Scarlet Breakout (2)
"Now the situation is very complicated, among the five divisions that did not retreat, there are more than 5,000 wounded in total, and each division is now playing with their lives to cover the retreat of the wounded, and according to the intelligence summary, the Americans' tank units have arrived, and now the six divisions of South Korea, the four divisions of the US army have all pressed the pressure on Liu Hai's head, and the most important thing is that the 63rd Army has retreated, and the 180th Division left at the forefront of the battle line has completely lost its cover, facing the fate of being surrounded on all sides, and the best way now is to let the 180th Division hold its position!" Han Xianchu explained the situation: "You need to hold on for at least five days!" "Five days?" Mr. Peng frowned, don't say five days now, three days are not insured!
"Tell the 169th Division that they must complete the transfer of the wounded within two days, the 188th Division, the 172nd Division and the 186th Division are the same, the 186th Division, which is closest to the 180th Division, give him three days to transport the wounded of the 180th Division together, all the troops must be transferred within three days, and the 180th Division will be transferred after holding on to the same place for four days!" Mr. Peng ordered. "But in this case, the bangs will have to be on the side for at least five days!" Han Xianchu reminded. "He has to keep an eye on it, and if he can't, he has to resist it. However, he is an artilleryman, and asked the logistics to send him two wagons of leather shells, if there is no artillery, Liu Hai is afraid that he will not be able to withstand it! Mr. Peng said. This difficulty is also very great, and now it is the rainy season in the north of North Korea, and there are heavy floods in many places, bridges and highways are seriously damaged, and the engineering units are rushing to repair them! Two wagons... Before Han Xianchu finished speaking, Mr. Peng interrupted him, "Tell the logistics troops, it's best to send it, and if you can't send it, I'll shoot someone!" "Got it!" Han Xianchu sighed!
"Division commander, there is a lot of pressure on the second regiment, and the Americans' tanks are very arrogant, apply for artillery support!" The staff officer reports to the bangs. "Tell the ghost cannon to pull a few cannons over and come to the rescue!" Bangs said. "Division commander, I just received a telegram from the headquarters that we were ordered to hold out for more than five days in order to wait for the encircled troops to retreat after transferring the wounded!" A staff officer came over and said. "That's right, my plan is to stick to it for ten days, and Peng has finally taken care of me!" Bangs waved his hand and said. "The commander of the regiment asked for a counterattack and asked for artillery support!" "Tell Fat Wu and let him shoot a few shots!" Bangs said. The whole command is in a mess, the Americans and South Koreans have been attacking for a whole day!
"Division commander, the situation is not very good now, the firepower of the Americans is too fierce, there are artillery and tanks in the sky, planes and tanks, round after round of attacks, it is difficult to withstand five days like this!" The staff officer said anxiously. "I have an idea, should we gather the teaching teams and reconnaissance companies of each regiment or something to beat him at once, otherwise these bastards think we have no power to fight back!" Liu Hai looked at the map and said, "Although there are as many as six divisions of the South Korean army attacking here, but due to the limitations of the terrain, it cannot be spread at all, and now it can only be attacked by regiments and batches by batch, on the whole, it is much more passive than us, I found that they have a problem, the attack is divided into left and right sides, there is a passage in the middle, it is not very wide, but there is no problem with a battalion in the past, although this battalion does not play a decisive role, but it is still possible to kill their field supply warehouses!" "But where are their field warehouses? We don't know! The staff officer said.
"You see the South Koreans are in the east, the Americans are in the west, they all need to replenish, then their field supply depot should be three or four kilometers away from the rear, that is, this place!" Bangs pointed to a dot on the map and said, "This is it!" I remember that this place was called Caitouwa, and if the American commanders were in their right heads, their supply depot was there! "Now that the U.S. Army and the South Korean Army have a total of seven divisions, this field supply depot must be very large, and the defense must be very tight, I'm afraid it will not be easy to handle!" The staff officer said with some concern. "Absolutely not! Now that most of our troops are retreating, the Americans are in full swing, and they will definitely receive orders to take our positions in a short time, so that they can close the encirclement on the Eastern Front as soon as possible, so the Americans will definitely focus all their attention on the offensive and defensive battles with us, and they will definitely be negligent in guarding against them! Bangs said, "But just to be on the safe side, I want you to lead the team to participate in the attack!" ”
"In this case, I will go and gather the teaching companies of the three regiments, plus the machine gun squad of the guard battalion, and come this evening to fight and withdraw quickly, kill his supply depot, if it can be successful, at least let them stop for a day, we can use this day to help the retreating wounded!" The staff officer said.
That night, this staff officer personally led the team, with about a battalion of troops, through the gap between the South Korean Army and the US Army, and went straight to the field supply depot in the rear of the US Army! Along the way, the staff officer ordered people to arrest four South Korean soldiers and continuously confirmed the location of the other side's supply depots, and the result was that the judgment of Bang Hai was correct after being confirmed four times, and the supply depots of the US and South Korean troops were indeed in Choi Tau Wa! After carefully passing through various checkpoints and blockades along the way, the staff officer found the logistics supply depot of the US military very smoothly. The so-called field supply warehouse is actually a large area of tents, but these tents are all oversized, large tents specially used to store supplies, and three or five people can't carry a tent stacked together! Extremely fortunately, this warehouse is not well defended, and obviously the people of the United States do not think that it is possible for the volunteers to be in this situation and still in the mood to come here! However, after arriving to reconnoitre, I unexpectedly found that in addition to the supply warehouse, there is also an oil depot here!
"Now the soldiers are divided into two ways, the second and third companies are going to attack the supply depot, and the first company is going to kill the oil depot with me!" The staff officer said excitedly, "Blow up his oil depot, I'll see how his tank can climb!" ”。 The attack began, and the second and third companies, under the leadership of the company commander, began to advance on the left and right sides, and soon swept away the guards on the periphery with lightning speed! After entering the supply warehouse, the commander of the second company led people to find a place to store ammunition, and the commander of the third company led people to start looking for a place to store food! The commander of the third company was the first to find the tent where the food was stored! "The Americans' supplies are so abundant, canned eggs, coffee, and leg of mutton!" The commander of the third company scolded as he watched. "Bring them all to me, but each person only needs to bring one, either canned food or a leg of lamb!" After the three company commanders finished shouting, the soldiers rushed up one after another and took their things according to the company commander's request! "Pull a few barrels of gasoline and burn these tents for me, we don't have anything to eat, don't even think about it!" The commander of the third company shouted.
"Quickly arrange*, connect the leads, and prepare to detonate!" The commander of the second company also found the tent where the ammunition and weapons were stored in the supply warehouse, and immediately ordered * to be connected with the various tents where the weapons and ammunition were stored with a line, and then prepared to detonate. While searching, several soldiers connected the wire, returned to the original point after a big circle, and quickly connected the lead, and the second company commander personally detonated it*! After a series of loud bangs, the entire supply depot was blown up! After running out, the two company commanders converged, and then waited for the first company to come back and retreat together! After waiting for a while, the commander of the first company ran back with his people, but he did not see the staff officers there come back together. Under the questioning of the two company commanders, the first company commander said that the staff officer had died!
It turned out that when the company commander and they rushed to the oil depot, they all felt that this task was very easy to complete, because the attack was on the oil depot, it should be very simple, after all, it was oil, as long as it was a little spark, it would be an explosion, as long as it exploded, the task was completed! But when they got closer, the company commander and staff officer found that there was an armored car parked here: they were refueling here! An infantry company to fight against a guard unit with an armored vehicle is almost looking for death, because the combined firepower of a company is afraid that it will not be able to withstand this armored vehicle! But the staff officer still decided to blow it up at any cost! After a short division of labor, the staff officer decided that the commander of the first company would take people to the assault oil depot, and he would take a few people and two machine guns to grab a jeep to attract the attention of the other party!
After the discussion, the staff officer led a few clever soldiers to get into the grass next to the oil depot and quietly lurked next to a jeep. A volunteer soldier went up and overturned a South Korean soldier next to the car, and the staff officer and several other people jumped into the car and started shooting at the oil depot! Just as the staff officer thought, the armored car quickly reacted and chased after the jeep! The staff officer looked around and drove the jeep to the south, attracting the armored car to follow. After the staff officer succeeded in diverting the armored vehicle, a company commander led his men to attack. The US troops at the oil depot did not expect that there were still people on the other side, and they were caught off guard, and in a very short period of time, a company commander led people to blow up the oil depot, but the staff officers and those soldiers never returned.
"Divisional commander, it's successful, let's take their supply warehouse in one nest! The casualties of the three companies were not large, but the staff officers were sacrificed! "Give him credit!" Liu Hai said: "Tell the troops to start rushing to transport the wounded early tomorrow morning, and all the wounded must be transferred!" "Yes!"
"After another whole day of fighting, the Chinese no longer have much ammunition and food, tell the troops to replenish ammunition as soon as possible and continue the offensive at dawn tomorrow!" The commander of the U.S. military said excitedly. "Report! Oh no! A U.S. military correspondent ran in and shouted, "Our supply depot has been blown up, the damage is very serious, and our troops will not be able to replenish it in one day!" "How so? Hurry up and notify the rear for resupply! The U.S. military commander said anxiously. But no matter how anxious he is, it is useless, the US troops who have already finished fighting for a day are temporarily unable to replenish!
Although this attack sacrificed a staff officer, it was of great significance to Liu Hai's blocking battle this time, because it bought the besieged troops a day to evacuate the wounded!