In accordance with the order of the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, all divisions were organized to cross the river from Ji'an and march to Korea one after another, and the 337th Regiment, the vanguard of the 113th Division, arrived in Ji'an and crossed the river on foot from the pontoon bridge they had built.

After Division Commander Jiang and Political Commissar Yu assigned tasks to each regiment, they entered the DPRK by car.

The 338th Regiment arrived at Daji'an on the morning of 22 October, and after getting off the bus, the units stayed more than 10 miles away from Ji'an according to the original arrangements of the division headquarters, and prepared to cross the river on foot. As soon as they had settled down, and before the divisions and regiments had time to set up communication telephones, the deputy chief of the military affairs section of the army headquarters, surnamed Cui, took a jeep to the 338th regiment's station in accordance with the army commander's order, conveyed the urgent task, and asked them to immediately cross the river by car.

He also handed them an order signed by the Volunteer Army Headquarters to allow them to take a car, and asked them to ask for a car from the Third Logistics Division after crossing the river, and quickly seize Miaoxiang Mountain.

The soldiers of the 335th Regiment have also stepped on the train to North Korea, when the train drove up the river bridge, the mood of the soldiers was very uneasy, the car box was very quiet, only the sound of breathing accompanied by the sound of the second hand beating.

The people held their breath, and the comrades wearing watches all stared at the pointer on their wrists.

Xiao Heping asked a little excitedly: "Squad leader, what time is it?" ”

"Eight-thirty, remember the time."

The eldest elder Liu changed his frizzy temperament in the past and said calmly.

The soldiers of the cooking class silently kept this time in their hearts, and this time will be engraved in their lives forever.

The train stopped, and the rumbling of cannon could be faintly heard.

Opening the iron door, the howling cold wind swirled into the carriage, the soldiers tightened their cotton clothes, tilted their heads to look outside, the dark night, the buildings were very blurred.

It's a humble station with not much architecture.

A whistle came from afar, and the soldiers came out of the carriage, and only then did they see the world outside.

The station was bombed by the U.S. Air Force, littered with collapsed buildings, and their men were trying to restore the station's troop capacity.

"Quick, don't stop at the train station, follow the car."

The commander shouted as he ran.

"Let's go." The eldest elder Liu carried the black cauldron on his back, dragged Xia Yuan, and shouted to Xiao Heping and them: "Don't fall behind, follow closely, if you fall behind, if you want to find your own people, you may not be able to find them." ”

Stepping on the land of North Korea, the rumbling artillery fire echoed in the mountains and fields, the distant sky faintly flickered with firelight, and on the battlefield of reunion after a long absence, all the soldiers couldn't help but clench the steel guns in their hands, and the cadres quickened their pace and advanced rapidly, and the troops were like a long black dragon, passing through the mountains and mountains in northern Korea.

North Korea is quiet during the day, but compared to North Korea, it is lively on the side of the US military.

After dusk, the highway after dark regains its vitality, the flow of people is surging, the vehicles are crowded, as if in the lively downtown area, noisy and shouting, all over the mountains are panicked people, some carry burdens, some carry rats, some lead cattle, some drive the cart, looking for a place of refuge, burying valuables.

This is already the last frontier of the country, where else can I go to find a safe place.

This situation made the cadres and soldiers anxious, eager to immediately enter the battle, repel the enemy's attack, and protect a piece of land for the Korean fathers and villagers.

"U.S. imperialism is like a fire, burning North Korea and burning China. China's neighbors should quickly put out the fire, and saving North Korea is saving China. ”

As he walked, Xiao Heping muttered in his mouth.

The crowd did not speak, only breathed heavily, passing through the crowd of refugees, running away from them.

Caught between the fleeing refugees was a small group of three people and a small group of more than 10 people's troops, and they were very happy to see the volunteers, and the first thing they said to them was:

"Dongmu, the side machine shuttle?"

Zhao Ruilong will translate for everyone: "Comrade, is there a plane?" ”

They have been bombed by the US Air Force, and they have felt the power of the US Air Force, which is destroying North Korean communications and towns, and is also destroying the last line of defense in the hearts of the North Korean people.

Instead of getting the desired answer, they will again say: "How many tanks?" How many people came? There are no planes and tanks, that won't work! No way! ”

The soldiers quietly listened to the speeches of Zhao Ruilong and several comrades of the Korean People's Army, and finally sent them away.

Company Commander Sun spat at the mouth, "We can defeat the enemy with superior equipment with inferior equipment, we have already eliminated the reactionary army of eight million American-style equipment, the American devils are coming, we will still clean them up and keep up with the team." ”

Along the way, they met from time to time groups of cadres and soldiers of the People's Army who had broken through the encirclement and returned from the north.

There were also some female nurses who supported the wounded to retreat, walking with difficulty, tired and miserable, and when they saw the long line of our Chinese People's Volunteers marching forward, they were immediately in high spirits, marching in orderly steps, singing majestic songs, not only to welcome the arrival of the Chinese People's Volunteers, but also to express their feelings at this moment.

When I walked to the town, I often saw female soldiers of the Korean People's Army standing calmly by a bomb crater, muttering with a whistle in their mouths and waving small red flags in their arms to direct the passage of traffic.

On the way, the Third Company met two female nurses of the People's Army, who spoke fluent Chinese, and proudly told Company Commander Sun and Instructor Hu: "We have worked in the Chinese People's Liberation Army and participated in the North East Liberation War, we miss China very much, and thank you for coming to help us." ”

Even if the land is lost, these female warriors still carry a positive spirit, which deeply infects the soldiers of the Third Company.

As the team moved on, the town had been blown up by the U.S. Air Force, littered with collapsed ruins, smoke billowing up, and a scorching smell in the air, many houses still burning, red flames shaking in the cold wind.

Beside the road, the fields were full of North Korean people and livestock killed by the US Air Force, and the air smelled of burnt burning.

It has just been bombed by the U.S. Air Force.

From afar, I heard the bereaved North Koreans crying, and the children who couldn't find their families stood on the side of the road, holding a wooden stick in their hands, and they didn't know what kind of toy it was, and the loud cries were heard far away.

This is the blood debt owed by the American aggressors, which aroused the anger in the hearts of the commanders, and Company Commander Sun gritted his teeth and gurgled: "We are about to start the first battle abroad, and we must teach these American bandits who killed people and set fires to avenge the Korean people!" ”

Walking through this bombed area and continuing to walk forward for more than an hour, you can still encounter scattered North Korean civilians, including the elderly, women and children, and these refugees can hardly hide their joy when they see this mighty army.

Shouting in broken Chinese: "Long live xxx!" "Long live Kim Il Sung!"

After the Volunteers entered Korea, they originally planned to occupy positions north of Tokugawa, take advantage of the favorable terrain to organize defenses, stop the enemy's attack, and stabilize the battle situation, so as to gain time and cover the Korean People's Army's northward retreat for rectification, so as to create conditions for subsequent operations.

The 38th Army was still four or five days away from the predetermined defense area of Tokugawa, and it was no longer possible to stop the enemy in the predetermined area according to the predetermined plan.

The enemy recklessly continued to divide his troops and advance at a very fast pace, but they had not yet discovered that the volunteer army had entered the DPRK and still advanced unscrupulously.

The puppet capital division of the eastern front has advanced to Wulao-ri, Hongyuan and other places, the main force of the US Eighth Army and the puppet second army on the western front are frantically attacking the Yalu River, and the US 1st Cavalry Division is equipped with the west road, and is advancing towards the Yalu River along the Beijing-Xin Highway, that is, the road from Pyongyang to Sinuiju, and the British 27th Brigade and the puppet 1st Division followed the 1st Cavalry Division and occupied Anju, Yuanzhou, Gucheng and other places.

The puppet 6th Division was the left flank and was attacking the Yalu River along the east bank of the Qingchuan River, and the main force of the division reached Chushan County on the bank of the Yalu River on 20 October through Xichuan, opening a large gap of more than 80 kilometers between the enemy's eastern and western lines.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

After receiving the order, Zhiji decided to use the flexible and mobile strategy of the Volunteer Army to strike at the enemy, and quickly changed the operational deployment at 21 o'clock in the evening of the same day, that is, at 9 o'clock in the evening, and decided to concentrate the three armies on the Western Front and annihilate the puppet 6th, 7th, and 8th Divisions.

The 38th Army was ordered to quickly advance to the Xichuan area and cooperate with the 39th and 40th Armies.

The 42nd Army was ordered to stop the advance of the Eastern Front.

After the order was issued that night, the 38th Army quickly ordered all units to attack at night and go to Xichuan.

The 114th Guards Division left the country on 25 October, when the weather was suddenly cold, and the first snow fell on the land of Korea, which was the coldest day felt by the US army and Li Puppet's army.

On this same day, the 118th Division and the 120th Division of the 40th Army of the Volunteers who entered the DPRK had already encountered the enemy in Wenjingtu, and fired the first shot to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

The cold wind was howling, mixed with fluttering snowflakes.

The elder Liu boiled soup for the soldiers, and the team camped in the mountains and forests, and began to live a day and night life.

The soldiers ate their first meal in the wind and snow, the snowflakes were sprinkled into the bowl like white sugar, and the meal was particularly cold, several US military planes clinged to the mountain beams, flying around the treetops, the wind-shaking treetops under the wings swayed from side to side, and the soldiers were covered with artemisia clothes or branches, hiding themselves among the mountains and forests.

This is completely different from what I thought before entering the DPRK, some people are not in a high mood, and some people are a little timid about airplanes.

Hearing the roar of the US aircraft engine, echoing in the valley, Xiao Heping's lips trembled a little, and he grabbed the soil under him hard, Xia Yuan was lying not far from him, Xiao Heping turned his head and shouted in a low voice: "Xia Yuan, Xia Yuan." ”

Xia Yuan, who heard the voice, glanced back, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Heping seemed to want to find a trace of comfort psychologically, so he asked, "Are you afraid?" ”

"Don't be afraid."

"Why?"

Xiao Heping didn't quite understand.

"This plane didn't find us, what are you afraid of, let's talk about it when it finds out."

What Xia Yuan said was very reasonable, and after listening to it, Xiao Heping felt a little blushing.

After all, he was also a veteran soldier who participated in a war, but he was not as calm as Xia Yuan, he took three deep breaths, and felt that the coagulated blood in his body seemed to begin to flow, and his tense body gradually relaxed.

"That's right, the planes of the American devils haven't discovered us yet, doesn't this raise the arrogance of the enemy and discourage their own confidence?"

After thinking about it, Xiao Heping felt that his whole body began to relax.

When they applied to join the DPRK, the soldiers had many naïve ideas, and the paper tigers of the US imperialists left a deep imprint on their minds, but now they see that the enemy planes are much more fierce than in the domestic war, blowing up houses, killing people and animals, and not making people peaceful all day long, many soldiers said angrily: "Damn, paper tigers also bite people." ”

At that time, the Volunteer Army had just entered the DPRK, and there were neither airplanes nor anti-aircraft guns, so there was not much to do to deal with the enemy except to let it go, and the enemy was allowed to fly around overhead, and did not dare to hit it, for fear of exposing our target.

At that time, the fighters had enough fire in their hearts, forgetting that the light weapons in their hands could also hit low-altitude and dive planes, and everyone was looking forward to the planes of the motherland, and the most talked about during idle talk was when our planes would be able to participate in the war.

Later, as soon as the roar of the engines of the aircraft was heard from the direction of the motherland, someone got out of the bunker and shouted: "Our plane!" ”

Someone said the strange thing: "The bomb skin is ours." ”

Sure enough, as soon as the planes arrived, they either strafed or dropped bombs, and then no one looked forward to the arrival of the planes of the motherland.

Instructor Hu often did ideological work for the fighters: "At this time, we have to rely on ourselves, and when we fight the reactionaries, we don't always rely on ourselves to survive the most difficult moments, and we still beat the reactionaries away and liberate the whole of China. ”

After the volunteers entered the DPRK, most of them lived a day and night life, and the lights were not allowed to be turned on when the cars were driving at night; the mountain roads were narrow and dangerous, and they were the easiest to overturn; a medium-sized truck of the headquarters overturned on the second night after entering the DPRK, and almost all of the section chiefs were wounded, and the chief of the operations section died after being seriously wounded, causing great losses to the work of the headquarters organs.

Coupled with the enemy's rampant aggression, the comrades of the 38th Army have brought many difficulties in their daily lives and operational command.

Fan Tianen, commander of the 335th Regiment, led the cadres to carefully study and find out the enemy's temper, made very detailed observations and studies on the laws of the activities of enemy planes and the laws of bombing and strafing, and formulated a lot of measures.

Even all troops must be ready for anti-airborne at all times,

The order of the regimental headquarters was also given to the companies.

When resting between the mountains and fields, Company Commander Sun pulled Hu Zhi, as well as the platoon commanders and elder Liu, to convey the orders of their superiors.

"The planes of the American devils are rampant, seriously affecting the efficiency of our travel, and the superiors require us to record the time when the plane flies in and the time when it flies away while avoiding the plane, and summarize the rules. (End of chapter)