Chapter 12: The Trail

"Captain Cui!" After my encouragement, the chiefs of staff quickly became excited. Chief of Staff Jiang first suggested: "The first thing we need to do now is to send a reconnaissance company to figure out the deployment of troops between the enemy and us. As the saying goes, knowing that the enemy is not defeated in a hundred battles, we not only do not know the arrangement of the enemy, but also the arrangement of the People's Army!"

"Yes!" Staff General Huang also agreed: "Although the comrades of the People's Army gave us a defense map, the comrades of the People's Army were obviously guarding us. I think this defense map is not credible. If we want to figure out the situation, we have to do it ourselves!"

"I will arrange this matter after the meeting to ensure that the task is completed as quickly as possible!" Liu Shunyi immediately took over the task.

"I don't think it's necessary to be so troublesome!" My answer surprised Deputy Commander Liu and the staff. In fact, the chiefs of staff's suggestions were correct. If they knew nothing about the battlefield situation and even had no determination to defend their allies, then the battle would definitely be a confused battle. But the point is that I know the enemy and the People's Army's defense, and even know where the enemy will attack and where they will attack...

Although I can let Liu Shunyi arrange for the scouts to reconnaissance, I really don’t want to pretend not to know these things, and let the scouts risk their lives.

"That's right!" I flashed my head and said to the chiefs of staff: "The two majors thought I didn't know Korean. They let me know when they were chatting that the defense maps they gave were generally correct, but the confidential places such as artillery positions, command centers, etc. have been erased. We are not going to attack the People's Army, we need to know what these confidential places are doing?"

"That's it!" Chief of Staff Jiang said with some concern: "But we don't even know who our opponent is. We only heard about their position. I think we should be more at ease when we reconnaissance!"

"I heard all these!" I laughed and said, "When the two majors were talking at the map, I sat beside me and listened intentionally or unintentionally. Look, the enemies in front of us are the Seventh Division, the Fifteenth Division, the Eighth Division, the Fifteenth Division and the Capital Division of the Puppet Army, each of which is located here, here, and here..."

I pointed out several locations on the map, but it really didn't differ much from the location given by the People's Army. In fact, there is no need for the People's Army to deceive us with this intelligence.

"Although they have five divisions, their total strength is only about three divisions." I continued: "If the comrades don't believe it very much, they can find two places to conduct reconnaissance and verification. There is no need to let the soldiers risk their lives!"

"Don't worry, verify!" Chief of Staff Jiang nodded in agreement.

Only then did I realize that Chief Jiang is very careful, conservative, and unwilling to trust others. For example, if I said so this time, he still insisted on reconnaissance and had a look.

"I will arrange the verification matters! I will ensure that there will be no problems." This kind of thing will naturally be done by Deputy Leader Liu.

"Well! It's good to verify it!" I nodded: "But if the situation of the war really develops as we imagined and the Americans really regard the People's Army's defense line as a "weakness", then they will never attack with the forces of the three puppet army divisions. At the same time, they also conceal the forces of the People's Army. It's not like they said, there are five divisions on the front line, two divisions on the second line, but six divisions on the front line and three divisions on the second line! If they thought they had erased some confidential positions on the map, so they would say less about the forces!"

"What did these comrades from the People's Army do?" Hearing this, Chief of Staff Huang Xianhua couldn't help but throw the cigarette butt from his mouth hard to the ground, then crushed it twice with his toes to stomp it out, and shouted in a rough voice: "I also said that there is no barrier between each other when fighting, and the information given to us is so big! He said that there are five divisions against five divisions, but the real situation is six divisions against three divisions. If we don't know these situations, then the plan for the war will be different!"

"So we still have to verify it!" Chief Jiang became increasingly worried.

"Of course, verification is required!" I realized that it would be impossible not to send scouts to reconnaissance now, so I could only say to Deputy Commander Liu according to their words: "But let the soldiers pay attention to safety, just catch a few prisoners and ask a few confessions."

"Yes!" Deputy Commander Liu responded.

"Also!" I paused and continued, "I wonder if the comrades have thought of it? Once the US military regards the People's Army's defense line as the focus of the offensive, they will not only let the puppet army attack, but will naturally invest in the US troops, aircraft, tanks, and cannons here, so our opponent is not just the puppet army, but a mixed force of the US and puppet army!"

"agree!"

"agree!"

Several chiefs of staff nodded in agreement, and even Liu Shunyi did not stop.

"If I were the US Army!" I also avoided being beaten around the bush, so I simply used an imaginary way to express the tactics that the enemy would use in the future: "I will attack the junction between the various legions of the People's Army. Although the total strength of the People's Army has six divisions, more than five divisions of the United Nations Army, these six divisions of the People's Army belong to the second, third and fifth legions. The communication equipment of the People's Army is similar to ours, and it is very backward. There are many problems in the connection between the various corpses, which can easily allow the US army to take advantage of loopholes and let the tank troops penetrate it!"

Hearing this, all the chiefs of staff looked at me blankly. After a long time, Chief Jiang nodded and said, "Agree, this is what the US military did during the fifth battle, using tank troops to penetrate into the junctions of our army's corps to carry out division and encirclement! This time the Americans must have used the same trick again!"

Chief of Staff Li even made this suggestion: "Do we want to notify the comrades of the People's Army? Give them a reminder?"

But it was soon opposed by others, especially Chief of Staff Huang Xianhua. He raised his head carelessly and said: "We are just an assumption. The two sides are still negotiating! Let's tell them that the US military will attack like this. Can they believe it?"

Deputy Commander Liu also spoke out: "All our plans are based on the assumption that the enemy will attack. Whether the enemy will attack is still a question. I think it is not suitable to notify the comrades of the People's Army now!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help laughing. In fact, I informed the friendly enemy from where they might attack and make them prepare early. What's wrong with that? The reason why the soldiers opposed it at the same time was that they were selfish. They didn't want the People's Army to resist the attack of the United Nations because they knew these situations, otherwise what would we do?

But to be honest, I don’t want to notify the People’s Army in advance. In fact, even if I say that those officers of the People’s Army may not necessarily take it seriously!

"There is another problem!" After thinking about it, I continued: "Every time the US military starts a war, the first thing they have to do is to use their air superiority to attack our logistics supply line. In addition, North Korea has entered the rainy season now, if it rains for a while, it will be difficult for us to transport food and ammunition. We have to take advantage of the negotiations to reserve a batch of food and ammunition, otherwise the situation where the soldiers had no food and ammunition in previous battles will be the case again!"

In fact, in this battle in history, our army's logistics problems were much more serious than I said. Not only did the US aircraft launched an air "strangling war" on our army's logistics supply line, the continuous heavy rains also caused northern North Korea to encounter a rare flood in a century, which almost interrupted the supply of front-line soldiers. Now, taking advantage of the enemy's "strangling war" before it began and before the heavy rain came, try to reserve more food and ammunition!

"What's wrong?" After a while, I saw several chiefs of staff looking at me. When I saw you and didn't say anything, I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Is there any difficulty?"

"No difficulties!" Deputy Commander Liu immediately responded: "After the meeting, I will contact my superiors immediately and ask them to transport us ammunition and food immediately to increase our army's reserves!"

"Then the Chief of Staff..."

"No, there is no difficulty!" Jiang Chunzeng shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Captain Cui! I think I think things are more thoughtful and comprehensive, but compared to you, it's still a big witch! You can analyze this battle situation well, as if you have fought this battle!"

Huang Xianhua pretended to be a little dissatisfied and said, "Everyone says that three cobblers can beat Zhuge Liang, but now it seems that these three cobblers can't beat you, Captain Cui!"

"That's it!" Staff Officer Li agreed: "We also sharpened our heads and drilled here. We wanted to give advice to Captain Cui, but I didn't expect that it is now. With Captain Cui, we don't need us at all! We have become idle food!"

The three staff members said and said something, and only praised me a little embarrassed. They didn't know, but I knew in my heart that this was not my intelligence, and it was all because I had known this battle in history that this was how it developed, so it would not be too easy to draw these conclusions.

At the same time, I also discovered a problem. I "speculated" everything, and even guessed the main position of the enemy's attack, even the strategies and tactics they will use, which would be as if Staff Li said. These chiefs of staff felt that they were idle people.

"You can't say that!" Unexpectedly, Deputy Commander Liu helped me to clear the siege. He brought a glass of water to each of us: "Isn't there a saying that a wise man will make a mistake? We just saw Captain Cui's power, but it's hard to guarantee that he will not make any mistakes in the future. Then we need to remind and correct me by all the staff!"

"That's right, right!" I hurriedly pushed the boat and said, "I, Cui, have a little experience, and it is inevitable that there will be a time when I go wrong. I will ask you all for advice!"

"Captain Cui is right!" Deputy Commander Liu added a sentence behind: "For example, driving a car to chase those comrades from the People's Army this morning..."

With a coaxing sound, everyone couldn't help laughing. Only the leader of the group was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say.

After the meeting, Commander Liu immediately started to reconnaissance and contact his superiors, and the superior departments also attached great importance to this issue. The experience of the first five battles also told us that after each war, the US military would block our logistics supply line. In the later stage of each war, the Volunteer Army would always have no food or ammunition, so my concerns and suggestions were very reasonable. In addition, the headquarters also attached great importance to this task, so it immediately agreed to provide us with sixty cars of ammunition and ten cars of food. At the same time, Commander Pang also agreed to raise thirty cars of sorghum and fried noodles for us, plus thousands of military uniforms and marching quilts in case we needed from time to time.

Sorghum, fried noodles, military uniforms and marching quilts. It is not easy for the 60th Army soldiers who are in a difficult stage to get these. I know that all these things are pieced together by them. This reminds me of what Commander Pang said before leaving: "Even if the entire 60th Army is hungry, you will have to eat enough!"

But then again, the reason why the Corps Command and Commander Pang gave so much money was that they gave dozens of cars was partly because our current location was north of the 38th parallel.

Not only is the short supply line north of the 38th parallel, there are also a small number of anti-aircraft artillery regiments and MiG fighter jets to protect it. Although I cannot fully control the entire supply line, it can still put some pressure and threats on the US military. In addition, it is precisely when the negotiations were just beginning, neither side had large-scale actions, and the US aircraft disappeared. This gave the volunteers a great opportunity to replenish food and ammunition, so as soon as I spoke, the Corps Command and Commander Pang agreed readily. If this was during the first five battles, if I asked the command for dozens of vehicles of ammunition, I would definitely be scolded: "Are you crazy? You just a regiment and ask for ammunition for a division. Other troops have reached a state of no food or ammunition. Do you still need to reserve?"

This is the case in the Korean battlefield. The battle southwards seemed to be a great victory, but there was a problem immediately on supply replenishment. There was nothing to eat or bullets, and it was bitter! He was beaten back by the enemy and returned to the north of the 38th parallel. It seemed that he was very cowardly in defeat, but the pressure on supply was not that great. He had food and bullets, and it was easier to fight.

Of course, this flood and the enemy's "strangling war" in the air cannot be included. The flood caused mountain roads and roads to block, and the "strangling war" made the railway block. For this reason, the supply of the volunteer army was interrupted for almost half a month...

Gunshots silence, war drums silence!

This period of time, as I imagined, since the armistice negotiations began, the situation on the battlefield has eased. Not only did we not fight, but even the People's Army on the front line has been idle. Except for the occasional reconnaissance activities of a few small troops, there was almost no conflict, and a short period of peace was finally ushered in on the battlefield.

Some soldiers then felt a sense of doubt: Will the war end like this?

The soldiers couldn't tell what this kind of suspicion felt. On the one hand, they hoped that the war would end and went home to meet their relatives. On the other hand, they were really unwilling to go back to meet their fellow villagers without turning back.

However, they are worthy of being a carefully selected soldier in the army. They think about it but have no work left at all. Isn't this? In just a few days, they dug these high grounds like cakes that were eaten by insects, and there are tunnels everywhere.

So much so that the ammunition and supplies of the Corps Command and Commander Pang were just transported to the tunnel and they were stuffed into the tunnel. However, this time I learned the lessons I learned from the last time when I defended in Mapingli. I no longer concentrated the ammunition on one high ground to store it, but scattered it into each high ground to store it separately. Not only that, but also considering the problem of the ammunition and grain being damp when floods occur, I used logs to build suspended shelves in the tunnel, and then wrapped it with raincoats, canvas, etc. to prevent moisture and moisture.

But I know that it is far from enough to do this. The Mapingli blocking battle made me clearly realize the weakness of the reverse slope tunnel: once our army is surrounded and the enemy bypasses our defense line, they can easily turn the reverse slope into the forward slope.

Judging from the information I know, during this battle, the People's Army was caught off guard by the US military because it was not prepared. It retreated eight kilometers after retreating. It was not until the volunteer military and neighboring troops sent reinforcements to defend their positions. Our current position is only five kilometers away from the front line, which means that our position is likely to fall into the enemy's encirclement...

For this reason, I thought about it for several days and finally thought of an inexplicable method: open up two inclined surfaces and build tunnel fortifications on both inclined surfaces. In this way, the reverse inclined surface and the forward inclined surface can be transformed into each other. Once the reverse inclined surface becomes a forward inclined surface, the soldiers can move to the other side through the tunnel to continue fighting. They can even directly build firepower in the tunnel to kill the enemy, just like in the Mapingli blocking battle, the wounded soldiers piled several sandbags in the tunnel and put a machine gun on a tunnel, turning a tunnel entrance into an excellent bunker.

Of course, this method also needs to be tested on the battlefield.

"Hey, Major An! What are these Chinese people doing for digging so many holes in the land?"

When I was watching the soldiers building tunnels on the position, Li Xianhao's voice came from beside me. They really thought that none of us would understand Korean, so they spoke very arrogantly!

"I don't know either!" Major An shook his head in confusion: "Aren't they seeking death? Hiding in such a cave, the enemy came up and used firepower to seal the entrance of the cave, and wouldn't it be all over?"

"Hmph, what kind of war will they fight?" Major Jin said disdainfully: "I think this is the habit they brought to being a guerrilla team. Let's drill in the cave and be a mouse!"
Chapter completed!