Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

Chapter 248 Li Guotao, you are simply amazing!
This cannonball seems to have eyes and it's so accurate. Who wouldn't be afraid?

After a few shots, more than half of the American artillery battalion were killed or wounded. Those who survived were so frightened that they dared not stay here and fled this place of death in panic.

Li Guotao and his men's fierce artillery bombardment caused heavy losses to the enemy, and many parts of the Han River Bridge were also destroyed, which would inevitably seriously affect the enemy's retreat speed.

Just when the soldiers were fighting enthusiastically, Li Guotao suddenly shouted, "Stop the shelling immediately and move your position."

The soldiers were stunned when they heard this. They were having a great time fighting, why should they move?

Li Moyin and Captain Cao also rushed over after hearing this.

"Li Guotao, what happened?"

Li Guotao said: "We are completely exposed. It is no longer safe here. We must move our position quickly, otherwise we will be in trouble."

After hearing what Li Guotao said, Li Moyin turned around and looked in the direction of the Han River Bridge. Although he was somewhat unwilling, he chose to follow Li Guotao's advice and ordered a move.

Although Captain Cao was a little puzzled, he didn't say much.

Under the leadership of Li Guotao, everyone immediately evacuated their position and moved to a safe place a few miles away to hide temporarily.

Not long after, bombs and incendiary bombs suddenly fell from the sky.

Violent explosions continued to sound, and the place where Li Guotao and the others were just now turned into a sea of ​​fire in an instant.

Captain Cao looked at the flames rising into the sky in surprise and said, "This is an enemy plane!"

"Fortunately we evacuated early, otherwise we would all have been roasted."

Li Moyin asked in surprise: "Li Guotao, how did you know that the enemy planes were coming?"

Li Guotao replied casually: "Guess!"

"Guess?"

"Yes, I guessed it! We have been fighting for so long, our position has been exposed a long time ago. I think their planes will arrive soon."

Well, this explanation is reasonable.

Li Moyin nodded slightly and said, "Your guess is pretty accurate."

Captain Cao also said excitedly: "You are simply amazing. The artillery fire is accurate and fierce. It blew those foreign devils to tears. It was really cool."

"And we moved in time, and you saved our lives."

Li Guotao smiled and said, "It's nothing."

In fact, Li Guotao was not guessing, because he had a system. The system mall had a hidden function that allowed him to view the locations of enemy troops through the system map. Although he could not find out detailed information such as the specific strength and type of troops, the locations of the enemies were marked on the map.

The enemy's planes would also appear on the map. Li Guotao had previously discovered that a large number of planes were rushing towards this side quickly, so he realized that something was wrong and quickly ordered a retreat.

Fortunately, these self-propelled artillery pieces had strong mobility and could move quickly, so they successfully retreated to a safe place before enemy planes arrived.

If it had been a few minutes later, they might have been cremated by now.

Li Guotao looked up at the sky and said, "Wait a little longer. When the enemy planes withdraw, we will go back and bombard them a few times."

Li Moyin looked towards the Han River Bridge and said, "We can't stop the enemies who have crossed the bridge, but this round of shelling has damaged the bridge, which will definitely slow down their retreat. I hope the main force can catch up as soon as possible and annihilate those enemies who didn't have time to cross the river."

At this moment, Deputy Commander Han also reported the situation here to the Zhisi.

Zhisi ordered all troops to immediately pursue with all their strength and seize this opportunity to annihilate more enemies.

The main force of the 39th Army, which is closest to this side, is already on its way at an accelerated speed.

The vanguard has begun to attack the enemy's outer blocking positions.

Lieutenant General Ridgway was so anxious that he was restless.

An enemy colonel reported: "Our planes bombed their artillery positions and should have destroyed them."

Lieutenant General Ridgway roared: "This is not what I am concerned about now. What I am concerned about is when our troops can be completely withdrawn to the south of the Han River."

An enemy officer said quickly: "According to the current situation, there are still tens of thousands of troops stranded on the north bank."

"It will take some time for everyone to retreat."

"Commander, the enemy's artillery fire just now caused some damage to the Han River Bridge."

“Several parts of the bridge deck were badly damaged.”

Lieutenant General Ridgway roared angrily: "Do I need to teach you how to do this?"

"Immediately dispatch engineers to repair the bridge deck as quickly as possible."

"Yes sir!"

Lieutenant General Ridgway took a deep breath, tried to suppress the anger in his heart, and said, "We must cross the river as soon as possible, because the enemy is about to catch up."

"Order the rear guard troops to block the enemy's attack with all their strength and hold them back to buy time for the main force to retreat."

"Yes sir!"

Lieutenant General Ridgway frowned and looked at the other side of the river worriedly. There were tens of thousands of troops still stranded on the other side. If they could not cross the river in time, the consequences would be disastrous.

Lieutenant General Ridgway did not expect that this retreat would be so unsuccessful. He had made sufficient preparations and could have evacuated the Han River Bridge in time, but unexpectedly something unexpected happened.

Not long after Lieutenant General Ridgway took office, he received such a huge gift from the Volunteer Army. If the loss was too great, he didn't know how to explain to his superiors.

Lieutenant General Ridgway couldn't help but curse in his heart: How could that bastard Walker be hit to death!

If Walker hadn't died, Lieutenant General Ridgway would probably still be in the country drinking red wine and eating steak. Why would he come here to suffer this?

In fact, Lieutenant General Ridgway should have felt fortunate. At least the bridge was strong enough. Otherwise, if it had collapsed, they would have been in even greater trouble.

Under the order of Lieutenant General Ridgway, the enemy's engineers also began to repair the damaged bridge deck with all their strength.

After all, this will waste a lot of time and affect the enemy's retreat speed.

The enemy troops gathered on the north bank were now demoralized and were eager to cross the Han River Bridge as quickly as possible.

However, there is no use in being anxious.

Deputy Commander Han looked at the situation on the bridge, frowned and said: "The enemy's organizational and coordination capabilities are still quite strong."

The staff officer next to him said, "Yes, the chaos is now under control and they have started repairing the bridge."

“It is estimated that it will be repaired and restored to traffic soon.”

Deputy Commander Han gnashed his teeth and said, "We must not let them go so easily. Order the attacking troops to intensify the offensive, break through the enemy's blocking position as soon as possible, and attack the Han River Bridge."

"Also notify the follow-up troops to speed up and come here as soon as possible."

"Get right into the fight!"

"Yes!"

At this time, a staff officer ran over and said, "Report to the commander, we have found out that it was Li Moyin's task force and a company of the 38th Army that bombarded the Han River Bridge."

Deputy Commander Han said in surprise: "It turned out to be Lao Li and his men. This guy ran to the 38th Army again."

"The 38th Army is pretty fast!" "Report to the commander, only one company of the 38th Army's Sharp Knife Battalion has arrived. They have been weaving their way here, and the main force cannot arrive yet."

Deputy Commander Han sighed slightly, then asked, "How are they now? Did the enemy's bombing cause any casualties?"

"Reporting to the commander, according to their report, it is very safe for the time being. They retreated ahead of schedule, and the enemy bombing just now did not cause any casualties."

"That's good!"

Deputy Commander Han couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said to himself: "They took the initiative to retreat, it seems that their shells ran out."

"A mere company won't have much effect."

"Let them move freely, and take the opportunity to eliminate as many enemies as possible and stop some of the retreating enemy troops."

"Yes!"

After about an hour, the enemy engineers repaired the bridge deck, and a large number of enemy troops began to go up the bridge in an orderly manner and continued to retreat to the south of the bridge.

Li Guotao observed the situation on the bridge and said with a frown, "The enemy is quite fast."

At this moment, Ridgway also sent people to organize transportation again, and the troops began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Captain Cao said excitedly: "Then let's fire a few more shots at him."

Li Guotao looked up at the sky and said, "There are still enemy night planes in the sky. Once they open fire, our position will be exposed. No matter how fast we move, we can't be faster than the planes."

Captain Cao said, "We can't just watch them cross the bridge!"

Li Guotao said: "Wait and see!"

Li Moyin said: "Zhisi ordered all troops to hurry up and rush over, but I'm afraid it will take some time."

"The troops that have arrived have already started to attack, but the enemy is well prepared and has left troops to defend the line. The attacking troops are under-strength and are making slow progress."

Li Guotao still didn't want to take the risk, and said, "I don't believe that there are always their planes in the sky. As long as they return and new planes haven't arrived yet, we can take the opportunity to fire a few shots, which can at least buy some time. At the very least, we can kill a large number of enemies."

Taking advantage of darkness, Li Guotao took a few cannons and ran to a place on the riverside, where he carefully set up his position.

Lei Gong asked, "Should we fire the cannon?"

Li Guotao shook his head, looked up at the sky and said, "The enemy planes are still there, wait a little longer!"

"Don't smoke, or we're all done for."

Lei Gong said: "I know!"

After a while, the enemy planes finally returned, and Li Guotao found that there was no trace of enemy planes in the nearby area.

Li Guotao judged that there should be about ten minutes of gap, so he immediately ordered: "Fire at full speed and bombard the Han River Bridge."

"Yes!"

All the parameters of the cannons have been adjusted, and Li Guotao gave the order.

The rumbling sound of artillery fire rang out, and one shell after another whistled towards the Han River Bridge.

"Boom~! Boom~!"

Violent explosions continued to sound, and the enemies on the bridge were killed or wounded, and the scene fell into chaos again.

Li Guotao shouted excitedly: "Keep firing, fire hard."

The soldiers also tried their best, quickly loading the shells and then firing.

The artillery shells were generously given to the enemy.

As shells fell one after another, several parts of the bridge were blown up again, and a large number of enemies, as well as more than a dozen tanks and trucks were destroyed.

The bridge was bombed into a mess, and what was more serious was that the shelling once again caused some chaos.

Especially the enemy troops in Jiangbei, who were wailing all over the place. Their morale was already unstable. Now they saw the bridge being bombed again and the time for crossing the river was repeatedly delayed. How could these enemies not be anxious?

After all, continuing to stay here is tantamount to waiting for death.

When Deputy Commander Han saw this, he shouted excitedly, "It's them again? They still have shells!"

Just now, Deputy Commander Han thought that the task force retreated voluntarily because they had run out of artillery shells, which is why they were lucky enough to avoid the bombing of enemy planes.

Otherwise, why is the timing so accurate?

But now the task force opened fire again, undoubtedly overturning his previous speculation.

Deputy Commander Han looked at the bridge excitedly, but at the same time he was very worried. He couldn't help but look up at the sky, fearing that the enemy planes would bomb again at this time.

The shelling lasted for several minutes, and the bridge deck was destroyed in several places again, with many enemies being killed or wounded.

Li Guotao then immediately ordered to stop the shelling and to retreat everyone to a safe place as soon as possible.

Not long after they retreated, enemy planes arrived and dropped bombs and incendiary bombs one after another.

Violent explosions continued to sound, and the flames produced by the explosions quickly engulfed the artillery positions.

Deputy Commander Han looked at the sea of ​​fire in the distance, frowned and said, "They have stopped the shelling just now!"

"They should have moved. Now the enemy planes are here. How did they do it?"

"How can you grasp the time so accurately?"

Deputy Commander Han was also puzzled by this.

A staff officer nearby said, "It seems they have a lot of experience."

Deputy Commander Han nodded slightly, it seemed that this was the most reasonable explanation.

Deputy Commander Han said: "The task force is composed of elite personnel selected from all over the country. It seems that there are indeed many talents among them. It really lives up to its reputation."

"Commander, several parts of the bridge have been blown up. This will probably take some time for the enemy to repair the bridge."

Deputy Commander Han said excitedly: "Great! Lao Li and his team did a great job."

"Report it to the Zhisi immediately and ask for credit for them."

"Yes!"

"Contact them immediately and ask them if they have any more shells. If they do, and if there is a chance, fire again and do everything you can to stop the enemy from crossing the river."

"Yes!"

At the same time, Captain Cao turned his head and shouted to Li Guotao: "Li Guotao, you are simply amazing!"

"Just a little bit."

Li Moyin was also surprised and said, "You are getting better and better."

Li Guotao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said, "That was a close call!"

"You don't need to praise me, it's just luck!"

(End of this chapter)