Chapter Forty-Seven: A World of Difference
"This ghost weather has had a huge impact on our tanks and cars, Mai Shuai wants us to hit the Yalu River, can't it be crazy?"
"Keep your voice down, man, we'll have a solution, I want to go home for Christmas."
"I want Christmas too, I want everything to go well, I want to be with my family, I miss them."
"I miss them too, man, and I'm not the only one who wants us to move faster."
The watchtower rotates automatically, even the ground swept by the lights is fixed, and the time to turn around is exactly one minute, only a little more, and the two American soldiers standing guard are chatting idly, for them, this is not a mission, but a job, a shift work every day.
"Man, try the cigarettes I brought from home, these are good things, to help you refresh yourself."
"Thank you, man, oh, shit, it's so cold here! I want to go back to sleeping in my sleeping bag. ”
"Bear with me, there's still half an hour before the changing of the guard."
"Man, stand on this side, there's no wind on this side."
The two American soldiers chatted casually, lit fires and smoked cigarettes with each other, and they squatted behind the watchtower, resisting the cold wind, which brought an opportunity for Xia Yuan. Quickly approaching the first bunker in front of him, it was about the same time, and he quickly lay down in the bunker, the light sweeping over his head.
Xia Yuan, who had successfully approached the first bunker, breathed a sigh of relief.
Regardless of whether the US troops on the watchtower could not see it, there should be no less caution.
The light swept by, and the eyes suddenly lit up, and soon dimmed again.
Xia Yuan rushed out of the bunker, approaching quickly with a gun on his waist.
One hundred meters... Eighty meters... Fifty meters...
Xia Yuan didn't get stuck in the time when the lights swept by, but hid in the bunker in advance, which was farther away from the next bunker, and a minute might be enough, but it was too risky, and he didn't need to take this risk at all.
And the bunker in front of it is said to be a bunker, but in fact it is a slightly bulging slope, which can still be seen from a high position, but the US military guard is relatively relaxed, even if he has approached the sentry tower, the other party still does not notice, smoking cigarettes, chatting, and swallowing clouds and fog in the wind and snow.
Without noticing that after the searchlight swept by, a shadow was rapidly approaching in the vast snow.
There is no danger.
This group of U.S. troops was really sloppy, Xia Yuan came to the sentry tower smoothly, quickly observed the surroundings, determined that it was safe, and slipped under the sentry tower into the base built by the U.S. troops in Xiajieyu.
At this time, there was no monitoring or anything, let alone an alarm device, and Xia Yuan slipped into the US military's base in Xiajieyu quietly.
In the early days of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US troops were extremely arrogant, the successful landing at Inchon, the encirclement and suppression of the Korean People's Army won a complete victory, and the battle line was easily pushed over the 38th parallel, MacArthur even made a high-profile propaganda that on Christmas Eve they hit the Yalu River, and in Liutanli, the main force of the 1st Marine Division had arrived safely, and the road was unimpeded, and the lower corner was the division commander of the 1st Marine Division, and a large number of tanks and machine gun vehicles were parked on the periphery. At this time, the US military naturally relaxed its vigilance.
Xia Yuan observed in the periphery, although Xiajieyuli was the division commander of the US army, there was very little vigilance at night, and it was relatively densely distributed in the periphery and artillery positions, and there were only some patrols in the camp, and there were only one or two other guard posts.
Relying on his night vision ability, he quickly observed the surrounding U.S. troops, made sure it was safe, sneaked through with his waist bent, and soon approached the enemy's tank company. There was a layer of snow on the rows of tanks, as if they were dressed in silver, and there were many burning braziers beside them.
Xia Yuan just looked quietly, quickly left the position of the tank with a sound in his voice, and continued to touch inside.
The tank is good, but it can't drive it on its own.
Passing by the camp tents, there was the sound of American soldiers snoring, they slept in warm eiderdown sleeping bags, there were lit braziers in the camp tents to keep warm, rifles leaned against the head of the bed, equipment was taken off the ground, there were still a lot of leftover food scraps on the table, and even chicken legs, the scraps of minced meat were everywhere, some bones were not gnawed clean, and there was a lot of meat, half of the opened cans were eaten and thrown aside, the rest of the coffee was drunk, and the cigarettes that were extinguished after half of the cigarettes were smoked.
Xia Yuan retracted his gaze, this is the gap between the Volunteer Army and the US Army, especially the logistics supply.
The U.S. military can directly airdrop it or transport it by transport plane. The US military took advantage of its superiority in the air to block the roads on the logistical supply lines and bombed the logistical supply lines every day; according to post-war statistics, about 70,000 logistical personnel died in logistics alone, close to 80,000, and as many as 110,000 or 120,000 soldiers died on the front line.
"If our army had such a strong logistical supply and weaponry, it would have been hit in Washington a long time ago."
Xia Yuan secretly cursed in his heart, the treatment of this group of American devils is really good, compared with it, the volunteers are very different, retract their gaze, and quickly leave the camp of the US army.
He walked through the dark corners of the lower corner, and although he was injured, it still didn't affect his speed.
"There are really a lot of ammunition depots set up by the U.S. military here."
Along the way, Xia Yuan met five or six large and small ammunition depots, which stored a large number of weapons and ammunition, which were ammunition for rifles and light and heavy machine guns.
In the Battle of Changjin Lake, the tactics used by the US military were circular tactics, and the conditions for dealing with this tactic were either strong heavy firepower, sufficient personnel to consume, or time with the enemy and the US troops were surrounded to death.
At that time, the volunteer soldiers did not have these three conditions, needless to say heavy firepower, what the volunteers lacked was the most effective and direct heavy firepower, and the consumption of personnel was even more impossible.
After the Battle of Changjin Lake began, the US military could use the daytime to airdrop supply boxes to the front-line troops, with a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and food. On the other hand, on the side of the Volunteer Army, the front of the Ninth Corps was stretched to Changjin Lake, and the logistics line was directly extended, and the US troops bombed during the day and at night, and there were 70,000 or 80,000 casualties in logistics alone, and the supplies that could be sent to the front line can be imagined.
The Volunteer Army also did not fail to consider concentrating heavy firepower to destroy the enemy's circular tactical center point, which stored a large number of American artillery shells.
However, the number of heavy firepower of the volunteers at that time was limited, and if the artillery reserve in the US military center was blown up tonight, the US military would be able to replenish it with two planes the next day, and after our army bombed, there would not be enough heavy firepower to cover the soldiers to break through the US defense line, and more people would die at that time.
This is a real gap, is an irreparable gap, you must know that the new China at that time was not long after the establishment of a hundred wastes, the factory is still the façade of the handicraft shop, that is considered a factory.
Xia Yuan only advanced more than 200 meters in the US military base, and saw the heavy artillery, tanks, machine gun vehicles and individual configurations of the US army, he deeply felt that this gap was like a heavenly curse in the middle.
It's a clash of flesh and steel.
"The Motherland will become stronger and stronger! Sooner or later, we will catch up with this gap! ”
Xia Yuan gently exhaled the white mist, came to a camp tent and stopped, opened a gap in the camp tent around him, and boxes piled up like a mountain to fill the entire camp tent, almost the same as his height.
These boxes were filled with canned food, and Xia Yuan was greedy when he saw it.
"Grandma's, find a way to get some out!"
The guns and ammunition are okay, although the volunteers lack heavy firepower, the ammunition can still be produced in the arsenal of their own country, but food is a serious problem.
Chow mein and potato food are single, and the nutritional value is not as high as that of a canned food of the enemy, and if you eat chow mein for a long time, your mouth will also burn blood blisters and become hot.
If you can get a batch of supplies to be transported back, it will be of great help to your team!
After thinking about it, Xia Yuan decided to stabilize his hand first, now was not the time to think about this, when he was just observing, he thought of a brilliant idea.