Chapter 131: The Commander of the People's Army

The next evening, before the sky was completely dark, we embarked on the road of marching.

Although the superiors did not mention the destination of the march, the soldiers were familiar with the roads near the government. When they watched the troops advance along the government corridor, they all knew that the target was Seoul.

"This time we are afraid we will have another chance to take a shower in the presidential palace!" Zhao Yongxin said enthusiastically while jogging: "I haven't taken a shower for more than a month, and my whole body feels itchy!"

"As far as I say..." Xiao Shandong smiled, "It's not that our company commander Zhao has itchy body, but that his hands are itchy!"

"What did you say? Why are you itchy hands or not?"

"No?" Xiaoshandong joked: "Last time, Company Commander Zhao came into the presidential palace and found a bottle of foreign wine. There was also a thing called a lighter. This time I was afraid I had to prepare a bag to go in!"

"What are you talking about? I'm like a thief!" Zhao Yongxin replied unconvincedly: "That's called "ha, do you know? I made contributions later, right?"

"What? Have you ever entered the Presidential Palace?" The new recruits asked in envy.

"That's not?" The veteran who participated in the third battle replied excitedly: "That house is so big! It's enough for a army to live in it, there are treasures everywhere, we've taken a bath inside! There is an iron pipe there, which is also called Xiqi. Our snot will freeze to ice. Hot water flows out of the iron pipe. Do you think it's strange?"

"There is also this matter..." The supplementary soldiers were curious when they heard this.

"Why are there no more?" the veterans exaggeratedly: "There are everything inside, food, clothing, and use, just like the place where the gods live. Don't believe it. This time we will go into Seoul and take you with you to open our eyes!"

"Haol..." When the soldiers heard that there was such a good place, they were all ready to see it, but I was the only one who shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The 63rd Army was blocked by the Gloucester Battalion for 60 hours near the government. This period was enough for the US military to build a new line of defense on the Han River. Especially as Seoul, the capital of South Korea, Li Qiwei knew very well that this Seoul was not only a strategic location in the military, but also a city that cannot be given up easily in politics.

The first fall of Seoul can be explained that the South Korean army was caught off guard by the Korean People's Army without defense; the second fall of Seoul can be explained that the United Nations army was caught off guard by the Volunteers without defense. If Seoul is captured again for the third time, there will be no excuses. Moreover, the Korean people and even the US parliament will have doubts about the combat effectiveness of the United Nations Army, and the morale of the United Nations Army will also be shaken.

Therefore, Li Qiwei and Van Vreett have been determined to defend Seoul from the beginning. They arranged the 29th Brigade of the British Army, the strongest combat effectiveness, to guard the area of ​​the Yegong Government for this purpose. The facts proved that this arrangement was also very effective. The British Army defended the Yegong Government, the gateway of the Yegong Government for three days, and bought time for the United Nations to invest a large amount of troops in Seoul and build solid fortifications.

It should be said that the war has come to this point. The strategic goal of "annihilation of several US divisions" originally formulated in the fifth battle has failed. The US military in front of us has relied on their advanced equipment to build a solid line of defense, which has become a bone that cannot be gnawed.

If the fifth battle ended at this time, then the volunteers could still be considered a victory. After all, the front line had advanced dozens of kilometers southward, and it also shattered the enemy's plan to land behind us and let our army be attacked on both sides.

But at this time, a fighter jet that was surprisingly similar to the Fourth Battle appeared: Since our army's strategic goal at the beginning was to annihilate several US divisions, we threw all the main force on the Western Front to chase and attack the US military, causing the US military to retreat dozens of kilometers. However, the puppet army on the Eastern Front was the 3rd and 5th Corps of the People's Army, which had weak combat effectiveness, retreated very slowly. Therefore, the puppet army defense line on the Eastern Front formed a protruding part, exposing their flanks to the front of the Volunteer Army.

The disaster of the puppet army, and also the disaster of the volunteer army, followed. While the volunteer army inserted into the enemy formation and defeated the puppet army, it also exposed its flanks to the US military...

"Deputy Commander Cui, what are you thinking?" Zhao Yongxin, who was running beside him, couldn't help but ask: "I always think you are worried, what's the matter? Let's discuss it together!"

"Well, nothing!" I responded casually, but my brows frowned even deeper.

What I was upset is that even though I knew that the Volunteer Army soldiers would suffer heavy losses, but were unable to stop them, they could only let them develop. Moreover, these worries could not be told to my comrades that even if they were told, they would not have any effect, and they might be killed. Because in order to achieve the transfer of this strategic goal, the Volunteer Army would organize a feint attack on the front line of Seoul, and then secretly transfer the main force to the East Line.

In modern information, I know that the secrets of this battle are limited to the level of the division commander. If I tell it, the least I will be shot as a spy by the organization, and the worst of all, our army's entire strategic intentions will be noticed by the United Nations forces and then formulate corresponding combat plans...

"Woo..." The plane screamed strangely over our heads, and then a flare emitting pale cold light was shot down, and the soldiers hurriedly hid in the grass on the side of the road.

Only then did we notice the blood on the road and the bodies of volunteer soldiers who were not found by the host team on the roadside. They should have died under the bombing of enemy planes and artillery fire. This made me feel that our regiment's decision to set out in front of the 63rd Army was correct. If the entire army was marching now, the chances of being discovered by the enemy would be much greater. Once the enemy reconnaissance plane discovered clues of our army's large forces, the shells would soon fly over, followed by the bombing of the aircraft...

Just walked and stopped and moved towards Seoul. The closer we got to Seoul, the more the sound of guns and cannons sounded, the more the soldiers felt something was wrong. Not only did the strange roars of planes in the sky, the more the corpses on the ground tripped the soldiers from time to time, and occasionally kicked some broken limbs.

The air was filled with a disgusting burnt smell. It was also a masterpiece of the US military's gasoline bombs. The feet were all soft and soft. When you carefully saw that the ground was covered with corpses. Jiefang shoes made a sound of "Bojibaji..." while stepping on the road. I originally thought it was semi-melt water, but later I found that it was all blood...

Although the recruits in our team had fought several battles, they had never seen such a scene, and immediately their vomiting sounds came from beside them.

VanVleet ammunition! I couldn't help but feel secretly regretful in my heart that the Dongdouchuan Highway is the only highway from the Anglo-Government to Seoul. If the large volunteers want to arrive in Seoul quickly, they can only take this road. What the US military has to do seems to be sending a large number of reconnaissance aircraft and then firing a large number of shells according to the report of the reconnaissance aircraft.

Since entering the court, the volunteer army has followed an order to sacrifice oneself and protect oneself. That is, once someone does not wear camouflage or makes some actions that may be discovered by the enemy plane, he must stay in place and not follow the large army to avoid exposing the whereabouts of the large army, otherwise the superiors have the right to shoot them dead.

This method was effective for a long time, because in the past, the US reconnaissance planes often did not want to waste shells for this. However, since Van Vreet became the commander of the Eighth Army, it has been different. Now it is only one. The exposure of the two soldiers will also attract large-scale enemy artillery bombardment. According to this method of fighting, even if the volunteers hide it well, it will be useless!

In the second half of the night, we finally arrived outside Seoul. The scene we saw not only shocked the newly added recruits, but also the veterans who fought four battles were stunned.

The sound of guns and cannons was filled with corpses and blood. This should be a crossing point in the upper reaches of Seoul. Tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers were busy here, and the sky was full of flares of all sizes to let us see the entire battlefield clearly. Some soldiers were digging trenches, some of them were operating anti-aircraft machine guns in groups to shoot towards the enemy planes flying over the sky, and more soldiers were queuing up by the Han River, boarding wooden boats to attack the south bank of the Han River.

Under the light of the flares, we can see corpses and wooden blocks floating everywhere on the Han River. Wooden boats slowly sailed towards the opposite shore like leaves in the breeze. The shells occasionally stirred up layers of water around them. From time to time, several wooden boats were shot and were torn into pieces and flew into the air, and then fell back into the water with the water column.

The enemy planes also roared and fired and dropped bombs at those wooden ships that had no air defense capabilities. The rows of bullets easily hit the wooden ships in two pieces, robbing the lives of soldiers one by one. The water columns aroused by the bombs easily overturned the volunteers' wooden ships, ruthlessly knocking the entire ship of soldiers into the river water with ice. What's even more terrible is that the incendiary bombs dropped by the enemy planes blew the half-load of the river into a sea of ​​fire, and blood and flames dyed the entire Han River red.

What I can't believe is that all this in front of me is just a feint attack, just to make the US military on the other side believe that our army's strategic intention is to capture Seoul. However, the soldiers who were attacking did not know this. Most of them did not know the true intention of this attack until they died in battle.

"March quickly! Keep moving forward!" Commander Chu's order was passed down by the soldiers, so the team changed one direction and turned to march eastward!

"Why are you still leaving?" Some soldiers couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you all going to Seoul?"

Only I understand in my heart that the people who are on the feint attack mission here are the 63, 64, 65th Army of the 19th Corps of the Volunteer Army and the First Legion of the People's Army. There are more than 100,000 troops with feint attacks, which is probably unprecedented in the history of our army.

Old troops like the 40th Army where I am, who have fought the first four battles in North Korea, of course, will turn to the Eastern Front to participate in the army that mainly attacked the puppet army, because our troops have fought four battles in North Korea, and their combat experience is richer than those who have just entered North Korea, and they are more familiar with the terrain.

The soldiers were still talking about something in a low voice, but unexpectedly, chopsticks were sent from the front for the soldiers to bite. The soldiers all understood what this meant, so they all bit their chopsticks and rushed silently in the night.

We soon walked into the forest under the leadership of several People's Army guides. The sound of gunfire became less and less. The footprints and broken branches left by volunteer soldiers as they rushed on the road made me realize that the large army was already ahead of us.

I have never understood that the volunteer army secretly moved eastward had two corpses with nearly 200,000 troops. Such a huge army, walking more than 100 kilometers eastward without letting the US military with advanced reconnaissance equipment discover it is an unimaginable thing in any case. Now I understand that such a huge team actually travels through mountain roads.

I remember that it took only three days to move from Seoul to the Eastern Front to fight the Hengcheng counterattack last time. This time, it was to hide its whereabouts. As soon as I heard a little sound of the plane, I had to hide it immediately, so it took me five days to reach my destination, Guitunli.

If the marching of these five days is nothing, but my body was injured, I would fall down after I took a few steps and heard the sound of the plane. It hurt so much that I really cursed in my heart!

Fortunately, a soldier in my camp knew some herbs and kept his energy all the way and took a lot of time to pull it out. He mashed it and applied it to me when he was resting at dawn. It was really healed a lot in two days. But I haven’t taken a shower for a long time, and now I applied the wounded medicine again. I felt a little sour and stinky all over my body, and I couldn’t stand it, but as I smelled it, I gradually got used to it. Anyway, except for those who supplemented the soldiers, most of the volunteer soldiers had not taken a bath for more than a month, so everyone was the same.

When we arrived at the destination, soldiers from the People's Army had already dug a tunnel for us. When we arrived here, we were hidden like smugglers. Let's look at the tunnel dug by the People's Army. It was really incomparable to those dug by the Volunteers who were good at civil engineering. There were fewer logs and not only were they not strong, but they were suddenly stunning and concave. In addition, the volunteers' ragged clothes, dirty cotton jackets, and a kerosene lamp made of bamboo tubes made us look like refugees living in caves.

But having is better than not. After all, it is the effort spent by others, and the soldiers have no complaints. The entire regiment and company entered more than a dozen tunnels respectively.

Hiding in the tunnel and rubbing the wound that was still hurting, I thought to myself that the place name given by the Koreans was either a hole or something. Could it be that the ancestors of these guys had known that there was a battle now, and that they all wanted to hide in the hole?

Just as I was thinking of a few salutes coming from outside the tunnel, I heard that there was an official of a considerable background. Sure enough, a translator from the People's Army ran in and shouted in stiff Chinese: "Our regiment commander Jin Chuanchang came to inspect, and the comrades stood up to greet him!"

When the soldiers heard this, they were stunned. They all stared at each other with big eyes and didn't understand what was going on. Although there were orders above, the ranks of the Volunteer Army and the People's Army recognized each other. In other words, the Volunteer Army commander was also the regiment commander, and the People's Army commander was also the regiment commander in the Volunteer Army, but even the division commander in our Volunteer Army did not have such a style!

"All up to welcome you!" The translator also looked puzzled. He seemed to be wondering why our army is so unpreserving military discipline.

I thought to myself that I should follow the local customs. After all, we are still on their place, so I shouted two commands:

"Everyone stands up!"

"stand at attention……"

The soldiers lined up in a row in the tunnel with a sound of blinking!

Soon, an officer wearing breeches, wearing boots, and carrying a Tokarev pistol on his waist walked in with his hands on his back. It was also the translator who said that the commander of the People's Army, Jin Chuanchang.

Not to mention, as the saying goes, people rely on clothes, they are really much more prestigious than our volunteer army. In addition, two guards who are also wearing well-dressed military uniforms are following behind them, which makes the volunteer army even more.

As soon as the commander of the People's Army walked into the entrance of the tunnel, I saw him frowning. I couldn't help but laugh in my heart. I thought it was also smelled by the smell of the volunteers. It seemed that the commander of the People's Army was still very charming!

"Hello, comrades!" This was the first sentence he said when he walked in. I noticed that he wanted to shake hands with us, but when he saw the dirty look of the volunteers, he shrank his hands back.

"Comrades!" said the leader, and the translator translated his words into Chinese: "On behalf of the Korean people, I thank you for extending a helping hand to the People's Army, thank you for participating in this just war and fighting together to drive our common enemy, American imperialism, out of North Korea. Long live the friendship between China and North Korea! Long live General Kim Il-sung!"

I know that at this time the soldiers should also shout, "Long live the friendship between China and North Korea! Long live General Kim Il-sung!" But the soldiers had no such training, and they still didn't know what to say.

Jin Chuanchang waited for a while but he didn't see the soldiers shouting slogans. He couldn't help but feel embarrassed. Then he looked at the disheveled appearance of the volunteer soldiers, shook his head and joked in a disdainful tone: "Can such an army fight? I think it's similar to our guerrillas!"

The other people's army also cooperated and laughed. I became angry when I heard this. I stood up and saluted Jin Chuanchang, and replied in Korean: "Report to Commander Jin, you have fought all the way to the Yalu River! We are indeed not as capable as you are!"

"You!" Jin Chuanchang couldn't understand what I meant. In addition, he didn't expect me to speak Korean, so he couldn't help but feel bored. He just glared at me fiercely, and before leaving, he waved his fist and gestured in front of me: "Can you fight? Just try it on the battlefield!"
Chapter completed!