The atmosphere at the military headquarters was somewhat solemn, and everyone was studying the map, and some were making phone calls, contacting the 179th Division and the 181st Division, and inquiring about the situation of the 180th Division.

The noisy sound seemed even more depressed and tense in the oppressive atmosphere.

Since Chief Wei hung up the phone, the cigarette in his hand has not left his hand, the dark circles under his eyes have become thicker, the cigarette can give him a refreshment, he has not slept for a long time, even if he is sleepy to death now, he may be able to fall asleep when he lies down, but he can't sleep well before the 180th Division is not safe.

The signal of the 180th Division came, and everyone came over.

"Chief, Master Zheng of the 180th Division wants to speak to you."

Chief Wei, who had pinched off his cigarette butt, stepped forward quickly, reached out and grabbed the microphone, "I'm Wei Heping, please speak!" ”

The tired voice of Master Zheng came from the microphone

"Chief, our unit encountered enemy tanks and a large number of infantry again just now, and it is not clear how many people came, it seems that Shicangli has been occupied by the enemy."

Wei Heping listened to him in astonishment, and did not interrupt him, he had already expected that there was a high probability that the outcome he least wanted to see would happen.

But it still happened.

Senior Commander Zheng continued: "The final victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea must belong to us Chinese, and it is the greatest honor of my life to work with the chief and everyone for so long. ”

Wei Heping shed tears of pain, this is also a tough guy, but now he has encountered an unprecedented, most tormenting, and uncomfortable battle.

His subordinates, his comrades, can only watch them encounter accidents, and there is nothing they can help, this is too cruel for him.

Finally, Master Zheng said: "Chief, this is the last time I will assimilate with you, and then I will dismantle the radio and all the radio stations and burn the code book." Rest assured, if something happens, I will shoot myself, and the enemy will not want to capture the commander of our army. ”

Master Zheng said his final goodbye, and said in a firm tone: "Break through!" Breakthrough! Our 180th Division is a steel unit! ”

Before Wei Heping could answer, Master Zheng hung up the phone.

"Zheng Xianjun! Zheng Xianjun! Feed! Feed! Wei Heping was still desperately calling out to him.

After this, all the signals of the 180th Division were cut off.

Division Commander Zheng, who put down the phone, was deeply heartbroken, the surrounding wilderness was silent, but at this moment it was shrouded in artillery fire and gunfire and covered, the American army discovered them, and used the radio to call for more reinforcements, and the 180th Division fell into the enemy's encirclement again, and the various divisions were suddenly pinned down, and there was no time to continue to break through.

Each of the four arrows was met with heavy enemy fire.

"Can the other troops still be contacted?" Master Zheng asked correspondent Xiao Yi.

"I can't get in touch." Xiao Yi replied.

"The radio and the radios were all dismantled and buried on the spot, and the documents were torn up and buried separately."

It was easy to be exposed by fire, and now they no longer had so many conditions, and the four arrows that Division Commander Zheng had previously formulated were pinned down by the enemy and lost contact with each other, and as the battle progressed, all the troops were scattered, lost their direction, and scattered among the surrounding mountains and forests.

Division Commander Zheng, Deputy Division Commander Duan, and Director Wu held a simple meeting for the last time, and finally made a desperate and very helpless decision.

The parts are scattered to break through.

If the 180th Division gathers again and plays into the hands of the enemy, the enemy can concentrate its forces and destroy them directly.

The order to disperse and break out was conveyed by the scouts to the various units, but the entire Shicangli had been occupied by the enemy, and everywhere was mired in war and chaos, and the American artillery shells were fired from the direction of Shicangli, constantly falling on the mountains and trees, and the stray bullets rumbled and exploded, blooming everywhere.

The reconnaissance fighters met a troop, which belonged to the 538th Regiment, and as soon as they finished conveying their respective orders to break out, they continued to walk forward, and they met the stragglers of the 540th Regiment, who were sitting on the ground resting and the reconnaissance fighters passed the news of the dispersal and breakthrough to them, these fighters were too tired, and they urgently needed to rest and rest.

The scout soldier also understood that he did not rush them, and he had to hurry up and inform the other troops.

After a while, he met the 538th Regiment that had withdrawn from the battlefield, and then the 539th Regiment.

Confusion, chaos everywhere.

The troops were completely scattered, and the formation was also chaotic, and the four arrows designed by Division Commander Zheng broke through together, but they did not last long, and each department had to break through separately.

The second and third companies led by Yang Nanzhen still had nearly 300 people, and they met many sporadic soldiers along the road of the main force of the division, and there was still some food in the company.

The smokeless stove method was naturally told to them by Xia Yuan, and it was still very practical on the Korean battlefield.

The steaming meal inspired some of the fighters, and a little heat in their stomachs dispelled the cold of the rain on their bodies, allowing them to regain their strength and follow the troops. Yang Nanzhen adhered to Xia Yuan's idea, rescued more soldiers who had fallen behind along the way, and the team was also growing little by little, and they followed the direction of the main force of the division, and soon heard the fierce gunfire from the valley in the distance.

"Chief of Staff, that's the direction of the division's main forces." A soldier who was chasing the second and third companies on the way said to Yang Nanzhen.

"In front of us is Shicangli, and it is also the place where the main force of the division retreated, and it seems that Shicangli is occupied by the enemy."

The second company An Hengrun opened the map, and the raindrops crackled on the map, and everyone looked at the map, determined the direction of the breakthrough, and the sound of guns passed. It rained very heavily that night, and at about eight o'clock in the evening, Chief of Staff Yang convened another meeting.

Their independent battalion is the rearguard, and many soldiers in the battalion have emotions, everyone says that we are in front when we fight, but when we retreat, they let us be behind.

Chief of Staff Yang is an instructor, and he is a political cadre, and it is particularly important to know the emotions of the soldiers, and in a simple open-air meeting, Chief of Staff Yang asked the instructors of each company to take care of the emotions of the wounded, which is related to the emotions of the soldiers, and I believe that they will be able to break through.

It is very strange that when it came to twelve o'clock, the independent battalion stopped to rest, and for about an hour, the whole surroundings fell into silence.

The people who were found to have fallen behind in the artillery company and the people in the machine gun company were found in front, and Yang Nanzhen took them in, and everyone broke through together.

From the mouths of the soldiers in front, it was also learned that the main force of the division was completely dispersed by the enemy, and the various divisions were going to break through separately, Chief of Staff Yang's initial idea was to look for Xia Yuan, but seeing that the team had grown to almost four hundred people, he knew in his heart that if he really wanted to go to the back, it would not only cause trouble to Xia Yuan, but also the enemy's pursuing troops along the way.

So, Yang Nanzhen took them and continued to walk forward, and soon came to the highway and came to a crossroads.

There were footprints on both roads, which were left by the large army, and Yang Nanzhen didn't know which way to follow, so he held a simple meeting of the D branch in the team to discuss the direction of progress, and finally it was decided by Chief of Staff Yang and dispersed.

Putting eggs in one basket is not the same thing as putting them in two baskets.

The most important thing is that many of the troops are wounded, which seriously delays their speed of movement and abandons them all, and Chief of Staff Yang cannot do such a thing.

"If you can, take them all out!"

This is not only his own thoughts, but also Xia Yuan's thoughts.

Yang Nanzhen decided that the third company of machine guns would lead the wounded to break through to the north, and the second company, An Hengrun, would lead the second company to break through to the northwest.

The team split and broke through in both directions, the main forces of the division had already dispersed, and they had encountered the enemy, and by that time it would be too late to disperse.

At that time, the mood of the troops was very poor, the soldiers were also people, and there was a general fear psychology, especially after separation, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers who lost the main force was infinitely magnified, but the soldiers still encouraged each other and persevered, in order to stabilize the mood of the team, the three companies led by Yang Nanzhen held a company meeting and set three articles:

First, break through to the north and find a way to fight out.

Second, strengthen discipline and call on everyone to obey orders.

Third, let everyone be mentally prepared, do not be afraid, and fight at any time.

After the meeting, Yang Nanzhen set off to the north with the third company, the deputy company commander of the third company took a platoon of the front guard platoon, Yang Nanzhen walked in the middle with the wounded, and the second platoon commander took their platoon as the rearguard, and the team was stretched all of a sudden, but it also put an end to the phenomenon of falling behind.

By dawn, Yang Nanzhen's group was already close to the road, and he saw more than a dozen enemy tanks facing the artillery on the opposite mountain, and the rumbling sound was non-stop, and he didn't know which unit was attacked by the enemy, or if it was firing empty artillery on the mountain, the Yankees liked to do this kind of thing the most.

Yang Nanzhen ordered everyone to push up the hill to the right to avoid the enemy's tank convoy and infantry. When a small number of them were still behind, the enemy spotted the warriors who were sneaking across the road, and the enemy fired more than twenty shots in their direction, but they did not fight, because the people had already run away.

Thankfully, there were no casualties.

Yang Nanzhen took them to climb a whole mountain in one go, rested in the ravine of the mountain forest, and relied on the shelter of the woods to avoid the US planes.

During this period, Yang Nanzhen sent a reconnaissance team to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and after the reconnaissance team left, they rested on the spot, and not long after, the enemy's plane came, and instead of shells, it dropped propaganda leaflets, which read: "You are surrounded, surrender quickly."

Don't look at the bad mood of the soldiers, the condition is not good, but no matter how difficult the conditions are, no matter how complaining, no one has the idea of wanting to surrender.

After the reconnaissance team returned, they continued on the road, all the way north, but after all, they deviated from the direction, it was too dark, the ground was full of puddles, shoes and clothes were wet, and the whole person was covered with cold.

Realizing that he had lost his way, Yang Nanzhen remembered Xia Yuan's method in his heart, but now that it was dawn, he could only lead the troops to move forward hard.

At first, you could hear sporadic gunfire in the wilderness around you, but then you couldn't hear any gunshot anymore, and the silence around was a little terrifying.

The soldiers stepped on the front foot and the back foot, when they crossed the ground with water, it was rusty, muddy and uncomfortable, and they walked for several hours, the soldiers were cold, hungry, and tired, at this time, the third company had nothing to eat, and the sky in the distance was already glowing, and the sky was almost dawn.

Taking advantage of this period of dawn, Yang Nanzhen sent a reconnaissance team to get food, and by the way, he went to investigate and reconnoiter the enemy's situation and their current location.

Yang Nanzhen thought to himself, hoping not to take the wrong path.

The reconnaissance team came back, not only brought back food, but also brought back a very important news, they don't know how to go around to Mapingli, and found the warehouse of our army in Mapingli, but Mapingli has long been patronized by the U.S. military, more than half of the entire Mapingli was burned by the U.S. military, and the hoarded food was also less, and the soldiers found canned food and burnt rice under the remains burned by the enemy, so they took it back.

The cadres and soldiers of the company ate it separately, and some of the canned food was bad, but now there is nothing to eat, and if it is broken, it has to be eaten, and then some soldiers have diarrhea after eating, and the conditions are really too difficult. But even so, no one complained about the soldiers, all obeyed discipline, and the consciousness of the soldiers was very high.

The soldiers are so cute, they are all eighteen or nineteen children, and they especially know the vocation of traveling soldiers.

When the day dawned, the US planes flew even more recklessly overhead, and I don't know if they were dropping bombs in front again, but anyway, after arriving here, the gunfire was far more intense than before.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Nanzhen crossed another road with the soldiers, and a platoon of soldiers passed first, at this moment, the sound of a motor of a car came, Yang Nanzhen summoned Qi Shan, the commander of the third company, and some of the backbone members of the third company, "If it is a large army of the enemy, we will not care, if it is a small force of the enemy, we will fight on both sides and get something to eat." ”

They don't eat much, even if they cook everything they have eaten before, they can only take care of the wounded and the soldiers who fell behind along the way, and there are still many people who don't have food, so Yang Nanzhen thinks more about how to get some supplies, he is not as perverted as Xia Yuan, and he can touch the American devil position with a few people, all he can do is to look for opportunities and wait for an opportunity.

The enemy drove over, and when Yang Nanzhen saw that it was two transport vehicles, he immediately decided to kill them.

The soldiers lay in ambush on both sides of the road, waiting quietly, and when the American transport truck approached, Yang Nanzhen gave an order, and the soldiers fired at the enemy's truck in unison, one truck rushed off the road and fell on the road stalk, and the other truck stopped on the road.

(End of chapter)