The loss of Chogiri is reasonable, they look at the position of Chogiri, the enemy began to detour from the left flank of the 180th Division to the rear, Chogiri is a checkpoint on the enemy's detour road, and the loss of Chogiri means that the US army will penetrate from the left flank of the 180th Division all the way to their rear.

Division Commander Zheng didn't know when he stood in front of the map, lit a cigarette again, looked at the location of Qijili on the map, and said: "The 180th Division will stick to the two points of Zhengping Mountain and Yin's hometown, and we must hold on until tonight, so that the comrades can get ready, and in addition, the location of the river crossing should also be chosen, and the sappers should be sent in advance to pull three wires on the surface line, and we will cross the river and retreat to the north bank of the Han River tonight." ”

The City God Hall is still in their hands, and this situation is not the worst, the worst case is that the City God Hall is lost.

Xia Yuan is a talent, he has already gone to the City God's Hall, looked at the timing, it is estimated that this time has arrived, just thinking, Chief of Staff Wang received a call, it was the news brought by the 540 Regiment, put down the phone, Chief of Staff Wang immediately walked to Commander Zheng, and said: "Division Commander, the commander of the 540 Regiment just called, the third battalion has received Comrade Xia Yuan, and handed over the 7th Company to Xia Yuan, when Comrade Xia Yuan arrived, he also drove a truck, and the truck was loaded with a cart of supplies, medicine, food and ammunition. ”

This news made Master Zheng's brows stretch a lot, and he smiled knowingly, "This kid will never let us down, and he won't forget to get the supplies of foreign devils when he gets there, hahahaha!" It's okay to get there, but now they're on their way. ”

"Left before dawn, Xia Yuan divided part of the materials on the car and left them to the third battalion, and set off with the rest of the supplies." Chief of Staff Wang said with a smile: "I guess I'm going to run into the enemy soon." ”

Senior Commander Zheng glanced at the time and said, "Lao Wang, you keep in close contact with the 540 Regiment and let them keep an eye on the battle in the direction of the City God's Hall. ”

"Yes!" Chief of Staff Wang patted his head and said, "I almost forgot about business, the commander of the 540 Regiment told me that Comrade Xia Yuan asked the commander of the third battalion to retreat and retreat to Yingfeng, leaving only one platoon of soldiers in Chenghuang. Wouldn't this be too risky, it's not that we don't believe Comrade Xia Yuan, but the situation on the battlefield is too complicated, if Comrade Xia Yuan doesn't block the enemy, even if we retreat to the north of the Han River, we still face the crisis of being surrounded by the enemy on three sides. ”

"This is indeed a very serious problem, when Lao Duan comes back, let's have a meeting to discuss it."

Master Zheng groaned.

"Hmm."

More than 30 kilometers to the south of Chenghuangtang, the seventh company marched rapidly, passing through the mountain roads, following Xia Yuan, along the way, he had been observing, looking for a suitable place to block, and finally, he found a place to block.

A protruding high and low arches the highway to form a 'U' shaped bend, the arc of the curve is very large, the position area is not small, the position close to the road is relatively steep, and the opposite side is another high ground, which can completely form an angle of fire, once the enemy comes to this position, they can shoot left and right.

"Report to the company commander! In the direction of about seven kilometers ahead, we found the vanguard of the enemy! ”

They had just stopped, and they hadn't been observing for long, when the scout came over with a deadly piece of information, Company Commander Cai frowned, and said, "Seven kilometers, according to this important road, it will take ten minutes to arrive." ”

"It's too late, Company Commander Cai, this position is very high, forming a moat, one left and one right armed, as long as the gun goes off, limited by the special terrain, the enemy cannot deploy on both sides, they can only deploy the artillery position on the way over."

Xia Yuan said quickly: "I will take my people first, to stop the enemy, to buy you time, you have to bury the mine in the place of the bend a hundred meters, must turn the corner, as soon as we retreat, the enemy must be a tank, and it is a step to cooperate to blow up the enemy's tank and block this road, even if we retreat, it will take a lot of time for them to clean up the damage of the tank, if you don't clean it up, choose a detour, that is exactly what I want." ”

"Good way!"

Company Commander Cai and Instructor Pang showed a hint of surprise on their faces.

"But it's too dangerous for you to have such a small number of people, so I'll let the third platoon follow you."

Company Commander Cai was amazed at Xia Yuan's method, but then thought that the company led by Xia Yuan was almost exhausted, and he was a little worried that a dozen of them would block a complete division of the enemy, which was simply a joke.

"Company Commander Cai, believe me, as soon as the gunshots rang out, the enemy promised to stop, and they were bound to clear the obstacles before moving forward."

Xia Yuan showed a hint of confidence on his face.

"Why is that?" Instructor Pang asked curiously.

"Lao Yang, take the people, pack up the ammunition, and bring the recoilless cannon from the stick soldiers."

Xia Yuan asked them to pack up their weapons and equipment, and said with a smile: "It's very simple, from the time of the first battle, the U.S. army has tasted the power of our army's interspersed detours, division and encirclement, until the first battle, they have been beaten by us to psychological yin and yang." ”

"The United States 24 was not blocked by us on this way, unimpeded advance, they were doubting in their hearts, suddenly there was a gunshot in front of them, and then they thought of the previous battles, put the enemy in to fight, and then pierced the pocket, you said that this American devil is not panicking, they must stop, worried about whether there will be our people behind them."

Instructor Shao said to the two: "In his words, this is psychological warfare. ”

"Psychological warfare?"

"It is to use the enemy's psychology to fight, and now they are going north unimpeded, once there is an army of mine at this time, blocking their way forward, and then blocking the tail, dividing a part of the troops, and cutting them off from the middle, this American army will not be able to escape."

Xia Yuan stood up, saw that everyone had almost cleaned up, and continued: "Therefore, the commander of this US army is also worried in his heart, if he goes behind enemy lines so deeply, will he encounter the encounters of those US troops in the previous battles, they are also worried in their hearts, and I am just confirming their worries." ”

"However, they can't hold out for long, they will die for half an hour, and once they react and the steel torrent advances, we are helpless."

"Old Ma, go and bring the rest of the recoilless guns over to Company Commander Cai and them, and bring the shells over as well." Xia Yuan shouted again.

"Yes!"

Ma Da answered and called two people to get the cannon.

Taking advantage of the gap between Ma Da and getting the recoilless gun, he said to Company Commander Cai and Instructor Pang: "The recoilless gun is also a good thing to deal with the US tanks, the US tanks drive forward, bypass the curve, and then do it, hit and bury the mines forward, so that the little devil's tank will not drive so smoothly, if the time comes, dig a few more deep ditches on the road." ”

"In addition, some bomb shelters should be dug on the anti-slope plane, and communication trenches should be dug to the anti-slope plane, so that the US artillery shells will fly over, and we will hide on the anti-slope plane, and the US artillery will stop, and we will reach the position through the anti-slope plane."

"Lian Commander Xia, don't worry, I have memorized what you said." Company Commander Cai nodded heavily, and said, "You also have to be careful." ”

"Hmm."

"Company commander, everything is here. Four recoilless guns, five boxes of shells. "Ma Da came with someone.

"Let's bring one, and by the way, a box of shells." Xia Yuan nodded, and said again: "By the way, Company Commander Cai, lend me your artillery platoon." ”

"No problem."

"When the guns go off on our side, you can let the artillery platoon fire a group of shells, just hit the road, hit the tank group, and destroy a tank if you can destroy a tank."

"Fourth platoon leader, do you hear that!"

"Hear me! Company Commander Xia, don't worry, we promise to blow up the little devil's tank. ”

"That's fine. Assemble and get ready to go! ”

Ma Da Man, Chen Lie, Lao Yang, Tan Zhanbiao, Liu Tiezhu, Sun Changgui, Wang Xiaoliang, Lu Guangnan, the leader of the cooking squad, Fu Weiquan, Si Jize, Flask, Li Tieniu, and Chef Zhang quickly assembled.

Xia Yuan and the instructor stood up and saluted Company Commander Cai.

"Salute!"

Company Commander Cai also stood up and shouted.

The soldiers of the seventh company saluted the soldiers of the first company with a standard military salute.

"Let's go!"

Xia Yuan lowered his arm, shouted, and set off with a company of thirteen soldiers.

Instructor Pang lowered his arm and said: "Commander Xia is worthy of being a combat hero, he is really smart, if this plan is done well, it can really succeed, this road will be survived by three tanks side by side, blowing up the tank, the enemy wants to pass through here, it will take at least a while, if we plant some mines in front, they want to pass, it will take a longer delay." ”

"Then let's hurry up, it's still too late."

"Hmm."

The seventh company immediately took action, the first platoon and the second platoon were responsible for digging fortifications on the high ground on the left and right sides and digging bomb craters on the anti-slope plane, the third platoon was responsible for planting mines on the road, and even the comrades of the cooking squad and artillery platoon also came to the field to assist the third platoon in digging anti-tank trenches and laying mines.

One in a row.

More than a dozen people were shuttling forward quickly through the forest, crossing a ravine, climbing a high mountain, and seeing from a distance the dragon-like road winding around the large and small slopes, highlands and plains, looking into the distance, the eyes of the big guys were fixed.

"The vanguard of the enemy!"

Instructor Shao squinted, the road was black, and the road was opened by a tank convoy composed of more than a dozen Sherman medium tanks, the roar of the engine continued to echo in the valley, followed by self-propelled machine gun armored vehicles, which could be used for air defense operations, but with the passage of the war, the volunteers did not have any air power basically everyone knows, there is no air power, these self-propelled cannon armored vehicles are used to deal with the pursuing volunteers, and they have played a good miracle.

Especially in the Battle of Changjin Lake, when the 1st Marine Division retreated, these self-propelled machine gun armored vehicles caused huge casualties to the Volunteer Army.

The rear was followed by the infantry of the US army, and the long line of troops was extending behind, which was the artillery position of the US army, just as Xia Yuan thought, the maneuver of the US 24th Division was interspersed too deeply, and it was exactly the same as in the second and third battles.

The 1st Cavalry Division and the 1st Marine Division of the Ace Division were almost completely annihilated and almost withdrew from the Korean battlefield.

Therefore, when the US 24th Division was advancing, it strictly followed the alternate advance of the two artillery groups, and there was long-range artillery support in the rear, in order to prevent them from advancing unimpeded northward at the moment, and it was the conspiracy of the volunteers to prevent them from advancing unimpeded, and once they were really ambushed by the volunteers, the artillery groups advancing alternately could tear a hole at the fastest speed, and there were also volunteers with long-range artillery in the rear, the support of air power, and the tanks and armored vehicles to open the way, the US 24th Division was cautious at the same time, but also full of confidence in the next operation.

As everyone knows, a volunteer squad of only one squad quietly touched the road of their advance and formed the first pass.

"Platoon commander, this thing is easy to operate, just like Bazooka, during the Liberation War, our machine gun company also captured Bazooka, that thing is very useful against tanks, this is the first time I have seen such a long barrel."

Fu Weiquan and Si Jize, soldiers of the cannon company, fiddled with the recoilless cannon, fumbled for a while, and found that the method of use was similar to that of Bazooka, the difference was that the barrel of this thing was longer and thicker, but they didn't know what the power was.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Lao Yang shouted, and Xia Yuan immediately said: "I'll hit the enemy's first tank first, and knock out the tank in front as quickly as possible, so that the enemy behind can't come up, remember." ”

"Company commander, don't worry, I promise to do it for you."

Fu Weiquan slapped his chest and called Si Jize to start preparing.

Wang Xiaoliang was snorting on his back in the forward position, looking at the flask lying in the trench he had just dug, and couldn't help asking: "What is the trench I dug?" ”

"Dig deeper, the better." The flask replied very seriously, he lowered his head, looked at his body curled up in the trench, and continued: "It's a little low, it's not very comfortable to crawl." ”

"Hey, or you're going to dig it."

Wang Xiaoliang snorted, and Tan Zhanbiao on the side grinned, "Little man Wang, hurry up and dig, Comrade Flask was injured, how could you open your mouth." ”

"Squad leader, I'll just tell you, I really don't want the flask to dig trenches."

Wang Xiaoliang sneered.

"Squad leader, the devil is coming soon!"

Liu Tiezhu, who was observing, quickly slid down the slope of the head cave and said quickly: "Company commander, they have prepared." ”

"I know, stop digging, get ready to fight!"

Tan Zhanbiao hurriedly tied the sapper shovel to himself with a rope, and lay in the trench with a gun, looking into the distance.

They could already hear the roar of tanks, more than a dozen tanks came like a torrent of steel, the whole ground was trembling slightly, the American infantry scattered on the hill, and as the vanguard advanced, they also began to grope on the hill.

(End of chapter)