killing one and popping up two! If we continue to fight like this, we will lose sooner or later! β
The adjutant was really stunned, these long-term situations that only a general can see are not something that he, a petty officer who only cares about the immediate victory and defeat, can think of! If it is really as terrible as the general said, then isn't the whole of South Goryeo going to end?
The adjutant was so excited that he couldn't even think of such a thing. All living in a world without freedom, even if you say the wrong thing, you can be shot!
The adjutant asked in a panic, "What about the Mi people?" Aren't they our allies? Isn't it the first time we should stand up when we are attacked? And now what about their people? β
Looking at the adjutant with an eager look! General Lee's eyes looked to the seashore to the north. It is deep and unknowable, as if it hides infinite secrets!
General Li said lightly: "Who knows? The battle has been fought to this extent, and it has been four days since the war began, and we have lost most of our land! But the people of the United States have not appeared until now! Who knows what the hell they're thinking? Perhaps, they have abandoned us a long time ago, right? β
In an instant, the adjutant seemed to have seen the end of the world, and a blood-red slaughter scene kept circling in front of him! He sat down on the ground in a daze, and said with despair in his eyes: "Are we all going to be killed by the northerners?" β
General Li looked at the young adjutant with pity! He is already in his twilight years, and he has long been accustomed to the bloody wind for so many years! He knew that sooner or later there would be a war between the north and the south! It's just that this battle came too fast and too fiercely! The war that made him wait for half a century actually started in his sleep! And the tragic Cheng dΓΉ has exceeded his imagination, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is fierce to cut off children and grandchildren!
"Lose? Hum! General Li's eyes suddenly glowed with pride! He looked coldly at the slowly retreating, but the formation of the North Korean army was extremely scattered, and sneered: "If you want to defeat us, you must have real strength!" With them now, it's still impossible! β
"Adjutant! Pass my orders and have all the commanders above the company level assemble outside my tent! I have important combat missions to assign! General Li said coldly, his tone was not half emotional, it was colder than the surrounding weather!
But when the adjutant heard it, it was as if he had seen the last ray of light before the world was shrouded in darkness! He struggled to his feet from the snow and saluted with all his might. Excitedly exclaimed, "Yes!" Checkmate! β
At nightfall, the battlefield begins to have a rare silence of the day! Even the North Goryeo army, which was attacking in turn, felt tired at the moment!
The tenacity shown by the South Koreans at the end and the attitude of the previous one-touch collapse were completely different things, which had to give the attacking North Goryeo commanders a delusion! The troops on the opposite side are not South Koreans yet?
After dozens of charges, large and small, throughout the day! The army of North Goryeo did not move forward except for leaving tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield!
But the officers of North Korea were not discouraged, they had people! The losses of the troops of South Goryeo are not small, as long as a few more large-scale attacks are launched! The positions of the South Koreans must be theirs!
But until then, both sides need to rest! Whether it is the North Korean troops desperately attacking or the South Korean troops desperately defending, both sides have reached their limit! At the moment, I am exhausted, and I can only wait for the dawn to come and then do the decisive battle!
As if the two sides had a tacit understanding, after the last battle before nightfall, they each died down and seized the time to rest! It's just that there are still soldiers on duty on the position of the South Koreans! No one can guarantee that the North Koreans will not suddenly attack! Sneak attack at night, that's the ** technique of the North Koreans!
But in the rear of the South Goryeo position, General Lee, who stood proudly in the snow, wanted to change this long-standing tradition! Today, he wants to return the night attack to the North Korean troops completely!
Carefully selected in the army, all of them were more than 500 elite soldiers from various companies standing neatly in front of General Li! Each of them was holding a bowl of freshly poured wine!
The adjutant also handed a bowl of wine to General Li! General Li heroically picked up the wine bowl and said in a low voice to the five hundred soldiers: "Warriors! Tonight, you will be the blades that will be inserted into the heart of the North Korean army! We have reached the last moment, and our survival is only in tomorrow's battle! I'm sure you all know that as long as we have two more battles, we will all retreat! All of them were driven into the sea by the North Koreans to feed the fish!
Therefore, I want you, the death squad, to use your own lives to give me a hard blow to the arrogance of the enemy! Only if you tear the hole open, our large army can rush over and tear the enemy to pieces! β
General Li solemnly drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp! The hot and spicy liquor was in his stomach, and General Li shivered! He smashed the wine bowl and shouted at the death squad soldiers with boiling blood: "If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent, warriors!" The country needs you, your loved ones need you! It's time to give your lives! We're on Huangquan Road, goodbye! β
"If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent! See you on Huangquan Road! More than 500 people roared in unison, raised their necks and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp! Then, 500 bowls smashed to the ground at the same time! They all know that this is the last heroic in their lives! Soon, I will fight for freedom with my life!
"Let's go!" General Li wiped his eyes and gave an order! Five hundred soldiers rushed towards the position of the North Koreans like ghosts in the night! Just as they disappeared into the night, General Li gave the order to prepare a counterattack on all fronts!
"Adjutant! Convey my orders to all troops! Just see a fire and explosion in the local position! Immediately counterattack on all fronts, and the artillery in the back will give me a fierce shot, hit on time, and blow up those bastards! β
The adjutant saluted and hurried away! General Li looked at the dark night, and the whole person fell into anxious waiting!
The death squad deftly crossed the trench! Quietly touch the positions of the North Koreans! There was a separation zone about five kilometers between the positions of the two armies! The main thing is to act as a buffer!
The quarantine zone is full of dead bodies that have not had time to be recovered! The corpses were lying on their backs and in all directions in the snow, which happened to be a cover for the death squads to quietly cover the positions of the North Koreans! They half-bent over and quickly approached the position of North Goryeo!
Maybe you really believe in your own strength too much, or you are carried away by victory! The North Koreans, who were about to achieve a complete victory, did not have any effective defense, but only planted some mobile posts on the periphery of the position!
The death squad was able to take out a few swimming sentry posts with ease! The entire position of the North Koreans immediately rushed into their eyes! The death squad was still not at ease, and patrolled back and forth several times before they were sure that there was no threat!
The soldiers of the death squad looked at each other! No hesitation, no flinching at this moment! Yes, it's just a smile that looks at death as if it were home! Each of them wore a turban with the national flag, threw away their hats, and with their guns in their hands, they rushed towards the positions of the North Koreans!
The ** part of North Goryeo is still asleep, and the soldiers in the camp are even leaning on one place and dozing! On such a cold day, who would have thought that the dying South Koreans would dare to sneak attack?
An explosion rang out! The goal of the 500-man death squad is very clear, they do not aim to kill! Attack on the place where the weapons and ammunition depots and various grain are piled up! All of a sudden, grenades flew all over the sky, and explosions continued! The flames were like a spring breeze, and they instantly blew through the entire camp of the North Koreans!
The sudden attack caused panic among the North Koreans, and many people didn't even have time to put on their clothes! Grab your gun and join the fleeing team!
The explosions and shouts of killing are terrifying! The death squad took advantage of the enemy's back-and-forth clashes when he was in a panic and killed people when they saw them, and instantly stirred up the North Goryeo position into a pot of porridge!
At this moment, the direction of the South Goryeo position shook the sky! Thousands of shells roared through the sky, smashing into the positions of the North Koreans with the most beautiful flames!
General Lee's counterattack has begun!