Chapter 21 The 180th Division combat mission is issued!
Even though the first phase of the fifth battle exposed huge hidden dangers, the bigger hidden danger was that Shiji was extremely worried that the enemy would repeat the scene of the Incheon landing that cut off the waist of the Korean peninsula. He could only continue to attack the enemy despite these hidden dangers.
, trying to delay the enemy with attacks so that they would not be able to repeat the Inchon landing.
On the 26th, the Chinese and North Korean troops continued to attack the enemy in depth and occupied the second-line position of the United Nations Army that day. On the 28th, the main force of the US military withdrew to Seoul, and the 1st Cavalry Division was also ordered to go for reinforcements. Van Fleet hooked up around Seoul.
With a dense firepower network in place, each artillery company fired an average of more than 3,000 artillery shells. On the 28th, the U.S. Air Force conducted 39 bombings on Seoul's forward positions in one day.
The U.S. military has opened a large net of death in Seoul, waiting for the volunteers to plunge into it.
Fortunately and unfortunately, the advance of the Volunteer Army stopped at the front line of Seoul, because seven days have passed since the start of the fifth battle. All the troops on the front line have run out of ammunition and food and can no longer fight with the US military. Twenty
On the 9th, Shiji ordered a halt to the offensive across the board, and the first phase of the fifth battle had just ended.
Xia Yuan recalled this period of history, and heard the excited voice of Captain Lei in his ears: "In just seven days, our army advanced the front line fifty to eighty kilometers south and wiped out at least 20,000 enemies!
Twenty thousand people, comrades, what is the concept of twenty thousand people? One US military division, we killed a whole US military division!"
The excited discussion of the soldiers resounded in the tunnel, and even the big man clapped happily, with a smile on Chen Lie's face.
In comparison, Xia Yuan seemed much calmer. He knew very well that although this number was gratifying, the difficulty of the process was probably only known to Shiji and him, a person from the future.
During the battle, the US military resisted step by step and always maintained the continuity of the front, making it difficult for the volunteers to achieve effective breakthroughs and roundabouts. Even if they organically surrounded the entire division or regiment of the US military during the battle, they were unable to eliminate them.
Even now that the fifth battle has been declared over, all volunteers are in the cheering stage of winning the battle. However, as everyone knows, the enemy's fangs have just been revealed.
Xia Yuan was worried in his heart. He understood that Li Qiwei would definitely not let go of the weakness of the Volunteer Army after the "Week Offensive" and launch a large-scale counterattack in an attempt to repeat the great pursuit in the latter part of the Fourth Battle. How to deal with Li Qiwei's large-scale counterattack was actually a matter of course.
During the great pursuit at the end of the Fourth Battle, Shiji had already noticed that after the first phase of the Fifth Battle, he had already begun to discuss how to deal with the enemy's massive counterattack.
This is also the second stage of the fifth battle.
The order was finally issued to the 180th Division.
The 60th Army decided that the 180th Division would be the main offensive mission in the second phase of the Fifth Battle!
At the 180th Division meeting, commanders and soldiers from each battalion and company asked for battle one after another. The soldiers were united and were bound to achieve a beautiful victory in the second stage of the fifth battle!
After experiencing the great victory in the first stage, the fighting mood of the soldiers was extremely high. As ordinary soldiers, they were not able to see the weaknesses of our army exposed behind these battles, and the actions taken by the enemy were clearly targeting us.
How can ordinary soldiers think so much about the weakness of the military? They only want to obey orders and defeat the American emperor.
Facing the combat orders from their superiors, the fighting enthusiasm within the 180th Division continued to increase with the victory in the first stage, and they could not wait to participate in the next battle.
No one wants to be a green leaf in a battlefield, and all the officers and soldiers of the 180th Division are no exception. There is no swearing-in meeting and no pre-war mobilization, but the soldiers' fighting enthusiasm is still unprecedented.
In the tunnel, the officers and soldiers of the first company were nervously and orderly preparing ammunition and food. There was still a lot of white flour left in the tunnel. Company Commander Lei asked the cooking team to bake the white flour into cakes, and when the time came for punishment, they would be distributed to everyone in the first company.
A warrior.
The soldiers held the guns and took good care of them. They took them down and wiped them with towels. Chen Lie held the guns and said to Big Ma: "Old Ma, please be happy. We have a mission."
The big man wiped his submachine gun and said without raising his head: "No, I'm very happy. This time our 180th Division is responsible for the main attack mission. Finally, we don't have to stand back and watch the show like before."
"Hoo ho!" He blew the dust in the magazine, dug it out with a towel, and said: "It should have been like this a long time ago. It has been almost a month since we came to North Korea, and we have been staying in this tunnel all day long, listening.
Fierce fighting is coming from the front line, and I can't go out to carry out combat missions. You don't know how uncomfortable it is for me."
Xia Yuan loaded up the few large eight-pellet bullets he had and looked ready to go: "When we get to the battlefield this time, we have to show the American devils how powerful they are."
The big man loaded the gun, patted the magazine, and the gun made a clear clicking sound. He hung the strap of the gun around his neck, raised his head and said: "Lao Xia is right, this time on the battlefield, everyone will be
I showed my true ability and finally took on the main attack mission, but I can't let the comrades of the 179th Division and the 181st Division laugh at me."
Company Commander Lei and Instructor Shao came over and smiled after hearing the conversation of several people.
Company Commander Lei said: "Old Shao, it seems that the Second Platoon Commander is very confident."
Instructor Shao smiled and said: "This combat mission is hard-won. The 179th Division and the 181st Division served as our left and right wings. They can see best whether the fight is good or not. If the fight is not good, it is estimated that
Our 180th Division must be stripped of its identity as the main offensive mission, so this battle must be fought hard."
Captain Lei nodded and said: "Yes, this is the first operational mission of our 180th Division on the Korean battlefield. We must not lose the face of the division."
"Company commander, when will the superiors issue the order to depart?"
Xia Yuan came over with a gun on his back and asked.
Captain Lei said: "It's only been the past two days. We are probably taking the final rest. After the rest, we will set off to the front line."
Xia Yuan nodded and returned to a row. Wang Xiaoliang and the others were holding their guns and cleaning them attentively. Lao Yang wandered back and forth among the rows of soldiers. When he saw Xia Yuan coming back, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "How are you doing?"
Are you sure about the time?"
Xia Yuan thought about it and said, "It's probably just these two days. Maybe we'll set off the day after tomorrow at night."
Lao Yang said: "The war cannot be delayed. I heard from my comrades in the 179th Division that they have begun to retreat from the front line. They have run out of bullets and food. The enemy's strategy is very strange. While retreating, they are fighting
They fought, and many of them were exhausted physically and mentally from the chase, and had no fighting ability."
He said with some worry: "Behind this seemingly great victory, the battle was so brutal."
The U.S. military relies on mechanized troops and can easily defeat the Volunteer Army. The Volunteer Army has only two legs. It cannot outrun the enemy's tanks, armored vehicles and trucks. Even if the enemy stops and the tanks are lined up, it is impossible to break through the enemy's defense line.
An easy thing.
At the beginning of the first phase, the unexpected attack achieved effective results. In the following days, our army kept looking for opportunities, but they were all solved by the enemy in a line-by-line manner, so that
The subsequent results were not very satisfactory, but they succeeded in driving the enemy back fifty to eighty kilometers, which had reached the expectations of the fifth battle. The only difference was that the number of enemies annihilated this time was not the same.
Meet the requirements in Shiji's mind.
What they envisioned was to divide, intersperse, and encircle two or three enemy divisions to be annihilated.
Xia Yuan was a little surprised by what Lao Yang was thinking. After thinking for a while, Xia Yuan said: "The US military has armor and tanks. If the enemy's armor and tanks are not torn apart, they will sit in the car and we will rely on two
Legs, we definitely cannot catch up with the enemy. Not only can we not catch up, the enemy can even attack us in turn. When we are tired from running, they will suddenly turn around and attack us. When we fight them, they will drive armored vehicles.
Keep running."
Lao Yang suddenly raised his head and looked at Xia Yuan in disbelief.
Xia Yuan asked: "Does it look familiar?"
Lao Yang nodded: "Isn't this the guerrilla warfare we often use?"
Xia Yuandao: "Yes, our guerrilla warfare was learned by the enemy, and even derived a tactic specifically for our army, magnetic tactics. The difference from guerrilla warfare is that the method used by the US military is the use of mechanized troops
ongoing."
Lao Yang clenched his fists and said, "They are really a tough group of guys."
He asked: "Lao Xia, do you have any way to deal with it?"
Xia Yuan thought about it and shook his head, "Currently there is no good way to deal with this kind of enemy tactics. The derivative of tactics is an all-round competition, not only weapons and equipment, but also logistics and transportation."
If you want to break the enemy's magnetic tactics, even if Xia Yuan stands in the future, this magnetic tactic is basically unsolvable. The enemy has strong logistical support, has the advantages of sea, land and air, and its weapons and equipment are far superior.
For our army, our army only relied on fried noodles and sorghum rice, and was pursuing two legs. Under such a huge difference, it was almost impossible to break the enemy's magnetic tactics.
Xia Yuan thought about it, what about using division and encirclement? In fact, the fifth battle has been tried and failed. After the first phase of the fifth battle began, our volunteer army has already carried out the tactic of division and encirclement against the various departments of the United Nations.
They were eaten up one by one, but because the gap between our army and the enemy was too big, and there were some problems with the 63rd Army and the 65th Army, even if the enemy was divided and surrounded, they were not able to eat it.
The enemy used a battalion of the Ninth Corps to surround an enemy armored field artillery battalion. They fought fiercely for three days and three nights and suffered hundreds of casualties, while the enemy only suffered fifteen casualties.
The gap is like an unpleasurable chasm.
If we want to break the enemy's magnetic tactics, we can only change the current situation where the Volunteer Army lags behind the enemy's weapons and equipment, and allow the Volunteer Army to have the same firepower as the enemy. Only then can we destroy the enemy's magnetic tactics. This is even more impossible.
Lao Yang did not really face the US military many times. When he first entered North Korea, he was bombed and strafed by US aircraft. Then in the defense zone, enemy platoons came to investigate the deployment of the 60th Army.
The platoon and the second platoon quickly attacked, firing their bows left and right, and annihilated the enemy.
The only impression I have of the US military is that when they were collecting trophies, these Americans were white, tall, and had very good personal equipment. Except for having no food on them, they had everything else. They were better than themselves.
Too many.
"No matter how our weapons and equipment lag behind the enemy, and no matter what means the enemy has to deal with us, I always firmly believe that victory belongs to us!"
Lao Yang's eyes were firm, "Since I joined the Eighth Route Army, my belief in victory has never wavered. Lao Xia, no matter how powerful the enemy is, we must face the difficulties."
"The country is behind us!"
"Our compatriots are behind us!"
"We have no reason to retreat, let alone lose the war!"
Xia Yuan looked at Lao Yang, and he knew in his heart that every volunteer soldier who participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea fought against the U.S. Army with the belief that they must win. The best proof that they rushed toward the enemy one after another, one after another, was the best proof.
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He took a deep breath and said: "I will definitely lead a platoon to win the battle! Definitely!"
The order to march was finally given. On the night of the second day, the 180th Division began to advance towards the front line. After each unit arrived at the front line combat position, they waited for the attack to begin.
The weather that night was not very good, the wind was strong and it was very cold. The soldiers packed up their weapons and equipment, carried enough food, left the defense area where they had lived for nearly a month, and headed towards the front line among the mountains. The soldiers
They tightened their clothes and followed the soldiers in front. The scouts in front kept sending news, and the sound of gunfire and artillery could be heard in the mountains and forests around them.
They will cross the Bukhan River, reach the other side of the river, enter and occupy several highlands near Xindianli, and choke off the enemies on the east and west fronts. Their combat mode is similar to that of the first phase. The mission of the Sixty Army of the Third Corps remains the same.
It is to block the U.S. military from mutual reinforcements on the east and west fronts and push the front forward.
The Bukhan River is rolling and turbulent. There are three slender wires on the river connecting the north and south banks. The volunteer soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 538th Regiment waded through the waist-high river in the dark.
When they arrived at the shore of the Bukhan River, they could hear the sound of the river churning. The battalion headquarters was convening a cadre meeting. The soldiers were scattered and hidden in the grass along the Bukhan River, waiting for the order to cross the river. Xia Yuan used night vision to
I looked at the other side with Hawkeye and found that there was no enemy defense. After the first stage of the fifth battle, the enemy had retreated. This is the territory of the Volunteer Army, but it won’t be long before this place will become a battlefield that engulfs the 180th Division.
Death place.
Lao Yang squatted next to Xia Yuan and asked: "Lao Xia, what are you thinking about?"
"nothing."
Xia Yuan shook his head and turned to look at the second and third platoons. Ma Daguo and Chen Lie were leading their platoons, which were hiding in a patch of grass. He looked away and stared at the river again.
Not long after, Captain Lei and Instructor Shao came back with orders to cross the river.