Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

After the great victory at Yunshan, Li Moyin led the task force back to the headquarters as the troops needed to rest.

At the same time, after this battle, the task force also needs to sum up its experience. The original mission of the task force was to study the strategies and tactics of the US military, so as to formulate special response plans for superiors and provide valuable intelligence.

That night, Li Moyin once again gathered the soldiers of the task force to exchange experiences together.

Li Moyin and several of his staff were discussing and taking notes seriously.

Li Moyin noticed that Li Guotao had not spoken, so he came over and asked, "Why don't you speak?"

Li Guotao smiled slightly and said, "I have also been thinking about some issues."

Li Moyin still attached great importance to Li Guotao's opinion, and said with a smile: "Tell me, let's think of a solution together."

Li Guotao said: "The US military is a fully mechanized force equipped with a large number of tanks, armored vehicles and other vehicles."

"Our army has almost no armored troops deployed on the battlefield. Even if we send out armored troops in the future, they will be completely unable to fight the enemy. We don't have such a rich foundation yet."

"So we can only start with anti-tank weapons. We should equip more bazookas as soon as possible. This weapon can be operated by a single soldier, is easy to carry, and can restrain tanks. It is the best anti-tank weapon we can equip the troops with at present."

"My suggestion is to equip the troops with as many bazookas as possible."

"With our domestic production capacity, I think we can completely imitate the bazooka. We should start mass production as soon as possible and then support the front line."

In fact, the technical content of the bazooka rocket launcher is not very high, and Li Guotao is very clear about this.

The American M20 rocket launcher, commonly known as the super bazooka.

This thing is a new type of rocket launcher that is newly equipped by the US military. In the first battle, the 40th Army seized the Super Bazooka and then transported it back to the country.

Domestic military factories immediately imitated it and produced the Type 51 rocket launcher. As the name suggests, it must have been put into production in 51, and more than rocket launchers were produced that year and equipped to the volunteer soldiers on the front line.

So this thing does not have a very high technical content at all. Even in China at that time, where the level of science and technology was seriously backward, it could be quickly imitated.

However, it is also a fact that the domestic industrial base is still too weak and production capacity is limited.

Although it was imitated, the annual output was less than 5,000. This production capacity was too low and could not meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line.

After all, weapons are consumables. After a battle, not only will there be casualties, but a large number of weapons and equipment will also be destroyed.

Li Moyin nodded and said, "I will report this issue to the command center and headquarters."

Li Guotao went on to say: "The US military's tanks are tough and strong. Some heavy tanks cannot even be fatally damaged by ordinary bazookas."

"In this battle, we discovered that the enemy was equipped with a new type of bazooka, which has a larger caliber and greater power."

"It would be best if we could copy this thing and equip each company or even each platoon with a few of them. This way, we can increase our chances of winning against the enemy's tank units."

Li Moyin nodded and said, "The new type of bazooka you mentioned, the 39th Army seized more than a hundred of them at Yunshan Airport two days ago."

Li Guotao naturally knew about this. After all, he was the one who exchanged the more than one hundred super bazookas from the system.

Li Guotao said: "It is far from enough to rely on seizure alone. Only large-scale domestic production can fundamentally solve the problem."

"Ok!"

Li Moyin nodded in agreement.

Li Guotao went on to say: "Another thing is that the enemy's planes are very powerful."

"The bombs they dropped were varied, including not only conventional bombs, but also incendiary bombs, time-delay bombs, and so on."

"The number of enemy aircraft is not comparable to the Chiang Kai-shek army we fought before."

"When the planes come, they block out the sun and sky, so air defense is also a big problem."

Li Moyin nodded and said, "Zhisi is also having a headache about this now."

"Big Brother originally promised to support our air force, but suddenly changed his mind and is still unable to provide us with air support."

"But we are currently negotiating with them, and our air force is also being built up at an accelerated pace."

"Even if they don't send their air force directly to join the battle, as long as they can provide large-scale support for our new fighter jets, we can quickly build an air force and gradually regain air superiority."

Li Guotao nodded and said, "Of course I believe this, but it will take time after all."

"And now our frontline troops are constantly being bombarded by the U.S. military. Our only way to deal with it is to dig deep trenches."

"When building defensive positions, we must dig deep tunnels. This is the only guarantee of safety for our frontline soldiers."

"If there were no trenches and tunnels, the enemy's incendiary bombs would have burned the entire hill into a sea of ​​fire, and no one would have survived."

"Yes~!"

Li Moyin nodded and said, "We have discussed this issue before. This experience will be quickly promoted throughout the army to minimize our casualties."

Li Guotao went on to say: "Also, even at night, the enemy has night planes that will bomb us, so we can't be careless."

Li Moyin nodded in agreement.

Li Guotao went on to say: "There is another point that is particularly important."

"Our troops are now fighting abroad. The battle has just begun, and we are very close to home now."

"But as the war progresses, we will certainly continue to advance southward, so that the battle line will be further extended, and our supply lines will also be further extended."

"Because we are fighting abroad, and all parts of the Northern Dynasty have been devastated by war, and people are fleeing everywhere. Under the current circumstances, our army of hundreds of thousands cannot be replenished locally."

“So as the war progresses, the logistical pressure will increase.”

"Some of the ways we used to play in China are completely inappropriate here."

"And the enemy's air force is very powerful. They will definitely cut off our logistical supply lines."

"If my guess is correct, they will definitely increase the bombing of the rear, once all the Yalu River bridges are destroyed."

"If our supplies cannot be transported in time, then our hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line may not even have a problem getting enough food. How can we fight then?"

"So the logistics issue is crucial and must be taken seriously and prepared in advance."

Li Guotao was a small-time official with little influence, but Li Moyin was different. He was a senior staff officer in the Operations Department and also a senior staff officer in the Volunteer Army Headquarters when he joined the Volunteer Army.

Even though he only has a few dozen people in the task force under him, their rank is very high, and Li Moyin can directly contact the top management.

So now Li Guotao takes every opportunity to report some problems to Li Moyin, and then Li Moyin reports them to the top management.

Although Li Guotao also knew that it was too difficult to change something.

For example, the problem of logistics support, the enemy planes continued to bomb, making the early logistics support very difficult. At that time, the volunteers also tried every possible way, but the effect was not too obvious.

However, if we can realize this problem in advance and make preparations in advance, we can improve the situation to some extent.

Judging from the current situation, it is unrealistic to completely reverse this situation.

Unless Big Brother directly sends the Air Force to participate in the war and opens up the MiG-15 corridor in advance, it is impossible to effectively guarantee the logistics supply of the front line without air superiority.

However, it is extremely difficult to get the old fox with a big beard to send troops directly. This is not very realistic. In the end, we have to rely on ourselves to deal with the American devils.

Afterwards, Li Guotao and Li Moyin chatted a lot. In short, Li Guotao basically told Li Moyin all the problems he knew about, everything he could tell him.

Li Guotao believes that this can play some role to some extent.

……

Li Moyin suddenly said: "Everyone has been discussing for so long and is tired. I will tell you a joke now so that everyone can relax."

"During this battle, there was a company from our brother unit. I won't mention the specific number."

"During one of their operations, they discovered an enemy position ahead, so they quietly moved up to it."

"There were more than 30 enemies on the battlefield, all of them were sleeping soundly in their sleeping bags, with only their heads sticking out."

"At this critical moment, a soldier suddenly shouted in panic: 'Ghost!' and then turned around and ran away."

"Why? Because the soldiers found that the heads and faces of the enemies sticking out of their sleeping bags were all black, like charcoal."

"Some soldiers had never seen it before and were superstitious, so they thought it was a ghost!"

"Although these black soldiers all turned into ghosts in the end, after the battle, some of our soldiers were curious and used towels to dip snow water and wiped their faces to see what they had put on their faces."

"Haha~!"

When the soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Li Moyin said with a smile: "Everyone in our task force should know that this is not a burnt ghost at all, but a black person. They are born this way. We must not make such a joke in the future."

At this time, a soldier asked: "What should we do next?"

"Yes! We have rested for a few days, right? It's time to go to the front line again?"

It is true that each of these combatants of the task force are combat backbones, but they are also a group of people who cannot sit still. After only a few days of rest, none of them can sit still anymore.

Li Moyin smiled and said: "In the first battle, we won a brilliant victory and annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, but they were mainly puppet troops."

"The main losses of the US military were not too great. Since this was the first time we fought the enemy, and we had just arrived, we were lacking in experience and preparation, so the results we achieved were relatively limited."

"But now the boss is planning a second battle. The enemy is still very arrogant. We are now adopting the strategy of luring the enemy deep into our territory, preparing to lure the enemy to attack north again."

In the Battle of Yunshan, the enemy was defeated, so they retreated hastily and gathered their forces.

Because our army failed to intercept the enemy's retreat in time, the main force of the US army took the opportunity to escape, and the number of enemies killed was not too large.

But Five-Star Mike naively thought that this failure was just an accident. He still firmly believed that the Volunteer Army only dispatched a small number of troops and had no intention of intervening in the war on a large scale.

So Five-Star Mike still ordered his troops to gather their forces, then continue to move north, continue to launch attacks, push the front line to the Yalu River, and completely end the war.

In order to lure the enemy deeper into our territory, the troops also carried out a series of preparatory work under the unified command of the general.

First, some troops on the front line began to discard some tattered clothes and equipment and started to retreat on a large scale, creating the illusion of defeat.

In order to make the play more realistic, they even gave a large number of prisoners of war a lecture and then released them.

But let them go back and tell you that we just want to protect several hydroelectric power stations on the Yalu River to ensure electricity supply in the Northeast industrial zone, and we have no intention of sending large-scale troops to intervene.

Of course, releasing these prisoners actually has another meaning.

That is to use practical actions to tell those enemies that our Volunteer Army treats prisoners well, so next time you meet the Volunteer Army, you don’t have to risk your life, just surrender when you should.

Therefore, in order to boost morale, the enemy also spread the message that the volunteers would kill all the prisoners.

The release of such a large number of prisoners this time also dispelled the rumor with practical action.

In short, the volunteers are trying every possible means to lure the enemy to continue the attack.

The boss has already commanded all the troops to set up a net and wait for the enemy to sneak in.

This time, the boss set up two huge pockets on the east and west fronts, preparing to put hundreds of thousands of enemy troops into the pockets.

The enemy's intelligence was very lagging, and so far the US military had no idea how many troops the Volunteer Army had dispatched.

Moreover, Five-Star Mike was extremely confident, thinking that even if the Volunteer Army joined the war, they would be able to defeat the Volunteer Army and end the war as soon as possible.

So Five Star Mike ordered 'Bulldog' Walker to gather his troops, gather more superior forces, and speed up the advance northward to end the war as soon as possible.

A soldier asked, "Captain, which unit are we going to this time?"

Li Moyin hesitated for a moment and said, "Go to the 38th Army!"

"The 38th Army did not fight well in this battle. The general got angry at the meeting and severely reprimanded the 38th Army."

"But the boss was so angry because he had high hopes for the 38th Army. Although he scolded them this time, he also taught them an important task."

"In fact, although the 38th Army failed to cut off the enemy's retreat in time, they fought very well."

"Especially in the battle of Feihu Mountain, after the 335th Regiment seized the Feihu Mountain position, it blocked the enemy's fierce offensive."

"The enemy used hundreds of artillery pieces and dispatched thousands of aircraft to bombard the Feihushan position."

"The 335th Regiment held its ground throughout the battle, holding off the frenzied attacks of an enemy that outnumbered itself by several times. For five days and five nights, the enemy was unable to take even a single step onto Feihu Mountain."

"The 335th Regiment fought until they ran out of ammunition and food, and finally engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, using bayonets, stones, and even teeth and fists to hold off two divisions of the enemy for a whole day."

"The 38th Army has always been an elite unit of our army. I believe that after being scolded this time, they must be holding back their energy. This time, the general also gave the 38th Army a very important task."

"So the 38th Army must have a big battle to fight, and they will definitely perform well this time. Let's go to the 38th Army this time."

Li Guotao naturally knew that the performance of the 38th Army this time was more than impressive, it was simply like the god of war. Li Guotao naturally agreed with Li Moyin's decision.

Li Guotao quickly asked: "When do we set off?"

Li Moyin said: "No hurry, I still need to write a report. After I finish writing this report, we will set off." (End of this chapter)