Chapter 142 HongPe Highway

"Report to Commander Pang!" When I led the team past the regiment headquarters, I called out outside the air raid shelter.

Captain Pang also heard the sound of the team gathering outside the cave and quickly lifted the black cloth and came out. Seeing that I had assembled the team and put up my luggage, he couldn't help but quit. After a while, he nodded at me and said, "Are you leaving?"

"Yes!" I replied, but I didn't want to explain why I left. I really couldn't explain what I knew.

"Tsk!" The guards following Captain Pang knew the cause and effect of the whole thing. Now, perhaps thinking that I was timid and afraid of death, he pulled the troops away. At this time, he said disdainfully: "I thought you were so brave! I didn't say that I would leave just now, just turn around..."

"Xiao Wang, don't talk nonsense!" Commander Pang scolded the guard unhappily, then turned around and held my hand and said to the soldiers: "That's good! Comrades, on behalf of all the soldiers of the 180th Division, I thank you for everything you have done. You fought bravely and resolutely. I hope that under the leadership of Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, you will continue to carry forward this spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice or suffering, and fight against American imperialism to the end! I, Mr. Pang, have a mission, and I will send you off. Goodbye, comrades, there will be a date in the future!"

As he said that, he shook hands enthusiastically with several soldiers in the front row, and turned back to the regiment headquarters.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui?" Zhao Yongxin couldn't help but ask strangely on the way: "Where are we going? I looked at what the guard of the Captain Pang seemed to be carrying a thorn!"

"That's right!" Hu Zi also said, "I think it's wrong, but I don't expect something is wrong. After Company Commander Zhao said this, I understand something is wrong. Does the guard look down on us or why? Why does he look down on us?"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "That's because our large army has retreated, and the 180th Division is responsible for blocking the enemy's cover of the large army..."

"What? I just said..." Hu Zi refused to agree when he heard this. He ran to me a few steps and stopped me and said, "Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, we can't just leave like this! They are fighting the Americans on the other side, so we are just like this... I, I won't leave!"

"Yes! Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Zhao Yongxin said in embarrassment: "If we just leave like this, isn't that the same virtue as the People's Army that left us alone? How can we raise our heads in the future..."

"Huzi, Zhao Yongxin!" I couldn't help but get angry when I heard this, and opened my mouth and cursed: "You have been following me for so long, why are you afraid of seeing me? When did you see me Cui Wei lower your head? I don't have time to talk to you. If you miss me, I will see that I won't kill you!"

He said that, shouted at the troops: "Everyone has it, march quickly, and target Hongtian Highway!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and rushed forward faster.

As I estimate, the HongPin Highway is indeed not far, only a dozen kilometers away, but the visibility is very low on rainy nights. In addition, North Korea is full of mountain roads of all sizes, so it took a lot of trouble to find it. Fortunately, there were several People's Army soldiers familiar with the terrain in the team, and only three hours later found the HongPin Highway, which can be called the weakness of the Volunteer Retreat troops.

When we found this road, although we couldn't see clearly on the dark rainy night, we still felt the people coming and going on the road from the sound of footsteps, horses and mules neighing, and car motors.

"Follow closely, keep up!"

The volunteers on the highway shouted quietly. Occasionally, when the car turned on the front lights, we would see that there were people everywhere on the roads, and there were troops on the roads. Cannon trucks and trucks were disguised with branches, and small branches were inserted on the soldiers' hats and backpacks. At first glance, it looked like a forest moving on the road. The horse neighed and the people called it, which was so lively.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Zhao Yongxin came up carefully and asked, "Are we going to retreat with the main force?"

Maybe it was because I was scolded just now that Zhao Yongxin was a little unnatural when he spoke.

"No!" I shook my head and reached out to touch the map in my arms. Zhao Yongxin took out the lighter tactfully. Without waiting for the order, more than a dozen soldiers blocked the light with their bodies and cotton coats.

With a "kneel!", the map appeared in front of me again. I pointed to a high ground on the map with an elevation of 218.3 next to the Hong-Pei Highway, and said to Zhao Yongxin and Park Chung-sun, the People's Army guide who had been following him: "Our goal is this high ground. Is it still far from here?"

Park Jung-sun was the guide assigned by his superiors to the regiment headquarters at the beginning of the fifth battle. That night, by chance, he actually followed us.

"Not far!" Park Jung-sun looked at the map for a while, then replied: "Follow the road south, Daqing is still four or five miles away!"

"Then hurry up!" As I said that, I put away the map without saying a word, but when I thought of the last time the troops had separated from the regiment headquarters, I turned around and said, "Comrades, please hurry up and don't get separated like last time!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, and grabbed the bullet bags of their comrades in front of them one after another.

But I didn't expect that our difficulties were not just night. As soon as we walked on the road, we found that the crowds of people hit us almost couldn't move forward. It took us a lot of effort to get less than a mile. From time to time, we bumped into someone or stepped on someone's feet in the darkness, which attracted a lot of complaints.

"Which part of you are?" Finally someone asked, "Comrades are retreating, why are you still walking south? Haven't you received the order to retreat?"

"This..." I couldn't help but be stunned, and my head turned and replied: "We are from the stretcher team. We went up to grab the wounded. Many wounded people are waiting for us!"

"Well! It turns out it's from the stretcher team!" The voice in the dark quickly ordered: "Pass the orders and spread them a little, and give way to the comrades in the stretcher team!"

"Pass it down and spread it a little to give way to the comrades in the stretcher team..."

...

So the volunteer soldiers in front of us quickly made way for us and felt much more comfortable when we walked.

As I walked, I thought, it’s really easy to cheat people on such a dark night! Or it could be said that the volunteer soldiers were too simple. If there was a little light or if they were a little bit more godly, they would find that our "stretcher team" didn’t even have a stretcher!

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" When Zhao Yongxin arrived at the destination, he couldn't help laughing out loud again: "I've seen you cheat on the enemy, but I've seen you many times. I didn't expect you... Why did you even cheat your own people?"

"All of colorful intestines!" The old squad leader also smiled and said, "I can't tell you when, we will ask Deputy Battalion Commander Cui to sell it and you have to count the money for him!"

The old squad leader said a rare joke, which made the soldiers laugh.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" After a while, Hu Zi couldn't help but ask, "What are we here to do? These are all their own troops, and there is not even half of the enemy..."

"It will be here soon!" I ordered: "Comrades, build tunnels on the backscene of this highland, move quickly, and strive to complete before dawn!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded and started to work hard.

I was idle and walked up to the high ground with a rifle alone, stepping on the muddy slope. I climbed up the high ground and looked down. There was nothing dark, but the sound of footsteps from the crowd below still made me feel clearly that the Hongzi Highway bypassed half of the high ground here and then headed north.

This is also the reason why I chose this highland. The highway bypasses half a mountain here, so the US "Tank Commando" will be exposed to our firepower for a long time. All I can do is to do my best to intercept this commando.

But it is not easy to intercept this commando! This commando was organized by General Armond, the commando of the 10th Army of the US Army. Speaking of Almond, he is not just an ordinary commander, because his other identity is the chief of staff of the United Nations Command. In other words, most of the combat plans of the US military were from the hands of this guy and Li Qiwei. This time, the "Tank Commando" he organized himself was even more introduced to the textbooks of the US military academy as a classic battle example.

From modern information, I know that this "Tank Commando" has not many tanks, only more than twenty, and even its vanguard has only four tanks, two jeeps and two trucks, with a total of less than forty people. This is the vanguard, known as the "Newman Pirate", and its size is less than one company.

But such a "tank commando" was arrogantly inserted into the rear of several volunteer troops, and successfully guided their infantry to follow up, cutting off our army's retreat.

The reason for this is that in addition to the lack of anti-tank weapons in the Volunteer Army, it is more important that most of the Volunteer Army return to Korea with the courage to return to Korea with a victorious spirit, and retreated without any defense and order. Just like the 15th Army on the left wing of the 180th Division and the 63rd Army on the right wing, they did not contact friendly forces when they retreated.

Speaking of which, there are also many veterans in the Volunteer Army who have fought US tanks, but taking office was to let this "tank commando" with only more than 20 tanks rush all the way to Zhaoyang River.

The tactics used by the US military were nothing more than sending several reconnaissance planes to reconnaissance in front of the "Tank Commando". Once a volunteer army was found ambushing in front of it, it called a large number of aircraft to bomb. The "Tank Commando" ignored nothing and did not stop fighting, and rushed forward with their thick armor at a speed of 32 kilometers per hour.

The Volunteer Army did not expect the enemy to reach the rear of our army at once, and the temporary blocking was not too late to build any fortifications. It can be imagined that the blocking without fortifications poses no threat to the enemy's tank commando, because without fortifications, the Volunteer Army could not afford to bomb US aircraft...

So a regiment or even a division blocked the attack was defeated by gasoline bombs dropped by US planes.

What should I do? What should I use to block the enemy's commando? I have only more than 300 troops in my hands now, and I have almost used up anti-tank grenades. Can we, the few people, block the enemy's tanks and planes?

At this time, I remembered the anti-tank trench, the "Golan trench" I just tried on the battlefield. Their ideal results can even be said to be beyond my actual information.

The anti-tank trench may be useful, because one side of the road is backed by a mountain and the other side is a river ditch. It seems that as long as we dig the highway into several sections like an anti-tank trench, we can at least let the tank commando stop for a few hours. In a few hours, it is enough for the volunteers to build fortifications and prepare to block this tank squad.

However, after hearing the constant sound of foot sounds on the road, I quickly realized that this method would not work. Because while we digging the highway, it would also prevent the Volunteer troops from retreating.

So what about the explosive pack?

Commander Pang gave us fifty explosive packs yet, but it was not useful. In addition, we had more than a dozen of original explosive packs in total. If we buried all these explosives under the highway, we would pull the leads to detonate them when the American tanks came...

This method seemed to work, but it was quickly denied by me again. The road was full of volunteer soldiers rushing in the dark. The cars came and went, and there were crowds of people. But we had to go up and buried explosives and traction lines in the middle of the road. Not to mention that the volunteers on the road did not agree, if someone tripped the lead, I would not have become an eternal sinner.

What's more, the delayed explosion of the explosive pack is too long. If the distance is not well controlled and the time is not well grasped, the tank will not be able to explode in the end! And even if the tanks are blown up, there are a large number of mechanized US troops following up. The explosive pack will only explode a crater and cannot block them.

Damn it! Thinking of this, I couldn't help but curse. The person arrived here in time, but he couldn't stop the enemy...

At this time, a few sounds of soil and gravel rolling down suddenly came from the high ground. The high ground was very steep on this side of the road. The gravel rolled onto the highway with just a squeak sound, which made me realize that the danger of landslides brought by the rain had not been eliminated. So I was thinking that if the US tanks came, there would be no need for me to worry so much if there was a landslide or a mudslide.

Yes! Without a landslide, we can make one by one by one, right? I couldn't help but be overjoyed when I thought of this, and turned around and ran down the mountain.

"Zhao Yongxin! Zhao Yongxin!" I couldn't tell who was who in the dark, so I had to walk among the soldiers and shout.

"Come!" Not long after, Zhao Yongxin ran over with a voice.

"There is no need to dig the tunnels on your side." I ordered: "Leave your work to the other two companies, and your company will dig next to the road..."

"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui! That's not a place to dig a tunnel!" Zhao Yongxin was shocked when he heard this: "I also looked at the terrain. The soil there was steep and stone, and there were no trees. We should be careful when digging. Anyone who was not careful would be buried in it. If the soldiers hid in the plane for the Americans, the cannon would be blown up like this...

"Why are you talking nonsense? Just dig it if you ask me to dig it!" I said angrily: "But be careful, be careful, be sure to be safe, be sure to support it with logs while digging. Open a few more holes, and you can set up ten people! If you open ten holes, you can cover the road near the mountain. Don't be too deep, three or four meters is enough, and then open it horizontally..."

"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin responded. Although he didn't know what such a tunnel was used for, he still executed my commands unconditionally. From this aspect, I still like the saying "execute commands" very much!

The sky became brighter and brighter, and the sea of ​​clouds gradually became whiter, forming an increasingly strong contrast with the shadows they cast. The gold edges of the horizon curtains became more and more vivid, and slowly turned golden.

Not long after, the sun rose lazily from the east, illuminating the mud and water all over the soldiers, illuminating the volunteer soldiers in disguise on the road, and illuminating the 218.3 Highland washed clean by the rain.

Although the heavy rain for several consecutive days made me feel wet and uncomfortable, and it was rare that a good weather made me feel much better now, I still cursed in my heart, "Damn it! It was when the volunteers were about to retreat on the rainy day, you gave me a big sun!"

I remember that the day when the US military's "Tank Commando" attacked in history was also a sunny day, but thinking about it was, if it weren't for the sunny day, these twenty tanks would not have been covered by planes, and it would not have been so easy to get into the back of the volunteers. Sunny days are rare in the rainy season in North Korea, but the Americans still caught up.

As soon as the sun comes out, it’s time for the Americans to come out and be rampant. The entire road is full of volunteer troops. If this plane comes...

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shake my head helplessly, and now I can only say that I have done my best.

"Zhao Yongxin!"

"arrive!

"Have the tunnel been dug?"

"Report to Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, all of them were dug according to the requirements!" Zhao Yongxin responded.

"Well, it's great!" I nodded, and then ordered: "Pack all our explosives in those tunnels and bury them, and pull the leads to prepare for blasting. The soldiers responsible for blasting must be careful to be concealed and not let the enemy's planes discover it!"

"What? The anti-dynamite package is buried in the tunnel?" Zhao Yong Shiyan was stunned, but soon understood something, agreed and turned around and made arrangements.
Chapter completed!