The fifth battle is getting closer and closer, and the division headquarters has not yet received the combat order issued by the superiors, and Division Commander Zheng is beginning to be anxious: "We have been in Korea for a month, starting from 6 o'clock in the evening of the 21st, and the fifth battle will be fought soon.

Deputy Division Commander Duan said, "Lao Zheng, calm down, the more this time, the more we can't be in a hurry, maybe the superiors have arranged other combat missions for us."

Chief of Staff Wang came back, his steps were in a hurry, the two of them saw this, and hurriedly got up to greet him, and Division Commander Zheng asked, "How is it, has the combat order from the superior come down?"

Chief of Staff Wang exhaled slightly and said, "Our 180th Division is to stay in the rear as a reserve and continue to hold on to our own defense area."

Division Commander Zheng was a little disappointed and said, "The 179th Division and the 1st Division of the 60th Army have all received their own combat orders, and they have all moved towards the front line, but our 180th Division is still staying in place."

Chief of Staff Wang comforted, "Lao Zheng, don't be too anxious, I think Zhisi must have his intentions in arranging this."

Deputy Division Commander Duan also said, "Lao Wang is right, let's just follow the arrangement of the Zhi Division."

Division Commander Zheng thought for a moment and said, "The reserve team is the reserve team, and the reserve team also has a time to play, I only hope that Master Sun and Master Qin can leave some soup for our 180th Division to drink."

Deputy Division Commander Duan pondered and said: "It is estimated that it is enough, and during this period of waiting, they are also anxious enough, this time they finally received the battle order, and it is the first time to participate in the fifth campaign counteroffensive, and it is estimated that they will have a good fight."

In the first phase of the Fifth Campaign, the 180th Division remained in the rear as a reserve and did not participate in the first phase of the battle.

On the front line, the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 538th Regiment fought a battle of annihilation of a reconnaissance platoon of the enemy and successfully smashed the reconnaissance detachment sent by the US troops. At this time, the US forces did not know that the three infantry divisions under the jurisdiction of the 60th Army, the 179th, the 180th, and the 1st Division, had been reinforced on this position, and that the main area for the first phase of the counterattack was between Tomb Mountain and Chuncheon in Korea, and the target of the 3rd Corps under the 60th Army was the US 3rd Division and the Turkish Brigade in the Yeoncheon area.

All units of the front line are intensively mobilized, all the artillery is camouflaged with vegetation, and when it arrives in place, the volunteer soldiers put leaves and weeds on their heads as camouflage, and walk through the mountains and forests and high mountains.

Zhisi is determined to launch a comprehensive assault on the western front with three corps and twelve armies, no matter in terms of attack width, investment or assault distance, the fifth campaign is the largest offensive of the entire Volunteer Army since the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the goal of the attack is to completely divide and surround the enemy and annihilate the five entire divisions of the United Army!

During the preparation for the Fifth Campaign, on April 11, Admiral MacArthur was relieved of his duties, and Ridgway took over the command of MacArthur, and Van Vleet became the commander of the Eighth Army, and the first thing he did after taking office was to command the Eighth Army to continue to advance northward, and flatten the uneven front that appeared on the map. It is about to encounter the largest offensive in the history of the Volunteer Army.

Just when the various units of the Volunteer Army were mobilizing nervously, the defense area of the 180th Division seemed extraordinarily calm, Xia Yuan and the others stayed in the tunnel, eating pancakes and chatting, listening to Xia Yuan tell them stories about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms from time to time, and going out for training in the evening, without the slightest tension before the war.

The temperature in the tunnel is very warm, and the soldiers basically don't need to wear cotton clothes to stay in the tunnel, since Chen Lie obtained the big eight grains, he handed over his weapons to the quartermaster department, and wiped them all day long, often running to the company commander to ask when to arrange combat missions for him, and couldn't wait to try the power of the new weapon.

Every time I was disappointed, let alone a company, that is, the entire 180th Division had no combat mission.

Xia Yuan smiled, Ann

"Old Chen, when you use this weapon in the future, let's calm down and take care of it now."

"Oh." Chen Lie raised his head, glanced at Xia Yuan, and asked with some confusion, "Old Xia, when did you like to use a rifle too?"

Xia Yuan said: "What kind of gun is not a gun, a gun that can fight American devils is a good gun, although this submachine gun is good, but the range is too close, the power is small, if you really want to fight a tough battle, it is not enough, this gun will do."

The sharp knife platoon is also shouldering the task of attacking fortifications, and the casualties are undoubtedly the greatest, especially in this battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

He was used to the big eight, and if he really wanted to hit the enemy's pillbox with a submachine gun, it was estimated that it was enough to choke.

Ma Da ran over and said in a low voice: "Lao Xia, Lao Chen, I have heard recently that we are going to make a big move, but why don't we see our 180th Division making a move, the 179th Division and the 1st Division next door have already set off, and we are still staying in this defense area."

Xia Yuanhu said suspiciously, "Didn't you just experience a victory some time ago, what's wrong, your hands are itching again?"

Ma Da bared his teeth and said, "Isn't it, those more than 30 foreign devils, Lao Tzu only killed seven, and before he could fight enough, the battle was over."

Chen Lie wiped the gun, put it behind his back, and said, "You still fired a shot, I haven't even fired a shot, and I haven't seen anyone."

When he mentioned this, Chen Lie was depressed, and he didn't eat a piece of fat in his mouth, so he let Xia Yuan and Ma Da eat it, and he didn't even get a mouthful of soup.

Ma Da scratched his head.

Xia Yuan said, "You two don't complain, there will be battles for you in the future, and we will only have them for the time being."

It will not be long before the second phase of the Fifth Campaign will begin, when, as the battle progresses, they will be surrounded by the enemy, with the strength of one division, against the combined *** of the enemy who is several times larger than our army.

The battle cannot be fought, but people will die.

Time slipped away bit by bit, and the fifth battle between China and the United States was about to start on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and in the tunnels on the high grounds, the rumbling of artillery could be heard from far away, the sound of US fighter planes flying across the sky from time to time, and the roar of bombs falling on the ground, the earth seemed to tremble, and the soldiers in the tunnels could clearly hear it.

The hand-to-hand encounters between the Volunteer Army and the U.S. Army have not yet developed into large-scale corps battles.

At this time, the fifth battle has not yet begun, the US army is moving north, trying to pull the US army's battle line into a straight line, the volunteer defenders on the high ground have encountered the fierce attack of the US army, the shells are like raindrops on the position, the continuous artillery fire is tearing the defense line of the volunteers, the defenders on the high ground have suffered huge casualties, this degree of artillery attack is the most fierce one ever encountered by many volunteers.

The soldiers sitting in the tunnel heard the roar from the front line, which was the firepower that the volunteers had never had, and they knew in their hearts that this was a counterattack by the US army, and the ferocity of the offensive made people feel frightened.

Such a ferocious attack mode made Xia Yuan feel a little surprised, how to look at this offensive method, how familiar it is.

"Van Vleet!"

As early as when he was in Shangganling, Xia Yuan had felt the unconventional bombing methods of this American general, and in the future, there was a name called 'Van Vliet's ammunition volume, which was used to refer to what this American general did in North Korea.

Before the start of the Fifth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, with MacArthur being dismissed from his post, the US general came to the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and in response to the actions of the volunteers, Van Vleet formulated a series of battle plans, and even invested a large amount of ammunition at any cost, in an attempt to destroy the defensive front of the volunteers with strong artillery fire. In order to block the logistics routes of the volunteers, US planes also launched a fierce bombing of the logistics routes of the volunteers, and the bombed positions were not far from the station of their first battalion.

Even in the tunnels, you can feel the noise of artillery fire coming from the front line.

In order to maintain the smooth development of the fifth campaign, the general invested a large number of troops in the logistics supply line, manpower, livestock, and even the Korean people joined the team to transport supplies, and they delivered food, medicine, weapons and ammunition to the tunnels on the front line.

But in the same way, with the intensification of the transportation of logistics teams, the bombers of the US army also began to bomb the logistics supply routes of the volunteers more violently.

At this time, there are only a few days left before the start of the Fifth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and batches of materials have been sent to the volunteers on the front line, but these materials are not enough to maintain the needs of the entire Fifth Campaign!

With the entry of the 3rd Corps, the 20th Corps, an antiaircraft artillery division, a war defense artillery division, and three rocket artillery divisions, the total strength of the Volunteers to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has reached more than 700,000 people.

The weather in the dark night was gloomy and terrible, and the continuous humming sound passed down from above the heavy clouds.

Under the clouds, the black world, with a little light, the visibility is not very high, a logistics transport unit like a long dragon is nervously heading to the front line with the cover of this night, donkeys, mules, cattle, horses and all kinds of livestock are mixed in the transport team, carrying or pulling a large number of supplies, and there are Korean people wearing national costumes waving long whips in their hands to help drive cattle and horses.

In addition to livestock, there are also carts full of ammunition or food that can be pushed by manpower, this cart is not light, seven or eight soldiers push a car on the road with great difficulty, it is said that it is a road, it is better to say that it is a dirt road, the road that has been blown up by artillery shells or bomber bombs is full of bullet impact points, one in front of one does not pay attention, a car will sink in, soldiers and Korean people on all sides will surround them, throw some stones in the pit to cushion, a few soldiers in front of the pull, a few fighters behind push, And there are more than 30 such cars made of wood.

This is a huge transportation route, there are five companies of troops in charge of transportation, and there are many soldiers of the art team with trumpets and violins on their bodies, there are many men and women, although they are dressed not much different from ordinary soldiers, but it is obvious that their faces are much cleaner than ordinary soldiers, their hands are much more slender than ordinary soldiers, and their age is younger than some soldiers.

They helped push the cart in twos and threes, or took turns carrying the ammunition boxes.

These young people are students from China, since the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the whole country is united, condensed into one heart, there is money to donate money, there is food to donate, some people let their children go to the battlefield, these young people are full of blood, determined to serve the motherland, they have the dream of music, and with the love of the motherland, they resolutely left the school, put on military uniforms, and went to the battlefield with their own musical instruments.

Musical instruments are their weapons, music is their magic weapon to encourage people's hearts, they are a piece of green grassland in the tenacious will of the volunteer soldiers, a beam of sunshine floating over the battlefield shrouded in artillery fire, gunpowder smoke fills the battlefield, they use their enthusiasm to perform for the volunteer soldiers, so that they can no longer hesitate and be lonely in such a cruel battlefield.

After the performance for the volunteer soldiers on the front line, Lin Qingxue also joined the logistics transportation team, the logistics transportation is too short of people, and their art troupe has no task after the performance, many comrades of the art troupe have chosen to go to the logistics transportation team, here, they have seen the other side of the war and the side of the people's hearts.

Lin Qingxue helped push the car with some difficulty, covered in sweat, and from time to time there was the roar of enemy bombers above his head, and the buzzing sound was like a huge stone, pressing heavily on all the soldiers, staring at the risk of being discovered by enemy bombers, and they were struggling to advance in this dark night.

Suddenly, a bright light fell from the clouds in the distance, and in an instant, the whole world lit up.

The flares dropped by the plane lit up the dark night sky, reflecting the logistics team like a long dragon, and the sudden flares alarmed the logistics operations below

Losing personnel, they instantly became alert.

In the sky, the invisible bomber seemed to be nearby, and the sound suddenly became loud, like a stone pressing down.

The pupils of the experienced fighters shrank, and this was the enemy bomber descending to a height and began to dive.

(End of chapter)