Volume 1: The First Battle Chapter 16 Attacked from both sides
I haven't slept so comfortably for a long time. I was awakened by a burst of explosions and noises. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a fighter plane whizzing over my head. I sat up in shock and found myself in a trench, with a quilt under me and two more covering me. No wonder I slept so comfortably.
I stood up, lay down on the edge of the trench and looked down the mountain. I saw four or five fighter planes circling in front of me, dropping a few bombs from time to time, turning the cars, field artillery and other equipment at the foot of the mountain into a sea of fire.
"Wake up, comrade!" I don't know when the old squad leader appeared in front of me, handed me a kettle wrapped in cotton cloth and said, "Drink some hot water quickly, drink it while it's hot, or it will turn into a block of ice again!"
I looked at the old squad leader with gratitude, took the kettle and carefully took a few sips. I felt a warm current flowing down my esophagus into my stomach, and then spread to my whole body, making me so comfortable that I couldn't help but tremble all over.
"What's going on?" After drinking two more sips of hot water, I looked at the fighter planes in front of me and asked the old squad leader in confusion.
"Look!" The old squad leader pointed at the piles of cars and cannons on fire and emitting black smoke at the foot of the mountain and said, "You may be unconscious and don't know. Our regiment chased the enemy for ten miles and seized a large number of cars and cannons. However, these things are too big and too heavy, and there are not many people in our regiment who can drive cars. We can neither hide them nor transport them. We can only watch these treasures being blown into scrap metal by the American planes!"
"So that's how it is." I thought to myself, this is amazing. No wonder the Volunteer Army's equipment has never improved. It turns out the Americans have this trick.
Looking at those fighters, they seemed to be the "Mustang" fighters I had seen in the literature before. American things are advanced. Although this "Mustang" fighter is a fighter, it can also be used as a bomber.
Because it can use the six machine guns on its wings to engage in air combat, it can also carry various bombs to complete bombing missions, and it can even carry rockets to attack other military targets such as tanks, bridges, and fortifications.
The most important thing is that it can take off from simple runways. This allows it to take off and land safely on aircraft carriers and some simple airports in South Korea. So it is natural that it became the most used aircraft by the US military in the Korean War. Even after jet aircraft entered the war, it still occupied a very important position.
"Hey...are you awake?"
I heard a familiar voice behind me, and I turned around to see Captain Chu and Political Commissar Chen, under the cover of the guards, crouching towards me. I quickly stood at attention and saluted.
Captain Chu first looked me over, then asked the old squad leader, "Are you injured? Why did Platoon Leader Cui faint?"
"No, I'm not injured at all!" The old squad leader grinned on his wrinkled face and said, "Platoon Leader Cui... It seems that he didn't get a good night's sleep these days and is exhausted!"
"Oh!" Captain Chu was relieved and patted my shoulder and said, "You fought well, Platoon Leader Cui, you fought beautifully, it really looked like a stroke of divine power."
"What a stroke of genius!" Chen Ye reminded.
"Yes, that's the stroke of genius!" Regimental Commander Chu clapped his hands as if he had discovered a new continent, and said, "Platoon Leader Cui! You went into the enemy camp alone to fight. Your heroic spirit and fearlessness are worth learning from!"
"Well, this..." My face couldn't help but get hot. How could I be brave or not afraid of death? If the captain knew that my original intention was to escape...
"That's a bit dangerous!" Chen Ye nodded and said, "I didn't expect the enemy's firepower to be so strong. They almost suppressed us. If we let those enemies seize the hilltop, the consequences will be disastrous. Platoon Leader Cui has made another contribution!"
"Alas! It's a pity for those cannons." Captain Chu sighed and said, "I have been doing revolutionary work for so many years, but I have never seen so many cannons, more than 200 field guns! All our cannons combined are not as many as this."
"Captain...something is wrong!" I said with a frown.
"What's wrong?"
"Why would the enemy bring their artillery to the front to fire? And we caught them in the act!"
The American way of fighting is to use a large number of troops to form a front line in the front and bombard the rear with long-range artillery. The puppet army was also trained by the Americans, and their fighting methods should be similar. But now we have seized so many long-range artillery, does that mean we have already hit the enemy's rear...
Chen Ye said, "These puppet troops are rushing to the Yalu River, advancing in groups of divisions or regiments. There's nothing wrong with us encountering artillery! Are you overthinking it, Platoon Leader Cui?"
"Captain, do you have a map?" I said.
"Map!" Captain Chu waved his hand, and soon a guard came forward and spread out the map.
After looking at the map for a while and combining it with the information I remembered, I said worriedly, "Captain, I think we are going to be surrounded."
"What?" Captain Chu was stunned.
"What do you mean?" Chen Ye also came over to look at the map.
"Captain, Political Commissar, look." I pointed to the two roads on the map that led directly from Wenjing to the Yalu River and said, "There are two roads from Wenjing to the Yalu River. One is from Wenjing to Guchang and then to Chushan by the Yalu River. The other is the road from Liangshuidong where we came from. The enemy was also beaten back by us on this road. But what we didn't expect was that after being defeated by us in Liangshuidong, the enemy did not give up the original plan, but just changed a road and continued to drive to the Yalu River from the Guchang road."
"You mean, the main force of the puppet army's Sixth Division is behind us?" Captain Chu was surprised.
"That's right." I nodded and said, "We just fought against the artillery regiment of the puppet army's 6th Division. Their main force should have passed Wenjing and headed for the Yalu River. Our capture of Wenjing just happened to cut off their retreat. Knowing that they were surrounded by our army, the puppet 6th Division had to retreat. We are now blocking their retreat path."
"Unexpectedly, the main force of the Sixth Division of the puppet army was inadvertently surrounded by our army." Captain Chu frowned and said, "But when other puppet troops learn that the Sixth Division of the puppet army is surrounded, they will definitely come to rescue. We will soon be surrounded by the enemy."
"Then... Old Chu!" Chen Ye said worriedly, "Do you think we should retreat before the enemy has time to surround us?"
"Yeah, yeah!" I nodded in my heart. Chen Ye really hit the nail on the head. The entire South Korean army was heading to the Yalu River! There was a division of their troops behind us, and we didn't know how many divisions were in front of us. We had a regiment in the middle. If we didn't leave quickly, when would we leave...
"No!" Unexpectedly, Captain Chu flatly refused: "Although we are surrounded, the pseudo Sixth Division is also in our encirclement. In order to achieve greater results, I think we should stay here like a nail. Even if we can't defeat the pseudo Sixth Division, we must skin it alive!"
"No way!" Looking at Captain Chu's determined eyes, I couldn't help but cry out in my heart. I'm afraid I will soon know what it feels like to be surrounded by enemies that are more than ten times my number.
