"Be careful."

Everyone exclaimed, grabbing the things that could be fixed beside them, wanting to catch Liu Tiezhu and Wang Xiaoliang, but they couldn't catch the two of them at all, and the poncho under them became an aid for them to accelerate their downward slide, which was faster.

Xia Yuan heard the movement behind him, turned around and saw Wang Xiaoliang and Liu Tiezhu sliding down the mountain one after the other, stepping out, kicking hard, pounced, and pounced on Wang Xiaoliang accurately, grabbed his clothes with one hand, pulled out a bayonet and plunged into the ground, the gravel and dirt under him rose, sharp weeds cut their cheeks, and blood stains appeared on their bodies.

After sliding a few meters, Xia Yuan and Wang Xiaoliang stopped, and Liu Tiezhu was also rescued by Instructor Shao and Lao Yang.

"The mountain is too steep, it has rained, and the mud on the ground is slippery, so you have to be careful."

Xia Yuan grabbed a wet stick on the ground and said, "Take local materials, use the stick to support the ground, if you slide down, grab the stick horizontally, the stick may be entangled in weeds and vines, and it will stop." ”

In response, the crowd took local materials, cut some small trees with bayonets to make sticks, and carefully walked down the hill holding on to the ground.

After passing through this difficult mountain road, they stopped after a while, they had already appeared at the bottom of the mountain, threw away their sticks and continued to walk, through a wilderness of mountains and roads, dense forests and shrubs, evaded the American troops stationed on the surrounding highlands, and advanced for more than ten kilometers, and the lights of the mountains and forests in the distance could be seen in the distance, and the cars roared, a day-like world.

"Further on, the U.S. military is stationed."

Xia Yuan frowned, the enemy's defense extended horizontally, on the mountains and highways, there were fortifications left by the US military everywhere, there were US military light towers on the mountains, there were barricades stationed by the US troops on the highway, trucks and armored vehicles were shuttling on the highway, there were US troops checking and patrolling along the way, tanks and armored vehicles were distributed and parked on the road, and the lights illuminated this area as if it were daylight.

The tents stretched deep under the lights, all kinds of supplies were piled up, and the figures of American troops swayed in the meantime, patrolling, carrying supplies, carrying corpses, and packing weapons and ammunition.

"So many, this piece, that piece, are all US military garrisons."

They stood on a high ground without the presence of American troops, which was only 100 meters high, and had no defensive value, but for them, they were able to observe the distribution of the enemy's forces, and according to their observations, this area was almost occupied by American troops, like a spider web, distributed here.

Everyone looked at it and was dumbfounded, how many US troops there were.

"The strength of a regimental combat team must be several thousand people, and the US troops we saw in the ravine last time have not yet fully deployed, this is their deployment after they are deployed, and the US troops we are facing head-on have a division."

Although Xia Yuan didn't want to admit it, they were facing a regimental combat team of the enemy in Jiuluan Mountain, and the enemy forces faced by the other defense lines were also in one regiment.

On the front alone, the strength of the US Seventh Division is a full division.

On the eastern front, that is, the right flank of the 180th Division, is the 1st Marine Division of the United States, and on the left flank there is a division of the Pseudo 6th Division, and then to the left, the Pseudo 2nd Division and the 24th Division of the United States.

"According to the current development, the front of the 180th Division, the left and right flanks have been occupied by the enemy, and only the rear remains."

As he pondered, there was a burst of exclamation from the warriors.

"How many U.S. troops must be in a division."

"I don't know, more than 10,000 people."

"You don't see that there are so many in one regiment, and there will only be more in one division."

Instructor Shao asked, "Xia Yuan, you are most familiar with the US military, how many people are in a division of the US army?" ”

"It's about the same as our army."

Xia Yuan's voice was a little heavy.

Everyone looked at each other and remained silent, a division is equivalent to one of our corps, that is to say, the strength of the frontal enemy alone is more than three times ours, and in an instant, everyone felt that the pressure on their bodies suddenly became huge.

"What's wrong? Scared? Xia Yuan turned his head and looked at them with a smile on his face.

"Company commander, we're not afraid!" Wang Xiaoliang clenched his fists and said: "We are not afraid that the enemy has better weapons and equipment than us, nor are we afraid that there are more enemies than us, and we are not afraid of sacrifice, but I am afraid, I sacrificed, what about the motherland, who will protect her." ”

"Yes, company commander, we sacrificed, who will protect her in the motherland."

Liu Tiezhu also asked, Sun Changgui also asked, the soldiers of the cooking squad asked, the soldiers of the machine gun company asked, and even Ma Da Nian, Chen Lie, and Instructor Shao also looked at Xia Yuan, they were also asking, and they also wanted to know.

sacrifice, they are not afraid.

What I'm afraid of is that if I sacrifice, who will protect the motherland in the future.

When they are there, they can watch, but when they die, they can't watch, what will become of the motherland, will it repeat the mistakes of the past, will the peasants be oppressed again, and will not be able to live a good life.

They are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of this.

Because in order to achieve such a goal, I don't know how much was sacrificed, and now the Motherland has just been founded, and everything is developing in a good direction.

Why do they go forward one after another, throw their heads, spill their blood, and use their flesh and blood to confront the US military with a torrent of steel, in order not to let the motherland repeat the mistakes of the past, in order to protect the motherland, and in order to let the people live a happy and healthy life.

They are afraid that they will die, lose, and everything will be over.

"No, we will win, the motherland will be rich and strong, and the people will be happy."

Xia Yuan looked firmly at the US troops stationed in the mountains and forests, and said: "Our generation shoulders the responsibility of defending the country, protecting the motherland, and making the motherland no longer invaded by the Western powers, this is our mission, we will win, the motherland will be rich and strong, the people will be strong, and when the time comes, when the Western countries talk about China again, they will be in awe, they will be timid, and they will be afraid, because at that time, we have become strong and have become a strong country." ”

He could imagine that the martyrs of the volunteer army at this time, when they sacrificed, they would not think about whether this war would be won or not, what the motherland would be like in the future, all they could do was to obey orders and defend their homes and the country, even if the hope of victory was so slim.

After listening to Xia Yuan's words, the belief in victory rose in everyone's hearts, and this belief would support them and make them more unswerving.

A regimental-level combat team of the US army is directly in front of the Jiuluan Mountain defense line, so it seems that the enemy's defense is very likely to be lined up, and according to Company Commander Cui, the Tongguli defense line has been lost, which means that the enemy on the Tongguli defense line is showing a prominent situation.

When leading the soldiers of the first company down the mountain, Xia Yuan began to think about the overall situation, and through the information he had, he had basically judged how the 180th Division would fall into the enemy's encirclement step by step.

Once the enemy in the direction of Tongguli begins to attack forward, it is bound to form a toppling domino, forming a chain reaction, and then it will be the turn of Jiuluan Mountain.

Tomorrow's battle will be even tougher, and they may be attacked by the enemy in the direction of Tongguli, and no one can predict what they will face next.

"The enemy's line of defense is lined up, but there will always be gaps."

The terrain of North Korea is complicated, there are many mountainous areas, there are few roads, the enemy is lined up, and there are gaps, and it is easy for a dozen people to pass quietly, and once the number of personnel is too large, there will be a risk of exposure, and this position is only suitable for small troops to pass through.

The road along the way was shrouded in darkness, and there was a faint little light shining through, which was also white, and with the rotation of the searchlight, it soon disappeared, and the drizzle was hazy, ticking and falling on the leaves, gathering into a mass at the bottom of the leaves and hanging into a small drop of water, and when the wind blew, the small droplets of water fell from the leaves without touching it, and smashed on the top of the heads of the warriors hidden under the trees.

More than a dozen figures lurked in the bushes, waiting silently, waiting for an opportunity. The height of the side of this highway, there are searchlights set up by the US military, and there are also checkpoints arranged by the US military on the highway to protect the highway along the way, after all, the forward is the garrison of the volunteers, the volunteers are better at night battles, the US army has strengthened the vigilance at night, especially on the front line, in order to prevent the volunteers from sneaking attack, they have set up a lot of searchlights on both sides of the high and low roads along the way, which are used to protect the highway and ensure that the trucks on the highway can pass safely.

In the distance came four trucks, with wounded men on them, sitting on them, with bandages wrapped around their heads, or dripping, listless, the trucks whizzed past, the rain crackled down on their ponchos, making a crackling sound, the trucks did not go to the enemy station, but through a road that stretched south, and after passing through the checkpoint, the lights became faint and quickly disappeared.

Instructor Shao observed and said, "A car of wounded, the enemy is transporting the wounded, why didn't they drive the car to the station, but drove to the rear." ”

"This shows that the enemy's hospital is in the rear."

Xia Yuan observed for a while, stared around, the light of the searchlight passed, the mountains and forests were pale, as if covered with a layer of silver frost, and the shadows of the jumping and swaying trees crossed everyone's sight.

The light swept by, it would take a while to shine through, this gap was their opportunity, Xia Yuan immediately ordered, more than a dozen figures immediately drilled out of the bushes, and rushed towards the opposite side of the highway quickly, the foreign devil is not clairvoyant, and this black light is blind, coupled with the drizzle and hazy, the visibility has decreased a lot, and more than a dozen black shadows have crossed the road, and they have not attracted the attention of any enemy.

Crossing the highway and following the path in the ravine towards the enemy's rear, Xia Yuan turned on his night vision and eagle eye, and observed while walking along the way, always on guard against possible US troops, after entering the rear, the US army's defense was much looser, except for the light source of searchlights on the high ground, this kind of narrow road in the ravine, the winding mountain road almost had almost no US troops.

Even if the figure of the American army was found on the high ground along the way, the light of the searchlight came down, and it was white, and the rain in the sky was falling dripping, they only needed to lie on the ground, even if the light of the searchlight hit them, the enemy could not see clearly what was in the mountain, and the light shone on it was a white expanse, and nothing could be seen clearly.

The light swept by, and the astute Xia Yuan immediately let the soldiers lie on the ground, and when the light swept over, he immediately got up and left here without stopping for a moment, passing through the winding and rugged mountain road, Xia Yuan found that a forest that had been blown up by cannonballs appeared in front of him, the trees were toppled, the weeds were wailing, and the forest was full of bullet points and burning scorched ground.

Xia Yuan squatted on the ground, reached out and grabbed a handful of grass and wood ashes on the ground, wet, and pinched hard, and the turbid water droplets fell to the ground.

"Did you find anything?"

Instructor Shao asked people to stay vigilant, squatted beside Xia Yuan, stared around, and asked.

"This place should have been bombed some time ago, but nothing else has been found, we have passed through the enemy's defense zone, and this should be the rear of the enemy army."

Xia Yuan threw the wet ashes of grass and trees in his hand on the ground, his ears moved slightly, and continued: "Old Ma, come here." ”

"Lao Xia, what's wrong." Ma Da ran over and asked angrily.

"You take two people, go over there and have a look, there should be a road over there, and see what the transport troops over there are delivering. After exploring, they were waiting for us in this place. ”

Xia Yuan pointed in one direction, using the sound to identify the position, he vaguely heard the roar of the car, very subtle, it should not be far from their location, if it is determined that it is a transportation route, it is completely possible to follow this highway all the way to the south, in a no-man's land, attack the opponent's convoy, when he set off, he had already thought of countermeasures in his heart.

"Lao Xia, what are you going to do here?"

"I'll take them to the other side to see, the US army's defense area is so big, there must be more than one transportation route, and the ammunition consumption during the day is seventy-seven-eighty-eight, I estimate that they will definitely not be idle tonight, especially the transportation route."

Xia Yuan said in a deep voice, what he said was very reasonable, the artillery fire of the US army was particularly fierce during the day, and the attack of one battalion after another was organized, and the ammunition consumption must be a lot, and the enemy's troops will definitely not carry the baggage with them, it must be the mechanized troops to open the way, and after developing the station, all kinds of materials will be transported to the front line.

"Then be careful."

"It should be that you should be careful, there may be small units of US troops on the high ground on both sides of the transport route, staring at the enemy's searchlights, move forward carefully, and be sure to pay attention to your feet, the road up the mountain is likely to have a mine arranged by the US army, if you touch it, we will be exposed."

"Okay, I see, I'll be careful."

"Well, just probe, don't be reckless, come back as soon as you're done exploring, don't linger longer, stay for a minute longer, it's more dangerous."

"Okay, I remember what you said, after scouting the enemy's road, we'll come back and wait for you here."

After speaking, Ma Da and the three comrades of the machine gun company quietly burrowed into the bushes.

Seeing them leave, Xia Yuan thought that he was about to start acting.

(End of chapter)