Chapter 101 Telegram

Submachine guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, recoilless cannons... and countless bullets, bread, canned food, compressed biscuits... This American is so generous. He dropped more than twenty boxes of guns and ammunition in just this airdrop, which made the soldiers' eyes shine. No wonder someone would say that the most American military lacks on the Korean battlefield is ammunition!

At this time, Commander Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye also arrived. When they saw so much ammunition, they were stunned. This was enough for the volunteer soldiers to use it.

"Quick, put out the fire!" Political Commissar Chen Ye thought carefully. There was so much ammunition and supplies here. If the enemy discovered a fire from the fire, it would be a waste of joy. The soldiers were reminded by the political commissar and shoveled the snow with engineer shovels and put out the fires in a few seconds.

"Old Chu!" Chen Ye had no idea when he saw so much ammunition: "There are so many ammunitions that cannot be finished, and he can't take them away. If the enemy finds out and blows them up, wouldn't it be unfair!"

"This is easy to deal with!" Captain Chu smiled and said, "Take as much as you can, and make other things disguised. Will it be done when the main force comes and divides it? As for those foods..."

After pausing, Commander Chu asked Chen Ye pretendingly: "I said Lao Chen! Do you think it would be more convenient for the soldiers to carry it in their stomachs? This way, you can free up more places to bring more bullets!"

"This..." Chen Ye was speechless when asked this. The soldiers could not hear the implicit sound in Captain Chu's words. He rushed towards the boxes of biscuits and bread with a cheer...

But before I could eat a few bites, a communication soldier ran down the mountain and came to the novel and shouted: "The puppet army retreated, the puppet army retreated!"

"Mom! Why is the puppet army so careless!" Commander Chu cursed and ordered: "Everyone has it. Immediately bring weapons and ammunition to block the enemy, leave a company to protect the ammunition, and be sure to ensure the safety of all ammunition!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, and were still biting bread and biscuits in their mouths, so they hurriedly freed their hands to pick up bullets.

I swallowed the bread in my mouth randomly, choking so much that I could not breathe. Then I grabbed the magazine and stuffed it into the bullet bag. The bread was to fill the emptiness of my stomach, but the bullet was to fill the emptiness of the battle... Now that both aspects were full, I was a little light and felt like a rich man. Looking at Hu Zi again, it was even more exaggerated. He grabbed a machine gun and stuffed the magazine into his arms...

The soldiers carried enough ammunition and ran to the high ground in a hurry. After setting up their guns, they looked down. The first thing they saw was the lights of cars flashing, both roads. There were several scattered deserters running by at the foot of the mountain, but everyone knew it was not worth exposing their positions for those deserters, so everyone waited quietly.

Finally, with the roar of motors, a team of cars, tanks and people mixed with flowing from the foot of the mountain turned out. For a moment, the sound of motors, horns, tanks, roars, shouts, and scolding sounds, and the yells were like a vegetable market.

I looked at the enemy team through the sight and saw that each car was filled with people, and even several pedals standing next to the cockpit, which made the car look bulky and swayed on the bumpy road, giving people the illusion that it would overturn at any time. It was precisely because there were too many people loading and the infantry in front of me blocked the way, which made the car very slow, and even the rifles walking next to it could catch up with it after running a few steps.

As the vanguard troops of the puppet army were about to reach our ambush site, something that the soldiers could not imagine happened. At the same time, dazzling lights were lit up on the north side of the highway. Then, under the unexpected eyes of the soldiers, dozens of trucks filled with US troops drove towards us with tanks as the guide.

Later we learned that because the US military command believed the telegram we sent and thought that the puppet army was fighting to resist the Chinese army on the front line, we transferred an armored battalion to reinforce.

Perhaps it was because of his natural arrogance, or because he thought he was a savior, the American soldiers drove their cars very fast, ignoring the retreating puppet troops, and regardless of whether the space in front was too narrow, they just honked their horns and drove forward.

The puppet troops did not dare to provoke these US troops, cars and tanks in a hurry to avoid them, but what they could not imagine was that the puppet army convoy on the other road just retreated here and broke in in a panic. For a moment, the "Ya" intersection under the high ground where we were located was in a mess, with people, cars and tanks blocking, and soon developed into the largest traffic jam in history.

"Fight!" Captain Chu would not have missed such a good opportunity. The soldiers opened fire with just a command. In an instant, the sound of machine guns and cannons sounded.

The soldiers were holding American equipment that was like a fake one... Oval grenades were thrown down in rows, mortars, and recoilless cannons aimed at the enemy's cars and tanks.

The first thing that was suffering was the U.S. troops coming towards us. The soldiers knew that they were the "culprits" that caused this traffic jam. As long as the U.S. troops were destroyed, the puppet troops could not escape no matter what they said. Therefore, the soldiers' machine guns, grenades and artillery kept greeting the U.S. troops! They only made the United States scream and mess up.

The US military found that the situation was not good, and several cars at the rear immediately turned around and wanted to run away. However, the volunteers have always focused on annihilation wars, and the mortars were prepared for this. A row of shells fired and quickly blew the car that was about to escape into a pile of scrap iron, and at the same time, it cut off the US military's retreat.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the puppet army were reluctant to waste their firepower on them, so they almost did nothing but shouted louder than anyone else and ran away faster than anyone else. They threw down all the cars and squeezed back. They were frightened by the sound of gunfire in front of them, and they could no longer care about the fact that more volunteers were surrounding here behind...

The US military was quite sensible. They quickly turned off all the headlights under the order, but then they quickly found that the headlights of the puppet army opposite were just illuminating them clearly.

"Boom..." With the continuous explosions, the US military's cars and tanks were hit by the volunteer soldiers one by one and caught fire. The valley soon filled with the smell of gasoline and the smell of pungent smoke. The raging firelight shone the entire valley into red, and also illuminated the panicked US military.

The enemy's planes came to reinforcements from the sky, but they only saw the US and puppet troops who were fleeing like ants on a hot pan. Sometimes they would drop a few flares, but they were helpless to find that our position was too close to their gathering troops. If a bomb was dropped, it might be more likely to kill their own people.

Only then did I realize that I was really a mistake. I had known that I would have to use a recoilless cannon to play with it. No matter how bad I had to use a machine gun, I would have to use a machine gun to "da da da..." like a tiger! It was not like the rifle in my hand, but it took a long time to knock down a few of them. The other person's shot was like a pile of bombs, and a large number of bullets fell down!

This is an unequal war. The US military and the puppet army were crowded with each other and could not move. They could knock down a dozen of them by throwing a grenade. Some of the puppet army completely exposed the US military to the light, while the volunteers hid in the dark and occupied favorable terrain. Even if the US military counterattacked, they had no target. However, the volunteers practiced their marksmanship as if they were shooting alive targets, and only made the US military power to fight back. Many US troops mingled among the puppet army and fled together, but they soon discovered that they had made another wrong choice, because a louder shouting sounded in front of them soon...

In this battle, more than 1,000 puppet soldiers were killed and injured, more than 500 US troops, and more than 2,000 prisoners were captured. This was the most serious battle for the US military to lose its lives in the entire war. Only three people in the armored battalion successfully escaped.

Bites biscuits, bread, and canned beef with all the colors and flavors. The soldiers talked and laughed about the big victory they had just fought. After the battle, the soldiers hurriedly cleaned the battlefield and hid themselves into the forest before dawn. Only then did they have time to rest assured to eat the food dropped by the US military.

"Tsk tsk..." Hu Zi slapped his stomach after a lewd and said contentedly: "Good, fight the enemy very well, eat well! This American is really generous. Not only does he give us food, but he also gives us ammunition for war! It's really nothing to say..."

"Brother Huzi!" At this time, Xiao Shandong came up and said, "I see that the comrades in your row are carrying the wooden boards, right? I don't know how much ammunition you have brought, so let me help you carry it!"

"Go and go..." Hu Zi tilted his head and glared with his two tiger eyes: "I said Little Shandong, do you really don't know or fake? This signal board is a treasure! With it, the American plane keeps throwing equipment down. Do you think I, Hu Zi, is a fool or what? Can you give you this treasure pot?"

As he said that, he was still worried and repeatedly told the soldiers not to lose the signal board, which made the old squad leader laugh.

But I was the only one who couldn't laugh anyway, because I knew that after fighting Hengcheng, the next step was to Dipingli.

Dipingli, the hearts of the volunteers are always painful! This small village with a radius of five miles has become the most severe place for the Volunteers to suffer the most in the Fourth Battle. It was so heavy that superiors issued orders to fight, while grassroots soldiers demanded "not to fight" from their superiors. This is unprecedented in the history of the Volunteers' War, and the price paid by the enemy is only a few hundred people.

After reading relevant information in modern times, this battle has always been like a scar in my heart. I don’t want to mention it or think of it. But now I have to experience this collision between flesh and blood and steel.

"Battery Commander!" Zhao Yongxin seemed to see something in my mind, so he came up and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you still unhappy after winning a big victory?"

"Well, nothing! I'm sleepy!" I responded vaguely and hid in the bed. At this time, I needed to think about how to get the soldiers to overcome this difficulty, and at the same time, I could overcome this difficulty.

Backward communication equipment and inaccurate judgment of enemy situations are the main reasons for the failure of the Tepingli operation.

The backward communication equipment made the several troops attacking Xiang Dipingli unable to fight in concert. The 119th Division of the 40th Army, which was responsible for unified command of the battlefield, even did not know how many troops participated in the war, so they hurriedly started the war under the command of the command.

The command always thought that there were only a few hundred enemies defending Tepingli, only ordinary field defense fortifications, and the defending enemies were likely to have begun to flee. So they didn't take this Tepingli, which is only five kilometers in diameter, seriously. But they didn't know that the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Division, the French battalion, and the troops, tanks and cannons alone, had more than 6,000 troops. They relied on the tanks and cannons in Tepingli to build a solid circular position in Tepingli, a veritable steel line of defense, rather than the ordinary field defense fortifications that the command center thought.

Under the unknown enemy situation and the blind optimism caused by a big victory, the command center's dispatch of the attacking army in Tipingli was like a temporary hodgepodge. It grabbed a regiment from here and a regiment there, and invested eight regiments one after another. These eight regiments came from different troops, and they had basically no contact with each other. When they heard the sound of gunfire on the other side, they realized that there were friendly troops fighting.

The chaotic command and excessive underestimation of the enemy made the Battle of Dipingli an eternal pain in the hearts of the volunteers.

"Captain Cui!" Just as I was thinking about how to solve this situation in the quilt, a communications soldier called me: "The regiment commander asked you to go there immediately!"

Absent-mindedly, he followed the correspondent to the regiment headquarters. As soon as he saw me, he handed over a document in a hurry and said, "Captain Cui, this is a telegram that has just been intercepted by the enemy. It has been translated into English according to the password book, but no one can understand it. Look what this means?"

I couldn't help but feel a headache when I saw it. This was a call from General Almond, the commander of the 10th Army of the United States, to the garrison of the Tipingli, and the general idea was to agree to them withdraw from Tipingli.

The 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Division of the US 2nd Division stationed in Dipingli is under the jurisdiction of the 10th US Army. I believe they also realized that they were surrounded by the Chinese army and wanted to withdraw from Dipingli, so they called General Almond, the commander of the 10th Army, for instructions, which led to the telegram in my hand.

I know what it would mean if I told the true content of this telegram. "The commander of the 10th US Army agreed to withdraw the garrison in Tipingli!" If this news reached the Volunteer Army Command, the command would be more convinced that Tipingli "there are not many enemies!"

And I also know that shortly afterwards, just as the garrison in Dipingli was about to withdraw, Li Qiwei personally ordered the commander of the 23rd American Regiment: "No retreat, stick to Dipingli!" and threatened General Almond: "If you withdraw from Dipingli, I will withdraw you first!"

What should I do? I muttered in my heart. If I say it truthfully, I will be the murderer who indirectly killed the soldier who died in Dipingli. If I don’t say it, it will be a disobeying military orders and concealing military information!

"What's wrong? What does it mean?" Captain Chu urged impatiently.

"Well, there is a word that is not familiar." I hesitated for a while, and finally gritted my teeth and said, "To Colonel Freeman, the commander of the 23rd Regiment, I will tell you not to retreat and stick to the Pipingli! Our Air Force will give you priority support! Almond, the commander of the 10th Army of the United States."

After reading the telegram, I broke out in a cold sweat all over. Now I am not just concealing military information, but I am afraid I will still report military information. I made up my mind that if one day my superiors want to punish me, I will insist that my English is not easy to understand.

"Um!" Chen Ye couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "Captain of the 23rd Regiment? So, the enemy stationed in Dipingli has a regiment? This is very different from the enemy who only has one battalion as mentioned by the superiors!"

"And the US military has also ordered to stick to it, and the Air Force will give priority to support!" Commander Chu frowned and said, "The US military has more than 4,000 people in a regiment, and something big will happen! No, we must report the situation with our superiors as soon as possible!"

I originally wanted to add a sentence later that not only a regiment of the US military stationed in Dipingli, but also a French battalion and affiliated troops, with a total of more than 6,000 people, but the words were swallowed. If the leader Chu and Political Commissar Chen Ye asked me how I knew, then I would be speechless. If I were caught as a spy and went to the Political Department to "study", it would be unfair.

On the way back, I couldn't help feeling better.

The location of Dipingli is really important. The battle of Hengcheng caused the US military and puppet troops on the eastern front to retreat, but only Dipingli was nailed to this protrusion like a nail, making it impossible for the volunteers to continue moving forward.

For the Volunteer Army, once the Dipingli is captured, the forces of the four armies can march straight into and repeat the battle situation of the first three battles and threaten the enemy's rear.

For the US military, if Tipingli is lost, a gap will appear on the front line they are advancing, and the volunteer soldiers pouring in from the gap will likely collapse their entire front.

So, this small village in Dipingli suddenly became a must-fight place for both sides of the war.

Because of the importance of Tsupingli to the entire battle, I know that the information I "misunderstood" just now would not make the command center give up its offensive plan, but at least it can also remind the command center, hoping that they will no longer be careless and randomly mobilize the troops to attack.
Chapter completed!