Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 162 Unsolved Mystery!

Li Guotao and the soldiers of the Seventh Company had just walked a short distance when they saw flames rising from the mountains in front of them.

After dropping bombs, enemy planes in the sky quickly flew towards this side.

Li Guotao shouted loudly: "Enemy planes, hide!"

"Disperse immediately and hide!"

The soldiers moved quickly and hid in the woods on the side of the road. Enemy planes roared through the air, but they did not notice the small unit of the Seventh Company.

The planes quickly rushed into the sky and turned around to bomb the hills in the south.

At this time, the communicator ran to Li Guotao with a walkie-talkie on his back.

"Captain, the battalion commander wants to speak to you."

Li Guotao quickly picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Battalion Commander, I'm Li Guotao."

"Seventh Company immediately stay in place and hide and wait."

"battalion commander?"

"Execute the order immediately!"

"Yes!"

"Hide and wait immediately!"

"Yes!"

The order was quickly passed down.

At this time, Yu Congrong came over and asked, "We are almost at the front line. Didn't our superiors order us to help our friendly forces retreat? Why did we stop suddenly?"

Li Guotao frowned and said thoughtfully: "I don't know, there must be some special circumstances."

Yu Congrong said with some concern: "We rushed all the way here, and what we saw was not quite right."

Li Guotao nodded and said, "It seems that the enemy has begun a large-scale counterattack. Our logistical support is insufficient, and the soldiers of the 13th Corps have been exhausted after a series of battles. The current situation is very unfavorable to us."

Yu Congrong cursed angrily: "These damn foreign devils are really hard to deal with."

Li Guotao was also full of worries as he looked at the battlefield in the distance filled with smoke and artillery fire.

After a slight hesitation, Li Guotao was ready to use the system again.

A large amount of food supplies were exchanged directly through the system mall, and then airdropped to our army’s positions near Chuncheon.

Just as Li Guotao knew, the friendly troops on the front line had long been out of food. Many soldiers were exhausted from hunger and had to resist the fierce attack of the enemy.

Under such circumstances, our army was in a very dangerous situation, and these foods were life-saving, so Li Guotao could not take care of them.

Our soldiers on the front line saw the parachutes landing on the positions and quickly collected the airdropped supplies.

Only the enemy can carry out such a large-scale airdrop.

At first, the soldiers were worried that this was an enemy conspiracy, but after experiments, they found that the foods were not poisonous.

So the starving soldiers distributed all the food to the front-line troops, so that the soldiers on the front line could finally have a full meal.

At the same time, the enemy also discovered the airdrop, and the enemy army saw with their own eyes that the planes dropped large quantities of supplies into the areas occupied by the Volunteer Army.

For this reason, the enemy army immediately complained to the headquarters that the Air Force had made a mistake in airdropping and that all the supplies had been airdropped to the volunteers, which was a serious act of aiding the enemy.

However, the enemy air force said that they did not send any transport planes to the area for airdrops during this period of time, and that the army must have made a mistake. Moreover, the air force also swore that their reconnaissance planes and fighters did not find the transport plane formation in the area. The air force in turn accused the army of slander, looking for excuses for their own unsuccessful attack and shirking responsibility.

The enemy army was not happy with this and accused the enemy air force of refusing to admit the airdrop error in an attempt to shirk responsibility and avoid punishment.

The two sides argued about this for several times, but the investigation did not find anything unusual, so the matter was eventually dropped.

Even Li Guotao didn't know that the original system's airdrops were so only people on the ground could see these planes.

The enemy aircraft in the nearby airspace at the time did not notice these airdropped transport planes at all.

However, this was just a trivial matter for the enemy. The war on the front line was urgent, so they naturally could not continue to argue over such a trivial matter. Moreover, the results of the investigation could not prove who was lying on either side, so the matter became an unsolved case and was eventually left unresolved.

This large amount of airdropped supplies saved countless volunteer soldiers.

About two armies on the front line received airdropped supplies, although they could not satisfy the food needs of so many soldiers.

However, with such a large amount of supplies, tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers were able to survive and recover their strength to continue fighting. If it were not for this batch of life-saving supplies, there would definitely be greater casualties.

As for Li Guotao, he didn't have to worry about being exposed. After all, who would suspect a small company commander like him in such a matter?

Although the Volunteer Army conducted some investigations afterwards, and even someone specifically investigated the matter after the war, there were ultimately no results, and it was even included in the world's unsolved mysteries.

Li Guotao and the soldiers of the Seventh Company hid on the spot and waited for orders. Not long after, they received an order to go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.

Yu Congrong stayed in the Seventh Company, and Li Guotao hurried to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.

When Li Guotao arrived at the temporary regiment headquarters, a group of people had already gathered at the venue, all of them were cadres from various battalions and companies.

Li Guotao sat down next to Wu Qianli and asked softly, "Captain, is there any major action?"

"Ok!"

Wu Qianli nodded slightly, but didn't say much.

When the team leader saw that everyone was present, he started the meeting.

The head of the regiment said seriously: "The enemy is now launching a counterattack against us. The enemy's offensive is very fierce. The situation on the front line is not favorable to our army."

"After consultation with the leaders of the friendly forces, it was decided that our army would take the initiative to launch a counterattack against the enemy tonight and strive to eliminate some of the enemy in order to curb the enemy's arrogance."

"And this glorious mission falls on our group."

The regiment commander pointed to the map, on which were marked the specific locations of the various enemy pursuits.

The regiment commander pointed to the map and continued, "Our mission is to raid the enemy's salient tonight."

"That is, the enemy force that is pursuing the fastest and is located furthest to the north."

"According to accurate intelligence, this force is not the U.S. Army, nor the puppet army or the British Army, but the French Army."

"After the war began, the French army sent a battalion to fight, which was called the French Battalion."

"It is said that this battalion originally had about 1,200 men. After several battles, there were casualties. The French army that has caught up with us now has about 700 men."

When Li Guotao heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

When did the French army become so powerful?
In Li Guotao's impression, the combat effectiveness of the French army should be very weak. How come this French battalion is so powerful and so aggressive, chasing the fastest, most fiercely and most ruthlessly.

This is unreasonable!

What Li Guotao didn't know was that this French battalion was indeed French troops, but not ordinary French troops. They were well-equipped, had a very tough combat style, and were indeed very powerful.

(End of this chapter)