Chapter 27 Special Forces
The first thing I did when I returned to the 649.8 Highlands was that I ran to the No. 2 tunnel where the Cold Guns were located and told Hu Zudi and others what they were going to leave behind. But to my surprise, they were not as excited as I thought, and just looked at each other and then lowered their heads.
"What's wrong, comrades?" Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Do you have any opinions on this decision of your superior? Or do you have any opinions on me?"
"Captain Cui..." Hu Zudi shook his head and replied, "We are all brought by you. It's not only for one day or two days to follow you, how could you have any objections to you? It's too late to be happy! He won't have any objections to the decisions of his superiors. Revolutionary soldiers are going to obey orders, right?"
"Then you guys are..."
"We are not even rushing to say hello to the comrades of the 77th Division!" Liu Yangxing replied: "We all thought we would be able to go back soon, but we didn't expect that we would leave... many people are afraid that they will be the last time..."
"What are you talking nonsense?" Yang Zhenshan interrupted Liu Yangxing and said, "I said to you, Squad Leader Liu, you have been in the army for a day or two! When did you become such a mother-in-law? Wherever you fight, you are fighting, don't you just fight for the country and protect your country? How did Chief of Staff Ping tell us? Wherever we need us more, we will fight wherever we usually do! What's wrong? You really need you now, are you not happy, right?"
"Where do you mean?" Liu Yangxing waved the rifle in his hand and said unwillingly: "Who is not happy? People just miss the army a little! You just don't want to?"
Yang Zhenshan was said by Liu Yangxing, and there was no sound.
Seeing this, I realized what the problem was. They were well brought out by me, but they were even soldiers of the 77th Division. Most of them were born and died in the 77th Division, and sacrificed their lives for the honor of the 77th Division, and grew from a new recruit into a veteran in the 77th Division... Now I suddenly received an order and became a soldier of the 538th Regiment of my 180th Division. The loss in my heart is inevitable.
The reason why I didn’t consider this issue is entirely because things didn’t happen to me at all. The so-called “stand and speak without a back pain” may be what I mean!
So I was wondering if I would have to pull the elite cold gun force of the 77th Division into our regiment.
Seeing that I was in a dilemma, Hu Zudi hurriedly persuaded the soldiers, "Comrades! Comrade Yang Zhenshan is right! We revolutionary soldiers are just to obey the orders of our superiors. We will fight wherever we need us! What's more, we are not following others, but following Commander Cui to shoot cold guns! When Commander Cui left us, didn't the comrades always want Commander Cui to come back and fight with us? Why? Now we are really fighting together, and you are getting angry like a girl?"
With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed out loud, and the atmosphere immediately eased a lot.
I didn't feel funny when I heard this, and joked at the soldiers: "No wonder I, the regiment commander, have never been promoted. The feelings are you guys who have been thinking about it in your heart. I hope I will go back and be your platoon leader!"
There was another burst of laughter when the tunnel was neutral.
"Captain Cui!" Hu Zudi smiled and said, "To be honest, the soldiers are so happy that they know they are coming back to fight with you! Especially Liu Yangxing, Zhang Liangliang, Wei Xinming and others, they all return to the Cold Gun Army after you leave. After hearing us talk about your skills, I have long been itchy to see you! Isn't that guy Liu Yangxing threatened to compete with you!"
"Where, how dare you..." After Hu Zudi said this, the guy Liu Yangxing couldn't sit still. He quickly stood up and waved his hands, "Captain Cui, don't listen to the platoon leader's nonsense. What competition is it! Then, that's asking..."
"Oh hey!" Yang Zhenshan said, "I said to Squad Leader Liu, we can hear clearly. When he first joined the Cold Gun Army, when we heard us talking about Commander Cui, he said with dissatisfaction and ignorantly: 'What can that be? I will do it too. If I were there, the Japanese would not be less than Commander Cui!'. Comrades! Do you think so?"
"Yes!" The soldiers heard it and started cheering.
Some soldiers also made fun of it: "I want me to tell me! Squad Leader Liu saw Captain Cui's ability on the battlefield. His courage was scared. Let's ask for advice after the competition!"
With a coaxing sound, the soldiers laughed again, making Liu Yangxing stand with a red face, either sitting or sitting!
"Comrades!" I rescued Liu Yangxing and said, "Liu Yangxing's spirit of competing with me is very good! There is no saying that 'Soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers'. Comrade Liu Yangxing's idea of competing with me means that he has enterprising spirit and a good soldier who wants to be generals! I think that all the soldiers in our cold gun troops must have the spirit of Liu Yangxing's competition. When we go to the battlefield, we will compete with whoever fights more enemies, and when we get off the battlefield, we will compete with whoever summarizes the experience better!"
"Yes!" the soldiers clenched their fists and said, "This will make our ability to kill enemies better and better, and we will hit more and more enemies!"
Some soldiers even couldn't wait to say, "Captain, just give orders! Let's go up and compete!"
"No hurry!" I blocked and said, "You need to be patient when fighting a cold gun! We just fought a big battle yesterday. If the enemy doesn't have any moves, just take a break today and keep your spirits and assign tasks tomorrow!"
"Yes!" the soldiers responded in unison.
"Captain Cui!" After returning to the regiment headquarters, Liu Shunyi immediately reported to me as soon as he saw me: "The enemy on the enemy's 902.8 high ground has been replaced by a puppet army again. The reconnaissance platoon caught two 'tongues' and asked, and found that it was the troops of the puppet fifth division!"
"Well, I'm changing troops again!" I was stunned when I heard it.
Although Van Vreet was defeated, it was beyond my expectations that he had withdrawn the US troops so quickly. A few days ago, they just withdrew the puppet troops and replaced the US troops. After fighting a war, they then withdrew the US troops and replaced the puppet troops. Such frequent replacement of troops is very unfavorable to the defense of the front line. Not to mention that they are very likely to be attacked by the enemy during defense changes, the newly replaced troops are likely to suffer losses because they are not familiar with the position!
"And this..." Then Liu Shunyi pointed to the map on the desktop and said: "The superiors summarized the information obtained from the entire front, and just notified us with telegrams on the configuration of enemy troops on the front, and I marked them all on the position!"
"Yeah!" I couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. With Liu Shunyi as an assistant, I could indeed save a lot of trouble.
When I walked to the map on the desktop, I couldn't help but be surprised. Because on the map in front of me, except for the 2nd Division of the US, the 187th Regiment of the US surrendered on the west coast, and the 45th Division of the East Coast, the rest of the places were all puppet troops. What are the puppet 9th Division, the puppet capital division, and the 7th Division of the US... The US military troops are rarely seen on the second line!
"It seems that the US military has no intention of fighting again!" Liu Shunyi said excitedly.
"Yeah!" I nodded in agreement. I would like to know from modern information that the United Nations has slowly withdrawn from the Korean War since then. It is easy to draw this conclusion based on the current configuration of troops.
The US military obviously gradually handed over the front to the puppet army to prepare for their withdrawal from North Korea. Their purpose of defending the east and west coasts was to protect the security of the ports and allow the US military to use the navy to withdraw from the battle smoothly when necessary.
I think this is also a measure for the US government to protect the US military. It is obvious that the war is ended in negotiations now, and the problem is only the length of time. Therefore, as the US government, from the perspective of protecting American citizens and their own interests, they are certainly unwilling to continue to pay more of the US military's lives for this foregone conclusion war.
The life of the Americans is valuable! If we can start from our own interests, should we arrange the People's Army to the front line at this time, and we will only wait and see on the second line and then fight for some profit at the negotiating table and then lose it?
But the fact is not the case. The reason is that the puppet army has become more and more people under the full equipment and support of the US military. It can even be said that they have already gained considerable combat effectiveness under the tempering of the war. However, the People's Army's troops have not yet fully recovered from the casualties of the Incheon landing battle. It can be said that if the volunteers also played this game like the US military at this time, the entire front would soon move north...
This is why after the end of the Korean War, the Volunteer Army left many troops to assist North Korea in "post-war reconstruction".
"It seems that this time, we are not far from peace!" Li Pinghe pushed the glasses on his nose and smiled relaxedly: "The Americans are clearly 'preserving their strength'! Lee Seung-man has no support from the United Nations, just like a tiger without teeth and claws. It seems that it can get fierce! As long as we add more force, we can completely defeat the enemy and drive American imperialism back to their own country!"
"Yes! Drive American imperialism back!"
"To completely defeat the Lee Seung-meng regime!"
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Listening to Li Pinghe's words, the soldiers around him also waved their fists to respond.
But I know that the facts will not be as simple as they thought. One is that the situation in front of him is not satisfied with the situation in front of him. He is determined to unify North Korea with the help of the United Nations, so of course he will not be willing to make peace. The other is that the Soviet Union will soon reduce its logistics support for the volunteer army to a large extent due to domestic reasons.
After the Liberation War, many people were wondering that our army had seized many first-class equipment from the enemy on the battlefield, but why did these equipment not be equipped with our army's troops later? The main reason for this is logistics, which is bullets!
If there is no bullet, it is almost the same as a fire stick on the battlefield. This is also the reason why I was equipped with a large number of 38 large covers and the official rifles when I entered North Korea. When the Japanese invaded China, in order to facilitate the supply of ammunition, several arsenals were directly established in our country to produce the ammunition needed for the 38 large cover. After the Japanese surrendered, these arsenals were eventually seized by our army. When we entered North Korea, our army had the ability to produce 38 large covers and the official rifle bullets on its own, so these rifles became the only choice for the volunteers.
However, since the five battles changed their clothes, the weapons of the Volunteer Army gradually replaced them with Soviet weapons batch by batch, while the arsenal that produced ammunition was not built in time, which directly led to the import of most of the ammunition of the Volunteer Army from the Soviet Union. At this time, the Volunteer Army was actually subject to the Soviet Union to a considerable extent.
So when problems arise within the Soviet Union, we have to make concessions at the negotiating table.
"Let's discuss the plan to attack the 902.8 Highlands again. The enemy's attack has been repelled by us. Now it's our turn to attack!" I poured a basin of cold water on the excited Li Pinghe and others.
"Captain Cui!" Li Pinghe couldn't help but look at me in confusion when he heard this, and said, "The situation is very good now, why are you still in a hurry to fight the 902.8 highland?"
"Yes! Captain Cui!" Even Liu Shunyi didn't understand now. He looked at the map and then lowered his voice and said: "Now the negotiation situation has become clearer step by step. Occupying one more highland and less highland. Strictly speaking, there is no conflict of interest for our country. I think..."
I understand Liu Shunyi's words below. He was once a deputy commander, and the deputy commander could be said to be a high-level strategic planner. So he would think of these things. The higher the people, the more they put national interests first. And the lower the volunteer soldiers, the more they may focus on personal feelings, such as China-North Korea friendship! Or because an old lady in North Korea is particularly good to him, or because a soldier of the People's Army saved his life, he was so excited that he wanted to occupy more land for North Korea!
But from reality, the situation is exactly like Liu Shunyi said, occupying one high ground or one low ground will actually have no impact on China's interests at all, and instead will sacrifice the lives of many volunteer soldiers!
I also don’t know this, but I also know that this battle is to be fought no matter what. And it is not only necessary to fight, but also a big battle that no one can imagine! The purpose is to make Rhee, who is clamoring to fight the Korean War, know that without the support of the United *** team, we not only have the ability to resist the war to unify Korea initiated by him, but also have the ability to unify him in turn!
After thinking about it, I stared at the map in front of me and said, "I just came back from the division headquarters. My superiors meant to fight and talk only! So we don't need to think too much about negotiation, we just need to consider how to fight the battle in front of us!"
"Yes!" Listening to my words, Li Pinghe and Liu Shunyi couldn't help but look at each other.
Although what I said was a bit forced, it was indeed what Commander Pang said, so Commander Pang couldn't say anything.
After thinking about the 902.8 high ground on the map for a while, Liu Shunyi suggested: "In my opinion, there is only one way to fight the 902.8 high ground, that is, lurking!"
"Landing?" Li Pinghe opposed: "Landing is too difficult, and even if our troops successfully lurk at the foot of the 902.8 Highland, climbing up the 902.8 Highland and launching the troops will still take three or four hours. During this period, once discovered by the enemy, they are likely to be blocked by enemy planes and artillery fire. I am afraid that more than half of the casualties will be killed or killed on the road. I don't think it will work!"
"No!" Liu Shunyi shook his head and said, "I have been thinking about this question during this period. I think we should not lurk at the foot of the mountain in the 902.8 highland as usual, but should lurk at the forefront of the enemy's position, that is, on the 902.8 highland!"
"Landing on the 902.8 high ground?" Li Pinghe and I both turned our doubtful eyes to Liu Shunyi.
"This is my idea..." Liu Shunyi is worthy of being a deputy commander, and he was not panicked at all under our questioning eyes. He sorted out his mind and then said slowly: "It is impossible to lurk large troops at the front of the enemy's position. It is easy to be discovered by the enemy. At the same time, the risk is too great. Once discovered by the enemy, it will be a loss. So I wonder, can we lurk the large troops at the foot of the mountain and the small troops at the front of the enemy's position. For example, the elite troops of one or two companies. They are the first team to launch an attack on the enemy, seize one or two positions without the enemy's defense, and hold on for two to three hours, waiting for reinforcements from the large troops!"
"Yes!" Listening to Liu Shunyi's plan, I couldn't help but nod.
I think his plan is likely to be the case of the US Rangers boldly seizing the high ground in the rear of our army. Because in his plan, one or two companies lurking in the enemy's frontier positions are actually special forces sneak attacks, occupying favorable positions, and waiting for reinforcements from the large army.
At this time, I thought of the cold gun troops and the night vision devices that will arrive, and they may be able to play a role similar to that of the US special forces in this battle.
But... the number of people in the Cold Gun Army is too small, now only a few more than twenty, which is far from one to two companies.
However, this problem does not seem to be very big, because the soldiers of the 538th Regiment are also elite. It is not difficult to draw one or two experienced veterans from them and then cooperate with the Cold Gun troops to form such a special force.
Chapter completed!