Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 181 The fifth battle breaks out!
As Li Guotao spoke, he glanced at Captain Jiang next to him.

Captain Jiang smiled and said, "Captain Li, you can't take all the credit away, can you?"

"It's time for us to show our abilities!"

Li Guotao smiled and said, "There's nothing I can do. I think we are more suitable for this mission. We have already done the reconnaissance and developed a detailed battle plan."

Captain Jiang said helplessly: "Well, I know I can't get it, so can't I just not try to get it?"

As Captain Jiang spoke, he glanced at Wu Qianli, with a hint of resentment in his eyes.

Wu Qianli quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I didn't reveal anything to him in advance. I just learned about the order from my superiors."

Captain Jiang said, "Okay, I get it! Isn't it good enough that Li Guotao is so smart?"

Wu Qianli smiled and said, "You don't need to complain. This time our Third Battalion is acting as a team. Giving the first credit to the Seventh Company may not be a good thing."

"The puppet army we faced at the beginning was just an appetizer. The real opponent was the 24th Division of the US Army."

Hearing this, Captain Jiang's eyes lit up and he said with a smile, "The battalion commander is right. The Seventh Company can't compete with us in the future."

Wu Qianli said: "Don't worry."

Captain Jiang glanced at Li Guotao with some complacency, as if to say: This is what we call being too clever for your own good.

Li Guotao didn't care. He smiled and said, "It is precisely because our ultimate goal is the US military that we must defeat the puppet troops in front of us as quickly as possible. Only in this way can we cut off the enemy's retreat in time and complete the mission. We must not waste time on these puppet troops."

Wu Qianli said: "Li Guotao is right. Our mission this time is still very difficult. It is not easy to complete this mission."

"Those puppet troops are not very strong, but our real goal is to destroy the 24th Division of the US Army. Although this enemy unit is not as strong as the st Marine Division and the st Cavalry Division, its strength should not be underestimated."

"It's not easy to kill them, so from the beginning, we must go all out to fight and strive for the greatest victory."

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After the meeting, each company returned to its base to make preparations for war.

On the evening of April 4, at 22 p.m., a big, round moon rose.

Because the enemy had a strong ground-to-air firepower advantage, the volunteers could only choose to launch an attack at night to shorten the gap between the two sides.

Some people say that the Volunteer Army was good at fighting night battles, but that is pure nonsense. In fact, they had no choice but to attack at night.

Therefore, almost every large-scale attack would be chosen around the full moon night, because the moonlight would be brighter during this period, except on rainy days of course.

In fact, Ridgway had discovered this pattern before and called it the Moonlit Offensive.

On the 200-kilometer-wide front line, the Volunteer Army's large-scale counterattack began amid the rumbling of artillery fire.

The Volunteer Army mobilized a large number of artillery and began to bombard the enemy positions on the front line.

The fifth battle officially began.

The scale of this artillery preparation was unprecedented. The shells fell on the enemy positions as quickly as raindrops. Violent explosions rang out one after another. The enemy's fortifications were blown into a mess, and the frontline positions were completely engulfed in artillery fire.

Li Guotao was leading the soldiers of the Seventh Company, advancing cautiously along a narrow valley.

Hearing the explosions coming from afar, Li Guotao was also a little surprised. The fact that the Volunteer Army was able to launch such a large-scale artillery preparation this time showed that the Volunteer Army's logistics support capabilities had been strengthened.

However, the logistical pressure was still very great, which Li Guotao also knew. Under the enemy's bombardment, the logistical pressure was too great, which was still the biggest disadvantage of the Volunteer Army. This also led to the Volunteer Army's offensive not being able to last too long.

During the fourth battle, the enemy's counterattack lasted for more than two months. Such an offensive was impossible for the Volunteer Army to achieve.

Therefore, the Volunteer Army could only fight fast and strive to achieve the greatest results in the shortest time.

Li Guotao led the soldiers of the Seventh Company and followed the previously scouted path to the side and rear of the enemy position.

Soon the artillery preparation was completed, and Zhisi gave the order to attack on all fronts.

So the various troops launched fierce attacks on the enemy's defense line one after another.

Even some troops that did not have time to reach the attack position received the order to attack.

Because the volunteers can only launch attacks at night, and the time at night is limited, we must race against time and try to break through the enemy's defense line as soon as possible.

If we fail to break through the enemy's defense line before dawn, then tonight's battle will be in vain.

After daybreak, the volunteers had to stop the attack, while the enemy could use the whole day to restore their defensive fortifications. When it got dark, the volunteers had to launch the attack again.

Li Guotao and his men ambushed on a hillside, staring at the road below the mountain. Li Guotao was very confident that once the attack began, the enemy would definitely send support troops to reinforce the frontline positions, and this was the place they had to pass through.

Sure enough, after the attack began, a large number of enemies rushed here, ready to support the front-line positions.

They had no idea that the Seventh Company had sneaked in here without anyone noticing, and were therefore completely unprepared.

Li Guotao seized the opportunity and took advantage of the enemy entering the ambush circle and shouted loudly: "Comrades, hit them hard."

As he spoke, Li Guotao picked up his submachine gun, pointed it at the enemy crowd and pulled the trigger.

The other soldiers also aimed at the enemy and pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, and dense bullets swept towards the enemy like raindrops.

At the same time, grenades were spinning and falling into the enemy crowd.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

Violent explosions continued to sound, flames shot up into the sky, and the enemy was blown to pieces, suffering heavy casualties.

“Tick-tick-tick…”

A loud charge horn sounded. The enemy, who had been suddenly attacked, was already in chaos and suffered heavy casualties. When they heard this sound, they were immediately in a state of panic.

These enemies actually had a lot of troops, almost a battalion, but when the charge sounded, these enemies thought that the main force of the Volunteer Army had arrived, and they were so scared that they fled in all directions.

Li Guotao took the opportunity to lead his soldiers to rush down and easily killed hundreds of enemies. The remaining enemies fled in a panic.

Li Guotao couldn't help but sigh: "Fuck! These Koreans really run faster than rabbits."

Yu Congrong asked: "Do you want to continue the pursuit?"

Li Guotao said: "Ignore them for now, cooperate with the frontal troops and take down their positions first."

The Koreans defending the front positions were frightened when they heard the charge horn behind them and the delay in the arrival of reinforcements. Their morale was unstable and under the all-out attack of the 8th and 9th Companies, the enemy on the position was quickly defeated.

(End of this chapter)