Xia Yuan was stunned, his whole body was cold, his whole body was a little stiff, and he staggered down on the stool, his eyes still showing an incredible look.

The plan was rejected, and we had a new route of retreat.

His brain was buzzing.

He has tried his best to make changes, but he still can't change the fate of the 180th Division.

Deputy Division Commander Duan looked at Division Commander Zheng, Division Commander Zheng also looked at him, and then looked at Xia Yuan who was sitting on the stool, stepped forward and said, "Xia Yuan, there is no problem with your overall situation, but judging from the information we have so far, the situation you said has not happened. ”

Xia Yuan looked at Master Zheng, he wanted to say that he was from the future and knew everything that happened in the 180th Division, but when he said it, he was not sure what would happen.

Probably no one will believe it.

Deputy Division Commander Duan glanced at the secret telegram sent by the military headquarters, sighed, patted Xia Yuan's shoulder, and handed him the secret telegram.

Xia Yuan quickly finished reading the contents of the secret message, and lowered his arm dejectedly.

It seems that it is indeed impossible to change.

Is the 180th Division in danger now? Danger, basically caught in the enemy's encirclement, but the 180th Division is not at all in absolute death, east of the 180th Division, the 179th Division is still resisting, to the north, there is still the 181st Division, if the 180th Division is really in danger, it is best to break through to the north, because the 179th Division and the 181st Division can be responsible for responding, and to the south to break through, although the enemy's rear forces are empty, but once the enemy breaks through to the south, it will lose the response of friendly forces, and everything depends on the 180th Division itself.

Once it fell into the enemy's encirclement again, the 180th Division at that time was really in a dead situation, and there was no possibility of survival.

The military headquarters also discussed intensively for a long time, and decided to reject the idea of the 180th Division breaking through to the south, and let them retreat in the direction of retreating to Dongli and retreat to Mapingli along the direction of retreating, and sent the 179th Division to meet it, and the 180th Division was not completely without a chance.

There is no doubt that Xia Yuan chose to break through from the south because he stood in God's vision and knew the development of the next 180th Division.

However, from the perspective of the current 80th Division, his idea of breaking through to the south seems rather stupid, there are 179th Divisions and 181st Divisions, and the 180th Division is not completely in a desperate situation.

Xia Yuan didn't say anything for a long time, and Master Zheng said: "Xia Yuan, speculation is always speculation, don't put it into practice, we never know if the guess is correct, the chief They issued such an order, it was also their consideration, and your idea is also very good, break through from the south, surprise, and even formulate several routes for breaking out, including guessing the enemy's travel route." ”

"These are all very good, the only fly in the ointment is that we do not take into account our lack of intelligence about the enemy, once the regiments begin to choose to break through, and the telephone cannot be set up, we can only pass orders through the signal corps."

Division Commander Zheng looked at Xia Yuan, saw that his eyes were clear, and continued: "The time for the transmission of orders cannot be guaranteed, and we lack intelligence about the enemy, these two points are very fatal, but looking at the possible enemy defenders on the high ground on the map is in a company, this is just speculation, and you can't guarantee that the enemy defender strength on every high ground is a company." ”

Xia Yuan's inference was very optimistic, in the eyes of Deputy Division Commander Duan and Division Commander Zheng and all the commanders of the division headquarters, it was indeed the case, Xia Yuan had penetrated deep into the enemy's rear and understood the enemy, but it was only two or three American troops on the top of the mountain.

Once a large force enters the enemy's rear, the road they have to take and the mountains they pass through are not a small number, can there be a company for the American troops on each hill? Xia Yuan took all the speculations for granted.

Including the enemy's encirclement of the 180th Division, as if the enemy would really do this.

Division Commander Zheng did not completely take Xia Yuan's inference, but only regarded Xia Yuan's inference as the worst plan, and going south was a plan after the 180th Division had no way out at all.

Xia Yuan was silent for a long time and nodded.

Since the military headquarters has issued an order, he can basically judge that the possibility of the 180th Division going south is almost zero, unless Division Commander Zheng sees that the 180th Division does not have any way to retreat, but if it really reaches that level, will the 180th Division still have a way to retreat?

He thinks about everything that is going to happen, and thinks about what to do.

The whole division was blocked in the area south of Zhiyan-ri, and it was so encircled that it could not get out at all, even if it was their retreat, the Han River defense line, there was also the joint defense of the rest of the US 7th Division and the rest of the Han 6th Division.

After determining the plan that the 180th Division could not move south, they could only follow the orders of the military headquarters and move in the direction of retreating from Dongli.

Division Commander Zheng moved the clubhouse to a ravine, the position just now was too close to the enemy's artillery coverage, it was very dangerous, and the stray bullet did not have eyes, any position could fall, and I don't know when it could fall on the command headquarters.

Before leaving, Division Commander Zheng reported to the military headquarters the battle and casualties from the early morning to the present through the radio, and once again made a suggestion to the military headquarters: "I want to lead the troops to break through the encirclement, the division command post has changed three directions so far on the way to the transfer, and the enemy has formed an eight-sided encirclement of us, and everyone is extremely tired, not to mention the combat troops in front, they can't go on like this anymore, they can't do it anymore." ”

Division Commander Zheng still didn't get a response, as if he had lost contact with the military headquarters.

Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder in the sky, and many people took the huge thunder as the enemy's shelling, and they all fell to the ground vigilantly, and then the drifting rain began to fall, and the military uniforms were soon all drenched.

I hadn't eaten for so long, and the little heat left in my body was taken away by the cold rain, and the soldiers were even cooler with small arms on their backs, and some of them swayed in the queue, as if they were going to fall to the ground in the next moment, and the people behind saw this situation, and immediately helped him up and encouraged him to cheer up.

At this time, the rain and fog also drifted over, and the visibility became even lower, and there was nothing to see from a distance of more than ten meters.

It's really a leaky house that rains overnight.

Fortunately, when the rain and fog first came, Deputy Mayor Duan arranged two groups of sharp soldiers to explore the road, leaving markers along the way, every night before, the enemy planes were bombing constantly, and tonight, the enemy planes were powerless.

It's a good thing for everyone.

The wind swayed the trees, the rain crackled on the leaves, and the lightning intertwined in the sky, and the whole world lit up in an instant.

Except for the sound of wind and rain, there is no movement in the world.

Xia Yuan walked at the front of the team, turning on his night vision to open the way, looking for the marks left by the top soldiers, the rain was pouring down, the rain was like pouring water, his hat was soaked, his cheeks were full of rain, and his whole body was cold, even he felt unbearable, not to mention the commander Zheng of the headquarters, Deputy Division Commander Duan, Chief of Staff Wang and Director Wu, the team was very long, and everyone was encouraging each other while walking.

Master Zheng said: "The long march of 10,000 miles begins at our feet, we have just begun, everyone must hold on." In those days, our Red Army soldiers wore straw sandals and single clothes, climbed snow-capped mountains, and crossed grasslands. ”

Listening to Master Zheng's words, everyone's hearts swelled up.

In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the spirit of the Red Army also inspired the soldiers of the Volunteer Army all the time, no matter how strong the difficulties they faced, no matter how difficult the conditions were, the soldiers still gritted their teeth and persevered, the Red Army could, they could, Division Commander Zheng was right, they are much happier than the Red Army back then.

Xia Yuan gritted his teeth, and his heart also surged with infinite fighting spirit, no matter what kind of difficulties, he had to do his best to ensure the safety of more soldiers.

Deputy Division Commander Duan's lips were purple, and he used a branch as a crutch to the ground, and the radio correspondent Xiao Yi passed by him with a large luggage roll, Deputy Division Commander Duan patted him and said, "It's Xiao Yi, right?" ”

Xiao Yi changed the luggage roll from his left shoulder to his right shoulder, looked at it, and hurriedly said, "Huh? Deputy mayor, I'm going to hurry up and put the radio station up quickly. ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan said: "Don't worry, say it slowly, what's wrong?" ”

Xiao Yi replied: "No, it suddenly rained heavily just now, and the battery is holding such two large pieces in my hand, and I am afraid that it will be over if the water enters." ”

He looked at his palm and said, "I guess it's water, it won't be too much, it shouldn't be too much of a problem." ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan said: "Okay, then you can take you there, what about Lao Zhao?" ”

Lao Zhao is the translator Zhao Guobang.

Xiao Yi said: "He's carrying an electric coil in the back, deputy division commander, see you later." ”

Xiao Yi quickly ran forward, ran to the mountain, and set up the radio station.

Everyone also arrived safely in the ravine, and only then did they settle the division command post in this ravine, and suddenly, the gunfire was loud, judging from the sound, it should be not far away, and everyone put down their work and continued to listen to the gunfire.

Deputy Division Commander Duan said: "Could it be that you have encountered the enemy again?" Came so quickly, did you have a misunderstanding with the friendly 181st Division? ”

Division Commander Zheng stood on top of a boulder, observed with a telescope for a long time, and said: "It's not impossible, the military department emphasized on the radio that there will be troops coming from the rear of our division to meet us, and if it is the 181st Division, it should be that they have come to meet us when there is no bombing by enemy planes on a rainy day." ”

On this day, they received three orders.

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of 25 May, two regiments went to the mountain behind Mapingli to organize defense, and one regiment occupied the mountain to block the enemy, until 23 o'clock in the morning, Division Commander Zheng commanded the 538th Regiment of the 180th Division to move to Xiafangdong, west of Xishangli, the 539th Regiment and the division commander withdrew to Mingyueli and Jiulidai Mountain, and the 540th Regiment withdrew to the line from Jiguanshan to Beipeishan.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the military headquarters issued another order, one regiment carried the wounded who had not yet retreated from the military hospital, and the other two regiments occupied Jiade Mountain and continued to cover the task of transporting the wounded. At this time, it was raining heavily, and the 180th Division loved to endure hunger, encountered rain, was exhausted, and had a large number of wounded to retreat, and was already too busy to take care of himself.

At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the military headquarters ordered them to defend Jiguan Mountain, Beipei Mountain, Jiade Mountain, and Mengde Mountain, and the east and west coordinated with each other. At this time, the U.S. 7th Division, which was attacking from Chuncheon, occupied the 179th Division's positions in the west and retreating to Dong-ri; The 6th Han Division, which attacked from Jiangcun to the west, occupied the 180th Division's position at Jiguanshan; The U.S. 24th Division, which was attacked by Chenghuangtang, occupied the Dutai Peak and Macun positions in the rear of the 180th Division.

Deputy Division Commander Duan said: "It's great if this is the case, there must be a misunderstanding caused by such a big fog, and the division commander has lost contact, so he must find out, and it will be troublesome to make an accident." ”

The military headquarters rejected their plan to move south, and gave them the order to retreat from the direction of the retreat, and they needed to get in touch with the friendly forces first.

"Commander, I'll take a look."

Xia Yuan stood up with a cane and said.

Senior Commander Zheng rejected him: "No, you are still injured and have difficulty moving." I've already sent the trumpeter to investigate, so wait. ”

The first messenger who ran over came back to pass the message to the division commander, he was so hungry that he couldn't run, and he didn't have the strength to run, so he couldn't run anymore, and passed it to the three heralds in the form of a baton, and in less than five minutes, the third herald ran back to everyone desperately, panting breathlessly: "It's over, division commander, it's not a friendly army, it's an enemy, the first battalion of the 539th Regiment will fight first, Commander Wang asked me to bring you a message, please rest assured that the division commander can stabilize." ”

What!

After listening to the herald's reply, everyone was shocked, and after hearing this, Master Zheng's head exploded all of a sudden, but he didn't expect the enemy to copy it so quickly.

Deputy Division Commander Duan, Chief of Staff Wang and others were also stunned, after they thought about it, they turned their heads to look at Xia Yuan, his first guess had already taken effect, retreating from the direction of the retreat cave, and really ran into the enemy.

They can't afford to think more about grading, the top priority is to make a quick decision, and now we don't know how many enemies are coming, and their firepower configuration, so does the enemy know about our situation?

The pouring rain gradually turned into a drizzle, and the fog drifted away a lot, and these natural barriers to cover the troops were about to disappear.

Division Commander Zheng took two steps on the edge of the marble, wiped the rain on his face with his right hand, and suddenly, with a wave of his big hand, he immediately said: "Take advantage of the 539th Regiment to withstand the enemy's attack, let the big luggage and the wounded pass first." ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan also reacted and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, go and convey it." ”

The two warriors received the order and ran quickly to the baggage team behind.

"Xia Yuan, you also withdraw." Master Zheng turned his head and looked at Xia Yuan again, his gaze lingering on his lap for a few minutes.

(End of chapter)