Xia Yuan has always been a man of action. If he can act early, he will not put it off later.
The regiment did not assign a mission to the third company, but assigned them a mission. However, in order to successfully capture the tongue this time, Xia Yuan arranged a corresponding mission for the third company, and brought a few additional reconnaissance soldiers to investigate with the regiment headquarters.
Even action.
The reconnaissance company at the regiment headquarters had a relatively heavy task, so he only gave Xia Yuan one squad.
One squad of soldiers is enough.
That night.
They arrived at the area north of Yongpyeong on the Hantan River, which was close to the 38th Parallel and separated from the enemy positions. After arriving here, they immediately started reconnaissance against the enemy.
Soldiers from the regiment's reconnaissance company told us that in order to ensure that there were no volunteers near the 38th Parallel, the enemy had a small force moving at the front every day, and enemy reconnaissance planes were constantly conducting reconnaissance and hovering over the north of the 38th Parallel.
Enemy artillery blocked every intersection in northern Sichuan with intermittent artillery fire.
The rumbling sound never stopped at night.
Whenever night falls, flares will fly out from near the 38th Parallel, and sky lanterns will be lit in the night sky, one after another, making the ice-covered 38th Parallel look like daylight.
It seems that the enemy is really guarding the 38th parallel as if to save their lives.
This also shows that the enemy is frightened and afraid of the arrival of Chinese and North Korean troops.
The enemy in front of the formation was tightly guarded. Xia Yuan planned to follow the old routine and get behind the enemy to cause trouble. Unexpectedly, after many observations, he found no gap to take advantage of.
It turned out that the enemy had learned the lesson after being attacked by the Volunteer Army in one or two battles. In order to appear again like the previous two battles, the retreat route was cut off by the Volunteer Army. The two armies were no longer indifferent to each other at the combined area, but
Defense measures have been strengthened.
The support point is formed at the junction between divisions, forming a front and rear system.
Careful arrangements have been made in the depth of the position. The enemy believes that their 500-mile-wide frontal defense system is an indestructible iron wall.
Xia Yuan saw that there was no opportunity to exploit, so he decided to take a look at the loopholes in the enemy's position.
There is no wall that is airtight, and there is no position that has absolutely no blind spots. Under the shining flares, the enemy's position is clearly visible.
He asked the comrades of the regiment's reconnaissance company: "Does the enemy force you mentioned operating at the front of the 38th Parallel only operate during the day?"
Wang Yaoxian, the second platoon leader of the regiment's reconnaissance company, nodded: "Yes, they all retreated at night. We conducted reconnaissance several times. The enemy's position is more complicated. It is a bit impossible to get in. It is even more difficult to catch the tongue. During the day
I thought about taking down the wandering enemy army, but they are relatively large in number and equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, so even a single company may not be able to defeat them."
He pointed to the top of his head again: "What's more, there are enemy planes in the sky that are conducting reconnaissance all the time. It's very difficult to catch the tongue."
The American devils have learned wisely. The entire 38th Line of Defense is now like a solid copper wall, airtight. Xia Yuan looked for their junction and planned to pass through their junction, but found that it was basically impossible.
Xia Yuan nodded, he quite agreed with what Wang Yaoxian said.
It is true that the American soldiers' defense on the position this time was very strict, but to him, it was nothing.
After observing for a while, he actually found a feasible path, but the process was very dangerous.
There is no absolutely airtight wall in the world. The enemy has arranged a large number of sentry posts, which indeed look like iron walls, but the sentry posts are human beings, and there will always be times when they are careless.
After a little observation, Xia Yuan decided to take the risk.
There are many enemy sentries and sentry towers, so it is basically impossible to avoid being discovered.
He quickly made the next arrangements.
"Later, I will lead people in to capture the tongue. You will take cover on the outside. Don't shoot if you are not discovered. Once we are discovered, quickly knock off the searchlight on the sentry tower."
"good!"
Wang Yaoxian asked him about his action plan and was immediately shocked.
"Your plan is really too risky."
"You can't do it without taking risks. The American devils have learned wisely. They no longer station reconnaissance posts on the outside." Xia Yuan said, "Just follow this plan."
Wang Yaoxian could only agree.
The regiment headquarters asked him to obey Xia Yuan's command and cooperate with his actions. In this case, he could only follow his plan.
Even so, he was still worried about Xia Yuan's bold plan.
Looking at the reconnaissance comrades of the Third Company sneaking in quietly, he ordered the soldiers to get ready.
Then they stared at the enemy's position. They could see the figures of several people. Under the enemy's flares, the American soldiers would launch flares every once in a while to ensure that there was enough light on the position. These tongue-grabbing warriors were quite big.
Influence.
Especially from the condescending enemy sentry tower, you can see several of their figures by staring into the wilderness.
Fortunately, these American sentry posts were relatively careless. An American standing on the sentry tower was shivering in the cold wind. He had a cigarette in his mouth, and the butt of the cigarette was giving off a warm light.
Xia Yuan sneaked in quietly without being discovered.
However, due to the minefield directly in front of them and the obstruction of barbed wire, a lot of time was really wasted, and everyone was worried about them.
In the minefield, comrades who had previously conducted reconnaissance marked the mine table, and the barbed wire was cut by them. The careless American soldiers did not notice it. They thought that their defense was quite tight.
At this moment.
Xia Yuan and the others passed through the minefield, crossed the barbed wire fence, and successfully approached the enemy's front line. Inside the enemy bunker at the front line, he heard the enemy's voice.
Sneak in with a few comrades and arrest a tongue.
This tongue is restless and keeps struggling.
Xia Yuan suppressed his voice and told him in English: "You have to be obedient. Our volunteers treat prisoners preferentially and can guarantee that you will not die. But if you make any noise during the retreat, your people will discover us. You
Someone will definitely shoot you, and you won’t be able to survive by then.”
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Xia Yuan knew that his words had worked, so he waved his hand and began to retreat.
But an accident still occurred. They were discovered by the enemy on the guard tower. Xia Yuan reacted quickly and knocked down the enemy's searchlight and the American soldiers on the guard tower with two shots.
Wang Yaoxian worried about Xia Yuan and quickly ordered the soldiers on standby to cover them.
The few people evacuated quickly. Xia Yuan remembered the way they came and said, "Follow me!"
The soldiers had already opened a safe road before the minefield was densely covered, but due to the emergency situation, it was inevitable that some soldiers would take the wrong road.
He wanted to lead them in a quick retreat.
Xia Yuan was fighting and retreating, and he knocked out several searchlights on the enemy's sentry tower. However, the enemy's lighting did not entirely rely on searchlights, but more importantly, on flares. He had no way to deal with the flares in the sky.
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Bullets rained down around them.
The American soldier was frightened and retreated with the help of two soldiers.
"Company commander, the enemy's machine gun!" A soldier heard the sound of the machine gun and looked back.
"Keep going!" Xia Yuan took his time and fired, first taking control of the enemy's bunker, then they fell on the reverse slope and crawled all the way to the rear.
This American soldier seemed to know his fate. In order not to be beaten into pieces by his own people, he could only bite the bullet and squirm on the ground.
The whole process was uneventful. Although they were discovered by the enemy, because of Xia Yuan and Wang Yaoxian's cover, they ran out smoothly and then retreated with them all the way to the rear.
However, one tongue is obviously not enough, especially since they are only arresting an ordinary soldier, and they certainly don't have much information about their troops.
Xia Yuan thought over and over again and decided to strike while the iron was hot and grab his tongue again.
Wang Yaoxian was startled: "You have just taken an adventure, are you going again?"
Xia Yuan said calmly: "We are going. Currently, the enemy has two mentalities. One is that we have been here before and we will definitely not come again a second time. They are in a relaxed state. The second is to strengthen the defense here, but I
I prefer the first one."
They scratch their tongues, rarely grabbing the same place twice in a row. Such actions will paralyze the enemy's mind.
But similarly, there will be a second possibility.
Tongue grabbing is inherently a risky action. Whether it is the former or the latter, it will not have much impact on him.
If the enemy is heavily defended, it will be easier. There are many people and it is late at night, so it is easy to make mistakes when the concentration is high.
It was the first time for Wang Yaoxian to see such a bold person, but he had to be impressed by his courage.
The enemy's pursuers did not follow us. After a short rest, they quietly lurked over again.
Looking at the enemy's position, he fell into calm again.
Wang Yaoxian was a little surprised: "Hey, you guessed it right. We didn't even turn on the lights on the sentry tower. It's just that there are too many flares here and there are too many sentry posts on duty."
Xia Yuan said: "They want to wait until tomorrow to repair it."
Wang Yaoxian asked: "What should we do next?"
"Repeat the same trick!"
In the process of capturing prisoners, our army never used any weird techniques. They only took advantage of the enemy's carelessness to quietly approach and defeat the enemy with one blow. Then a few people held their tongues and quickly retreated.
As for making false claims in the east and attacking in the west, and secretly plotting against Chen Cang, they are of no use at all.
They repeated their old tricks and really deceived the enemy. It had just happened once, so why did it happen again? Their commander even cursed and ordered the soldiers to chase them. They must chase them out, and it would be best to eliminate some enemies!
In the early stage of the second battle, our army's prisoner-capturing operation was a great success. The intelligence provided by the prisoners allowed our army to grasp the enemy's situation in detail. In addition, after the defeat of the first battle, the post-war summary, criticism and education, therefore, the second battle
The battle was a complete victory.
After tasting the sweetness, before the third battle begins, the tongue must be grasped.
While the whole army was busy scratching their heads, Shiji analyzed the situation of the Korean War in detail according to the instructions from the rear to "fight one more battle and then rest."
He believed that the "Korean War was still quite long and arduous" and formulated a campaign plan to cross the 38th Parallel, seize Seoul in a clever way, and not go too far south.
Shisi decided to concentrate 9 armies to carry out the offensive, smash the enemy's defenses at the '38th Line', and annihilate the Puppet 3rd Division, Puppet 6th Division, and Puppet 2nd Division that were deployed on the east bank of the Imjin River and the west bank of the Bukhan River.
And part one of the Pseudo Fifth Division.
If the development goes smoothly, we can successively occupy Seoul, Hongchuan, Xiangyang, and Jiangling, and then rest and prepare for the spring offensive.
Task division: The 38th Army, the 39th Army, the 40th Army, the 50th Army and strengthen 6 artillery regiments to form a right column of the Volunteer Army, commanded by Comrade Han, to break through from Gaolangpo-ri to Yongping
, first concentrate on annihilating the Puppet 6th Division, then annihilate the 1st Division, and then develop an offensive in the direction of Uijeongbu.
The 42nd and 66th armies also strengthened the 44th Artillery Regiment to form the left column of the Volunteer Army, commanded by the commander of the 42nd Army. They broke through from Yongping to Mapingli, and first concentrated the main force from Yongping to Long.
After annihilating one or two regiments of the Puppet Second Division in the Marshdong area, and winning the victory, they expanded the results in the direction of Gapyeong and Cheongpyeongcheon, and cut off the traffic of Seoul and Chuncheon River.
Another division crossed the Han River from Hwacheon to the enemy north of Chuncheon and actively feinted to seize the puppet fifth division and coordinate the left-wing People's Army's second and fifth armies to advance southward.
The Thirty-Eighth Army broke through Hantanchuan from Loufa to Banjuli, first annihilated the enemies of Yongping, and then attacked in the direction of Dongduchuan and Zhixingri. They cooperated with the Tenth Army to encircle and annihilate the Puppet Sixth Division, and occupied it with one division.
The Chilbong Mountain position blocked the enemy's reinforcements from the north, and another unit was used to monitor the enemy in Pocheon.
After the mission of the 38th Army was clear, Comrade Liang and Comrade Liu took the army staff and the commanders of each division to look at the terrain and determined the breakthrough locations and selected breakthrough points for each division. The breakthrough area assigned to the 38th Army was a very large one.
important area.
At that time, the 6th Division was responsible for the defensive front, the western battle area adjacent to Yeoncheon County, Pocheon County and Yangju County. This area included Yeoncheon, Dongducheon, Uijeongbu, Seoul Section and the nearest Highway 3, east-west
On both sides stand Zhongxuan Mountain (588 Highlands) and Moyi Mountain (587 Highlands) respectively.
The Hantancheon in front of the position is located in the upper reaches of the Imjin River and forms an important area with its broken walls and curved natural obstacles.
Route 3 became the enemy's main attack direction in the early days of the war.
It is a good approach road for infantry units and mechanized corps to maneuver. Since many roads in the central and western regions intersect with each other, once this area is broken through, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, will be difficult to protect.
Moreover, it crosses the Guangzhou Mountains and enters the strategically important area in the direction of Qingping in the central part of the country.
It can be seen from this that the breakthrough zone of the 38th Army is dangerous and important.
Comrade Liang said: "Judging from the terrain of this area and the enemy's fortification situation, our troops must be prepared to endure hardships and prepare for a strong attack!"
The military staff officer said: "If we want to break through such a dangerous area and cooperate with friendly forces to attack across the board, we must be prepared in all aspects. The terrain must be familiar to the regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and even the squad and above who are responsible for the assault mission.
Cadres must be familiar with the terrain. Although the enemy in front of them is the Li Puppet Army, they must not underestimate the enemy and must treat the weak army as a strong one."
Li Puppet Army's fighting will and vitality are not as good as those of the US Army, but in any battle, the enemy cannot be underestimated due to the influence of objective factors.