Chapter 48: Ideological Route

"Captain Cui!" When the enemy's cannons and the sound of bombing of the plane stopped, Li Pinghe handed me a cigarette: "I won the battle again, I'm fighting well! I'm pretty! But if I win the battle, I think there are some problems. I should remind you to pay attention..."

When I came, I couldn't help but smile bitterly when I heard this, and took the cigarette he handed over and replied: "Tell me! You are the political commissar. You have the final say about the ideological and political issues of the army!"

"You can't say that!" Li Pinghe replied calmly: "Everyone is a comrade, and the purpose is to do a good job in revolution. He will listen to whoever is right. No one has the final say. Dear Chiefs of Staff, come and listen. If I have something wrong, you can also raise it and discuss it!"

After hearing this, Jiang Chunzeng and others put down what was in their hands and surrounded them.

"That's right!" Seeing that everyone was here, Li Pinghe broke the topic and said, "I admire Captain Cui's military strategy and talent, but there is one thing I have always put in my heart. Because I am afraid of disrupting the combat deployment in the past few days, I have never proposed it. It is rare that we have won another big battle now. With a little breathing time, I will propose it to discuss it with you!"

Speaking of this, Li Pinghe continued to say while sharing cigarettes for everyone: "At present, the military victory of our 538th Regiment is obvious to all, and the superiors have also given great affirmation of our achievements. However, I think the more we are at this time, the more we should pay attention to the issues in our ideological line..."

After lit the cigarette, Li Pinghe took a breath and continued: "Artificial, armored soldiers, and infantry forces cooperated with each other. This can be said to be unprecedented in our revolutionary team. It happened to our 538th Regiment today. As the political commissar of the 538th Regiment, I feel very honored and proud of it. But now we can be said to be walking in front of the 180th Division, the 60th Army, and even the entire revolutionary team, so we are under great pressure! Once our route is wrong, it will lead a large number of people to go on a wrong path!"

"Political Commissar Li!" Liu Shunyi couldn't help but ask strangely: "We haven't taken the wrong path! Aren't we all resolutely implementing the orders of our superiors and strictly following the instructions of our superiors?"

"I don't deny this!" Li Pinghe nodded: "But in some aspects, we should draw a clear line with American imperialism! Yesterday, Captain Cui actually called on all the soldiers of our regiment to learn from the American Empire at the conference. Although Captain Cui said something, learn the American imperialist combat methods and use these methods to defeat American imperialism. Some comrades also regard the method of learning American imperialism as a gun to the Americans! But... Comrades! We must clearly realize that the combat methods of American imperialism are ideological things, which are different from the weapons they have in their hands!"

"Um?" Huang Xianhua couldn't help but look shocked on his face and muttered to himself: "We really didn't expect this problem!"

"Comrades!" Li Pinghe waved his fists and said, "We are all revolutionary soldiers. We must take class struggle as the mainstay, strengthen our belief in communism and maintain the socialist people's democratic regime, always maintain the vigilance of class struggle, and resolutely resist the poisoning of imperialist sugar-coated shells to our ideological effects! The Americans cannot defeat us on the battlefield, and they cannot defeat us in the ideological sense!"

"Political Commissar Li!" Jiang Chunzeng couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Didn't the ancients say that 'learning the best skills of the barbarians to control the barbarians'? I think it's not wrong to learn from the Americans' methods of fighting now? This cannot be said that we are going wrong on our ideological line!"

"Comrade Jiang Chunzeng, I understand what you mean!" Li Pinghe nodded and said, "I also know the meaning of this sentence, but comrades should realize that the background of the times when they said this sentence was feudal society, and we are now following the path of socialist socialism. Different era backgrounds have different requirements for policy! If we do this, it is easy to make revisionist mistakes!"

"Political Commissar! What is revisionism?" Li An asked while Li Pinghe was pausing.

"Comrade Li An asked good questions!" Li Pinghe explained: "Revisionism, to put it simply, is the socialist path, but the capitalist one is in the bones! There are many comrades' thoughts that are corroded and poisoned by imperialist ideas bit by bit, and then they embark on this path without realizing it! So... we must draw a clear line with imperialism, and class struggle cannot be relaxed every minute! Otherwise, now we will learn the combat methods of the US military, and then learn the lifestyle of the US military, and then learn the spirit of the US imperialism... These are the tails of capitalism, and we must never be able to do so! We have learned the combat methods of the US military, and we can get some benefits on the surface, but in the long run, it will make us deviate from the socialist route and embark on a path of no return."

After a pause, Li Pinghe continued: "There is a saying that goes, 'If you want the grass of socialism, don't want the seedlings of capitalism'! Comrades, please don't underestimate these little seedlings of capitalism. When it takes root in our hearts, it will then sprout and grow into a big tree. At that time, it will not be easy to dig it out and cut it off!"

After Li Pinghe said this, everyone couldn't help but remain silent. I was speechless. Yesterday, when I said at the meeting that I wanted to learn from the US military, I saw that Li Pinghe's expression was a bit wrong. I have been in this era for so long and have been to the Political Review Office. I have some understanding of this era, so I also know that he will definitely raise ideological and political issues to me because of this. But even though I was mentally prepared, I still didn't expect that he would raise this issue to this level...

"Captain Cui!" Li Pinghe continued: "I said these words not for you personally, but for the sake of our entire team. Especially, Captain Cui, as the commander of the regiment, if you do not realize this mistake and call on the soldiers to learn the combat methods of the US military at the conference, it is very undesirable! This will bring great difficulties to our ideological and political work. I hope Captain Cui can pay attention to this in the future..."

"Political Commissar Li!" I interrupted Li Pinghe and said, "I am a rough man who only knows how to fight and do not understand these great principles. I only know how to fight to win battles, and how to fight to reduce casualties for the soldiers. I will fight as much as I do! I don't care who these methods are!"

"You..." Li Pinghe stood up so angry that he was about to make a big talk again, but suddenly there was a burst of cannons outside the tunnel, which made him unable to hear anything in the tunnel. Li Heping opened his mouth several times to talk, but he still gave up because of the cannons.

Looking at Li Pinghe who was holding up all the words in front of me but couldn't speak, I couldn't help but laugh. Unexpectedly, the American cannon was the one who saved me this time...

"Captain Cui!" As soon as the cannon stopped, a soldier ran into the tunnel to report: "Captain, the enemy has begun to attack the 237th Highland! This time it's the Americans!"

"Well? Are you the Americans here?" Why would I miss such a good opportunity to escape? I turned around and said to Li Pinghe: "Political Commissar Li, the fight is started outside. I'll go up and see the situation!"

"Captain Cui, Captain Cui..." Li Pinghe shouted all the way behind him, but I didn't care about so much and crawled out of the tunnel without looking back.

As soon as I got out of the tunnel, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and my whole body was lightened for no reason...

When I took the guards and the correspondent climbed up the 317 high ground, the battle on the 237 high ground in front of me had already started. I raised my telescope from a high place to look down and saw that it was really the US army. Moreover, these US troops seemed to be a little different from other US troops. Because they were not like other US troops, they lie down and retreated to the rear to fire a fireball... Looking at the US troops in front of me, raising bayonets and submachine guns all the way forward, the combat style was somewhat like the troops of the pseudo-Capital Division.

"Have you found out their numbers?" I put away the telescope and asked casually.

"Not yet!" the correspondent shook his head and said, "The enemy has just started attacking, and before he can catch a few 'tongues' and ask..."

"Go and notify Company Commander Ma immediately!" I immediately ordered the correspondent: "Hold the position at all costs and send us a signal when we need support. Also... capture a few prisoners and ask the enemy's number!"

"Yes!" The correspondent responded and turned around and ran towards the 237 Highlands along the traffic trench.

"Captain! What's the situation?" At this time, Li Guoqiang also ran up and lay beside me, opened his mouth and cursed: "Damn Americans, let's lead the phone to the 237th high ground. They blew up the phone line with a fire. I don't know what the situation is now!"

As he said that, he didn't ask much, and then he raised his telescope and started observing.

No wonder Li Guoqiang was so nervous. The unit stationed on the 237th Highland was a company under his command, and the company commander was Ma Xiaohu.

According to Li Guoqiang, Ma Xiaohu was a soldier who had been with him for more than ten years. Li Guoqiang became the company commander Ma Xiaohu, and Li Guoqiang became the company commander Ma Xiaohu... In short, he lived and died together for more than ten years and had never separated. Ma Xiaohu was Li Guoqiang's right-hand man. When the two went to the battlefield, they each led a unit, which was like having a good understanding of each other. There was no need for a correspondent to know how to cooperate in the fight!

It is said that when they were fighting against Japan, they used this point to "openly repair the plank road and secretly cross Chencang" and touched the Japanese battalion command center...

"Captain!" Li Guoqiang said to me while looking at the situation on the battlefield: "Actually you don't need to give that order. Ma Xiaohu is stubborn! Without the order from his superiors, he would not have left the position at all! Well... these Americans are a little different!"

"Yeah!" I responded: "These Americans don't seem so easy to deal with! Battalion Commander Li, organize some mortars to provide some fire assistance to the 237th Highland!"

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang responded and turned around and left.

Although the 317 Heights are condescending, the two Heights are more than a thousand meters apart. At this distance, all the weapons in our hands cannot hit the 217 Heights, of course, except for the mortars. So there is nothing else that can provide them with assistance.

At this time, with bursts of explosions, the US military had already relied on their powerful firepower to attack the top of the mountain.

The reverse inclined offensive has a characteristic when confronting the US military, that is, the top position of the mountain will easily lead to the US military's capture. However, this does not seem to be very accurate. It should be said that the US military has a large amount of modern equipment, tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, rocket launchers, etc. These weapons can play a great role in the front inclined surface. If the volunteers stick to the top position, it will cause many unnecessary casualties, and the reverse inclined fortifications will lose their meaning. Therefore, when facing the US military, the volunteers will always give up the top position first, making these direct-firing weapons of the US military useless.

Of course, if you fight against the puppet army with relatively weak firepower, the situation will be different again.

"Captain! The mortars are all ready!" After a while, Li Guoqiang fell back to me.

"Yeah!" I nodded, and my attention was always on the US troops who rushed to the top of the mountain.

At this time of war, the US military also knew the power of the counter-slope position. This time, it was learned. It no longer rushed to the top of the mountain as before and was targeted by the volunteer soldiers. Instead, it carefully lay on the ground and slowly climbed up. When it reached a certain height, it did not appear. Grenades struck the head and threw air on the counter-slope. Suddenly, a bunch of dust and gravel exploded on the back-slope surface, but at this time the Volunteer Army's counter-slope fortifications had gradually matured in the war. In the fortifications, the soldiers were either hiding in the dead corners of the grenade or in a place far from the top of the mountain, the rows of grenades did not pose any threat to the soldiers.

The volunteer soldiers guarding the ridges were not outdone, and they also used grenades to reverberate the attacking US troops.

As the saying goes, God can forgive evil, but he can't survive. The stones on the slanting surface have long been blown up by the US military's various artillery, and there are no dead corners at all. Therefore, every time a volunteer soldier throws a grenade, he can always make several US soldiers roll aside and scream. Then I found that there were even soldiers throwing anti-tank grenades in the direction of the US military.

At this time, a strange scene appeared in the aperture of my telescope. The US military attacking the top of the mountain and the volunteers guarding the edges were only a few feet apart, almost facing each other, but they were pitching grenades at each other, hoping to kill each other...

Although I have personally experienced such grenade battles on the backscene in the past, this is the first time from the perspective of a third party.

However, it is obvious that in such grenade wars, the Volunteers have the upper hand in any case. One is because the Volunteers are all veterans of grenade pitching, especially the soldiers of the 538th Regiment. Anyone pick can throw the grenade accurately and far away. The other is because the Volunteers have super powerful anti-tank grenades but the US military basically does not have it.

The reason is that the US military has a large number of tanks and long-range anti-tank weapons, so anti-tank grenades, anti-tank grenades, which are close to attack and have poor results, seem to be unnecessary for the US military to be equipped. Their anti-tanks can even call fighter jets...

So, now they can only scream under the anti-tank grenades thrown by the volunteer soldiers.

"Captain!" At some point, the correspondent fell to me and reported: "Company Commander Ma asked me to report to you, so that the regiment commander would not take a step back without the orders of his superiors! Also, Company Commander Ma said that it was difficult to catch the prisoners and ask for numbers now, but he tore off the epaulette from the US military that he was killed and asked me to hand it over to the regiment commander..."

As he said that, he handed over a bloody epaulette in his hand.

"Well! It's the First Cavalry Division!" As soon as I saw a horse-head symbol on the epaulette, I quickly understood. No wonder this US army looks a little different from other troops. It turns out that they are also an ace force.

Looking at the epaulette of the horse head symbol in my hand, I couldn't help but remember that I had fought a battle with this army in Yunshan shortly after entering the court. At that time, the Zhi 39th Army was against them in Yunshan. The beach company led by Xu Feng and I, led by Commander Chu, touched into Yunshan City overnight and took the command of the First Cavalry Division stationed inside, thus ensuring the victory of the entire battle.

Since then, the ace unit of the US Cavalry Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, disappeared from our sight. It was because of the great defeat that it was severely injured after the defeat. I didn't know where to stay and rest until this time.

The First American Cavalry Division, the "Founder Division" founded by Washington, has a history of longer than that of the United States. It has been established for more than 160 years and has never suffered a defeat. But it is such a unit that was just entering North Korea and before it gained a foothold, it was beaten by the volunteers to secretly withdraw from the battlefield.

Such a trump unit, under such circumstances, has finally returned to the battlefield. With the American personality, it is just when he wants to take a breath and avenge a revenge, or it can be said that he wants to fight a beautiful battle to make himself famous!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh. I didn't expect that on this battlefield, there was more than one of our 180th Division who wanted to make a name for himself.

But why is it so difficult for us to clear our name!
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