Xia Yuan didn't expect that Senior Commander Zheng wanted to let him retreat first, he didn't even think about refusing, of course, he didn't mention the idea of retreating south, but said: "Division Commander, my leg is in good condition, and it will recover quickly, it will not affect the march, and it will not drag everyone down." ”

"It's not a question of dragging down or not, it's that it's too dangerous, we're surrounded by the enemy, and once the enemy catches up, your life will be in danger."

Master Zheng was very concerned about Xia Yuan's personal safety.

Xia Yuan smiled: "Division commander, the first company and the seventh company lived and died with the position when they blocked the US 24th Division, I originally planned to live and die with them, and the position, but I didn't expect to survive by mistake, I retreated now, what is the difference between that and a deserter, as a soldier, dying on the battlefield is what I dream of, not following the retreat now." ”

After a pause, his eyes showed a hint of pleading: "Commander, I can still fight!" ”

"Hey." Division Commander Zheng sighed and said to Deputy Division Commander Duan: "Old Duan, don't worry first, it's no longer safe here, the command post is about to move from this ravine to the mountain, let the regiments immediately seize the commanding heights, the more the enemy raids, the more we can't suffer a big loss, you must stay calm, if you panic, the comrades below will have no backbone." As soon as we got up the mountain, we had to tell the commander about the situation. ”

Deputy Division Commander Duan glanced at Xia Yuan, retracted his gaze, and replied, "Yes, Division Commander, I am calm and calm, and from now on I will learn from the steady strength of the Divisional Commander." ”

Chief of Staff Wang picked up the divisional documents next to him, and was about to go up the mountain, saying: "Old Duan, you can talk about going up the mountain, transfer immediately, and our actions should be faster." ”

"Chief of Staff, I'll help you."

Xia Yuan took the initiative to help.

"Your leg" Chief of Staff Wang glanced at Xia Yuan's broken leg.

"It's out of the way, it's a quick recovery."

Xia Yuan was confused, holding the documents, and limped up the mountain, and everyone saw this and hurriedly followed.

The telecommunications office of the 10 th US Army has just been equipped with radio anti-reconnaissance and tracking equipment, which was just distributed by the newspaper department this morning, and the telecommunications office submitted an application for this equipment as early as the first stage of the fifth campaign.

Lieutenant Colonel Ida, director of the telecommunications office, reported the incident to Almond, and after screening and screening in a variety of frequencies, the communications corps finally locked the general direction of the high-power radio station of the 180th Division, and the tracker was operated by three people, one of whom immediately reported to Lieutenant Colonel Ida after putting down the headphones:

"The station is now off, and we speculate that it must have changed places, and the station is on, and if we are given another ten minutes, we can narrow it down to a radius of 30 kilometers."

Lieutenant Colonel Ida was very satisfied with the functionality of these devices, and nodded, "Very good, you continue to listen, and I will report to the general." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Ida is a thoughtful intelligence officer, and after leading the anti-tracking equipment this time, he asked the signal corps to work in groups of three alternately around the clock in three groups to cooperate with the combat unit to achieve the expected results.

After the command post of the 180th Division was transferred to the mountain, the correspondent Xiao Yi immediately activated the radio station, and the interpreter Zhao Guobang extended the bipolar antenna by another 10 meters and propped it up at a height of two meters, and camouflaged it with tree branches and some stones around it.

After Xiao Yi turned on the radio, he always felt that something was wrong, a moment of interference, a moment of disappearance, a moment of re-entry, Zhao Guobang came to listen, and also felt strange: "First hurry up and send out the words of the division commander, and then you will continue to debug." ”

In fact, this intermittent interference is the role of the US Tenth Army's anti-detection tracker, Xiao Yi did not realize such a danger at this time, he copied the code, translated it by Zhao Guobang, and handed it to the division commander.

This time the order was given by the military headquarters very quickly.

This was another telegram that changed the fate of the 180th Division: "Solid collection is waiting for reinforcements, and there are troops behind you to support you." ”

At this time, in the military headquarters of the 60th Army, Commander Wei also paid close attention to the movements of the 180th Division, and on the one hand, he replied to Commander Zheng, and on the other hand, urged the 179th Division and the 181st Division to stop all actions and quickly move closer to the 180th Division, but he also knew very well in his heart that the current situation was too complicated.

Compared with the US army, our army no longer has any advantage, and although the 179th Division is the closest to the 180th Division, it still has a distance of more than 100 kilometers.

More than 100 kilometers, it seems not far, but these more than 100 kilometers are not the same as in later generations, there are highways, there are national highways, and the roads are straight, and this is in North Korea, where there are planes in the sky and tanks on the ground. The highways are all taken by the Americans, and the volunteer soldiers can only take mountain roads and ditches, and the worse they are, the more we go, and the enemy planes control the highways at all times.

Therefore, such a road has to be more laborious, consuming physical strength, killing time, and on the way, you have to deal with all kinds of unexpected situations, and there are too many unforeseen things.

They did not fail to discuss the adoption of the resolution of the 180th Division to move south, but the information sent by the 3rd Corps showed that the situation in the enemy's rear was even more unoptimistic.

Originally, the 180th Division was surrounded by the enemy on the south bank of the Han River, and there were reinforcements from the 179th Division and the 181st Division, but once it entered the enemy's rear, all the circumstances could not be predicted, and there were five South Korean divisions to the east, the US Tenth Army in the center, and the United Nations Army of seven or eight divisions to the north, and there was a second echelon in the rear, with a strength of about several hundred thousand.

Breaking through to the enemy's rear was only a brief subsidence, and when the enemy reacted, the mechanized troops deployed, and planes hovered in the sky, the 180th Division was really called the sky should not be called, and the ground was not spiritual.

Therefore, they rejected the plan of the 180th Division to go south, and chose the 179th Division and the 181st Division to reinforce the 180th Division, so that there may still be a glimmer of possibility.

Xia Yuan wiped the rain off his face, stood on the mountain with the papers, turned on his night vision to inspect the surrounding wilderness, except for the fierce fighting in the distance, there was nothing close.

"Chief of Staff, documents."

"Thank you, Xia Yuan, there are too many documents." Chief of Staff Wang also held a lot of documents in his arms, climbed up the mountain with great difficulty, and quipped: "I might as well be you with a broken leg." ”

"Chief of Staff, I have eaten a lot of their canned food at the enemy's station, you and the division commander have not eaten for a long time, and now it is raining so heavily, and my heart is haggard."

"It's great, if only we could also enter the foreign devil's station, so that the soldiers can have a full meal." Chief of Staff Wang jokingly said, fell silent again, sorted out the documents, and said: "Foolish dreams, if only there was such a simple way to fight a war." ”

Xia Yuan also felt a sense of powerlessness, if it was a company, it would be fine, he still had a way to touch the enemy's headquarters and get some supplies, but at the moment they were a division, with wounded, cadres, soldiers, and civilian personnel, no matter how you look at it, it seems unlikely.

He is just a super soldier strengthened by the system, in terms of decision-making and troop arrangement, he is really inferior to Division Commander Zheng, and the plan to go south is just that the 180th Division will break through to the north, and there is no hope for breaking through to the east.

But in fact, he tried his best to change, and he was powerless to change the status quo of the 180th Division.

The military order is like a mountain, and he can convince Deputy Division Commander Duan, but can he convince Chief of Staff Wang, Director Wu, Division Commander Zheng and other cadres of the division headquarters? Apparently unlikely.

Handing the document to Chief of Staff Wang, Xia Yuan took out his pocket and took out a box of wet matches, which he couldn't slip for a long time, so he simply gave up.

He brought back some of the glorious strips of the 1st and 7th companies, which he could find and bring, including the suicide notes found in the pockets of some soldiers after they died, and handed them over to the division commander.

Master Zheng sat next to Xia Yuan, took out a lighter from his pocket, shook it vigorously, and handed it to Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan was stunned, took the lighter and looked at it.

"It was captured from the Japanese devils, and it was given to me by Deputy Division Commander Duan, and it has been kept until now, and it can still be used, try it." Master Zheng said.

"The smoke is wet." Xia Yuan took out his pocket, took out a crumpled cigarette, and reluctantly threw the paper on the ground.

"You're still sulking in your heart."

Master Zheng saw that Xia Yuan was not in a good mood, so he took the lighter he handed over and put it in his pocket, and said with a smile.

Xia Yuan shook his head: "No." ”

He was worried about the fate of the 180th Division, obviously he had worked hard, made all kinds of military exploits, finally entered the division headquarters, and told Division Commander Zheng what would happen in the future, but an order from the military headquarters made all his efforts in vain.

"In fact, your plan is advisable, but the desirability is only a second crossing of the river, have you ever thought that after we cross the river, there will be no reinforcements, and will be surrounded and intercepted by the enemy, these enemies, but they are all mechanized, our soldiers have not eaten for a long time, tired and hungry, hungry and cold, unable to run the enemy's car."

Division Commander Zheng seemed to think about it, "In that case, how many of our comrades will die on the way to transfer, any possible course of action is not something we can decide, we just look at the problem from the current problem, the army commander, and even the Zhi Division, they look at the problem from the perspective of the overall situation, such as letting the 179th Division come to reinforce it." ”

"Is it risky for us to abandon our existing positions, give up friendly forces, cross the river for the second time, and face hundreds of thousands of US troops and ROK troops, or do we stick to our position and wait for the 179th Division to come and meet us."

Xia Yuan opened his mouth, wanting to say that the 179th Division would not come to respond.

Master Zheng seemed to see through Xia Yuan's thoughts, and said, "Do you think the 179th Division will not come to pick us up in person?" ”

Xia Yuan nodded, and with a little weakness, it was still that question, he came from the future, and Master Zheng was in the present.

What Master Zheng said was the same as Xia Yuan expected, he said: "We have to believe in our superiors, believe in our comrades-in-arms, you have to know that an order is related to the life and death of hundreds of soldiers, if we can't even trust our own comrades-in-arms, we can't even trust the orders of our superiors, what do you think we have to rely on to win the battle." ”

Xia Yuan understood that the military order was like a mountain, and he was not talking about it, compared to his own inference, the order of the military department was very important, he could not disobey it, and Division Commander Zheng, as the division commander, could not disobey it either, this is the duty of a soldier.

If Division Commander Zheng was worried about the safety of the soldiers, and led the 180th Division to disobey the military order and break through early, maybe the enemy of the four divisions would be sad in the overall situation, even if the situation was not so bad, but he opened this precedent, and there may be more commanders in the future who choose to disobey the military order in order to protect the lives of the soldiers.

Ten shots of Division Commander Zheng were not enough.

Xia Yuan also understood this, after the military headquarters rejected their order to go south, he did not react, and silently followed the division headquarters to act, except that his heart was full of sorrow.

"Division commander, the military headquarters has called." Zhao Guobang ran over with the order issued by the military department, and Division Commander Zheng looked at it, then stood up, and immediately walked in front of Xiao Yi, and said: "Send a report to the military headquarters again, the enemy has raided the left flank of our division, and I have sent people to seize several commanding heights here, and now the US army is gradually narrowing the encirclement against our 180th Division, please send friendly troops to reinforce immediately!" The situation is urgent! Xiao Yi, send a report immediately! ”

"Tick tock."

Morse keys shook rapidly, but Xiao Yi had just finished the first sentence, and suddenly the power went out, and he repeatedly slapped the lid of the machine, and the power light just didn't turn on, which made Xiao Yi anxious.

When Master Zheng saw it, he hurriedly said, "What's wrong Xiaoyi, the radio is broken?" ”

Xiao Yi replied: "The radio must not be broken, it should be that the battery has been flooded in the rain just now, and I will let it dry for a while to see if it works." ”

After saying that, Xiao Yi continued to fiddle with the radio.

Master Zheng comforted: "Don't worry, it's okay, you and Lao Zhao will study and study first, and I will go down the mountain with the deputy division commander to take a look, pay attention to safety, it is not very safe here now." ”

Xiao Yi responded: "Yes!" Commander, you should also pay attention! ”

Xia Yuan stood up and said, "Commander, I'll go with you." ”

"Okay."

Master Zheng knew that Xia Yuan's mood was not very good, so he nodded and agreed.

The 180th Division's communication with the military headquarters was suddenly disconnected, which made Commander Wei, Deputy Army Commander Cha, and Chief of Staff Deng very anxious, and they did not know that there was a problem with the 180th Division's radio station, and now the 180th Division was surrounded by the enemy, and the situation was very serious, and any bad situation could happen.

Commander Wei was in danger, and said in a deep voice: "Keep calling me, don't stop!" ”

The three of them worked together and continued to search for them in this band.

It's okay to say anything else, I'm afraid I'm afraid that they will be in trouble with Master Zheng.

Chief of Staff Deng said with tears in his eyes: "It's too difficult for them, for so many days, the 180th Division has been fighting alone, and there are no soldiers, food and ammunition supplies, and now they have to wait for reinforcements." ”

(End of chapter)