The temperature was fine at noon today, but in the evening, the temperature plummeted, and the sky was covered with snowflakes, and when it was dark, the light snow turned into heavy snow, and it looked like goose feathers.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Xia Yuan drove all the way to the west, and the power of his night vision skills was displayed.

The campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea was divided into the eastern front and the western front, and the battle of Changjin Lake on the eastern front was started on November 27, 1950, as long as he did not go south, there was no problem, the US army landed in Incheon, stationed in Heingnam, along the highway all the way north to Changjin Lake, and walked south by himself, that is, to send it to the enemy's mouth.

What's more, he also met the American Seventh Division on a road.

With a car, the journey is really much faster.

Xia Yuan chose a small road, and if he walked along the path, the probability of encountering the US army would be very small, which was related to the route and way of the US army at that time.

MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the United Nations Forces, once boasted that the United Nations forces would arrive at the Yalu River on Christmas Eve and spend a wonderful Christmas on the banks of the Yalu River, and Smith, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, was a very cautious guy.

The first battle of Korea, the Battle of Unsan, dealt a severe blow to the American army. In Hwangcholing, the 3rd Division of the South Korean Army suffered heavy losses from the People's Volunteers. However, within the US military, it was always believed that there were only 20,000 or 30,000 volunteers entering North Korea this time, and the US troops in the area of Changjin Lake plus the 1st Army of the Republic of Korea had a full 100,000 troops, and all of them were mechanized troops, with thousands of tanks and armored vehicles.

Smith, on the other hand, had recently learned the important news that they were going to pass through Hwangcho Ridge on their way forward, where the South Korean army had suffered heavy losses. It is conceivable that at this time, let the 1st Marine Division march north, who knows if there will be traps and dangers along the way?

Smith cautiously believed that the northward route of the troops was designed to intercept the complex terrain, winding and rugged roads, and surrounded by lofty mountains, and that the 1st Marine Division could be wiped out at any time once it entered this area. Besides, it is militarily stupid to let troops go deep into the mountains without flank protection.

As a result, Smith made steady progress on the way, step by step, and established a large number of supply depots in Zhenxingli, Gutuli, Xiajieyuli and Liutanli, and when he came to Xiajieyuli, he built an airstrip here.

It was this airstrip that sent more than 4,000 wounded to the 1st Marine Division during the retreat of the 1st Marine Division. If it weren't for this airfield, those wounded would have dragged down the 1st Marine Division, and perhaps history would have been rewritten, and the number of enemies annihilated would have doubled again.

Xia Yuan knew the style of the U.S. troops here, at this time, he had just arrived in Changjin Lake, and many U.S. troops had just completed their assembly in Changjin Lake, and would only send reconnaissance troops to reconnoiter in the surrounding areas, which was the case with the enemy reconnaissance platoon he had encountered before.

The second half of the night.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, the clothes on the car are also covered with a light layer of thin snow, the air is extremely cold, even Xia Yuan, who is tightly wrapped, feels the unusually cold, his eyelashes are covered with frost, his vision has been obstructed, and the opening of night vision has brought him a little convenience.

It was getting darker and darker, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier.

The wind and snow were howling, Xia Yuan, who had stopped the car, rubbed his hands, parked the car in a forest, and broke some branches to temporarily cover the car.

"You can't drive here anymore, and if you don't get to hit the US military in the face, it's miserable."

By driving in the middle of the night, his march was greatly reduced, and it must be said that four wheels were faster than two legs. Along the way, except for the planes in the sky, I didn't encounter any other enemies.

"Put the car here first, I'll go ahead and fumble"

Xia Yuan rubbed his hands, took out a string of bullet bags from the back of the jeep, filled up the bullet bags on his body, and cautiously groped his way to the mountains on both sides, and went deeper.

He looked back at the location where he had put the car, and after making sure he remembered it, he continued to go deeper along the mountains.

After crossing two or three mountains, he suddenly saw that in the snow in the distance, there were more than a dozen figures shaking, walking towards him without any formation, they were talking words that they didn't understand, it turned out to be a squad of Syngman Rhee's soldiers, their clothes looked a little shabby, some of the cotton clothes were directly torn to reveal the cotton inside, and even two soldiers didn't even have guns in their hands, as if they had just experienced a battle.

A routed Western Eighth Army?

Xia Yuan hid along the way, looked at the stick soldiers in front of him, and seemed to think of something, "Huangcaoling Blocking Battle!" ”

He doesn't know much about the history of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and in fact, he also maintains a skeptical attitude about whether the movie Changjin Lake is a parallel world, and the appearance of this Western Eighth Army gave him some new ideas in his heart.

Perhaps many things in the Battle of Changjin Lake are similar, but they are not similar.

In the Huangcaoling Resistance Battle, the 124th Division of the Volunteer Army fought continuously for 13 days and nights, annihilating more than 2,700 enemies in total, defeating the Third Division of South Korea, and a large number of rout soldiers fled to the mountains.

And the team they met in front of them, it is very likely to be one of the routs, now the area around Changjin Lake is snowing heavily, the visibility at night is very low, they don't see themselves from afar, on the contrary, in such a dark night, they can also get better protection, they take advantage of the cover of the night, quietly advance, if they don't have night vision, it is really likely to come to face to face with them.

Lying horizontally in the snow, Xia Yuan quietly stretched out the big eight grains, and the big eight grains were wrapped by him with a coarse cloth, revealing only the magazine that could press the bullet and the black muzzle.

The temperature of Changjin Lake in the war can be as low as minus 40 degrees, many soldiers' rifles are captured during the Anti-Japanese War of Japanese equipment and the United States, British brand captured during the War of Liberation, many weapons are not of good quality, can not withstand the cold, some of the chambers can be frozen and deformed, the battle started only to find that the gun can not be opened, the grenade will not explode and so on.

Xia Yuan also took this into account.

This rout army is only thirteen people, and it is estimated that they have not encountered the enemy at night, and they are walking very fast, and their direction is estimated to be Changjin Lake.

Aim at the clubman with the lead and gently pull the trigger.

A gunshot tore through the silence of the night.

At this moment, in the valley on the other side of the mountain, a company of volunteers was rushing in the dark against the goose feathers and heavy snow, and the moment they heard the gunshots, the soldiers stopped one after another and lowered their figures, and the company commander Wang Yonghe raised his head and stared ahead.

An agile figure slid down from the mountain, covered in snowflakes, panting: "Company commander, the sound of gunfire is coming from our north, and judging from the sparseness of the gunfire, there are very few personnel on both sides of the war. ”

The instructor walked over: "Since we entered the court, we have been on the road, the soldiers are thinly dressed and have a lot of frostbite, if we can take down a small group of enemies, it is also a good thing to supply ourselves." And the direction from which the gunfire came from, it is very likely that our brothers were attacked by the enemy, maybe we touched their rear and flanked the brothers in front and back. ”

"Instructor, your proposal is good, everyone check the equipment and go!"

When Wang Yonghe heard this, he immediately asked the soldiers to speed up their advance and quickly went to the direction where the guns rang out.