Chapter 83: Catching a turtle in an urn

5 p.m. on November 26.

The 112th Division occupied Yunsong-ri and other places west of Tokugawa, cutting off the route of the puppet 7th Division's westward escape and severing its connection with the US Army and the Turkish Brigade.

Half an hour after the 112th Division launched the attack, the 113th Division also launched an attack on the enemy in front of it, and the leaders of the division believed that the first battle had not completed its mission, and this time it was necessary to fight a turnaround battle at all costs.

Comrade Jiang Chao demanded that all regiments should be prepared to be the vanguard, and that the vanguard of each regiment should be two battalions, one battalion would fight, and the other battalion would continue to advance.

The 337th Regiment, as the vanguard of the 113th Division, launched an attack on a battalion of the puppet 10th Regiment, and soon captured the 583 heights, and repelled the counterattack of a company of the enemy east of the 755.4 heights, and controlled the Jiangbei departure position.

The 338th Regiment continued to advance, and after being lightly armed, they began to climb over the 755th Heights.

Most of the mountains in the north of Korea are gentle in the north and steep in the south, and the southern slope of the 755 highlands is very steep, with ravines on both sides, and there are no roads on the mountains.

Above, there were signal flares flying in the distance, and the cannonballs whined overhead, and no one cared about them, sliding down vigorously.

In particular, when the comrades of the cooking squad carried a cauldron on their backs and slipped and rolled down, they made a clanging sound, like a machine-gun fire.

They interspersed from the eastern side of Tokugawa to the south of Tokugawa, where the Pseudo-7th Division and the Pseudo-8th Division were combined, and the defense was weak, and the progress was very smooth.

At 9 o'clock that night, they arrived at Xinpingli on the riverside of Datong, where a bunch of enemies were burning fires, and the Eighth Company, which was in charge of the sharp knives of the avant-garde battalion, immediately launched an attack on the enemy on the riverside, and in only 20 minutes, they routed the enemy on the riverside and captured a few prisoners.

The Datong River flows through the southwest and east of the Tokugawa River, where it is about 80 meters wide and 1 meter deep.

There are bridges under the water to wade.

The river is murmuring, and the cold wind is swishing.

Thin ice had formed on the banks of the river, and the water splashed on the pebbles on the shore and froze very slippery.

The military affairs section chief of the 113th Division, surnamed Chen Jindu, looked at the cool river and felt quite biting as soon as the cold wind blew, so he prepared to cross the river on horseback.

But he saw that Comrade Yu Jingshan, the political commissar of the division, had already taken off his shoes, socks and cotton pants, and said loudly to the comrades around him: "Don't be afraid of the cold, after crossing the river, we will win!"

Yu Jingshan walked onto the bridge under the water, and Jiang Chao also stepped into the river.

Chen Jindu admired this spirit of taking the lead in his heart, and also took off his cotton pants and shoes and socks to cross the river.

As soon as I stepped into the water, I couldn't help but shiver, the water was not deep enough to my knees, it was cold and piercing, and it invaded the flesh and bones, causing pain and pain.

Stepping barefoot on the pebbles on the shore, the soles of my feet seem to be pierced with a row of nails, and my heart hurts.

In order to prevent the river from wetting the machine, Zhang Fu, the director of the newspaper, put the machine high on his head and let the cotton pants below be wet by the cold river water.

Female nurse Hao Xiuzhi went to Haikou before going abroad, how much gay men carry, how much she carries, what gay men can do, she is just as capable.

She did what she said and fought for the lesbians.

Since entering the court, she has always carried two dry rations on her back, one for the wounded and the other for herself. After continuous marching, the soles of her feet were blistered and worn out, and she couldn't wear shoes, so she tied them with small ropes, gritted her teeth and persevered, never complaining.

She marched at night, washed the wounded and boiled water to drink during the day, and never knew how to be tired.

When crossing the river, she also took off her cotton socks and cotton pants like her male comrades, and walked into the cold river water, her courage to overcome the cold and hardships was not inferior to that of male comrades.

After crossing the river, the cold wind blew, and the wet cotton clothes were frozen hard, and there was a thick layer of frost on the body.

When the political commissar of the regiment saw these soldiers, he was both fond and distressed, and said to the instructor of the sixth company, "Roast them on fire."

The 338th Regiment served as a company of guards, and when they crossed the river, they took off their cotton pants and soaked half of their bodies

Soaking in the water, his legs were freezing and aching, as if they had been scratched by sharp claws.

Everyone endured the pain, step by step forward, the cooking squad walking in front had already gone ashore, the company commander had just walked to the center of the river with the team, the third platoon of the rear guard had not yet entered the water, suddenly a soldier who went up to the river bank shouted in surprise: "The enemy is coming from the left!"

When everyone looked up, they saw that there was a battalion of the enemy who had come to seize the ferry.

The company commander immediately ordered the platoon commander: "Run, quickly seize the beachhead!"

Without hesitation, a platoon of soldiers ran wildly and ran in the river, splashing high and far away.

They rushed ashore, grabbed their rifles, picked up their machine guns and opened fire.

Three rows mounted machine guns on the ridge in the north of the river and fired fiercely.

The fighters didn't even bother to wear cotton pants, and one by one, with their bare butts, rushed to the shore.

Chen Yanrong, the leader of the first squad, led a squad of soldiers, and rushed up with his bare butt while throwing the grenade.

When the first grenade blossomed in the enemy group, killing several enemies on the spot, this group of Li puppet soldiers reacted in hindsight, and in the vast dark night, it was not clear how many volunteers there were, so they could only rush to meet the battle.

The third platoon was head-on from the southeast with a machine-gun fried meat and suppressed the enemy.

All the guys in the company who could use it opened fire in unison, and the enemy was cornered.

The company commander took the opportunity to shout: "Comrades, rush, catch more prisoners and make more meritorious contributions!"

The morale of the soldiers was high and they pounced on them like tigers.

Not to be outdone, the squad leader Wang Haiqing clenched the grenade and raised his hand: "Comrades, rush quickly, take prisoners, don't let the enemy escape!"

"Capture more prisoners, make more meritorious contributions!"

The fighters pounced on the enemy from all sides, and after a grenade exploded, in a thick cloud of black smoke, the enemy raised his hands, drooped his head and took prisoners.

In addition to the killed, they captured more than 140 people alive, and at this time they remembered that they had not yet put on cotton pants and shoes and socks.

The bloated prisoners, fighting a cold war, were surprised and embarrassed to see the volunteers all wearing only pants.

They didn't expect that they would be caught by a group of bare-ass enemies.

Capturing prisoners with a 'bare ass' is quite rare even on Chinese and foreign battlefields.

After crossing the river, the 113th Division took a combat march, and each company had the same task, ready to serve as a sharp knife company at any time, alternating battles.

When encountering the enemy, they will never fall in love with the battle, nor will they be hindered by the enemy, and they will be inserted into the predetermined area as soon as possible to cut off the enemy's escape route.

Along the way, they routed the positions of two battalions of each of the puppet 2nd Wing and the puppet 8th Wing, and quickly inserted themselves to the south of Tokugawa to surround the Tokugawa defenders.

Dawn.

The search company and guard company of the puppet 7th Division blocked the road to Tokugawa.

The sharp knife company of the 3rd Battalion of the 338th Regiment went around the mountain beam behind the enemy, and the enemy was broken up by a burst of grenades.

They chased the enemy into the village in one go, and at once captured more than fifty prisoners, and all the others fled.

The calves that the enemy had stolen from the Korean people were still boiling in the pot, and the telephones had not had time to be withdrawn.

The soldiers of the 3rd Battalion pursued three kilometers in one go, and at 8 o'clock on the 26th, they advanced to the south of Tokugawa, occupied the areas of Jinanli, Sharifeng, and Longdong Nanshan, cut off the connection between Tokugawa and Ningyuan, and retreated from Shunchuan to the south with the enemy.

The 114th Division in front of Tokugawa, after the 112th and 113th Divisions launched an attack, launched an attack on the enemy at 8 p.m. on the evening of the 25th, and approached the defense line of the Puppet 7th Division from the north of Tokugawa.

The commander and political commissar of the 114th Division had a very tight grasp of the attack on the whole division, and the fighting progress of the 114th Division was also quite smooth.

The 340th Regiment launched a fierce attack on the enemy at the North Mountain of Tangdong, and occupied the enemy's position until 5 o'clock the next day, and then defeated the puppet 2nd and 3rd Wings.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Tiema Mountain and Sanfeng areas were captured.

The 341st Regiment sent to the enemy in the north mountain of Fayang Cave

Attack and take it down in one fell swoop.

The advance was blocked by heavy enemy artillery fire, and the enemy moved the artillery to the north of Tokugawa in order to launch an attack, so the artillery fire from the north was quite fierce.

The chief of staff of the army believed that the enemy had always relied on artillery fire and aircraft to strengthen his courage, and that if he got rid of his artillery, he would be tantamount to removing the enemy's guts, and that the experienced commander judged that the enemy was a heavy artillery and could not pass through the complex mountainous terrain, but could only advance along the highway and needed to be towed by trucks.

According to the sound of the cannon it is possible to measure its position.

After interrogating the prisoners, it was ascertained that it was the 105th Howitzer Battalion of the 7th Division, whose position was north of Shaping Village.

The whole division of the 114th Division was very much in favor of destroying the enemy's artillery position, and after discussion, it was decided that the attacking force would take out a battalion from the 341st Regiment and advance lightly to seize the enemy's artillery position first.

They were inserted into the enemy's artillery positions from the flanks!

After receiving the task, the 341st Regiment quickly broke through the enemy's fire blockade, penetrated deep into the enemy's depth, and arrived near Shaping Village at 4 o'clock on 26 July, surrounded the enemy's artillery position, and then broke into the village with four companies and reached the command post of the artillery battalion, capturing more than 40 enemy battalion commanders.

The 5th Company severed the connection between the enemy's artillery position and its command post, and annihilated the enemy 1st in the north of the village.

The 6th Company took advantage of the situation to rush into the artillery position, smashed the enemy's artillery position, completely annihilated the enemy, and routed the puppet 8th Wing that came to help.

In this battle, they captured more than 50 cars, 11 howitzers, and a number of artillery shells, which relieved the enemy's artillery threat to the 114th Division, and the battle developed quite smoothly, completely exceeding the expectations of the commanders and fighters of the 114th Division, and also boosting their morale.

The enemy, having lost the cover of artillery fire, appeared panicked and retreated.

The 114th Division fought until 11 o'clock on the 26th, occupied the Domyeong-dong and Ma-ri areas in the north of Tokugawa, and completed the task of pressing the enemy in Tokugawa.

At 8 o'clock on the same day, the enemy dispatched more than 30 vehicles from Tokugawa to the west, as if they wanted to go to the puppet 7th Division, the US 25th Division, and the Turkish Brigade to the west of Tokugawa.

The 112th Division had already occupied the west of Tokugawa, and not long after this group of enemies went out, they were ambushed by the 334th Regiment under the bridge on the river bridge.

They are already surrounded by volunteers!

When the 38th Army launched an attack on three sides of the Tokugawa enemy, the Tokugawa defenders, sensing the danger of being surrounded, sent two urgent telegrams to Lieutenant General Walker of the US Eighth Army for help.

However, Walker was still intoxicated with the illusion of victory in the "Christmas Return General Offensive", believing that the panic of the Tokugawa puppet 2nd Army would hinder the development of the entire Korean General Offensive.

He felt that he knew what he knew, and according to the reconnaissance of the US Air Force for several days, they did not find any signs of counterattack by the 38th Army of the Volunteers in front of the Puppet Seventh Division, and all signs proved that the Volunteers were losing and retreating one after another, crumbling into the army, and retreating into the jungle.

Therefore, in the face of the Tokugawa defenders' urgent telegram for help, it was just a matter of falling for the volunteers to attack the west.

He sent two telegrams back in Pyongyang and Suncheon, and both ordered the puppet Second Army to ignore this kind of harassment that did not harm the overall situation, and to give priority to the victory of the overall situation.

And told the commander of the puppet 2nd Army that the enemy would let them jump if they jumped, and they wouldn't be able to jump for long.

What he didn't know was that at the time of his telegram, the roundabout troops of the 38th Army were already quite close to Tokugawa, still lurking in the woods or in hiding places, waiting for a victorious attack by the frontal troops.

After the 335th Regiment occupied Unsong-ri, it relied on the fortifications left by the enemy to fortify Unsong-ri and surround the enemy in Tokugawa.

The third company dismantled the machine guns on the captured enemy armored vehicles and erected them on a mound, because they didn't know when the enemy would come, Xia Yuan led the soldiers into the forest, cut down trees, and built three machine gun fire bunkers with three squads as the standard.

The bunker is constructed with trees as the base tone, and the top is covered with sandbags, soil, and weeds as a camouflage.

In order to prevent enemy reconnaissance planes from discovering their positions, above the trenches of the position, he ordered the soldiers to look for branches and wild grass to cover them, and to properly solve the fresh soil dug up.

While they were preparing, the sound of shelling from the direction of Tokugawa rumbled incessantly between the vast sky and the earth, and the rumbling sound echoed between the valleys, shaking the snowy ropes on the ridges.

The battle was fierce.

At this time, the other divisions of the 38th Army launched an attack on Tokugawa's puppet 7th Division.

Xia Yuan shoveled the shovel into the soil fiercely and wiped the sweat on his face, afraid that it would not be long before the defense line of the Tokugawa Pseudo-Seventh Division would be completely broken by them.

At that time, the Tokugawa River was like a dam that burst its levy, flowing in all directions.

The soldiers on the position raised their heads and looked in the direction of Tokugawa, Zhao Xiaoyi ran over, "Platoon commander, the 334th Regiment has just won a big victory, and the enemy has formed a convoy and came to our side, and was defeated by the warriors of the 334th Regiment."

The three, three, and fourth regiments, just in front of them, surrounded Tokugawa.

And their 335th Regiment was in Unsong-ri, preventing the enemy on the west from reinforcing Tokugawa.

"It seems that the enemies of Tokugawa have realized that they are surrounded."

Xia Yuan said to everyone.

"It's long overdue, hey, look how they escaped." Gao Lin fiddled with the camouflage on the trench and said happily.

"What's this called, catching a turtle in an urn!"

Zhao Songzhu stood up and looked in the direction of Tokugawa.

Very heroic.

Free to read.