After receiving the battle order, the 113th Division quickly began to prepare.

The 112th Division, on the other hand, approached Heecheon from the east of Heecheon, planning to make a detour to the enemy's flank and cut off the enemy's retreat.

At the beginning of the orderly plan, a telegram from the 112th Division intensified the cautiousness of the commanders for the first battle.

After the headquarters of the 112th Division passed through Manpo, it lived with a division of the Korean People's Army, and at this time Manpo had been bombed by enemy planes, and the town was shrouded in a raging fire, the light of which reflected half of the sky and the valley was red.

After the Chinese and North Korean troops met, they were extremely enthusiastic with each other, and the headquarters of the 112th Division invited the cadres of the People's Army Division Headquarters to have a meal and asked them about their combat experience on the battlefield.

The comrades of the KPA replied: "It is the black troops." ”

"Black troops?" The comrades of the volunteer army were quite different, they had seen the whites, and the blacks were really seeing them for the first time, so they asked: "How many are there?" ”

"A thousand people, about a regiment."

Heecheon has a 'black regiment' of the US military? This was too different from the report of the Volunteer Army Headquarters that there was a battalion of the puppet army, and the cadres and comrades of the 112th Division had a hunch that this situation was very important, so they promptly sent a telegram to the military headquarters.

This also surprised the comrades of the military department, and immediately sent scouts, planning to sneak attack and see if they could catch their tongues.

The soldiers of the army reconnaissance team went to Caochu Station and fought with the enemy, but they did not catch prisoners, coupled with the mistakes in intelligence, the situation in Xichuan was vague at the moment, and the 38th Army could not figure out the situation in Xichuan, whether it was a puppet army or an American army.

This was the first battle of the 38th Army's entry into Korea, and the cadres and comrades of the military headquarters were united in their efforts to fight this battle well, and they all fought beautifully, so they were very cautious when it was not clear how to deal with the enemy in Heecheon.

This is not because the 38th Army is afraid of the enemy, but because the enemy's intelligence is unknown, whether it is a puppet army or the US army, it would rather fight it as a regiment of the US army than underestimate the strength of the US army.

Any contempt for the enemy is likely to cause great sacrifices.

Adhering to the principle of 'knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and not being defeated in a hundred battles,' the cadres and comrades were particularly cautious about the first battle of entering the DPRK.

"Just fight according to the battle plan of an estimated regiment of the US army, tell the 112th Division, and prepare immediately!"

The 334th Regiment took a train to Jiangjie, but because the station was blown up, they had to change to walk and accept the task of launching an attack from the east side of Xichuan on the way.

The 335th Regiment crossed the Yalu River early and was evacuated and rested on the bank of a large east-west river east of Manpu.

That afternoon, after the 335th Regiment received the order from the division, the regiment commander looked at the documents, raised his head and said to the regimental chief of staff: "Let us quickly approach Xichuan." ”

"It's not too much of a problem, we're not far from Heecheon."

The regimental chief of staff raised his head, his face was tanned from the perennial battle, and his face was tense in the cold wind, with a bit of anticipation.

The deputy head of the regiment couldn't hide his excitement: "It's finally started, we've been waiting for a long time, grandma's, I've been bombed by the Yankees' plane for so long, and I can finally vent my bad anger." ”

The commanders and fighters of the 335th Regiment were all very excited, and they were bound to fight the first battle abroad.

The 112th Division was tasked with cutting off the enemy's retreat after a detour on the flanks.

The 113th Division was also the vanguard division of the 38th Army; after receiving the combat mission, the division commander quickly got in touch with the avant-garde regiment, and the party discipline ordered Comrade Zhang Fu, director of radio broadcasting, to carry the radio and accompany the 337th Regiment to attack Xichuan.

In the early days of the DPRK's entry, some telegraph operators were very worried that the location of the radio station would be detected by the enemy and that it would be bombed by planes.

Comrade Zhang Fu was a brave, skilled, and conscientious comrade, and it was only fitting that he should be entrusted with the task of contacting the main attack group.

In fact, there is no need for the radio station to be afraid of being measured by the enemy; during the battle, there are many troops, and there are many radio stations, and there is a radio station of three or five square kilometers or seven or eight square kilometers, and the enemy often repeatedly measures and cross-measures in order to get an approximate measurement, and it is inaccurate.

Facts have proved that on the Korean battlefield, the radio stations of the volunteers have not been bombed.

After receiving the task assigned by his superiors, Comrade Zhang Fu quickly led the radio station and his entourage to catch up with the avant-garde regiment, thinking in his heart that if he could not find the 337th regiment in time, he might miss the time for the main attack and delay the fighters.

Marching quickly along the way, he didn't care about taking a breath on the road, and hurriedly finally caught up with the 337th Regiment.

Immediately report the situation of the 337th Regiment to the division headquarters, and at the same time report that it has arrived safely.

However, he was surprised by the reply of the division headquarters, and the 338th Regiment had already gone to the front of the 337th Regiment and asked him to catch up with the 338th Regiment immediately.

This made Comrade Zhang Fu anxious, this place is not far from Xichuan, if he can't catch up with the 338th Regiment in time, maybe the 338th Regiment has already exchanged fire with the enemy.

Communication and liaison in battle is an important means to ensure that commanders understand the battle situation and convey orders; in particular, in the course of fighting a modern enemy, the situation is changing rapidly, and if there is no radio communication contact, it will not be easy to capture fighters, and it will be impossible to grasp the fate.

Twenty-eighth.

Night.

The 338th Regiment of the avant-garde arrived near Xichuan, encountered the enemy, killed one enemy and captured one, Zhang Fu immediately contacted the division headquarters through the radio, and the 337th Regiment encountered the enemy in Daidong, the pavilion northwest of Xichuan, and killed, wounded and captured 17 enemies.

When the 338th Regiment encountered the enemy, the 112th Division, which was responsible for cutting off the enemy's retreat, quickly began to advance after receiving the task.

Whew, the cold wind was blowing, and the soldiers of the 335th Regiment were rapidly attacking Xichuan, the 334th Regiment was the vanguard of the 112th Division, and it was already close to the periphery of Xichuan's flank.

"Pick up the pace!"

Company Commander Sun's voice sounded at dusk and sunset.

At this moment, they didn't care whether they would be discovered by enemy planes, and they had to rush to Xichuan as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, it was dark early in North Korea, and at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was already half dark, and the surrounding scenery was dim very quickly.

Zhou Mao accidentally fell into the mud, Xia Yuan dragged him up and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's falling, it's a small problem." Zhou Mao grinned in pain, his palm quickly swelled, he had been frostbitten before, and a hole was cracked, and when he fell, his palm fell on the cold and hard ground, and red blood oozed from the mouth.

He put it in his mouth and sucked, looked at Xia Yuan's worried eyes, grinned and said, "It's okay, let's go." ”

"Keep up, keep up, don't be left behind." Elder Liu shouted at the top of his voice, turned his head and saw the two of them standing there, and ran over: "What are you doing, you fell?" Serious not serious. ”

"Squad leader, it's okay, my hand is frozen and cracked, I just fell and bleed." Zhou Mao's hands were already red and swollen.

"Hey, it's so serious." Elder Liu glanced at it and wondered, "It's so freezing, when you go back to cook, you squat by the fire pit and roast it." ”

"Ugh." Zhou Mao nodded happily.

"When you get to the battlefield, I'll find you an American devil's military coat."

Although when they entered the DPRK, they changed into cotton clothes and cotton pants, but the weather in North Korea is very cold, and the temperature has dropped so much that people who have not experienced such a cold day, even if they wear thick clothes, are prone to frostbite.

Just as they were running forward, the scout in front was running back, and Company Commander Sun saw that it was an old acquaintance, and hurriedly pulled him: "Stinky boy, I went to the division reconnaissance team, how is it?" ”

"Hey, company commander." The little man saw that it was Company Commander Sun, and his face showed unexpected joy: "You have just walked here, hurry up and move forward, if you walk slowly, you won't be able to get meat." ”

"What's going on, what's going on up ahead?" Company Commander Sun asked.

"The 334th Regiment has encountered the enemy, and it is fighting, and the enemy is fleeing for their lives, so go quickly." The little scout hurriedly said: "Company Commander Sun, I won't talk to you, I have to rush back to the division headquarters and report to the division commander, hey, this foreign devil is a paper tiger, it will break when you touch it, and you don't even have the courage to fight." ”

With that, he hurriedly ran away.

Company Commander Sun glanced at the time, it was already seventeen and thirteen, and immediately ordered: "Speed up!" ”

At 17 o'clock on the 29th, the 334th Regiment launched an attack on the enemy in Xichuan, cleared the enemy on the periphery of Xichuan in a very short time, captured more than 100 prisoners, and went to the city of Xichuan, and pounced in the air.

A good opportunity to annihilate the enemy was lost.

The 335th Regiment caught up, only grabbed a tail root, and intercepted five cars, which were full of biscuits, sugar, whiskey and other food and drinks.

"Special code, these guys belong to horses, they run so fast."

Fan Tianen rushed to the only battle site, looked at the three prisoners he had captured, and the six puppet soldiers he had killed, and spat at the mouth angrily.

Xia Yuan and the others stood halfway up the mountain, holding their guns and watching from afar, it was the first company that had just fought, and they ran slowly in the third company, so that the first company had made a profit.

"Old Sun, let's go to the city, maybe the enemy hasn't escaped yet." Instructor Hu was a little anxious, and finally ran into the enemy, but he didn't fire a single shot, and he didn't get any credit.

The order of the regiment commander came down again.

"Attack the city!"

Everyone ran with the company, and they basically didn't stop much since they entered the court, and they were out of breath and out of breath.

Running into Heecheon City, there is no trace of the enemy in sight.

"What's going on, people?"

"Go search!"

Company Commander Sun did not believe in evil, so he took one row to search from the left, and let the second row and three rows search from the right.

The eldest Liu was not idle, carrying a big black pot on his back, and ran forward with seven or eight soldiers from the cooking class: "Hurry up, keep up, if you run slowly, you won't be able to catch good things." Hey, the things in the American cabinet are good, and they have everything. ”

Xia Yuan followed unhurriedly, his eyes scanning the house.

It was found that the vast majority of the houses were intact, and telephone lines could be seen, indicating that the enemy had fled in a hurry, neither destroying the houses nor tearing out the telephone lines.

"Grandma's, they're all gone, and there's nothing left."

Company Commander Sun was in a barracks, took off the hat on his head, and gasped, "This group of guys is a dog's nose, and we haven't arrived yet, so we smelled and ran away." ”

Everyone was in a bad mood, after running for so long, thinking that they could kill a few more sticks, or American devils, but they didn't expect that after marching for many days, Xichuan was actually an empty city.

"It must be the 40th Army, the 40th Army fought with the enemy in Wenjing a few days ago, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, and aroused the vigilance of the enemy in Xichuan."

Instructor Hu remembered the great victory not long ago.

He was right, the 40th Army inflicted heavy losses on the enemy at Wenjing, causing the enemy to be alerted and retreating in a hurry, in fact, there was not a long difference between the two, and the most important reason was that they did not understand the enemy, were too cautious, and when issuing orders, they thought more about it, resulting in missing the best opportunity to attack.

"So what now?"

Everyone stared at each other.

"Take a break and wait for orders from your superiors." Company Commander Sun put his hat back on, "Instructor, you watch first, I'll go find the battalion commander." ”

"Clean, take a break, drink water, catch your breath." Instructor Hu responded and shouted to the soldiers.

Everyone leaned against the wall, sat on the ground, drank water, went to the toilet, and some people were not idle, searching everywhere.

The elder Liu was curious about the Yankees' things, and found a lot of leftover cans, opened them to look for them, and could also find one or two leftover cigarettes and leftover sugar cubes.

"Xia Yuan, peace, you all come here."

Elder Liu called the soldiers of the cooking squad to him, and took out a black piece of something from his pocket that had been bitten halfway.

Xia Yuan glanced at it and knew in his heart that it was a piece of chocolate.

"What is this, squad leader, it's so dark."

You've never seen anything like this.

"Taste it." Elder Liu Hehe smiled, carefully broke it with his hand, and everyone divided it.

"Oh, Xia boy, it's yours." The eldest elder Liu left a big piece for Xia Yuan.

"Squad leader, you eat, I don't eat." Xia Yuan shook his head.

"If you want to take it, you can take it, there is no such good thing for you to eat in China." A smile appeared on the swarthy face of the elder Liu.

Xia Yuan had no choice but to take it, but instead of eating, he secretly put the chocolate in his pocket.

Everyone put it in their mouths, and their faces showed surprise.

Xiao Heping screamed, "Squad leader, it's delicious, what is this, it tastes weird." ”

"It's a little bitter at first, but it's fragrant and sweet at the back."

"It's black, it's the same as coal, I didn't expect it to taste so good."

Everyone gossiped and asked where the elder Liu was found.

The elder Liu spread his hands: "The American devils eat the leftovers, there is no more." ”

"Look for it again."

Then, everyone found some cigarettes, sugar cubes, breakfast tea, biscuits, instant coffee, etc., as well as leftover canned meat from the leftover cans eaten by the American devils, and everyone was a little disgusted and threw them away.

Now they are not short enough to eat what the enemy eats leftovers.

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Just then, the whistle sounded outside. (End of chapter)