At 17 o'clock on 22 April 1951, the setting sun was hidden in the mountains, and there was silence and darkness among the fields; for the US military, it was an ordinary day on the entire Korean battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea; at the US military station, US logistics soldiers were carrying weapons and ammunition needed for the front line to trucks, some US soldiers were getting into sleeping bags early, tanks and armored vehicles were refueling, and fighter planes and bombers were checking whether the bombs and machine gun bullets were loaded in place.

Dareif and Joe Morris were college classmates, both joined the army, followed the 1st Marine Division to the Korean battlefield, and completed an unprecedented landing operation plan on the Korean battlefield, and even planned to cross North Korea to the Yalu River on the Sino-Korean border, and the two discussed meeting on the Yalu River on the Sino-Korean border.

Who would have thought that the 1st Marine Division only advanced to Changjin Lake, and encountered a fierce attack by the volunteers, if it were not for the 1st Marine Division's strong logistics support, they would have been surrounded by the enemy in Changjin Lake long ago, and the C company where the two of them belonged also suffered a painful blow from the volunteers, and there was not much left.

There is nothing more sad than watching the sudden departure of the laughing soldiers on the way to North Korea, and after the battle of their C Company, there are only more than 20 American troops left who are still fighting and recuperating in the rear.

I just returned to the team two days ago.

C Company is still the C Company, but the people inside are no longer the people they know, the two of them are participating in the battle with hatred in their hearts, these hatreds are left over from the Changjin Lake period, they watched their friends be killed by the enemy, but they couldn't do anything, this time they returned, it was bound to settle the new accounts and the old accounts together.

This was the fourth night of their return, and after Van Vleet became commander-in-chief of the Eighth Group, he ordered the troops on all fronts to move forward, and sent a large number of tanks, artillery and hundreds of warplanes to cover the ground troops, which reduced the pressure on the ground troops a lot.

In the past few days of operation, they have felt the kind of long-lost refreshment, just today, they successfully climbed a piece of the enemy's high ground and eliminated a platoon of the enemy, although they are a battalion of troops to fight the enemy platoon, but in the concept of the US military, there is no such idea, as long as they can destroy the enemy, they can use any method.

Tonight, it was their C Company that was stationed on the high ground, and as early as daytime, they had built a large number of fortifications to resist the attack of the enemy at night.

In the simple bunker, Dareif smoked a cigarette, put all the bullets on his body in front of him, turned to his good friend Joe Morris and said: "Man, you rest first, I estimate that the Chinese are unlikely to attack tonight, they need to rest, and we need to rest." ”

Joe Morris ignored Dai Rui's advice and said: "Dai Ruiv, have you forgotten what we encountered at Changjin Lake, it is our carelessness that gives the Chinese the opportunity, if you don't wait for tomorrow's sun, I won't sleep." ”

In Dereve's opinion, Joe Morris is a sign of timidity, "Tomorrow we will continue to attack the Chinese's positions, and then tomorrow night, won't you rest?" ”

Joe Morris was silent, his haggard cheeks indicating that he needed a good rest.

"Man, in this way, you rest for a while, I'll wake you up, and then I'll rest for a while, we just took down the enemy's positions during the day, and they need to rest too, and if they don't rest, they won't have much combat effectiveness." ”

Joe Morris was persuaded, holding the gun and saying, "Dareve, then I'll rest for a while, and wait until it's later, and you wake me up." ”

"Don't worry, man."

Dareif looked at the world outside that was gradually darkening, and his heart gradually became a little calmer, and he took out the empty magazine on his body, loaded a magazine and put it on himself.

Seventeen o'clock.

Dai Rui, who had already loaded his ammunition, thought that the enemy should not make any big moves tonight, and was about to get up and go outside for convenience, but suddenly, a faint red suddenly appeared on his face, and Dai Rui, who noticed something, raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance, only to see red signal flares slowly rising from the direction of the enemy.

His brain exploded with a buzz for a moment.

The encounter of Changjin Lake resurfaced in front of us again!

Dai Ruifu will never forget the night at Changjin Lake, the same dim sky, the same slowly rising signal flares, the only difference is that they changed places.

Just in the moment of thinking, boom~boom~boom~boom~, there was a sharp whistling in the sky, and Dareve's pupils reflected the red sky with extremely fast rotating cannonballs.

“Oh，shit！ Joe Morris! ”

In an instant, the heavens and the earth were trembling, and the artillery of the large-scale counterattack of the Volunteer Army suddenly sounded, and the fierce artillery fire was vented on the position where the two were located, and the artillery fire was rushing for fifteen minutes, and there was silence between heaven and earth, only the thick gunpowder smoke on the position was filling.

Some of the soldiers of Company C came out of their heads, recovering from the rapid artillery fire, and just when they thought everything was calm again, Dareif and Joe Morris emerged from the bunker.

“Fuck！ Fuck！ Sir, we must retreat quickly! We have to retreat, and if we don't retreat, the Chinese will fight! ”

Joe Morris was clearly showing some signs of losing control of his emotions, and his steel helmet was worn crookedly, and his expression was a little frightened.

The commander of C Company had just been transferred from the rear, and the former commander of C Company had already died on the battlefield at Changjin Lake, and he didn't even know where his body was lost.

The newly appointed commander obviously had not yet figured out the seriousness of the matter, and said disapprovingly: "Chinese? It is those Chinese with backward weapons and equipment, we have the most advanced weapons and equipment in the world, the most fierce artillery and the most advanced aircraft, and it is simply impossible for the Chinese to fight it. ”

His attitude was haughty, relying on the stout barrels behind them, firing powerful cannonballs. He said: "Man, you should calm down, sit down and have a cup of coffee, instead of shouting like this, are you scared by the enemy and forgot how we tore apart the positions of the Chinese during the day?" They're vulnerable, man, calm down, Jomath, go get the soldier a cup of coffee. ”

The soldiers around showed a mocking smile on their faces, in their opinion, these two returning veterans were like old books that had been scared, it was undeniable that they had failed, but now, they had succeeded again, and the new general led them to complete difficult victories one after another, although they were repelled by the enemy, but the victory would be theirs.

“fuck！”

In the eyes of Joe Morris and Dareve, the group was clearly insane.

A soldier also comforted the two and put his hand on their shoulders, his tone was quite comforting, but with a hint of mockery: "Man, calm down, this is just an artillery attack by the Chinese, we are fine, even if the Chinese come up, what can we do, I will teach them a hard lesson with the gun in my hand." It's an undeniable fact that you've failed, but now we're successful, and during the day, we've annihilated them, look at the corpses over there, they're their corpses, they're dressed like beggars, look at what they eat, my grandmother's livestock don't eat this food, is this the army? I don't know where I think the beggar came from, it's such a beggar, but I'm scared of you, man, sober up, we're victorious now, they're going to be finished. ”

Dareif looked at him like an idiot, and Jomosley simply knocked off his palm, came to their commander's side, and said calmly: "Sir, the Chinese are very poor, and their shells are scarce, but don't you think such an attack is a bit ridiculous?" Will the enemy waste shells on our positions? They must have organized a big counterattack like Changjin Lake, maybe they have come up now, just around us, they are ghosts, they are evil ghosts! I beg to evacuate the position immediately and abandon here. ”

Joe Morris looked at the uneven position around him with a look of horror.

The commander and adjutant of C Company had a smile on their faces, it was a mocking smile, and the commander smiled and said: "Soldiers, calm down, I have experienced these things on the battlefield of World War II, the Japanese, when they are about to fail, they will organize a lifeless charge, they will run out of ammunition, fight out all the soldiers, it is a battle of trapped beasts, they know that they have failed, they have no power to return to the sky, they can only make the last resistance, rest assured, our soldiers will tear them apart." ”

He stood up and shouted: "Just like in the Pacific theater, treat the Chinese like the Japanese, we will tear up their attack and make them understand that we are the number one power in the world!" ”

"And you, however, are nothing but a loser, and if you want to leave the position, I will deal with you by military law, soldier, and this is not a joke. The defeat you have experienced will not lead you to failure for the rest of your life, I will lead you to victory, and His Excellency the Commander will also lead you to victory. ”

"The Chinese are vulnerable."

The commander proclaimed haughtily, looking back at Jomosley, only to find that the other party's eyes were staring into the distance, and the commander subconsciously turned back.

Bang bang bang!

The crisp sound of the Bobosha submachine gun suddenly sounded on the position, and suddenly, part of the American soldiers of C Company were shot through the body and fell heavily on the ground, and the commander also paid the price for his arrogance, he stood too high, it was simply a live target, the bullets of the volunteers pierced his body, and blood splashed on Joe Morris's cheapness.

Immediately after, a shrill whistle sounded not far from them, and in an instant, grenades flew from the sky.

“Oh，shit！”

Joe Morris cursed and crawled into the crater.

A large number of explosions rang out from the position, and the continuous vibration caused the dirt above his head to fall continuously, and the sound of gunfire sounded beside him, it was the sound of the Garand rifle, and the sound of the Thomson submachine gun, but it only lasted for a minute, and it was drowned out by the sound of continuous grenade explosions.

The horn of the charge sounded, he poked his head out, and saw that the position was full of their own bodies, just now the arrogant guy and the commander Yanran were lying on the ground like a dead pig, he turned his head to look at the bottom of the mountain, there were moving black shadows everywhere, all over the mountains, everywhere, he thought of what he had encountered in Changjin Lake, even if there were a large number of C Company soldiers next to him resisting, but his heart was like dead ashes.

"Sooner or later, the arrogant Americans will have to pay for it!"

He muttered in his mouth.

Also in the dead ash is Dai Ruifu, both of them are veterans with very rich battlefield experience, and they have fought with the volunteers, and they know in their hearts that once the volunteers move the cannon, the horn will sound again, and they will basically be finished.

The 12 armies of China and North Korea launched an overwhelming counterattack on a frontal battlefield as wide as 200 kilometers, and the Ninth Corps, which had fought a bloody battle at Changjin Lake, was very heroic, and took the lead in breaking through the sight on the left flank, and in only one day, it broke through to a depth of 30 kilometers and annihilated the 24th US Division and one of the 6th Korean Division.

In this battle, there was a combat hero who destroyed a US helicopter with a grenade and machine gun, and was credited with first-class merit after the war.

On the middle front, the 3rd Corps, where the 180th Division was located, had only 10 days after it arrived in Korea, and it had no experience in fighting with the US forces, but it still succeeded in annihilating the 1st Division of the US 3rd Division, breaking through the enemy's depth, like a sharp knife, piercing deep into the center of the US forces from the middle position, and cutting off the connection between the eastern and western United Nations forces.

The 19th Corps on the right flank was in the early morning of the 23rd, the weather was cold, and the cold river water penetrated deep into the bone marrow, but it was the volunteer soldiers who were in a high fighting mood, they ignored the cold of the river, and rushed into the river one after another, blocking them was the 29th Brigade of the British Army, under the jurisdiction of four battalions, they vented fierce artillery fire to the volunteer soldiers who entered the turbulent Imjin River, until the barrels were red, but still could not stop the pace of the advance of the volunteers.

The 29th Brigade of the British Army was completely defeated, and the Gloucester Battalion, the ace unit of the 'Royal Shuangwei Battalion', was completely annihilated.

In just one night, the first-line defense of Van Vliet's organization was completely torn apart, and Van Vliet had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw to the second line of positions and reorganize the defense.

All this had nothing to do with the 180th Division, which was stationed in the rear, and they remained in their own defense area as a reserve, waiting for the combat order from their superiors.

(End of chapter)