Chapter 58: 100 Independent Camp

The sound of artillery remains, and the vanguard of the 538th Regiment plunged into the valley on the left side of the 222.9 highland at an extremely fast speed. At this time, the enemy was still unaware of anything.

The valley is a bottleneck, and no one understands this truth very well. Because if the enemy discovers our troops, all they have to do seems to be setting up a few machine guns on both sides, throwing grenades into the valley, or organizing a force to block us at the entrance of the valley... they can cause great casualties to our interspersed troops.

The reason why the enemy did not find us was that our army's artillery fire was still bombing the US military's deep positions, and the explosion of artillery shells covered the rumbling of the tank engines well. The US military had never been so dense and highly intense artillery attacked by the Volunteer Army. It must have been shocked by the artillery fire. At this time, I didn't know how to climb out of the tunnel. Another reason was that before the war started, I specifically told Li An to carry out a carpet bombing of the valley we were going to pass through.

The purpose of this is that one can detonate landmines buried in the valley, and the other is that the valley is not very ventilated. The shells are bombed here for half an hour, and the thick smoke of gunpowders enveloped the entire valley like fog. In this case, it is difficult for the enemy to discover us even if they shoot a few flares in this way, let alone they will not notice it at all.

Enduring the smell of gunpowder that could almost suffocate, he ran forward in the valley full of craters, and soon he passed through the valley and came to the back slope of the US military highlands.

Without my order, the soldiers immediately found their own positions based on the steps of practicing hundreds of times in the past few days. In order to form three teams, two of them arranged a Stalin 2 heavy tank, and a company and a platoon of soldiers cooperated with them. Their muzzles and muzzles were aimed at the valley where the U.S. reinforcements could appear. Once the U.S. reinforcements arrived, they would block the enemy out of the valley at all costs.

The remaining five tanks slowly drove to our main target this time - Highland 490.1, which will provide fire cover for Li Guoqiang's troops. Hu Biao was ordered to quickly capture the 222.9 highland and provide fire cover for the right wing of Li Guoqiang's troops.

Seeing the soldiers entering their positions step by step, I nodded with satisfaction. Perhaps because of the prior exercise, all the processes were completed in just a few minutes. What surprised me was that until then the US military did not discover our troops that had already broken into their positions.

The sound of cannons became thinner, and the gunshots on the other side became louder and louder. I looked at the backscene of the US highlands with the light of a few burning pine trees. As expected, there were not many fortifications on their backscene. Apart from a few tunnels to avoid artillery fire, there were some tents that had not been blown up.

The back slope is good! Under such fierce artillery fire, the soil on the front slope has been turned over several times and it can almost be said that there is no grass left, while the back slope has a tent that is intact.

At this moment, what surprised me was that a US military officer who had just emerged from the tunnel with a gun yelled at me: "hey...come on!www.piaotian.comg for! (Hey, hurry up! What are you waiting for?)"

"Um?" I was stunned when I heard this, but I soon thought of something. Maybe these American troops regarded us as their reinforcements. Maybe this is because the volunteers basically did not dispatch tanks to fight, so the Americans who have always regarded us as local buns. This time, when I saw our troops, Bu Tan, came up together, and in the darkness and smoke, they couldn't see what we looked like, so they took it for granted that we were "our own people". No wonder they had no reaction until now, and they let us seize various favorable positions without shooting.

This was an unexpected surprise! Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh and ordered Li Guoqiang beside me: "Let the soldiers not talk, follow the Americans up until they are discovered and shoot again!"

"Yes!" Li Guoqiang responded and took out the two box cannons sandwiched in the belt, waved his hand behind him, and the soldiers crawled towards the high ground with guns in a dark way.

In fact, the US military had many opportunities to find that we were not their own. Volunteer soldiers did not wear helmets, and the tank models were different, but the smoke and darkness confused their eyes, and they did not expect that we would break into their positions so soon, so when the soldiers followed them all the way to the hillside, they still had no idea that they had no idea that they would rush into their positions. Until a fallen US military had just run out of the tunnel and met a volunteer soldier, he couldn't help but scream: "who are your!"

"Help your mother!" The volunteer soldier kicked the US military to the ground with one kick, and then raised the rifle in his hand and shot him without hesitation.

The American soldiers running in front realized something was wrong. They all turned around and suddenly found that there were teams of volunteer soldiers following behind them. They couldn't help but turn around the muzzle and resist. But everything was too late. With a burst of gunshots like beans, the Americans fell down from the hillside like wooden stakes.

The Soviet-style weapons in the hands of the Volunteers may not be as advanced as the US military, but the capacity of the submachine gun and machine gun is far greater than that of any weapon in the hands of the US military. The large capacity of the bullets means that the density of the bullets fired in a short period of time is very high. In addition, the US military is basically facing the Volunteers without any defense. So before a while, no one was standing in front of one or two hundred US soldiers who died or injured.

Then the soldiers shouted again, picked up all kinds of weapons and rushed towards the top of the mountain.

With gunfire, grenade explosions, the US military on the top of the mountain soon discovered that our troops rushed up from behind, they were worthy of being veterans who had been on the battlefield for a while, and soon organized a firepower counterattack. But all this was obviously in vain. First, they did not face the fortifications behind them at all, and second, their people were only easily slaughtered by us just now. So they were shorter than us in terms of firepower and momentum.

I don’t know which veteran said that in war, it is not just about people, but about weapons and firepower, but also about murderous aura. On the battlefield, who has a strong murderous aura that can overwhelm the other party and make the other party scare, then you can win alive, otherwise you will have to die.

Originally, I didn't take this sentence seriously, because I thought "killing" would only appear in martial arts novels, but now it seems that there is really this thing on the battlefield.

The soldiers who have been on the battlefield may have a feeling, that is, they are afraid of death before going to the battlefield, and they are afraid of death before starting the battle, but after they really arrive at the battlefield and start killing, they are no longer afraid of anything, and they are just thinking about finding the enemy and killing them.

This may be a state of having "killing aura". In ancient times, when cold weapons were fighting, several criminals were killed in front of the soldiers before going to war. This may also be to give the soldiers more "killing aura".

The more veterans fight in the war, the shorter the time it takes to enter this state. Some soldiers even do not need to kill at all. They only need to see blood and artillery fire, and they can quickly enter this state of selflessness.

The soldiers of the 538th Regiment were all veterans, and they were all killed by a group of US troops just now. They were obviously in a state at this time. They shouted and rushed up the mountain with bayonets under the cover of the firepower of the machine gunners. Then a shrill wail and scream came from the top of the mountain.

The soldiers occupied the top position so quickly that the several T-34 tanks at the foot of the mountain did not have time to provide firepower for them, because when they adjusted their muzzles and prepared shells, they found that the figures of volunteer soldiers were already everywhere in sight.

It's that simple?

Only a dozen minutes ago, there were cheers from the soldiers on the top of the mountain, and then a soldier whispered the flag at me that he had occupied the enemy's positions, which meant that the 490.1 Highland was completely under the control of our army.

All along, my subordinates and even the entire division headquarters have regarded the battle to lead the 490.1 highland as a huge difficulty, but I didn’t expect it to be so easy to do it. This may also verify Chairman Mao’s words - "All imperialism is a paper tiger"!

But soon I realized that I was wrong, because while the victory came from the 490.1 Highland, the 222.9 Highland I thought I could easily win was in trouble.

I don’t know what happened, because the 222.9 high ground is more than a thousand meters away from where I am. In the dark night, I can’t see the battle situation there. I only know that the shouts and killings over there were tighter, and the gunfire over there also tighter. Now it seems that the fighting is being fierce!

There is no reason!

According to the information we obtained before the war, the US military stationed on the 222.9 Highlands only had two companies, with a battalion of the 539th Regiment on the front and a battalion of Hu Biao on the back. It was attacked several times our troops on both sides and could still survive until now...

"Xu Yongwei!" I shouted without looking back.

"Come!" Xu Yongwei responded and quickly stood in front of me.

"Go to Battalion Commander Hu to ask about the situation!" I ordered.

"Yes!" Xu Yongwei responded, turned around and ran into the darkness.

I know Hu Biao's personality. He is a very strong person. I assigned him the task of winning the 222.9 high ground. He would not come to report to me until the last moment, because he felt that it was asking me difficulties and making excuses. I would send someone to ask every time I wanted to know his situation.

After a while, Xu Yongwei ran back. He didn't salute me, so he turned around carefully and pretended not to talk to me and reported: "Captain, Battalion Commander Hu encountered a hard point. The soldiers rushed twice and were beaten down. According to the soldiers, the defenders above were not Americans!"

"Not an American?" I couldn't help but wonder.

This is unreasonable! There are US defense lines within a radius of dozens of miles, so there is no reason why another army suddenly pops up here. What's more, if there is no US military above, then our scouts will also be able to reconnaise, right?

"Captain!" Xu Yongwei continued to report: "The soldiers said that this army is very good at fighting. They were wearing American uniforms, but when they fought, they looked like little Japanese and looked like little Japanese!"

"What? Little Japan?" I was shocked when I heard this and suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a unit in the US military. That is the 100th Independent Infantry Battalion called "Zixin Camp".

This infantry battalion is all composed of Japanese-Americans. According to legend, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor during World War II, the United States fell into a hysterical atmosphere and could not extricate itself. Japanese-Americans also became their targets of revenge. As many as 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their homes and were detained in concentration camps, including the elderly and children.

However, some of these Japanese Americans are serving in the US military, and how to deal with these Japanese American troops has become a difficult problem. The military is quite troubled by the handling of some Japanese soldiers. On the one hand, it expresses extreme distrust of them, and on the other hand, it does not dare to dismiss them, because many people at that time thought that it is too dangerous to release these Japanese soldiers who are familiar with the internal affairs of the US military and have strong military capabilities from the military camp. After thinking about it, the Army Department finally decided to send them to the European battlefield.

In other words, the US military hopes that all these Japanese soldiers will die gloriously on the battlefield. Therefore, the US military always arranges the most dangerous and difficult tasks to this 100th Independent Battalion.

The dilemma of these Japanese soldiers at that time was unimaginable. While they were troubled by their superiors and comrades, they had to endure their worries about their families, because most of them were still detained in concentration camps to live a life of almost prisoners. But in this situation, their performance on the battlefield surprised everyone.

They used more than 700 casualties to rescue two hundred "cowboys" who had discriminated against them and made things difficult for them. They took less than a day to penetrate into the Gothic defense line that the Allied forces could not defeat for six months. Even Clark could not help but be stunned by their record.

On the Korean battlefield, this army also fought with the volunteer army. A veteran of the returning volunteer army described the army like this: "When fighting, I found it was a little Japanese. It was so fucking hard to fight. More than 200 people surrounded him and more than 100 people fought, but they fought for a day and a night but couldn't catch it!"

From the simple and unpretentious words of the Volunteer Army soldiers, I can see how difficult this army is.

I remember that when I listened to the description of this army by the veterans of the volunteer army in the video, my heart trembled because it made me feel a little emotionally unacceptable.

Unexpectedly, now I have face-to-face with this army.

After thinking about it, I turned around and climbed up to the 490.1 highland that had just been captured by our army. When I climbed halfway up the mountain, I saw several American prisoners squatting on the ground with their hands raised.

I didn't say much, and grabbed one of the American soldiers full of beards and asked, "If you want to survive, then tell me the truth. What unit is stationed next to you, and how many people are there?"

"They are 100 independent battalions, commander!" The answer of the US military confirmed my thoughts. He glanced at me in panic and then replied: "They have more than a thousand people, and the four highlands around them are all stationed by them, and each highland has three hundred people!"

"Why do you arrange this way?" I asked in confusion: "I mean, why are you the only ones who are not from the 100 independent camp?"

"God! I don't want this either!" The US military almost burst into tears after I asked this. He said in pain: "Sir, I swear that what I said is true. We are changing defenses with the 100th Independent Battalion. If it weren't for you, we would have boarded a ship back to China tonight!"

"Um!" I was surprised to hear this. It turned out that it was not only our volunteers who changed defenses to return to China on this front line, but even the US military was the same. But thinking about it, no one could stay in North Korea's high-intensity battlefield for a long time. This is the case with the volunteer soldiers, and the Americans with relatively fragile will are even more so.

No wonder the situation our army's scouts had detected some time ago was inconsistent with the actual situation. It turned out that we just happened to hit them when they changed defenses.

490.1 The Americans on the high ground are really unlucky. They are about to return home, but they didn't expect that they will be killed and wiped out by us...

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but relax and comfort the US military, saying, "Don't worry! Brother, if you return to China, you may be on the battlefield again in a few months. But if you become our captive, you can wait until the war is over!"

"Yes, I think so too!" The US military dared not say no, and nodded to me frequently with trembling all over his body.

I ignored the US troops and looked around, and suddenly found that the 490.1 Highland was actually surrounded by three sides of the US 100 Independence Battalion, and the 538th Regiment and Zhong Chaoyang's Tank Battalion were even more so.

An independent camp with more than one thousand people!
Chapter completed!