Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Commander Wu frowned and said, "Old Li! I understand your feelings, but..."

Li Moyin smiled and said, "Commander Wu, I know what you are worried about. You are just worried about me. If something happens on your territory, you will have trouble reporting it to your superiors. Isn't that just a small matter?"

"Then let me ask you, what am I doing here?"

"If it's just a formality, I can just stay in the headquarters, read the battle reports from the front, chat with some combat heroes, and write a report to fool the chief."

"If all of us were to fool around like this, something terrible would happen."

"I also want to take advantage of my old age and the two years I can still work hard to do my best for the motherland, and of course, to complete my mission this time."

Commander Wu could only agree and said, "Okay! As you say, but you must be careful when you get to the front line."

"rest assured!"

Li Moyin smiled and said, "We know what to do."

Commander Wu smiled and shook his head, saying, "I know you a little bit. You were not an easy person to deal with back then."

"In any case, take it easy and don't act like before. Be careful and be safe. After all, you are not young anymore."

Li Moyin smiled and said, "Thank you for the reminder. Where does Commander Wu plan to take us?"

Commander Wu hesitated for a moment and said, "The most critical thing is the 343rd Regiment. They are responsible for cutting off the enemy's retreat."

"Once the main force of the enemy army learns that the enemy in Yunshan is surrounded, they will definitely send troops to support them, so they are also responsible for blocking the enemy's reinforcements, which puts a lot of pressure on them."

Commander Wu said this and pointed to the location of the 343rd Regiment on the map.

Li Moyin nodded and said, "Okay, we'll be there soon."

"You said before that the US military is equipped with a lot of tanks?"

"Correct!"

Commander Wu frowned and said, "And their tanks are very strong and difficult to hit!"

"Before, they relied on these tanks to charge recklessly and even launched a counterattack against us."

"It caused us quite a bit of trouble."

Li Moyin took out a few blueprints from his briefcase and said with a smile, "I have a few blueprints here, all about US tanks."

"Li Guotao was in the army before, and he was an expert at fighting tanks. He is very experienced in this area. We have also studied some methods to restrain American tanks. I think we can let him talk about it, and you can also see if there is any experience that can be used."

Li Guotao quickly stepped forward and saluted.

Commander Wu said, "Then tell me, Xiao Wang, Xiao Zhao, you guys take note."

"Yes!"

Immediately, several staff officers gathered around, and Commander Wu and others also stood aside with great interest.

Li Moyin hung a tank blueprint on the wall and nodded to Li Guotao, indicating that he could start.

Li Guotao pointed to the tank blueprint and said, "This tank is the enemy's Pershing heavy tank. It has fierce firepower and thick armor."

"It is quite difficult to destroy this kind of tank."

"It is best to use bazookas or recoilless guns to deal with such tanks, but the armor of such tanks is too thick, and even these two weapons are difficult to destroy them. To deal with them, the priority is to blow up their tracks. As long as the tracks are blown up, they will be lying on the ground, and it will be easier to deal with them." "And our army is equipped with relatively few of these weapons, so to deal with enemy tanks, most of them still rely on the old method of infantry blasting."

"Tanks are huge and have limited field of view. We can make full use of their blind spots and shooting blind spots to quickly approach their tanks."

Li Guotao then roughly marked the locations of the enemy's observation holes and machine guns on the drawings, and explained in detail the blind spots and shooting angles.

Li Guotao then explained in detail how to carry out the blast after getting close to the tank.

The chassis, fuel tank, tracks and other places are all suitable locations for attack.

In addition to explaining the Pershing tank, Li Guotao then went on to explain to everyone the basic information about the Sherman tank and some armored vehicles.

These are also the experiences that Li Guotao and his men had accumulated before. When he came to this world, Li Guotao himself was a combat hero. During the War of Liberation, he was indeed a good tank bomber with rich experience. At that time, the tanks equipped by Chiang Kai-shek's bandit army were basically American tanks.

After leaving the 39th Army Headquarters, Li Guotao followed the task force to the position of the rd Regiment.

Li Guotao met Captain Wang of the 343rd Regiment. Although Captain Wang was only 28 years old (in lunar age), he was a veteran with 15 years of military service.

That’s right, Captain Wang was only thirteen years old at the time, but relying on his tall stature, he lied that he was seventeen years old and successfully joined the army.

This is somewhat similar to Li Moyin. Li Moyin's seniority is much older than that of Captain Wang. He joined the army in 29 and became a Red Guard. He now has 21 years of military service.

The two chatted for a while and got along quite well.

Captain Wang said: "Our superiors ordered us to hold the road and prevent the enemy from breaking through."

Li Guotao suddenly said: "Captain Wang, we have come all the way here. According to my judgment, the enemy does not seem to have any plans to break out now."

"But they are surrounded, so they will definitely send troops to rescue them."

"You mean they won't retreat?" asked Captain Wang.

Li Guotao nodded and said, "At least now, they don't have this intention."

"The enemy is very arrogant and will not retreat easily, so our defense focus now should be on the enemy's reinforcements in the south."

"They still want to continue northward, but the enemy near Yunshan has been surrounded by us, and their attack has been repelled by us, so they can only wait for follow-up support."

"The enemy is a mechanized force and they are more dependent on the road, so we only need to defend this road to prevent their reinforcements from joining the enemy in the encirclement."

Captain Wang nodded and said, "That makes sense. We also arranged it this way."

Li Guotao continued, "They will definitely go out during the day and try to avoid fighting at night because they get much less air support at night. Now it's afternoon, I estimate they should be here soon."

Li Moyin said: "I hope our task force can fight with you."

"All right!"

Captain Wang readily agreed: "Come with me to the blocking position."

Afterwards, Li Guotao and the task force followed Captain Wang to the blocking position.

Just as Li Guotao guessed, after the 8th Cavalry Regiment was surrounded, Major General Guy immediately ordered the 5th Cavalry Regiment to support Yunshan and meet up with the 8th Cavalry Regiment.

As soon as Li Guotao and his men arrived at the blocking position, the enemy's vanguard troops arrived to support them. (End of this chapter)