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Chapter 873 Long Live the Army!
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The 113th Division, which was interspersed in Xiangsansuo, was convening a meeting in full swing.

The three places they want to penetrate are in the enemy's belly. Enemy planes are flying around in the sky and hovering overhead. Marching during the day will inevitably be exposed.

But if they do not march during the day, they will arrive at the third station later. It is still unknown whether the mission will be delayed.

They did not dare to turn on the radio and contact the military headquarters and Shisi. This area was surrounded by US military signal detection. Once the radio was turned on, they seemed to have been attached with locators.

Maintaining radio silence is the only way at the moment.

But whether to march during the day is still a major question hanging over the heads of commanders at all levels of the 113th Division.

The opinions of the short meeting on the march have not been unified.

Some people say, quite rightly, that marching during the day will expose our intentions, and secondly, there is a problem with the public perception.

The soldiers had no rest for several days and nights. Some soldiers vomited blood and fell down during the rapid march. They were too tired and should camp on the spot. Only by getting a good rest can they win the battle.

Some disagreed with this opinion and asked to continue on their way. There were so many military orders that no one knew whether stopping to rest would delay the mission.

They had already lost the first battle. The 38th Army was criticized by Shiji. Everyone had a dark cloud hanging over their heads, and they wanted to clear it away.

The cadre who agreed to rest further elaborated on his point of view: "The superiors did not clearly indicate when they should rush to the third station. It may be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. It may be good to cook some food for the troops or let the soldiers have a good rest. The soldiers were already vomiting blood."

"I think this is what we should do. Shiji said we would attack Junyu-ri and Kaichuan on the evening of the 28th. It's still early."

Comrade Comrade Political Commissar of the 338th Regiment recalled that during the domestic battlefield of liberating the Northeast, a unit was criticized for delaying a fighter plane because of eating. He absolutely did not agree with the above-mentioned comrade's opinion. Examples of things that have been criticized for delaying fighter jets.

Then he said: "The chief ordered us to quickly infiltrate into the three institutes. We must race against time to quickly stop and rest. The first battle was because of our carelessness, which led to us being criticized by the chief. This lesson is not enough. Well."

Deputy Division Liu Haiqing firmly supported Comrade Political Commissar's opinion and said: "No matter how difficult the troops are, they cannot stop. Yes, the soldiers need to rest, but time is tight. If you arrive in advance, you can make full battle preparations. You can Reduce the casualties of soldiers."

"This is the highest mass concept in battle!"

Everyone was silent for a moment. Comrade Jiang Chao and Comrade Yu Jingshan felt that Liu Haiqing's notice expressed their opinions. Yu Jingshan said in agreement: "Old Liu said it well. We should arrive early and take the initiative. We cannot give the initiative to the enemy. If Falling into a passive state will only increase casualties.”

Comrade Jiang Chao stood up and ordered the troops to continue moving forward. With one order, all the commanders and soldiers of the division marched quickly towards the three camps regardless of fatigue.

However, enemy planes were always causing interference overhead. One formation flew past, then another formation came, and there were also 'Black Widow' reconnaissance planes, always turning around overhead.

At the beginning, as soon as the enemy planes came, they blew the trumpet to hide, and the troops stopped and stopped, which wasted a lot of time.

It's not an option to continue like this.

During the march, they held a short meeting and believed that their position was deep into the enemy's belly. They were in the enemy's rear area and the enemy planes were very high above the ground. It was not necessarily possible to tell whether they were enemies or friendly forces.

After careful consideration, they agreed to take off the disguise and move forward boldly.

This is really a dangerous move. Once discovered by enemy planes, we will face dangers from all sides.

But since ancient times, soldiers have never been tired of deceit, and the enemy's reconnaissance planes were fooled. Not only did they not have fighter jets to attack their marching troops, but they thought they were Li Puppet Army escaping from the Tokugawa direction, and even called in the security team from the Sanso-ri direction. Salted fish, rice and boiling water were prepared for them.

Therefore, when the avant-garde battalion arrived at Sansuoli, the enemy troops inside were not prepared at all, and they even barely opened the door to welcome them in.

The avant-garde battalion fought quickly and eliminated the security team in the third camp. The troops behind them filed in, quickly occupied the slope near the third camp, and dug bunkers intensively.

As soon as the shovel was inserted into the soil, the scout in front of him blew a sharp whistle.

Like a long queue of enemies, they rushed along the road in the direction of Sansuoli. There was only five minutes left before they captured Sansuoli.

The Fourth Company and the Ninth Company quickly crossed the highway and entered the wilderness. They suddenly opened fire, setting the truck at the front on fire, and immediately blocked the enemies behind them. This American army was fleeing in a hurry, and the sudden attack frightened them. After a jump, he didn't care about the car anymore, jumped out of the car and ran away in a hurry.

When the command post of the 338th Regiment rushed to the east mountain of the Third Institute, they heard rapid gunfire from the vanguard platoon. The regiment leader Zhu Yuehua quickly raised his telescope to observe, and saw smoke and dust rising on the road leading to the Third Institute.

That was the large group of people who were still marching towards the Yalu River yesterday. Now they were heading south in a panic, trying to escape through Sansuoli.

"Quick! Seize the favorable terrain!"

This is a head-on encounter with the enemy.

The sound of a gun is an order.

The 338th Regiment is the vanguard regiment of the 113th Division, and there are a large number of troops behind them who are filing into Sansuoli. When they hear that the enemy is blocked in front, the troops behind them all run towards Sansuoli.

The sounds of weapons clashing came one after another, and the whistles blown by commanders and soldiers complemented each other.

It's like starting the final sprint as you approach the finish line of a long-distance race.

Some soldiers collapsed from exhaustion, dragged their bags behind them, and continued running forward with only their weapons, ammunition, and rice bags.

Some soldiers fell down and never got up again. The continuous rapid march caused many soldiers to go into shock. Some were rescued by health workers, while others never woke up.

The 72.5th Division marched 28 kilometers overnight. At 7 a.m. on the 5th, they arrived minutes before the enemy. They seized a favorable position in the third camp and, with a sudden attack, completely annihilated a company of the US Army and the th Regiment of the st Cavalry Division. The advance team of more than people successfully blocked the enemies fleeing south in the third camp.

There was a brief silence in the three houses.

There were only corpses thrown by the enemy and damaged cars on the road.

The instructors of each company began to build defensive fortifications nervously, and the regiment command post also had a busy atmosphere.

The regiment leader Zhu Yuehua immediately asked Comrade Zhang Fu, director of the division's information department, to issue a contract and report to the army and division. Along the way, Comrade Zhang Fu and others carried heavy reporting equipment and marched quickly with the troops. When they arrived at the third station, their tired cotton clothes were soaked with sweat, as if they had just been fished out of the water. My tongue was dry and my legs felt as heavy as lead.

Now they couldn't care less about rest and immediately set up a charter plane.

Since several contents of the telegram were numbered according to regulations before departure, only a few signals needed to be sent. Zhang Fu skillfully sent several sets of signals, "Our troops have arrived at Sansuoli", "The enemy is trying to retreat southward through Sansuoli" and "Please give us instructions on the mission".

In five minutes, the contact between the regiment, division, army and Shisi was communicated.

The signal from the 113th Division suddenly came. Shisi's telegraph operator quickly informed Shisi of the situation. All the troops who received the signal from the 113th Division were very excited. The atmosphere in the headquarters became lively, and everyone had a smile on their face. Smiling.

Someone said in surprise: "The 113th Division is really fast. It didn't take long before they arrived at the 3rd Institute."

Shiji, who had always been serious, also had a smile on his face. The situation he expected finally appeared, "Immediately order the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division to block the enemies fleeing south in the third camp!"

"Yes!"

After receiving Shiji's instructions, the morale of the Third Institute increased greatly. The company instructor took the time to direct the soldiers to dig bunkers and fortifications.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Shiji sent a message to the Volunteer Army's Western Front Combat Force and pointed out that north of the Qingchuan River, the main US military divisions were retreating southward.

"Our army cut off the enemy's retreat route according to the Beijing-North telegraph order, divided and encircled it, and completed the mission of annihilating the four American divisions and the British 27th Brigade on the Western Front!"

According to Shisi's instructions, Comrade Han immediately ordered the 42nd Army to speed up its advance towards Yinshan and Sunchuan River in order to flank the main force of the 1st Cavalry Division stationed near Sunchuan and reduce the pressure on the 113th Division of the 38th Army.

Comrade Liang of the 38th Army ordered the 114th Division to move closer to the 113th Division as quickly as possible, from east to west, flanking the enemies breaking through from the direction of Sansuoli and Longyuanli.

Comrade Shiji's staff, from 9:40 am to 3:00 pm, used radio to communicate with the cadres of the 13th Division three times. He said that Shiji was very happy and encouraged them to resolutely cut off the enemy's retreat at all costs and cooperate with the main force. Destroy enemies in big battles.

When Shiji assigned combat missions to the troops on the Western Front, the 5th Regiment of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division retreated from the north and surged toward Sansuo along the highway.

The rumble of the tank caused the rocks on the ridges on both sides to roll down.

The car roared like a long winding dragon.

The Eighth Company and the Fifth Company were the vanguard of the 338th Regiment, stationed on the east and west sides of the road. When the enemy's leading troops arrived at the ambush positions of the two companies, they attacked from the east and west and fired at the enemy in unison.

This group of enemies belongs to the "Founding Fathers Division" of the United States, which is the most powerful force in the US military. When they were attacked by ridges on both sides, their artillery was already lined up in the rear. It was obvious that they received three News of the loss.

There was a rumbling roar, followed by a spurt of hot air, carrying unrivaled potential energy, spanning a thousand meters, and landed on the positions of the Eighth Company and the Fifth Company.

In the sky, a formation of US bombers roared in, a dark group like a group of big birds.

The instructor of the fifth company on the position looked at the enemy's posture, preparing for coordinated operations by artillery and air force, and called on the soldiers to take cover, but the enemy at the foot of the mountain could not be left alone.

The enemy wanted to use the air force to cooperate with the artillery. They opened a gap in the direction of the third camp and began to attack the Eighth Company position with one battalion. The enemy tanks rushed to a hundred meters away from the Eighth Company position and opened fire. The infantry was covered by the tanks. Down, groups rushed up towards the hills.

Gunsmoke filled the battlefield, and the U.S. military could be seen all over the mountains and plains.

However, they were beaten down by the firepower of the second platoon several times. The morale of the soldiers was unstoppable. They were very happy to see the enemy in such a miserable state.

What a bullshit Founding Father, nothing more than that.

When the instructor ran to the second row position, the soldiers happily said to him: "Instructor, the American soldiers are really big bears. They were beaten down by us after several attacks."

The instructor was calm and calm, "The battle has just begun. Don't underestimate the enemy. The enemy cannot be defeated. If he becomes angry, he will definitely bomb us with more violent artillery fire. We must protect ourselves."

The monitors smiled and said, "Instructor, we all know this, so just watch. Today, not even one of these American devils can get through."

The enemy failed to attack several times. As the instructor said, he became even more crazy when he became angry. He did not hesitate to pour out a large amount of artillery bombardment and used plowing methods to bombard the Eighth Company's position inch by inch, with the attitude of flattening the mountain top.

Pillars of smoke several feet high rose up from the Eighth Company's position, and when the wind blew, they floated everywhere.

Shrapnel and stones were flying all over the sky. The soil around the hilltop position had been bombarded by enemy bombs, artillery shells, and gasoline bombs. Some hard mountains were also turned into powder under the fierce shelling.

The billowing smoke of gunpowder spread from east to west in the direction of the wind, covering the sky like dusk.

The smell in the air was pungent and the temperature rose. The soldiers who resisted with their flesh and blood emerged from the soil and found three companies of machine guns cooperating in the battle. The machine guns of each squad had malfunctioned due to the bombing. The enemy was about to rush forward. Coming to the position, squad leader Comrade Mou Xingguang crawled on the ground and climbed to the machine gun position at a very fast speed.

He held the machine gun in his arms, deftly disassembled the parts, untied his clothes, wiped off the dirt and gravel on the machine gun with the clean inner liner of his clothes, troubleshooted the malfunction, replaced the parts, and quickly repaired the machine gun, powerfully Support second platoon operations.

Every time the enemy charged, they were overwhelmed by the firepower of the Eighth Company at the foot of the mountain. However, the casualties of the Eighth Company increased sharply, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers holding on to their positions.

Especially as time passed, the enemy could clearly feel that the Chinese soldiers on the mountain had insufficient firepower, but their resistance was tenacious, which made them extremely excited.

After the new round of shelling, a large number of tanks arrived at a position 100 meters away from the Eighth Company's position. The tank soldiers controlled heavy machine guns and began to sweep towards the Eighth Company's position, while the soldiers covering them stormed the Eighth Company's position.

Facing the enemy's fierce attack, the remaining soldiers were not timid. They shouted heroic slogans: "For the motherland, for the people, for peace, and for victory, we must not let the enemy run away!"

Party member Hu Huihua, the leader of the fifth squad, led the entire squad to guard a bare hill. The battle lasted until the end. Only he and another wounded soldier were left, still holding on to their position and refusing to take a step back even to the death.

They gathered all the guns in the class, including some taken from the enemy's corpses, as well as some grenades, and loaded all the guns with bullets.

Hu Huihua placed the wounded in the rear, more than 20 meters away from him. He hid in the front, with all the guns lined up and ammunition put away. When the ground started to attack, he picked up a gun, pulled the trigger, and waited for the bullets to fire. Light, the wounded soldier from behind picked up.

(End of this chapter)