Xia Yuan did not expect that Commander Zheng wanted to let him retreat first. He refused without thinking. Of course, he did not mention the idea of retreating south, but said: "Commander, my leg is in good condition and has recovered very well."
Be quick, it won’t affect the march, and it won’t drag everyone down.”
"It's not a matter of drag or not, but it's too dangerous. We are surrounded by enemies. Once the enemies catch up, your life will be in danger."
Teacher Zheng is very concerned about Xia Yuan's personal safety.
Xia Yuan smiled: "Commander, when the First Company and the Seventh Company were blocking the US 24th Division, they lived and died with the position. I originally planned to work with them and live and die with the position. I didn't expect that due to a strange combination of circumstances, I actually...
I survived, and now I am retreating. What is the difference between that and deserting? As a soldier, dying on the battlefield is what I dream of, rather than retreating with the baggage now."
After a pause, his eyes showed a hint of pleading: "Teacher, I can still fight!"
"Hey." Commander Zheng sighed and said to Deputy Commander Duan: "Old Duan, don't worry, it's no longer safe here. The command post will be moved from this ravine to the mountain soon, so that each regiment can seize the commanding heights immediately.
The more the enemy makes a surprise attack, the less we can suffer heavy losses. You must stay calm. If you panic, the comrades below will have even less backbone. After we go up the mountain, we must immediately inform the commander of the situation here."
Deputy Commander Duan glanced at Xia Yuan, withdrew his gaze, and replied: "Yes, Sir, I am calm and collected. From now on, I will learn from Sir's steady spirit."
Chief of Staff Wang picked up the documents from the division headquarters and started walking up the mountain. He said, "Old Duan, you can tell us when we go up the mountain. We need to move quickly. We need to move faster."
"Chief of Staff, let me help you."
Xia Yuan took the initiative to help.
"Your leg..." Chief of Staff Wang glanced at Xia Yuan's broken leg.
"It's okay, I recovered quickly."
Xia Yuan fooled around, holding the document and limping up the mountain. When everyone saw this, they quickly followed.
The Telecommunications Office of the U.S. Tenth Army has just been equipped with radio counter-reconnaissance and tracking equipment, which was just distributed by the headquarters that morning. The Telecommunications Office submitted an application for this equipment as early as the first stage of the Fifth Battle. Although it was sent
It arrived a little late, but it was quite timely. After it was shipped here in the morning, it was unpacked and assembled immediately. After debugging it several times, it was found that there was no problem and it was put into use immediately. The effect was very significant.
Lieutenant Colonel Ada, director of the Telecommunications Department, reported the matter to Almond. After screening multiple frequencies, the communications troops finally locked the general direction of the high-power radio station of the 180th Division. The tracker was owned by three people.
Operator, one of the people put down his earphones and immediately reported the situation to Lieutenant Colonel Ada:
"This radio station is closed now. We speculate that it must have moved to another place. The radio station is on. As long as we give us ten more minutes, we can narrow it down to a radius of thirty kilometers."
Lieutenant Colonel Ada was very satisfied with the functions of these devices and nodded: "Very good, you continue to monitor, I will report to the general right away."
Lieutenant Colonel Ada is a thoughtful intelligence officer. After taking charge of the anti-tracking equipment this time, he asked the communication troops to work in groups of three and alternately work day and night in three groups to cooperate with the combat troops to achieve the expected results.
After the 180th Division command post was moved to the mountain, correspondent Xiao Yi immediately started the radio. Translator Zhao Guobang extended the dipole antenna by another ten meters and supported it at a height of two meters. The surrounding area was camouflaged with branches and some stones.
After Xiao Yi turned on the radio, she always felt that something was wrong. There was interference for a while, then it disappeared, and then it came back again. Zhao Guobang came over to listen and felt strange: "Quickly send out what the teacher said, and then you can continue to debug."
In fact, this intermittent interference was exactly the function of the anti-detection tracker of the US Tenth Army. Xiao Yi was not aware of such a danger at this time. He copied the code, had Zhao Guobang translate it, and handed it to the division commander.
This time the military headquarters issued orders very quickly.
This was another telegram that changed the fate of the 180th Division: "Secure and ready for reinforcements, your flanks and rear are protected by troops."
At this time, in the headquarters of the 60th Army, Commander Wei was also paying close attention to the movements of the 180th Division. While answering Commander Zheng, he urged the 179th Division and the 181st Division to stop all actions and quickly report to the 180th Division.
Division Zero moved closer, but he also knew very well that the current situation was too complicated.
Compared with the US military, our army no longer has any advantage. Although the 179th Division is the closest to the 180th Division, it is still more than 100 kilometers away.
More than one hundred kilometers, it doesn't seem far, but this more than one hundred kilometers is not like in later generations. There are highways, national highways, and straight roads. This was in North Korea, when there were planes in the sky and tanks on the ground. The roads were all
Where Americans go, volunteer soldiers can only go through mountain roads and ditches. The worse the road is, the more we go there. Enemy planes control the roads all the time.
Therefore, such a journey requires more energy, consumes energy, and kills time. On the way, you have to deal with various unexpected situations, and there are too many unforeseen things.
It was not that they had not discussed adopting the decision of the 180th Division to move south, but the intelligence sent through the Third Corps showed that the situation in the enemy's rear was even more dire.
Originally, the 180th Division was surrounded by the enemy on the south bank of the Han River, and was reinforced by the 179th Division and the 181st Division. However, once it entered the enemy's rear, everything was unpredictable. There were five Korean divisions to the east, and the US Army in the middle.
The Tenth Army, to the north is seven or eight divisions of the United Nations Army, and there is a second echelon in the rear, with a strength of about hundreds of thousands.
Breaking through to the enemy's rear, there was only a brief lull. When the enemy reacted, mechanized troops were deployed, and aircraft were circling in the sky. The 180th Division was really calling the sky and the earth to be unresponsive.
Therefore, they rejected the plan of the 180th Division to go south and chose the 179th Division and the 181st Division to reinforce the 180th Division. This might still have a chance.
Xia Yuan wiped the rain off his face, stood on the mountain with the document in his arms, and turned on night vision to inspect the surrounding wilderness. Except for the fierce fighting in the distance, there was nothing nearby.
"Chief of Staff, documents."
"Thank you, Xia Yuan, there are too many documents." Chief of Staff Wang also held a lot of documents in his arms and climbed up the mountain with great difficulty. He joked: "I'm not as good as you with a broken leg."
"Chief of Staff, I ate a lot of canned food at the enemy's station. You and the division commander haven't eaten for a long time. It's raining so heavily now, and we are exhausted mentally and physically."
"That's great, it would be great if we could also enter the camp of the foreign devils, so that the soldiers can have a good meal." Chief of Staff Wang said jokingly, then fell silent, put the documents in order, and said, "Idiots are talking about dreams, we must really fight in a war."
It's as simple as that."
Xia Yuan also felt a sense of powerlessness. If it were a company, it would be fine. He would still have a way to reach the enemy's headquarters and get some supplies. But now they are a division, with wounded, cadres, soldiers, and civilian personnel.
, no matter how you look at it, it seems impossible.
He is just a super soldier who has been strengthened by the system. In terms of decision-making and troop formation, he is really not as good as Commander Zheng and others. The plan to go south is just that the 180th Division breaks out to the north and there is no hope of breaking out to the east.
Under the circumstances, he came up with it. Without the conditions for foresight, Xia Yuan speculated that he might still lead the company to stop the enemy.
But in fact, even though I tried my best to change, I was unable to change the current situation of the 180th Division.
The military orders are overwhelming. I can convince Deputy Commander Duan, but can I convince Chief of Staff Wang, Director Wu, Commander Zheng and other cadres in the division? It is obviously impossible.
After handing the document to Chief of Staff Wang, Xia Yuan dug into his pocket and took out a box of wet matches. He couldn't slide them for a long time, so he simply gave up.
He brought back some of the glory strips of the 1st and 7th companies, whatever he could find and bring with him, including the suicide notes found in the pockets of some soldiers after they died, and handed them over to the division commander.
There was a box full of suicide notes in the box, and those suicide notes were only a very small part of what was brought back.
Teacher Zheng sat next to Xia Yuan, took out a lighter from his pocket, shook it vigorously, and handed it to Xia Yuan.
Xia Yuan was stunned for a moment, then took the lighter and glanced at it.
"It was seized from the Japanese and given to me by Deputy Commander Duan. I have kept it until now. It can still be used. Let's give it a try." Commander Zheng said.
"The cigarette is wet." Xia Yuan dug into his pocket, took out a crumpled cigarette, and threw the paper helplessly on the ground.
"You, you are still feeling sulky in your heart."
Teacher Zheng could see that Xia Yuan was in a bad mood, so he took the lighter he handed over and put it in his pocket and said with a smile.
Xia Yuan shook his head: "No."
He was worried about the future fate of the 180th Division. He had obviously worked very hard and achieved various military exploits. He finally entered the division headquarters and told Commander Zheng what was going to happen in the future. But the military commander came down
With a single order, all my efforts were in vain.
"Actually, your plan is advisable, but the only option is to cross the river twice. Have you ever thought that after we cross the river, we will not have any reinforcements, and we will be chased and intercepted by the enemy. These enemies are all
Mechanization has begun, but our soldiers have not eaten for a long time. They are tired, hungry, hungry and cold, and cannot outrun the enemy's cars."
Commander Zheng seemed to be overthinking, "In that case, how many of our comrades would die on the way to transfer? Any possible action plan is not something we can decide. We just look at the problem from the perspective of the current problem. Military
The commander, even Shiji, looked at the problem from the overall perspective, such as asking the 179th Division to come for reinforcements."
"Should we abandon our current positions, give up friendly forces to support us, and cross the river a second time, facing hundreds of thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops, the risk would be greater, or should we stick to our original position and wait for the 179th Division to come to meet us, and the risk would be greater."
Xia Yuan opened his mouth and wanted to say that the 179th Division would not come to respond.
Commander Zheng seemed to have read through Xia Yuan's thoughts and said, "Do you think the 179th Division will not come to pick us up in person?"
Xia Yuan nodded, with a bit of weakness. It was still the same problem. He came from the future, and Master Zheng and the others were in the present.
What Master Zheng said was as Xia Yuan expected. He said: "We must trust our superiors and our comrades. You must understand that an order is related to the life and death of hundreds of soldiers. If we cannot even trust our comrades, we will not even be able to trust our comrades."
We cannot trust the orders from our superiors, so what do you think we should rely on to win the battle?"
Xia Yuan understood that military orders were like mountains, and he was not talking about it. Compared with his own inference, the orders of the military department were more important. He could not violate it. As the division commander, Commander Zheng could not violate it either. This was the duty of a soldier.
If Commander Zheng was worried about the safety of the soldiers and led the 180th Division to disobey military orders and break out early, perhaps the enemies of the four divisions would be sad overall. Even if the situation is not that bad, he has set a precedent, and it may be possible in the future.
More commanders choose to disobey military orders in order to protect the lives of soldiers.
Shooting Master Zheng ten times was not enough.
Xia Yuan also understood this. After the military headquarters rejected their order to go south, he did not react at all and followed the division headquarters silently, except that his heart was full of sorrow.
"Commander, there is a call from the military headquarters." Zhao Guobang ran over with the order issued by the military headquarters. Commander Zheng looked at it, stood up, and immediately walked to Xiao Yi and said: "Send the report to the military headquarters again, the enemy
Raid the left wing of our division. I have sent people to seize several commanding heights here. Now the US military is gradually narrowing the encirclement of our 180th Division. Please ask the commander to immediately send friendly troops to reinforce! The situation is extremely urgent! Xiao Yi, send a report immediately
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"Tick tock tock."
The Morse keys were shaking rapidly, but just after Xiao Yi finished uttering his first sentence, the power suddenly went off. He repeatedly tapped the machine cover, but the power light did not come on. This made Xiao Yi anxious.
When Teacher Zheng saw it, he quickly said: "What's wrong, Xiaoyi? The radio is broken?"
Xiao Yi replied: "The radio is definitely not broken. It probably rained just now and the battery got water. Let it dry for a while and see if it works."
After saying that, Xiao Yi continued to play with the radio.
Commander Zheng comforted him: "Don't worry, it's okay. You and Lao Zhao will study it first. The deputy commander and I will go down the mountain to take a look. Pay attention to safety. It's not very safe here now."
Xiao Yi responded: "Yes! Teacher, you should also pay attention!"
Xia Yuan stood up and said: "Sir, I will go with you."
"Okay."
Master Zheng knew that Xia Yuan was not in a good mood, so he nodded in agreement.
The communication between the 180th Division and the military headquarters suddenly dropped, which made Commander Wei, Deputy Commander Cha, Chief of Staff Deng and others very anxious. They didn't know that there was a problem with the 180th Division's radio station. Now 180th Division
The division is surrounded by enemies, the situation is very serious, and any bad situation may happen.
Commander Wei remained calm in the face of danger and said in a deep voice: "Keep calling me, don't stop!"
The three correspondents worked together and continued to search for them in this band.
Everything else is fine, except for the fact that Mr. Zheng and the others may run into trouble.
Chief of Staff Deng said with tears: "It's too difficult for them. For so many days, the 180th Division has been fighting alone, with no soldiers, no food and ammunition supplies, and now they have to wait for reinforcements."